Breaking Through the Jungle of Agenogo-Becheve & Agbatse

I had a dream. In the dream I saw a man like a native priest, walking around my village with a calabash in his head. He was spraying some concussion from the calabash around the village and making some incantation. When I got closer I noticed that the more he spreads the concussion, the people of my community becomes sick and sickness extended to other village around us. When I woke up it dawned on me that, this is a revelation of what has been causing strange diseases in our land, then I began to intercede for the land.

This is a storey shared by Missionary John Abenga, pastor incharge of the mission church at Agbatse in Kwande L.G.A of Benue State. This was a revelation by God to him concerning the major cause of strange illness in the land where he is ministering. Lots of the sick persons who attempted to get to the clinic nearby were disappointed as there was no medical cure for there illnesses.

However, it became an opportunity for God to demonstrate His power as most of the sick persons are now directed to the missionaries for prayers and healings. The missionaries turned it as an outreach platform and this has led to several testimonies of salvation of families and recently communities.

In the village called Becheve, was this woman paralyse for 8 years and the family had invested so much to keep her alive . Medically and traditionally she had no chance of getting a cure. When the story of what God is doing in other communities like Agbatse came to their knowledge, the husband of the woman requested the presence of the missionary, Chibuzo Onuoha who came to the community. On seeing the woman and the diabolic powers that surrounded her, withdrew from doing anything and fasted for a day in preparation for an all night prayer meeting. At the rounding up of the prayers, the missionary was led to anoint the woman with olive oil which he did and immediately.This woman paralyzed for 8 year got up, stood on her feet, and was helped to gain balance and gradually began to work. The news spread throughout the entire village and a fellowship has begun in that community through the family. An outreach/crusade is being planned this year by March for a church to be planted.

The pathway leading to these villages are narrow, hilly, stony and bushy. The missionaries work with the use of motorbikes, of which whenever it develops faults, they will have to walk miles on foot, carry their luggage on their heads. His calls for a regular maintenance of the motorbikes and renewing of the old ones with new ones.

EDUCATION

Seeing the remoteness of the communities and the people there, Missionary Chimaemerem Dike and the wife began a nursery/Primary School to help educate the future generation of the land. The favor of God brought a man to donate his land to them for this purpose. The school which began with the structure of local materials has gotten about 48 pupils with the missionary and his wife as the pioneer teachers. Currently they are seeing for assistance to provide desks for the pupil to use seeing that some of them write on their legs and the ground.

PRAYERS

· Pray for more laborers for the harvest of the fields in Kwande L.G.A of Benue State. Ask God for wisdom to raise and train local/ Indigenous missionaries for the work.

· Pray for the turning around of the inflicting of sickness by diabolic means to an opportunity to demonstrates Gods power to save and heal. Let those who experience God’s mighty hands turn back to worship and serve Him forever.

· Pray for the outreaches coming up for Becheve by March 2019, that God will go ahead of us and break every strongholds in the land and make the people hungry for His salvation. Pray for funds for the outreach.

· Pray for the provision of funds to equip the rural school and begin engaging more hands as number of pupils increases.

· Pray for the missionaries, Pastor Chinamemerem and Wife, Pastor John Abenga and wife, Pastor Chibuzo and wife etc for God’s grace upon their lives.