Kep & Debbie June 2024 Prayer Requests

* We thank God for the African students we were able to train in Senegal, West Africa last month. Please pray for these students as they go out in teams with Streams of Living Waters Ministry to plant churches in Muslim areas.

* Pray for Boris and Marco as they lead a group of Spanish speaking pastors in a Facilitator training in Norfolk, Virginia to start ESI (Equipping Servants – Disciples Making Disciples). Pray that they will each grow in their understanding of the gospel and their love for Jesus. Pray that they will live true to the gospel and be committed to study the Bible and teach and preach it in their local churches.

* Pray for the London-based African pastors we will take through the ESI training June 26-29. Pray that God will use this time to help each one commit to study God’s Word to experience the deep change that only Jesus can bring.

* Pray for the 2,850 ESI participants in 250 groups in 30 countries, with 3200 total graduates since beginning in 2002. Pray that these men and women will grow in their love for God as they study His Scriptures to experience gospel transformation in their lives, relationships and local churches.

* Pray for the ILC Church that Kep and Debbie started in Bolivia in 1990, that its leadership will continue honoring Christ by staying true to His Scriptures.

Kep & Debbie Senegal and Ethiopia Ministry Trip

Download the 2024 Senegal and Ethiopia Ministry Trip Report

Thank you for praying for us the last 2 weeks in Senegal and Ethiopia. We saw God work -- this report shares some of that, and photos.

-Kep and Debbie Jamies

Kep & Debbie May 2024 Prayer Requests

* We thank God for the African students we were able to train in Mali and Senegal, West Africa during the months of March and April. Please pray for these students as they go out in teams to plant churches in Muslim areas.

* Praise for the Spanish speaking pastors in Virginia who started ESI (Equipping Servants – Disciples Making Disciples) groups in recent weeks. These servants are meeting together to study the Bible.

* We thank God for the many groups Elias has trained in Brazil, and other groups Paulo has started across Africa in recent months. Pray for these pastors and church leaders as they study Romans together, that they will grow in their understanding of the gospel, their love for Jesus – to live true to the gospel, and be committed to study the Bible and teach and preach it in their local churches.

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Kep & Debbie April 2024 Update

Thank you for your prayers as we leave this Saturday for Senegal and Ethiopia. Details how you can pray in the attached pdf.

We sincerely thank God for your partnership in the gospel with us through your prayers,

Kep and Debbie James

Kep & Debbie March 2024 Update

Thank you for your prayers. Debbie and I got back to Cleveland last evening after a month of ESI ministry in Latin America (Facilitator Training for 20 Spanish speaking pastors in Virginia, then Uruguay and Bolivia, and finally Facilitator Training for 30 pastors in Brazil's NorthEast region).

We are very encouraged to see how God is giving pastors and church leaders a hunger to study God's Word so they can see Jesus and the gospel as its main message, in order to grow in their dependence on Christ and experience real gospel transformation. This is the only way any of us can faithfully teach and preach it in our churches. Please be praying that the Lord will continue moving His church forward across Latin America and Africa.

On Saturday, I travel to West Africa for two weeks to teach 40 church planting students as part of one of the missionary training outreach schools. I value your prayers for clarity of understanding in everything we will be doing there.

Also, I would value your prayers as my mom continues to recover from a bad fall in which she broke a vertebra. At 93 years old, she is making good progress recovering in a rehabilitation facility in North Carolina.

Thank you sincerely,

Kep

Kep & Debbie March 2024 Prayer Requests

The biggest prayer request for March is for me March 1-15 in Mali, West Africa, teaching Romans to church planting students with an Egyptian-based ministry. There are 40 students gathered for 7 months who came out of a Muslim background, later came to faith in Christ, and now are committed to make Christ known in those same communities they came out of, and to and plant churches among their own people.

I value your prayers as I teach Romans there, that each one will understand clearly the gospel and experience gospel transformation, to become effective as they go out to plant churches, and that they will make a commitment to become serious students of the Bible the rest of their lives!

-Kep

Kep & Debbie February 2024 Update

Download Kep & Debbie's February 2024 Update.

Greetings from Cleveland.

We leave in 2 days for 6 weeks in South America and West Africa. This update gives that itinerary, as well as a special prayer request for my 93 year old mother, who fell last night breaking a vertebra and now awaits surgery.

We do value your prayers,

Kep and Debbie

Kep & Debbie December 2023 Trip Report

Thank you for praying for our time in Liberia. I got back to Cleveland on Saturday night -- encouraged seeing the way God impacted so many pastors and church leaders during the time we were there.

Attached are pdf photos.

We thank God for your partnership in the gospel with us,

Kep and Debbie

Kep & Debbie December 2023 Update

Attached is our December 2023 Update.

I'll be leaving on Monday for two weeks in Liberia with our ESI Africa team. We'll be taking 210 Liberian pastors through our ESI Facilitator Training. We would appreciate your prayers for that time together. Our December Update gives details about what you can be praying for, and what our ESI team has been doing in Brazil, Sierra Leone, and Bolivia over the past month.

Thank you for praying!

Kep and Debbie James

Kep & Debbie November 2023 Update

Thank you for praying for us -- this afternoon we finish up our four days of Latin America ESI Leadership Meetings in Santa Cruz Bolivia, and then head up to La Paz. The meetings here have been really important. It has been tremendously encouraging hearing how God is working across this region, and to pray together. We have heard story after story of pastors and churches getting back on track with Jesus and the gospel as God's people make the commitment to study God's Word.

One important thing that came out of the meetings is our need always to keep our quality strong as we grow outward into new countries. This is especially true as we expand through Africa. You can pray with us as we continue to concentrate on strengthening ESI leadership in African countries we currently have groups in. This also means that we will plan to hold our expansion into new new countries to just one or two more for part of 2024.

Thank you for praying for the growth of the gospel in the lives of pastors and church leaders in the 29 countries where ESI currently works.

Thank you,

Kep