PASTOR SIMON SAMWEL AT BURUNDI CONGO REFUGEE CAMPS TANZANIA

SBC CONF PASTOR SIMON SAMWEL AT  

BURUDI CONGO TANZANIA  

SEPT 2, 2022 

 

Dear Pastor Ted Groves 

 

Today we come with a second testimony to explain the wonderful things that our God has done through the SBC Conferences together with SBC Swahili Books in Burundi and Congo Refugee Camps in our country Tanzania 

Our country Tanzania has large refugee camps in Kigoma Region, an area called Nyarugusu. 

Tanzania has been receiving refugees from Burundi and Congo. These two countries had the challenges of civil war. In the country of Burundi, it involved the country's major tribes of Hutu and Tusi, and in Congo involving the rebel army and the government in power. Refugees from these two countries have been coming in large numbers here in Tanzania. 

We planned for these camps in our SBC Conference schedules. In order to serve these camps with quality SBC teachings, I found Pastor Minani Augustin who invited me for the first time to hold the SBC Conference in the Burundi refugee camp. After that, he organized two more SBC Conferences in different areas of the refugee camps, and we were teaching together with him. After working with him for a year and understanding our SBC Materials well, he is now the one who helps me to conduct the SBC Conferences in Nyarugusu (Burundi and Congo Camps). He has been a blessing to me for our SBC Ministry here in Tanzania and He is one of my team members now. Sometimes, I am not always allowed to enter the refugee camps, so he has been helping me a lot when I get stuck in those situations. 

GREAT CHANGES IN REFUGEE CAMPS’ CHURCHES 

Through SBC’s Conferences, a great Revival has occurred in the churches located in the refugee camps here in Nyarugusu, Kigoma. Through these conferences, many refugee families have been renewed and strengthened in spreading the Gospel to the unreached. After the teachings of the SBC in the churches of the refugees, the churches woke up and started witnessing rapidly and made many Christians to start witnessing in the Camps. There were some churches that were run poorly and almost closed (like Christians who are asleep) but these conferences now have brought a great revival to the extent that now those churches have found people and have been doing well. Pastor Manyanga John Claude is one of the pastors whose church lacked Christians and was close to being closed. After attending our SBC Conferences, he had a great awakening. The revival achieved by conducting our SBC Conferences in these camps has been wonderful. Now his church has Christians, and they are proceeding well in the faith. 

We are incredibly grateful to Grace Community Church together with Pastor Ted Groves, and the entire SBC Team for your generous support and prayers for us. Your work is not in vain as you can see in these testimonies, we pray a lot to God to continue to bless you more in all physical and spiritual areas. 

Kindly see the attachment of the photos which reflect the things mentioned above. You can see the church now with Christians and Pastor Manyanga Claude.  

 

 

Simon Samwel 

  

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