Our time in Kenya was busy in October as over 100 ministers of the Gospel were impacted at leaders conferences during the day, while multitudes heard the Gospel each night at open air crusade meetings.  Pastors from Uganda, DRC (Congo), Burundi, Rwanda & South Africa attended the leadership times and received impartation and practical training in the word of God.   

Our team of 12 included 4 Canadians, 7 Americans and a pastor from Uganda.   We were privileged to meet and pray with a governor overseeing 1.5 million people from the region around the city of Eldoret, Kenya.   Much of our ministry that took place on this trip will be broadcast internationally on the Holy Spirit Broadcasting Network. 

If we want to change a nation, we must impact its leaders.   God calls us to at Canadian Fire Missions to make a difference in the lives of leaders.   While Jesus spent some of His time preaching the Gospel and healing the sick in the multitudes, He spent a great deal of His time with 12 men that He called to be leaders.  These 12 men that Jesus impacted left a great impact on the world of their day, literally scattering the Gospel far and wide from their starting point in Jerusalem.   The key to reaching nations is to reach leaders who will reach those nations. 

It was a pleasure to spend a lot of time with a young evangelist in Romania this summer.   Even though we did a lot of other things, reaching out to children, doing drama and evangelism in public locations, and ministering in churches - I felt my primary purpose on this last trip was to invest in the lives of young leaders.    If Romania is to be reached, then Romanians need to be at the forefront.   They understand the language and the culture, and their heart is intertwined with their homeland in such a way that God will use them to impact their cities and villages.  Pray for us as we develop this part of Canadian Fire Missions... the avenue of developing leaders who will reach their nations. 

Crossing the border from Romania into Moldova was the first time I really felt like I was passing behind the 'iron curtain.' This former communist nation had evidences of days past with numerous concrete block buildings and Soviet-era lookouts at the border crossing.  Maybe the signs in Russian style Cyrillic lettering added to the flavour for us. 

The people were hungry for the Gospel though and it was great to minister with a pastor who not only had a church in Cahul, Moldova, but he was planting another church in Galati, Romania not far away.     Pray for this nation that God would move where many women are unfortunately the victims of human trafficking.  

About fifteen pastors and leaders sat in a school classroom with a handful of Canadians on our team a day before a Uganda minister's conference was about to begin.   It was time to introduce ourselves and as the men of God went around the room I soon realized I was with some spiritual giants... some great men and women of the kingdom of God.   

The first pastor mentioned how he had planted over 50 churches.  The next leader planted 40.  This went on with each leader around the circle.    Then the wife of a man of God spoke of how her 70+ year old husband had planted 350 churches!   By the time we had finished the circle, more than 700 churches were represented by these key leaders throughout Uganda. 

What a powerful privilege it is to minister to leaders.  When you impact the life of a leader, you are impacting so many more.  Hundreds of pastors and leaders gathered and received from the word of God and His Spirit as lives were impacted at African Renewal University just outside the city of Kampala. 

One of the highlights for me was to have a group of African evangelists who joined me for some afternoon sessions at this conference.   God has a way of connecting evangelists together, which is really the heartbeat of Canadian Fire Missions.   Some of these men of God we connected with that day are impacting many thousands of people across Africa and around the world.     It was truly a joy to have Canadian Fire meet African fire in Uganda in May 2016!