Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bikes
July 24, 2017 | BO, Sierra Leone (UMNS) Since the Bikes & Bibles program began three years ago in Sierra Leone, churches have been planted in communities that previously were Muslim or practiced traditional African religions.
In Kortumahun, a new congregation of 70 members worship where there were previously no Christians.
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Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bibles, Bikes, News From Africa
There are 200 bicycles stored here in the UMC airplane hanger in the Congolese city of Lubumbashi located in the Southern Congo Episcopal Area.
Two hundred tribal language bibles plus these 200 bikes will soon be shipped to the five annual conferences across this Episcopal Area, the largest in the UMC with one million members.
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Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bibles, Bikes, News From Africa
This is an article from UM Communication which was featured on the UMC website about the Bikes and Bibles ministry as it was applied in 2015 in Sierra Leone, a West African country and Annual Conference. The article can be read by clicking here.
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Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bibles, Bikes, News From Africa
This is a great article written by UM Communications and featured on the UMC website. The article is about local pastors in Africa – the kind of pastors provided bikes and bibles. The article tells of one such pastor who has income of $140 a month. The article can be read by clicking here.
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Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bibles, Bikes, News From Africa
Congo Trip 2015 | Rurel Ausley from Crosspoint on Vimeo.
Rev. Rurel Ausley’s sermon/report to his congregation at Crosspoint UMC about the church construction and bike and bible distribution in North Katanga Annual Conference, the largest in the UMC.
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Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bikes, News From Africa
These photos are from Zambia Annual Conference (a country south of the Congo, but a part of the Southern Congo Episcopal Area). Notice the bikes loaded on the large truck headed for the Annual Conference meeting.
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Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bibles, Bikes, News From Africa
Table with bibles in local language distributed to the district superintendents for delivery to their pastors. Bishop John Innis prays over the bible distribution and the bike distribution. Also, the white packages are boxes of 4 bicycles each to be carried by the district superintendents to rural areas. There is a picture of an assembled bike as an example.
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Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bikes, News From Africa
In June 2013, we took these pictures at a pastor training seminar in Kamina, a city in the North Katanga Episcopal Area.
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Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bikes, News From Africa
There are numerous examples of bicycles helping people making a living and doing their daily chores in a difficult environment.
Give a Bike or a Bible for a local pastor in Africa!
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Joe Kilpatrick
Posted in Bikes, Giving, News From Africa
The pastors arrived at the seminar
in Kamina, Katanga Province, Congo riding their bicycles. We could see that the bicycles were important to them, and we could see that many were simply worn out. Here the fenders are gone, the pedals have worn away and the seat is broken.
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