Congo--Kinshasa (MNN) ― A strong windstorm recently swept through the Grace Ministries' mission station in Kama, Congo, heavily damaging many of their buildings.
GMI's Sam Vinton describes the extent of the damage. "We have this airstrip that runs right through the station and village. The wind blew the roofs off of six or seven schools on that station. Most of the roofs were blown off--a lot of people's homes and the depot where all those things are stored for people's ministries."
Vinton says replacing the roofs can be a challenge. Tin roofing is expensive and has to be flown into Kama. The disruption of the storm hasn't stopped their work. In fact, says Vinton, their plight has served to raise awareness of the outreach side of their work. "We are in the process of raising funds to help reconstruction providing roofing materials and so on. At least it has raised a lot of consciousness of people who are trying to help rather than just depending on GMI."
The Congo is GMI's oldest and largest mission field. Four missionaries work with the Grace Church in Congo in the areas of evangelism, church planting, education, literature, medical work, and community development projects.
Leaders for their over 500 churches are trained in our fully accredited Theological College, Pastors' School, and 16 Bible institutes. A large medical center with two Congolese doctors is functioning in a Muslim area where there is a focus on planting churches in the surrounding unreached people groups. One teacher training college, 75 high schools, and 145 grade schools are run by the national church.
