Nigeria (MNN) — Few places see more Christian deaths each year than Nigeria. Terrorists killed more than 7,000 believers in the first seven months of this year alone.
“Nigerian Christians are currently suffering in ways that we can’t even fathom [or] understand,” says Jason Taylor, head of Set Free Global, a division of Set Free Ministries.
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Survivors often carry deep trauma, but hope is coming. In partnership with Neil Anderson, Set Free developed “freedom appointments,” a ministry tool that helps believers walk in healing through Christ. More about that here.
In Nigeria, “Denominational church leaders are inviting us to come in and train them so they can train their people and walk their own people through the freedom steps,” Taylor says.
Set Free Global has served East Africa for two decades. This year, they’re breaking new ground in Nigeria.
This month, “We’re completing what I’ll call the ‘first round’ of freedom appointments with seven pastors, and now we’re asking each one to choose a partner, really a disciple of theirs, to also go through the freedom appointment,” Taylor says.
“Once they go through that training, we’ll have two individuals in each church that can start doing freedom appointments with their congregants.”
After establishing the program, Taylor envisions believers taking a new cohort of seven individuals through the freedom appointment process every other month.
Nigeria has the second-largest Christian population in Africa, and the potential impact is enormous. Pray that believers will be empowered to serve Christ boldly, once freed from past traumas. Ask the Lord to bless the work of Set Free Global and its partners, especially Reverend Andaman.
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