Mission Trip to Rotifunkay 2007

On the 29 December 2007 The Go Evangelistic and Compassion Ministry made its way to a town called Rotifunk with the aim of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ and launching the ministry in the town.

Profile: Rotifunkay is a town 50 miles away from the capital Freetown. It is situated along the road leading to moyamba town. It is bounded by rivers, estuaries and mountains.

The early missionaries came to this town on boat through the Atlantic Ocean. It is a place that received the gospel of Jesus Christ when the first missionaries came to Sierra Leone.

The first Missionary house was erected in1877 and the first church was erected in 1883 by the WAM of the UBC missionaries.

But these people who comprised of Loko, s, Sherbro, and Temene were so reluctant to accepting the gospel of Jesus Christ which lead them to kill more than 10 missionaries in colonial times. The first missionaries were martyred in 3 may 1898.

Ever since the spread of Christianity became slow in this community. The old Methodist church which existed in this community for over 100 years is the only existing church present.

During the ten years of rebel war in the country which led to the killing of thousands of people the whole township was burnt down and the people abandoned the town for more the than 6 years. Every thing was destroyed including the only hospital present in the town.

Now life is regaining in the town after the end of the war. What is now seen is the existence of mosques and no churches. The people are now engaged to witchcraft, oculttism, secret society, and African traditional religion.

It is sad to see that people abandon the gospel in this community. But thank God for our ministry which made its way this December to the township to revive the people and proclaim the gospel to them.

Some people say the cause of the downfall of the town is due to the missionaries that were killed and that their blood is still crying.

But we thank god for this new era as we preached the gospel in our crusades a lot of people made up their minds to accept Christ as their personal saviour.We were able to launched the ministry in the town and a village 5 miles away from Rotifunk called Gberembu were we held another crusade. We now thank God as we have two new locations in that part of the country. We are sure that God is in control and he will surely make a way to save these people.

Prayer Requests

1. Pray that God will protect as we work in this dangerous area.

Pray that the people will accept the gospel and give their lives to God

Pray that God will send more laborers to the field of work

Pray that God will supply us funds for the workers in the mission field.

Pray that the materials we need to accomplish will be available

Pray that God will provide us with a vehicle to transport us to these areas