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Mission in Ivory Coast 2016
The Maeva
Source of Living Water created its Regional Delegation for West Africa (RDWA)
and appointed its first Regional Delegate for West Africa in the person of Dr.
Germain Eusebio KEBE-MAMBO, who as already in charge of Maeva Sev C-I medical
Centers. The president of Maeva Sev France went in Ivory Coast from April 14 to
30, 2016 for a program that would lead him Bouaké, a city located to the north
of the country, about an hour from Yamoussoukro, and that would also lead him
to Dabou, in about fifty kilometres from Abidjan.
Originaly
it was an evangelistic team that was to go, after the last evangeization
ampaign two years earlier, in June 2014. But the churches of Bouake could not organize
during the proposed period that was the only period the team was available?
Therefore the mission was postponed for whole team but the President. He had to
make an inventory of ongoing projects, including microfinance he had set up in
2014 and meet the beneficiaries of this project. He laso had to provide
training to the Maeva Sev RDWA team on what our NGO expects from them. After
the mission in Bouakke, the President had to travel to Dabou for an evangelistic
program in the penitentiary center of the city. On this occasion, he had to
give a humanitarian present for the prisoners and their families.
But the
Maeva Sev President’s visit program was completely upset. The Methodist Chrch
was organizing at that time a week training for preachers and Daniel Mpondo was
invited to provide this training thoughout his stay in Bouaké. Alongside this
program, he successively met women beneficiaries of the Maeva Sev microfinance
funding and the leadership of the Maeva Sev RDWA.
Training Preachers
Upon his arrival
on Sunday evening until his departure the following Sunday to Abidjan, Daniel
Mpondo assured teachings every evening in various churches of the Sector on the
following topics:
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“The
Preacher as a Prophet of God” in the Temple “City of Grace”
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“How
to hold a meeting” with all the heads of chuhes of the area at “Canaan” Temple
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“the
Preacher as Priest and Intercessor” at “Canaan” Temple
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“The
Christian face to the Customs and Traditions” at “Ebenezer” Temple
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“The
Preacher as Souls Winner: The Evangelist” at “Ebenezer” Temple
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“The
Mission” at “Canaan” Temple
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The
Sunday worship service before leaving for Abidjan was devoted to the closing
ceremony of the week Preachers Training and the theme of the sermon was “Prophet
and Seekers, and Preachers of the Salvation in Christ”
The Maeva Sev Microfinance
During our
last mission in Bouaké in June 2014, we established a Microfinance to help
people, especialy women who wanted to undertake but were not eligible for a
bank loan. This meeting was one of the main reasons of this trip as we had
seldom information regarding the management of this microfinance. The meeting
with the women beneficiaries of the micro financing took place on Friday, April
22 in the office of Dr. Kebe-Mambo. But the RDWA took us the day before
visiting the cassava field that the ladies had acquired to develop their
project, they had about a hectar cultivated with high yield cuttings they
acquired from the official Agricultural Development Agency.
The next
day we met the ladies who presented us with the management off their projet and
we were pleasantly surprised by their work and prudent management of their
project with reasonable growth and planned development based on their
penetration in the local market of Atieke. Indeed it is a small production unit
of atieke, basic Ivorians food whose raw material is cassava. They have
regularly reimburse their loan and needed and extension of financing to acquire
their own equipment in anticipation of their future harvest. They had worked
for a year by buying the raw material before deciding the acquisition of a
field to produce cassava themselves. The Maeva Sev agreed to this extension by
advising them to prospect the market well before increasing their production.
Dr. Kebe-Mambo pledged their support for their research to penetrate the market
of the schools in the region, where a canteen is served.
The briefing and training of the Maeva Sev RDWA
Team
The
meeting with the Maeva Sev Team that should have been the seond main reason for
this mission that originaly consisted of two or three days of training the new
team, finaly took place the day before departure of the president of Maeva Sev,
on Saturday April 23. It was also held in the office of Dr. Kebe-Mambo. The
latter made a Power Point presentation on the founding texts of the missionary
organization and operation, based on the example of the Regional Delegation for
Central Africa (RDCA) who welcomed the Maeva Sev France General Assembly in
Cameroon. He stressed the autonomy of representations and Antennae that should
secure themselves their functioning, as the example of Cameroon, the Maeva Sev
France helping only for specific projects.
The
Microfinance managers have not been able to present their management report of
the unit, unlike the ladies of the “Atieke Production Unit”, it was therefore
agreed that the report would be sent later in France.
In Conclusion
The
mission in Bouake, because of unexpected program proposed by the leaders of the
United Methodist Chruch (UMC-EMU-) of the Gbeke Region (Bouaké) was very
intense and ultimately rewarding for all. Unfortunately this was not the case
for the continuation of the program for the second week in Dabou where an
evagelization action was planned in prisons with dispensing humanitarian
parcels for the prisonners and their families. Indeed, Evangelist Daniel Mpondo
had to cancel his intervention in this City: the pastor responsible of this
program having confused the budget for the mission with manna from heaven to
help himsolve his personal problems, it was not possible starting any program
with this gentleman. Then it was an opportunity for him to take some rest with
his Ivorian family.
