Source: Assembly of God World Missions, July 22, 2019
Missionaries Don and Jacquie recently finished training 300 Cuban global missions workers, 80 of whom were commissioned for worldwide service at Cuba’s Assemblies of God General Council this year.
“Everywhere we go, a vision for missions is being birthed in this nation,” says Don. “Jacquie and I have traveled this island end to end multiple times. There’s not a place we go that we don’t see God awakening a burden for missions. The church is just exploding.”
In the process of training candidates for missions, Don and Jacquie have discovered a wealth of highly skilled Cubans.
“We know chemical engineers, English professors, lawyers, doctors, and more who are called to go to the nations,” they share.
Cuban culture places a high premium on education, and this cultural value is reflected in the church. Cubans’ professional training strategically equips them to reach sensitive contexts.
And for the first in time in over 50 years, Cubans are now allowed to leave the country for up to two years at a time, providing the first official opportunity to release these uniquely gifted and highly equipped Cuban missionaries.
“It’s like God in the last 60 years has just been training a huge missionary force,” Don and Jacquie state.
» Read full story. It also describes a decades-old prophecy of all this.
» Also from Cuba, we read that a religious freedom defender in Cuba has been released after seven days in prison (Christian Solidarity Worldwide).
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