Category: Pray for WAAST

This week pray for EMPOWERMENT FOR THE UNFINISHED TASK Today is Pentecost Sunday! As we Pentecostals well know, this Sunday marks the day the Holy Spirit descended on those waiting in the Upper Room—and the empowering of these men and women to take the gospel to the ends of...

THE EXTENSION CENTER IN GHANA This extension center, based in Kumasi, was able to hold classes throughout 2020 despite pandemic restrictions. The center also provided help to 16 third-year students who could not cross the border into Togo to attend the second-semester 2020 classes, holding three of the courses...

ASSEMBLIES OF GOD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY Students are arriving for the Master of Arts session, which begins Monday, May 10 and runs through July 28. In 2020, no classes could be held due to COVID-19 restrictions, and we praise God that it is possible to travel and meet...

THE EXTENSION CENTER IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE This center is currently in session, with 18 students. Despite the pandemic, they were able to hold classes in 2020, some in person, respecting the protocols, and some by video conference. Nearly 100 WAAST graduates from this nation serve as leaders at national...

THE EXTENSION CENTERS IN CONGO (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC) In March 2020, courses at the newly opened WAAST center in Lubumbashi were abruptly stopped as the pandemic started. Courses at both the BTh and MA levels to be held in Kinshasa later in the year were likewise canceled. The centers have...

THE EXTENSION CENTER IN CAMEROON This center begins a new session this week. The April 2020 session was canceled, but they were able to resume courses in October, with some 35 students. New first-year students will join them this session. Those from the two English-speaking regions, wracked by civil...

THE EXTENSION CENTER IN BURKINA FASO The Assemblies of God of Burkina Faso recently concluded its 100th-anniversary-celebration, dedicating its new national headquarters and passing the torch to the young people, the future pastors and leaders. The AG here has grown to some 5,000 churches and more than a million...

TOGO—OUR HOST COUNTRY Normally, this week tens of thousands of Assemblies of God members would pack up the family and move to various venues around the country for the annual Easter conventions. As in 2020, these cannot be held this year. Last year all of Togo’s churches were shut...

NIGERIA Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, with 206 million people and more than 500 indigenous people groups. Since the 1940s, the Assemblies of God Nigeria has been planting churches, training and sending workers to pastor and evangelize, and using print and later radio, TV, and social media to...

NIGERIA Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, with 206 million people and more than 500 indigenous people groups. Since the 1940s, the Assemblies of God Nigeria has been planting churches, training and sending workers to pastor and evangelize, and using print and later radio, TV, and social media to...