August Mission Focus

Throughout the month of August, our mission focus will be on raising funds through offerings and donations to help pay for the digging of a well in Kaduna State, Nigeria. This well is a project of the Shabach Beyond Center Nigeria, founded by our own Jerry and Rachael Swam Sidi. The Shabach Well will supply clean drinking water to more than 20,000 people in the Ungwan Boro community.

The Shabach Beyond Center is a training ground. Jerry tells us that if we were to visit Nigeria, we’d discover that Nigerians are some of the happiest people on the face of the earth and passionate about the gospel and worship. He says that God is moving powerfully in Nigeria. The persecution of the church by radical Islamist groups has succeeded in strengthening the faith of the people in Jesus Christ and watered the seed of the gospel of Christ’s love.

A worship leader and recording artist from the Bajju tribe in Southern Kaduna State, Jerry serves in Bristol as Area Coordinator of King University’s RAs and Student Life and as FPC’s Contemporary Worship Director. His vision is to train and empower fellow believers in Nigeria. On July 2, he traveled to Nigeria to sign the paperwork and begin the groundwork for the establishment of the Shabach Beyond Center. The Swam Sidis are remodeling their home in Kaduna State to serve as the Center, whose focus is to equip worship leaders to return to their various churches to point their congregations to the risen King Jesus. Future plans are to house some of the already adopted orphans, who will be taken care of by a full-time, paid housemother, who will live on the property.

There is no life, and no ministry, without water. Please be generous.