April-May 2001

Missionary trip involved the following locations:
Ghana – Visits, discussions and giving of theological books to Pastor Gideon and Daniel (proprietor of a private school).
Togo — Unable to visit new contact Kossi, at this time.
Kenya — Visits, discussions and giving of theological books to Pastor Samson and people of CLC Etago where 40 were baptized in a service on May 3rd (56 members). Doctrinal discussions with four pastors representing the Ev. Lutheran Church of East Africa, registered in Tanzania. They have 737 members in 10 parishes. This group had recently written to Immanuel Lutheran College, asking for information on the CLC.
Congo — Visit, discussion and giving of Bibles to Bishop Muzakuza of the Confessional Lutheran Church of the Congo (635 members in 19 parishes), with a new congregation being formed in Kinshasa. Correspondence with Muzakuza began over two years ago when he got our name from a Bishop in a Congo church, who had seen our name in a book of church groups.

NCLC has 900 members, 14 workers, and 13 students in the Bible Institute.