Serving the Persecuted Church in Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa

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Outreach Plan:

Wednesday. Travel from GOMA to BUKAVU. Spend the night at KAVUMU (local chief’s residence).

Thursday. Drive from KAVUMU to CIVANGA (15km). 3.00 P.M. Open Air meeting. Spend the night at CIVANGA.

Friday. Travel from CIVANGA to KAMAKOMBE (17km) 3.00 P.M. Open Air meeting. Spend the night at KAMAKOMBE.

Saturday. Door-to-door evangelizing. 3.00 P.M. spend night at KAMAKOMBE.

Sunday. 9.00-12.00 services. Return to GOMA via BUKAVU.

We pray souls will come to JESUS in this area.

In Him,

Pastor Delphin, Goma, Congo .

 – SPECIAL CONGO REPORT –

PYGMY EVANGELISTIC OUTREACH

We left Goma in mid-August for Bukavu, Southern-Kivu, in the evening. We traveled by boat to a Pygmy area near Kahuzi Biega National Park. We had planned a 4-day outreach but we only took 2 days because of the death of a member of “At risk women group”. Beatrice, the Mama I sent photos of when she was sick, died Wednesday. We were ready to leave that evening; she was buried on Thursday so we left on Friday evening.

Pygmies are one of more than 450 Congo Democratic tribes. They are often in forest or near parks. They are the first people historically to occupy the Congo in the Central Equatorial forests. They live by hunting and gathering fruit and honey. They are a minority indigenous people, very poor and marginalized. Today pygmies live near other Bantu tribes, most serve as workers at the Court of a local chief: part of them work in the garden; others are at home doing nothing.

Daily life of the Pygmies- They wake up in the morning early to look for food. They Pass door-to-door asking for something to eat. They go in fields after harvest time to look for food abandoned by the owners, such as potatoes, corn, bananas. Often they steal and this causes conflict. They were chased into the forest by the government to protect the forest. Now they don’t have anywhere to live.