August 2023 End of Month Report

“See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Jeremiah 1:9-10

We, our Lord’s Church, have been appointed over nations and kingdoms to uproot, tear down, destroy and overthrow. West Africa is filled with strongholds of Satan that are thousands of years old. Specifically, Wordsower Africa works in the West African nations of Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The main religions of this region are Islam and Animism. Animism, as practiced in West Africa, is a secretive demonic society. Often the society is called “The Devil and his Devil Dancers.” They are ruled by a demonic leader, most likely demon possessed, called the Devil. The Devil is the supreme authority. He robs, tortures and kills those who resist or oppose, and those he deems to have done wrong. His disciples are called Devil Dancers. There are numerous stories about the power of their witchcraft, curses and evil ways.

For over 15 years we have entered into these strongholds, most of which are churchless. Never have we entered an Animistic stronghold and not seen its foundation uprooted. Never have we entered one of these strongholds and not been able to evangelize, disciple and form a unity of believers! Within the Islamic tribes, that have been unreached for thousands of years, we have never entered one of their communities and not been able to evangelize, baptize and disciple new believers. Strongholds are uprooted and replaced with Christians and churches. “I appoint you over nations and kingdoms… to build and to plant.”

A Story of Uprooting and Planting

“I will go before you and will level the mountains; 

I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.” 

Isaiah 45:2

Pynes Town, a town of a few hundred, was one of the most powerful strongholds of Satan. It was the region of the demon possessed rebel fighter named General Butt Naked (Google him). My first time going into this region was on motorbike with a Liberian disciple on back. Our arrival created a stir because white men were seldom seen, and never had one arrived dirty driving a motorbike. Upon arriving, we started circulating throughout the town giving blue Gideon pocket Bibles to those able to read. As we were walking, we were approached by 3 men. They stayed close to us and made sure we had water, food and a sleeping place. They followed us everywhere, making sure all our needs were met. 

The mission of WSA is to evangelize, disciple, train leaders and start churches. This process requires us to enter a community many times. Those who have made commitments of faith unto salvation are discipled. Among those disciples, we search for those who would be able to form and lead a church. Normally, these future leaders will live with us on one of our bases to attend our Bible institute and receive deeper training. Often the new church will outgrow their meeting place. We will then assist them with building a metal church roof on posts. The church will then complete the building by putting in the walls, doors, windows and benches. 

We returned many times to the Pynes town region to train disciples. One day I asked these three men why they had come close and united with us so quickly. The answer one man gave was, “I had a dream that one day a white man would come and bring little blue Bibles and that we should follow him. We were looking and waiting for you to arrive.” Our Lord said in Exodus 23:20, “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.” All we have to do is show up. Our Lord has gone before us and prepared the place before we ever arrive. We go, knowing that it is not our ability, but it is our availability.  

Once, when I entered Pynes town, I saw one of these 3 disciples being beaten. The Devil’s disciples tried dragging him into the rain forest. I got between them to stop the beating and demanded that they release him. Quickly, a large riotous crowd surrounded us. They brought us before their spiritual leader, called the Devil, the chief and the town elders. Jesus said, “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils… On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time, you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.” Matthew 10:16-20. The scripture is true. I was given what to say, by our Lord, without any preparation or foreknowledge. I talked about their town and their desire for its development. The passion of every town is development! I used the analogy of a car with 4 tires. 4 good tires are necessary for a car to move forward. Towns, like cars with 4 good tires, will develop, will go forward. As a car can’t go forward with a flat tire, nor can a town go forward if it does not have these 4 essentials; a school, a clinic, freedom of religion, and government law instead of tribal law. If any one of these “tires” are flat the town will not develop or grow. They received the teaching and agreed that the town should have freedom of religion and government law. They agreed to allow us to start churches in their town!

Demons are ruled by fear and rule those they inhabit with fear. The Devil and his disciples are fierce, brutal and cruel warrior followers of Satan. They are armed with guns, machetes and whips. Once when I entered Pynes Town, their spiritual leader, called the Devil, and his disciples ran in terror into the rain forest and hid until I left. The demons knew that followers of Christ have the authority to cast them out of those they host, and they did not want to be cast out.

Another time, I entered Pynes Town and saw the spiritual leader, called the Devil, sitting by himself in the town. I sat with him and told him about Heaven and Hell. The town’s people knew I was speaking with him, and he knew they were aware of us discussing. Afterwards, he got up loudly laughing and ridiculing me. About 2 months later as I was driving a bike in our town, about 3 hours from Pynes Town, the Devil ran in front of me waving his arms for me to stop. I asked him why he was in town and why he was stopping me. He said that he wanted to hear more about Heaven and Hell. Shocked, I reminded him that he laughed at me when we discussed in Pynes Town. His answer was that he was laughing on the outside, not the inside. He has made a commitment of faith for salvation, attends church and has come to our base to get evangelism material.

Today, leaders that we have trained and assisted have two churches in Pynes town. The Devil and his Devil Dancers have dissipated. Another stronghold destroyed! “See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.” Jeremiah 1:9-10.

A Testimony from one of our Teams

(This testimony is original. It has been lightly edited)

“By the Grace of the Almighty God. Wordsower Grand Kru team conducted a three-day training in a remote town called Barkadu. There was true repentance of those who attended. Barkadu was established in 1936 and has never had a church. After the training we were able to baptize one soul, the first of its kind. Moreover, it's so encouraging that former students that attended our Wordsower Bible Institute, in Zwedru, also taught in the three-day training. Truly the harvest is plentiful.

(The testimony continues a week later)

“Today marks the beginning of the newly established church in Barkadu! The people were surprised, this was the first time for an organized church service in the town. Before the service, we sent word to the town chief, a Muslim man, to inform him. He refused to respond to us. We met in an uncompleted school building. We saw the eagerness and the willingness from the few who turned out. They are hungry for the words of God. But, after the meeting the chief and elders refused to let us worship again in the building. We are praying to be granted permission to construct a church building. Keep us in your prayers. 

(A few more days passed)

“Last night we received a call from the town that the chief and elders are willing to give land in the town for us to build a church house. We told the believers to cut sticks for the walls and that we would provide the metal roof. Barkadu used to be an unreached, churchless town that was 99% Muslim.”

“See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms 
to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.” 
Jeremiah 1:9-10

Our mission to the lost requires sacrifice

 

 

The Fruit of our Sacrifice is disciples

 

  

The fruit of our sacrifice is baptisms
We baptized 149 this month

  

The fruit of our sacrifice is churches
This month we completed another church roof for a church we had started

Our on-site leaders and the donations of churches and individuals from abroad are bringing in a great harvest. We need the unity of us all, His Church, to accomplish our Lord’s command to reach the world. Thank you for your active love and faith. Thank you for sacrificing with us. We need additional monthly donors. Please pray about participating with us financially.

Participate with us in praise and prayer:

• Praise: We continue to advance into the strongholds of Satan without serious persecution.
• Pray: Against the plans and advancement of the jihadists.
• Pray: For increased donations so that we may continue to advance into unreached tribes.
• Pray: For our indigenous missionary teams, that they will continue to fearlessly, boldly and sacrificially advance the gospel.
• Pray: As we prepare to create and send another indigenous missionary team to the Muslim unreached tribes of Sierra Leone.
• Pray: For us we march into and live within the strongholds of Satan to, “snatch others from the fire and save them.” Jude 1:23.
• Pray: “Finally, our friends, pray for us that the Lord's message may continue to spread rapidly and be received with honor, just as it was among you. Pray also that God will rescue us from wicked and evil people; for not everyone believes the message.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2.

Donations:

100% of all donations go to the mission. None is used for administration. Tax-deductible receipts will be sent each January.

Click Here to Donate Online (Hold down the Ctrl button with the curser on the icon then click)

Postal Donations:
Please make checks payable to the “Woodside Vision Foundation” designating “Wordsower 
Africa” on the memo line of the check. Please include your name and address for the receipt, if 
the information is not already on the check. Mail to: 
Woodside Vision Foundation
6600 Rochester Road
Troy Michigan 48085

 
If you have questions or problems with donations or want to contact me, Kim Smith, then email 
me at kimlogansmith1957@gmail.com. I’m also available on the apps called WhatsApp, the 
contact number is +231-8813-44417. My Signal app number is +231-7757-89662.

In August We Did:

4 - Countries (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Liberia)

7 - Bases: 4 in Liberia, 1 in Sierra Leone, 1 in Ivory Coast, 1 in Guinea 

21 - Total counties we ministered in

266 - Total communities/villages/towns/cities we ministered in

67 - Churches we visited and worked with

150 - Total mission trips

149 - Persons were baptized

958 - Public confessions of Christ and prayers for salvation

101- WBI attended Level 1 training in Sinje, Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia

49- WBI attended Level 1 training in Yandohun, Lofa County, Liberia

53- WBI attended Level 1 training in Bopolu, Gbarpolu County, Liberia

56- WBI attended Level 3 Blolequin, Ivory Coast

627 - Attended our 1-3 days workshops-training in locations.

7,888 - Viewed the Jesus Film, 35 locations and 47 times shown.

4 - Community Radio stations broadcasting on

31 - Dental patients, 28 teeth pulled.

34,700 - Press report, pages printed, 304 booklets made (English and French)

July 2023 End of Month Report

“What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.” Revelation 3:7-8

David Garrison in his book, A Wind in the House of Islam, writes: “Let’s define a movement of Muslims to Christ to be 1,000 baptisms that occur over a two-decade period… In Islam’s first 12 centuries there were no movements of Muslims to Christ… Not until the end of the 19th century, twelve and a half centuries after the death of Muhammad, did we find the first movements of Muslims to Christ that numbered at least 1,000 baptisms… Today, in more than 70 separate locations in 29 nations, new movements of Muslim-background followers of Christ are taking place. Each of these movements has crossed the threshold of at least 1,000 baptized believers, all of whom have come to Christ over the past two decades. In some countries the numbers within these new movements have grown to tens of thousands. Something is happening—something historic, something unprecedented.” 

David defines a move of Christ among Muslims to be 1,000 baptisms, of a tribe, within 20 years. The first 6 months of this year we had over 1,400 baptisms! Not all of those came from converted Muslims of unreached tribes but many were. From the quote above we see an historic move of God within the Islamic strongholds throughout the world today. We are definitely seeing the hand of God working in the four West African countries where we have indigenous missionary teams assigned; Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Guinea.

Our Lord has opened shut doors among centuries old unreached tribes. For centuries Christians have tried, sacrificed and been martyred trying to enter unreached Muslim tribes but were rejected. Often, after a lifetime on the field, missionaries would only witness a small handful of conversions. But today, we are seeing multitudes, from Islamic unreached tribes, coming to Christ in faith. It is not that we are stronger or have better methods then those of the past but it is God divinely opening doors.    

Testimonies of Disciples

(These testimonies are original. They have been lightly edited)

We define passion as willing to suffer and die for a cause greater than ourselves. In the testimonies below, you will feel the spirit of their passion. Each of those who go on mission do it with passion. They go in true sacrifice, suffering and risk.

“Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God, day and night, has been hurled down. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.” Revelation 12:10-11

“In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 3:1-2

"This wonderful morning in the town of Kamakwie, 12 people were baptized. Heaven is rejoicing and Satan is in tears and troubled. All 12 were converted from Islam. Please be in prayer with them.”

“Good afternoon, folks. This is a short testimony of an unreached churchless community called Rothemne. Rothemne has close to 3,000 inhabitants and has a big beautiful yellow mosque. Almost everybody in the town are Muslims or Animists. An Animistic bush alter and worship center, is hidden in the rain forest, adjacent to the town. (Animism, as practiced in West Africa, is a secretive demonic religion that includes witchcraft, idols, curses, spells, sacrifices, fear and violence. The spiritual leaders title is the Devil). We evangelized and baptized 86 people including the only male child of the Sheik (Imam) and two of the daughters of the village chief. The Sheik beat on his son for accepting Jesus Christ. We have planted a church, but no place to host church services, so we are doing it right under the mango tree. We need additional assistance. Making the Gospel available to every person in Sierra Leone. Everybody everywhere needs to hear the Gospel. So lead us, Lord.” 

“This morning in Makump village, 75 people were baptized. The new converts are requesting for a church building, a place of worship.”

“Today is another wonderful day in the history of Wordsower Sierra Leone. We baptized two people yesterday in a churchless village called Magbankanie These two are believed to be the only Christians in this village. One of the new converts, just two days ago, became a Christian and was baptized. She is an eleventh-grade student of the nearby school. She fearlessly evangelized two of her classmates while walking back home from school. By the grace of God one of them accepted Jesus. Upon our arrival, with their baptism certificates, the girl quietly rushed to us and said I have talked to my friends and one of them accepted Jesus and is willing to be baptized. As a team, we taught this brand new convert the scripture and prayed with her. She repented, and confessed faith in our Lord. How could a new convert who just got baptized yesterday afternoon make disciples? God can use anybody at any time to accomplish His mission. Pray for these that the Lord will use them to do more.”

“No die, no rest. Everyone must hear the gospel.”

“23 attended our two-day training in Lofa County. The students appreciated the good training. They are also planning to send more people to our Bible school to increase their faith. We showed the Jesus film each night. 10 persons gave their lives to God. One of those baptized was a 99-year-old, “ol’ma”. Another was David. He was one of the wicked men of the town who did not attend our first meeting. That night he had a dream. He saw himself going towards heavy fire, but someone spoke to him. The person said, go to the building you see ahead of you, enter it, pray and be baptized. He awoke and told his wife. She told him to be baptized by us. He attended our second day meeting and was later baptized. The leaders have requested help for a church building because they are meeting under one big tree. Thanks to God for the mission.”

“Jesus commanded us His disciples to go, make disciples, baptize and teach. Kanaka is a very big town with a large beautiful mosque, without a church. A few people called themselves Christians and but had never gone to a church service before. Our team showed the Jesus film and 68 people give their lives to Jesus. 64 people were baptized including the Speaker of the Town and a disabled young boy with a sorrowful story. Everybody everywhere needs to hear the gospel. Lead us, Lord.”

“We are solders, no fear, no worry, no stopping and no resting. We go, the gospel advances.”

“Yakayah is an Animistic town that was founded in 1864, by a traditional warrior called Yaka, of the unreached Gola tribe. Since the town was founded there has been no Christians, worship or gatherings. This town has been one of the strongholds when it comes to witchcraft practice in Gbarpolu County. By the power of God, the yoke has been broken. Our team showed the Jesus film. Many accepted Christ and were baptized. The elders finally agreed for their town to have freedom of worship. A house Church has been started by our field leaders, Anthony and Augustine.”

“Jesus is indeed Lord; Muslims are converting daily. Lamin was an Islamic man. He dreamed several times of worshipping Jesus. In the dreams, voices came to him saying that the only way he can be successful in life is to be a Christian and believe in Jesus Christ as a personal Lord and Savior. One morning, while we were going to the creek for baptism, Lamin asked us saying, “where are you going, guys?” Dennis responded in a loud voice; we are going to baptize this lady. Lamin smiled and said, I want to be baptized too. We walked down to the creek and baptized both of them. Pray against family prosecution and denial.”

Below is a 1-minute video showing the sacrifice, suffering, and risk our leaders joyfully endure:

Watch on YouTube

Our on-site leaders and the donations of churches and individuals from abroad are bringing in a great harvest. We need the unity of us all, His Church, to accomplish our Lord’s command to reach the world. Thank you for your active love and faith. Thank you for sacrificing with us. We need additional monthly donors. Please pray about participating with us financially.

Participate with us in praise and prayer:

• Praise: We continue to advance into the strongholds of Satan without serious persecution.
• Pray: Against the plans and advancement of the jihadists.
• Pray: For increased donations so that we may continue to advance into unreached tribes.
• Pray: For our indigenous missionary teams, that they will continue to fearlessly, boldly and sacrificially advance the gospel.
• Pray: As we prepare to create and send another indigenous missionary team to the Muslim unreached tribes of Sierra Leone.
• Pray: For us we march into and live within the strongholds of Satan to, “snatch others from the fire and save them.” Jude 1:23.
• Pray: “Finally, our friends, pray for us that the Lord's message may continue to spread rapidly and be received with honor, just as it was among you. Pray also that God will rescue us from wicked and evil people; for not everyone believes the message.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2.

Donations:

100% of all donations go to the mission. None is used for administration. Tax-deductible receipts will be sent each January.

Click Here to Donate Online (Hold down the Ctrl button with the curser on the icon then click)

Postal Donations:
Please make checks payable to the “Woodside Vision Foundation” designating “Wordsower 
Africa” on the memo line of the check. Please include your name and address for the receipt, if 
the information is not already on the check. Mail to: 
Woodside Vision Foundation
6600 Rochester Road
Troy Michigan 48085

 
If you have questions or problems with donations or want to contact me, Kim Smith, then email 
me at kimlogansmith1957@gmail.com. I’m also available on the apps called WhatsApp, the 
contact number is +231-8813-44417. My Signal app number is +231-7757-89662.

In July We Did:

4 - Countries (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Liberia)

7 – Bases: 4 in Liberia, 1 in Sierra Leone, 1 in Ivory Coast, 1 in Guinea 

24 - Total counties we ministered in

285 - Total communities/villages/towns/cities we ministered in

55 - Churches we visited and worked with

142 - Total mission trips

283 - Persons were baptized

664 - Public confessions of Christ and prayers for salvation

32 - WBI attended Level 3, 2-week, training in Liberia 

32 - WBI attended Level 4, 2-week, training in Liberia 

528 - Attended our 1-3 days workshops in 22 locations.

7,111 - Viewed the Jesus Film, 46 locations and 57 times shown.

4 - Community Radio stations broadcasting on

18 - Dental patients, 22 teeth pulled.

6 - Optical patients

32,250 - Press report, Copies printed, 210 booklets made (English)

Financial Report:

Total expenses per month $25,000.

Kim Smith is 100% self-supported and uses no donations for personal use. All donations are used for reaching the lost for Jesus. 0% of donations go to administrative expenses.

June 2023 End of the Month Report

 Unreached tribes

“I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut… What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.” Revelations 7-8

Wordsower Africa is working in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. Within these four countries there are 82 unreached tribes. We have indigenous missionary teams working within 12 of these tribes. The majority of these tribes are Muslim. These tribes are thousands of years old. Almost every town within these tribes has never had a church nor wants Christians in them. Yet, we are seeing a historic move of the Holy Spirit within these unreached tribes. In the first 6 months of this year, we have baptized 1,450 and started 11 Churches in towns that have never had churches!!! Right now, churchless towns, from these unreached tribes, are begging us to help them start a church.

We are called to participate in His sacrifice

Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 10:16-17

For decades when I took communion it was a time of remembrance and thankfulness. But this verse, about communion, takes us from being just observers to becoming participants. Now, when I take communion, I make a covenant oath to my Lord and Savior. Before I drink from the cup, I say unto our Lord, “As you suffered, bled and died for the lost, I give you my covenant oath to participate and I also will suffer, bleed and die for the lost.”  The bread represents His body. We His Church are His body. So, before I partake of the bread I say unto our Lord, “As you suffered, bled and died for Your Church, I give you my covenant oath. I will suffer, bleed and die for Your Church.” Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” Mark 16:15. Please join us, sacrifice with us, as we participate in the sacrifice to preach His gospel unto the unreached tribes of West Africa. We are within 12 of the 82 unreached tribes of these 4 nations. 70 more are waiting.    

Living in the Miraculous

God is Breaking Down our Vehicles!!!

Wordsower Africa teams travel on motorbikes. But when we have American visitors, and have to travel on the road, we usually take a taxi or rent a car.  

One time we rented a Land Cruiser. The car comes with driver. We were going to and from our Zwedru base. It takes at least 1 ½ days to go from the capital, Monrovia, to our base. We were deep in the rain forest driving back to Monrovia from our base. Suddenly the car stopped as we watched smoke escaping from under the hood. We opened the hood to a cloud of smoke and the smell of burnt rubber. We discovered that the wires, in the wiring harness, had melted into one glob of rubber and copper. The wiring harness is a flexible tube filled with wires that go from the car’s computer to the various components. We were at least a day from the capital where a replacement part might be found. The driver saw a passing motorbike and hitched a ride to try to find a part. We knew he could be gone for 2-3 days. To our utter surprise an hour later he returned with the exact wiring harness for our make and model car. He said that the first village he entered a man was walking on the road with the wiring harness in his hand. That was a miracle. I believe our Lord made this happen to show us His Glory, Sovereignty and agreement with our mission. 

Another time, I had two Americans with me in a rented taxi. This time it was late at night. Again, we were deep within the rain forest. The car died going up a hill and would not restart. It could be long for another car to pass, and days to return with the needed part. But, surprisingly, almost immediately, we saw headlights coming toward us. It was a rotten pickup truck that sounded like it would also soon die. The driver stopped. He was so drunk he could hardly stand. As he staggered towards us, he said, “Well, I see the fuel pump has gone bad.” I thought, how in the world can this drunk bushman have any idea what our problem is! There were two items in the back of that old, rotten pickup. One was a rotten tire and the other a plastic bag. The plastic bag contained the exact fuel pump that fit our old Nissan car!!! The drunk bushman put it on and away we went. Another miracle! Again, I believe our Lord broke down our car to show us His Glory, Sovereignty and agreement with our mission. “For God does speak —now one way, now another though no one perceives it.” Job 33:14.

We sent our team, with 200 Gideon bibles, into a new territory. The bike broke down. Across the road was a church filled with members fasting and praying for Bibles! “I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light...These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.” Isaiah 42:16

One of our filed leaders returned from mission and said, “I can’t believe it but this is the third time our bike has broken down in front of the same village.” I said, “Our Lord has done that for a reason. Return to that village. “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.” Isaiah 48:17

We praise God for break downs!

Video from our Guinea base

Our Guinea base made a short 2 ½ minute video that I believe you will enjoy.

Watch on YouTube

The Jesus Film

We have shown the Jesus Film and other evangelistic films to 38,520, in the first 6 months. This is a testimony, about the effectiveness of the Jesus Film, I received today from Sierra Leone: 

“The Lord has done it again in (name is withheld) village. It is a large churchless village, of an unreached tribe. They have two mosques and approximately 4,000 inhabitants. We showed the Jesus film last night, in their language. About 400 showed up to watch. After the show, with great emotion, many prayed for forgiveness and salvation. The next morning, we returned and 70 were baptized. Brother Kargbo and Mohammed Sesay have the desire to pastor the new converts.”

Testimonies of Disciples

Lofa County, Liberia base:

“We had a wonderful meeting yesterday. We praise God because our Muslim neighbor joined us in our discipleship meeting. He said that he can't understand the Quran and doesn’t believe it. His father, the Muslim chief of the region, found out that his son was in our meeting and came, in anger, to arrest him. But instead, when he entered the meeting he sat, stayed and respectfully listened, as if the hand of God had arrested him. When the meeting was over the two left, holding hands. Later the son returned and had the blessing of his father to become a Christian.”

Sierra Leone base:

“We met Abraham, a classroom teacher. He was a Muslim of the Coronkon unreached Muslim tribe. Abraham told us that he was able and ready to become a pastor. But how can a Muslim man desires to be pastor? (Name withheld) is a churchless, unreached village with a very large mosque. We believed it was God that was speaking through Abraham. We spent time with him sharing scripture and the gospel. He gladly received the message and believed. We took him to the river where he was joyfully baptized. We shall return to the village and help them to have their first ever church service. Please pray for Abraham. He desires to be a pastor for the lost sheep of his village.” Our Lord said, “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.” Isaiah 65:1.

In June We Did:

4 - Countries (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Liberia)
7 – Bases: 4 in Liberia, 1 in Sierra Leone, 1 in Ivory Coast, 1 in Guinea 
21 - Total counties we ministered in
248 - Total communities/villages/towns/cities we ministered in
66 - Churches we visited and worked with
2 - Churches started
136 - Total mission trips
139 - Persons were baptized
374 - Public confessions of Christ and prayers for salvation
42 - WBI attended Level 2 training in Liberia 
58 - WBI attended Level 2 training in Ivory Coast 
279 - Attended our 1-3 days workshops in 22 locations.
5,257 - Viewed the Jesus Film, 35 locations and 51 times shown.
4 - Community Radio stations broadcasting on
18 - Dental patients, 25 teeth pulled.
6 - Optical patients
21,822 - Press report, Copies printed, 106 booklets made (English)

Our on-site leaders and the donations of churches and individuals from abroad are bringing in a great harvest. We need the unity of us all, His Church, to accomplish our Lord’s command to reach the world. Thank you for your active love and faith. Thank you for sacrificing with us. 

Participate with us in praise and prayer:

• Praise: We continue to advance into the strongholds of Satan without serious persecution.
• Pray: Against the plans and advancement of the jihadists.
• Pray: For increased donations so that we may continue to advance into unreached tribes.
• Pray: For our indigenous missionary teams, that they will continue to fearlessly, boldly and sacrificially advance the gospel.
• Pray: As we prepare to create and send another indigenous missionary team to the Muslim unreached tribes of Sierra Leone.
• Pray: For us we march into and live within the strongholds of Satan to, “snatch others from the fire and save them.” Jude 1:23.
• Pray: “Finally, our friends, pray for us that the Lord's message may continue to spread rapidly and be received with honor, just as it was among you. Pray also that God will rescue us from wicked and evil people; for not everyone believes the message.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2.

Donations:

100% of all donations go to the mission. None is used for administration. Tax-deductible receipts will be sent each January.

Click Here to Donate Online (Hold down the Ctrl button with the curser on the icon then click)

Postal Donations:
Please make checks payable to the “Woodside Vision Foundation” designating “Wordsower 
Africa” on the memo line of the check. Please include your name and address for the receipt, if 
the information is not already on the check. Mail to: 
Woodside Vision Foundation
6600 Rochester Road
Troy Michigan 48085

 
If you have questions or problems with donations or want to contact me, Kim Smith, then email 
me at kimlogansmith1957@gmail.com. I’m also available on the apps called WhatsApp, the 
contact number is +231-8813-44417. My Signal app number is +231-7757-89662.

May 2023 End of the Month Report

 The ways of Wordsower Africa are patterned after Christ

Jesus said, “Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come” (Mark 1:38). Jesus went from village to village preaching. He then gathered disciples around Him and trained them. Later, after they had been trained, He sent them out. Wordsower Africa goes from village to village evangelizing and teaching. Then we gather disciples in our Bible institute and train them. After their training, they are sent out, united with the Holy Spirit, to lovingly, sacrificially and obediently accomplish the work ordained by our Lord to do. Below is a 2 ½ minute video from our Bible institute on our main base in Zwedru, Liberia.

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Many Churches have been Started 

I, Kim Smith, have spent 3 months traveling to our 7 bases in 4 countries. One of our goals is to train believers. We train thousands. We offer 1-2 day classes, 1-week classes, 2-week classes and 8-week classes. Most of the students we lose contact with, but it is not uncommon for our base leaders to enter a new town and discover that a church has been started by a former student that we had trained. We are discovering that some of these formerly unknown churches are also starting other churches. Long ago I dreamed that we would see an out-of-control wildfire growth of the gospel and new churches. It is now beginning to happen! The 4-minute video below is a report of churches being started in Ivory Coast. 

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Testimonies of Disciples 

Our Disciple was beaten and stripped naked for preaching the Gospel

“I will rescue you from your own people… I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins.” Acts 26:17-18     

In West Africa there are demonic societies which have many names. In Liberia the society is often called, “The Devil and his Devil Dancers.” They are ruled by a demonic leader called the Devil. The Devil is the authority. He robs, tortures and kills those who resist and oppose, or those he deems as having done wrong. His disciples are called Devil Dancers. There are numerous stories about the power of their witchcraft and evil ways.

     Pynes Town was one of the most powerful demonic strongholds of Liberia (Google “General Butt Naked” for verification). One morning while Moses was preaching in Pynes Town, his home town, the devil and 19 of his men from the society captured him, beat him, and stripped him completely naked. Then they dragged him, bleeding, into their hidden place where their altar was located. Their intent was to tie him to a tree, severally whip him, and keep him tied for days until death or near death. But, as God would have it, they all went into the forest looking for vines to tie him and left Moses on the ground, unguarded. Moses says he heard a voice that said, “RUN!” and he did! He ran completely naked and barefoot through the dense rainforest until he came to a road. 

     Pynes town is about 3 hours from our base on motorbike. Miraculously, Badio Yarl, our country director, just “happened” to be passing on the road at the same time Moses hobbled, naked and bleeding, from the forest. Badio shared with Moses the clothes he had on and then transported him back to our Zwedru base. Being on the front lines, advancing against the enemy, requires the hand of God to escape death. 

     Today, leaders that we have trained and assisted have two strong churches in Pynes town. The Devil and his Devil Dancers have dissipated. The Devil himself has become Christian and is attending church and evangelizing. Another stronghold destroyed.

“I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them…These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.” Isaiah 42:16

 Our disciple was robbed, beaten and left to die

“They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.”  Jeremiah 1:19

The roads are very bad and cut through the sparsely populated, untamed rainforest. The distance between villages can be hours apart. Rarely do 4-wheeled vehicles attempt to navigate these roads. Delka Yarl, “DK,” one of our field leaders, had taken our brand-new bike to go on mission. As he was traveling, he saw a bike broken down and three men trying to fix it. DK got off his bike to assist. As he was bent over, trying to fix the bike, one of the men put a gun to his back. They ordered him to drive them. He drove them for 3 hours into a region he had never traveled before. As it was getting dark, they came to a narrow makeshift log bridge, the men started beating him until he fell off the bridge into the creek. They pulled him onto the creek bank and continued to severely beat him. DK said, “Blood was coming out of my nose and mouth. Wounds were bleeding throughout my body while I was being beaten. I was in and out of consciousness. As I laid under the bridge, on the creek bank, they lifted a large log and used it to pin my head to the ground, leaving me to die.” 

     As God would have it, later that night, an old rotten pickup truck crossed the bridge and parked near the creek to get water for their overheated engine. As they went down to the creek, they found DK semi-conscious with his head pinned under the log. They put him in their truck and took them to the next village where he was treated. Others from our base came to rescue DK and search for the villains and the bike. The bike was discovered parked in a village. The chief said 3 men had left it, broken down, and said that they would return to retrieve it. They never returned.

“God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’” Hebrews 13:5

In May We Did

4 - Countries (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Liberia)
4 - Bases in Liberia (Zwedru, Grand Gedeh, Sinje, Grand Cape Mount, Voinjama, Lofa and Bopolu, Gbarpolu)
26 - Total counties we ministered in
326 - Total communities/villages/towns/cities we ministered in
82 - Churches we visited and worked with
1 - Church started
251 - Total mission trips
185 - Persons were baptized
3 - Completed Bible Marking 
838 - Public confessions of Christ and prayers for salvation
39 - WBI attended Level 1 training in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, Liberia 
22 - WBI attended Level 4 training in Ivory Coast 
1,083 - Attended our 1-3 days workshops in 22 locations.
4,341 - Viewed the Jesus Film, 33 locations and 36 times shown.
4 - Community Radio stations broadcasting on
26 - Dental patients, 31 teeth pulled.
6 - Optical clients, 3 gasses service, 3 clients sent to see specialist at the public hospital
13,700 - Press report, Copies printed, 248 booklets made (English)

Our on-site leaders and the donations of churches and individuals from abroad are bringing in a great harvest. We need the unity of us all, His Church, to accomplish our Lord’s command to reach the world. Thank you for your active love and faith. Thank you for sacrificing with us. 

Participate with us in praise and prayer:

• Praise: We continue to advance into the strongholds of Satan without serious persecution.
• Pray: Against the plans and advancement of the jihadists.
• Pray: For increased donations so that we may continue to advance into unreached tribes.
• Pray: For our indigenous missionary teams, that they will continue to fearlessly, boldly and sacrificially advance the gospel.
• Pray: As we prepare to create and send another indigenous missionary team to the Muslim unreached tribes of Sierra Leone.
• Pray: For us we march into and live within the strongholds of Satan to, “snatch others from the fire and save them.” Jude 1:23.
• Pray: “Finally, our friends, pray for us that the Lord's message may continue to spread rapidly and be received with honor, just as it was among you. Pray also that God will rescue us from wicked and evil people; for not everyone believes the message.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2.

Donations:

100% of all donations go to the mission. None is used for administration. Tax-deductible receipts will be sent each January.

Click Here to Donate Online (Hold down the Ctrl button with the curser on the icon then click)

Postal Donations:
Please make checks payable to the “Woodside Vision Foundation” designating “Wordsower 
Africa” on the memo line of the check. Please include your name and address for the receipt, if 
the information is not already on the check. Mail to: 
Woodside Vision Foundation
6600 Rochester Road
Troy Michigan 48085
 
If you have questions or problems with donations or want to contact me, Kim Smith, then email 
me at kimlogansmith1957@gmail.com. I’m also available on the apps called WhatsApp, the 
contact number is +231-8813-44417. My Signal app number is +231-7757-89662.

Summary of Financial Report for May 2023:

$2,130 - Employee pay for 10 employees, Zwedru base

$1,107 - Assistance to the poor; medical, rent, school fees, funeral expenses - Zwedru base

$889 - Base expenses; food, maintenance, local transport – Zwedru base

$2,727 - Missions; sending teams into the remote villages – Zwedru base

$473 - Bike repairs – Zwedru base

$963 - Gas for bikes and generators – Zwedru base 

$701 - Radio broadcasting from 4 stations

$20 - Assist Churches

$319 - Assist with Childrens school fees

$144 - 1-3 day trainings – Zwedru Base

$86 - Video and optical

$1,000 - Construction

$2,140 - Wordsower Bible Institute

$276 - Printing department – Zwedru base

$1,700 - Grand Cape Mount County missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes 

$2,450 - Lofa County missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes

$1,700 - Gbarpolu County missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes

$1,700 - Sierra Leone missionary team is teaching 1 unreached Muslim tribe

$2,500 - Ivory Coast mission team going to several unreached tribes

$2,300 - Guinea Missionary team

$220 - Bank fees, the cost of receiving and sending money from USA and our international bases

Total - 25,545

April 2023 End of the Month Report

Wordsower Bible Institute Mobile Team

Our Wordsower Bible institute teaches two-week classes on our main base. The Mobile Team travels throughout Liberia teaching one-week classes. We have 4 levels: Level 1 is the basic doctrines of scripture, level 2 is about disciples making disciples, level 3 is how to start a church and level 4 is how to go as a missionary. Our Mobile team just returned; they were on the road for 2 months. Below is a 3-minute video of their experiences:

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Testimonies of Disciples 

Testimony #1

Pynes Town, in the past, was one of the most powerful Animistic strongholds of Satan in Liberia. The first time I went there three men kept following me, like shadows. I was there for a few days, handing out blue Gideon pocket Bibles, and teaching scripture. During my time there these three men, voluntarily, became my personal servants, making sure I had food, water, and all other needs met. We became friends. Returning often, I started discipling them and others. During one of the discipling sessions, I asked them, why they had been following me so closely? One of them spoke up and said, “Before you came, one of us had a dream. The dream was of a white man coming to our town and distributing little blue Bibles. A voice in the dream said, ‘follow him.’ We had been looking and waiting for you.” Today, Pyne and Shadrack have started churches within the demonic strongholds of this region. The other, Moses, runs our printing press, goes out on missions and builds church buildings for the churches we have started. Our Lord said, “I myself will go before you, leveling mountains and hills. I will break down bronze gates and smash their iron bars. I will give you treasures from dark, secret places; then you will know that I am the LORD.” Isa 45:2-3.
 
I used the word “past,” when speaking about the stronghold of Satan in Pynes Town. We have never entered an Animistic stronghold of Satan and not seen the foundation of that region falter. Never have we entered a churchless Animistic stronghold and not been able to form a fellowship of believers.

   

Testimony #2

Before Wordsower met Sherman Teoh he was a drunkard, drug addict, as well as an idol worshipper. He was part of a group referred to as Devil Dancers. Their spiritual head, the Devil, will dress in forest costumes and his Devil Dancers will follow him around the town barefoot. In the process, they will kill and eat the towns livestock to feed themselves. They will be carrying whips, machetes, and clubs, and shot guns to defend the Devil. They have an alter and worship demons in a secret place of the forest, called The Zoe Bush.
    Sherman became a Christian through the evangelistic efforts of one of our Wordsower disciples, and later became the assistant pastor of the first church that we started, in Solo Town. Later he backslid and was involved in a tragic motorbike accident. His leg was broken multiple times, his hip and shoulder were badly damaged. After more than 8 months in the hospital he was released, a broken, limping, handicapped man. In the process his wife left him because of the disability. Sherman was very much discouraged, depressed and felt totally abandoned. After Sherman’s accident, Wordsower mission teams visited him many times to encourage, teach, give vision and hope. He attended the Wordsower Bible Institute and graduated. Later Sherman became one of the teachers of our Bible Institute.
    Today, Sherman Teoh is our Wordsower Bible Institute principal and is the secretary of our Caring Committee. He visits the bank twice a week to preach and teach the customers. Sherman also serves as the general secretary and Sunday School teacher of a local church. Sherman is now the Wordsower Bible Institute principal. 

Testimonies from our bases

The testimonies below come from our indigenous missionary bases. These bases are strategically located in the midst of resistant, unreached tribes. In the regions of our bases are towns and villages that have never had churches. Within these Satanic strongholds, we are seeing salvations. We then baptize, disciple, and start churches. These are only a few of many testimonies we receive every month.

From our indigenous missionary team in Gbarpolu County:

“Medina is the stronghold of Muslims in Gbarpolu county. Our Wordsower team visited the town to evangelize. We were stopped by the imam. He said it would be over his dead body before the gospel would ever be preached in his town!!! As long he lives, he said, no gospel will ever be preached in his town. I said to him, why do you prophesy against yourself. A few months later he became sick and died. Since his death we have shown evangelistic films. We regularly send teams into Medina to share the gospel. A fellowship of believers is forming.” 

“If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” Romans 8:31-32

In another town called Manowelleh, one of our field leaders, James, has a similar story. The first time we arrived in the town, the elder rejected us. According to their tradition, the elder is the owner of the town, and whatever he says is final. He told us, “I need no gospel in this town!! Only over my dead body will you be allowed to enter!! A few days later he got sick and died.  We now have two churches in the town and the Christians are plenty.

“I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.” Matthew 16:18

From our indigenous missionary team in Sierra Leone:

     “Our Lord touched the heart of a Muslim named Saidu.  He traveled 10 miles to come to us. His request was for us to go down to his village with the gospel. Saidu said that the village has had a church building since 1964. The pastor died in 1982. Since than there has been no one to pastor the church. In the past the Christians and their activities were abundant even though they were persecuted and in danger. But now, they are turning back to becoming Muslims, due to the lack of a trained leader, and have abandonment the church. He appealed to us on behalf of the church and the entire village to come and help reawaken the church. He was asked, why a Muslim would come to us with such a request. His answer was that it will be good for their village. 
     We believe that God sent Saidu to us and that He wants to do great things in the village through this Muslim. Immediately we went to the village and had a town meeting. We have started church services, are encouraging the Christians and are doing trainings.”
     I think of this Muslim, Saidu, from an unreached tribe. Obviously, our Lord compelled him to come and is using him. Surely, his salvation will be soon. These verses came to mind:

“I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me. 
To a nation that did not call on my name, 
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.” Isaiah 65:1

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,” 
and, “In the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.” Romans 9:25-26

In April We Did:

4 - Countries (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Liberia)
7 - Bases in Liberia (Zwedru, Grand Gedeh, Sinje, Grand Cape Mount, Voinjama, Lofa and Bopolu, Gbarpolu)
27 - Total counties we ministered
320 - Total communities/villages/towns/cities we ministered in
109 - Churches we visited and worked with
1- Churches we assisted in starting 
137 - Total mission trips
302 - Persons were baptized
2 - Bible Marking completion
990 - Public confessions of faith in Christ for salvation 
46- WBI attended Level 2 training in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, Liberia 
27- WBI attended Level 3 training in Yarpah Town, River Cess County, Liberia 
1,310- Attended our 1-3 days workshops-training in 19 locations.
6,981 - Viewed the Jesus Film, 50 locations and 63 times shown.
4 - Community Radio stations broadcasting on
10 - Adult literacy school in Zwedru 
30 - Dental patients, 38 teeth pulled.
0 - Optical clients, 10 gasses service, 1 client sent to see specialist at the public hospital
0 - Copies printed on our printing press, 0 manuals made (English)

Our on-site leaders and the donations of churches and individuals from abroad are bringing in a great harvest. We need the unity of us all, His Church, to accomplish our Lord’s command to reach the world. Thank you for your active love and faith. Thank you for sacrificing with us. 

Participate with us in praise and prayer:

Praise: We continue to advance into the strongholds of Satan without serious persecution.
Pray: Against the plans and advancement of the jihadists.
Pray: For increased donations so that we may continue to advance into unreached tribes.
Pray: For our indigenous missionary teams, that they will continue to fearlessly, boldly and sacrificially advance the gospel.
Pray: As we prepare to create and send another indigenous missionary team to the Muslim unreached tribes of Sierra Leone.
Pray: For us we march into and live within the strongholds of Satan to, “snatch others from the fire and save them.” Jude 1:23.
Pray: “Finally, our friends, pray for us that the Lord's message may continue to spread rapidly 
and be received with honor, just as it was among you. Pray also that God will rescue us from 
wicked and evil people; for not everyone believes the message.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2.

Donations:

100% of all donations go to the mission. None is used for administration. Tax-deductible receipts will be sent each January.

Click Here to Donate Online (Hold down the Ctrl button with the curser on the icon then click)

Postal Donations:
Please make checks payable to the “Woodside Vision Foundation” designating “Wordsower 
Africa” on the memo line of the check. Please include your name and address for the receipt, if 
the information is not already on the check. Mail to: 
Woodside Vision Foundation
6600 Rochester Road
Troy Michigan 48085
 
If you have questions or problems with donations or want to contact me, Kim Smith, then email 
me at kimlogansmith1957@gmail.com. I’m also available on the apps called WhatsApp, the 
contact number is +231-8813-44417. My Signal app number is +231-7757-89662.
 

Summary of Financial Report for April 2023:

$1,830 - Employee pay for 10 employees, Zwedru base
$354 - Assistance to the poor; medical, rent, school fees, funeral expenses - Zwedru base
$650 - Base expenses; food, maintenance, local transport – Zwedru base
$1,907 - Missions; sending teams into the remote villages – Zwedru base
$538 - Bike repairs – Zwedru base
$714 - Gas for bikes and generators – Zwedru base 
$701 - Radio broadcasting from 4 stations
$70 - Assist Churches
$190 - Assist with Childrens school fees
$73 - 1-3 day trainings
$60 - Adult Literacy Zwedru base
$50 - Video
$30 - Optical
$3,055 - Wordsower Bible Institute
$30 - Printing department – Zwedru base
$1,800 - Grand Cape Mount County missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes 
$2,450 - Lofa County missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes
$2,900 - Gbarpolu County missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes
$2,300 - Sierra Leone missionary team is teaching 1 unreached Muslim tribe
$2,500 - Ivory Coast mission team going to several unreached tribes
$2,150 - Guinea Missionary team
$273 - Bank fees, the cost of receiving and sending money from USA and our international bases
Total - $24,625

March 2023 End of Month Report

 THE LABORERS ARE FEW!

“It is estimated that only 3% of foreign missionaries today are working to reach the unreached tribes.The other 96% are working within reached areas. Of all the money designated for "missions" in the U.S., only about one cent out of every one-hundred dollars given to missions is used to take the gospel to unreached people who don't have access to it. The rest goes towards efforts to further evangelize reached people.”* Wordsower Africa has 6 indigenous missionary bases in 4 countries that are assigned to work with 12 unreached tribes.

Urgent Financial Need!

For several months our donations have not met our financial needs. We are being forced to reduce our mission outreaches. We have churchless towns and villages of resistant unreached tribes requesting us to come to them but we are unable. Residents of these villages, where we have been, are requesting us to disciple them, help them start their church and assist them with a church roof, but we are not able. Not only are we not able to continue the work we have started but we are also unable to advance. We need your help! Please pray and ask our Lord if He wants you to financially participate with us monthly. Speak to the mission boards of your churches about us. Also, please, tell your families and friends about us. Encourage them to subscribe to our monthly reports. Than you.

 Testimonies of Disciples

 “My name is Mark Prince Kergbeh. I was born during the civil war. I did not know my father because he was a solider. My mother raised me in fierce poverty and hardship. During this time of struggle, I joined a gang and took on the notorious life of robbery to support my drug habit. I was eventually arrested sentenced to many years behind bars. My uncle discovered that I was in prison and arranged for my release to join the army. Once released I ran and did not join. My father found me, after 20 years, and solicited me to be a drug seller for him in another county. I accepted and again was spoiling peoples lives through drugs and robberies. I was arrested and jailed 5 times.

I moved next to Wordsower Africa’s compound and formed a ghetto in the nearby bush to sell my drugs and provide a place for the addicts to get high. Badio and Kim, leaders of Wordsower, kept telling me about Christ. God convicted me from their teachings of scripture and His warnings. I gave my life to Christ, asking for forgiveness and salvation. I became a new man. Kim and I would go to the many hidden ghettos so that he could preach and teach. While Kim and I were going to the ghettos, I attended and graduated from the Wordsower Bible school.

Through Wordsower, I have been trained to work in our dental clinic and to extract teeth. I have also had medical training. They employed me. I now have a wife and 3 children. I’m able to support my family. Wordsower also helped me with the cost of my wife’s C-sections. I go on missions, preach and teach. I assist in the starting of churches. I praise God and thank Wordsower Africa! No longer am I spoiling lives but am showing them the path for eternal salvation.”

Augustine Padmore was a mercenary war lord during the 15-year civil war of Liberia. He was also a mercenary in Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone. His war name was Red Scorpion. He did horrendous massacres of innocent civilians in villages and towns. The motto was, “No one comes out alive.”  The very young, 7-12 year old, boys would be taken and forcibly trained to become child soldiers. The chosen women would become sex slaves. He cut off arms and hands. He cut open pregnant women bellies for fun, guessing if the child was a boy or girl. He ate human heart.

I, Kim Smith, would often go to bars and drug houses preaching and teaching. I was going to a bar every couple days teaching scripture. Those in the bar were former soldiers of Augustine. One day Augustine came into the bar, and saw them with little Gideon pocket Bibles doing assignments. He was stunned, and asked about what they were doing. Their answer was, “A white man keeps coming here teaching us the Bible. We are loving it.” Augustine said that he wanted to meet this “white man”.

They brought Augustine to our base to meet me. Our Lord had already prepared his heart for salvation. That day he received salvation by faith. The next day we baptized him, and started discipling him. While attending and graduating from our Bible school, Augustine and I would go to drug houses and bars searching for other former soldiers. Several were found and also became Christian and were discipled.  

We found, Lasana, also a former war lord, Augustine’s enemy during the war. Lasana was drunk when we found him. He also has become Christian, was baptized, and was discipled. To the shock of Liberia, Augustine and Lasana would go, from village to village, preaching and teaching. They even started a church together. Today, they are both spiritual leaders doing the work of our Lord.

Our common method of taking the gospel to the unreached

We have formed 6 indigenous missionary bases in 4 countries: Liberia, Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. These teams have been sent specifically to unreached tribes. Below is our typical method of initially entering a new town of an unreached tribe:

We prayerfully start by going into a town of a new region. We go by any means required to get us there. We go by motorbike, cross rivers in canoe and hike. Going into these churchless unreached communities is dangerous and difficult. But, compelled by the Spirit, we go.

 

 

 

  

  

 

As is our custom, we introduce ourselves to the town leaders. We ask for permission to show the Jesus Film. Because they have never seen a big screen show, especially in their dialect, they almost always agree for us to show.

After the Jesus Film is shown, the Gospel is explained. We then pray with those wanting salvation. The next day we return and spend time teaching about sin, the sacrifice of Christ, repentance, salvation and baptism. We then invite those who have asked for forgiveness and salvation if they want to be baptized. After baptism we return to the town and have a worship service. Faithless Muslims will never agree to be baptized. They know that professing to be a Christian and being baptized will cause them to be expelled from their family and into serious persecution.

 

We return multiple times, providing scripture training and worship. As the new congregation forms we look for a spiritual leader so we can provide deeper training. Usually the birthing church will meet under a tree, in an abandoned hut or a school room.

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When we see that they have a spiritual leader and are able to meet as a church, without our team directly leading, then we will provide the material to put up a church roof. Together, with the new believers, we put up the roof. It is the congregation’s responsibility to complete the walls.

 

 

We continue to meet, disciple and encourage the new church.

Testimonies from our bases

The testimonies below come from our indigenous missionary bases. These bases are strategically located in the midst of resistant, unreached tribes. In the regions of our bases are towns and villages that have never had churches. Within these Satanic strongholds, we are seeing salvations. We then baptize, disciple, and start churches. These are only a few of many testimonies we receive every month.

From our indigenous missionary team in Guinea:

I, Kim Smith, just returned from our team in Northern Guinea. The Christians, including our team, are facing persecution. Muslims own almost all the land. If a Christian rents from a Muslim landlord and expresses their faith then they will be forced to leave. 

Associated Press wrote, “Some 1,300 military personnel from 29 countries are training in Ghana and Ivory Coast, amid surging jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida, the Islamic State group has killed thousands, displaced millions and plunged countries into crises… the extremist activity is concentrated in West Africa… the violence is rapidly spreading.” We have bases in 4 West African nations. Violent jihadist extremists are now in the city our Guinea team is based in.The jihadists are going from mosque to mosque inciting the Muslims to expel the Christians. Pray for West Africa. Pray for our indigenous missionary teams.

From our indigenous missionary team in Sierra Leone:

“This is the month of Ramadan for the Muslims. We interviewed dozens of them about the meaning and significance of Ramadan, but not even one person knew. The youth see Islamic religious beliefs as a tradition of their forefathers. They nonchalantly remain, but do not believe, to avoid persecution and family conflict.”

“Good morning it was very marvelous and wonderful last evening in a churchless village. More than a 300 people viewed the Jesus film. Six elderly and a blind woman were baptized.”

In March We Did:

4 - Countries (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Liberia)
7 - Bases in Liberia (Zwedru, Grand Gedeh, Sinje, Grand Cape Mount, Voinjama, Lofa and Bopolu, Gbarpolu)
20 - Total counties we ministered
286- Total communities/villages/towns/cities we ministered in
49- Churches we visited and worked with
3 - Churches we assisted in starting
143 - Total mission trips
254 - Persons were baptized
16 - Bible Marking completion
109 - Muslim converted
594 - Public confessions of faith in Christ for salvation
66 - WBI attended Level 1, 1 week, training in Gbarpolu County, Liberia
49 - WBI attended Level 1 training in Foya, Lofa County, Liberia
36 - WBI attended the level 4 in Jenneh #3, Bomi County, Liberia
55 - WBI attended the level 4 in Yandohun, Lofa County, Liberia
773 - Attended our 1-3 days workshops-training in 16 locations.
8,481 - Viewed the Jesus Film, 59 times
4 - Community Radio stations broadcasting on
12 - Adult literacy school in Zwedru
23 - Dental patients, 28 teeth pulled.
9 - Optical clients, 10 gasses service, 1 client sent to see specialist at the public hospital
24,100 - Copies printed on our printing press, 284 manuals made (English)

Our on-site leaders and the donations of churches and individuals from abroad are bringing in a great harvest. We need the unity of us all, His Church, to accomplish our Lord’s command to reach the world. Thank you for your active love and faith. Thank you for sacrificing with us.

Participate with us in praise and prayer:

Praise: We continue to advance into the strongholds of Satan without serious persecution.
Pray: Against the plans and advancement of the  jihadists.
Pray: For increased donations so that we may continue to advance into unreached tribes.
Pray: For our indigenous missionary teams, that they will continue to fearlessly, boldly and sacrificially advance the gospel.
Pray: As we prepare to create and send another indigenous missionary team to the Muslim unreached tribes of Sierra Leone.
Pray: For us we march into and live within the strongholds of Satan to, “snatch others from the fire and save them.” Jude 1:23.
Pray: “Finally, our friends, pray for us that the Lord's message may continue to spread rapidly
and be received with honor, just as it was among you. Pray also that God will rescue us from
wicked and evil people; for not everyone believes the message.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2.

Donations:

100% of all donations go to the mission. None is used for administration. Tax-deductible receipts 
will be sent each January.

Click here to donate online and select "PARTNERSHIP - WORDSOWER AFRICA"

Check Donations:
Please make checks payable to the “Woodside Vision Foundation” designating “Wordsower 
Africa” on the memo line of the check. Please include your name and address for the receipt, if 
the information is not already on the check. Mail to: 
Woodside Vision Foundation
6600 Rochester Road
Troy Michigan 48085

If you have questions or problems with donations or want to contact me, Kim Smith, then email 
me at kimlogansmith1957@gmail.com. I’m also available on the app called WhatsApp, the 
contact number is +231-8813-44417

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