Thursday, December 17, 2020

November 2020 End of Month Report

 Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast:

3 - Countries we ministered in, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast

11 - Total counties we ministered in

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

102 - Total mission trips 

27 - Persons were baptized

294 - Attended our 2-day and 1-day workshops in 7 locations

44 - Attended Wordsower Bible Institute Level 2, 2-week class in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County

82 – Attended Wordsower Bible Institute Level 3, 1-week school in Grand Capemont County

1,635 - Watched the Jesus film in 10 locations

10,000 - Copies printed on our printing press, 68 booklets made 

20 - Dental patients, 27 teeth pulled

11 - Optical patients, 11 pair of glasses distributed, two patients referred

3 - Radio broadcast locations in 2 counties. On 105.3 FM, we do one-hour teachings 7 days a week. On 98.6 FM – we do 2 one-hour teachings a week

The above report is made possible by a united sacrificial team here and abroad.  Only in the unity of us all can the above be a reality and even increase.  Looking at the above report you see that we are busy.  We have spread across Liberia and into the neighboring countries where we train, disciple and church plant.  

I, Kim Smith, am now in the USA and will be here till I return on January 28.  My phone number is 937-658-2028.  Please call if you have questions or would like to talk.

In Christ, we are filled with love and compassion.  These are manifested through action.  Our most important expression of love is sharing the gospel, evangelizing and discipling, so that the people will have eternal salvation.  But also, we reveal our love and compassion by meeting the needs of the people.  

The below video, under 3 minutes, is of our dental team.  It is one example of how we manifest our love for others. We have 3 Liberians trained in tooth extraction.  As far as I know, there are 5 university trained dentists in Liberia, in a country of 4 ½ million, and they all work in the capital city.  Our 3 dentists were trained by a ministry called ITEC (itecusa.org) out of Florida.  In the South East of Liberia, a population of about 2 million, we are the only dental option.  Our team sees 20-35 patients a month and pull 25-40 teeth.  With each patient we share the gospel and give them Bible material to read.


We now have a team spying out the land in Sierra Leone.  They have been there about a month.  They are working with the Temne-Banta tribe.  The Joshua Project (Joshuaproject.net) reports that this tribe has 0.00% evangelical Christians.  They are considered a resistant unreached Muslim tribe.  We sent our team into the unknown, not knowing how they would be received, not knowing the level of risk and persecution they would encounter.  They arrived and started going from village to village openly sharing the gospel.  The reaction of the people has been astounding!!!  None of the people have been rude or resisted.  All have been curious and interested in hearing the gospel and our team is always invited back.  Our team announced a regional teaching of the Bible and the gospel in an area central to 5 villages.  315 showed up to listen.  It was an all-day event and included a meal.  The pictures below are of that meeting.  So far it appears that this is not a resistant tribe.  It seems that it is His Church that is resistant and disobedient to the command of Christ to take His gospel to the world! “The Lord has commanded us, saying, I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.” Acts 13:47.  Several have come to Christ and are now being discipled.

They also discovered 6 amputee camps!  The past civil war committed many horrendous atrocities.  One of them was the custom of cutting off the limbs of civilians to create terror, it was effective.

The exciting news is that I now have in my possession many prosthetic hands and arms to be taken to Sierra Leone.  They were provided free from yet another partner (in4handproject.org). Yet, another example of the action of Christ in us, manifesting love and compassion, meeting needs as we share the gospel of Christ, the path of salvation.  Below is a 2 ½ minute video of a prosthetic hand we provided.  Augustine and Joe were rebel fighters, their militia was fighting against the UN peacekeepers when an RBG, rocket propelled grenade, hit the building they were in.  They barely survived. They have repented, been baptized and discipled, and are now evangelizing, discipling and church planting.

There are 5 unreached tribes in Liberia.  We now have 2 indigenous missionary teams that have relocated within 4 of the tribes. Our last team will be relocated by the first quarter of 2021. They will go into the final unreached tribe.  Our goal of having an indigenous missionary team in every unreached tribe of Liberia will be accomplished.  We also have a team in Ivory Coast training teams to go into the unreached tribes there.  Ivory Coast has 36 unreached tribes of 7 million. 

Our team that is spying out the land in Sierra Leone will return the first of next year.  Our goal is that they will be sent back as a long term indigenous missionary team to the Temne-Banta tribe by the end of the first quarter of 2021.

We desire to have 3 indigenous missionary teams sent to unreached tribes by the first half of 2021.  One team to Liberia, one to Sierra Leone and one to Guinea.  We have a donor that will fund $15,000, $5,000 for each team, to get the teams established.  This will cover the cost of motorbikes, one year’s rent, mattresses, kitchen supplies, relocation of the team, etc.  Before we can send the teams, we will need $1,500 each month for each team.  $1,500 will cover the cost of the team’s living and mission expenses.  Please pray about this.  A donor, a fellowship group, a church or the monthly donations of many would meet this need.  We, His Church, have been commanded to reach the world.  This is how you can personally be involved in reaching the unreached tribes.

Wordsower Africa has become an indigenous and western missionary training and sending hub.  West Africa has 393 unreached tribes of 147 million lost souls.

Participate with us in praise and prayer:
  • Praise: We now have teams working in 5 unreached tribes (one is a temporary team in Sierra Leone) 
  • Pray:  That our Lord will provide the funds to send out 3 more indigenous missionary teams to unreached tribes
  • Pray: That our Lord will send those He has chosen to unite with us that we may train and send them to the unreached tribes of West Africa.
  • Pray: Please pray for our safety as we continue to boldly and fearlessly 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. 2 Pray also that God will rescue us from wicked and evil people; for not everyone believes the message.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2
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

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 +231881344417

Financial Report for November:
Summary of expenses:
$1,180 - Staff support for 8 employees
$624 - $30 support each for 24 disciple leaders spread throughout Liberia
$1,077 - Assistance to the poor includes rent, medicine, water pump parts etc.
$861 - Radio Ministry
$505 - Base Expenses. Covers food cost for the team, visitors and maintenance   
$3,237 - Mission; teams that are sent out to preach and teach
$1,800 - Capemont Missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes  
$1,000 - Lofa County missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes
$0 - Printing press supplies and labor
$701 - Motorbike maintenance and repairs
$900 - Gas for bikes and generators 
$80 - Adult Literacy
$240 - Bookstore
$0 - Optical
$2,588 – Level 2 Wordsower Bible Institute, 2-week class, Zwedru, main base
$1,655 - Level 3 Wordsower Bible Institute, 1-week class, Grand Capemont County
$200 - Sierra Leone team
Total: $16,648

Thursday, November 5, 2020

October 2020 End of Month Report

Liberia and Ivory Coast:

3 – Countries we ministered in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone

13 - Total counties we ministered in

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

128 - Total mission trips 

26 - Persons were baptized

499 - Attended our 2 day and 1 day workshops in 7 locations 

39 - Attended Wordsower Bible Institute Level 1, 2 week class in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County

22 - Attended the Wordsower Bible Institute 2 week school in Ivory Coast

1,663 - Watched the Jesus film in 15 locations

36,000 - Copies printed, 1,000 booklets made 

22 - Dental patients, 33 teeth pulled

17 - Optical patients, 18 pair glasses distributed

3 -  Radio broadcast locations in 2 counties. On 105.3 FM, we do one hour teachings 7 days a week. On  98.6 FM – we do 2 one hour teachings a week.

The above report is made possible by a united sacrificial team here and abroad.  Only in the unity of us all can the above be a reality and even increase.  Looking at the above report you see that we are busy.  We have spread across this country and into the neighboring countries where we train, disciple and church plant.  

The Jesus film is one of our most powerful weapons for presenting the gospel.  It includes the birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of our Lord Jesus.  The burial culture here is for friends and family to come together for several days of mourning.  We show the Jesus film at these wakes as everyone contemplates death and the hereafter.  Multiple confessions of salvation come from every showing.  Also, every village we have ever gone to is excited to have us show the film on the big screen.  For most this is the first such event to ever come to them, the first time to see a film on a big screen.  The whole village comes to the showing.  The resistant Muslim unreached tribe villages have all agreed for us to show.  In October we had 1,663 people view the film in 15 locations.  In December we will receive 5 more sets of equipment so we can show from each of our bases.  The video below is an example of the sacrifice we go through to show the film.


“For this is what the Lord has commanded us: “I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.”  Acts 13:47.  The command of Christ is for His Church to take His gospel of salvation to the ends of the earth, to every tribe, nation and language.

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”  Mark 16:15.   We, Wordsower Africa, are committed to be the tool of our Lord to accomplish His purposes. We now have an established indigenous missionary team in Lofa County.  They are ministering among 2 resistant unreached Muslim tribes.  They have been relocated less then a month.  The Tribe they have started with is the Mandingo tribe.  According to the Joshua Project.net the Mandingo tribe is 99.97% Muslim, 0.02% evangelical Christian.  They have been to 19 Towns and villages sharing the Gospel.  Everywhere they go they are received well.  They openly share the Gospel and the people are eager to listen and receive the gospel.

We sent out a team to spy out the land in Sierra Leone among the Temne-Banta tribe.  The Joshua Project says that there are 0.00% Christians in the tribe.  Our team traveled from village to village.  To everyone’s surprise everywhere they went, 18 Villages in three weeks, they were welcomed with joy with no persecution, no resistance.  My question is where has His church been?  I discovered long ago that most of the battle is just showing up in the Holy Spirit, forgetting about fear of the unknown, fear of persecution, pain and suffering and not having love of the world.  Amos, that head of the team, has been sending reports.  Here are few things he wrote, “To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible if the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely not relevant.   What we must do therefore is to strive, persevere and never give up... We share the vision with the villagers… We are going, going, and going into the deepest part of the Temne villages… We are in a nice village, I don’t even know my exact location… We have passion and are committed to the mission… onto the streets, market places, homes, and any gathering we can find… presenting the gospel practically, which has shocked the people… Going to the unreached wasn’t easy for us today, but with God all things are possible… The people of Mankeh, Rgbom, Sella and Pate Bana villages were surprised to see Liberians sharing the gospel with them.”

The picture below is of two men that had their hands cut off in the last civil war.  Watch the movie Blood Diamond to understand what happened in Sierra Leone.  The world has forsaken them.  They suffer and die unknown.  I will be looking for prosthetic arms and hands while in the States.  They used to have a simple one size fits all that I have used in the past with success.

The next picture, below, is of Amos sharing the gospel with a Muslim woman.  He says, “I’m presenting the gospel to this Islamic woman.  They need the gospel, we do it persuasively and through fun… but it is serious.”

In the 5 pictures, below, our team is deep in the remote Temne-Banta villages.  They teach the gospel, without books, to the illiterate.  Look closely, they use their fingers to teach the gospel.  Notice the smiles and participation of the people.  The Temne-Banta are 0.00% non-evangelical Christian, but why?  How can this be?  Why is the church not here?

Amos explains the last picture, “A Muslim turned Christian, brother Jalloh, is happily doing Bible Marking this early Sunday morning.  Be in prayer with him for our Lord to use him, and protect him from family persecution.”  

Participate with us in praise and prayer:
  • Pray:  Civil unrest is again happening in Ivory Coast!  Our team there has sent the women and children to Liberia for safety.  The current president refuses to step down after his two team limit has finished.
  • Praise:  Our new indigenous missionary team in Lofa County is ministering to 2 unreached tribes 
  • Pray:  Our Lord has opened the door for a team to go, to spy out a tribe in Sierra Leone.  We hope to have a base established there early in 2021.  The cost to establish a base is about $5,000 and $1,500 to operate it each month.  To start and run a base for 6 months it would cost $14,000.  Pray our Lord will provide the funds.  
  • Pray: That our Lord will send those He has chosen to unite with us that we may train and send them to the unreached tribes of West Africa.
  • Pray: Please pray for our safety as we continue to boldly and fearlessly march into and live within the strongholds of Satan to, “snatch others from the fire and save them.” Jude 1:23.
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

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 +231881344417

Financial Report for September:
Summary of expenses:
$970 - Staff support for 6 employees
$522 - $30 support each for 24 disciple leaders spread throughout Liberia
$366 - Assistance to the poor includes rent, medicine, water pump parts etc.
$668 - Radio Ministry
$831 - Base Expenses. Covers food cost for the team, visitors and maintenance on the base
$1,705 - Mission; teams that are sent out to preach and teach
$2,160 - Capemont Missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes  
$3,540 - Lofa County missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes
$87 - Printing press supplies and labor
$1,011 - Motorbike maintenance and repairs
$665 - Gas for bikes and generators 
$126 - Adult Literacy
$18 – Optical
$1,041 – Level 4 Wordsower Bible Institute, Zwedru
$1,498 - Level 1 Wordsower Bible Institute, Zwedru
$607 – Sierra Leone team
$2,500 - Ivory Coast base 
Total: $18,315

Saturday, October 10, 2020

September 2020 End of Month Report

Liberia and Ivory Coast:

2 – countries we ministered in, Liberia and Ivory Coast
14 - Total counties we ministered in
199 - Total communities/villages/towns/cities we ministered in 
154 - Total mission trips 
17 - Persons were baptized
415 - Attended our 2 day and 1 day workshops in 7 locations
64 - Attended Wordsower Bible Institute Level 3 in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County
28 - attended the Wordsower Bible Institute 1-week school in Grand Kru County
1,630 – watched the Jesus film in 17 locations
31,000 - Copies printed, 1,059 booklets made 
24 - Dental patients, 31 teeth pulled
15 - Optical patients, 13 pair glasses distributed
3 -  Radio broadcast locations in 2 counties. On 105.3 FM, we do one hour teachings days a week. On 98.6 FM – we do 2 one hour teachings a week

The above report is made possible by a united sacrificial team here and abroad.  Only in the unity of us all can the above be a reality and even increase.  Looking at the above report you see that we are busy.  We have spread across this country and into the neighboring countries where we train, disciple and church plant.  

This video, less than 2 minutes long, below is Part 2 of Juniors accident.  It shows him back on mission:


“Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.” Romans 10:1-2.  Paul spoke this about his people the Jews.  This is ever so true here in Liberia also.  They have a great desire for God, they have great zeal and passion.  But, it is not based on good knowledge or interpretation of scripture.  Most of the villages and towns of Liberia are remote.  Few spiritual leaders have had an opportunity to get Bible training and it shows.  The leaders want training and are continuously requesting us to come to them.  We go throughout Liberia doing 1, 2, 3, and 6 day conferences for leader trainings.  This month we had 8 conferences teaching 56 leaders from 40 different churches. 

Wordsower Liberia changed its name, a few months ago, to Wordsower Africa.  Our Lord has expanded our territory.  We are now in the neighboring countries.  In West Africa, there are 393 unreached tribes of 147 million people.  We, His Church, have been commanded to go, to bring His gospel, to every tribe, language, nation and people.  Liberia is strategically located in the center of West Africa.  We are becoming a training and sending hub to the unreached tribes of West Africa.  In less than 6 months we should have indigenous missionary teams ministering to all 5 unreached tribes of Liberia.  We now have a team in Ivory Coast.  They have 36 unreached tribes of 7.3 million.  Level 4 class at our Bible Institute is now in session.  53 Students are in attendance.  The class title is “Going as a Missionary”.  Most of the students are wanting to be sent to the unreached tribes as indigenous missionaries. 

Grand Capemont County team has been in operation for about 2 years.  They are working with the Vai and Gola unreached tribes.  They are in many of their villages evangelizing.  Several Muslims have become Christian and are now being discipled.  Small discipleship groups have been formed by former Muslims.  We just sent a new family as reinforcements to the Capemont team.  The below video, less than 3 minutes long, shows the Capemont team in action:

Lofa County team report: Our indigenous missionary team, 3 families and a single male, is fully funded for the first 6 months. Their base secured.  It was the hand of God.  As we were entering Voinjama, the capital of Lofa County, I saw a compound and said to Solomon, our team leader, that place would be perfect!  The next day he went there.  Only one family was in the compound and they were moving out in 2 days.  He contacted the owner, he agreed to lease it to us at $150 a month.  The team is now going to purchase 2 new motorbikes and will be going to their new base the first week of October.  The families will come a month or so later when the road is good enough for cars.  Their mission is two major unreached tribes, the Mandingo and the Maninka both are 0.02% Christian.  There are other tribes also that are unreached that they will be working with.

Gbapolu County team report: Our Gbapolu indigenous missionary team is also fully funded for the first 6 months and is preparing to be on site in February. They are going to the Loma and Bandi unreached tribes.

October 10, we are sending out spies to go into Sierra Leone to the Temne-Banta tribe.  Joshua project, (joshuaproject.net) states that there are 0.00% Christians in that tribe.  This team is not yet funded (This is an opportunity for a church, small group or individual to directly participant in reaching a Christian-less unreached tribe!).  After 3-5 weeks with the tribe they will return and give a report.  We expect that in February they will return and start a base among the Temne-Banta.  Sierra Leone has 11 unreached tribes of 1.39 million.  Several of these tribes are less than 0.50% Evangelical Christian.  The Kuranko tribe, in Sierra Leone, is also listed as 0.00% Christian.

Ivory Coast indigenous missionary team is now training disciples and church leaders with the vision of sending teams into their unreached tribes, there are 36 unreached tribes of 7.3 million souls.

Praise God!  We have leased the mostly unused Nazarene building adjacent to us for $100 a month for a year.  This building will temporarily take care of our Bible Institute housing and school needs.  We did not have enough space for our student housing and we were overcrowded in our school room.  We have room on our property to build additional housing and a larger school class room.  We expect to start construction on a student housing building in October.

New radio station.  We are funding the broadcast of another radio station in the remote county of River Gee.  It is being well received.  Radio is another powerful weapon for teaching.  It can go to thousands in remote hard to reach villages.  

Participate with us in praise and prayer:
  • Praise:  Our new base in Lofa County has been established.  A compound has been rented for 6 months, we have purchased 2 new motorbikes, our men are there now.  The families will come when the mud dries so cars can use the road.
  • Pray:  Our Lord has opened the door for a team to go, to spy out a tribe in Sierra Leone.  We hope to have a base established there early in 2021.  The cost to establish a base is about $5,000 and $1,500 to operate it each month.  To start and run a base for 6 months it would cost $14,000.  Pray our Lord will provide the funds.  
  • Pray: That our Lord will send those He has chosen to unite with us that we may train and send them to the unreached tribes of West Africa.
  • Pray: Please pray for our safety as we continue to boldly and fearlessly march into and live within the strongholds of Satan to, “snatch others from the fire and save them.” Jude 1:23.
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

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 +231881344417

Financial Report for September:
Summary of expenses:
$970 - Staff support for 6 employees
$624 - $30 support each for 24 disciple leaders spread throughout Liberia
$539 - Assistance to the poor includes rent, medicine, water pump parts etc.
$651 - Radio Ministry
$605 - Base Expenses. Covers food cost for the team, visitors and maintenance on the base
$2,293 - Mission; teams that are sent out to preach and teach
$2,481 - Capemont Missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes  
$280 – Lofa County missionary team is reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes
$47 - Printing press supplies and labor
$701 - Motorbike maintenance and repairs
$1,073 - Gas for bikes and generators 
$80 - Adult Literacy
$42 – Optical
$700 – Level 3 Wordsower Bible Institute, Zwedru
$624 - Level 4 Wordsower Bible Institute, Zwedru (additional expenses will be included in next months report)
$776 - Level 1 Wordsower Bible Institute, Grand Kru County
$340 - Ivory Coast base (because of issues transferring money we could not get them their regular support)
Total: $12,826

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Living in the Miraculous!

This is a testimony and confirmation that the hand of our Sovereign Lord is upon us, going before us, guiding, and directing us.

We have been praying and preparing for years to have indigenous missionary teams working and living in all 6 unreached tribes of Liberia. A donation was made to fund one of the teams. The team was picked and trained. It was time to go.

One morning, weeks before, as I was in the presence of our Lord, I was praying that He would show us our team’s residence, our new base, in this unknown land. He shared Deuteronomy 12 with me:

Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains... Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods... You are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go... There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you... [Go] to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name... And there rejoice before the Lord your God.”

Solomon Dweh and I arrived in Voinjama on September 10, Wednesday afternoon, wet, muddy, bruised, sick, sore, and filled with joy. We had spent a week on the road on motorbike (3 of those days were spent at the bank). Our mission in Voinjama was to find a base for our team. The indigenous missionary team’s mission is to infiltrate two resistant unreached tribes with our Lord’s Gospel. As we entered the city, I saw a fenced-in compound with apartments in it. I pointed it out to Solomon saying, “We need a place like that. It’s perfect!”

I wrote this the following day, our first full day, in the morning while I was in the presence of our Lord:

“Thursday morning, I open my Bible to this passage:

Deut. 6:10-11, “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig.”

Lord, I’m filled with the deep joy of Your presence. I sense your pleasure in our unity. I ask for nothing more in life. I rest in knowing that, seeking nothing else, fully content, satisfied, in peace, no worry, no fret, or anxiety. Thank You!!

My joy is our unity, walking with You in Your service. I love the risk, battles, even the sufferings and hardships. It is an expression of my faith, love, and gratitude. I love being a living sacrifice. I love sacrifice. I love walking in the light given not knowing what will be next. I walk in blindness knowing the Light Giver sees all, knows all, and is Sovereign. That knowledge and past confirmations is enough for me.”

That morning, filled with the Holy Spirit, I knew our Sovereign Lord had it all worked out. I knew, unbeknownst to the owner, that our Lord had built a place for us and that it was waiting for us.

A couple hours later, Solomon Dweh started to search for the mission base prepared for us by our Lord. His first stop was the property I pointed out. There was only one family there and they were moving out in two days. Solomon contacted the owner (by phone because he was stuck in the mud while trying to come to town). The owner agreed to rent the compound to us for $150 a month. Praise God!! That is an example and confirmation of the Lord ‘s Sovereign Hand upon us!

Genesis 12:1, “The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.” The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is also our God. He hasn’t changed. His heart and His purposes are the same. What our Lord sacrificed the life of His Son for, we also are to sacrifice our lives for, having the same heart and purpose.

Please, continue to celebrate and unite with us in prayer. 

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

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 +231881344417

Thursday, September 3, 2020

August 2020 End of Month Report


Liberia and Ivory Coast:

2 - Counties Liberia

14 - Total counties we ministered in

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

173 - Total mission trips

14 - Persons were baptized

102 - Attended our 2 day workshops in 2 locations

26 - Dental patients, 36 teeth pulled

7 - Optical patients, 8 pair glasses distributed

75,000 - Copies printed, 182 booklets made (96 English and 86 French booklets)

16- Completed Bible marking

98 - Attended Wordsower Bible Institute Level 2 – Capemont, Liberia

56 - Attended Wordsower Bible Institute Level 3 – Zwedru, Liberia

125 – Attended Wordsower Bible Institute Level 1 – Ivory Coast

19 – Jesus film showings

1,988 – watched the Jesus film

2 - Broadcasts from radio stations. On 105.3 FM, we do one hour teachings 7 days a week. On 98.6 FM – we do 2 one hour teachings a week


The above report is made possible by a united sacrificial team here and abroad.  Only in the unity of us all can the above be a reality and even increase.  Looking at the above report you see that we are busy.  We have spread across this country and into the neighboring countries where we train, disciple and church plant. 


We have huge praises!!!  I sent out a request for fasting and prayers two weeks ago.  These are the immediate results of our requests:

  • We prayed for increased funding for our Capemont County indigenous missionary team.  Prayer request answered!
  • We prayed for increased funding for our Ivory Coast team.  Prayer request answered!
  • We prayed for the funding of our third indigenous missionary team to 2 unreached tribes.  Prayed for $14,000 received $15,000.  Prayer request answered!
  • We prayed that we would get permission to use the building adjacent to us to use for our Bible Institute.  We needed extra classroom space and guest rooms.  Prayer request answered!

PRAISE GOD! Every item requested during our fast and prayer was immediately answered as affirmative.  This is a huge blessing and confirmation for all of us as His united team.  


Testimony:  One of our satellite teams just sent us this report.  They went to a village that was having their animistic, demonic society initiation of the young girls.  This initiation is very brutal and leaves scars physically and emotionally often including female genital circumcision.  It includes the inviting of demons to reside in them.  When our team arrived, they were told to leave.  They appealed to the chief and elders and were given permission to teach.  They taught on Heaven and Hell.  The result was 9 confessing Christ as their Savior and 4 baptisms.  This is common and will continue as we are able to send teams into the strongholds of our enemy.  When we show up in fearless faith the result is lasting fruit.

Advancing: In September, we should have our indigenous missionary team to Lofa County in place.  They will be working with the Maninka and Mandingo unreached Muslim tribes.  On September 4th, our missionary team leader, Solomon, and I will be going to Voinjman in Lofa County to find the place our Lord has prepared for our housing.  It will take four days on bike on bad, dangerous muddy roads.  We expect to be there a couple weeks introducing ourselves to the churches and the village leaders of the unreached tribes. 

Our third missionary team will move onto our base and start training to be sent.  They should be in place in November.  They will go to the Bandi and Mende tribes of Gbapolu County.  This year, Lord willing, we will have a Wordsower team living and ministering to all 6 unreached tribes of Liberia.   

More praise, unexpectedly Peter and Johanna have traveled here from Sierra Leone.  Peter has attended our classes before but this time he returned with his wife.  They came with great cost, all the money they owned, and sacrifice.  They were 5 days on the road experiencing the mud and rain of Liberia.  They will stay with us for 2 months to finish all our Bible Institute classes.  Our plan is when they return, in October, a team of two will go with them to establish a base in Sierra Leone.  There are others near them, in Sierra Leone, that have also sacrificed to attend our school.  We are confident that our Lord has compelled them to come and that this is His timing for us to enter Sierra Leone.  They have 11 unreached tribes of over 1 million that need to hear the gospel and be introduced to our Lord and Savior.  The tribe we are looking at is in the town of Makeni.  It is the center of the Temne-Banta Muslim tribe.  Joshua Protect states that there are no known Christians in this tribe… well not yet 😊!  Remember that our Lord has commanded His Church to Go, make disciples of all nations, to baptize them and teach them.  Let me know if our Lord puts a burden on your heart to participate in reaching them. 

Our base:  The 3-minute video below is titled, “A Day in the Life of Wordsower Liberia”.  It shows a typical day on our Zwedru base.  We are an active community.  On a typical day, when our school is in session, we will have 70-100 coming and going on our base.  Cooks prepare food for 80.  Wordsower Bible institute is in operation 3 weeks a month and will have 40-70 students.  The cooking team and teachers will be serving the students.  Our press team will be printing, others will be putting manuals together and use the glue binder, or packing boxes to be shipped throughout Liberia or to Ivory Coast.   Dental patients as well as our optical patients will be coming and going.  Always people come for medical assistance, they come for malaria treatments or wound management or to get assistance for the cost of medicine.  The suffering of poverty destroys joy and hope.  They come looking for work or to get help with school fees, rent, food, funeral expenses, transport, etc.  Others come to purchase Bibles or other Christian reference books from our bookstore or to get additional Bible training lessons for teaching and preaching in their churches.  Missions are always going out or coming in as the mechanics frantically try to keep up with bike repair demands.  Small group classes are on base every day.  They come for literacy, missionary preparation, discipleship, children Bible class or trauma healing.  Children are typically considered a nuisance or are unseen in the community but not on our base.  The children find safety, a bite to eat, love, sports and are noticed.   They love band aids, ointment, placebos, playing in my bedroom with the box filled with toys, coloring, or just to be on some one’s lap.  The soccer ball is available and often must be replaced from wear.  Yard maintenance is always available for those looking for work.  Spiritual leaders will come from the bush, from several counties, to stay a couple days before returning.  We are a hub of continuous activity.  Our mission is to bring Christ, His gospel, to Liberia and Ivory Coast. All these activities are tools, weapons, used to accomplish our Lord’s purpose for His Church. 

The picture below comes from our Ivory Coast base, in August they had a training.  The need of training disciples and church leaders is huge.  They want to be trained but have little access to training.  The picture below is of their Level 2 class, disciples making disciples. They were overwhelmed when showed up to 125 attend the one week class.  We have a vision and everything we do is to assist us in accomplishing the vision.  Our vision is to strengthen His Church and to reach the unreached tribes with His Church united and participating.

The pictures below are of our Capemont base one week training.  They had almost 100 attend the class.  They are in the middle of the unreached Muslim Vai and Goal tribes.  2 women in attendance came in Muslims and came our Christians.

Participate with us in praise and prayer:
  • Praise:  Thank our Lord for answered prayer! We are full of praise and gratitude!!  
  • Pray:  We feel that our Lord has opened the door for us to enter Sierra Leone.  We hope to have a base established there this year.  The cost to establish a base is about $5,000 and $1,500 to operate it each month.  To start and run a base for 6 months it would cost $14,000.  Pray our Lord will provide the funds.  
  • Pray: For our team in Ivory Coast.  The church there is so corrupt, cold and hardhearted. Also, they have 36 unreached tribes of 7 million.
  • Pray:  For us as two of us are going to Lofa County to find the base our Lord has prepared for us.  The trip is long, hard and dangerous.    
  • Pray: Please pray for our safety as we continue to boldly and fearlessly march into and live within the strongholds of Satan to, “snatch others from the fire and save them.” Jude 1:23.
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

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 +231881344417

Financial Report for August:
Summary of expenses:
$755 - Staff support for 6 employees
$674 - $30 support each for 26 disciple leaders spread throughout Liberia
$595- Assistance to the poor includes rent, medicine, water pump parts etc.
$625 - Radio Ministry
$695 - Base Expenses. Covers food cost for the team, visitors and maintenance   
           on the base
$1,148 - Mission; teams that are sent out to preach and teach
$1,117- Capemont Missionary team reaching 2 unreached Muslim tribes  
$167 - Printing press supplies and labor
$560 - Motorbike maintenance and repairs
$511 - Gas for bikes and generators 
$80 - Adult Literacy
$25 – Optical
$27 – Dental
$131 – Video team
$0 - Book store
$1,126 - Level 3 Wordsower Bible Institute, Zwedru
$1,125 - Level 2 Wordsower Bible Institute, Grand Capemont County
$2,200 - Ivory Coast base
Total: $11,561

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Urgent Prayer Request

Wordsower Africa is requesting for 2 days of fasting and prayer August 22-23

Please watch this 4 minute video on YouTube.

We have several urgent issues to be lifted up to our Lord inprayer:

 

We desire increased donations.  

• Our Capemont County indigenous missionary team needs increased funding.  They are rapidly increasing their territory within the unreached Vai and Gola unreached tribes.  We are seeing fruit.  Former Muslims have been discipled and desire to go their fellow tribesmen.  More lasting fruit will come if we are able to send these disciples.
• Our Ivory Coast team also wants to expand.  They have raised up disciples that are able to be sent out.  Ivory Coast has 36 unreached tribes of 7 million.
• Praise God, we have a donor that has committed to sending a second indigenous team to another 2 unreached tribes.  The donation is for $14,000.  The startup estimated cost is $5,000 for moving, 2 bikes, rent, bedding, kitchen set up etc.  We have set a $1,500 budget for the 4 families and mission expenses.  But with another donation(s) we would be able to send a team to the last unreached tribes of Liberia.

 

Our main base in Zwedru, Liberia needs additional buildings.  Our Bible Institute student attendance has risen to 50-70 students.  Each class level lasts two weeks.  Our housing is too small.  We have wall to wall mattresses.  Our school room is toosmall for this number of students, also.  

• Adjacent to us is a large seldom used multipurpose building that would satisfy our needs.  We want these 2 days of fasting and prayer brought before our Lord before we approach them for its use.  Hopefully they will lease it to us.  Better yet, if we could purchase it from them.
• In the future, if not able to purchase the existing building, we would like to have a new school built and additional housing on our property.

 

Please join us in unified fasting and prayer these two days.  Fast in the way our Lord leads.  Some may not eat during the weekend or some may want skip meals.  

 

Below is our vision statement for 2020.  In it are other prayer items.  

 

Thank you,

 

Kim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wordsower Africa 2020 Vision Statement

 

“For this is what the Lord has commanded us: I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.” Acts 13:47. 

 

The vision and goals of Wordsower Africa is to obey the command of our Lord.  To bring the Light of Salvation, Jesus Christ, to the ends of the earth.  We were originally placed in Liberia.  

 

Our vision and goals are now beyond Liberia and have expanded to West Africa.  Our dream and passion is to send to the nations, outside Liberia, trained Liberian missionaries to train the indigenous of their country to also be missionaries to their people and beyond.  We seek the lost the unreached resistant tribes.

 

The virus crisis is an unknown we do not know how it will affect donations, our ability to cross national borders or to accomplish the stated goals.

 

Church partners:  Wordsower Africa will continue to work closely with our church partners, by participating in their strategies and goals to train and send out more missionaries from within their congregation.

 

Wordsower Liberia:  Liberia, Zwedru, is our main base for Wordsower Africa.  This base is the father and the feeder of the work in West Africa.  From this base, we reach Liberia.  We train and send out indigenous missionary teams.

• In Liberia, we have 7 unreached tribes.  Our goal is to a have indigenous Liberian missionary teams in all 7 unreached tribes of Liberia this year.
• Grand Capemont County:  Our Capemont county indigenous missionary team is working very successfully with 3 unreached tribes of Liberia.  
• Lofa County: We have sent out spies into they have located 2 more unreached tribes.  Our goal is to have an indigenous missionary team living and harvesting there this year. 
• Gbapolu: Also, we have sent out spies into Gbapolu county.   They have located another 2 unreached tribes.  Our goal is to have an indigenous missionary team living and harvesting there this year.
• Our Bible Institute enrollment has increased.  We have 40-70 students living and eating with us on our base for 2 weeks (Some will sleep off the base).  Our school building and our housing is insufficient.  Our rooms are wall to wall mattresses. Our school room is overcrowded.  We need additional buildings for our classes and for housing. 

 

Wordsower Ivory Coast:  The Ivorian team is in operation.  They have a great base, they have all the equipment necessary to accomplish their mission to “To bring the Light of Salvation, Jesus Christ, to the ends of the earth”.  Specifically, to the 36 unreached tribes of over 7 million people.  They need an increase of their current budget as they send out trained disciples and teach in their Bible Institute.  They have 36 unreached tribes of 7 million.

 

Guinea:  We have sent teams into Guinea. Guinea has 29 unreached tribes of 11 million, making up 86% of the population.  We desire to have a base there by 2021.  I estimate we can run the base with a monthly cost of about $2,000 a month.  This team will be made up of Liberian missionaries and Guineans that we have discipled. 

 

Nigeria:  Nigeria has 95 unreached tribes of 59 million.  We desire to return to Nigeria this year, 2020.  A Liberian and I will go.  The Liberian will stay for 1 month and I will stay for 2. Maybe one day we will be able to establish a base there.  There are great needs in Northern Nigeria and we are well suited to address many of their needs:  

• The church there is under genocidal attack.  Their need must be known to the universal church and then there needs to be a team to distribute aid.
• The institutional church’s buildings are being burnt.  They need to know how to go “underground.”
• The Muslim Background Believers need to know how to do house church.  To know how to operate as the body of Christ in severe persecution and how to go further North to the persecutor and to the persecuted.

 

Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone has 11 unreached tribes of 1.1 million.  We have trained a pre-team of Sierra Leoneans on our Zwedru base.  We are now prepared to send a Liberian team to them.  The team will be expected to stay one month.  By the end of 2020 we should have at least an unofficial working team of disciples making disciples with a vison and desire to reach the unreached. 

 

We have trained, fruitful, proven disciples, waiting, begging to go into these countries, to go to the unreached tribes.  We can easily send trained teams into each of these countries.  Lord willing, all the goals above will be realized by the end of this year, 2020 or the first half of 2021.

 

According to the Joshua Project the countries of West Africa house 176 unreached tribes of 80 million people.  Our Lord has commanded His Church, us, to go, to present Him and His salvation to every tribe.  We can reach many of these tribes.  Even now, we have trained willing disciples wanting to go. 

 

Acts 19:9-10, So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.  Lord willing, our WSL base can be this for much of West Africa.  We are prepared to be a training and sending hub to reach the resistant unreached tribes of West Africa.

 

As always, with gratitude, we will do all we can with what we have.  If we have the means we will be in many nations.


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

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 +231881344417