The Shelleys
January – February 2023
Dear Prayer Partners,
The beginning of 2023 has us thanking the Lord for what He did in 2022!
We could not serve the Lord in reaching inmates in Africa if it was not for the partners we colabour with in Africa. As well as our colabourers in the United States with their prayer and financial support.
Paul told the church at Philippi:
“Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.”
In 2022 there were 2,137 prisons services in 9 African countries, attendance of 138,632 and 19,226 professions of faith in Christ Jesus – thank the Lord!
The Lord blest our trip to Papua New Guinea with 8 professions of faith in Christ Jesus during the church services – Amen! The prison ministry began while we were there with Bible Baptist Church of Kimbe being the first church in five years to preach in the women and men’s prisons. The team was able to preach, pass out 100’s of tracts and the Lord blest with 112 professions of faith in Christ!
We were able to do some prison training and there were pastors from other parts of the country in the training. Lord willing along with the prison ministry beginning in Kimbe, we are trusting to see prison ministries begun through these churches of the pastors who were in the training.
We were in meetings in January, just getting over colvid in early February and will be in Alabama for prison blitz in late February. March we will be in Tennessee for meetings and in late March into April be traveling to Sierra Leone, West Africa.
Thank you for colabouring with us!
Because of Jesus,
John and Janice Shelley
