Evangelical Fellowship of Sierra Leone

The Evangelism and Church Ministries goal is to mobilize the church for the greater evangelization of Sierra Leone and to strengthen the evangelical fellowship and unity of the church.

The Department is responsible for conducting capacity building program workshops and seminars for pastors.

Travelling Bible School

One of such programs includes the Traveling Bible School (TBS) a program specifically designed for rural pastors. The TBS has helped many pastors and Christian workers in rural areas to understand spiritual truths and how to live a practical Christian life.

In one of the programs held early in 2006 a school teacher (Muslim) who was persuaded by his wife to attend the Marriage seminar accepted Christ as His Lord and Saviour. He became one of the delegates who attended the teachers’ conference at Lunsar and is also now attending the Emmanuel Baptist Conference church in Bumbuna.

TRAINING FOR ASTORS

For the period under review, we trained 181 Pastors and Church Leaders in Moyamba, Pujehun, Yele and Lungi on Church Administration, Servant leadership for effective leadership in ministry.

Through our training we enhanced the capacity of 181Pastors and Church leaders in Moyamba, Pujehun, Yele and Lungi on

how to facilitate the church congregation on resources mobilization and asset creation. The training also educated Pastors and church leaders to develop the culture of hard work. Also, the post workshop evaluation report revealed that teaching on empowered world view changed Pastors’ mind set and perception on cultural norms and poverty.

With fund from Support EFSL UK we empowered Nine (9) women with sewing machine. These women had gone through training, but were struggling to acquire machine to put into practice the tailoring skill and to raise income that will help them come out from poverty. The Machine empowered these nine women to restore dignity and improve their economic status. The post distribution report revealed that all of the women who received the sewing machine were using it to generate income to support their homes and their respective churches.

Below are photos of some of who received the sewing machine

The effect of Travel Bible School training is still on-going making in the Bonthe Island Axis where two additional new churches has been planted and a prison fellowship is impacted too.

Support to Muslim Back Ground Believers

We continue to provide Bi-monthly cash support to Ten (10) Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) in various locations in Sierra Leone. The cash support is helping the MBBs to meet their basic needs. For example, those MBBs in Colleges or schools whose parents abandoned them and refused pay their fees because of their new faith, are using the cash support to pay fees and to buy learning materials

EFSL Church Empowerment Development

The Bi-Monthly cash transfers from Support EFSL is used to pay the salary of two staff (Rev.Joseph Baio and Rev. Michael Abdulai) and to support the administration of the Church Empowerment Department.