News from Niger

By Kris Yeomans

We are thankful for all of you! It is because of your generous financial giving and, most importantly, your prayers, that we are able to fulfill the call of God on our lives!

God has great things in store for the people of Niger, and we are thankful that you are part of it all! Your giving and your prayers means that YOU are directly involved in helping reach the unreached for Christ, so we thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Your giving matters and your prayers matter! It matters to us, and it matters to God. Thank you for making a difference! For November, and going into December, we remained busy with French Classes, worked at Sahel Academy parttime, and began conversational English classes with Muslim Students from the university that is near our house.

We are currently taking French lessons from a teacher who used to teach Peace Corps volunteers and students from Boston University who came here for research. He is a very good teacher, and we have made a lot of progress. He meets us at our house where we study French for two hours each day four days a week. We are planning to increase to five days in January and really do some intensive study for three months to hopefully be conversational by that time.

We have already found, though, that we can converse quite a bit around town with people, and we’re making progress every day. I am actually surprised at the amount we are able to understand at this point. Please continue to pray for us, that we will continue learning the language quickly and be able to fully speak and understand it within the next few months.

As a side note, our teacher is Muslim, and God is opening up doors for us to share the gospel with him. He has been asking a lot of questions. We had some great discussions about Christmas.

I work every Monday morning for four hours, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoon for four hours, at Sahel Academy in the business office with their cash department. Nicole works at the front desk four hours each afternoon Monday through Friday as an Administrative Assistant. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, I work at the Foyer Evangelique Universitaire, where I have the conversational English classes. Nicole works there every Wednesday night for two hours.

In my first classes there, I have had 11 students each time. Nicole’s first class had around 20 students. She has had smaller groups since then of maybe five to ten people each time. It is a huge opportunity, and we are thankful for it. We hope to continue it well into the future when we have our own Ministry Center as a base of operations.

We are going into week three working towards our Nigerien driver’s licenses. It is quite a process. It requires documentation from the embassy. Then a lot of paperwork for us to get everything transferred. To make things a little crazier, they are currently requiring every person in the country to get a new license, as the old licenses did not have expiration dates. They are transferring everyone to small plastic cards, similar to what we have in the US. Thankfully the new licenses will have a 10-year expiration on them. Please continue to keep us in your prayers!

Kris and Nicole Yeomans along with their daughters were commissioned as General Baptist Missionaries at the Mission & Ministry Summit in 2018. Their assignment is to open the new field in Niger. They currently reside in Western Niger and one of their primary areas of interest is the Hausa and Zarma tribal peoples.

Unified GIVING ...doing together what we cannot do alone.

The early Church knew while not all were called to travel the known world preaching the Gospel, all were expected to financially and spiritually support the work of those who were, as well as give toward emergency relief. Paul mentions on numerous occasions the help he receives from the established churches and the offerings he delivers to the poor. (Romans 15:23-24, Galatians 2:10, Philippians 4:16) People from all over would come together in support of a few, so that the Gospel could branch out to even more places. Unified Giving allows us to follow the example of the first believers and gather our resources to send and support more missionaries than ever before to all corners of the world, and to provide relief to the poor, the widowed, the orphaned, and the disaster-stricken.

It enables us to do greater things together than what we can do alone.

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