I arrived in Addis Ababa on the morning of August 8th and was met by our national Victory Churches leader, Pastor Fiseha and our translator Tadele. Even though I was only there for 4 days, we were able to cover a lot of ground. I dined with the pastor and his family (in the middle of a power outage!) that day. After helping them launch a Bible College campus about 7 years ago, and not hearing much from them, I wasn’t too sure what I would find. However, on Friday morning, I met with our VBCI leadership team and we graduated 23 students! They already have 27 new enrollments for the fall semester!
The VCE national board have already planted 5 Victory churches and plan to have multiple church plants in each of Ethiopia’s 14 regions! On Saturday we held a Victory Vision Day seminar and over 30 leaders, including pastors from other churches, enthusiastically attended. I was able to preach in the main church on Sunday morning to a very excited-about-Jesus congregation!
Overall, I was thrilled to see the Victory Vision has taken root and is blooming in Ethiopia!
- Pastor Brad Dewar, VCI
