#1 – YLI Training in Nicaragua – Ash and Ryn headed down to Nicaragua in January with our partner church, Southern Hills. We were part of a team doing love evangelism with children during the day and YLI training for local pastors and church leaders in the evening. For the first time, the YLI training was translated into Spanish. It was a blast!
#2 – Ash also made his first 2025 Ghana trip in January. He led a prayer and planning retreat with the Coaches, joined YLI Interns David Abdulai, Silas, and Evans at a follow up training with disciples in Tolon (photo below) and spent time looking at sites for the next YLI home base.
#3 – 3 water projects completed in January and 5 more started – our water team, Oswin and David Babatiffu installed clean water in villages where YLI Coach, Jonah is ministering: Kunkuzoli, Nankurb, and also one for a community of Fulani Muslims living close to Kunkuzoli. The next five will be in communities where Coaches Job, Constant and Oswin are engaged as missionary disciples. With the dry season upon us, water is becoming more scarce. This woman expressed her joy and gratitude for the love shown to them through clean water in Nankurb.
#4 – YLI Trainings – So far in 2025 we’ve hosted two follow up discipleship gatherings for young leaders in Tolon, Ghana and at the College of Education in Dambai, Ghana. Our next Basic Training of 2025 is coming up on February 14-16 in New Karu, Nigeria. Photo is of Coach Constant (green shirt) and Intern Joel T (red shirt) surrounded by the disciples at Dambai College of Education.
#5 – YLI’s Nigerian Coach,Peter Iliya is going to be a periodic guest writer for us this year. Here is an excerpt from an article that will be in our upcoming newsletter.
“It was Frantz Fanon who wrote that, ‘Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it’. As young Christians here in Nigeria, God, in His mercy has helped us to discover His mission and has given us the privilege of joining Him to reconcile men to Him, raise disciples for the kingdom and remind the Church of His divine mandate in the world….We trust the Holy Spirit to enable us to go at His pace. Our confidence lies in the fact that God will lead us to the right people and right places, and also at the right time as the days go by….”
Thank you for joining us on this mission to make disciples!
2T22!
youngleadersinternational.org 