NC: That’s right. Well, Niger, a nation that is less than one percent Christian, it’s, like you said, the poorest country. It doesn’t have enough resources to sustain the population. It’s the lowest in education, ranked on the education index in the world; 208 countries, it’s last.
So from the natural standpoint, you say, “What is in Niger?” Even two years ago the news media was referring to it as the silent crisis, the forgotten nation. But we know God has not forgotten Niger.
And from that point, the Lord just began to open doors. And when President Roberts was hearing the voice of the Lord to come, that opened the nation up, as far as our ministry is concerned, and we could then take the gospel to a higher level.
We’ve been preaching in the villages and in the towns, but now we wanted to penetrate the capitol city. We were able to hold this Rally that was across the city. We had over 90 churches all gathered together
LR: Never been done before in the history.
NC: Never been done before.
LR: Healing Rally, Christian rally.
NC: Healing Rally. People were getting saved in this rally, more people saved in this week than 70 years of Christianity all throughout.
LR: In one week.
NC: In one week. So it was incredible. Niger is a country that really, the harvest is great. And, really, that’s what the passion is right now that we’re trying to tell people, to say, “The harvest is great, the laborers are few.” We’ve got to join together. We’ve got to take the gospel to a land where they’ve not heard. And that’s our vision, (foreign phrase)—we’re preaching the gospel in a land where they’ve not heard.
And we want to really begin to set up an infrastructure where the gospel can go forward. We’re talking about a school. We have a primary school where we’re not only preaching the gospel in our Bible schools. We’re not only planting churches. We have 27 churches planted now. But we’re now getting into the area of education.
This is a nation where there’s less than 20 percent of the people that can read and write. You can’t send them a tract and then read about Christ. It has to have a voice. It has to have somebody go.
But now in our heart, we’re wanting to raise up from the children, kindergarten, K3, K4, K5, you know, all the way through sixth grade. We have a school that we’re just in our second year now, but it’s a school that we’ve already outgrown. We’re having to build our next school block of three classrooms. And that’s where, praise God, chapel today, I mean, I was just blown away that President Roberts wanted to take up an offering for us.
And then hearing Jordan’s heart about God speaking to her and Amber about this Revolution project, I mean, we’re excited just to be a part of that.
These are children that are growing up in Moslem families. Our school is a Christian school. We have a normal curriculum of the government, but we pray over the kids. We teach the Word. And they’re learning. And these are coming from Moslem families.
And the unique thing about this is, that the Moslems are willing to pay for their kids to come to our school because education is in such high demand, they’re willing to pay their kids to come to a Christian school because they know we’re going to offer an excellent education.
And so that’s what we’ve been experiencing. But there’s just so much more opportunity. There’s so many kids, and some kids can’t afford it. And one of the things that’s on our heart is to be able to sponsor the children of our pastors to come in to the school. And a lot of times they’re pastoring out in these villages, they don’t have the funds to be able to send their kid in to come to school. Out in these villages, there won’t be schools. So that’s really what our heart is.
We’ve been thinking down the road, possibly have dormitories and a setup where we can bring the kids in.
LR: They came back and are bragging about Danette. And all my babies and all the kids are bragging about you and your family. And yet here you are in immense poverty, raising three children. You’re from Minnesota. You were not born into the mission field, and yet it’s home to you. And you see the need, and you’re doing something about it.
DC: As far as our children, raising our children there, we can’t think of really a better place. I mean, we’re honored to have our children be a part of our ministry. After we were married, and probably before we were married, we started praying for our children, whatever children that God gave us, knowing our future, that they would adapt to whatever culture that we were going to sit in. I think everybody can testify that that is an answer to prayer.
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