Final Command Ministries

05/30/2023

Jesus Loves You

Our friend, Jacob, is using the simple beauty of Discovery Bible Study to transform NOLA, one soul at a time.

Jacob and his CityLife NOLA team minister to hundreds of homeless people living in tents under concrete bridges in Louisiana's largest city.

“We love it here,” he says of the city founded as a hub for the slave trade, amidst voodoo and pagan shrines. He tells team members that God has strategically placed them in specific neighborhoods to be lights of God’s love in dark places.

Friday mornings in New Orleans, a group of inner city men gather on the concrete driveway in front of Hobo’s one-room apartment. Plastic lawn chairs are arranged in a circle. The men are wearing hats, short sleeves, and sunglasses.

Hobo was homeless, drifting aimlessly under a concrete highway bridge when he and Jacob first met. There have been significant changes in his life since then.

Jacob, CityLife NOLA director, begins the Discovery Bible Study with a question.

“What are you thankful for?” he asks.

“That I’m alive,” comes one answer.

“Thankful the fire didn’t come into my house,” another said, as he describes how a trash can burned outside his apartment window.

Jacob asks another question: “What can we pray for?”

Dan says a cancerous spot on his lung was just discovered. Another asks for prayer for his parents, both of whom just were diagnosed with dementia.

Jacob clicks on his phone and reads Romans 3:23-25. Two others read different versions from their phones. “From what we just read, what do we learn about God?” he asks.

“That we’re unworthy, but He forgives us anyway,” Sidney says.

“That we should be patient with other people,” Leon said. “God sent Jesus to be merciful to us.” Leon said he was able to speak to one of his neighbors about God’s love.

“That’s huge, Leon, because God has placed you in the worst part of New Orleans,” Jacob says.

“He’s fair in all his dealings,” said Ken.

Jacob then asks: “Who can you share this with?” And the follow-up: “What did we earn that we can share with others?”

“Jesus loves you,” one man says.

And just like that, God’s love is being introduced onto the streets of New Orleans. The simple beauty of DBS is that it can be replicated anywhere by anyone – from the wild arid expanses of Africa to humid inner city driveways.

05/22/2023

Life Changing Training
As the Gospel of Christ continues its advance into Chad, more than 50 new Discovery Bible Studies have begun among unreached people groups.

More than 30 believers have been baptized.

This is a result of translating the DMM Training Manual into French. This makes DMM more accessible to some of the 141 million people spread across 34 African countries who speak French as their first language.

Chad is Africa’s fifth-largest country, with about 18.5 million residents. It is a partner in a West African coalition in the fight against Boko Haram and other Islamist militants. Unfortunately, it is also one of the world’s least-developed and poorest nations.

Chad is religiously diverse. It is estimated that 52–58% of the population is Muslim, while 22% are Catholic and 17% are Protestant.

Praise God for our faithful partners who first received DMM training in Abujah, Nigeria, last October, and have since been rescuing souls out of the kingdom of darkness in their home country.

03/01/2023

Shodankeh is a dear brother, one of the founders of Final Command Ministries.

Shodankeh Johnson on Loving Our Enemies

As a pastor and church planter in Sierra Leone, this year’s Wilberforce Award recipient Shodankeh Johnson has faced serious threats and danger.

Read the full story: https://breakpoint.org/pastor-shodankeh-johnson-shares-how-to-love-your-enemies/

09/30/2021

Father, we pray that all your cross-cultural missionaries will experience a holy boldness and effectiveness in sharing the Gospel in a wide variety of contexts, including having the opportunities to do so.

09/30/2021

Father, we pray that all your cross-cultural missionaries will exhibit uncompromising and unwavering moral purity, despite extended time alone, submersion in immoral and amoral societies and Satan’s ongoing effort to compromise their integrity.

09/29/2021

Father, we pray that all your cross-cultural missionaries will discover persons of peace who will then become leaders and catalysts for the planting of rapidly reproducing churches.

09/28/2021

Father, we pray that all your cross-cultural missionaries will experience the wisdom to entrust local believers with spiritual leadership and responsibility and the grace to allow them to learn by their mistakes.

09/27/2021

Father, we pray that all your cross-cultural missionaries will exhibit eagerness to improve their ministry by objectively assessing and reassessing priorities with a flexible and willing attitude and acceptance of change.

09/26/2021

Father, we pray that all your cross-cultural missionaries will be constantly looking for the most effective way to reach more people for Christ, a spirit of cooperation with other church groups and missionaries and the development of innovative approaches to utilize all available resources.

09/25/2021

Father, we pray that all your children will exhibit wisdom and sensitivity in addressing the needs of aging parents.

09/24/2021

Father, we pray that all your children will live only for that which has eternal value, with a constant “weaning” from this world’s value system.