🌍 Omanyi Omanyi - Do you know?
"Do you know?" — Updates from Cameroon, Uganda & DR Congo
Dear Friends,
This is going to be a little long, despite my best efforts to keep it short.
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” — Mark 16:15
When God Says Go, He Makes a Way
This trip almost didn’t happen.
Months of planning were met with obstacle after obstacle — scheduling conflicts, team unavailability, logistics that refused to align. Just when it seemed like everything was finally coming together, the Middle East crisis erupted, casting uncertainty over international travel and shaking the plans of some team members.
And yet — God is not deterred by what detains us.
Every wall became a door. Every delay became a divine setup. The trip came together. Every. Single. Piece.
If the enemy works this hard to stop something, you can be sure God has something extraordinary on the other side of it.
The Night Before Departure
The day before I was set to fly, a massive snowstorm hit, grounding flights across the region. Cancellations were everywhere. Mine was on time.
But there was another storm — this one in my body. I woke up with my throat completely closed. I could barely whisper. Furthermore, I found myself on the plane typing my food preferences on my phone to show the flight attendant because I couldn’t get the words out.
I want to be honest with you: I wondered how I was going to preach. How I was going to lead. How I was going to do any of what I had been called to do on this trip.
And then I remembered:
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” — 2 Corinthians 12:9
God doesn’t need our strength. He just needs our availability. I showed up weak — and He showed up strong. He always does.
🇨🇲 Cameroon — Planting Seeds in Young Soil
The days in Cameroon were rich and purposeful, with a heart toward the next generation and the local leaders carrying the work on the ground:
School visits — bringing the gospel and hope directly into classrooms
A one-day camp with young people hungry for truth
Leadership meetings with local volunteers and ministry leaders
🇺🇬 Uganda — Where Heaven Touched Earth
Uganda was where the SFCNA team joined, and what a team it was. The schedule was relentless. The anointing was undeniable. And the fruit — the fruit was eternal.
The week included:
🏥 Medical mission — serving bodies as a doorway to serving souls
🎓 Outreaches in schools and universities
👩 Women’s and Parenting conference
🙏 Pastor’s conference — pouring into those who pour out daily
🔥 Youth conference
Countless meetings, gatherings, and Spirit-led moments that no itinerary could have planned
Then Came the Number That Brought Me to My Knees:
Approximately 260 people accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
260 lives. 260 names now written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. 260 eternities — redirected.
Think about that for a moment. These are not statistics. These are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, students and teachers — people with faces, with stories, with futures — who said yes to Jesus. Because some people took break for a week and got on a plane. Because someone showed up.
And then there were the healings.
Two of our team members were present at a church where people were praying for a mute person. That person was healed. Not metaphorically. Not symbolically. Healed.
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” — Hebrews 13:8
He is still healing. He is still moving. The question is — are we still going?
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of Congo — A Harvest in the Making
The DR Congo leg of this journey was its own deep chapter of grace. We were honored to visit ICPF Congo team in Bunia, and the ministry was full and fruitful:
Pastor’s conference — equipping and encouraging frontline servants
Youth meetings — a generation rising with fire
Various outreaches and community gatherings
The church in Congo is alive. It is growing. It is desperate for God in the most beautiful way.
And the harvest continued.
64 people accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior in Congo.
64 more names. 64 more lives transformed by the power of the gospel. When you combine Uganda and Congo — that is over 320 souls who crossed from darkness into light on this single trip.
On the road, people literally stopped their journey midway, heard the gospel, and surrendered their lives to Christ right there on the side of the road. Traveling. Stopped. Saved. Forever changed by an encounter they never expected — because a believer was willing to open their mouth.
This is what missions do. This is what happens when the church says yes.
The Moment That Silenced Me
But of everything I witnessed in Congo — of all the conferences, the salvations, the gatherings — there is one moment I cannot shake. One scene I will carry with me for the rest of my life.
I met a group of students who are both mute and blind.
And when I found them, they were not sitting in silence. They were not withdrawn or defeated. One of them — blind, unable to see as the world see — was playing guitar. And the others were singing.
I stood there and could not move.
But what wrecked me completely was what came next. These students — these young people who cannot see the world around them and cannot speak in the way most of us take for granted — began to express with absolute clarity and burning conviction that they wanted to share the gospel with others. That their greatest desire was to tell people about Jesus.
Let me ask you something.
If they can find a way — what is your excuse?
We complain about being too busy. Too tired. Too unqualified. Too afraid of what people might think. We tell ourselves we will go on a mission trip someday, we will share our faith when the timing is right, we will give when we have more.
And then God places a blind child with a guitar in front of you, singing worship and burning to reach the lost — and every excuse you have ever made turns to ash.
“Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength.” — Psalm 8:2
These students are not waiting for perfect conditions. They are not waiting until they can see. They are not waiting until the world makes it easier for them. Furthermore, they are going — in the only way they can — with everything they have.
The question this moment left burning in my heart, and the question I want to leave burning in yours, is simply this:
If they can, can’t we?
Lessons Burned Into My Heart
1. The harvest is not over — not even close. Everywhere we went, hearts were open. People were hungry. They were not waiting to be convinced — they were waiting to be found. The gospel is still the power of God unto salvation. Don’t let anyone tell you the world is too hard, too dark, too far gone. It is not. Go and see for yourself.
2. God still heals. Our team members watched a mute person receive their voice. The miraculous is not a relic of the early church — it is the present-tense reality of a living God. When you step into the mission field, you step into territory where heaven shows up.
3. Weakness is not disqualification — it is an invitation. I started this trip unable to speak. I finished it having witnessed hundreds come to Christ. God does not call the equipped. He equips the called. Your limitations are not obstacles to His purposes — they are the very canvas on which He paints His glory.
4. Even in the ditch, He is faithful. Near the end of the trip, my car went into a ditch. I walked away without a scratch. God’s protection is not abstract theology — it is a daily, personal, tangible reality for those who walk in His calling.
“The LORD will keep you from all harm — he will watch over your life.” — Psalm 121:7
5. You don’t have to be extraordinary. You just have to go. Missions is not reserved for the super-spiritual, the highly trained, or the fearless. It is for the willing. The obedient. The ones who say here I am, send me — even when their throat is closed, even when the storm is raging, even when everything in them says wait.
Go anyway.
The World Is Waiting. Will You Go?
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” — Matthew 9:37-38
Here is the uncomfortable truth: people are dying without Christ. Not in some distant theological sense — literally, daily, in cities and villages and on roadsides across the world. And the gospel — the only answer, the only hope — is sitting inside of us, waiting to be released.
Missions is not someone else’s calling. It is the assignment of every believer. You may not all go to Africa. But you can pray. You can give. You can send. Not only that, but you can go next door. You can open your mouth at work, on the plane, at the gas station.
What are you waiting for?
Will you be one of the workers?
“Here I am. Send me.” — Isaiah 6:8
Thank You
To every person who prayed for this trip — thank you. Your prayers crossed oceans. They held us together when things were hard, dangerous, and uncertain. Prayer is not the least you can do. It is often the most powerful thing you can do.
To the SFCNA team — your sacrifice, your faith, and your heart for the lost made an eternal difference. You will never fully know this side of heaven what your obedience produced.
And to God — all the glory, all the honor, all the praise. None of this was us. All of it was Him.
Omanyi — do you know? Now you do. And now you are responsible for what you know.
Until the next update — keep praying, keep going, keep believing.