Our Vision, Passion, and Mission in CAPRO Togo

 

Our vision, burden and mission is to see the remaining unreached ethnic groups in Togo and in the francophone African sub-region reached with the Gospel of Jesus.

 

By unreached we mean those tribes or groups of people among which there is such a small percentage of believers such that they are unable to complete the task of evangelising their people if left without outside help. Think of the Anufos with only 2% Christians and over 70% of all their villages with no single witness. Or the Tchambas with hardly any known believer. This are the unreached peoples.

 

It does not matter to us how difficult the task may be, we are determined to see that all the nations would bring worship to our King. Like Paul, we are ready to joyfully go through perils, hard-labours, fasting, sufferings, weariness and inconveniences if only we can bring salvation to the Gentiles.

 

We carry a burden for all unreached peoples whether they be in the interior remote areas or in big towns. We are burdened for the Tarbermawas who are mostly animist living in very interior villages. And we are disturbed about the thousands of Zarmas Muslims that are found in Lome, the capital city of Togo. Our heart cries out for light to come to the thousands of Kotokoli muslims in darkness. And we are just as well burdened for the countless number of poverty-ridden street children in our big towns.

 

We do not go to where others have already gone. Nor among tribes that already have enough believers among them to complete the work (like the Ewe in the south of Togo). Rather like Paul “It has always been (our) ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that (we) would not be building on someone else's foundation.” Our heart-cry is found in Ps. 67:3 “May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you.”.

 

It is this heart-cry that gives birth to all we do. Whether it is the work of research - to throw light on where the remaining task is. Or in mobilization - to raise more of God’s people for the harvest. Our focus always remains one thing – to reach the remaining unreached peoples. Whether we are starting missions prayer cells, or digging wells for needy villages, we have only one burden – to see the nations praise Him. The salvation of the unreached determines the relevance and importance of every plan or project we undertake.

 

Our number one weapon in winning the nations is for our LIVES TO REFLECT JESUS. We cannot give what we do not have. We know it is possible to do a lot of activities and yet be making only noise. We want to see a deep work of God done among the nations, so we strive always to open up our lives for God to do a deep work in us first. Yet we do not claim to be a group of perfect people. Rather we want to always be a group whose first and greatest passion and love is Jesus. We want to love Jesus more than his work. We want to be ever growing to become more and more like Jesus. This is our number one weapon in this great task among the nations.

 

“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;  But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.”

 

Our strategy is not just to go for a weekend outreach and come back . Rather we go to live and labour among these nations until Christ be formed in them and an indigenous church movement is raised that would be able to go on and complete the task among that tribe.

 

We do not assume that any one group can finish this great task alone. So we make it a priority to network with all other groups with the same burden. We believe that the missionary task is primarily the responsibility of the local churches, so we seek to work with all churches so that through our partnership we can face the challenge of reaching the remaining unreached peoples in Togo and beyond.

 

We have all counted the cost of this call and we know we will only succeed if we are willing to spend and be spent for these lost ones. So we are ready to pay the price no matter the cost. We are ready to suffer so as to see that our King Jesus is crowned Lord in all these nations.

 

Our God has promised to supply all our needs according to his riches in glory through Christ Jesus. His promise is our bank account. So we are satisfied to be members of a team like this where no one receives any  salary. We are convinced that “God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply”. We rely on our God whose reign we seek to move men to meet our needs. We will give God’s people the opportunity of fulfilling their responsibility in this task by informing them of our needs. But we shall never beg or manipulate any man. We are determined to depend on God and God alone for our every needs – both for our lives and ministries.

 

We are not interested in fame nor do we care for men’s recognition. We want to fulfil God’s call on our lives despite the ridicule of men. We know that there is honour that comes from God to those that honour him. And we are prepared to wait for that.

 

This is our heart-cry. This is where we stand. We have no other passion . And we would not allow anything to distract us. We welcome all who share our passion to join us for the task is great and we need more hands. But if you cannot identify with our passion , please do not distract us by joining us. We know that ours may be a mighty and difficult task but we also know that he who has commissioned us is the Almighty  God. And so we are sure that we will definitely succeed. NOTHING CAN STOP US!