It is nearly 20 years since first putting foot in Kisangani, DRC. Just short of Stanley Falls (the Wagenia Rapids), 1 734 km upriver from Kinshasa. How long still before the indigenous churches in Kisangani will consistently and sustainably send Evangelists and Missionaries to the furthest reaches of the Congo River Basin, to other countries in Africa and to the decadent societies of Europe and the West? This obedience, however, will require dedicated servants, freed from slavery, such as Samuel Ayayi Crowther (missionary from 1841 – 1891), who was set free from slavery by the Royal Navy and by Jesus Christ of Nazareth! Yet, unless Africa learns to govern well, establishing economic models that feed and empower the people, allow better tithing to the churches in Africa and can support missions training and sending models, Africa will not be able to take up the burden of Good News to the world, where the Church in Europe and the West is now in decline as far as the Great Commission is concerned!

I pray to mention two subjects today. The terrible and largest Ebola “outbreak” in the DRC and whether anyone since the Simba Rebellion of 1964, in Kisangani, had been called to Mission (Great Commission service) in and from Kisangani? Regarding the Ebola, there might be rising concerns about the legitimacy, accuracy and auditing of information, – lest Africa and the DRC might be manipuated with another scam when measured against the continued and disturbing investigations, emerging evidence and disconcerting revelations related to the 2019 to 2020 so called “Covid” scamdemic. Regarding “being called” to Congo River Mission, I do not doubt that God calls disciples through the Great Commission of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The thread that all nations should hear and that believers should be taught everything that Jesus commanded, is spread throughout the Bible. The obstacles to Matthew 24:14 and Matthew 28:18-20 (as well as Acts 1:8 and Romans 10:9-15) come because of the disobedience of the global Christian Church and controlled manipulation in the DRC. Are Christians, globally, and in the rest of Africa, really concerned about what is happening in the DRC?

Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains isolated since the Simba Rebellion that massacred Europeans and church workers in 1964. Most international Christian Denominations, Ministries and Missions had withdrawn. The Greatest Century of Missions now neglected. Yet the Church in Kisangani (and the historic work of the BMS, among others) had seemingly gone into a Holy Huddle, shy of inter-acting healthily and spiritually with global Christians. Kisangani International airport at Bangoka not listed on international travel aent and commercial cargo agent flight schedules. Goma and Bukavu had grown into large cities boasting growing international and cross border trade. Kisangani had shrunk from the DRC’s third largest economy and a potential central Africa hub port (with 4 harbours), to a village again. Business and commercial offices, buildings and premises now occupied by squatters! Yet, as many countries in Africa, their plight is lamented, while local Christians wait passively upon God … ?

The challenges regarding logistics and couriers to deliver Bibles and Gospel materials to Kisangani or in the Triangle of Death between Kisangani, Goma and Bukavu, in the eastern DRC, remain problematic. It is difficult to determine whether commercial passenger and cargo flights to the refurbished Bangoka International Airport at Kisangani are in regular operation. Travel agents and shipping agents do not respond when quotes are requested and the Church in Kisangani seems to be confronted with retention of cargo by carriers, couriers, agents and customs until excessive “love taxes” are paid. This results in Pastors sometimes abandoning Bibles sent and sponsored by international Christians and churches or missions organizations! Alternatively difficult and expensive arrangements must be made to bring shipments via Kinshasa and barges or via Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. These practices and hindrances to the spreading of the Good News, continue after 66 years of independence in the DRC!? It had been brought to the attention of persevering missionary efforts, that aircraft such as the Cessna 208 Caravan, Cessna 182, Cessna 206, LET-L-410 Turbolet and sometimes Antanov AN-2 are used by complex or clandestine logistics chains that fly out the 50 kg bags of conflict minerals between villages in the DRC, 24/7. Agents are needed who can fly in Bibles and Gospel Material and drop it off before loading the bags of minerals between villages, please.

22 years of Congo River Mission had been interrupted by rebels once more, in 2025. A recurrence since the call in 2004. A repetitive situation of exploitation and slavery perpetuated throughout recorded history of the DR Congo. For the Western or European church to work alongside the indigenous Christian churches in the eastern DR Congo is very difficult since the Simba Rebellion in Kisangani between 1959 and 1964. The UK and USA as traditionally strong sending churches, and such as the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) and Africa Inland Mission (AIM) contributed to Christian influence into Africa. Never intended to be bad, but grossly abused there where trade, commerce and political influence filled the gaps where church planting was not followed up, or where economic hit men were more diligent than sent missionaries. Kisangani remains isolated. Shrinking. The surrounding unreached remain unreached. Will this Christian generation also continue to turn a blind eye regarding the old Belgium Congo? I pray to return to Kisangani soon. The core purpose of the Christian Church, to spread the Good News to the ends of the earth, cannot continue to bow to rebels! Will you please pray today and support the repeated effort to reach isolated, neglected, overlooked and traumatized villages along the rivers in the Congo

The indigenous Christian churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are becoming more serious about Evangelism, reaching the unreached and building the Body of Christ in the DRC! Will the traumatized Christians in the DRC reach the fullness in Christ to be an agent for righteousness, peace and a sustained Gospel of Good News in and from Africa? Can this be done if global Christianity continue to be absent from Kisangani and the eastern DRC? Lest sponsored rebellions continue to frighten the Christians and the sons of Abraham remain in conflict instead of focusing upon God’s prophetic purposes!

Only the Christian faith proclaims a loving God that forgives sin and offers a way back to Him. Missions from any other faith groups do not have a legitimate Great Commission or the Gospel of Good News! Is it not time that the Church of Truth returns to the eastern DR Congo?

Will the global Christian Church convince Africa of an apolitical, Gospel stance and true focus upon righteousness and peace? If not the Christian Church, who then will bring righteousness and peace to the eastern DR Congo? While the unclean become even more unclean the righteous should be exceeding in diligence and truth! Christian Missions need to be followed up and followed through. Not discarded so that the indigenous church becomes a club-like society, steeped in syncretism while subsequent generations or remote societies remain unreached.

Brothers and sisters of the global Christian church. Since 1959 many had called for peace in the war torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. More recently those who appealed for peace were the Pope, the Roman Catholic Church and ECC (Church of Christ) leaders in the region, the AU, UN, MONUSCO, President DJ Trump of the USA … yet rebellion (as witchcraft according to the Bible book of Samuel) persists with the resultant murder, displacement, upheaval, disrupted agriculture and brutal exploitation of blood soaked “rare earths”. The land calls out for the blood of humans and saints alike. What must the international Christian community do as one to help bring righteousness and peace to eastern DRC? Better conflict mineral negotiations. More humane practices. Leaders of integrity? Respect for negotiated and committed agreements? Must we fast and pray globally that God would send the Angel that killed 185 000 Assyrians outside the walls of Jerusalem (ref. the Bible Books of 2 Kings, Isaiah and 2 Chronicles) to kill 185 000 rebels, rebel leaders, instigators, brutal exploiters and greedy international puppet masters overnight? Or must the Global Church wake up, don the Full Armour and Full Gospel of God and come to Kisangani, Goma and Bukavu to minister righteousness and preach salvation through the Grace of Jesus Christ, the peace of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit in eastern Congo?

How will the eastern DR Congo be gained for Christ if the Christian Church is increasingly absent since the Simba Rebellion in Kisangani (1959 to 1964)? While economic hit men, bribery, corruption, murder, exploitation, poverty, hunger and displacement rule the eastern DRC, the churches in Africa, Europe and the West look away. Congolese themselves are keeping “outsiders” of goodwill away, while welcoming wealthy agents of iniquity who bring bad news under the guise of prosperity, empty promises and decline. Why not rather take everlasting insurance by welcoming disciples who bear Good News and who edify societies?