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All of the following materials have been produced by Jesse and John McPhaill, almost exclusively during their time in the mission field in Africa. They are to be freely distributed—“freely ye have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:8).

Authority Of The Bible

Because God is the highest power (Ecclesiastes 5:8; see also, Master: Colossians 4:1; King: I Timothy 6:15; Father: Matthew 6:32), and the Bible is the word of God (II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:20-21), the Bible is the highest authority that there is. That is to say, the Bible has the highest possible authority: Read More...

Angels and Demons

All around us, there are spiritual realities unseen to the human eye. In II Kings 6, the servant of Elisha awakes early one morning to find a great military host of Syrian horses and chariots compassed about the city, coming to capture Elisha: “Alas, my master! how shall we do?” Without any fear or hesitation, Elisha replies, “Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.” He then prayed, “Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see.” Immediately, the servant could see a mighty angelic host of spiritual horses and chariots of fire around the encroaching Syrian army (II Kings 6:15-17). The false prophet Balaam... Read More...

The Incarnation of Christ

The doctrine of the incarnation is the teaching that Jesus Christ, the divine Second Person of the Trinity, added to his person the nature of humanity, and became a man. Jesus is not God in man, God transformed into man, or a demi-god man, he is the God-man, who is truly (fully, very, 100%) God and truly (fully, very, 100%) man. The incarnation, or enfleshment, of Jesus is a uniquely Christian doctrine... Read More...

Baptists for Africa is an independent Baptist, church-planting mission in Africa, currently based in Uganda, operating particularly within the capital city of Kampala, based in Namuwongo, which is located in Kampala’s southern division (of four city-wide divisions), Makindye. They currently lead their first church plant in Africa, Bible Baptist Church, founded officially at about the beginning of 2022. BBC is a locally, organically grown church from ground zero, with currently over a hundred regular church members. The church holds thrice-weekly services of doctrinal and dynamic Biblical preaching, and daily soul-winning outings which have seen (and continues to see) tens of thousands of people personally led to faith in Christ. Read More

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Mission Letter August - October 2024

From the McPaul Brothers

Malawi: Storm on the Fiery Sea

In August, we conducted a month-long mission trip to Malawi,

a country in southern Africa. Malawi (“flames”) is named after the long lake on its eastern border, which, in the sunrise, looks as if flames were leaping up from off of it. This is, in fact, the first country we visited over 7 years ago, in 2017, on a short-term trip, which God used to call us as evangelists to Africa. During that first trip, the nucleus of a church was begun, though not well nurtured. After about 6 years of them facing significant internal-struggles, a friend of ours visited the country and ordered things, providing significant help financially and
ministerially. He planned a large mission trip for August, 2024.

Mbarara: Advance into the Ankole Kingdom

In September, we conducted a 4-day mission trip to Mbarara

a city in Western Uganda. A long-time church member of ours, Elias, was going to begin law-schooling in the city, and we decided to take him by car, as well as a small team for a survey trip of the city of Mbarara. This was a significant excursion, during which a pattern for future reconnaisance work was forged.
We immediately connected with an independent Baptist church in the city center, which had some time back been turned over to a local African leader. Pastor Claudian showed us around the church property, and blessed us in the name of the Lord as we began our evangelism. For two full days (Friday...

Northern Uganda: Go and Bring Forth Fruit

In October, we conducted a 2½ week-long mission trip to Soroti, Lira, and Gulu,

a short survey to just Gulu, but God helped expand our vision to include these other two cities. Indeed, there are three distinct people groups that make up the majority of the inhabitants of these cities: the Iteso in Soroti, the Langi in Lira, and the Acholi in Gulu. We came to see each city was quite distinct, and the experiences
we had in each varied widely.
In Soroti, we connected with a fantastic independent Baptist church, Temple Baptist Church, led by a wise and hard-working American missionary, pastor Sutphen. The church has been around for almost half a century, with an orphanage project adjoining it, taking care of over 40 orphans at a time. We were impressed with the doctrinal and dynamic preaching, even of one of the trained local pastors (which is highly unusual from our experience in Africa). We stayed from Saturday-Wednesday in the very organized—yet comparatively small—city, evangelizing all day.

Gulu Team Soul-winning

In Gulu, our small car-team of 4 increased to a team of 12

with a few more soul-winners from BBC joining us for the week-long work planned. By Saturday evening, we were all in Gulu city and settled into our respective lodgings, with a couple hours of evangelism conducted. The independent Baptist church in the city, Kica (“Grace”) Baptist Church, also run by a long-time American missionary (and one who had known us from our first two years working with another church in Kampala), received us very gladly. Pastor Wright commended our example of zealous evangelism, and
rejoiced about our plan to have a week of soul-winning in the city. God knew we needed his encouragement, because Gulu proved to be the most difficult mission field we have ever experienced in Africa yet.