{"id":3786,"date":"2025-03-15T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:01:55","slug":"finally-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2025\/03\/15\/finally-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally to Nigeria!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of praying and waiting for God&#8217;s timing and the right relationships to emerge, God opened a door and connected me with Pastor Gideon in Akure, Nigeria. Finally we will be launching Pathways in Nigeria! Early Thursday morning, Ryan Bedford, an elder from my home church, and I will leave for a couple trainings in Nigeria. Here are some of the details, and we would ask you to please join us in praying for God&#8217;s blessing on this time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3787\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?attachment_id=3787\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3787\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3787 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Locator-map-Akure-copy-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Locator-map-Akure-copy-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Locator-map-Akure-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Locator-map-Akure-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Locator-map-Akure-copy-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Locator-map-Akure-copy.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We will be in Akure, Nigeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> March 13-21<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Key People:<\/strong>\u00a0I will be joined by LCF elder Ryan Bedford and we will be working with Nigerian coordinator Gideon Umukoro.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3788\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?attachment_id=3788\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3788\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gideon-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gideon-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gideon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gideon-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Gideon.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Gideon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Overview:<\/strong>\u00a0Nigeria is a very strategic nation because movements oftentimes start in Nigeria and spread throughout Africa. Gideon seems to be very organized and is collecting a great network of master trainers. While some parts of Nigeria are dangerous and unstable, the area where we will be (Akure, about four hours from Lagos) is quite stable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Itinerary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 13-14 \u2013 Travel to Nigeria.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 15 \u2013 Ryan leads a \u201cBusiness as Mission\u201d conference for interested local businesspeople.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 16 \u2013 Preach in churches, prepare for Pathways launch.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 17-19 \u2013 Pathways workshop #1 in Akure, Nigeria.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 20-21 \u2013 Travel home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Prayer Requests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Praise God that both Ryan and Eric received their Nigerian visas a few days ago. These visas are very expensive and difficult to get, but now that we have them, they should last throughout the Pathways cycle of trainings.<\/li>\n<li>Praise God for opening a door for Pathways in Nigeria. Pray for wisdom as Gideon selects the participants, and that these will spread the training to many others.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for both the Pathways training Eric will lead and the Business as Mission training Ryan will lead, that they will connect well with participants.<\/li>\n<li>Please pray for Holly while Eric is away as her health struggles are continuing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of praying and waiting for God&#8217;s timing and the right relationships to emerge, God opened a door and connected me with Pastor Gideon in Akure, Nigeria. Finally we will be launching Pathways in Nigeria! Early Thursday morning, Ryan Bedford, an elder from my home church, and I will leave for a couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2025\/03\/15\/finally-to-nigeria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally to Nigeria!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}