The Website of Miah and Michelle Collins

Hello everyone! Just in case you were confused by the title, it means Cameroon and News. We have been super busy these past weeks and wanted to send a little update on what God is doing down here in the S of A.

We just had a really great week with meetings all day for the past 6 days. We reviewed our material that we train and updated it and also made it more relevant and just improved it overall. We also outlined the training for the first 4 months of next year and how we wanted to change that. There’s so much involved with the training, and we literally discussed every activity, why we do it, and why we think we should keep doing it, change it, or do something different. Then we had a full day of interviews with young girls and guys who want to come for the training next year. We spend 2 hours interviewing each candidate on theological background, ministry background, spiritual background and personal background. So, it’s been an intense but very productive week and it got me really excited about next year.

The week before last, we were in Durban and Richard’s Bay encouraging and meeting with our teams doing ministry there. They have all matured so much in such a short period of time and we are extremely proud of the ministry they are doing, what they will leave behind them, and the lessons they have learned that have changed their lives for the better.

We are also planning a trip to Cameroun at the end of the month to work with our key lady there. We will be there for 3 weeks, and will be helping her with training, and networking with other pastors and then really trying to lay out plans for a prospective training center. This center is such a pivotal center for J-Life as a whole because it will mean a center that can specifically cater to French speaking African countries, and it will decentralize the one year training program to accomodate people who cannot afford to come all the way down to South Africa for the 4 months training we are currently doing.

Other exciting news is that J-Life has had a great meeting with the Anglican denominational head here in South Africa, and he really wants to send out leaders from all of their countries in Southern Africa, and in each regional leader from South Africa to do the four month training next year. This would mean a completely different training section for the Anglican guys and we would then do training Jan-April, and Aug- Dec. This is a huge movement from God and an answer to prayer because we are mostly working with Baptists and Methodists here in South Africa, but one of our key values to be an organization for all denominations.

So, we need a lot of prayer and praise. God is doing some great things in this ministry, but at times it seems to be growing faster than we can handle. So, we need God’s wisdom, and we really need direction on how to specifically accomodate all of these needs and interests.

We also are in great need of building more onto the training center that we have if we have a completely new session of training. The center we have now has one hall and one very small dining area that is used for our trainees during the four months and also for the tentmaking business we run at J-Life which is campsite ministry. More staff are joining us as we expand this ministry into all of Africa, and we are running out of places to house them.