Jason Brown replaced Tim Fortescue last year as the Director of Global Gates, West Coast. One of the projects that Jason set up was collaborating with local Afghan families and several churches in San Ramon, CA to put together kitchen kits for newly arriving Afghan refugee families.

F & K have been teaching Bible classes at two colleges. F also teaches Hebrew and Greek while K teaches English at an Islamic University as well. In addition, F preaches and shares in chapels.

The ministry continues to use music, sharing and testimonies to outreach to Chinese communities. They recently started using YouTube Shorts to introduce and promote their videos in which God’s people share and give testimonies on God’s blessings and provision.

Some subjects highlighted: Sharing Christian Literature around the world in the midst of Global Instability and the trials of believers in Cameroon, Myanmar and India.

Becoming What God Intended (US, World) – In the latter half of 2021, BWGI completed their BC105 Skills for Living course. They launched another BC103 Head to Heart course with six small groups and 42 people in September.

Tom and Penny Latham came back to Brazil on June 10 (2021) from a 3-month furlough. Right away they had to rebuild their baptistry as the termites had eaten all of the wood. They had some people make salvation decisions so they started new convert classes.