Calvary Ministries
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| Nigeria | 9 Turton Street, P. O. Box 196, Sabo Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria 101011 | 234 1 3425644, 234 8030816300, Fax 234 3425009 | - | (country2) |
Begun: 1975
Also called: CAPRO
(Brief summary description)
Who we are
Calvary Ministries (CAPRO) is an indigenous African cross-cultural missionary movement made up of a multi-national teams taking the gospel to the remaining unevangelised parts of the world with a particular focus on the Muslim peoples of Africa and the Arab world. Founded in Nigeria in 1975, CAPRO recruits, trains and deploys missionaries to preach and plant churches in verified unreached places accompanied with holistic/mercy services. CAPRO presently has over 500 missionaries of 19 nationalities working in 22 countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
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[edit] What we do
CAPRO is involved in the following ministries: • Missions Awareness and Mobilization (in the churches, campuses, and Christian groups).
• Mission Training (for cross-cultural evangelism).
• Missions Research (to establish the status of the unreached peoples).
• Church Planting and Discipleship among verified Unreached People Groups.
• Multi-media Ministries (literature, audio and video publishing)
• Mercy Ministries (literacy, rural development, primary health-care, relief and rehabilitation).
[edit] Our History
What is today known as Calvary Ministries (CAPRO) came into being in 1975 (precisely April 25th). It started in Zaria, in northern Nigeria after some young Christians burdened to evangelize the Muslims attempted a crusade in that ancient Muslim city. They were attacked but instead of being discouraged this stirred them to prayers and more action. The vision was thus born to make such Muslim cities and tribes, as well as other unreached people groups of Northern Nigeria and West Africa an object of concerted missionary effort. Calvary Productions (CAPRO), as it was first call was thus born.
The pioneer leadership team was lead by Bayo Famonure. This team led various youths from all across Nigeria into intensive evangelism of Muslims both in northern Nigeria and neighboring Niger Republic. By 1979 CAPRO’s name was changed Calvary Production to Calvary Ministries (CAPRO) to reflect a new emphasis on targeting ethno linguistic clusters of peoples. And by the early 1980s this lead to the recruiting full-time cross-cultural missionaries to live and plant churches among verified unreached peoples. Some of the first ethnic groups to be entered were the Maguzawa people of Adamawa State and the Gbagyi people of Kaduna State in Nigeria. Soon after this several other unreached peoples were engaged in Nigeria. Also by the early 1980s, foreign fields were also pioneered in Niger Republic, Senegal and Guinea (all in West Africa) to engage ethnic groups with almost 100% Muslims.
Starting from northern Nigeria CAPRO now works all over Africa, in Europe and the Middle East. In recent years CAPRO has especially emphasized outreach to the Maghreb and Arab world and some underground churches of Muslim-background believers (MBB) have been planted.
[edit] Where We Work
CAPRO targets unreached ethnic groups within a country for effective evangelism, discipleship and church planting. In countries where there is a strong Christian majority, we are involved in mission awareness, mobilization and training so to make them sending bases for men and resources for the missionary thrust.
[edit] How We are Financed
As a faith ministry, CAPRO and her missionaries depend on God to provide through the freewill offerings of His people. Gifts to CAPRO are used as designated and duly acknowledged. No staff draws wages from the fund of the ministries. Each trusts God to meet his or her needs.
[edit] Our Guiding Principles (The Six Pillars of CAPRO)
These six pillars are the motivating factor for all our enterprise
Holiness: Our ministry is the outflow of our life. We cannot give what we do not have. So our first priority is to be like Christ.
Love: Love for God, for our fellow labourers, and for the people we seek to reach
Sacrifice: A willingness to spend and be spent for the cause of enthroning Christ among those who are yet to hear
Faith: We do not go by what we have but by the sufficiency of our God to meet every need.
Evangelism: Our passion is souls
Militancy/Determination: We are rugged soldiers of the cross and must not entangle ourselves with civilian matters. Time is short. We will find a way where others see no way. We are proactive and pragmatic. We shall use all means possible to reach the unreached.
[edit] What we believe
[edit] Doctrinal Statements
The doctrinal basis of this Ministry is the fundamental truth of the Christian faith as revealed in the whole of the Holy Scriptures, including:
• The one eternal God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit
• The Lordship of Jesus Christ in the life of the believer
• The Divine inspiration of the Bible and its final authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
• The universal sinfulness of man which brings God’s condemnation on all men.
• The redemption from the penalty and power of sin solely through the sacrificial death and bodily resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• The justification of the sinner by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ alone.
• The present day ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. The empowering of believers by the Holy Spirit for more effective service.
• The fellowship of all believers in the Universal Church which is the body of Christ.
• The expectation of the personal physical return of our Lord Jesus Christ, in power and glory.
• The eternal dwelling of the saints with God and the eternal separation of the unbelievers from Him.
[edit] Ministry Countries
[edit] Calvary Ministries in Sudan
- Started in 1995 by just one missionary in the Sudan, the work of Calvary Ministries (CM) has now grown to 18 missionaries working full-time in four different locations. CM's main goal is to start house churches among least reached people groups outside of Khartoum and to mobilize and train others to do the same. CM also has 12 full-time Sudanese missionaries working and living among Muslims in three regions outside of Khartoum.
- Included in CM's very ambitious goals are to open six new fields of work, hold 10 Bible exhibitions in remote least reached communities, to train 3 000 people in Sudan in discipleship and missions, and to place 20 new Sudanese believers in the mission field. This year CM plans to start a full-time mission's training school to equip Sudanese believers to possess the Sudan for Christ, "no matter what the cost."
- Prayer Requests
- Pray for continued purposefulness, provision, protection, and perseverance for CM missionaries as they work in distant and difficult communities.
- Pray that the fruit from this first harvest will both survive and reproduce.
- Pray that Sudanese believers will take up the challenge of reaching their own least reached people groups for the Lord.
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