Training in Farming According to God’s Principles

The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Guinea keeps improving the living conditions of its people. Forty-six participants were blessed with a training program in godly agriculture and microcredit. May the Lord continue using the church to keep training their people.

Biofertilizer manufacturing techniques, 21 days of composting, the making of 14-day liquid fertilizer, and how to create a successful small poultry farm were some of the topics the Community Development workers learned in a program called Farming God’s Way. The FGW training was both theoretical and practical, and each participant had the opportunity to make their own organic fertilizer.

The trainers also shared the biblical foundations of farming as well as four key principles: doing things on time, according to high standards, without waste, and with joy. God himself is the first farmer and we have techniques revealed by God for better yields, restoration, and conservation of the fertility of the land.

Farming God’s Way recommends being faithful in managing all that God gives us. If we feed the earth, it feeds us in return. God is all-sufficient and has put everything we need on the earth. The practical session of this program called for the participants to draw a field for better understanding.

The training was led by the ECHO West Africa team with the support of the Alliance World Fellowship. The participants learned how to succeed in a commercial activity. This allowed everyone to be aware of what the trade is – the concepts of buying and selling, supply and demand, how to know their customers and their competitors, master the market, and sell good products – and included the importance of considering God in our commercial activities, tithes and offerings, and more.

Jean, one of the participants, started practicing what he learned and commented, “May God bless you richly for organizing this training. It is the best practical training I have ever attended.” Isaac Leno, another participant, said, “With the acquired training, we plan to improve techniques to increase performance.” Each person trained was encouraged to share what they had learned with others, to spread the training, and to mentor others.

Paul Guilavogui, the director of Action Rescousse de Développement Intégral (Integral Development Rescue Action), was one of the mobilizers and organizers of the training. He said that this will undoubtedly boost agricultural production not only in the church but also in Guinea as a whole.

Brother Guilavogui thanked Dr. Robert Sanou, the director of ECHO West Africa, for his love for Guinea and his unceasing efforts to support the program, as well as for his availability and commitment to training local communities. He also thanked the Alliance World Fellowship for its vision to strengthen national churches.

Let us pray for our brothers and sisters, and for the Alliance church in Guinea as they keep training their people and blessing their country.