TAN Mission Report October 2025 – Nigeria Report

Nigeria Report

 
According to Global Christian Relief, an organization that “keeps its finger on the pulse” of Christians around the world, Nigeria has replaced North Korea as the world’s worst persecutor of believers. Their report included a calculation that almost ten thousand believers had been killed during their most recent statistical analysis of the two-year period from November 2022 to November 2024. A more recent analysis for the first seven months of 2025 indicates an even more significant increase to seven thousand deaths – an increase of almost six hundred deaths each month! Even though our mission to Nigeria did not take us to the region of the country where so many are being martyred for their faith, we were able to connect with a long-time friend who ministers among the refugees whose homes and villages have been burned, fields confiscated, cattle slaughtered, and family members murdered. We were able to make a generous contribution to the relief effort on behalf of all our loyal supporters.

The focus of our mission was to teach at an annual leadership conference which drew over six hundred in-person business, civil, and church leaders from all parts of Nigeria and beyond as well as many live-streamers from all around the world. The theme of the conference, hosted by our long-time friend Dr. Tunde Bakare, was “Mustard Seed School of Faith.” Basing the lessons around Matthew 13:31-32, the message was that, once the kingdom of God is planted within our hearts like a tiny mustard seed, there is no limit to how much it will grow and what far-reaching impact it can have through our lives. Delron concluded his final teaching by sharing a personal testimony of some of the things that God has enabled Teach All Nations to accomplish in recent months – expanding the Bible school in Nepal, opening fifty church-based libraries in India and Nepal, and building and equipping the clinic in Liberia. He concluded by challenging the participants to not limit God when He gives them a vision with the exclamation, “Go for it!” After the meeting, a gentleman stopped us in the hallway to share the testimony of how he had been inspired in a previous conference to open a school which is now in full operation. He then added that the challenge to go for it resonated in his spirit that he was to take the next step to open a college; he then said that we would see it in the physical reality when we come back to next year’s conference! Another testimony we received was from a participant in last year’s conference which was focused on hope. She shared that she had been hoping for a promotion at work and that shortly after the conference she was given a temporary promotion which should have normally gone to others with more seniority in the company. She continued to say that the company is in the process of making her new position permanent and giving her not only the pay raise but also many valuable benefits.

We extended our stay in Nigeria an extra day to participate in the opening ceremony of the Citadel School of Government, a joint venture between Dr. Bakare’s church and the University of Lagos. The school’s objective is to train Christians how to find their place in local and national government with the objective of being the righteous “leaven” that exalts their nation. (Proverbs 14:34) We believe that this school will bring to fulfillment Dr. Bakare’s long-time dream of raising up “a new breed without greed” to rescue his nation and make it a world-class example of godliness rather than the worst place on the planet for believers.