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Spread the Fire is the annual conference for secondary school students across Bujumbura. Throughout the year, teams go into schools across the city with the Gospel. The conference is where students from all those schools come together in one place for a day of teaching, worship, and encounter with God.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you." (Jeremiah 1:5)
The Conference
Spread the Fire starts in the schools. Throughout the year, teams from Aletheia Truth Revealed go into secondary schools across Bujumbura, into classrooms, corridors, and student gatherings, and bring the Gospel directly to students where they spend their days. These are not one-time visits. Teams return. Relationships are built. Students hear the word again and again, in the place they know best.
Once a year, all of that comes together in the annual conference. More than 2,000 students from schools across the city gather in one place for a full day of worship, teaching, and prayer. The conference carries one message above all others: God knew you before you were born. He set you apart before you ever set foot in a classroom. Your identity is not something your school years will give you. It has already been decided.
"I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled."
Luke 12:49 (NKJV)
Many students who walk into Spread the Fire have never been inside a church. Some have never heard the name of Jesus spoken to them directly. The conference is designed for them. The message is clear, the welcome is real, and no one is expected to already know the language. Students have come in curious and left having given their lives to Christ. That is what the conference is for.
The generation in those secondary schools right now will shape Burundi for the next fifty years. Spread the Fire is one of the ways Aletheia Truth Revealed is making sure they do not enter that future without having heard who God says they are.
A Vision for the Whole Country
Right now, Spread the Fire operates within one city. But the vision is bigger than Bujumbura. We want to take the Gospel to secondary schools in every province, every region, and every corner of Burundi. Not just the inner city.
Your generosity helps fund the transportation and logistics that make it possible for our teams to travel to schools across the entire country and to bring students from every city to the conference, so no student is left outside the fire.
What Happens at Spread the Fire
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Spread the Fire runs on the generosity of people who believe this generation deserves to hear the truth. Your support makes the outreaches possible and keeps the conference free for every student who walks through the door.
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Every student who walks into Spread the Fire does so because someone decided this generation was worth the investment. Be that someone.