Ghana, West Africa June 13, 2008 Good morning to all! Forgive me for not updating
you guys in so long!
No surprise, the Lord continues to accomplish his
marvelous work in building his Church despite the gates of hell and
their attempt at keeping the lost people caught up in their
churches. The Lord has been very gracious to us, and has
seemingly given us a little key in witnessing here in Ghana. By way of illustration: The
other day I was running some few errands around Tarkwa getting more
copies of our discipleship book when a gruff and burly police woman
abruptly stopped me on a busy street corner with the question,
“Where are you going?”
(About this time the proverb about
dwelling on the corner of the housetop popped into my head..) After recovering a little bit from sheer surprise
I managed a meager, “Uhhh.. home?” Without waiting she quickly
continued with increasing gruffness, “What are you doing here?”
Without thinking I answered her with a
simple, “Well I uh, I’ve come to preach the gospel!”
A bit taken aback she paused for a
moment and calming down just bit, commanded me, “well preach to me
then!”
A simple question enough, yet one that illuminates
the lack of foundational understanding in a tender way instead of
bashing them over the head with all the false doctrines in their
denomination.
We praise the Lord, this is simply one out of many
many similar testimonies. We have now come to start our
second five week discipleship program.
There are four men and one woman from
Tarkwa here currently attending, with a few more who visit from time
to time.
Most are somewhat young in the Lord, but
very eager to hear the Word.
Please pray for Matthias, Seth, Samuel,
Mathew and Dora.
We just had Brother David
Kangni visit us from Germany, he and James were the instruments the
Lord used to bring the HVM school to pass.
He is praying about moving back down
here to Ghana to further assist with the school. We are all healthy for the
most part!
I was a little sick with malaria like
symptoms, however turned out to be nothing—thank the Lord! I hope you all are doing well and staying
encouraged in these last days, you are always in my thoughts and
prayers. Your fellow laborer in the harvest—timo |