Dear Prayer Warriors,
The weapons of our warfare are mighty to the pulling down of strong holds!
The forces of darkness are fleeing before us not for anything that we are doing but simply because you are praying.
We are grateful for your faithfulness to pray for the outreach of the gospel and the making of disciples in West Africa. We also are grateful for those who have sent monetary support the expenses have been many but our Father has been supplying abundantly. We have been here almost five months now and the gates of hell are weakening. Some have been saved from their sin and inroads have been made into the hearts of several who should be saved soon.
We have had the privilege to disciple some very fine Christians who our Father is using to set the captive free and now they by the grace of God are better equipped to establish the believers in the word of God. Emanuel, Seana, Job and Maurice are from Togo and John lives in a small town in the Volta region of Ghana. Clement is from here (Tarkwa) and works for Francille and I. Soryn Votberg and her sister Prentiss also took the discipleship course. Tim Spurling and Skip Votberg helped me teach. We did an intense five week course that includes over one hundred hrs of teaching. We also went out with the gospel three times a week, plus we had three afternoons of work either working on the premises or on the small piece of land that we have for a garden. Everybody worked hard and maintained excellent attitudes.
June the ninth is the date set to start our next disciple group. Please pray our Father will bring us some more faithful people to disciple, also pray for the disciples that have now retuned to their homes that they will also begin soon teaching others. We have been praying for seventy disciples to go through out Ghana and make disciples, counting our selves we now have thirteen, that only leaves fifty seven to go and if we are all faithful that will happen soon. Our Granddaughter Janelle will be arriving here Friday to join our team. We are looking forward to her coming, she will be a tremendous blessing to have here she wants to serve the Lord and she will be a lot of encouragement to her Grandma.
She is about twenty three years old now and I am sure the young people will love her. There are also two young men from the training program in Bend, Oregon praying about coming to help in the work here. Keep praying our Father in heaven is hearing you. Don’t forget to pray for twelve to be called to the un reached tribes.
Thank you for praying for our heath and protection, so far we have had very
little sickness, Tim got malaria first then Prentiss came down with it but the
malaria here doesn’t seem has bad as the Kenyan malaria. That may sound like a
lot but with this many people living in the tropics its nothing. Please keep
praying. Our Lord Jesus is always watching over us because of your prayers. For
example we were asked to get a good health certificate from a doctor in order to
get our residence papers. Francille, Tim and I
went down to the local hospital and they were taking blood for tests. Everything
was going quite normal, they with drew blood from Tim and he watched them,
then they released the rubber band around his arm. The stool he was sitting on
was quite high, the next thing I knew he was falling, he had fainted for some
reason, he hit the floor at my feet. His head hit the floor with a sickening sound.
I turned him over, he had a huge gash on his forehead, he was out cold and
wasn’t breathing. I pounded on his chest and there was no response, his jaws
were locked tight but I managed to open his mouth and blew air in and as soon
as it came into him he regained consciousness. Here again I thank you for
praying, Tim was almost taken from us but our Lord Jesus has a work for him.
He is fine now, he had to have stitches, while they were putting them in, I told
Tim he looked like an American foot ball.
David and Marion Kangni arrived from Germany with their daughter Annie, they
were very surprised on how much work has been done on the place. We are glad
to hear that they are praying about returning to Ghana to help in the work of our
Lord Jesus. They really love the Lord and have a good vision for the people of
West Africa. We really enjoy their fellowship.
In Jesus,
James and Francille Lucas