Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Off to Urbana--Recruiting Help for our African Family

The day after Christmas we will be heading off to the Urbana Student Missions Conference in St. Louis. Out of the 15,000+ who will be attending, we hope to recruit several long term missionaries for our work in Uganda and in Ghana. Please pray with us that we will find just the right people.

Are you called to work with children? Would you consider Africa? Do you love Jesus and take His Word seriously? Then you should consider missionary service with Every Child Ministries. This is the message we will share.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Blessed time in Ghana

I just returned from a blessed time in Ghana. A good share of my time was spent at Haven of Hope, the children's home sponsored by Every Child Ministries. It was wonderful to see our precious children again. They were 49, but while I was there, the twins Victory and Victoria went home permanently. Their mother is now able to care for them. Halleluya!

We also were able to take eight of the older children to a beautiful Christian wedding. Our treasured staff member Abigail Quarcoo became Mrs. Elijah Mensah. It was a beautiful wedding, and we were hoping to plant a seed in their minds that marriage is desirable and that they might be happily married someday with a family of their own. Not one of them comes from a stable, loving home, and none to my knowledge come from a situation of marriage. Would you pray with us that they will be the beginning of something new--that they will be the first in a long chain of strong, loving Christian marriages and families.