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Dear Friends and Prayer Warriors,
We've settled into a steady routine this month, which has been a welcome change from the business of summer. Ministry at the Storehouse remains steady. We're constantly evaluating how we can improve our gospel witness while continuing to help people, and we've had some good conversations this month. The class I'm teaching at the Baptist association is going well, and I'm blessed to have great students.
One of them is Bishop Amos, a Liberian church planter who has planted 9 churches in Liberia and one in Ghana before coming to the US as refugees from the civil war there a few years ago. He has planted three churches in the US, including one in Johnson City that he presently oversees. He and I met this week to discuss how we might be able to train the pastors of the churches he planted in West Africa. Like the Apostle Paul, he corresponds with those churches and periodically returns to visit and train the pastors. Presently, he is their only source of training. Denton Bible/Serve has a team in France that does some ministry in West Africa, and we're trying to determine if there's a way to connect Bishop Amos' pastors with and existing work. The Lord has given Meredith and I a huge heart for the nations, and it's been very neat to see Him bring the nations before us in unanticipated ways. Thank you for enabling us to be a part of the Lord's work!
Things you can be praying for:
1. Please pray for our food distribution next week, that the Lord would bless us with a good turn-out and enable us to be a blessing to our community.
2. Please pray for Bishop Amos and his group of pastors in West Africa, as we seek to determine how the Lord would like us to help and serve them.
3. Please continue to pray for my class at the Baptist association, that the students would be blessed and that the relationships formed there would open new doors of opportunity for our ministry.
Dear Friends and Prayer Warriors,
We've settled into a steady routine this month, which has been a welcome change from the business of summer. Ministry at the Storehouse remains steady. We're constantly evaluating how we can improve our gospel witness while continuing to help people, and we've had some good conversations this month. The class I'm teaching at the Baptist association is going well, and I'm blessed to have great students.
One of them is Bishop Amos, a Liberian church planter who has planted 9 churches in Liberia and one in Ghana before coming to the US as refugees from the civil war there a few years ago. He has planted three churches in the US, including one in Johnson City that he presently oversees. He and I met this week to discuss how we might be able to train the pastors of the churches he planted in West Africa. Like the Apostle Paul, he corresponds with those churches and periodically returns to visit and train the pastors. Presently, he is their only source of training. Denton Bible/Serve has a team in France that does some ministry in West Africa, and we're trying to determine if there's a way to connect Bishop Amos' pastors with and existing work. The Lord has given Meredith and I a huge heart for the nations, and it's been very neat to see Him bring the nations before us in unanticipated ways. Thank you for enabling us to be a part of the Lord's work!
Things you can be praying for:
1. Please pray for our food distribution next week, that the Lord would bless us with a good turn-out and enable us to be a blessing to our community.
2. Please pray for Bishop Amos and his group of pastors in West Africa, as we seek to determine how the Lord would like us to help and serve them.
3. Please continue to pray for my class at the Baptist association, that the students would be blessed and that the relationships formed there would open new doors of opportunity for our ministry.
