If you would recall, in our newsletter of December 2007, we featured the story of a chief receiveing Jesus Christ as his savior.  We revisited him to confirm that he has not changed his mind concerning this all important decision he had made in the presence of many witnesses.  Indeed he reconfirmed his decision.  We have started discipleing him in fulfillment of Jesus’ command in Matthew 28:18-20(popularly called the Great Commission).  We brought him to Bethany village alone, so as to escape all the distractions of palace life.  We went over the salvation scriptures to give him a full assurance of his new life in Jesus Christ.

We have set these discipleship meetings to continue at regular intervals.  Those of you who may not know, a chief does not leave his palace to go sit in someone else’s residence to be discipled one on one.  The best one could hope for is to be allowed to come do the discipleing at the palace, this is God at work.  Please pray with us for favor to continue is vital work.

Most sports cars are small, high performance and highly manuvearable.  This description fits the team of 6 short term missionaries from Washington State.  It comprised three women and three men: Dana, Shannon and Gina, Brian, Justin and Paul.  They are a missionaries dream team, willing to do whatever is needed with a smile, flexible is the word.  The men worked on our farm equipments, vans, construction and painting.  The women taught at the vocational school and Sanga village women day school.  Both men and women were deeply involved with the discipleship program in the villages.  This team was led by Brian and Dana Cummings, onetime missionaries here in Ghana for four years.  Their children, Devin, Joel and Hadas also served with them here in Ghana, we really appreciate their great help.

Standing before a great cloud of witnesses, both seen and unseen the chief of the village of (can not mention the village) boldly prayed to accept Jesus Christ of Nazareth as his savior. O God your throne is established in justice, You rule and reign in the affairs of men.  Now that this chief has accepted Jesus Christ as his savior, we now have to disciple him to also accept Jesus Christ as his Lord.  This involves teaching him the commandments of God, so that he will walk in the Way of the Lord not in the way of his ancestors as he now does.  We need wisdom from God to effectively perform this crucial task! 

Yes indeed the rain storms has being fierce, and all rivers as we are told has flooded their banks.  Both the President and his vice has come to the Northern part of Ghana- where we live- to see firsthand the severity of the floods.  The rains came late this year, but when they came it was with a vengence.  The earlier drought destroyed the early crops and the late floods are destroying the late crops.  God being soo good to us we have harvested our 13acres of peanut, dried them and is now in storage. Hallelujah!!!  Our rice farm is doing fine, since rice can handle floods.  Due to the earlier drought and late floods, food will be very scarce this dry season, it is at that time that we will distribute our farm produce to the widows and orphans.  God knows how to provide for His children in times of difficulty.  Trust Him, He will never fail you!!!

A handsome baby boy was born to Pastor Zak and his wife Hannah on Monday.  The delivery was quick and smooth as we prayed for, she went to the hospital and in about 6 hours she was back with a quiet gentle baby.  As of now he will have no name until a week from the day on which he was born.  The baby will be outdoored this coming Monday and that is when his name will be officially announced.  watchout for our next newsletter his picture will be included.  We are grateful to our Lord for His many mercies toward us!  Rejoice with us.