VBS Nkotompo, Ekuasi:
This Summer we have decided to do something out of the norm and have VBS in the Sekondi areas one week a month from May – August. Our 1 VBS was in Kojokrom and a father from there brought his child. Just a few weeks ago we passed out some John and Romans at West Ridge School at our Wednesday morning worship time there and whole Bibles to the Schoolteachers. As we were finishing one of those teachers was that father in Kojokrom. He told us how much his daughter liked VBS week and how he has recognized our Bible Study. Pray that he will come. His name is Charles. After we finished another lady teacher came to our car where we usually sit after we teach the class for worship time, Prince, Koasi, Matthew, Joseph and I meeting together there in discussion of what we taught on in our classes and then pray for the school, what God is doing, our evening church services, church land, and the rest of week’s events. She wanted to thank us and tell us that she hopes that we continue to always be there to teach their students the Bible. They were all grateful to us and that sure made us feel good! Nkotompo was our 2nd VBS village where we saw about 8 receive Christ. The attendance was 160 to 268 during the week. Ekuasi, was smaller and our 3rd village that we just finished up with last week. The attendance there was 120 to 189. Many younger kids came and the seed was planted and many parents were impressed. This is the village that our church property is in. Please Pray That The Door Opens Soon that we can get on it and start constructing! European Town, Sekondi, where CBBC is, will be our last VBS next month.
Bible Studies In Nkotompo:
After VBS there the1st of June some of the men from CBBC, Prince, Koasi, and myself started a Bible study there with the men of that village in a location that was provided by a man named Samuel who seems to be very sincere. The next week my wife and Prince’s wife started a Bible Study with a lady there named Emma. She started bring her little niece to the VBS in Nkotompo. That is how we got to know her. She is 35, seems sincere, and claims salvation 5 years ago. Please Be In Prayer for us here. To the Religious “Jesus Christ... is a Stone of Stumbling, and a Rock of Offence, even to them which Stumble at the Word,...”
Contacts For Salvations & Salvations:
Pray for Joseph & Freedom who are adult men about 35 who I presented the Gospel to from Nkotompo and are interested; I presented the Gospel 2 weeks ago to Cindy, Linda and their mother. These 2 teen girls received Christ 2 weeks ago on visitation. They are from the Kojokrom area in Jerusalem town. Older folks in their late 60’s & late 70’s, John and his Mother I presented the Gospel to. They were taught to Trust Baptism from the Church of Christ, but I showed them the Bible how it shows us that we must Trust Christ as our Savior alone. They sincerely were thinking and contemplating this New Truth To Them. They are from the village of Ekuasi as is Emmanuel. Emmanuel is a young adult man who we found lives in Ekuasi about where we were having VBS. I took the chance to witness to him but was interrupted. His father was my welder for the car, who just died in June. We will attend the funeral. Please Be In Prayer for this contact. This past Saturday I visited with 2 adult men probably in their mid 30’s. They received Christ as their Savior today. Daniel and Ernest are their names. Pray for them that we will see them in our Bible Studies at Kojokrom or that we will get to start one with them.
Scripture Container & Our Wednesday Night Church Service:
The Scripture Container left BPS Milford, Ohio on the 23rd of March and arrived in the Takoradi, Ghana, West Africa port May 22nd. It took all day to get it released on Wednesday the 23rd. Our Scripture container was the only container released that day. God Was In It All! It is also the rainy season over here. When we got the container released, we had to unload about 1/3 of it on to another truck at the port because the container was so heavy the 1st truck could not move because the load was on the tires. After that episode we went with the 2 trucks to the church property to unload all of the Bibles so we could get the container off the 1st truck and set it on the ground. That took from 6 pm till 9:30 pm and 14 guys. Then from 9:30 pm till 12:30 am in the morning we reloaded the container with the Scriptures. Prince said to me earlier in the day, Pastor why don't we wait until early tomorrow morning and then we can reload the container? I said, it doesn't look like the rain will come but just in case let's reload tonight. We did and when we all finally got home, just a few minutes after I walked in the door Bro Prince text me and said, “Guess what?” I said, “What?” He said, “It has just started pouring down rain.” Then I reminded him how good God was in waiting until we were done and also putting it in my heart to finish reloading that night! That was our Wednesday night church service around the Written Word. The next day, Thursday was a holiday. Workers at the port didn’t plan to come back to work until Monday the next week. So God led all the way! I'm glad I listened to God instead of giving in to my tired flesh. “And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.” – I Ptr 2:8
Matthew J. Siekbert
This Summer we have decided to do something out of the norm and have VBS in the Sekondi areas one week a month from May – August. Our 1 VBS was in Kojokrom and a father from there brought his child. Just a few weeks ago we passed out some John and Romans at West Ridge School at our Wednesday morning worship time there and whole Bibles to the Schoolteachers. As we were finishing one of those teachers was that father in Kojokrom. He told us how much his daughter liked VBS week and how he has recognized our Bible Study. Pray that he will come. His name is Charles. After we finished another lady teacher came to our car where we usually sit after we teach the class for worship time, Prince, Koasi, Matthew, Joseph and I meeting together there in discussion of what we taught on in our classes and then pray for the school, what God is doing, our evening church services, church land, and the rest of week’s events. She wanted to thank us and tell us that she hopes that we continue to always be there to teach their students the Bible. They were all grateful to us and that sure made us feel good! Nkotompo was our 2nd VBS village where we saw about 8 receive Christ. The attendance was 160 to 268 during the week. Ekuasi, was smaller and our 3rd village that we just finished up with last week. The attendance there was 120 to 189. Many younger kids came and the seed was planted and many parents were impressed. This is the village that our church property is in. Please Pray That The Door Opens Soon that we can get on it and start constructing! European Town, Sekondi, where CBBC is, will be our last VBS next month.
Bible Studies In Nkotompo:
After VBS there the1st of June some of the men from CBBC, Prince, Koasi, and myself started a Bible study there with the men of that village in a location that was provided by a man named Samuel who seems to be very sincere. The next week my wife and Prince’s wife started a Bible Study with a lady there named Emma. She started bring her little niece to the VBS in Nkotompo. That is how we got to know her. She is 35, seems sincere, and claims salvation 5 years ago. Please Be In Prayer for us here. To the Religious “Jesus Christ... is a Stone of Stumbling, and a Rock of Offence, even to them which Stumble at the Word,...”
Contacts For Salvations & Salvations:
Pray for Joseph & Freedom who are adult men about 35 who I presented the Gospel to from Nkotompo and are interested; I presented the Gospel 2 weeks ago to Cindy, Linda and their mother. These 2 teen girls received Christ 2 weeks ago on visitation. They are from the Kojokrom area in Jerusalem town. Older folks in their late 60’s & late 70’s, John and his Mother I presented the Gospel to. They were taught to Trust Baptism from the Church of Christ, but I showed them the Bible how it shows us that we must Trust Christ as our Savior alone. They sincerely were thinking and contemplating this New Truth To Them. They are from the village of Ekuasi as is Emmanuel. Emmanuel is a young adult man who we found lives in Ekuasi about where we were having VBS. I took the chance to witness to him but was interrupted. His father was my welder for the car, who just died in June. We will attend the funeral. Please Be In Prayer for this contact. This past Saturday I visited with 2 adult men probably in their mid 30’s. They received Christ as their Savior today. Daniel and Ernest are their names. Pray for them that we will see them in our Bible Studies at Kojokrom or that we will get to start one with them.
Scripture Container & Our Wednesday Night Church Service:
The Scripture Container left BPS Milford, Ohio on the 23rd of March and arrived in the Takoradi, Ghana, West Africa port May 22nd. It took all day to get it released on Wednesday the 23rd. Our Scripture container was the only container released that day. God Was In It All! It is also the rainy season over here. When we got the container released, we had to unload about 1/3 of it on to another truck at the port because the container was so heavy the 1st truck could not move because the load was on the tires. After that episode we went with the 2 trucks to the church property to unload all of the Bibles so we could get the container off the 1st truck and set it on the ground. That took from 6 pm till 9:30 pm and 14 guys. Then from 9:30 pm till 12:30 am in the morning we reloaded the container with the Scriptures. Prince said to me earlier in the day, Pastor why don't we wait until early tomorrow morning and then we can reload the container? I said, it doesn't look like the rain will come but just in case let's reload tonight. We did and when we all finally got home, just a few minutes after I walked in the door Bro Prince text me and said, “Guess what?” I said, “What?” He said, “It has just started pouring down rain.” Then I reminded him how good God was in waiting until we were done and also putting it in my heart to finish reloading that night! That was our Wednesday night church service around the Written Word. The next day, Thursday was a holiday. Workers at the port didn’t plan to come back to work until Monday the next week. So God led all the way! I'm glad I listened to God instead of giving in to my tired flesh. “And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.” – I Ptr 2:8
Matthew J. Siekbert
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