Revival:
October 22nd - 25th we had our Revival Conference at CBBC. The theme
was on the word “REVIVAL”. Each message was based on a word that can help bring
revival to one’s life: “Recognize”;
“Return”; “Recall”; “Restore”; “Rekindle”; and lastly “Re-sound”. As a
preacher and teacher one thing that is greatly desired is that each one that
comes will come faithfully, because God is at work, each message is special,
and many times they build on each other. During this revival the people were
faithful with a little encouragement from us. A few weeks before the Revival we
announced to them that we would give them a Bible if they came to every
service; God convicted, stirred and spoke to hearts; and hands were raised. Now
that the messages are over, we pray the hearts stay stirred.
Distributions:
Since
September we have been working on distributing some John & Romans, New
Testaments, and some whole Bibles. Once a month we select an area in Sekondi to
pass out John & Romans; the start of October we gave out about 116 whole
Bibles to my Sunday morning class at the Deaf School. Matthew’s and Joseph’s classes are too young yet. About
the middle of September at West Ridge School new students that came from 6th grade to the 7th
grade we gave New Testaments to for their textbooks for our Bible classes we
have with them on every Wednesday morning.
Sign
Language Classes:
Since the middle of September we have been
having sign language classes for an hour and a half on Saturdays with a young man
who became deaf while in training school. This is somewhat unique to us because
he can understand the way hearing people do things and yet also relate to the
deaf very well because of being deaf himself for about 5 years now. We have
been able to get some copies of a sign language book here, which has been a
great assistance to us. Please pray for us that we can learn this and also for
this young man who is teaching us. His
name is Derrick and he seems to be serious about God and have reverence for God
that most people do not. Like most all of the people here, he has been taught
twisted charismatic ways, but yet is
faithfully signing my Bible lessons to the deaf class without compromising the
truths learned from each Bible lesson. This is great improvement over the last
2 years there! Most everyone else has been half hearted and not comprehensive
in relaying the Bible messages. The bad news is that Derrick is an intern that
will leave at the December holiday break. Pray that we can see him get saved
before he leaves.
Joseph and Matthew writing their lesson on the board.
Answer To Prayer!:
The Devil is always at work! We have been
teaching faithfully at West Ridge School for over 11 years. This is truly a
highlight to the ministries we have here in Ghana. If anyone is going to learn
the truth and be salvaged from apostasies of the last days (false teachers and
false prophets), it is going to be the students we faithfully teach for 3 years
at a time before moving on to senior high. Just last week at West Ridge the newest headmistress of the school came
to me and said, “The students will be learning Christmas carols for Christmas
during the worship time you have, so we will not need you all (Myself, Bro
Prince, Bro Koasi, & my boys: Matthew Jr, & Joseph) to teach your Bible
classes until January ‘God Willing’. My heart was heavy when she said that. So
after our lesson that day I went to tell the teachers why we would not be
there. They were very shocked. The assistant to the headmistress said, “This is
the first time that I heard that”. So he took my number and said, “Pray Pastor and I will be in
touch”. A few hours later I got a call that everything is cleared up and we are back on schedule. Later the assistant
headmaster said, “Pastor, it was only the Devil at Work”. Thank the Lord that
Victory is His! Beware! the Devil wants to use you! Don’t let him! “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and
exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints.”- Jude 1:3
Have a
Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, & a Happy New Year!!!
Matthew J Siekbert
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