Supportive:
We started Sign Language classes at our local Career Center on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Thank you to Lighthouse in Bucyrus, who gave toward these classes, they will continue until March. An anonymous gift was given to us, so we have used that money to update our old computers. We have kept our old computers and updated them with new batteries and hard drives. We also purchased an older refurbished model that works well for us in Ghana. Also, Old Path Baptist Church gave us an offering to use where we need it along with many other supporting churches that gave us additional financial Christmas gifts. Thanks to all of you for your investment in the Lord’s work and our family.
We started Sign Language classes at our local Career Center on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Thank you to Lighthouse in Bucyrus, who gave toward these classes, they will continue until March. An anonymous gift was given to us, so we have used that money to update our old computers. We have kept our old computers and updated them with new batteries and hard drives. We also purchased an older refurbished model that works well for us in Ghana. Also, Old Path Baptist Church gave us an offering to use where we need it along with many other supporting churches that gave us additional financial Christmas gifts. Thanks to all of you for your investment in the Lord’s work and our family.
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| Our ASL teacher, Kevin |
Approved:
In November of 2018, our Quota to stay in Ghana was approved for another 3 years. Jackie and I will need to renew our passports and then we all need to get our visas for our return to Ghana. We have just received news from Pastor Prince that the land for the church in Ghana has been approved for our purchase. The Lands Department, which is an extension of the Ghanaian government that approves land purchases, will be sending us a letter of Approval that will be telling us the purchase price and the length of our lease/ownership of the property before renewal. In most cases that is 60 to 99 years. From that Approval letter till 3 months is the time frame in which to pay for the land. Please be in prayer that we get a good price and that we will be able to start building projects. We will keep you up to date!!!
In November of 2018, our Quota to stay in Ghana was approved for another 3 years. Jackie and I will need to renew our passports and then we all need to get our visas for our return to Ghana. We have just received news from Pastor Prince that the land for the church in Ghana has been approved for our purchase. The Lands Department, which is an extension of the Ghanaian government that approves land purchases, will be sending us a letter of Approval that will be telling us the purchase price and the length of our lease/ownership of the property before renewal. In most cases that is 60 to 99 years. From that Approval letter till 3 months is the time frame in which to pay for the land. Please be in prayer that we get a good price and that we will be able to start building projects. We will keep you up to date!!!
Ghana:
Prince called us Friday night. He and the family are well. The church is well and they are working on the land approval information and working on the piece of land we currently have. We have been working at a public school, West Ridge for 12 years on Wednesday mornings. In the first part of January, there was a conflict there and a student stabbed another student, that student died. For about the last 3 years the students in that 9thgrade class level were not subject to our Bible teachings because the previous Anglican headmistress did not think that our Bible services were that important. Prince told me the new Charismatic headmistress that started in January doesn’t want them, Pastors Prince and Pastor Koasi, to come anymore. We had an issue with the previous Anglican headmistress last year wanting to do away with Bible teaching, but she quit and we were able to continue teaching there. Prince and Koasi are looking to get into another school in the area. It is sad, to see bad things happen, but it is worse to see the spiritually undiscerning leadership making decisions that will make things worse later. We need to be the voice of truth to these students and have that influence. It is a sad time that we are living in all over the world. It should be sobering to see these instances happening all over the world: Where is uprightness in our Country, Churches, Families, and Parents? Has True Christianity become a joke to be trodden on by the world, because Christians are not living by the book, but are doing what is right in their own eyes? I think so in many cases. It is the integrity of the upright that will guide us in the way God is pleased with and Satan is disappointed with. It is vital that we who are saved not lose our SALTINESS. Be Resolved To Stand For Christ and True Christianity This New Year!!
Prince called us Friday night. He and the family are well. The church is well and they are working on the land approval information and working on the piece of land we currently have. We have been working at a public school, West Ridge for 12 years on Wednesday mornings. In the first part of January, there was a conflict there and a student stabbed another student, that student died. For about the last 3 years the students in that 9thgrade class level were not subject to our Bible teachings because the previous Anglican headmistress did not think that our Bible services were that important. Prince told me the new Charismatic headmistress that started in January doesn’t want them, Pastors Prince and Pastor Koasi, to come anymore. We had an issue with the previous Anglican headmistress last year wanting to do away with Bible teaching, but she quit and we were able to continue teaching there. Prince and Koasi are looking to get into another school in the area. It is sad, to see bad things happen, but it is worse to see the spiritually undiscerning leadership making decisions that will make things worse later. We need to be the voice of truth to these students and have that influence. It is a sad time that we are living in all over the world. It should be sobering to see these instances happening all over the world: Where is uprightness in our Country, Churches, Families, and Parents? Has True Christianity become a joke to be trodden on by the world, because Christians are not living by the book, but are doing what is right in their own eyes? I think so in many cases. It is the integrity of the upright that will guide us in the way God is pleased with and Satan is disappointed with. It is vital that we who are saved not lose our SALTINESS. Be Resolved To Stand For Christ and True Christianity This New Year!!
– Proverbs 11:3
“Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltiness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.” – Mark 9:50
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” – Matthew 5:13
Matthew J. Siekbert
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