Happy New Year:
We closed out 2019 with a message and praying in the New Year at our church CBBC. We then shot off some fireworks and headed home at 2 AM. For Christmas, we had a service on Christmas Day at church. We also played white elephant and had some meat pies and coke. Our Christmas morning at home, Jackie made a nice breakfast and Nehemiah read the Christmas story and we opened presents. We were able to have our Christmas cookies because, Grace Baptist, in PA, sends us a Christmas cookie box, filled with chocolate chips, Hershey kisses, M&M’s, Walnuts, Pepperoni (for our Christmas Pizza) we had on Christmas Eve. We look forward to that box, and we enjoy the spoils. Thank you Grace! The schools here in Ghana go on break a week before Christmas and resume in January. So this New Year we headed back to the Deaf School this past Sunday. We have been on break or rather they have been on break. Prince has been teaching at Anaji public schools on Fridays. We have joined him this New Year and have 3 different classes. My wife is teaching the 1st-2nd grades, Prince has the 3rd-4th grades, and I am teaching the 5th-6th grades. Our Bible Study in Anaji is just cater-cornered from the school. We are in a good location. God didn’t allow us to have the other meeting place we looked at getting in August 2019, but gave us a better one in October. We are on the main double-road, with two schools, one beside us and the other public school catty corner from us. So please be in prayer we have some of these kids joining us on Sunday. Thank you very much for your love and kindness to us through the extra special financial gifts that were given to us from some supporting churches and the anonymous giver during this past Christmas holiday.
We closed out 2019 with a message and praying in the New Year at our church CBBC. We then shot off some fireworks and headed home at 2 AM. For Christmas, we had a service on Christmas Day at church. We also played white elephant and had some meat pies and coke. Our Christmas morning at home, Jackie made a nice breakfast and Nehemiah read the Christmas story and we opened presents. We were able to have our Christmas cookies because, Grace Baptist, in PA, sends us a Christmas cookie box, filled with chocolate chips, Hershey kisses, M&M’s, Walnuts, Pepperoni (for our Christmas Pizza) we had on Christmas Eve. We look forward to that box, and we enjoy the spoils. Thank you Grace! The schools here in Ghana go on break a week before Christmas and resume in January. So this New Year we headed back to the Deaf School this past Sunday. We have been on break or rather they have been on break. Prince has been teaching at Anaji public schools on Fridays. We have joined him this New Year and have 3 different classes. My wife is teaching the 1st-2nd grades, Prince has the 3rd-4th grades, and I am teaching the 5th-6th grades. Our Bible Study in Anaji is just cater-cornered from the school. We are in a good location. God didn’t allow us to have the other meeting place we looked at getting in August 2019, but gave us a better one in October. We are on the main double-road, with two schools, one beside us and the other public school catty corner from us. So please be in prayer we have some of these kids joining us on Sunday. Thank you very much for your love and kindness to us through the extra special financial gifts that were given to us from some supporting churches and the anonymous giver during this past Christmas holiday.
Anaji Bible Study:
More services have been added to our Anaji Bible Study (ABS). We have added Sunday mornings at 10 and 11 AM. After the Deaf School, which begins at 7:30 AM, we head to the ABS. I am also still having Tuesday Evening Bible Classes at 4 PM on “OT Survey” of the Books and now we have begun Thursday Evening Bible Class at 5:30 PM on “Church History”. Last Thursday was our first class on Church History and Fred, the guy we rent our room from, came! He was excited and so were we! Pray that he continues to come and gets saved. We also hung some curtains on the back wall of our ABS. We had some stamps made and have stamped some John and Romans and New Testaments to pass out. Also, we had some sticker signs made and posted on the outside of our doors to show the times of the service. Jackie will post pictures on our blog version of the newsletter, siekbertnewsletter.blogspot.com and Jackie has one as well, jackiesiekbert.blogspot.com
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| Fred joining us, Prince is taking the Picture |
Miscellaneous Happenings:
Birthdays,Nehemiah turned 13 on Thanksgiving Day last year, he blew out a candle in a piece of pie, we then celebrated his birthday on Friday with cake and swimming. Our son Joseph celebrated his 18th birthday on Jan. 3rd, with homemade pizza and cake and friends. We also had to mail in his Selective Service and he needs to register to vote. He has a missionary friend who also turned 18 before Christmas, they enjoyed being able to get together for their big day.
Planning Meeting In December, Between Cornerstone and Anaji Bible Study Prince, Koasi, and myself have scheduled: Individual Ministry Enhancements, like Discipleship Classes at Cornerstone and Bible Classes at the Anaji Bible Study; some Combined Outreaches in targeting villages; and some Combined Activities.
Prayer Requests: Each Ministry along with our Goals and Plans to go forward with Christ being honored; CBBC’s building Permit on their property; ABS’s successful growth.
Bits Of Bread:
“If Satan Can Get You To Believe Wrong, He Can Convince You To Do Wrong” “What You Believe Is Important” - Quotes by Jerry Ross “Now the serpent was more subtilthan any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent saidunto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman sawthat the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she tookof the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.” - Gen 3:1-7. Don’t Swallow Satan’s Bait!!!, Are You Doing Wrong Or About To???, What Has Satan Gotten You To Believe???
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Matthew J Siekbert
“If Satan Can Get You To Believe Wrong, He Can Convince You To Do Wrong” “What You Believe Is Important” - Quotes by Jerry Ross “Now the serpent was more subtilthan any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent saidunto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman sawthat the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she tookof the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.” - Gen 3:1-7. Don’t Swallow Satan’s Bait!!!, Are You Doing Wrong Or About To???, What Has Satan Gotten You To Believe???
Matthew J Siekbert
