Going Forward With Building:
After 7 years of delay and struggle on church land in Sekondi for Cornerstone Biblical Baptist Church we have started building. We have started with building a 12’ by 24’ building for the Scriptures we have had shipped from BPS Milford, OH in May 2017. This structure is so we can use the container that was full of Scriptures for building supplies during construction of a church building for Cornerstone Biblical Baptist Church. I am excited to see what God will do!!! CBBC is our first Church Plant with two Pastors, Bro Prince and Bro Koasi, that I have been able to Disciple from teenagers and Train up through the Church and Bible School training them as sound Fundamental Bible Believing Adults who have been Ordained, Pastoring and Leading at CBBC in Sekondi. This has not been an easy task, but …“having obtained help of God, I continue unto this day”… Acts 26:22. Many Supporting Churches and Friends of mine have helped with the start of this project 7 years ago and now I am asking you to help me help CBBC to get their building built. I am told we need about $20,000 in addition to what we already have to build with. If only 20 Churches give $1,000 each the goal of $20,000 would be met. Will you Pray and Give to this Project, even if you cannot give $1,000, Little is Much when God is in it??? To build on our Church property we have been told that we have to build a two story building, which we were not planning, but that is what the country’s STMA commission (the people who issue the building permits) said. So we are planning to build a 2 story, 12’ in length by 45’ in width portion on the front of the main sanctuary. Then the sanctuary portion will be a 1 story structure of 50’ in length by 45’ in width. Once built we look to be able to utilize the auditorium in partitioning off on Sundays some of the auditorium for Sunday School Classes and also for at least 240 kids we have had in certain villages during our VBS weeks during the summers. You have all seen the pictures we have posted in our Newsletter Blogs, and Facebook Posts during our VBS weeks. In an estimated population of 144,000, Many people in the Sekondi area and the surrounding villages, have heard the gospel, are hearing, and have come to the Saving Knowledge of Jesus Christ in the last 16 years of our ministries at CBBC in Sekondi. PLEASE CONSIDER THE WORK!
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| Let the work begin! |
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| Lunch after a days hard work moving Scriptures |
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| Putting up site fencing |
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| This is front view to back of property and you can see the little building and the red container to the right of that. |
Public School Devotions/Worship Time & ABS:
As a part of our new Work in Anaji, the Anaji Bible Study, we have started also teaching Bible at the Anaji Primary Public School. My wife has been teaching the 1st-2nd grades, Bro Prince has the 3rd-4th grades, and I am teaching the 5th-6th grades. Towards the end of January one Friday Morning after we finished teaching at the school, as normal, we were walking to where our car was parked and I was passing some teachers at a Pre-school with about 100 to 150 kids sitting under a tree and one of the 9 teachers asked me, “Aren’t you going to greet me?” So, I greeted her. Then she said, “Do you have a message for us today?” So, being somewhat shocked, I said, “Yes, I sure do!” Every week since then after we get done teaching the Public Primary School of Anaji on the way to my car I go and teach the 9 teachers and their 150 Pre-Schoolers. It is pretty cool sitting during the week early in the mornings at our Anaji Bible Study location preparing for the week when a student from the Anaji Public Schools says, “Hi, Pastor Matthew” or a Pre-Schooler, who’s Dad or Mom is taking them to school, shouts across the way to me, “Hi, Pastor Matthew” with their parents trying to figure out how their kids know that White Guy, me. At the Anaji Primary Public School one of the teachers in my class told me towards the end of February, “the kids are listing very intently to the Seed you are sowing.” The next week in that same class I teach a girl named Barbra, who responds and answers to me all the time came to me after my Bible Lesson and asked me if she could get Saved! So I got to lead her to Christ, Praise the Lord for His Goodness! On Thursday I Teach an Evening Bible Class at our ABS and Fred the owner where we rent comes off and on. A few weeks ago one Thursday night Fred made a profession of Faith! Joseph, a man who speaks French from Guinea W. Africa was passing by our ABS one Sunday and came in, then came back on Tuesday morning that week to the ABS as I was preparing for the week. So, I called Bro Koasi up, our secondary pastor at CBBC in Sekondi who is from Togo and speaks French. Bro Koasi got to lead him to the Lord just last week and send him on his way. PRAY AS GOD IS AT WORK IN HIS WAY!!!
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| Fred who got saved |
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| Koasi (L) led Joseph (R) to the Lord. |
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| Pre-School Class |
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| Pre-School |
Bits Of Bread:
In many and most cases whether Good or Bad, Right or Wrong, WE REAP IN A DIFFERENT SEASON THAN WHEN WE SOW!!! “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” - Galatians 6:9
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