Siekbert Newsletter: 2020 November Newsletter

We Have Met Our Goal: Our Goal of $20,000 for Cornerstone's Church Building has been met with a surplus!!! Carpenter's House Baptist Church sent us the check that put us over the goal of $20,000 by $59. Also Bible Baptist in OK added to that fund making us a total of $21,059. Thank you to all the churches for helping us Finalize and Smash that goal!

Cornerstone is now putting on the Trusses of the Church building. Between the Trusses and the Roofing Sheets the estimated cost is about $7,500. We have $2,000 that has been given toward the Roofing several years ago by Fellowship in PA leaving us needing $5,500 to cover the rest of the Roofing costs. That would be $1,100 a piece for only 5 more churches. Please consider what you can do.

We started back working on the church building October 26th. It is now being bricked in along with the Trusses being constructed. On November 4th parts of the trusses for the auditorium have been raised by manpower after raising other parts of that Truss is worked on to finish the construction of that one. There are 6 auditorium Trusses. It is done in that way because the Trusses are made of dense heavy wood that make them to heavy to manually lift. Please remember to pray for the Safety and the Salvation of the workers. There are some videos of the raising. We post on Facebook pictures of the church building progress and on our blog page we put our newsletters with pictures helping you visualize what the Newsletters say at: siekbertnewsletter.blogspot.com

While We Were Gone:

While being gone I had the work at church building stopped which served for several good reasons one of them being Bro Koasi and Bro Benjamin. Pastor Koasi, the secondary pastor to

Pastor Prince from Cornerstone, took my place in our Anaji Bible Study Sunday Services and Wednesday Services along with teaching my New Testament Survey Class. Bro Benjamin, Pastor Prince's brother, took Jackie's Sunday School and Jr Church classes for the kids that come. They both did a good and faithful job. I always tell them even before Pastor Prince took Cornerstone as the Pastor there, that they are more meaningful to their people. We pray for God's Leading, their Listening, and their Faith. Pray for us at the Anaji Bible Study. In our September Newsletter I mentioned the owners of our ABS room does not want to renew with us for a year's lease so we are looking for another room. One of the problems we are facing is that "Ghana Christians" dance, do so called Tongue Speaking, make a lot of noise and raucous over their PA systems so searching for a room no one wants to rent to you because they think Churches/Bible Studies are a noisy mess that they do not want. A man with an available room that I spoke to in September before we left turned us down. I went to him just the other day and asked him why and this is what he said, "When the white man leaves the Ghanaian man will go

back to the noisy mess." We need to find something by the end of November. Principles and

Truths to be heeded: Do not spoil the trust one has in you, it is hard to get it back! What are you displaying as a Christian? Those associated with you or the Christian name reap some of the results of your actions.

Thanks Givings:

It always brings excitement to our house when I walk in and announce we have a box. A

box?!! As we all scramble to the table to open and see the contents. We don't get many packages but we received two last week. We would like to thank Gospel Light for the Salvation bracelets and the many notes sent to us by the kids. We also would like to thank Hilltop Baptist, for the box of candy and snacks. Thank you!

Bits Of Bread:

It was a special event as a father to Perform the Wedding of my son Matthew and my now

daughter-in-law Sarah for one of the many reasons. The wedding brought to remembrance that one day Christ will Return in the Rapture for His Bride, the truly Saved of the Church age and (paraphrased of Clarence Larkin book) doubtless God the Father will perform His Son's wedding.

Two questions: 1. To be Christ's Bride you must be Saved, are you Truly Saved or will you miss the Rapture?; 2. If you are Saved, are you making yourself ready or are you going to suffer loss, not of Salvation, but of Rewards? "Every man's work shall be made manifest" – I Cor 3:13a; "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." – Rev 19:7 c/w I Cor 3:10-15