CORNERSTONE’S BUILDING:
As we would say in Ghana W. Africa, Cornerstone’s church building is coming together ‘Nkakraa kakraa’ meaning ‘little-by-little’!!!While we are back here in the States Cornerstone Biblical Baptist Church has completed plastering the inside of the auditorium walls with cement which completes the whole building being plastered with cement. Next, they have completed putting on the ceiling tiles in the auditorium which also completes all the ceilings inside and eves outside of the whole building. With that being said this week they have been constructing permanent outside steps which lead to each entry way into the building. Friday and Saturday they are to lay on the auditorium floor conduit and run wiring through them for the lower wall sockets; then starting on Monday covering the conduit and wiring with pouring the final auditorium floor in sections throughout the week. This endeavor has depleted their building funds. If you would like to help them more financially, I’m sure they would be glad for the help. There is always more to do, but God is faithful! They still need to paint everything, stain the ceilings, and put up and stain the doors, (there are 4 – 60” W x 8’ L entry way narrow double doors; 2 – 36” office/auditorium doors; 2 – 5’W x 4’L Auditorium/Storage Room Doors; 1 – 2 ½’ W x 3 ½’ L Office/Storage Room Door; then the banisters for the office staircase; and 33 windows and 33 screens. Cornerstone has all the doors besides the storage doors and they have all of the windows besides the screens. They only need to pay to get the doors and the glass louvers for each window cut down to fit and then installed. With a very rough estimate, I would say $60 per opening for only the installment. That is 42 openings: 9 doorways and 33 windows which is about $2,520.
UPDATES IN THE STATES:
The later part of July and the first part of Augustin between our travels and meetings we have helped out at our church, Chippewa Lake Baptist Church with their Camp Chippewa Week. Visiting, preparing the grounds, and cleaning up the buildings. It is like VBS in that it had for the kids a Message time, Games, and Crafts, but multiple times with food, water slides, and different other activities all day from 9 am to 4 pm every day for a week. There were about 140 plus registered and about 40 of them made professionsof faith during the week. We took Joseph to school at the Bill Rice Ranch Bible Institute at the end of August. We got to eat lunch with him before we said our goodbyes. We have heard from him and he is doing well. If you would like to have his address it is as follows: Joseph Siekbert, 627 Bill Rice Ranch Road, Murfreesboro TN 37128. When sending make sure that it is noted for Joseph Siekbert. This address is the main address for all other mail also. Nehemiah has finished his first 9 weeks of school. We also have had to get a new Passport for Nehemiah and when we went to start the process they said that it will take 18 weeks. I asked to get the passport expedited and they said that it will take 12 weeks. The government agency received it July 30th. With the timeline that I was given we should receive Nehemiah’s new passport by the end of October then we need to get a visa put in it. Please pray for Naomi, our daughter as she will marry her fiancé at the end of September and start a new journey. Matthew Jr and Sarah will be celebrating their one-year anniversary September 26th. We had meetings in Pennsylvania and Ohio. We have more meetings in Ohio and in Kentucky. The meeting in Kentucky will be a new church for us to be at.
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BITS OF BREAD:
With God’s Leading comes the Devil’s Tempting! “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.” – Matthew 4:1To Be the Christian the Lord would have you to be has its difficult times!!! The Devil Tempts You:1.In Your Weakness, your want 4:2, “he was afterward an hungered”; 2.In Your Position or with your position 4:3, “If thou be the Son of God”; 3.In Your Ability, your capability 4:3, 6, “Command”, “Cast”, “Charge”;4.In Your Priorities, always look to the Higher Authority/ Principle 4:10, “For it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” Are You Giving Into Your Flesh?; Are You Rightfully Using Your Position?; What Command or Charges Are You Giving That Lead To The Wrong Outcome? What Does The Bible Say About What You Are Tempted or Attempting To Do???
Matthew J Siekbert
