CORNERSTONE’S BUILDING:
Cornerstone is in the process of hanging all the doors, all of the windows and the screens. All cement work on the building is done, Praise the Lord! They still need to paint everything, stain the doors, put up the banisters for the staircase, and putting up lights. We are planning on Dedicating Cornerstone’s new church building about May 2022 that might change.
“WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU?!”:
This was a question from one of our faithful churches and I’m sure a question for many others looking to be able to send birthday cards and Christmas cards. We are in Ghana!!! Our address on the field is: Matthew Siekbert PO Box MC 2325, Takoradi, Ghana West Africa. Our Interlude (an intervening period of time: a pause between the acts of a play)in the Stateswas not our usual plan of attack, but this is the stage of life we are in with our family. In April we came home to the U.S. for our son Joseph’s graduation and so he could get a job to finance college at Bill Rice Bible Institute; We renewed our son Nehemiah’s Passport and Visa to travel to Ghana which took from July to October 12th. Under President Biden and COVID as the excuse for everything. We were told that it would take 18 weeks to get the passport done and ONLY 12 weeks to EXPEDITE the passport processes which would have taken us up to November or January. Then our daughter Naomi got married at the end of September. After receiving the passport and visa on October the 12th we flew out on October 19th to Ghana. Our last meetings were in Ohio and Kentucky at: Old Paths, Faith Baptist, Bible Baptist, and Lighthouse. Thank you for your Love Offerings. They were very much needed. October was a very expensive month! Thanks for keeping up with us and our interlude! Thanks To All Our Supporters in prayer and finances. We are grateful for your faithfulness.
Redeeming The Time: We have resumed at our Bible Studies in Anaji with Koasi continuing them. We as a family (Jackie, Nehemiah, and myself) have resumed with teaching three individual classes at the Deaf School in Sekondi. Some of the students in my class received Christ at the end of class with them, Amen!; and also, I have resumed with teaching evening Bible Class in our Anaji Bible Study on the “Life Of Christ”. The class is two times a week to make up for our late start. We will finish by Christmas. Please pray for us as we have been involved with a lot of paperwork with our Quota for Ghana that it gets finished by the Ghana government so we can get our yearly non-resident permit stamp to stay in the country of Ghana which is due by December 20th. Please be in prayer for my friend Pastor Dan Dornbirer along with his family. He has stage 3 cancer and is in the midst of chemo. We thank the Lord for those that prayed for my wife’s Dad and his open heart surgery. He made it through!
BITS OF BREAD:Knowing With Understanding!!! “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” – Eph 5:14-17
1. There is no Understanding to the dead – v14; Eph 2:1
2. There is no Understanding to those in a fleshy walk – v15; Eph 2:2
3. There is no Understanding when you are not wearing God’s watch (not fit-bit or apple, who is your Master) – v16
4. There is no Understanding to those not knowing God’s Will - not merely knowing as a matter of fact, but knowing with understanding. – v17; Lk 12:17, “And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.”
HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Matthew J Siekbert~~~
