2022 November Newsletter

MY MOTHER: 

On October 31 my Mother, Judy Siekbert unexpectantly went out to meet the Lord. My Dad and Mom were 1st generation Christians. They Received Christ on September 22, 1962 and that Changed/ Transformed their lives serving in church effecting their brothers and sisters, their children, grand-children and great grand-children. My Mother’s Life was and is a living testimony of the Change and Transformation the Lord can make, and the rippling effects of that change. My Mother, Judy Siekbert’s Memorial Service was at First Baptist Church of Milford, Ohio November 7th. It is posted on my Facebook. Love You Mom, We will See you soon!!! Please pray for us and Thank you for it. “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” - III John 1:4

Pray for my dad, Jim

MY NEW MINISTRY: 

A few weeks ago I met with my Pastor, James Siekbert, and my former Pastor, Dr. Charles Keen, about the Lord’s leading in my life. I shared with them the burdens I felt and listened to their advice. After 5 years as an assistant, 23 years in missions and 19 of those years in Ghana, West Africa, we feel God would have us pursue other ministry opportunities. I want to thank each supporter of our ministry over the past 23 years. We feel God would have us continue to serve in His ministry in some way, whether pastoring or assisting in a ministry of some kind in a local church. As we wait for God to show us His perfect will, Jackie and I will be busy assisting a small church in Bucyrus, Ohio whose Pastor, Dan Dornbirer, has cancer and is struggling to stay healthy. Pastor Dan Dornbirer contacted me a few weeks ago and asked me, as he is struggling with his health, if the Lord would lead me into helping out his church stay afloat until he gets better. I do not know what all this means, but the Lord does and I know that they cannot support me. This church is a young church plant. We will still be maintaining our membership at Chippewa Lake Baptist Church. If you would like to continue partnering with our ministry until God reveals His exact plan for us, we would appreciate that very much. Support money should still be sent to Chippewa Lake Baptist Church. Should you decide not to continue our support, we thank you for all those years you invested in us. Should you have further questions please feel free to call myself at 234-802-5342 or my pastor at 330- 769-2790.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS & PRAYER REQUESTS: 

Thank you all for your Faithful Support Financially and Prayerfully!!! We look to Continue with you if the Lord Leads you in that. Starting this New Year we will be in the process of changing our Newsletter’s Letterhead. Be on the look-out! We are the same people, but updated look. Our New Ministry could save on some costs if we could email everyone who gets our newsletter instead of sending out a hard copy of our Newsletters. We could save on ink, envelopes, and stamps. If you get a hard copy and you do not mind getting an emailed copy instead PLEASE SEND ME YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO: SiekbertRomans828@gmail.com . Please Pray for Pastor Dan Dornbirer, his health and biopsy results; for our continued support; for our family, the Siekbert Family as our Mother passed away; The Heitman Family and his church, Bible Baptist Fellowship as Pastor Georg Heitman passed away; The Troell Family, missionaries to Iraq, as their Father was murdered over there.

Pray for Pastor Dan Dornbirer and his wife Kathy

BITS OF BREAD: 

Help The Brethren, and Strengthen The Church – “But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.” - Exd 17:12; “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.” - Rev 3:2

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HAPPY THANKSGIVING & HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Matthew J Siekbert

2022 September Newsletter

WRITTEN & CALLED:                                                                                                                              

We arrived in the USA July 9th, my father had his surgery July 12th, and by July 17th we had our July Newsletter sent out. We did not want to lead anyone on, but to notify all of our supporters that we have come back to the States. We have not quit the ministry or quit on God. Most every church and Pastor that I have spoken with or left messages with have responded in a very supportive way in continuing support throughout the year as we transition. The Bible tells us a few things about getting counsel: 1. No one is Beyond Listening to Good Advice, even a king can find help in counsel. “Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.” – Proverbs 11:14; 2. God’s Leading and Direction is not likely to be found in rashness, but in “Common Denominators”. “Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude counsellors they are established.” – Proverbs 15:22; 3. Advice from those who are of understanding and in positions of consideration is wise and safest before pursuing the same. “Make” means: To Prepare; To Draw up; To Carry out; To Perform. “War” means: conflict; Strategically move to deal with, to sustain “For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.” – Proverbs 24:6

TRAVELING:                                                                                                                                                               

Along with getting a multitude of wise counsel we have been having some meetings reporting to our supporting churches on what the Lord has started and has finished through us in Ghana W. Africa. It could have only happened with God at the helm. He is our Safety, our Helper, our Deliverer, our Guide, our Mighty Fortress, and our Victor. Our Fulfillment is in Him.

TRANSITION WAITING:                                                                                                                            

The “Common Denominators”: Advice from the Bible; Advice from supporting pastors I’ve Written and Called; and Advice from My Own Conscience, NOT an undisciplined desire, is to WAIT ON THE LORD, so we are waiting for the decisive direction. To some our leaving Ghana W Africa may have seemed to have been a quick, and some may even think it was a rash decision, but let me assure you it only seems that way to those who did not know of our leaving because we did not advertise that. Although we did not know the actual date and time of our leaving at the beginning of this year, we did know for a long time that this day would come and I often told the young men that have been trained as pastors in Ghana W Africa that it will come. At least a year before we decided to finalize our leaving we were praying and deliberating about the right time to leave. We want to be where the Lord wants us to be in ministry and position. It may be a pastorate, evangelism, planting a new church, taking a position in a church, or letting God work where we are at. We covet your continued prayers about God’s leading. We will update you in our November Newsletter.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS                                                                                                                     

Praise & Prayer Requests: When we left Ghana we gave Pastor Prince and Bro Koasi copies of the notebooks of materials and subjects that we studied together through the years in discipling, teaching, training at church, in Bible school, and church/pastoral training of them and the church folks at our church plant in Sekondi, Ghana W Africa, Cornerstone Biblical Baptist Church; After we left Pastor Prince demolished his vehicle that he uses for Taxi service. His son had to go to the hospital because of being battered and bruised, but nothing broken or fatal; My father’s surgery on his clogged artery went well; I had some hospital procedures done in August and in September which turned out well; Our son Joseph started his second year of schooling at Bill Rice Ranch Bible Institute. The day the students returned to school at Bill Rice Ranch their Administration building caught on fire and burned. Bill Rice Ranch has a place that one can give towards that lose. The link is https://billriceranch.org

BITS OF BREAD:                                                                                                                                             

“I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints. – Psalms 52:9 Comments on this Verse: “None ever followed his guidance but it ended well.” - by Matthew Henry; “The phrase “wait on thy name” (v. 9) means to hope and depend on the character of God as expressed in His great name.” - by Warren Wiersbie

  Matthew J Siekbert