Yesterday, in our Bible College (preaching class), I gave our young preachers the chance to give 3 min. messages. I told them if they can’t preach in 3 min. then they probably can’t preach in 30 min. To my surprise, they all did really well. Some of them are really advancing and I am greatly pleased. God is doing a wonderful work here in Burkina Faso.
I have been out of town for over a week. We (my whole family) traveled to Ghana for a conference. We had a wonderful trip. I preached for Missionary Stephen Volonte. He has done a great job. We had about 250 adults present. I am not sure how many kids they had. We had 6 or 7 decisions for Christ. It was a great day. Then I preached in another church Sunday night. Again God blessed. We had a wonderful conference where I was used by God and where I was also blessed by the preaching.
I know that God could do His work without me, but I sure am glad that He is doing His work through me. What a wonderful God we serve. The very God of heaven, wants to use my life and also your life. I am greatly privileged.
Pastor Austin Gardner has been with us since Saturday morning. He has preached Sat. night through tonight(Monday). He has been a great blessing to our church. He taught four hours this morning and tomorrow he will teach 2 more. He has greatly challenged me. It is a blessing to have a wonderful brother in Christ that will come and help the ministry to grow. He is a wonderful man of God.
Sunday morning, we had 6 profession of faith at Water of Life Baptist Church. Salif is the first missionary directly sent out of Water of Life Baptist Church. He is going each week faithfully to Roungou. He told us Sunday night that an elderly woman got saved. I couldn’t help but to praise God because of this. There is the possibility that she wouldn’t have gotten saved if our church didn’t send Salif to go and preach the Word of God. Amen!
I had the opportunity to preach and another church this morning. It is a church that we are helping due to some problems. We will probably send somebody over there in a few weeks to help them. God gave us great liberty as I preached the Word of God.
I got some wonderful news about the service at Water of Life Baptist Church. A young man named Mamadou preached. He is growing and is a wonderful young man. He is being used and will do great things for God. Four people accepted Jesus this morning. Last night, another young man preached and did an amazing job. I am thinking about the possibilty of staring a new work and letting Konate and another young man start that. The ministry is growing by leaps and bounds and I know that it is God that is doing it. Please continue to pray for us.