This is my first post of my blog about our trip to Africa. We had a great day Friday with the president of the country who was as excited about being there as we were to have him. He was moved by our love and good words toward him and the warm reception of the great crowd.
We kicked off a stadium-like meeting in the field across from the church (the future home a 10,000 student university and a 200 bed hospital) with an evangelism and deliverance services last night and all day today. I preach again at a service Sunday Morning with the ordination of pastor and ministerial staff, sharing the time with Ralph Neighbour, Jr.
Friede is fine and ministered briefly in the deliverance tent tonight and taking thousands of pictures. We love the people of this country.
The launch of a massive expansion program yesterday to build hospitals and schools throughout the country and other nations while expanding the ministry locally will be the largest single project ever in history for a single church.
This will prove a strategic week with Ralph & I recognized as fathers of this most remarkable work with upwards of 200,000 members throughout the world and thousands of house churches.
6,000 ministers (mostly lay people) care for every imaginable need and witness opportunity. To watch the church in action is a most breathtaking experience.
We close with the massive ordination service in the morning and move three hours up country to the city of Yamousoukro for staff training centering on the Kingdom of God. We will leave the country Friday evening and be home late Saturday.
Tonight we were informed of the breakdown of one of the country's crucial power grids and may not have electricity where we are going but are assured that God knows what it is all about and will make a problem a blessing!
Pray about this and thanks for all the prayers thus far! You all are wonderful. Stay tuned for more postings of this fabulous trip...
Blessings!
Jack, Friede and Son Tim (Your missionaries on assigment in West Africa!)
Check Tim's blog on the trip at www.sonslink.com
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2 comments:
Congratulations on the new blog and web page--looks great! I sense a new wind blowing that is going to restore some of the windmills and give us some fresh water on the dry deserts of Texas and elsewhere! Blessings to you, Tim and the entire gang
excited about your new adventures. thank you for keeping in the race...never giving up...not settling for less than the kingdom of God to come among us.
Bill Blane
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