December 2016 End of MonthReport
In December the Gospel of our Lord was presented to
1,000’s. We went on 31 missions in 6
counties impacting 68 villages and towns and doing 7 three day
conferences. Our projector was used 14
times showing the Jesus film and other Christian training films to over 2,000. We baptized 46 people. Many made confessions of faith asking our
Lord for salvation and forgiveness. We
printed 80,000 pages of Bible training material.
Christmas – Dresses for the girls, glasses for the boys,
rice and candy for all. A grand day of
celebration! We ended with the Jesus
Film for the community.
We are constructing a new much needed press shop. We hope to have it finished in 3-4
months. We have a good start. Foundation will be complete this week.
A Testimony from a Recent Church
Plant Pastor:
Alex Tolah is from Vleyee Town. Here is his
testimony. “I first met WSL in 2013. They encouraged us to start a
church and have faith in Christ Jesus. We never had a church in our town
of 45 houses (that is about 350-400 people). They kept coming and teaching.
Those who were coming to us were Victor, Messiah, Osazee and Isaac, they would
come plenty. They helped me to start a church. They helped cut the
sticks, built the building and daubed it. Today we have about 45 adults
who attend. Most of our teaching in church and Sunday school comes from
the teachings of WSL. Many of us have completed the Bible marking and
have certificates. With WSL we have baptized 14 and serve communion in
our church as we were taught by WSL.”
A Letter I Received:
“Dear Kim Smith,
This is to inform you that we the people of Balabo Upper
Konobo District we are kindly asking the board to please help us to see reason
to send leaders to give us some word of encouragement which is the Bible
because our people are living in the dark world and some of us we cannot read
and write. We have the vision but we
need someone to empower us and we also hear much about your motto Matt 28:18-20
please come to our cry we are expecting Bro Ben and Peter to come on 22 of
December 2016. May the Lord bless you.” It was signed by the town chief.
from Mission:
Unedited – “The workshop went great we had 65 adults and 26
children the first night… Three persons were baptized on the last day. We showed the Jesus film 2 nights in Kilo
Town and one night in Greenville. The
participants requested another workshop.”
least 11 persons was present. After the
teaching Messiah elaborated on the coming of WSL, the Bible school the various
levels. The next day was spent in
Glorkpadee town. Messiah taught on “Time”
as least 6 persons were present in the house church. After the church, one Charles Flomo was so
encouraged with the teaching that he appealed to WSL that he want to be pastor
and the entire town requesting for church so we also teach and explain about
WSL Bible college from level 1 to level 4.
At length we pray with them and took off for Zwedru”… (this is another
report from that region) “The three days were spent in Glorkpadees town. Messiah taught on “Repentance” the first
day. The second day Messiah taught on “Salvation”,
in the morning. In the evening Melvin
taught on “Starting a Church” which was the last day both Melvin and Messiah
teach on “Baptism”, many promise to be baptized by our returning. On the contrary one Charles Flomo praying and
requesting to be pastor of Glorkpadee town.
There are four towns in the region that has no church so Charles is asking
WSL to come for the various levels and gets well understanding of the Bible.”
William Koon village that contains about 7 houses and huts on two lessons “Repentance”
and “Reasons not to Sin”…. In the next town (I was led by God to do teaching
outside a club where they play checkers and Ludu) There was a huge attendance
there seeing this as the first of its kind for Gospel teaching to be done in
such a place. Many of them were not
Christians and don’t attend church and some were Devil followers. Recorded attendance was 49 persons.”
after teaching the Gospel Picture I am not able to name them… I also visited
Ganta Main Street where I taught about Jesus Christ… and even in the
entertainment centers… At the end of the
program 5 persons received Christ and accepted Him as their savior and they
were baptized on the 25th of December.”
Missions
·
$871
Missions – includes feeding, compensation, rice for conferences
·
$475
Bikes – includes gas, parts and labor
Printing Press Shop – $1,200 –- Purchased enough paper to
print 200,000 pages, toner, generator fuel, and labor
Humanitarian – $878 – Assisted many for
Christmas, assisted with food, rent, clothing and medical care
Base expenses
·
$137
cook labor – we cook for 10-20 every day during construction and up to 80 when
our Bible Institute is in session.
·
$186
security labor – our doors and windows are secure, so thieves cut through our metal
roof to enter. This now requires us to
have security at night.
·
$230
compensation for 2 staff members
·
$95
base supplies and maintenance
·
$400
house food
Press shop construction – $2,010 – Includes purchasing tools
and material, tree and stump removal, footer completed, making of cement block
completed and hundreds of dirt block made.
It also includes the cost of their feeding.
$6482 – Total
Pray requests: We praise God for a great past year and
believe the next will be greater. Pray
for our Bible Institute that opens this month, each class lasts 2 weeks. Praise God for answered prayer, we are
sending 2 to Monrovia this month to learn how to pull teeth. In our region of maybe 1-2 million there is
no dentist. They will return with the
chair, equipment and knowledge on how to pull teeth. Pray that all will go well and that they can
travel as dentists and ministers from village to village. Praise God we will be receiving enough water
filters for every home in every small remote village of our county. Pray that as we share the Gospel, we will be
able to put these water filters in every home.
Dirty drinking water is the second greatest killer in Liberia.
