Praise God for answered prayer! We have received a donation from a church in
Michigan for $10,000 for the purchase of 10 much needed motorbikes. Also, a ministry in California donated $2,000
for a plate making machine needed for our Printing press shop.
My return flight is November 15th. I expect to be in Liberia for another 2
years.
In October went on 16 mission trips to 25 villages in 4
counties. We conducted 6 three day workshops
in 3 counties. Four persons completed the Bible making lessons and two persons
were baptized.
Expenditures:
$895 was spent on missions
$390 on motorbike repairs
$253 on humanitarian assistance such as rent, medicine, school
fees and food
$625 on staff support (7 adults)
$379 operation of the base – includes feeding, gas, printing
expenses and general supplies
Please continue to lift us up in prayer. We see that the harvest is truly plentiful
but that the workers are few. Pray that
our Lord will raise up and send an army of workers into this harvest field. Pray that our Lord would send us a multitude
of His chosen to be trained and sent out.
The mission of WSL is to see a healthy church in every
village in this generation so that every Liberian would be able to walk and
find a healthy church.
Below are some of the weapons we use to accomplish our mission
“The
weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they
have divine power to demolish strongholds.
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against
the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to
Christ.” (2 Cor
10:4-5).
The Written Word: We have distributed maybe 25,000 to 50,000
Gideon Bibles. Also, we have purchased
and resold (We buy them in Monrovia and resale at our cost) several hundred NIV
and Good News Bibles. We also acquire and distribute Bibles in the languages of
the people. It is very difficult for people to get Bibles in most of Liberia.
This has been a great service to the Liberian’s.
The Print Shop: We
have printed and distributed, I am sure, over one million pages of teaching
material. We have over 60 lessons
written specifically for the Liberian.
Simple English and concepts usually on no more than one piece of paper
per subject. We have 3 main manuals and
now an evangelistic booklet. The manuals
cover basic doctrines, discipleship and the church. The Liberians have overwhelmingly received
with great joy and appreciation the Bibles and teaching material. When I
arrived in 2008 the only spiritual material I saw was JW Watchtower booklets and
they were everywhere even in the deepest most remote villages. Now things have changed the Bibles and
teaching material we distribute has reached into over 800 towns/villages.
Missions into the Villages: We send out trained teams into the
communities to evangelize, disciple, raise up leaders, train existing leaders
and start churches. Our teams bring to
the people His written word. They also preach
and teach. It has been tremendously
effective, fruitful and appreciated. Likewise,
we do 2-3 day regional trainings.
Spiritual leaders from a region meet in a central location for
training. This has been one of our great
weapons for accomplishing the mission of WSL.
It is an essential ingredient. Many, many communities call us regular
inviting us to return to them for workshops and training.
The Bible Institute: Throughout Liberia spiritual leaders have not
been trained! Their options for training
are limited. The most common method of
training in Liberia is the American educational system which is found mostly in
Monrovia, the capital. This system has
the spiritual leader relocate and attend fulltime a 2-4 year Bible college or
seminary. This method is expensive,
produces unnecessary hardship, and requires students to have completed high
school, thus making it inaccessible to about 95% or more of the Liberians. Our Bible Institute has been specifically
developed to meet the needs of the Liberian.
We have four levels that meet throughout the year. They meet and live on our base the last 2
weeks of each month. The demand for the
school is huge. We have had classes from 25-70 students. We have housing for 30 on our base. In the future, we hope to enlarge our school
to accommodate 100 students. We own 1 ¼
lots we have room to build additional housing and classrooms.
Jesus Film: The
Jesus Film is another powerful weapon used for accomplishing our mission. When our teams go into a village they teach
and preach sections of the scripture.
The Jesus film presents the life of Christ, His crucifixion, burial,
resurrection and accession. It is essential that those we minister too have the
complete picture.
Form and Send Missionary
Teams: The Joshua Project states that 60% of Liberia is unreached and that 5
of the 16 tribes of Liberia are still unreached. Students attend 4 levels of our Bible
institute. After completion of the Bible
Institute if some feel called and it is confirmed with our board then they will
live on our base 3-6 months for one on one daily deeper training and
discipleship. While on our base and in
training they will start 3-5 successful churches. Next, as our Lord leads, they would be sent
into the unreached tribes of Liberia and then on to North Africa. North Africa
is in the “10/40 Window” and is about 98% Islamic.
Ministering to the Illiterate:
Much of the population of Liberia lives in remote villages. In these villages the literacy rate may be
10%-20%. We reach the illiterate through
preaching and teaching. They need to
also be raised up as leaders and disciplers.
Tools that we now have in place are:
·
Teaching spiritual leaders how to teach literacy
to those in their villages
·
Conducting literacy classes on our base and
other locations
·
Teaching and distributing “The Gospel Picture”
bracelets
·
Teaching Romans chapters 1-8 using pictures
·
We have distributed micro-chips that fit in
their phones and music boxes. We give
them, audibly, the Bible in their language, Christian music (Don’s CD), and
preaching in English, and teaching in their dialect.
Distribution of Water Filters: Dirty water is the second largest killer of
Liberians, Malaria comes first. We use
the filters to show the love of Christ to those who are suffering and dying because
of dirty water. United with another
ministry called The Last Well we have been given water filters for every home
in our county. These water filters last
a lifetime and never need chemicals or replacement parts.
Our mission is to see a healthy church in every village of
Liberia in this generation so that every Liberian would be able to walk and
find a healthy church. Each of these
weapons is essential components to assist us to accomplish our mission. I sense our Lord is giving vision for the
enlarging of our territory. We now have
several trained active teams in Ivory Coast and a team in Nigeria and others
who feel called to other countries of Africa.
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