Wednesday night
This was a great day of work, accomplishments, and seeing how God is working in this country.
At the center, we completed all the door trim and almost all the window trim work. Vernie precut the parts of the 8 foot tables that will occupy the training room and Ray and I started building these. Unfortunately, we do not have what we need to finish the plumbing work and we should finish 12 tables. As of now, we have 2 done. I don’t know how we will do that. But God is sovereign.
We were invited to have lunch with a Grace Brethren pastor named Dr. Augustin E’bailay (not sure how its spelled). God is using him in a very great way. He has started a ministry called (in English) the Center for Ethical Leadership Training. His vision is to provide Biblical ethics training to the leaders in the government, many of whom call themselves Christians. But the country is very corrupt. Three members of his board joined us the lunch, including the president of the board. Every member is a very prominent member of business or government and also members of Grace Brethren churches. He explained his vision to us and how exciting it is to see God working here in this country. We have seen how God is moving in other parts of the world and I was starting to wonder if there was any move of God looking to the future here in the CAR. But this is truly a vision God has put on Augustin’s heart. I feel that it could be the start of something big God is going to do here. But the enemy is noticing. Augustin told us about some nightmares he has experienced that appear to be spiritual warfare. I pray that everyone who reads this will pray for Augustin and the ministry.
After dinner, Bob and I went down to the nearest cyber café and their internet connection is down. It is supposed to be working tomorrow.
After we returned, Bob gave each of the opportunity to call our homes again. It is so wonderful to be able to call home from so far away. It was 6:30pm here but 10:30am in Phoenix so I caught Sue before she left the house for errands, or whatever.
We had our Bible study next and continued with Philippians. Everybody is very tired tonight and Bob will be traveling tomorrow to a remote Fulani village to take some video footage for Jars of Clay’s Blood Water ministry. This village has one of the wells that the Blood Water ministry financed and ICDI is hoping to get financing for more wells.
At the center, we completed all the door trim and almost all the window trim work. Vernie precut the parts of the 8 foot tables that will occupy the training room and Ray and I started building these. Unfortunately, we do not have what we need to finish the plumbing work and we should finish 12 tables. As of now, we have 2 done. I don’t know how we will do that. But God is sovereign.
We were invited to have lunch with a Grace Brethren pastor named Dr. Augustin E’bailay (not sure how its spelled). God is using him in a very great way. He has started a ministry called (in English) the Center for Ethical Leadership Training. His vision is to provide Biblical ethics training to the leaders in the government, many of whom call themselves Christians. But the country is very corrupt. Three members of his board joined us the lunch, including the president of the board. Every member is a very prominent member of business or government and also members of Grace Brethren churches. He explained his vision to us and how exciting it is to see God working here in this country. We have seen how God is moving in other parts of the world and I was starting to wonder if there was any move of God looking to the future here in the CAR. But this is truly a vision God has put on Augustin’s heart. I feel that it could be the start of something big God is going to do here. But the enemy is noticing. Augustin told us about some nightmares he has experienced that appear to be spiritual warfare. I pray that everyone who reads this will pray for Augustin and the ministry.
After dinner, Bob and I went down to the nearest cyber café and their internet connection is down. It is supposed to be working tomorrow.
After we returned, Bob gave each of the opportunity to call our homes again. It is so wonderful to be able to call home from so far away. It was 6:30pm here but 10:30am in Phoenix so I caught Sue before she left the house for errands, or whatever.
We had our Bible study next and continued with Philippians. Everybody is very tired tonight and Bob will be traveling tomorrow to a remote Fulani village to take some video footage for Jars of Clay’s Blood Water ministry. This village has one of the wells that the Blood Water ministry financed and ICDI is hoping to get financing for more wells.
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