Dear Beloved Friends and Family, Now that we have completed this one day of planning with our team in Tanzania, it’s time to head home. It was a full day of reviewing our goals, priorities, strategies, seminars, and lectures that they have now been “sent” to conduct. We started around 10 and finished at 3. […]
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PRENOTE: I am in Tanzania with a very weak wifi signal. I am not sure if I will be able to get this out until Tuesday. But I am going to try.) ========= ============= ================ Hi Everyone, I am settled in Tanzania. One more day, one more meeting, and I’ll be on my way home.
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Hi Everyone, The seminar is complete. It was a good experience for the team. I shared that with you a couple of days ago when I posted a report entitled “Father Knows Best.” While the seminar did not turn out as planned, God was in control as I mentioned in my report a couple of
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Dear ITEM Partner, In Genesis 11:7, 9 we read, “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech…. Therefore its name was Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth. . .” The creation of languages was actually a judgment of
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Dear Praying Friends, Wednesday is in the books. Two more days. As I mentioned yesterday, the numbers are pretty low. But I also mentioned yesterday that all we need to come out of this is one or two pastors who will step up and want more training in the area of preaching, which is one
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Dear Friends and Family, Day one of the seminar is finished. Three to go. The lectures were routine but I added to one lecture because of what I learned from Faly about “authority” in this culture. And one line of questioning at the end of the day was not. The four lectures today focused on
WHO’S IN AUTHORITY HERE? Read More »
Dear ITEM Partner, After a promising and encouraging three days in South Africa, interacting with leadership of The Master’s Academy International (out of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA), it has been a mostly relaxed transition to Madagascar where I arrived Sunday, midafternoon. With a lot of free time both Sunday and today Monday,
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Dear ITEM Partner, I am in the lounge in the South African airport. I only have a few minutes but this will be my only chance for any kind of a report today. I met with Dr. David Beakley this morning and wanted to talk to him about doing a seminar in his area so
DIDN’T SEE IT COMING! Read More »
Dear ITEM Prayer Partner, “Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” (Eph 3:20-21) This is a familiar
Dear Friends and Family, The first day of the TMAI/GMI African Summit is over and on a personal level, I must say I have felt welcome, respected, and valued. Sounds silly but not being from the church (Grace Community Church) or trained at the church’s seminary (The Master’s Seminary), I wasn’t sure what to expect.
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