Monday, November 14, 2011

Niipaak Laar, Nov 2010-Jan 2011, Report from Saboba, Ghana

CHURCH OF CHRIST,

POST OFFICE BOX SB, 28,

SABOBA – GHANA.

31ST JANUARY, 2011.

PRESTONCREST CHURCH OF CHRIST,

DALLAS, U. S. A.

QUARTERLY REPORTS FROM { NOVEMBER, 2010 TO JANUARY, 2011 }.

INTRODUCTION; This reports is coming from brother Niipaak Laar and his team working in Saboba and Bunkpurugu. Because of our usual end of year festivities and the nature of our weather in Ghana at this particular time of the year, we concentrated much on teachings, strengthening, and restoring some of our congregations that were affected by floods and conflicts rather than air preaching and the rest. The following are categories of evangelical efforts made and its fruits yielded.

DAILY ACTIVITIES; whiles my Timothy evangelists lead worship services at their various native communities on Sundays and other programmed days, I do my visiting of the villages on daily basics to strengthen, and hold special sections with the churches. This time I visit the hospital and pray with the patience only in the night because I have to leave early in the morning for villages before the sun gets hot. This time our streams and water ways are dried and movement is easy everywhere. All the congregations have their weekly services days differently to enable me visit them easily because, every community is looking for Niipaak to visit them.

CONGREGATIONSTHAT WERE HAVING SPECIAL PROBLEMS; The following are congregations that were affected by certain misfortunes and had now been restored;

1. GBANKOONI CHURCH; This community was been affected by a clan conflict which led to burning of their houses and other properties of theirs. The people took refuge at Togo, a nearby or neighboring country. It took a very lengthy intervention of some of us talking to the chiefs and other opinion leaders of the area and by God’s grace, now there is peace and calm in the area. The congregation was scattered and on the 14th November, 2010 the congregation was been restored and now they worship every Sunday.

2. TANYEN CHURCH; This is one of our controversial communities in North where every season has its own problems differently. The community was flooded during the rainy season where their church building we did three years ago with local mud got immersed and collapsed. However, in the dry season like this, they don’t have water for any use and right now, we have 5 people there ready for baptism but no water to do it. Though those people are coming to church but they wish they were baptized.

3. SAJEGBAN CHURCH; This church suffered local leadership in the pass and was only worshipping when I am there. But glory to God that now, one of my other Timothy evangelist called, brother Amos is now helping them seriously. I only go there on my visit days but the brother is doing very well with them. As at yesterday when I visited them, they were 36 in attendance.

4. NYUALAKANI CHURCH; This church equally suffered the floods which led to the collapsed of their building, but they have rebuild it again needing assistance to roof. I had already sent pictures of these efforts to Elder Charley this week.

BAPTISMS; The following are some few baptisms we had for you to be praying for;

A. 31st night at Gbetmonpak in Bunkpurugu we had four people baptized and added to the church.

1. Konjit Lambon

2. Fati Kakraba

3. Yennusom Kamboib

4. Santin Adamu

B. 16TH January, 2011 at Nyualakani two baptisms were realized.

1. Wassah Liwal

2. Mawiidal Sanjah

REMINDER; I wish to remind you of my annual upcoming leadership training workshops and seminar for Bunkpurugu churches. The Bunkpurugu area leadership training and the seminar is scheduled to take place in March, 2011 whiles Saboba leadership training will be in April, 2011. I therefore want to seek your financial support towards these programs. Actually, these programs are very rewarding because, through that, I have been able to get more brothers in the congregations going out every Sunday to preach.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; I cannot afford to forget to acknowledge the fact that, Prestoncrest Church of Christ has actually demonstrated to us the true love and care that Christ left for us all to continue. I never thought in my life that, God will give me such open doors for His kingdom’s growth. The way and manner you have supported my ministry within this short period of time I got in partnership with you is a miracle. Even, the motivational telephone calls and lovely emails I gets from Elder Charley almost every day, makes me feel belonging and encouraged to work more for the Lord. For the first time in the history of Timothy evangelists in the northern region to be supported to work for the Lord is something to be noted. My long awaited dreams in my ministry have now begun to be fulfilled to the glory of our Maker. I know how much sacrifice you are making to let us realize these blessings, but I want to say to you with Apostle Paul my mentor in the Bible that, your labor in the Lord is not in vain [ 1 Cor. 15: 58 ]. Many have opportunities to do what you are doing and even more, but will not do and causing the cross of Christ to suffer lost. Let us all brethren endeavor in our means to raise the banner of Christ high to the dark world now that we are alive. I do welcome all your advices, suggestions, and inputs all the time as my working seniors and overseers of the work, thank you.

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