Hello all! 

I hope this note finds you all well and growing in grace.

Just wanted to pass along the latest news from Tarkwa!

This past weekend we finished up our second five-week training program. Five made it all the through, Mattias, Samuel, Mathew, Janelle and Dora.  We also had several visitors along the way who we encouraged  to come back for the next one.  We are very encouraged and can see the Lord’s marvelous work in each one!  One brother, Samuel, we preached to in bar just 2 months ago has now been delivered from his drinking and smoking and loves going out preaching with us!  Another one who attended the classes, Ma Dora, who used to be a Pentecostal pastor but was recently born-again thanked us profusely for all the teachings, and said “because if I would not have heard this word I would still be a false prophetess today!”

We also held our first baptism this last Sunday and I was very honored to be the one doing the dunking! Three were going to be baptized, Clement, Samuel and Mattias, and after we were about to finish Ma Dora stepped forward and said the Lord had touched her heart and she too wanted to obey the Lord in baptism!  We were very thankful for all of the wonderful testimonies each one shared.

We have set the date for our next Discipleship training program, August 4th.  Please be in prayer that the Lord would raise up those who he would have attend.

Right now we are on break, so tomorrow Clem and I will be doing some small traveling up to the central region of Ghana, just to get the lay of the land and to visit friends.

Thanks again for all your prayers and support, the Lord is greatly blessing the work here! 

 Please remember all the widows and orphans, and the sick and homeless in your prayers.    

Your fellow disciple, “timoty”

(As they call me in Ghana, the “th” sound is a difficult one for them!)

a picture is worth a thousand words.  or more.  july 2008