Dear Prayer partners,
With the trouble that continues to make international news concerning Nigeria, I thought you all needed to hear some of the good things that God has been doing that don’t tend to make the headlines. We as a family are so thankful for our safety as well as that of the many individuals that are part of the Word of Life Nigeria family.
We have enjoyed sharing the Truth Project from Focus on the Family at our local church in Rayfield as the center of our Thursday night Bible Study, showing half an hour of the DVD and then breaking into small groups for discussions. We are also doing a small group at our home on Sunday evenings with plans already in the works to repeat this small home group with more of our neighbors, many of whom are not born again believers. Pray specifically for a Muslim family, the Tajany’s that we had over for dinner on Tuesday, to build a relationship that will provide more opportunities to share Christ.
We are also thankful for the safety that God provides with all the traveling I continue to do. The beginning of the month I was in Minna at the ECWA National Men’s conference, which gave me lots of ideas on how to come along side the National Youth Conf. that will be held next year, for the purpose of seeing “every man complete in Christ”. The clubs staff and myself have held 3 different training sessions for youth workers and Sunday school teachers, 2 in Kaduna and 1 in Jos. I spoke at a Bible college in Kagoro sharing a bit of my testimony, information about world evangelism and closing with a challenge from God’s Word. By far the most fun I had was helping at a 3 day Children’s camp, that had over 700 children and 300 teens. I lead the Bible study hour, helped with games and activities and also showed a film one night about Gladys Aylward, a missionary in China that took 100 orphan children over 100 miles through war-torn China to safety, a real walk of faith.
Thursday is opening night of a school play that Sarah is in, “Little Women”, and we are very excited about her involvement. Ryan has healed up very quickly from his knee surgery which we are thankful for and is doing very well at WOLBI. He turned 19 on the 24th and we were able to send him a cake and pizza through the WOLBI kitchen. Meredith and Sarah only have one month left of school, pray they will finish well. I am headed out on Friday for an evangelism weekend to two villages, Rahai & Tere. On the way out to these bush villages last week to do the survey, I saw so many destroyed houses and encountered a number of road blocks, even encountering a truck full of military men patrolling; so pray specifically for our safety this weekend, that the equipment would work well, that the rains would not hinder us, open hearts to the gospel and that many would come to know Jesus Christ.
Some of the many children at camp good old fashion fun Meal time
Thanks for your prayers and encouragement.
Bob DeVoe and family.
