FW: Nigeria update

Dear Prayer Partners,

As we are headed out today for a weekend of evangelism, I wanted to ask for you to pray for safety, that the equipment and vehicle would not disappoint us and most of all that the Lord would use this weekend to bring many to Himself.

 

Our first outing last weekend was in Southern Plateau State in the village of Karbang and we were able to minister to 366 individuals with 19 of them trusting Christ and another 12 receiving assurance of their salvation. Please pray for this community as they have a problem with alcohol and marital faithfulness. The picture is of last week’s team headed out.

 

I had also asked for prayer about a project to distribute and challenge thousands with the Gospel of John before the year ending. There have been many difficulties we have faced with this project, however the biggest right now stems from new banking regulations which makes conversion and access to funds a much more trying task than it has ever been.  

 

Please also pray for Meredith’s mom who is experiencing poor health.

Thanks for your faithfulness

Bob & Meredith DeVoe

    

 

 

Devoe Prayer Letter

Greetings my Brothers & Sisters in Christ,

 

I know from my sister in NY that some of you have already had snow, which is hard for me to even think about with 80 degree weather here. Meredith is staying very busy with teaching and working on her Masters. While I will try to fill you in a little with the attached prayer letter, I am headed to Kogi State tomorrow to speak at a conference for national missionaries from that area. I love spending time with the national missionaries, they are some of the most hard working humble servants of God that you could ever hope to meet. When I meet The zonal coordinator who invited me to Kogi, he was managing a small church and 2 additional church plants in Plateau, one of which he had to cross a river on foot to reach. So his entire day on Sunday was spent preaching and moving from one  church to the next. Although it will be a full day of travel tomorrow it will all be by car and crossing rivers on bridges, we hope and pray.

 

Thanks for your prayers and support

Bob & Meredith DeVoe   

Grant Letter

Hey Meredith,

Attached is the grant letter that came to WOL, look at  the address it has Susan’s old street address on WOL PO Box???

Back in Nigeria

Greetings Brothers & Sisters,

 

Our trip to Nigeria was long and tiring with no troubles and all of our luggage arrived with us. We reached our home at about 1pm on Thurs. (8am your time) and have already readjusted to time difference. We spent the day Friday exchanging money, buying groceries and trying to get everything around the house back in line with us being home. Today we tried to finish up getting things squared away including getting the internet going so we could send out a prayer update.

 

Friday also included a brief meeting with the planning committee for the 3^rd annual youth/children camp in our area. We will spend several hours on Monday finalizing the details for the camp. Camp counselor training will hold on the 6-8^th and camp will take place from the 10^th through the 15^th.   We will also need to spend several hours this next week with bringing staff, interns & volunteers up to date with the exciting changes with the Word of Life Club materials. This month also includes hundreds of man hours with all able and available hands involved with contextualization of the Bible Club lessons. Before the end of this month we will need to pray and tentatively   lay out our plans for the coming dry season months of evangelism.

 

Meredith returns to Hillcrest School on Monday to prepare for the first day of school on Thursday. Please pray that God will supply the one elementary teacher they are still needing; the principal and special needs teacher will be filling in and it will mean a lot of extra work for everyone. Still Meredith remains excited about the coming school year and praying for her students!      

 

God Bless you and encourage you as you do us.

Bob & Meredith DeVoe