Leona just reminded me that I should put a quick note on our blog so that those of you who access our blog can also link to Daniele & Andrew Vuksic and their Gospel on the Go Ministries. When we were there in the summer of 2008 we helped them move into their new home and had a wonderful time with them knowing how God was going to grow their new congregation. We feel close to their ministry and want you to share in our joy, too. So, check it out.

Through God's grace 250 books of Using Everyday English have been printed. Michael Tetteh in Ghana was able to print these for distribution (for sale) to the people who attended the English Language Ministry Training Institute in Abokobi, Ghana.

Give glory to God for this first incredible step to the advancement of His Kingdom through English classes with Bible stories.

I'm excited about this...and I hope you are, too.

Today was a wonderful day for worship and hearing God's Word preached well. Afterward, Gregory Bangura, LEI's West Africa director and president of Rabboni Ministries (West Africa) and I had lunch with pastors Brad & Rene Roth from our church. Our discussion was about the future possibility of drilling fresh water wells in Sierra Leone and Liberia in the near future. We would covet your prayers for this needy and urgent evangelistic outreach. Fresh water, let me remind you, is a wonderful opening for a whole community. To invite them for water and renewed health, it also becomes a way of inviting them to learn how to read their mother tongue. In our LEI primers, there are stories from the Bible, so literacy then becomes the avenue to share the Good News of Jesus our Lord and Savior. Then, in addition, many who are educated desperately ask for English and that's where I come in!

We want to train teachers and trainers to train teachers throughout all of West and East Africa. Today was just the beginning of this grand, divine adventure.

Gregory Bangura working away on his computer in our diningroom.