Subject: In Africa. June 14, 2008.
This last Wednesday I had the pleasure of going to
a meeting of an organization of which I am a member
and listening to a person who had gone 17 times to
Ghana, West Africa. He was part of a group who are
attempting to convert people and they have suceeded in
getting over one and half million people to be members
of the same organization that I work with. That's more
peopel than we have in our organization.
It seems that Ghana is in an area where they have
three or more things that make life tough for them.
1. They have malaria which comes from their stagnant
rivers. We help them dig wells and mechanical pumps
to get fresh water.
2. They have HIV and we give them medicine to help
them get over it.
3. They have a lot of fighting between different
countries over there which displaces a lot of people.
There are a lot of refugee camps over there. They
have many orphans. We help them and set up shools for
them and the rest of the people. They are starving and
we give them rice and other things.
You may say, "Oh that just is counting a lot of
small organizations they don't have any large groups.
One of these organizations has 1,500 members in
attendance.
Afer hearing about this I got to remembering how
things were when I was a kid back in Texas, 70 years
ago. We had one good song leader and he only knew
about 25 songs such as "Standing On The Promises"
and "Amazing Grace". He couldn't read music so it
took us a long time to learn more songs.
The people in Africa, China and Russia want to learn
English so they can have a better chance in suceeding
in businesses such as electronics, computers and other
things. They will listen to you if you read English to
them.
I've now started an effort to read the words to a
song and then sing it to them. They then sing it with
me and who knows, they may turn in to being a better
person. So far I recorded about 100 gospel songs.
It's funny how I've been blessed in doing this. One
person let me use a device that will record from a
CD to a casette. Another person loaned me some free
casettes and then let me use about 20 CDs that
contained gospel songs.
Here is the person's card who went to Africa 17 times.
Harvey J. S-ow
1201 Redbud Lane
Edmond, OK, 73034
M-ssionary
Sojourners Mis-ion 406-341-8133 Office
Ghana, West Africa Mi-sions 405-315-3727 Cell
(Exit 146) off 1-36 then
West on Waterloo Rd.
Waterloo Road C-urch Of C-rist
B-ble Cl***** 9:00 a.m
4404 Waterloo Rd. W-r****p 10:30 a.m. ,6:00 p.m
405-346-6089 Wednesday Eve. Services 7:00 p.m
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John Winston. johfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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