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FINAL
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LIBERIA
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Thank you for your prayers. I have completely recovered from my illness. It was great to be home for Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for and are grateful for all of you who stand with us. We continue to pray for the launch in Liberia and the powerful evangelism that is continuing even now that we are now back in the USA. Updates are available at www.tcliberia.org.
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Liberia Teen Challenge workers address human need on the street where the addicts congregate. We saw demon and activity and deliverance in most of the meetings. The boy to left had been given to the devil by his grandmother until this powerful encounter with Jesus. Locals shared with Charles that I was the first "white man" to ever minister there after dark. |
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MIRACLES IN HELL
Meetings with Col. James B Jaddah, Executive Director of the DEA and Department of Health and Social Services proved to be strategic as God opened the doors of the main prison in Monrovia. In Central Prison, we saw the power of God in operation as Apostle Syd Weah and Bro. Charles Obieze accompanied me. The overcrowding was inconceivable with up to a dozen men crammed into 8 by 10 cells. The heat was oppressive, over 100 degrees, and the acrid stench of human excrement stung our nose and eyes. |
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Hands and arms reached through bars. Men shouted, "Help me, I am innocent. Contact the UN."
Initially, the guards did not allow us to minister, but when I got too close to one of the cells, a prisoner grabbed my arm and refused to let go. He pulled me to the bars and pleaded, "Please, pastor, please pray for me."
"May I ..." I asked the Commandant," May I, please?"
He didn't say a word, but his eyes communicated a silent,"Yes." As Charles, Syd, and I began to pray, the power of God broke through the ungodly din and a heavenly quiet filled the cell block. Through the silence you could hear men begin to weep. We went from cell to cell praying for these men. |
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The commandant no longer seemed concerned about what we might report to the UN or Red Cross. Through sweltering heat and stench, for the next 60 minutes, he personally led the three of us from cell block to cell block, each grimy corridor lined with cells of 60 to 100 prisoners as I was allowed to minister the Word, rap, and pray for hundreds of prisoners.
Finally, he looked at us and asked, "Can you visit one more cell block? This is the most dangerous cell block. 'These' is all doing life, 'it is all murderers.' "
When we entered that final scorching block, I am not sure what I expected, but what a saw took my breath away. Through the dusty, dimly lit haze I could see that the block was not filled with hardened brutal men as I had expected. Many of them looked to be little more than boys. These were young men who had been drawn into a civil war where death with machetes had become a way of life. Through the simmering air and stench, looking into empty, hopeless eyes, I could only minister to them the word of a Savior who had been crucified between two thieves. I shared, they might no longer have a choice about their earthly sentence, but they had a choice about their eternity. I do not know what the life expectancy in that block will be for some of them, but I am certain of this, with the overcrowding, prisoner violence, no fresh air, no exercise program and minimum food rations, Teen Challenge must get Bibles and hope to them quickly. What violence and diseas
e will not do to them, the loss of hope and despair will surely accomplish without someone to minister God's love.
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I am confident we can work with the people who are over this system. In dialogue with the DEA, Fatima Sharif, Assistant Minister of Justice, and Colonel Pewaey, at the prison, Apostle Syd and Gibson Saybioh will have a strategic opportunity to use the Teen Challenge ministry to open doors for training and discipleship to the 900 men incarcerated at Central Prison. |
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PARTNER
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1) Pray for the Global Teen Challenge Staff as we are meeting in Seale Alabama all week preparing Worldwide Strategyfor 2010 and plans for the Global Board meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina in January.
Please pray for James Lowans as he prepares for a mission In January returning to Thailand and Vietnam for follow up meetings on plans to open TC. He also will be meeting with officials from Laos.
2) Pray for Howard Foltz - founder of Europe Teen Challenge who is in the hospital for surgery in Colorado. Pray for successful surgery and timely recovery.
3) Pray for the Dennis Griffith family. While Dennis is at home, in heaven, the pain felt by his wife, lovely daughters and family, as well as Teen Challenge Southern California and Teen Challenge friends around the word is real. 
4) Pray for a sovereign move of God among the men incarcerated in Central Prison, the guards, and leadership.
5) Please pray for Pretti, wife of Rhavy Nursimulu, Chairman of the board of Mauritius, who has been ill and is in the hospital.
6) Please pray for Siberia Teen Challenge who are in a major battle to get heat for their Church and Center. They are demanding a $30,000 payment. They have continued to pray. They wrote to the Siberian Governor and to President Medvedev. Interestingly, the President's administration wrote a letter to the governor's office, asking them to check into this situation. They just received a call from the heating company asking them to come in for a meeting -- the church and Teen Challenge continue to meet in spite of temperatures of 30 below zero.
7) Pray for workers for the Harvest ...Teen Challenge Centers in 86 countries need staff and we currently have invitations to start Teen Challenge in 43 nations. They are crying out for help. They need the power of God to meet a pressing social need... but we know it has a SPIRITUAL ROOT.
We offer SPIRITUAL RESOURCES to meet the need.
MATTHEW 9: 37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 38 Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”
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INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULE
Dec 6-11, 2009
Columbus, GA
Global Teen Challenge STAFF Meeting
Jan 14-20, 2010
Asuncion, Paraguay
PRISON MINISTRY w/Rodney Hart
JANUARY 20-24, 2010
Buenos Aires, Argentina
GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE BOARD MEETING
January 25-28
THIRD LAUSANNE CONFERENCE
ON WORLD EVANGELISM: US Meeting
Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Dallas
PRAY FOR GOD'S WISDOM AS WE CRAFT
THE 2010 SCHEDULE WITH GTC LEADERSHIP.
WE HAVE INVITATIONS FROM MAURITIUS, TANZANIA, PARAGUAY, INDIA, KAZAKHSTAN,
SANTIAGO, D. R. & AND CAPETOWN FOR THE LAUSANNE COUNCIL ON GLOBAL EVANGELISM.
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STATESIDE SCHEDULE
Current services. How about YOU?
DEC 27
Calvary Assembly of God
Frederick, MD
10:00 AM
FEB 11-15
Calvary Church
Naperville, IL
As we prepare for an exciting year of
ministry in 2010, we would love to come to minister to your church. Please give Cathy a call at 757 728-0347 to arrange an exciting time of worship ministry, music and the word. Be a part, hear the miracles and send us as your missionaries to the world
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