| A colleague, Andrew Strom, has just sent me a | | | | one -equating to the Third World. |
| piece on his visit to Nigeria and permission is | | | | A lot of us think it is the "spiritual" thing to do, to |
| granted to reproduce part of it. Why do I do this | | | | wait and wait and wait right where we are, but as |
| and why do I want you to read it? Well, it so | | | | David Servant points out, Jesus clearly told his |
| reminded me of my times in Uganda and Kenya, | | | | disciples that if they were not received in one |
| speaking at Pastors Seminars in the slums and out | | | | town, to leave that place and go on until they find |
| in the jungles. | | | | a receptive place. This is actually a commandment |
| We recently got back from our trip to Nigeria - | | | | of God. Otherwise all of God's servants are left |
| and had a wonderful time. The heat and the | | | | wasting their time in unresponsive environments. |
| never ending cloud of dust, smog and diesel | | | | Jesus commands us to "GO!" |
| fumes were ever-present, but spiritually it was a | | | | Personally, for many years now I have focused |
| fantastic trip. | | | | my attention almost entirely on the West. But |
| Three times God arranged it that we appeared | | | | God is changing that. In fact, it would not surprise |
| on nationwide TV - once while we were preaching | | | | me at all if God calls our family to be based in the |
| and praying for the Goveror of Ogun State (a bit | | | | Third World sometime in the next few years. |
| like the Governor of California). Only God could | | | | Such is the need and the hunger there. Sadly it is |
| arrange such a thing at the last minute, and we | | | | the exact opposite of what we so often find in |
| made sure He got all the glory. Thank you for | | | | the comfortable apathetic West. |
| your prayers, my friends! | | | | I strongly encourage every preacher who is on |
| I know a lot of people on this List have had | | | | this List to consider the Third World - and soon. It |
| invitations to Third world countries to minister. | | | | may be time to think "outside the box", my |
| They want foreign preachers because they know | | | | friends. You won't regret it. |
| many people will come to hear a "white man" | | | | Thank you again for your wonderful prayers |
| preach! | | | | during our trip. We saw many breakthroughs in |
| I want to encourage you to take these | | | | the lives of both leaders and people as we spoke |
| opportunities, my friends, even if you have to | | | | on deep repentance and the true message of the |
| pay your own way and that is quite likely because | | | | CROSS vs. the selfish gospel of gain, etc. A lot of |
| they are so poor. | | | | people seemed very surprised and impacted by |
| I have come across many Repentance preachers | | | | the messages. So your prayers made a huge |
| in the USA and the West who have been | | | | difference. Thank you. I hope to return to Africa |
| frustrated and discouraged here with the lack of | | | | again in May. |
| response and/or openings. We need to realize | | | | Yours for the Third World Harvest, dear friends. |
| that there is a wide world out there that is | | | | There is so much written above with which I can |
| hungry and desperate for sound preaching and | | | | identify. Around 70 to 120 Pastors would walk or |
| biblical truth. | | | | cycle 10 to 17 miles to attend the three days |
| I remember once hearing David Servant make an | | | | Seminars, sleeping on the floor of the church |
| analogy of a fisherman with two fishing-holes to | | | | building each night. I would be teaching 3 one and |
| choose from. In one fishing hole he caught | | | | a half hour sessions each day with time for |
| virtually no fish at all, and the one he did catch | | | | questions. These men of God were so hungry. |
| jumped up and spat water in his face! In the | | | | Strong positive biblical leadership and teaching is so |
| other fishing hole the fish were so desperate to | | | | appreciated! |
| be caught that they were clinging onto the line | | | | It was worth all the 'hassle' of travel and all the |
| and he was hauling them in as fast as he could | | | | 'inconvenience'. How often I have found over the |
| get his pole back in the water! Which fishing hole | | | | years that when we are inconvenienced, that is |
| should he choose? Of course it was the second | | | | when Almighty God uses us most of all. |