Opportunity to Downsize
I have been asked to clean out Hellen’s office by the end of this month! Many important files and useful supplies need to be moved into my office (already full!!). Please pray that the Lord would grant me wisdom to discern which files/supplies can be tossed and which ones should be moved into our storage area. I need insight into how to re-arrange my office to incorporate Hellen’s end of our ministry.
One project did happen to help this downsizing. Co-worker Helen Ramel gathered former YOUTH Papers from Hellen’s office, my office, and our storage space. These had been stored for various uses.
A team of young men from Christian Hope Academy in Painted Post, NY came for a working retreat at our WEC USA Headquarters. Two of these young men were assigned to help in the YOUTH Paper Ministry. These two spent days weighing 200 copies at a time, wrapping each 200 with a cardboard wrapper and stamping them with our return address. The second photograph shows them standing next to their nearly completed task. One hundred twenty-three parcels were prepared. The hope is to send 15-20 parcels each quarter as extra funds become available. Each parcel will cost slightly under $6.00 to mail. Sending these parcels overseas will free up office space AND bless evangelists, Christian workers and pastors overseas.
Update from Hellen Kuleskey
Hellen sends lots of love to all. She is missing us all and says she is experiencing homesickness for Pennsylvania. She reports that she has been cold all the time. She feels more rested and stronger and is doing some exercises with soup cans. Her sister Mary’s cooking has put some weight back on her. She’s not gone out much as she still can’t sit or stand very long. She felt the Lord impress on her to see herself as well. She’s still hoping to get well enough to find a place of her own. She and her other sister Nan have gone out to the farm joining Grace there. (from a phone call on May 26)
She can be reached by email at <gracehope@telus.net>. Due to slow internet service in her part of Canada, please do not send attachments or photographs.
Please continue praying that the Lord would heal her back. She also longs to draw closer to Jesus.
Prayer Points
- Would you intercede for young folks in Nigeria and Ghana? The bulk of YOUTH Papers is sent to these two countries. The enemy still has strongholds which prevent souls from being free to respond to the gospel.
NIGERIA
- Suspected Islamic extremists have done much harm across Nigeria, even in the middle section which is predominately Christian. Compass Direct News reported April 21:
- Suspected Islamic extremists last week abducted and killed a Church of Christ in Nigeria pastor (48) and his wife (45) in Boto village, Bauchi state in northern Nigeria.
- Unidentified assailants reportedly whisked them from their church headquarters home on April 13 and killed them. Their burned bodies were found hours later.
- Following attacks on Christians near Jos in Plateau state in January and March, sporadic killings of Christians reportedly continue. Previously hundreds of Christian villagers were struck with machetes and burned to death on March 7 in Dogo Nahawa, Zot and Rastat, three villages in Jos South and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas.
GHANA
Sex slavery is rampant among tribal religions in Ghana. In a system commonly referred to as Trokosi, girls are given to tribal priests as payment for sins. “Trokosi” means wives or slaves of the gods.
Every Child Ministries is rescuing these women and their children who were born into this environment. ECM co-founder Lorella Rouster says ritual servitude, or shrine slavery, is common.
After years of listening to the Gospel, one priest has freed 55 slave women and children. Many more haven’t.
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