Greetings in 2017! This year looks like it will be a year of significant events. On January 15th, I celebrated a whole year in my little town house. When I moved in, I had one air bed mattress, and now I have a whole house full of furniture!
I was afraid I would never travel again, and here I have helped with a Spiritual Life Conference (SLC) in Thailand last summer and anticipate another one in February.
This will be the first time I have led a team to help out at a Spiritual Life Conference for a field group of SIM missionaries. There is so much I don’t know about leading a team of this sort but I have lots of help here at SIM in figuring out what is required and how to do it. We depart around February 10th and will help with the conference as well as a medical health check for the staff of the ELWA hospital. Below is a notice compiled by another member of the SLC team with a brief description of the work being done in Liberia and links to publicity received through the Ebola crisis there.
Please join me in prayer for guidance in financial issues. I will turn 70 in October and at that time transition to Social Security and pension payments for the majority of my support. Until then, I still must look to God to supply financial partners to labor with me in this ministry. The generous funds that came through last year in the matching funds drive brought me through 2016. My support account currently has enough funds in it to pay me through February. The regular monthly support I have coming in is only about 20% of what is required. In the past I have had a number of annual supporters, but have not seen many of these come in for 2017 so far.
You may say it is foolishness for me to go to Liberia if I do not have funds for my support. And in the world’s eyes I would readily agree with you. However, I have also seen God provide for me through many diverse ways as long as I am obedient to Matthew 6:33 and seek his kingdom first. Going to Liberia at this time is doing just that, so I have confidence in HIM to provide the needed $2,500 for this, as well as the funds to support me through to October and beyond.
Please earnestly join me in praying for God’s guidance and provision.
Pray for our Liberia Team, both those of us going to support our field team mates and the team in the field ministering to those who have never heard of the saving grace of Jesus Christ.
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To support the SLC trip be sure to designate your gift in the notes box as MINISTRY to support the trip to Liberia.
About the SIM Liberia team in Monrovia
“On the outskirts of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, on grassy land among palm trees and tropical hardwoods, stands a cluster of one-story bungalows painted cheerful yellow with blue trim. This is the campus of Eternal Love Winning Africa, a nondenominational Christian mission, comprising a school, a radio station and a hospital. It was here that Dr. Jerry Brown, the hospital’s medical director, first heard in March that the fearsome Ebola virus had gained a toehold in his country.”
TIME Person of the Year – “The Ebola Fighters” – December 22, 2014
Comments by Janice Waddell, one of our team going with me to Liberia. “When Nancy Writebol asked the staff at SIM USA for help at the ELWA campus, the first thought that came to me was: “this is something that I could do.” Nancy’s request was for a team to assist with a desperately needed health clinic for the staff members working on the ELWA campus and to facilitate a Spiritual Life Conference for SIM missionaries serving in Liberia. ”
A new and expanded hospital which had been in process was delayed by the Ebola outbreak. It was finally completed and dedicated in October of 2016. Here the President of Liberia participates in the ceremonies and has some very gracious words for the ELWA hospital.
You may remember that Nancy Writebol was one of the American SIM missionaries who contracted the Ebola virus while serving in Liberia in 2014. Now recovered, Nancy is serving at ELWA once again.
The hospital is not the only ministry in Liberia. Here are snippets about two other vital SIM ministries.
