Archive for January, 2008
My Grandpa used to say, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going!” Yes, the road had been “tough” in the last several months; but when God is for us, who can be against us?!
Gary has been working long hours and heavy overtime, so he is very tired (he needs to continue his job until all our necessary support is pledged—-we were hoping to leave for Liberia this month); BUT GOD GIVES GARY STRENGTH DAY BY DAY.
Our Fifth Wheel (which is our only home) is not selling, even though we have had it on the market for over a year; BUT WE KNOW THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL.
No church has had the funds to commit to us for financial support, BUT WE DO HAVE FAITHFUL INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS. Would you prayerfully consider being ANOTHER ONE?
January 26th, 2008
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Mark 10:15
At age five I felt small and helpless, just a little child living in a huge world. But kneeling by my bed one night, with my mother beside me, I repented of my sin and asked ‘Big Jesus’ to come live in me. After that I felt strong, because I knew Jesus would never leave me!
January 26th, 2008
“God is doing such great things, more than I imagined!” says Rev. Enoch Glaybo, as he writes from Nigeria to Ruth and Gary Luukkonen on 1-7-2008.
From humble beginnings when Kathy Galley-Johnson guided her sister Ruth Luukkonen through the ‘one on one’ discipleship series of ‘Knowing God Personally’ ( Multiplication Ministries, P.O. Box 1270, Vista, CA 92085)
To the day when Ruth ‘with fear and trembling’ began a new journey through that same discipleship series, with her husband Gary and their friend Enoch Glaybo,
GOD HAS BEEN FAITHFUL! For He equipped Ruth, in all her weakness, to do His work; all glory be to God! Then God used Gary and Enoch to ‘come alongside’ many church leaders in Liberia to help them experience a dynamic intimate relationship with Jesus Christ through ‘one on one’ discipleship. The Apostle Paul said of Jesus Christ “that I may KNOW Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings…’ (Philippians 3:10)
In the past four months that Gary and I have been in the USA, Enoch Glaybo has CONTINUED to fulfill Christ’s command to disciple the nations. Wherever his work takes him, Enoch has MADE TIME to bring men into a more intimate relationship with Jesus through ‘one on one’ discipleship. In Sierra Leone, where he regularly holds workshops for training church leaders, Enoch has added many hours to his already long day to take pastors, ‘one on one’, through the discipleship series of ‘Knowing God Personally’. The Holy Spirit is producing fruit, for pastors from Sierra Leone are now witnessing the birth of many home cells through the multiplication of ‘one on one’ discipleship!
Just recently, Enoch wrote us an email from Nigeria, where he is working with Christian Outreach. He told us that church leaders there are responding enthusiastically to Christ’s Great Commission to disciple the nations, as their eyes are being opened to see God more intimately!
Thank you, Enoch, for being faithful to God. “He who is faithful in little is faithful in much.” (Luke 16:10)
January 8th, 2008
8-year old David lives next door to his friends Enoch and Gary, Jr. Often I would see the boys kicking a flattened soccer ball back and forth across their yards. Other times I saw them chasing each other around their homes playing tag. Sometimes I watched them as they sat on the porch chatting, taking turns wearing an American baseball cap and a pair of fashionable sunglasses. Almost always, the boys were smiling and laughing.
But one day I noticed that David was not playing; he had been crying! You see, his sick father had died unexpectedly while his mother was away ‘up country’, and David had to tell her the terrible news when she came home. That was a very hard thing to do. For several days David heard his mother crying and wailing! Soon their food ran out, and there was not even charcoal to boil water. David was hungry and sad—-very sad.
But because of your gifts, Awana Boys and Girls, Luukkonens were able to buy huge bags of rice and charcoal for David and his mother. Happily, Enoch and Gary Jr. wheelbarrowed the bags over to their friend David’s house!The next day, David was laughing and playing again!
January 5th, 2008
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