Market Preaching & House To House

 

Hello again, I want share with you about how the Lord was working overtime this morning. We started the day by having church in our room. We did not just have one service, we had four separate services. We had three in the first one. Then we had five in the second service and eight to twelve in the fourth. We are talking about ladies who clean our rooms,security for the building, front desk hostesses and construction workers from next door. WOW GOD IS GOOD!!!!

Once we were done with church we went to the orphanage and the children gave a short presentation. We then left and drove to a village in Firestone compound where we street preached and business to business preaching. I can not describe all that we did but we get home we will share so much more. My bride I miss you so much and I can not wait to be in your arms. Cora I love you and please help take care of your mother and sisters. Ray ray you make a my dayday. I love you Gabrielle!

Hi, this is David. Here I am holding little Victory. He was given the name because of our church supporting the Children's home near the time of his birth. Two years ago, he was just a tiny baby, now he enjoys sitting with me. My new son is named Christian. So, we have VICTORY and CHRISTIAN now we just need one named CENTER :)

With Monrovia's infrastructure still destroyed, it is a challenge to move about the city as traffic is such a challenge and as you can see in this picture, even buying gas is different. The gas is pour into the car from a glass jug.  Gas here is alittle over $4.00 a gallon. It takes 65 Liberian dollars to equal 1 American dollar.

We traveled to an area known as Firestone, because the Firestone Corporation has a interest in the rubber trees of Liberia. We preached within their area. In these two photos, Jeff Hashbarger is preaching, standing on a box we borrowed from a nice market vendor. Jeff does a lot of our open air preaching for 2 main reasons. He can be loud without losing his voice and for some reason he withstands the heat much better than us old guys.

Josh is a lot of fun. He's our camera guy. He's always filming our work, keeping track to battery life and time left on our digital tapes. Josh is 23 and single and of course, we've been teasing him about finding a wife and he's about had it with out teasing. Josh can sit in various positions and even fold his legs in such a way as to make plenty of room for passengers in our cars.

When we are finished preaching, we continue to hand out the Gospel of John. It is almost a riot or mob mentality. It is so dangerous that I have asked others to do it for me, because the young children will climb up your body and pull your clothes just to have the Word of God. They will cry when we run out if they did not get the Word of God.

 

Mike preached the Word today within the Firestone area. He noticed how much of a strain it was on his voice after preaching. He did a great job. Mike's grandfather gave him the opportunity to preach when he was very young. If only he could see Mike preaching in Africa!

I walked from house to house with Josh and Gene, preaching the Word, getting a crowd together and we were able to preach the Word of God to construction workers to mothers with children, to people of all stations. We were received very well in all places we went.

 In this picture, Casey and Jeff have gathered a small crowd of interested people, interested in the Good News. They simply start talking about Jesus and people gather to hear and ask questions.

Please continue to pray for us because it is so very hot and we are not used to this extreme heat. The water in out bottles becomes so hot by the afternoon that it can burn our mouths. It is almost impossible to drink that water so hot. Continue to pray that the LORD may continue to use us in powerful ways!

We have 2 more days on the ground so we have much to accomplish!!   See you next time!!!