This is picture of Philip George, a preacher in Monrovia for the West Point Church of Christ. He is the man standing up in the blue shirt. Due to the growth of their congregation they have been forced to add-on to their existing building. Since they have very little space to expand outward, they are constructing a balcony for their building. Our congregation has assisted them with this project, but they still need additional funds. If you would like to help, please email me at lzk341@hotmail.com or call the Center Street Church of Christ office in Fayetteville at 479-442-8752.

Preparations for June Trip to West Africa

We are in the process of finalizing preparations for a trip to West Africa to work with Isaac Daye in Liberia and The Gambia. This will be my 4th such trip to that region. We have begun fundraising efforts to finance this trip. Although our elders have a great deal of money budgeted for this trip on odd-numbered years, they ask each member of our team to raise $1500 individually to be put toward this trip. During our trip we will enroll students in World Bible School, conduct seminars, and hold one-on-one Bible Studies with individuals. Most of our team will also have the opportunity to preach at local congregations. Not only is this trip designed to assist with the work in West Africa, but a primary function of this effort is to witness the progress of the work and bring a report back to Center Street for our elders as well as the entire congregation. If anyone would like to assist in this work in a financial way, please email me @ lzk341@hotmail.com or call 479-957-5205. I would be happy to visit more in detail with anyone who has questions about this effort.

Gambia Mission Report (March)

Below is the latest report from Isaac Daye:

"Teaching is a key part of the great commission and that can be done with different kinds of method-open air preaching , conference, Bible class and schools, one on one ect ect, We are limited as to where we can go or be at one particular time as far as the above methods of teaching or reaching out to the lost is concern but we have two methods or means that give us unlimited opportunities to be in so many places at the same time and reach thousands if not millions and that is radio (world Radio) and Bible correspondence (World Bible School). Praise God who have made provision for us to have access to these two wonderful and unlimited means and methods of teaching and preaching the gospel to the lost making it possible for us to meet the global scope of the great commission-Mt 28:18-19;Mk 16:15. How wonderful it is to preach for thirty minutes get a response from a listener who expresses interest in studying God’s word by Correspondence and later on by that one listener to reach out to over 100,000 eight years later ? What do you think about this again that by the same means a soul was converted and becomes a new testament preacher and teacher and went on to plant a congregation that now have over forty members in five years. Today by using world Bible school we are averaging a 1,500 new enrollment in Sierra Leone and 800 in Liberia monthly and over 10 baptisms monthly. The above is just the tap of the iceberg of what God have done in our mission work over the last 13 years in the Gambia and Sierra Leone and Liberia. Recently we had our second annual WBS graduation in the Gambia and twelve students upon completion of all the courses graduated and received diploma, two have enrolled to attend our Bible School which opens on the 29th March, this year we have 15 students and our graduation is due in the first week of December 2009. The churches of Christ in the Gambia are planning a gospel revival next month(30th April-2 May 2009) and Brother Alan Robertson preacher white ferry road Church of Christ preacher is due in the Gambia to serve as our guest preacher special prayers is request as we seek to rise $1,600 to cover the cost of the three days event. Brother Alan have contributed $600.we have raised $600 and stay get $400 to go, if you wish to partner with us in this great outreach and revival kindly let me know. My special thanks go to you for all your prayers and supports."

2009 Trip to West Africa

We are nearing the completion of the assembling of our team that will travel to West Africa in June. We are planning to visit The Gambia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. While a trip such as this is always exhausting and stressful, it is equally rewarding to me personally. The opportunity to be around Christians who exhibit such zeal and joy for the Lord is a priceless experience. Within the next 1-2 weeks, I am hoping to have the team finallized.

February Report From Erik Reyes(Sucre, Bolivia)

This is the latest report from Erik Reyes, our missionary in Bolivia...

"Dear friends and family.. we would like to start off with sending a big hug. As far as February goes, it was full and great. Carnival was depressing as usual, but the day it was over was like peace after a storm… Such an amazing feeling of peace. I know some of the team will talk of their experiences, so I won’t go into the Carnival experience.

El Camino is such a wonderful tool. I know we talk a lot about it, but it has proven to be very useful, and because we have it open from 9 in the morning till 9 at night we are able to reach people with all different kinds of schedules. Daily people come in to ask about and sign up for courses. We have a great new helper in El Camino. Carla Duran, a christian woman we have spoken of many times before in our reports, is helping us out in El Camino from 9 in the morning untill 6 at night. She is such a servant, and quick at seeing things that need to be done, receiving people when they come in and even leaving to make lines and pay bills for those of us on the team. Please thank God for her life and the help she is being for us.

As a team we are doing good. We grilled out the other day and spent some time together when Carnival was really bad. It was nice to be able to have a few hours together and just sit back and relax. We are hoping to plan a couple days for a team retreat and fell that it will be really beneficial for our unity, and to have a little breather. Ivan was gone almost the whole month of February, and has returned. He says he’ll be here in Sucre for a couple of months. Please pray for his life and his decisions.

We celebrated the baptism of Judith this month. She is a university girl that has come for over 8 months now to El Camino off and on. It was great news when she chose our Lord as her Savior.

Thank you for your letters, your concern, your love. We have felt spoiled by you and your friendship. Your words of encouragement have meant so much to us as individuals and as a team. God bless you."


Erik and the mission team have their own blog, to view it, go to

www.sucreteam.blogspot.com

February 25, 2009 Report from Isaac Daye in The Gambia, West Africa

"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him’-Acts 10:38 Mission is not only about preaching and teaching to win souls it is also about helping and healing the sick. That is what the Holy Spirit inspired Doctor Luke to inform us about in the above passage. Our Special thanks goes to God, Sister Debra and family and Center Street for setting up the David Elam memorial fund that allows our mission to provide medical service for the treatment of malaria -a killer disease in the Gambia , recently our bills have been going up due to the increase in malaria in the Gambia but praise God that with a little under $4 per full treatment many life have been save thanks to the David Elam memorial fund, we are able to provide free malaria treatment to sufferers who can not afford the meager amount for their treatment. As our mission focuses not only on soul wining but also on helping the needy we have assisted over 600 people with medical treatment over the last 4 years by providing free medical healing, if miraculous healing has cease we must use medical healing. We must follow the example of Christ our Lord who has not left us powerless to continue His mission of doing good-I thank God who have empower us financially to provide medical healing freely to the sick Apart from providing medical assistance to the sick, we have been providing food-rice for the hungry too over $500 was spend for rice and other needs in the month of December in the Gambia and on my trip to Liberia and Sierra Leone. As the global economic crisis get deeper and deeper and support continues to grow smaller and smaller, I pray that we as God’s people do not fail in our mission of saving and helping souls. We have no intention of cutting down on any of our mission project but……………., we need your prayers and support. These are perilous times and it is very stressful not only for you as our supporters and partners but for us as missionaries. What do we do? Close down our mission and return home? These are questions I believe many missionaries like us and mission supporting churches are wrestling with but I say no. Kindly allow me to use this opportunity to offer a special thanks to all our supporters and sponsors as well as partners who have not allow for the current financial condition to kill your commitment and devotion to the success of our mission work. Thanks for all your prayers and support-we are stay hanging on and going on. I also need special prayers for a joint gospel meeting of the churches of Christ in the Gambia plan for May and my up coming mission trips to Liberia and Sierra Leone.


PEACE.ISAAC K. DAYE"



I should also note that we are in the process of assembling our mission team to return to West Africa in June. This will be an exciting, rewarding, and worthwhile effort and will be my 4th trip there!

Isaac Daye's Report Following trip to Liberia/Sierra Leone

This is the latest report from Isaac Daye....

"The Apostle Paul escaped ship wreck on number of occasions yet he did not give up making mission trips, traveling from Kenema to Kono in Sierra Leone on Saturday 13th December 2008 a distance of 79 miles that should have taken a little over three hours but took us over eight hours, we narrowly escaped car wreck when the jeep we traveled with broke down five times in less then six hours and eventually, give up the right hand front tire in protest that it could not endure the roughness and rockiness of the bad road. At one point we had a breakdown in the middle of a tick jungle and waited for over an hour for repair work to be done on the jeep by the driver and his conductor and Ron used that time to share our mission with a police sergeant and a Muslim resulting in their enrollment to study Godʼs word with WBS. Often after going through these dangerous mission trips one is inclined to say that is my last time but the joy of our labor and the saving of souls far out weight our personal safety and comfort and this compares us to keep on going. Lordʼs willing we will be back on a similar mission in November 2009. My luggage was left behind in the Gambia and for the entire two weeks I was gone I had to borrow clothe from Brother Ron who was willing to share everything he had that was helpful to me even including one of his Bible. At one point Ron said ʽSatan have been at work against us on this tripʼ that is how he summarize all the pains we went through battling against mosquitoes, lack of electricity, standing for hours waiting for bus or cap,ect ect. Love demands that we make sacrifice and for us sacrificing the comfort of our home, time and life is worth the result the Lord blessed our trip with: 41 souls baptized into the body of Christ, 25 in Sierra Leone and 16 in Liberia also in Sierra Leone we conducted the first graduation of a part time Bible school that we support materially and over 40 WBS students graduated at our 4th annual graduation in Liberia. Over 3,000 new enrollments to study with WBS were made in Sierra Leone. Are these not compelling reasons why we must continue making these mission trips and for you to keep on praying for and supporting us? I will appreciate an answer from you. Joining me two year after his last visit Brother Ron was overwhelm with the number of church building project we have undertaken and the progress. St Paul bridge received $3,250 from me provided by Center Street church of church and Bro Chad, KONO CHURCH BUILDING IS COMPLETED THANKS TO THE GENEROSITY OF MILFORD HEIGHTS AND CENTER STREET CHURCHES OF CHRIST $5,000 WAS RAISED AND PROVIDED FOR THAT WORK( PICTURES ATTACHED) AND THE MOST RECENT CHURCH BUILDING PROJECT AT ISAAC DAVID TOWN CHURCH OF CHRIST HAS RECEIVED A TOTAL OF $850 FOR THEIR FOUNDATION. ON GOING WORK AT WEST POINT AND BREWER VILLE ARE AT ADVANCE LEVEL GLORY BE TO GOD THAT AS THE CHURCHES IN LIBERIA REBUILDS WE ARE PARTNERING WITH THEM THANKS TO EVERY ONE WHO PARTNER WITH US IN PRAYERS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT..

PEACE.ISAAC K. DAYEP.O. BOX 4066 BAKAU,THE GAMBIA."