Wordsower Intl.

MONROVIA, At My Father's House (actually two houses for teen boys) the Lord continues to encourage our hearts by the growth in Jesus of our fifty young men. All attend high school, college or trade school.(Because of the heroic efforts to raise sponsorships and to oversee local leadership by Sister Karen Barkman of Provision of Hope Ministries) They are working hard and are participating in the activities of the African Bible Church. They also conduct the monthly distribution of food to widows and gifts of milk to mothers of young children in the surrounding neighborhoods. We praise God for their labors in living out the grace of God.

The LORD has enabled us, this last year, to support four orphans in Silchar Assam State in northeast Indai. We work in association with, and by the good graces of, Northeast India Baptist Bible College and its President Dr. Ishak Ahmed. I met Dr. Ahmed through mutual friends and we tallked about India and what God is doing through our little ministry in Andhra Pradesh State South India. He stated that they had brouight one orphan child into their school the previous year and cared for and educated this young person. I challenged him to take more children and that we would support them, and so there were four this last year.

As God filled up My Father's House I we were moved to plead with Him for another house and to commit to not turn any away. God answered. In September we were able to move almost forty children from My Father's House I to My Father's House II. And the children have kept coming. Almost daily children are brought to our doors. One, two a day. One day five came. Another day six were brought. All from the poorest neighorhoods in the city. Hungry children mostly. The adults who bring them hungry too. We cannot turn any away. We don't want to. The two houses we have are full. Full to overflowing. We must open another house soon. Immediately!

Since last we reported on our performance ministry activities, (mid October) the Lord has taken us from Idaho to Kentucky to Indiana to Israel to Germany to Iowa to Indiana and back to Idaho, all through Ohio.

As it is in Africa and Haiti so it is in India, only more so. India is a land of 'more so'.  India just has more people. India has more orphans from aids because India has more aids patients than any other nation. India has more malnutrition than any other nation, because it has not made a way for its larger-than-any-nation poor population to get proper nutrition. India has more widows begging in the streets, more child prostitutes, more infanticide, more abortion than any other nation. India just has more.

Our God loves children. They have angels that look upon His face. He wants us to do nothing that would hinder their coming to Him. Whoever welcomes a little child in His Name welcomes Him. It is not His will that any of these little ones should be lost. He is the Father of the fatherless.

A CALL TO PRAYER!!! - The latest reports from Africa including Paula in Kenya, Father's House Liberia, and Kim Smith.

There was a time when China 'only' had four hundred million people, and still accounted for almost a quarter of the worlds population. About this time, 1865 or so, a brother in Christ who had spent six years there seeking to win the lost and establish the Gospel of Jesus Christ in this vast heathen nation, became overwhelmingly burdened by the need. (At that time there were only. around a hundred missionaries in China, restricted to coastal enclaves and not reaching most of the population.) He had returned from his initial mission a physical invalid with little hope of returning to the mission field. He did not waste his forced furlough however but completed a medical degree, a new translation of the Chinese New Testament and a complete vision for reaching China with the Glorious Gospel.

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As many of you know, My Father's House is full to overflowing. We have over a hundred children in a house that we thought was full with forty. But the needs of the children of Haiti demand some radical solutions, like sleeping two or three to a bed. But this cannot go on for long. Such crowding is not healthy. We have been praying for another house to rent in the same area. The Lord has answered our prayers! Five minutes away from our home another house has come available that will meet the need. It’s large and sound.

Through the months of June and July, God has enabled us to minister His Word in eight Churches, a home gathering and a seminary. We ministered in Michigan, California, Idaho and Washington. I was privileged to speak the Book of Revelation twice and to share the Scriptures twenty-four times.

IN LIBERIA... While we continue to rejoice in the ongoing and fruitful ministries at My Father's House Liberia and at the Children's Rescue Center in Ghanta, we are rejoicing in the opening of the Precious Life Home for Girls in Monrovia Liberia. The Lord has given Wordsower a wonderful partner in Pastor Emmanuel Jones and his church. These fine folks have joined with us to extend housing and oversight to teen-age orphan girl.

So we're not going to India this year, apparently, and so we're just staying in Idaho. Which is fine? It’s hot here, so that's the same. We could find an Indian restaurant so Sharon could remember why she can't handle curry. But there are no orphan children here and few idols of the idol kind. There aren't any bugs or lizards in our house, no pigs in the gutters or cows in the streets, and all the signs around here are in English, and the time is Mountain Time not Indian Time. We're feeling about ten and half hours behind what God is doing through our Church Planters and in our children & staff at My Father's House India.

We are so grateful to God and to His people who have responded to the needs expressed in our last newsletter and to some phone calls.

About a year ago the Lord enabled us to partner with some Brethren in Haiti and America to take in about twenty four orphan children from the alleyways of the Giardo Ravine neighborhood just outside Port Au Prince. We found a house, rented it, outfitted it, staffed it and set about caring for and educating these most needy children. In January we added to our numbers, taking in another sixteen children. We thought forty children was a full house.

The Lord is so gracious to us. We have been on tour for almost three months. We are pretty tired. The pick-up has carried us over fourteen thousand miles in those three months, with about four thousand to go before we get back to Nampa.

The Lord has given us the unique opportunity of ministering to orphan girls in Liberia. In partnership with Brethren in the US and Liberia we are opening a 'home' in Monrovia. It is for young women who have been put out of orphan homes because they are now too old to be adopted internationally (16) and so no longer a possible source of income to the orphanage. These girls go to the streets of Monrovia with little education and no job skills in an economy that has ninety-five percent unemployment. They have nothing and must somehow find food and shelter. Their plight is tragic and immediate.

The work of God at My Father's House India continues to grow with the addition of a twenty-five day old girl. We praise God for this precious gift and the other hundred and twenty plus children now at our home. The facility we have been using will apparently suffice for a while. We have no where to go and cannot find a suitable building in the extended area. So we are going to rent our current facility for another year, Lord providing, and pray for our own piece of land that we can develop. We need more space with better land & drainage. Our staff at My Father's House has offered to live in tents and we would have many hands to help us build suitable rooms for the children, staff and widows. There are millions of orphans, child prostitutes and street children in India. The ministries devoted to meeting the needs of these 'least in the world' are not meeting the need. There are child traffickers, panderers, sexual exploiters and predators in abundance and we compete with them for the souls of these children in a society that has no compassionate root. We have the opportunity to save these children from abuse and exploitation and, perhaps, lead them to faith in Christ. We need room. We could take hundreds more children if we had space for them to sleep, eat, play and study. Land is costly but souls are priceless. Please pray and help as you are able.

Rain, hail, snow, ice, wind, heat, freezing temperatures, thunder and lightning, time change, travel and ministry opportunities. Praise God.

What a joy to be allowed to serve with our brethren in India in the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the planting of churches that hold forth the Word of Life in Christ Jesus and for the care & education of orphans! The work that we share is growing and bearing fruit to the glory of our Great God and Father.

Recently our dear brother, Pastor Predestin, wrote me an email declaring, 'The house is full. Praise God! We are out of food. Send money!' The Lord graciously enabled us to send on a few extra dollars for the new demands. Our children have increased in number and with this addition of sixteen children, one being an infant, our needs have increased sharply. Praise God!

In Ukunda Kenya, our dear friend, Paula is waiting patiently for a place of her own. She lives, with twenty children and a medical clinic, just like the Kenyans she ministers to. Mud daubed hut and thatched roof on rented property. She is persecuted for being a Christian, for being a woman, for being white and for being an American. Yet she stays and heals the sick and nurtures her children. We stand in wonder at her dedication to the task she has undertaken and her love for the Lord, her adopted children and for her neighbors.

Rachel and Josue are now back at work (after their wedding and honeymoon trip) in Iquitos. Seeking to extend the love of Jesus among the street kids. We rejoice with them and look forward to hearing about God's fruit among these neglected and needy young people. Please pray for them and, if you would like more information about their work, check out Rachel's web site at: travelin-shoes.blogspot.com

THE LORD GOD WHO IS THE FATHER OF THE FATHERLESS is building a wonderful work in one of the 'ravine neighborhoods' of Port au Prince, Haiti. It is called My Father's House Haiti, and through this little spot of color and cleanness and food He is providing care for a number of orphan children. We were enabled to start My Father's House Haiti over the course of the last year. We have taken in twenty-five children (sixteen boys and nine girls) and have begun to affect the neighboring community in a powerful way. There are many orphan homes in Haiti because there are many orphans from hunger and disease, natural disasters and political upheaval. We are the only work for a series of neighborhoods surrounding us with perhaps fifty to hundred thousand people. At the end of January our staff distributed food to a hundred families who did not have enough to live. A small but vital ministry. We will do more as enabled.

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had an experience that you wanted to share, even tell the world about, but you just couldn't write it out? Every time you tried the words would fall all over themselves and go down without the grab and clarity that you felt should be there.

What a wonderful God we serve! He has enabled us to see His handiwork in creation and in the lives of people. He allows us the privilege of serving Him in the labors for His Kingdom and, sometimes, to see fruit from our labors.

Over the last year God has been so gracious to our little ministry. We have been allowed to speak the Scriptures across America; New York, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California. We met many new friends and renewed acquaintances with many old friends. The Lord enabled us to speak the Scriptures in seminaries, colleges, universities and high schools, in prisons, churches and homes. We proclaimed the Word in camps and conferences. We traveled and ministered in India, Haiti and Austria.

We rejoice that Tom continues to labor faithfully in Israel. He is working fruitfully to build up the church in the Biblical lands and to evangelize the lost therein. I am most excited about the fact that Tom has completed the memorization of the Revelation of John and has begun speaking the Book as he is able. Praise God! I have always felt that The Revelation needed to be spoken there and had hoped to be the one who spoke it. But I rejoice that Tom is getting the honor and privilege of bringing the Revelation to the land of it's soon fulfillment. For more in formation on Tom Meyer's ministry contact him at tommeyer2001@yahoo.com