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.