Mike and his travelling partner Marc had a very successful trip to Liberia last month! There are many amazing stories of how God's hand was upon this trip and Mike will be sharing these with you in the next few weeks. Since his return he was hit with a nasty bug he picked up while in Liberia and it ended up being the final straw for his already compromised gall bladder. He had surgery yesterday to have it removed. Needless to say, he has been lying low since returning and hopefully will be back up to speed soon! He is excited to share the amazing ways God was at work on this trip.
In the meantime I will post for you more of an impersonal list of ways God was able to use them while there.
Orphans: 3 orphanages ministered to with a 3 month supply of food for each orphanage. 267 children medically examined and treated. One boy provided for a hernia surgery.
Pastor's Conference: 134 total attended. An average of 105 were in attendance daily. They were each supplied with two books and one bible.
Women’s Conference: 130 total attendance. An average of 115 attended daily and they received two books and a bible.
Children's Ministry Directors Conference: 40 attended daily. They also received two books and a bible plus children’s ministry tools.
Prison Outreach: the prison was built to hold 60 but had 105 men. The day we were there a few were working at a prison farm. There were 25 men to a cell that was 20 by 20 with nothing in the cell. 95 of 99 responded to the Gospel. We also provided one month of food, soap, toothbrush and toothpaste, socks, a blanket and the Gospel of John for every prisoner and guard. The prisoners did not see nor know about the gifts until after the gospel was given.
Children’s event on Saturday afternoon: 236 responded to the gospel. 900 attended!
Festival: 3 nights. Total attendance (conservative) was 3700. Total responses to the gospel accepting Christ was 340 adults/teens and 276 children. The last night it was 55 young men and late teen boys and the rest were a few women and then children. More young men responded as we left for the hotel - about 20 total so the final count was 70.
And then there was the 16 that responded to Marc Andresen’s message on Sunday in church!
Our total for all evangelistic events: 4699 (not counting Marc’s church attendance) and total responses including the church service was 963.
The Lord blessed in response to 2 years of praying, planning and preparation - even miraculously holding back the rain.
Ministries that partnered with us included SIM, OrphanAge, GEEF, Samaritan's Purse and Desiring God Ministries and Calvin!
God is good!