Hi!
The Lord has been giving us strength for many things since the last blog
entry. Thank Him! After weeks of happily
continuing our usual Gospel ministry program in India, Ruth went to Togo in
early August, when our daughter Mary had delivered her third baby, a girl, Alethia
Eve Ward.
Soon after that, Stephen went to Pune,
India, to teach in the School of Missions there. He covered the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Pentateuch, and Jesus as our prophet, priest and king. This involved about 30 hours of teaching time
over eight consecutive days, til he went to join his dear wife, and the Wards,
with their new baby in Togo.
There, the folk were gracious to allow Stephen
to teach Pastoral Theology to the senior students in their Bible school, for a
good 48 hours of classroom time, over a two week period. Now that that’s finished, he’s trying to
recover his strength!! It’s been mostly
rainy and warm here in Togo. Rainier, at
least, than it usually is in our part of India.
As Manny and Cyrus are active little grandsons, they are eager to take
the grandparents out for walks, and they like to throw grass, sticks and rocks
into the stream.
May they, and we all, grow up in the Lord
Jesus, to think of Him and talk of Him continually forever. Then the Father will be pleased with us, as
He is with His Son. Soon, in our Lord
Jesus kindness and grace, we would be headed back to India, as scheduled, for
eight solid weeks of gospel ministry before heading off to the USA for the
holiday season. This would be our third
Thanksgiving and Christmas in the USA since 1988. God is love.
