With profound love this Christmas season

Christmas Greetings from the Ngojes

This one goes to 100 people who have impacted us positively over the years. You are in our thoughts this Christmas season.

To you the workers of the LORD, who preached the gospel and baptized my parents and who later baptized me, we salute you this Christmas season. You came in as young couples ignorant of what lay ahead of you. By faith you left the comfort of home. You braved the flight over the seas and the jungles of the world, in the dark. Like Jonah who was in the belly of a fish three days, you too were in the belly of a giant iron bird destined for distant lands of Africa. You trusted all in the LORD. Because you came, so we are a church in Africa.

To our development partners who have gone out of their way to sacrificially support our children homes, learning institutions, clinics, agricultural efforts and relieve interventions. Thank you all who have donated for ministry needs, church buildings, scholarships for Africa’s sons and daughters. The teachers and the doctors who have come to Africa in the name of Christ against all forms of discouragement and obstacles –international economic recession, theological debate on evangelism versus social gospel, etc.

To those sons of this land who have been going out to the next village to preach, to teach and to serve the people of Africa in the name of God.

To those who have contended with persecution and ridicule because of their faith. And to all our friends, who have ever prayed for us, supported us materially/financially, emotionally, and spiritually. To those who have hosted us in their homes, fed us and clothed us. To those who taught us and those we have taught in the ways of the LORD. And to our colleagues at work and ministry both local and international. Merry Christmas and a happy new year, 2012.  Because of Immanuel this letter goes to most nations of Africa, America, Europe and Asia. 

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.  Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Hebrews 12:1-3 NIV