Tuesday Pastoral Conference

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Tuesday January 24, 2012 Monday morning we went through a large part of the Statement of Faith and Purpose. Todd was gone most of the morning trying to exchange money so that we could pay for our hotel. We started class around 10:30am and needed to leave around 1pm. Obviously we didn’t get a chance to talk to these pastors about everything . . . read more
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West Africa Pastoral Conference 2012

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When you see an aged woman running . . .

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. . . you know there is a big disaster. I can’t remember the ever seeing my grandmother run anyway. This is one of the Nigerian sayings that Pastor Bassey quoted as the introduction to his sermon this last week. I spent the last week near the city of Badagari in Nigeria. Here most of the pastors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo gathered together . . . read more

Straight Flight

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Saturday evening. I’m in Atlanta Georgia about to board my flight for Nigeria. Usually I fly through London which means a seven hour flight to London then another eight or nine hour flight down to Nigeria. This time, however, I am flying through Atlanta an hour and a half from Chicago to Atlanta and then a ten hour flight across the Atlantic. . . . read more

Map: Andaman Islands

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On the map below you will be able to find marked all the places I talk about in this entry. On Monday the 21st of November, Pastor Deepak and I flew to Port Blair in the Andaman Islands to visit our BELC pastors and congregations over there. The Andaman Islands reside . . . read more

Map: Oct 22 – Panasapadu

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Pastor Sudhakar a year ago belonged to a another group of churches with Baptist ties. He audited the Bible School in Nidubrolu for a year, then just recently joined the CLCI and has started attending the Bible School. He has one small church and another small preaching station just outside his brother-in-laws house half a mile away, both are marked . . . read more
That is to say Sunday Oct 23rd through Thursday Oct 27th The map below shows you my Sunday wanderings. Rather than mark the map with the lines of my travel as normal I have marked the various spots with pictures. More pictures of these areas can be seen down below. The northern most mark on the map should be Guntur, Hotel Sindoori, where all my . . . read more

Map: Train to Kakinada

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This is a map showing my train ride to Kakinada on Friday. I will be here for the next few days visiting churches. The map has some pictures posted on it towards the end of the train ride, showing the scenes out the train window. It might be difficult to see the pictures in the map below, so you can also click on the link beneath the map. click . . . read more

Map Pictures: Kakinada Visit

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After the epic train ride to the northern part of Andhra Pradesh we stayed in Kakinda four nights visiting three congregations. these congregations are marked on the map below. November 28  - Jayathinagar – Pastor Daneil November 29 – Gygolepadu – Pastor Sudhakar November 30 – Kakinada – Pastor Wycliff Pastor Wycliff . . . read more