Dear friends

Last Sunday I had a fantastic experience. Church was just amazing and as I was driving home, with a guy from the community I have been working with, he was obviously very excited. I asked him what happened and he said that during a prayer time someone shared with him that they were having problems. His ‘aha’ moment was that he realised that other people going to church had issues too! He wasn’t the only one. I found myself wondering how Christendom has made people feel they can’t come to church because they have “issues.” Jesus met people at their point of need and loved them into transformation. Praise God.

I love the fact that the mission poles in Ghana (and soon to be other countries) are meeting villages and villagers at their point of need. Just today, as I was writing this letter, I got a video testimony from a village talking about the difference the mission pole had made for them. What a privilege to be involved in this Gospel-centred Kingdom work!

As you know, I don’t often ask for money, but today I do have a strategic and practical request that will make our work significantly more efficient, cost-effective, and secure.

We pay a local transport company to deliver the poles as we only have a small ute and the poles need a truck. To go to the next tranche of villages up in the Northern and Eastern regions it will be a significant cost and security problem. The road distance is approximately 620 km via the main routes, with a typical transit time of 1–2 days. Hiring a truck and driver would cost approximately NZ$5,500 per trip. We make at least three such trips per year, and these repeated hires are both expensive and limiting.