The Mission Foundation
P. O. Box 46358
Baton Rouge, LA 70895
January 31, 2009
Dear friends,
We give thanks for God’s blessings in January. I was privileged to preach at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Jackson, MS and at The Cornerstone Chapel in Baton Rouge. The Gathering of Men is off to its best start in years, as men are bringing friends, and the Lord has granted us a very special awareness of His ministering Presence on Thursdays.
Next Sunday, February 8th, Bec and I will be leaving for Tanzania, Ghana, and Sheffield. We are joining with our British colleague Tony Swanson in holding a Langham Preaching seminar in a new area in the southern part of Tanzania, while our Tanzanian co-laborer Frank Luvanda will be leading a team in the north. The Tanzanian movement is growing by leaps and bounds. Tanzanian brothers, who participated in our “Training of Local Facilitators” seminar a year ago, have led regional seminars all over the country! When we finish our seminar in Tanzania, Bec and I will rise at 3:30 a.m. to catch a flight to the western side of Africa where we will be with Emmanuel Ahlijah and others for a preaching seminar in Ghana. The following week we will hold a “Training of Local Facilitators” seminar for participants who have been carefully selected by the Ghanian leaders. From there we will take an overnight flight to England and will see our friends at Christ Church in Sheffield where I served as a guest minister for most of 2005. I am very much looking forward to being with the Thursday Morning Men’s Group that has met every week since its beginning at Stumperlowe Hall, home of Andrew and Melanie Dunigan, during our happy days at Christ Church.
Today I wrote the poem below while meditating on Jeremiah 23:16-32, a text on which my fellow preachers in Ghana have asked me to preach at our Langham Preaching seminar. I send it to you with deep gratitude for all that you do to help Bec and me fulfill our mission.
P. O. Box 46358
Baton Rouge, LA 70895
January 31, 2009
Dear friends,
We give thanks for God’s blessings in January. I was privileged to preach at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Jackson, MS and at The Cornerstone Chapel in Baton Rouge. The Gathering of Men is off to its best start in years, as men are bringing friends, and the Lord has granted us a very special awareness of His ministering Presence on Thursdays.
Next Sunday, February 8th, Bec and I will be leaving for Tanzania, Ghana, and Sheffield. We are joining with our British colleague Tony Swanson in holding a Langham Preaching seminar in a new area in the southern part of Tanzania, while our Tanzanian co-laborer Frank Luvanda will be leading a team in the north. The Tanzanian movement is growing by leaps and bounds. Tanzanian brothers, who participated in our “Training of Local Facilitators” seminar a year ago, have led regional seminars all over the country! When we finish our seminar in Tanzania, Bec and I will rise at 3:30 a.m. to catch a flight to the western side of Africa where we will be with Emmanuel Ahlijah and others for a preaching seminar in Ghana. The following week we will hold a “Training of Local Facilitators” seminar for participants who have been carefully selected by the Ghanian leaders. From there we will take an overnight flight to England and will see our friends at Christ Church in Sheffield where I served as a guest minister for most of 2005. I am very much looking forward to being with the Thursday Morning Men’s Group that has met every week since its beginning at Stumperlowe Hall, home of Andrew and Melanie Dunigan, during our happy days at Christ Church.
Today I wrote the poem below while meditating on Jeremiah 23:16-32, a text on which my fellow preachers in Ghana have asked me to preach at our Langham Preaching seminar. I send it to you with deep gratitude for all that you do to help Bec and me fulfill our mission.
– Your brother, Rodney
The Preacher, Standing Before
Stand before God
Before you stand before men.
Keep still, listen,
Go speak what you hear.
For one day you will
Stand before God.
“Lord, I stand in Your presence,
Waiting, longing to be sent.
Please, I pray, send me, Lord,
With words from Your Mouth in mine.”
(Jeremiah 23:21-22, “I did not send these prophets, but they ran. I did not speak to them, but they prophesied. But if they had stood in my council, then they would have announced My words to My people, and would have turned them back from their evil ways and from their evil deeds.”)
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