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“And He (Jesus) said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you fishers
of men.” — Matthew 4:19
(NAS)
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These young men are slaves to the fishing industry on Lake Volta in
Ghana, West Africa. Some children are as young as 3 years old. They work 14-hour
days paddling fishing canoes and casting nets. Many of the children have
ringworm and parasites. They do not know their last name or age. Rescuing and
providing for abandoned, enslaved children in that country is the goal of
Johnbull and Stacy Omorefe of Sioux Falls, S.D., through their City of Refuge
Ministries.
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Christ changes woman who was on drugs and married to a drug dealer.
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Growing Ministry: Living Stones News – Good News for the Midwest
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get the LSN newspaper out, we invite you join the LSN family.
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books, support groups and links to major ministries.
Contact Corinne Scott at (218) 728-4945, (605) 336-6870 or e-mail
Corinne for more
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By Leslie Wilson
(Editor’s note: Columnist Leslie Wilson has been deployed by the Red Cross to
Florida to assist victims of Hurricane Wilma. Her column this month is about her
first hours in Florida.)
After 24 hours of fruitless searching I finally found a computer to transcribe
this article. Ten minutes later I was called away and received my assignment to
deploy for Miami in the morning. The Disney World Resorts which housed hundreds
of Red Cross volunteers kindly opened their facilities early to me so I could
send this much abbreviated version what I had written in scattered notes over
the last few days.
This has been one of the most difficult articles I’ve ever written., not from
writer’s block but more from writer’s overload. From 4:30 a.m. in Minneapolis
until bedtime after midnight in Orlando, there was little time to do the
mountains of work ahead. Throughout my three-week trip a 60-pound burden of
clothes, bedding, and nearly everything needed for backpack living would be my
constant companion. It was like stepping into Pilgrim’s Progress. After an hour
or so lugging the packs around, I was thinking in terms of every ounce added,
weeding out all the dead weight I could. If only I could streamline life that
way.
This trip, which feels like a leap of faith over a cliff every day, has been
blessed by the presence of many wonderful Christians placed by a caring Father
along my path. I wish there was time to tell you some of the most amazing
God-incidents that have carried me safely so far, but I need to meet my fellow
travelers in the first convoy heading down to our recently relocated
headquarters in Miami. From there I’ll be driving a supply truck to points
south. I’m hoping for Key West to check up on a police sergeant we met the first
night who couldn’t reach anyone in that flooded city at the time. My ‘spotter’
for the drive is a dear veteran from Vermont, a petite lady in her 70s, who
declared after we introduced ourselves that we better keep God as our co-pilot
for this trip.
Amen!
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