We
thank God for the privilege of traveling to Ghana for our 3rd trip,
to share CR! We have heard God call us
& have a group of 35+ people in Ghana who have started their Main Event
Night at Maranatha Power Ministries! We are very thankful to CR @ SHBC & other
individuals who gave $4,300 so that we can take CR Bibles, materials and bless
this CR! We thank the HOME RUN Team who
has given hundreds of shirts & a movie to this CR!
Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation. The old
has passed away;
the new has come. All this is from
God, who through Christ reconciled us to
himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.. 2
Corinthians 5:17-18
Our team, left to right:
Cyndi Clark, CR Leader & CR Inside State Rep, Norma
& Steve Murphy, Ministry Leaders @ SHBC & State Rep for Tulsa
County & Vicki Thompson, CR Leader
While
on this trip, we need for you to be part of our daily prayer team. Below is a
brief itinerary. We will be posting on our blog: http://CRtoGhana.blogspot.com from
Ghana (depending on internet connections!) so we can stay connected with you
and let you know how to specifically pray for us during our trip. We love to read your comments back to us
too! As you watch our journey
realize when we are in Ghana, we are FIVE HOURS ahead of CST! (If it is 9am in Tulsa it is 2pm in Ghana!)
Thursday, July
11 Depart Tulsa at noon, go through Dallas to
JFK & then Accra!
Please pray; for safe travel from home to the
airport and on each of our flights! Pray
we are able to sleep on the flight overnight…
Pray especially for our families we left at home: for their protection, provision, strength
& peace while we are out of the country!
Thank God for Steve, who birthday is today! He will need strength & patience, the
only guy on this team!!
Philippians 4:6 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in
every situation, by prayer & petition, with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God.”
Friday, July
12 We arrive in
Ghana @ 1:10pm. We will be settling in
at the Shiloah House & getting ready for church in the evening! Their
Friday service lasts till 4am so hopefully we will nap sometime to stay awake
that night! Bishop Odai has contacted
authorities in Ghana who run the prisons & believes we can share CR with
the prison officials in Ghana!
Please pray; that going thru customs in Ghana goes
smoothly, that our luggage arrives on the same flight with us, that our travel
in Ghana is safe and that we arrive somewhat rested & for reunions with
those we met on previous trips! Pray for
the evening service that the message would be inspiring, encouraging &
understood by all! Pray prison officials
accept our gift of rice, milk, soap, sugar & bread and let us speak with
them about CR!
Philemon
1:6 “I pray that your partnership with
us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good
thing we share for the sake of Christ!”
Saturday, July
13 We
will be getting up very early to drive out into the villages to encourage the
village pastors, share the gospel & give mosquito nets where needed! We will return early enough in the day to get
ready to show HOME RUN to the church family at Maranatha Power Ministries! We may be able to spend time with Pastors we
have met previously who showed interest in CR, hoping they can stay to see HOME
RUN!
Please pray we will stay healthy and that this trip to the villages
would prove profitable for the Lord, for us as we go into the villages with the
nets, pray we will be an example of openness & love, share truths from God
and be an encouragement to the people. Pray people receive Christ & for
safe travel for our team & pray the Ghanaians hear the many messages of
HOME RUN!!
Matthew 19:26 “With
man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible!”
Sunday, July
14 We look
forward to attending church at Maranatha Power Ministries! Steve will be preaching
at one of the services and we will be sharing our testimonies in church and
Sunday School classes! We look forward
to taking the Odais to lunch after church and then to attending CR at MPM from
4-6:30pm!
Please pray;. Pray for our
participation in the morning services & that God would touch lives, that
people would be saved, for each of us as we teach a Sunday School class… Pray for our time with Bishop & Valerie
that we would enjoy a sweet fellowship with them, have time to discuss their
ministry & any problems or questions they have about CR. Pray for the leaders at MPM!!
Mark 12:30 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul,
with all your mind & with all your
strength! The second is this,
love your neighbor as yourself!”
Monday, July
15
Day 1 of Training:
(9am-4pm) We will have worship,
prayer and include a testimony. We will
be addressing any questions or problems the MPM team is having & then train
on “How to Lead Step Studies”!
Please pray; that we will be understood
on all levels, that we would “connect” with the people, that we will have the
appropriate answers for their questions & deal with cultural issues!
Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust
in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all
your ways acknowledge him & he will make your paths straight.”
Tuesday, July
16 Day
2 of Training, 9am-tpm The 2nd
day we will be working with their TEAM to answer questions, explain the TEAM
structure, encourage & empower!
Please pray that the Holy Spirit
will convict our hearts and give us wisdom, direction & strength to share
all God has done through this ministry, that we can explain the ministry &
answer questions to their satisfaction!
Pray for Cynthia who will be cooking lunches for us these 2 days, taking
care of us & our needs at the Shiloah House, as well!
Romans 1:16
“For I am not ashamed of the
gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who
believes: first to the Jew, then to the
Gentile.”
Wednesday, July
17 We would like to visit Lauren’s Light House
and the Pearl House, ministries that were birthed through families at
SHBC!
Please pray; that the Holy Spirit is our guide and that we continue to
be used for Christ. Pray for us to
continue to rely on God’s strength each day and that each night we continue to
get the rest necessary to maintain our health and our stamina for the task we
get to be a part of. Pray for us as we
preach (perhaps on the radio, on tv) & wherever we go!
Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would
walk in them.”
Thursday, July
18 We
will completing the work in Ghana, packing and spend the afternoon saying
good-bye & thank you to our hosts! At
10:10pm we will leave Accra, Ghana heading to New York!
Please pray: for God’s presence to be felt, for the TEAM, for God to
provide for all their needs that they would find healing personally & be
able to share it with others!
Ephesians 5:1 “Be
imitators of God, as beloved children, & walk in love, just as Christ also
loved you & gave Himself up for us, an offering & a sacrifice to God.”
Friday, July
19 We arrive in Tulsa at 2:50pm! Our plan is to be at CR @ SHBC by 7pm!
Please pray: that our experiences are just what God thinks we can
handle and that we are open and honest with each other as we review all that we
have seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted during this trip. Please pray for rest and for our hearts to be
forever changed by this experience. that our processing of our trip continues,
that we would be open to how God has changed us during this adventure, for safe
travels, for our good health to continue, for our connections to be smooth and
for our energy to be enough for the trip home. Pray for the transition back to life
in the US & that we make it safely to CR @ SHBC this night!
Ephesians 4:1 “Make
every effort to keep the unity of the
Spirit thru the bond of peace.”
Thank you for being a part of
our prayer team! Thank you also to those
who will be stepping in for us while we are out of the country at CR @ SHBC and
our Life Group! Yes, we will see you on Friday at CR, July 19…!!
Norma, Steve, Cyndi & Vicki
