It has been awhile since I posted on Miss Mango. For those who are new to my blog, I took a picture of the little girl to the right when I was in Mango, Togo last spring. I am part of an ABWE effort to see a hospital built in the Mango area.
The project continues to forge ahead. The groundbreaking was held on October 24.
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Pastor Andrew Ford posts:
“From ABWE Missionaries in Mango, Togo. Three things stand out to me:
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Mango is ready for a hospital and ripe for the Gospel.
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God is at work there. So many things are coming together that can only be attributed to God’s grace and work in a special way.
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It rained. Make sure you read the last paragraph.
October 24, 2009
It’s a cloudy Saturday, and I think it best to write today as we travel to Dapaong tomorrow and have meetings in the evening here in Mango. The big news is of course the laying of the first stone for the Wendell Kempton Medical and Ministry Center on Thursday.
First off, the President didn’t come, which was both a disappointment and a relief. It certainly lowered the level of security, and that was a blessing. He did send his greetings, and the person who announced the change in plans attributed his absence to a last minute affair of state that required his presence in Lome. We did have four cabinet ministers and five representatives from the Togolese National Assembly, so there was plenty of “star power” in attendance. The authorities here told us they estimated the crowd at 4000, and people came from distant villages, and from as far away as Lome. The day started off with a light fog, which cooled things down early in the morning. But that burned off, and it rapidly heated up. We were under a canvas shelter, but most of the crowd was seated, or standing in the sun, which had to be very uncomfortable.
To me, the high point of the affair was when Pastor Pat Nemmers preached from Mark 2 about the paralyzed man whose friends brought to Jesus. Our desire here is to talk about our Lord Jesus Christ, and to show His mighty works, and wonderful teaching. Pastor Nemmers spoke of how we can be healed physically but then lose our souls. Jesus, however, went beyond healing the man physically, forgiving his sins and giving him eternal life in the process. Our friends here see Jesus as a powerful prophet, but not as God in the flesh. The story in Mark 2 defines His deity in a powerful way, for only God has power to forgive sins.
Read the whole thing here.
What a wonderful progress report on the work going on in Togo. And, it is so nice to see Miss Mango up on your blog again. I have her picture in a special place and pray for her regularly.
God bless the ABWE Missionaries and may the Gospel of Jesus be proclaimed!
I just prayed for Miss Mango yesterday and oddly enough was also thinking of that story of the men who brought the paralytic to Jesus. Thanks for the update!