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I wanted to start off by saying thank you to everyone who prayed for our Bible Quiz and S.M.I.T.E. Camp. The Lord met with us, and we started off with hosting a Bible Quiz for teens from 4 different independent Baptist churches. The young people all had a good time, and I was very impressed with the amount of Bible everyone memorized in advance. Following that, we had a total of 136 teenagers from our church and surrounding Independent Baptist churches conduct 25 Bible Clubs with 1,446 children, resulting in 937 accepting Christ. To graduate S.M.I.T.E. takes 4 years, and we were also blessed to have 25 students graduate this year. Sandra and I had the privilege of hosting the S.M.I.T.E. Africa Director, Pastor Adewale Adesina, as well as Pastor Babatunde Ajayi, for lunch. Both preached powerful messages during the camp, and I had the opportunity to preach the Wednesday night message.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to preach in any of the schools here due to all of them being closed in August. However, the Lord blessed my regular soul winning, and He allowed me to lead 39 to Christ for the month. I would also like to thank those of you who prayed for our overnight soul- winning visit to Owerri on September 4. I will go over the specifics on how the Lord blessed in next month’s prayer letter.
Sandra’s birthday fell on a Sunday this year. We appreciate so much all of you who remembered her by sending emails. In advance, I had all 5 of the children paint a picture for her on my laptop, which they thoroughly enjoyed. I also managed to find a place that sold iced coffee and had one delivered to the church for her that morning. During the afternoon, I presented her with her main gift, a hand-painted oil painting of our wedding day that an area artist did for me. Unfortunately, it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but we both got a good laugh out of it.
Sadly, we ended the month in the clinic again. All 7 of us tested positive for malaria, although only 6 of us exhibited symptoms. I’m very grateful that Sandra didn’t exhibit symptoms, as she did a very good job of taking care of all of us. I also had a lingering cough for over a month, so they recommended I get x-rayed, which thankfully didn’t show anything concerning. We are all doing much better now.
Please continue to pray for our health and safety here in the country, for the school ministry, and for the Lord’s direction in getting a vehicle. I’ve also been waiting for over a month for my Nigerian driver’s license to come in; at this point, my temporary one has expired, so please also keep this a matter of prayer.
Working hard to bring fruit to your account,
Jeremy, Sandra, Carina, Barrett, Henry, Alex, & Joanna Barker
- Barrett, Henry, and Alex in clinic
- Keeping score for the Bible Quiz
- Gideon, Saviour, Glory, Favour, Antonia, and Miracle got saved.
- Valerie, Miracle, Success, Angel, and Shantel got saved.
- Osenachi, Henry, Divine, and Ronachi got saved.
- Sarima, Daniel, David, Gift, and Bright got saved.
- George coming to church
- With Pastor Adawale Adesina
- Gideon and Saviour got saved.
- Preaching at SMITE Camp
- Lucky, Mary Jane, Expensive, and Marielle got saved.
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