29 August 2006
Dear Prayer Partners,
It has been a wonderful summer for our MANNA feeding center
and the Injili Baptist Church. God blessed and we had six
teams from the United States that visited and ministered to
our children. Our first group was from Baptist Bible College
in Springfield, Missouri. We were so happy when several of
them decided that God was calling them back to Africa upon
graduation.
We were able to dedicate the feeding center building on June
17, 2006. Pastor Greg Cooper of Gospel Baptist Church in
Cincinnati, Ohio came to be our special speaker. His church
is the main sponsor of this MANNA center and brought many
great gifts for the children. When they returned home to the
states, they promised to help raise funds to build a school
for our area. I am so pleased to let you know that God
blessed and $20,000 was donated. We started construction
today on the foundation and hope to have the children in
their own school in two months. Pray that God will give us
the energy and good weather to complete this project.
There were several other churches that came including
Palmetto Avenue Baptist (Sanford, FL), Berachah Baptist
(Middletown, OH), Abundant Life Baptist (Kansas City, MO. ),
and Willow Creek Baptist (Des Moines, IA). We appreciate all
the wonderful ways that they ministered to our children.
They also presented gifts to the Injili Baptist Church of a
generator, sound system, song books, and drums. To the
feeding center, they gave a T.V., DVD player, battery power
system, and even landscaped with plants. Thank you to all of
these churches for their hard work.
Kent McMillan visited from MANNA Worldwide and offered to
add 25 children to our feeding program. We are now able to
feed 107 children two meals a day plus provide for their
educational and medical needs. Through this program we are
giving them the gospel message and many are receiving the
Lord Jesus. At present eighty percent of our mothers have
been saved and baptized, becoming members of the Injili
Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Allan Owano.
Thank you for your prayers and support. I hope to update
this letter about every six months. Please visit our photo
gallery to see pictures of the children, the center and us.
God bless,
Bobby Bechtel
