Hello - It is Chris again (Don's sister). Please see update below from Don. Many of you may have heard about the ministry that has started at a local bar. Below is a short overview along with new developments. Further evidence of God’s work in Liberia!
“Last month, two of our field leaders started ministering in a local bar. This particular bar was frequented by many former rebel soldiers, child soldiers, and generals. After presenting the Gospel, people began to ask questions pertaining to God's forgiveness. These men were some of the roughest and toughest men of Liberia. Two men asked if God could forgive them for drinking human blood. Others asked if God could forgive them for other atrocities. After being shown in Scripture that God could and desired to forgive them, there was much rejoicing in the bar. Four people were saved and the next day baptized. The owner of the bar invited our field leaders back the next day to teach more. Now, one month later, there is a church meeting in that bar ministering to those who need to be delivered and a church meeting outside the bar ministering to those who have been delivered. Last Sunday, I worshiped in the church that meets outside the bar. In this church there was a man who had joined the rebel forces after witnessing his dad being brutally murdered. Now, 9 years after the war had ended, this man has located the man who had murdered his father and had made plans to break into the hut of the murderer and "Cut his head off." This man received Christ. After receiving Christ, his heart changed. Now he had compassion on the man who had murdered his father. He said, "I will go and get the man who killed my father so that he can learn the same freedom I have experienced in Christ."
Last Monday, several former regel generals (now brothers in Christ) came to our base to receive training. We sent them from our base with some of our lessons and a hand full of Bibles. We told them to go and make disciples. I took a picture of them before they left.
That night a man arrived on our base named Agustin. Agustin was the superior rebel general to General Butt Naked. Agustin was the general who recruited General Butt Naked. Do a Google search on General Butt Naked's trial and you will learn a lot about the past of Agustin.
Agustin smelled of Alcohol because he had just come from the bar. He has a bullet wound on his neck and an arm that was badly damaged by an RPG. The men we sent out from our base in the morning had visited his bar and presented Christ to him. To make a long story short, Agustin's wife had a vivid dream the night before that God was pursuing and calling Agustin to follow Him and that Agustin had chosen to follow Christ. When the men began ministering to Agustin, he remembered his wife's dream and recognized that God was indeed pursuing him. While still in the bar, he remembered two gospel songs that a missionary had taught him as a child. He announced to the entire bar that he knew God was pursuing him and that he wanted to sing two love songs back to God as a sign of his surrender to God.
The men in the bar said. "You can't do that, we are drinking." Agustin sang anyways. After singing the men said to Agustin, "come with us and we will show you a place where many former soldiers are finding freedom." When Agustin arrived on our base the first words he said to me was, "I was told this was a place where I could find freedom." The harvest is very plentiful here in Liberia. Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick, but go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice, “For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." Agustin gave his life to Jesus, has been on the base every day since his conversion receiving further training, and was baptized yesterday.
Agustin lives in a village far from Zwedru. He was in Zwedru only to visit family. He sent his wife back to their hometown but he chose to remain in Zwedru so that he could learn more about Christ. Agustin is a man of great influence. He desires to use his influence to help his town and all of his former comrades come to Christ.”
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