The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 12, Milford, Kosciusko County, 3 May 1989 — Page 15

Service in Africa to continue

I By GLEN LONG Staff Writer When Gran and Ginny Godley departed to work in missions in Africa last October, their stay was expected to last about four months. Their stay was extended two months after Gran was asked to serve as construction engineer for the entire Ganta Vocational School in Gompa City, Liberia. After a short stay at their home in Oakwood Park in Syracuse the couple plans to leave again for Liberia in late July to continue work as part of the Indiana United Methodist Church 10-year “Operation Classroom” project, which is to upgrade school facilities and teachers in Liberia. They made their missions report to the congregation at Calvary United Methodist Church at both Sunday services last Sunday, April 30. Gran and Ginny fairly beam as they talk of their work in the mission field. “It was our privilege to work with a brand new village congregation which had about 65 people in church every Sunday,” said Ginny. Gran pointed out that to get to this village they had to go some distance out into the African bush. He said the young people “did a marvelous job of participating.” “Ganta is a real success story,” stated Gran. “A total of 32 Northern Indiana volunteers spent time working in the Ganta High School complex from Oct. 15. 1988 to Jan 15, 1989.” He said the impact of three significant work teams left an impact that only one could not have. The plan was to have at least one local Liberian working with and learning from each work team. Gran said the junior and senior high school was in horrible shape, with holes in the roof and dirt everywhere, when they arrived. When they finished, the teams had seven rooms repaired and respectably clean, half of a new roof and the rest repaired. He added that one improvement at the school was to move the soccer field away from the buildings, which have corrugated asbestos roofs that shatter when hit. The real miracle of the whole project, according to Gran, was that 14 of the 26 native Liberian teachers gave up eight of their 10 weeks vacation to fix up the elementary school. “As far as anyone knows," he said, “this is the first time these people volunteered for anything." 'Ginny commented. “The

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students wear uniforms to school and are increasingly proud of their school.” Some of the money making projects Gran helped get started included cleaning up 700 acres of rubber trees, 100 acres of untended palm trees and 50 acres of untended coffee trees. Five acres of new coffee trees will be planted by the time the Godley’s return to Liberia. Jobs are hard to come by in Liberia, according to Gran. About 60 percent of adults are unemployed and 80 percent of these are native farmers. No cement was available all during their recent stay in the country. Gran said things we take for granted are hard to obtain. The mission has running water (undrinkable without being boiled) 12 hours daily and electricity from 16 to 20 hours daily. The population density is 54 people per square mile, with most of the residents away from major highways existing in subsistence living conditions in mud huts with dirt floors. Ginny said many children still die from measles and chicken pox and a

T I ft, Br ■*' K r ~<y ■p,' IheFa J, HOME ON FURLOUGH — Gran and Ginny Godley, Syracuse, display some of the articles they brought back from their recent six month African mission trip to Ganta Vocational School in Gompa City, Liberia. They were part of the Indiana United Methodist Church 10-year “Operation Classroom" project and plan to return to work in July. The carved wooden chain they hold signifies the members in their family — mom, dad and two children. The other items are school books and one of the sturdy book bags full of school supplies being sent to Liberia by Indiana United Methodist churches. (Photo by Glen Long)

high percentage of the people die from tuberculosis. Gran added that malaria is very prevalent so the mission workers had to take a medicine which has not yet been approved for use in the United States. Grantpointed out that the Muslim faith is aggressively evangelizing in Liberia. He added that the general population is said to be 12 to 15 percent Christian, 15 to 20 percent Muslim and the balance “who knows?” Ginny said rice is the main staple food, augmented by fresh pineapples, papayas, citrus ' uits. plantain and some goat meat. Gran is already planning on how to proceed to put in an improved water system of hopefully drinkable water and a workable water storage system. Both the Godleys said they are looking forward to getting back to the mission task. "There is much work to be done at Ganta School,” stated Gran in conclusion. “It takes the prayers and financial help of caring Americans as well as those who can go to do mission work.”

■ *■" i ¥ / ■i V / \ V / /J t , X ■ i f 1 ' 'SRi I I ■I B B I , ■ J B ■ ■ V T [ --C:.. ■ fw B B i M Ml* Jr- —■/ . SUNNY DAY REPAIRS — Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Milford received a new roof coating over the sanctuary last Thursday, April 27. Workmen are shown as they place material on the roof on a warm, sunny afternoon. Brother James Linscott, church administrator, reported that the congregation is outgrowing the sanctuary but said it must be used until a larger facility can be obtained. (Photo by Glen Long)

Milford church looks to the future

IBv GLEN LONG Staff Writer Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Milford received much needed repairs last week as a new roof was put on the sanctuary section. “The roof needed repairs badly," said Brother James Linscott, administrator of the church. “We also need to replace some windowframes around the stained glass windows and to add storm windows. Br. Linscott said the congregation is outgrowing the old building, located at the corner of Fourth and Main streets in Milford, but “must stay here until it's possible to get bigger quarters.” He pointed out that eight years ago the congregation numbered 20 to 30 people on a Sunday and now numbers over 200 worshippers every week. The administrator said the people. many of whom speak no English, enjoy visiting in Spanish after the services. En-

thusiastically, he said the church is planning to begin classes in English soon for area Hispanics. The first meeting to get the times of the classes organized will be at the church on Saturday, May 6. Father Paul Bueter, who serves as priest at both St. John’s Catholic Church in Goshen and Our Lady of Guadalupe, said the

Oswego church to hold conference

Calvary Baptist Church of Oswego will hold a Missionary Conference May 7-10. William T. Commons of the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism ’ will be the main speaker. Service times are Sunday, 9:30 am., 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m. and Monday through Wednesday at 7 p.m. Special features of the conference will include a commissioning sendee on Sunday evening for the Norm Helfers family

idea for the classes came from a Milford parishoner and he shares Br. Linscott's enthusiasm for the opportunity to assist those in the community. Br. Linscott asks readers who may know of people in the area who only speak Spanish to let them know of the planned classes for all ages.

going from Calvary to Kenya, as well as mission reports from the Spanish World Gospel Mission and Child Evangelism Ministries. Deputation reports will be given by the Helfers and by Chad and Lynette Brosius, ABWE appointees to Papua, New Guinea. On Tuesday after the service, the Papua, New Guinea, film “A Second Step" will be shown. For more information, call 453-4786.

Wed., May 3,1989 — THE MAIL-JOURNAL

On being at the right place at the right time

I By RON BLAKE Guest Writer Have you ever wondered why you are in the situation you find yourself today? Is it fate, circumstances, ignorance, or the providence of God' 5 Let us look at an example from the Bible. Paul and his friend, Silas, were on a missionary journey through the outer regions of Europe While they were preaching and ministering, a young girl who was demon possessed, kept making a spectacle of herself. Finally, Paul had enough, and he turned and set her free through the name of Jesus. One might think that everyone would rejoice and celebrate because of this mighty miracle that had been done in this girl's life. How many times have you said to yourself, “Everything is finally going well, I seem to have it all together 9 " only then to find out that things have gone completely to pieces? Sound familiar? Because of Paul’s and Silas' kindness, their reward is that they are beaten and thrown into jail. Somehow in our minds this seems to be unfair. After all, they were doing God’s will. And now they are bloodied from their beating and in a rat and refusefilled prison. I have often wondered how we might respond if this had happened to us? Would we have said something like: “Why did this have to happen to me? I thought when you served God, everything was going to work out.” In Acts 16:25 we find the reaction of Paul and Silas to all of this, and what a reaction it is: “About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns.” Notice that they prayed first. There will be times in our lives when the only thing we can do is pray. We will not understand, but we can go to the One who always understands. It is quite evident that their prayers touched heaven, for they started to sing. No matter where you may be today. no matter how dark the sky, the God of all grace can fill your heart and life with song. Verse 26 states that suddenly the foundations of the prison were shaken. When God's'people begin to pray and praise, God comes on the scene and shakes off their chains. Some of us today need God to come and shake off the chains of fear, doubt, difficulties and trials, and He is able to change things in an instant. Because Paul and Silas Were

/ I HI RON BLAKE where they were, they were able to minister to the Philippian jailer (vs. 27-31). We should begin to look around, and begin to ask the Lord why He has placed us here, at this moment? Who is it that He wants us to minister to for Him? Rather than becoming critical and uncaring, we need to begin to see the providence of God at work in our lives. Let” us begin praying and praising God so that we might see an atmosphere created where the Spirit of God will move in a mighty way to break out of our chains. Ron Blake is pastor of Wawasee Community Church of the Nazarene, Syracuse Tig Out' at Syracuse church The choir of St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Syracuse will hold a hog roast, called “Pig Out!,” on Saturday, May 6, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Proceeds will be used to buy new choir robes. Roast pork, cole slaw, baked beans, dessert and a drink will be served at the church and carryouts will be available as well. Tickets can be purchased from any member of the choir or at the church office on weekday mornings. Tickets will also be available at the door until sold out. a For further information call St. Andrew's United Methodist Church, 457-4111 weekday* between 9a.m. and 1 p.m. *

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