NEWS FROM NIGERIA

OHAFIA | Bro Gaius U Egwu

Greetings of love and peace in the wonderful name of YAHWEH and the hope we share together in Christ Jesus.

With gratitude of heart I thank you so much for all your support that you always render to me and to those we love in our small Ecclesia, both spiritually and physically. The good God will always reward you. (‘The bread cast upon the waters you will find after many days,’ Eccl. 11:1 and Isaiah 32:20). Once again, thank you so much.

Yes, we have cultivated and planted Cassava and what you sent really helped me in settling those who work with me in preparing the ground. In our area anything that you plant needs fertiliser, but to get it you need a sum of money and mostly it is at the hand of a politician, which makes it hard and costly to get. In fact, things are getting worse every day here, but all is directing us to ‘the consolation of the faithful. Therefore let us not grow weary while doing good’ – (attending Ecclesial meetings, helping those in need and the weak in faith, praying for brothers and sisters all over the world) – ‘for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart’ (when we will be rewarded in God’s Kingdom, when we shall see His face and be like Him), ‘that in the dispensation of the fullness of time He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, in Him. In whom we were made His heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of Him who does all things after the counsel of His will.’

Beloved, I do not cease to give thanks for you in my prayers: may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

If the Lord permit, I will send you the picture of our Cassava Farm, but the one I enclose now was taken at our fraternal gathering, with beloved brother Ibeka Thoms and his two children, David and Leah, and my own two children, Emmanuel and Comfort, pictured opposite.

Bro Gaius, centre, Bro Ibeka Thoms, right and his two children, David and Leah and Bro Gaius’ two children, Emmanuel and Comfort