February 2020 Jesus said the devil is come to steal, kill and destroy, but He came that we might have life and have it abundantly. We believe this is very true in marriage. This year’s edition of the couples event was held on 21 December 2019 with the theme: ‘Bonding for Renewal’.
Couples Hangout, West Africa 2019
Our text was taken from Genesis 2:24, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall be one flesh”. Our emphasis was on cleaving, which is bonding. We chose to remind all that marriage is a blessing from God, it is beautiful and the only human relationship with the highest potential for intimacy. We had a photo session for each individual couple, a game time to discover what we know of each other, a couples’ dance time and shared meals together. All asked that we continue this event.
We wish to thank our sponsors and all who sacrificed so much to give us this Marriage among God’s people is various strains and stresses, making refreshing time. constantly under attack by the enemy, some think of backing out and the and many couples are going through unmarried afraid to enter. The Lord Laurens Ohonsi
2020 Vision
I’d better get in my puns about vision And graciously forgives, and then quickly, because by about mid-February forgets. we’ll be absolutely sick of them – I can just see it! I hope, though, that we I look not forward; God sees all the won’t get equally sick of thinking about future, spiritual vision, because (like our physical The road that, short or long, will lead eyesight) it’s so important. So where will me home, we be looking in 2020? Perhaps 2019 And He will face with me its every trial, was a year you wouldn’t be keen to look And bear for me the burdens that may back on, and perhaps 2020 holds its own come. fears and uncertainties for you, quite apart from the geopolitical turmoil that’s I look not round me; then would fears kicked off the year. Looking to yourself assail me, is unlikely to help, although many in this So wild the tumult of earth’s restless world will try. So where does that leave seas, us? Well, the poetess Annie Johnson So dark the world, so filled with woe Flint wrote some recently re-published and evil, verses* that seem to sum things up and So vain the hope of comfort and of point us in the right direction: ease.
And weak endeavors, crumbling into dust. But I look up – into the face of Jesus, For there my heart can rest, my fears are stilled; And there is joy, and love, and light for darkness, And perfect peace, and every hope fulfilled. “I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” (Ps. 121:1-2). “… let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1-2).
I look not back; God knows the I look not inward; that would make me Martin Jones fruitless efforts, wretched; The wasted hours, the sinning, the For I have naught on which to stay my *’He Giveth More Grace – 100 Poems regrets. trust. by Annie Johnson Flint’, published by I leave them all with Him who blots the Nothing I see save failures and Hayden Press record, shortcomings,
Inside this issue
New Year Conferences 2020 Fellowship Calendar End of Year Event
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