Story by Rev. Tim Eby

Field Partnership Coordinator

What a Blessing to the Africa West Field District Libraries!

During the recent leadership meeting in Accra, Ghana we found ourselves in the midst of a huge problem and blessing at the same time.  A huge blessing because we began to open box after box of the books donated by many people through Christian Literature for Africa and realized just how great the library was.

We found complete volumes of commentaries, books pertaining to our classes for Nazarene Theological Institute, bibles of all kinds, and many devotional books.  There were books on counseling, family life, youth topics, and children’s books.  Truly the hundreds of boxes were full of great books.  Not only that but through the help of Pastor

al Ministries department in our Global Ministries Center in the US we were also able to have french books printed and shipped for our French districts as well as copies of Teachers manuals for many of the modular classes taught in the US and will serve as additional aids to our teachers.

Our great problem was now how to sort and divide the books between the districts and to get them all the way to their countries.  Parting leaders were boxing books and taking them away by bus and taxi.  Some took them as extra baggage on flights with the hopes to pick up more the next time leaders passed through Ghana.

After several days of sorting and boxing up books we were able to set up a master library in Ghana with key books as well as sort and re-pack boxes for delivery to the different districts.  It will still be a great challenge to get books to places as far away as Liberia which is almost the same distance as crossing the United States.

We hope and pray that God will help us get these necessary books to the remote countries of West Africa and into the hands of our pastors at the district training centers.

I am encouraged because God has been faithful to us.  I have already seen libraries completed in places like the North of Ghana.  Rev. Frank Mills organized with Phil Carr to get 60 boxes moved to the north and the district leaders are already benefiting from their new libraries.  The job is far from over so we ask you to consider how you can help us complete the job that is already started to provide quality books to our centers all across the Africa West Field

For more details on how you can get involved, please contact:

Rev. Tim Eby

Field Partnership Coordinator

teby@awfcon.org

Note:  Our libraries still need many more reference books.  If you are interested in helping us gather more books for our district libraries please contact the Africa West Field office to coordinate this effort with your church.

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