THANK YOU

[Chancy Gondwe]

Beloved in the Lord,

Below is a message from our sister Jackie. What a testimony!

Uganda team- you are so inspirational. God bless you for your hard work, commitment and passion for the Lord.

Tricia- I'm so much encouraged about your zeal and bold move to join LEI as a full-time missionary. God bless you too.

Wow! what an amazing God we serve. Dear friends I'm always encouraged by the love and passion for Lord you all have.

I love you all and let's continue to remember one another,

Chancy Gondwe

C/O Mr. Thawale

P.O. Box 624

Mangochi

Malawi

Cell phone: +265(0)99 340 7489

                   
"Only one life to soon be passed, only what is done for Christ will last" - John Piper

Greetings Everyone,

I would like to thank you for once again partnering with us concerning the transition of power and the inauguration. It has been amazingly quite here. For the first time in six months we felt that the climate had shift a bit, which allowed us to be able to move a little more freely.

It was reported in the news that this is the first time in Astan's history that the transferring of power was done so peacefully, where as the out going President went out with out a power struggle, fighting, unrest of any kind.  I know beyond a shadow of doubt, that our Father heard us along with the rest of His children and moved on our behalf.  I tell you of a truth, with all the different things that goes on here, It is an exciting time to be here, to be apart of the historical event and see our Father move in miraculous ways.

Touching The Heart:

When my cousins found out that my family from clear across the waters was turning down the plate and talking to Dad on their behalf, they were over whelmed; so much so, that one of my cousins cried.she said "we are from this country and we did not think to do this. We are full and you all are empty. Why would you do this for us"?  Once again, I got to share of the greatest love.

I know we are not to tell when we are turning down the plate, but they witnessed me not eating  and they became concerned that either I did not have anything to eat or I was sick. I did try not to tell them what was going on, but they pressed me to the point I could not lie. So I shared what was going on and how I asked my friends from home and even a friend that I have in Malawi to do this with me.  They proceeded to say " we are your friends, why did you not ask us to p_ _ y with you? How could you make such a decision by yourself? Please, the next time you do something like this please involve us". It is another mile stone to be able to speak into their lives. Today we all went out to lunch together, it was eleven of us, me being the only foreigner, once again they covered me.

Another wonderful day filled with thanksgiving to our Father who do all things well. We will be out of the office for about a week because this is another holiday for them; it is their big EID, where a live lamb is slain to show the sacrifice that Abraham made. Please ask Dad to help them see the real LAMB that was slain before the foundation of the world.

Much love to you all, I so appreciate you!!

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[Levi Abongo]

Dear Friends,

Thank you for everything each one of you is doing. god bless you and let's move forward..Amen

Levi

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[First NameSamuel Buenor Lawerteh]

Thank you folks for keeping the networking alive.
Good to always remember praying for each other. My team prayed exclusively for Jackie.
Our prayer goes also for Chancy,Tricia, Levi and all.
The Good Lord would definitely supply all your needs according to His riches...
Blessings!
Samuel
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On Mon, 6/10/14, Levi Abongo <abong...@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: THANK YOU
To: "Chancy Gondwe" <cpsgo...@gmail.com>
Cc: "ilti2013" <ilti...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Monday, 6 October, 2014, 2:22 PM

Dear
Friends,Thank you for everything each one of you

[Levi Abongo]

Dear Brethren,

Many thanks for always networking and getting to know what is happening with us. My heart rests because I am sure all of you are well and praying for each other. Yes, Pastor Samuel.. what about the Africa reunion Chapter we had thought about?

Please, take up the challenge

God bless you all

Levi

[First NameSamuel Buenor Lawerteh]

Yes Bro Levi, We are planning a Regional ILTI for September 2015 in Accra Ghana.
Very soon the proposal will be out. Please pray with us.
Samuel
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On Tue, 7/10/14, Levi Abongo <abong...@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: THANK YOU

To: "First NameSamuel Buenor Lawerteh" <sblawe...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Chancy Gondwe" <cpsgo...@gmail.com>, "ilti2013" <ilti...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, 7 October, 2014, 7:45 PM

Dear
Brethren,Many thanks for always networking and

[Levi Abongo]

Dear Samuel,

Thank you. we shall pray for the mission

Levi

[Levi Abongo]

Dear my beloved,

Today in David's City, your Savior is born. He is the Messiah, the Lord . He will be responsible for leading His people and He will be called, "Wonderful counselor, powerful God, Father who lives forever, Prince of peace.."

May the Light of the Christmas star shines to you,

the cheer and goodwill of friends to you,

the hope of a childlike heart to you,

the joy of a thousand angels to you,

the love of the son and God's Peace to you,

May you and your families have a very blessed Christmas and a prosperous new year 2015

God bless you all..Amen

Levi

[Patricia Young]

Same to you all, friends!!! I miss you all so much. Many blessings for 2015!!!!!!!

Sent from my iPad

[sblawe...@yahoo.com]

Thank you Levi, Tricia and all.... Wishing all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New year. Samuel Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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From: Patricia Young <indiaf...@gmail.com>;
To: Levi Abongo <abong...@gmail.com>;
Cc: First NameSamuel Buenor Lawerteh <sblawe...@yahoo.com>; Chancy Gondwe <cpsgo...@gmail.com>; ilti2013 <ilti...@googlegroups.com>;
Subject: Re: THANK YOU
Sent: Wed, Dec 24, 2014 8:56:43 PM

[Levi Abongo]

A Christmas message from Mahatma Gandhi

Written by

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

December 26, 2014

Mahatma Gandhi in a photo from a period album.(AP Photo/James A. Mills)

           

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

December 26, 2014

I shall tell you how, to an outsider like me, the story of Christ, as told in the New Testament, has struck. My acquaintance with the Bible began nearly 45 years ago, and that was through the New Testament. I could not then take much interest in the Old Testament, which I had certainly read, if only to fulfill a promise I had made to a friend whom I happened to meet in a hotel. But when I came to the New Testament and the Sermon on the Mount, I began to understand the Christian teaching, and the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount echoed something I had learnt in childhood and something which seemed to be part of my being and which I felt was being acted up to in the daily life around me.

I say it seemed to be acted up to, meaning thereby that it was not necessary for my purpose that they were actually living the life. This teaching was non-retaliation, or non-resistance to evil. Of all the things I read, what remained with me forever was that Jesus came almost to give a new law ‒ though he of course had said he had not come to give a new law, but tack something on to the old Mosaic law. Well, he changed it so that it became a new law ‒ not an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, but to be ready to receive two blows when only one was given, and to go two miles when you were asked to go one.

I said to myself, this is what one learns in one’s childhood. Surely this is not Christianity. For all I had then been given to understand was that to be a Christian was to have a brandy bottle in one hand and beef in the other. The Sermon on the Mount, however, falsified the impression. As my contact with real Christians i.e., men living in fear of God, increased, I saw that the Sermon on the Mount was the whole of Christianity for him who wanted to live a Christian life. It is that Sermon which has endeared Jesus to me.

I may say that I have never been interested in a historical Jesus. I should not care if it was proved by someone that the man called Jesus never lived, and that what was narrated in the Gospels was a figment of the writer’s imagination. For the Sermon on the Mount would still be true for me.

Reading, therefore, the whole story in that light, it seems to me that Christianity has yet to be lived, unless one says that where there is boundless love and no idea of retaliation whatsoever, it is Christianity that lives. But then it surmounts all boundaries and book teaching. Then it is something indefinable, not capable of being preached to men, not capable of being transmitted from mouth to mouth, but from heart to heart. But Christianity is not commonly understood in that way.

Somehow, in God’s providence, the Bible has been preserved from destruction by the Christians, so-called. The British and Foreign Bible Society has had it translated into many languages. All that may serve a real purpose in the time to come. Two thousand years in the life of a living faith may be nothing. For though we sang, “All glory to God on High and on the earth be peace,” there seems to be today neither glory to God nor peace on earth.

As long as it remains a hunger still unsatisfied, as long as Christ is not yet born, we have to look forward to Him. When real peace is established, we will not need demonstrations, but it will be echoed in our life, not only in individual life, but in corporate life. Then we shall say Christ is born. That to me is the real meaning of the verse we have sung. Then we will not think of a particular day in the year as that of the birth of the Christ, but as an ever-recurring event which can be enacted in every life.

And the more I think of fundamental religion, and the more I think of miraculous conceptions of so many teachers who have come down from age to age and clime to clime, the more I see that there is behind them the eternal truth that I have narrated. That needs no label or declaration. It consists in the living of life, never ceasing, ever progressing towards peace.

When, therefore, one wishes “A Happy Christmas” without the meaning behind it, it becomes nothing more than an empty formula. And unless one wishes for peace for all life, one cannot wish for peace for oneself. It is a self-evident axiom, like the axioms of Euclid, that one cannot have peace unless there is in one an intense longing for peace all around. You may certainly experience peace in the midst of strife, but that happens only when to remove strife you destroy your whole life, you crucify yourself.

And so, as the miraculous birth is an eternal event, so is the Cross an eternal event in this stormy life. Therefore, we dare not think of birth without death on the cross. Living Christ means a living Cross, without it life is a living death.

Harijan,
31-12-1931