This morning I was privileged to travel to the Tennessee State Offices of the Church of God of Prophecy in Hendersonville, Tn. to hand deliver a monetary gift from the congregation of Kempville Chapel Old Time Methodist Church where I pastor. Our congregation, as a whole, felt very strongly about giving to the Haiti Relief efforts after the devastation of that Nation from the tragic earthquake. I had compiled a list of different organizations that were already affiliated and established
for, not only the Haiti relief, but
in Haiti prior to the earthquake. Among that list, that I presented to the leadership of Kempville Chapel, was the
Global Outreach Ministries of the Church of God of Prophecy which operate an orphanage in Haiti that was directly affected in the earthquake with loss of personnel, children, and property. Our leadership decided to have Global Outreach Ministries to be the recepients of the gift.
I am very familar with this organization (COGOP) as to having a great friendship with Bishop E.C. McKinley, State Overseer of Tennessee, and also many other people of the Church of God of Prophecy. When I was a child, my fine parents brought us up in the Church of God of Prophecy and I have many, many friendships within that church all across the State of Tennessee. I thank God for all the many contacts and dear friendships that he has allowed me to have over the years and I believe that there will be many more to come.
Bishop McKinley has a blog that I follow daily that I enjoy reading and receiving from the Lord through this man of God, and within just a few minutes after I had left his office he had already posted the information about my visit on his blog. You will find a link to his blog here:
http://www.tncogop.blogspot.com/
I was so glad to see that ya'll are helping in Haiti,I met a missionary lady from there once and she had an orphanage,had good visits with her but after she went back we sent letters for a while then they stopped,I found uot she had been killed with some of her children.I hope you can make this a mission work,not just a one time give.Love to see you moving forward.LOVE YA, Mama Brenda
ReplyDeleteI was so pleased to see that ya'll are helping in Haiti.I hope it will be a outreach for you and not just a one time thing,you need a mission work,but you know that already.I had a woman pastor friend back in 86 who was from Haiti and she was a fine woman of God,when she got back there we kept in touch,she had a church and school for children,some had no parents.We wrote for a while then one day no letters,then I found out she had been killed and some of the kids but she managed to hide some,bad what some have to give for their love for God.Her name was Mona Joseph.
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