God is good!

Dear Friends and Family,

Ok, I have to make this quick. Last night I had my first preaching opportunity in Cameroon. It was a wonderful blessing. I preached to the students on Galatians 5:16-18 during the Sunday evening vespers service. Here is the cool part. About two days ago I ran into Julius (African Traditional Religion guy) in the village and invited him to the Sunday night service. His words, "I'll be there." I was so excited. Sure enough, last night about 5 minutes before the service began in walked the J-man. After the service we had a wonderful discussion in which he expressed a strong desire to learn more about the Trinity. He asked me if I had any material he could check out. i told him I would provide him with some helpful material. Today, while making some copies for Julius from Wayne Grudem's theology text, guess who walked in? Julius. I was like, "Julius, I'm making your copies right now." He was so excited. Talk about a providential moment. Ok, here is the crazy thing. He has invited me to come to his village to addess his people from the Bible. It seems that I will have the opportunity sometime in the upcoming weeks to preach the gospel to an entire African village. Oh my goodness! Also, today I had my first mentorship meeting with Paul, a blind student in one of my Gospels classes. He asked me two weeks ago if I would spend time with him, mentoring him in the word and in prayer. I prayed about this for 4 or 5 days and then decided to meet with Paul twice a month on Mondays for lunch. I discovered that his blindness was the result of a brutal robbery while he was in Nigeria some time ago. He is a wonderful brother, married and with two kids. His life story is pretty amazing. I would like to say more, but I really must go.

For His glory,

Chris Taylor