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Dear friends & family:
We praise God for His loving kindness and tender mercies in seeing us through
our intense schedules to and from Nigeria from June 10 – July 6.
It was a journey started and finished by faith and the abundant
Grace of God amidst several obstacles and challenges for most of us on the team.
Prior to departure, we faced ill health with members and loved ones, missing or
late arriving passports and visas, Tropical Storm Allison that flooded & depressed
the city of Houston a day before our departure, Bank & ATM outages and no
opportunity for some of us to get their travel money, etc.
But through it all…we’ve learned again to trust Him
more in difficult circumstances for higher levels.
Mission Trip I Team Members - this year's team members
were as follows:
· Dr. A. Sunny Ochi Okorie
(President, RNM, Inc. and team leader – League City, TX)
· Mrs. Ogechi F. Ochi-Okorie (Board Member RNM, Inc. –
League City, TX)
· Mrs. Meriel Ije Bernhard (Board Member,
RNM, Inc., and also representing MOM’s In Touch USA – Portland, Oregon)
· Rev. Clarence Ike Joseph (Volunteer, and also
representing Changed Hearts Changed Lives, Inc. – Houston, TX)
· Mrs. Grace U. Ike (Volunteer, Nurse –
Houston, TX)
· Dr. Samson Otuwa (Board Member, RNM, Inc., and also
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opportunities for colleagues
at Texas Children’s Hospital – Friendswood, TX)
We all left Houston via KLM flight to Lagos
through Amsterdam, Netherlands June 10 at 3:40 PM (with the exception of
Dr. Sam Otuwa who got to Nigeria a little over a week later).
Arriving Lagos at about 6:30 PM June 11th we
were so tired but were met at the airport by two of our representatives
in Lagos – Mr. Celestine Ikwuamesi and Rev. Linus Ezerebo who is based
in Ogberuru, Orlu. Celestine & Gladys (Ogechi’s younger sister) Ikwuemesi
pastor a growing local church in Surulere, Lagos. (We ministered at their
Church July 4th before leaving for Houston).
They took us to the Ikeja Airport Hotel with
hired armed police escorts where we rested till the next day when we took
off to Eastern Nigeria where our target Project areas are located.
Since we pre-arranged the commissioning of the
first Water Well Drilling project and also our meetings in most places,
it was not difficult to proceed to work immediately following our arrival.
We met many old friends, and family members upon arrival and had very
pleasant but brief re-unions.
Following our intense prayer time on arrival in
the Village of Ogberuru, the Spirit of the Lord assured us that He was
going to favor us as we focused mostly on Jesus Christ and not any
distracting circumstance or situation that we face which might have been
unpleasant.
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