tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460040761850702597.post8850048583616214962..comments2007-11-02T12:06:41.551+02:00Moruti Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09077097188912967017noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8460040761850702597.post-30624981434963576962007-11-02T12:06:00.000+02:002007-11-02T12:06:00.000+02:00Good post brother! My name is Steven Banks and I am from Massillon Ohio, Cornerstone Baptist Church actually. We are the family that has adopted you as our missionaries but we have not been able to contact you at least by email. This is the next best thing. I would like to send you the email that I sent out previously. It seems I can receive emails from you ok but you cannot receive from me. Let me know if there is a better way to correspond; maybe I will try sending from my wife's email address and see if that works. You can write back at:<BR/>swbanks@kent.edu<BR/><BR/>Brother Hammett,<BR/><BR/>My name is Steven <BR/>Banks and I am from Massillon Ohio. I wrote you before because we have <BR/>adopted you as missionaries! Unfortunately I do not have the email I <BR/>sent before so I could not just resend it. <BR/><BR/>Anyways I and my wife and my son go to Cornerstone Baptist Church and our church supports you and your family. Our church started an adopt a <BR/>missionary thing and I thought it was a good idea and I desire to be a missionary somewhere in the world before the Lord takes me home. We saw your video of what God was doing there in South Africa and it was <BR/>a blessing to me. So we decided to adopt your family as our <BR/>missionaries. You guys are also young like us - I am 26, my wife 28 and our son is 7 months old.<BR/><BR/>Well let me tell you a bit about myself. I was saved when I was 21 <BR/>years old. I grew up Catholic and had my first personal gospel witness <BR/>from a friend when I was 18. He had me pray a sinners prayer but I <BR/>didnt understand true salvation at the time. Three years later I was <BR/>reading an article about hell and God made it personal to me and I <BR/>realized I needed to get saved. Well God did save me, praise His <BR/>name! He has been working in my life in a great way ever since.<BR/><BR/>I graduated from Kent State University and I work at a software <BR/>company called Virtual Hold and have been there for 3.5 years. I dont <BR/>want to be there forever; I want God to use me to preach the gospel <BR/>somewhere in this world. Right now it is in the U.S. but many folks <BR/>are disinterested and hardened to the gospel. God is still working <BR/>here though and I have seen the fruit of that in many peoples lives.<BR/><BR/>My wife just got saved in May after a week of revival meetings. She and I both thought she was saved 8 years ago but there has been doubt <BR/>in her heart for a while now and she realized that all she did was <BR/>pray a prayer but no conviction of sin. Praise God that she is now <BR/>gloriously saved!<BR/><BR/>Well I would love to know more about you and your family. Things like <BR/>how you were saved, how you and your wife met, how God called you to <BR/>South Africa. I also realize you might not have time to write all that <BR/>stuff and that is ok. You must be extremely busy ministering there in <BR/>South Africa and that is a good thing.<BR/><BR/>I heard that you send out updates to your church on a weekly or so <BR/>basis. Is there any way I would be able to get those so I can better <BR/>pray for you? I pray for you every day during the week but I would <BR/>like to better know what to pray for. <BR/><BR/>Hopefully we will be able to keep up dialogue. Take care brother and the Lord bless you and <BR/>your family.<BR/><BR/>Steve Banksvhtbankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10571640889750101574noreply@blogger.com