Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Jesus is the Reason for the Season45th Year Broadcasting ~ 64 Years Preaching the Gospel

Thank you for making it possible for me to begin my 45th year of broadcasting onNovember 18th and my 64th year in the ministry. Once again we send this specialChristmas Issue of GIJAPA in lieu of a Christmas card so we can thank you for

your support through your gifts and prayers. Seasons Greetings from all of us here at GIJAPA.

GOD Is Justa Prayer Away

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December 2006 Address all Mail: Ed Bousman, P.O. Box 511, Lynchburg, Ohio 45142-0511 Issue 12

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The Churches of Christ in Liberia have beenclosed by the government several years prior. Thisleft a great void in the Churches there in Liberia.They not only need Bibles and lessons, but thecommunion trays that were donated by Person toPerson Ministries.

UNDER the TREEDecember the twenty-fifth is the birthday of the Lord. It should

not be necessary but it needs to be pointed out that we don’t knowwhat day the Lord was born, but He was born and it might as wellhave been December the twenty-fifth as any other day.

People usually get gifts on their birthday so we need to givethe Lord a gift on His birthday. Then there is an additional elementwhen we think of Christmas--there is the matter of the tree. If youare going to give a gift to the Lord on His birthday, put the presentunder the tree.

Put it under the tree that Peter talked about. Peter said in Actsthe fifth chapter, “Whom also they slew hanging Him on a tree.”Paul said in Galatians that third chapter in speaking of the cruci-fixion. “Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.” You see, thereal Tree is the CROSS. Personally I can think of no better way tocelebrate the birthday of the Lord than by placing a generouscheck at the foot of the cross. Sending that check to the GOD ISJUST A PRAYER AWAY radio broadcast is one way to put yourpresent under the tree, and know exactly where it’s going, becauseyou can listen every Sunday.

Members of Virginia church of Christ inMonrovia, Liberia with Bibles from GIJAPAMike Foday, evangelist center.

GIJAPA wants to thank these vol-unteers for their faithful servicethrough the year: THANKS to our son,Eric Vail of 3z.net, A PCD Company,for keeping all of our office equipment--computers, copiers, printers, scanner,fax machine--working and up-to-date,as well as maintaining the web site,keeping our three GIJAPA e-mailaccounts: Sermon of the Week PrayerChain and Newsletter functioning, andproviding technical support for every-thing. THANKS to Nancy Bravinder,Ed’s niece from St. Paul, MN for themany hours she spends proofreadingEd’s sermons. These sermons are sentout to those who subscribe to a sermoneach week by e-mail. (To be on this list,click on the “subscribe” link on ourweb page (www.gijapa.org). And thesesermons are added each week to theweb site under Sermons. THANKS toRobert Bucheler, our friend fromBeerwick-Upon-Tweed, England andhis mother Kathleen, who listens faith-fully every week to our Bible VoiceEurope and Bible Voice Russia broad-casts and sends us a reception report.This is such a blessing to have someonelistening and reporting back to us, andRobert has done this for over 6 years.

THANKS to Professor EdwardDevadoss Karunakaran from the UnionChristian College in India who listensto our India broadcast each Sunday andreports back to us. Also note under theletters how he is using our Studies inthe Bible lessons for his students.THANKS to Ike & Lee Perty for beingour contact in Grana to distributeBibles and lessons to thousands whorequest and collect the lessons and sendthem to us for grading. Read moreabout their work in another part of thepaper. THANKS to Bob and MarthaFeathers for continuing to send outhundreds of audiotapes from HillsboroFamily camp speakers to all of the peo-ple who have completed 30 lessons ofStudies in the Bible. A BIG THANKSto the Pinehurst Christian Church inMarietta, OH for providing the fundsfor this tape ministry. THANKS to Bobalso for keeping all of GIJAPA record-

SpecialThanks

THANKS to the Church of Christat Grissom in Peru, Indiana and GeorgeFaull, Evangelist for the truck load ofclothes and shoes for Africa. BIGTHANKS to Melvin See and Zeke Goffusing his truck and bringing them to us.

THANKS to Person to PersonMinistries and Kerry Allen, Directorfor the 9 sets of communion trays thatwere sent to the Churches of Christ inLiberia and Grana, Africa that hadnone. SPECIAL THANKS in memoryof Lester Woodley who supportedGIJAPA generously for many, manyyears and remembered GIJAPA indeath. The first church service I attend-ed in 1939 when I came to Cincinnati togo to school was the Columbia Churchof Christ. Paul Holderman a trumpet-playing preacher greeted us. But at theend of the services it was a tall slimyoung man invited me to stay afterservices for young people’s meeting;that was Lester Woodley. He and I wereboth born in 1918--he was 3 monthsolder.

broadcasting. This saves us thousandsof dollars in postage and supplies aswell as time.

Gijapa’sProgress

If you have not looked at our newweb site at www.gijapa.org please dothat. You’ll not only find the old thingsbut we’ve added COMMUNIONMEDITATIONS, LISTEN TO THECURRENT BROADCAST SERMON24/7 for the past 6 months, PRINTEDSERMONS that you can read along asyou listen. We also have pictures ofthose who volunteer for GIJAPA, theRADIO SCHEDULE, and you candownload the monthly NEWSLET-TERS. GIJAPA is now sending theweekly sermons electronically to 8 ofthe 12 AM radio stations in the US and3 of the 5 short-wave stations for

PTL! We are in another specialmonth, a month that finalizes all activi-ties in year 2006. Though we fell sick,had problems, suffered in a way, hadbad business we are alive and kickingall by the graciousness and mercies ofGod the Almighty. Every one of us isdoing very well here in the family andwe are very grateful unto the Lord forall He has done for us bad and good. Itwas 1 year when the Lord tested ourfaith with that robbery, but by His owngrace, He kept us comforted and strongthrough your prayers, support andwords of encouragements. We aredoing the soul winning job God calledus to do for Him; and that is what weshall do even if the going gets tougher!Please pray for us!

THE Truth’s activities for the yearwere successful. Our village-to-villagework was tremendously better than lastyear. We talked to several people(approximately 5,000) in 9 small vil-lages and 3 towns. The traditional festi-val opened the way for us to have morepeople to talk to, as many people trav-eled to visit friends and love ones. Weare starting some congregations in atleast three villages in the next year ifthe Lord willing. Negotiations areunderway for structures or meetingplaces as well as materials for thesecongregations. At the moment, soulsthat have been won for the Lord travelfrom their various villages to worshipwith us in our congregation (whoseweekly giving is below $20) supportsthese villagers with their transportationcost every week.

We say a very BIG THANK YOUfor the clothes for the people in the vil-lages around where we work and thosein our congregation, as well as, thoseout side of our congregation--May theLord richly bless you Ed and Naomi forsoliciting this clothes for these peopleincluding ourselves. Many people nowhave something to wear for church andother activities. The children’s clothing

Ike & LeeUpdate

Thanks Eric, Nancy,Robert, Prof . Ed,

Ike & Lee,Bob & Martha

ing and duplication equipment in excel-lent condition and upgrading as needed.

my head, left foot is not good, and aproblem with my left hand, but I amcoping with them. Thanks and mayGod bless you as you keep praying forus.

THE TRUTH-GIJAPATogether We Win Souls

LettersFrom Listeners

Dear Ed and Naomi,I have so far got THE STUDIES

IN THE BIBLE and given to the peoplethat are faithful in attending Biblesclasses, they are filling them out and Iwill be sending them to you, only to askis there any certificate that can beawarded to them? (We reply: A laminat-ed certificate is sent to each personupon completion of 30 lessons and 2 ofEd’s NT Sermon books). Also I requestthat more Studies in the Bible be sent,as there are some others that have notgot; yet they are among the faithful. Asfor the Bibles am waiting and as soonas I get them I will e-mail you.

Thanks, Raymond from Churchof Christ in Uganda, E. Africa

Later Update: Thanks for the Biblesthat you sent to us they are nice oneswith good covers we got them onSaturday 10/28/06 and I have giventhem out today in the service and therewas such a tremendous joy. I am send-ing you the first lot of the lessons forgrading. Please send us more Bibles i.e.50 Bibles and lessons from 11-20Studies in the Bible.

God bless you allRaymond form Uganda

Dear Sister Naomi & Brother Ed,Greetings. Received the package

enclosed the Bible Study lessons. Imade an announcement at chapel intro-ducing the course of study. (Wheremore than 200 young boys and girlswere present). Right after the servicewas over they rushed to me for enroll-ment. I gave away 10 of the first fivelessons. They will do it and submit theyellow answer sheets to me. I will sendthem to you. Let us see how it works.Please pray for the students who will dothis course to know the living God.How is Ed? Give my love and regardsto him.

Your small servant, (Prof.) Ed,Union Christian College, India

especially what we were thinkingabout; God bless you for the clothes forthem too.

The GIJAPA ‘T’ Shirt is a talk ofthe town and many are worshippingwith us all because of the ‘T’ Shirt. Youmay say this is not right but to me it isanother way to win souls for Christ.People say the inscription “GOD ISJUST A PRAYER AWAY” on the ‘T’Shirt is what ‘kills’ them. Truly, inGrana due to the economic hardshipand the spread news and evil, peopleare running into and flooding churchesand prayer centers for rescue. Peopleare more powerful than before, so withsuch an inscription, people feel encour-aged in the Lord. Unfortunately, the ‘T’Shirt is no longer being printed due tolack of funds. (See our picture on website.)

OUR PRAYER REQUESTAND URGENT NEED

GIJAPA has been very prompt withour requests for materials for the workwe are doing here. Today we can boastof thousands of people reading theirown Bibles either in English or in theirown languages. This includes Biblessent by GIJAPA, as well as Bibles webuy in our local language. Morerequests for the lessons are pouring inand we are doing our very best to satis-fy everybody who asks for the lessonsand a Bible, but with a very specialcare. Today, elderly men and womenare reading the Bible without strainingtheir eyes due to the Large Print Bibles.We still need more Bibles both inEnglish and in Local Languages andalso Large Print Bibles. At the time ofgoing to press, we have requests for3,821 English Bibles, 614 Large PrintBibles and 763 Bibles in our local lan-guages from individuals and churchesfrom Grana, Togo and Ivory Coast. Weare traveling on commercial vehiclesfor all of our activities and we think itabout time we get our own vehicle forthe work we are doing. The charges areexorbitant by these commercial vehi-cles--over $800 yearly. There are manyreasons too: The risk involved in travel-ing on commercial vehicles--no insur-ance, they over load, the rickety natureof the cars, diseases, the delay in offloading and picking passengers on theway. Please, pray for us to be able tobuy our own car in the coming year2007. I have been involved in 13 auto-mobile accidents since the start of thisproject. As I am speaking, I have prob-lems with my neck, my chest, cracks in

Later Update: Eight out of ten studentshave returned the answer sheets of thefirst give lessons. I am just waiting forthe submission of the rest two. I havegiven them the second set of lessons (6-10). Some of the students told me theyenjoy the lessons. It’s spiritually nour-ishing and a blessing. In the meanwhilesome other students wanted to enrollthemselves for the course. So kindlysend 10 (ten more sets of lessons). Youmay include in this pack 10 sets of les-sons 10-15. I took a printout of yourlast email to me concerning the certifi-cates and books given on successfulcompletion of the course--and put it upon the chapel notice board. Thanks foreverything...With warmest regards.

Your small servant, (Prof.) Ed, Union Christian College, India

Dear Mr. Bousman,Please use this money to purchase

Bibles for the use of Ike and Lee. Maythey be blessed in their endeavors. Weare a small group of ladies who belongto our church and do quilting, garagesales and make noodles & persimmonpulp to sell to support our Missionaries.We try to help those who need our help.Thank you for your assistance.

“Stich & Sew,” Robinson, IL

Dear Ed Bousman and Sister Naomi,Grace of our Lord Jesus, love of

our Father and the peace of the HolySpirit be with you all. Ed, first of all Iwant to say thank you for your greateffort in Christ to minister the people ofGod by the grace that Christ have givenyou. And I am greatly delighted for Ihave accepted the Christian doctrinecertificated, old testament sermonsnumber two by Ed Bousman, AngelsDo They Exist Today lesson 1-12 byNaomi Bousman that you send me,God bless you abundantly for all yourhard and effective contribution in myChristian life. The parcels now sentfrom United States are rejected by ourcountry. I pray the difficulties to beresolved by our Almighty GOD. Iwould also like to inform you that I amhungry for the word of God, and if youhave or if you can inform me how I canget farther and deeper growth throughHis word. It would be grateful to me.Love, mercy, peace and the HolySpirit’s leading be with you.

Your sister in Christ,Azeb in Eritrea, E. Africa

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