On 05 January 2010, Dr Filimao Chambo and Dr David and Mrs Sharon Graves met with the Africa Region ministry staff with a challenge to look for God at work and to be prepared for God to work through them in 2010. Dr Chambo reminded the staff that  “we can experience much joy and peace in the New Year as we continue to serve the Lord together and as we answer His call to prepare the way so that others may find Salvation”.

Dr Graves, in a devotional from Joshua 3, said, “As we begin 2010, we are moving into new territories with new doors and new challenges. Some will be good, others painful, some spiritual and exciting!

“God’s announcement to us today, as it was to Joshua and the children of Israel in Joshua 3, is that He will be with us and will guide us on the journey, ‘Then you will know which way to go since you have never been this way before’ and, ‘...I am with you as I was with Moses.’

“God also speaks a word of instruction through Joshua which also applies to us; ‘Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.’ Our responsibility is to consecrate all parts of our life totally to the Lord. His response is amazing things! God provided for the children of Israel during the 40 years in the wilderness – water from a rock, manna, quail, soles of shoes that did not wear out. And He will provide for us in 2010.

“Next God tells the children of Israel to take 12 stones from the Jordan and to build a memorial for future generations as a reminder of the amazing things that God had done for them that day. When Neal Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin Aldrin Jr, landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, they erected a memorial to show they had been there by planting an American flag on the surface of the moon. We as Christians must plant our flag as a memorial to where we have been and what God has provided for us. Our flag will say, “Jesus is Lord!”

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