Mike Sarver Family
What a joy it is for me to help our team leader, Dr. Ted Speer, oversee our Bible college, Hyles-Anderson College of West Africa. Our Bible college has been training Africans to serve Christ for 10 years now. In February, we awarded diploma [...]
We celebrated Maria’s birthday yesterday. I liked what one of her birthday cards said: “You are not 40; you are 18 with 22 years’ experience.” Maria received gifts of bananas, onions, eggs, and diet cola from our class members. What a great [...]
We pray often for God to send laborers into His harvest. We pray specifically for God to send us the right Bible college students to train. Two of our recent team updates are about our privilege to train a second generation of believers her [...]
I was asked recently, “What do you do in Ghana?” In a nutshell, I am an assistant pastor at a church that averages over 600. (Enough said, right?) We are fulfilling the Great Commission, but so many things must be done to connect teachers a [...]
September 25 began our family’s 10th year here in Ghana. Please pray that Christ would be magnified through us for many more years to come. Funeral Our Sunday school class member, Nana Asante, passed away back in July at the age of 83, and [...]
August Conference Just over a month ago, our family arrived back home in Ghana after a two-month furlough. We were immediately immersed in preparations for our church’s 11th Annual Pastors’ and Workers’ Conference, which was held August 15- [...]
Our Bible college classes are held for one week each month. In April, I taught how to make a budget. I taught them how to have God’s priorities for their spending and what to do if they believe their needs exceed their income. Several of th [...]
I celebrated my 45th birthday on March 3. I told my Sunday school class that the only gift I wanted was for them to be in Sunday school and for them to bring a visitor if they could. I was so pleased with their response! We had 118 in atten [...]
On January 21, Osei Mensah Agyemang and Mavis Adusah were married at our church. For our letter this month, I asked this very special couple to give their testimonies. Mavis I was led to Christ by Mrs. Virginia Carter on 11 April 2007. I vi [...]
One of our Ghanaian families wrote us a thoughtful note recently: “It has always been a great joy to us to know that some people cared enough to leave their country, family, friends, and loved ones, so that one day we will be able to be wit [...]
