On my way to South Africa!

Greetings and you are blessed highly!

Thanks for all your support to the work of ministry.

Just to refresh your memory, my trip to Guinea and Sierra Leone was a success. The young people were grateful that I made this trip. We had about 90 young people on camp for a week. Though the rains disturbed our outdoors session yet we managed to conduct all planned sessions.

I returned to Accra on the 14th of September. Thanks to your input which allowed me to fulfill the call to ministry.

As I previously mentioned to you, I am planning to migrate to South Africa this year. By the grace of God, everything is going as plan except I had delay my return to Pretoria , South Africa from the end of September to the end of November. This was due to two reasons. Upon my return, my guardian, Fanny Dunbar was in Accra for her regular medical till the 12th of October. She has since returned. Also my host pastor, Rev. A. Z. Smucker’s wife was hospitalized for two week and a half for surgery. I needed to be around to help him out.

I have set my return date tentatively the third week in November; which is from the 18th November to December 3rd. Any date between will do. In other words as soon I can raise the needed funds to travel, I will go.

To fully put into action my plans, I need to raise the amount of US$2,200.00 for roundtrip ticket ($1,200.00) and a four-months prepaid rent (US$1,000.00). [I have already made the arrangement for the home. It’s a semi-furnish apartment, self contained.] As immigration requirement I can not travel on a one way ticket, I will not be allowed entry.

It is in this light I do solicit your contribution and input as I will be filling my papers for residence permit upon arrival.

My personal upkeep and filing expense will be handled personally. While I will believe God to raise fund for utility expenses from he work of my hands.

Furthermore I request our prayers for the work of ministry and the young people for South Africa . I am going on the mission field as a Youth Missionary under Sober Watchman Ministries. This status will be advantageous to me as it will allow me to work without limits with churches of various denominations.

Again, thanks for all your support and input into my life. May God Almighty increase the work of your hands and give you the fullest return of what your have sown in the life of the young people.

I do look forward to hearing form you.

Remain blessed always!

Jarnyene

When will we Worship?!

A Liberian Visionary

PROFILE OF DR. NATHANIEL R. RICHARDSON


DR. NATHANIEL R. RICHARDSON
EARLY CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION

Dr. Nathaniel Reginald Richardson was born on March 8, 1946, at the Maternity Center in Monrovia. His parents were Nathaniel and Edith Richardson. He obtained his kindergarten and elementary education in Monrovia thereafter spending 6 years in school in England. He returned home in 1963 and graduated two years later from the Laboratory High School, renamed Tubman High School in the late 60's.

Dr. Richardson attended the University of Liberia, earned a BSc in Geology in 1971 from the Western Michigan University, an MSc in Geophysics in 1973 from Michigan State University and a PhD from Purdue University, Indiana, USA.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE

Dr. Richardson returned home and joined the professional staff of the Liberia Geological Survey in 1978 where he was shortly thereafter appointed its Director. He retained that post until late 1980, when he resigned to form Geoservices, Inc., his own mineral exploration and water development company. Dr. Richardson is very knowledgeable about Liberia's natural resources and their potential impact on the economic development of Liberia.

During the civil war which started 1989, Dr. Richardson was forced to flee Monrovia like thousands of other Liberians and was internally displaced; first in Fendell, then Bong Mines, and finally at Cari in Bong County where he got involved in distributing food to children and other displaced people.

Dr. Richardson worked between 1991-1992, he served as President of Liminco and again in the same capacity between 1997-1999.

Other significant work experiences include operation of a natural resource exploration venture called Resources Development Company (RDC) with his geophysicist friend, Mr. Cletus Wotorson. Dr. Richardson has also served on the Faculty of the University of Liberia as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geology.

PRESENT WORK

Dr. Richardson is one of a handful of very successful Liberian entrepreneurs. He is presently President of Amlib United Minerals, a mineral exploration company with mineral properties in several counties.

He is also President and founder of Geoservices Inc. Water Division which drills water wells across the country and Geoservices Scrap Division, which has the contract from the GOL to salvage and scrap the former Bong Mines facilities that were destroyed during the war. Geoservices purchased trains and reactivated the railroad to support its Bong Mine operation. That community is served for the first time by the passenger and freight services it established. Other projects in the area of agriculture are growing seed rice for distribution to local farmers, and plantains and cassava production to start a processing operation. Geoservices is starting a program to stock some of the numerous lakes in Bong Mines with fish for fish farming. In addition to these agricultural programs Geoservices will soon be reactivating one of the two rock crushers in Bong Mines, which were massively looted during the war, to supply crush rock for the railroad and for the construction market in and around Monrovia.

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION AND POLITICAL AMBITION

Dr. Richardson is a member of the Bethel World Outreach Ministries International. He is married and has five children. In 2003 he joined the Liberian Action Party where he presently serves as Chairman of its Montserrado County branch. He is presently a candidate for one of the Senatorial seats of Montserrado County in the upcoming General and Presidential elections in October 2005.

PUBLIC SERVICE CONTRIBUTION

Dr. Richardson serves on the Board of Directors of several organizations. These include: The Monrovia Bible Training College, Chairman; The Liberian Organization for Good Governance (LOGG), Chairman/President; The National Youth Services & Development Corp. (NYSDC), Founder and Chairman; Mercy Corps, Director; The Liberian Bank for Development and Investment (LBDI), Director and Cuttington University College, Director.

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

Dr. Richardson is a member of Rotary International, a service organization that meets social needs worldwide. He also contributes monthly to several orphanages in and around Monrovia, several schools and churches in and outside of Monrovia and he also supports a large number of scholarship students attending varieties of academic institutions throughout Liberia.

He is an avid sports enthusiast, having once served as President of the Mighty Barrolle Sports Association and a founder of the Pythons Basketball Team. He was also one of Liberia's best track athletes serving as captain of the University of Liberia track team in 1968.

Dr. Richardson's Philosphy and Vision for Liberia

Dr. Richardson believes that each Liberian has an obligation to work to make Liberia a better place than they met it. He feels that there is no room for "fence sitters", as one is either for progress or against it. He further believes that "no one but us", working sincerely and diligently together will build this nation using the abundant natural and human resources which God has blessed Liberia with. He believes the time has now come when all Liberians must "Stand up for Liberia" so she can regain her dignity.

His vision can best be summarized in a statement he made on March 8th, 2005 when he announced his candidacy for a Montserrado Senatorial seat. He said, he is getting into politics to enable him "to work with others of like values, to right the helm of our ship of State, so that we can begin to govern ourselves in a manner which would bring peace, honor, integrity, respectability, accountability and thereby prosperity to our people, and respect among the community of Nations".
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Launching Project "Intentional"

Intentional Living

The Lord Jesus Christ is the perfect example of living intentionally. He was guided and led by purpose. People who live intentionally most often then not, leave behind a legacy. It is our life long obligation to discover purpose,God's purpose for our lives, and intentionally live out the vision we see with our minds. Orison Swett Marden profoundly said,"The man who has learn the art of seeing things looks with his brain". And Napoleon Hill also amplified it and said,"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe,it can achieve". Ofcourse those sound like borrowed words from Proverbs 23:7...."as a man thinketh in his heart,so is he". We are the sum total of our thoughts.

Intentional living allows us to create a mental picture of not just God's intentions for us but the person we want to become,where we want to go,what we want to achieve and the path we want our lives to take. People who refuse or neglect deciding for themselves most likely surrender mental powers to strangers and inevitably loose control of the outcome of who they become. Other people control what they think do or say. We see this epidemically in the youth subculture today. Millions of teens are abusers of drugs because they neglected control of the mental image they possess of themselves. And everything else spirals down. Their lives are altered because they lack the intentional lifestyle that comes from creating a firmament of possibilities which comes from seeing themselves as God intended...to replenish,subdue and multiply.

Naturally we see our limitations and are in fact limited,especially those of us from war torn Sub-Saharan Liberia. However it behooves us to recreate the firmament that we want above us, because "what we think creates".

At Sober Watchman we intentionally put ourselves under the prayer of Apostle John..."Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in good health,even as you souls prosper". Our intentions are predetermined choices. Our choices starts with mental representations of our intentions. Painting those pictures in your mind is the beginning of creating the image. Visualization actualizes.
Today,what are the images we wish to create tomorrow? What mental accentuation have we conceived that could alter our destiny and the people around you?
Remember, "whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve".
"Blessed is he who believes even though he doesn't see".

Sober Watchman Ministries, at the beginning of this year sent out a list of intended projects she wish to bring to fruition so as to strengthen her outreach to young people in Liberia. paramount on that list of images is the construction of the ministries' own office space on her 2 acre plot in Brewerville, westward, outside Monrovia. Currently a former drama team member,who is now an architect is studying the land and wish to emerge with a draft representation of what the ministry intends to construct on the property. Meanwhile the ministry is looking into our entrepreneurial venture through which to generate income for official operations. The complete list of images can be mail to you upon your request.

In the same vein,you can participate in the collection of books,Bibles study resources,office supplies,worship Cds,Drama props, musical instrument,computer, banner,amplifiers and Public Address Systems.

Call 1-262-914-9836 if you intend to participate in the US or call 06-524-711 to talk to the National Director, in Liberia.

Update on our Adult Mentors and Pledgers

On behalf of Sober Watchman Ministries worldwide, we would like to extend our congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Fallah on their wedding, December 2007. May your union be blessed with peace, love, and excitement. We appreciate you.

His Glory, His Honor

Tribute to Missionary Jeff Tarplah

Jeff loved the Lord and His people.
His affection and care for people will
forever be an inspiration to us.
"Cousin", the name he
affectionately called his friends
shall forever dear to our memories.
We will miss Him!
Missionaries
PASTOR OLIVER AND ELLA RUSS
Douala, Cameroon

Cuzzin...was the name we would call
one another. Jeff, loved life. He had
a passion for prayer, ministry,
worship and a great smile.
He inspired me to go all the way for
ministry. It was heart renting to
hear of his passing.
PASTOR ZANGAI PEABODY

We would like to share our
condolence to the entire Living
Water Ministries family and the
Biological family of Rev. Tarplah.
"Jeff" as he was commonly called
was a blessing to the body of Christ
in Abidjan and Côte d'Ivoire. The
Abidjan Bible Training Center
which he started has trained
hundreds of Leaders in various
churches in Côte d'Ivoire who are
having great impact on their
ministries and churches. Glory be to
God!
We would like to say that his labor
was not in vain but remains though
he is gone to be with the Lord but
his labor will always speak. May his
soul rest in perfect peace.

God bless and we will keep in touch
as there is a memorial service in
Abidjan on Sunday for him.

Rev. Morris & Kris Yeedoun
Latter-Rain Harvest Ministries, Inc. &
Vision International University
Cocody-Angré
06 BP 1968 Abidjan 06
Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa
Tel 225-22-42-87-97
Cell 225-07-43-60-00
Cell 225-09-11-96-82
Website: www.lrhm.net


I am greatly moved. Among my first
memories of a personal walk with
God was Pastor Jeff who was my 8th
grade Bible teacher and minister for
the Sober Watchman Ministries. As
my 8th grade teacher, he challenged
me to stand up fearlessly as a
Christian and not be intimidated
since I was a new Christian and very
timid. Jeff appeared in class and
asked everyone including me to give
a personal testimony of my
salvation,quote Romans 12:1-2 and
interpret it to the class. That was my
first public speaking challenge and
moreover I was supposed to say that I
was part of the Christians on
campus... Scary thing.

I lost all my friends after that class.
Lonely and timid, Jeff helped
provide that solid foundation for
Christian growth and clear doctrinal
base, through his work as our 8th
grade teacher and a campus
fellowship leader for the Sober
Watchman Ministries. Learning
about the Holy Spirit, listening to His
direction and obeying His moves for
missions and establishing new
Christian works was what drove this
"mystery man".

Chapman Junius

Impacting a generation, one student at a time

Why Mormons Do Better Youth Ministry

Let's face it. Most of us look at the clean cut Mormon missionaries that peddle the streets of our city and knock on the doors of our houses as somewhat out of date. Although they are kind and well spoken young men, when they knock on our doors we either don't answer or tell them we are already Christians who reject Mormonism and bid them good day.

We think to ourselves how "behind the times" these young people are forced to be when they are required to do door-to-door evangelism for their religion. We reflect on how grateful we are that we have the truth once and for all delivered to the saints. We may even think about how much more superior our youth ministry strategies are compared to theirs.

Or are they?

* Mormons expect a lot out of their teenagers. We don't.
* Mormons ordain their young men into the ministry at the age of twelve. We don't.
* Mormons require their teens to attend seminary every day of high school. We don't.
* Mormons ask for two years in the field of every graduating senior. We don't.


Maybe that's why we don't meet a lot of ex-Mormons, while there are hundreds of thousands of former church attendees in the true church of Jesus Christ (of everyday saints) who flee the church after graduating from high school.

Maybe that's why Mormons give more, work harder and are exploding as a religion. In 1985 there were 4.5 million Mormons and now there are over 12 million.

When many of our teens graduate from high school, they grab their books and a beer and go off to the college dorm (A.K.A. "The Party Zone"). When Mormon teens graduate from high school they grab a backpack and a bike pump and go off on a mission.

They know what they believe and why they believe it. They've hammered out their theology on our doorsteps. Their souls and minds have been steeled and sealed into Mormon orthodoxy through their fanatical commitment to the accomplishment of their version of the Great Commission.

Meanwhile we compress most of our mission work into one week in Mexico once every year or two. And even that is comprised mostly of building houses, not necessarily advancing the kingdom of God and the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

There's a great line in the movie Braveheart where Robert the Bruce is commenting on William Wallace to his father. He says, "He believes. I want to believe like he believes."

When I look at the Mormons I think to myself, "They believe. I want to believe like they believe." Now don't get me wrong. I don't want to believe what they believe. Mormon theology is far from what the Bible says about Jesus, God, sin and salvation. It is, by no means, a truly Christian religion.

Having said that, Mormonism pushes their kids harder and takes them deeper and farther than even the most ardent of evangelical youth ministries would ever dare.

Can you imagine a youth group that challenged every teen in the youth ministry to meet at 6am every day of the school year for a class on Christianity? That's exactly what Mormons do with their high schoolers and their belief system!

We get excited if once a year at 7:15am, while Mormon teens are coming back from their daily seminary lesson on Mormonism, our teens gather around a pole and pray.

I'm not saying that we copy the Mormons specific strategy. I can't foresee our teenagers racing Mormons to the door in a battle of the bicycles. Nor do I believe the answer lies in a daily early morning class. We don't need to copy their strategy. We do, however, need to adopt their philosophy.

We need to push our teens. We need to turn them into active activists. We need to build consistent opportunities for service, outreach and training. We need to equip them to share their faith and then go with them, leading the way. After all, we are youth leaders.

Somebody may accuse me of looking at this as some sort of competition. It is. We are in a competition with Satan for the souls of our young people. And we are getting our rears kicked.

My problem is not with Mormons. It's with us. Let's learn from the Mormons and turn our kids into missionaries. Armed with the power of the true gospel (not some aberrant belief system) our teens could mount a comeback and help us win this thing.

Game on.

For God So Love the World

Have you decided to trust Jesus as your personal Savior and Lord?

Do you desire a personal relationship with the One who created you and loves you no matter what? If so, tell Him in your own words or use this sample prayer:

Father God,
I know I need you but can never get to you on my own. I receive Your Son Jesus as my personal Savior. I believe He took all my sins onto Himself when He died on the cross, conquering death for my sake and giving me access to you.
Thank you for forgiving me and for sending the Holy Spirit to transform my life.
Amen.

Obstacles to Forgiving Ourselves

READ | Psalm 51:10-12

Every human being has a sin problem. We all lose our tempers, make mistakes, and do things that seem completely out of character. Sin is a universal problem. But God provided forgiveness for everyone who'll accept it. Why do many believers find it impossible to forgive themselves?

First, we struggle with self-forgiveness at times because we find it difficult to accept God's forgiveness. Guilt can be so strong that it may seem to overshadow the enormous gift of pardon and restoration that God freely provides. We may think our past actions are so terrible that God would never forgive us. That's a tragic error.

Second, personal disappointment can prevent us from forgiving ourselves. We often have ridiculously high, self-imposed standards for our behavior and accomplishments. When we fail to achieve them, we're all but crippled by disappointment. This makes self-forgiveness seem impossible.

Third, seeing the results of our sin can block self-forgiveness. If our wrong actions produce tangible negative consequences, we may become so blinded by the result that we can't forgive ourselves. Seeing the outcome of sin every day keeps guilt alive in our minds. As a result, we may simply refuse to let it go.

Are you harboring guilt and remorse for past sin? First John 1:9 says God's forgiveness is available now. Christ gave His life to make you free. Take Galatians 5:1 to heart. Don't willingly stay in chains because you're unwilling to forgive yourself for something God has already forgiven.

The Gravity of Inactivity

Roller Coasters can be a fearsome and terrifying experience for the unsuspecting. At your highest peak, fear is literally injected into your spine as the brainless machine completes its course, all the time never stopping to attend to your whimp. This is my summer vacation at the Universal studio theme park, in Orlando Florida in a nutshell. Funny now, yeah, but then fun was not the closest then.
Frankly, I do not think I want to ever return on any one of those emotionless machine.

"Whimp!"
I can hear you call me that. Hey but yeah, still I am not footing on a roller coaster, at least not anytime soon.
Fear cripples.
The gravity pulls you against their thrust of the high speed roller coaster and immediately you can feel your heart ooze out of you chest and leaks through your ankles. It seems so natural to scream at this point. Everyone lets out a gut scream as they all feel gravity drain their blood from their brains down their ankle in it confusion to stabilize the physiology of the body.


Today, it almost seems no-one gets enough adrenaline rush. This drive the adventurous to endeavor even more dare feats from sky diving to bungie jumps and even "Ultimate Fights". Sooner or later the new breed of people will become immune to any sort of fear or thrill.
At this point, I can only imagine what people who start to do for fun or for 'vacation'.

Falling after been lifted, whether it is on a roller coaster or a bungie jump or diving out of a flying plane, can be dangerously terrifying. Posted to most of these extreme vacation activities are signs warning eager participants of hazardous possibilities. Of course no one read these days, except for the conscious.
The pull of gravity can be fun for some but wicked to others. You can tell from the childish glee on the faces of those survivors as they emerge from to crazy ride.

At this point, it is those who were so conscious not to ride that are made to feel gravitated to 'whimpishness'. Fear induces inactivity which eventually robs, and depraves ultimately.

Even though the Bible warns that 'it is a fearful thing to fall in the hand of the living God', most mature christian have resulted to playing and running with too many worldly safety gadgets which are gravitating them to the sins of 'inactivity'.

It is high time we Sound the Trumpet! Ignite the urgency!!!

Where is the simple childlike trust in the sovereignty of The Most High?!!!!!

Where is the command to 'come boldly to the throne of grace' where we can attract more spectacular grace to win giants bigger than ourselves and mountains higher than ourselves and valleys lower than we imagined?

Where is the choice to accept our cross, pick it up and follow Him?

Where is the unquestionable willingness to know, follow and obey Him?

Where is the deep longing for an absolute quiet time, in
His presence before and at the close of our day?


where is the hunger and thirst for speaking to each other in hymns and spiritual songs and the excitement of an altar call?

Whimp?!!!!! Shoooos! That sounds like hard work, just to keep up...


Work out your Salvation with Fear and trembling...it is a fearful thing to Fall in the hand of an angry God. For God has provided all that pertains to life and godliness for those who fear Him.

Still on Fire!

A man of God commenting on Hebrew 4: 16, which states..."Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." He said that boldness attracts grace. Let us take big and bold steps into the destinies that lay ahead of us. It is the secret of remaining ablaze!!!
---- Zangai A. Peabody

Running Man...An Influence and the Influenced

The Link below is a short powerpoint presentation of what life has been for me for the last ten years. Inspite of all I feel or think, Sober Watchman Ministries will always remain the most influential organization I ever encounter in my life-time. I will do my best to lift up the hands of those who are carrying on the work today through prayers and other means possible.


The word INFLUENCE means a lot to me. My christian life started as a result of one influential person at school-Alexander Kollie. His unspoken influence drew me from the back of the classroom where all the bad guys hang-up to the front where Alex worshipped God in silence and read his blue Gideon Bible. And how has that affected my own life? From Monrovia to New York, my desire for outreach has lead me to drug dealers and users, homeless people,and muslims. My platform includes: buses, subways,street corners, and ferry boats. Influence is like the cold flu. When you have it, other people around you will surely get it. But in order to share your flu, one must cough. Like wise, in order to influence others, one must do or say something. I love to be influenced by important people. But most of all, I love to influence people for Christ.

Lets do this Thing

Papa P at Boot Camp with young people in Silver Spring Maryland, USA

Over the years the Sober Watchman Ministries have been running her annual camp that has been a blessing to thousands of young people.

This ministry tool has been very successful wherever it is implemented.

While serving in Cameroon for four years we commenced the “youth camp” as we know it to be: an arena of youthful bliss. Young people were given the opportunity to express their faith, in an unthreatening atmosphere. It is a place where “iron sharpens iron”. Young men and women are actually “arrested” when they see their peers taking spiritual leadership in worship, prayer, and decision making.

In Douala (capital of Cameroon), we saw the camp grew from 65 persons to over 150 in just three years. (Presently, they are over 200.) The camp then spread out to several other provinces in Cameroon: Limbe and Yaounde, each hosting similar youth camps to challenge teens and expose them to the Word.

After our tenure in Cameroon we came over to the USA. Here in The US, the youth ministry was blessed by having one of the best youth ministry team I’ve ever known, the Rev. Charles K. Wesley and his wife Mrs. Maima Wesley. The lives of the young people took a good turn upon their arrival.
After Pastor Wesley’s passing we were called upon to take over and we saw the need for camp, SOWATHMI style.

70 plus persons, mainly from Silver Spring, were ministered to at the first camp in 2005. Camp 2007 registered 180 persons and young people from about 10 States. The Bethel World Outreach church in Silver Spring has over 40 nations represented in its community. Through this tool we are practically influencing the world.

How many young people have passed through the walls of SOWATCHMI camp? Many of these young people are leaders in one capacity or the other.

At the camp, I’ve come to realize that morning devotions are not an end in themselves. I believe it is a tool to teach teen a disciplline pattern to develop personal vision and articulate their goals. I remember that it was one means by which we used to launch our daily events on camp and therefore prayed through everything to be done for the day. The very act of having a quiet time or devotional period, builds into a young person the discipline of waking up early and planning his or her events of the day. This challeneges teens to use time wisely.

Developing disciplne leaders is a primary objective at camp. To be a dorm leader, a group leader and any other leadership positions at the camp takes certain interpersonal skills and strong christian convictions,inorder to present a positive 'pressure' on peers. Being a school group leader or a neighborhood group leader allowed teens developed accountability skills to their leaders and peers. Every neighborhood coordinator was responsible to find means to bring his or her group (most of the time over 20 persons) to the camp site. These cell leaders had to deal with parents, pastors and school authorities and convince them to let their kids attend camp, sometime while the civil war raged on in other parts of the country.

Let us not become wary of well doing. Our Master said, “…work while it is day for the night comes when no man can work.” It is high time to cease the moment…the opportunity afforded us to impact lives. Let us give our time, talent and treasure to see others touched with the same “fire” that touched us and transformed our lives completely.

Camp is still a moment of blessings and bliss for those in their teens. let us make those formidable years a one of Godly impressions and irresistable christian testimony for the next generation.

To share your gifts and prayers for the annual Sober watchman Ministries camp, call 202-4926549 or talk to Lucia Shafah at 262-9149836. And thanks for your mutual support.

An Influence or the Influenced

"It is the very order of things that so must it be. Truth could not be truth in this world if it were not a warring thing, and we should at once suspect that it were not true if error were friends with it. The spotless purity of truth must always be at war with the blackness of heresy and lies .
...Until the second advent, the Church must be the Church militant, the Church armed, the Church warring and the Church conquering".
--- C. H. Spurgeon

There is no demilitarized zone. Every zone is the go-zone. To preserve the relevancy of the truth, it demands that the Church must contend for the truth and remain aggressively armed, ceaselessly.

Aggression here is active and progressive as well as offensive.

Been a teen Christian on campus can be lonely and loaded with all kinds of pressures. Professing Christianity as a teen can therefore become aggressively offensive to some , if of course you are truly standing for the truth and maintaining a testimony amongst classmates and peers.

Even though conformity breeds peace, this peace is not peaceful. True peace resides in the Truth. Standing true demands contending...
Anything else attracts crippling conformity of identity crisis and an eventual lost to personal values and testimony. The war is to stay true to your new identity in Christ.

Every Christian teen is pressured to conform. The pressure to conform is incessant. It will never stop! But it should never stop us!

Post-modernization has never brought a cessation to the battle between conformity and true Christianity. To think so, you are already deceived.

Think about your days as a Christian in your high school. Remember your days standing as that lone Bible totter in your neighborhood or classroom.

Has peer pressure ceased?
Oh then been a Christian has...

Has the pressure to fit stopped?
Oh then opposing forces to truth has...

Truth lives!
So the crisis teens face at school, at home and in their neighborhoods manipulate and demand their loyalty.

Therefore at Sober Watchman Ministries camp, we evoke the spirit of the warring Christian and challenge students to:



Radically stand up for and with the truth as they witness personally through their lives and speech.
Remain different and avoid strange fires.
Be the influence and not the influenced by staying the head and not the tail with excellent grades, good conduct and a fearless Christian lifestyle.
Beginning this October, we are giving everyone the opportunity to be a part of the ministry's effort to challenge teens in West Africa to be the influence and not the influenced.

To share your gifts this camp season, contact SWM at soberwatchmanministries@yahoo.com and retain Sober Watchman Ministries staff, students, campus presidents, campus ministry and neighborhood fellowships in your prayers.

Or call Lucia Shafah at 2629149836.

Sober Watchman Ministries: Communication Counts

Sober Watchman Ministries: Communication Counts

Papa P chills with his family

Hold onto daddy!!! This is a priceless photo indeed. Ruhamah enjoys the moment of hanging onto daddy's shoulders, while the boys receives shield from the 'fearsome' ocean waves. When a youth minister hangs out with his own kids, it is not just family time. It is a priceless testimony.

Every warrior deserves a good time out on a yatch with his family....or just to simply enjoy the sunshine beating his brow. Papa P retreats with his family. Even at the beach, kesed won't let daddy nap... How lovely....

Papa P

Watch this clip. A synopsis of youth ministry. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7451514471707273851

Pastor Zangai Peabody serves as assistant pastor of Bethel Silver Spring alongside Bishop Darlingston Johnson where he mentors young people. He also serves as international director for youth outreach of Bethel World Outreach Church (BWOC), Silver Spring. He oversees, plans, and implements church-related ministry to youths. He is also the international director of Sober Watchman Ministries (a BWOC-affiliate ministry founded in 1992 by the late Rev. Charles Wesley).

In 1994, Rev. Peabody became the director of Sober Watchman Ministries in Liberia. Rev. Peabody held this position from 1994 to 2000. Under his leadership, the ministry grew extensively and reached over 10,000 young people in Liberia and extended into neighboring Sierra Leone. From 1992 to 1994, Rev. Peabody served in Liberia as drama minister of Sober Watchman Ministries.

Before joining Bethel Silver Spring in 2004, Pastor Peabody and his wife, Mrs. Jarsa Peabody, ministered in Cameroon. From 2000 to 2004, they served as assistant pastors for youth ministry in Bethel Central Church, Douala and coordinated youth work in three other provinces: Limbe, Bamenda, and Yaounde. At Central Church, the Peabodys started the youth church with 15 youths, 0 cell groups, and 0 trained indigenous leaders. With the help of the Holy Spirit, the youth church grew to 100 youths, 15 cell groups, and 25 trained indigenous youth leaders by 2004. Upon the Peabodys' departure in 2004, two of these leaders (who had been licensed) began pastoring the youth church.

The Peabodys have four children: Ruhamah, Destiny, Tobe, and Chesed. Pastor Peabody is a native of Liberia. He has a bachelor's degree in biblical studies from Carolina University of Theology in Manassas, Virginia.

Over the past 16years Papa P has impacted and shaped the destiny of countless numbers of highschool students. Most of those mentees are now married, and leading careers while others are now leaders of youth groups and mentoring yet other young people.

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