Mission Field:
Techiman
Ghana, West Africa
Dear Dr. Mike Patterson,
Praying you are daily gaining strength and able to serve our wonderful Lord with all your heart. I am writing today on behalf of Pastor Samuel Appiah, my associate pastor and great friend in the ministry of our Lord here in Africa. Words cannot express my thanksgiving to God for placing such a godly man in our ministry here in Ghana.
Last year when we all agreed that it would be best to host the annual conference in Texas again, I shared with you that I wanted to invite Pastor Samuel to attend our conference in January of 2012. When you agreed with me, we started to work on getting Pastor Samuel a visa to the USA in June of 2011. In fact we have tried our best here in Africa with letters and trips to the US Embassy but up to now they have not granted Pastor Samuel a visa to come. They have not rejected his application but are constantly delaying to grant it claiming they are doing investigation into his request.
Please Brother Mike do you know of anybody who has the power to put pressure on the US Embassy here in Ghana to grant Pastor his visa before the time is to late. Pastor Samuel has traveled to the USA four times and has gone back to Ghana each time as scheduled, so we are confused why the Embassy is dragging their feet to grant his request for a visa.
Looking forward to our meeting in January.
Thank you so much,
Pastor Stephen Volante
Director of African Missions MBBMI
PS: I have blind copied this letter to my entire prayer letter list so they can help us in prayer and if any one of them can help they will quickly respond and come to our aid.
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