1987 - 1989

in 1987 we moved back to 21st Street and organized a WBS Correspondence Ministry there, and it was then that the Holy Spirit introduced us to Eric Dickey, who scheduled his own mission trips, not dependent on church funding. He invited me to go with him to Malawi, Central Africa in 1988. We started working together in Malawi, still conducting WBS follow-up campaigns. Eric and I returned to Malawi in 1989,and also traveled to Zimbabwe that year.

Great changes in 1990! Diana is called!

Baptisms happening every day! So exciting and I was hooked. The next step was street preaching, which built my confidence in sharing Jesus even more. Thousands of people of all stripes wanted Biblical information on how to be saved and were asking us to help them. I personally got to study with many of them, witnessed hundreds baptized, and my faith increased by leaps and bounds.

After I came back from Ghana, I found myself already hoping that God would send me back to Africa again! He did, but not till 1987.

It was so easy to share the scriptures! Paul writes, "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase"

My idea of going on this mission trip to Ghana was to remain in the background (where it was safe!) and take pictures (with my new camera) of the Team encouraging students, preaching, and baptizing. We weren’t in Ghana for more than an hour when they told me I could take all the pictures I wanted, but here is an interpreter and some students who need to know about Jesus! That started it.