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Then Came the Glory
to take the gospel to others wherever we felt like going. We did not imderstand how to establish a church or to teach its
spiritual discipline, but, for His name sake, Jesus honored the true Gospel we preached and saved souls.
-^After a year in Sidamo, the Lord led me to Nazareth. I had^°nbt been there before and knew no one and had no
money for the journey. A few brothers pooled their small change for my bus fare and Tekle gave me twenty-five copies of his book Divine Power to sell. After reaching Nazareth I went to Brother Bekele Madebo's house in Wonji Town and wimessed for a week before I went to Kuriftu. Sister Sophia Asfaw gave me a place to stay and I continued
preaching in that area.
All of the ministers received a call to attend a
meeting in Addis Ababa in April 1971. Each of us explained our call and received a preacher's license in accordance. A
board was formed with Brother Wendell as superintendent. We did not understand the significance of the headquarters church and other branches, the board and the
superintendent's authority, nor our ministerial responsibilities. Without training we simply said, "I am called; now send me so I can go and preach His Word wherever I want to go." We labored like a bee flitting here and there without a queen.
We had no knowledge of the formalities of the church as taught by Paul in Acts 20:28: Take heed therefore lOTto your selves and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
1 Corinthians \2:25:That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
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