Brother Charles Isobor

 This has been a very very sad time for us here at Apostolic Lighthouse in Augsburg. As you know over the past months I have been posting repeatedly about the rapidly growing and demonically escalating violence in the land of Nigeria. As you also may know we have quite a few people in the Augsburg, Germany church  who were born and raised in that country.

 Three years ago Brother Charles Isobor began coming to our church, A muslim from Nigeria, he was baptized in Jesus Name and filled with the Holy Ghost here at the Apostolic Lighthouse in Augsburg.

 Several weeks ago he returned to Nigeria with his fiancee so they could be married there in his home country,

 Last week Brother Charles was brutally murdered by the Muslims, , hacked to death by Machetes  because of  his conversion to Christianity. Those of you who have visited us here over the years undboubtedly remember Brother Charles, a very friendly and enthusiastic worshipper of Jesus Christ. To say we are stunned by this is not even to begin describing the numbness that this has left in our hearts and spirits.

 Our commitment to opening the first Apostolic Lighthouse in Ibadan, Nigeria is every bit as firm as before. Please help us , we have so many needs and so few seem to have the genuine missionary vision of years gone by, One major need we have this month is a vehicle for Germany. Brother Plowmans church in Texas had been so phenomenally generous to help us and I sent that vehicle down to Nigeria to open the work there.

 This winter I am driving a twenty two year old van whose under carriage has so completely rusted that just the other day the entire exhaust system just fell out onto the street as I was driving. (I am scared to death to ask how the ball joints and things are. Probably ready to go any second!)  There is no heat in the car which in this month of temps that have hit as low as seventeen plus degrees BELOW zero has been incredibly miserable. (Not to sound like a boo hoo hoo story but you simply HAVE NOT LIVED until you have to drive forty five minutes each way in sub zero weather with the passenger windows down as the breath you breathe immediately freezes into ice crystals on the interior windshield due to NO DEFROST)

 In all of this I wonder if the church in North America really even HEARS the missionaries cry anymore or if it is just so much easier to shut it out? I mean "SOMEONE ELSE WILL HELP"... At the same time the possibility of opening a brand new church in the city of Bamberg, Germany is on our doorstep and the resolve remains the same! WE ARE GOING TO DO IT! But HOW??????? Pray for us! God Bless You! Brother Conrroy and The Shell Family