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Quarterly Update: Doug & Mesi: Ethiopia-Eritrea Reality
Quarterly Update: Doug & Mesi: Ethiopia-Eritrea Reality
OCTOBER 2018
ISSUE XXIV
QUARTERLY UPDATE:
┼ DOUG & MESI
ETHIOPIA—ERITREA REALITY
Inside this issue: Just the other day, driv- then this. One giant step of the believers in Eri-
Ethiopia-Eritrea Reality Cover ing back through town forward, politically trea. The basis of that?
after language class, speaking, has happened Well, while there are
Gotta Get an Education! 2 my language teacher literally overnight. God 4,000,000+ Tigrinya
and I were in awe at the has opened a door, speaking people here in
sheer number of cars in widely and quite unex- Tigray of Ethiopia, there
Our New Car 3 town donning Eritrean pectedly. The previ- are another 2,000,000+
license plates, both per- ously icy relations be- Tigrinya speakers just
About LCM 4
sonal vehicles and com- tween Ethiopia and Eri- north of the border in Eri-
mercial transports haul- trea had mirrored that of trea. Previously closed to
ing cement, taf grain, North and South Ko- us, this new Ethiopia-
Contact and Support Info 4
wheat flour and so rea’s impasse. Things Eritrea Reality is now the
many other goods back are definitely thawing open door to see many
Mission Statement ┼ 4 to Asmara, the capitol out. Now we are seeing more among this lan-
of Eritrea, just hours a whole new playing guage group granted ac-
12 Years and Counting ♥ 4 away. The peace deal field, and if I am per- cess to the knowledge of
between the two na- mitted, I would like to the gospel & the Scrip-
tions is a reality. Years- make a trip for File- tures in audio and audio-
-no, decades--of Sharing Evangelism visual format. DM
prayers for Eritrea and Training and Equipping
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“This huge,
shining act of
generosity. Still
beside
ourselves…”
Last Call Ministries
About LCM: Last Call Ministries is a 501c3 Organization
To Support: PO Box 5457, Shreveport, which began in 1997. For the last 20 years, LCM has
LA 71171 USA been “proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ, until He re-
To Contact: Phone: 318-458-9602
turns, in word, letter and deed.” LCM is currently spon-
Email: joespell@keptprivate.com (Joe
Spell) soring Doug & Mesi, who are commissioned by their home
Correspond w/ Doug & Mesi: PO Box church: Heritage Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana.
1944, Mekele, Tigray, Ethiopia All monies received are currently in support of the budg-
Email: dglsmerrick@yahoo.com eted work underway in Tigray. 2017 marked the 20th an-
Proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus
Christ until He returns, in word, niversary of the organization’s beginning. We rejoice in
letter and deed!!! the years of God’s gracious extent of the gospel!