Annual Pennsylvania Banquet Recap

Oakseed thanks the Lord for a wonderful time of fellowship around the gospel at our annual Pennsylvania Banquet on Saturday evening!

Our guest speaker was Dr. Frew Tegene, director of Love Never Fails in Ethiopia. Dr. Tegene shared his testimony of how the Lord brought him to know Christ as a young person and laid ministry to commercial sex workers and HIV patients on his heart, how the Lord provided for the creation of Love Never Fails to meet these needs, and how this ministry seeks to bring dignity to and care for these women.

Dr. Tegene chose the name for his ministry from 1 Corinthians 13:8, which says, “Love never fails.” (NIV) He explained:

“I have experienced the mercy, the love, the charity of the Lord through my years, and when I first met these people, who are people who live in sin, I said to myself that the love that the Lord has bestowed upon me, I believe he has that for these ladies; it’s not just for me. … And the way he loves me, the intensity and passion with which he loves me, he loves every other sinner with that same passion and intensity. … The love of the Lord has never failed me, and I’m sure it’s not going to. It will never fail those ladies; it will never fail anybody. ”

Dr. Tegene shared that they have been able to share the gospel with many ladies throughout their work, and this year they had the privilege of seeing eight ladies come to Christ! All of them are being discipled in the church, and five of them were baptized a few months ago.