This is a follow-up from the birth announcement of a few days ago.  I received this email from Pastor Andrew this morning… 

Dear Rev. Pevlor, 

By the grace of God we've prayerfully decided to name our newly born son after you. 

I'm joining our names as double anointing to name this child. This is because of your wise counsel, and devoted prayers that hastened the defeat of the devil over my family a couple of months back. (The devil meant it for evil but the good Lord has turned it into a good testimony for me) 

So I'm using my middle name (Jonathan) and your first name Bill, which name’ him as Jonathan Bill Gombay. In short they call him J.B. 

Rev. Pevlor, this is my own way of keeping your memories of the kind of Christ-like love that have gushed out of your life for me, my family, and the ministry that the Lord has committed in my hands in my generation. (Christ demonstrated his love towards us by laying down His life for us.) 

God bless you Sir, and please keep us in your prayers. 

Pastor Andrew. 

Here’s is my reply... 

Dear Pastor Andrew, 

I am deeply honored by your gesture and overwhelmed beyond words by the sentiment behind it.  I will join my faith with yours, believing for a double anointing to flow though the life of Jonathan Bill Gombay!  To God be the glory! 

The “kind, Christ-like love” you mentioned that gushes from here to your family and the ministry there is love emanating from the Father – flowing, not from just my heart, but from many hearts here that God has stirred on your behalf.  Along with love, God has stirred our own faith by witnessing the faith you exhibit as you persist with joy in the most difficult of situations.   

What a mighty God we serve!  He can bring together two totally different groups of people from opposite ends of the earth who only share one peculiarity – a love for Jesus – and use each group, in different ways, to better the lives of the other.  Amazing!  I am grateful that on our separate journeys to fulfill God’s purposes, He saw fit to have our paths cross.   

Our prayers are with you all.  Give your charming wife, Swenah, a big hug for us and a kiss to all your precious children. 

I will be calling you before the end of next week. 

Blessings, 

Pastor Bill

I will be calling him by week’s end to give him details of our next Western Union transfer.  (It will be a big one.)  

Because I’m the contact Pastor Andrew has with the help he’s receiving, naturally he most closely associates the blessing with me.  I would like to give him a sense of the bigger picture – of the many people who are a part of Esther’s Hope.  If you have any words of encouragement or congratulations that you would like to personally express to Pastor Andrew, his family or the children of the refuge home, simply send them by email and I will be happy to forward them on in a few days.  I’m sure he and Swenah would be blessed to know you are praying for them or how their example has encouraged you.