Apostolic Faith Daybreak Devotional
Oct 17, 2026 · 10 min · 7 segments
"There are faces before me tonight.
Four years earlier, he had made his first missionary trip to that continent.
In the intervening years, the desire to return to visit the groups of faithful but uninstructed Christians he had left behind had grown stronger and stronger.
In a message at the annual camp meeting in 1952, he told of one place he had visited in Nigeria on his first trip.
"There were 600 people in that congregation, and I was with them for just one hour and a half.
When we left, the leaders fell on their knees to weep because what they had prayed for and desired for years had been in their grasp for only one hour and a half.
Ever since that day, that congregation has been before me." He went on to describe some 55 other churches in the same area, saying, "If I went there and spent one week with each of these congregations, it would take me 55 weeks, to say nothing of the traveling time between.
That is the need in one little area of Nigeria.
He was beginning his second missionary trip.
Back in Africa, he and local leaders, with a small bus and camping equipment, traveled around to newly developing Apostolic Faith churches scattered across the region.
It meant hard travel in less than comfortable conditions, but his letters always mentioned the hundreds of hungry hearts they encountered.
There, he was called to Heaven.
His body was buried in Africa near the people he loved to await the trumpet call.
"There are faces before me tonight.
Four years earlier, he had made his first missionary trip to that continent.
In the intervening years, the desire to return to visit the groups of faithful but uninstructed Christians he had left behind had grown stronger and stronger.
In a message at the annual camp meeting in 1952, he told of one place he had visited in Nigeria on his first trip.
"There were 600 people in that congregation, and I was with them for just one hour and a half.
When we left, the leaders fell on their knees to weep because what they had prayed for and desired for years had been in their grasp for only one hour and a half.
Ever since that day, that congregation has been before me." He went on to describe some 55 other churches in the same area, saying, "If I went there and spent one week with each of these congregations, it would take me 55 weeks, to say nothing of the traveling time between.
That is the need in one little area of Nigeria.
He was beginning his second missionary trip.
Back in Africa, he and local leaders, with a small bus and camping equipment, traveled around to newly developing Apostolic Faith churches scattered across the region.
It meant hard travel in less than comfortable conditions, but his letters always mentioned the hundreds of hungry hearts they encountered.
There, he was called to Heaven.
His body was buried in Africa near the people he loved to await the trumpet call.
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