Yet I dare to hope when I remember what the Lord
has done for me. The unfailing love of the Lord never ends. By His mercies, we have been kept from complete destruction. Great
is His faithfulness. His mercies begin afresh each day. I say to myself: the Lord is my inheritance, therefore I will hope
in Him. The Lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek Him, so it is good to wait quietly. Salvation comes
from the Lord and it is good for the young to submit to the yoke of His discipline.
I was born into a Christian home as far as I can tell. As a boy, I attended Sunday school for many years
until my parents became proselytes to the Islamic religion; I had no other choice but to follow my parents in their new-found
faith, Islam. Although I consented to live my life as a Moslem in my own small way, I retained much respect for my Christian
neighbors in my vicinity. Still my heart loved and longed for the Sunday school lessons I had learned in the years before
I became a Moslem and I wished to fellowship with my Christian friends again if I had the opportunity. My new faith in Islam
and the stories in the Quran were not as interesting as those in the Bible. I really missed the stories of Cain and Abel,
Noah's Ark, David and Goliath. Unfortunately, I could not convince my parents to take me to Sunday school and they would
become furious whenever I mentioned church or the Bible.
When I turned
16, I decided to invite some Christian friends to come and tell me the old, old story of Jesus and His love. A new fear of
God arose in my heart and a great respect for His Word. A foundation was laid in my heart to receive Jesus as my Savior, but
it was not until I met Pastor Paul Dickens Doe that I truly gave my heart to the Lord.
I gave my life to Christ Jesus because all the emptiness of life and a destiny without Him had become
unbearable. I have never felt as joyous as that moment when I met Jesus. Ever since welcoming Jesus into my heart, I am spiritually
complete and fulfilled. Jesus is everything to me now, in fact, He is the center of my life. He is my brother, father, Master,
Lord, friend, counselor, director and mentor of my life. I do nothing without consulting Him and reasoning together with Him.
To always experience His presence, I read
my Bible and pray each day, and fast regularly. By His Grace, He has given me His Spirit, Who lives in me both to will and
to do everything according to His will. I also delight in sharing the Good News of Christ—His birth, life, death and
resurrection—with the people around me.
Two years after being born again, I began to serve my Senior Pastor and his wife at Christ
Harvests Sanctuary [in Tema, Ghana]; it is now seven years that I do so. During this time, I worked with the choreography
team and found that the Lord had placed His gift in me to teach the teenagers. For the last five years, I have also worked
in the ministry.
I am blessed to be part of the church's
evangelism outreach and to teach in the adult Sunday school. Because of the missionary and evangelistic nature of the ministry,
I am privileged to meet and to work with teams of missionaries from the USA and Europe. It is from the visiting missionaries
that I learned about puppeteering and using puppet shows to teach the children.
As for myself, my heart sees my gifts being used for the Kingdom in the field of film making. I have
been to one of the film schools here in Ghana but it is my vision to pursue further education and training in the field. My
God is able to do more than I can imagine to think or to ask, and so my confidence remains in Him to make provision for me
to return to school.
In all things I trust my God to see me
through, and truly I can do all things through Christ Jesus, my Lord.
Alex has long desired to be able to return to school to learn all he can about filming so he
can move into ministry. Since I returned home, he has shared with me that he has been accepted at the school of his choice
in South Africa! What a joyous day he had to receive such wonderful news. Father is truly faithful to the pure in heart. [Note:
Alex did indeed make it to South Africa to pursue his vision of attending video school, glory to God! He then returned to
Ghana for a season, believing the Lord to make a way for him to get to Norway to work with Youth With a Mission, a dream that
came to pass about a year ago...May 2009]
The
need for support to take care of daily necessities and travel expenses remains; if your heart is touched by this dear young
man's testimony and his selfless heart of servitude, he can be reached at:
Alex Quayson
Creative DTS
Aasemulvegen 5
N-6018 Aalesund
Norway
www.legzis.blogspot.com
