Sons of Thunder

10-29-09 Bro James reports from FBF Kisumu Centre

Dear Rev.Robert,
Pleasure to get the fine moments and communicate with you!
Please we love and appreciate you great work for the lord our God in Jesus Name!Had taken sometimes before we being in touch but our heart be reassured that are knitted together the vision is carrying our full of fire ablazing across Nyanza provinces and kenya we see God extending our tent day by day and night by nightAmen.
How are you this time? and are you hope you are victorious in the battle somewhere winning souls for Chirst, it’s not far from where we are we have seen God manifesting with presence strongly and people get delivered from all sorts of oppression Amen.
I long for you and do mention you in our prayer groups and the FBF vision i trust it is purposely at the right time where the harvest is plenty and God is not interested in our big we arrange the people to receive christ but just the way we are and the people found this is the Kingdom since at no time christ will come and the end.
So we need to equip people all the time and any time without better nor prior arrangement Amen.
We are giving the devil no place. Thank you for standing with us in everything and the tools for evangelism …we will send you the names of serious preachers with their pictures for their districts.
Thank you so much i received mine by post bless you i trust the Kingdom worketh mysteries for God’s Glory amen.
Pleaase have attached file thank you.
Love and greetings from everyone including your sister.
Pastor James.

10-25-09 Dear Brother and Sister from California show appreciation for salvation

Dear Robert:

See what you started!!! Thank you seems such a limited way of saying how much I cherish you and how Jesus knew I needed your ministry in my life. God Bless You!

Love, Mary

> Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009, 3:05 PM
> Hi Luke:
>
> We have just returned home from taking care of Bob’s mother
> and I am feeling quite compelled to write some of my
> thoughts about God’s active role in our life. So, here
> goes….
>
> Dear Mike:
>
> This year has been a time of transformation for us
> beginning last December. We met a man, Reverend
> Robert, while spending time at the beach in Ventura and he
> showed us that we didn’t have it all figured out like we
> thought we did. Specifically, we were lacking Jesus in
> our lives. Wow. Talk about getting hit square
> between the eyes with a major reality check. Well,
> there it was.
>
> We have both come to discover how God is present in our
> lives every day. The more we brought Jesus into our
> hearts, the more we have been guided by the power of prayer
> and faith. Earlier this year I had a scare with breast
> cancer. It was a terrifying time for us but we knew
> God would watch over us and give us the strength to get
> through it, no matter what the medical outcome would
> be. Fortunately, our prayers were answered when the
> tests came back benign.
>
> God has given me the courage to face my abusive father who
> I have not spoken to in over 30 years. He has also
> given me the strength to forgive him.
>
> We have our own business which is a constant roller coaster
> ride. Some months are up and others are down.
> When business was good, we were good. But, when
> business was bad we became argumentative, angry and would
> develop the “why me’s”? We now put our faith in Jesus
> and trust his master plan to take us where He sees fit.
>
> A few weeks ago we were both Baptized and have not had such
> an emotional day since we were married, 34 years ago.
> We are so excited to share what it feels like to have Jesus
> in our hearts.
>
> Love,
>
> Mary & Bob K.

10-23-09 Pastor/ Evangelist in FBF DR Congo gets the vision!

Greetings Man of God,

I am so much excited to read your mail.

Excited to hear that we are on the same page as far as our mission scripture is concerned.

Excited about our FBF motto, since we are committed to God and His word only - God-centered and Word-centered.

Excited about the love/agape of the Word since we believe in the Word saturation daily;

Excided about holy living, HOLINESS, which is what we mean by DEMONSTRATING the redemption; a lifestyle free of sin, ago, world, and satan; briefly said demonstrating the image and the likeness of God.

Excited about the report from the FBF Nigeria; that is what we have been expecting; have the team trained in proclaiming the Gospel in public places everyday, and hence have all the City of Goma turned into a REDEMPTION CITY. Yes, it is possible to have Goma converted to Christ and hence establish a Godly Church of Christ in Goma; strong, evangelical, reformed and revived.
People are tired of hearing these HAPPINESS minus HOLINESS preachings and teachings. Worldly-centered preachings.

Therefore, I am ready to get along with you!

Call when you get the time.

May God prosper your ministry.

Yours in the Gospel Proclamation,

Bro Didi

10-21-09 Pastor from Tulumba

Dear my spiritual father ROBERT EPHRATA

I see the Lord doing amazing things through your life. He is going to make a way where there seems to be no way. You will be like a funnel of wealth to your people. He is multiplying the ministry he has placed in your hands. Watch and see over the next few months the things God opens up for you. You will be amazed

I just realized we have been in prayers and fasting for your ministry, you feel so small, but you know our God is so big and can meet every need. you must get to Bungoma. you love to pray, but you heart is to touch the Tulumba church and bless them. I believe it is Africa’s time to shine brightly in spite of the hardship.

In His Grasp,

pastor Isaac and Eunice

10-17-09 Bro Robert in Kenya sees 4 come to the LORD

Praised be the name of the Lord! Am fine in the Lord as well as preaching and equipping the lost souls. Last week I went at the place called Koyonzo to preach and four people got saved namely Lilian, Anyangu, Haward and Agnes..
В Lilian would also want to communicate to you, Brother God bless you for the hard work you have been doing in Nigeria by building the body of Christ. The bible says in the book of revelation Chapter 22:12-13 that he will reward us accordingly, He is alpha and Omega, the first and the last. The beginning and the end.
God bless you so much

Robert N

10-14-09 Bro Wilson reports on people being saved, and miracles!

Dear Pastor Ephrata,

Get much greetings in our dear redeemer Jesus Christ. thank you very much for the divine connection to Rev.Harrison Omusula, he shared with me a very wonderful vision. he told me that you are the founder of this vision, that we have many people go in their own business especially in the market who don’t attend churches.When I meditated the vision I found it was realy very clear and true. thank you for the way you sacrificed, upto God to give you this wonderful vision. Since I received this vision I really have devotion to the work of God and peace in my heart, because I was just waiting for only sundays to attend church and thats where I could only proclaim the gospel but nowadays , I can do It everyday at the market place as I was in a place of market called shikulu market.

I saw God revealing himself through many miracles because I met someone who had taked a loan to start his business but the money got lost , so he wanted to hang himself but when I was preaching he came near and then he discovered that satan is a liar , he is used to steal our belongings so that we may be discouraged then he decided to follow Jesus christ. He surrendered his life to Jesus and othe many miracles that I can not explain.

As I see all of these happen, I experience Gods love and your devotion of prayer unto us when yu are there and this is why many people are being reached with the gospel, so I need more training materials for my spiritual growth to my mailing address.

I have known the truth and the Truth has set me free. So pray with me for the ministry to succeed and I also pray for you always.

yours brother in Christ,

Wilson M.

10-12-09 FBF India checks in; update

Greetings Bro ROBERT EPHRATA !

Greetings to you in the Holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Thank you very much for your holy prayers and support for us in the time of devastating. Many people lose their houses, lands and beloved once. Thankful to Lord Jesus who kept us in His loving wings in the time of trouble.

We praise God for the wonderful ministry work in Nigeria and we have been praying for the more anointing of Holy Ghost over Nigeria people in your visit.

Yes, I am with your words. The angry of God or curse is on us due to the Idolatry and going away from the living Lord Jesus Christ. Here all idol worshipper eyes are blind and they are again going to the idol and worshipping it. I am asking to them and requesting them to turn away from the idols so that we have blessing from God. I believe that God is changing the mind set of these idol worshippers. Thank you very much for your prayer for our land and people in India.

And I will always be with you in the vineyard of God saving losing souls toward Jesus Christ. It is our prayer and hopes that soon, you will be with us in India and see you face to face.

YOU ARE IN OUR HEARTS AND DAILY PRAYERS.

All our orphan children, aged mothers, fellowship pastors, Bible women, leper brother and churches and family sending their love and big hugs to you, your family and brother and sister in USA.

Prayerfully looking forward for your prayerful mail.

Pastor.Prasanna

10-07-09 Bro Geofrey with the ministry for schools in Bungoma

Bwana В Asifiwe Ndugu yangu,Receive warm greetings from your brother Geofrey Wetindi from Bungoma Kenya.Ihope you are doing well plus the family of God you are ministering to.
I take this graciouse opportunity to thank you and your team of prayers for remembering us in Kenya plus my ministry of serving both the orphaned and the destituted youth within our community.We are thruogh with the Government funds and we are trusting in God to open for us another donor.If you can come acros abrother who shares the same vision with us please link him with us thruogh our email . Amen .I would also like to inform you that it’s long since you introduced me to agruop of young boys to work with me as far as the FBF minstries is concerned. It’s therefore my prayer that God does some rivival in them.Lastly thank you very much for your Bible scriptures of encouragemet and exposition.Yours truely in Christ. Amen. KWAHERI. From Bro Geofrey

10-06-09      FBF India is flooded by major Cyclone! Help needed!

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ,
Greetings in His Name!
Please help us as we help those who have been effected by the cyclone, victims at Andhra Pradesh. They need our immediate attention, without which many precious lives will be lost. Please extend your supporting hands as the Lord leads you to help our fellow brothers and sisters. You can bring a smile in many faces who have been struggling with pain, sickness and death.

The project is on. Our team is going for medical camp to dis-inflect villages where many people dead and without any help – very strong phenomena and people in very pathetic condition and very urgent needs. The team has borrowed some money and going ahead as it is very urgent. The situation is just terrible. If you can help it will be very nice.

Houses are under water, some domestic animals have died, some tube-wells are under water, all the latrines are broken and useless, some trees have been blowen over, they don’t have safe drinking water, they can’t use latrine, they are not getting food, there are No medical facilities in the affected area.

A few of our rural churches were affected by the floods. Most homes are half way or fully under water. Last more than 10 (ten) days they had no food to eat, even drinking water was unsafe to drink, also no medicines to help those in need. Though we have no present picture of this area but the situation is very bad. Till yesterday it was raining.

I am sending some more flood effected photos for your kind information. Please pray for my people bad situation. if you possible please do any help for my flood effected people.. We pray for you and your needs. God bless you sister.

In His Service,

Pastor. P.Prasanna J

10-05-09     FBF Team leader receives new banners

Dear Servant of God Rev. Robert.

Receive my Calvary greetings. How are you servant of God here in Kenya we are just still in the presence of the living God and his beloved son who loved us and given himself as Ransom of our sins and he is the one who commissioned us to preach the Gospel to every creature every nation to those who believe may be saved. I was grateful when I heard of your visit to Nigeria may God give you more vision.

I want to thank you very much for the banners and other evangelistic tools on which I received from brother Ben… now proclaiming the Gospel will be perfect. The only problem is transportation on which we ask God to intervene.

Pray for us that God may save people as we proclaim the gospel

Yours

Harrison .L. O

10-02-09     Bro Rich, FBF Ghana checks in after mission visit

Hi, my Dear Robert,
Thanks for your letter, it was a wonderful experience that i had with you and with the entire team, above all your gift to me was surprising which has remain touching. my journey back to Accra Ghana was good i hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks for everything!
Richford Thompson

09-20-09     DR Congo National Coordinator enlarges FBF Centres!

Dear My Dad

I thank God for been again with you through this message. i received your note and i couldn’t reply because i was so busy with the ministry. the goal of this message is to inform you about the center of FBF we started in the North Kivu in the city called Goma
there we have brother Didy B…he is the provincial Director there of FBF ministries
i want to tell you that this brother is dedicated man of God, and we believe God is going to use him to preach the gospel with us in FBF ministries here is DRCONGO: i have started to open centers in DRC so that we can be able expend the message in all DRCONGO. please you can communicate with him. he knows very well english and i believe he will help us even in translating our monthly news reports so that others pastors can have it. the plan that we have is to open an other center in Butembo, Kalemie and Lubumbashi. so i believe with God’s help this October we will go through it:

thanks and God bless all FBF members

D RCongo
National coordinator
Brother Moise B

09-18-09    Pastor writes in from Kenya

My dear spiritual Dad in Christ, prophet ROBERT, USA,

I bless you in the Mighty Name of Jesus, Wow praise God!!!!,

Thanks, my dear prophet ROBERT ! It’s great to catch up with you too. Currently, God has my hands in a lot of things - singing and ministering as a prophet, loving on the homeless and teaching/preaching of your trips in Kenya, and traveling and speaking/ministering in various other churches as a guest speaker. He is blessing - and our family is healthy and doing well. Thank you for your thoughts and your prayers.

09-10-09   note from Bungoma preacher

Am very happy and encouraged to hear that from Kisumu, it is with all FBF team as a whole, the fire of God is on and we are experiencing things we did not hope in our lives, This is the time of the Lord to stiring our FBF Ministry, praise be to God. Someone might have depised our preachings, but GOD is so happy to see his children CONFESING AMEN. God bless you and bless our Fellows,

Bro Abiud/ FBF Centre Bungoma

09-08-09   Dear Brother and sister from the NW

To our brother Robert,
A quick note of encouragement, with our prayers for a fruitful mission trip
this month!

Thank you for con’t prayer for our youngest, Jo. Her court hearing was an answer to prayer. The Judge clearly spoke Wisdom from the HS. Since then,
it’s been trial by fire for her, as her husband is enraged yet afraid. We will be seeing her again tomorrow (altho she is now back teaching).

The Word of YHWH you shared was powerful & revealing. YHWH is Awesome, …dwelling in unapproachable Light. This brought a new perspective on prayer to our King, enthroned.
May His Word again become flesh in His own, who believe & cling to Him.
Looking for that blessed hope & glorious appearing,
Chuck & Diane

09-08-09    Bro Dennis/ colege student appreciates recent PL

Pastor thanks for the FBF Newsletter since it has been of great importance to my spiritual growth and I say may God bless you for that. We will be praying with you as you minister to people in Nigeria and I know it is going to be of a blessing to those people.
Otherwise God bless you so much and we are doing well here in Kenya on that the we miss you so much.

yours, Dennis

09-07-09   FBF Bungoma Coordinator speaks of conversions

Greetings Bro. Robert! I thank God because of the response or the so
called turn-up in those areas we go. It is mere truth that at first
people would be astonished to come across to pump into 3 or 4 guys
preaching in the open without huge speakers erected on the roof tops.
They would conclude that maybe these guys have gone berserk. But after
listening to the message their hearts burn and realize that something
must be done. A fortnight ago my team and i went out to preach as
usual!!! Little did we know that 2 chaps were going to give their
lives to Jesus. I was the first to take the stage and as i was going
round the market after preach, 2 guys approached me and told me that
they wanted to receive Jesus. One guy told me that he was a smoker and
that he had on several occasions tried to stop but to no avail! The
other guy was alcoholic and just like the former,” he had tried to do
without beer but he just end-up drinking himself silly. I first led
them in salvation prayer, then advised them on the steps they must
take and finally we prayed together. Right now they are doing well and
they both stoped smoking and drinking respectively”, praise be to
God. So FBF is spreading the Gospel in a unique, special and
unprecedented way. God bless FBF, God bless the founder… Rev Robert
Ephrata, Amen ~ Ben

09-06-09  FBF India Churches pray for for the Mission

DEAREST BELOVED MAN OF GOD ROBERT EPHRATA AND NEAREST BELOVED FAMILY,
Greetings in the most exalted name of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. By the grace of God and with your
daily prayers we are doing well and praying for the same
with you.. Hope this message will find you in good health
and spirits.
I hope that you are preparing yourselves to enter to the presence of God. it is our prayer that God may uphold you and your family in His Loving wings whole this new month and pour out His abundant Blessing upon you continuously.
We had very nice service in our churches and we spend much time prayer and worship and prayed for you and your family.
Please keep our churches and ministry in your prayers, in this new month God is opening new ways to minister to people in our area and to bring them towards our living lord Jesus Christ.
Thank you very much for your prayers and love.
YOU ARE IN OUR HEARTS AND DAILY PRAYERS.
All our orphan children, aged mothers, Bible women, leper brother, fellowship pastors and churches sending their love, prayer and big hugs to you and your family.
we love and miss you.
prayerfully looking forward for your prayerful mail
Pastor.P.P.J.

09-05-09    Prayer warrior and Pastor continues to uphold FBF

Bwana asifiwe sana dad Robert,

God is our source of supply, and He really stands by those who honor Him and
His mighty works toward mankind.

Thank you for the work that FBF is doing in Kisumu.

We read of how the widow woman in Elijah’s day was in a horrible situation.
She was ready to use her last bit of meal and oil to make a cake for her and
her son and then starve to death. As Elijah requested the widow water and a small bread so we thank God He is using you mightyly to feed many people the word of God. We thank you Dad Robert for your teachings. I, and my family we are praying for you that we shall keep our secrets. We are waiting for you dad on the situation I told you earlier. When we have a dad like you, we don’t feel lonely.

Elijah, busy doing God’s work, came to her and asked if she would bake a
cake for him first. This was not a selfish request. No, Elijah was putting
her in the position to be blessed of God, and blessed she was. First Kings
17:14 says, “For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall
not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD
sendeth rain upon the earth.” Isn’t God good! What seemed like a no-win
situation turned out to be a wonderful blessing from the Lord.

I am lifting any request you may have up to the throne, and I know that God
will help and bless you in all ways needed. Keep your eyes upon the Lord
and trust Him to make the way for you and yours.

God is always on time. It may not seem like He’s on time to the natural
man, but faith tells us that He is. Faith tells us to put our complete
trust in the promises and wait patiently on Him.

Thank you dad.

We hope to hear from you.

Isaac & Eunice.