May 2012 - GalcomUSA

Galcom International, USA, Inc.
PO Box 270956, Tampa, FL 33688-0956 Ph. #813-933-8111
Galcomusa@galcom.org www.galcom.org
Dear Friends of Galcom:
May 2012
The Ken Crowell Legacy Project
… there before me was a great multitude that no one could
count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing
before the throne and before the Lamb. (Rev. 7:9a NIV)
Last month’s report noted that Galcom, MegaVoice and TheoVision
have agreed to work together with the church in Ghana to reach an
unengaged unreached people group using Christian radio and oral
Scriptures.
Thus, the Ken Crowell Legacy Project to honor our
deceased founder was born. Currently no one is working to reach this
totally unreached people group of 71,000, causing it to be officially
designated as an unengaged unreached people group (adding the
populations in neighboring countries brings the total population to
430,000+). For security reasons, we are referring to them as the
‘Leemah’ people (not their true name).
The dream to reach the ‘Leemah’ with the Good News of Jesus Christ
began when MegaVoice CEO Charles Cibene noticed this tribe on the
list of 639 unengaged unreached people groups at the 2010 Lausanne
Congress On World Evangelization in Cape Town. He quickly enlisted
Theo Asare and the two agreed to pray about what could be done to
connect this totally isolated group with the message of salvation.
Galcom became involved in March of 2011 and Theo was invited to
keynote our annual banquet and to attend joint strategy meetings last
month.
The Leemah are an agrarian people who tend livestock and cultivate
crops. They are skilled in the art of barter, live in mud huts, have
arranged marriages and are governed by a tribal Uro (chieftain). They
became Islamic beginning in the 18th century through contact with
warlike Muslim tribes spreading south from North Africa. They practice a
mixture of Islam and tribal religion based on placating fearsome spirits
with witchcraft, fetishes and amulets.
Bible translation was attempted some years ago in one Leemah dialect
in a neighboring land, resulting in Genesis, Mark and James being
translated. Research is needed to determine if the Ghanaian Leemah
can understand this dialect and if any of these Scriptures have been
recorded in oral form.
As our theme Scripture indicates, there will be someone in heaven from
every people, kindred, nation, tribe and tongue. As far as we know this
tribe as yet have no representation there. The Ken Crowell Legacy
Project aims to change that through teamwork and the application of
Christian radio and oral Scriptures.
No one believes that reaching the Leemah with the life-changing spoken
message of Christ in their language will be quick or easy, but by God’s
grace, with prayer, persistence, teamwork and a deep work of God’s
Spirit, this dream is achievable.
Can this people now locked in
darkness count on your prayers and generous support to free them from
oppression and the chains of spiritual bondage?
Margie Crowell and the family have approved this key project in
memory of Ken. Thank you in advance for your prayers and
financial support of this critical outreach. US donations can be
made by check to Galcom with “IMO Ken Crowell” in the memo
line. Canadian gifts may be sent to 115 Nebo Road, Hamilton, ON
L8W 2E1.
Online gifts by credit card may be made via
http://www.galcom.org/donate.html
For the unreached,
Tom Blackstone
Executive Director
Galcom May 2012- Ken Crowell Legacy Project
In northeastern Ghana & Togo there is a totally
unengaged, unreached people group of 71,000 +
Security concerns prohibit us from using their true
name- we’ll call them the ‘Leemah’ people instead
Galcom, MegaVoice &Theo Asare committed to
reach the Leemah with radio and oral Scriptures
Theo’s Radio GAAKII on the Togolese border will
be instrumental in reaching the Leemah people
To reach the Leemah in Ghana and Togo, Radio
GAAKII needs help to increase its power output
We think founder Ken Crowell would be pleased
that his name is now linked with this special project