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EXCERPT(S) FROM AN E-MAIL, DECEMBER 27, 1999  

We'ew all giong to die!

[...]
Underground is the cliche loveboat of despair 

and horny angst poetry home of your 
mutilated virgin eyes' last resting place.
[...]
In the words of Kafka: "this phenomenon my 

original explanation
[...]
For we live but once and in many exploding 
bodies to weave tails that they may 
lay like a vibrating film through history.
[...]
Gross.
[...]
So Linda Lovelace once bewildered channeled 

St. Augustine: "How can we make the books 
on the internet sexy filthy like a 
[...]
                                                                                                   completely"
[...]

Yes. Burn everything. 
[...]
Beatnik Brothel.
[...]
is the earthbound dna strands of 

textual tumors you call pretty, our 
malnourished dreams of 
the soul's word noise throbbing 
cavity search. I'm
 sick of
[...]
Like when sincerity suddenly turns to 
cannibalism. 
[...]
those unfiltered early morning 
smoke dreams
tar at the edge of
the sweet-sharp-pain-longing
dust-dear-forever-this of things

[...]
fields, them, than, with, one, over, ever, 
host, people, silent


Greetings in Jesus name:

 May this letter find you blessed in Christ. I am writing from West Africa and it is a blessing getting to you in the other part of the world. It is my prayer that you become a friend of me and the local church here.  I got your email when I searching online and got into the web site and I know that it is God’s arrangement. I need not silver or gold but the word of God only!

 By His grace I am a Believer bought and washed by the Blood of Jesus Christ. I am married with three children. I am a pastor of a small local church non denominational or affiliated to anybody. The church was founded in 2006 and now has about 30 members. I gave my life to Christ in 1987 when I was still in the high school at Zaria. A campus fellowship student by name Johnson was my roommate at school and his life of faithfulness unto Christ and his prayer and teaching me the Bible led me to Christ. This Brother told me then that he sensed that God was going to use me for His cause. I was never ready to hear that because my dream or thought was never in the ministry but to finish my studies and get a nice job. Five years after school and already working I started having the stronger urge and sensing that God was calling me but I kept on putting it off my heart because my job and life was sweet to me and I felt I needed nothing else. One day a guest speaker was ministering in our church and he singled me out in a crowd of over a hundred people and told me that God has called me to the ministry and cannot hide. After he left I told my pastor that I have accepted and my pastor and other elders of the church prayed with me. I immediately joined and headed the evangelical outreach of the church and I saw many coming to Christ in the outreach. I let go of my job in 2005 and returned to Edo my State. I joined a small local church and was assisting the pastor as the second pastor. In January 13th 2007 a pastor of a little church of about five families in my area walked up to me telling me that he is leaving the state to his home state where the Lord has asked him to go and start the work. He said he has been praying for over a month that the Lord has asked him to tell me to take over the little church he founded 2006. I have not had relationship with this pastor before now so it amazed me. He asked me to pray to ask the Lord. I did prayed and without wasting time I knew the Lord ask me to hold that little church and that was how I became the pastor of this church called Victory Chapel. The church is a growing church and we meet at a temporary rented building. We are not earthly rich but rich in Christ, riches that will last for eternity.

2 Timothy 2:15 “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth”. The reason why I am writing is to appeal for your assistance in the area of a Study Bible which will be of help to me in my research and study of the bible as well as lesson preparation as a pastor, also bibles for others. These Bibles are very expensive here. I need a Dakes Annotated Reference Bible or a Thompson Chain reference Bible either one of the two. If you cannot get any of these please send me any study Bible which you know has study helps and aids. I would prefer a King James Version. Bibles cost much here as they are imported not printed here. There are many in our local church who do not have bibles and cannot afford to buy. I want to specifically make a request for the elderly ones who cannot work and earn money to buy for themselves. There are 5 of such ones in our church and they are very devoted. Please on their behalf I request that you send them 5 Bibles the very big letters or super large print would be preferable for them because of their sight. Thank you for considering this request. And as you help to meet this kingdom need the Lord will bless you finance abundantly. If you send the bibles through post office a registered postage the bibles will get to us safely. I was told at the post office that express mail international postage or insured mail is safer.

My home and postal address is 19 Uwa Ese, Gplo 5870-airport Road, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Please write when you get my mail. I do not have full access to internet but I can check at least three times weekly. Ecclesiastes 11:1 "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days" God bless you and your family as you labour for His Cause

 In His Service,

John Izehinikor

19 Uwa Ese, Gplo 5870-airport Road,

Benin City,

Edo State, Nigeria

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