Sis. Nona Freeman Has Been Promoted
 

From WNOP:

On Saturday evening, December 26th at 10:45 PM, a treasure was called home. Sister Nona Freeman, veteran missionary to Africa and one of the best-loved writers in Pentecost, passed from this life peacefully at home with her family at the age of 93.

Sister Freeman and her husband, Rev, E. L. (Bug) Freeman, began their life in missions work in 1948 in South Africa. They left the United States with their five children ranging in ages from nine years to six months, and spent the next forty-one years in Africa.

Even after Brother Freeman's death in 1999, Sister Freeman continued to travel, preach and speak. She served the Lord in ministry for seventy years and has touched thousands of lives. Only eternity will truly know the far-reaching impact this great lady had.

Please be in prayer for the Freeman family during this difficult time.

Lisa Marshall
Strategic Prayer Coordinator
World Network of Prayer

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Thank the Lord for such great people! May we follow their steps as justly! :D

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We met January 25, 1937, a date we celebrated the rest of his life. Love came instantly, though both of us were in such denial about a call to preach and a call to Africa, that we did not mention it to each other. God called him before his seventh birthday, and my call came at eleven with the infilling of the Holy Ghost.

I collapsed at college in March that year and was sent home from the hospital with thirty-six hours to live. Death came, but during those thirty minutes of time when my heart did not beat and I did not breathe, I met Jesus face to face. I confessed my disobedience and failures and promised to do His will if He would allow me to come back. He graciously forgave me and sent me back. My life turned around at twenty. Because of Bugs apparent lack of spirituality, I immediately broke our engagement, but Jesus has His own beautiful and exquisite ways of working out His will in human lives.

God later let me know that our marriage agreed with His will, so we were married in August still keeping our secrets. God said I must be still and let Him guide us. Bugs ambition lay in the business world where he had wonderful opportunities, though he had long sought earnestly for the Holy Ghost. When he decided to surrender to Gods will and preach, the Spirit came on him wonderfully and he talked in tongues for three days. His preaching (and mine) began in a revival in New Mexico, April 1939. In that revival Jesus told on us about Africa, and from that hour, our predominant thoughts concentrated on GOING.

Our deep desire to get to Africa moved us to drive from New Mexico to St. Louis, MO in September, 1939 (with great difficulties and without needed necessities) to meet the missionary board. They greeted us with these words, You look more like you ought to be applying to the TB asylum than the mission field! My husband at 62 weighing 125 pounds, and myself at 59 weighing 106 pounds inspired that remark. They felt insulted (rightly so) that with only five months preaching experience, we would meet them wanting to be appointed to Africa. This was simple ignorance on our part. However, they gave us good advice Dont trade on a missionary call work for God, hold meetings, start a new work, go through every door God opens and come back in three years.

Without resentment, we took their advice and tried to meet the board in 1941 and 1942, but they did not have time to see us. By this time, we were pastoring our second church in Louisiana. We asked if we could see them at the Conference in 1943. The meeting would begin at 1:00 p.m. and end about 6:00 p.m. If we were there and they had time, they would talk to us. We got to the appointed place at 12:30 p. m. When their meeting ended at 6:30 p.m. they marched out and said, Sorry, we didnt have time to talk to you this year, come back next year.

My husband immediately began to encourage me to have the right attitude and not resent anything, promising that we when we returned home we would be able to settle everything by prayer. In that all night prayer meeting, God gave me a scripture, John 15:16, Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit. As I read this to my husband, I started shouting. He had received the same verse and finished reading it; and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

At a Louisiana district conference in 1944, the missions director announced that we had a missions call. Our precious friend, George Glass, Sr. said, We love the Freemans and do not want them to leave us, but if they have a call to Africa, we need to send them. Bring your gifts to them and put it in the guitar case! Everyone began to weep and most of them made several trips to the case to add to that offering. The war raged then, and America still felt the steely grip of depression, but $3,400 resulted. Three weeks later we received a letter from the board appointing us to Africa, if I could pass a doctors examination on being able to go. At age 15 a doctor discovered that I had only one lung, but Jesus gave me a new one just in time so I passed the test. In March 1948, that offering paid the Freemans fare to Africa on a cargo boat with five children, ages ranging from nine years to six months. No planes to Africa then.

Ive written books about our forty-one years of adventure in Africa which prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the incomparable grace of Jesus is sufficient for every situation. No matter how ugly or desperate, He is forever able! One of the most amazing things Jesus did early in our journey was guiding Brother Freeman to visit other African countries by faith and claim them for Jesus. Within a short time of his unofficial visits when he walked over that country and claimed it, someone in America would get a burden for that land and GO! Then speedily revivals flame would blaze from unexpected quarters. Speaking of revivals, we saw incredible miracles of healing and salvation in the twenty years of tent revivals that we held, often under very challenging conditions all over the country, a rich reward for the small sacrifices we made.

All the missionaries that went before us to Africa were sent to Liberia a small country on the West Coast known as the white mans grave. E. L. Freeman refused to go there. He said, I am not afraid of the climate, but the rest of that vast continent needs the true Gospel! He carried an immense burden for Africa and after twenty-three years in South Africa, the board handed him the whole continent except for the five countries at the top of it (they fall with the mid East region.) During the time T. F. Tenney served as the Missions Director, for two years he arranged for us to visit, encourage, and try to open other countries. We continued to do this for another eighteen years after Bugs appointment as Regional Field Supervisor (now known as Regional Directors.) We had many more adventures in Jesus name trying to open up new areas for the preaching of this glorious gospel, and saw unusual success in that endeavor.

Somewhere along there, my dearest Bug had to go to St. Louis for a board meeting while I remained in Africa. Jesus visited me in a vision saying, the churches in America are in trouble, the affluence of America has robbed them of their trust in me, and they dont even realize it. Im cutting your missionary work short and sending you back to America. Accept every invitation you get to visit the churches and tell them what you have seen me do and what I can do for them. When Bug came back, he excitedly told of having the same vision. Shortly after that the Board decided we were getting too old to be missionaries. We knew why! We came back to America in 1989 and did what He said together for ten years. There were also some visits overseas. Then my darling got the call to go higher in 1999, but before he left me he told me what to do. Keep on doing what you are doing, and be happy.

A near-fatal accident in Kenya, Africa in 1973 taught us the beautiful message of praise and worship. It still sustains me at 88 as my beautiful daughter, Sandra Freeman lives with me and helps me deliver my urgent message to the family of God; trust Jesus completely and walk in the liberty and power of the Holy Ghost!

http://oof.upci.org/inductees/enfreeman.asp

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I love that she saw Jesus and Bug waving her to come on!

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She was such a saint...such an example for us to follow.

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Wow...what sad and yet happy news...

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what a great couple.

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Precious in the sight of the LORD
Is the death of His saints.
Psalm 116:15

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Heaven's choir is singing sweeter today since she has joined them.

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Although I felt earlier this year was her going home year, I will truly miss this soldier of the cross. She was so transparent that it encouraged me that God could use us in spite of our failures as a person.

What rejoicing she is having with her Jesus and Bug and family members and saints she ministered with. Her and Bro. Barnes have probably been rejoicing and showing her the sights. :)

What a day to look forward to. :)

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Heard her speak/preach several times. She was always a blessing.

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Can we even imagine the throngs greeting her upon her arrival, multitudes who are in Heaven because of her ministry and influence?

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Amen, Margie.

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Seems there's another writer in the family. This was emailed from EA.

Nona Freeman 1916-2009


By Sandra Freeman:


Dear Loved Ones of Nona Freeman:


We sorrow, yet rejoice to inform you of the earthly departure and heavenly
arrival of our mother Nona E. Freeman 93 years old. She was a Jesus name
Minister; Foreign Missionary; Daughter; Wife; Mother; Grandparent and beloved
friend to millions around the world.


She took the 10:45 p.m. flight, Saturday, December 26, 2009 at our home in Fort
Worth, Texas. Take-off was smooth after 93 years of waiting on the run-way.
There was often layovers at various terminals in her life but Mom never
complained.


She began her Ministry in 1939. She spread the gospel of Jesus Christ for over 70 years as a Preacher, Foreign Missionary, Speaker, Columnist, Evangelist and
beloved author of more than twenty books. She preached and served as pastor's
wife throughout the United States and the continent of her burden, Africa.


Upon arrival she was greeted at her Heavenly Destination by Jesus! Then she was
finally greeted by our dad and her spouse of 62 years; her beloved E.L.
'Bug' Freeman!


She was also greeted her daughter and our sister Marla, and not only a fellow
minister but her beloved mother, Carrie Eastridge as well as a host of loved
ones, the apostles and prophets of old.


Those left at the terminal upon her departure; daughter and travel companion
Sandra Freeman of Fort Worth, Texas, daughters, Linda, Sharon, son Dale
Freeman, several generations of grandchildren, siblings, family and a host of
friends around the world.


The Home Going Service and Celebration of her life commonly called a 'funeral'
will be announced Monday, December 28, 2009.


The Nona Freeman family thanks you and asks for your prayers at this time.


Nona Freeman Ministry

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I can't imagine the rejoicing that must still be going on in heaven.

I was lying here the other night thinking about life and death. What better way to face death; NO FEAR, NO REGRETS, WITH JOY and KNOWING you have lived your life being in the will of God and doing His work? THAT's blessed assurance......

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I'm afraid not many can do that.:(

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Esther, I had thought the same thing when I read Sandra's announcement.
The Word of God is true.

Ezekiel 16:44 KJV

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is
the mother, so is her daughter.

Hugs,

Falla39