Category: Memories of Eku
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#9 EARLY EKU HISTORY
So Grateful that God sent my Parents, Rev. Dr. E. Milford & Eleanor Katharine Howell to Eku, Ethiope East, Delta State, Nigeria, with a strong Anointing on them & Great Love for the precious Delta people !! I showed you the First Clinic By Market that they rented, with their own small salary, from Chief
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#8 EARLY EKU HISTORY
What a thrill my Dad had when he arrived in EKU, to find that he and Rev. Jove Ejovi Aganbi had very “Like Spirits” !! – Both were very selfless men, cared deeply for people, and great compassion for them to Know the Love of Jesus. – As Evangelists, both also cared deeply about training
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#7 EARLY EKU HISTORY
AMAZING God !!! My parents were Excited to start God’s work in Eku, BUT, Oh NO, TIME OUT !! – It’s Time for ME to be Birthed !!! – Mother started having terrible trouble during my birth, so some of the precious women of Eku, came to help her birth me, and Eku had her
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#6 EARLY EKU HISTORY
(Mid 1944) EXCITEMENT, Oh such excitement in the Village of Eku that day, WOW, the drums were still beating, the people still singing and dancing with great exuberant hope !! This was the day that my parents, Rev. Dr. E. Milford & Eleanor Howell (Registered Nurse), were to arrive to the Chief’s Meeting Hall, to
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#5 EARLY EKU HISTORY
Eku’s desperate Cries for Medical Help were heard once again by Rev. Pastor J.E. Aganbi. He had started the plea to the Baptist Foreign Mission Board in Richmond, Virginia, as early as 1933. So, in 1944, in the town of Ogbomosho, over in western Nigeria, it was time for the Annual “Mission Meeting”. All the
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#4 EARLY EKU HISTORY
ONE OF MY VERY FAVORITE STORIES about my parents After a lifetime of preparing, they were finally in Nigeria… A Pastor, Jejovie E. Agonbi from EKU, in the Delta State, had been begging & pleading for several years, with the Mission Board, to send Medical help down to their area. Instead of Eku, the Board
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#3 EARLY EKU HISTORY
I Really Love How the Spirit of God Ordered my Parents Steps; taking Mother, living in Florida, and Moved her way over, to Texas , where my Dad lived !! – Before that, Both had finished College – then Mother went on to Nursing School, both in separate States, and Dad started preaching at a
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#2 EARLY EKU HISTORY
PLEASE READ the AMAZING STORY of My Dad: E. Milford Howell and How God Changed his life, to Start a New Path towards EKU ! Dad’s parents were very poor; his Dad raised chickens, sold eggs, picked cotton, along with odd jobs around, and his Mother sewed. – Daily, Dad came home from school, get
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#1 EARLY EKU HISTORY
Our Story Begins with my Mother: Eleanor Katharine O’Haver (EKO – This is the Early way to spell the Name of the Village of Eku, in Delta State, of Nigeria West Africa) – At age 6 God called her to be a Missionary – At age 8, she asked Him Where was she to go