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Church If you or anyone you know is interested in our June 20-July 4th Malawi trip.
They’ll be an interest meeting at my home on Sunday, February 2nd at 2pm. Let me know who’s interested. Bruce Siegmund 318-614-4352
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020: Pastor Robert,
Some of our team (David and Betsy Trapp, Tim Smith, Gary Lively, John McCormick, Mandy Brakefield and Kevin Nugent and myself Whit Bass) drove down to New Orleans Wednesday January 15. On our way there we stopped in to eat at Middendorfs. While on my way out to leave I felt a strong impression to ask the young lady who welcomes and seats all guest if I could pray with her. Her name is Josie - prob 18 yrs old. Josie agreed and told me I could pray for her in the area of relationships. After beginning to talk to her about this subject I told her to seek first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. While sharing that verse, I felt prompted to go ahead and ask her if she had a relationship with Jesus Christ. She said she hadn’t been to church in a long time and that she did not in fact have a relationship with Jesus. I was able to share the gospel right there in the restaurant with her at the front entrance and lead her to Christ through prayer to invite Jesus into her life. She was very receptive to the GOSPEL this evening. Please continue to pray for Josie and her new journey in Christ. WHIT BASS Saturday, January 12, 2020: Hello! brothers and sisters.
We praise our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ for the blessing He is sending us, through you. We know that you are not coming by yourselves...the Lord is bringing you all to be used for his honor and glory. Pastor Robert. Thanks! for being obedient ...The Lord is keeping His eyes upon you...He loves and is happy using you to bring salvation, and love to our people. Your words said at the beginning of the ministry, the first conferences are in our memory, and are real. (You said: in the future, I will be sending some of the men I'm discipling, that will be very soon! And also added, treat them as if they were me.) We appreciate that and will take good care of them. The Lord has a lot of work to do through them... and a lot of joy for all of us. Team of teachers. The many things He will do, will let us to rejoice, He is worthy of our gratitude... The topic to be taught, will make a great impact in our people... as the pastor over here I know that any questions will rise up, and that will make our time very special. Since we are in the dimension of the Spirit, we understand and accept the many mistakes made when we used to define the church. There is a new concept reveled to us, and we appreciate your disposition to share with us from the Grace walk. All this year, has been studying and praying that these conferences, will be used by the Lord, to start a new movement that will glorify Him in a new and mighty way. Our love is waiting for you, to embrace your and to unite in the Spirit to worship, and let the Lord use us for His purpose To everyone coming, and those that could not come, be peace and grace from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Will see you next week {Brother Randy, is a blessing to have you back in our country. Thanks! Abiding. and ready to serve you Dario Tuesday, January 7, 2020: Report from Mike Clark.
To all, By our Lord's grace and favor, we had a team of 19 volunteers to fulfill God's calling. Five veterinarians, nine vet students, one wife of a veterinarian, three high school students and one pastor all merging from 10 different states, and only a hand full of this team had ever met. We were so blessed to see 14 people give their life to Christ for the first time. Many more (we lost count) were restored to faith in Christ, while admitting to a knowledge of Christ, but had made a decision to leave the local church and turn away from God. We also prayed for two ladies to be healed from chronic pain and they left pain free! The local worship team made up of our young interpreters was blessed to receive a new guitar, a keyboard and a portable PA system to help them go mobile. These instruments and more were given to each individual to keep as their own to help and encourage them to be more mobile. The goal is to help them go out to the villages, in homes, on the street corners and even to other churches to spread the gospel outside the four-wall church. If all of this was not exceedingly above what we expected, our heavenly Father opened the heavens in and through our team. All of us, without exception, were blessed to see the Holy Spirit move in His unique ways. Hearts were moved to the point of tears many times over, our faith was challenged but God always rose to the occasion, new relationships were formed as God's Holy Spirit performed flawlessly through this team. For me, I've never witnessed such a large team made up of so many people from all walks of life, coming from different backgrounds, different denominations and a full range of ages. Many vet students came with the sole purpose of extending their resume in the career of veterinary practice, and did I mention that most of us had never met! Only the hand of our God could put together such a unique and diverse team to accomplish His work. I never once heard a complaint, even in the challenging times. There were many schedule changes and people being pushed out of individual comfort zones. As I reflect back, some of the things I saw were entire families touched through the washing of feet, 50-60 children all singing and worshiping together, even seeing the Holy Spirit put a very noisy and interruptive pig to sleep so the gospel could press on. It is for certain that our Father showed us His goodness and mighty power while forever changing lives. To our creator and savior, may He receive all the glory and praise! Michael Clark PS, As the team returned back to American soil, we are already hearing about attitudes about our local church life and also a brother of a team member coming to Christ through the stories being told of our Father hand at work. ALL JESUS!!! Sunday January 5, 2020 From Santiago Gamoneda: In the walk of our life we meet incredible people,
Pastor Michael you are one of them. Thank you very much for everything you have done for me and my family, our family is one now...🙏 God continue to bless your life greatly, and continue with that passionate heart to serve our God. I hope to see you soon again and be able to share much more with you all next time. My heart is more than grateful. Sunday, January 6, 2020: This is a testimony by Mei Powers that happened a couple of months ago at Christ Church as she was caring Jonathan and Abigail to class. It was there that she saw a lady that looked pale and was walking stooped over like she had a stomach problem. Mei ask her what happened? She said she had a large kidney stone; too large to pass. The Dr. wanted to break it up so that she could pass the stone. Mei asked her if she could pray for her; she did, they laughed together. On the next Tuesday when they were back in class, Mei saw her and asked what it happened. She had gone back to the Dr. for that purpose; but the kidney stone was gone. She and Mei rejoice at the grace of God.
Sunday February 21, 2016: Testimony by Hannah Bass: She led a class mate
to Christ at Co-op School this past week. She said the student told her that he wasn't able to sleep at night. In the course of the conversation the student told her he was learning how to cast spells on others and actually do it. Hannah confronted the young guy about the dangers and seriousness of dabbling with witchcraft and then led him to Christ at school Thursday. Please pray him. His first name is Brock. 12/25/2019 Rethinking Church by David Lindsay
Not to ‘throw shade’ on ‘The Church,’ but I think that maybe it is time to rethink church as many of us now know it. I think that it is time to move away from Superheroes/Superstars and move into Fatherhood/Motherhood. Maybe it is time to move away from organizations and memberships and into families. Maybe it is time to move from viewing the backs of heads and to looking each other face-to-face as brothers and sisters in Christ. Many of us have grown up in a Hollywood culture - fame, stars, lights, cameras, bigger, better, glitz… but many of us have become jaded with all of this in society and in the church. Many of us have become exhausted with the shuffle of people from church to church depending upon who has the best show. Many of us are tired of heroes, who never know us and are beginning to want fathers and mothers, who know our names. Maybe it is time to rethink church. Maybe it is time to disrobe the church of glamour. Maybe it is time to rethink our music programs and make them simple. Maybe it is time to rethink our youth programs. Maybe it is time to rename our pastors. Maybe they should be seen as father or mother. You don’t vote in a new father or mother. Maybe we should abandon the massive structures that we call CHURCH and gather as the church. Maybe the church should look more like family. Maybe we should live more like family. Maybe we should share our meals together, share our dreams and pains together. Maybe, just maybe… An organization barely notices when you don’t show up. A family leaves a place at the table for you. An organization doesn’t know or care when you leave. A family mourns when you do. An organization quickly moves to refill your position. A family remains incomplete without you. An organization puts the most qualified forward. A family works to see each other become their best and a success. We should be part of a family, not members of a club or organization. I don’t know all of the how’s, but maybe it is time to rethink church as many of us now know it. The Church - organic, simple and yet powerful - empowering sons and daughters to take their place in society, in the world, in history and in Family of God as sons and daughters and then as fathers and mothers for the glory of God! "I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." - Jesus Selah! Merry Christmas from Ginger and Robert Lindsay
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