Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:04 PM
Teamwork Is good! Thank goodness each true Believer has a different gift. Christ's Body has more parts than just feet or lips! It takes all of us working together to share the Good News! Your work was essential to our VBS. "One plants, another waters, and God gives the increase!"
We were able to hand out some of the Bibles sent by Bro. John Miller. We left the others at the hotel where we stayed. We talked to one of the clerks, using the witness bracelets for a door opener. I told her we would give her one if she promised to tell someone what it meant. We then explained it to her (using your tract) and asked her to explain it back to us. She told us she was going to give it and the tract to her boyfriend, a 27yr. old who had attended church for the first time with her the previous Sunday, and had accepted the Lord! Turns out, he had never been to church and he told her that no-one had ever invited him to accompany them to Worship either! Hard to believe.
This should really drive home the need for our efforts here in the U.S. Who knows? One of us will share the Gospel of the Kingdom to the last convert of this Gentile Church Age and the last 7 yrs. of "Jacobs trouble will begin!" Why couldn't this witness of the Good News actually happen here in America, the greatest Missionary Society ever?
I'm coming back. It could be soon.
It will be sudden! God."
I got the impression that Native American Southern Baptists think "Anglos" have abandoned them. Our own Indian Brothers and Sisters in Christ are left to wallow in poverty and hopelessness on these reservations. When you drive up to Leupp the first thing you see from miles off is a huge beautiful Mormon temple. We went to a Luepp Baptist Church. It was a beautiful place of Worship because of the believers there, but it was obvious there was little money for upkeep and operations.
Pastor Jimmy McCabe at Leupp told me he has been "praying and waiting for an "Anglo" Pastor to come," since 1985. I think financial support was cut drastically sometime in the past. He said "Anglo pastors" are respected as authority figures and will be followed by multiple families. Clans will not respect another family leaders authority like him. He seemed very discouraged.(Like many of our Anglo Pastors)I don't know enough to talk about this?????
Our group felt a special need to encourage Bro. Jimmy. Our ladies described him as being "very sad". We all need continue to pray for these brave men who lead their congregations. As each LA Church partners with a Native American Church, hopefully we can look thru our spiritual eyes and not with intellectual reason. (Peter, thru faith walked on the water with Jesus). As a man it is easy to find reasons be negative.
Only 18 enrolled in our VBS effort. Four came forward for decisions, not including the two little boys who pointed at their chests and said "Jesus in my heart too!" As a Christian we look thru eyes of faith and see the "Fields are white for harvest"! How shall they hear if no one speaks? To speak someone has to go. Much like the struggling Indian pastors, those willing to go can't finance the effort or do all the material gathering, e-mails and phone-calls. God has shown I Am Able, He will provide if we all make ourselves available as a team and wait for His guidance. When the Holy Spirit leads us to go, just go, He always meets every need. The hard part is to not look at the waves. Pray God will continue to put volunteers and finances together. The door that has opened with the Native Americans is impossible for man to accomplish. "I am able to do all things thru Christ who strengthens me."
I can't wait for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. I can only imagine seeing my loved ones and the believers of all the ages who have faith in our Heavenly Father's Love, Mercy, and Justice. What a motivational truth!-Eternity in My Fathers House!
As one church sign we passed on our way to AZ. said,
"I'm coming back. It could be soon.
It will be sudden! - God."
The hotel clerk told me, that her boyfriend needed the most basic Christian teaching. AZ. D.O.M. Bro. Al Camson voiced the same need. Scriptural teachers. She asked could I imagine having never been taught anything from Scripture? (With the apathy and "form of religion that denies the power" controlling many Baptist Congregations today, a blank slate may actually be a blessing to him.) I gathered the Child Evang. and other materials you had assembled and also gave her one of the (J.M.) Bibles for her boyfriend. They had free newspapers on the front desk and I placed the remaining Bibles with them after asking permission from the manager. I'm sure, God will use them to speak to many.
Bro. Jean Winegeart was approached about buying some jewelry by a young Navaho lady. He told her that he didn't wear bracelets. She asked him, "What's that on your arm?" He grinned and explained the witness bracelet to her. She said she had seen them many years earlier, in a VBS!! We then told her we would give her the bracelet, if she would tell someone else what it meant. She smiled and put it on her arm.
"Divine appointments" or as Bro. Randy says, "Another God Moment!" These diamonds are there, rough and hidden, if we only step outside the comfort zone of our church sanctuaries and daily routines.
As I started this e-mail thanking you, I will conclude with the same. "One plants, another waters, and God gives the increase!"
In His Love,
Bro. Dwayne
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