A Week to Remember

Well, the Spring SHARE-A-THON at Grace Baptist Church has come to an end and the Lord provided over 200,000 to keep the brodcast going through the airwaves. It was exciting to be part of all the action and seeing God bless!

Now we are  in the midst of a transition/busy week. Lord willing the truck and trailer for which the Lord has blessed us with should be arriving this week. Along with crash course lessons to drive, park, and operate the 40' home. 

Also I'll be preaching at the chapel services of Calvary Christian Acadmey tomorrow morning, along with preparing for a local revival starting this Sunday! Please be in payer for both events

And last but not least the my ordination service is scheduled for Friday, March 30 at 4pm. All this in one week, well you keep us in prayer for all these matters as we continue to serve Him in the ministry!

Missionary Prayer Letter Showing the Importance of TEEN Decisions

The Freemans of Asia,

 When I was a teenager I heard a sermon at a youth rally in Michigan on the importance of responding to every situation God puts in front of you. The speaker told us it could be a divine appointment. I resolved that day never to pass an auto accident without stopping or any situation that looked like a time when someone needed help. At times it has gotten me into trouble but I believe it is my duty and sometimes my spiritual need to stop and help. I would want someone else to stop if it were me or my family. One of those events came home to bless me last week.

Over 30 years ago when we were very young I was riding my motorcycle down to the market when I saw a little girl standing on the road crying (I found out later she was five years old) I stopped and picked her up, placing her on the gas tank of my cycle and got her to quit crying and tell me what was wrong. She told me she was lost and could not find her house because she had gotten off the bus at the wrong place. I start driving her up and down every street in the little lane and after about 20 minutes her mother saw us and came running out to get her. We talked and I gave her mother a tract an invitation to our church. They never came though we did visit them several times. 

Last week after performing a wedding we were approached by a couple with their 3 children. This young lady told me that she was that little girl. She pulled track out of her bag. Her mother had kept it to remember the event, and when she was older she read it and had been saved as a teenager. She had not been allowed to go to church for many years, but after her marriage to a Christian man she now could and did go with her kids. My recommendation to you this year, stop when no one else will you; you may be on a divine appointment.

 

LET'S NOT RIDICULE THE DECISION OF A TEENAGER

Dugspur Revival

Dugspur also know as "Drugspur" VA was the destination of our meeting this past week. We were granted such a blessing to be part of their services. The church under the leadership of Pastor Jon LaMontagne began preparing for the revival in advance. Many had already began to have spiritual victories in their lives before the services began. They had searched their hearts and sought to come closer to the Lord.

Therefore as the official services began it was a very easy group to preach to and God gave me liberty as I did so. It was a revival where some serious soul searching was done. Passages I had never preached from before I preached that week, passages that require a sober minded people ready to take the next spiritual step.

We enjoyed our time of fellowship with the members there and got know some new ones and also to rekindle relationships with old friends. Jasmine had a great time getting to know everybody as she walked up and down the aisles greeting everyone with a super loud, "HI HI" Thank you for your prayers for the meeting, God met with us and I believe God is going to do something great in Dugspur, VA.

Now we are back home, preparing for a trailer to come next week and also I am on the radio station this week for the Spring Share-A-Thon. You can tune into the radio station @ fbnradio.com                                           My shift times are   Wed. 7p-10p, Thurs. 3p-7p,  Fri. 7p-10p, Sat. 7p-10p

Baptist College of Ministry

Recently we had the opportunity to be part of the chapel services of Baptist College of Ministry and also part of their Christian High School as well. The Van Gelderen's are in leadership there and doing a fantastic job there at the school and at Falls Baptist Church.

Both of the chapel services were a blessing and the altars were flooded both times with tender hearted students seeking God's best for their lives. I attended classes there and was able to fellowhip with students across the country and literally some around the world. What a blessing it was to hear their stories, to see their passion to serve God, it was beyond refreshing!

Their website is and contact information is at the link below for you to familiarize yourself with some godly people doing a great work for God.

www.becmedu.org

 

Priceless Blessing

This past week we have been in Clio, MI at Trinity Baptist Church. I was preaching on Wednesday night to the teenagers there with brother, Aaron Burden, who is the Youth Pastor there. We had a great service with them but the big blessing came later in the week.

While I was in the area I was invited to preach at Reformer's Unanimous at Trinity in Flushing, MI. I attended the group sessions and the other talk seminars. While there I met a man who had been a crack/cocaine addict for around 30 years and he had recently had victory in those areas. He had a son who was heading the same direction and the man did not know what to do with his teenage son. He had kicked him out in the past then let him back in and then he was continuing to get into even more trouble. 

Nevertheless the son was given a deal to either go to Reformer's Unanimous that night or be kicked out of the house again. I had the priviledge to preach that night and wathed as the young man without hesitation went to speak with counselor concerning salvation. He got saved that night!! And the father came to me, obviously touched came spoke to me sharing his heart and thanking me for being used of God to speak to his teenage son's heart. 

What a memorable moment and blessing that I shall never forget!! God is so good!

GLOW-BAL VISION YOUTH RALLY

Praise the Lord for a great youth rally in Draper, VA. The rally was a combination of churches in the Draper, Blacksburg area of VA, that lasted pretty much the enitre day. It started around 11 and lasted till around 7, the grand prize was an XBOX 360 with a Kinnect, so motivation was pretty high to be in attendance.

The 3 services went well with many decisions being made, but the real blessing came the final service. At the final service around 6 teens went back for salvation. What a blessing! Much work and prepearation went into it all, but obvioulsy that made it all worth it.

Please pray now as we are now heading to Albion, IN to start revival services on Thursday.

Kendall Park Baptist Church/ Parsippany Christian School

Wow has God has blessed. First of all we had the opportunity to preach at Kendall Park Baptist Church and was able to be with the ever hospitable Pastor Brown and family. It was great to be a part of their services since Lord willing we will be there this July for a VBS. Their joy and hopsitality is extremely contagious and we love to be around them whenever we get the chance.

Along with preaching at Kendall Park, God opened the door for us to be able to preach at Parsippany Christian School. I preached to the High School and Jr. High Class during 2 different periods and God blessed both in a mighty way!

Now we are in Waynesboro, PA spending the night with our ultimate destination being Draper, VA for a youth rally with Max Creek Baptist Church called GLOW-BAL VISION!!

Camp Manatawny

What a great weekend. We had the privilege to be a part of Valley Forge Baptist Temple Youth Group ABLAZE!!

Under the leadership of Brandon Joyner and many other great people on staff we spend the weekend at Camp Manatawe. The teens enjoyed skiing, tubing, and snowboarding. I personally didn't try any of these activities but thankfully they had fun!! 

But more than just the "fun" aspect it such a blessing to see the tender hearts represented. Many teens made great decisons and many had already carried them through before the weekend came to an end.

A school teacher at the Christian School sent an email letting the leaders know that many of her students came to her and asked for her forgivenss concerning some disrespect that had been shown to her. One girl called her father in NY and made things right before camp came to an end as well. Praise the Lord for teens getting right with their authority!!

Please keep us in prayer as our next stop is in Kendall Park, NJ for a couple of days in next week!!

Travel Update

Even though our mind and thoughts have surrounded the truck and trailer, we have been still proclaiming the Word of God. January is a lighter month usually which works out well since our anniversary and Jasmine's birthday falls in the month of January. We were preaching locally at Grace Christian School and also Calvary Christian Academy. 

Currently we are packing getting ready to hit the road for about a month and a half straight with travels spanning from NC to WI. Please keep us in prayer for the entire trip and we pray to disclose what great things He hath done in the coming days ahead!

Pray for little Jasmine and I who are currently sick!

Pray for our car that is in need of repairs as well!

THE STORY OF HOW GOD PROVIDED THE TRAILER

God has done amazing things these past couple of days. Concerning the trailer, here is the story...

I was preaching at Tri State Bible Camp for their Winter Retreat. During one of the activities I was speaking to a Youth Pastor friend of mind from NJ during the course of conversation I brought up our desire for a trailer. Another youth Pastor from NY overheard the conversation and stated he had a truck and trailer he was trying to sell. Well I was listening to him describe the beautiful trailer and my thought throughout is "this is way out of out price range" "there is no way we could ever afford one like that" and so on..

Well after my mouth was watering with covetousness he told me the price and he made the watering mouth just drop!! It turned out the trailer was previously owned by another evangelist that sold it to the youth pastor from NY for a GREAT deal, then after the Lord directed this youth pastor to where he is now he selling it to us for GREAT GREAT deal. It turns out the trailer cost less than my car and the monthly payments are lower than that of my vehicle. GOD IS SO GOOD!! It pays to trust him!!

He has the truck as well and praying that God would help us raise $5,000 to buy the truck outright. He just wants that which is left owed on the truck. God is so goodl, using His people to help us along in the ministry He has called us to!

Northern Excursion

We have been some traveling people this past week. Thankfully we made it safe to Tri-State Bible Camp and preached there the weekend. During the meeting, one teenager went back for salvation and other decisons were made including teens that purposed in their hearts not to just be good but to be GREAT for God. Lord willing we pray that they live it out when they go home.

Next after preaching 3 times on Saturday we headed over to Connecticut to Pastor Chris Birkholz and New Hope Baptist Church. It was our first time there and it was a GREAT experience. We loved the generosity of the people as well as the hospitality. We had a great time of fellowship with the Pastor (a PCC grad as well). Actually so much so that we Lord willing might plan a trip to Honduras this coming summer together with his church. Please pray for us about that opportunity.

Next we headed to NYC in the Queens boro to meet Pastor Williams the Pastor of Parkway Baptist Church. We are praying about the opportunity to possibly work with a church for longer than the typical week or half a week model of evangelism, but stay as long as we can or till when sufficient help arrives.  Therefore we are considering this church due to the great need his area represents. Please pray about those concerns as well.

Today we find ourselves in Waynesboro, PA with the folks of Antrim Faith Baptist Church. Long time friends of ours now and look forward to always stopping for preaching and the fellowship.

Tri-State Bible Camp

We have just pulled in to Tri-State Bible Camp and ready to get started here with the 2012 Winter Retreat. The camp is full to capacity with teenagers with a waiting list and we are excited to get things started.

Please pray with us that God would meet with us during these meetings and that God would be honored and glorified through it all. Were praying for souls saved, Christian teens to commit fully to God in areas of purity and obedience to God.

 

Wilson Christian Academy Meeting

We started out 2012 with our annivesary on January 2. We celebrated 2 wonderful years of marriage. Thank the Lord we were able to have some time off and enjoy some alone time in Emerald Isle, NC.

After this we made it over to Wilson, NC and preached at Wilson Christian Academy for some opening semester meetings. I'm happy to report that 4 went back for salvation and that there were many other decisions.

Of those decisions I encouraged the young people to make a vow of purity which many of them did. I have been preaching purity strongly here in recent days more than any other time of ministry.

Please pray as the next stop is Tri State Bible Camp in Montague, NJ

CHRISTMAS UPDATE

Well things have been busy this Christmas Season.

1. I had a the opportunit to be a part of the Central Indiana Youth Conference.  www.ciyr.org/ It was a blessing there were around 4 saved and many other decisions made by the teenagers. There were about 350 in attendance the Lord came and met with us during that time in a special way.

2. After that we went to Charleston, SC and met up with Pastor Greg Powell for their Christmas Outreach Service. We saw one young man saved during the morning service and had the opportunity to hear the Day Break Quartet during the meeting. 

3. Later we headed to Columbus, GA with Pastor Jeff Amsbaugh. They hosted Christmas at Grace and Praise the Lord for the 8 teenagers saved during the rally and also for the Christians that dealt with rebellion as well. It was such a blessing to a be part of the great ministry there!

4. Then we headed for our home church Grace Baptist Church and preached Sunday Evening Services before Christmas. 

We pray all of you have a very Merry Christmas and please pray about us getting a trailer sometime in the near future!

Thanksgiving Update

Praise the Lord that we were able to have a week off and time for family and friends. Last time we had a week off it was clouded with funeral arrangements for my brother in law. Thankfully we were able to have a much more peaceful and enjoyable time. 

We are making arrangemnets now to head on to Indiana, then South Carolina, and finally to Georgia before the end of the year. Please pray for safety as we travel and that God's hand once again will be on the meeting seeing that most of them have a strong evangelistic emphasis. 

GA Revival

After we got back to NC after some serious mileage on the road we were able to take a couple of days to go back to our own home church and be preached to at revival services there. God used Bro. David Sommerdorf to help our church in many ways mainly recognizing once again who our God really is.

We left this morning at 5:00 and now have safely arrived in Savannah/Rincon, GA. Looking forward to getting started with the revival services at Grace Baptist Church with Pastor Chris Hanun. Things have been exciting here on the road and were looking forward to what God is going to do tonight especially since we are expecting a good group of young people to be part of the services.

Please continue to pray as we have earnestly been praying for a travel trailer to make things a little easier getting down the road. God Bless, and thank you for your prayer support!