Today many of the Peruvian Pastors are making their way to a camp outside of Ilo, Peru. They will be there until Wednesday. It will be a time of relaxing, a time of prayer, preparation, and fellowship. I used to love this time with the pastors as much as anything else I got to do.
I would like to ask you to pray for all the pastors, the missionaries, and their time together. Especially lift up Chris Gardner in this time that God would greatly use him.
I pray that the pastors and missionaries will all come back refreshed, batteries charged and ready to go into battle.
A missionary friend in China has written a great article called “Raising the Bar of Boldness.” I want to challenge you to go and read this article right now.
All over the world God’s people are taking the gospel even to closed countries. But Satan has won a big battle of the mind by causing many of God’s people to be 007 missionaries. They are secret agents. They hide who they are and what they do to the point that no even knows who they are. They are so afraid they hardly ever do what they went to the country to do.
God has used several of our friends to be bold. Please read the article for a man and his wife that are now living in China and dealing with this reality every day.
His article is based on a previously mentioned article here.
Today is Wayne Cooke’s birthday. Wayne is a tremendous blessing to our church. He is serving on the pastoral staff of Vision. He currently leads the ministry as we try to start a church in Cabbagetown, Atlanta. He is doing a great job and we are so very grateful for Wayne and the Cooke family.
He has been my friend for many years. He has a tremendous heart to reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Wayne and Lina have 3 very fine children. They have been used of God in several ministries already and I am very grateful that God has lent them to us!
Wayne, please know that we love you and thank God for you. I hope you have a very wonderful birthday today. I am asking God right now to give you your best year ever coming up.
Numbers 32:9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. God’s people got right to the edge of the promise. Some of them even got to […]
Numbers 27:23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses. Moses takes Joshua and in front of the entire congregation he will lay hands on him. In our church we lay hands on men when we pray for them and especially when […]
We are officially on full-time deputation! We are so excited that God wants to use us to plant churches and train Christian leaders in Spain. We have been preparing for this for 7 years, from Bible college, to working on the field, to training at Vision Baptist Church. When I look back at these years […]
Num 20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. They mourned this man for 30 days. He had made big mistakes. He had failed in his leadership, but he had been used of God and he had made a difference. […]
Numbers 16:3 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and Jehovah is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah? This is one of those verses that […]
