Are the birth pangs getting closer and closer and becoming more intense?

Are you trying to do religion or are you seeking to be a disciple of Jesus?

Read what C.S. Lewis has to say about the difference:

For you are no longer simply thinking right or wrong; you are trying to catch the good infection from a Person. It is more like painting a portrait than like obeying a set of rules. And the odd thing is that while in one way it is much harder than keeping rules, in another way it is far easier.

The real Son of God is at your side. He is beginning to turn you into the same kind of thing as Himself. He is beginning to turn the tin soldier into a live man. The part of you that does not like it is the part that is still tin.

From C.S. Lewis in The Joyful Christian [‘Putting on Christ]

If MY People

If MY people
who are called by MY name
will humble themselves
and pray
and seek MY face
and turn from their wicked ways
then I will hear from Heaven,
and will forgive their sin
and heal their land.
II Chronicles 7:14

God to you:

Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance and the ends of the earth for Your possessions. Ps 2:8

So far we have asked God for
Chile, Haiti

North Korea, South Korea,

Thailand,

Afghanistan, Sudan, Nigeria, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Syria,

Israel, Japan, Hong Kong and Pakistan.

We have more work to do.
Thanks for your involvement in seeing Jesus lifted up in these countries.

New Births

Would you like to pray for another Chinese?
Good!
Pictured with us in Andy Jiang. He is a graduate student at U of Mary Hardin Baylor in Belton, TX. He is attending the Chinese church in Belton but has not accepted The Lord yet. He will return to Beijing for the summer before continuing his studies at UMHB in the fall. Pray for his salvation.


Our son Dave was up from Austin for a visit prior to our leaving the central Texas area.

What Can We Do?

Jesus told His disciples
GO
TEACH
MAKE DISCIPLES

[Matthew 28:19-20]

He told His disciples

You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.

[Acts 1:8]

They went to Jerusalem.
They were having such a great time in Jerusalem that they stayed there.
After all, there was a much work to do there. They were seeing people being swept into The Kingdom by the thousands. Someone had to be there to teach and make disciples.

And that was happening and it was good and it was in obedience to Jesus
BUT
they were not going to Judea Samaria and the ends of the earth.

So
persecution came and then they suddenly remembered the other parts.
And the Good News spread as they were faithful to invest their time, energy, finances, lives into building The Kingdom of God.


The US has been the most blessed nation on earth for most of the years it has existed. It has certainly been the most powerful nation since WW II. We have had the power, the influence, the technology, the financial power to take the gospel around the world.
We have made many great strides in that

BUT
the job is still not done.

WHAT
are we doing to change this?

We need people prayers finances

Is persecution coming to America?

God gave us the wherewithal to do this job. We have not done it. We have chosen to spend almost all our time, energy, resources on ourselves while others go to hell, never having heard the name of a savior - Jesus - never knowing that there is a God who loves them so.
We revel in the fact that there is a God who loves us so; that there is a savior who willingly gave up His life that we might have life everlasting. And we should rejoice in that fact.

YET
Two/thirds of the world is dying without that knowledge. And what awaits them?

What are we doing to get the job done?

What is your church doing about this?

What are you doing about this?

Great is His faithfulness
May our loving Heavenly Father find us faithful to Him.

LeRoy