Some Good Visitors

Wa Sa Na and my wife

Taween and my daughter

 We had some really good visitors today. The first was Wa Sa Na and her two sons. She is a Karen lady who was born in Thailand and speaks Thai, Karen, and English fluently. She seemed to enjoy our Sunday school class and said she would be back next week. The second one is Taween Deng who is from Sudan. She came with her child and seemed to enjoy herself very much. God blessed with some other visitors as well, but I do not have pictures of them. Our church is blessed to have such fine visitors!

Vietnamese Tracts Are Hot Off the Press

Thao and her son at Jason's Deli last week.

This past week we finally got our Vietnamese custom made tracts back from the printers. It was something we had been praying about for several years. We have tried to get our custom made Gospel tracts put into as many languages as we possible can by using our members to translate them. Last December we ran across Thao and her family from Vietnam. They had only lived in America for 12 days at this time, but spoke English very well. I was able at that time to lead the whole family to Christ and see them get baptized the following Sunday. They have been faithfully coming every week ever since. Recently, my son asked Thao if she could translate a tract for us. She said it would be no problem and went straight to work on it. Now we have our custom tracts in Vietnamese as well as Burmese, Karen, Spanish, French, and Arabic. God has been blessing the use of these Gospel tracts.

We had a pretty good week overall with one being saved in Wednesday evening service. We topped off our Sunday school campaign with several visitors and good attendance on the bus routes. We will now be marching ahead into March and looking toward our Anniversary Sunday on June the 4th when our church turns 15 years old.

Great Decision for Christ

This is Amiot pictured standing behind my wife. She is fluent in Arabic, and has translated some of our Gospel tracts into Arabic. This past week my wife and I led three Muslim's to Christ from the Middle East. She helped us confirm their faith in Christ and they made a public professions of faith in Christ. We took a nice picture of them with Amiot, but we are not using it or their names for safety reasons. It is a glorious Easter Sunday when one turns to Christ!

Also, pictured is Chigozie Obioma and his wife Christina. They have been coming regularly to our church since around the beginning of the year. Chigozie is originally from Nigeria and is a professor at the University of Nebraska. He has also written several books that have been published in over 30 countries around the world. His wife Christina is currently completing her doctorate from the University of Michigan. We love having so many great people coming to our church!

We had several visitors for our campaign this week. One was Sandico from Sudan that came with my son. He came forward at the invitation time and was given assurance of his salvation. We also had a great special this week with some of the children singing with the adults the song "Celebrate Our Saviour." God gave us a very good Easter Sunday!

Set Sail with Sunday School

Brandon and my son

 Today was the second week of our campaign "Set Sail with Sunday School." God blessed us with a very good day overall. We had 30 on the Karen route. We had several visitors in the kids classes and also in the adult classes. Brandon who came last week and said he was saved, decided he was unsure of his salvation and decided to get saved. He then followed the Lord in believer's baptism. My wife brought several visitors to Sunday school including Shanon who recently moved here from Cameroon. Also, Sha Ku who is Karen came as my wife's visitor. I also caught a picture with Calvin who got saved at our church in April of 2011 and has been coming all these years. The Lord has truly been good to us! Somebody say Amen!

Shanon and my wife

Sha Ku and my wife

Calvin and me

Special Guest

Looper's with their folks.

We had the first week of our campaign this past Sunday and were blessed with very good attendance. We had a variety of visitors come. One particular couple that visited was Brother Looper's folks from the state of Washington. We felt very privileged to have them in our services for the entire day. I preached on "Set Sail with Sunday School" during the morning service. There were many who don't already attend that said they felt motivated to come to Sunday school the next week.

Then on Sunday evening I preached on "Failing to Recognize the Preeminence of Christ." The altars were full at the invitation time and we had a return visitor from the morning back for the evening service. His name was Brandon and he brought another visitor with him named Chelsea. Chelsea got saved at the invitation and followed the Lord in believer's baptism. Praise the Lord!  

Chelsea getting baptized.

Walking Miracle

This is Brother Miller who literally became a walking miracle this past Sunday night. It all started last Friday morning when Brother Miller who works at one of the local hospitals was asked to go fill in a shift at the heart hospital in town here. Shortly after Brother Miller started his shift he began to feel chest pain and fell down in front a group of heart specialist. The team of people at this heart hospital are truly experts. They literally had a stint in Brother Miller's heart in seven minutes. The type of heart attack he had is nicknamed "the widow maker" because most don't survive it. However, he was released by Sunday afternoon and in church Sunday night because he wanted to be... what a testimony. Brother Miller even had a chance to witness to the priest at the hospital. Praise God for his hand of protection and care!

Newly Vietnamese Translated Tract

This is Dong and his wife Thao who just translated our new Vietnamese customized gospel tract. We will now send it to the printers this next week looking forward to getting it back for distribution. We strive to have our Gospel tracts in every language that we can... these are often translated by our own members. The diversity of our city makes it necessary for us to get the Gospel into every language that we possibly can in order to effectively evangelize the community God has entrusted to us.

God blessed us today with several visitors and one getting saved at the invitation and making a public profession of faith in Christ. Below is my two daughters pictured with Paw Ka Moo. The Karen skirts that my daughters are wearing were sewn by Paw's mother and given to the girls. Paw's family is a blessing and they are planning a trip with us into Burma for the Summer of 2020. This is their native country and they would like us to visit their home land and see about getting the Gospel to the area.