Missionary Tim Davis

Missionary Davis

This is Missionary Tim Davis witnessing to two Sudanese men this past weekend. He is a missionary to Myanmar. We enjoyed having him and his family here this weekend. I spent two hours out visiting and soul winning with him on Saturday morning and had the chance to watch him aggressively chase people down to give them the Gospel. I appreciate that in a missionary, seems to be a rare thing to find these days. Bro. Davis saw four people trust Christ. We had eleven total saved on Saturday and twenty-six for the week. We also had one public profession made and one Vietnamese man baptized this week.

Bro. Davis is a good missionary going to a very needy field. Old Burma is 89% Buddhist and much in need of the Gospel.  I was delighted to present him to our people since we have many refugees from Burma. God has blessed us with a very international ministry here in this Midwestern town that is one of the largest Asian refugee relocation centers in the United States. Please pray for Missionary Davis as he raises support to go and please pray for our church as we try to build a potential army from this side to one day help the cause over there!

WHY THE DEVIL HATES OUR CHURCH?

This picture and story will tell the answer to the question... This is Huy Tan who came to our church doors this Wednesday morning. I came to the doors and asked him if I could help him? He said, "Don't you remember me?" I told him he looked familiar but I could not place a name. He reminded me that my wife and I met him about six weeks ago on a Saturday morning. I then remembered talking to him and inviting him to church.

He told me that he was not ready to accept the invitation to Christ that I offered him that day, but today he is ready. He told me that he knew that if he came here I could help him accept this invitation of Christ. I took him inside to the altar and took my New Testament and led him through the Romans Road. I asked him, "Do you think Christ would save you?" He said, "No, not think, I know that He would!" Huy Tan bowed his head and asked Christ to save him.

I then explained baptism to him and told him we could baptize him during the next service. He told me that he wanted to get baptized right away. I told him the water was cold, but he said it did not matter. So we baptized him right away!

That night he came to the evening Bible study and is supposed to come out for soul winning Thursday night. Folks, this is why the Devil hates our church! He hates a church that is available to give the truth of Living Water out to a thirst traveler who is looking to have his thirst quenched! Praise God I was able to be here for him to help guide him along the way!

ALIVE AND WELL

 Our bus ministry was alive and well today at Lincoln Baptist Church. Last week we had an African community leader ask if his organization could inspect our church to make sure that it is fit for Africans to attend since we don't understand African culture. Since this organization has no government authority and we are a New Testament Church receiving our authority from God and His Word, I did not feel the need to have this organization put their stamp of approval on us. When we declined the offer; the gentleman made threats that he was going to be shutting down our bus ministry by telling the Africans not to ride. However, I think God had other ideas as we saw one route in particular have 32 riders with plenty of African kids on board. Funny thing is our bus captain on this route was born and raised in Congo, so I think he understands African culture! The Devil never quits his ploys of trying to discourage and even stop the work of God! Praise God for His mercy and grace!

A-1 Bus Route

 We had 5 public professions of faith made during the invitation time on Sunday morning. One of those was Keenan. Usually when someone comes forward to make a profession of faith we write down their name on a slip and I read their names from the pulpit. Keenan asked me if he could come up and do it himself. I said, "Sure." At the end I called him up and he looked surprised. I don't think he thought I would actually call him up to the platform. I did and he came with a very nervous look on his face. However, he testified about how he had accepted Christ as his Saviour that morning to which the crowd shouted Amen!

Keenan with the Preacher

 Only at Lincoln Baptist Church could you find such diversity. As the pastor I love it. These ladies sit by each other every week. Interesting enough all three speak three different languages. The language barrier doesn't stop fellow Christians from building a friendship with one another. If you come to our church you need to love people because that is what our church is all about! It is about people!!!!

Grandma Rashidi, Anto, and Mrs. Fauth

NOT FOR SALE

This past Saturday afternoon I had just wrapped up a meeting with a church member and was packing up some things from my office when my girls said very loudly across the auditorium, "Hey, Dad, there are some Monks on our front steps!" I said, "What?" They said, "Hey, they are coming up to the doors and waving at us." I then went to the front doors and sure enough there were some Buddhist monks at our front doors. I opened the door and asked them what they wanted. They said, "We want to look around your building and see if we want to buy it." I told them it is not for sale.

Apparently, they thought it was for sale. I figured God brought them here for another reason. So I witnessed to them. I told them how Christ is the only way to heaven. Their Buddhism cannot save them! They did not choose to accept Christ, but I left them an opportunity! My wife took their picture with me and our girls, because we have never had Buddhist monks come to our front doors of our church building before, especially to try to buy our building. They were very nice and I prayed for them to get saved one day. I hope you will pray for them to come to Christ too!

Funny thing is there is a great truth wrapped up in all of this. The fact is that the devil hates a soul winning work. He would like for us to sell out. However, we won't sell out. Not to the Buddhist. Not to the Jehovah's False Witnesses. Not to the Mormons. Not to any other cults and false religions in our community either.

WE ARE NOT FOR SALE! Our soul winning is not for sale. Our standards and personal separation are not for sale. Our bus ministry is not for sale. Our outreach to the refugees are not sale. Are blood bought message is not for sale and neither are our King James Bibles. We aren't even going to sell our position on Biblical authority which most Christians don't want to accept today anyway! WE SIMPLY ARE NOT FOR SALE!

Christ is for Reaching People

"Christ is for Reaching People" was the name of the Sunday morning morning sermon this week. I preached about how Christ intended for every Christian to be reaching people for the Lord. Nothing less than working to that end is acceptable with God. We had several visitors and the saw three people make professions of faith as having received Christ as their personal Saviour. We then got to see two of those follow the Lord in believer's baptism. God is good!

Shala getting baptized!

Bianca getting baptized!

We also had a new Sunday school teacher start teaching today. Mrs. Looper did an excellent job teaching her new class. One of my daughters is in that class and said she did do a really good job.

Mrs. Looper teaching Sunday School

Our Sunday night service carried with it an excellent spirit as well. I preached from Nehemiah chapter 12 on "The Joy of Serving the Lord." My text verse was Nehemiah 12:43 "Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off."  The people of God found great joy in serving the Lord. The only joy and happiness any Christian will ever have is going to be serving the Lord. No one can find happiness in just being a pew sitter! God wants our life to have purpose, that purpose is found in serving. J.O.Y. Jesus Christ first, Others second, and Yourself last!

THIS IS WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT

Eh Kaw getting saved through Burmese translator during invitation time

 This picture tells the story of what our church has been about for over 13 years now and will continue to be about as long as I am the pastor here. We will be a church with a heart. The definition of heart according to Webster’s Dictionary is “the most essential or most vital part of something.” Our church only survives with a healthy heart. I declare that a church cannot live without having soul winning as the heart of it. We must and will have a soul winning heart.

  It is God’s will for Christian’s to produce other Christian’s. That is why you ought to carry Gospel tracts with you where ever you go. Sometimes I forget, but seldom will you find me out in a public place without a Gospel tract on my person. I am to produce fruit and so are you. We are to have compassion on this lost and dying world! 

Junior Church

 
 This past Sunday was a great one with the Lord blessing us with 144 in Sunday school. Our Karen (Burmese refugees) route brought in 35, which was a new record. We also saw 6 public professions of faith being made. 

 Junior church was pack and the auditorium was pretty full during the morning service. God is blessing our church and I believe as long as we keep demonstrating a heart for people, God will keep blessing. Please pray for God to give us more laborers that have a heart for people!
 

During morning service