BRRRR.... It is cold outside!

Burmese refugee route filled up despite the coldness.

 It was negative 3 degrees when we cranked the bus vehicles this morning. The wind chill was around negative 20 degrees. However, surprisingly we had a great attendance for the weather on the three bus routes and in the adult Sunday school classes. The Burmese refugee route was full and worth making two trips to bring everybody in. God blessed!

Mrs. Painter in Ka'ren Dress

We had a Kurdish man that had been saved on a Thursday night a few weeks back come and walk the aisle professing faith in Christ. He is coming back next week to follow the Lord in believer's baptism. We also had one of our faithful members return from Burma after visiting his parents and getting married. He will be working toward bringing his wife here to America in the near future. We look forward to welcoming her to America and to our church congregation.

Dedicated People

This past Thursday night was cold and rainy. Temperature was hovering at 30 degrees and the rain was steady. Yet, 19 of our people came out to go soul winning door to door in this weather. We were able to see 9 people make decisions to trust Christ as their Saviour. Brother Jonathan took a picture of a few our people that were out who sought a little refugee under a shelter while waiting for the rest of us to finish up. It takes a dedicated people to get the job done for God! Somebody say, AMEN!

TO EVERY NATION

We had our first Sunday of 2016. God blessed us by letting us see two Burmese refugees make professions of faith in Christ. We were also blessed with an American visitor. I preached in the morning service on "Keys for Success in Becoming a Life Changer in 2016."

With a new year we are kicking off a new program that we are calling "To Every Nation." We have divided our community into seven different regions of the globe and put in place regional leaders that will be responsible for reaching people from that region. The regional leaders are responsible to try and learn one or eventually more than one of the main languages spoken from that region of the globe. For example one leader speaks Swahili already and is going to be learning to speak French. Another leader is learning Spanish. Another is learning Burmese, etc and etc...

As the leaders reach more and more people from that group they are to recruit these people and organize them into classes for the language group from that area. Then they can use these people to help reach more others from that language group. This is only the first phase of three in regards to what we hope God will do with this ministry in the future. Please pray for God to use this to help us perfect what we have really already started doing and to eventually do even more.

Our Sunday morning crowd is already very diverse. The evening services are becoming more and more diverse all the time. God gave us a commission to reach every nation. Since we live in one of the bigger refugee relocation centers in the United States it seemed best for us to start right here at home!