The Matney Family

The Matney's

This is Missionary John David Matney and his family, missionaries to South Africa. It was a blessing to have them here for the first week of our campaign. They went out soul winning with us on Saturday and spent all day Sunday with us. Bro. Matney preached on Sunday night and did a fantastic job!

Overall we had a great Sunday with 150 in attendance overall. I had 23 in my class alone. We had 2 public professions of faith made at the invitation time and one follow the Lord in believer's baptism. On Sunday night we had 55 in attendance with a couple of visitors. Praise God for a wonderful day!

Home and Family Class

A.J. getting baptized!

In Memory of Miss Lucille

Miss Lucille

Miss Lucille Garcia was a faithful member of our church who passed away last night. She was 102 years old and until about 6 or 7 weeks ago, she lived in her own apartment by herself. She faithfully attended until her health began to slip more recently. We will miss Lucille, but our loss is Heaven's gain. She was ready to go home!

Ka Haw Moo

We had a very good Sunday despite many regulars being gone. God blessed with 5 adult visitors attending and two getting saved at the invitation and making a public profession of faith. Ka Haw Moo was a first time visitor with her children. I met her two Saturday's ago while out visiting. We were very honored to have her come and attend. We were also pleased to have Yoo Mu visit today. Her children have been riding on the Karen route for almost a year. It was a great honor to have her attend too. Then Quy Nguyen came and got saved at the invitation today. He is a native of Vietnam and was invited last Thursday night by two of our lady soul winners. Praise God for a good day!

Yoo Mu and her children

Quy Nguyen

Santo

This is Santo who has been coming to our church for several years. He is a saved and baptized member of our church. I was at the post office earlier this week and a voice shouted out of a crowd "Pastor!" I looked around and didn't see anyone. Then I heard them shout "Pastor, it is me!" I looked again and saw Santo. We spoke for a few minutes and then he told me he would see me on Sunday. Sure enough he was here like every week. I thank the Lord to see some of my converts still coming to church all these years later. Santo is a Sudanese refugee who has lived here since 2008. He is fluent in several languages. Please pray for him as his work schedule keeps him from attending many of our other services. I would like to see him grow in the Lord even more and get involved in our soul winning program! God could use an Arabic speaking soul winner in our diverse community!

More Adult Visitors

My wife and Tha Ben

We had another week with many adult visitors coming to church. My wife had a visitor come that she met while out soul winning Thursday night. It is interesting how going soul winning every week keeps the visitor flow coming. There is no better plan than God's plan! Somebody say Amen! We had two professions made Sunday morning and another two on Sunday night with one following the Lord in believer's baptism. Praise God for a good day!

Myself with Joseph who got baptized!

My son and grandson on Sunday morning.

Many Adult Visitors

Karen Bus Rider

 We had a great day today at our church with many first time adult visitors coming. In fact we had eight first time visiting adults total this morning. God is really blessing our outreach as we have seen eight people baptized in the past five weeks including one person today. It is always good to see the auditorium filling up with folks who are eager to learn from God's Word.
  The bus route had a really good attendance day with 38 riders. Our Karen route was a little low this week with 21 riders. Pictured is a little Karen girl that goes with my wife to several of the doors to pick up Karen kids for the route. This little girl and her brother come faithfully every week. Thank God for the opportunity to reach such a friendly and loving people for Christ!

Great Day and Week

Jontae getting baptized!

  We had a great week!!! It started off with a Labor Day Picnic on Monday and finished off with a great Lord's Day. We had 138 in Sunday school this morning with 6 public professions of faith being made and 2 following the Lord in believer's baptism. We had 35 on our regular bus route and 29 on the Karen bus route. God truly gave us a great service as I preached about the 15 year memorial of 9/11. Then we follow it up with a great service on Sunday as I preached more about America. We also had a baby dedication for the new Looper baby on Sunday night. I have included many pictures to show our great week!

Saw and December with new baby Grace

Debbie with Grace

Me with my grandson Jonathan

The Looper's listening to the baby dedication

Eh Gay Moo and his wife at picnic

Bro. Miller playing with kids at picnic

Peter Goes Soul Winning with a Missionary

 Peter had the opportunity to go soul winning with Missionary Sinoy last Thursday night to start our weekend off. Peter is one of our fine kids that come to our church. I am praying that God will use Peter in a special way some day to reach many people for Christ! In fact Peter recently told my wife that he is praying for God to give him a burden for all people!!! Praise God!!!

 We had 15 total saved that night to boost us into the weekend. Unforunately, Missionary Sinoy had to leave on Friday to head to his next church, however, we had a good weekend. Despite the holiday weekend and several regular folks missing, we still had 115 in Sunday school with two public professions being made and one following the Lord in believer's baptism.