A Great Gift
We all know that this is the time of year that we celebrate the Greatest Gift of all, that is Jesus, God’s gift to man. We also recently received a tremendous gift. As you know, the Grace Baptist Church is building their own building. Some gracious people and churches have given to help. The people of the church are selling some of their own personal possessions, or taking on work to help build the building. However, we were down to $200.00 US in the building fund.
totally complete the building. In the meanwhile, praise the Lord for His goodness to this dear church full of precious Mexicans, whose faith just soared in growth. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him
Matt. 2:11
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We also praise the Lord that He is doing a work in this church as well. Over the past few Sundays we have averaged over fifty and , this past Sunday evening we had 22. The children's SS Class, that was down nearly to nothing when we returned from furlough is overflowing. We now have a young youth director and that class also is growing. What’s more exciting than the numerical growth is watching them grow spiritually.
One of my first soul-winners was talking to a man at work that goes to another church about how they reach people. The man told him that they reach people by “life style evangelism.” Angel asked him how many he had won to Christ with this type and the Man replied, “none.” The man now wants Angel to train him in soul-winning. We are training 14 soul-winners at present and, two Saturdays ago had 11 people out door to door witnessing.
The church also voted this month to send a Christmas offering to each of our Mexican missionary families. We surprised them with 1500 pesos, ($150.00). They also voted to raise 2 families support to $50/month. Praise the Lord. Jesus said in Matt. 16:18, “I will build my church.” That’s what we’re trusting Him to do.
