April 2, 2023
The (below) pics are of our
weekly efforts at the Church Plant to reach the lost in Hernando
County. We generally send out two or three teams of members visiting
our van routes and or knocking doors. God continues to bless our
efforts of obedience to go in Jesus name by giving constant fruit in the form
of new youth and new families. We are seeing youth and adults
trust Christ and unite with the Church through baptism as a result of our
highways and hedges ministry. We are commanded to go, we are called to go
and we gladly carry the gospel to a lost and dying world. It’s hard
to be light and salt when we hide our light under a bushel.
1Co 3:6 I have planted,
Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Tent City: The (above) pic of Sis.Terry visiting
a homeless camp with fifteen families living in the woods. One of the families
shared with us a heartwarming story of how they were ready to literally give up
on life and turn their Son over for adoption until God brought us into their
lives and gave them hope through faith in Jesus Christ. We are seeing lives
touched and transformed by the power of the gospel unto salvation. In addition
to providing the gospel, the Church plant has provided food, clothing and
shelter to these folks.
Tent & Construction
As you can see from the (below) photos, we continue to make improvements and additions to the building we recently purchased. Over the years we have used a tent for our Church fellowships. It was a laborious process of putting it up and taking down after each event. I have to be careful not to complain as some of our Kenyan and Uganda Churches have to put up tents on a weekly basis for years before we are able to partner with them to build a permanent sanctuary. All of that changed last month with the construction of a new pavilion. We recently had a member give a substantial love offering to the church for this expressed purpose and another member give an offering for the cement which we poured in house. I’m not an expert at anything, much less pouring cement but we did the best we could to get it done before it set up. We now have a pavilion to use for outdoor seating as well as a place to park our vans, especially since we had a recent catalytic converter stolen off one of the Ford vans. God continues to provide for us as we preach the gospel and we give Him all the praise, all the honor and all the glory for the great things He hath done.
Isa 54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.
River Baptism: 10 Baptized
Over the last two month's we have baptized
ten souls at the Church plant. This would be our first river baptism.
We continue to baptized both youth and adults who have recently received
Christ and also those who were already saved and needed to be baptized into the
Church.
Matt 28:19 Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Matt 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
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