In these last few months, many people have found themselves in the same place as Job. Having done nothing wrong, God allowed Job’s blessings to be removed and Job found himself painfully alone and even his wife said he should abandon his faith. Even though Job and his friends were without the deep understanding that we have because of our knowledge of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, their love and actions as true friends far exceeded what many of us have witnessed in these last few months.

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”
(1 Jn 3:16)

“When Job’s three friends heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him, they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to him because they saw how great his suffering was.”
(Job 2:11-13)

 

“But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.”
(Act 8:3)

Satan used this technique because that is the way God restores His people, “Take the Blood of the Lamb and put it over the doors and windows of your home and He would protect you.”

“This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

Wow!  Every day we are filled with awe and see many miracles, signs and wonders.

 

 

Wayne is working to prepare Lazaro to take a more active role in the Fellowship Ministries where he will be able to use the boat and motor that was donated to him to take kids fishing.

 

We are getting low on the “birds on a branch” boxes we use for that ministry, so Dale helped cut enough wood for 30 more boxes, then he traveled to Birdsview to help Armando work on a coop for the chicken ministry that Amber and him are doing with their family.

 

Many thanks to Lynn from Child’s Evangelism Fellowship for sending us the prayer requests for the upcoming Christian Youth in Action training in Ferndale and the encouraging vision to reach every child in Skagit and Island Counties with the good news of the gospel, trampling on every effort that Satan is using to destroy our youth.

What a wonderful way to start our day. Many thanks to all of you that pray and support our co-laborers in central Africa. We should be getting testimonies from each of them in a few days regarding their ministry in the month of May. We just received this report From Pastor Evariste who coordinates outreaches in Burundi

Rapport May 2020

Baptized = 60

All of these will be discipled by the other believers that supported the outreaches and will become a part of a local church fellowship.

 

“In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people.”

After Pentecost and the stoning of Stephen:

“On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Those who had been scattered preached the Word wherever they went.”
(Acts 8:1, 4)

We are blessed to be in contact with our co-laborers in Mexico, El Salvador and the different countries in central Africa, who continue to be thankful for the prayers and support they are receiving from our faithful prayer and financial supporters here in the USA. In spite of the difficulties presented by each country’s reaction to the corona virus, they continue to reach out with the gospel message and are witnessing new believers accepting Jesus Christ and are committed to become true disciples. We just wanted to share this one testimony from Pastor Titus who coordinates ministry in Namayingo in southeast Uganda.

Locally, we are witnessing people taking the opportunity to reach out to people in their sphere of influence who are struggling with their faith and others that are struggling without the knowledge of the love the Father has for them. Church families are beginning to meet together, and others are continuing their ministries to help people that are being overcome by addiction, depression, financial and marital problems, including domestic violence and thoughts of suicide. God is continuing to pour out His Spirit and we are beginning to see the unity of faith and the light beginning to shine more brightly than even before the reaction to the global virus tried to quench the role that God assigned to His Church to share the message of eternal salvation.

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    “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.”

(1 John 1:8)

Charles Spurgeon tells of a great English prince who on one occasion went to visit a famous king of Spain. The prince was taken down to the galleys to see the men who were chained to the oars and doomed to be slaves for life. The king promised in honor of the prince’s visit that he would set free any one of these men that the prince might choose. So the prince went to one and said, “My poor fellow, I am sorry to see you in this plight; how came you here?” He answered, “False witnesses gave evidence against me; I am suffering wrongfully.” On from man to man he went. Some would say, “I certainly did wrong, but to no great extent. I ought not to be here.” Others made similar excuses. Finally the prince came to one man who said, “Sir, I am often thankful that I am here, for I am sorry to own that if I had received my dues I would have been executed. I am certainly guilty of all that I am charged with, and my most severe punishment is just.” The prince replied to him, “It is a pity that such a guilty man should be chained to such innocent men as these, therefore I set you free.”

“If we confess our sins to one another, He is faithful and just to forgive.”
(1 John 1:9)  

“At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what You were pleased to do.”
(Matthew 11:25-26)

The scene was Lake Michigan, back of the campus of Northwestern University. The placid surface of the lake had been beaten into a frenzy by a raging storm. Out yonder the vessel had been unable to steer clear of the rocks and had sunk. Some two hundred were fighting against the wild waves. In lifeboats, on broken spars, in the icy water, men, women and children fought for life. Two brothers stood side by side. One, a valiant swimmer, said, “I must go.”

Others warned against the dangers, the ice of the November water, the sweeping storm. But heedlessly he went. He rescued ten. The chill of the ice froze his blood. But while friends were rubbing his limbs, a woman’s voice carried the lost scream over the waves, “Help”!

The swimmer could not check his dauntless courage. He plunged in once more. Back and back again he went to the waters to save until fifteen had been rescued. He finally fell as dead on the sands; but when strength came to sit up, he saw a mother fighting to keep her child from drowning.

He demanded that a rope be tied to him, and he swam out, possibly to his own death. When the child and mother had been seized, consciousness lost its grip. But with a death hold, they were drawn in.

For two days the swimmer, valiant as he was, and courageous as had been his daring feats, lay in a stupor, calling out, “Did I do my best?” When assured that he had done even the heroically impossible, he would call for friends, and ask, “Did I do my best?”

Jesus said to the Father: “As You sent Me into the world, I have sent them into the world.”

(John 17:18).  

“For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost.”
(Luke 19:10)

“And the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”
(Matthew 24:14)

“From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing and forceful men lay hold of it.”
(Matthew 11:12)