Sunday Nov.04,07

Hello all,

We had a great service yesterday at New Testament Baptist.

We had Jeremy and Amanda Johnson missionaries to South Africa in our Morning Worship Service. They presented the ministry that they believe that the Lord would have them do there. They highlighted the number of people in South Africa with HIV/Aids. One statistic is that one in three pregnant women are HIV positive. The average life expectancy is 43 years. The number of orphans in South Africa is in the neighborhood of 20% of the entire population. That is so unbelievably sad. On of the saddest things is that if the younger generations aren't brought up to learn about God they will follow in their parents footsteps and these problems with be perpetuated. We need to get the gospel out to these people.

Jeremy Johnson preached on the duty of every believer to reach their mission field and talked about some of the things that we allow to get in our way of witnessing to the lost.

In the afternoon we had some that went out on visitation, passing out John and Romans and trying to talk to people about the Lord. Lets pray that the Lord's Word will get into the hearts of some of the people in the Spruce Grove area.

We looked at Philippians 2:1 - 4 for the evening message. The main thrust of these verses is that Christians need to focus on each other and not on themselves. We need to attempt to work together in the ministry in unity. As humans we all have so many different ideas on which way a church should go but as Christians we need to focus on finding God's will for our church and doing these things in unity. We need to have one mind as Philippians 2:2 says.

Please pray for the Coldwells with their needs for utilities for their trailor. These utilities are coming but some of them could come sooner than later given the temperatures that we have right now and the temperatures that we are likely to have soon.

Please pray for the communities around us that the Lord will shed abroad the light of the gospel in the hearts of the people in these communities. So many people have blinded their eyes to the truth.

Remember that there is a missions conference on this week at Victory Baptist (www.victorybaptist.ws). I am planning on going Monday and Tuesday evening in addition to the seminar on Tuesday morning on church planting by Earl Jessup.

Don't forget about Floor Hockey at the Winterburn Elementary School Gym at 6:30pm on Friday evening. All ages are welcome.

Talk to you later.

Minister Medic