Hope After Dope~ Fall Report
NEWS LETTER SEPTEMBER 2013
We are enjoying the fall in the high
country and God continues to teach me new lessons. At the beginning of September
I was concerned that we had vacant beds and I didn’t know how we would fill
them. I shared my concerns with several friends and was assured that God would
send men to fill them in his time. I am excited to announce that we now have
three new residents whom have moved in and a forth will be joining us in a few
days putting, us at full capacity. Praise the Lord! The three men who have
joined us are; Randall, Dennis and Dickey please pray for these men as they
enter a new era in their lives. I look forward to mentoring them in their
journey.
A special note: It is
difficult for these men to find jobs, pray for open doors and if you are in the
Ash County area and can provide a job please let us
know.
I am excited about going to the annual
Bible conference in Florida with some preacher friends and look forward to Gods
refreshing. This is a great meeting and I always enjoy the time I can spend away
from the daily toil. Please pray for us as we
travel.
I would also like to ask your prayers and
offer a special invitation to our Fall Jubilee on November 2nd at the
Solid Rock Baptist church in Morganton/Drexel area of Burke County. If you live
in this area we would love to see you there. We will have three of our
supporting Pastors preaching that evening along with special singing. Please
pray for this event as this is a vital part of our funding raising
efforts.
News
Blast: Dickey is
one of our new residence and came to us from prison. He started in the beginning
that he has been raised as a Catholic and what we do at the house was totally
new for him. As I mentioned last month we are please that all the residents
attend Clifton Baptist,
( our sending church) This past Sunday was Dickey’s second church service
ever in a Baptist church. We are so excited that Dickey got saved during the
morning service. Dickey said that the very first time he entered the church he
was greeted with love and compassion that he had not experienced in the Catholic
Mass. He was surprised that no one condemned him for his past but only showed
him love and compassion. The Catholic Church is often quick to condemn those who
fall away. Dickey also shared with the other men during our morning devotions,
that he felt an overwhelming conviction in his very first service, but did not
know how to respond. During that second service, Dickey said,
“ When the Holy Spirit came the second time, the conviction was so
overwhelming I thought I was losing my mind. It was so real and compelling that
I could not resist, and had to give in to his power”. I am so excited to share
this information, as many of you know Catholics shun the gospel and often rebel
against our message. Dickey also said he felt that his church had been
misleading him for all those years. Please pray for Dickey as he continues to
grow in Christ and pray for God’s continued wisdom and guidance as we attempt to
mentor these men.
Sincerely;
Curtis
Contact info: cell phone: 828-964-1056 E-mail
hope-after-dope@live.com
Hope-After-Dope Ministries
I am excited with what God is doing for us, as all the men are
working now either full or part time. We are making preparations for winter and
the woolly worms are for-casting a severe one. This time of year is always a
challenge but God continues to supply our needs. We have been asking for some
time now, if any individual or group had a van and God has given us one. This
past Sunday we were able to take all the men to New Grace Baptist Church in
Alexis NC, where they presented us with a 12 passenger van. We are exceedingly
grateful to Pastor Joe Drum and this generous congregation. The van is vital
for our ministry in that it allows us to go to church, bible conferences and
other activities, as a group. Thanks New Grace!
There’s other good news to share, Conley has been with us for
about 7 or 8 months now and has been able to save some money and plans to buy a
car. This is a great accomplishment for him. Congratulations to Conley.
One positive effect of the winter is that it allows us to engage
in extra Bible studies and we look forward to a time of learning for each of
us.
Urgent
breaking news:Our main car that we use to take the men to their respective
jobs is broken. It has 225,000 miles and we’ve had to park it. It is absolutely
essential that we get a replacement ASAP. If we don’t have a car that gets
at least 25-30 mph, our gas expenses will go through the roof. In the past God
has moved on generous hearts to donate vehicles we need. I am presenting this
need for some compassionate heart that has a vehicle they don’t need. Please
contact me if anyone can fill this urgent
need.
Foot note: Our primary source for heating is wood and our pile is
getting low. I ask again that you help me get the word out to anyone that can
provide a source that we may cut.
As always I appreciate all our supporting churches and ask for
your continued prayers as we strive to carry on Gods work for this vital
ministry.
In Christ;
Curtis
working now either full or part time. We are making preparations for winter and
the woolly worms are for-casting a severe one. This time of year is always a
challenge but God continues to supply our needs. We have been asking for some
time now, if any individual or group had a van and God has given us one. This
past Sunday we were able to take all the men to New Grace Baptist Church in
Alexis NC, where they presented us with a 12 passenger van. We are exceedingly
grateful to Pastor Joe Drum and this generous congregation. The van is vital
for our ministry in that it allows us to go to church, bible conferences and
other activities, as a group. Thanks New Grace!
There’s other good news to share, Conley has been with us for
about 7 or 8 months now and has been able to save some money and plans to buy a
car. This is a great accomplishment for him. Congratulations to Conley.
One positive effect of the winter is that it allows us to engage
in extra Bible studies and we look forward to a time of learning for each of
us.
Urgent
breaking news:Our main car that we use to take the men to their respective
jobs is broken. It has 225,000 miles and we’ve had to park it. It is absolutely
essential that we get a replacement ASAP. If we don’t have a car that gets
at least 25-30 mph, our gas expenses will go through the roof. In the past God
has moved on generous hearts to donate vehicles we need. I am presenting this
need for some compassionate heart that has a vehicle they don’t need. Please
contact me if anyone can fill this urgent
need.
Foot note: Our primary source for heating is wood and our pile is
getting low. I ask again that you help me get the word out to anyone that can
provide a source that we may cut.
As always I appreciate all our supporting churches and ask for
your continued prayers as we strive to carry on Gods work for this vital
ministry.
In Christ;
Curtis
January 2, 2013
Todd Payne from India....
It has sure been a blessed year 2012!
I guess you have all figured out that the Mayans calendar was short and our interpretation of it was wrong!
How ever there is going to be an end someday and I surely above all things hope you have your soul in the right place!
2012 we finished 2 church facilities with orphanages attached, put in 14 wells of fresh drinking water, provided clothes and undergarments for more than 3000 kids, and was able to help with stocking provision items at some of the orphanages!!
It has been a while since sending out a mail, but while I am in the USA we are busy traveling to different churches every Sunday to share the word of God!
We have been back in India since first week of December and have had a blessed start to our journey!!!
We have been able to see God provide rations for over 140 kids for the next 2 months! Also the Delhi orphanage is rather cold and we was able to put new heaters in each room so they an have some warmth during this cold season!
We enjoyed several days with the chawala kids and helped them get ready for Christmas Day, where they enjoyed a Dj and horse rides and bouncy things!!
We spent our Christmas Day in raipura with about 600 kids and by Gods grace we was able to give out new clothes and 2 new sets of shoes to the children of that orphanage!!
We had an awesome Christmas Eve celebration which entailed carol singing with drums and lots is dancing!!
It was rather fun!
Don't tell the churchy people the may frown!
We have had 18 people thus far to accept the precious gift of salvation thru the gift that God provided(that being Jesus Christ)!!!!
Glory to God!!!
We are in route to south at present and will be there about the next month!
It is a 50 hour journey !
Pray for parental sanity!!!!
Pray that we can meet the most needs and most important needs of the orphans!!
Pray for us as we follow Jesus!!
Todd and family
Hope after Dope....
November 2012 News Letter
I am excited with what God is doing for us, as all the men are working now either full or part time. We are making preparations for winter and the woolly worms are for-casting a severe one. This time of year is always a challenge but God continues to supply our needs. We have been asking for some time now, if any individual or group had a van and God has given us one. This past Sunday we were able to take all the men to New Grace Baptist Church in Alexis NC, where they presented us with a 12 passenger van. We are exceedingly grateful to Pastor Joe Drum and this generous congregation. The van is vital for our ministry in that it allows us to go to church, bible conferences and other activities, as a group. Thanks New Grace!
There’s other good news to share, Conley has been with us for about 7 or 8 months now and has been able to save some money and plans to buy a car. This is a great accomplishment for him. Congratulations to Conley. .
One positive effect of the winter is that it allows us to engage in extra Bible studies and we look forward to a time of learning for each of us.
Urgent breaking news: Our main car that we use to take the men to their respective jobs is broken. It has 225,000 miles and we’ve had to park it. It is absolutely essential that we get a replacement ASAP. If we don’t have a car that gets at least 25-30 mph, our gas expenses will go through the roof. In the past God has moved on generous hearts to donate vehicles we need. I am presenting this need for some compassionate heart that has a vehicle they don’t need. Please contact me if anyone can fill this urgent need.
Foot note: Our primary source for heating is wood and our pile is getting low. I ask again that you help me get the word out to anyone that can provide a source that we may cut.
As always I appreciate all our supporting churches and ask for your continued prayers as we strive to carry on Gods work for this vital ministry.
In Christ;
Curtis
828 964 1056
Hope-after-dope@live.com
Mike Kennedy, Peru
June 4th, 2012
Praise the Lord for allowing us to see another church started on one of our
bus routes from New Life Baptist Church (Pastor David Taza) in Cieneguilla, Peru
today. Our fellow Missionaries Matt and Crystal Herrell had their first service
today in Huaycan. They had a wonderful attendance and God blessed. I remember
going to the large school of some 200 students there by the church several years
ago and giving out Bibles telling them that one day we would have a church there
and then last year taking a group there to the same area and school. When we got
there we had under 200 sandwiches to give away (left over from doing another
outreach that day further into the mountains). Standing at the school entrance
there was one young boy there from the Government with a bag of milk to give out
to the students, but he did not have the potato bread to go with the lunch
because they ran out. That day we somehow had enough sandwiches and Bibles to
give everyone there! God had us there for a reason. They asked us then would we
please come back. We promised them that we would. Not only did we see a Bible
study get started in their public school, but soon after the Herrell family also
started working a bus route picking up people every week bringing them to
church. They extended God’s Love to this area faithfully and today started their
first church there. These are great friends and wonderful co workers with us at
The New Life Children’s Home. It is such a joy working together with them in
Peru! Glory be to God!
Todd Payne
I have never had a month like this past month like this past month of my life!
We had saw great things happen for the kingdom of God!
I pray every month could be as this one! It has taken a lot of journey but I say they were all worth while! I will share a few of the stops in the last month of my travel!
In the past month I have traveled more with my family than most do in a lifetime! We have been over 15000 miles by road and rail!
By Gods grace he has saw fit to welcome 209 souls into HIS kingdom, by the acceptance of the offering which Christ gave at Calvary! The month of meetings have been nothing short of awesome and filled with the spirit of God!
We started the new year by seeing God work a miracle thru a paralyzed woman being able to walk again!! But also every time there was one born again, I thank God even more those miracles of his great salvation!
We have been to 29 children's home in the past month, and God has met there needs, from rations of rice to new washing machines, and places for the kids to lay there precious heads and also clothes and shoes for each one!!
Our Lord Jesus said if you do it to the least of these my brothers, you did it unto me!!
We were able to do more construction for the Kingdom of God this year!!
Giving 10 wells of refreshing water to churches and childrens homes that had not!
We went into a village deep in AP a southern state and visited a man starting a work among the panjit tribes! There name panjit means wanders in the jungle and that's what most are doing, until they meet Jesus!!
Most of them have experienced God in a mighty way of healing! One member of this certain village church was have stomach cancer, dr from nearest city hospital (30km) said she had month to live!
Her reply was if God don't heal me I am dead! The 30 believers fasted and prayed a solid weak for her and she was heal by the Grace of God!!
Can I pause to say with out HIM we too are dead!
No hope without him!!
On the way to this distant village we all were complaining at how long it was, but after reaching the place and seeing what pastor and his wife have to go thru everyday, our heart turn from bitter to blessed!
You every been there? Murmur and complain about what you're going thru and all the while your life is a piece of cake in compare to otherS!!
We helped them in there endeavor and plan hopefully to be able to finish a church in this location!!
We praise God for all he is doing!
At present I am sitting in Orrissa typing this mail and I am in amazement!
We are in a very very very remote area!
Looked like a motorcycle trail thru the woods for our last hour of journey! We reached the orphanage at 6pm and getting dark! There was 70 kids there in a jungle, waiting to greet us!! We are 4 hours from civilization, and how they survive and manage here I haven't a clue!! They have no electric, which is about to kill my son, who loves computers and such, but Is going to do him good for being without for 3 days!
We are trying to get power ran here for them from a nearby township that has it.
They need doors and windows and many things! Pray for us the next few days that God would use us to accomplish as much as we can for the dear kids in Orrissa!!
We love you all and are grateful to all who help with prayers and other support!
We will be rewarded according to the promises of God!!
Much love thru the name of Jesus,
Todd and family
Todd Payne 1-13-2012
The last few weeks have been nothing less than an open blessing!!
We attended a wedding at tamil nadu, here weddings last more than few hours they last a day or so!
I don't consider them weddings any more its more like and adventure!!
Before reaching the wedding,while I was on the train, I noticed baby Joel falling, I had to lunge to catch him!! As I did I knock a rather deep hole in my head, as if I needed one!! So blood is going everywhere! I got it stopped with a towel. The guard of the train, which rides in the caboose or last car of the train, had the only first aid on the train, so we went there and he cut my hair and patched my head!
While we were there me and some friends did talk the guard into allowing us to wave the green flag which gives the engineer the go a ahead!
It was pretty awesome event!
I did go to the dr and got sewed up and anti botics and a tetanus shot for all of 2.27 (that is two dollars and twenty seven cents) all I can say is usa health care is a little over payed!
You can take that as fact or opinion, but meanwhile I choose fact!
We started the year off right!
Some have started the new year with great blessing some have started it with great tragedy! But all none the less have started it!
We in our family have read bible daily, and I hope you have as well! One thing I have came to and noted many years consecutive is that (he will never leave you nor forsake you)
So children of God however your year has started the fact remains over circumstance that he is with you!!
And if you are not a child of God ole well your life doesn't have much of a future to it! You can be by believing in Jesus!
We had a awesome new years blast at the childrens home we attended for watch night service! I have not figured out what we are watching that's more than the last minutes of the night of a old year turn into the new minutes of the morning a new year! We shot off fire crackers for the first 30 minutes which was awesome. Here you can get those one like you see on july 4 for near nothing! It rocked! One guy named Finney who was helping me light them had a bottle rocket go off up his sleeve, it was an interesting sight! You have heard the term (like a worm in hot ashes) Finney gave me a birds eye view of it!!
We were able to visit 10 orphanages in the past 2 weeks and all of them got new clothes and some got other needs met! Such as school benches and shelves to rent and rations! We are thankful to all who enable such things to happen for the glory of God!!
We were able to do some cleaning also at the Kottayam childrens facility! It was a blessing to do for the kids there! We also did some electrical work and wiring and put some fans up,cause it is hot and I do mean hot!
In december it is mid 80s and up! By march its knocking on the 100s door!
Get this yesterday I'm sitting a pool of sweet, waiting on a train and here comes south indian gumby out of the blue with his overcoat and tobagan!! I thought to put my coat on as well and then I realized some light bulbs are not as bright as others!
We were able to see 11 people added to the kingdom of God this year! One of which was my mother in law whom was baptized this past sunday! Praise God!!
May 2012 be a year you read your bible, a year you do what God has asked of you, a year you see God do great things in your life!!
Get this a woman who was paralyzed is walking, the lost are saved all because his great name!!
My wife Gracy and I just celebrated our 11 year anniversary, and I want to say I love her and appreciate her as much and more as and than before!!
It is a blessing to have a help mate and not a hinder mate in ministry and life in general!
We love you all!!
Pray for safety and safe travel as they are many!!
Todd and family
Todd Payne 4-13-2011
I fill as if I am the willie nelson of the train! Mt song should be on the train again, on the train again, just can't wait to get on the train again!
Many miles have brought me to the last train journey of this journey! It is the train ride that I dread the most!
It is so hard to say see you later to many kids who count you as a dad or mom figure!
I will and always do miss my dear orphan children, when it comes the time to return back to the states!
I count all joy and privilege to serve them!
If the crown in heaven is better(than the farewell the orphans give) and it is, I am not worthy! I have always come to india only to be a blessing, never a burden!!
I hope the kids that we touch with the love of Christ will turn out to be great men and women of the king ( that's Jesus)!
Even though the times we spend is to bless others, we normally end up being blessed more than we bless others! I hope that makes since to you cause it don't to me! All we do is give the entire time but it just seems so fulfilling to be in the will of God!
I taught the last week here on how to know the will of God? You have the same question? Good! I am glad you ask! There are three types of Gods will!
He has his Sovereign will- most of us don't understand it! God allows sin to go on in the world why? God allows earthquakes to happen and take lives of thousands why? God sees children when they are abused and seems to be silent why?
Good question, glad you asked again! That is sovereign will! Most don't understand it! His thoughts are not like our thoughts! Deut. 29:29 the Lord is the only one who can keep a secret! ** if you yourself can not keep your own secret, how and why do expect other to keep it? You can't even keep it and it is your secret!!
God has secret things and you and I may or may not ever find out! It is souley up to God if he shares those things with you or not!! If he choose not to let you in on his secret, that's His choice, and by the way what are you and I going to do about it??
Not a thing!!
Then you have the Standard will of God!
Its never wrong to do right and its never right to do wrong!! That's Gods standard will!! The Ten commandment haven't changed since the time of Moses nor will they ever change! You can take from a courtroom (dummies) take them from school, but friend I assure you God won't change his mind about his on standard!
Eve had doubt about Adam, she has asked are you messing around on me? He said how can it be, you are the only woman on earth? So that night while sleeping, Adam was awakened to what seemed like being tickled, so he asked his wife what in the world she was doing? She said I am counting your ribs!
Wife it should never come to a place you have to count you hubbys ribs, if so I assure you, you are out of the will of God! Why? You are not in his standard will!!!
Then there is his special will! It is a will that he has for his people!
Don't worry, God has as many methods as he has men, as many plans as he has he has people! Don't fret he has a special will for your life!
I'll explain! His Sovereign will- God knew I'd be saved by grace thru faith before he formed the world!! I don't understand it but I bless God for it!!
His Standard Will- I should have to ask my pastor his advice of whether it is wrong or right to marry an unbeliever! If I am a believer we can know thru the word/standard will that we are not to be unequally yoked!
I know you are asking what about those who married then the unbeliever becomes a Christian? Glad you asked! That never changed Gods standard will, but I know that God can take that which was meant for evil and turn it into Good! That's his Sovereign will again! Don't understand it, good you're not alone!
Then his Special will- when I saw Grace (that's my wife) I felt that she was the one for me, so I started to pray! Lord let your will be done for me finding the right lady, and if you want, hey her name can even be Grace! Amen! Opposite sides of the plant, night and day difference in culture, hillbilly meets village girl! All I can say Special will of God!
Are you in his will!
Many think you have to hunt for his will like easter egg hunt! Nope, cool thing about God, you get right with him and his will seems to find you!
Pray for us as we try our best to help the dear orphans of india!
Thanks for the 5000 sets of cloths and undergarments, the 5000 sets of shoes! Thanks for the 9 wells that give fresh water!! Thanks for sporting goods for many of our childrens homes! Thanks for the 4 new churches and orphanages that are standing and will soon stand for the truth! Thanks 4 refrigators and pens and pencils and washing machines! Thanks for water heaters and coolers for the hot season!! Thanks for a good christmas safe journeys!! But most of all thanks Lord for over 400 more souls that have placed there trust in you!
It is good to be in his special will as well!
Love you all and keep us in your prayer as over the next 3 days I have over 15000 miles in journey with 2 kids and my dear wife! I look forward to seeing all of you in your various churches in due time, Lord willing!
The wonderful will of God!
Live it seek it obey it! You be blessed for it! Trust and obey, for there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey!
Love you all with the love of God!
Many miles have brought me to the last train journey of this journey! It is the train ride that I dread the most!
It is so hard to say see you later to many kids who count you as a dad or mom figure!
I will and always do miss my dear orphan children, when it comes the time to return back to the states!
I count all joy and privilege to serve them!
If the crown in heaven is better(than the farewell the orphans give) and it is, I am not worthy! I have always come to india only to be a blessing, never a burden!!
I hope the kids that we touch with the love of Christ will turn out to be great men and women of the king ( that's Jesus)!
Even though the times we spend is to bless others, we normally end up being blessed more than we bless others! I hope that makes since to you cause it don't to me! All we do is give the entire time but it just seems so fulfilling to be in the will of God!
I taught the last week here on how to know the will of God? You have the same question? Good! I am glad you ask! There are three types of Gods will!
He has his Sovereign will- most of us don't understand it! God allows sin to go on in the world why? God allows earthquakes to happen and take lives of thousands why? God sees children when they are abused and seems to be silent why?
Good question, glad you asked again! That is sovereign will! Most don't understand it! His thoughts are not like our thoughts! Deut. 29:29 the Lord is the only one who can keep a secret! ** if you yourself can not keep your own secret, how and why do expect other to keep it? You can't even keep it and it is your secret!!
God has secret things and you and I may or may not ever find out! It is souley up to God if he shares those things with you or not!! If he choose not to let you in on his secret, that's His choice, and by the way what are you and I going to do about it??
Not a thing!!
Then you have the Standard will of God!
Its never wrong to do right and its never right to do wrong!! That's Gods standard will!! The Ten commandment haven't changed since the time of Moses nor will they ever change! You can take from a courtroom (dummies) take them from school, but friend I assure you God won't change his mind about his on standard!
Eve had doubt about Adam, she has asked are you messing around on me? He said how can it be, you are the only woman on earth? So that night while sleeping, Adam was awakened to what seemed like being tickled, so he asked his wife what in the world she was doing? She said I am counting your ribs!
Wife it should never come to a place you have to count you hubbys ribs, if so I assure you, you are out of the will of God! Why? You are not in his standard will!!!
Then there is his special will! It is a will that he has for his people!
Don't worry, God has as many methods as he has men, as many plans as he has he has people! Don't fret he has a special will for your life!
I'll explain! His Sovereign will- God knew I'd be saved by grace thru faith before he formed the world!! I don't understand it but I bless God for it!!
His Standard Will- I should have to ask my pastor his advice of whether it is wrong or right to marry an unbeliever! If I am a believer we can know thru the word/standard will that we are not to be unequally yoked!
I know you are asking what about those who married then the unbeliever becomes a Christian? Glad you asked! That never changed Gods standard will, but I know that God can take that which was meant for evil and turn it into Good! That's his Sovereign will again! Don't understand it, good you're not alone!
Then his Special will- when I saw Grace (that's my wife) I felt that she was the one for me, so I started to pray! Lord let your will be done for me finding the right lady, and if you want, hey her name can even be Grace! Amen! Opposite sides of the plant, night and day difference in culture, hillbilly meets village girl! All I can say Special will of God!
Are you in his will!
Many think you have to hunt for his will like easter egg hunt! Nope, cool thing about God, you get right with him and his will seems to find you!
Pray for us as we try our best to help the dear orphans of india!
Thanks for the 5000 sets of cloths and undergarments, the 5000 sets of shoes! Thanks for the 9 wells that give fresh water!! Thanks for sporting goods for many of our childrens homes! Thanks for the 4 new churches and orphanages that are standing and will soon stand for the truth! Thanks 4 refrigators and pens and pencils and washing machines! Thanks for water heaters and coolers for the hot season!! Thanks for a good christmas safe journeys!! But most of all thanks Lord for over 400 more souls that have placed there trust in you!
It is good to be in his special will as well!
Love you all and keep us in your prayer as over the next 3 days I have over 15000 miles in journey with 2 kids and my dear wife! I look forward to seeing all of you in your various churches in due time, Lord willing!
The wonderful will of God!
Live it seek it obey it! You be blessed for it! Trust and obey, for there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey!
Love you all with the love of God!
Todd Payne from India
Well the first month of the year has seemed to fly by so fast it is hard to realize and fathom all that has happened!
The utmost we have saw over 100 souls give there life to Christ as their personal and follow thru with Baptism.
I will say to God be the glory, great things he hath done!!
The ministry gave out food and sowing machines to the poor of some near by townships and the sowing machines went to widows! The lost who received the gifts we gave with hearts of love have recently been attending church!
Keep those in your prayers!
Interesting how bugs are drawn to light!!
We finally finished giving all the clothes at the large orphanage that is in Rajasthan with about a thousand kids there!
To God be glory great things he hath done!!
We praise God for the wonderful servants we had with us over the months of dec. and jan. They were a great blessing to the ministry! They completed 12 rooms with paint and new paint is awesome! The kids replied many times, uncle is our room next??
All we have done is for the kids better and God honors that!
We saw the group off in last week of jan. Then we traveled south!
A 2 day train ride with 2 kids, that is something that I advise no one to do, unless I didn't like you! Lol!
How ever we were able to stop in Goa for a day break journey, were I had classes at I Bible college in thivim!
A beautiful place, and we nearly missed our train, due to a fellow who was traveling with me, got sick and blacked out at the railway station, I was carrying 7 bags and herding a 4 year old on to the train! All the while my wife and 5 month old and diaper bag got on, my pastor friend from Goa helped lead my unalert friend to the train! Rather hectic for a train that arrives on the wrong platform, and only there for 3 minutes!
So anyhow my friend is now alert again, praise God! He got some 1 day sickness??
I am grateful to God for safe travels!
We have been in Kerala for a week now, and have been able to visit 7 childrens homes thus far!
We have provided massive bags of rice, new mattresses, clothes and shoes for all places, also the regular stuff like soap, paste, shampoos, etc...
We have also got new water storage tanks and water pumps for our Mallalpally home!!
It was great for the kids to not have to carry water for 2 hundred yards, up and down the hill
Again to God be all the glory!
Keep uplifting us in prayer as our Kerala tour ends next week, my wife and kids will stay with her family as I travel thru out the south!
Seize the day!!!
When this life is over the treasure many of you have invested in here will come to reality!
Thanks for water tanks, thanks for shoes, thanks for clothes, thanks for, wells, thanks for mattresses, but most of all thanks for the souls that will be with us in eternity!! That was my prayer today feb 5 2011!
Eternity it is the fragrance I wear, rather appropriate for a christian!
We are living in a day where every one is a theologian, everyone seems to know about God! Yet no one seems to know God! Friends you can know about God until you're blue in the face and your head explodes due to being over full with knowledge, but you will not, and I repeat you will not enter heaven until you know God!
There was fellow who posted on facebook the other day that prayerlessness limits God! I hope you read the previous line carefully! That is the biggest bunch of hell filled bag of lie I have ever read!
You see if our amount of prayer determines what God can do, then buddy we are in a fix! If our prayerlessness limits God, it means our God is limit able ( that means able to be limited )! See people are trying in every way to have the newest of teachings, the wow in there message, but I want to tell you it is the simpleness of knowing him! Don't try to wow people by what you know, live for Jesus, live with Jesus! Know him!
If it weren't possible to know him, he'd never had put it in his word!
Hope you know him!
Jesus said blessed are my sheep, for they know my voice!
Do you know the voice of the great shepherd?
Do you know when he is present?
Are you too wrapped up in this worlds involvement and not involved enough in the life to come??
Seize the day!
Tomorrow might not come!
Life didn't come today for many who had planned on it coming!!!
Live for Jesus!
I love you all and covet your prayers!
Todd and family
ps hope you all have kept your new years resolutions< by now everyone has forgot the promises they made at new years!!!
there was a fellow started his resolution in 2008< he weighted 200 and said i am joining the gym this year, i need to get in shape, <
in 2009 he weighted 220 and said i will be realistic, i will stop by gym at least 4 times a week,, i need to get into shape< 2010 he weighed 240 and said i will set something i can reach, so i will go to gym 2 times per week and walk 2 times per week, i need to get in shape< 2011 came he weighted 280 and said i will be able to this surely, i will drive by the gym at least once per week, surley that will right?? hope we don't just drive by the church, hoping that will do something for us, cause let me assure you, it won't, you must be active and involved! hope you got it!
The utmost we have saw over 100 souls give there life to Christ as their personal and follow thru with Baptism.
I will say to God be the glory, great things he hath done!!
The ministry gave out food and sowing machines to the poor of some near by townships and the sowing machines went to widows! The lost who received the gifts we gave with hearts of love have recently been attending church!
Keep those in your prayers!
Interesting how bugs are drawn to light!!
We finally finished giving all the clothes at the large orphanage that is in Rajasthan with about a thousand kids there!
To God be glory great things he hath done!!
We praise God for the wonderful servants we had with us over the months of dec. and jan. They were a great blessing to the ministry! They completed 12 rooms with paint and new paint is awesome! The kids replied many times, uncle is our room next??
All we have done is for the kids better and God honors that!
We saw the group off in last week of jan. Then we traveled south!
A 2 day train ride with 2 kids, that is something that I advise no one to do, unless I didn't like you! Lol!
How ever we were able to stop in Goa for a day break journey, were I had classes at I Bible college in thivim!
A beautiful place, and we nearly missed our train, due to a fellow who was traveling with me, got sick and blacked out at the railway station, I was carrying 7 bags and herding a 4 year old on to the train! All the while my wife and 5 month old and diaper bag got on, my pastor friend from Goa helped lead my unalert friend to the train! Rather hectic for a train that arrives on the wrong platform, and only there for 3 minutes!
So anyhow my friend is now alert again, praise God! He got some 1 day sickness??
I am grateful to God for safe travels!
We have been in Kerala for a week now, and have been able to visit 7 childrens homes thus far!
We have provided massive bags of rice, new mattresses, clothes and shoes for all places, also the regular stuff like soap, paste, shampoos, etc...
We have also got new water storage tanks and water pumps for our Mallalpally home!!
It was great for the kids to not have to carry water for 2 hundred yards, up and down the hill
Again to God be all the glory!
Keep uplifting us in prayer as our Kerala tour ends next week, my wife and kids will stay with her family as I travel thru out the south!
Seize the day!!!
When this life is over the treasure many of you have invested in here will come to reality!
Thanks for water tanks, thanks for shoes, thanks for clothes, thanks for, wells, thanks for mattresses, but most of all thanks for the souls that will be with us in eternity!! That was my prayer today feb 5 2011!
Eternity it is the fragrance I wear, rather appropriate for a christian!
We are living in a day where every one is a theologian, everyone seems to know about God! Yet no one seems to know God! Friends you can know about God until you're blue in the face and your head explodes due to being over full with knowledge, but you will not, and I repeat you will not enter heaven until you know God!
There was fellow who posted on facebook the other day that prayerlessness limits God! I hope you read the previous line carefully! That is the biggest bunch of hell filled bag of lie I have ever read!
You see if our amount of prayer determines what God can do, then buddy we are in a fix! If our prayerlessness limits God, it means our God is limit able ( that means able to be limited )! See people are trying in every way to have the newest of teachings, the wow in there message, but I want to tell you it is the simpleness of knowing him! Don't try to wow people by what you know, live for Jesus, live with Jesus! Know him!
If it weren't possible to know him, he'd never had put it in his word!
Hope you know him!
Jesus said blessed are my sheep, for they know my voice!
Do you know the voice of the great shepherd?
Do you know when he is present?
Are you too wrapped up in this worlds involvement and not involved enough in the life to come??
Seize the day!
Tomorrow might not come!
Life didn't come today for many who had planned on it coming!!!
Live for Jesus!
I love you all and covet your prayers!
Todd and family
ps hope you all have kept your new years resolutions< by now everyone has forgot the promises they made at new years!!!
there was a fellow started his resolution in 2008< he weighted 200 and said i am joining the gym this year, i need to get in shape, <
in 2009 he weighted 220 and said i will be realistic, i will stop by gym at least 4 times a week,, i need to get into shape< 2010 he weighed 240 and said i will set something i can reach, so i will go to gym 2 times per week and walk 2 times per week, i need to get in shape< 2011 came he weighted 280 and said i will be able to this surely, i will drive by the gym at least once per week, surley that will right?? hope we don't just drive by the church, hoping that will do something for us, cause let me assure you, it won't, you must be active and involved! hope you got it!