November 24, 2009
For the last two years Eastwood Baptist Church has sent a small group of volunteers to work in Colima, Mexico with missionaries Jeff and Deliegha Swanson.
This photo is from a baptism in a river outside of Colima. Rejoice with us in what God is doing to change lives for eternity!
Gordon
October 12, 2009
Population: 6,000,000 (approx)
Peoples: 80.7% Jews 15.6% Arab
Language: Hebrew, Arabic Literacy: 99%
Religion: Jewish 81% Muslim 15% Christian: 2.25%
Prayer Needs:
1. The intense 50 year conflict between Arabs and Israel
2. Animosity against Christians. “Christian” nations are seen as destroyers of Israel by both persecution and proselytizing.
3. Christian Church is fragmented
September 30, 2009
Seven times he preached in America to crowds of 25,000, spreading the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the Colonies prior to the Revolution.
Ben Franklin wrote in his Autobiography: “He preached one evening from the top of the Court-house steps… streets were filled with his hearers… I had the curiosity to learn how far he could be heard by retiring backwards down the street…and found his voice distinct till I came near Front-street.”
Franklin was describing George Whitefield, who died SEPTEMBER 30, 1770. He wrote of George Whitefield: “Multitudes of all denominations attended his sermons…It was wonderful to see.” Ben Franklin printed George Whitefield’s sermons and financed construction of the largest building in Philadelphia for his meetings, which later became the first building of the University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin wrote to George Whitefield: “I sometimes wish you and I were jointly employed by the Crown to settle a colony on the Ohio…a strong body of religious and industrious people!… Might it not greatly facilitate the introduction of pure religion among the heathen, if we could, by such a colony, show them a better sample of Christians…
Submitted by: Steve Sharples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield
June 28, 2009
A group of 12 missionaries will leave Tulsa on July 20 for Colima, Colima Mexico. Colima is the City and also the State. It is located about an hour North of the Pacific Ocean and 2 hours South of Guadalajara.
We will be working with IMB missionaries Jeff and Deliegha Swanson. They have been in Colima for about three years.
The following are some of the things we hope to do:
1) prayer walking 2) witnessing in main square and public areas 3) door-to-door witnessing 4) cell group ministry 5) sports ministry 6) youth ministry 7) Sunday morning worship service.
We have been asked to do the music and messages for all the events.
Please pray for our team’s safety, success in bringing glory to God and the finances we need. Below is our team:
David, Ben, Adam, Elizabeth, Jeff, Charles, Ben, Michelle, Julia, Gordon, Craig, Kyle
March 30, 2009
Among the “Sayang” (name changed), there’s no running water. And the soil is too rocky to grow anything. So why do they stay? Because they heard something precious will be revealed to them. Pray it will change their lives. Let’s join with other Christians in prayer and fasting that unreached peoples would hear the gospel!
And pray “something precious” will be revealed to all the peoples of the hard places. g
March 30, 2009
During the Civil War, after issuing his Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln set a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, MARCH 30, 1863, stating:
”It is the duty of nations…to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins…with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy…
The awful calamity of civil war…may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins.”
Lincoln continued: “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven…We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.”
Lincoln concluded: “Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for…forgiveness.”
-Steve Sharples
February 16, 2009
I came across this in my reading today and thought I would share it with you as we prepare to focus our hearts on God in March through prayer and fasting.
In more recent times the evangelical church in South Korea has taught the rest of the world a lesson in prayer and fasting. The first Protestant church was planted in Korea in 1884. One hundred years later there were 30,000 churches. That’s an average of 300 new churches a year for 100 years. Today evangelicals comprise about 30% of the population. God has used many means to do this great work. One of them is a recovery not just of dynamic prayer, but of fasting-prayer. In the OMS (Overseas Missionary Society) churches alone more than 20,000 people have completed a forty day fast – usually at one of their “prayer houses” in the mountains.
(Wesley Duewel, Mighty Prevailing Prayer, [Grand Rapids: Francis Asbury Press, 1990], p. 192).
j
October 22, 2008
Are you hoping for something that you think is God driven to be fulfilled ? Prayer is your lifeline to see that accomplished.
George Mueller was desperate to see children fed and prayer was his only lifeline. John Hyde was desperate to see lost souls saved, 1 soul a day, 2 souls a day, 4 souls a day and prayer was his only lifeline. David Brainerd was desperate to see the lost Indians saved and prayer was his only lifeline. John Knox said “Give me Scotland or I die” and prayer was his only lifeline. Spurgeon said I must have God’s power in my sermons so he established a ” Boiler room of prayer warriors” as his lifeline.
Let’s hit our knees with our God driven hopes and see them fulfilled through our lifeline of prayer. Chip
October 17, 2008
Prayer connects you with the supernatural power of God(Sharing Jesus w/o Fear p.20) Prayer and witnessing go hand and hand. We must constantly reveal our total dependence upon God through prayer. This is a supernatural work that only comes through the power of Prayer.
If we focus on just sharing the Gospel we will lose heart quick. We must keep prayer alive in our witness so our hearts will remain tender to the love of God. The close relationship a person has with God through prayer remains the key to developing a heart of compassion (p.21 SJw/o F) GOOD PRAYING AND GOOD SHARING THE GOSPEL TO YOU!!!! Bro. Chip Reynolds
August 31, 2008
Let’s pray for real sense of God’s presence tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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