Saturday, July 12, 2008

Luke 10 in action in Wake County

Mission teams have been praying for churches close to any mission site to minister to the least of these near their churches. The Lord is faithful! Read how the Lord has answered these prayers. We praise You, Lord, for the growth of Your kingdom!

Two weeks ago an Hispanic pastor and wife called to accompany the Saturday Hispanic mission. Their church is ~ a mile, as a crow flies, from the mission site. They asked to take over the Tuesday bounty and start a new mission. Today they have taken over the Hispanic Saturday ministry, as well as, starting a new one on Saturdays. With a call to the Brown Bag ministry, the bagged lunches were increased, just for Apex missions, from 40 to 115 each week. Thank You Lord for Your mighty provisions! Now the original Saturday mission team has the time and resources to go into a new area this morning. Keep both teams in prayer this morning as His kingdom is taken into new areas.
The fruits of this new Jesus team’s labor can already be seen. On the 1st the team took food to the new Tuesday mission site. They were able to pray with people and invite them to church. One of the families brought another family on Sunday, the 6th. While at church a family, not in a relationship with Jesus, asked for food and a job. The response was let's pray about this. On Tuesday the 8th , the food donations were so bountiful the team took food to the family telling them that Jesus heard their prayers. They, then, wanted prayer for a job. The next morning they called the mission team, the husband had a job. Pray as this family desires and develops a closer to Jesus through fellowship, asked and answered prayers, and discipleship.

The Lord has also answered those prayers through two churches in Garner. One church has been offering showers, clothing, laundry, medical missions, and fellowship on Saturdays for quite some time. The number attending each week has grown to between 20 and 30 lambs. Now several of the lambs are asking for rides and attending the church Sunday morning. They have developed such strong relationships with these lambs, they are visiting and sending cards to them in the hospitals and treatment centers. We are thanking Jesus for the one lamb in treatment now who calls daily in tears because of these cards and letters of encouragement! He knows he is loved. An Hispanic church is reaching out to the Hispanic population and offering them rides to their 3 services a week. We are thanking Jesus for His laborers!

What a blessing to witness Luke 10 in action in so many places! God is good!

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