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February Newsletter Article

I love this verse of scripture.  We could meditate on this for a long time and never exhaust the depth that is there.  Even though you are in a hurry,  read it slowly a couple of times and let the Word of God sink deep into your spirit.

13… for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?  And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can they preach unless they are sent ? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”        Romans 10:13-15 NIV

I want to focus on a couple of things in these rich verses.   Notice these verses are made of four critical questions.   Let’s look at two of them.

1.  ’Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved’.  I am captured by the words ’everyone’ and ’calls’.  God opens the doors of heaven to anyone who calls upon Jesus.  Anyone!!!  I am so thankful that He included drug addicts, alcoholics, poor, rich, prostitutes, criminals,  business men and women, rebellious kids, Africans, Europeans, anyone.  That means you and I are included in that invitation.

The next question I want us to focus on is….

2.  ‘How can they preach unless they are sent’?

People need the Gospel that is still the power of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16).  The only way they can hear according to this verse of scripture is ‘…that someone preach to them’.  People are still being saved by the ‘foolishness of preaching’.   However, the only way people can hear is if someone is sent.

This verse seems to separate those who are ‘sent’ and those who are ‘senders’.  Michelle and I  know God has sent us to take the Gospel to Africa.  The only way we have been able to fulfill this call is because many of you have sacrificially stood with us.  We are the ones ‘sent’ and  many of you are sharing in the mission by being ‘senders’.  We can never thank you enough for  joining us in spreading the Gospel to the Maasai tribe of Kenya Africa.

Many of the Maasai that live in the Loita region of Kenya, have never heard of Jesus and His saving grace.  But because of generous people, we have been able to purchase a motor cycle which is used for the purpose of taking the message of Jesus to Loita.  Praise God a church is being planted in this area with visions of many more to come.  Many of the Maasai are being saved in this area. Yet, there are many other areas where the Gospel  needs to be taken.

It is our heart to change this people group.  They are living in overwhelming darkness with female circumcision, polygamy, sharing of wives, AIDs and the list goes on. We need to purchase more motor cycles, to enable the local Maasai ministers to spread the gospel more rapidly.  We also need to build more church structures so people can be discipled.   Our vision is to turn their darkness into light.

This verse is special to Michelle and I because we know the only way for us to impact the Maasai tribe is to be sent by our friends like you.   Any amount is a huge help.  No amount is to small.  By planting more churches there we are making a permanent and ongoing difference.

Michelle and I will be making another trip there in March and April.  This will be the longest time we have stayed there.  We will be speaking in two different conferences,  several churches, and evangelistic outreaches.  Obviously this will take another financial miracle.  We are simply trusting Jesus to speak to people who will help send us.  This is a major financial undertaking to be gone so long, but we are committed to spreading the Gospel there.   Please ask God how He might want to use you to be a ‘sender’.  Many will receive Jesus as Lord and Savior.  This is the kind of reward we will share for an eternity.  It is not just the preacher that is rewarded for the spreading of the Gospel, but also those who make it possible by sending them.   This is the kind of reward that lives with us forever.  This is not ‘internal revenue’, but ‘eternal revenue’.  These are the kind of rewards we all want to participate in.

Don & Michelle