In the 1970s and 80s our joint ministries of Christian Growth Ministries and Action International Ministries were troubled and faced with a sad reality: "How do we properly follow up with hundreds of older street children who were coming to faith through our evangelistic camps?"
It was hard to keep in touch with the children when they returned to the streets of Manila.
Local churches were of little help for many had no concern for older children. The older boys and girls from the streets were rough and dirty, they would be a drain on church finances to help them, and it would take quality time needed for the children of the church.
At one of our ministry leadership meetings, it was even suggested that we stop all camps as so many were coming to faith and we could not care for them all.
Aris (the leader of children’s outreach), however, spoke up. He said, “ If we stop the gospel for street children because so many are coming to Christ and we cannot care for them all, we are just like those who promote the evils of abortion, killing babies because there are too many already.”
Needless to say, we continued to pray for and looked for ways to do appropriate follow up for these street children.
One day in my office I was praying with Jimmy Yee, one of our leading workers with children and follow up. As we prayed he suddenly said, “Lord, help us to go the second mile with these older children who come to faith at our camps.”
I asked Jimmy what he meant by “second mile?”
He answered that as we go the first mile and tell the older boys the gospel of Christ and some come to faith, we then need to go the second mile with discipleship and to train them in a vocation so they have no need to beg, steal or eat out of a garbage can.
That was the beginning of our “Second Mile Discipleship and Vocational Training.”
We trusted the Lord for land and built a two-story home, vocational building, and a school beginning with a one-year program with 15 older boys.
The mornings were filled with the Word of God, discipleship, reading, math, living as a family, teaching manners and assigning household chores. The afternoon consisted of training in carpentry, welding, computer repair, and auto mechanics.
It was a wonderful, blessed ministry over the years with all the boys obtaining work after a year with some even starting their own businesses hiring others. One graduate became a contractor and built buildings for some of our other ministries.
The Word of God says, “For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel— these are the eyes of the LORD which range to and fro throughout the earth” (Zechariah 4:10).
May our wonderful Lord be praised.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
Why Argue with a Fool?
It is not advisable to try to argue sensibly with evil government officials!
They are slaves to their evil policies and will never agree to common sense and truth.
So what do we as Christians do?
In compassion, we simply share the gospel and the truth of God’s Word anyway!
Share the Word about the value of the unborn. Challenge officials to promote adoption (life), instead of abortion (death).
Share the truth of the necessity of national borders and legal immigration (of those who need help), instead of open borders, which result in unlawful activities which are harming many through child trafficking and drugs.
Share the biblical ethics of purity instead of government-sponsored sexual deviancy which is polluting the nation with homosexuality, transgenderism and prostitution.
The world will not listen, but pray the Lord will honor His Word as you share it and bring some to repentance and faith.
“The gospel is the power of God's to salvation.” So let’s live it and share it.
The Lord says, “Come unto Me,” and He also says, “Go Ye!”
They are slaves to their evil policies and will never agree to common sense and truth.
So what do we as Christians do?
In compassion, we simply share the gospel and the truth of God’s Word anyway!
Share the Word about the value of the unborn. Challenge officials to promote adoption (life), instead of abortion (death).
Share the truth of the necessity of national borders and legal immigration (of those who need help), instead of open borders, which result in unlawful activities which are harming many through child trafficking and drugs.
Share the biblical ethics of purity instead of government-sponsored sexual deviancy which is polluting the nation with homosexuality, transgenderism and prostitution.
The world will not listen, but pray the Lord will honor His Word as you share it and bring some to repentance and faith.
“The gospel is the power of God's to salvation.” So let’s live it and share it.
The Lord says, “Come unto Me,” and He also says, “Go Ye!”
Are Christians to Honor and Respect Our Governments …especially when they are so CORRUPT and EVIL?
The Word of God speaks of the wicked, “The wicked strut about on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of mankind” (Psalm 12:8) and “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they have committed detestable acts; there is no one who does good. The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of mankind to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, together they are corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one” (Psalm 14:1-3).
We are to share the gospel of repentance and faith personally, by email, by letters, but how are we to pray for officials when they are so wicked, so deceitful, so sexually perverse?
Do we pray for God’s mercy on officials who do not obey the laws of the nation? Officials who have opened the borders for illegal immigrants resulting in the loss of 300,000 children mainly to child trafficking, and the 100,000 dying yearly from smuggled drugs, or do we pray for God’s judgement on such evil?
How do we pray for a government which uses its citizens’ tax funds to support an organization which kills more blacks in two weeks than others killed in a century? Do we pray for their repentance or for God to judge such evil?
How do the Christians of the United Kingdom pray for its evil government who punish its own people who criticize the government’s special treatment of immigrant Muslims (who want to take over the country), rather than caring for UK citizens who built the country? UK jails are full of simple people, young and old, who have questioned such wickedness. The elderly especially will suffer this winter from fuel shortages because funds are going to illegal Muslims, climate change, and the proxy war of Ukraine.
It is interesting that the definition of such actions by a government is treason; it does not obey its own laws and does not care for its own people!
So, how do we as Christians pray for our nations which may be under God’s judgement for abortion, child trafficking, sexual deviancy, lawlessness, etc.
Perhaps our prayer should simply be, “Lord as you judge our nation by giving us such wicked, perverse, and evil officials, in Your wrath, please remember mercy!”
We are to share the gospel of repentance and faith personally, by email, by letters, but how are we to pray for officials when they are so wicked, so deceitful, so sexually perverse?
Do we pray for God’s mercy on officials who do not obey the laws of the nation? Officials who have opened the borders for illegal immigrants resulting in the loss of 300,000 children mainly to child trafficking, and the 100,000 dying yearly from smuggled drugs, or do we pray for God’s judgement on such evil?
How do we pray for a government which uses its citizens’ tax funds to support an organization which kills more blacks in two weeks than others killed in a century? Do we pray for their repentance or for God to judge such evil?
How do the Christians of the United Kingdom pray for its evil government who punish its own people who criticize the government’s special treatment of immigrant Muslims (who want to take over the country), rather than caring for UK citizens who built the country? UK jails are full of simple people, young and old, who have questioned such wickedness. The elderly especially will suffer this winter from fuel shortages because funds are going to illegal Muslims, climate change, and the proxy war of Ukraine.
It is interesting that the definition of such actions by a government is treason; it does not obey its own laws and does not care for its own people!
So, how do we as Christians pray for our nations which may be under God’s judgement for abortion, child trafficking, sexual deviancy, lawlessness, etc.
Perhaps our prayer should simply be, “Lord as you judge our nation by giving us such wicked, perverse, and evil officials, in Your wrath, please remember mercy!”
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