Thanks for visiting our site! You can get news and updates of my recent trips to South Africa, Australia, and many other places this ministry takes me. I welcome your comments or questions. I hope this is a blessing to your life and if you like it, tell your friends!”
And don’t forget, God loves you, I love you and that’s the way it’s gonna be!
Quarterly Newsletter Mar. 31, 2010 Vol.X, No.1
I made my 27th trip to South Africa, Feb. 11-26, accompanied by my son-in-law & grandson, Dale & Kent Bresee, and Austin McIlroy. We did a weekend seminar in Durban along with Roger Dickson, Denville Willie and Malvin Kivedo from Capetown. Great interest and excitement among various churches with area churches of Christ taking the lead in planning the event.
Dale, Kent and Austin joined me in Capetown after a trip to Venda. We did an area seminar on Leadership, Home & Family, Morality and youth issues. Again great attendance and interest. We split up to preach in area Churches on Sunday; then Dale & I left for home on Feb. 25; Kent & Austin will stay until April 28.
NEW BIBLE PROJECT: Roger Dickson has been expanding his Study New Testament to include translating the whole Bible and adding a full commentary. The finished product will have 2500 pages; and we hope to put a copy in “every church in Africa”. Cost will be @ $12.00 per copy. SURELY YOU’LL WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT. Write us for more details.
DEHYDRATED SOUP MIX PROGRAM. We have a million servings in distribution reaching eleven African nations. Money has been raised for the next crate which should be shipped in the near future.
Tulsa hosted the 35th Annual International Soul Winning Workshop, Mar. 24-27. Attendance was up this year as well as interest and excitement. Go online to learn more and order cd’s & dvd’s from www.tulsaworkshop.org
And please don’t forget that God loves you; I love you and that’s the way it’s gonna be!
Phi.1:3
The 35thAnnual, Tulsa International Soul Winning Workshop has come and gone. Thousands came from all over the world. Speakers were excellent; crowds were energetic. And the singing was magnificent. Plus the fellowship!!!! “What a fellowship; what a joy divine….!” Get cd’s or dvd’s of all speeches thru the workshop website, www.tulsaworkshop.org . And plan to attend next year, Mar. 23-26, 2011, when the theme will be “Unchained!” “If the Son makes you free, then are you free indeed!” Thanks for coming this year. We hope to see you next year!!!
Phi.1:3
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Please DO IT; and please let me know how you like it!!! Phi.1:3
I have a request from the sister of a deceased special friend of mine, Ken Knox.
She wants the poem “Love Anyway” I wrote and have used in my “Anyway Series”!
Glad to do it! Ken was a “down to earth, no nonsense gospel preacher”; always came to the Tulsa workshop every year. I was privileged to know him!
Love Anyway!
If you give yourself to love, you may get hurt; love anyway!
If you love people they may not love you back; love anyway!
If you open your heart to others, some will invade it and vandalize it!
Open your heart anyway!
If you allow yourself to love unconditionally, you may find that others
may love you with many conditions; love unconditionally anyway!
If you love your fellow man some may misunderstand;
Love your fellow man anyway.
If you love romantically you may get burned;
Love romantically anyway!
There are those who are dangerous to love.
There are those with whom you should not be in love.
Be a loving person anyway.
Love will bring many thorns and scars along the way.
Love will not be returned every time.
But love is the only path worth travelling.
Love brings ecstasies nothing else will.
So love…..love anyway!
Ask God’s help to love often and well!
For it is better to have not lived…
Than to have not loved!
Marvin Phillips, April 1999
GREAT NEWS ON THE SOUP MIX PROGRAM: Last September, while I was in Capetown, Crate #2 arrived (500,000 servings). It is being distributed currently into eleven Africa countries. While there, Malvin Kivedo and I met with Mark Anderson (Director of Center for International Health). We have hopes of putting together another crate for the Durban area (SE of Johannesburg) hopefully for later in 2010. I also sent Breedlove Dehydrated Foods enough money for Crate #3 for Capetown. This will be shipped later this year. God bless all you who have sent; and hopefully now I’ll be able to report on a regular basis, especially on Bibles distributionand the dehydrated soup mix program. Keep sending, keep praying, and let’s keep working together (2 Cor. 6:2)…
