Gospel Harvesters International

May 2012 Prayer Letter

admin — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:28:08 +0000

Dear Friends and Family,

In lieu of our creating another prayer letter this month, we have chosen to simply attach the quarterly newsletter from Sam giving a full report on the current work in India and the plans for future work.

We will give you a full report on the Ghana teams in the June prayer letter. They are working diligently and we are seeing a harvest in each project.

God has laid on my heart this month some thoughts that I want to share with you. Maybe he will use this passage and these words to minister to you in the days ahead.

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April 2012 Prayer Letter

admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:50:30 +0000

Dear Friends and Family:
I trust you have had a very fruitful March. Ours has been a busy one both on the ministry side and personal. Our three (3) ministry teams in Ghana and India have been in the fields and at this point I only have two reports. On the personal side, we have been blessed with a visit from long time friends from England, Mick and Hazel Fallows. They were formerly at Westminster Chapel under the ministry of Dr. R. T. Kendall for years before his retirement ten years ago. I also went for my four months check up for my back surgery in November and was given a good report.

This month also marks the beginning of 35 years in the Gospel ministry. To say it has been an unparalleled adventure would be putting it mildly. God called me to full time ministry (for whatever that means today) in Memphis, TN in 1978, and that calling was sealed with a promise from Col. 3:2. Knowing His presence and the many friends we’ve made across the world have made the years very unique. I now know why Paul the Apostle always wanted to return to places of past ministry they were all special and significant to him.

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March 2012 Prayer Letter

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:05:35 +0000

Great things are happening in the world of GHI! People are coming into the Kingdom of God on a daily basis; people in a remote village in Ghana are now drinking clean water because we cared; orphans in India are being shown an unconditional love that can only be explained by our first being shown that love; students are being trained to be the next leaders of new churches in India; and finally Hindu priests are being saved as we reach into unreached people groups in India… so do you ever wonder how all of this happened?

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February 2012 Prayer Letter

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:38:09 +0000

We trust the New Year has started well for you and your family. God has once again given us a fruitful 2011 but as we look ahead, we are definitely in uncharted waters; but the child of God always trust the One Who is leading.

In spite of some churches and denominations going in the wrong direction, the people who are moving forward doing missions, evangelism, church planting, providing education for future pastors, bringing fresh water to villages with new wells and taking care of orphaned and abused children will always have the eye of the Father. We intend to stay fixed on the last orders we received and have no intentions of backing off.

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January 2012 Prayer Letter

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:26:54 +0000

As the year 2011 has come to a close, we want to say thank you to all of you who have stood with us in your thoughts, prayers and faithful giving through the year. On behalf of the 45 national mis- sionaries under the GHI umbrella, Dottie and I want to say again
thank you so much!

Although I was not able to celebrate our Christmas get together with my family at our daughter’s home due to my surgery, I nevertheless was so aware of His pres- ence, of this season of hope and the realization that GHI is right on target taking the Gospel and offering to the masses an authentic hope in Jesus Christ Emmanuel –
God with us!

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December 2011 Prayer Letter

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:42:03 +0000

We trust you had a great Thanksgiving Season! However, mine was spent in a hospital room recovering from surgery. I was approved for surgery on Friday the 18th and a 2 1/2 hour surgery was performed on the 21st at 3 PM. Things went very well. I now have some new hardware in my low back that is helping to fuse my L6 to my lower S1. I came home on the 25th and I‘m doing my best to stay still and heal. This is largely happening because I have the best caregiver in the whole world, Dottie and the presence of the Great Physician there every moment assuring me that He is always, without exception, doing all things well!

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November 2011 Prayer Letter

admin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:24:57 +0000

Sorry for the November prayer letter getting to you so late but I have been battling an intestinal virus for the last week and only now just having enough strength to sit and type. In spite of what is going on in my body, the body of Christ that comprises the GHI staff in Ghana and India has been battling the enemy victoriously on their fronts as well. This October we had reports of nearly 10,000 coming forward to repent of their sins and receive Christ as their Lord and Savior. So pray for the follow up work and read on as I share with you some encounters that occurred this past month that would mirror events from the book of Acts:

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October 2011 Prayer Letter

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:42:59 +0000

Greetings in the Name of the Lord! I am sitting at my desktop and thinking about how the “much more” of Romans 5 transitions into the day to day life of GHI. As Paul deals with the overflow of being justified by faith, GHI also stands in the eternal fact that what God initiates, He sustains, which in itself is a “much more” life. He is the One who is forever giving much more than we can ever ask or think. He always does exceedingly abundantly above all we could ever ask or anticipate. What a Provider we have; but built in to all the promises of God and what He is initiating in our lives, is the idea that none of what God desires to do for us will happen apart from it being accompanied by a living faith to believe and expect it to be on the way. In Hebrews 11 alone, all 21 of our Old Testaments friends were said to have been justified by faith. This means they listened to what God was saying and walked it out with Him. This is what we endeavor to do in this ministry.

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September 2011 Prayer Letter

admin — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:48 +0000

The Bible says, “God is a sun and a shield, He gives grace and glory and no good thing will He with- hold from them that walk uprightly”, Psalm 84.11. What a promise of blessing and favor we live under as we pursue righteousness.

It has been our pleasure this year especially to experience His sun! In our immediate area we have had 50+ days of 100 degrees or more and our earth is parched. We are now rationing water. We meet every Monday night to seek God’s face for rain. There are many who would not associate the lack of rain with God at all but I seem to remember God withholding rain in Elijah’s day for 3 1/2 years for far less than what we as a nation are guilty of. Personally, I think it is far more presumptive to think that what we are experiencing is any less than the judgment of God on our land with this and other flooding and earthquakes that are happening. I firmly believe God is saying, return to me, repent and I will become that sun and shield that I have always intended to be. You could possibly call me a bit of a religious fanatic, go ahead, but it is something to spiritually take on board.

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August 2011 Prayer Letter

admin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:06:11 +0000

What you see in the picture is not just a large group of people but the growth of a saint. Jeff Net- tles is a long time friend of mine who was saved in 1985 under my ministry when Dottie and I were doing ministry in Germany. Five years later, he left the USAF and stopped caring for F16’s and started caring for the flock. After doing youth ministry for 10 years, he planted a new church in Platteville, WI in 2001.

Over the last 20 years, he has been to India with us many times and in this picture you see him giving an invitation with hands going up to say they have prayed to receive Christ as their Savior! This is what short term mission trips are about – getting in front of as many people as we can in 14 days on the ground and leaving the follow up to our missionaries there. Jeff was joined by another long time evangelist friend Charlie Ross from Scotland. Together they crisscrossed the state of Tamil Nadu preaching in 35 venues to 32,368 people and witnessed 23,530 make decisions for Christ. They were joined by our college students and missionaries there who are daily bringing people to Christ. Many thanks to our Director James Sundar, his son Sam and wife Fay, who arranged the meetings and took care of Jeff and Charlie for those days; it was a very fruitful time of harvesting!

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