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The Connecticut Contingent Coming to National Event to Storm the Gates of Hell in Charlotte!

We thank Jesus our Lord for the saints in Connecticut.  They have been faithfully fighting for the lives of our preborn brothers and sisters at the gates of hell in Connecticut for well over twenty years.  Over a thousand children have been saved.  Many more hundreds have given their hearts to Christ.  And many of these have become fast friends of a ministry that allowed the theology of heaven to become biography in the streets.  Simple little Christians serving an Awesome God! ~ Flip

Hi to all my brothers and sisters in Christ! I hope you are all doing well!

I am sending this email/letter out to invite you to be a part of a mission’s trip with Operation Save America. My family; Ed, Asia, Josiah and Noah and I have an opportunity to go on this mission trip. We are inviting you to be part in this outreach through prayer and or giving financially. This trip’s purpose is to preach the gospel to as many people as God makes possible, to educate the public about abortion, to speak for the babies who are scheduled to die, and to help their moms choose life for their babies. The leaders of this trip along with local churches will give ongoing help to those who responded to the gospel and those who chose life for their babies after our trip is over.

The kids and I were privileged and blessed to go on this trip last year. We want to thank you so much for those of you who supported our trip last year to Florida. I have so many testimonies I could share with you but for the sake of time I will just share the shortest version possible. Though I would love to give anyone interested the long version at another time. This trip was a week long and we out every day for the entire week. We were able through God’s help to pass out over a 600 pieces of gospel and pro-life literature in one day at the Florida State University, and had many short and long conversations with people about both of these subjects. We pray that God would do amazing things with all that information that went out to these people. One day I was presenting the gospel to this sweet girl who was about 18, on her bicycle. She was very close to wanting receive Jesus as her Lord and Savior but she just wanted to talk to her boyfriend about it first, which I did not realize was coming to meet her on his bike and had stopped to talk with another team member who was presenting the gospel to him at the same time. We went over to see what was happening and found out that this was a young man who was homeschooled in a Christian home who had got far away from his relationship with the Lord. He ended up rededicating his life to the Lord!! His girl friend who I was talking to gave her life to the Lord and we all prayed and cried. What a day that was!!!! They ended up coming to church each night with us for most of the week. The boy’s mom ended up coming too, and she was so thankful that we had talked to her wayward son that day!!!! They even came out to the University with us to pass out information!! Praise God for what he can do with our willingness to give to others what he gave to us!!!

This will be Ed’s first year going. We are so blessed to have Dad leading our family this year in this effort. Many of the families bring their children with them. These are beautiful families serving God together. The fellowship that the children have with the adults and each other is amazing. This is why I so wanted them to be a part of this trip. Also, I know that they will grow in there faith and God can use them to reach others for Christ. I know that this is very last minute but through a series of circumstances that God allowed, it had to be this way.

So if God speaks to your heart to help our family to reach many people with the Gospel, educate them about abortion and to speak for those who can’t speak for themselves, we would appreciate and be extremely thankful for your prayers and or financial support. We know you will receive a blessing for helping us do this work of the Lord; to seek and save the lost and to rescue those being lead away to slaughter.

The trip is a week long (July 21-27) and will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina this year.

Last year it was held in Orlando Florida. There are opportunities to go out every day, all day. Participants get to pick which activities to take part in. There is also some down time to take a break and do some swimming and fellowship with the other believers and there are some seminars and church every night. This church time is a great time of rejoicing about all God has done during the day! We sing praises to God and give testimonies about what God had done during the day. It is also a great way of inviting the people we ministered to during the day.

I have never done anything else that caused me to grow in Christ as much as this trip has done in the previous years.

If you feel lead to give financially, the money will go to help with our travel, food, lodging and the purchase of literature. Our family has saved through the year about ½ of what we will need. If for some reason we raise more than enough to go on this trip, we will use the money we did receive for our outreach ministry here in Connecticut. We will be out sharing the gospel here on a regular basis throughout the year and speaking for unborn children! So the money will be used to further the gospel of Christ either way.

I want to praise God for all he will do in this effort to obey Mark 16:15 and Proverbs 24:11 Again thank you in advance and God bless you!

Your Sister in Christ,

Wendee Brisart

 Thank you again for your interest in helping to support our mission!

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Ministry Report From Connecticut

I love receiving these reports (OSA-CT street report for June 2012 )from Connecticut.  God is using the saints there in a powerful way.

Enjoy! ~ Flip

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Newest Video in Our States of Refuge Campaign

Here is our latest video (3 minutes and 32 seconds).  Happy 4th of July – the 236th birthday of our nation!

America, you were once so beautiful and free.  Look at what we have done to you.  Help us to roar once again with a holy and righteous boldness that comes only from You.  Save us from ourselves that we might once again be a bright and shining city on a hill.

View  video here! ~ Flip

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Doc Johnston and Family Given ‘em heaven in Ohio

Doc Johnston and his whole wonderful family will be with us for our National Event here in Charlotte this July 21-28.  They have been working hard for “Personhood” in their state of Ohio.  Most importantly, they have been steadily advancing the Kingdom of God in their neighborhood, their city, their state, and their nation.  Where does vision like that come from? 

From a family built upon the rock solid foundation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! ~ Flip

A Milestone Reached En Route to Justice for the Preborn in Ohio

As of July 4, over 370 Ohioans have gathered 21,422 signatures and donated to help protect every preborn Ohioan under Ohio law. The past eight months, we have sent 40 thousand mailings and made 55 thousand phone calls! Tens of thousands of dollars of radio ads have gone out over the airwaves. We’ve been interviewed on television and radio, printed in the USA Today, World Magazine, in every major newspaper in Ohio, plus dozens of other newspapers and online news organizations. Praise God, donations come in as fast as we spend the money! The Ohio pro-life grassroots are showing that they are tired of regulating abortion – they want “liberty and justice for all” Ohioans! It’s so exciting to be a part of what God is doing in Ohio. The state that led the way in abolishing slavery is leading the way in abolishing abortion.

We have our sights firmly set on 2014 to get on the Ohio ballot. You can help us make Ohio the first state in the nation to protect every preborn baby since Roe v. Wade. Catch the vision! Don’t be a bystander – join the mission! Help us get into churches! Help us with desperately needed funding for mailings! Help us protect “the least” of God’s children. Visit www.PersonhoodOhio.com

to learn how you can help.
“That Photo Is Way Too Controversial!”Picture on the<br /> front of our June<br /> mailing 

That was the comment we received soon after we designed our last postcard, delivered to 10,000 pro-life Ohioans last week. The striking concept the picture conveys is a painful one to comprehend, but true nonetheless: abortion kills a baby and hurts a mother. Scientific studies are proving the truth of the claim of Scripture, that sooner or later, sin produces misery. Abortion increases the mother’s risk of breast cancer,  depression, suicide, premature deliveries of future babies, and a host of other problems, but you would never know that if you got your news from the mainstream media.

The Holocaust of over 50 million Americans can only thrive under an environment of censorship. The American public and the media cannot tolerate pictures such as the one on our postcard.

For being so accustomed to images of violence and gore from Hollywood, don’t you find their abhorrence at having to view images of aborted children peculiar? The pictures of dead babies killed by abortion paint a thousand words, and emasculates all of the pathetic justifications for abortion. Did you know that over the last four decades, abortion is the most common surgery in America? And yet it has been wholly censored from the eyes of the American public.

Sometimes, God leads His prophets to show the people their sin.

“Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins” (Isaiah 58:1).

 

“Truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin” (Micah 3:8).

The American public is way under-horrified by abortion. In our pursuit of justice for the preborn, one of the things we must do is awake the public to the horrifying reality of child-killing. We must show the people their sin. Just as a physician may need to show the patient the evidence of the diagnosis and prognosis before prescribing a remedy, those that have had abortions, paid for abortions, and justified abortion will never experience forgiveness until they come to grips with what they have done.

One of the ways you can activate the public to be concerned about the plight of the preborn is to share the images of aborted – images like the video on the website of the Center for Bioethical Reform – www.AbortionNO.org

. This video is a lightening bolt of truth to awaken people from their apathy and slumber. If you spread this link to your friends on facebook and on your Email list, you’ll find many of them will be enraged about the images of the slain, especially those whose hands are stained with blood. Be quick to offer the mercy available through Jesus’ death and resurrection. Others simply protest because the pictures are difficult to look at. However, if something is too horrifying to look at, it is too horrifying to tolerate. God sees these babies being dismembered every single day, and He is angry with Ohio for the shedding of innocent blood. We must feel God’s heartbeat for “the least” of His children, and we must be energized by His Spirit to intervene and “rescue those being led away to slaughter” (Proverbs 24).

 

To study more thoroughly the theology of displaying the images of the aborted children to the public, click here

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If It Looks Like Judgment, Sounds Like Judgment, Smells Like Judgment…

Storms Wreak<br /> Havoc on D.C.

Millions without electrical power…

Drought across the Midwest…

Washington D.C. blanketed in darkness for days…

Record-breaking heat waves with no A/C…

Violent, record-breaking storms in the east…

Record-breaking wildfires in the west…

Iran launches long-range missiles at mock targets…

Unemployment skyrockets as the dollar’s future grows grim…

Chinese stinkbug destroys tens of millions of dollars of crops in 38 states…

Obamacare becomes the largest increase in the size of government in our nation’s history…

The Republican-dominated Supreme Court lurches to the left…

More taxpayer funding of abortion…

In the Bible, the shedding of innocent blood was often the last straw before God finally sent judgment. God promised and sent judgments to Israel such as economic disaster, defeat in battle, natural disasters, and “madness of heart.” Because they did not end the killing of other people’s children, God told them “your children will be dashed in pieces against a stone” (Hosea 10). Under God’s judgment, the Jews starved, were crucified, and cruelly enslaved because they refused to repent and do justice to protect the innocent. Many nations and empires greater than us have been annihilated because of their sin. If God did not exempt Israel – His chosen people, the apple of His eye – from judgment for her sin, why do we act like the U.S.A. is exempt?

Our nation shows no signs of even slowing the momentum into socialism and godlessness. With the passage of Obamacare, we’ve never had more taxpayer funding for abortion in our nation’s history. Large pro-life and pro-family groups in Ohio watch abortion-abolition movements like Personhood Ohio from the sidelines, preferring to regulate abortion than end it. Entrenched pro-life leaders believe that we are obligated to submit to judicial tyranny, and that we need to work to get pro-life presidents to appoint pro-life justices. You’d think that Robert Thompson’s vote for Obama’s communist, abortion-funding healthcare bill would help them re-think their failed pro-life strategy, but they don’t appear to be budging. Too many of them are far too comfortable with child-killing. They don’t see “the hand-writing on the wall” for America. Judgment is coming to our land, and Ohio’s opportunity to avert judgment is brief. We must protect the children, or we will lose our freedoms and our posterity will be enslaved.

All God’s looking for is a remnant “whose heart is perfect toward Him” in order to “show Himself strong” (II Chronicles 16:9). All God’s looking for is a remnant to avert judgment (Ezekiel 22:30-31). God prefers to resurrect leaders out of the grassroots than to prop up the status quo. He loves to do exploits through His underdogs. Just as Israel’s faith was tested in the wilderness before they could conquer their Promised Land, so our faith will be tested, for it is through faith we’ll cross the Jordan River into our Promised Land of “liberty and justice for all.” Ohio’s Personhood initiative draws a line in the sand between those who “sigh and cry” over the sins of the land that are bringing judgment upon us, and those who are comfortable to conserve the status quo (Ezekiel 9).

Will you sigh and cry with us? Will you mourn the 25,000 Ohioans who are slaughtered every year in our abortion clinics, and pray for their deliverance? Will you believe God with us, that every child will be protected under Ohio law?

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Islam Revealed for What It Really Is – Barbaric!

Here are our friendly (let’s dialogue) neighborhood Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, demonstrating what really motivates them in their false book – the Qur’an!  It is called hate.  Hate is the Muslim drug of choice.  It keeps them from any type of introspection.  They don’t have a problem.  It’s just everybody else that has a problem.  Stoning and Killing those who don’t agree is very satisfying, especially when you do it the name of the false god, allah.  This kind of Jihad can get you 72 virgins in the next life.

The Holy Bible puts it correctly: “…all who hate me love death.” Proverbs 8:36.  This behavior is exactly what we experienced at the abortion mills when we were doing rescues.  The feminists, homosexuals, anarchists, liberals, ad nauseam would throw at us everything they could including plastic bags filled with urine, food, spittoons, cans.  You name it they threw it.  Which brings me to this incredibly simple conclusion.  Jesus does unite his enemies.

That’s right!

Have you ever wondered why the National Education Association, the homosexual community, the abortion industry, the Democratic party, all hold Islam up to be a very tolerant, peaceful, and kind religion?  They have nothing in common.  Each of these groups would hate the other and destroy themselves if it weren’t for something supernatural.  One thing unites these folks.  It is their hatred of the One True God – most perfectly manifested in the person of Jesus.

Yep!

There would be no problem with abortion, if it weren’t for Jesus.

There would be no problem with homosexuality, if it weren’t for Jesus

There would be no problem with Islam, if it weren’t for Jesus.

There would be no problem with doing whatever I want whenever I want, if it weren’t for Jesus.

So what have they united to do?  Get rid of the problem. 

It happened over 2,000 years ago on a hill called Golgotha.  Didn’t work then and it won’t work now.

What we perceive the battle to be will determine how we fight it.  Do you see what I see?

Click here to see this video

In Christian love,

Flip

 

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More Woes for the DNC in Charlotte!

The nightmare for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this September continues.  Not only have the Democrats shortened their “Presidential Coronation” from four days to three, but they are now cancelling their Labor Day “Kick-Off” event from the Charlotte Motor Speedway to Uptown Charlotte.  Why?  Lack of interest, lack of money, lack of union support, and, most importantly, the hand of Almighty God that caused them to choose Charlotte in the first place.  The “Party of Death” is coming face to face with the Living God! 

Click here and here to read more about it!

Hallelujah! ~ Flip

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Call to National Event in Charlotte, July 21-28, 2012

Fast and Pray: July 5-8.  To help prepare the way, we are calling for a time to fast and pray for three days. It will begin on Thursday, July 5th, after the lunch meal and conclude on Sunday, July 8th, at lunch time.  That is three full days.  When you are hungry let it move you to pray for our nation.  This is God’s battle.  We are His ambassadors.  It is a spiritual battle we must fight, and can win.  We were born for such a time as this!  ~ Flip

Mission Statement

Operation Rescue/Operation Save America unashamedly takes up the cause of preborn children in the name of Jesus Christ. We employ only biblical principles. The Bible is our foundation; the Cross of Christ is our strategy; the repentance of the Church of Jesus Christ is our ultimate goal. As the Church changes its heart toward preborn children, God Himself will hear from heaven, forgive our sin, and bring healing to our land.

We believe that Jesus Christ is the only answer to the abortion holocaust. It is upon our active repentance in the streets of our cities that the Gospel is visibly lived out. We become to the church, to our city, and to our nation living parables which rightly represent God’s heart toward His helpless children.

There are no cheap political solutions to the holocaust presently ravaging our nation. Like slavery before it, abortion is preeminently a Gospel issue. The Cross of Christ is the only solution.

With this mission statement guiding our prayers, thoughts, and actions, Operation Save America is preparing for our national event in Charlotte, NC. The dates are July-21-28.

God is moving in North Carolina. The Church is rising up. Much prayer, fasting, and thoughtful, godly action is underway as we prepare for the Democratic National Convention this September. This national event will concentrate on three primary venues, which are the DNC, exposing the Stericycle plant in Haw River, NC, and taking the Gospel of the Kingdom to the gates of hell, the local death camps in Charlotte. Last month alone, the Lord used the saints in the Charlotte area to rescue over two hundred babies at the three abortion mills. We intend to multiply those blessings significantly as the saints of OSA come to represent our King to the Queen City.

The DNC’s Biggest Nightmare – North Carolina is Turning to Christ!

Flip Benham, July, 2012

Visit Charlotte714.com on the web. View the (3 Min 51 Second) video to get a picture of what God’s church has in store for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) when it comes to Charlotte this September 3-5, 2012. The DNC felt that it would be shoring up its victory in North Carolina by selecting Charlotte as its convention city.  Big mistake! God is shaking North Carolina to its core – turning it right-side-up in Jesus’ magnificent Name. God’s church is stepping up and stepping out. The theology of heaven is bursting into biography in the streets of this city and gates of hell are not prevailing.

The Charlotte News & Observer, a huge supporter of the DNC’s culture of death, noted that President Obama didn’t even make an appearance at the Democratic State Convention this past week.  Neither did any of his heavy hitting political wags. They hate the fact they are stuck in Charlotte. Buyer’s remorse anyone?

The Democratic Party in North Carolina is in absolute disarray. Bev Perdue, our Democratic governor, has chosen not to run again, virtually insuring a new Republican governor.  The North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) is itself involved in a huge sex scandal.  David Parker, NCDP Chairman, is doing all he can to squelch the sexual allegations between Adrian Ortega, a male, and former NCDP executive director Jay Parmerly, also a male. Ortega claims Parmerly sexually harassed and continually groped him.  Ortega was fired. Parmerly resigned. Ortega, the victim, has filed a defamation suit against Parmerly. Homosexual bullying anyone?

Speaking of which, when “Amendment One” came up for a vote in June (a state constitutional amendment declaring that marriage is between a man and a woman alone) it won overwhelmingly in a landslide victory with 64% of North Carolinians voting for it. The vote sent shockwaves to the DNC; “Can’t we go somewhere else?”

Several prominent Democrats (governors, senators, and representatives) have publicly stated that they will not be attending the DNC in Charlotte this September, and their number is growing every day.  They are running for their political lives. “The wicked flee though no one pursues…” Isn’t God good?

Thousands of anarchists, agitators, fascists, ad nauseam, will be filling the streets of Charlotte looking to eat their own in this Party of death. Their infantile demands, confused minds, and smashing of car windows, storefront windows, and any other window they can find, has been brought on by the DNC itself. The DNC created this monster and is being consumed by it. “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it himself, and whoever begins a stone rolling will find it roll over on him.” Proverbs 26:27.

This brings us to the labor unions that are none too happy about being in a city with no union hotels. Stuck in a state with no compulsory union membership, which means no payment of dues, “What is a union boss to do?”

Wait … I know… remember when the DNC was held in Chicago in 1968? Oh, I’m sorry, that’s a bad memory for Democrats. Keep praying saints, Aslan is on the move!

 

Stericycle 

Another major venue planned in our national event concerns Stericycle. Midweek, God willing, the saints of OSA will travel to Haw River, NC for two days. Our righteous goal is to shine the light of truth upon the waste management Goliath, Stericycle. Before we arrive in person, however, we are sending out a mailer to the entire community. We tried to purchase billboards and publish a paid ad in the newspaper, but they turned us down. They refuse to participate in what they consider to be a “controversial issue.” Regardless, the community, who already struggles with the pollution that comes from the smoke stacks of Stericycle, will be alerted that some of the ashes polluting their city are the remains of dead babies.

The following is the brochure that will be sent to each residence and business in Haw River. The two principles we are seeking to emphasize are: (a) It takes a village to kill a baby and (b) if the abortion industry cannot dispose of dead children, they cannot kill them. STOP STERICYCLE!!!

THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN IS GOING UP IN SMOKE

 

Did you know that aborted babies from over 20 states are being transported to Haw River to be incinerated with tons of medical garbage? Did you ever think that your community would be one of the nation’s hubs for burning “unwanted” children in America? It’s happening.

Four thousand preborn babies are murdered every day in America, and Stericycle, the nation’s leading medical waste company, is the go-to service for cleaning up after the act – including right here in your town. At 1168 Porter Avenue in Haw River, Stericycle burns aborted babies and the items used in killing them, billowing out their remains throughout the community in clouds of smoke. Certainly you don’t want that.

Without the help of Stericycle and businesses like it, the abortion industry would collapse. Stericycle is largely responsible for keeping the cycle of death going in our nation by facilitating the collection, transportation and incineration of aborted babies and the items used in their death. This must STOP. You can help!

 

Why Stericycle is Able to Burn Babies in North Carolina

Current state law says that “unrecognizable” fetuses must be incinerated, and outlines that a baby is only recognizable when it is in the last trimester (7 months and up). Not only is this logic absurd, but it is enabling Stericycle to use Haw River as a virtual Auschwitz for discarded babies.

If state legislators would change the law, or if local officials would enact a regulation prohibiting children from being treated as trash, the incineration of babies in Haw River would end. We urge you to write or call your legislators today and express your outrage regarding this horrific and inhumane practice.

 

Hold Stericycle Accountable

Stericycle needs to hear from you! They need to know that as a citizen of Haw River you are disgusted that aborted babies from along the East Coast are being shipped to your town, burned to ash and then puffed out through the community in plumes of smoke.

Please call Stericycle plant manager Alan Skrzypczak today at 336-578-8900 and kindly, but firmly, tell him to stop servicing the abortion industry and profiting off of the blood of the innocent preborn.

 

The Campaign to Stop Stericycle

The Campaign to Stop Stericycle (CSS) exists to inform the public about Stericycle’s involvement with the abortion industry and to exhort the nation to call upon Stericycle to stop being a part of the village that is working to kill America’s children.

CSS has collected an overwhelming amount of evidence linking Stericyle to the abortion industry, and has uncovered sickening truths about the company’s collection, transportation and incineration of aborted children. This includes recorded admissions from Stericycle and government documents that certify the use of Stericycle by the abortion industry.

Visit www.stopstericycle.com today to learn more, and to find out about ways that you can join us in the fight!

 

Fast and Pray: July 5-8

To help prepare the way, Flip and I are calling for a time to fast and pray for three days. It will begin on Thursday, July 5th, after the lunch meal and conclude on Sunday, July 8th, at lunch time. Please come join us as we seek God to move through our Kingdom efforts this July at our national event. Thank you for your love, prayers, and support. 

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Saints In New Orleans Touch Their Neighbors

The saints in New Orleans found a new way to reach out and touch their local community.  This is the way church should be.  What a blessing.

 Enjoy! ~ Flip

 

Out Reach Event Report

By Dale Sochia

Blessings to all!

As I begin this report filled with incredible testimonies, I pray you take the time to read it all and forgive me if it is long.  As you are aware this last Sunday we reached out into the community ofSt. Charleswith an event that has been in the makings for a couple of months.  It was compiled of $1,200.00 in FREE gas, 150 BBQ meals, several dozen Krispy Cream doughnuts, Free Car washes and Free groceries (to any needy family) and above all, PRAYER.  When folks asked that we keep them in prayer, we would pray with them and for them right on the spot.

We decided over a month ago we would cover this event in prayer and fasting. So we would lift this event up every week.  We would fast every Sunday until Monday, thus we knew we were preparing for the Lord to show Himself mighty in the event.  Two weeks ago we posted the event in the news paper, followed with a posting this past week too.  The day after the paper came out we began to receive phone calls asking, “What’s the catch?  Is it really for free?  What do people need to do?”   Time and time again I received these types of phone calls.  Then, a reporter for the St. Charles Herald Guide called.  He too asked me the same types of questions.  I began to share with him our hearts behind the event.  He asked several more questions; I answered each one with spirit and truth.  Little did we know this interview would be posted in the paper the Thursday before the event (the article can be read in its entirety on line).  The reporter’s name is Kyle Barnett, and he left NOTHING out, it was incredible!  http://www.heraldguide.com/details.php?id=11020

As the weekend approached, the entire area was under a flash flood warning and the Sunday of the event was to be the worst of the weather.  Upon arriving at church that morning the rain was coming down in a deluge!  But I had such a peace with the Lord, besides I knew that God rains on the just and the unjust.  We had a few visitors come to the service, and two especially that came because of the outreach.  I was informed both women wept throughout the entire Praise and worship service and both were deeply, deeply touched in the reading of the Word.  I could see God was moving heavily on the people during the service.

Having a metal building, it is not too hard to hear the rain when it falls, and falling it was!  As I was closing the service it was raining very heavily, but I still had the peace of God.  When service ended one of the ladies came forward weeping and asked for prayer, which we were honored to do.  As we began to head to the doors to set up outside, (wondering how we were going to pull this off with the rain), IT STOPPED!  Not only did it stop, but it did not rain over the church for the next five hours!!  GLORY!  We prayed all week that God would split the clouds around us if that is what it would take, and that is exactly what he did!  Truth, Jay Barone, my elder at the church, told me he could look down two city lights and it was pouring.  Reports came in all around us that not only was it raining, but it had been raining so hard one church canceled an event because of street flooding, (sorry). 

You might think this is just a pastor making it a more tasteful testimony, but I talked with the reporter Kyle, who came also to cover the event.  As I talked with him on Monday for a follow up to his article and the event, he told me that when he left from the event around two o’clock, right down the road it was raining so hard he almost had to pull over because he could not see in the driving rain!  Friends, I tell you, not only was there no rain during the event at the church, the roads were dried up! Some people were even having their cars washed!

Which brings me to a truly blessed group of young adults, our youth.  They held signs, they washed cars, they served food, but above all, they showed awesome Christian conduct to the visitors!  Testimony after testimony have been rolling in.  Wayne, Jeannette, Eric and Barbra handled the gas giveaway; they took the time to fellowship with the people, to hear the folks, pray with them.  They would invite them to the BBQ.  Most of the folks in the gas line told them they were deeply moved by our love and generosity.  Some said they just moved to the area and have been looking for a church and they would be visiting us, PRAISE GOD!

I had one local pastor of the Baptist Church, (in line for gas), personally pray for me then he told me, “Today, you have turned this community upside down, it will never be the same.”  Even as I followed behind the last car in line to make sure none others would be waiting for gas as we ran out of prepaid cards,  I shared with them we still had BBQ across the street.  Andrew Nadeau was monitoring this and told me 80% of those folks did make the U-turn and headed for the BBQ.  So many of these people would ask upon arriving at the BBQ, “What do we have to do to get BBQ?”  The response from our folks, “Come, and receive freely!” 

Several key people were positioned to greet the people, help them with plating their food, then share with them the gospel of Christ Jesus!  I think what deepens my soul, is the fact that most people’s perception of the church today is that it too has become a business, and not even the gospel is free.  Too many “Fund Raisers” have clouded the purpose of our being the light in dark places.  Jesus said, “Freely you have received, freely give it away.”  I did share this with some in line for gas, and another thing is “The church is supposed to be a  NONPROFIT organization,” why are we trying to make money?  I have had the pleasure of being part of this church for well over a decade, almost two now.  And one thing we incorporated in the year 2000 under former Pastor Anthony Marquize is this, “We don’t pass the offering plate, if people want to give they can give under direction of the Holy Spirit.”  Since that time we never have and never will pass the offering plate, yet we own our building, our bills get paid, we support several missionaries around the world and here in theU.S. every month.  Plus we are still able to do such an incredible thing to change even our little corner of the world!

Well it is not over.  We will be having TWO more outreaches this summer!  I want to, in closing, thank the wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ for their service, commitment, dedication, financial giving.  From manning the pumps, to taking time talking with the people in the line, to the cooking and serving of the BBQ, to those who watch our beautiful children during the event, to those who reached out, shared the gospel and prayed with the people, to those young folks who even held signs, to those who prepared a weeks worth of groceries for the needy families, to all mentioned and even to our guests who came to help out, to any area I might have not mentioned, BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL!! 

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The DNC’s Biggest Nightmare – North Carolina is Turning to Christ!

In this short 4 minute video  (via Charlotte714.com).  View this short video to get a picture of what God’s church has in store for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) when it comes to Charlotte this September 3-5, 2012.  The DNC felt that it would be shoring up its victory in North Carolina by selecting Charlotte as its convention city.  Big mistake!  God is shaking North Carolina to its core – turning it right-side-up in Jesus’ magnificent Name.  God’s church is stepping up and stepping out.  The theology of heaven is bursting into biography in the streets of this city and gates of hell are not prevailing. 
 
The Charlotte News & Observer, a huge supporter of the DNC’s culture of death, noted that President Obama didn’t even make an appearance at the Democratic State Convention this past week.  Neither did any of his heavy hitting political wags.  They hate the fact they are stuck in Charlotte.  Buyer’s remorse anyone? 
 
The Democratic Party in North Carolina is in absolute disarray.  Bev Perdue, our Democratic governor, has chosen not to run again, virtually insuring a new Republican governor.  The North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) is itself involved in a huge sex scandal.  David Parker, NCDP Chairman, is doing all he can to squelch the sexual allegations between Adrian Ortega, a male, and former NCDP executive director Jay Parmerly, also a male.  Ortega claims Parmerly sexually harassed and continually groped him.  Ortega was fired.  Parmerly resigned.  Ortega, the victim, has filed a defamation suit against Parmerly.  Homosexual bullying anyone?
 
Speaking of which, when “Amendment One” came up for a vote in June (a state constitutional amendment declaring that marriage is between a man and a woman alone) it won overwhelmingly in a landslide victory with 64% of North Carolinians voting for it.  The vote sent shockwaves to the DNC; “Can’t we go somewhere else?”
 
Several prominent Democrats (governors, senators, and representatives) have publicly stated that they will not be attending the DNC in Charlotte this September, and their number is growing every day.  They are running for their political lives.  “The wicked flee though no one pursues…”  Isn’t God good?
 
Thousands of anarchists, agitators, fascists, ad nauseam, will be filling the streets of Charlotte looking to eat their own in this Party of death.  Their infantile demands, confused minds, and smashing of car windows, storefront windows, and any other window they can find, has been brought on by the DNC itself.  The DNC created this monster and is being consumed by it.  “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it himself, and whoever begins a stone rolling will find it roll over on him.” Proverbs 26:27.
 
This brings us to the labor unions that are none too happy about being in a city with no union hotels. Stuck in a state with no compulsory union membership, which means no payment of dues, “What is a union boss to do?”  

 

Wait … I know, remember when the DNC was held in Chicago in 1968?  Oh, I’m sorry, that’s a bad memory for Democrats.  

 

Keep praying saints, Aslan is on the move!  ~ Flip

 

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