Free e-Book: The Ministry Driven Church
I'd like to give you my e-book The Ministry Driven Church, but first let me tell you a little about myself: In 1957 when I was 14, I committed my life to serve Jesus Christ as my Savior and Lord. The next summer, over 65 years ago, while taking care of lawns at an apartment complex, the Lord gave me a vision: I saw a map of the Soviet Union in the sky and a voice said: "Remember this apartment complex plan - you'll build it when you're an old man." And I remember that there was something special about the stairs, but I didn't understand what it was. Now I'm over 80, so I guess I'm old enough to start this new project!
The next year, I preached my first sermon at an inner-city mission, then I led our high school debate team to the state championship, I was elected president of our high school's YFC (Youth for Christ) club, I won the city-wide Denver YFC "preacher boy" contest and led and won the Bible quiz team contest on St. Paul's letter to the Galatians (I memorized all six chapters so I knew the answers). I won second place in a national German language contest. I also memorized lots of Shakespeare – big chunks of MacBeth, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet – for English class.
Right after high school I went into the Army and learned Russian – we had to memorize 4-6 pages of conversational Russian every day. Realizing I was good at memorizing, I started memorizing Scripture: by now I've memorized the four Gospels, most of the New Testament, many selections from the Old Testament including the the whole Book of Psalms, rotating between four languages.
After active duty in the Army, I enrolled in university and studied more languages, history and political science of Central and Eastern Europe. In my first two semesters I took 41 credit hours and got a 4.0 GPA. By receiving 15 credit hours for my Russian training in the Army and by taking summer courses at the university, I had completed two years of coursework in one year. But then the next year, while serving as president of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter on campus, I became acquainted with a wonderful, amazing young lady who was the IVCF chapter secretary and as they say, "the rest is history!" I graduated in three years with a 3.4 GPA... [read more...]
In our special issue last weekend, we sent photos of the 
It's now a pond for ducks and the only access is an even poorer road full of ruts. They lost their rice crop and the food for the orphans so we sent some money for maize to feed the orphans, but with the loss of their rice crop and seed, they lost $2,000 of income so they need $200 to buy new seed so they can re-plant. Our small non-profit, Agape Restoration Society Inc., has sent money for food, but we have limited income. Can you help us with this rice seed?
This left Maureen to care for grandma and little Kayla, as well as running a stall in the market to support them. Then, after losing her one-room house in a slum 2 years ago and rebuilding, now she has lost her new house and stall in the slum market to the flood: see "