Dali City church celebrates 7th anniversary; calls national pastor

May was a special month as Faith Baptist Church in Dali City, Taiwan celebrated their 7th anniversary. Although still missing founding missionary, Malcom Feistel, the members are praising the Lord for His goodness and for all that has been accomplished. Many testimonies were given as to God’s grace and thankfulness for a church being established in that area. The missionaries’ job is to work themselves out of a job and see a church plant become fully established. Therefore it is with joy that I report the Dali Faith Baptist Church has called a national pastor, Bro. Peter Wang. Bro. Wang is young in the ministry. Please keep him in your prayers that he will become a strong, able shepherd, and for the church that it will flourish under his leadership.

21 Saved at Missouri Youth Camp
Conway, Missouri—It was my special joy to handle the music worship at Beth Eden Bible Camp during Junior Camp Week, June 4th through 8th. There were about 100 campers in attendance and the camp was characterized by a spirit of excitement and cooperation. This year marks 35 years of camp ministry for Bro. Don Brown who was praying for at least 7 souls to be saved which would bring the total of youth saved at Beth Eden to 1,000. That amount was surpassed with 21 decisions for Christ being made as well as other decisions.     

From my blog: Submission

The journey of the past year has not been easy. When God set me on this journey—and surely it has been His choosing, not mine—I often pondered the unanswerable question, “Why?” There never was a satisfactory reply forthcoming. I often said aloud, “God, what are You doing?” I sensed God telling me not to try to understand, just submit beneath His hand and simply trust that a higher purpose would be accomplished. That is a difficult lesson to learn and at times the pain seemed crushing to the point of insufferable. But in that crushing I have begun to find answers to my questions.
          Consider the spices that the Lord instructed Moses to have prepared for the sacred anointing oil and incense to be used in the temple worship. In Exodus 30:34-36 the Lord said, “Take sweet spices…and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you.”
          Perhaps my life is like the spice, which has no value in and of itself until it is crushed. Once the pestle of God is used to crush the spice, then it releases what has been inside all along—the fragrance for which God is longing. Receiving the aroma, He is glorified and He blesses the fragrance through the execution of His perfect will.
          Submission is an aroma that pleases God. As I have yielded to God’s choosing, He has responded with gifts, which I might never have known were within me aside from the total surrender to His will. I need not enumerate those gifts here. In whatever form or fashion God wants to use me, I willingly give all back to Him and pray my life is a sweet fragrance that testifies of His grace and glory.