Wednesday, July 17, 2013

What Would God Have You Do?



As I mentioned in my last blog, Alice and I recently returned from India after three months of working side by side with Indian pastors and missionaries to bring the gospel to the lost of that great country. I can’t even begin to tell you all that we have witnessed in that time. 

We covered seventeen villages and cities during that time going all the way from Tenali to Bapatla, to Vijayawada to Pithapuram, to Paralakhemundi to Hyderabad, and then to do VBS in Bangalore and Kolkata, a total of about 2469 miles. I wish I could tell you all that we saw, heard, and experienced. God has so richly blessed this work, immensely blessed it.

It was so amazing to see how God worked to change lives, setting them free from the bondage of sin,
and adding them to the family of God through the life changing power of the Holy Spirit. In it they
Please Pray for Chandrappa
found hope for both this life and the life to come. There was Chandrappa, who had lost his left leg twenty three years ago due to leprosy. As I talked with him, hugged him, and prayed for him I felt the longing in his heart for something better; to know there is someone who really cares and loves him

These past few months we saw prayers answered and over 19 people saved, even in the middle of great hardship. That is what this ministry is about—to meet people in their need and to do it with a beauty and the splendor of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in its full authority. I pray that in the days ahead you will ask God what He would have you do in coming alongside us. Without you, we cannot truly fulfill this calling. 

If God has blessed you, I pray you will ask Him what He would have you do in sharing with us as we head into the second half of this year. Anything you can do to help, it all comes together and gives us that encouragement to move forward and to meet the many opportunities God has placed before us.

Thank you for being a faithful follower and we pray that you will truly be blessed and that God will direct you in all you do. And please know that we as a team will be enormously grateful. May God bless you. 

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." (Galatians 6:9)

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—Russ Sharrock


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If you will be in the Stillwater, OK area on Thursday, August 3rd please join us for our annual "Jewels of India" Fundraising Banquet. It will be held at The Pines, 110 E. McElroy in Stillwater. UNICEF estimates there are about 11 million street children in India. Please help us provide education, medical care, food, clothing, and the love of Christ to the poor and destitute children of India. Doors are open at 6 PM and dinner begins at 6:30 PM. You can go HERE to RSVP. 

Hope to see ya there!




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