Dear Pastor, Friends and Churches,

 We want to thank you for taking the time to read our message!  

 By way of this message, Mary and I want to let you know we are so thankful for all the prayers and support we have received concerning our open-heart surgery and recovery!  We were so blessed by so many! We are doing well and keeping busy preaching the Word of God!

 The other reason we are sending this is to let you know we have not retired from evangelism!  There has been some who have said they heard we have retired.  We have not, fact is, since the heart surgery we have had some exciting revivals and seen God save many souls and change many lives!  Friends, we are still on the road and loving every minute of it!

 If you are considering a revival or special outreach, and would be interested in us coming to help you, please let us know!  You can always look at our web site and see where we are, where we been,  and what dates we have open for meetings! 

 Again, thank you for your prayers and your time!  We would love to be with you anytime you felt led of God to have us!   Again, thanks for the prayers, and may the Lord bless you greatly!

 Steve and Mary

 REVIVALS ARE WORKING     

It is Sunday, March 19, 2023 as we write this blog.  We think back about the last few weeks!  We have just finished two great revival meetings, one in Cleora, OK and the other in Amado, AZ.   The first was a Senior Adult Revival, and the second was a tent meeting! 

In both meetings we saw the Lord work!  We saw very good attendance, souls saved, lives changed, and touched.  We saw people baptized, repent, and added to the local churches!  God is moving where people are allowing Him to do so.

We are not sure how many pastors may read this, but want to encourage them if they have not conducted a revival to please pray and about having one.  People are interested, people will attend.  Give them an opportunity in which they may not have had in a while.   In one meeting we had a couple travel many miles to attend.  They said the church in which they attend and have been members for many years, has not had a revival meeting in over 10 years.   One said that when asking why there Church does not have revivals anymore, they were told it was because nobody came but old people.   He said he most likely took the statement wrong, but being a senior adult, he felt like he was called a "nobody"!  

The Bible says in Ps 85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?   Our prayer is for more pastors and churches to consider the prayers of many people for revival.

SCM  NEWSLETTER FOR DECEMBER 2021

 

Hello in the Name of Jesus Christ!

    As we know, the year 2021 is rapidly coming to a close, and what a year it has been.  God has tremendously blessed us again, with meetings just about every week somewhere!  We have see the Lord save souls, change lives, build churches, give comfort to the hurting and seen those with no hope come to find hope in Jesus!  Thanks be to the Lord for all He has done!

    As we grow older each year, we find out bodies not having the strength we once had, and that my friends is something this old man is having a hard time accepting!  LOL!   However we know it is happening and as we travel those roads from meeting to meeting God keeps giving us the ability to keep on going!   Just this past week, while having a conversation with a person, he asked me two questions;   The first was how long will we keep traveling doing evangelism?   The second was when will be know it is time to stop?  This was not the first time we have been asked this, and we have addressed these questions before.  So here today, we would like to address them again!

First, we will go as long as we can, and our health allows is to do so.  We never know what tomorrow holds and in the book of James we are told never say tomorrow we will do this or that because we do not know what tomorrow holds.  We are told to say, if the Lord wills. 

Secondly we will know it is time to stop when we no longer have the money to operate and when we no longer have meetings to do.  That may sound strange to some, but let me remind what we have always said concerning the money and the meetings.

First, in all our ministry, we have never asked anyone at anytime for any financial help.   We do not send out letters for fund raising nor asking individuals,  businesses, churches or any organizations for any financial assistance, not ever, never, nada!   We have asked God to provide and He has!  He has used churches as well as individuals to supply us with the finances we need.   We thank those who have giving and are continuing to give.  Certainly it takes money for equipment, fuel, insurance etc, and again, God has always supplied every dime we have ever needed.  We see no need to change the way to do things now, so we will continue to rely on the Lord's method of keeping us going!

Secondly, we have never called up churches, and asked them for meetings.   The closest thing we have done to that is send out from time to time a newsletter to a group of churches sharing with them that we are available for meetings.  Even that we have not done much of in the last few years.   We rely on pastors and churches to call us.   That way we know the meetings are not something we worked up so to speak, but that God has laid on someones heart to call us.   When we book that meeting, we can truthfully say, we feel it was of God.  In all my studying of God's Word we have never read where he told someone to do something, and not supplied to them what was needed to complete the task.  So, as long as we have meetings, we faithfully believe God has given them to us, and He expects us to complete the task.    We call that  "operating by faith".     We do want to make clear, we do not in any way want to condemn any other ministry from fund raising, if that is how God has told them to do it, and if so, they had better do it.  We do not condemn them for calling and asking churches for meetings, or that they will be in the area or something like that to get meetings.    It just is not the way God laid upon our heart to operate.

In the coming year, we have currently 20 confirmed meetings!  Those meetings will take us to the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas as well as Idaho. We covet your prayers for Mary and I, as well as the precious teams whom God has put in our paths to help us with music, meals, set ups etc.  For sure without them, we would not be able to do the work!  Again, God has supplied through His people, praise be to His Name.

Thank you for your love, care, prayers and support!  Meanwhile, we pray you had a Very Merry Christmas and you will have a prospers new year!

 

 Hello in the Name of Jesus!  

For sure it has been way too long since we wrote!  Maybe as we are getting older we are getting slower!

We will give you a short update as to how things have been going this year!  God has blessed, we have been very busy and with not quite half of the year gone we have already done meetings in Texas, Arizona, Missouri, Arkansas and of course Oklahoma.   In the next few months we will be in Idaho, Colorado, Kansas, then back to Texas, Arizona, Missouri as well as Oklahoma!  God has blessed with decisions for salvation, recommitments, baptisms, prayer and church memberships.  We have been pleased with the turnout at the meetings, and in many cases the turnout has doubled from the first service to later services in the meeting!  It appears many people are over the COVID deal and are ready to get back in church!  

There has been some difficulties with weather, in the form of high winds, cold temps, and of course much rain;  rain and more rain!  In all, considering those things, it has been very good!   As always we thank the team members we work with, they are great, always do a fantastic job and are very valuable to the outcome of the meetings.  Those couples who have been helping Mary and I are J.D and Lucinda Couch, Bob and Donna Whitchurch, Jeff and Donna Gore.  Thanks to all of them for a job well done!

As the times get more difficult due to our age, weather, and more directly, the spiritual condition of our nation, we continue to seek God's help and direction in what to do in the future.  For sure the tent meetings are always good, bring more attendees, but are much harder to do.   With our teams helping us with the set up, take down, music, meals and other things we find our selves more indebted to them each year.  Believe me, we just do not drive up to the church walk in, sit down and do nothing until it is our time to minister.  There are hours and hours of preparation and work going into each meeting. With tent meetings, we normally have to arrive a day  before the meeting starts and leave the day after the meeting  ends.   Sometimes, we just do not have much time between meetings.   The commitment our teams make to serve the Lord is to be commended and applauded. We thank them for the sacrifices they make to minister!  May the Lord bless each of them!

If there are any pastors considering using our team this coming year, we would suggest you book us early so we can do the best we can to get the dates you would like.  With tent meetings the spring and fall dates go fast!  We have already had several churches and pastors tell us they want us in 2022, so since we schedule on a first confirmed bases, it would be good to contact us as soon as possible and get the dates confirmed.

In closing, Mary and I pray for all of you who are praying for us, supporting the work and providing the love, care and means to help us continue to minister.  Our special thanks to our home church, First Baptist of Nowata, Oklahoma and our pastor Wayne Clayton for the encouragement, support and prayers given to SCM!

Hope to see you soon!   

Steve and Mary

AUGUST 31, 2020   

 Howdy in the Name of Jesus!

Again, been too long since we posted anything!   We have been very busy for which we thank the Lord!  Since COVID-19 there has been some schedule adjusting, but so far, we have replaced almost every meeting we had cancelled and even added a meeting or two!  You can notice our schedule is full between now and November.  

We have already several meetings scheduled for 2021, and will be adding that page to our web site as soon as they get an problem resolved that is keeping us from doing the editing ourselves.  Hope to have that done very soon.   

God has blessed this year, we have been so blessed with good attendance at most of the meetings.  The outdoor, tent meetings, and parking lot services have been very well attended.  We have done some Facebook Live stuff, but to be honest, not sure if we really understand all of that yet!  Like the old saying, "Sometimes it is hard to teach old dogs a new trick"! LOL!!

We just want to thank everyone that keeps up with us on the web site, Face book, texts and phone calls.  Feel free to call at anytime, we love hearing from you and knowing how you are doing!

We hope to get our web site updated soon, so until then, may the Lord bless each of you, and praying for our nation like we have never prayed before!  PLEASE DEAR GOD, HEAL OUR NATION AND ONCE AGAIN, BLESS THE USA!!

Steve

Good Morning Friends!


We want you to know Mary and I are praying for all our family and friends during this time of much difficulty and uncertainty!  Our prayers are for each of us to dwell upon God and His Son Jesus Christ, take time to reflect upon how we can use this to help others in need of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  We thank you for all you have done for us, the prayers, support, the opportunities that have been give to us by so many, means so very much.  As we go though these days, let us think on the blessings in these times.  



SEVEN POSSIBLE BLESSINGS FROM THE CORONAVIRUS

The Bible tells us:  Ro 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

I realize most people right now are thinking how in the world can anything good come of this horrible sickness and death that is happening in our nation?   Our prayer to Almighty God and His Son Jesus Christ, is thanking Him for this:

1.  Thousands of Babies will be born instead of being killed as abortion is put on hold.

2.    Thousands of lives will be saved because drunks will not be leaving bars and night        clubs, driving home under the influence of liquor.

3.    The God of Sports has been stopped in its track.

4.    Millions of dollars will be available to families because they cannot go to gambling casinos.

5.    Families will find time to sit around the dinner table again instead of going out to restaurants and spending money they do not have.

6.    Many moms and dads will find the lost art of cooking meals for their families, and time to bond with each other as traveling is discouraged.

7.    Christians will find that less activities in the outside world is giving them more time to pray and study God’s Word.  Praying God’s people will find that obedience is better than sacrifice.  

As the old saying goes, I do not know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future. We know "Jesus is the Answer for the World Today".

Steve
3/27/2020

Dear Family and Friends of SCM,

The Bible says in  Pr 29:18,  Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.   

Mary and I have a vision, to use our place as a drive thru Sunrise Service on Easter Sunday, April 12th.   Below is the information.   WE REALIZE MANY WHO READ THIS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND, BUT WE ASK THAT YOU PRAY FOR US AS WE PRAY, PLAN AND PROMOTE THIS EVENT!  Thank you!


DRIVE THRU SUNRISE SERVICE, APRIL 12th.

Mary and I are making our place available on April 12th, for a Sunrise Service!   We understand in the coming days, there can be many changes in the way we can do things. So plans may change.   
This will be a Drive Thru Service, in which all coming will remain in their vehicle.   The event will be short, but prayerful a powerful and moving time as we remember the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ! Our plan is to have a FM transmitter to broadcast the service to FM radios in the cars.

  Most likely, we will plan on opening the gate to our place at 6:30 AM, April 12th.   The road in will be one way, making a circle, until we finish the service, then it will be one way out.   Our plan is to have everyone parked by 6:45 AM, and the service will start at that time,  and end at 7:00 AM.   The sun rise is at 6:50 AM.   Again, people will stay in their car, and we will be set up with a sound system that should enable everyone to hear.   Hopefully,  the ban on the number of people gathered will be lifted by that time, and if so, we will have chairs set up for those that would like to get out of their cars.  If that comes to pass, for those who wish to leave their car, we will have a parking place for them that will not hinder those who will be driving in and out.  We also plan to have free hot coco and coffee available for anyone that would like to have it.  It will be delivered to your car.  Handling will be done in compliance with rules for doing so.  All caution will be observed to limit any close contact with those attending. 

  We know that 6:30 AM is early and difficult for many, but we just ask you to remember what Jesus has done for us, and be willing to make that effort to do something in honor to Him!  Lord willing the weather will be good, the sunrise beautiful, and as we sing, pray and read God's Word, He will speak to each of our hearts, giving us comfort, wisdom and some understanding as we go though these difficult times!   May God bless each of you!  

Thank you for your prayers and may the Lord bless in all you do for Him!
Steve

READ and HEED

READ AND HEED,

  MESSAGE FROM SCM   3/20/2020   

    We will from time to time be sending out short messages in which we pray you will find a help in this time of confusion surrounding the Coronavirus. It is evident that many of us will have time on our hands and looking for something to occupy that time as we are asked to stay home, and as many churches are not having services for the next few weeks. What could be better than reading God’s Word; the Study of God’s Word; and Praying?    We hope you will read this, study the Scriptures, take heed, and pray! We call it a short Bible Study, something to READ AND HEED!  Read these statements, then take Heed as to what they say!

 1.  God knows what is happening, this has not taken Him by surprise. Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

2. God has warned us through His Word that these days would come.
  Mt 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers’ places. 

3. From history, we understand mankind will not for the most part heed what God says and does.
 Ec 1:9-11  The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was
before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

4. God never sends judgement without first giving a warning. He has warned us through His written Word and the preaching of His Word.
 Amos 3:7  Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

5. There are a few who will heed, Are you one of them? 
    1Ti 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

    Our prayer is while you have time on your hands, study God’s Word, knowing He is in control, He has a plan, you are in His plan!  We will be glad to try to answer any questions you may have; just send us an email and we will do our best to get back with you soon.

Steve

December, 2019
                    MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Another year is closing and a new one on the dawning!  Only God knows what the future holds, but we do know the uncertainties before us brings some concerns about our nation, our churches, our families and overall well being!   There are so many people around us that are hurting and going through hard times!  Our churches and pastors are for the most part struggling, but praise the Lord, Jesus is still on the throne and He will bring about His Will in all things!  We just need to take a deep seat and hang on and stay faithful to our calling as things unfold in the future!

As for Mary and I, we are doing well, have had a great year, and thanking the Lord for keeping us healthy and having the strength to keep on going!  We have to admit, the days seem to be harder, the miles longer, and the time needed to recover from those long trips seem to take a little longer!  Over all, we are excited and looking forward to a good schedule in 2020.

Our hearts have been touched this year by so many of our friends in the ministry that have died and gone on to be with Jesus!  Touched in two ways, with grief and sorrow as we will miss them so much, but also with joy and gladness knowing they are no longer in this world but with Jesus!!  Our hearts go out to Herman Cramer and Earl Willoughby,  who lost their wives to death this past year.   Also to the families of pastors and former pastors,  Jim Layton, Ed Trottingwolf, Harry Marsh  and Randy McCormack, and John Morgan, who also have gone on before us to Jesus!  Our prayers for their families and loved ones whom have been left behind for a time!

As of this writing, we have a good schedule ahead of us in 2020. Most of our meetings are repeat meetings for which we thank those pastors and churches who continue to use us.  Praise the Lord,  we do have some new places we will be going in 2020, if the Lord allows!  One of those is scheduled in Quartsite, AZ in January, something we have prayed for years to be able to do, but which the Lord had not allowed us to do for various reasons.  Your prayers for us as we travel this winter to that area to do a tent meeting where thousands of people spend the winter in RVs.  Thanks to the Baptist Church there calling and inviting us to come.  As most of you know, we do not call up churches and ask them for meetings, so when we received this call to go, we know it surely is of the Lord!

Our prayer for you is for you to have a great holiday season as we remember Jesus is the Reason for the season and everyone will take time to stop from the busyness of this life and take time to thank God for all He has done!

Before we close this blog page, we just want every one to know that God has so blessed us this past year with being able to have JD and Lucinda Couch to be a part of the work!  We appreciate them both, as well as Bob and Donna Whitchurch and Jeff and Donna Gore for their willingness to work with Mary and I in so many meetings.  Music is so important to a revival meeting, these precious couples are some of the best as far as we are concerned.

God bless and again, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

SCM MAY, 2019

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, which ever it may be!!

We once again find ourselves tardy in posting anything, guess we just get busy doing things and forget!  So, here we are about four months late!

First of all, we really appreciate the phone calls etc from everyone that has contacted us and asked about our well being due to the floods and tornadoes around our area!  We are fine, all is well, and God has certainly had His hand of protection on us!   We have had over 20 inches of rain at our place since the first of May!  About the only damage we have had was the road has washed out four times, and we have rebuilt it four times! 

Mary and I have been very busy, for which we thank the Lord!  We are home at this time, getting ready for the Green Country Cowboy Camp meeting the first week of June!  This Sunday we will be preaching at White Oak Baptist Church, White Oak, OK.   At this time, due to several of the highways being closed due to flooding, what would normally be about a 35 mile trip, will be 88 miles unless the water goes down tomorrow!

After the camp meeting we will be doing a tent meeting in Alluwe, Ok.  We ask for you prayers, as this is the church where the pastor Jim Layton, was injured in a Four Wheeler accident and died from the injuries a couple weeks ago.  The church wants to go ahead with the revival services, and we do believe that is what Jim would have wanted.  Again your prayers for the meeting and especially his wife Kathy, and the family!  After that Mary and I will be heading out on our annual trip to Idaho for VBS and Tent Meetings in Wendell, Gooding and Fairfield. 

God has blessed us with a good schedule, some weeks are open but that may be good for us to be home a few days in-between the meetings! 

We also ask you to please remember our dear friends and co labors in Christ, Jeff and Donna Gore, they lost their travel trailer and had heavy damage to their home and property near Coleman, Texas due to a tornado last week. 

We thank each of you and look forward to seeing some of you as we travel the roads for Jesus, may the Lord bless you and keep you safe!  Until the next time,  we will remain......

Sincerely yours in Christ Jesus,


Steve and Mary

SCM NEWS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Well, here we are in the new year, time is moving fast!  It is only a short time until we will get the trailer ready to hit the road once again.   We are looking forward to seeing many of our friends across the country as well as making new ones!

SCM had our annual business meeting last week, a "Chat and Chew Luncheon", where we gathered at First Baptist Church in Nowata for our business meeting and BBQ meal.  It was good, was not sure the weather was going to turn out ok.  We had over 50 show up, despite the cold and wet!  Just north of us 10 miles was snow on the ground, but God covered Nowata and no snow cover, we had just a few flakes fall, but no accumulation.

We will be praying for FBC Hallett, OK this coming Sunday as they have an open house and re-dedication service for the church.  They remodeled and wanted to rededicate the church to the Lord, sure appreciate Pastor Earl Wessell for his leadership there and for all he and Pastsy do for the Lord.

Mary and I want to again thank everyone for their prayers and support.  We always look forward to the winter months, when we can be around our family for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but also look forward to hitting the road again sharing about our wonderful Savior, Jesus Christ.

May the Lord bless each of you and until later, take care and trust the Lord in all things!

Steve and Mary

SCM NEWS

Saturday,  December 22, 2018
       
SCM NEWS                                                                                                                                                                                                         

FULL MOON

  A SHORT DEVOTION


Tonight as I was sitting at my desk looking at some Bible Verses we were considering for a message, I looked up and out the east window across from my desk.  We noticed the full moon was coming up and what a beautiful sight it was!  We shot a picture and posted it!   Let me tell you, with the clear sky, and just dusk, one could not by help just sit in awe at the handy work of our creator!  God, who hung the sun, moon and stars still shows He is alive and well!  The beauty was overwhelming, the picture God painted tonight was nothing short of spectacular!  Then the thought came to me we want to share below!

 I was remembered what we learned in school, so many years ago, that the moon has no light of it's own, but in only a dark blob of substance that reflects the light from the sun!  The bright shinning light we see is nothing more than a reflection of the real light, which comes from that sun, a force also created by God!  As the moon reflects that light, we thought how we as Born Again Christians are to reflect the True Light, from God's SON, Jesus Christ.  As the scripture shares, speaking of Jesus Christ , He is the True Light!

John 1:9   That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

John 8:12   Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Our prayer this month, as we remember the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, that we will watch what we say, where we go, what we do; that in our life, we will reflect the love and Light of Jesus Christ!!

WHERE WE BEEN

Our team, which included J.D. and Lucinda Couch, Bob and Donna Whitchurch, and of course Mary and I, returned last week from Balmorhea, Texas. We shared in our last blog post about the trip!  We had been praying for several things concerning the meeting.  One was for us to see someone from the influx of oil field people come to Christ, another was for new members be added to the church membership, and for attendance be great for the scheduled Cowboy Christmas Program!  God answered the prayers!  We saw one man saved, who is there working in that oil boom area, we saw a man, his wife and son join the membership of the church, and we had nearly 50 people there on Sunday morning, and nearly 40 on Sunday evening, even with a special scheduled concert by the school which was held at the Community Center!  God blessed, we had a great trip, and our team  missed all the snow and ice, and enjoyed beautiful weather and fellowship with the great folks from FBC, Balmorhea!

WHERE WE ARE GOING

Since it is that time of year when most churches are busy with Christmas events, revivals are put on hold!  As a result, the months of December and January are normally slow for us.  Sometimes we get to do some supply preaching, but overall, we spend a lot of time in Bible Study,  prayer, and planning for the next year.

One of the things we have been in much prayer about is the mission work we do each year.  When we say mission work, we are speaking about those meetings where the income is no where near what it takes to travel there and back.  We do several of those each year.  We have been asking the Lord two things concerning those meetings.  Places to go and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the means to get there and back!  Believe me, He has taken care of both of those things!  As we write, we have either already scheduled, or have good prospects of doing about 30 meetings in 2019!  Some of those are indeed mission meetings, but God has already provided the means for us to do the ones we have scheduled!  GOD IS GREAT!  As most of you know we never write, call or ask for any financial help for SCM.  We go, take what is given, and is some cases, nothing is given, because again, they are often mission type meetings.  We have never gone without, never faced a time when there was not enough, and never had to cancel anything because we could not afford to go!  God has used so many wonderful people and churches to help us, and every year, and including 2019, unless something unexpected happens, we will have enough to complete what we have scheduled!  Praise be to His Name!

Mary and I pray each of you will have a great and blessed Merry Christmas!  None of us know what 2019 will bring about.  We are blessed right now with lower fuel prices, several meetings, and all looks great thanks to the Lord!  Our prayer is at this same time next year, we can look back and say, "indeed this has been a blessed year"!

We had said in our first blog last month, we were going to try to send something weekly, well, maybe we should have said, monthly!  Thanks for all you do, your love, care, and prayers!  Until later, we will remain,

Sincerely yours in Christ Jesus!!

SCM NEWS

SCM NEWS BLOG

WHERE WE BEEN

We have just returned from a revival at Magnolia Baptist Church in Crawford, OK.  It was a good meeting with some of he most wonderful folks you could every wish to meet.  From the moment we arrived until the meeting was over they made Mary and I feel like part of their family!  God blessed during the meeting, had some decisions and the attendance was great!  Crawford, OK is in the far western part of Oklahoma and some of the lest populated places in Oklahoma.  These folks have a great fellowship and are doing a lot to reach those in the area!  Our prayers will be with them as they minister and hope someday to be able to return once again!

WHERE WE ARE GOING

For the next few weeks we will be in and out, but only have one meeting scheduled in December, in Balmorhea, Texas.  We will be going there for the fourth time this year!  Scheduled is a Cowboy Christmas Program, and going with us are two couples that have traveled many miles with Mary and I during the past!  Bob and Donna Whitchurch and J.D. and Lucinda Couch.  We will be doing a movie night, Sunday Services, and a special program on Sunday night, where we will hand out the old fashioned Christmas Sacks! 

Also, in December 1st, we will be attending a special birthday celebration for a man that has been with SCM since we started many years ago.  Albert Lumm will be 100 years old on Christmas day, and this celebration on the 1st of the month will be a great time with friends and family!

SPECIAL REQUEST

This month, we lost a very good friend, Mrs. Dorothy Willoughby, from Bella Vista, Arkansas.  We ask that you pray for her husband Earl as he deals with this sudden loss.  They both were very important members of the Green Country Cowboy Camp Meeting and she will be greatly missed this coming year!  We know the mixed feelings the family must have, knowing how much she will be missed, but also knowing she is now at peace with Jesus!  Thanks for your prayers for Bro. Earl and the family

DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE

"TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET"

In a few weeks we will be remembering and celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!  Several hundred years before Christ was physically born, the Prophet Isaiah wrote as He was moved by the Holy Spirit sharing how at that time God's people had a disregard for the law of God.  They still worshiped God, but their hearts were not near Him at all.  They had grown cold and indifferent to what God demanded, and as a result God's judgment was told.  Isaiah shared in the 59th chapter, 14th verse, "And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter."      Today in America, we can see the same thing happening!  God's people have grown cold, the truth of His word has been for the most part changed by many of those in leadership positions in religious organizations.  There is a warning to those that do not heed the Word of God, and add too or change what it says!  For example, the church of just a few years ago would never stand for what we see today.  We think of things like the stand against alcohol, abortion, and same sex marriage!  Yes, indeed, once again, Truth is fallen in the street!

Friends, we have read the Book, we know the ending! We have been told the time was coming when they would not endure sound doctrine, and there would be a falling away!  It is now upon us!  The future is in God's hands, meanwhile we continue to preach and teach His Word!  We will not compromise it, but share it as it is written!  Our prayer is for our families and friends to come to a close relationship with Christ!  We will work until Jesus comes!  As our good friend Bob Whitchurch says, "Look up!"  Our redemption draweth nigh!"