Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, May 2010
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
While I recognize the context of this verse, I am one whose heart is touched upon reading these words concerning the children the Lord has entrusted us with and the state of their souls and daily walk with Christ. We have been praying for our girls since their birth or before and while it excites us when they can recite a verse, pray at bedtime or even sing at a church; our longing has been for the time when God would touch their heart about their personal need to settle their sin debt by faith in our risen Redeemer. On April 16th, at Parkwood Baptist Church in Houston, our daughter Autumn expressed to us that the Lord was dealing with her about her soul. When the service was over, we spent some time talking about it and she was adamant that she needed to be born again and she called on God to save her! It has been a blessing to see her faithfully and without provocation share her testimony with family and others and encourage them that they need to be saved if they are not! Pray for Autumn, that God would grow her in wisdom and fellowship with Him and that she might give Him glory faithfully until the Lord calls us home!
This report finds us in the northeast for a series of meetings this month before heading to Arkansas by the end of May. While we have had our share of sickness that has passed the family in the past two weeks we praise the Lord that we seem to be at the end of it and look forward to being at full strength for the coming meetings. This past month has provided opportunities to witness and evangelize in different places including a festival in Texas where our three older girls all passed out tracts and we got a few hundred out in just a few hours! We enjoyed being a part of some great Missions conferences and have great optimism that new support for the work in the Philippines will result from them. While we see the reality of challenges in churches across America, we know that the greatest thing Satan wants is to thwart the impact of the local church on evangelization in its own community and its obedience to spread the gospel through the conduit of missionaries throughout the world. It is exciting to see many of the churches that have not strayed from this our foundational purpose; no matter the economy, no matter the political landscape, no matter the philosophies of the day. The work of the gospel is great and large and so as Nehemiah demonstrated for us in the midst of adversity, we must continue in the work, amen?!
Please pray that we would be faithful to the Lord, diligent in our labor and that God would open doors for us this summer to have a full calendar of meetings which will bring us closer to the Philippines as well as encouraging churches and impacting souls with the gospel all along the way. May the Lord greatly encourage you and magnify Himself in your service to Him.
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Eph 3:16-19)
According to the power that worketh in us, Aaron & Stephanie Putney
Autumn, Anna, Sarah and Emma
Grace Independent Baptist Church
Pastor Paul Perkins
3707 Bienville Blvd
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
www.PutneysforChrist.com
Aaron@PutneysforChrist.com
585 298 3807
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