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SWAT REPORT # 110    07-10-08

Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

I’M FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES

I love to use objects as illustrations for Sunday School lessons for both adults and children together…the Lord has given me many ideas for this…in Photo 110.01 the class enjoys the example of bubbles as things of vanity that appear for a little time and then vanisheth away.  No matter how old you are you enjoy bubbles and no matter how young you are you understand the concept of the vanity of bubbles.  Each child received a bottle of bubbles and each adult was envious but too proud to ask for one.  In photo 110.02 Mary Bethany (14) thoroughly enjoys her bubbles while envious adults look on longingly. 

WORLD’S YOUNGEST PUBLICK MINISTER

In photo 110.03 Sergiu Jr. is barely 12 months old and is holding a full size banner during one of our recent street meetings…well…with a little help from Benjamin Logan…Somebody ought to call Guinness Book of Records.  Once in awhile I get a chance to go the whole distance down the Roman’s Road with an English speaking person…Photo 110.04 shows this…this 15 year old was a tourist with his parents from Norway and was thrilled to tell me at the end of the road that he truly was trusting in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ for the sole salvation of his soul…Praise the Lord…but oh how I long to do more of this.

PUBLICK MINISTRY IN A SMALL COMMUNITY

For more than three decades I have taught publick ministry to the saints and servants…there has always been a disagreement among the brethren as to the value of publick ministry in a small community…I have always stated that there is great benefit ANYTIME AND ANY PLACE where a servant of the Lord is willing to publickly proclaim the truth of the Lord.  In photo 110.05 nearly our whole church is involved in a publick meeting in the small village where presently our church is located…this is the busiest part of town and not very busy but they all knew there had been a prophet among them.   Ezek. 2:5

 By the way, last week on July 4^th I celebrated the anniversary of the first street meeting I ever organized.   I had preached publickly two years before that but on that day in 1970 I got 5 preachers, among them were Lenny Willinger, and Ron Riley (of Sword of the Lord fame), along with the youth department of Trinity Baptist Church in Jax. Fl. Bill Montgomery was with us also…he has been in heaven for many years now but he was the father of Sylvia Gray…who married Dr. Bob Gray.  We all met at the civic auditorium in Jacksonville and preached to the crowd awaiting the fireworks.  Great memories of the past.

 In photo 110.06 Mary Bethany (our in-home inventor) is using her patented  invention of a cherry picker to harvest cherries in our front yard.   We finally got some return on our sizable investment of food-for-the-college-students by putting them to work pitting these cherries.  Most of these live in the college dorm so they are used to the pits.

 Just a warning…in all your inflation…don’t forget your missions giving…remember, what you give to the Lord is your deterrent against the deterioration of the world’s financial state…Mal. 3:11

 We are perfectly content to serve the Master on the eastern front

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 Gerald Sutek and the SWAT TEAM for Christ
2Tim. 1:8, Amos 5:10