November 5, 2007

Dear Friends,

When we started our special evangelistic emphasis last month, we already knew we needed rain. It had been pretty dry for several months and we welcomed any amount of precipitation. Isn't it curious how the rain may lack for weeks or months, but when you prepare for an event to reach out to the lost, at the time of the event, the rain clouds appear and your prayers for rain are answered, but your evangelistic event is hindered? Well, that was our experience in October, or almost. You see, it was God who guided us to put on the event and it was God who sent the rain. He knew how to make both “work together for good”. Our intentions were to hold the services in the open air ball park across the street from our church building. As we saw the rain clouds forming at the announced time of beginning the meeting, we decided to move the meeting into the church auditorium. The big problem was that when the rain began to fall, the only people in the auditorium were the evangelistic team and a few of our church members. The entire program was geared for the evangelism of lost folks and there weren't any present.

We had prepared and prayed for this opportunity to share the gospel. Certainly, God would have blessed us for our attitudes even if no one showed up. But God wasn't finished yet. He laid it on the heart of the leaders to challenge those Christians present to go out into the streets in pairs, right then and there, and bring back at least one person to the meeting. The church members and evangelists did that and in less than thirty minutes the building was full. The rain stopped just long enough for our people to bring in the visitors and then it started back again until the end of the meeting. When the visitors were invited to surrender their lives to Christ that night, just over twenty individuals professed Christ as their Lord and Savior. God truly did make all things work together for the good of those who love Him and for His glory.

I know that God uses our reports to lead some of you to pray earnestly about specific ministries. I thank Him for burdening you with that desire to pray and I thank Him for answering so many of those prayers. Tomorrow, both of our pioneer evangelistic teams will be traveling to Brazil’s most gospel deprived state, Rio Grande do Sul. We will be ministering in six different cities until the end of the month (three weeks). One of the two motor homes had to have some repairs done before this trip, but now it is ready to roll. The capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul has over 30,000 centers of witchcraft and black magic and only a handful of born again believers. Most of the towns spread around the state are in an even worse spiritual situation, many not having a single true Christian church in them. Please pray that God would cause our efforts to be fruitful and honoring to Christ.

We will begin to do the transformation project on our most recently acquired travel bus during the Christmas holidays. God blessed us through a gift of this bus, a 1989 model. We need to turn it into a rolling “center of evangelism and home for 12 evangelists”. We already have a team ready to man the positions, but we will need to equip the bus for housing the team and to provide the sound system for open air meetings. If you’d like to help equip this travel bus for taking the gospel to these unreached cities, please designate your offering Agape/bus.

Thank you for your prayers and support and may God richly bless.

In Christ’s love,

Bobby, Charlene, Jessie and Brennen Wacaser