Another FULL day of ministry on Saturday -- Maddaline and I went to a town about an hour from Lucena City called Altimonan. It is the home town of the main pastor of the Good News Church here in Lucena and a town where Good News has one of their outreach works. Jane had organized that Maddaline and I would go there to do a seminar for about 75 people. We had an INCREDIBLE meeting. Their praise and worship was anointed and so easy to then teach and preach. Maddaline spoke first out of Joshua -- Strategies for Dominion and Victory. I followed with Five Characteristics of End-Time Worshippers. We each had planned our messages independently but they fit hand and glove.
Maddaline taught first and then they stood for a short time of worship. I followed right out of the worship and it really flowed well. We ministered a total of three hours and I was wringing wet from sweat. They had some fans but no air conditioning of course. ALL my clothing was soaked and stuck to my skin, my hair along my neckline was dripping. But the ministry was incredible to the people. God said he was bringing a refreshing and an enhancement to them.....that they were moving on the right path, but He was encouraging them and enlarging their kingdom work. You would have thought Maddaline and I had planned and outlined how we would work together from the way everything intertwined and united. THAT was the work of the Holy Spirit!
That meeting in Altimonan was truly God's plan. This was the first time Jane had assigned me to do something like that. Usually I am always with P Sharon, but Jane sent Maddaline and I to Altimonan yesterday with a specific assignment. The Pastor there is named Anna, and before I knew I was going to HER church, the Lord had brought her face to my remembrance and I was looking for her all week long -- wondering how things were with her and how her church was doing. Little did I know we were going to her church to minister! See -- another reason why I LOVE the Holy Spirit!
Then Pastor Andy (Jane's home church pastor) took us on a little tour of his home town and introduced us to some of his family members that live and have businesses in that town. This town is on a bay of the Pacific Ocean so we were able to stand along the water there and look out over the ocean. There is an island about an hour's boat ride away that we could see. The Good News church has just started another work over on that island. Jane and her people are church planters, always looking for places to expand the kingdom of God in their nation.
Pastor Sharon had a "rest" day more or less. She worked in the hotel room on various things and then spent the afternoon with Jane and Jane's daughter...a fairly long counseling session. This really has been a trip of assignment. We have come to help and assist in counseling and encouragement in so many ways for so many people.
We had dinner at the home of some Chinese business people that Jane knows. They have a very large home that is attached to their business warehouse and distribution center. They have heard the Gospel and "in a way" accepted Jesus, but they are still walking a mixed life of faith with their former Chinese beliefs. But they were soooo open and just kept asking questions about how our beliefs applied to our daily life, business, etc. After dinner, Pastor Sharon pulled out her "drawing" message that she uses at times to explain the whole Gospel story. She tells the plan of salvation starting in Genesis through the cross by drawing things on a piece of paper. They watched and listened with intensity, asking questions along the way. At the end, they said the sinner's prayer and Jane agreed to find them a way to get some Bible training and more instruction.
Again, it was a long day and we were to put our heads on our hard pillows (hahahaha) for the last time here at this hotel in Lucena. Sunday morning we are all three speaking at different churches. We'll report on that later!!
Thanks for all the prayer and support. I can't say that enough!
Love,
P Sharon, Nola, and Maddaline
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