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CHRISTIAN MINUTEMAN AGENDA

JULY, 2009

1-NAMB HELP CENTER-www.NAMBHelpCenter.Homestead.com-During the month of June, we helped to feed over 1,000 families in our area. Working with Joseph’s Storehouse, we fed over 500; working with Mid-Cumberland Community Action Agency, we fed over 480 families; and we gave out nearly 20 food boxes to needy families ourselves. We visited and gave help to 14 elderly families. There have been over 400 drug discount cards given out to needy families. We were also able to get a free set of prescription glasses for Maximo Lopez, thanks to Doctors Ming Wang and Thomas Roberson. The need is great and growing every day so any donations would be deeply appreciated. The Christian Leadership School fall semester has also begun and this time there shall be an English class and a Spanish class for the first time. Please pray for this ministry.

2-SMITH COUNTY HISPANIC MINISTRY-www.IglesiaCarthage.Homestead.com-The Carthage mission is now meeting twice a week at the New Salem Association building. The first service is on Wednesday nights at 7:00 PM. We are also meeting on Sunday mornings at 8:00 AM. There are about 12 people attending each service on a regular basis. Since the beginning of the year, our attendance has steadily grown. We noticed in April that this growth had stopped and in May it was actually decreasing. We determined that this was due to our immigrants having to work longer hours due to the summer farming season. For this reason, we moved our second service from Saturday night at First Baptist Carthage to Sunday mornings at the New Salem Association office. Our last Sunday morning service had 14 attending. On Saturday, June 13, we had a visitation outreach. 11 workers helped us visit several Hispanic families and over 150 Hispanic tracts were given out. On Saturday, June 20, we had a soccer match at the Carthage soccer field and had a wonderful response. Please continue to pray for our mission work.

3-CHRISTIAN WATCHMAN NETWORK-www.ChristianWatchman.Homestead.com-This month, our online network has shared the gospel with people in Brazil, Canada, England, UK, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Benin, Gambia, Ghana, Iraq, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. This international missionary network is linked with over 100 nations and over 200 mission links to mission works and ministries all over the world. If you are involved with a Christian mission work or ministry that you would like added to our network, just visit our website and send us an email.

4-GOSPEL FOR ASIA-www.gfa.org-In each aspect of Gospel for Asia’s ministry, the primary aim is to plant churches among the unreached, those who have never heard the Gospel. Gospel for Asia trains and sends native missionaries because they have proven extremely effective. They are already familiar with the language and culture, and they live at the level of the people they serve, thus removing many social barriers. Gospel for Asia sends 100 percent of the money you donate for work on the mission field to the field. Nothing is taken out for administrative expenses.

5-CHRISTIAN LAYMAN NETWORK-www.ChristianLayman.Homestead.com-This month’s DVD is on the spiritual giant of pride and is entitled EVOLUTION-HOAX OF THE CENTURY. It is a 2 hour documentary that covers the growth of the belief in this pseudo-scientific theory over the past century in America and around the world. There are two parts to this documentary. The first part, DARWIN’S DEADLY LEGACY, covers the history of Darwin’s theory of evolution and shows the impact of our society accepting this false worldview. The second part is a concert by Christian artist CARMAN, a man whom I call the Steven Spielberg of Christian music videos. As you watch this DVD, please pray for our nation.

6-JOSEPH’S STOREHOUSE-www.JosephsStorehouse.Homestead.com-This month, we were able to help over 500 families receive food through the ministry of Joseph’s Storehouse. Most of the food is free, but the expense to bring in the food, store the food between times of distribution, warehouse space, utilities, gas and transportation, operating freezers, plus boxes and other supplies, costs a lot. We also need around $60,000 to expand our warehouse to help more of the poor in our area. Help us continue to bring this food to need people in our community. For more information on how to help with this godly outreach, email us at the website above.

7-WILSON COUNTY HISPANIC MINISTRY-www.HispanicMinistry.Homestead.com-We had over 30 meetings in June. These meetings included Sunday School, Sunday morning worship, prayer meetings, Bible studies, youth ministry and home visitation meetings. Sunday School averages 25 people and worship services average 75 people. On Thursday, June 25, 3 people were baptized; Abraham Quevedo, Patricia Cruz and Rosa Mejea. On Sunday, June 28, 1 person was saved, Miriam Price. On every other Saturday, we have a youth night at First Baptist Church Lebanon. Our youth minister, Eddie Vizcarra, directs these services and we have an average of 30 young people attending. We also have a ministry in Lebanon called Houses of Peace. This is a series of house church discipleship studies in 4 different homes. We have these services on Wednesday night. On Sunday mornings, we are having a men’s prayer meeting from 5:00 AM to 6:30 AM. Although this is set up as a men’s prayer meeting, everyone is invited. A new visitation project has been begun on Sundays from noon to 2:00 PM. This ministry has been begun by Hector Mondragon. Every Monday, Pastor Jorge Vasconcelos is now teaching seminary extension classes in Spanish at the Wilson County Association building in Lebanon. Pastor Jorge has been certified by the Southern Baptist Convention to teach these classes. We currently have 7 people attending.

8-FAITH FELLOWSHIP-www.FaithFellowshipChurch.com-Robert Nakamoto was injured while in Iraq and has now been transferred stateside. He has released a music CD that tells the story of his time in Iraq. If you would like to purchase one of these CD’s and help support this ministry, you can contact him at www.BetterDay.Homestead.com. Robert has submitted an email report below.

9-ONLINE EVANGELISM PROJECT-ZDRaines@ChristianMinuteman.net-Through the Online Evangelism project, we now share Jesus with hundreds of people each week. During the past month, we have shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with over 900 people on the internet. To learn the details of how to share Jesus Christ over the internet with your lost friends or to use your junk email to evangelize, click the link above.

10-TENNESSEE PASTORES FELLOWSHIP-www.TennesseePastores.Homestead.com-We have created a new online network for Hispanic pastors in Tennessee. It includes a weekly Bible study, a weekly prayer meeting, and a Christian news report, all in Spanish. These are all being translated by Christian Minutewoman Isabel Herbello from Cuba. This past month, we have sent out over 14 email messages, each going to nearly 100 Hispanic pastors all across Tennessee. To join this network, or for more information on this new ministry, click on the website above and sign the guestbook or send us an email.

11-CHRISTIAN MINUTEMAN NETWORK-www.ChristianMinuteman.net-We have had 107 hits on our website network this month, bringing our counter total to 50,935. This translates into over 25 hits a week or nearly 4 hits a day. During this month, we have had 9 online classes with an average of nearly 460 participating. We have also been contacted by 784 newcomers. Please keep this ministry in your prayers as we continue to work to turn America back to God, one soul at a time.

12-THE JERICHO PROJECT-www.men-of-valor.org-Christian Minuteman Raul Lopez is working with a ministry called Men of Valor. He has become an after-care coordinator for the Jericho Project, which is an outreach to the Tennessee Prison System, especially concentrating on the Hispanic inmates. Please keep this work in your prayers.

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We pray that God is richly blessing and sustaining you! 

On the family news, both Luke and William have their black belts in Taekwondo, so a big praise the Lord there!  Adam now has a high green belt.  Luke is hoping to begin training this fall on being an instructor and also to test for a black belt in Hapkido.  We have continued to play music as a family at church, nursing homes, prayer meetings, and revival meetings.  We are not super fancy, but we do play music together quite a bit so that is a blessing.  We frequently have some of our friends and people at church and the meetings play music with us, so the children have got to play with some really good musicians.  There are quite a few talented people that we play music with, so it keeps us humble.  But a big praise is we have got better than we were.  We are also continuing to do work for our local church, and are working with several other churches on revival and witnessing projects.  It finally has hit home that the issue is not so much us (any given church) but trying to help others and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

Back on the music front, I'm planning to get another budget type, but good, guitar for William .  His current one is having a few problems and doesn't sound too good.  Please keep that in your prayers.  Anna and Sara actually sang up front on some songs this past weekend.  It is very cute and they do a great job, as do Sherri and Luke, William, and Adam.  I've continued working on fiddle playing and every now and then on the mandolin, besides continuing on the guitar.  Sherri, Anna, and Sara have been taking fiddle lessons, but it is pretty hard to learn, though they are doing great.  Sherri has gotten better on playing the tambourine, which is important for much of the music that we do. 

I also took a 10 week Japanese class that finished this week.  It was hard, but at least I have learned some and have learned about half or more of the Hiragana alphabet.  Hope to take some more classes this year, God willing.  I'm planning to do some more studying to learn the rest of the alphabet as the next course starts on the Katakana alphabet.  The plan is to teach the family some Japanese.

I'm still battling a fair amount of health problems.  Mainly problems with my nerves, joints, and muscles resulting in fibromylgia, chronic headaches, pain, fatigue, and numbness, and some other issues.  This resulted from the Anthrax vaccines, a fall, and an explosion in Iraq during my deployment.  Other than that I am pretty healthy.

Over the past three years I lost over 650 hours of work time for appointments, physical therapy, illness, etc. from my military injuries.  We had to cancel some trips, including a trip to California to visit relatives, and curtail back on our local social schedule, due to lost work time and the related issues. It also did its share of zapping our finances and became our most expensive "hobby".  Our private insurance paid for much of my medical care for my military injuries, and we also paid a fair amount out of pocket for medical bills, supplements, and dietary changes.  One big praise is our Veterans Affairs (VA) claim was finally approved so that should help financially and benefits wise and help make up for much of what we lost these past three years.  Our Congressman, John Tanner, Congressman Davis of Virginia, and my dad, and many others, did quite a bit to help this multi-year saga come to a somewhat successful conclusion.  Dad met with several VA people in Washington, D.C.  Thank you for your prayers and advice to many of you over the years on that one. 

Please continue to keep us in your prayers.  My biggest concern right now, beyond general pain, is that the numbness that had been below the neck, has now spread to my face, tongue, and throat.  I've been having some minor problems swallowing and talking at times.   So there are some question marks for the future reference playing music and singing for myself, as well as other issues. 

One good part is that our children have had to learn a better work ethic because I cannot do what I used to do.  So they are probably learning how to do more things and work more since I've had to rely more on them helping around the house and land, and with our vehicles and equipment.  It has been harder on Sherri and them though as I cannot help out like I used to. 

On a much happier note, the children are pretty happy about visiting our relatives in Virginia later this summer.  Sara and Anna asked last night at supper if they could start packing.  So that is a blessing.  On a sad note, my father is battling some health issues, so we decided to move up a fall trip to this summer and may try to go back in the fall also, Lord willing.  My sister Amy and her husband Jeremy recently had their first baby, and named him Marcus.  My brother Michael and his wife Chizuko are expecting their first baby sometime this week or later this month.  Sherri and the girls had a good time buying some baby outfits for them.  We are also taking up some presents for their other cousins, Michael and Matthew since they all live near my mom and dad.  Michael (my nephew) is in college and ROTC, but is home when he can be.   

Luke is about six feet tall now and William is about 5'9" or so.  The rest have also grown a fair amount. Adam is up to my shoulder and is pretty strong.  Anna and Sara are also taller.   Luke was blessed with a great summer job working at a local Taekwondo school helping out with their summer camp.

We have a few baby chicks the hens hatched out this week.  Anna and Sara like holding them.  They are very cute and seem to enjoy the attention.  Yesterday afternoon I fed the chickens with Anna and Sara.  Our two roosters are pretty tame and will eat out of your hand.  The hens will also but are a bit more jumpy.  Mr. Midnight, our cat, at fifteen is doing pretty well.  Sherri recently found a dietary supplement that has helped his coat quite a bit, and he actually looks younger now.  He is still catching a fair amount of mice. 

Well, take care! May the Almighty bless and protect you in all things!   You are all in our prayers and hearts.  Many of you are also in your own set of trials and challenges.  One blessing of my health challenges is that is has made me more sympathetic to others.  We pray God will bless and protect you in all things, both today, and throughout all eternity. 

Blessings!

Robert

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