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God Loves You! “Issue No. 202
September 20th, 2009
Nothing can separate you from the love of God

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,
How shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers
nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth,
nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!”
Romans 8:31-32 & 38-39

“By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren”
I John 3:16

Dear Friends,
Greetings to you in the wonderful name of our mutual Savior & Lord--Jesus Christ. Emie and I pray that the Lord will fill you with His love and reward and uniquely bless you these final months of this year and decade. Thank-you so very much for your Holy Spirit led prayers, encouragement, & financial investments in helping us reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ that saves & transforms the lives of people all over the world.
“May God give you more and more mercy, peace, and love.” Jude 2 NLT


Who is my neighbor?
About 3 weeks ago Emie and I were at downtown Tacloban by the post office and as we were getting in the van and about to drive off, a teen-age street kid began knocking on the van window begging for money. We help people in various ways but we also use wisdom in when and how we help. In this young boy’s case, he was dirty, he had terrible looking open sores on his neck and appeared to be very weak. He needed more than just some pesos given to him. I asked Emie to tell him to stay in that area and that we would go to the Pharmacy and get some medicine for him and come back and also get him a good meal, etc.

When we came back and asked him to walk across the street he was not even in good enough shape to do so by himself. Emie walked across the street to give him medicine but when she saw more clearly his condition she came to the same conclusion that had just entered my mind---and she helped him across the street and we put him in the van and we took him to our home. We both had the feeling that he perhaps would not live if unattended.

His back was bent over some as he walked and we learned later it was due to an injury after being kicked in the small of his back by a police officer when he had been sleeping on the streets. The young boy’s name is Randy and he is 15 years old. It is hard to talk with him as he can hardly hear, but we found out that he came from a village in Samar, his mother had left for Manila for work and he had not heard from her anymore---and his father was in prison.
Randy has been with us since that time three weeks ago. He has had 3 good meals a day,
medical treatment, and been living here and sleeping here in safety. He has improved a lot but is still weak and needs total healing. He is able to read in Filipino and has been reading the Bible quite often. Please pray for God’s complete healing and that the Lord will one day use him in a special way in ministry. {None of us can help everybody, but all of us can help somebody, and as a team together--- as led by the Lord, we can help many neighbors such as Randy.}
I John 3:17-18 “But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”
In our Sunday morning radio broadcasts (8:30-9:00) we are continuing to see salvations,
and are hearing from many Christians who are encouraged and helped by the messages that we share. That broadcast reaches thousands of people throughout Region 8, the islands of Biliran, Leyte, and Samar. Each week we are receiving text messages from people who say their lives are being touched in positive ways by the broadcast messages. We have people attending the church here in Tacloban who were saved as a result of the radio ministry. Please continue to pray for God’s blessing and anointing on these important broadcasts.
We had our monthly pastors meeting last week and when the reports were turned in and the average weekly attendance was totaled for all the churches it exceeded more than 900 men, women, and children in attendance. As we have shared in the past, 90% of these people are people who have come to know Jesus as their Savior & Lord though our various evangelistic outreaches. Region 8 remains the least evangelized region in the Philippines where statistically only 1 to 2 percent are born again Christians, yet we continue to see God touching the hearts of people here and lives being transformed.
Last Saturday at the Children’s feeding & ministry outreach in a small village, over 80 children attended. The children in this poor country village are very attentive to the sharing of God’s word, and they are learning many praise & worship songs to sing to the Lord. / Our Tacloban youth often have 35-50 youth attending the evening service at our ministry rooms at the downtown Astrodome and are excited to serve the Lord. / We have 4 young people attending a 5 month Bible School and 3 youth who are attending Bible college. We also have discipleship classes for 13 men and women at the Tacloban Church and they are being more and more helpful to us in the ministry outreaches. Please pray for the children, teen-agers, and young adults, and adults---to all become increasingly solid in their faith---and faithful & fruitful in their service to the Lord.
On the family front we just celebrated the triplets (Faith, Hope and Joy) 4th birthday party on Sept. 18th and they were excited,--- my 62nd birthday on the 15th, and Hugh’s 8th birthday last August on the 28th. The kids are doing well over all and are very energetic. Gracia will be 10 next month and then no more birthdays for us for the rest of the year. Psalm 127:3 “Son’s are a heritage from the Lord, Children a reward from Him.”
We pray the Lord continues to be with you in incredible ways and truly grants you the desires of your heart. May He strengthen you and encourage you and use you to help advance the Kingdom of God.
Thanks again for your kindness and faithfulness in helping us to reach new people for Jesus. God bless you greatly.
In Christ’s love,
Gordon & Emies
P.S. Please pray for Emie and me, for the Lord to renew our strength and bless our health and assign for us some rest and short vacation time. We both are somewhat tired and desire to be filled with fresh wisdom, insight, restoration, and renewal by the Holy Spirit. Also please pray for all the pastors and other ministry workers who are with us. We still need your prayers for us to have a fresh anointing, powerful protection, grace, and all else needed for all areas of our lives and ministries.
Financial: We could use some help. Please pay for the Lord to open the windows of heaven and supply all our monthly need according to His Riches in Glory---by Christ Jesus. We are helping 17 churches and in many other good areas. Thanks and God bless you always.

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Our God Is Able! Issue No. 201
August 17th, 2009

Hebrews 7:25 “Therefore He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.”

Jude 1:24 “Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of glory with exceeding joy,

2 Corinthians 9:8 “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”

Ephesians 3:20-21 “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen”


Dear Friends,
A warm hello to you from Emie and me--- and we continue to pray for God’s help, guidance, encouragement, and tailor-made blessings to you—as you seek the Lord and faithfully serve Him. The Bible says: “…and He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” ---Hebrews 6:10b & “…may they always say: ‘The Lord be exalted, Who delights in the well being of His servant.’” –Psalm 35:27b

I believe that to all of us, having good friendships is important and a great encouragement and help our lives. Our personal friends are always much appreciated and special to us, and as Christians---for all of us, there is One Friend Who stands out above all the rest. The old Scriptural song says: “What a friend we have in Jesus”---and how true a statement that is. Jesus is a Friend: who will never leave you nor forsake you, a Friend who is always with you, He sticks closer than a brother, is the wisest Friend in all the earth and always has the best advice for you, He loves you unconditionally, is patient with you, a Friend who was willing to die for you (and did), and Who is alive today to walk & talk with you and listen to you, and a Friend Who will encourage you, support you, and protect you. Truly---What a Friend We Have In Jesus.
“Greater love has no one that this, than to lay one’s life down for his friends.” –John 15:13
“… I have called you friends…” John 15:15c ---JESUS
Good times, bad times and in between times---Jesus is always there for each of us.
[“…I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”] --Matthew 28:20b


JESUS CAME TO SAVE THE LOST

I would like to share a testimony with you. Thirty years ago I knew a man whose life almost came to an end at an early age. This individual in High School had scored 2nd highest in his class on the National Merit Scholarship Exam, won the chess championship for his High School, was President of the local FFA chapter, and President of the Luther League at his church. He went on to attend & graduate from Western Washington State College (now a University) and was Speaker of the Legislature for the approximate 11,000 member student body there. He later acquired a Real Estate Broker’s license and from 1972-1980, at various times had owned and later sold: a 4 unit apartment complex in Bellingham, a beautiful lake lot on Cain lake in Whatcom county, a house in partnership in Olympia, two 5-unit apartment buildings and one 3 unit apartment building in Centralia.
As a Senior in High School he had survived a serious accident while sledding using a rubber raft with his cousin on the base of Mt. St. Helens, where he hit a tree and his back was broken and his left wrist bone shattered. He survived 3 automotive accidents where in each case the cars were totaled and he was just able to walk away. His life was also spared in a few other dangerous incidents. [ One thing working in his favor behind the scenes was a praying grandmother and praying mother.]
But in August of 1979 his life was in a shambles due to a fast paced life, excessive use of alcohol and use of drugs, and smoking 60 cigarettes a day, etc. The Bible refers to a people who were without hope and without God, and this 31year old man was certainly within that category.[ Jesus shares a story about a prodigal son who wasted his life and fortune and found himself feeding the pigs for a living and was so messed up that even the pig food was looking good to him. But the bible says in Luke 15:17 “when he came to his senses” he realized the best thing he could do is go back to his father, not even as a son anymore but just as a servant, yet when he returned, repentant and remorseful---his father greeted him with love and restored him as a son.]
The man I refer to in this real life testimony “Came to his senses” and realized that the only hope he had
was to return to the God of his youth. There is a song and some of the words are: Í have returned to the
God of my childhood, to the same simple faith as a child I once knew…” On August 27th 1979 at a phone call request, 2 Full Gospel Businessmen drove 30+ miles from Olympia to Chehalis (on business day) an shared in more detail the gospel of Jesus Christ to this man---and on that Monday morning, Gordon Joseph Kalich returned to the God of his childhood, and prayed wholeheartedly for God’s forgiveness for his sins and asked Jesus to be his Savior and Lord. It was the best decision I ever made and the greatest day of my life so far.
On the 2nd day of my salvation I sensed the damage that had been done to me in the years of alcohol and drug use and I prayed to God: “If You will put me back together again, I will go anywhere in the world you want me to go—and I will share about Jesus to the people.” God put me back together, (which was considered a miracle by many people who knew me) and I have done my best though what will be 30 years this August 27th to serve the Lord and to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. In following years I was active in an established church, in the local Full Gospel Businessmen’s Chapter, did some prison ministry, helped pioneer a new church, and made 2 foreign mission trips.
In 1992 in response to the leading of God, I sold most of my possessions and took a step of faith and obedience to travel to the Philippines---to share the gospel, to help strengthen and encourage fellow Christians through God’s Scriptures, and to help the poor as led by the Holy Spirit. During these years I have also been able to minister in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Africa.
God provided for me many good friends and mentors through these thirty years and I thank all of you who have helped me through the years. And since 1992 God has faithfully supplied the need of the ministry outreaches though touching the hearts of Christians with a heart for evangelism and missions---to help my wife Emie and me and all the pastors of our now 17 churches---help evangelize the lost, and help disciple and train new Christian workers, and to help the poor in a variety of ways. To each of you I once again extend my and Emie’s heartfelt gratitude and appreciation: for your friendship, prayers, encouragement, and financial investments in God’s work through the ministry outreaches. Many people have come to know Jesus as their Savior & Lord as a result of your partnership with us and the ministries here. God reward & bless you always.
As long as we live, we will do our best to share the life saving-life changing---gospel of Jesus Christ.
In Christ’s love,
Gordon & Emie
P.S. All areas of the ministries are doing well overall, and we will share more in detail next newsletter. Please continue to pray for God’s fresh anointing upon us, for His blessings on all our health, for His powerful protection, for God to touch the hearts of more prayer warriors to intercede for us, and for the Lord to continue with His love and grace---to touch the hearts of people to donate the finances that are such an important help to us sharing the gospel and reaching people for Jesus. Thanks very much.