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“WE WISH YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS &
AN EXCEPTIONALLY BLESSED NEW YEAR 2010!”
Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ,
Christmas greeting to you all & your family. May the Lord’s blessing, guidance, protection, be unto you for the coming years. For unto you a child is born---for unto you a child is given to be Savior of our soul.
First of all I would like to thank God for His wonderful grace that we experienced throughout the year. We are blessed & grateful for the good health, protection, provision, and anointing that He has bestowed upon us and the ministry.
We are blessed with 6 kids. Our oldest son Jean Paul is now 23 years old and He is a skilled musician and table tennis player---a very sociable person and likable. Gracia is now 11 years old and very much healthy, and she is also active and involved in the ministry outreach like the children’s feeding program. She loves to sing and dance.
Hugh Gordon is now 8 and desires to be a pastor like (Daddy & Mommy). He is a very smart and a thinker. Faith, Hope , and Joy---our triplets are now 4 years & 3 months old; they are very much active & talkative and are ready for kinder school next year God willing.
Ministry is continuing to grow and I thank God, just last night there are 5 new people added as the result of a cell group meeting. We finally have a breakthrough of discipling members to become leaders. And now after 3 years of training they are also discipling people in their cell group. We are experiencing more leaders to be trained to do the work of the ministry.
I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude for all who helped us make this ministry possible. We have 17 pastors & 5 workers whom we help throughout the years and they are working in the villages in the province of Samar, Leyte, and Biliran. They are faithful servants of Jesus Christ.
Thank-you very much because of YOU and YOUR PARTNERSHIP & PRAYER we were able to possess the land and People are coming to Him. Jesus Is The Reason We Exist.
Merry Christmas & a Prosperous New Year
Love, Emil
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We have a weekly feeding and ministry outreach to these children who live in a poor rural village in the Philippines
“The Savior is Born” Issue No. 205
December 13th, 2009
*The Pre-existent Christ*
Colossians 1:16-17 NIV “For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and things on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”
John 1:1-4 AMP “In the beginning [before all time]was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the word was God Himself. He was present originally with God All things were made and came into existence through Him, and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of men.”
*The Rescue Mission*
“For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”
Luke 2:11
“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder.
And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6
Dear Friends,
We pray the Lord will greatly bless you this Christmas and grant you an excellent New Year. “Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.” –Jude 2 KJ
Much is said about Christmas . Traditionally it has been a time set aside by many to celebrate the Birth of Jesus, to have fellowship with family and friends, to give and receive gifts, and a time for some to extend an extra measure of good will and to have hope for a better world.
In recent years however, it seems like there has been quite a few unrepentant “Scrooges” who want to oppose the use of the name Christmas--and prefer to call it Xmas or Winter Holiday, etc. & they oppose nativity scenes in many locations and their primary attitude is “Bah Humbug”. Oh well, to them I would simply say: “MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
Perhaps many of us see too much secularization in the Christmas season and too much emphasis on material items, etc. But I believe we would agree that a true concept and meaning of Christmas is the type of service and giving that Jesus refers to in Matthew 20:28 NKJ “just as the son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and give His life a ransom for many.” We celebrate that God the Son, came down from heaven, and entered into this world born of a virgin in a humble manger----and He came here to seek and save that which was lost. We who believe have forgiveness of sins and eternal life—because Jesus came to serve and give His life as a ransom for us. {JESUS HAS BEEN--HE IS--AND HE ALWAYS WILL BE:--THE REASON FOR THE SEASON} John 3:16
I just came back into my office---today is Sunday and our church service will start in awhile. Downstairs I hear the little Sunday school kids rehearsing for a presentation to the congregation when we have the main service. I was blessed to hear them singing a few minutes ago: “Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere, go tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ is born…”, and I just wanted to share that with you before I go downstairs for our church service. I believe many of us have experienced the anointing and special presence of the Lord on the music of children as they sing from their hearts in simple childlike faith and we were blessed and ministered to as they sang. [Psalm 8:2a “From the lips of children and infants You have ordained praise…”
An Atheist for 67 years + spends Christmas in person---with Jesus
That was the caption of an email I sent to my friend Gary Evans 3 days ago. Gary had briefly met the person I write about and I had shared a little by phone and then emailed this testimony:
“Dear Gary,
I was starting to talk about Martin, who died last Saturday here, because it seldom a man past 60 receives Christ as Savior and Lord when they have rejected God most of their life. Martin was a European atheist who had not believed in God or so he said. But in the months he lived after he found out he had cancer, he began to look more openly at the issues of life and death.
I was speaking at the 1st anniversary of a church we are helping out in Calubian last August. That day I met Martin at the market where he had driven his motorcycle, and I was able to visit with him there for awhile. He mentioned he had cancer (he had already lived several months past what doctors had told him he would) and I simply shared with him that although he had rejected God most of his life, that the truth was that God is real,
that God loves him and wants to help him. I simply laid my hand on his shoulder and conversationally prayed for Martin, that the Lord would reveal Himself to him and let Martin experience the reality and love of God.
Three months later, Pastor Chris, (who is the pastor of the church we are helping there) had a dream about Martin and went to visit him early in the morning and found Martin in a very sick condition. He was able to lead Martin in a sincere prayer to receive Jesus as his Savior and Lord. Martin asked Chris to come back and share from the Bible.
Last Friday as I was about to leave to go to a prison ministry, I got a text message from Chris that he was at Martin’s bedside and I could call him if I was available. I called Martin and encouraged him, and he reaffirmed his faith in Jesus Christ. I said I would stop by and visit him on Sunday evening (a 3+ hour roundtrip drive as you recall). I got a text message from Dan Holmes on Saturday: “Martin Kramer is in God’s hands”.
God is good, if Martin had died suddenly a few months ago in a car crash, etc. there would have been no time to open his heart and receive Jesus. But as he was given a few months to take a serious and honest look at life and eternity---he then made the most important and best decision of his life. Martin will be spending his Christmas with Jesus.”
{Jesus replied to the thief on the cross who had asked the Lord to remember him when He came into His kingdom
“…Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” –Luke 23:42-43}
The Jesus we know and serve does not change. The Scripture states that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He came to seek and save the Lost, He came to destroy the works of the devil, and He came that you and I and all who believe in Him---could have real everlasting life. God loves us beyond our comprehension.
As we are now getting closer to entering a New Year and a New Decade, it is Emie & my prayer for us all---that God will preserve and protect the good fruit of the past years of our ministries, that He will continue to clearly guide us and anoint us all in our service to Him in the present, and that for future New Decade---that God will continually demonstrate in all our lives: the reality of Ephesians 3:20 where it states He “…is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all we can ask or think…” May we see many more people saved, encouraged and trained to faithfully serve the Lord, and may we be able to help those He has called us to help.
We are always very thankful to God for the privilege and honor to serve Him. And once again Emie and I would like to express our special thanks & appreciation to you, for your friendship & faithful partnering with us in sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Your prayers & financial investments in God’s work through the multiple ministry outreaches is: helping us to bring new people to Jesus, helping to strengthen and encourage people in their faith & service to the Lord, and helping the poor in a variety of ways. We continue to pray and believe the Lord for His blessings and rewards to you, for your partnership with us in ministering the good news of Jesus.
In Christ’s love,
Gordon & Emie
Hebrews 6:10 NIV “God is not unjust, He will not forget your work and the help you have shown Him as you helped His people and continue to help them.”
P.S. Please continue to pray: for us and the ministry workers and team---as the Lord leads you in all areas of our lives and ministry outreaches. We continue to ask for specific prayer for God’s fresh anointing, clear direction, protection & provision, good health, and abundant fruitfulness in the ministry outreaches.
Finances: Please pray for the Lord to gently & specifically speak to the hearts of a few willing people, to make a special year-end financial donation/investment in God’s work through the ministry outreaches. There is need for some extra help at this time. We are grateful to all of you, thanks & God bless you in special ways.
[ If you would like to receive tax-deduction credit for 2009, donations need to be postmarked prior to midnight, 12-31-09
For those who feel lead to send a finicail donation please mail it to Eternal Life
Ministaries International PO Box 413, Chehalis, WA. 98532 USA or go to Pay Pal and send it using this email address elmigordonkalich@yahoo.com
