OUR FAITHFUL BAND OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS

Saturday, the 15^th March

On Saturdays we like to meet at Pioneer Square at around noon. There was a good group of young people out with preachers on this wet, blustery day. It is always good to have a group with the guys who are doing the preaching for several reasons.

1. An attentive group listening to the preaching tends to ‘invite’ other people not with the believers to stop and listen.
2. It is a great opportunity for those in the crowd to speak to any one who would seem to have need of the gospel explained to them further
3. Also, strong young man watching your back side is a great comfort to the preacher that some ruffian does not catch him unawares.
4. But perhaps the greatest need is the co-workers praying for the word of God to have an eternal effect on the hearers.

Upon arriving we noticed that there was an unusually security and Police presence. We later discovered that there was scheduled for this very day an anti-war rally, more on that later.

In addition to having Daniel and myself present, there were two young men and a young lady in their twenties with one high schooler and her ten year old sister. The girls always do great handing out tracts. A rocker passed me by only to walk to next corner to receive a tract gladly from our ‘little gal’ offering a word of life. Care must be taken to pair up the children with a ‘guardian’, but the word is spread most effectively by these little soldiers. I would recommend though that a child must be a believer and understand what they are doing so that the decision to hand out tracts is theirs. This ten year old asked to come out when she beheld the example of one our young ladies in the church.

WALKING THROUGH THE PROTESTERS

We had purposed in our heart to walk to the PSU campus free speech zone before the day was done to gather there for prayer for the campus. The PSU campus is about four blocks as the crow flies from the square. On our way there we walk through a crowd protesting the ‘Church of Scientology’. I doubt that there was a believer in the crowd. They see this cult as violating man’s freedom of will by using behavior and mind control techniques. Now there is no problem with man violating the Creators truly sovereign will!

We came in contact with the peace crowd as we approached the campus park area. Loud rock music blared out, with a base drum beat that reminded Daniel of ‘war drums’ of some wild uncivilized society. As we made our way south through the crowd our ‘little trouper’ was handing out “School Shootings – The common Denominator” tracts as she went. There were at least 40 plus tracts handed out just walking through the people.

NO ONE SPEAKS FOR THE SLAUGHTERED INNOCENTS

The grass area around the free speech area was covered with little white flags signifying the Iraqi lives supposedly lost due to the war. Forgotten are the 35 million little babies that have been slaughtered since Roe v Wade. They wonder why there is no peace. We have not seen any thing yet. In the Old Testament we read of God raising up the nations around Israel to judge them for their sins. Over the course of our walk through that area we saw everything from save the whales to “peace starts with your dinner plate”, try vegetarianism! Of all the ism and schisms represented there we did not see anyone speaking up for the children. This is the ‘sin of Manassah’ who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, of which God said, “I can not forgive this sin”. That is a sobering word from the Lord!

PRAY FOR THE PREACHING OF GOD’S WORD ON PSU CAMPUS

The rain began pouring down as we joined hand to pray on the brick ‘free speech’ platform. Jesus stood up in the last days of the feast and cried out, “Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water!” As the great river flowed out from the high garden of God in Eden so may the Spirit of Christ go forth onto this campus to call sinners to repentance and Christians to the battle! As we finished praying around, the blanket of dark rainy gave way to a beam of light that surrounded us on the raise pavement where we stood. May the Spirit of Christ break forth from that place to the glory of God!

Pray for us, as it is our intention to go to PSU to preach this Wednesday the 19^th at around noon. We hope to make the campus a regular preaching station in the future.