Convention attendees in Luanda, Angola, this previous August.
Pricey Pal,
Thanks for persevering with to hope, give, and stand facet by facet with Fact For Life as we search to observe the Lord’s main within the pursuit of our mission, which has taken us locations we by no means imagined.
I ponder: Have you ever ever been to Angola or Mozambique? What if I inform you that you’ve got! At latest conferences held in Luanda, Nampula, and Maputo, greater than 470 pastors acquired wanted encouragement and free copies of the Fact For Life devotional, Identify Above All Names, The Christian Manifesto, and Preaching for God’s Glory—all in Portuguese and made potential due to your assist. So, though you weren’t bodily current, your participation from a distance made a big impression.
As well as, it’s your prayers and generosity which can be enabling us to host a gathering of pastors right here at Fact For Life for a one-day seminar throughout this month of pastor appreciation. Collectively, we’ll think about what it means to “preserve a detailed watch on your self … and your hearers.”
Trustworthy pastors, in shepherding the flocks which can be amongst them, enter into the fun, sorrows, challenges, and difficulties of these below their care. It’s honest to say that the majority should not “struggling” from a surfeit of encouragement. Permit me to encourage you to encourage them. A short notice, a post-sermon phrase of appreciation, and the peace of mind of your prayers on their behalf will go a good distance in strengthening their hand within the Gospel.
On a private notice, there may be one query that’s now posed to me routinely: “So, what are you doing now?” Permit me to provide you a rundown of my actions since June 8 that will help you as you pray for me.
I had the chance to show at The Cove in Asheville, North Carolina, June 16–18, on the Calvary Chapel Pastors’ Convention in California June 22–25, and at CAMP-of-the-WOODS in upstate New York as they celebrated their one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary in late July.
Personally, Susan and I celebrated our fiftieth wedding ceremony anniversary in North Carolina, the place we honeymooned, and I had the enjoyment of taking one in all our granddaughters to Europe to have a good time her thirteenth birthday.
In August, I had the solemn privilege of conducting the non-public household service and burial of John MacArthur. Then on to September and talking engagements at SING! in Nashville, chapel companies at Cedarville College, and the KFAX one hundredth anniversary celebration in Fremont, California, adopted by an occasion at YWAM in San Diego.
This month will start with our Fact For Life board assembly. Then I’ll be addressing mother and father at Heritage Classical Academy, adopted by alternatives to encourage pastors at occasions in Los Angeles, Syracuse, Tub, and Branson, Missouri.
Within the midst of all of this, I’m joined by my colleagues right here at Fact For Life, typically by their presence with me however all the time by their prayers for me.
We glance forward recognizing that whereas a person’s coronary heart devises his means, the Lord directs his steps.
Thanks for strolling this highway with us. In Christ, the most effective is all the time but to be!
With my love within the Lord Jesus,
Alistair
