John 15:18-27 King James Version (KJV)
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning
Greetings,
Today I am relaxing and working if you can understand that one, yuk yuk. Today I had thought I would be making a great praise report on how well we did with the "FUN RUN" for the Women's MERCY Overflow shelter.
Okay in order for to have been a success we would have had to have at the very least 100 people participate, we had 20 sign up.
So what happened?
We had one group that would have made a big difference tell us about two days before "Because of a philosophical disagreement between myself and others I have moved on to a deferent Post." so what does that mean?
This fellow was behind us even if we could not prove there were homeless Veteran women which we did prove before the run. My guess is and just a guess is that they Googled Messiah's Branch and did not like our Ministry?
But who knows, I do have a reason to believe that, you see it is because of our support of Israel and our Messianic Beliefs that the so called "Normal or Mainstream" Christians stay away from us. I have been told that by a guy who does fund raising in Wichita….I know the answer the World hates us…..
Ok we also found that there was a 5 state run going on the same day which took many away from us, that added to the other pretty much killed what we tried to do. Had that not happened there would have been at least a 50 to 100 show up.
There was also another charity run going on in another county so again it took people away as it was not a new run.
Harley Davidson said "for you first time you did good, many first runs only have about 10 people show up you had 20 or more."
So what do I think?
I am in deep prayer over this, I had considered that this would be the one way Wichita would fund "MERCY"
Money wise to say we broke even would mean that we would have as much money as we spent putting it on when we finished, we did not, the Run only brought in under $800 period.
What : Role did our Father play in this? Well I do think he allowed us to try, I think he wants us to learn from it, if I were to do another one I know many things I would change but I do not feel this is what we are supposed to do?? But I do not think that is the lesson.
As I am praying about it I am right now feeling well telling the FATHER I have did all that I could I have tried my best so it is now really back to you to show us what we are to do. What is your will not out will! A humble myself before him…
And ask him to please fund his Mission Church as he ahs been doing, just before the this fund run we were almost at closing because of past bills etc. Then a real blessing came of some gold coins that paid up all the past…bill etc. So he does love us AMEN! Of course I said paid up past but the new Mission Church Bills are coming in as I write.
Any good come from it?
Of course there s real good in all things, I made friends with members of the Christian Motorcycle Association "Kingdom Riders". I really it off good with the president and a couple of them are coming to bring toiletries etc to the Mission Church. How knows where this will lead.
We really did learn much about doing a fund raiser although I really do not think that this is the path to go at least right now as it consumed more time than I had to give to it and took away from other things I do.
We have one apartment at MERCY almost ready to go…but right now we have no more money for MERCY not even the bills coming for it…we however have Faith.
On to other things
Today I am working on the mail out newsletter as I have not been able to do it as the MERCY RUN had me so tied up, I also by FAITH pray that we have the way to publish it.
We do have meat from a donation I told you folks about that gave enough meat for 5 meals! Of course we need things to go with it like rice, pasta, canned tomatoes, etc but it is a great blessing!
So the real aftermath?
Well we are broke money wise, relived it is over as it was a very high pressure thing, This pastor is once again humbled and seeking HIS Father's guidance and love….happy so happy that the world does not love us! And so happy to serve a Mighty FATHER! By the Giving of HIS SON YEHSUA…..
DO NOT GET ME WRONG WE ARE HAPPY AND NOT DOWN OR DEFEATED!
OH and pray for the Mission Church Bus as it needs brake lights!
Lift us in prayer help if you can,
In His Perfect Peace,
Pastor Dan Catlin
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