Nov/Dec 2012
Greeting from HMA,
I want to share with you several things
that have been going on with us lately and invite you to help bare the burden
of sharing the Lord’s gospel to the masses.
First of all we have gotten very involved
lately in reaching for “high risk” children.
Children of alcoholic, addicted, imprisoned or nonexistent parents. Here is a picture of about sixty bus kids
from Pastor Lamb’s in Richmond, KY. All
brought in out of ghetto housing and ultra-low income government
projects. Kids that if not reached now
will be our next, drug addicts, pimps and gangsters. Two of our ministers, (Myself and Pastor
Rowland), have been invited to speak in public schools starting next week. Myself in Oklahoma and Pastor Rowland in
Kentucky. I have spoke, taught and counseled
before in the Tulsa public high school system.
Next I want to show you some more pictures
from the homeless, addiction and street ministries that we have been working on
for over 6 years now. One is a visiting
minister, (Rev. Don Rich), preaching the unadulterated gospel to a group of
about 50 mesmerized homeless people in one of our morning services. Many prayed for salvation that day. Then we have a very large group of homeless
people. Probably about 200 in total that
are being fed at our Christmas for the homeless program last year. If you
notice there are several small children in the picture. Yes, many of them are homeless. Most of the children that we work with are
what is referred to as “part time homeless”.
They go to school and live in shelters or friends houses but by all real
standards they are homeless. This last
picture is of four young men praying in our altars. All four of them go to the mission. They are or were homeless and at least three
of them have an addiction problem. The
one at the bottom in the light colored shirt actually worked his way up through
our jobs program by volunteering at our thrift store and we eventually helped
him and his wife get jobs and an apartment. 
Now
that it is already November I need to plead with you about funding. The holiday season is the most expensive time
of the year for us to do American missions. Many of you have been so good to give extra during the run up to
the holidays over the last few years.
Thank you and God bless you richly for that. Please consider these last few lines
carefully and prayerfully. Our missions
to the streets of America are growing by leaps and bounds. We have homeless, addiction, battered women, high-risk
teen, high-risk child ministries and three traditional churches all going at
one time. We still need the big bumps in
giving that so many of you have been able to do during this time of year and at
our major fundraisers etc. But what HMA
needs most, is even more consistent giving.
The more that churches, families and individuals can give regularly, the
better. Weekly, monthly, bi-monthly,
quarterly or even annually supporting on ANY level will help us plan and spend
more efficiently. God bless you for all
that you do for us and please pray for us here at HMA as we strive to do all
that we can to expand the reaching of the Least, the Last and the Lost!!! Merry CHRIST-mas and have a very Christ like
holiday season.
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