It has been a
very busy and fast summer for us at HMA.
I can hardly believe that another one has flown by. I truly believe that God has been better to
us in 2013 than He has ever been. We
have been very blessed this year to travel to and preach and teach in many
different meetings, seminars and special services. I personally have traveled for the Lord as
much or more this summer as I did years ago when I evangelized full time. I was in 18 states this summer, many of them
twice and a few of them three times. 
We were blessed
to preach The Homecoming Revival at Bristow, VA for Pastor Taylor for the 4th
or 5th year in a row, Homecoming Revival for Jeff Schrader in
Nauvoo, AL and another Homecoming Revival for Bethel Holiness Church in
Nashville, GA. I was also able to preach
the Missions Conference day services in London, KY for Pastor Vernon
Jarvis. We preached and taught at Cross
Train in Ohio, sponsored by Abundant Life Tabernacle. I also preached and taught the day services
at the annual camp meeting in Tatum, TX, at the First Annual HMA Outreach
Convention in Richmond, KY and at the New Church Dedication of Family Worship
Center in Bealton, VA. 
As we journeyed
for God’s kingdom and His purpose this summer, we ministered for pastors Scott
Loper, Phillip Deane, Jerry Pascarella, Jim Setser, Ralph Horton, Mark Vaughn,
Ralph Lowery, Denny Renfroe, Davin Burnett, Helen Stewart, Cameron Hudson,
Brian Duke, Jeff Schrader, Donnis Bowman, Vernon Hughes, Paul Guthrie and
several others. We were also blessed to
have several visiting missionaries, pastors
and evangelists come by and minister with us at HMA, including Brothers
Luke Bruce, Thomas McCoy, Ben Bruce, Trevor Matheeney, Jack Skinner, Jeremy
Brooks, Curt Beauford, as well as the Sumner’s, two different ministry teams
from Ozark Bible Institute, Sister Marta Betty, Pastor Finney Jacob from India,
a couple pastors and ministers from Madagascar. 
I purposefully
list as many of these great ministers as possible so that I can say this; Each
and every one of these men and women of God and their perspective congregations
have been so over the top good to myself and our outreaches that I really want
to honor them. While preaching for them,
having them preach for us, teaching their seminars and in their conferences and
ministering side by side with them they have abundantly blessed us with
friendship, fellowship, finances and so very much more. I just want to say thank you and God bless
everyone of you that have had a part.
This summer we
also had more volunteers and more large furniture and monetary donations than
we have ever seen before. I believe with
all my heart that the saints are entrusting us more and more as our ministries
grow, God blesses them and we prove to be worthy stewards of church growth,
discipleship and the souls that He has given us thus far.
Our amazing team
of staffers, supporters and affiliates have been able to work so diligently for
God as of late, that together we have opened a men’s overnight stay halfway
house facility, a second furniture thrift store and another new start pioneer
church. We have also produced new
written and online material and our own video promotion for DVD, projector and
internet use. All of this just in the
last few months. We are currently
working on two new drug programs and three new affiliate churches that I know
of just in the last few weeks.
This summer we
also had our first annual Holiness Missions to America outreach convention and
God forevermore showed up and showed out.
We had speakers ranging from Pastors Darrell Toliver, phillip Deane,
David Lamb, Joel Rowland, J.R. Smith to Reverends Earl Wayne Krumsiek, Dollas
Messer and Larry Wayne Davis. We had a
time of deep scripture and soul searching and we were all challenged and
changed. This meeting is the most
effective and purpose filled group of services that I have ever had anything to
do with. The most unique part of it was
this; As we were attempting to come together to learn and glean more from each
other on how to win the lost and raise them right, God was bringing them in
literally off the streets and saving them right in front of us. One night AFTER SERVICE, we were all trying
to wrap it up and shut things down and a prostitute walked in off the
streets. She didn’t hear the sermon, she
didn’t know which songs were sung, she wasn’t there for the alter call, she was
just drawn by God’s spirit to that place at that time. We prayed with her, she confessed her sins of
drug addictions and soliciting herself, got saved, got in contact with her
estranged family and we took her back home where she belonged. We had three days of the richest fellowship
that I can remember. Fellowship with
people like Pastor Donald Harper, Brothers Tommy Schrouder, Tim Mock, David
Yawn, Bruce Ganz, Joe Ganz, Brian Fowler, Daniel Morrison, Brian Renfroe,
Harold Bruce and many, many others. I
already can’t wait until next year. 
Besides the
meetings that I preached and the ones that we sponsored I was also extremely
helped by being in the meeting at Bethany Holiness Church, (my home church in
Sand Springs, OK. Pastor Darrell Toliver).
Brothers Phillip Deane, Scott Loper, Edsel Young, David Lamb, Joel
Rowland, Daniel Kroger, Andrew Gonzales and Rick Morris, literally took us to the third
heaven and back. I feasted on truly
anointed, studied and prayed over messages from Godly men with no axes to
grind. It was glorious!
As I sit here at
my desk typing, I feel overwhelmingly blessed.
My wife is doing the books for the mission, (she has volunteered for
seven years). Two of my sons are hauling
donated furniture to the thrift store. A
third young man is helping them. He just
got out of prison a few days ago and we met his family at a mission service
last Thursday night. A fourth young man
is cleaning up behind and around them and helping customers. He lives in our Disciple House and has been
doing real good since he stopped running from God, his family and his
self. I will do some face to face
counseling and some on line counseling of addicts this evening before my wife
and I leave to go to a birthday party.
The party is for a one year old boy of a young lady that was one of the
worst drug addicts I have ever known.
She was possessed with an evil spirit, lied, stole, ran away from home,
attempted suicide multiple times and even worse. When we came into contact with her we were
warned multiple times by religious people to “not mess with her”, “she will
burn you and hurt your ministry”. That
was about three years ago. Today she is
a vibrant young housewife and mother and we can’t wait to see her again. After the party we have to hurry back home
tonight so that I can pray and study for tomorrow morning. I’ll be privileged to take my wife and some
of our staff in the morning to preach at a Pastor’s appreciation ceremony for a
Pastor that recently started an international ministry outreach group that
generates food and clothing to be donated to missionaries that go in to preach
the gospel in the poorest parts of the planet.
I can’t wait. As I already
stated, I AM BLESSED.
Well here you
have it. A few notes from the desk of
Rev. Todd Sloggett about where we have been and what we have been doing
lately. By the help of God and your
kindness we have opened, started, revamped, helped or advised dozens of
programs including drug programs, homeless missions, battered women and
children shelters, teenage runaway rescue and return centers, men’s overnight
stay half way houses, thrift stores and outreach churches. We have been able to get the gospel more and
more consistently to the least, the last and the lost. Preaching to and helping literally thousands
of hurting souls a week……and we are just getting started. God bless each and every one of you.
I leave you with several pictures of great
moments in the kingdom of heaven from the last several weeks. 
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