Sister Alvear
06-07-2008, 01:35 AM
P.O.Box 797
Jonesville, La.
71343
“You would believe in pioneer missions if your family were part of an unevangelized people group.”– Norm Lewis
I thought of this as we passed city after city in spiritual darkness...I watched some wild ostriches running through the fields today as we were traveling. I even seen a herd of cattle running yet I did not meet one other missionary or messenger from God on our journey. It seems His messengers are awful slow in getting this gospel to the whole world.
We have been gone from home 9 days now and will only get back home Tuesday. We have sat where the people sit, lived among them, ate with them, and studied the bible with them. We have witnessed firsthand a great hunger but without your help we cannot reach these needy people. We are workers together with Him, a part in His eternal plan for the saving of souls in this country. The hour is late. The messengers of Jehovah must work against the sitting sun. Shadows of eternal night are falling.
Shall we rest while the world hurriedly goes to hell? Does it even bother us that our earth brothers live in spiritual night?
Do I get tired and weary? Yes, of course. This trip has been a hard one. We came by faith for we did not want to disappoint the people that were waiting anxiously for us. Things have been so tight (moneywise) I did not want to mention that we needed a bar of soap to Brother Alvear. (We could have bought a bar of soap) We had used the last little bit for our baths yesterday. However today Brother Alvear said to me, *Janice, can you believe that I found a bar of soap?” Oh honey I said we do not have soap to bath tonight. We both wept at the goodness of God…a small matter? Yes. Would someone have given me a bar of soap? Yes. Could we have bought a bar of soap? Yes, but it was just like a love letter from Jesus saying I know what even your smallest needs are.
Charles Spurgeon once said, "Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that." He continued, "The saving of souls, if a man has once gained love to perishing sinners and his blessed Master, will be an all-absorbing passion to him. It will so carry him away, that he will almost forget himself in the saving of others. He will be like the brave fireman, who cares not for the scorch or the heat, so that he may rescue the poor creature on whom true humanity has set its heart. If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for."
Things have not been easy lately. In fact since Brother Alvear’s accident things have not been easy. Life has never been easy raising all the children we raised and always building churches but the last while we have walked some of the deepest valleys and have wondered several times if we were all alone.
These last few weeks we have not had money to buy even groceries for our home. I really mean it things have been tight. The load has been the heaviest it has ever been. A few times I have felt my knees buckle but I have held on to His word for needed strength and encouragement.
It is the burden that keeps us year after year on the mission field. The deep knowledge that men and women are perishing and we have the key to unlock the door where they are bound by pagan chains and rituals.
It is 4:05 in the morning and I am writing this letter with a burdened heart for the souls of mankind.
Our son Michael just got back to his home he has been in the state of Bahia preaching. Brother Arlei is working up in the jungle area, Brother Raul Jr in the populated state of Sao Paulo. Brother Ednei is taking care of the works in the state of Alagoas for us while we are in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and over in the country of Paraguay. Pastor Hugo and his family met us at the convention in this state.
Today we visited a lot where if we had the funds we could build a church…weeping I told them the purse is empty.
Because of the great burden I carry someone once told me to rest…rest I cannot as long as I hear the cries of souls…the Macedonian cry rings loud and clear. I need no alarm clock. Sleep had fled in fact I have slept very little on this ttrip the needs are astonishing.
Winning souls is not for weaklings and sissies it is real hard work! It is the commitment of a lifetime that brings results. We must look at the distant for reward and keep our eyes off trifle little things of life.
No money…I have thought all day about He who took 5 loaves and 2 fish and fed a multitude and had left over’s.
In the mist of hard times we are baptizing people, seeing people recieve the Holy Ghost. Tonight in another area our people opened by faith another church in a rented building. We march forward!
I know He has blessings and relief coming. I dare to trust Him!
In His service
Brother and Sister Alvear and family
Jonesville, La.
71343
“You would believe in pioneer missions if your family were part of an unevangelized people group.”– Norm Lewis
I thought of this as we passed city after city in spiritual darkness...I watched some wild ostriches running through the fields today as we were traveling. I even seen a herd of cattle running yet I did not meet one other missionary or messenger from God on our journey. It seems His messengers are awful slow in getting this gospel to the whole world.
We have been gone from home 9 days now and will only get back home Tuesday. We have sat where the people sit, lived among them, ate with them, and studied the bible with them. We have witnessed firsthand a great hunger but without your help we cannot reach these needy people. We are workers together with Him, a part in His eternal plan for the saving of souls in this country. The hour is late. The messengers of Jehovah must work against the sitting sun. Shadows of eternal night are falling.
Shall we rest while the world hurriedly goes to hell? Does it even bother us that our earth brothers live in spiritual night?
Do I get tired and weary? Yes, of course. This trip has been a hard one. We came by faith for we did not want to disappoint the people that were waiting anxiously for us. Things have been so tight (moneywise) I did not want to mention that we needed a bar of soap to Brother Alvear. (We could have bought a bar of soap) We had used the last little bit for our baths yesterday. However today Brother Alvear said to me, *Janice, can you believe that I found a bar of soap?” Oh honey I said we do not have soap to bath tonight. We both wept at the goodness of God…a small matter? Yes. Would someone have given me a bar of soap? Yes. Could we have bought a bar of soap? Yes, but it was just like a love letter from Jesus saying I know what even your smallest needs are.
Charles Spurgeon once said, "Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that." He continued, "The saving of souls, if a man has once gained love to perishing sinners and his blessed Master, will be an all-absorbing passion to him. It will so carry him away, that he will almost forget himself in the saving of others. He will be like the brave fireman, who cares not for the scorch or the heat, so that he may rescue the poor creature on whom true humanity has set its heart. If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for."
Things have not been easy lately. In fact since Brother Alvear’s accident things have not been easy. Life has never been easy raising all the children we raised and always building churches but the last while we have walked some of the deepest valleys and have wondered several times if we were all alone.
These last few weeks we have not had money to buy even groceries for our home. I really mean it things have been tight. The load has been the heaviest it has ever been. A few times I have felt my knees buckle but I have held on to His word for needed strength and encouragement.
It is the burden that keeps us year after year on the mission field. The deep knowledge that men and women are perishing and we have the key to unlock the door where they are bound by pagan chains and rituals.
It is 4:05 in the morning and I am writing this letter with a burdened heart for the souls of mankind.
Our son Michael just got back to his home he has been in the state of Bahia preaching. Brother Arlei is working up in the jungle area, Brother Raul Jr in the populated state of Sao Paulo. Brother Ednei is taking care of the works in the state of Alagoas for us while we are in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and over in the country of Paraguay. Pastor Hugo and his family met us at the convention in this state.
Today we visited a lot where if we had the funds we could build a church…weeping I told them the purse is empty.
Because of the great burden I carry someone once told me to rest…rest I cannot as long as I hear the cries of souls…the Macedonian cry rings loud and clear. I need no alarm clock. Sleep had fled in fact I have slept very little on this ttrip the needs are astonishing.
Winning souls is not for weaklings and sissies it is real hard work! It is the commitment of a lifetime that brings results. We must look at the distant for reward and keep our eyes off trifle little things of life.
No money…I have thought all day about He who took 5 loaves and 2 fish and fed a multitude and had left over’s.
In the mist of hard times we are baptizing people, seeing people recieve the Holy Ghost. Tonight in another area our people opened by faith another church in a rented building. We march forward!
I know He has blessings and relief coming. I dare to trust Him!
In His service
Brother and Sister Alvear and family