Here I am with Wayne Guidry, who is going to lead our table outreach of evangelism at Angola Prison at the next rodeo. I got his legal consent just today to post the photo. (Due to the sensitive nature of the inmates, I have cropped out the others pictured.)I got an email this week from a pastor in India about wanting to begin a table outreach. At first I was really excited, and then I realized soberly I don't know this person! It made me feel good to write him an email tonight and basically tell him to begin the table outreach without me and stay in touch, and over time as we get to know each other better, we can determine whether or not God would have us work together in a partnership. Sometimes people want attention or money, though I hope that is not the case with this pastor, and time needs to pass in order to see someone's true motives. I feel it is a prudent decision, because he does not know me well either. We need more time to pass before committing to work together.
Plus, I am really, really busy organizing the outreach locations we already have. Thanks to a donor who gives 25.00 a month specifically for Pakistan, we now have enough to wire money to Pakistan for two cases of Bibles. I plan to do that tomorrow at Western Union or Monday.
I am working on getting tracts and evangelistic materials in Swahili sent to our location of outreach in Africa.
I have not stopped this week. I am happy to report that we have now completed our evangelistic outreach at Angola prison for the death row inmates, as well as the outreach to women on death row at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women.
Today I went to a duplication company here in Atlanta to order unique copies of my music CD for the inmates I met at Angola, Hunt and LCIW prisons in Louisiana, including the songs "Honest Life" and "Place Of Surrender". I am also having the audio of my testimony and singing edited from last September at Valley Grove Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN. I will put photos with it and have Dianne design another touching video for YouTube and Vimeo to show all God has done for His glory through this ministry.
Though I wrote in the latest newsletter that I will not be able to send Christmas cards, I could not resist sending some cards out to people who have given donations for years and sizable, sacrificial funds, without which we could not do this ministry. I appreciate them and have been busy this week sending token gifts and Christmas cards, because without those donations and partnerships we could not be doing this work. I thank God for every single person who gives any amount, and everyone who has made a donation of any amount in 2010 will be receiving a "thank you" gift from me in January, 2011.
Tomorrow I plan to do domestic work, as I have been so very busy this week running errands and preparing mailouts. The lines are so long at the post office that I have been there for a minimun of 30 minutes per day this week!
It is too cold here in Atlanta to do the table outreach, so that has been postponed until the spring. We also hope to begin a new outreach to Georgia Tech at that time.
I prepared the first care package to Wayne Guidry, the inmate at Angola prison who is going to lead the table outreach there when our mission work begins. With his permission and legal consent, I am posting the photo above.
Last but not least, I have been working on finishing touches and proofs for the http://www.bygodsgrace.org/ site. I have contacted a printer here for thousands of business cards to be made of the logo for the site, so people from all over the world will be invited to visit the site from our table outreach locations. This week we created a Facebook page for people to visit from this new web site as follow up.
