Dear KKIM family,
It is great to be with you TODAY!!!!
Fight the good fight with all thy might!
Christ is thy strength and Christ thy right!
Lay hold on life and it shall be Thy joy and crown eternally.
I PRAISE GOD that we are together again today!
We have made a new friend!
Pastor Leonard Navarre of Valley View Christian Church of Edgewood, NM! I want to thank Pastor Don Kimbro for introducing us! Pastor Navarre will be starting a program on KKIM Lord willing in the very near future. I am really thankful for the many new programs that have started and that are going to start on KKIM, as the Lord continues to bring us people to join the KKIM radio ministry family.. Just think this April KKIM will be 37 years YOUNG! PRAISE GOD! Lord willing we will have to have a big 40th birthday party!! Listen for God, as HE may be leading you to start a Radio Ministry on KKIM, The Lord has instructed me to help HIS people get started in radio Ministry. I love that part of my job!!! Shona Neff and Karen Rowe just answered the call and they do it right from their homes! Shona lives in White Rock, NM and Karen lives in Mayberry, NC!!!! Where Andy and Barney still rule!!! Just kidding, but she does live in N.C.!! So if you live in Montana, Minnesota, Florida, Malaysia, Taiwan, wherever…….you can be, LORD willing on KKIM! The top three foreign countries going to the KKIM web site are, Taiwan, Egypt, and South Africa. I PRAISE GOD for the ministry of KKIM that continues to grow for HIM and HIS people! Thank you for being part of it!!!
Would you please go to www.mykkim.com and click on the Gospel for Asia banner? We would appreciate any help you can be at this time!
What about next Christmas?
I was reading in my hometown newspaper, the Windom Citizen that the Windom Evangelical Free Church had an open house to showcase 500 nativity sets!!!! WOW!!! What a great idea!! Lord willing maybe KKIM and another Church can team together to do something like that next Christmas!!! Anyone interested?
Okay, back to Pastor Leonard……….he has on the back of his business card these words…………If you meet me and forget me you have lost nothing. But if you meet my best friend, Jesus Christ, and forget HIM, you have lost everything!
I wanted to do right out and print new cards!!!
Here is Pastor Leonard’s blog…………
Leonard’s Lines December 9, 2008
Through the eyes of Jesus!
These thoughts are gleaned from a church newsletter many years ago by my friend, Boyce Mouton.
The story of Jesus washing the disciples feet has always spurred my thinking. It has especially since we have entered into the time of year of giving and receiving.
I was wondering, as I read the story, what were the disciples thinking. The towel and basin of water were undoubtedly at the door. It was the custom of every house and every guest room to place these items by the door. So, I believe, it is a logical assumption to say that the disciples saw these items as they entered the upper room. But, equally obvious is that the thought of any one of them using them personally did not enter their minds.
However, when Jesus saw these items, He apparently saw them from a totally different perspective than His companions.
Perhaps Peter spoke for all of them when he said, ‘thou shalt never wash my feet.’ Such a task was too utterly debasing for him to even consider, and he wrongly assumed that Jesus would never use them. He saw the same things Jesus saw, but he saw them differently.
Virtually everything Jesus saw, He saw as a means of ministry. Remember, He said He came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. When He saw a boat He thought of how to use it to help others. When He saw a small lunch of fish and bread…yep! Your right. Others. All that He saw, He used as a vehicle to meet needs or teach a spiritual truth.
How differently most of us think. When we see these items (think shopping) we have an inclination to think first of ourselves (boy, I wish I could have that) rather than how it could meet the needs of others. I’m guilty.
So, maybe during this time of the year our prayer could be, “Father, give me the eyes of Jesus”. Look around. What do you see? How can those things help others?
Jesus even saw people in the same purposeful and constructive way. Think of the woman at the well. When He met her He didn’t see her as a vehicle to satisfy some selfish urge, rather as someone who could bring an entire town to salvation.
II Corinthians 5:17 says, “therefore, if any one be in Christ, they are a new creature; old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.”
Even our eyes.
Let us make this our prayer, “Father, help us to see through the eyes of Jesus”.
I am praying for you and your family.
Leonard
I will be speaking at the Valley View men’s breakfast on Jan 10th and look forward to it so much in making many new friends!!!!
Here is a Christmas story from Gina………Thanks so much Gina!!!!
Beautiful story…. makes you understand that things happen for a reason.
Nice reading…
The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn , arrived in early October excited about their opportunities.
When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work.
They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas Eve.
They worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls, painting, etc, and on December 18 were ahead of schedule and just about finished. On December 19 a terrible tempest – a driving rainstorm hit the area and lasted for two days.
On the 1st, the pastor went over to the church. His heart sank when he saw that the roof had leaked, causing a large area of plaster about 20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of the sanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning about head high. The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor, and not knowing what else to do but postpone the Christmas Eve service, headed home. On the way he noticed that a local business was having a flea market type sale for charity so he stopped in. One of the items was a beautiful, handmade, ivory colored, crocheted tablecloth with exquisite work, fine colors and a Cross embroidered right in the center. It was just the right size to cover up the hole in the front wall. He bought it and headed back to the church. By this time it had started to snow. An older woman running from the opposite direction was trying to catch the bus.. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later. She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area. Then he noticed the woman walking down the center aisle. Her face was like a sheet.. ‘Pastor,’ she asked, ‘where did you get that tablecloth?’ The pastor explained. The woman asked him to check the lower right corner to see if the initials, EBG were crocheted into it there. They were. These were the initials of the woman, and she had made this tablecloth 35 years before, in Austria. The woman could hardly believe it as the pastor told how he had just gotten the Tablecloth. The woman explained that before the war she and her husband were well-to-do people in Austria . When the Nazis came, she was forced to leave. Her husband was going to follow her the next week. He was captured, sent to prison and never saw her husband or her home again. The pastor wanted to give her the tablecloth; but she made the pastor keep it for the church. The pastor insisted on driving her home, that was the least he could do.. She lived on the other side of Staten Island and was only in Brooklyn for the day for a housecleaning job. What a wonderful service they had on Christmas Eve The church was almost full. The music and the spirit were great. At the end of the service, the pastor and his wife greeted everyone at the door and many said that they would return. One older man, whom the pastor recognized from the neighborhood continued to sit in one of the pews and stare, and the pastor wondered why he wasn’t leaving. The man asked him where he got the tablecloth on the front wall because it was identical to one that his wife had made years ago when they lived in Austria before the war and how could there be two tablecloths so much alike. He told the pastor how the Nazis came, how he forced his wife to flee for her safety and he was supposed to follow her, but he was arrested and put in a prison.. He never saw his wife or his home again all the 35 years in between. The pastor asked him if he would allow him to take him for a little ride. They drove to Staten Island and to the same house where the pastor had taken the woman three days earlier. He helped the man climb the three flights of stairs to the woman’s apartment, knocked on the door and he saw the greatest Christmas reunion he could ever imagine. True Story – submitted by Pastor Rob Reid Who says God does not work in mysterious ways.. I asked the Lord to bless you as I prayed for you today, to guide you and protect you as you go along your way. His love is always with you, His promises are true, and when we give Him all our cares you know He will see us through. So when the road you’re traveling on seems difficult at best..
Just remember I’m here praying and God will do the rest. Pass this on to those you want God to bless and don’t forget to send it back to the one who asked God to bless you first. When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer for the person who sent you this. Father, God, bless all my friends and family in what ever it is that You know they may be needing this day! May their life be full of your peace, prosperity and power as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with you. Amen. This is from Nik……..Thanks Buddy!
A great story and a refresher of how truly Amazing our God is. Blessings, Why Grace is Amazing Alan Riley We church folk have a world of our own that we live in most of the time. We have our own language (with words that most people outside of the church don’t understand), our own diet (fried chicken for the most part!), our own songs, and our own singers. Every now and then, something from our world becomes known and popular in the world at large. When this happens, we refer to that singer or that song as a “crossover.”
Artists like Andre Crouch, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, and Marvin Sapp have become well-known and popular outside the church world. Songs like “Place in This World,” “Butterfly Kisses” and “Never Would Have Made It” have become popular with folks who never or hardly ever go to church.
There is a song that is the ultimate “crossover” hit. It has been sung in every church of every denomination. It has been played or sung at the coronation of kings and at the graveside of paupers. It has been the number one song on the pop charts in both the United States and England. It has been rightly called the most popular song in the world. The song is “Amazing Grace.” And the story behind the song is as remarkable as the song itself.John Newton was a slave trader who lived a despicable life for most of his early years.
After nearly losing his life in a violent storm at sea, Newton He gave his life to Christ. The change in Newton’s life was not immediate but gradual. He began to encourage his crew to pray and he saw to it that his human cargo were treated with kindness and gentleness, but it wasn’t until years later that God convicted Newton’s heart that slavery was sinful, and years more before he would openly oppose the slave trade. At the age of 28 John Newton suffered a stroke and was unable to return to sea. He later saw that as yet another way God was reaching out to him. Despite his lack of a formal education, in 1764 Newton was ordained as a minister and was offered the a pastorate at Olney in Buckinghamshire.
As time passed, Newton came to realize how abhorrent slavery was in the eyes of God. He was tormented by the thoughts of the suffering he had helped inflict on others, and became with each passing year more and more amazed that God would choose to save him, much less call him into the ministry and use him is His service. Newton became known as a staunch abolitionist and for the rest of his life he worked to end the slave trade in Great Britain. On New Year’s Eve, 1773, Newton decided to preach on 1 Chronicles 17:16-17. In that passage, King David marvels that God had chosen him. As a part of that sermon, Newton decided to share a poem he had written a year before that was essentially his testimony. The name of the poem was “Faith’s review and expectation.” We know it today as “Amazing Grace.” The song Amazing Grace is so popular precisely because God’s grace is indeed amazing. No matter who you are, no matter where you are from, no matter what you have done or haven’t done, we all share the same essential testimony: “I once was lost but now I’m found, ’twas blind, but now I see.” All of us, know in our hearts that we did not deserve God’s gift of salvation. We all know that it is God’s grace – his unmerited favor on us that has brought us to where we are today.
You may not have been as wicked as John Newton and caused great pain and suffering to others, but you know that you are a sinner who was (or is) in need of a Savior. Later in his life, John Newton was quoted as saying, “I know that I was a great sinner, and that Christ is a great Savior.” We all know that in our hearts.God’s grace is truly amazing. Aren’t you thankful for it? May the Strength and Peace of the Lord be with You and Yours, Dewey Sharon and family.
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Please keep praying for each other and our families!
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