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Hello my brother. Just wanted to drop you an update.
We've still been in touch with four of the families that came to revival. One has been attending Bible studies regularly. One of the others has been helping us do outreach. We have had fellowship and dinner a couple of times with Bro. Joe and his family as well. We have continued to do outreach in downtown Phoenix preaching and passing out tracts. We decided to move to another school building. Beginning this weekend we will be renting a gymnasium and using storage on site for chairs and such. We will be announcing this move through a mailer to about 3,500 homes within a 2 mile radius. We will officially "re-launch" on Easter Sunday. We will be having an Easter Egg hunt after church with an Easter Bunny (me) and a bounce house. We are pumped about this and are believing God for a great turnout. The school is Constitution Elementary at 18440 N 15th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85023 about 7 miles west of where we were meeting. Kim and Betty are fully on board and said they'd follow anywhere Riverside Church went. Bro. Noah and Desert Cove Assembly are getting ready for Fellowship Meeting next week. We are all really excited about that. We are believing God and shining the light of Christ in this dark area. I just did another check on the statistics. Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the country. It is the largest capital city and the fastest growing city in the country. The population is 1,600,000. Of those, 14% of the population (approximately 200,000) are Evangelical Christians. If half of those (that's generous) are really saved, that means that there are about 1.5 million lost souls right here in Phoenix. America's National average is about 45%, Phoenix is 14%. It is up to the 1,200 churches and 100,000 Christians to turn back the tide on the darkness. We are striving to be one of those churches, and in the Lord's time we will sponsor another church, and another. Thank you for your support, encouragement and friendship. Feel free to forward to others who can help us pray. I feel the tide is turning. Bro. Trey Dickerson www.riversidephoenix.com Thanks to a generation donation from Hodgenville Pentecostal Church we were able to secure cordless microphones and audio equipment for seven Pioneer Pastors and pioneer works.  We are hosting a tent revival in Phoenix, Arizona October 27 - November 2. Please help us pray that God would give us a harvest of souls, and that pioneer Pastor Trey Dickerson and his family would receive strength and encouragement. We are asking for prayer support for this pioneer work in Phoenix. They have been meeting in a school building for the last year, and this tent revival is a kick off for a new storefront location that they will be opening following the revival.  What a wonderful time we had at the Pioneer Summit this year in Tuscaloosa, Al. at Bro Larry West's church. It truly was a time of encouraging fellowship and uplifting Holy Ghost services. The Friday morning class on "Fasting" taught by Bro Tracy & Sis Shea Boyd was timely and challenging. And the heart felt Preaching by Bro Barry Gautreaux was absolutely tremendous! God visited us greatly in every altar service. I personally had more than one Pioneer Pastor tell me that it was a life changing event for them and that they never had been helped in a church service like they were helped this week! Praise God! It has been our great privilege to welcome Rev. Dwain Galiher
to the Board of Directors here at Maranatha Missions this year! Bro. Galiher will be serving as Treasurer/Financial Advisor. Financial Accountability is very important to us here at Maranatha Missions. Bro Galiher is a man of great integrity and we are honored to work with him. We are looking forward to what the upcoming years will bring and we are excited to see so many people catching the vision for Home Missions. It is high time to #MakeAmericaOurMissionField  We were thankful to be able to take a trip to support the pioneer work in Middletown Ohio. God is blessing the efforts of Bro Kevin Allen and his family. Below you will find a testimonial from him concerning the recent Maranatha Missions trip. Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus! Just wanted to give a praise report for the great things God has done in our recent revival with Maranatha Missions. I am so thankful that the Lord is mindful of His people. I can honestly say the Lord answered my prayers in a great way. The first night bro. Josh Spurlock preached and had dealt with some issues that I had already been preaching to my people lately and it was a confirmation to several folks that God was desiring a deeper commitment from them.
Tuesday night the presence of the Lord just swept through the building in a special way! As a pastor, you just know of different situations going on with families in the church and as the service progressed and Bro. Joseph Snow preached I could see how God was working in so many different directions with different people all at the same time! It was so encouraging to watch our people step out and get the help that they needed from the Lord. By Wednesday night we were all pumped and came expecting great things again. I can honestly say if God helped anyone that night He helped my family. My wife and I had been going through something specific that she felt like the Lord had given her a promise on and she had about given up because it wasn’t working out the way we thought it would. The preacher that night, Bro. Trent Blair, preached on "prepared promises" and through his message the Lord confirmed His word to my wife and I in ways that only He knew and revived out faith to believe Him again for our situation! That night many had an absolute breakthrough in their lives! I really truly believe when we get further down the road we will be looking back to this revival and someone will testify that it all started from there. We ask that you would just keep us in your prayers that we can keep moving forward in the work of the Lord. We are praying for God to send us some dependable help in different areas that we may grow our Sunday school and more establish the church. There is a need here in our Sunday school and if we can get it filled I believe we can make some headway in the neighborhood. Our prayer is that which Christ requested when He said pray for laborers to enter into the harvest. May God bless each one that has taken time to seek the Lord on our behalf. - Bro. Kevin Allen We are rejoicing with Bro. Dean Martin's family and the folks in Swainsboro, Ga. as God has blessed them to be able to finish their new church building just in time for Christmas. They held their first service in the new building on Christmas Sunday morning! Below you can see a few of the pics that outline their journey into this new church building. They acquired the property with an old rundown house, which they had to tear down. Then they were able to work the land and get the metal structure in place. After a lot of hard work and God's hand of blessing on the project they now have a beautiful place of worship. Continue to pray with the folks at Perfected Love Holiness Church in Swainsboro, Ga. that God would fill the seats of this new building with souls added to the Kingdom of Heaven! |
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August 2018
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