August Prayer Letter

August 2022

Dear Praying Friends,

Immediately after I closed the service, the young mother came right up to the pulpit and said, “Pastor, I don’t have the joy you talked about in your sermon, I made a religious decision in another church, but I have no peace.” For the past five weeks, A has been coming to our church with some of her family members and they have been listening closely to my lessons and sermons. As I spoke on assurance of salvation, A’s brow furrowed and she became very serious. I thought she might be rejecting biblical truth and choose to leave as so many others have.

When she spoke with me after that service, I sat down with her in our auditorium and opened the Scriptures showing her how that all have sinned. She replied, “But I am not as bad as other people that I know.” To which I said, “Now, compare yourself to Christ.” She lowered her head and confessed, “I am a sinner.” Going on in the Scriptures, I showed her how our only hope is Christ and His accomplished work on the cross and that to obtain the eternal life Christ offered, she had to confess her sin to Him and believe in Him as her all-sufficient Savior. She bowed her head, confessed her sin and begged God to forgive her and save her – and He did!! She looked up with tears streaming down and her face aglow with joy. “I am
saved forever and now I finally have peace!”

Please pray for A in her new life in Christ and for the others in her family who are lost but attending our services: J, L, D, and C.

Praising God that He saved another,

Mark Hale