I am with Pastor Mark and Cheryl Secrist of Summersville’s  Mountain State Baptist Church and we’re at a renowned West Virginia eatery called DIRTY ERNIE’S Rib Pit Barbecue. Yum yum! We will probably end up at FAT EDDIE’S for dessert. These are genuine WV landmarks. Right, David A. Nix? My wife will tell y’all that both West Virginia and hanging around Mark Secrist makes my clothes shrink. I’m really not trying to become a “big preacher.” But…whatever!

We have been blessed visiting churches and presenting God’s work in Myanmar.  People’s hearts have been stirred mightely.  We have met such precious Christian brothers and sisters.  It has been a real encouragement.  We really need the support of God’s people to do God’s work.  It is God’s plan.  The Buddhists carry their “begging pots” every morning, enrobed in saffron color, shaven heads, bare feet, begging for their food, door to door.  However when we go to God’s people we are not begging, as we at GLBM bring a gift, the wonderful gift of service to our Lord, an opportunity to lay up treasures in heaven.  We are only asking for what is already His.  And we have already been given the greatest gift of all, the gift of Salvation, fully pardoned by Christ’s precious blood, shed at Calvary for our sins, not just forgiven but PARDONED, our record placed on our sweet Savior who bore the billows of God’s wrath for us.

All God’s children are commanded to share this gift with others, as Jesus had compassion on the multitudes as sheep without a shepherd.  Every Buddhist is precious in His sight, every man, women and child in Myanmar.  Myanmar is a country wholly yielded to idolatry with a people lost and on their way to a devil’s hell.  And, while we have had multitudes of chances to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the people of Myanmar are slipping into eternal punishment and have never had the opportunity to hear it once.

And we bear this gift of freedom from both sin and hell.   It is so encouraging to see God’s people open their hearts to participate with us in this Holy work.