Dear Friends of Mission Surge,
Many of you financially sponsored 10 Dominicans recently in order to enable them to go do mission work in the village of Salcedo in the DR. We are very grateful to you for your support both financially and prayerfully. Attached below is a brief report by one of our key pastors there concerning this trip with a few pictures. Please take time to check it out.
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Salcedo is
a Catholic and Idolatrous city, the city of the Mirabel sisters (The three
sisters the dictator “Trujillo” killed). In that city there isn’t any Baptist
Church. Pastor Ramon and my church
(Wilfrido) we made a mission trip to that city to explore and also witness
Jesus there, so we shared the gospel of Jesus Christ and prayed for many people
there and God was there with us as we shared his love then, 9 were saved by his
Grace and mercy through the power of the gospel
and the Holy Spirit.
Our vision is to start some Baptist Churches in
that city of Salcedo. In that missing trip we had the opportunity to know the
people, to pray for them, for their spiritual problems and for personal
needs. There is a big spiritual need in
that city. Only by “prayer and his word”
God will break the evil chains.
Please pray for me this Sunday (August 18) as I preach at Audubon Drive Bible Church in Laurel. Pray for Gene Pickern and I as we prepare to go to the DR in February or March of next year. And, please be on the lookout for more news in the near future from Mission Surge as we begin putting together a plan to reach out locally with the gospel and also equip you to better lead your families. That news should be coming in the next month or 2.
I also wanted to update you on the progress of our house. All of the floors are down finally. I plan to stain and seal them this week, finish up a little electrical work, and build a closet in the Master Bedroom. Then next week I hope to find someone to sheetrock around the closet, some beams we put in, and an area or two in the ceiling. Then all that is left is some plumbing work in the Master Bath and painting in the main house! I hope to have the basement office painted and floored soon too so that I can have a work space to prepare sermons etc. Please pray with me that God will raise up the manpower, the money, and the materials to get this done asap.
In Christ,
Dr. A. Kevin Ivy
Pastor, Providence Baptist Church www.providencebaptistms.com
Executive Director, Mission Surge www.missionsurge.com
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