August 2024 Newsletter

Grace to you!  We pray your families are blessed as they head back to school!  May the Lord’s favor shine on those you love who are beginning their school year.  God has great plans for them, and we ask for His protection, guidance, and wisdom for them, in Jesus’ name.  In every season, the Lord has His best for you!

We had such a marvelous ministry trip to Texas!  This summer we were blessed to preach in five churches and help with two Vacation Bible Schools (VBS).  The Lord saved 23 souls, as well as healed, and delivered!  At Monte de Olivos in San Angelo, we prayed for a woman who was set free from all pain she had!  Glory to God!  We also ministered at Templo Jerusalem Assembly of God, preaching on Sunday and helping with their VBS all week.  Steve preached the sermon and our children helped with worship, skits, and leading different age groups.  Our children drew prophetic art and it touched many hearts, helping them to understand the Lord’s great love for them.  When one of our children gave a particular woman a prophetic picture, the woman commented that her husband had received one a year or two ago, and they were still so encouraged by its meaning.  It represented God’s promise of restoration to them!  Hallelujah!  Beautifully, the whole church came to the altar, except for 2 people! The Lord answered their hunger by healing hearts and bodies for His glory! Hallelujah!

On our way back home, we attended a Christian conference that built up our faith!  Then we got to visit Judah at Fort Knox where he had been in Army Summer Training for six weeks.  He graduated with great scores from his time there, and we pray he, Yisaac, and Jonah have a blessed year at college.  Steve is scheduled to share at chapel at Summit Christian Academy on September 11! We’re asking every heart be touched by the Lord!

It is important what we are filling our eyes with as well as what we are listening to with our ears. God‘s plan will be revealed to us as we are listening to God’s words and focusing on the kingdom of God. There are many distractions, trying to pull us from the center of putting the Lord first. It definitely feels like swimming upstream against the culture as we are living for the Lord. Ah, but the Lord Jesus Christ is within us strengthening and enabling us to live a holy life!  We don’t have to muster up the desire to serve the Lord or the energy to live the Spirit-led life. When we got born again, we became new creatures in Christ, filled with the same resurrection power that raised Jesus from the dead (Romans 8:11)! That power will overcome anything of this world!  “This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith“ (1 John 5:4).  You are not the one being overcome by circumstances, but you are the one overcoming all the power of the devil! The Anointed One (Jesus) lives inside of you and His power is exceedingly great (Eph 1:19).  

God has more greatness for you to move into, and it is all by His grace. You are His vessel being poured out for His kingdom to come, and His will to be done here on earth, even as it is in heaven. He is pouring out through you!  “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).  I want to encourage you to regularly go over the scriptures in Romans chapter 8 that speak of who you are in Christ!!

1. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1)

2. We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)

3. If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)

4. In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (Romans 8:37)

5. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)

We greatly appreciate your partnership with this ministry.  We believe the Lord is pouring out His multiplication on the seed you have sown here and we are thankful that you trust us with your giving.  The Lord is opening new doors for us, and we ask that you prayerfully consider sowing a special seed that this ministry can do more for the gospel.  Thanks to our partners, CKCM was able to give to the River of God churches in the Philippines for their food relief efforts during the recent flooding there.  Many experienced much damage to their homes and we pray restoration to the Filipino people.  We also gave an offering to the new church they are building.  It is a privilege to help see God’s Kingdom advance in the earth, amen?  Grace to you, and the best is yet to come!  

Love in Christ, Steve, Jill, Judah, Yisaac, Jonah, Yissachar, Jakin, Yezekiel, Jerusalem, and Justice