Issue 2009 #3
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Inner Peace Factor
Do you have inner peace?
How many times have you heard a testimony and noted the changes that the person said he or she had experienced upon starting to walk with their Lord and Saviour? Was peace one of those changes?
This summer we have worked on a new gospel booklet with five testimonies and a children's feature about God's marvelous creation of bees. Peace became the most obviously consistent factor that each one mentioned.
Sylvia's story about cancer focuses on the inner peace that transcends all the fears and pain since she decided to trust God and believe that He had allowed this for a reason.
Edna faced the death of her dad just before she got married, then later two of their sons, and then her husband died suddenly. Yet through it all she has felt that God loved her, and that He was right there with her. These deaths were not a slap in her face; rather she had peace in it all.
Has cancer or death taken one or more of your loved ones? Are you angry at God? He is ready to give you a peace that passes understanding. But on His terms, of course.
Another testimony is by Conrad about addiction to alcohol. He too had to come to that place where he invited Jesus to overcome it for him. As a result his wife became a believer, as did their children. Jesus wants to give you that overcomer's victory and peace also!
Young Jacey was a lonely teen until a youth group worker befriended her and taught her to trust in Jesus and spend time talking with Him. She sees she still has a lot to grow, but she has discovered the joy and peace of a friendship with the Best Friend anywhere!
Princy, a young woman from India, liked making her own decisions and being in control, but her life spun out of control when she came to Canada to study and learned that her husband wanted to divorce her. She was invited to a Bible study on campus and met Jesus Christ. The gift of peace He gave her totally overwhelmed Princy. She has surrendered fully to His rule in her life.
The children's feature, The Amazing Bees Need You and Me, points out some wonderful traits God, the Intelligent Designer, gave them. It also shows that bees need humans and we need them. In the same way, we all need Jesus Christ to come into our lives.
Our new booklet, Inner Peace Factor, concludes with an invitation to trust Jesus as Saviour and to contact us. It offers the Romans Road to salvation and a reply postcard that readers can send in to us.
This booklet is similar to There is . . . Hope which we published in 2007 for our mass mailing or blitz to ten Saskatchewan cities. This one has brand new testimonies and content, and we now plan to mail it as bulk mail to areas of Saskatchewan that at this time have not been covered.
However, we also want to use this booklet for a new approach to our Impact Canada program. For many years we have had a plan whereby a group of people who have formed a Tract Club, have ordered a supply of tracts and envelopes and have met to stuff the envelopes and take them to the post office. The members of the Tract Club would pay for the postage and these envelopes would go to a small town or rural area. In a slow but systematic way, this has been our way of covering all the mail boxes in rural areas from Newfoundland to northern British Columbia once and we were working our way through a second time.
Unfortunately, this plan did not allow us to cover cities or larger communities, and beyond that, we discovered that it was more expensive than to mail out these booklets.
The Tracts Clubs may still meet to pray for the effectiveness of these mailings, and help to raise postage money. We encourage other families and individual people to get together to raise funds to cover certain communities in any part of Canada. They will just send those monies into the Western Tract Mission office, and we will see that the quantities get to the post office for mailing.
This method allows us to reach apartments and mailboxes that no one could reach by door-to-door visitation. The post office tells us that there are an average of three people at every mailing address. Think of the economy of this plan! For about one quarter (25 cents) we can print and mail a booklet to be read by likely three individuals.
Jump aboard, help us to Impact Canada with the gospel, home by home!
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