Coco spends a day with Dad at work

     Due to the cold weather with a high temperature of 45*, Coco got to spend a day with Dad at work. As I'm taking this photo she is looking for me in the room trying to find me. I think she found out where I spend most of my time at work. She napped on my lap most of the day, but her highlight was going outside to chase the squirrels, and neighbor cat away. Oh and she had fun running through the leaves on the ground.

     As you can see I've got my Christmas tree up at work, and even a huge red stocking hanging from my work window. There is also a digital photo frame that Anna got for me on my bookshelf to the left of my chair. What a wonderful birthday gift. Well back to work now, Coco says Hi too.

Thanksgiving whirl

Several months back, I felt the Lord put it on my heart to host our first Thanksgiving dinner for our family in our home. Over time, it grew and became an event that would have 17 people in our home for Thanksgiving day. I had also decided that I wanted to do all the major cooking on my own, despite the women of the family loving offering their help. This was something I needed to do on my own, at least once. Well, I cooked and cooked all day Wednesday and Thursday. What resulted was a beautiful dinner with all of our quite mixed family laughing and enjoying each other on one of my favorite holidays. Everything turned out lovely and I was quite excited. The family decided that I was such a wonderful hostess, that I was elected to do the task of hosting Thanksgiving every year. Despite the flattery, time will tell if I really will do this again. I had a blast but I haven't been this exhausted in quite some time.



The food on the counter is probably about half of what I prepared

 Some of our beautiful family that was able to join us for dinner

 

A job well done

November 2009

November was a very interesting month for me, and allowed me to submit to God in all areas of my life declaring him as the Leader. I had the privilege to lead an 8-week Bible study on evangelism at my church and use the Way of the Master basic training videos to show some real one-to-one witnessing. It was such a great time to grow closer to the Lord even in the midst of my constant fear of public speaking.

Matthew 9:37-38 says "Then said he to his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest." And I was so blessed to be able to see God raise up some more workers for His kingdom and see them pass out tracts, and get into some really good conversations with strangers. It was the 'Prince of Preachers', Charles Spurgeon, who said the words, "Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that."

Did you know that an evangelist is any Christian who explains his or her beliefs to a non-Christian and thereby participates in Evangelism? This is someone who preaches the Gospel, who is spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. 2 Timothy 4:5 says "But watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry." So, this is the name given to all believers who herald the message of salvation through Christ.

After America celebrated Thanksgiving (for the Christian, every day should be a day of thanksgiving) my Dad and Stepmother stayed an extra week and I got to hand out tracts with them at the Saturday morning market. I was so blessed to be with my Dad and I had a great time as we passed out Gospel tracts to strangers. We all went for a walk too and I got to give a pocket Bible to a lady who is going through a divorce, and my wife and stepmother both got to pray for her also. Please take the time to pray with people, it means to so much to them.

At the Saturday morning market I got to pass out about 200 Gospel tracts, and take some new believers out to witness. I got to encourage a few guys who stated they were believers, and even got to pray for a girl who was fighting her way through cancer. Remember that you have the sobering responsibility of speaking to other peoples' loved ones. Luke 6:46 says "And why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" The love of God in us will motivate us to seek and save that which is lost.

I got to help out with a project called "Origin in to Schools" on the University campus.We passed out one-thousand books of Darwin's "Origin of Species" with a special introduction on Intelligent Design and the Gospel.On that day also hundreds of pocket Bibles were passed out thanks to the Gideons being on campus too and we got to hand out about a thousand Gospel tracts also. A small group of us went downtown to do some more witnessing at lunch time.



I had several great conversations, but I think my most interesting one was with a displaced individual who was a believer. He wanted some Gospel tracts to give out to others, and since then I've run into him three other times, and been able to give him hundreds of Gospel tracts. I got to witness him pass them out to each vendor at the Saturday morning market one booth owner at a time.We should even be thankful in the midst of problems. The Apostle Paul said, "Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation." (2 Corinthians 7:4). He knew that God was working all things together for his good, even though he was going through trials (Romans 8:28).

Please remember that there is no task more important than to be entrusted with the Gospel of Salvation and to be working with God for the eternal well-being of dying humanity. It was Charles Finney the minister who became an important figure in the Second Great Awakening who said "If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian."

Seek and save that which is lost and press on in Love,
Tim Molter