MINISTRY NEWS                                                              SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2004

Summer is nearly over and what a busy one it has been.  Truly the busiest and one of the best summers of my life.  Thank you for your prayers concerning VBS.  It went extremely well.  There were between 40 and 45 kids in attendance each night, which is about all that we could handle.  By the end of the week, 8 souls were saved by the grace of God, 4 of whom were in the teenage class.  Thankfully about half of those saved were "unchurched" so we have had the opportunity to disciple and baptize them.  Just a couple of weeks ago I baptized 7 new converts in the Missouri River.  Among those baptized was a young nineteen-year-old Native American man, that was birthed into the family of God during our Tent Revival in June, named Tim.  He is absolutely on fire for the Lord, trying his best to get everyone he can to trust Christ.  He feels like God may be calling him to preach and he wants to go back and win the Cheyene River Indian Reservation to God.  I hope that you will help me pray that the Lord would see fit to use him to proclaim the glorious gospel of Christ.  However, he is not getting much encouragement from me to preach.  If he starts preaching, I want him to be God called and not "preacher called."  I am discipeling him on a daily basis and it is truly exciting to see what the Lord is doing in his life.  I have been waiting for an opportunity like this to train men to go out into the harvest.  I hope that he is just the first of many.

We have had more exciting news in the last couple of weeks.  A lady named Dena walked the aisle and got saved a couple weeks ago.  Then last Sunday her 15-year-old daughter Kristine walked the aisle and got saved just like her mother.  So, we have another baptism coming up soon.  To God be the glory!  That's the reason we are out here, to preach, teach, and baptize, and that is exactly what we are doing; preaching that old-time uncompromising Gospel message that Hell is hot, Heaven is sweet, and through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross and out of the tomb, He will save your lost soul and give you life everlasting!  Thank God it still works today!

Shall we rejoice together over these souls that you have helped to bring to Christ through your faithful prayers and support?  Thank you!

Please help us pray for our Fall Jubilee, that will be taking place during mid September, and for Dr. Andy Simpson as he preaches, that the Lord will touch him and meet with us in a special way also that more souls will be saved.

FAMILY NEWS

In the midst of the exciting ministry news is some very exciting family news.  My precious beautiful wife is now expecting.  The due date is March 31st.  We thank God for His blessings.  Pray for Katelyn as she starts her first year of home school, and for Hannah as she starts 1st grade.  They are both very excited and I am in disbelief that they are growing up so fast.  

Until next time keep those prayers going up, the Gospel going out, and sinners getting in!

Glorying in His Cross,

Bro. Jesse Hailey