SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1st- “CIRCUS SUNDAY” Come dressed like you are traveling with the circus…Get your ACT together & perform for us in the KidzTown 3-Ring-Circus!ALSO ROAD-TRIP #5 “THE CONSTRUCTION ZONE” ..How to keep growing in Jesus.KIDZTOWN WILL BE A “CONSTRUCTION ZONE” ALL MONTH AS WE EXPAND & IMPROVE OUR TOWN….IT’S SO EXCITING!!!!

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8th - “SILLY SOCKS SUNDAY” Find the silliest, wildest socks you can get & wear them to KidzTown. Silly-Sock Sunday will be Super! Prizes…of Course! (PLEASE…NO STINKY FEET!) ALSO… ROAD-TRIP #6 “DETOUR” learning how to trust God in tough times

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15th – “HEY-HOWDY-HEY WESTERN SUNDAY” Come looking like a cool cowboy or pretty cowgirl! Ride into town on your horse & get ready for a BIG SHOWDOWN!ALSO… ROAD-TRIP #7 – “WRONG-WAY” Choosing to follow God’s plan

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd – “TURKEY SUNDAY” You can enter the “Gobble-Gobble” contest and win a real Turkey leg! Plus a bunch of other TURKEY STUFF! If you don’t come, we’ll spread the rumor that YOU ARE A TURKEY! ALSO… ROAD-TRIP#8 – “WATCH FOR CHILDREN” Learning how to be an example to younger kids.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29th – “FAMILY-FUN SUNDAY” More fun & games as we review what we learned this month…..plus we’re getting ready for Christmas!

COMING IN DECEMBER….. A WHOLE MONTH OF CHRISTMAS STUFF & EVEN SOME SNOW!

Dear Friends and Family,

Karla was only 3 but was suffering from a brain tumor. Her parents were of a denomination that does not believe healing is for today, much less speaking in tongues as the initial evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. The tumor was probably going to take her life, and they were just making the most of it all.

One evening, Karla’s parents heard a commotion in her bedroom, so they ran to see what was happening. What they saw shocked them, and their countenance betrayed their fear that little Karla might have taken a turn for the worse because they could not understand a word she was saying.

However, a miracle happened that is hard to even imagine. Little Karla, having never been exposed to Pentecostal experiences, began to interpret her strange tongues. Telling her parents to not be afraid that she was speaking in tongues, she prophesied that Jesus was healing her brain tumor. She was healed, and her parents had too many unanswered questions to remain in their old church.

The family transferred to the Josue Assemblies of God church in San Salvador where they are learning more about the experience little Karla taught them about.

Another 3 year old named Johanna from our Dream Center church was healed of leukemia and prophesied to her parents, unsaved at that time, that God had healed her, and she would not need any more treatments. Her parents were both saved when the doctor confirmed her prophetic declaration of healing and have since all been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Little Kevin is just 9, but he is full of Pentecostal passion and fire from on high. He lives in gang land with his other two siblings who are also Passionate Pentecostals. Their favorite family pastime is feeling the presence of God as He fills their home with powerful Pentecostal Anointing. People bring their sick for the children to pray for, and the laughter in the Spirit is a common sound in their home as the family has communion

with the Holy Spirit around meals, family altars, or when people come by for prayer.

Our daughter Elizabeth was baptized in the Holy Spirit as a 3 year old, and it is really special to watch these kids I would call “Children of the Spirit” grow up. The anointing of God is so strong on their lives because of these early experiences with the power of the Holy Spirit.

Elizabeth has led thousands in the sinner’s prayer, prayed the prayer of faith, and seen many deaf, blind, cancers, and demon possessed people delivered over the course of her lifetime. She had ministered in some 11 countries on three continents by the time she got her Ministerial Credentials a couple of years ago. She is currently married to Justin Hansen, and they are youth pastors in Prescott, Arizona.

Every child should have the right to experience Jesus fully and to be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit early in life in order to begin to serve God passionately while still very young. So we did our very first Pentecostal Camp meeting for the unborn. Like Jesus and John the Baptist, these moms, full of Pentecostal Power, pray in tongues as their unborn babies listen from the womb. We are teaching moms to speak to their children in tongues during the first year of life as they nurse and care for their baby, to bless the child as he develops into full spiritual maturity at 7 years of age when formal Biblical Instruction begins so that a child never departs from the Kingdom of God. What shall it profit a child if he gains all the toys in the world and loses his Eternal Soul because instruction began too late?

With tough times ahead, we must raise Pentecostal Children “on purpose” to preserve the Gospel in the hearts of some. We must not let the Full Gospel die at the hands of an immoral generation who have a form of Godliness but deny the Power.

Preparing Missionaries for the Future…

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In 1 6 1 9 , two years before the colonists arrived in Massachusetts, a band of English settlers landed in Virginia, at what is now known as the Berkeley plantation. History says the travelers immediately fell to their knees to thank God for their safe arrival. Here is a closer look at the role these settlers had in shaping what we know today as Thanksgiving.

Most people think of the Pilgrims on Thanksgiving day: 1622, the Mayflower, Squanto and his tribe sharing a feast with the Puritans at Plymouth Rock.

But the children at Stonebridge School in Virginia present a different picture. With colonial hats and feathered headbands, these children re-enact what it must have been like back in the 1600s, marking the events surrounding the first Thanksgiving at a very different time and place.

It all began on the shores of Cape Henry in Virginia. In 1607, the first English colonists arrived: 105 English men and boys, and 39 sailors, among them the Reverend Robert Hunt. He was the first minister in America. According to Jamestown site historian, Dianne Stallings, he was instrumental in establishing the protestant faith in the new world.

Following a mandate from the king of England, Hunt pitched a cross and led the men in prayer on the beaches of Cape Henry.

“Reverend Hunt would have had the Book of

Common Prayer as well as the Bible,” says

Stallings. “And this would be a general prayer of thanksgiving that would have been read at that period of time.”

Titled simply, the “General Thanksgiving”, this prayer, in one of it’s various versions , reads as follows:

“Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all men.

We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.”

For two weeks the men combed the shores of the James River, scouting out the perfect place for their new settlement. Finally they decided on Jamestown.

And according to Stallings, the settlers came for three reasons: God, glory, and gold.

“England was very concerned that the protestant faith be established in the new world, and, of course, they were dedicated to the fact that they wanted to Christianize the Indians,” she says.

Perhaps the most famous Indian at the settlement was Pocahontas. Through her the Powhatan Indians and the colonists made

peace. She would

bring the colonists food, and some historical

accounts say she even saved Captain John Smith’s life from her own people. Eventually, Pocahontas was held hostage by the colonists. It was then that she converted to Christianity and married one of the Jamestown leaders, John Rolfe. She was baptized into the Christian name, Rebecca.

Through Pocahontas, the settlers saw their goal of spreading the protestant faith begin to come to fruition. Years later she returned to England with her husband. Sadly, at just 22 years old, she died. It was two years after Pocahontas’ death that another group of English colonists landed in Virginia. After ten weeks at sea, they finally landed at the Berkeley Plantation. Virginia Historians claim that this is where the real first Thanksgiving took place. The plantation sits just a few miles from the original Jamestown settlement.

“The Virginia Company had directives given to the settlers and the directives were that upon landing, they were to give thanks and every year thereafter make it an annual celebration in thanks to the Lord for a safe passage,” says Barbara Awad, president of the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival.

This was about seventeen months before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth. And while the Pilgrims celebrated with a feast, much like the traditional meal Americans eat on Thanksgiving, the settlers at Berkeley Plantation had a meager meal.

“It wasn’t quite the abundant festival, the cornucopia that we usually see on Thanksgiving,” says Awad.

Historians say their feast included bacon, peas, cornmeal cakes, and cinnamon water. But regardless of the menu, to these settlers, the first Thanksgiving was much more than turkey and pumpkin pie. It was all about prayer.

(Reprinted from www.CBN.com)

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Genesis 47:13-25 says - “There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine. 14 Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh’s palace. 15 When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is used up.” 16 “Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph. “I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.” 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock. 18 When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land. 19 Why should we perish before your eyes — we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.” 20 So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s, 21 and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other. 22 However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land. 23 Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground. 24 But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.” 25 “You have saved our lives,” they said. “May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.”

From this passage we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again. And when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkeys - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that even then it only took them through the end of that year…But the famine wasn’t over, was it?

So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. They said, “There is nothing left in the

sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh.” So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh’s government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.

The question for us today is - What can we, in America, learn from this?

First is this, turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery! Second is this, the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master!

I tell you an ominous truth. We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to “share the wealth “once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education and banking, and ration it back to us. When government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind. The danger for us is the same as for ancient Egypt - we will end up as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders. What our government is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh’s government did then, and it will end the same. Just look at what all the people declared as mentioned above in verse 25 after Pharaoh made them his slaves, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh”?

May this be the prayer of every God-fearing person in this country:

“Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do , it says “And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.” And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come in our nation. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters. Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of a ‘Pharaoh government’ ”.

As Christ-followers we have but one Lord and one Master who is our Provider in this life. We “bow our

knee” to none other. In Him alone do we trust!

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In my 33 years of being a Christian I don’t recall a time

where Christianity was under such vitriolic attack. With few exceptions media outlets mock Christians and Christian values with impudence while Atheists have become media darlings and bestselling authors. Today more than ever, Christians are being called upon to give reasons for the hope that is within them. I have always maintained that you can never argue someone into the Kingdom of Heaven and that removing intellectual objections will not make one a Christian; a change of heart through submission to the Holy Spirit is also necessary. Although intellectual activity is insufficient to bring one to Christ, it does not follow that it is also unnecessary. In this article I would like to explore the place and purpose of apologetics in sharing our faith.

There is sometimes confusion around the word “apologetics” so some clarification is in order. The Greek word apologia means “answer,” or “reasonable defense.” It does not mean to apologize. The best definition can be found in 1Peter 3:15 “But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect”

The verse expresses that the manner in which one exercises apologetics is as important as the words expressed. Also note that Peter tells us in this passage that Christians are to be always ready with answers for those who ask.

There are those who would disagree with me and ask valid questions such as “Doesn’t the Bible say we are to know nothing among men except Jesus Christ and Him crucified?” “Why do we have to get involved at all in apologetics if the Spirit is the One Who actually brings about the New Birth?” These are sincere Christians who are firmly convinced that answering intelligent queries of unbelievers is an ineffectual waste of time. They feel that any involvement of the mind in evangelism seems to be a work of human effort and results in diluting the work of the Holy Spirit.My view is that Christianity is a faith based on intelligence. Henry Morris, in Men Of Science, Men Of God, lists over 40 great scientists who professed faith in God. Among them are: Johannes Kepler famous for his planetary motion studies in the 16th century, Blaise Pascal the father of hydrostatic science, and Sir Isaac Newton considered one of the greatest scientists of all time who developed the laws of gravitation, motion and calculus. All of these brilliant minds that established many of the scientific laws still in use today were committed professing Christians. The truth is, if a true revival is to take place in our hearts it must be established in our minds as well. Jesus told us to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” (Luke

10:27). We are to love God with the mind as well as the heart and the soul. In fact, the early church grew exponentially because it out-thought and out-loved the ancient world.

Many Christians today seem to prefer experiencing Christianity through celebrity televangelists rather than thinking about or explaining it. But consider these verses:Matthew 13:23: “But he who received the seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit.” They all heard it, but only the “good soil” comprehended it.

Acts 8:30: “When the Spirit prompted Philip to join himself to the chariot of the Ethiopian

eunuch (who was reading Isaiah 53), he asked, `Do you understand what you are reading?’ The eunuch

replied, `How can I except some man should guide me?’”

Acts 18:4: Paul at Corinth was “reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade the Jews and Greeks.”

Acts 19:8: Paul at Ephesus “entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.”Romans 10:17: “So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” Again the emphasis is on hearing with perception.

2 Corinthians 5:11: “We persuade men,” says Paul. Vine’s Expository Dictionary describes this Greek word

like this: “to apply persuasion, to prevail upon or win over, bringing about a change of mind by the

influence of reason or moral considerations.”All of these words--persuasion, dialogue,

discourse, dispute, argue, present evidence, reason with—demonstrate Paul’s classical apologetic technique. Why should evangelism be any different today? Paul urges believers in 2 Timothy 2:15 to study to show ourselves approved unto God, workmen that need not to be ashamed.

An alarming study by The Barna Group a Christian research organization found that 16- to 29-year-olds are more

skeptical of and resistant to Christianity than were people of the same age just a decade

ago. Young people today are being bombarded by an increasingly secular worldview that promotes “reason” and

“logic” over “religious superstition”. At the same time Atheism with its alleged “intellectual superiority” is on the rise. Witness this statistic from ReligiousTolerance.org:

“14.1% of Americans do not follow any organized religion. This is an unusually rapid increase -- almost a doubling -- from only 8% in 1990. There are more Americans who say they are not affiliated with any organized religion than there are Episcopalians, Methodists, and Lutherans taken together.”

These sobering facts should be a call to arms for all Christians. We need to reclaim the culture by adhering to the “Great Commission”:

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20 But then how should we arm ourselves? Ephesians 6:13-18 gives us the answer:

“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in

place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests”.

These directions are critical to victorious living in the Spiritual battles we face daily in our Christian walk however they are particularly instructive as it relates to sharing our faith. Note that Paul uses language associated with a Roman soldier prepared for battle. When we share our faith we need to be fully prepared as well. Here is a beautiful picture of the need to be prepared with the sword of the Spirit – The Word of God v17, and persistent prayer in the Spirit v18; a perfect balance of Spiritual maturity and intelligent use of the Word of God.

You will also note that Paul is exhorting us to be on the offensive. Historically, Roman soldiers when in full battle array never retreated. Christians should likewise never retreat when it comes to sharing their faith. “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes” Romans 1:16. Many Christians are mainly asking the question, “How strong are our defenses?” “How high are our walls?” This barricade mentality has produced much of the Christian subculture. We have our own language, literature, heroes, music, customs, and educational systems.

Of course, we need places of support and fellowship. But when Paul describes spiritual warfare in 2 Corinthians 10, he actually reverses the picture. It is the enemy who is behind walls, inside strongholds of error and evil. Paul depicts the Christians as those who should be mounting offensives at these walls to tear down the high things which have exalted themselves above the knowledge of God. We are to be taking ground, not just holding it.Paul has given us the strategy for effective evangelism now for the tactics:

1. Pray for divine appointments. That the Holy Spirit would not only lead you to the individuals you need to speak to, but that He will open their hearts and minds as well.2. Communicate with people. Engage them. Sharing the Gospel involves communication. People must be focused upon and then understand the Gospel to respond to it. It is our responsibility as Christians to make it as clear as possible for all who will listen. “Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men” (2 Cor. 5:11).3. Relate to people. Effective witness involves not only the transmission of biblical information; it also includes establishing a relationship with the other person. Hearts, as well as heads, must meet. “So, affectionately longing for you,” said Paul to the Thessalonians, “we were well pleased to import to you not only the good news of God, but also our own lives, because you have become dear to us” (1 Thess. 2:8).4. Remove barriers. Part of our responsibility involves having the skills to eliminate obstacles, real or imagined, which keep an individual from taking the Christian message seriously. When God sent the prophet Jeremiah forth, He said, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth . . . and I have ordained you to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.” Sometimes our task as well is one of “spiritual demolition,” of removing the false so the seeds of truth can take root. This is where apologetics can be of great help, of preparing a highway for God in someone’s life where there may have been nothing but “intellectual” roadblocks.5. Invite them to receive Christ. We can be clear of presentation, but ineffective because we fail to give someone the opportunity and encouragement to take that first major step of faith. “Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we beg you in Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God” (2 Cor. 5:20).

May we all, who are of the Kingdom of Christ, respond to this “Call to Arms”.

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