A Great Day Today

Today was a great day. We were reminded strikingly of the full spectrum of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in the morning service. Several of our adults brought us from the Prophet Isaiah, through the Nativity, and ended with a statement from a Roman Centurion. Put the children and music in the mix, and the program was challenging, enjoyable, and a blessing to those who were there. I really want to thank all those who had a part in the program.

Experience Speaks

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."


Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rick & Jamie Mikesh and First Nations Ministry

First Baptist Church, New Ulm was blessed to have Brother Rick Mikesh, his wife Jamie, and their family in our morning services yesterday (12/6/2009). The Mikesh family is on deputation, raising support to take the Gospel to the First Nation people of Canada. Jacque and I enjoyed great fellowship with Rick & Jamie Saturday evening.

Sunday morning Rick challenged us in our main service with thoughts on "Great Commission Living" from 2 Timothy 4:1-8. His family presented a special musical offering, and his two oldest daughters played a violin and piano duet for the offertory.

In our Bible Study time, Brother and Sister Mikesh shared their own testimonies of faith in Christ and His leading them to go into the ministry. They then showed a DVD presentation of the need for the gospel in the native people of Canada.

The people here were challenged by the ministry of Rick and Jamie. By the time the morning was over, some of our adults and youth were talking of mission trip to work in a Bible camp in the area where the Mikesh's are looking to serve. Only the future will tell the extent of the ministry of this family on the people here. But there has definitely been an increase of interest in declaring the gospel here in New Ulm.

We recommend them. You will enjoy their enthusiasm, be challenged by their dedication to serving God, and encouraged by the ministry of the Word.

Rick and Jamie Mikesh are being sent out by Deer River Bible Church and are going under Biblical Ministries Worldwide (BMW). You can see the description of the First Nations Ministry here.