The Sanctuary

The Messiah's Mansion made quite a splash the week it was here.

According to statistics, this exhibition was the third largest ever. 

They had 13,000 visitors in Atlanta, during the General Conference Session. 

They showed it to 10,000 people in Chattanooga a couple of years ago, and now in Loveland, Colorado, they had the privilege of teaching approximately 6,500 people. 

We are thrilled. 

Shari Waggoner organized the event and it went off like a charm. 

We are very proud of her. 

Eden Valley hosted the students from Oklahoma Academy and fed therm. Other churches, four of them as far as I know, participated in raising money to bring them here and help with logistics and such.

Now, after our annual convention (our 50th, by the way--all invited to come and celebrate with us) we plan to do an evangelistic effort based on the Sanctuary. We started two prayer meetings daily. One at 5:30 AM, the early bird special, and one at 6:30 PM. So far, not many are attending, but the numbers will increase as we let people know what we are doing. 

I am so dependent on the Lord in this venture. I've done three evangelistic efforts in the past. All in foreign countries. But frankly, if I can be frankly, I have never been comfortable doing them. I am not organized, nor do I have the proper sermon materials. (At EVI I have a team of organizers, par excellence.) Be that as it may, I will do it with what God gives me. If you have a minute, please pray the Lord will work a miracle.

Unconfirmed News: My lover sent me a text message at 3:30 AM this morning. She felt it was news worthy of waking me up. Fortunately, I've got so much to do, I get up at that time. Anyway, she says they (they being the hydro electric co. who want her land to build a dam) they will  not be building the dam, after all . . . maybe. 

I called her later in the day, and she still needs to verify this "good news" with the officials. If everything she is hearing is true, it appears the defense she put up at a local town meeting convinced the town fathers to back off. Do the town fathers have that much power? It remains to be seen. I hope so.

We have a lady in our lifestyle center who has suffered through a slow kidney and bladder cancer for years. If I am not mistaken, she has had nine surgeries. Lately, she woke up to blood everywhere. The doctor, whether at the hospital of in an office, I don't know, told her she needed to go to Eden Valley. So she made plans to come. When she visited the doctor's office again, and told the doctor who was there about coming to Eden Valley, he knew nothing about it. As a matter of fact, there was no doctor in his office by the name she gave who apparently directed her to come to us. It appears an angel intercepted her and gave her directions to EVI. How do you suppose that makes us feel? Can we expect a miracle? We'll see.