Dear Prayer Partners,
We are excited to tell what the Lord is doing here in White Earth! There is so much happening in the ministry, but I will attempt to give a brief summary.
Transition Service
In 2021, Walworth Baptist Church, led by Pastor Caleb Mitchell, received a church building free of charge on the White Earth Reservation. They immediately took action and started Hope Baptist Church in September 2021. This year on September 28th Walworth Baptist Church turned the ministry of Hope Baptist Church over to our leadership. The transition service was a wonderful time of recognizing what Jesus is doing on the reservation.
Hope Baptist Church
We are continuing Thursday night services as usual. These services are evangelistic in nature. Some of the attendees are saved and some are not. Most of them are still learning truths from the Bible for the first time.
On October 1st, we held our first Sunday morning service. It has been a challenge to get our Thursday night crowd to come on Sundays but the Lord has blessed with people in the service each Sunday. This past weekend one of our nearby supporting churches aided us greatly with outreach on Saturday and continued helping the Sunday service by providing a pianist, nursery workers and kitchen help! As a result of the outreach, we had six first time visitors! Please pray that those who attend Thursday night will make it a priority to meet on Sunday as well.
This Thursday night, we had our highest attendance of 21 and for the first time we were able to introduce people to a missionary going to a foreign land. As missionary to India, Brother Casey Davis presented his field the native folks connected very well with him and asked him some really good questions! We are looking forward to Hope Baptist Church supporting their very first missionary!
Throughout the month of October, we also conducted a Bible campaign. The goal of the campaign was to encourage people to take personally learning about Jesus from His Word. People earned points by attending services, bringing their Bible, bringing a friend, memorizing verses, and reading the Bible. Some became enthusiastic about bringing their Bible, one man brought three new people, and a few participated in memorizing verses. We praise the Lord for these victories! This week we awarded the highest scores between the men and women with a new leather Bible, case and pen set. It was a close race between our daughters for the youth prize, but in the end, we were proud to award Aliza with a McDonald’s gift card since she already has a Bible.
Another exciting part of the Bible campaign was the Lord sending us a man who had copies of John & Romans translated into Ojibwe. Most on the White Earth Reservation only know a few words of Ojibwe but the excitement of seeing their language side by side with the King James Bible could not be matched! One lady even told her friends if you do not know your language get one of these Bibles and learn it! The man that dropped off the John & Romans said the New Testament will be ready in 2024. Thank the Lord for this gospel opportunity and pray with us as we look into getting more Ojibwe Bibles!
As always, we have faced spiritual battles as well. In the last few weeks, a couple of drunks have stumbled into the services; however, one man has returned for nearly every Thursday evening service. He struggles with the thought of dying at the same time considering suicide. In conversation with him, it is evident He is controlled by evil spirits. Pray for him to run to Jesus and find salvation in Him. Unfortunately, he is one of many who struggle with drug and alcohol addiction. Please pray for us as we look forward to starting a ministry at Hope geared towards reaching addicts for Jesus.
Thank you for your faithfulness in prayer and financial support! May fruit abound to your account.
For the cause of Christ,
Marty, Logan Michelle, Aliza, Annie, Ezekiel, Isaiah and Max Roembke