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Lumber Saw & Tractor Repair: Need; $1,470.00

Mission Construction
&Repairs

Steve

The Puzzy Brothers provided a Lumber Saw at a reduced price that
was paid for by the Antioch Congregation of Ohio.

Missionary Roger King assembled the Lumber Saw and with the
support of his family and friends trained deaf men to operate the
equipment to have a source of income and to bless the mission with
the needed lumber.

The original home of this lumber saw is the Silent City Mission of
1,500 Hectares (about 3,000 acres) where both the edge of the north
jungle and the edge of the south plains meet in Meta, Colombia,
South America. This property was provided through a vision, faithful
prayer and unforeseen events of mission experience giving God the
praise. The experiences will eventually be shared on this Web site
under the title;
"God's Provisions from unforeseen sources.

To summarize, after the Guerrilla made their attack in the area of the
Silent City Mission near the Rio Guaviare, destroying the cessna with
machine gun fire and capturing Pilot Russell Stendal... (Read the Book
'Rescue the Captors') after a short period of time, the deaf men at the Silent
City Mission were dominated by the Guerrillas helping themselves to
the electric plant, water pump, and many other meaningful items. As
if that was not enough, our mission school building was torched.

The Parra family knowing the Guerrillas would return to take the
Lumber saw & tractor, they discretely transported the equipment
including the tractor to an isolated farm where the equipment has
been covered & stored for several years.

With the Guerrilla activity having seemed to calmed down in the area
of the farm, Francisco Sanchez who serves on the Colombia Mission
Board of Advisors, went with a mechanic to the farm and checked on
the equipment. He has informed That the Lumber saw and the tractor
both can be restored.

The Lumber saw instead of rusting away, needs to be transported,
repaired put into service in support of the mission and to aid
unemployed deaf to have an income to feed and Provide clothing &
shelter for their family.

We realize there are many who can not financially help with this
meaningful project. But just as we ask you to pray with us, you also
can ask your trusted friends to pray for this need with you.
The effort will be appreciated.

Here is a suggestion from your Mission Partner;

"When you pray for someone in need, ask your Heavenly Father to provide for the need and
add, 'meet this need through me!'
The addition gives our Father a vessel to work through.
Should He chooses to provide through you from an unforeseen source,
The experience will be up lifting to both you and others.
Should He choose to provide through another,
you will be so glad that you participated in taking the time pray!"
-Bernie Hale

The missionary experience that lead to the provision of this Lumber
saw will be shared in our Video section or In print at a later date.
The following is a small segment from;
GOD'S PROVISIONS
FROM UNFORESEEN SOURCES;

Questioning if God really hears a prayers with all the people in the world making
their prayer needs known, Bernie also thought about the silence from friends who
promised to pray with him for specific needs. This brought him to a place of feeling
very alone in the efforts to help the deaf children and deaf adults. With the "feeling
alone" experience, the words of Jesus came to mind when Jesus was in the Garden of
Gethsemane and asked the disciples who He also called friends;

'Could you not have prayed with me for just one hour?"

-As told by Missionary Bernie Hale.
Faced with a need for equipment to harvest lumber for the mission construction.
When the hour came to inform my deaf disciples that I had no money to buy and that
I had no one to ask for assistance to buy the equipment. Immediately the concepts
triggered their hands, communicating; 'No money!   He doesn't have any money!'

Then the youngest of them "Govvie" with a very serious look on his face, motioned for
them all to give him their attention and then he continued communicating manually...

"We have something better than money!".

With a stern look, his hands pause and he looked at every one and as his eyes met
mine a smile appeared as he communicated,

"We have the ability to pray".

Those concepts brought us all to our knees and I no longer felt alone. But, I still
questioned if God heard me and saw my disciples silent prayers in the visual language.
A time I was asking;
'God where are you?'

Later, through a series of miraculous mission experiences, the Lumber saw was
provided. With the lumber saw, God provided more than what we asked, He
provided, the Lumber Saw Mechanic and the lumber saw Instructor; "Missionary
Roger King, and throughout the entire event, He also provided our financial &
material contributors who have since been among our faithful partners in prayer, the
Puzzy Brothers, and members of the Antioch Congregation of Ohio.

By then, I knew That from the very first hour we prayed, our prayers did reached the
heart of our Heavenly Father, He did hear my prayer and did see the silent prayers
of the deaf disciples.

One would think That the blessing would stop there, but not so....(To be continued)

"HAVING THE RIGHT TOOLS
IS A SERIOUS MATTER In
MISSIONS!"
-Steve, Service Team Leader"