June 23, 1976 I was saved in every way a person can be saved. Saved from slavery to my own ego, from darkness, from the world system, from fear of death, fear of life...from all oppression in the Present Age...and then also from eternal death the second death in the Age To Come.
I have suffered from the inevitable ebb and flow of life from horrible backsliding from the consequence of missing the mark of being a genuine human being as God designed as His Image Bearer back in the Garden.
So, Happy 39 th birthday to me as I rededicate myself to the Most High!
Allen trained on a burro yesterday for the first time. Allen is a natural with animals! He and I cleaned up one of Bill Lee's pastures to ready it for a cow Bill had purchased.
We hike up and down Laughing Valley Road...more like a trail than a road! Then we climbed up the bluff above Bill's homestead...well I climbed, Allen ran...just liked he trained in the US Marines
I gave a report on our progress to Mercy Church my church home down in Denver. Allen and I enjoyed the fellowship and the church supper very much. Pastor Long's sermon was very convicting as it reminded me of my lack of trust and faith in God's provision.
We are running into lack of zeal and interest in our mission by the churches in Idaho Springs. Financial support for our door to door canvassing in the back country has not been forthcoming. So, we are reassessing our purpose here in Clear Creek County. It's a sad thing to see resistance and lack of assistance by the very people who should be elated by our connecting with the unchurched and lost!
The so called "Church" needs to be converted from "Christianity" to "Jesusanity!"
Anyway, enough of that! I am taking over Mike Horner's Sunday School Class at United Church this Sunday. Then the following Sunday I'm preaching at Mercy Church down the hill.
Tonight, Michael Ellington from Empire and I are supping and hanging out at my campsite in Spring Gulch for a few hours this evening.
Allen is starting a carpentry job tomorrow John Jones found for him. After that Allen may be heading out to the wilds of Alaska to fast, pray and proclaim the Kingdom of God!
Well, gotta go. Ciao! Grace and Shalom to y'all!
BR Schoenbein
Allen Yates
Bonnie Coffey
June 23, 2015
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