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Testimonies of MSC Volunteers
Below is several testimonies of our local MSC volunteers. If you have a testimony we would love to include it here. Please E-mail or send to us.
We learned about Mission Service Corps after we had been doing volunteer work through the Buchanan Community Center. We attended the orientation that was held over the weekend. It was so rewarding and informative. The work that we are doing at Buchanan is very fulfilling. We give food, clothing, information about jobs, and help in any way we can, but most important is that it gives us a chance witness to the ones who come for help.
We also serve as backups for two of the truck stop ministries. So many truckers are on the road on weekends trying to make a living and can't get back to their home churches. This way they can hear God's message and know that there are Christians who care and will keep them in prayer and maybe help them along their way.
Blackie & Shirley Craig
In March, the Buchanan Community Service Center ministered to 148 families: a total of 383 people each receiving a personal witness, 44 Bibles and 128 tracts were given out.
The Truck Stop Ministries are at the two TA truck stops and Petro. Services are held on Sunday morning at 9:00 A.M. with anywhere from 5 to 50 in attendance.
Leo and Lillie Dale
"We came to Ponderosa Baptist Conference Center, Larkspur, Colorado, in 1987 from Bell Avenue Baptist Church in Amarillo. The first six years we spent only the summers and the last six years we have been full time."
"Our duties relate to maintenance and caring for the needs of guests." Repairs, painting, landscape and setting up meeting rooms are some of Leo's many duties. Lillie's work centers in the kitchen with food serving and preparation. She also cares for the beautiful flower beds in the summer.
"All our time here has special meaning to us. It is wonderful to be useful and serving the Lord in our retirement years."
"Our prayer request would be for more workers in food service and maintenance. We are growing in numbers rapidly, but have not added the help needed in these two areas."
I was helping at the TA truck stop on I-40 in January of 1999. I helped during the music service by playing the keyboard. We had about 20 people in the small TV room that morning. We sang and Dale Freeman preached. I had packed up the keyboard and stand and was hauling it out to the car when a lady that had been in the service came up to me in the corridor and told me that she wanted to be saved. I counseled with her and then she prayed and asked Jesus into her heart. People were coming in and going out as we were praying together, it didn't bother us at all. I gave her a Bible and told her when she got home she needed to find a Bible believing church and be baptized and join a Sunday School so they could help her grow. What a blessed day that was!
Bobby Jordan
Jesus Garcia came for food and clothing, but left with Jesus.
Buchanan Street Community Service Center
Or first assignment as Mission Service Corps volunteers was at FBC Washburn. We were church strenghteners there, which means that we did whatever we could to help the church grow. Sylvia would do the bulletin on our computer, copy it off on the church copier, taught Sunday school, and was the WMU director for the church. I led the music, played the keyboard and helped with pastoral ministries. Since our pastor was bivocational and worked during the day, we did the hospital visiting. Sylvia and I have been on mission trips and other short term ministries before but our time serving through Mission Service Corps to FBC Washburn was the most fulfilling experiences of our lives.
Bob & Sylvia Jordan
When a volunteer took a large chunk of meat to a nearby Albertson's meat department to have it cut, the woman said " you bet we'll do that for you. Your ministry helped us survive for six months. Now look at me I have a good job"
Buchanan Street Community Service Center
I apologize for not making contact with you sooner. Just wanted to bring you up to speed about how the ministry is going. One of the most exciting developments is that the church has budgeted for the radio broadcast to remain on the air. KATP has expressed no desire in removing us, but it seems the right thing to do is to pay for the air time. I still enjoy and look forward every week to the editing and production of the tape we send to the radio station. Please pray that the ministry will continue to touch lives for Jesus Christ (there have been at least two contacts made where the gospel was shared in homes of listeners of the broadcast). Karen hosted minister appreciation day last month in the library. The number of volumes continues to grow and she has added another staff member.
Karen & Barry Robinson
While serving through Mission Service Corps to FBC Washburn, our pastor had just moved to a new ministry and we didn't have an interim at that time. Two young girls accepted the Lord and wanted to be baptized. The church allowed me to do this. What a blessing that was!
Bobby Jordan
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