Comments on: Can I Get a Good Witness? http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/11/can-i-get-a-good-witness.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:03:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brianhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/11/can-i-get-a-good-witness.html#comment-32195 Brian Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:55:43 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/11/can-i-get-a-good-witness.html#comment-32195 Dave,The people that come to pray take turns watching the children. That way people can still pray and the children are taken care of.Making disciples in Peru,Brian Vander Kodde Dave,

The people that come to pray take turns watching the children. That way people can still pray and the children are taken care of.

Making disciples in Peru,

Brian Vander Kodde

]]> By: Dave Blockhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/11/can-i-get-a-good-witness.html#comment-32122 Dave Block Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:11:57 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/11/can-i-get-a-good-witness.html#comment-32122 Brian,This is so encouraging! Thanks for sharing.I believe the answer to your question is yes. Prayer for most churches is a minute or two a few times during the worship service, a minute at the start and end of other meetings, and a weekly prayer meeting that few attend, most of them being older women.I'm particularly interested in your prayer meeting that happens an hour before the Sunday morning service. What arrangements, if any, are made for children? Brian,

This is so encouraging! Thanks for sharing.

I believe the answer to your question is yes. Prayer for most churches is a minute or two a few times during the worship service, a minute at the start and end of other meetings, and a weekly prayer meeting that few attend, most of them being older women.

I’m particularly interested in your prayer meeting that happens an hour before the Sunday morning service. What arrangements, if any, are made for children?

]]> By: Brianhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/11/can-i-get-a-good-witness.html#comment-32097 Brian Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:25:09 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/11/can-i-get-a-good-witness.html#comment-32097 Dan,Yes, you can hook up the reader from Peru. No problem.Regarding the work with the prostitutes... We don´t really have one. We just preach the gospel to everyone and three of the women who have been saved happen to have been prostitutes. It´s something that God has done.When it comes to finding them work we have found that prayer is the key. I don´t want to over-simplify things but we really don´t know what we´re doing so we pray a lot. One of the ladies got a job at a doctors office after we prayed. Another one got a job selling food at a little kiosk with a christian boss. Her boss wanted her to work Sundays but she felt that she needed to be in church. She made a deal with her boss that if she sold double the normal amount of food on Saturday they would both take Sundays off. That Saturday it was already 3:00 p.m. and she hadn´t sold any food yet! She prayed and said, "Lord, you`ve got to come through for me". A few minutes later a lot of people showed up and ate. She´s had Sundays off ever since.We live in a third world country where unemployment is terrible. We pray and have found that God always takes care of His children. Everyone in our church that needs a job has one at the present time. That is unheard of here.We have two groups that meet for prayer everyday. One group meets at 5:00 a.m. and the other at 5:30 a.m. In addition we have prayer on Tuesday evenings in two locations and on Sunday mornings an hour before service. Maybe people in the States have not seen the Lord work as much as they would like because they haven´t cultivated their prayer life?God bless.Making disciples in Peru,Brian Vander Kodde Dan,

Yes, you can hook up the reader from Peru. No problem.

Regarding the work with the prostitutes… We don´t really have one. We just preach the gospel to everyone and three of the women who have been saved happen to have been prostitutes. It´s something that God has done.

When it comes to finding them work we have found that prayer is the key. I don´t want to over-simplify things but we really don´t know what we´re doing so we pray a lot.
One of the ladies got a job at a doctors office after we prayed. Another one got a job selling food at a little kiosk with a christian boss. Her boss wanted her to work Sundays but she felt that she needed to be in church. She made a deal with her boss that if she sold double the normal amount of food on Saturday they would both take Sundays off. That Saturday it was already 3:00 p.m. and she hadn´t sold any food yet! She prayed and said, “Lord, you`ve got to come through for me”. A few minutes later a lot of people showed up and ate. She´s had Sundays off ever since.

We live in a third world country where unemployment is terrible. We pray and have found that God always takes care of His children. Everyone in our church that needs a job has one at the present time. That is unheard of here.

We have two groups that meet for prayer everyday. One group meets at 5:00 a.m. and the other at 5:30 a.m. In addition we have prayer on Tuesday evenings in two locations and on Sunday mornings an hour before service. Maybe people in the States have not seen the Lord work as much as they would like because they haven´t cultivated their prayer life?

God bless.

Making disciples in Peru,

Brian Vander Kodde

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