Soulfest Outreach

Greetings,
On this beautiful summer morning as our country steps back from the brink of financial default, we find ourselves merrily preparing for our first ever outreach at SoulFest to spread awareness of our developing missions and to stimulate generosity alongside love and good deeds. It may seem counter-intuitive during stressful economic times to focus on charity and the plight of the poor, but we see many examples in Scripture that our faith is kindled during times of crises.

Remember the widow with Elijah who was instructed to share her last meal with the prophet. Her reward was to have an unceasing supply for her household of oil and flour until the famine was over. He spoke of God's promise of provision for her household, so she obeyed the prophet and made him a muffin first, before her supposed last meal after which she expected she and her son would die from starvation. God's WORD came to her and she mixed it with FAITH that ACTS and the result was a divine intervention of continuous oil and flour during the famine.

I am certainly NOT a health and wealth PROSPERITY preacher, but we must remember that God's ledger does not function by Sum,Zero. It is more like Insufficiency plus Faith yields an Abundance!

So here we are, very Insufficient in ourselves. We have faith to stand in the GAP and God has supplied us annually with more than $400,000 in donated foods and medicine. The food and medicine and clothes and furniture etc have not run out for years. It is a continuous fountain of blessing.

So our testimony might provoke you to believe in God's promises for those who minister to the poor:

Whoever gives to the poor will never lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to their poverty will be cursed.
(Pro 28:27)
To Zion:

I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
(Psa 132:15)

The righteous person is concerned about the poor; but the wicked don't understand what they need to know.
(Pro 29:7)

Look! This was the sin of your sister Sodom and her daughters: Pride, too much food, undisturbed peace, and failure to help the poor and needy.
(Eze 16:49)

There are hundreds of verses like these in both the Old and New Testaments commanding the righteous to care and give to the needy, to understand their plight and both blessings and curses flow from our reaction to the poverty around us.

We have taken up the cause of the poor and orphan and widow and alien among us here and abroad. We are looking for partners who will stand with us, believing God will place on your heart how to serve, how to give, that you would take your place with us in the GOOD FIGHT!

Come and join us at SoulFest this week at Gunstock, NH if you can, August 3rd- August 6th and prayerfully consider how you may commit your life serving the "least of these". Or contact us at our office right here in Laconia, NH. We have a short term mission team leaving next month to Santo Domingo and we have room for others to come along. Just Pray and Obey! May the Lord bless you with heavenly wisdom for these times,I pray.

In His Precious Name,

Ken Peters
Director, OAO/KC