CELEBRATING GOD’S FAITHFULNESS FOR 25 YEARS OF MINISTRY

Hi, this is Marty McKenzie with His Love Ministries, I wanted to share some good news with you.  Last week on March 17th I was celebrating too, but not Saint Patrick's Day, but that day marked the 20th anniversary of His Love Ministries being a full time ministry and over 25 years of ministry. Here is my testimony about this. It took 5 years of feeling like God was calling me to preach and me thinking who me God. I can’t speak in front of people. I felt like Moses did when God asked him to speak to Pharaoh. I struggled with this and got a lot of bad advice during this time. I was a young Christian and did not know how to find the will of God and the people I asked weren’t helpful at all, in fact they caused me to think I wasn’t called to preach. I would try to put it away and forget about it because of others advice, but after a while it would come back. So after 5 years of hearing God speak to me and having many others discourage, me I finally decided I did not want to miss out on God’s best. If this is what God wanted I was willing to do whatever He asked me to do. In 1997, after finally answering the call of God, I became convinced that I was to be involved in Ministry, specifically, Jail and Prison. A mission was laid on my heart to go to the jails and prisons, to minister to those that had messed up their life and could be changed by the Gospel.

It all began in October of 1997 when I preached my first message at a Men’s Ministry Dinner. Later in December of 1997 I was talking to a friend and telling him about the calling God had put on my heart. He gave me a person's name and I called the guy on a Tuesday and told him I would like to come and preach there. He said can you come this Sunday; well I was scared to death at that moment, not thinking I would have to go that soon and not knowing whether I could get a message together that quickly. I said I would call him back Thursday if that was okay, he said yes. Well I called Thursday and told him yes. That Sunday as I was driving out of Savannah, scared to death, not because of the prison, but the speaking in front of people and not knowing what to expect, I turned the radio to BBN, right after I did, the announcer was saying that it was not our ability, but our availability that God wanted. It was just what I needed to hear. It still felt like it took forever to get there. I preached for the first time at the Effingham Prison on Dec 14th 1997, and after feeling God's power as I spoke and the confirmation that this is what God had truly called me to, I drove back to Savannah and it felt like it took about 5 seconds, as I was on cloud nine. This led to me providing Church Services there ever since and finally going full time on March 17th 2003.

      Due to God’s faithfulness and willingness to use me, as well as your faithfulness to support us, we have seen God do mighty things and reach out to those the world has forgotten. God first led me to go to the prisons in 1997, and then in 1999 we started going to senior care homes. Through the years He has opened many other doors to youth and adults at Coastal Harbor, the jail, youth detention center, transition centers, homeless shelters, truck stops, and facilities for women, children, and veterans who were struggling to make it on their own.

Pray for us as we partner with others to share the Gospel and seek volunteers willing to go to the forgotten. Our plan is to follow the Lord wherever He leads us until He sees fit to quit using us or provides someone to take over this ministry when I can no longer do it. We are so thankful for all of you who pray and support us; many of you have been from the very beginning and are still with us today. God knows who you are, and as a partner in this ministry you will reap the rewards, because you have played a part in every life that has been changed. Thank You and God Bless You.           

 

  Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

             John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.

              “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  -John 8:32

 

          Our mission is to spread the gospel and to go to the least of these with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ; We reach out to those the World has forgotten. 

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