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SWAT REPORT # 132 08-25-09
Psa
71:18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God,
forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this
generation, and thy power to every one that
is to come.
THE GENERATION GAP
The verse above describes my past week
perfectly. A grayhead “shares” with
this generation. The generation gap really
does exist, but we need to bridge it more often. The
world has given up on bridging this gap but with the Lord as the bridge it can be done.
Veteran missionary Chris Rue invited me to
be the preacher for his youth camp near Odessa, Ukraine.
The good Lord gave me some neat ideas to illustrate my messages with
balloons and I got very excited. I made a
stop along the way in Moldova and preached with missionary Paul Hamilton. He has been there 12 years…has a great
ministry…I preached in his church and the next day we went on the street together in
his communist country…see Photo 132.01. No one got saved but one man got
mad…really mad…threatened to kill us if we were not gone in 10
minutes…well, it took us that long to chew our fingernails off but he never showed up
again…PTL.
I moved on to the camp in Ukraine. About 70 teens, 10 missionaries and wives and I
get to preach to these morning and night…see Photos 132.02,03. I got to fellowship
with many friends from years gone by such as Perry Demopolis serving in
Kiev…Chris Rue serving in Odessa…Paul Hamilton serving in Moldova…Mike
Ireland=Ukraine, and new missionary friends such as Mark Priem=Odessa, Jeff
Christian=Odessa, John O’Brien=Ukraine, Paul Gray=Ukraine…hope I did not miss
any. There were also several national pastors
and their teens there. I was thrilled to do
an accordion/harmonica duet with my old accordion student Perry Demopolis…see Photo
132.04. The teens paid great attention but
they also had lots of fun…see Photo 132.05 they are enjoying a water balloon fight. We had two saved at Bro. Rue’s church…a
16 year old boy in the AM…and a 14 year old girl in PM…they both gave glorious
and tearful testimony of their salvation. The
altar was kept warm with prayer…see Photo 132.06 and I truly believe many lives were eternally affected. Most all of the group is pictured in Photo 132.07.
It was a
fabulous week and one I will remember till the rapture next week.
Lastly, the
Weimer family, veteran missionaries to Dresden, E. Germany were with us for a visit. These are old friends of ours and we had such a wonderful time together…one of
the greatest blessings in the service of the Lord
is that you get to make friends with the greatest people on earth.
Gerald Sutek and the SWAT TEAM for
Christ…2 Tim. 1:8
