MY STORY!

IN 1985 WE WERE IN THE MESA MALL DOING CANDLES TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE MISSION. A GENTLEMAN CAME UP TO OUR BOOTH AND THREW AN ENVELOPE ON THE COUNTER AND WALKED AWAY. THAT ENVELOPE HAD $46,000 DOLLARS IN THE FORM OF A CHECK. WE HAD BEEN LOOKING AT THE PLACE ON SOUTH AVE AND THEY WANTED $125,000.00 FOR THE BUILDING. WE MADE AN OFFER FOR $48,000.00 AND THEY COUNTERED WITH $58,000.00. WE MADE ANOTHER OFFER FOR $48,500.00 AND THEY TOOK IT. WE MOVED IN THE NEW PLACE ON MAY  THE 17TH 1985 AND IT SERVED US WELL UNTIL 1999 WHEN WE HAD A FLOOD AND HAD TO TEAR THE MISSION DOWN. BACK IN THE FORTY’S THAT AREA WAS THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT IN GRAND JUNCTION. SO, WHAT WAS ONCE SATAN’S, GOD TOOK OVER. GOD  BLESSSED THE WORK WE HAD PUT IN SO FAR. SOON AFTER WE MOVED IN A MAN CALLED US FROM BRAY REALITY AND ASK US TO COME UP THERE FOR A MEETING. I WENT UP TO SEE HIM.  HIS WIFE USED A HOUSE ABOUT TWO DOORS DOWN FROM US TO PLAY CARDS IN. SHE PASSED AWAY AND HE TOLD US HE WANTED TO SELL IT TO US. I TOLD HIM I DIDN’T HAVE MONEY TO BUY IT. BUT HE SAID HE WOULD SELL IT TO US FOR $20,000.00 WITH NO INTEREST AS LONG AS WE WOULD NOT PAY IT OFF  FOR FIVE YEARS. WE BOUGHT IT AND IT BECAME OUR MENS SHELTER.

WE SERVED THOUSANDS OF MEN AND WOMEN ON THE STREET AND NEVER HAD TO TAKE GOVERNMENT MONEY OR UNITED WAY MONEY. GOD ALWAYS SUPPLIED THE FUNDS. PHILL 4:19 READS ” GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL YOUR NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN CHRIST JESUS” AND HE SURELY DID. WE RECEIVED $76,000.00 FROM ONE WILL AND ALSO RECEIVED $17,000.00 FROM ANOTHER  WILL. WHEN YOU DO THINGS RIGHT GOD WILL DO THE REST THROUGH HIS PEOPLE. GRAND JUNCTION RESPONDED WELL TO OUR NEEDS AND WE PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO ALL WHO COME TO US THROUGH MANY PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO SHARE THE GOSPEL.  I THANK GOD FOR EVERYONE OF THOSE WHO MINISTERED AT THE RESCUE MISSION. IN 1999 WE HAD A FLOOD AND HAD TO TAKE THE MISSION DOWN. WE HAD NO MONEY TO REBUILD BUT AS THEY WERE TEARING THE BUILDING DOWN A MAN CALLED AND SAID HE WANTED TO HELP. HE CAME AND GAVE US $10,000.00 THEN THE SAME DAY WE SOLD THE HOUSE THAT WAS DONATED TO US FOR $48,500.00 AND WE HAD $58,500.00 TO WORK WITH. WHEN THE NEW MISSION WAS COMPLETED WE OPENED UP AND WE HAD THE FUNERAL FOR FRED PHILLIPS THE BLACK MAN WHO FOR TEN YEARS CALLED ME DAD. HE FOUND THE LORD SO WE WILL MEET AGAIN ONE DAY. WHEN WE WERE ALL FINISHED WITH THE NEW BUILDING WE OWED $58,000 ON THE BUILDING. I PUT A NOTE IN OUR NEWS LETTER THAT WE NEEDED THAT AMOUNT AND ABOUT A WEEK LATER MY WIFE WENT TO THE POST OFFICE AND GOT THE MAIL. THERE WERE ABOUT 30 CHECKS AND THE LAST ONE WE OPENED HAD A LETTER AND A CHECK IN IT AND THE CHECK WAS FOR $60,000.00 AND IT PAID OFF THE BALANCE WE OWED. GOD IS GOOD! WE TOOK IN 0VER 1100 SEX OFFENDERS AND WE LOST SOME SUPPORT BECAUSE OF THAT.  BUT IN THE WORD IT READS GOD WILL ACCEPT ANYONE WHO REPENTS AND TURNS FROM THEIR SINS.  A LOT OF THE MEN WHO CAME TO THE MISSION WILL NEVER BE IN TROUBLE AGAIN, THEY FOUND THE LORD AND A NEW WAY OF LIVING. I COULD TELL YOU A LOT MORE BUT THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME IN THIS SMALL NEWS LETTER. ONE THING TO REMEMBER IS THIS WHEN YOU DO THINGS RIGHT, WHEN CALLED OF GOD, HE WILL BLESS YOU AND SUPPLY ALL YOUR NEEDS.  WHEN YOU REACH OUT TO OTHERS HE WILL BLESS YOU. YOUR TITHE BELONGS TO YOUR CHURCH BUT IF YOU’RE NOT ATTENDING CHURCH AND YOU REACH OUT TO PLACES LIKE OURS YOU’RE STILL DOING GOD’S WORK.  HE WILL BLESS YOU. THE BIBLE TELLS US IN MALACHI CHAPTER 3,” HOW CAN YOU ROB GOD? WITH YOUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS, BUT WHEN YOU GIVE WITH A CHEERFUL HEART HE WILL OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POOR YOU OUT A BLESSSING THAT YOU CAN NOT CONTAIN.”

HEAVEN SENT

DID OUR LAST CONCERT AT EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH THE 16TH. WE HAD A GREAT TIME. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT GO TO KEITH MERLIN BRADLEY ON FACE BOOK AND YOU CAN WATCH IT.

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