| CAN OPENER MINISTRY Several years ago we were invited to Mexico for Nathan to preach at a normally there in the evening - MOST always in the daytime. After church the pastor & his wife insisted we join them for a meal. It never occurred to me that there wasn't electricity - but there was one candle in each room. When it was time to open a can of Last at a normally there in the evening - MOST always in the daytime. service. (Pastor's wife & myself to the right). We're not normally bless the women with good old fashioned can openers. Maybe the Lord will place it on your heart also. |
| Check out what's attached to each can opener. Each story is at the bottom of this page! |
| CAN OPENER MINISTRY |
| My goal was to share Jesus with everyone opener with. Many times I don't have a translator with me so I wrote the story of my first experience with the hammer & knife and shared the importance of having Jesus in our lives and explained the Plan of Salvation in Spanish. I have attached one to each can opener - now there will be no excuse to not share HIS WORD! The other day the van we were riding in kept breaking down on the way to the church in the dump. Nathan had me go ahead & walk to the church & I was able to hand out can openers to a lady driving a cart & one passing by. We may never know how many will actually receive Jesus through this - but I believe one day in heaven we will meet many because of a simple can opener! |
| Our friend from World Missionary Press has been keeping us in stock with army can openers. |
| While staying with a pastor in La Laguna, MX I explained about the can openers & they never have any canned food. I never thought about the possibility of folks not having canned food. Here I was thinking I had the solution for every woman's problem & the Lord showed me that can openers are fine but not necessarily necessary! |
| Here Nathan is demonstrating how to use army can openers We found out that they can also use it as a knife. |
| Nathan pulled all the men together after church to hand out army can openers. |
| Notice the hand on my back? A little boy was wanting a opener for his momma. We work hard to make sure that the women who attended the preaching receives one. |
| The card attached to the opener shares the Plan of Salvation (in Spanish) plus the story of why they are receiving this. |
| Everyone seemed so pleased with their gift of a can opener. We gave 125 away! |
| How many may come to know the Lord after reading the salvation message attached to the opener? |
| During Navidad American women were given can openers to hand out. |
| While visiting w/our church families we distributed canned food. We told the kids there was chocolate pudding & they ran & got the army knife we handed out last year to open it. Nathan patiently opened up the gallon can w/it. When giving out the hand we our church families. Ouche wa wa! Were they happy when we brought them back one. |
| Juanie (pink) is pastor of a church that meets in her home (Reynosa, MX) that is across town from our Dump church. The Lord has opened that door for us to work w/them. Nathan preaches once a month there. We brought them can openers also! We forget when we bring cans of food that they only have a hammer & knife till we HAVE to use them. |
| The mission team from Victory Park Baptist Church (McAlester, OK) distributed can openers in Rio Bravo, Mexico. |
| THANK YOU to New Covenant United Methodist Church for their donation of can openers! Many, many will be distributed during the 2009 Navidad A Reynosa! |
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