Roses from the Lord

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In a message dated 9/19/98 10:35:26 AM Mountain Daylight Time, lyohnk@juno.com
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 Last night we went to an installation service for a new pastor to take
 over an existing church.  There were a lot of people there with lots of
 words and many gave flowers to the new pastor and his wife (including
 us).
 
 As I sat there I felt some pangs of hurt.  We are Home Missionaries. 
 Home Missionaries go to a town with usually nothing.  We had no building,
 no installation service and precious little support of any type.
 
 Home Missions can be very lonely, expensive  ( Home Missionaries usually
 pay for the privilege of starting a new work.) and people are always
 wondering when you are going to give up and leave.  People give little
 financial or emotional support to Home Missionaries.
 
 Feeling this way is nothing new to me as it is always with me on the
 Missions field and is never far off.( We've been here almost 4 years.) 
 Nobody gave us flowers when we came.
 
 We were going to a restaurant last night after service and as we were
 pulling into the restaurant I looked down on the street and there were a
 dozen roses on the ground.  Fresh, in good shape.  I picked them up and
 they are on my table this morning.
 
 Roses from the Lord.  He really does care.
 
 Lynne Yohnk
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Sis. Yohnk, I can appreciate your post, I have a similar story to tell.
Aren't we glad that pay day is on the other shore?  I came to Salt Lake City,
Utah 22 years ago to take a little Church of about 25 people, and really no
support of any kind.  If it gets done you do it, if it gets paid you pay it,
is about what it adds up to.
	And then people want to complain about who gets the tithes, and always the
authority issue is for ever going on.  No body out here seemed to be concerned
with those issues when there was precious little of any thing to be coveted,
but a move of God. We were lucky to see another Jesus Name individual between
services except at Church, or church related activities.
	I sure didn't get involved in this for the money, or the authority it gives
me, I promise you that.  If anyone is concerned about souls being saved, its
the God called Pastors and ministers through out this world. Its the burden
for lost souls that caused us to leave the comfortable setting of an
established church and come to the remote places of the world.  The Mormons
are always asking us by what authority do we have to minister in their city,
and of course the call to preach truth to a unsaved world is where we get our
authority. So I guess we just have to let the heathen rage as we carry this
blood stained banner into the world, trying to reach the lost with a message
that can deliver them from the powers of darkness.

Pastor Fitzgerel