Sunday, January 28, 2018

Where Is The Justice In Portland?

Hi everyone,
Sorry I have not written for so long.

Last Friday, January 20, in Portland at Planned Parenthood we had officer Mark Keller on duty to keep an eye on those who are not breaking the law (our group), and ignoring those who did break the law. For a little background on officer Keller. Mark Keller has been at the abortion mill many, many times. He has heard the Gospel preached many times, he has had women get down on their knees on the sidewalk next to him praying for him, he has been the recipient of handwritten letters, he has been told of our love for him, he has been told of his duty as an officer of the law to enforce justice to Planned Parenthood, he has been told of his accountability for murder, he has been loved by our group and told the truth, and yet he continues to stand there on the sidewalk perverting justice showing his hatred for God and for God's servants, not to mention his hatred of babies in the womb.
Officer Mark Keller standing near by as the "deathscort" Joan walks
yet another person into Planned Parenthood.

This week officer Keller was there once again standing by doing nothing while babies are being murdered under his watch. Let me rephrase, he was doing nothing to protect the babies, he was however actively perverting justice. When we arrived we had to set up our signs and our dolly that is used to hold a sign and our camera. Daddy also needed to position himself with his walker so that he would be safe in the case of a seizure while preaching. Officer Keller told us that we must not block access to the Post office boxes positioned nearby. We are told by the police officers that are on duty that we must not block the sidewalk and they will ask us to move if they feel we are blocking it. But if Planned Parenthood employees block access to a "health care center" they are fine. There are double-standards applied by the law enforcement officers that are on duty at the Planned Parenthood detail. Some of them show their bias for Planned Parenthood by opening the door. But why is it important that officer Keller wanted to make sure we do not block a post office box when we first arrived? Well later in the day a woman was walking into Planned Parenthood. She took a packet of information from someone in our group and walked inside. She then turned around and threw the packet out the door. It scattered on the sidewalk. People from our group picked it up. Daddy told officer Keller what had happened and asked if that was not littering. Officer Keller replied "sure". Daddy asked if he was going to do anything about it and he said "nope". He said that we picked it up so "problem solved". Daddy said that they (Planned Parenthood) take the dead babies they murdered and puts them in a bag and puts them in the dumpster. "Problem solved. No worries". Daddy then went on to say something about a police officer saying he did not care after a crime had been committed and officer Keller was kind enough to let us know that littering is not a crime. I asked him if it was breaking a law and he said it was a "civil infraction, yeah". He said that he has discretion over civil infractions and he does not have to enforce it. He asked if we want justice for littering. We do! He asked if we wanted him to enforce every civil infraction he comes across, adding that he can do that. The answer is YES! We want justice! I know that littering is not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things but when a law enforcement officer is standing on the sidewalk doing nothing and somebody litters in front of him, why would he not enforce it? This is why I bring up officer Keller's actions earlier in the day of telling us to make sure we do not block the post office boxes. He makes sure we do not block those, but does not worry about someone littering in front of him, Planned Parenthood employees stand in front of the door of the building, (which by the way, Planned Parenthood clients are not the only ones that need to use those doors, there are also all the construction workers who are walking in and out all day) but they are fine to do that. He is selective on what he enforces and who he enforces laws on. He hates God and he hates those who would dare open their mouth to spread God's message. As long as you support Planned Parenthood you are fine if you break the law, "you are against abortion and proclaim Christ's Gospel?" well that is a different story. Then you can get in trouble for "civil infractions". Where is justice?! You can watch the video of what happened here

Note officer Keller's face. That is his response to the
preaching of the Gospel.


Earlier this winter a Portland police officer sang the song "O Holy Night". Officer Keller caught it on video. I agree with officer Turner who was signing, officer Keller must "fall on his knees" before a mighty and just God! He needs salvation from God! I pray that is he is one of God's elect! I love this man but he needs a loving, yet firm, confrontation because of his actions! Pray for him and for our group as we continually tell him the Gospel and his duty to uphold justice!

We stand for justice because the God we serve is just! But God is also a God of mercy! What good news that is for us! As the Bible says, if we confess our sins He is faithful to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness! Oh, what great mercy! We will continue to proclaim to the world that God is a just God who must judge sin. But we will also declare that God is so merciful He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for the sins of His elect so that we do not have to bear the just punishment for our sins against a holy and righteous God! Who will join us in proclaiming this message?
I had to talk to officer Keller when I saw him. Next time I see him I think I will give him a
loving yet firm rebuke. My love for him makes me speak the truth to him.
If I truly love him I will not avoid speaking boldly to him about the Gospel and
His duty to stand to for justice! 

After we left Planned Parenthood that week we went to Wiscasset. Daddy did not get out of the van but Mommy and I got out. Mommy held a sign and I read the book of 1 John. I now know why Daddy sometimes asks for a drink while he is preaching, your throat can get really dry! I am not used to trying to project my voice for long periods of time. I need to practice it. And keep a bottle of water nearby!

This was one of our first weeks at Planned
Parenthood in Portland. Officer Keller has stood
by ignoring the murder of children since the
start. 
 We had no issues with the Wiscasset police that day which was good. We always have a letter from our lawyer with us when we go to Wiscasset to show any officer who tries to give us a hard time for being out there proclaiming Christ and Him crucified. Back in June of 2017 we were out holding signs while Daddy was preaching and we ran into some trouble with the chief of police. You can see my post about that encounter here. Thank you to the Center for Religious Expression for helping us with that whole situation. A special "thank you" to Anthony Mangini and Susan Ross. You are a wonderful team of lawyers that was there when we needed you! You are so helpful! God bless your work as you strive to help those who are facing legal situations because of their stand for Christ!

This week we did not go to Portland because of sickness but we did have a chance to go to the local high school on Wednesday to pass out tracts to some of the students. We also got to talk to some friends who are students there who are professing Christians. I have an email in to the police department to see how close we can get to the door of the school and we are trying to figure out some other ideas of what we can do to reach the students. Please pray for us as we try to build relationships with these young people. We may do some specialized tracts and an informal survey and such for the students but we will have to see what happens.

Prayer
Be praying for Kimberly May. Some of you may know Kimberly. Her husband Cody died a year ago in a swimming accident in Lake Travis in Texas. Kimberly and Cody had 7 children. Just recently was the 1 year anniversary of Cody's death. Kimberly was getting out of the car the other day and fell down and broke both bones in her leg and injured her ligaments. She had surgery last week. Be praying for her as this time of year is already hard on her because of the anniversary of Cody's passing and now having to care for 7 children ages about 12 and younger while healing from surgery. Pray for strength and comfort for her.

With love in the Lord,
Virginia

Friday, January 5, 2018

Loving Our LDS Neighbors.

Hi everyone,
God has given us a ministry platform and we are looking forward to see how He uses us in this new ministry. What ministry might this be? Ministry to people involved in the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints!

A few days ago my family and I were sitting in the Walmart parking lot. One of us saw two Mormon missionaries walking across the parking lot. Daddy had just come out of a bad seizure so he did not want to get out to talk to them so me and my sister chased them down so we could talk. I know that may sound weird to some people, chasing down Mormon missionaries, but our family had just recently talked about getting together with some Mormons and I had written to a friend of mine who is a local Mormon looking for some of their doctrinal books for research. So when I saw these Mormons I was happy to chase them down. Now for some people seeing some Mormon missionaries walking around town may not seem like such a big deal but where we live these two guys are the only missionaries around here.

But back to my story. My sister and I jumped out of the van and went over to their car with some Gospel tracts by Paul Washer. I walked up and I think I surprised them by approaching them and giving them tracts. But we talked for a minute (and they gave me the Book of Mormon that I had been wanting.) I told them we would love to have them come over for a meal. They heard that Daddy had seizures and offered their help. Another Mormon I talked with told me to give them work to do since they are here to serve. I gave them our phone number and they called later that night. They called again the other night to change our plans but now we are getting together on Wednesday at 1:00. Please be praying for the salvation of these two young men, Elder Petersen and Elder Clifford, (I do not know their first names.)

After talking to the missionaries, we got home we found out that president Monson of the Mormon church had died the night before. He was 90 years old. I had no idea that he had passed away as I stood there talking to these missionaries. President Monson's funeral will be held I believe on Thursday. Please be praying for the Mormons who will be morning his passing. Maybe God will use this in their lives to think about their faith. They are being reminded that their leaders are still only men who will one day die.

Daddy wrote a Facebook post the day after president Monson's death sharing a video from Apologia Church titled The Gospel For Mormons He posted it on one of our Facebook pages and advertised it among people who had "The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints" as one of their likes on Facebook. We have reached a good amount of people through the ad and some of them have started to write to us. I would encourage you to go to our Facebook page and see what is going on. Here is a link to the Facebook page, Public Proclamation Of God's Word, The Bible.

I talked to one person for awhile and because of all the writing I will not post all of it here but you can go to the page linked above and read the conversation. It seems that other people were following along with what was going on in the conversation. You can tell who the Mormons are when their Facebook pages say that they studied at BYU.

One of the comments was written by Jordan Calderwood. I found those comments funny.
He said: This is cool and everything, but we all just need to team up and brace ourselves against bigger threats if secularism and atheism. Much love. 

I replied: Jordan Lee Calderwood The reason I am responding to these comments and to the Mormon faith in general is because the LDS church is preaching a false Gospel and I love the LDS people too much to let them continue to believe in a false gospel without showing them the truth. In 2 Nephi it says that we are saved by grace after all we can do. The Bible teaches in Ephesians 2 that we are saved by grace and not by our own works. Romans 3 also teaches that we are justified by faith apart from works of the law. Mormons and Christians believe in different gospels.

Also the LDS church believes in many other false doctrines that contradict Scripture. They believe that good Mormons can become gods. But the Scriptures teach that there is only one God. If you read Isaiah 45 you will see that God says that there is no God apart from Him and that there is no other Lord besides Him.

The LDS church teaches that Heavenly Father has not always been God but became a God at a certain point in time. The Bible teaches in Psalm 90 that the one True God is God from everlasting to everlasting. There has never been a point in time when the God of the Bible was a man and was then exalted to become a God.

These are just some points where the LDS church contradicts the Word of God. Study the Word of God. There are only two options. Are you going to believe the One True God or are you going to believe the false doctrine of Joseph Smith?

As regards Christians and Mormons teaming up and bracing ourselves against secularism and atheism. Mormons and Christians cannot just put our differences aside because our differences are differences of which God is the One True God. We are not all brothers. The Mormon church contradicts the Word of God and the truth must be told.
~Virginia


Here is one of the parts I found funny.
He said: Interesting take. I love your passion. You are a great tool for God. Keep it up. I humbly disagree with your assessment of Christ’s Gospel, but love that you are out there spreading it anyway. God bless.

I thought that it was funny that we disagree on the Gospel but said that he loved the fact that I was out passionately spreading it! We wrote back to him and said:  One of my representatives would be willing to come share Christ's Gospel at your local ward if you would like. Where is your ward? 

I do not know if he will take me up on the offer but we shall see. 

Another person named Kevin wrote: I thought about why so much of this organization tries to target how Mormons are wrong, moreso (sic) than other sects. The most likely reason must be because as a church, Mormons generate the most tithing.

We responded by saying: Kevin Davis I cannot speak for everyone who minister to Mormons but for me my motivations for reaching out to Mormons is not because of money. I love the LDS people and want them to know the truth. I have never received anything from the LDS people except a Book of Mormon. I am not in this for the money at all. I am sorry if any Christian has tried to minister to you just for money and not because they care for your soul. My family does not even accept donations for our ministry from the people we minister to, whether that be Mormons or others. Our family is not supported by any mission board or Church for the ministry we do. We spend 10 percent of our income on ministry we are not making money on it.

My family loves the LDS people and hope to see them come to the knowledge of the true Gospel. With Daddy's seizures and the cold weather here in Maine this may be a way that God is giving us an opportunity to share the Gospel from our home. Please be praying for us as we share the truth of God's Word with the lost people of this world, including those who belong to the LDS church. 

Prayer
Our family may have an opportunity to go on a mission trip to Key West, Florida at some point. We still need to work out details but we would appreciate prayers as we discern whether or not God wants us to go back to Key West, the place we have affectionately called "home". While we only lived in the Florida Keys for less than a year it has a special place in the hearts of those of my family who have been there. 

There are a lot of people there who need to hear the Gospel. Pray for revival for that small Florida Island! A friend of ours has a Church in the Keys and he goes out preaching multiple nights a week at Mallory Square which is a really busy place in the evenings. Pray for him in his ministry there. Pray that God would raise up people who will have a love for the people of that island who will go there to proclaim the glorious Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who is worthy of all glory, honor, and praise! And as you pray for those who are doing ministry there, do not forget to pray for the people there who are in need of the truth of the Gospel.

If anyone wants to have a little fun with a video here is a video of one of our friends "Blue" who is a street performer down there. Blue at Mallory Square. Please pray for Blue's salvation and the salvation of the other people in that small island town! It looks like at least 3 of our friends who are street performers down there that we knew7 years ago are still there. I look forward to possibly seeing them again. Thank you for your prayers!

With love in the Lord,
Virginia