Legacy Letter July 2011

IN THIS LETTER: Baptism in Chiang Mai, Passover in Burma,
Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, It is always rewarding to baptize a repentant young person who has sincerely given their life to the eternal care of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. On Sabbath, the 12th of January, our small congregation of the Church of God in Chiang Mai, shared in the joy of God our Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and all His angels as a young couple from Myitkyina, Kachinland, in northern Myanmar (Burma) were baptized in our newly repaired pond.

Dear Beloved Brethren and Fellow Laborers, 8 April 2021 – This legacy letter is long overdue! We are now past the days of Unleavened Bread! Thanks be to God for all His blessings! All our brethren were able to keep the Passover and Unleavened Bread, despite all the horrors that are escalating by the military coup. In Jawk Taing, pastor SengAung told Leon and me on the phone that 17 were gathered and that only one could not be there, but will at the 2nd Passover in a month. A few in other areas kept it at home with the ceremony notes given in advance. Our church compound seems to be the most peaceful at this time. We pray that this blessing will continue.

Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, The following is from the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . .’ The purpose of what is known as the Establishment Clause was to prevent government from establishing a state religion and to prevent the government from interfering with a citizen’s religious beliefs. Nowhere does it say that religion must be taken out of government. The purpose of the clause was not to take religion out of government, but to keep government out of religion.

Legacy Letter January 2011 [pdf http://www.legacyinstitute.org/letters/1101.pdf/]