Legacy Letter July 2016

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.

21 February 2017, Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, “TRIP TO BURMA” Gloria and I have returned from Myanmar (Burma) and have great things to report. First of all, I would like to relay that the Church of God is continuing to better organize in Burma. Burma has been a backwater for the Church of God for many years; indeed, it has been an adjunct to Australia and continues to be for some COG organizations. Part of the problem has been a lack of trained leadership for the fledgling churches that have sprung up over the years in many parts of Burma.

Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers,
Two weeks ago Gloria and I traveled to a small village in the mountains near the border with Burma (now called Myanmar).  We went to pick up six refugees who are also Church of God members.  They have been living in the refugee camp for four years.