Ministry Update 

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The construction on the new facility is progressing well as God is blessing His work.  Please continue to pray daily for this undertaking that God's will, will be done.  The brick are being laid all around the building and the Bell Tower is going up.  Underground work is being completed and the electrical is progressing.  We are now setting our sites on the concrete and all the materials and labor to get all the floors poured.  The cost of the concrete is 104 dollars a yard and we need around 250 yards.  The concrete will cost about 25,000 dollars, labor is at 28,000 dollars and the rest of the cost is estimated at around 15,000 dollars for a total of approximately 68,000 dollars?  We are looking at the external doors and windows presently also.  Over head work in the Sanctuary is being prepared with engineers having completed the structural load work.  The stairs need to be placed in the stair wells and the block partition walls laid up in the stair wells, education wing and lobby area.  The Sprinkler system must also be continued as well.  Therefore, as you can easily see, much work is on-going as we press forward on this project.  Just please pray that we will obey God's leadership and that He will bless in an abundant way.  To Him be all glory and praise!!  Remember, if God leads, you can contribute to the building by clicking on our other website www.ftministries.org and clicking on the donate button.

Remember, the Mission Team in New Mexico.  You can click over to www.ftministries.org   and click the link to ftmissionteam.org and view daily pics of this mission.  Be praying and staying in touch and up dated!!  Brother Ted Farris has been one of our Missionary partners for many years and we are so pleased to be able to send this team out to assist him this week!

Cook Books are in and available from any of the Girl Scouts.

Thank God for the souls who are being saved!  Pray for their spiritual growth and maturity!

 Pastor Andre Louis is in Haiti and is busy rebuilding houses and providing food and assistance to his people.  We are assisting him with funds and still are at the ready to move with hands on help when possible.  If you have building skills and would be able to go to Haiti from mid-June through August please let us know and you can join a team for a week, ten days or two weeks.  Keep praying for these precious people as they are still facing such a challenge in their lives.

Please visit www.caringbridge.org   Your heart will be touched by the families with children who are suffering from catastrophic childhood diseases and especially the children themselves.  

www.graceofgodchildren.org is a another website of great interest to us here at Freedom.  Pray for David and Laurel as they labor to bring God's blessing to the children of Kenya!  

Please take a minute and look over the new "Financial Support" page.  Pray over it that God will speak to hearts so we can go forward and see these visions become realities.

 Construction of the new Church and Educational facility here at Freedom is continuing as the steel is all in place now, the grading is continuing and the roof will soon be added.  Please keep praying for this project every single day!

Remember, THE VOICE OF FREEDOM radio ministry is now heard on 101.1 FM as well as 1010 AM  This means better quality of listening and a broader coverage area.  If you live in South West Virginia or the surrounding area, please join us at 12:05 PM and listen as you enjoy your lunch, Monday - Friday  12:05 - 12:20 

There are many things in Congress now that we need to keep a sharp eye on.

 Please feel free to call Rick Boucher direct at 202-225-3861.  You may want to email him at ninthnet@mail.house.gov .  You can visit the House of Representatives web site at http://www.house.gov/ and find many interesting things and usable information there.  Let's get involved!! At the very least, let's stay informed!!!!   You may be interested in clicking on your Congressman's name and it will take you to his personal office website.  There you can keep up with what he is doing for us there in Washington.

The Senate's website is http://www.senate.gov/  Both Mark Warner and Jim Webb can be emailed directly from the Senate Web Page.  You can call their offices direct at:  202-224-2023 for Warner and 202-224-4024 for Webb.  Please, let's all be informed and get involved!!  Remember, Jesus said to, "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's."  Matthew 22:21  I think He most surely meant more than just paying taxes, don't you?  "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything!" 

You can contact the White House at http://www.whitehouse.gov/  

You can check out our State Government at http://legis.state.va.us/   Here you will find the General Assembly website and can easily navigate your way around.

You can contact the Governor of Virginia at www.governor.virginia.gov/  and easily email him at any time.  He has a very user friendly and informative website.

For those living here in Smyth County you can go to http://www.smythcounty.org/  and find various things of interests concerning our County Government.

Let's be involved.  "When good people do nothing; bad people do whatever they want!"  It was a pretty smart guy who said that or at least something like that, I think his first name was Albert and he said it during the lead up to WWII.  A lot of people wished they had listened to him earlier.  

Please check out the following websites of some of the Missions Outreaches who are partners with us here at Freedom in getting the Gospel around the world.

www.graceofgodchildren.org  David and Laurel are being used of God greatly in Kenya and we are praying for them and proud of them!!

www.ibmasians.org   Daniela and Jamaal Cabal and children -Brother Margarita Cabrera & Family-Brother Airs Delano, his wife Nerve and daughter Lovely Grace-  laboring for our Lord in the Philippines

www.bmfp.org    Jon and Carolyn Dresher  Brother Jon is the Asian Field Director and labors with peoples who so desperately need the Gospel in regions where most people fear to trod including Burma (Myanmar).

www.ntm.org   Our longstanding partner at New Tribes is Brother Kevin Kendall who along with his wife, Debbie, and son, Timothy, have labored in New Guinea for many years.  Kevin is sent out from and by The Charity Baptist Church of Kettering, Ohio.  You can write directly to the Ken dells at:  P.O. Box 1611 Mt. Hagen, WHIP. Papua New Guinea

www.bimi.org   We actually work with many missionaries through BEMIS however, our longstanding and regular partner here is Brother Roger Blevins and his wife Kay.  Roger is the South American Director of Churches and Missions.  Keep praying for Roger as he recovers from his severe life-threatening injuries.

www.bbfimissions.org    Brother Ted Farris and his wife Tony have been apart of our Missions Family here at Freedom for many years.  They labor with the Navaho Nation in Gallup New Mexico and God has richly blessed their efforts and He continues to do so!!   Ron and Nancy Minton  are preaching Jesus to the people in Ukraine, a former Soviet Republic located between Poland and Russia.  Peter and Zorka Abrman serve in Slovakia which borders the Ukraine to the west.   

www.maranathabaptistmission.org  Since 1979 we have partnered with Ronnie and Rebecca Starr.  The Starrs established the Artic Circle Baptist Church in Fort Yukon, Alaska shortly after Freedom was established here in Atkins.  We were there in the beginning of the "work up north."  We are still blessed to work with the Starrs today!  Feel free to correspond with Ronnie and Rebecca at P.O. Box 60590  Fairbanks, Alaska  99706

H.E.L.P Ministries Asia  is our partner in the Nation of India where it is our joy to assist  national Indian Pastors and their Churches.  Dr. A.D. Matthews can be reached at admatthews@yahoo.com     www.igiworld.org  

More links and Missionary info coming soon!!  Stayed tuned . . .