Greetings Family, Friends, and Partners!
Joyfully testifying of His love, His grace and His mercy in and through our lives, we send you ‘our once in awhile newsletter!’ In the future, keeping you better informed will be one of our primary goals!
Glory to God, for a new Toshiba Laptop computer and software from our more than enough God! We had not even asked for the software, yet He knows our every need. Many thanks are given to Him, for sending a generous and obedient child. In addition , helping hands have been provided to us for the much-needed clerical work around here, supplying us again with more. Yippee! 2Cor 9:12 -15
Once again, we were honored to attend an annual meeting with others who share the message of God's Father-heart. At this gathering, ‘ Father's Love Forum ,’ held in Pasadena , Ca., we encouraged one another and built new relationships with others called to share this message around the world. Hearing from Barry Adams, James & Denise Jordan, Jack Frost, and others refuels us and confirms our call to carry on.
FLL NEWS IN JACKSONVILLE AND BEYOND! To mention but a few that we know about :
- Mighty Wind Ministries received a video from us and played it at the Youth Crisis Center and handed letters to all the youth as well.
- St John's County Jail received over 200 of the color version FLL and called requesting more, because ‘the inmates cannot get enough of them.’ Agape By The Sea, the bookstore, where we take FLL resources, heard about this from one of the chaplains, who went to the store, and the owner of the store seeded one of their FLL DVD's into the lives of the inmates there!
- Several ambassadors went to an area hospital to pray for a couple of patients, leaving over 350 copies of Father's Love Letters in the chapel and in the waiting rooms! A woman called from Fayetteville , North Carolina requesting more letters like the ones she had found at the hospital chapel. Yeah God! She told us that she had been there to visit a relative, who later died, and how the words within the letter had brought comfort to the family. She was now going to be conducting a prayer breakfast at her church and wanted more FLL for study in that group.
- Another church called for the Spanish FLL to take with them on a mission trip to Costa Rica . Calls continue to come in from all denominations to receive this life-giving tool. Glory to GOD!
- Deborah was one of the guest speakers at Lowell Correctional Institution, and spoke on ‘Knowing God As Father.’ We have been writing to inmates and sending FLL there for a number of years. A local ministry visits on a monthly basis and plays the Father's Love Letter DVD. Several DVDs, CDs, Devotional Books, 500 FLL cards, and others were given to the senior chaplain to distribute to all three units there. The women were so excited to see someone connected to FLL . They cheered, bringing Deborah to tears. God is so good to all His children!
The ambassadors are increasing!…IT’S contagious! *See enclosed invitation
Ambassador Bonnie, another true ambassador of Father’s love, shares many testimonies with us:
After her neighbor received the FLL postcard, used at the Super March for Jesus, from Bonnie, she was told that they own a small car lot, and they were so touched by it that they hung it on the office wall.
They also place the Father's Love Letter in the glove compartment of every car and with the paperwork of every car they sell! Bonnie passes them out at stores, gas stations, truck stops, to homeless, to family, to co-workers, at construction sites, schools, on cars in parking lots, to neighbors, pastors and friends at church, on the church ‘advance’ and to on-duty police officers. She says, “God is ultimately awesome, and because He set me free, I want others to be free. Isaiah 61 states, "God has anointed me to preach the gospel to the world and to set the captives free." This letter of love makes that happen! I will also be taking a ‘zillion copies’ in the language spoken in South Africa on a mission trip, in September!”
Ambassador Susan, very active, married, with two young children, has been sharing Father’s love for some time now, much of the time on crutches! She gives FLL cards to many everywhere and also gives Father's Love Letter DVDs, CDs, and Devotional Gift Books as gifts to those in hospitals, at schools, for birthdays, in time capsules, to grads, and others. It is such a joy to spread the love of God!!
FATHER'S DAY FLL BLITZ OF FLORIDA! Father's Love Letter appeared in a full-page newspaper ad, in the Tallahassee Democrat , The Blountstown County Record , the Marianna Floridian, and in the Chattahoochee-Sneads Twin City News. These papers were all published on Father's Day week, with the circulation coverage from the "big bend" area of the panhandle of Florida stretching from Tallahassee halfway to Jacksonville , and from Tallahassee halfway to Pensacola , and from the Georgia border to the Gulf of Mexico . Right here on the First Coast , radio spots of Father's Love Letter were broadcast over the weekend on several stations. Many lives were touched by the incredibly awesome message of God’s love. That weekend we were blessed to spend some time with family and Burt & Shirley Arno of Grand Ridge , Florida . It was through their obedience, that the newspapers were published. While there, we attended New Life Family Church in Marianna with Pastors Jeff and Sandra Ward. The DVD of Father's Love Letter was shown and all attending the service received an FLL card. This pastor ministers in Marianna Correctional every month; now he will be taking FLL resources to the inmates. We also met a man who ministers every week to over 200 inmates at A. G. Dozier Correctional Facility for boys, their ages are from 15 to 26. He received a video and Father's Love Letter for each one with great joy and invited us to come anytime to minister to the boys. Plans are in the making! Yeah God! Attending that same service was the head intercessor of the TBN church in Nashville , Tennessee. After viewing the DVD of Father's Love Letter , she decided to get a video to take back to her pastor to play in that church!
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| (Deborah, Angela & Sisters, Inc. at Lowell Correctional) | (Bill & Deborah At Arno’s in Grand Ridge, Florida ) | (Burt & Shirley Arno www.LettersOfLifeMission.com) | (Bill & Deborah at New Life Family Church in Marianna, Florida) |
Upcoming Events or Outreaches:
- July 21… 3 to 6 PM Mission Main Street , outreach of love for our city, along Main Street, from 1 st St. to Trout River Bridge with other faith-based organizations (Estimated Cost $250)
- July 25… *Ambassadors Gathering… Invitation Enclosed… Please join us!
- August 7… 12 to 8 PM Co-laboring with a local ministry, alongside other churches at an outreach in Riverside and at the beaches in conjunction with Gay Pride Week. A reaching out into the homosexual community, with attendance to reach in excess of 10,000. (Estimated cost is $900)
The following statistic confirms the need for Father’s love among the homosexuals. “I have worked with thousands of homosexuals. I have never seen a homosexual who had a loving, respectful relationship with his father.” Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Author “ A Parents Guide To Preventing Homosexuality.” Preventing Homosexuality, Focus On The Family Radio Broadcast April 2003 We look forward to this outreach and request prayer and financial support for the printing of Father’s Love Letters, specially designed for this outreach.
Our need for new vehicles remains urgent , along with our monthly maintenance costs:
Office Expenses $700, Web Site Costs $175, Outreach $400 Media Production and Printing Costs $400
Father's Love Letter resources are available through this ministry, for your donations of the suggested retail price. This helps cover some of our operational costs. The FLL DVD, VHS tape, CD, Devotional Gift Book, 11 x 17 parchment poster and worship CDs are in stock now. Take advantage of this opportunity, to sow into this ministry; reach out with this transforming message, taking us from orphan to sonship.
When reading Barry Adams’ monthly newsletter, we were taken by a story told by one of his friends. He had shared about his wife having a baby ‘still born.’ This is part of that account:
“Several years had past, I was not thinking on and no longer grieving over this loss at the time. When another friend was praying for me, I wrestled with this one phrase, my friend continued to pray, ‘that none may perish...’ but it sounded distant to me; I was there, but not there. This went on for a bit before I realized that I was not alone - there was another with me, and I knew from the Spirit without looking, that it was the Father, and He was also holding an infant and pleading with it to just wake up. For a brief moment I could feel His heart over-shadowing my own, and I knew that He was holding all of those who have not been found by the Gospel, holding them individually with the passionate embrace of a father and calling to them, with an aching heart, “Wake up!” Eph. 5:14-17
May these times in which we live and the many testimonies we read encourage us to make the most of these days. Jesus came to reveal His Father to us, His children, and he has called us to be ministers of reconciliation to a lost and dying world. We can either go and/or send others and we all reap a great reward of souls to our account! Please consider giving to the work of this ministry so that others will know and accept His extravagant love and receive the healing to their wounded soul and spirit. No amount is too small or too large. 2 Cor. 5:18 , Rev. 22:17, 1 Sam. 30:24, 2 Cor. 9:5-15, Phil. 4:14 -19
His Word says ‘the whole earth is in travail till the true sons and daughters are revealed,’ and ‘that we are no longer called orphans, but sons.’ Rom. 8:14 -23, Gal. 4:4-7 His heart aches for His little ones to come home! Countless testimonies of healing and the return of many are taking place, as we reach His little ones with this truth. He calls our name with passion, to hear us cry, “Abba, Daddy, Papa, Father!”
Let us hear from you! Testimonies never get old! Thank you for your continued prayer and financial support. Together we can blanket the earth with His Love, everywhere and in every way. We Love You!
Abiding In His Love and For His Purpose,
Bill and Deborah Fisher
