Category: Updates

Decemberrrrrrr had an unusually cold spell. We had a couple of weeks of sub-zero temperatures and several days of that were in the ten-below range with wind chills of -30. January has been much more mild and now we are entering February, looking forward to spring.

OPPORTUNITIES!

        I’m finally getting some more opportunities to minister in a variety of ways:

RADIO

        This morning was my first of three or four appearances on “Unconfused”, a radio talk show hosted by Pastor Stephen Miller in Lubbock, Texas on KRFE (AM580). I will do that Monday mornings when I’m available until I start working Mondays (probably March).

ON THE ROAD

        I will be at Liberty Baptist Church in Rochester, IN (Pastor Bill McSpadden) April 13, 14, 15 (F-S-S) for five sessions (https://www.rochesterlibertybaptistchurch.com). Those of you from nearby churches are invited to attend the Friday and Saturday sessions.

We’re working on scheduling something at Bible Baptist Church in Asheville, NC (Pastor Andrew Sluder). It will probably have to be in the fall when I start getting three-day weekends again. It’s a 14 hour drive, so the extra day is imperative. I can take some days off work for meetings (I am for the Indiana meetings), but I don’t want to burn then faster than necessary.

AT HOME

        Pastor Brenenstuhl, my pastor here at Wyldewood Baptist Church in Oshkosh, WI asked me to do a six-week, for-credit, summer session for our Wyldewood Baptist Bible Institute, complete with Powerpoint. I already have two of the six ready to go. I also teach our King’s Kids Wednesday evening youth ministry about once a month. They get to see fossils and artifacts, I bring but they’ve never been able to see my Powerpoint lessons.

Sometime within the next two months I’ll be at Bible Baptist Church, Winneconne WI, Pastor Robert Hatch.

Last month I did an Awana session (two actually) at nearby Plymouth Congregational. Director Jim Engler says I am the most requested special speaker during the year.

NOW is the time to schedule a weekend meeting for your church. Call 920-376-0828 or respond to this email. Places more than about 8 hours away may have to wait until fall so we can take advantage of the extra day. For those of you interested in having me for a meeting, I have created a page on my website that tells what I have, what I might need, and some pointers and basic information. Check it out at: http://genesisevidence.org/my-needs/

In Christ the Creator,

Teno Groppi GenesisEvidence.org

John 5:46-47 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Mayday! Mayday!

I had some wild and harrowing experiences on my trip to Bolt Independent Fundamental Baptist Church in West Virginia, with Pastor Jim Lucas (and on the way back with a stop at Fountain Square Baptist Church in Indianapolis with Pastor Aaron Campbell.)

I’ve been hearing these kind of stories all my life from missionaries we’ve had in at Wyldewood Baptist Church, in Oshkosh, WI (Pastor Jason Brenenstuhl, Mission Pastor Randy King). It was surreal for these things to be happening to me. I thank God to have been part of a church for the past 27 years that has always been generous to other missionaries and full-time servants. I have hosted many of them myself. Now I get to reap what we have sowed and see God do similar things for me.

The devil fought this event tooth and nail. We had something go wrong virtually every day – but, praise God, NONE of it hindered the sessions.

Day ONE: WV is a 14 hour drive from WI. 10 miles from the church I had a blowout. Hit a pothole rounding a curve between mountains with a truck coming the other way. Tire slit on the sidewall, un-repairable.
DAY TWO: My computer went haywire and then froze up. While trying to fix it, it spent hours trying to do updates, then was unable to complete the process, so it uninstalled the updates (another couple hours). Once I finally got it to reboot successfully (another hour or more), it wanted to redo the updates (another couple hours). Gah! Frustration. But it was ready for church!
DAY THREE: The Pastor got sick (serious matter) and missed the service.
DAY FOUR: Some family matters reared up involving kids who had been coming to the rally – but they all came!
DAY FIVE: Got my windshield cracked by a rock kicked back at me by a truck that was run off the road by another truck in front of him.
DAY SIX: When back in Indy, Pastor Campbell’s youth leader had a blowout while driving kids to the meeting. Shredded his tire. We started over an hour late.
DAY SEVEN: Two weeks later I got some photos sent to me from the Dayton, OH PD claiming I was speeding on my way through. It’s impossible for me to defend myself over what they claim happened weeks ago, based on photos, and it would cost more to travel back to Dayton to fight it. Grrrr. What a scam.

THANK GOD the blowout happened so close to my destination, so help was nearby. Not only that, but there are few areas in those mountain roads that have shoulders to pull off on, but this happened right near such a place. Not only that, but my tires were brand new (not yet 1,000 miles on them). So they were not well-worn yet, otherwise adding a new tire would’ve been a mismatch requiring me to get two new tires.

When I got to the church, one of the deacons told me, “My brother owns a tire shop. Give me your tire and I’ll get it replaced.” I explained to him they were brand new top-quality tires I just had put on and I didn’t expect anybody else to pay for it. He bellowed back, “I didn’t ask you how much it cost. I said gimme the tire and I’ll get it replaced!” Praise God, two days later I had a brand new, top-quality tire.

We had a BLAST at the youth revival. Other area churches are trying to start working together on youth outreach, and these meetings were the kick-start for that endeavor. What a thrill to know that my ministry might have a part in youth being reached for Christ all over West Virginia!

We did some puppet shows and skits every day as well. When the Pastor got sick, I had to fill in and ended up doing even more. Here is a clip from our last day’s puppet show and skit. I think you’ll find them hilarious: http://youtu.be/cYhlU9t_LRA

On the way there, I spent a night at the church in Indy to break up the long trip. Pastor Campbell built a shower stall for the occasion. On the way back, I did three lessons at his church. Here are the three Youtube video messages I did at Fountain Square Baptist Church in Indianapolis with Pastor Aaron Campbell. Pastor Campbell appears as a “giant” in the 3rd message (the sound is very low in the first two because we forgot the lapel mike that ties into the broadcast):

“Fresh Fossils” (Sunday School)
“Jesus Saith, I Am the Truth” (AM Service)
“Giants in the Earth” (Youth Service)

After a flurry of activity, my summer schedule thins out dramatically. If you are interested in using my ministry to fortify faith in the Bible, especially as each generation in America gets further away from God, NOW is a good time to set up some meetings. I am working on another trip to Mexico, with stops in Tennessee and Texas on the way there and back, for the first week in June. The rest of the summer is available. You can contact me by email or phone:

Don’t be an April Fool!

Ps 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

        Someone would have to be a fool to look at the vast universe, our own earth, living things, a living cell, music, the ability to think, morality, and death, and think it all came about by random, natural processes.

Without God’s word, there is no basis for morality, for determining right from wrong. If we are just the result of random chemical reactions and nothing more than evolved animals, what makes anything right or wrong? We don’t prosecute animals for murder, theft, rape, cannibalism, or fraud. We don’t berate animals for promiscuity or adultery. Of course in our contemporary society, we no longer berate humans for promiscuity, adultery, or homosexuality. That is a direct result of abandoning a biblical outlook and adopting an evolutionary view.

My ministry endeavors to restore the biblical outlook, and my prayer is that you would have that same burden and avail your church of my ministry.

A recent Barna poll shows that Millennials (adults in their 20’s – the current generation) are pretty evenly divided into four groups in their view of the Bible. One group (24%) believes it to be scripture – the word of God. The second group (30%) believes it to be only good moral teaching (which makes no sense if it is not scripture, since the Bible claims to be scripture, and lying would not be good moral teaching). The third group (19%) believes the Bible to be irrelevant . The fourth group (27%) believes the Bible to be dangerous! The fourth group is right, but not for the reasons they think!

If you are dismayed at the decay of our society and how Christian florists, bakers, and pizzerias are being forced to accommodate the homosexuals (and how 2% of the population controls the other 98%), the answer is simple. Our society has abandoned Genesis and adopted an evolutionary view. It’s in Genesis we learn that God created one man and one woman for marriage. Apart from the Bible, there is no compelling reason to oppose homosexuality, or homosexual marriage.

On to more cheerful news, we had a great time at Bible Baptist Church in Reedsburg, WI with Pastor Fred Weiss and his family and church. Providentially, his church hosted a Pastor’s Fellowship a couple days later and Bro. Weiss graciously allowed me to leave my display set up for the other pastors to see.

At my monthly trip to Door Bible Baptist Church in Brussels, WI, I covered for Pastor Mark Englebert, who was out of town. I preached a message called “America’s Apostasy – Rejection of Genesis” which showed how every ill we have in America today can  be traced directly to rejecting the first two or three chapters in Genesis.

This Sunday (Easter) will be my third in a row at Bible Baptist Church of Winneconne, WI (Pastor Robert Hatch). I’ll be preaching on how the disciples approached the resurrection and how it transformed them.

Next week is the youth revival at Bolt Independent Fundamental Baptist Church in West Virginia, with Pastor Jim Lucas. On the way there and back I’ll be at Hamilton Square Baptist Church in Indianapolis with Pastor Aaron Campbell. I think it’s also Providential that I’ll be in Indiana while the religious freedom vs homosexual rights battle is going on. The homosexual onslaught in America today is a direct result of the creation/evolution battle. The ONLY way to stop it is to turn America back to the Genesis creation.

If the moral decay of America concerns you, and you don’t want your church and youth to become victims of it, please consider putting my ministry on your schedule for the spring or summer (or fall or winter for that matter). You can have confidence in knowing I am a local-church sent, Bible believing Baptist (Wyldewood Baptist Church, Oshkosh, WI, Pastor Jason Brenenstuhl, Mission Pastor Randy King). You can contact me by email or phone:

307 Merritt AV
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901
920-426-9885 (home)
920-376-0828 (cell)
genesisevidenceministry@gmail.com

The attached photo is the “Nazareth Inscription“. It is confirmation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the Romans and the Jews who crucified Him! Even His enemies acknowledged HE AROSE!

Spring is Coming!

It was hard to tell on our trip south, though. We headed to Florida, with a stop to preach at Victory Baptist Church in Cullman, Alabama (Pastor Keith Whitley). Tennessee and Kentucky got slammed by a virtual blizzard. They are not prepared to handle winter weather. The roads were very treacherous. We saw a couple dozen cars in ditches, several trucks turned over with tires blown and axles broken. There was at least one fatal accident ahead of us, where the entire freeway was closed while they got emergency vehicles and a helicopter to the scene. Once it got dark and it was hard to see the road, I decided we needed to stop and spend the night in a motel. Ironically, the motel was right next to a place in Cave City, KY called “Dinosaur World” ( http://dinosaurworld.com/). We got some photos of large dinosaur replicas that will probably be appearing in future updates.

The snow stretched down into Alabama. The people we stayed with in Moulton, AL (old friends from the church I got saved at 30 years ago in Detroit, MI) made a snowman the day after we left.

The meetings at Heritage Baptist Church in Princeton, IL with Pastor Chad Delhotal in IL went well. They were familiar with our friends Alan & Ellen Ives, musical evangelists out of Wyldewood Baptist Church. In one service a young girl raised her had in response to a salvation invitation, and then came forward during the invitation hymn. One skeptic/agnostic came for Sunday school and saw scads of evidence that man and dinosaurs lived at the same time. He wouldn’t give his name or fill out a visitor card, but we pray he heard enough to lead him toward God and the Bible.

This Sunday I’ll be at Bible Baptist Church in Reedsburg, WI with Pastor Fred Weiss. One session will be “Jesus Saith I Am the Truth”, the other session is to be determined. The “Jesus Saith” message has been my most successful. It has a good balance of scripture and evidence, dealing with the specific claims of Jesus Christ Himself.

I’ll be preaching three times at Bible Baptist Church of Winneconne, WI (Pastor Robert Hatch). Bro. Hatch also works as a tax preparer, so he needs some pulpit supply during tax season. I’ve done creation messages at his church before, but these will be on other topics (I can do normal preaching, too, if you need pulpit supply). One will be a message on the Secret of David’s Success, another on Samson’s Follies, and a third [Easter Sunday] on how the disciples approached the resurrection.

There is a church in Wild Rose, WI that is currently without a Pastor. I may get some chances to preach there, some messages on creation, some regular preaching, depending on what they need.

Also will be my monthly trip to Door Bible Baptist Church in Brussels, WI to cover for Pastor Mark Englebert, who will be out of town that week.

Next month will be a week-long youth revival at Bolt Independent Fundamental Baptist Church in West Virginia, with Pastor Jim Lucas. On the way back I’ll be at Hamilton Square Baptist Church in Indianapolis with Pastor Aaron Campbell. I’ll actually be stopping there on the way to WV, as well. We met the Campbells last year on a layover on our trip to the Creation Museum near Cincinnati.

Please consider putting my ministry on your schedule for the spring or summer (or fall or winter for that matter). You can have confidence in knowing I am a local-church sent, Bible believing Baptist (Wyldewood Baptist Church, Oshkosh, WI, Pastor Jason Brenenstuhl, Mission Pastor Randy King). You can contact me by email or phone:

Last Harsh Month!

Today (Feb 2nd) is groundhog hunting season. If I see a groundhog looking for his shadow, he’s in big trouble.

The meetings at Eastern Hills Baptist Church in Council Bluffs, IA (Pastor Brian Tatman) were every bit as thrilling as hoped! They support my good friends Jeff and Helen Christian, who are missionaries in Belarus, a country proclaimed by its own leader as “the most Communist country on earth”. They are also having my longtime pastor, Randy King, preach their missions conference in April. I left a note for Pastor King, since he will be staying in the same room.

We had a good variety of things at Eastern Hills, regular sermons, Powerpoints with lots of scripture, Powerpoints with lots of fossils & artifacts, and a session with my scale model Noah’s ark. The session with the ark and a Dinosaur Powerpoint were part of an area-wide school event. We had crowds from at least four area Christian schools in attendance, as well as many home schoolers. The Q&A sessions were as helpful to me as they were to the kids, because they reminded me that even Christian schooled kids don’t know some of the things I’ve come to take for granted. It helped me see even more just how vital this kind of ministry is, even in a place I might have assumed had little need in this area. These were all good, solid Bible believing churches/schools, with good, solid Bible preaching pastors (that’s why they were there!), yet the kids had their eyes opened to how truly easy the biblical account is to believe with some of the simplest concepts. It shows how the devil has saturated our whole society with evolutionary thought and people (even Christians) get so little of the other side of the story (the scientific and scriptural truth). A couple of simple things can drop the scales from people’s eyes and get them fascinated with God’s word.

This Thursday (2-5) I’ll be heading again to Door Bible Baptist Church in Brussels, WI. Pastor Mark Englebert has me scheduled to be at his place on a monthly basis. This time I’ll be giving my message on “Creation and the King James Bible”. As far as I know, I’m the only creationist who has such a message, and one of the very few who hold to the KJB as the pure word of God.

I went with Bro. Englebert, and some of his members (with several of us going, we could split the hotel costs), to an overnight men’s meeting down in Franklin, WI –Tri-County Baptist, Pastor Clayton Jones (and associate Ken Jones). I’m getting quite familiar with that church. The men’s meeting was originated by Pastor Frank Williams of Racine Baptist Temple.

I got some more information on the lady who got saved at First Bible Baptist Church in Green Bay (Pastor Harley Keck) at the Watchnight service. Her husband had just gotten saved a couple of weeks earlier. She started coming to church with him, apparently thinking she was already saved (like most Americans who grow up in mainline churches). After hearing the message, she realized she needed to be saved. Now her and her husband are going to be baptized together soon – and I’ve been invited to be there to observe. Praise the Lord!

I will be at Victory Baptist Church in Cullman, AL (Pastor Keith Whitley) in Alabama in February. I also have meetings coming up with Pastor Delhotal in IL, Pastor Weiss in Reedsburg, WI, Pastor Lucas in WVa, Pastor Hatch in Winneconne, WI, and Pastor Campbell in Indianapolis. If you are planning your calendar for 2015 soon, please consider putting my ministry on it. You can have confidence in knowing I am a local-church sent, Bible believing Baptist (Wyldewood Baptist Church, Oshkosh, WI, Pastor Jason Brenenstuhl, Mission Pastor Randy King).

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2014 ended with some fireworks! The Lord gave me a new message two days before the Watchnight service at First Bible Baptist Church in Green Bay, WI (Pastor Harley Keck). I have been praying all along that God would give me messages that are a good mix of Bible preaching while including my fossils and artifacts, rather than one or the other.

This one is “Jesus saith I am the Truth!” and it looks at the things Jesus Himself claimed, such as creation, Adam & Eve created “at the beginning”, Noah and the flood which “destroyed them all”, and Jonah and the whale, which He used as an illustration of the saving gospel. It’s a real contradiction to claim to believe in Jesus, but to deny the things Jesus claimed as real events. It’s essentially calling Jesus a liar or a kook, or at the very least, assigning the Bible with error. This message gives undeniable evidence that Jesus’ claims ARE truth.

Oh, it got better. At the end of the message I dwelt on “imputed righteousness”, how we are wholly insufficient but Jesus is wholly sufficient. After the service, Pastor Keck came to me and said, “There’s an adult lady in the bathroom crying right now. Another lady walked in and found her in tears, saying, ‘I finally GET IT!'” She had claimed to be saved, but had not been trusting Jesus Christ 100% for her salvation. I assume that means she had been trusting in her own righteousness or her works. Either way, she’s got it now! Praise God! Another ember snatched from the clutches of the wicked one! A NEW creature in Christ for the New Year! What does the world have that can top THAT for celebrating the new year?

This Thursday (1-8) I’ll be heading again to Door Bible Baptist Church in Brussels, WI. Pastor Mark Englebert has me scheduled to be at his place on a monthly basis. I’ll be there 2-5 and 3-5 as well, and probably several more times. Some of the times I go there, I’ll be able to spend time with Bro. Mark ministering to inmates at the local jail. BTW, Pastor Englebert is a former associate pastor for Bro. Keck. Pastor Dave Dunbar, who I met up with in NY, is another former associate pastor of Bro. Keck. Pastor Dunbar’s son is Pastor Keck’s current associate pastor. Back in about 2001, I went on a mission trip to Poland with Pastor Dunbar. I stayed a week afterward to do a creation seminar for the church in Warsaw (Pastor Brent Riggs).

That reminds me about some of the items I didn’t report in last month’s update about my trip to Temple Baptist Church in Baldwinsville, NY (Pastor Bruce Craig). Here I am, in New York, where I’ve never been before in my life. While there I got to meet several old friends from years gone by:

1. Pastor Dave Dunbar, whom I’ve known for some 15 years. BTW, one of our guys from Wyldewood Baptist Church, Jeremy Ingalls, was his associate pastor until returning to Oshkosh recently to follow in his father Larry’s footsteps as a missionary with our Couriers for Christ (who organized the mission trip to Poland where I met Dave).

2. The first person who came up to greet me at the meeting in NY was Bro. Malcolm. He had been through Oshkosh some 15 years ago, raising support to go on the mission field. I spent that day with them, driving them where they needed to go, taking them out to dinner, etc. Now, 15 years later, out of the blue, we were reacquainted. Bro. Malcolm recently came off the mission field to start a new church in NY – and he will be having me in there next year!

3. I will try to talk about Tim Breckheimer without ribbing him. We originally met on an internet email list for Bible believers that I was the moderator for (back in the days before Facebook when email lists were the rage). That was nearly 20 years ago. The two of us were part of a group of 6 or 8 who met up in Pensacola, FL to go to a Bible Conference down there and to visit Bro. Kent Hovind’s Dinosaur Adventureland, about 15 years ago. After that, Tim and another guy from that email group, went “off in the weeds”. The other guy never came back, but what a thrill it was to see Tim again living for the Lord and faithfully serving Him as a song-leader and Sunday school teacher for Pastor Craig! And now, Tim and I co-moderate the old email list as a Facebook group.

4. An unexpected last-minute surprise was to meet Bro. Damon Gang (and his family). We’ve just been acquainted for a year or two on some Bible groups on Facebook. He moved from Louisiana to New York that same week and was close enough to come to one of the meetings.

What a thrilling week that was, and I’m trusting the Lord for another one coming up very soon: January 11-13, I’ll be at Eastern Hills Baptist Church in Council Bluffs, IA, Pastor Brian Tatman. They support my good friends Jeff and Helen Christian, who are missionaries in Belarus, a country proclaimed by its own leader as “the most Communist country on earth”. In fact, I just saw Jeff and Helen last night. They are back home for their son’s wedding. Helen’s dad, Junior Powell, longtime missionary to Mexico, also just went to heaven. So they will be visiting her family as well. I’ll be doing six sessions at Eastern Hills, including one for their school kids and parents. It is really neat to have a ministry that has ministered to people as diverse as world-class scientists with multiple post-graduate degrees as well as elementary school children.

I am planning on spending a week in Alabama in February. I also have meetings coming up with Pastor Delhotal in IL, Pastor Weiss in Reedsburg, WI, Bro. Lucas in WVa, Pastor Hatch in Winneconne, WI, and Pastor Campbell in Indianapolis. If you are planning your calendar for 2015 soon, please consider putting my ministry on it. You can have confidence in knowing I am a local-church sent, Bible believing Baptist (Wyldewood Baptist Church, Oshkosh, WI, Pastor Jason Brenenstuhl, Mission Pastor Randy King).

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and pray you’ll have a blessed Christmas. So far my winter has been great, except for the outrageously high heating bill (nearly as much as my house payment this month, with three colder months ahead).

The meetings at Bible Baptist Church in Belvidere, IL (Pastor Dudley Matties), went well. Pastor Matties and I have a lot in common. Both of us have metro-Detroit, Michigan roots, have spent a few years in Michigan’s upper peninsula, and then moved over to the Chicago/Milwaukee part of the Midwest. I told him I’ll pray that God calls him to Hawaii or the Bahamas next. We had seven total visitors and 4-5 of them were good follow-up opportunities.

When I did my message on “Giants in the Earth”, I learned that, back in the 1970s, the church hosted the 7′ 8″ “Goliath for Christ” evangelist Max Palmer ( http://www.thetallestman.com/maxpalmer.htm).

        The meetings at Temple Baptist Church in Baldwinsville, NY (Pastor Bruce Craig) were tremendous. They hosted a Pastor’s Fellowship among the meetings and I got to present my ministry to some 20 pastors. I expect to get the opportunity to spend more time in NY in the future. I got to meet some old friends from the past and some new friends from the internet. We had good crowds and visitors every meeting. We’d been praying for good weather for weeks, and the weather was excellent until a big snowstorm hit on the last day. That church had previously hosted Bro. Don Stertz of Wyldewood Baptist’s Couriers for Christ ministry (http://wyldewood.org/index.php/outreach/our-missionaries/couriers-for-christ), and he put in a good word for me. Pastor Craig told his church if they didn’t like what I had to offer, they should blame Bro. Stertz. Thank God, Bro. Stertz’ reputation remains intact.

Just before I left for NY, I got sick (in response to missing a night’s sleep over a serious extended-family issue), but that showed me two important things. One, when the devil attacks, it’s confirmation that I’m doing something right. Two, when I am operating at far less than 100%, I have to rely on God and realize that the results are from God. God gets all the glory.

This Thursday I’ll be heading again to Door Bible Baptist Church in Brussels, WI. Pastor Mark Englebert has me scheduled to be at his place on a monthly basis. I’ll be there 1-8, 2-5, and 3-5 as well.

I will be presenting my ministry at the Watchnight service at First Bible Baptist Church in Green Bay, WI (Pastor Harley Keck). I expect to have the best New Year’s Eve of my life, without a drop of alcohol in sight. Bro. Keck might be getting a little nervous, though.

January 11-13, I’ll be at Eastern Hills Baptist Church in Council Bluffs, IA, Pastor Brian Tatman. They support my good friends Jeff and Helen Christian, who are missionaries in Belarus, a country proclaimed by its own leader as “the most Communist country on earth”. I’ll be doing six sessions there, including one for their school kids and parents. It is really neat to have a ministry that has ministered to people as diverse as world-class scientists with multiple post-graduate degrees as well as elementary school children.

I should get to escape winter for a while, with a week or so in Alabama in February. I also have meetings coming up with Pastor Delhotal in IL, Pastor Weiss in Reedsburg, WI, Bro. Lucas in WVa, Pastor Hatch in Winneconne, WI, and Pastor Campbell in Indianapolis. More on them next update. I hope to add YOUR church to the list. You can have confidence in knowing I am a local-church sent, King James Bible believing Baptist (Wyldewood Baptist Church, Oshkosh, WI, Pastor Jason Brenenstuhl, Mission Pastor Randy King).

Greetings from wintry Wisconsin! NovemBRRR is here and we did get a trace of snow already. And I will escape the snow by traveling to … Illinois and New York. :-/

Well, those meetings are much more important than the weather. Pastor Dudley Matties of Bible Baptist Church in Belvidere, IL has already done a splendid job of promoting our meeting to other area churches. I’ve gotten emails from people in IL planning to come. In December it will be on to NY to Temple Baptist Church in Baldwinsville, where Pastor Bruce Craig is hosting a Pastor’s Fellowship among the meetings. Both of those meetings should give me an opportunity to expand my outreach to other churches.

I will get to escape winter for a while, with a week or more in Alabama for at least two churches there in February (just before another trip to IL to Pastor Delhotel’s church). Perhaps YOU would like to schedule me in January? You can have confidence in knowing I am a local-church sent, King James Bible believing Baptist (Wyldewood Baptist Church, Oshkosh, WI, Pastor Jason Brenenstuhl, Mission Pastor Randy King).

The Creation Science Society of Milwaukee meeting at Tri-County Baptist Church in Franklin, WI with Pastor Clayton Jones went well. Several Pastors showed up, though not all of them from Baptist churches. I’m grateful to CSSM and Pastor Jones & Tri-County for their support.

The  Creation Sunday at Bible Baptist Church in Winneconne, WI with Pastor Robert Hatch was  a success. They are a new work (he is a former member of Wyldewood) and this was one of their first outreaches into the community. We had three visitors from the community. They got to hear hours of evidence showing the Bible is true and defendable archaeologically, scientifically, and prophetically. They also got to hear the gospel, which is the whole idea. Turning people into creationists accomplish nothing if they remain lost in their sin.

One thing I love about this kind of ministry is that is can reach anyone in any condition they may be in. It gives reasons for the lost to trust the Bible and believe on the Lord. It gives baby Christians a solid foundation and confidence to build and grow on. It can inspire carnal or backslidden Christians to see their accountability before God and their need to get right with Him. It gives ran-and-file Christians confidence to boldly proclaim God’s word, knowing there are reasonable answers to everything in it. It also thrills the soul of even the most mature Christians to see their faith confirmed.

I have been able to minister at the university level, to seniors in nursing homes, to churches, and to kids in Christian schools, youth programs, and vacation Bible schools. Our kids need this stuff BEFORE they get pulled away by the world (gov’t schools, TV, movies, music, media). The professional survey conducted by Answers in Genesis showed that about 70% of the children in Bible believing churches drop out of church before adulthood, mainly because of the creation-evolution issue. They are taught against the Bible everywhere they turn. They hear it preached as just another religious book and are unaware of it’s verification by history, archaeology, and science. They NEED that foundation to allow the preaching of the Bible to take root. I can provide that foundation.

The two enclosed photos show how my display has grown, from a shelf-full to a room-full. Even the larger booth display is barely half of what I currently have. And every item is used to confirm the Bible and strengthen faith in God’s word.

This kind of ministry can be very exciting!

From speaking at universities, to churches, to Vacation Bible Schools, to county fairs, to local creation groups, to the streets, to my own church (adult and youth), and soon to a prison ministry – it never gets boring! And while home I read, study, research, and put together new lessons (as well as update and improve old ones). Of course I also spend much time trying to make new contacts and arrange meetings. Being new to full-time ministry (though I have done this part-time for 15 years across the country and in 4 foreign countries), I still have many openings in the coming year. If you are interested in my ministry, please email or call 920-426-9885 or 920-376-0828. Please refer me to any others who may be interested.

In this update I have attached a PDF of the tri-fold ministry flyer I send to churches. It also serves as a prayer card. Be sure to open it in Adobe. If you try to open it as a MS Word file, it gets jumbled up. Next update I’ll attach my follow-up flyer, which gives details on what I provide. If you want a hard-copy of my flyer, send me your mailing address and I’ll get one in the mail.

The Outagamie County Fair booth I did with the Green Bay area Genesis Foundation was a smashing success. We were able to get out hundreds of pieces of literature and witness to hundreds of people about creation and the gospel. We were the talk of the fair. A few evolution believers from the Democrat party booth stopped by to ask some questions about dinosaurs and millions of years. I answered all the questions, but they didn’t like the answers, and stormed off, flatly denying photographic and physical evidence right before their eyes. Other fair-goers told us the Democrats were complaining about us for the rest of the week! More than they complained about the Republicans. They inadvertently sent us prospects every day.  We expect to do 2 or 3 county fairs next year.

Last weekend I ministered at the VBS held by Tri-County Baptist Church, Franklin, WI (Pastor Clayton Jones & Associate Ken Jones). They run their VBS along with All Bible Baptist Church in inner-city Milwaukee (Pastor Peder Methum). It was a thrill to be part of two Baptist churches working together. I did five sessions on Saturday at Tri-County (plus activities in-between) and three more sessions Sunday at All Bible. It was a full weekend, but I pray we “bring forth fruit that should remain”. I put together a new message for this event on “Evolution and Racism”, with some help from Dr. Jerry Bergman, a highly-credentialed creation scientist who is working on his 10th post-graduate degree.

This Sunday I will be at Truth Baptist Church, Portage, WI covering for Pastor Reggie Williams, who is a friend of my good friend, Pastor Robert Hatch, of Bible Baptist Church in Butte des Mort, WI. Bro. Hatch came out of Wyldewood (my home church), went to Bible College and started a new work northwest of us.

Next week I’ll be at Door Bible Baptist Church in Brussels, WI to spend the day with Pastor Mark Englebert. He has a full-day of prison ministry scheduled, which will be another open door for me. I’ve wanted a chance to do prison ministry for years, but, with the exception of visiting individuals, it’s very difficult to get into many prisons.

The Lord again answered a prayer of mine recently that will help expand my opportunities. The creation field is so vast that it cannot be covered in just one session, and because I like to have a mix of Bible preaching and Bible defense (fossils, archaeology, etc. on Powerpoints), I’ve never felt like I could do the subject justice in just one session. The Powerpoints, while packed with exciting evidence, are light on scripture. OTOH, the sermons lack the eye-catching evidences. That’s why I prefer to do some of each.

Last month the Lord gave me a message I call, “Fear Not … Only Believe!“ that gives a good overview of the ministry and is my best combination of having preaching and a Powerpoint combined into one message. This month he gave me another one, that takes a different angle, and covers some different evidence, but is also a good combination of Bible and Powerpoint. It’s called, “And God said … and it was so!” Either are adequate for one-time (like Sunday only) meetings, or to kick-start a series of meetings. Both give amazing evidences for some of the most incredible accounts in the Bible, which gives us a foundation to stand on for the cases when faith is our only evidence. In fact, it’s the track record of the provable things in the Bible that gives us reason to be able to rely on faith as the evidence for the unprovable things.

Heb 11:1-3 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

ANNOUNCEMENT: If anyone in WI (or on the route toward Indy) is interested in going to the Creation Museum, the Green Bay Genesis Foundation has chartered a bus leaving WI Thursday August 21st and returning Saturday August 23rd. If you can go, contact Jim Kraft at 920-676-8871 ASAP. There is plenty of room left. The cost is just $75 per person and we have discount group rates for the museum and hotels. You won’t find a better deal. Also, children under 5 are free at the museum this summer.

Whew! It’s good to be busy!

The variety of events I’ve been involved with recently underscore the versatility and usefulness of biblical creation ministry. One week I was on the dais with nine other creation speakers at a university presentation in Mequon, WI. EIGHT of the other nine speakers have Ph.D’s in their field. I was humbled to be asked to speak to such an accomplished audience. BUT – the very next week I was part of a children’s Vacation Bible School at Riverview Baptist Church in Seymour, WI. Evangelist David Barker was part of the VBS, along with Pastor Shawn Suri and his family. One girl trusted Christ as her Saviour, and another family liked what they saw so much they joined the church. Praise the Lord!

Prior to that I was part of the mission conference at Faith Baptist Church in Green Bay (Pastor Greg Blanchard). Besides the preaching from myself, the other two missionaries they brought in (Russ Kidman & David Hiatt), and Pastor Rick Sella (who was the guest preacher for the conference), we hit the streets every day to witness for the Lord, with a lady receiving Christ as her Saviour on the final day of the conference. The surprising news was that the church picked me up for monthly support!

This week I finally get to catch up on the rest of life before I head back to Seymour to be part of the Green Bay area Genesis Foundation creation evangelism booth at the Outagamie County Fair – July 22-26. I will have some of my items with me and be there a good deal of the week. Please stop by and meet me! 637 North Main St. Seymour, WI (920) 833 2941.

I have another VBS in Milwaukee early next month, along with an inner-city church the next day and a church meeting the week after in Portage, WI. The inner-city church will be a great opportunity to expose the strongly racist implications of evolution, and the blatant racism of most of the early evolutionists. As you can see, I can minister in a number of different situations. I’d love the opportunity to be a blessing to your church. I can be reached at 920-426-9885 or 920-376-0828.

The Lord answered a prayer of mine recently that will help expand my opportunities. The creation field is so vast that it cannot be covered in just one session, and because I like to have a mix of Bible preaching and Bible defense (fossils, archaeology, etc. on Powerpoints), I’ve never felt like I could do the subject justice in just one session. However, the Lord gave me a message I call, “Fear Not, Only Believe!” that gives a good overview of the ministry and is my best combination of having preaching and a Powerpoint combined into one message. This will probably be the first message I do at any new church I go to – and now I am much more comfortable accepting one-session meetings.