July 2017 Update

Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ!  We're pleased to share with you what the Lord has been doing in our lives and ministry.

Charity's High School graduation

Family: In June, we held our own high school graduation ceremony for Charity. The other children sang specials including Marching to Zion and Onward Christian Soldiers, and Len delivered a commencement message about wisdom and knowledge. We had some Christian neighbors in attendance who also home school. What a blessing it was to have them with us to celebrate the occasion. And Jennifer's parents surprised us by driving down from West Virginia to attend the formal cap and gown ceremony, which made it extra special.

There was one disappointing aspect to it. We were planning to have the ceremony outdoors in our back yard, using the patio as the platform. However, due to inclement weather, we had to change our plans in the last minutes before the ceremony and hold the event indoors. Since we don't yet own any living room furniture, God worked that together for good, because we had plenty of room in our living room to set up all the chairs for the graduation ceremony.

Praise the Lord for helping Charity to achieve this significant milestone in her life. We also celebrated her nineteenth birthday with party, cake, gifts, and cards. Her plans for this summer are to take the SAT test in August, obtain her driver's license, and get a full time job as soon as possible, hopefully at a local Lowes Foods grocery store. Please pray the Lord will enable her to accomplish her goals and that His purposes will be fulfilled in her life.

Meanwhile the other children also finished their school year and got great results back on the Iowa standardized tests that they had taken. Hope was advanced to the eleventh grade, Faith was advanced to the ninth grade, so she will begin high school in the fall. Christopher advanced to junior high and will be in the seventh grade, while Joseph advanced to the second grade. Praise the Lord for a successful school year and the good test results.

More photos.    

Ministry:  As we continue to administer our discipleship training school (DTS), we'd like to update you on the good things that God is doing with it. Currently we have nine students in six nations including Nigeria, Kenya, United Kingdom, Mali, Liberia, and Germany.

One of our married students in Germany named Christian, who is an artist, wrote to Len in July with the following testimony of what the Lord is doing in his life and the life of his discipleship partner through the DTS:

"Dear Len,

In our humble beginning, slow start, etc, we thank you for your great ministry, in which the Lord is using you mightily, and you are such a humble, kind brother.

The brief testimony I want to give, is, that, though yet we are stumbling into the right routine of doing the DMI guidelines and getting used to the things we have to do, you rightly emphasis on discipline. We see changes in our lives, and the Lord is doing a lot, we want to continue and improve as fast as possible to the standard of the discipline of the discipleship training guidelines. We are motivated.

Praise be to God,
Blessings to you and your family,

Christian, also speaking in behalf of Aaron."

Glory to God for what He is doing in Christian!

David O., Nigeria

One of our students in Nigeria named David O. wrote to Len in June to give praise to the Lord for helping him successfully pass his medical exams and complete his first year of medical school. He wrote:

"Dear Bro Len, I want to testify to the Glory of God for His faithfulness upon my life. The results for my first professional exams (1st  MBBS) was released on Friday and I passed. My first year in medical school was very challenging and the Lord was faithful to see me through.

I like to also appreciate you for your prayers and encouragement through Dr. Andrew Stenhouse and Dr Theo. God bless you richly Sir. Yours in Christ, David." Praise the Lord for helping brother David pass through his first year of medical school.

As we mentioned last month, Dr. Theophilus Ayodelle is resuming his DTS studies with us this month. Thanks for praying about that.

We also continue to get positive feedback from those who are reading Len's articles, as well as people reaching out to us for help in the form of prayer and counseling. One such person was a woman named Delvar from Zimbabwe who lives in South Africa. She wrote in part:

"Dear brother Len and your wife , thank very much for spreading the revelations of the end times and the gospel of holiness. My family and I, we are being blessed with the revelations the Lord is giving to His children." In another subsequent email she wrote, "Dear brother Len, I am so glad to hear from you...I also read some of your articles from Writing for the Master. I must confess that I was so blessed with the richness of them...I will always remember you and your family in my prayers. God bless you." She said the Lord has been giving her nine-year old daughter revelations for about two years now. Praise the Lord for touching her life through our ministry.

In July Len received an encouraging email from a brother Sampath from India, who wrote in part:

"Dear brother Len,

Thank you for your blogpost on Holy Fire Baptism. Really blessed.

I'm Sampath, your brother in Christ from India, but currently in USA. My pastor Dr. Carlos Taylor and I were discussing about God's fire coming on us as we both were lacking it. We believe that without the indwelling of God the Holy Spirit and His fire upon us, we cannot do anything that He commands us to do in the way pleasing to Him and brings Him alone glory and praise. After I took leave of pastor, I was listening to brother Leonard Ravenhill and was thinking about Holy Fire Baptism and after few days came across pastor Yesupadham online who was talking about God's fire coming upon us. I've started browsing about it and came across your blogpost. I thank our Father in heaven through Christ Jesus for using you mightily for His work. My desire is to talk to you and pray with you for God's fire to come upon us so that we may be used by God for His work in accordance with His will and plan. I've fasted and prayed to God the first three days of this week to baptize us with His Fire and still waiting on Him....

​Your brother in Christ,

Sampath"

Later Len spoke with brother Sampath and his pastor Carlos, who has been a pastor for 21 years. Len was able to pray for them to receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit and fire. We give God alone all the glory for what He has done in the lives of Sampath and Carlos.

Finally, we mentioned last month that we received a contact from a fifteen year-old girl in South Africa named Thelma, who is demon possessed and lives in an area that she claims is dominated by satanism. Unfortunately, things don't seem to be improving with her, but rather worsening. She continues to reach out to Len for help, but her case has proved to be quite challenging, as she has no local support from any Christians or pastors at all. So we ask you to join us in praying for her to be delivered from evil.

"Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness." (Ps 115:1)

Resources:  This month we would like to suggest some articles Len has recently written called Holy Fire Baptism, Revelation of sister Claire Andoun in Heaven, Pope Establishes One World Religion, Sin, Satan, and the Submerged Sphere, and The Shack is an Attack.  Len's latest articles are all available at Old News That's Still Fresh - July 2017. His entire collection of his most popular blogs are at Writing for the Master.

In closing, we have much to praise God for, and many opportunities for you to join us in prayer.

Praise the Lord with us for the many answers to prayer:

1. For enabling Charity to graduate from high school and allowing us to celebrate it with Jennifer's parents as well as our neighbors.
2. For the opportunity to assist each of our students in becoming disciples of Christ and fulfilling their callings. 
3. For the work the Lord is doing in the lives of Christian in Germany and Aaron his discipleship partner.
4. For the Lord's leading, guidance, and help administering the Doulos Training School (DTS), and for the progress the students are making.
5. For helping brother Theophilus our student to resume his DTS training in July.
6. For the lives being touched for Christ around the world through our writing ministry.
7. For the words of encouragement we have received from the people being touched. 

Next steps and prayer needs:

1. For the Lord to grant brother Denis our bookkeeper a miraculous healing in his kidney.
2. For the Lord to deliver sister Thelma in South Africa from evil.
3. For the Lord to provide brother Deji with an LTG partner who desires intimacy with Jesus.
4. For the Lord to assist us with the administration of the Doulos Training School (DTS), as well as develop through it many disciples who multiply disciples. 
5. For the Lord to help all of our DTS students to find LTG partners (another Christian to meet with weekly for discipleship in a Life Transformation Group).
6. For the Lord to fulfill His purposes for us and our ministry.
7. For the Lord to send His angels with Len’s written messages to those who need them, and for an open heaven over them when they receive his messages. 
8. For the Lord to move mountains to raise up new faith partners, including those who would sponsor our students, and for Him to provide for all our needs -- not only ours personally, but also those of the ministry -- as He releases a financial miracle.

Thank you so much for your partnership in this ministry.

with love from all of us,

The Lacroixs

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