Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! We're pleased to share with you the wonderful things the Lord has been doing in our lives and ministry.
Family: We celebrated Joseph's sixteenth birthday in February, with cake, cards, gifts, and singing Happy Birthday to him, once he was well enough following the cold that he had last month.
We also celebrated Len's 59th birthday in March with cake, cards, and prayer for him. Praise the Lord for another year.
Christopher is finishing his final two semesters in college, and is currently taking a course that is considered to be the capstone course for his degree program that brings together everything he has learned.
Ministry: As we continue to administer our discipleship training school (DTS), now in its ninth year, we'd like to update you on the good things that God is doing with it. By the grace of God, we currently have disciples in four nations including Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda, and the United Kingdom.
Len received the following testimony from brother Henry, one of our DTS graduates in South Sudan. He wrote:
"Dear brother Len,
From Friday I was [conducting] hospital ministry, and there's a lady who needed blood, but there was no blood. So I donated blood, but still it was not enough. I was mobilizing people from outside to donate blood, but I want to thank God she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior, and also God saved her life.
My brother, the temperature in this country has gone too high to the level that people are dying, schools have been closed, day and night the same thing, still enduring it like that.
Bro Henry."
Praise the Lord for what He did through brother Henry, especially that sick lady who got saved. Hallelujah!
In February, Len received the following testimony from brother Grace, on of our graduates in Uganda:
"Greetings dear brother Len,
In the past few weeks I have seen God's hand of Salvation whenever I went out, Over 17 people gave their lives to the Lord.
Meanwhile a girl by the name Cathy was delivered from madness and completely restored. As a result, souls in that village of Oriamai in Anyara came to the Lord. I go there once in a week for follow up and starting LTGs. Glory to God!
Your bro Grace."
Amen! Glory to God! It's great to hear of so many people getting saved, and about the lady getting delivered from demons, as well as the establishment of discipleship groups, known as Life Transformation Groups (LTGs). Hallelujah!
Len received the following email from a brother in Christ whom he ministered to in February. This brother had missed seeing Len when he was ministering in New England, in the US last year, so Len met with him by phone recently when asked to do so. During the call, he received deliverance, as well as the baptism with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Here is the brother's description of that experience:
I want to personally thank you for taking the time to talk with me and help me connect with God! It was truly a wonderful session, and on a scale of 1 to 10, this might have just hit it right out of Fenway Park! You are undoubtedly a man of God, your voice filled with passion, and it’s clear that you love what you do. Please continue touching the souls around you, as you truly have a gift! I gained so much from this experience that words can hardly express how blessed I feel right now. If there’s anything I can do to support your family or your ministry, please let me know. I’ll keep in touch.
Blessings,
Mike."
Praise the Lord! To God be all the glory for the great things He has done in Mike's life. In a subsequent call with him, he received the baptism with fire. As he received the holy fire, he had a vision of himself all ablaze with fire. He felt a pins and needles sort of tingling sensation begin at his head and expand throughout his body from there. He also had a vision of his heart aflame. He had a sensation of icy heat (similar to the Icy Hot muscle rub cream), even though he had the window open in the office at work where he was and it was around 19 degrees F outside. He felt like he could run 10 miles, too. He doesn’t drink caffeine, but felt as if he had just drunk two Red Bulls. Praise the Lord!
In March, sister Catherine in England graduated from her three years of DTS training. We held a graduation ceremony, in which she was presented with her certificate of completion, after which we prayed for her, including prayer to receive the baptism with holy fire (Mt 3:11). She testified afterward saying:
"Dear brother Len, sister Jennifer, and Dave,
Thank you so much for the Graduate day and time with you all.
And thank you for all your prayers and the prayer for the baptism of Holy Fire. I have been praying for our Lord to show me more of his love. And when I received the Holy Fire Baptism tonight. I felt our Lord's presence so strong and a lot of heat and tingling from head to toe. I still feel the heat and tingling and our Lord's presence.
Jesus is so wonderful and his love is so awesome. He showed me so much love through the Holy Spirit and all of you tonight. Thank you so much. I will keep in touch and I know I will be able to witness more, with the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire and abiding in Jesus.
Praying for you all.
Bless you all.
With love in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Sis Catherine"
Hallelujah!
In March, Len received the following testimony from brother John, one of our DTS graduates in Nigeria. He wrote:
"Hello brother Len:
"My recent evangelical outreach program titled 'Life Beyond the Grave' to the Ukwel Obudu community in Obudu Local Government Area was a successful souls revival program. God helped me as I searched for the vital true life testimony of Pastor Victor Paul, who truly died and spent three days in the mortuary before Jesus brought him back to life.
"I showcased his testimony for two days using my projector, and I preached on the last day on the topic I received in my dream: 'Be the Light.' Many souls were revived during that program, including some pastors, and most backsliders were touched and returned to their faith.
"Because of how touching the testimonies were, many souls repented. Someone even freely gave us his generator to use and pleaded with me to repeat the program in other areas of their community. He willingly offered to rent chairs in case I plan another program in his community again. This is God's doing."
Praise the Lord for the souls saved during brother John's outreach. As the Scripture says, "My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins." (James 5:19-20).
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:
- For blessing us with such wonderful birthday celebrations for Joseph and Len.
- For the testimonies of brothers, Grace, Henry, and Michael, especially the hospitalized lady who gave her life to Jesus in South Sudan and the seventeen people who got saved in Uganda and in Nigeria.
- For the wonderful testimony of sister Catherine about what the Lord did during her graduation ceremony.
- For the opportunity to assist each of our students in becoming disciples of Christ and fulfilling their callings.
- For the Lord's leading, guidance, wisdom, and help administering the Doulos Training School (DTS), and for the progress the students are making.
- For the Lord to help Christopher to find an excellent, well-paying job in the IT field, as well as help him with all of his many responsibilities.
- For the Lord to heal Christopher's fingers completely with no pain or loss of feeling.
- For the Lord to help all our students in their studies.
- For the Lord to provide for all the needs of our DTS students and graduates.
- For the Lord to continue multiplying disciples through all of our students and graduates.
- For the Lord to give us wisdom and assist us with the administration of the Doulos Training School (DTS), as well as develop through it many disciples who multiply disciples.
- For the Lord to fulfill His purposes for us and our ministry.
with love from all of us,
The Lacroixs
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