Troy Manning

I had the privilege of ministering at Trinity Baptist Church in Imlay City, MI, yesterday.  The church is pastored by Dan Lashley, so I enjoyed seeing his son Jason, who was a former student of mine at BJU.  It was encouraging to see how Jason has been pouring his energies into his father’s church.  I enjoyed seeing the VBS curriculum that he had created himself, using all the various skills he had honed in college. I also appreciated the opportunity to teach SS (using my from-French-to-English lesson), showing my DVD in the AM service, and preaching in the AM and PM services.  I believe the numbers were higher in the PM service, but in both the attendance was probably around 25-30.  I think the people really caught a burden for my ministry, because they showed great interest duing the Q/A time, and they had very positive comments when they spoke with me personally. I was able to deal with issues of the Preservation of Scripture as well.  I touched on them during my sermon, but during the Q/A time, we were able to get into greater depth.  I continued to go deeper as I saw the “green light” from the pastor and sensed the interest of the people.  I know the pastor really appreciated the discussion, and I think the people did too.   Thanks so much for praying! 

Speaking of prayer, we definitely need prayer at Bibles International.  Though we are headquartered in the States, I can assure you that we are fully engaged in mission work.  I say that simply based on the opposition we are facing from Satan (though I could give many other reasons as well).  I just found out this morning that one of our consultants, who is currently in Asia, experienced loss at his home in the States because of fire.  Two other consultants have been sick lately, and one lost a relative prematurely.   A manager has been struggling with health issues that have kept him out of the office multiple days.  A translator who is at the office suffered from one of his worst bouts with migraines last Friday, delaying him from finishing the formatting of the Quechua NT.  We are definitely engaged in a work that Satan hates!  Of course, we don’t know for sure how much Satan is involved in these difficulties, but we know he is against our work and does have the ability to do these things.  Regardless, please continue to pray for us!