January, 2025
Dear Faithful Friends,
Thank you for your faithful prayer and support for us. Only Heaven will declare your faithfulness to the work here in northern Canada.
Since our last letter we have had 27 visitors, 3 saved and 1 baptized and 1 joined the church. This past Sunday a 19 year old your man who has been saved surrendered for baptism and church membership. His mother is Catholic and so was he, but he has been faithful in church attendance and at youth Bible Study. He has a great attitude, faithful in helping. He text the night of his baptism saying it was a day he will never forget. There are 2 teen girls being baptized this next Sunday and a man on Feb. 16th. I am meeting with a couple who have visited several weeks and are interested in joining the church. Another man in his 30’s has come back to church after I ran into him in a store and I tried to encourage him. Another man who recently has visited wants to be baptized. I will be meeting with him when he gets off shift work and find out about his salvation before baptism.
Our youth Bible Studies have been well attended with between 14-18 teens as we meet every other Friday night. We ended 2024 with a Christmas birthday party for Jesus. They dressed up we had a nice meal. Instead of games after Bible Study we passed a gift around as we read a “left, right” Christmas story and when the story ended whoever held the gift kept it. Then they all brought an anonymous gift and we had an exchange. They could draw a gift and keep it or exchange it for one someone else drew. They had a good time. Lots of giggles and laughter.
Our family was able to be together once again at Christmas as our youngest grand daughter was home from Australia. We thank the Lord for the opportunity to be together and encourage everyone in the Lord.
While in the city I was able to lead 3 young women to the Lord as I was in a store and they were not busy. I was able to witness to them and one began to cry, then all three listened and then trusted Christ. We were thankful that patrons did not come in until later.
So 2024 left with people being saved and 2025 is looking great too.
Please remember Gayle’s health. The Church is doing well. Always building and battling, but we go on Praise the Lord.
Love from the Fort,
Dennis & Gayle
II Cor, 4:6