The Following Report was filed by OSA Conneticut and does a great job summarizing the Feb. 3-6 Operation Save America Leaders Meeting in Charlotte, NC.
The pictures would not transfere go to the following facebook link to see the picture album...Thanks We remain. Yours for the Least of these.....Mike and Jerry
OSA National Leaders Meeting, Charlotte NC, Feb. 3-6, 2011
(this is the link for the picture album of this weekend)
We had a wonderful time of ministry and encouragement!
THURSDAY: Saints from all over our nation gathered at Pastor Faw's Truth Temple in Kannapolis.The first night we were there Pastor Flip taught from Exodus chapters 1-10 about Pharaoh and not compromising. Pastor Mike Warren talked about conservatism being pretend salt. Conservatism is not enough. We need the power of God within us to stand!
A great example to us is Marine Sergeant John Basilone. He was head of a machine gun platoon when the Japanese wanted to take back Guadalcanal during WWII. He had the opportunity to stay out of the war but didn't and gave his life for our country in Iwo Jima. He was decorated with the "medal of honor". That's the same medal we want to get from Jesus on Judgement Day when our Lord says to us "well done good and faithful servant!"
We also read an article on Reformer vs.. Radical. A reformer goes about his business in increments while a radical stands firm on God's word and does not waiver. We have to fight the case for the fatherless to win it! Your vote is your currency.
Coach Daubenmire (Pass the Salt Ministries), was one of the most appealing speakers we had. He said he misses the scoreboard from when he coached football. He could always look at the scoreboard and know when he was winning. In our Christian walk we want to know: "what's the score?" The point of our time here on earth is to play the best we can! Do it with all our heart, soul and mind. God chose us first, we didn't chose Him. Do you realize what an honor that is? Jesus said we are to be salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13) . What does salt do? It preserves, seasons, burns, corrodes, prevents rotting, prevents growth of bacteria, and it stings our wounds. Salt also has a healing affect and changes the way everything tastes! Salt raises your blood pressure and lowers the boiling point. It regulates the body and kills slugs and bloodsuckers. It melts cold things. Jesus also said "if you lose your saltiness, you lose your savor!" Salt makes people thirst and hunger.
Satan can sift us like wheat but in Hebrews 10 (Hall of Faith) we learn that with God we can be made perfect (mature). The Lord called us into battle, its our obligation to show up. We can't loose focus, we are God's SWAT team (special forces). Go to your local baby killing center to lift up the Lord. Lives will be saved because God is with us and will never leave us.
FRIDAY: We had breakfast at 6 AM and left at 6:25 AM for the first school outreach at Concord High that started at 7 AM. It was a cold, rainy, dark morning. We got out our signs and our literature out and were able to give out some valuable information. Some preached God's word to the students going in. Once the bell rang we packed up and went over to AL Brown High School in Kannapolis. We were wet and freezing but we continued to hold signs and gave out lots of literature. The highlight of that morning was our encounter with an obviously post abortive young woman. She came to us with a friend telling us we should not have "those signs" out here. Ante rebuked her for her language and disrespect. Coach took over after she said "the baby is not alive" and then Colbi spoke to her peer in a sweet graceful manner. By the end of the conversation she was crying. Please pray for her, God knows her name. She was hurting and needed repentance and forgiveness. She would not pray with us, but she heard the message of hope through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Our next destination in the freezing pouring rain was LaTrobe Abortion Mill in Charlotte. We got there about 9 AM were blessed to get the good news from Bridgeport that three babies were saved, PTL! After that three babies were saved in Charlotte too! God is so gracious to use us to allow us to co-labor with Him! Its is never boring serving our King! We were blessed to meet Lisa Metzger, a pregnant sidewalk counselor and mother of 9. These are pictures of her and some of her Children.
The next stop for us was the Presbyterian Medical Tower where two abortionist practice their OB/GYN businesses. We passed out flyers there and posted them asking people to please "adopt an abortionist": Harvey Harris or Curtis Flood. Pray for them, recruit others to pray, do public outreaches at the mills or their businesses, write them letters, and alert the public .
Next we went to a mosque on The Plaza to preach the gospel and hold signs. It was still cold and still pouring, by that point we were exhausted and our hands and feet felt frostbit. Men of God (Flip, Rusty, Ken, Ante) preached the Gospel of the Kingdom with love, passion, and the truth. Islam was exposed as false and Jesus and the scriptures as authentic. No man comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ. We believe that God's word will not return void! It goes forth to do what God wants it to accomplish. Rusty told us that some were set free.
Friday night Cal Zastrow spoke to us about PERSONHOOD. Mississippi will be the major battle ground for 2011. Its on the ballot now so please pray for the people there to vote for it. A newly elected Iowa state rep drew a line through a pro-life questionnaire and wrote PERSONHOOD ONLY! There are two bills in the US House and the US Senate, this is a good sign. Personhood in some form is present in all 50 states. Pray for our State Representative TR Rowe. We are asking him to introduce personhood legislation defining the word "person" in the State Constitution as a "human being" at fertilization/moment of conception of biological beginning. North Dakota voted in favor of the bill. Florida is petitioning voters to sign a pro-life amendment. Personhood won in Colorado.
We cannot quit until the killing stops! We need to have a long term vision and our responsibility is to represent Christ. There are five states with only 1 abortion mill present. (I think they are Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Wyoming,Montana.) We need to target these killing centers. The end of May Pastor Mark Hollick (
markh@spiritonecc.org) is planning a trip for us to go to Wyoming! It will be the first surgical abortion free state in America. As best we know they have never had an onsite presence or abortionist outreach. Less than 100 abortions per year are committed in Wyoming.
Chet Gallagher said how he loved our "tribe" and was privileged to walk humbly and love justice with us. God is exposing baby killers all over the nation. In 1990, there were 2000 free standing abortion mills and now in 2011 there are only 713. Chet gave us a flyer to make copies for our clinics on Abortion Malpractice Assistance (free of charge to injured victims and their attorneys). The insurance commissioner and Mark Crutcher wrote 95% of the flyer. A mill in Las Vegas had to pay $825,000. after a lawsuit.
Jay Rogers from Orlando Florida spoke about what was going on in the Sunshine State. Abortionist Penegraff wanted to set up a chain of late term abortion mills. He lied under oath, threatened to sue the city of Ocala, and went to federal prison for extortion. These are some abortionists that did abortions past 24 weeks (Tiller, Penegraff, Randall and Gusnel). Baby Rowan, was one of the babies that was born alive and killed. He was injected with dioxin that stops the heart. The mom felt the baby move and saw it after the birth. She held the baby in her arms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfnNzIzvT-k Baby Rowan's mom was counseled by our Melody Miller of Jackson MS.
One of their websites is
www.latetermabortion.net Randall Whitney had his licence suspended in Ocala and was recently arrested and taken out of the clinic with handcuffs. He slapped a pregnant patient and was charged for 2nd degree felony. He didn't show for the trial so there was a warrant out for his arrest. A sidewalk counselor called the police and Jay actually saw him taken out in chains. Go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTGLuMeREw4 Orlando Abortionist Slaps Patient, Arrested for Aggravated Battery
The leaders in Orlando have moral integrity and there are more ethnic churches involved. After 40 DAYS FOR LIFE they had 40 black people come out from the neighborhood. Jay was the only white person. It is vital now for the young people to get involved because we are not going to be around forever.
Kelly Klinger, a back up for Brittany Spears, got pregnant and had 2 abortions. Her dad is the deacon of a Baptist Church in Florida. One of the abortions was at Penegraff's. She had complications and now she cant have any children! She hates herself for this! She said if we have the National Event in Orlando she will come out and speak. She went to Denver and spoke at an event for the Scotts.
Jay is working on a website that lists the abortionist for every clinic and tells clients of their arrests. Young people can do this in their own states. They constantly keep up with the clinics on Facebook.
SATURDAY: We were off to Latrobe and Hebron killing places, we split in two groups. We had breakfast at 6 AM and left at 6:30 for the mill. We were fortunate if we got four hours sleep per night. While we were there the parking lot guys called the police on us saying we were blocking the driveway. A cop car came, he pulled in the parking lot, talked to the plaintiffs, turned around rolled both his windows down and said out each window :"Don't block the driveway, have a good day!" He apparently did not want to be bothered with their nonsense.
At 10:30 AM we left to go to the abortionist home with Pastor Mark, we split up and went out two by two to each house on all the nearby streets. Carmen and I only had one negative reply. It was two young women in their twenties pulling out of a driveway and they said they did not want the flyer, they were pro-choice. I said "you can pray for him" they said "we don't pray" I should have known better! Another lady was hugging me for coming to her door and WAS so sweet to us. Another man said he knew "Dr" Harris but did not know he did abortions! He said he will definitely pray, I hope he speaks to him about it.
It was a good outreach. This is a picture of his house, nobody answered the door. A flyer was left. Kelly and Colbi were passing out flyers on different streets in the neighborhood.
Destiny Thomas and Caleb Hall's engagement party was from 2 PM- 4 PM. It was very nice and we all are so happy for Miss Destiny. She is a gem! We all love her.
That night Pastor Mark taught us many things. One was about Arturus (Job 38:32) and spiritual synergy (Ephesians 4:16) Mixing Christians together with the Holy Spirit is very productive.The result of the merger is always very successful. The whole is greater than the sum. He also taught on The Three Righteous Amigos: Daniel, Job and Noah. (Ezekial 14:14) They all suffered great persecution, judgement and adversity but their righteousness delivered them all. What does the Lord do with zero compromise? John Bunyan, who wrote the 2nd best book of all time, is a prime example. The first best book is the Bible and the second it Pilgrim's Progress. John Bunyan knew the first amendment before it was even born. Rights are given to men by God. Mr Bunyan went to jail for 12 years . He would not compromise and sign a false statement. His wife backed him up and wouldn't let him sign either.
Pastor Mark's friend, Bruce Garren, tried to find a legislator in Wichita that will introduce Personhood. Kansas Right to Life is very supportive. Pray for Randy Garber, he said he would carry the banner for Personhood there!
Jason and David Benham, Flip's twin sons spoke afterward. They learned a lot since a year ago when the back wall on their newly purchased building complex collapsed. God has given them the gift of being activators.When God brings something to you, it must have potential, opportunity and the smile of God on it! The Lord took their premature decisions and taught them that they need to wait and He will give them the wings of an eagle. Their business isn't about money, its about God. They have been blessed with 93 franchises in the US and also the Philippines and Bangladesh. They are out of debt now and the building is fully paid.
David taught about old and new wineskins from Ezekiel 37. The old wineskins are church centered, the new wineskins are sphere centered. Don't sit in your church healing room - but go out to the streets healing. Old wineskin is the Gospel of Salvation, the new wineskin is the Gospel of the Kingdom which includes salvation. The old wineskin church sits, studies, thinks and grows. The new wineskin in John 17:14 learns, does, teaches, trains and replicates. We need to all get rid of "things" and get sleek. Finish the work. Jesus replicated himself in the hearts of 11 men. Ezekiel 36 talks about the valley of dry bones and how they rose and became a mighty army that devoured the beast of the field. Many shepherds are not shepherds at all. They lie and build their own kingdoms, most behind the pulpits are CEO's and politicians.
We have become inwardly focused. We need to repent and make commitment to get out of debt. We have to master our craft. The remnant is to understand the times. We need organization from the back. Get rid of the old wineskins. Right now the frontline is doing everything in the prolife ministry. There is an analysis paralysis in the church. We need a back end infrastructure. The frontline saints need to bring the women to the supply line that is set up to help them from conception to graduation. LifeCharlotte.org will be a total resource center the Benham boys are working on. It will have two doctors, two CPC's and 4-5 churches for each area. Once they get it set up, we would like to have the same resource for the Bridgeport/New Haven counties connected to it. This site can also equip us to expose SteriCycle, abortion clinics in complexes, and help serve lawsuits against abortionists.
Pastor Mark teaching and Miss Lundi Mae Benham, that we all prayed for!
SUNDAY: In the morning Flip challenged us at Sunday School. (He taught later at the service at Truth Temple plus Jason and David came up to speak too.) Flip said to: Either pick up your cross or satisfy yourself. Which do you choose to do? Flip brought up Adam Tenant, who did a great teaching on" My House Should Be A House of Prayer" and Jason Dillinger taught on "Willing Hearts". These are all young family men learning how to present a message quickly and precisely. Pastor Bill Dunfee spoke about their "New Beginnings" ministry out at the strip club (The Fox Hole) and how the strippers, in their skimpy nearly nude outfits, picketed his church for six weeks in a row. What a challenge that must have been!
After you share in Christ's sufferings, then you will share in His inheritance. Everyone founded in Christ will suffer. Jesus saved us so we can glorify Him on the earth. We have some work to do in the trenches, God allows people in our paths to rob us of our joy and peace. Then we can be arrested with Christ and share in His sufferings. Then we will never be alienated from Him again.
