The Amish Driver

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

My wife and I were washing clothes at a washateria in Wautoma, a little town in Central Wisconsin. Another gentleman soon joined us. He was tall and slim and in his sixties. We soon started talking while our clothes were washing.

His name is Bill, just like mine. In fact, we have a lot in common. He is a missionary, attended Bible College, Bible Seminary, and is a minister. We have all of that in common! Once he started talking it was off to the races!

Bill is a missionary to the Amish people here in central Wisconsin. He does this by serving that community as a driver. He drives Amish men in his large pickup truck around the local area to there jobs. For being a  people who live very simply, the Amish can be a very complicated society. They don't believe in driving cars themselves, but it's okay to hire someone else to drive them around!

Some of them work at sawmills and farmers fields too far for their horse and buggy's, so they hire Bill and his big pickup truck to take them around the area to their job sites. That gives him an opportunity to witness about his personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

That kind of decision is up to the local Amish Bishops. In the Wautoma area there are four Amish bishops. There are many other ways that they can be different and complicated, that is one that Bill can interact, and let them know that they can have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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Missionaries To Jerusalem

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This was a testimony given to, and recorded in the Azusa Street Mission newsletter in 1906, in Los Angeles, California.

A band of three missionaries, Bro. Andrew Johnson and Sisters Louisa Condit and Lucy M. Leatherman, who have been baptized with the Holy Ghost and received the gift of languages, have left for Jerusalem, going by way of Oakland, leaving there August 10th. Reports came of meetings on the way that four souls receive the Pentecost in Colorado Springs and three in Denver.  Brother Johnson has received seven different languages, One of which is the Arabic.

  Sister Leatherman speaks the Turkish language, And while in Oakland, some were talking on the street about the gift of tongues; Sister Leatherman began to speak just as a man wearing the Turkish fez came by. He listened and wonder and asked what college she had attended, saying she spoke the most perfect Turkish tongue he had ever heard spoken by foreigner.  He was an educated man from a Turkish college in Constantinople.  She told him the Holy Ghost gave her the language which she did not understand herself and he was the first person that had interpreted for her.

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

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Messages From God

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This was a message from God spoken in tongues, as recorded by William J. Seymour in his book called,  "The Azusa Street Papers," published in 1906.

A message that was given in tongues for God's people was this, "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God." He is now about to move on the world in a mighty wave of Pentecostal power and salvation.  A sister had a vision of God's people as vessels that were full, And the Lord said, "The vessels must be emptied and I will fill them."

A returned missionary from the interior of Africa was present in the meeting, when a sister testified in an African tongue which the brother interpreted to be, "The Lord Is my husband."

Brother Roop

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