Prayer Letter

January-February 2010

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends,

As I write this letter I am humbled by God’s abundant blessings on me and my family. I reported in my last letter that my wife, Lisa, was facing surgery. Well, she did have surgery on December 29^th. This was a major surgery that had a recovery time of at least six weeks. She came through the surgery very well, and is healing fine. She did not have to use much pain medication, and (with Doctor’s permission) was able to travel to a Mission’s Conference at week number four. Her six week check-up is scheduled for Feb. 11^th.

I with several of my children made a trip to Tennessee for a meeting January 10^th, then the family was able to travel to Ardmore, Alabama for a Mission’s Conference at the end of the month. While there l was reminded not to get to engrossed in “my ministry” that I forget my family’s spiritual needs. The message title was “Missionaries or Mission Fields”. Will our children be those that will go to others with the gospel, or will they be the “mission field” that someone else has to go to.

We were able to make it back home ahead of the winter storm that swept across the Southeast. Sunday services were canceled at our home church, so I held family devotions at home. I spoke to my lost children about the origin of sin along with the penalty of sin when it is finished. While I was speaking a “settling” came to the living room, and my 15 yr. old, Rebekah began to cry. She dropped her face into her hands and asked if she could get saved. I told her that I could pray with her but not for her and that if she would call upon God in repentance, and asked God to save her, that He would. She knelt at the couch, and I at my recliner, along with the other children crying and praying in their places. After prayer I asked her what had happened, and she said that God saved her. HALLELUJAH! PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!

I told my other children, to be listening for God to speak to and draw them. That God had to convict them of their sins before they could be saved. That like young Samuel, when God calls, for them to respond.

I want to thank those that lift up my family in prayer. Some I have asked specifically to pray for Rebekah. Praise God, He has answered. Continue to pray for my three youngest, Anna (12), Philip (9), and Jesse (6). That God will call and they will answer. And that our family circle won’t be broken.

We are scheduled to be in Louisiana in March and Missouri in April. Continue to pray for us as we travel, and for God to “strengthen” the churches of America. Many churches are experiencing many of their members losing their jobs, and have to cut back.

Pressing Toward the Mark,

Bro. Douglas Bell

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