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PRAYER REQUEST SEPT 27TH

PRAY FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTION.

LETS REMEMBER ALL OUR PASTORS WIVES

MRS OKIE
MRS ROLPH
MRS FONG
MRS COUCH
MRS NORMAN
MRS AEA
MRS GLEASON WHO IS PREGNANT
MRS BROWN
MRS WALDEN
MRS CENTORIAN


JEFF AND KAREN STEWART

ALSO CAROLYN WHO HAS CANCER AND HAVING CHEMO.

I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO ADD BRIAND OF FROM THE ASHES BLOG. HE WORKS HARD ON TWO BLOGS

REGULARS

CHOSEN
EL
IDAHO GIRL
BAD MOON RISING
BLESSED

OUR PASTOR FRIENDS PRAYING FOR EACH OF THEM AS THEY TEACH TOMORROW.

OKIE PREACHER New Church would grow. and new job
STEVE BROWN
RYAN COUCH
CHRIS GLEASON
DAVE ROLPH
ODEN FONG
AEA
BILL WALDEN
CHRIS NORMAN
CENTORIAN

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY MORE REQUEST.

MORE OF YOU JESUS

THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS HAVE BEEN HARD WITH DEPRESSION. BUT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE INTO IT. I LIKE PRAISE AND WORSHIP MUSIC WHEN I FEEL THIS WAY. I WOULD RATHER CONCENTRATE ON JESUS AND ALL HE HAS DONE FOR ME THAN THE DEPRESSION. IM NOT SAYING I HAVE ARRIVED AT THAT PLACE TOTALLY BUT IM WORKING ON IT.





OK HAD TO GET SOME PIANO MUSIC IN HERE.

WORSHIP WITH ME

GOD'S PEACE IS AMAZING

THIS WEEKEND AS YOU KNOW A MAN FROM MICHIGAN CAME THAT IS REALLY UNWELCOME COMPANY AND MONDAY NIGHT I WAS DRIVING HOME FROM TUSTIN TO MY HOME WHICH IS ABOUT 20 MILES AND THIS MAN WAS FOLLOWING ME, WHICH MEANT HE MUST HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING ME ALL DAY OR ELSE HOW WOULD HE KNOW I WAS IN TUSTIN DOING A LESSON. AT FIRST I THOUGHT I WAS JUST BEING PARANOID BUT THEN I SAW IT WAS HIM. . I WAS CAREFUL BUT DID NOT GO INTO A PANIC ATTACK WHICH AS MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT IS GOD AT WORK NORMALLY THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE PANIC IN ME. BUT I FELT A PEACE LIKE HE ONLY WANTS TO MESS WITH MY HEAD AND DOES NOT MEAN ME ANY PHYSICAL HARM , EITHER I AM LEARNING TO TRUST GOD MORE OR IM JUST CRAZY. BECAUSE NORMALLY I WOULD BE FREAKING OUT.

GOD HAS SHOWN HIMSELF FAITHFUL IN SO MANY AREAS OF MY LIFE LATELY, I THINK THIS MAN COMING WAS JUST A ATTACK OF THE ENEMY TO TRY TO MAKE ME DOUBT GOD..WELL NOT THIS TIME PAL GOD HAS BEEN TO FAITHFUL TO DOUBT HIM NOW. AM I SAYING LIFE IS PERFECT AND ALL MY BILLS ARE PAID HECK NO.... BUT I KNOW GOD WILL MAKE A WAY..... IM STILL BEHIND BUT GOD IS PROVIDING WORK, WHICH HAS HELPED ME WITH SOME OF DEPRESSION I AM BETTER OFF MENTALLY WHEN I AM BUSY AND NOT SO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS.

WELL JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW WHERE I AM NOW.

MY STRONG TOWER

IF EVER I HAVE NEEDED A STRONG TOWER IT IS NOW. I KEEP THINKING OVER AND OVER OF THE VERSE THAT SAYS THE NAME OF THE LORD IS A STRONG TOWER THE RIGHTEOUS RUN INTO IT AND ARE SAVED. OK MAYBE NOT A EXACT QUOTE OR IS THAT A SONG NOT SURE. BUT IT HAS BEEN GOING OVER AND OVER IN MY MIND THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS.

THE LAST FEW DAYS HAVE BROUGHT A LOT OF FEAR INTO MY MIND AND HAS CAUSED MANY PANIC ATTACKS. KINDA A BLAST FROM THE PAST BUT NOT IS A GOOD WAY. PANIC TRIED TO KEEP ME HOME TODAY BUT I WAS ABLE TO GO TO CHURCH.

I HAVE TO CONFESS HERE. I HAVE BEEN READING AND READING AND PRAYING ALOT HERE THIS WEEKEND ABOUT A SITUATION THAT CAME UP HERE. BUT AS MUCH AS I TAKE COMFORT IN THE WORD IT HAS BEEN GOOD JUST TO TALK IN EMAILS TO A COUPLE OF PASTORS I KNOW AND THE WIFE OF ONE. SOMETIMES I HOPE THIS IS NOT WRONG TO SAY. BUT I BELIEVE IN READING THE WORD AS MUCH AS ANYONE, BUT SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO TALK. BEING ALONE HERE SO MUCH I DON'T GET MUCH OF A CHANCE TO DO THAT. EXCEPT WHEN I TALK VIA EMAIL AND OF COURSE I TALK TO CHIP YES I TALK TO MY BIRD . HE DOES NOT GOSSIP. I AM HAVING A HARDER TIME WITH THIS THAN I WANT TO ADMIT. I HAD NIGHTMARES OF THE PAST LAST NIGHT ALL BECAUSE SOMEONE SHOWED UP AT MY HOUSE. WELL ANYWAY. I WOULD LIKE TO THINK I AM STRONGER THAN I AM. THIS HAS REALLY SHATTERED MY NERVES. OK I WILL STOP RAMBLING NOW.

RELIGOUS COMPOUND RAIDED FOR CHILD PORN

Evangelist's Arkansas compound raided in porn case; children being interviewed
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The outside of Tony Alamo Christian Church is seen, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008 in Fouke, Ark., after FBI agents and state police raided the evangelist's headquarters Saturday as part of a child pornography investigation (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
09-20-2008 8:21 PM
By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer

FOUKE, Ark. (Associated Press) -- Federal authorities conducting a child-porn investigation raided the headquarters Saturday of a ministry run by a convicted tax evader once labeled by prosecutors as a polygamist who preys on girls and women.

Social workers interviewed children who live at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries complex, which critics call a cult, to find out whether they were abused. The two-year investigation involves a law that prohibits the transportation of children across state lines for criminal activity, said Tom Browne, who runs the FBI office in Little Rock.

"Children living at the facility may have been sexually and physically abused," Browne said.

The raid, conducted by state and federal authorities, started an hour before sunset at the complex in tiny Fouke, in southwestern Arkansas. Armed guards regularly patrol the headquarters, but there was no resistance as agents moved in, state police said.

No one was arrested, but U.S. Attorney Bob Balfe said before the raid that he expected an arrest warrant for Alamo to be issued later. The federal investigation centered on the production of child pornography, while state police were looking into allegations of other child abuse, he said.

In a phone call to The Associated Press from a friend's house in the Los Angeles area, Tony Alamo _ who was also once accused of child abuse _ denied involvement in pornography.

"We don't go into pornography; nobody in the church is into that," Alamo said. "Where do these allegations stem from? The anti-Christ government. The Catholics don't like me because I have cut their congregation in half. They hate true Christianity."

About 100 state and federal law officers raided the 15-acre compound housing the ministry, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a cult that opposes homosexuality, Catholicism and the government. The law center monitors the activities of extremist groups in the U.S.

The ministry's Web site says it is "dedicated to spreading the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and the winning of souls worldwide."

John Selig, head of the Arkansas Department of Human Services, said state workers were talking to children.

A passenger van with about 12 people inside left the compound heading for Texarkana with a police escort shortly after 8 p.m. It appeared some of those inside were children, but Selig said he didn't know whether any children would be taken into state custody.

Police said the Alamo church complex would be allowed to open for Sunday services, although officers did not indicate when the search would end.

Alamo's church is in a single-story building that used to be a convenience store. A white cross stands atop the structure, with a small steeple to the right side.

Alamo and his wife Susan were street preachers along Hollywood's Sunset Strip in 1966 before forming a commune near Saugus, Calif. Susan Alamo died of cancer in 1982 and Alamo claimed she would be resurrected and kept her body on display for six months while their followers prayed.

In 1988, following a raid near Santa Ana, Calif., three boys whose mothers were Alamo followers were placed in the custody of their fathers. Justin Miller, then 11, told police that Alamo directed four men to strike him 140 times with a wooden paddle as punishment for minor offenses. Alamo was charged with child abuse.

The California Attorney General's office eventually cleared Alamo and his followers of the accusations.

In 1991, federal agents raided Alamo's complex near Alma and seized designer jackets the ministry sold to raise money; former Alamo followers had won a $1.8 million judgment against him. At the same time, the IRS said Alamo owed the government $7.9 million and later won the evangelist's conviction in federal court.

The judge in the tax case ordered him held pending sentencing after prosecutors argued that the evangelist was a flight risk and a polygamist who preyed on married women and girls in his congregation. U.S. District Judge Jon McCalla said he was concerned over "the very great control Mr. Alamo has over a number of people."

Alamo told the AP on Saturday that he believed the raid was part of a push by the federal government to make same-sex marriage legal while outlawing polygamy.

Alamo said he thought polygamy was allowed in the Bible but said he did not practice it himself. He also said that "consent is puberty" when it comes to sex.

There had been complaints about the ministry since Alamo arrived in Fouke in the late 1990s, said Terry Purvis, mayor of the town of about 850 residents. He has gotten calls from former ministry members with allegations of child abuse, polygamy and underage marriage, he said.

Purvis said he turned over all the complaints to the FBI.

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Associated Press writer Thomas Watkins in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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