I've made the CFV page a post so that others might View it.

Christ For Veterans

Christ for Veterans was a dream in 2008. It became a vision in 2009. It's time to put what we have learned into action. We are working on a website and a forum to network Christian Veterans and all Christians with a burden to serve the Heroes of our nation Past, Present and Future.

Steven Henry is helping with graphics. Pastor Glen Elmore and I are learning first hand what the situation of the VA is like from the inside where things are not hidden. My wife Judy Kreins and others are the motivators and prayer warriors. Gil Brown and Brian Wilson are Veterans in Waco, TX that have hands on experience with ministry to Veterans. Paul Cavnar is a former Marine who served in Vietnam with several of us and Paul has a gift of wisdom.

What is your part going to be?

We have a small group of about 139 sympathetic supporters on Face Book. Not much happening on that front, we had hoped for more. The best motivator is one to one sharing of the vision.

Here is the opportunity. There are over 28 million Veterans now and the number grows daily. Most can not handle the bureaucracy of the Veterans Administration and give up. Many believe they are not qualified for benefits because someone told them they weren't.

There are many fine Veteran Service organizations, but they all have gaps that good men and women are falling through. We Veterans and our families have a perfect open door. We have experience in common with all Veterans that causes them to trust us. Trust is not high on the list of tools that Veterans are equipped with.

We need your help! God is calling many of you to step into this harvest field, but you need someone to equip you. That's one of the parts of the vision. Nearly every church has Veterans. Do we have to tell or beg the pastors to put this opportunity before their Veterans? I hope not, but we are ready to do just that.

We have men that will train your church how to minister at a VA Hospital, or at a halfway house for homeless Veterans. We can show you practical ways to serve and reach the lost and it wont cost you a dime.

Here is the bottom line, ARE YOU GOING TO STEP UP BOLDLY AND SAY, "I'M READY TO BE USED BY GOD TO REACH THESE HURTING MEN AND WOMEN FOR CHRIST?

HERE IS HOW YOU CAN HELP RIGHT NOW:

• Encourage your Brothers and Sisters to pray.

• Submit yourself to the Holy Spirit and listen to His call.

• If you have talents such as an attorney that will assist us with our 501c3 filing, contact us.

• If you know of resources that we can include in our website and our tool box, share them with us. 

• When we launch the forum, participate.

• Take possession of the Vision and make it your vision.

We have an informal Advisory Board and it seems to be working well. At some point we will need to organize to satisfy man's laws. Pray about this.

One more thing that you can do would help tremendously, Donate a small amount so that we can establish an operating fund. Right now, my wife Judy and I have funded the website, forum and some other things. We need help, if we are going to offer a first class service to these men and women, with the hope of serving and then and praying for opportunity to share god's Gospel of Salvation.

The Church I pastor in Waco, is willing to underwrite the start up costs as best as they can. We can use the Churches 501c3 as long as we keep the funds separated from the Churches. We can do this until we incorporate and receive our own 501c3 status. So all donations will be tax deductible as an outreach ministry of the local church for now. We are under the 501c3 of our denomination and accountable to them.

So if you want to donate there are two ways.:

• Use the PayPal option under the account of pastorsteve70x7@hotmail.com. You can use a credit card that way.

• The second option is to send a check to:

Christ For Veterans
c/o First Church of God
2309 Skyline Dr.
Waco, TX 76710

Make checks payable to FCoG Waco , with a notation at the bottom "For CFV"

We will post total donations here and later on the forum.

May the Holy Spirit show you the huge opportunity to serve and live out Gal. 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

August Word For You For Today

Scripture Readings For August Are Now Posted

Coming of The Light

Our Friend in Nevada, Paul Cavnar sent this and it's very much worth reading and letting the Holy Spirit Teach us from the Word. Thanks to Steve Becker for writing this short, but powerful message.

By: Steve Becker

For the hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber... the night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.  Romans 13:11-12

This is one of my favorite passages (at the moment). It helps me understand the present day, the time we are living in. I discovered it in a reading on Job by Gregory the Great. His point is that we are living at daybreak, or dawn, when day and night are mixed together. It is the people of God who are the dawn moving toward day.

Day is breaking in our world, it is breaking today and it is breaking through each of us because the Spirit of Christ himself is alive in us! Dawn tells us that the night is over, it's almost gone but it does not yet bring the full light of day. It holds both of them together. Do you not experience this in your own life? We do much that is by the divine power of God, we show great charity at times, miracles happen through us, we do divine things yet we are not free of the darkness. In many ways, we still fall short.

Wake up, Paul says. Stop using the snooze alarm! For the anxious longing of creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God (Romans 8:19). We're late already.

In Job, God is identified as the one who has given orders to the morning and shown dawn in its place (Job 38:12). Lead on, Lord, show us your place. Stir your power within us in our situations and propel us to morning. Let us not give in to the deeds of the night but rather walk in the integrity of the light so the dawn may advance in the places you have given us.