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FIRST
NATION MINISTRIES, INC.
P.O.
Box 30055
Portland, OR 97294
Phone:
(503) 408-2391
Fax: (503) 256-8560
www.firstnationministries.org
Issue
8; Visits
No. 22,23,24
January
2008
Dear Teammates,
We are praising our Lord for His hand upon
us as we completed 24 visits to the reservations in 2007. We had hoped and prayed that we might be able to make one
visit a month as the year started.
As we praised our Heavenly Father for a
beginning with a 78 Ford pick-up and worn out trailer, we
rejoiced as grandson Jesse Cline stepped up and got his dream
truck and made it available to his old Grandpa.
This brand new, heavy duty, 4 wheel drive Dodge Diesel
now has nearly thirty thousand miles on it!
Teammates Marv Boettcher and Wayne Campbell
convinced us to get the best trailer made for the strenuous use
of hauling loads of food that weigh as much as three tons.
Together we agreed on a 14’ by 7’ tandem axle Wells
Cargo 7’ high van. We
borrowed the $5000.00 to pay for it and went to work.
A few days later a dear friend phoned me and wanted to
know what was going on and what I was doing.
As I shared with him, he wrote a check to pay off the
loan.
Pastor Arnold Motz, my long time friend,
offered us the free use of his church basement, the Woodland
Park Chapel at 1914 NE 102nd Avenue.
This nice facility has two rest rooms, a kitchen, a
dining area, and 5 Sunday School classrooms for inner offices or
storage. Then these
good people gave us $1000.00 to help us get equipment and set up
the office.
The Club Estates East condominiums at SE
122nd and Main Street gave us permission to use their
lovely club house each Friday morning for our prayer breakfast
meetings.
Feeling a pull in my soul to help the needy
families living at Celilo Village, just east of The Dalles, I
obeyed and unknowingly arrived with food when food stamps were
exhausted and some of the families had pooled their meager
groceries to feed their hungry children. In tears and praise to God, these people declared, “God
sent you!” Two
white men we met there were a reporter and a camera man from The
Oregonian unbeknownst to us.
They never revealed their identity until we were saying
goodbye. The
following Sunday the story was on the front page of their paper.
It told of the need, the poverty, and a “hobbling, 84
year old, white preacher” named Don Cline with First Nations
Ministries who the Indians declared God had sent. Our phone began to ring and people began bringing in food and
household items.
Finally, in their January issue, the
Christian News Northwest paper gave a wonderful report of their
appraisal and approval of this old missionary and his team.
All of this unsolicited publicity has been
most helpful and we are grateful to God and our many friends.
By God’s grace we will push the battle for the souls of
Indian people! Thank
you for being “on the team”.
Your old missionary brother,
Don Cline
A
NEW YEAR PRAYER
Lord,
I would ask for a holy year,
Spent
in Thy perfect will;
Help
me to walk in Thy very steps—
Help
me to please Thee still.
Lord,
I would ask for a year of faith,
Give
me Thy faith divine,
Taking
my full inheritance,
Making
Thy fullness mine.
Lord,
I would ask for a year of love;
Oh,
let me love Thee best!
Give
me the love that faileth not
Under
the hardest test.
Lord
I would ask for a busy year,
Filled
up with service true;
Doing
with all Thy Spirit’s might
All
that I find to do.
Lord,
I would ask for a year of prayer—
Teach
me to walk with Thee;
Breathe
in my heart Thy Spirit’s breath,
Pray
Thou Thy prayer in me.
Lord
I would ask for a year of joy,
Thy
peace, Thy joy divine,
Springing
undimmed thru all the days,
Whether
of shade or shine.
Lord,
I would ask for a year of hope,
And
hastening on that year of years,
That
brings us Christ and home.
Looking
for Thee to come.
I
do not know who wrote these words, but my old heart says,
“Amen, and Amen!” I
love you, Dear Ones. Thank
you for all your financial help and prayers this first year of
First Nations Ministries.
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