Newsletter January 2021
As I’m writing this newsletter, January 2021, a group of us are traveling to Austin, Texas to do street evangelism! Austin is listed as the 25th most unreached city in America with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Please pause right now and pray for us. You might want to tell others about our work by […]
Newsletter December 2020
God’s Word clearly teaches that God is eternal. Meaning, God never had a beginning and will never have an end. Our Father which art in heaven is eternal. Revelation 1:8 – “‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, ‘who is [eternity present], and who “was” [eternity past], and who “is to […]
Newsletter November 2020
Abiding Above Ministries presented the Jesus Film in Friars Point, Mississippi Delta! After a week of beautiful weather, it began to rain on Friday causing us to move our outdoor event in a community park to the local fire station. We were prepared for more than 150 people in the park, but God’s plan was […]
I WANTED TO CHANGE THE WORLD
When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried […]
Newsletter October 2020
Thank you, for praying for us as we completed our 10-day evangelistic thrust in the Northeastern states of America. We blitzed locations in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. God has put these evangelistic excursions on the heart of my friend, Steven Coplon, CEO of Life Choices, who was born […]
Newsletter September 2020
Many years ago now, as I was walking through Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, I noticed a table that had brochures on it. It was a display for a Christian radio station called Bott- Radio Network, WCRV 640 AM. Curious, I stopped and picked them up as I headed to my truck to travel […]
Newsletter August 2020
In 1976, a man named Francis Schaeffer, wrote a book entitled, “How Should We Then Live?” Schaeffer defines humanism as “a value system rooted in the belief that man is his own measure, that man is autonomous, and totally independent.” He goes on to say, “when we base society on humanism and live by these […]
THE PARABLE OF THE FISHLESS FISHERMAN
The following story can be used in a variety of venues to bring out the need for evangelism and the irony that for all of the talking people do about evangelism, few people actually do it. Now it came to pass that a group existed who called themselves fishermen. And lo, there were many fish […]
Newsletter July 2020
Praise the Lord! In spite of twice postponing our evangelism trip because of the coronavirus, we finally made it to the northeast part of the United States with great success! We were able to distribute nearly 30,000 gospel tracts (paper missionaries)! We handed them directly into the hands of thousands of people. We placed them […]
Newsletter June 2020
Many years ago, as God was continuing to make clear to me His call to ministry, I heard a sermon by Dawson Trotman, entitled “Born to Reproduce.” Yes, it was on a cassette tape. I was an engineer for the railroad. My dad, Curtis Hodges, was a conductor. The sermon was simply teaching our responsibility […]
