The World Needs Jesus But Why Should I Tell You?
Well this year I will turn FIFTY EIGHT YEARS OLD!
Ubelievable! I really did, somehow in some corner of my mind think I was going to be able to stay seventeen forever!
WHAT HAPPENED???!!!!
I'm OLD!
And along with that growing older, older, older by the moment comes the question...
"What are you going to do when you retire?"
To which I can only answer "AWHOANDAWHATANDAHA????"
Retire... Are you kidding? I'M JUST GETTING STARTED!!!!!!
My missionary call didn't come once I got in church, it came YEARS before that! While I was still lost in false religion!
Although my family had a surface knowledge of Jesus but not the SUBSTANCE of the truth still they were given over completely to foreign missions!
Not just giving in the offerring for missions but in making deliberate , totally unrequired or asked for investments in what ever missionary came our way!
I can remember as a little boy how very involved in our church my parents both were. My father was an attorney at law in Chicago and was a very very busy man. Not only that but he was a very ungodly man.
Yet if a missionary so much as was known to be visiting any of the local churches whether in our parish or not, my father made it a POINT to go out of his way, talk to the pastor and ASK WHAT HE COULD DO TO BLESS THAT MISSIONARY!
I remember with fascination a whole series of missionary priests and nuns who were brought to our home for a visit! First my father would take the missionary priest to a shoe store and buy him several pairs of what I know were probably the finest shoes they had ever had. Then he would take the missionary to a clothing store and buy him a suit or two. THEN they would come back and we would take them out for dinner. THEN at the end of dinner my father would take the missionary aside and I would watch him hand him an envelope and I knew that inside was several hundred dollars which back in the 1950's and 60's was a MAJOR offerring, (still is!)
But the best part was coming home for a while before the missionary woud leave and hear them tell about their work and experiences in their field of labour.
I LOVED IT!
I would lay down and just think how magnificent a life it would be spent bringing Jesus Christ to the lost in this world!
And deep down inside I knew it .................................
THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA DO!
Even as a little boy I knew that if I chose THAT road as opposed to a career in law, or medicine or what have you but MISSIONS I would undoubtedly NEVER own a home, always be a charity case, always resented by some and ignored by others and yet still all I could say was LORD I DON'T CARE! LET THE OTHERS HAVE THEIR HOMES AND THEIR FANCY CARS AND EXPENSIVE SUITS AND NICE VACATIONS BUT LORD, MISSIONS IS ALL I WANT TO DO! IT'S ALL I EVER REALLY WANTED TO BE!
A MISSIONARY!
Then when I was seventeen , lost as lost could be and KNEW IT, much as the song says
"I SEARCHED AND I SEARCHED FROM DAY TO DAY
I KNEW IN MY HEART I WAS NOT SAVED
I WANTED TO KNOW THE ANSWER FOR SURE
AND THEN GODS SPIRIT SPOKE TO ME
THIS IS THE HOUR YOU CAN BE FREE
I STAYED ON MY KNEES THAT NIGHT TIL THE ANSWER CAME!
And I became living proof that the scripture is true that says SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND!
And from the moment I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost about midnight in my living room in Fresno, California back in 1972 I knew beyond any shadow of a doubt...
SOMEDAY I AM GOING TO SPEND EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY AS A MISSIONARY OF JESUS CHRIST!
EVERYBODY HAS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS!
I began witnessing to people the very first day of my new life! Followed the example of the young man that God had used to invite ME to church and soon started teaching home Bible Studies with Search for Truth charts.
Did everything I knew to do to prepare myself so that somehow someway God could look down on me and USE me for the work my heart just ached to be involved in
MISSIONS.
It wasn't long before God opened a door of ministry for me to the nation of Syria. Arriving there with zero help from any group or church in America it wasn't long before people started repenting and being baptized in Jesus Name and receiving the Holy Ghost! Imagine! I mean WHO'D A THUNK IT?
(well I did!)
Spread the Acts 2:38 message to Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Israel, and now all over Europe AND Africa !!!!!
LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT
Its over twenty five years now since I launched out at his command, blazed a path way for Apostolic Salvation for men and women in many places and countries that had never had the True Gospel preached to them.
Every one says "YOU OUGHTA WRITE A BOOK"
Well maybe someday... I just wanted to reactivate this blog, the events of the last months especially in Syria where there are STILL saints of God Baptized in Jesus Name filled with the Holy Ghost kind of filled me with a fear that somehow if I mentioned ANYTHING about the situation in that horrible dictatorship that it might have repurcusions on them. So I kind of took myself offline to keep from doing that, but now I think the time is WAY past that as many flee for Lebanon , Turkey or Jordan or any other port in this horrible storm.
Currently God has been so very good to me! After many years of much prayer and much heart ache, God has sent a tremendous young family with a zeal and passion for missions that I simply have not seen in many others.
Brother Brian and Sister Sherry Shell and their kids Austin and Kaelyn have already made two missionary trips to help me. Because they have so little help as missionaries at present they are only able to stay three months at a time.
Right now they are back in the United States after having sold EVERYTHING wait... make that ........
*E*V*E*R*Y*T*H*I*N*G*
to come to the field and labour for the master, and the only way that that is going to happen is for Ministers and Saints to become PROACTIVE and actively CONTACT THEM , HELP THEM, GO OUT OF THE WAY for them, so that this world that gets bigger every day and has so few APOSTLES sent out into it can hear the news that JESUS SAVES TODAY!
If an unsaved Catholic Man could sacrifice and CARE about missions WHAT ABOUT YOU WHO HAVE THE TRUTH?
Email me at Doranc@hotmail.com to help me schedule him so he and his family can get back over here where the harvest is ripe but the labourers are few!
God Bless You Brother Joseph Conroy
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