Spring Preaching Conference—April 21, 2007
Wintertime Evangelism
Exposing a Murderous Partnership and Sharing the Gospel with 10,000 Families
PCC Brochures in Russian
Literature Distribution by Pilgrims Covenant Church
Reclaiming America for Whom?

Pilgrims Covenant Church Public Ministry Update
December 1, 2006 — February 7, 2007

Dear Friends,

We are well into 2007 already, and it is time for me to send you this year's first bimonthly summary of our PCC public ministry efforts. Earlier, I had considered sending out an end-of-year summary for 2006. Looking back over the months, I am greatly blessed by the sheer volume of mind-changing and soul-winning truth which, by the grace of God, we were able to spread far and wide across our state and beyond.

I have long held the conviction that God will bless uncompromised, persistent, constant truth telling and gospel preaching. And I continue to believe that it is essential, effective, and our duty that we deliver the truth right to those who need to hear it, even if many do not want to hear it. That is why we put such an emphasis on open-air preaching, gospel tract distribution, and the public display of Scripture on our large signs. That is why we respond to darkness with light, for instance by the mass distribution of our "anti-homosexuality" brochures, by signs with biblical messages about homosexuality, and by being a weekly gospel witness in front of our Planned Parenthood office as well as providing a regular witness in front of the Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Madison. I should also mention that the huge quantity of literature we distribute also brings many people to our PCC web site (http://www.pccmonroe.org/) where they are exposed and ministered to by the many things we have posted there. And, although it is a less popular feature of our public ministry work, we believe "striving together for the faith of the gospel" includes being a public witness against those who preach false gospels and those who promote ecumenical error.

We are also thankful for every week the "Heart of the Matter" program is able to be broadcast on the Internet (http://www.theheartofthematteronline.com/). That program which deals with such a wide range of subjects has many listeners around the world. We address issues which need to be aired but which mainstream Christian radio refuses to address, and worse. Due to the grace and mercy of the Lord, HOM has encouraged, educated, and strengthened the Lord's remnant here and abroad. The program has also given voice to many courageous, fundamentalist preachers who are not welcome by the Christian radio establishment. As I said, we—and from what we hear, many others—are thankful for each week HOM is able to be broadcast.

It is a gross understatement to point out that the support and prayers of many of you have greatly amplified all of this truth telling. We are deeply grateful to you and hope that you are blessed by this work which you have been supporting. I hope in turn that you were blessed by our efforts in 2006.

Currently, we have a number of special events planned for 2007 in addition to our week-in, week-out ministry work. I am also working on a new brochure for mass distribution in Wisconsin by our PCC lit dropping and mailings as well as through providing it free of charge to others in our state who lit drop our literature in their own areas. I am hoping that the new brochure will begin laying the groundwork for the repeal of our state's dangerous "hate crime" laws which will inevitably lead to "hate speech" laws. It is foolish and fatal to fight a defensive war against evil. We must remain on the offensive. The new tract will be a hard-hitting one which will also, of course, contain the gospel. I think you will be encouraged by it. Once the tract is finished, we hope to be able to put in our first order for 50,000.

I have rewritten our gospel Heaven or Hell tract. I believe the rewriting has made a good tract even better. Our first run of 50,000 of that tract is in the process of being printed. We also have recently ordered 10,000 copies of a different gospel tract we use, and we have just received 30,000 more of our brochure Homosexuality: The Truth. We had been out of that tract for a number of weeks. We are down to a few hundred of our No Excuses pro-life tract while also running low on our Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics and What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality.

Suffice it to say, your gifts to this ministry are greatly appreciated and, I heartily believe, being effectually used for the cause of Christ and the good of His people. Below you will find some highlights of our recent PCC public ministry efforts.

Pastor Ralph Ovadal

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Wintertime Evangelism

On Friday night, December 1, we held gospel signs and banners on the city square during Monroe ’s annual Holiday Parade. We also passed out a good number of gospel tracts on that very cold night.

With Wisconsin in the depths of winter and large public gatherings few and far between, a number of us have been lit dropping gospel tracts to homes in several areas of our state, including our hometown of Monroe . Our gospel lit dropping in Monroe is an ongoing one. When we finish with one gospel tract, we start over with another. We call it our perpetual gospel lit drop. Also, PCC's Mike Foht almost weekly heads into Madison to pass out gospel tracts and preach on State Street .

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Exposing a Murderous Partnership and Sharing the Gospel with 10,000 Families

In January, we stuffed 10,000 envelopes with a special letter I wrote to the citizens of Green County . The letter deals with and contains a copy of a contractual agreement between the Green County Health Department and Planned Parenthood of Monroe. By the contract, the GCHD and PPM agree to work closely together, referring patients/customers to each other and even doing some training together! We found this information through a Freedom of Information request. Believe me, there are going to be many in our more conservative county who will be outraged by this use of their tax dollars.

My letter hits PPM hard and also details various cases in which Planned Parenthood is being investigated by the authorities in other states for covering up statutory rape and for helping minors obtain abortions without parental consent. In addition, our mailing contains the telephone transcript from a pro-life sting operation in which a woman with a girlish voice called Planned Parenthood of Monroe and asked them to help her get an abortion without parental consent, after first telling them she was thirteen years old and the father of her unborn child was a twenty-two-year-old man. The PPM staff worker, rather than notify the authorities as required by law, told the girl to go to Rockford , Illinois because Illinois does not have a parental notification law. She also agrees to confidently, illegally provide the thirteen-year-old girl and the twenty-two-year-old "boyfriend" with birth control!

I believe our mailing is going stir up plenty of anger—we pray effectual anger—against PPM and the GCHD. Given how it exposes the reckless, lawless heart of Planned Parenthood, the letter ought also to put a little fear in the hearts of those government officials who have yoked with PP. Our mailing which also contains a gospel tract, has just recently been sent to 8,000 rural Green County homes and literature dropped to 2,000 residences in the city of Monroe . What a blessing, and a good investment, it was to get the gospel to 10,000 families while at the same time reproving the wickedness of Planned Parenthood and some corrupt government officials.

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PCC Brochures in Russian

Our literature has been distributed in a number of English-speaking countries. Now a ministry in Russia has translated our brochure What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality into the Russian language. Several months ago, a request came to us for this, and I approved. Here is a note from the ministry:

Thank you for your permission to our use your booklet. I did translate it to the Russian language. We have plans of spreading the True Gospel by a seminar, "Family in our society," in schools (January 2007). I will be telling about Bible faith and homosexuality by "What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality". It is very good Bible material. Can I use photos by www.pcc site? Russian TV programmes have many homosexual ideas. Pop-art has many homosexual men and women. Sorry, but Christians do not tell about the danger of homosexuality. I send to you my translation "What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality" and our photos in another email.

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Literature Distribution by Pilgrims Covenant Church
December 1, 2006 — February 7, 2007

• Heaven or Hell tracts were distributed in Janesville , Madison , and Monroe as well as being lit dropped in Beloit , Blanchardville, Monroe , and Waukesha .

• No Excuses was lit dropped in Monroe and sent to rural Green County homes.

• What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality and Homosexuality: The Truth was lit dropped in the following towns: Belleville, Brookfield, Brooklyn, Cambridge, Cassville, Cedarburg, Cuba City, Deerfield, Elkhorn, Grafton, Hazel Green, Kenosha, Madison, Mauston, Milton, Muskego, Platteville, Potosi, Sheboygan, Tennyson, Waterford, Watertown, and Whitewater.

• What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality was distributed at the UW-Platteville.

• PCC Public Ministry provided our literature free of charge to Christians for distribution in the following places: Milwaukee , Wisconsin (What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality) and Dickinson , North Dakota (An Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics).

• PCC provided literature at cost for distribution in the following places: Fond du Lac (Heaven or Hell) and Racine (Homosexuality: The Truth), Wisconsin; Milo, Missouri (No Excuses and An Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics); Omaha, Nebraska (What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality and Homosexuality: The Truth); Penns Grove, New Jersey (Homosexuality: The Truth; Heaven or Hell; No Excuses; and An Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics); Mesquite, Texas (What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality; Homosexuality: The Truth; and An Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics); and Newquay, Cornwall, England (Heaven or Hell and An Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics).

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January 9, 2007
Reclaiming America for Whom?
By Pastor Ralph Ovadal, Pilgrims Covenant Church

By any measure, Dr. D. James Kennedy is a very powerful man. The pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and the president of Coral Ridge Ministries, Kennedy presides over a far-reaching network of ministry organizations which daily influence millions. Dr. Kennedy's Coral Ridge Hour television program airs on more than 400 stations and 4 cable networks. Coral Ridge Hour is available to 81% of America 's television homes. The program also runs in 165 nations on the Armed Forces Network. Truths That Transform, Kennedy's half-hour daily radio program, and his 90-second Kennedy Commentary are broadcast by more than 744 radio facilities and 437 radio facilities respectively across America .

As noted, Dr. D. James Kennedy is a very powerful man who influences millions of people, Christians and otherwise. He is a man seen—I almost said worshiped—by a multitude of evangelicals as a staunch defender of biblical precepts against godless liberalism and apostasy along with the evils which they spawn such as abortion and homosexuality. But as I have documented in other articles, Dr. Kennedy is a shameless, blatant ecumenist who is doing much harm to the cause of Christ and the gospel. He, like many evangelicals, seems to be convinced that the only way to defeat Assyria is to yoke with Egypt .

This article has as its subject an annual event by one of Kennedy's organizations, the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ. The conference, being held this year on March 2-3 at Kennedy's church in Fort Lauderdale , Florida , is called Reclaiming America for Christ, which I will often abbreviate as RAC. The promotional brochure for RAC contains a message by the Center for Reclaiming America's executive director Dr. Gary Cass and Dr. Kennedy, the organization's founder and president. That message begins, "Reclaiming America for Christ 2007 is coming, and 'evil' is counting on you. That's right. The only thing evil requires for its triumph is for Christians to say and do nothing." I could not agree with Kennedy and Cass more regarding the spread of evil. That is why I believe Christians should stand against such wickedness as abortion and homosexuality. That is also why I feel compelled to speak out against the RAC conference which Kennedy and Cass say "offers you the tools and training, ideas and energy" for "Reclaiming America for Christ." Christians, especially pastors, who are concerned for the cause of Christ should speak out against Dr. Kennedy's conference which is nothing less than a bold assault upon the gospel and the purity of Christ's bride, the church. Moreover, when just the bare facts about the RAC conference are considered, one could almost be led to wonder if Kennedy is purposely "pushing the envelope" to see how open and blatant he can be in his ecumenical sin! Sadly, he is no doubt safe enough in this era of the teflon-coated evangelical celebrities.

The promotional brochure and web page for the Reclaiming America for Christ conference leaves absolutely no doubt that this conference is being presented as a Christian conference for Christians and featuring Christian speakers, all with the goal of reclaiming America for Christ. If that statement sounded redundant, it was merely an echo of the drumbeat sounding forth from RAC. For instance, the name Christ appears nineteen times in the short promotional brochure for the RAC conference while Christian(s) appears nine times. We are told by conference materials that those attending will "learn and interact with speakers who are engaging the culture for Christ." Conference topics will include "Reclaiming America through evangelism."

Dr. D. James Kennedy heads up the slate of "17 speakers on the leading edge of Christian moral witness" who will teach and disciple the attendees at the "premier Christian social witness and action-equipping conference"—a conference, by the way, being well-promoted on conservative Christian radio and by a campaign in American churches which includes the distribution of banners, buttons, logos, and printed material. Of course, I am not against a good Christian conference to train the Lord's people in the finer points of being salt and light in our nation; but this conference is neither good nor Christian and is more about darkness than light.

A visit to the special Reclaiming America for Christ conference web page brings one face to face with four featured conference speakers, apparently the headliners along with Dr. Kennedy. Of the four chosen ones, three are Roman Catholic led off by priest Frank Pavone! We will not call him "Father" even though Kennedy and his friends do. I devoted a good deal of space in my book More Than These to Pavone, the Vatican 's charismatic icon in the ecumenical pro-life movement who also is deeply involved in the ministry of Dr. James Dobson.

The other two Romanist speakers at the RAC conference will be Eagle Forum president Phyllis Schlafly and last, but certainly not least, author Ann Coulter. Before I share a few words on the first Catholic lady, it is important to consider the significance of the second being one of Kennedy's headline speakers. It is a warning that those who neglect to practice biblical separation from error are soon caught up in a downgrade which, if not promptly corrected, eventually turns into a spiritual free fall.

RAC bills Coulter as "Columnist, Author of Godless." Apparently, Dr. Kennedy thinks the renowned Coulter is, as RAC touts her, "on the leading edge of Christian moral witness." I have leafed through Coulter's Godless book and would have to differ with Kennedy. On page three, we find Coulter's own, certainly not the Bible's, definition of Christian: "I often refer to Christians and Christianity because I am a Christian and I have a fairly good idea of what they believe, but the term is intended to include anyone who subscribes to the Bible of the God of Abraham, including Jews and others." On page 266, Coulter assures her readers, "Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe we are distinct from the beasts, you're with God." The Catholic Coulter's definition of Christian certainly leaves one to wonder about Kennedy's definition! After all, Coulter is one of his featured, may we say, preachers at his Christian conference where Dr. Kennedy says Christians will "learn and interact with speakers who are engaging the culture for Christ." Attendees have been assured that being taught by the likes of Coulter will "send you home eager and equipped to reclaim your community for Christ." It does not seem to bother D. James Kennedy and his staff that at least some of those whom he has doing the equipping, such as the acid-tongued Ann Coulter, preach another gospel, another Christ. And where there is bad soteriology, there is naturally other grievous error.

This is certainly true in the case of the New York Times bestselling author. For example, in numerous places in Coulter's book, she posits that God may have created by using evolution. She also speaks crudely about sexual matters as well and uses crude expressions to make her points on various issues. One instance of that is found on page eight where Coulter writes, "Question: Are liberals clueless about waste management? Answer: Do bears c--p in the woods?" It should be noted that while I left the two letters out of the crude word of the crude expression just quoted by necessity, Miss "Christian moral witness" kept the word intact.

Visitors to Coulter's web site are treated to an entire page of pictures of her, including one of Ann posing in a deep-v-neck, short-skirt leather dress. The jacket cover of her Godless book, which no doubt will be available at the RAC conference, shows Coulter in a skimpy dress, featuring a plunging, cleavage-revealing neckline accented by a cross necklace! Suffice it to say, the trying-hard-to-be-a-blond-bombshell Coulter is hardly a daughter of Sarah and will probably not be speaking on Titus, chapter two. On the other hand, given the surreal spiritual nature of the RAC conference, anything is possible.

Of course, Phyllis Schlafly is not exactly in the running for the gentle spirit award either. However, in a mockery of the words of our Lord Jesus, Dr. Kennedy has tapped Phyllis, an unregenerate woman living in Romanist darkness, to be the keynote speaker at the RAC "Salt & Light Banquet."

Given that three of Kennedy's seventeen speakers are Roman Catholic, I suppose it is a safe bet that his seminar on "Reclaiming America through evangelism" will include nothing that would offend his Romanist co-laborers or Catholic conference attendees who ante up the conference fee to attend ($79 advance, $125 at the door; the Salt & Light dinner costs extra). But this is all consistent with Kennedy's determination to promote the communion of light with darkness in gross violation of 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 as well as many other Scripture passages. Perhaps Dr. Kennedy, who markets modern Bible translations, has decided Ephesians 5:11 should read, "And have much to do with the unfruitful works of darkness. Indeed, promote them."

There is much which could be said concerning the ecumenical spectacle and sheer hypocrisy of Dr. D. James Kennedy's Reclaiming America for Christ conference. I should at least squeeze in the fact that U.S. Senate chaplain and RAC conference speaker Dr. Barry Black is a Seventh Day Adventist! Length-of-article considerations do not permit me to deal with all the speakers and ministries involved in Kennedy's conference. So I will restrict myself to the facts I have presented in hopes that my readers will apply the Scriptures. Dr. Kennedy and his friends will no doubt address many evils at the RAC conference; but they will be promoting the worst evil of all—a false gospel and a counterfeit church headed up by antichrist!

But how many of the Lord's people, especially pastors, will speak up for Christ and our gospel faith against this outrage? How many are set for the defense of the gospel against all who would subvert it? I have written to Kennedy on this matter and, of course, published this article with the hope of stirring up some love and zeal in a few hearts. But if the past is any indication, Dr. Kennedy will hardly be subject to a blizzard of protests from Christians and ultimatums of "repent or have your programs yanked" by Christian radio station managers. Jeremiah 5:31 —"The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?"

In November when the infamous Pastor Rick Warren had a pro-abortion U.S. senator speak at his church's AIDS conference, conservative, evangelical pro-life leaders, including pastors and radio hosts, were rightly up in arms. But what of those pastors and leaders who signed on to a public rebuke of Warren ? How many of them will show such zeal in defense of our gospel faith? How many will now confront Dr. Kennedy for betraying our Lord, advancing the cause of popery, and smoothing the road to hell for Romanists? Judging from their past performances, probably none. I suppose they are all too busy "reclaiming America for Christ" when, in reality, the desperate need is to reclaim the church for Christ.

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