Pilgrims Covenant Church Public Ministry Update
October 4—December 6, 2007

Dear Friends,

Taking my turn in Newcastle after Pastor David Carson.

On November 5, I arrived home after a twelve-day trip to England. Some months ago, I was invited to speak several times at the United Protestant Council’s semi-annual meeting in London. Then, the ministry Christian Watch invited me to speak at three special meetings in three different English cities. Finally, I was also invited to preach in several English churches. In addition, during my time in England, my wife and I, along with Pastor David Carson and several members of his church, joined veteran street preacher and pastor James Hamilton to preach and hand out gospel tracts in a busy pedestrian square in the city of Newcastle. Rev. Hamilton has weekly preached on the streets of that city for twenty-five years as part of his street preaching circuit. And it showed! We gave out hundreds of tracts and had many good conversations, which is non-typical in an English city these days. I was blessed to have a good interaction with a young, zealous Muslim man who ended up taking a gospel tract and promising to read it. A number of Muslim women also took tracts. This was just part of the encouragement and blessing we enjoyed in England.

Gospel witness to a Muslim as Rev. James Hamilton preaches.

At each of the meetings where I preached, we met wonderful, steady, uncompromised, and in some cases, battle-tested Christians who are determined to contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints. It was especially a great privilege to be the speaker at the UPC meeting as it is governed by and was attended by a number of uncompromised, very capable pastors. What a blessing to spend time with such men. I wish we had a United Protestant Council here in the United States!

By the way, at the UPC meeting, I met a young Christian man who told me that he and his wife pulled their children out of the government schools in order to homeschool after hearing a sermon I did on education titled "None Dare Call It Sin." That sermon is posted on SermonAudio, and the couple had heard it there. But this is one of the many reasons we have for praising the Lord when we think back on our time in England. I should also mention that an assortment of PCC literature was distributed at the various meetings in England. I do not doubt that good will come of that as well.

But I need to get to the PCC public ministry report. Every week, some of us from Pilgrims Covenant Church are engaged in public ministry of various sorts, including street preaching, gospel tract distribution, pro-life work, and the education of the public with the truth about homosexuality. My intent for this newsletter is to briefly share a little on a couple of important ministry works and then leave you with a summary of the literature distribution aspect of our work.

Spanish Urgent Plea tracts waiting for the Fed Ex truck.

On November 14, we shipped to missionary Bert Craft in Mexico 28,750 copies of the Spanish version of our pamphlet An Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics. The title in Spanish is Una Advertencia Urgente a los Católicos Romanos. Brother Craft and those who work with him in Mexico will be handing those tracts out at Roman Catholic festivals in December. We are very excited about this project and ask that you would consider praying for Bert Craft and the distribution of those tracts. What a tremendous blessing to know that tens of thousands of Roman Catholics in Mexico sitting in popish darkness will receive so much gospel light! I want to thank all of you who donated toward the printing and shipping costs for the Spanish Urgent Plea tracts.

Some of us waiting for the football crowd to arrive.

The week after we returned home from England, PCC did a gospel witness in front of Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. The event was the WIAA state boys football championships. We held gospel signs and gave out hundreds of gospel tracts in a very short time. While we received the expected scorn from some of the middle-aged and older crowd, the young people were by and large very receptive to us and took the lion’s share of our tracts. May the Lord bless that gospel sowing with a bountiful harvest of souls.

Handing out gospel tracts to football fans. We split up and covered different gates.

My thanks to everyone who supports this ministry and prays for it. You make it possible for us to not only continue our various ministry endeavors in Wisconsin and elsewhere but to also aid others who are taking a bold, principled stand for biblical truth. Let me offer a few random examples with regard to the others I mentioned. On October 27, some brothers from Wyldewood Baptist Church in Oshkosh traveled to La Crosse, Wisconsin in order to saturate large areas of that city with our tract Homosexuality: The Truth, which we gladly supplied free of charge. Recently, we supplied Christian Watch a quantity of the booklet I have enclosed with this letter. CW is planning on distributing the booklets to their UK members. A Hispanic pastor from Omaha, Nebraska has asked us to supply him with a quantity of our Spanish Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics tract which he will then hand out in the large Roman Catholic Spanish-speaking community there. Currently, we are printing more of those tracts and also planning on a mass mailing in Green County with the English version.

I hope you are encouraged by this brief summary of our PCC public ministry work. We certainly have been encouraged, not to mention equipped, by your support of that work. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Pastor Ralph Ovadal

• Bulk mailing: Homosexuality: The Truth and What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality sent to 1,333 rural Rockton, Illinois homes.

• Door-to-door lit dropping by PCC: • Heaven or Hell: Brodhead, Fitchburg, Madison, Monroe, Monticello, Wisconsin; Stockton and Elizabeth, Illinois. • Bible or Truth: Bloomer, Cambria, Dane, Fall River, Fox Lake, Elm Grove, Friesland, Hustisford, Madison, Milwaukee, Plover, Randolph, Reedsville, Watertown, Wautoma, Wauwatosa, West Allis, Westfield, Wisconsin; and Maquotketa, Iowa.

• Other literature distribution by PCC: • Heaven or Hell: Madison, Watertown, UW-Stevens Point, Wisconsin. • Bible or Truth: Bloomer High School, Monona High School, West Allis High School, and Watertown, Wisconsin.

• PCC provided literature at no cost for distribution by brethren in the following places: • Bible: La Crosse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Lynchburg, Virginia. • Truth: La Crosse, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Randolph, Wisconsin; and Lynchburg, Virginia. • Urgent Plea: La Crosse, Milwaukee, Onalaska, Wisconsin; and Lynchburg, Virginia.

• PCC provided literature at cost for distribution in the following places: • Heaven or Hell: La Crosse, Wisconsin; Waterloo, Illinois; Omaha, Nebraska; and Cunningham, Tennessee. • Truth: Cunningham, Tennessee. • No Excuses: La Crosse, Wisconsin; Waterloo, Illinois; and Cunningham, Tennessee.

"Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you."
2 Thessalonians 3:1

Click here to read the booklet mentioned in this newsletter,
Romanizing America through Illegal Immigration.

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NEW! Romanizing America through Illegal Immigration by Ralph Ovadal (booklet)—gift of $1.00
More Than These: A Call for Reformation by Ralph Ovadal (270 pages)—gift of $8.00
Answering Sodom by Ralph Ovadal (252 pages)—gift of $5.00

Tracts
What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality—gift of $.06 each
Homosexuality: The Truth—gift of $.08 each
An Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics—gift of $.08 each
NEW! SPANISH An Urgent Plea to Roman Catholics—gift of $.08 each
Heaven or Hell? PCC’s gospel tract—gift of $.06 each
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