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WCU conducted lit
drops in: Dodgeville, Mount Horeb, Mukwonago, and Baraboo. In
addition to the literature given out to students during WCU’s Day of
Truth campaign, we distributed brochures to students at Mukwonago High
School and West Baraboo High School. Christians on the UK trip reported on
in this newsletter also handed out WCU brochures in Belfast, Northern
Ireland and lit dropped some WCU literature in several English towns.
WCU provided
literature for distribution in: Lancaster, Madison, Mukwonago, Kaukauna, Oconomowoc,
Milwaukee, Friendship, Elkhart, Belgium; Mitchell, South Dakota;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Central Iowa.
During the time
reported on in this newsletter, WCU also:
• Distributed free
copies of the book Answering
Sodom, the booklet “Why
Is the Church Silent . . . Again?” and WCU brochures to
pastors in Aberdeen, Mississippi; Apple River, Illinois; Ocklawaha,
Florida; Northern Ireland; Chester, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; and
Glasgow, Scotland.
• Provided WCU brochures
for distribution through a Christian bookstore in Wisconsin.
• Provided on request
one hundred copies of the booklet “Why
Is the Church Silent . . . Again?”
to be distributed by Eagle
Forum to members and churches in the Sacramento, California area. One
hundred copies were also requested by and given to the British group
Christian Watch. WCU continues to provide small quantities of the booklet
for free to those who wish to distribute it.
• Placed WCU literature
in the packets given out to 1,000 attendees of the annual Wisconsin
Christian Home Educators Association’s convention.
• Once again provided
free packets to individuals who called WCU in response to an offer I made
as a guest on Pastor Grant Storms’s radio program broadcast in the New
Orleans, Louisiana area. The packets contained WCU literature, a copy of
the book Answering
Sodom, and several cassette copies of sermons.
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Double duty. Christians hold up
a WCU banner over
Hwy. 51
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share the gospel with a homosexual
and his friend at the same time.
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Day of Silence—Day
of Truth
On April 9, the sodomite propagandists staged their
annual “Day of Silence” in government schools across America. In
participating schools, sodomite students and their allies remained silent
all day to protest supposed oppression against those who practice
“fornication, and going after strange flesh” (Jude 7).
As we did last year, WCU organized and equipped
Christians to go out to the participating schools in their areas and turn
the sodomites’ Day of Silence into a Day of Truth. This year, Christians
in five states took WCU literature, and in some cases signs, to minister
to students at nineteen schools.
In Wisconsin, a team that I led visited Stoughton High
School in the morning, DeForest in the afternoon, and Sun Prairie at the
close of the school day. The team finished off with an “overpass
picket” in Madison, Wisconsin during which they unfurled over Highway 51
two sixteen-foot banners reading, “Homosexuality is sin.” The banners,
which faced traffic from both directions, were each accompanied by two
signs. The messages on the signs read, “Christ can set you free,” and,
“Repent ye, and believe the gospel. Mark 1:15.”
Although two women police officers did their
unsuccessful best to bully the Christians off of the pedestrian overpass,
thousands of motorists saw the convicting message. At the end of the
picket, a police sergeant arrived on the scene and convinced her (yes,
another woman) two officers that the Christians were right in disobeying
the unlawful order to pack up and leave.
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Pastor Ovadal shares the gospel
with a group of
lesbians
at Stoughton High School.
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The ministry to students arriving at Stoughton High
School was very fruitful, with WCU Christians having a lively time of
ministry with some very spiritually needy students. During our stay, the
principal of the school could be heard on the school intercom explaining
that “the people handing out literature outside have a constitutional
right to do so.” He actually delivered a very good civics lesson!
Several students were quite supportive of WCU, and a large volume of “What
the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality” tracts went into the
hands of students.
At Deforest, WCU visited both the high school and
middle school at lunch time, making use of signs and banners as well as
tracts. At the high school, Mike Foht had a lively conversation with a
woman pastor who had been the target of a WCU Wolf Hunt. She seemed to
carry some animosity toward true Bible believers in general and me in
particular. At the middle school, one bus driver took literature from us
while another gave the one-fingered sign of contempt. A student told us
that inside the school, all the students were reading and talking about
WCU’s signs and banners which probably accounts for the teachers drawing
curtains and pulling down shades where possible.
At Sun Prairie High School, the diligent work of
sodomite propagandists and the silence of area Christians has clearly
borne much bitter fruit. Just before the close of the school day, WCU set
up signs and banners along the street down which students drive from the
school parking lot to reach a city street. So intense was the hatred of
Christians and the Word of God that, if the police had not been present,
it is likely a riot may have erupted among those who congregated around
the small band of Christians reproving the unfruitful works of darkness
and sharing the gospel. At the same time, as the hundreds of cars bearing
students crawled slowly up to the intersection of a main city street, WCU
signs were well read and much literature was given out. On a hopeful note,
a number of students also expressed disgust with the way “the gays and
lesbians have taken over our school,” and some students clearly came
under heartfelt conviction of sin! Also, the local paper unwittingly took
a turn at getting the gospel out through their coverage (see below).
Praise be to God for his manifest mercy and for those of His people who
were willing to bring so much light where it is so badly needed.
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Pastor Ovadal
street preaching.
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Michael Bergum
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“Last year the most widely reported
disruptions of the Day of Silence occurred in Wisconsin. You may have
read reports in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about members of
Wisconsin Christians United . . .”
Excerpted from a letter written to the CEO of a Wisconsin corporation by
the Working Group Coordinators for the sodomite group Interfaith
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Mike Foht street preaching.
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Two Worthwhile Weeks
in the United Kingdom
Mike Foht and eleven young Christians, along with my
wife and me, spent April 24 to May 6 in Northern Ireland (Ulster),
Scotland, and England.
During the course of that time, we visited dozens
of significant historical sites, met with victims of IRA violence in
Ulster, attended nine different church services and Christian rallies, and
did some ministry work. I also preached several times, including at a
rally of the organization Christian Watch.
A highlight of the trip was an open-air meeting headed
up by the indomitable Pastor David Carson which was held in Chester,
England. (See photos on this page.)
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Janet Ovadal handing out
gospel tracts.
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The trip proved to be tremendously
encouraging to all the Christians involved from both sides of the
Atlantic, and a number of invaluable contacts were formed. WCU is also
receiving requests for literature from individuals in the UK. The
Americans on the trip gained priceless knowledge of their own Christian
heritage as well. Those who participated in the UK trip did so at their
own travel expense with lodging, transportation, and food provided by UK
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First of monthly
pro-life ministry events held in West Baraboo.
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The beginning of one line. The last
two signs read,
“Abortion is
murder,” and, “Outlaw Abortion.”
Other word signs featured the gospel.
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On May 10th, WCU held the first of what will be, Lord
willing, a monthly pro-life ministry event on the second Saturday of every
month in southwestern Wisconsin.
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Reproving the unfruitful
works of darkness. Pastor Bob
Brandhagen puts the killing in context.
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About fifty Christians and their children
lined a very busy highway through West Baraboo with biblical messages and
huge signs bearing photos of murdered preborn babies. A new WCU tract
bearing a pro-life message on one side and a gospel message on the other
was given out to motorists at the stoplights and to pedestrians. Several
men also preached God’s Word through a “truth horn.”
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A sower went out to sow.
Handing out a new WCU tract which
features a pro-life message on
one side and the gospel on the other.
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After that
ministry and a time of fellowship over lunch, a number of Christians went
to the square in downtown Baraboo to hand out salvation tracts and lit
drop businesses with WCU literature. Christians wanting to be involved in
this monthly event should contact
WCU.
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