WCU Ministry Summary
Day of Silence—Day of Truth
Two Worthwhile Weeks in the United Kingdom
First of monthly pro-life ministry events held in West Baraboo.

May 20, 2003

“The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous:
the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.”
Psalm 118:15

Dear Friends,

It is axiomatic that in any war if one side does not fight, that side cannot win. Any Christian that does not realize war is being waged against everything holy to God and dear to us must surely be more of the world than simply in the world. We are at war; and unless we are willing to fight, we can have no expectation of anything resulting from this particular contest but defeat and dishonor, subjection and sorrow. On the other hand, if we are willing to be a brave, tenacious people who live by faith and act in faith to spread truth far and wide, God will increasingly crown our efforts with victory.

Recently, an editorial written by Christopher Ott appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (April 27, 2003). The title of the editorial was “Once a leader, Wisconsin now lags on gay rights.” Mr. Ott, who is the executive director of the sodomite organization Action Wisconsin, was once again bemoaning the fact that the sodomite juggernaut has apparently gone into a stall here in Wisconsin. Most encouraging, Ott stated:

“In fact, Wisconsin used to lead the way on gay rights issues, but today, we don’t even follow.”

I want to encourage you that God is blessing the efforts of His people in their struggle against the lies of Sodom’s heirs; but we must not only continue on, we must also increase both our labor and our prayers. With regard to the latter, I would encourage you to pray every day against the sodomite machine and the machinations of its leaders. Also consider asking your pastor to pray every Sunday both for that purpose and that those homosexuals who are not yet reprobate might be saved for eternity by repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Another area which needs attention is ensuring that not only the world but also Christians are subjected to proper education regarding God’s law, man’s institutions, and the perverse sexual behavior known as “homosexuality.” Currently, Christians are rightfully praying that the sodomy law of the State of Texas will be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. The sad truth is that for three decades, far too many Christians have bought the lie that the civil government has no business punishing perverted sexual acts. In fact, most Christians do not even believe that it is right to “discriminate” against sodomites! So now we have arrived at yet another turning point in our nation’s history. Sodomy is about to find its place alongside child-killing as a “constitutional right.” There will be much Christian hand-wringing when this happens—if it happens—but there should be no surprise. When the majority of the Church of Jesus Christ abandons the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” why should we expect a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold those same dictated and revealed laws of God? Whichever way the Texas case goes, it is past time Christians were thoroughly, biblically educated on matters relating to homosexuality. WCU has some excellent resources which go a long way toward that goal.

Recently, I spent two weeks in the United Kingdom. During a street preaching session in Chester, England, I am told the police were called by a nearby government official in a polling place when I began to expound on what the Bible says about homosexual acts after seeing several sodomites walk by. The police did arrive but only asked us to tone down our noise volume a bit. Such encounters do not always end that well in the UK where Christians are increasingly being arrested for “homophobic” speech.

In Bedford, England, I showed a flyer for WCU’s upcoming International Conference on Homo-Fascism to a Christian leader. He informed me that if he were to attempt to hold such a conference in his country, his arrest would be swift and sure. I tell you this because it is important to realize that we currently have the freedom to aggressively counter the lies of New Sodom; and it is crucial that we do just that!

I personally am very proud of the active, vigilant Christians in America who are making a public stand for righteousness. After being in the UK, I want to urge you to pick up the tempo. I am also grateful to quiet Christians heroes such as Jon Hood and his wife Janice who have literature dropped over 4,000 WCU tracts in their area since last fall. Certainly, WCU is out every week lit dropping; but Wisconsin is a big state, and we need individual Christians to spread literature on their own as well. Could you find time to pass out a few WCU tracts or leave them on doorsteps? We need more sowers of truth to augment “official” WCU activity.

If, for some reason, you are not up to literature dropping brochures, I want to offer you a great way to flood your area with truth anyway. Among many of the projects which WCU is planning is one we have dubbed Operation Saturation. Several weeks ago, my church sent two brochures provided by WCU to nearly 3,000 rural homes. These are homes we would not literature drop. The brochures were “Homosexuality: The Truth” and “What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality.” My church paid the bulk mailing costs. WCU provided the literature. In the end, Pilgrims Covenant Church spent only $430 in postage to reach nearly 3,000 rural families with the heart-changing gospel of Jesus Christ and two brochures packed with mind-changing truth about homosexuality. Now we would like to see other churches, groups of Christians, or even individuals around Wisconsin partner with WCU to do the same thing.

Here is the deal. You tell us how many rural homes that you would like to reach and in which location. WCU will get the necessary information from the post office. We will provide the literature and the envelopes. We will stuff the envelopes and mail them out to the rural routes decided upon. The church or individual involved merely provides a gift to cover the postage. We would like to have this take place all around the state beginning in mid-September. Most rural routes are several hundred addresses; so it is possible to make a large or small mailing. The bulk postage will cost about $.15 per address. I would beseech you to give thought to being a part of Operation Saturation. I have included a response card with this mailing. If you are interested, simply fill it out and send it back. Once you do that, we will call your local post office and get all the information that we need to be ready for the mailing next fall. Then we will call you to finalize everything. I hope that you can see the dramatic impact Operation Saturation could have on our state with your help.

I want to thank you for praying and, by God’s grace, providing for WCU. The sodomite nation is the tip of a spear pointed at the heart of Christian liberty. The “gay theologians” are the shock troops of a horde of higher critics which are determined to rewrite and “re-interpret” God’s Word to accommodate their perversion and hatred of God’s law. This is an enemy whom we must confront and defeat in our day, or our children’s day will be a dark one indeed. Please help WCU to stay on the frontline and, where possible, join us there yourself.

Pastor Ralph Ovadal

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WCU Ministry Summary
April 8—May 19, 2003

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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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.

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.

Pastor Ovadal street preaching.

Michael Bergum shares the gospel.

“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.

Joy Ovadal sharing the gospel.

Mike Foht witnesses from the Word of God.

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.)

Janet Ovadal handing out gospel tracts.

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 churches and individual Christians. Back to top.

First of monthly pro-life ministry events held in West Baraboo.

The beginning of one line. The last two signs read, “Abortion is murder,” and, “Outlaw Abortion.” Other word signs featured the gospel.

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. 

Reproving the unfruitful works of darkness. Pastor Bob Brandhagen puts the killing in context.

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.”

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.

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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