WCU Lit Drops and Pickets
Menomonee Falls Truth Deluge
A Day in the Dells
Sowing Gospel Seed at the Farmers Market
More Than a Little Help from Our Friends

July 2, 2003

"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth." 
1 John 3:18

Dear Friends,

By the time that you receive this newsletter, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Texas sodomy law will be old news. At this point, I have done many radio and newspaper interviews on that decision. Before and after it, I covered it, and the issues surrounding it, in-depth in sermons, in e-mail messages, in a well-published commentary, and on my own program "The Heart of the Matter." Quite frankly, I am ready to move on with offensive operations, and no doubt you are too. If you would like more commentary on that infamous, in-God's-face decision, check www.wcuweb.com,  www.theheartofthematteronline.com, and www.sermonaudio.com/pcc.  The sodomites may be dancing in the streets; but we know that the Lord has them, and their powerful judicial friends, in "derision" and will, in His good time, "speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure" (Psalm 2:4-5). Meanwhile, our job is to be faithful to God's holy, immutable precepts and to share His gracious offer of salvation to all who will truly repent and place all of their faith in Jesus Christ for salvation. That is what I tried my best to do in the numerous interviews I did after the decision, including on a Colorado talk show program.

On the local front, it appears that Wisconsin's sodomite political machine may be gearing up for another run at passing "pro-gay" legislation here in the Badger State. According to a recent issue of In Step, the move is on to pressure "local leaders, like politicians or clergy, to publicly support" a statewide domestic partnership registry for sodomite sex partners. Legislation could be introduced as soon as this fall. For the last several years, every pro-sodomite bill that has been introduced has met a quick and decisive death. We must make sure the same thing happens again. Now is the time to fervently pray, energetically spread the truth about homosexuality, and forcefully make your views known to both your state representative and your state senator. It is not enough to simply win a vote against Sodom's initiatives. Such assaults on law and morality must be decisively crushed. Here is what needs to be done by every Christian:

1) Pray fervently against the homosexual political and religious agenda every day and every Sunday in church. We must not make the fatal, God-dishonoring mistake of not praying in this critical hour. "Ye have not, because ye ask not" (James 4:2).

2) Call, e-mail, or write your state senator and assemblyman and let them know that any vote for Sodom is a vote against you and your family which will not be forgotten come election day.

3) If possible, come to any legislative hearings which are held on pro-sodomite legislation.

4) Get the truth about homosexuality out to your fellow citizens. The sodomites have come this far in large part because Christians have allowed them to flood the culture with their propaganda which is only powerful when it is unanswered. We must answer Sodom with truth! I firmly believe that the sodomite machine is currently bogged down in Wisconsin, at least in large part, because of the ten-year flood of truth WCU has spread across our state which has laid the groundwork for their recent defeats. But we all need to do much more, and so many Christians are doing absolutely nothing! Right now the leadership of every church should sit down and map out a strategy to go on the offensive against New Sodom by flooding with truth the area in which the Lord has planted them. Letters to the editor, lit drops, mailings, "wolf hunts," school outreaches are all effective weapons in this war between truth and deception, liberty and tyranny, law and license, morality and depravity. Yes, we must also engage in other ministry work; but remember, the sodomite host we face is not only a driving force behind the sexual anarchy spreading across our nation, but it is also the tip of the spear pointed at the heart of Christian liberty. The sodomites are among the most vociferous, implacable enemies of the true gospel; and their "theologians" are on the cutting edge of a new wave of higher criticism which seeks to not only "re-interpret" major passages of the Scriptures but also to even literally rewrite those passages. Given all of that, and more, can there be any doubt that our Lord is asking concerning the sodomites, "Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?" (Psalm 94:16)? What is needed is a systematic dissemination of truth, and there are many ways everyone can help and still have plenty of time for other essential ministry. Currently, we are signing individuals and churches up to take part in a very timely, critically needed offensive in the rural areas of our state. Please consider taking part in Operation Saturation even if you live in a big city or your church is a big city church. In such a case, WCU will be happy to suggest some rural areas of our state which would profit greatly by a mailing.

5) Support WCU with prayer and financial gifts as led by the Lord. Currently, we are getting so much literature out that we have overrun our ability to resupply. If something does not change soon, we will be forced to restrict our literature distribution to only Wisconsin. This would be a shame for a number of reasons, including the fact that a stand for righteousness and truth anywhere helps those who are standing everywhere. Lord willing, we are now realistically hoping to disseminate a third of a million brochures this year alone in Wisconsin and around the nation. Remember, each of our brochures either has the gospel in it, or we stuff it with a salvation tract. What is it worth just to get the truth about homosexuality out to such a mass of people, not to mention putting the gospel of Jesus Christ in their hands! Our heartfelt thanks to those of you who have faithfully helped in this critical, unfortunately at this time, one-of-a-kind ministry.

For years, WCU has been warning Christians that the sodomite movement is not just some rag-tag collection of sexually perverted libertines or a confused community of sad souls. The sodomite movement is a satanically inspired, lust driven, hate motivated, fascist movement which threatens the safety and liberty of every man, woman, and child in this nation. It is a beast with a twisted mind and a cruel heart. This truth is testified to by Scripture and history. From the violent men of Sodom to the blood-thirsty, sexually perverse Canaanite culture; from the bloody sodomite Aztec priests to the "gay" cannibals of the New Hebrides Islands and the African continent; from the Nazi sodomite thugs at the center of Hitler's rise to power to the Jeffrey Dahmers of today, the verdict on the "homosexual lifestyle" is in, and it is conclusive. It should be no surprise that a great mass of empirical evidence shows the Scriptures to be true in this regard as they are in every regard. Yes, we should fervently pray for and ardently share the gospel with sodomite men and women, with a special emphasis on the young people. But we must face the hard truth that the individuals who engage in "vile affections," changing "the natural use into that which is against nature," are soon enough given "over to a reprobate mind" by God and become everything the Scriptures say in Romans 1:29-32, even if they are not yet able to fully manifest those characteristics at this time. Yes, we must pray for the salvation of individual sodomites, but we must not make the fatal, unbiblical error of thinking our responsibility ends there.

This is a critical time in our nation's history and in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ. Unless we Christians are willing to zealously engage in a ministry of public truth telling, we may soon find our churches under persecution by a sodomite-controlled Public Ministry of Truth. Those who would scoff at such a notion need only look to Canada which stands poised on the brink of passing Bill C-250 which would make "homophobia" a crime punishable under genocide laws. Other Western nations are at a similar place. May God grant that the Christian Church in the U.S.A. be the rock upon which the sodomite armada is wrecked. It can be so if each of us will work, pray, and trust in our God who blesses the defense of His truth.

Pastor Ralph Ovadal

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WCU Action Highlights
May 20—July 2, 2003

"We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written,
I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak." 
2 Cor. 4:13

WCU Lit Drops and Pickets

Unless otherwise specified, all WCU brochures given out during this reporting period were either "Homosexuality: The Truth" or "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality." Both also contain the gospel.

WCU lit dropped in Mt. Horeb, Verona, Menomonee Falls, Milwaukee, Beloit, Prairie du Chien, Black River Falls, Onalaska, Fennimore, and Portage. WCU held pickets in Mt. Horeb, Menomonee Falls, Fennimore, Prairie du Chien, and Portage. At one picket--and we will never tell in which town--a police officer told the WCU Christians, "God bless you!" At another picket, passers-by were overwhelmingly in support of WCU's message. One teenage girl on a bicycle tried to give WCU what was literally her last dollar to buy more literature. Back to top.

Menomonee Falls Truth Deluge

On May 27, WCU blitzed Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. We started the day by handing out "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality" to hundreds of students arriving for their day's classes at Menomonee Falls High School. The school administration were hostile but unsuccessful in an attempt to have us leave the public sidewalk in front of the school.

It doesn't get much better than this! Handing out WCU lit to Menomonee  Falls High School students arriving by bus.

Next we did a literature drop of homes with the "Homosexuality: The Truth" brochure. We also lit dropped homes, churches, and businesses with the same brochure in the afternoon.

Honest, the First Amendment really is in the Bill of Rights; and it really does protect religious liberty, even for Christians! Menomonee Falls police meet Monroe Pastor.

At a noon-time picket, we experienced some hostility from the police, portending of things to come. We also had the chance to witness to several people, including a very distraught, agitated young woman whose brother died as a homosexual. At the end of a long conversation about God's Word and the gospel, the young woman bowed her head, clasped her hands, and with tears streaming down her face, joined with me as I prayed that the Lord would not only show her the truth about homosexuality but that He would also grant her repentance and salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Mike Foht and Doug Berthon also spent quite a bit of time sharing truth with several men looking for answers.

Doug Berthon patiently provides answers for a seeker at the WCU picket in Menomonee Falls.

At our late afternoon rush-hour picket, the manager of a car wash called the police and asked them to remove us from the area, which they did attempt to do by harassment, subterfuge, and threat. (We were not even in front of the car wash business.) Thus was begun a constitutional tug of war, not to mention a war of nerves, between us and three of Menomonee Falls's "finest" who threatened us with arrest and even demanded to know all sorts of information they had no right to know.

I was chastised by the sergeant on hand and was told I should unquestionably do as I am told by the civil government seeing I am a pastor. At one point, a young Christian man stopped to see if we were doing okay after seeing three squad cars and their drivers surrounding us. The officers ordered him to vacate the area as well! Fortunately, the sergeant and his men said all the right things which make for a solid federal lawsuit. In the end, they realized that they had played a role in a made-for-courtroom drama and said that they were going to confiscate our video tape! But by the grace of God and a lapse in vigilance by the MFPD officers, our Christian brother with the video camera ended up on the other side of the street, which just happened to be a different jurisdiction, specifically New Berlin. After a short consultation, several of the MFPD officers did venture into that jurisdiction, but the bird had already escaped the snare.

The next day, I called the police chief of MFPD, letting him know that we are coming back to town and that we want written assurance that our First Amendment rights, including our religious liberties, will be honored. He seemed to be a genuinely nice, professional man; so I hope the situation will be straightened out without court action. Praise be to God that Menomonee Falls was drenched with truth by the end of the day and the enemy's schemes to silence our witness came to naught. Back to top.

A Day in the Dells

On Saturday, June 14, WCU staged our monthly pro-life picket in Wisconsin Dells, lining the busy streets with huge pictures of murdered preborn babies and babies in the womb as well as signs displaying Scripture messages. We also gave out WCU's pro-life gospel tract "No Excuses." After the picket and a time of fellowship over lunch, we set up a gospel banner on the sidewalks of downtown Wisconsin Dells and preached to the teeming masses there. Hundreds of gospel tracts were also handed out and some WCU lit as well. Back to top.

Sowing Gospel Seed at the Farmers Market

". . . behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." Tom Ovadal hands out gospel tracts at the farmers market in Madison.

On Saturday, June 7, WCU preached and gave out salvation tracts to thousands of lost souls at a farmers market on the Capitol Square in Madison. We also passed out the WCU brochure "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality." The police left us alone, and we saw evidence of some sinners being moved by the preaching of God's Word. Of course, we also saw evidence of hatred of God's Word by others. All in all, we were encouraged and comforted that the Holy Spirit was effectually working through the preaching of the gospel. Back to top.

A banner of truth in a sea of sinners. Mike Foht takes his turn with the banner while others preach and hand out gospel tracts on the Capitol Square. We rotate first one side of the banner, then the other, toward the crowd.

More Than a Little Help from Our Friends

Large quantities of WCU brochures were provided to Christians for distribution in the following cities: Viroqua, Milwaukee, and Waukesha, Wisconsin; Lithia Springs, Georgia; Petersburg and Lynchburg, Virginia; Rockford, Illinois; Keokuk and Baxter, Iowa; Phoenixville and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Crown Point and Lancaster, New York. In some of the cities mentioned, dedicated Christians lit dropped literally thousands of copies of either "Homosexuality: The Truth" or "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality." One of those cities, Minneapolis, just happens to be the site of an upcoming convention of the Episcopal Church of America.

WCU brochures were also given out by Christians at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin "Pridefest"; a--believe it or not--"gay" rodeo near Omaha, Nebraska; and a high school in Portage, Wisconsin. In addition, WCU sent out a number of copies of the booklet "Why Is the Church Silent . . . Again?" to such places as Anza, California; Lititz, Pennsylvania; and New Orleans, Louisiana. WCU literature was also sent on request to several Christians in the U.K. Back to top.