The young man had a drug addict friend that he was going to witness to and he saw the young man on fire for Jesus.  They rejoiced together and one invited the other to attend church.  So, he come to me and asked if he could please come to a Miracle Crusade.  I said, “SURE, just show up and Jesus will do the rest.”  He told me what he had done and why he went to prison.  I said, “So, why are you speaking of unspeakable things when the Lord has rescued you from that, you are saved aren’t ya?”  He said, “yeah, but I want to grow in the Lord and nobody will let me and after you talk to my parole officer, you are going to kick me out too.  I told him, “Don’t tell me what to do and be at church on Friday night because I’m going to get permission from your parole officer for you.”

So, I asked the parole officer the “why” of it. He told me what this man had done and insisted that I listen to details.  He told me that he would tell this man that he would not be allowed to attend services for me.  I told him not to bother, because I would be honored if he attended services and I think the parole officer should come too.  The parole officer declined the invitation and highly recommended that I reconsider and if I was going to allow this man to come that I needed to have him make the announcement to everyone of what he did so that people could be aware and watch out.  “What?”  I told him that if I did that, I’d have to have everyone get up and announce all the dumb stuff that they have done and I don’t have time for that.  When I look at this man I see only Jesus loving him because after all…. how can you see something under all that blood…….. 

I meet with the man every couple weeks to see how he is doing and he is growing by leaps and bounds becoming a tremendous man of God.  He brings the lost and hurting into service and cries over them as they find Jesus.

Well, the point of what I’m telling you is this…… that night, a few weeks ago, I saw this man at the altar.  I keep my eye on him.  I am never disappointed at what he is allowing the Lord to do.  Then it happened.  He raised his hands to the Lord and began to weep…. Hot tears of thanksgiving and was baptized in the Holy Spirit.  As I stood and watched him from afar, it seemed somehow that a light was upon him.  I moved slowly closer to take it all in and catch the beauty of it.  Then perfection came in the form of children.  A good half-dozen children came to him.  Children that did not know him and were not threatened by him, for they just saw Jesus.  Some sat at his feet and some stood waving flags next to him.  The peace and power of the moment was eternal and lasted longer than I had a right to watch.  That which was tormented was made new.  His redemption was seamless.  Nobody would ever be able to tell that this man had recently been released from prison for being a child molester.  Because Jesus wasn’t telling, for it no longer existed. 

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Miracle Crusades
There are always the people who come in out of sheer curiosity.  They hear something or they see the ad in a newspaper or on the television.  Once they get in the building, they are not all together sure of what is going to happen.  You can see the nervous twitch about them!  Then it happens, they feel the love of the Lord and everything changes.  People are just waiting for a reason to believe that Jesus is as big as He says He is.  If we get out of the way, they will see Him!

The crusades are building fervor in the communities around them because the people are remembering the power by which they were saved.  I pray that it will be a positive influence upon the churches as the people go forward in the Lord.

Note from Sandi
I am reminded in Galatians 5 of the Fruit of the Spirit and how powerful it would be if we did a quick “check up” of our intentions before we spoke or reacted.  Here’s the check list:
·  Love
·  Joy
·  Peace
·  Longsuffering (Patience – Yikes!)
·  Gentleness
·  Goodness
·  Faith
·  Meekness (Humility)
·  Temperance (Self Control)

New Product Catalog
We have a new product catalog.  They are available at the Revival Center or by contacting the Kingsburg office at 559-897-9575.  No charge.  Everything in the catalog is also available from our online store.

The Rich Family in Church
By Eddie Ogan

I'll never forget Easter 1946. I was 14, my little sister Ocy was12, and my older sister Darlene 16. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without many things. My dad had died five years before, leaving Mom with seven school kids to raise and no money.

By 1946 my older sisters were married and my brothers had left home. A month before Easter the pastor of our church announced that a special Easter offering would be taken to help a poor family. He asked everyone to save and give sacrificially.

When we got home, we talked about what we could do. We decided to buy 50 pounds of potatoes and live on them for a month. This would allow us to save $20 of our grocery money for the offering. Then we thought that if we kept our electric lights turned out as much as possible and didn't listen to the radio, we'd save money on that month's electric bill. Darlene got as many house and yard cleaning jobs as possible, and both of us babysat for everyone we could. For 15 cents we could buy enough cotton loops to make three pot holders to sell for $1.

We made $20 on pot holders. That month was one of the best of our lives.  Every day we counted the money to see how much we had saved. At night we'd sit in the dark and talk about how the poor family was going to enjoy having the money the church would give them. We had about 80 people in church, so figured that whatever amount of money we had to give, the offering would surely be 20 times that much. After all, every Sunday the pastor had reminded everyone to save for the sacrificial offering.

The day before Easter, Ocy and I walked to the grocery store and got the manager to give us three crisp $20 bills and one $10 bill for all our change.

We ran all the way home to show Mom and Darlene. We had never had so much money before.  That night we were so excited we could hardly sleep. We didn't care that we wouldn't have new clothes for Easter; we had $70 for the sacrificial offering.

We could hardly wait to get to church! On Sunday morning, rain was pouring. We didn't own an umbrella, and the church was over a mile from our home, but it didn't seem to matter how wet we got. Darlene had cardboard in her shoes to fill the holes. The cardboard came apart, and her feet got wet.

But we sat in church proudly. I heard some teenagers talking about the Smith girls having on their old dresses. I looked at them in their new clothes, and I felt rich.

When the sacrificial offering was taken, we were sitting on the second row from the front. Mom put in the $10 bill, and each of us kids put in a $20.

As we walked home after church, we sang all the way. At lunch Mom had a surprise for us. She had bought a dozen eggs, and we had boiled Easter eggs with our fried potatoes!

Late that afternoon the minister drove up in his car. Mom went to the door, talked with him for a moment, and then came back with an envelope in her hand. We asked what it was, but she didn't say a word. She opened the envelope and out fell a bunch of money. There were three crisp $20 bills, one $10 and seventeen $1 bills.

Mom put the money back in the envelope. We didn't talk, just sat and stared at the floor. We had gone from feeling like millionaires to feeling like poor white trash. We kids had such a happy life that we felt sorry for anyone who didn't have our life and a house full of brothers and sisters and other kids visiting constantly. We thought it was fun to share silverware and see whether we got the spoon or the fork that night.  We had two knifes that we passed around to whoever needed them. I knew we didn't have a lot of things that other people had, but I'd never thought we were poor.

That Easter day I found out we were. The minister had brought us the money for the poor family, so we must be poor. I didn't like being poor.  I looked at my dress and worn-out shoes and felt so ashamed--I didn't even want to go back to church. Everyone there probably already knew we were poor!

I thought about school. I was in the ninth grade and at the top of my class of over 100 students. I wondered if the kids at school knew that we were poor. I decided that I could quit school since I had finished the eighth grade. That was all the law required at that time. We sat in silence for a long time. Then it got dark, and we went to bed. All that week, we girls went to school and came home, and no one talked much.  Finally on Saturday, Mom asked us what we wanted to do with the money.  What did poor people do with money? We didn't know. We'd never known we were poor. We didn't want to go to church on Sunday, but Mom said we had to. Although it was a sunny day, we didn't talk on the way.

Mom started to sing, but no one joined in and she only sang one verse.  At church we had a missionary speaker. He talked about how churches in Africa made buildings out of sun dried bricks, but they needed money to buy roofs. He said $100 would put a roof on a church. The minister said, "Can't we all sacrifice to help these poor people?" We looked at each other and smiled for the first time in a week.

Mom reached into her purse and pulled out the envelope. She passed it to Darlene. Darlene gave it to me, and I handed it to Ocy. Ocy put it in the offering.

When the offering was counted, the minister announced that it was a little over

$100. The missionary was excited. He hadn't expected such a large offering from our small church. He said, "You must have some rich people in this church."

Suddenly it struck us! We had given $87 of that "little over $100."

We were the rich family in the church! Hadn't the missionary said so?  From that day on I've never been poor again. I've always remembered how rich I am because I have Jesus!

Because you’ve been wondering ….
Sandi and Martin’s son, Donny is officially “done” with Leukemia and back to work.  His little bride and he live right down the street and he is back managing the local Starbucks and finishing his degree back in college!  Their daughter, Cynthia, has her dream job in Monterey and she and Omar are living their “happily ever after.”  Sandi’s father has recovered from his stroke and “at 75, is back on the heavy equipment moving dirt around.

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Revival Center Ministry Schedule in California

Sundays Worship Service at the Revival Center, Clovis, CA  11:00 am
Wednesdays Bible Study and Communion  7:00 pm
(Staff meeting from 6:00 to 7:00 pm)
Fridays Hunger to Hope Miracle Crusade  7:00 pm

Hunger to Hope Miracle Crusades

Fountain Hills, Arizona - First Saturday of each month, 7:00 pm
Hunger to Hope Crusade Fountain Hills, AZ

 Branson, Missouri - First Monday of each month, 7:00 pm
Hunger to Hope Miracle Crusade Branson, MO

Clovis, California - Every Friday, 7:00 pm
Hunger to Hope Miracle Crusade

Northern California - coming soon

Sandi’s Other Speaking Engagements this month

 April 26 - 28, 2007
Valley Christian Center Women's Retreat

May 9, 2007
Herman & Sharron Bailey Television Show

May 13, 2007
The Altar Community Church, Clovis, CA

Memory Verse
Revelation 12:11 “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

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