Pauline is a 17-year-old high school student in Cambodia. When I met her at the end of March she was on a break from school, traveling with our Cambodian and Indonesian teams, giving the Book of Hope to the young people of her nation. She is a vibrant Christian, one of those people that you see stand up in front of a group of children and you know she is showing Christ to them - - a shy excitement, joy in her face, she radiates the love of Jesus.

I find it of the utmost challenge to remember what it was like at youth convention. When I was there in Green Bay (attending Youth Convention), I was happy. The only worry I had about God was resolved the first night. Then I went back home to a world that was falling apart. About a week ago, I was to the point where I just didn't want to live. Then I looked on my counter and saw a package. Knowing it was a Fire Bible, I decided I wasn’t going to open it – I didn’t feel like I could.

It was last year in Sheridan and we really wanted to pump “Flip the Script” (scripture distribution outreach) so we threw a big bash with videos, T-shirts, flyers, etc. It was an awesome night and God showed up. Our ministry consisted of about 50 students and I figured approximately 30 of them would embrace “Flip the Script”, so I only ordered one case of 144 Books of Hope. At the end of the night I had run out of books and had students calling me the next day needing more.

Just a note of sincere thanks for LFTL literature. I use LFTL literature constantly in my ministry. Now I have three teams traveling in the Philippines in full time evangelism and church planting. Without excellent follow-up literature, our success would be very improbable.

Within one week, the Men's Ministries leadership family has experienced the loss of two dear friends. On March 22, 2008, Peninsular Florida's LFTL Coordinator Joe Livesay went to be with the Lord. In the early hours of March 29, Carlos Ramos, Gulf Latin American District Men's Director, passed away. Carlos and his wife, Gloria, were senior pastors of Templo Getsemani Asambleas de Dios in Fort Worth, TX.

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While pastoring for many years in the United States, I served as a law enforcement chaplain in various departments. Little did I expect to find the opportunity to serve the law enforcement community in Belize, also known as the “Jewel by the Sea”.

In 2004, we planted and currently pastor Abundant Life, located in an upper-middle class neighborhood along the coastline of Montevideo - identified by church growth experts to be “The Most Unevangelized Area in the Americas”.

While deployed at the National Training Center in Ft. Irwin CA, I met a young female soldier who looked especially depressed. I pulled up a milk carton, sat down on it and began to talk. One of the first things out of her mouth was, “I am an atheist and do not believe in God.”

Before I went into full-time missions, I visited Belize in three consecutive years for about a month at a time. We did Book of Hope and Edward the Elephant outreaches in the schools, followed by personal evangelism in the homes and a crusade in the evening. We saw hundreds of children come to Christ on the school campuses, as well as in the evening services. It was this involvement that confirmed my call to full-time missionary service.