Vermont Mission Report--Terry Dorsett

Dear Vermont Prayer Partners,

The following is good news about the work in Vermont from my friend and colleague Terry Dorsett. At the end there are several projects that you may feel led to adopt. Remember to pray for the work there, and help financially as you are able.

This past week I spent a great deal of time meeting one on one with people
who were having various spiritual difficulties in their lives. I do not consider
myself a very good counselor, but the Holy Spirit is a great Counselor and He
brought great hope and peace to the lives of His children as we talked and
prayed together.

Yesterday I spoke at Faith Community Church in
Barre (which meets in the basement of a local motel). I speak there two Sundays
a month and then speak in other GMBA churches on the other two Sundays each
month. Yesterday we have a huge crowd (59), which included 10 teenagers. It
seems that our outreach to teens has just exploded in the last few months. Pray
for many of them to be saved.

I preached on How to Find Joy from 1
John 1 and one of the points was the need to confess our sins and forsake them.
If we continue to carry a sin load on our backs, we’ll never find joy. I gave
the group a sample prayer to pray and encouraged them to talk to someone before
they left. Right after the service a mother and her 9 year old son asked me to
pray with them, so we slipped into the storage room (it was the only private
place around) and prayed among the boxes of kitchen supplies that the motel
keeps stored there. While I was praying with them a young man who is completely
unchurched but has been coming the last few weeks was desperately trying to find
me so he could talk to me too. But since I was in the storage room, he couldn’t
find me, so he grabbed one of the ladies whom he had met and asked if she could
tell him how to be born again. So they turned the hallway in front of the two
bathrooms into an altar and she led him to the Lord right there. It was the
first person she had ever led to the Lord, so it was a cause for rejoicing. When
I finally emerged from the storage room after having prayed with the mother and
son, I saw a couple sitting over to one side of the room and their body language
said, “we need to talk to you” so I went over to ask if I could help and they
said, “we have got to get an appointment to come talk to you, we need to get
some things right and join this church” so they are coming by the office today.
Then another person came up and asked if I could make an appointment for them
too. Wow, it was quite the morning.

Be praying as the Lord works
through these many issues in many people’s lives. Pray especially for Gabe (the
young boy) who really needs a touch for the Lord and pray for Nick (the young
man) to be discipled in his new faith. Pray for Karen, who got to lead Nick to
the Lord, that that spirit of evangelism will permeate her
life!!

Yesterday just underscored the need for Faith to move into a
real building. But praise God that even when you don’t have a building yet, you
can turn storage rooms into counseling areas and hallways into altars. God’s
Spirit cannot be stopped! Pray for Faith as they have their hearing with the
zoning board on June 7. Pray for them to get approval to convert the warehouse
into a church. It is the last major hurdle. They are schedule to close on June
29, but the seller wants us to move it up to June 21 if we can get the permit.
So pray towards that end.

There are still a lot of needs; you can
see the list below. Pray to the Father that each will be met.

Faith
Community Church Current Financial Needs:
1. Renovation costs - $20,000
(actually it is twice that but the mission has raised half themselves) 2.
Refrigerator - $1000
3. Two microwaves - $3004. Video projector for power
point - $1000 (all their songs & sermon notes are projected on the wall but
they currently use a borrowed projector) 5. Computer for power point - $1000
(they currently use a borrowed computer) 6. Computer for office - $10007. Sound
system - $5000 (they currently borrow a system that another church needs back)
8. 1 case of new hardback Holman Christian Standard Bibles, preferably black -
$2759. Furniture for youth room - $3000 (couches, lamps, tables) 10. New drums -
$950 (they had a borrowed set that the owner wanted back) 11. Office furniture -
$350012. Furniture for the "Family Room" (vestibule/fellowship area) -
$5000

All gifts are tax deductible and should be made out
to:
Faith Community Church
P O Box 278
Barre VT 05641
Donors are
encouraged to pick an item from the list above and specify what their gift will
be used for. However, if any single item is over subscribed, the church reserves
the right to use that overage to meet a different need on this list until all
the needs have been met.

Here is a great project for your Vacation Bible School. We are collecting empty ink cartridges and used cell phones as a fund raiser to help pay for the renovations of a warehouse into a church and also the association office. Have your VBS collect those items. At the end of your VBS, email me (don’t mail the box to us) and I will send you a prepaid label and you can ship the box postage free directly to the company that is paying us to do the recycling.

Also, a second project, have your Vacation Bible School collect change to help us renovate three classrooms for children in this same building. What a great thought, that the children of your church and help the children of a mission church in Vermont have a nice Sunday School room. Checks for that project can be mailed to Faith Community Church, P O Box 278, Barre VT 05641.

Thanks for thinking of these two great VBS projects.