Seed time and Harvest Ministries Inc.
Jan /Feb 2024
The year 2024 has started and we are sitting down to see what we accomplished in 2023 and what are our goals for this coming year. Some plans are accomplished in a few months while others take years. We started a project in 2020 called SAMAO 2040 that has been very effective. It is a social project that helps orient families with new babies and gives them free advice and direction for the next twenty years of their child´s life. We now have over 150 families in the project and more than 10 families have accepted Christ and are now part of a local church. This is a plan that will run for more that 30 years.
What was done. In 2023 were able to install a new pastoral family in the church we have in the city of Compostela.
We continue pastoring two churches and one mission as well as overseeing 9 other churches in our State. We helped raise funds for the purchase of a property for a church building in Tepic and started the construction of the church. Philip worked as president of the Pastoral Alliance in Tepic achieving 12 united prayer meeting as well as different activities with youth, men, and couples. Lucy was in charge of the Ladies conference that took place the last week in November with over 180 ladies in attendance. The job was not only getting the conference together but also getting over 12 churches in the city of Tepic to participate in the activity. We know that Jesus only has one church but taking the theory into practice takes a lot of work along with the urging of the Holy Spirit. We could go on to talk about our camps, our Christian schools, the Bible School and much more but we have shared this with you throughout the year. Our main focus in ministry is pastoring the people that God has placed in our churches. We have had many
hundreds pass through our doors and stay for a while, but they are not part of the flock that we have been called to pastor. As I look at our work over the years, I find that the number of people that accept Christ is not the most important part of our ministry. What counts for us is the number of people that make that transition from physical to eternal while still being part of the church. It is not important how many start the race, but the winners are all that finish the race.
In 2024 we plan to continue on doing what we are doing, taking it a step at a time. We start our year with our first fruits offering in the churches. The 20th of January we have programmed a youth night with the Pastor´s Alliance. The first weekend in February we have a programming session with the pastors that work under our covering and then the following week a couple’s activity in two different churches. We just do what we have been called to do, pastor the flock.Please keep us in your prayers as the Lord continues to help our faith grow in the area of finances. We also pray that you will live blessed in this New Year that is before us. We appreciate your monthly support and offerings.
Philip & Lucy, Tolman
