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Greetings in the matchless name of Jesus Christ. We hope this Ministry Update
finds you diligently pursuing your intimacy with Jesus Christ, for it is in HIM
that we find our peace in the midst of trials that come our way, isn’t it?
Interestingly enough, one of the most commonly viewed writings DAILY on our website happens to be about that very topic: Who we are in Jesus Christ: http://www.precious-testimonies.com/Exhortations/k-o/WhoIAm.htmFor those of you who may be interested in knowing how else God is using the ministry website overall, here are some statistics you might find encouraging – especially you Prayer Warriors who pray for Precious Testimonies, and for those of you who have given financial donations. For the time period (one month) of Feb 9, 2009 - Mar 11, 2009, we received 15,002 visits from 172 countries/territories. 11,452 were first time visitors. (We’ve learned that approximately 75% of our website viewers are first time visitors, which really is exiting!) Here is the breakdown of number of visits to the website from each country/territories for a period of one month:
The following are the remaining countries with ten or fewer views for the same one month period: Brunei, Guinea, Finland, Turkey, Puerto Rico, Peru, Taiwan, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Greece, Nepal, Austria, Myanmar, Cameroon, Saint Lucia, Ethiopia, Guam, Benin, Mauritius, Chile, Hungary, Netherlands Antilles, Cayman Islands, Antigua & Barbuda, Libra, Portugal, Honduras, Anguilla, Guyana, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, Argentina, Ivory Coast, Papua New Guinea, Mali, Russia, Bolivia, Solomon Islands, Slovenia, El Salvador, Maldives, Bhutan, Guatemala, Haiti, Latvia, Rwanda, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Jordan, Guernsey, Macau SAR China, Jersey, Cyprus, Aruba, Gibraltar, U.S. Virgin Islands, Gambia, Tunisia, Morocco, Ecuador, Panama, Liberia, Faroe Islands, Eritrea, American Samoa, Samoa, Albania, Senegal, Northern Mariana Islands, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Tonga, Estonia, Madagascar, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea, Laos, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Congo-Kinshasa, Algeria, Swaziland, Isle of Man, Palestinian territory, Lesotho, Paraguay, Moldova, Belize, Nauru, Sudan, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Luxemburg, Slovakia, Georgia, Suriname, Palau, Mongolia, Bermuda. We just acquired the capability at the beginning of 2009 to monitor how God is using the Precious Testimonies website around the world, so it shall prove interesting what the statistics are a year from now. Praise reports of various kinds continue to increase from from people coming to the Lord, to Christians sharing how the website and the videos are encouraging them. We are truly thankful for the fruit God is harvesting through the ministry, all for His glory! Putting testimonies on YouTube since the fall of last year has opened doors to minister in a whole new way. Almost daily we are now getting email comments from viewers. Some are what we call "sniper attack" emails, and some are "praise reports." We are especially excited to get the "sniper attack" emails, because that means that the unsaved are WATCHING the video clips! Afterall…that is the group of people we are trying the most to reach with the Good News of the Gospel, though sometimes it would appear that God is using the ministry to encourage and help exhort struggling Christians. Over time, we’ve found that roughly 50% of the people who use our website are Christian believers, otherwise they most likely would not be reading the writings they read on the website. Most of the "sniper attack" comments we get on the YouTube video clips we delete, but we leave a few up for a few days just to show Christians that they can be a part of this outreach ministry by dialoguing with the unsaved by making comments as well. All they have to do is open a free account with YouTube. Perhaps you may not fully understand what we’re talking about, and if that would be the case, click on this YouTube clip and take some time to read posts in the COMMENTS section: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq_WGLgcpwA&feature=channel_pageIf you’ve taken the time to look at our ministry website the last few months, you can’t help but notice that we are assisting the STEP-BY-STEP WORLD OUTREACH ministry to help them meet the incredible demand for witnessing tools they are providing to native Evangelists and Pastors. Thousands of souls are coming to Christ weekly through STEP-BY-STEP WORLD OUTREACH, and truly…what a blessing it is to sow into their ministry. Their ministry covets all the prayer coverage they can receive, as we do also for Precious Testimonies, and we would like to encourage all you who are reading this to learn more about the ministry of STEP-BY-STEP WORLD OUTREACH. Lord willing, they will be supplying us with many testimonies in the many different nations God is using them in. Here is one such testimony that we just posted: http://www.precious-testimonies.com/BornAgain/s-v/StepByStepWorldOutreachTestimony1.htmAs with many ministries, outside financial donations to this ministry has dropped off drastically compared to times past, yet we continue to trust the Lord to provide the means to keep the ministry up and functioning, as long as He wills it to keep functioning. We fully realize outside donations could dry up even more as economies around the world continue to shake, rattle and roll…which has also caused many individual Christians to shake, rattle and roll as well. Yet on the other side of the coin, we also realize that God can begin to place upon the heart’s of unbelievers to sow into ministries such as this one, so we never want to assume donations can ONLY come from believers. God has told us in His Word that the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous, and He didn’t say WHEN or HOW that would happen, so it all comes back to two things: God is our provider, and we will continue to trust Him to provide everything we need to keep this ministry going as long as He wills it to keep functioning. We having been sowing a lot of our time and lending our technical know how to STEP-BY-STEP WORLD OUTREACH not only because God has been calling us to, but because God’s anointing to reach lost souls in nations around the globe is VERY OBVIOUS once you hear about all the fruit coming through their efforts. One specific aspect of our connection with STEP-BY-STEP is to help give them more coverage of one of their witnessing tools that God has given them to pass along to others in the Body of Christ. If you would like to learn more about this, you can click on this link: http://www.precious-testimonies.com/RealLifeStories/RealLifeStories.htmJim Barbarossa is the Director of STEP-BY-STEP, and we knew from some years back that brother Jim was given insights from God into the AWESOME POTENTIAL of our testimonies to help reach lost souls. As always, we thank all of you who contribute in one way or another to keep this ministry functioning, and we covet each of your prayers both for us personally, and also for the protection, usefulness, and fruitfulness of the ministry. Blessed To Be A Blessing,
Norm & Kathleen Rasmussen Cyber Evangelists Declaring His Glory...Psalm 96:3 Dear Reader - are you at peace with God? If not, you can be. Do you know what awaits you when you die? You can have the assurance from God that heaven will be your home, if you would like to be certain. Either Jesus Christ died for yours sins, or He didn't (He did!). Are you prepared to stand before God on the Judgment Day and tell Him that you didn't need the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the Cross to have your sins forgiven and get in right-standing with God? We plead with you ... please don't make such a tragic mistake.To get to know God; to be at peace with God; to have your sins forgiven; to make certain heaven will be your home for eternity; to make certain that you are in right-standing with God right now ... please click here to help understand the importance of being reconciled to God. What you do about being reconciled to God will determine where you will spend eternity, precious one. Your decision to be reconciled to God is the most important decision you'll ever make in this life.
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MINISTRY UPDATE - SPRING 2009