Thanks for visiting our site! You can get news and updates of my recent trips to South Africa, Australia, and many other places this ministry takes me. I welcome your comments or questions. I hope this is a blessing to your life and if you like it, tell your friends!”
And don’t forget, God loves you, I love you and that’s the way it’s gonna be!
I have a request from the sister of a deceased special friend of mine, Ken Knox.
She wants the poem “Love Anyway” I wrote and have used in my “Anyway Series”!
Glad to do it! Ken was a “down to earth, no nonsense gospel preacher”; always came to the Tulsa workshop every year. I was privileged to know him!
Love Anyway!
If you give yourself to love, you may get hurt; love anyway!
If you love people they may not love you back; love anyway!
If you open your heart to others, some will invade it and vandalize it!
Open your heart anyway!
If you allow yourself to love unconditionally, you may find that others
may love you with many conditions; love unconditionally anyway!
If you love your fellow man some may misunderstand;
Love your fellow man anyway.
If you love romantically you may get burned;
Love romantically anyway!
There are those who are dangerous to love.
There are those with whom you should not be in love.
Be a loving person anyway.
Love will bring many thorns and scars along the way.
Love will not be returned every time.
But love is the only path worth travelling.
Love brings ecstasies nothing else will.
So love…..love anyway!
Ask God’s help to love often and well!
For it is better to have not lived…
Than to have not loved!
Marvin Phillips, April 1999
GREAT NEWS ON THE SOUP MIX PROGRAM: Last September, while I was in Capetown, Crate #2 arrived (500,000 servings). It is being distributed currently into eleven Africa countries. While there, Malvin Kivedo and I met with Mark Anderson (Director of Center for International Health). We have hopes of putting together another crate for the Durban area (SE of Johannesburg) hopefully for later in 2010. I also sent Breedlove Dehydrated Foods enough money for Crate #3 for Capetown. This will be shipped later this year. God bless all you who have sent; and hopefully now I’ll be able to report on a regular basis, especially on Bibles distributionand the dehydrated soup mix program. Keep sending, keep praying, and let’s keep working together (2 Cor. 6:2)…
The Lake Cities Church, Dallas, Tx. has posted recent sermons of mine
on their website; Listen to them at www.lakecitieschurch.com ; click on “messages”!
some titles:
“A Good Look Into the Heart of God!”
“Why I loved Jesus in the First Place”
“Loving Jesus When Life Hits you in the Face!”
“How to Love Jesus Over the Long Haul!”
CONTACT ME TO SPEAK ON “BIBLES FOR AFRICA” AND “DEHYDRATED SOUP MIX PROJECT” ! Funds are needed to put one million bibles in Africa, and to keep crates of the soup mix flowing. The two “greatest needs in the world” have got to be “Feeding the body” and “Saving the soul”. Let’s be busily involved in both! 918 630 1421 marvin@marvinphillips.org
THE APPEAL: “Marvin’s Million” is a project to put ONE MILLION free Bibles into the hands of spiritually hungry Africans. All over Africa. I’ve been one of a few people stumping the country to find money to pay for the Bibles. A few years ago I was doing 30 trips a year; so everywhere I went I showed a 4 minute dvd; gave out brochures and urged people to give. By that method we have raised enough money for 300,000 Bibles to be distributed in public schools, and many other avenues over the last five years. I am now 77 years old; not travelling as much as I used to. Limiting my travels to about 8-10 trips, mainly missions trips to Africa (2 per year); one to Australia and not many more. Contributions have fallen off since I’m not out there speaking and handing out brochures for BFA.
There must be a change in strategy; Here’s what I propose as my new plan of operation.
1. Area Fund Raisers: I will be contacting churches of the Tulsa area (and within 100 mile radius of Tulsa) to let me come show my pictures, make the appeal for BFA and give out brochures. You can let the Holy Spirit lead with what you do with the brochures. I’ll be contacting churches; but would some of you “contact me”??? Write POBox 691964, Tulsa, Ok., 74169, email, marvin@marvinphillips.org or call me at 918 630 1421. I’ll come to your church and bless your people with an opportunity to put Bibles in the hands of people in Africa who will read them, become Christians and help evangelize Africa. HOW ABOUT CALLING ME TODAY???
2. HELP ME FIND PERSONAL “GENEROUS GIVERS”!
Our largest single contribution has been $100,000.00. We’ve had one at $10,000.00, and several at the $1,000.00 level. One giver gives $500.00 per month to adopt a single school and see that Bibles are given to ALL students in that school in Venda, South africa. Are you one of those “generous givers”? Do you know someone like that who can help? I NEED TO TALK TO THEM! HAVE THEM CONTACT ME AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS & PHONE NUMBERS!
