February 2023 || Ministry Update

 March 1st, 2023


Above Picture: Pastor and Mrs. Codner - Grace Baptist Church, Spring Mills, PA (Great Revival)

Print This Update

Dear Family and Friends,

BETTER IS LITTLE WITH THE FEAR OF THE LORD

When we find ourselves thirsting for more in this life, Proverbs 15:16 delivers to us a valuable lesson, “Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.” If God has blessed you with much…fear the Lord, and don’t trust in uncertain riches. If you have little…fear the Lord, and keep resting in your Great Provider for provisions. You can also add Proverbs 22:4 to the mind, “By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honor, and life.” 

TAKE NOTE: This will be our last mail out until MAY 2023 due to travels and being away from access to our office. You can still receive our monthly updates via email. Those emails have a link to a printable copy. If you are receiving monthly updates in the mail box and wish to fully move to the email updates permanently, let us know to remove your address and then go to our website and sign up to receive our monthly updates by email. Thank you for your attention to this. :)

Rachel has been asked to make our friends, supporters, and other churches aware that we have started a fund for getting her next music CD recorded. If you would like to contribute to this need, please write “MUSIC CD” in the memo. 
 
HIGHLIGHTS FROM FEBRUARY
  • We rejoice over February’s meetings. We had a great time speaking for Camp Joy’s Couples Retreat, preaching at Crossroads Baptist Church in Peoria, IL, and holding our first revival with Grace Baptist in Spring Mills, PA. God blessed us with sweet fellowship and needed encouragement from the Word. Please continue to pray for revival and souls saved.
  • We rejoice over 3 new events added to the calendar.
  • We rejoice over additional gracious gifts and increased support from one of our supporters. Thank you for your generous giving!
  • We rejoice over each profession of faith made.
  • We rejoice over celebrating Lydia’s 6TH birthday!

A LOOK AHEAD TO MARCH AND APRIL
Please continue to pray for God’s power, provisions, health and safety as we travel. We desire to see souls saved and saints revived. Pray for God’s good hand be extremely evident. 

MARCH 2023 
1-4 Colorado: Family Vacation 
5-8 Arizona: Liberty Baptist-Prescott 
9-13 Arizona: Tentative plans in the Phoenix area 
18 Kansas: Victory Baptist Ladies Event-Osawatomie (Rachel) 
19-22 Kansas: Victory Baptist-Osawatomie 
26-29 North Carolina: Grace Baptist-Goldsboro

APRIL 2023 
2-5 North Carolina: Cornerstone Baptist-Rocky Mount
9 Alabama: New Life Traditional Baptist-Semmes
16 Georgia: Savannah River Baptist-Port Wentworth
23-28 Michigan: Calvary Bible-Benton Harbor
29 Michigan: Community Baptist-Grand Ledge (Rachel)
30 Michigan: Community Baptist-Grand Ledge

In conclusion: 
Thank you for being interested in what God is doing with A Heart For Revival Ministries. 
Thank you for praying for our family.      
Let’s purpose to delight in God and be a light for God in 2023.
Justyn, Rachel, & Lydia Smith • Proverbs 3:5-6


Above Picture: We enjoyed speaking at Camp Joys Couple's Retreat in Whitewater, WI


Above Picture: We were blessed to celebrate Lydia's 6th birthday at home with our Illinois family.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Surprise Alaska Trip

Image
A somewhat last minute trip to Alaska came up and we jumped on the opportunity. This whole trip was designed to surprise a youth pastor in Fairbanks, Alaska for faithfully serving for 20 years as a youth pastor. My girls couldn’t go due to how fast the trip and turn around times were, but it was a blessing to get to visit Alaska again so soon. Here are some pics to recap the trip: Denali and view from the air! A beautiful Alaskan day in the valley. On my way to Glennallen from Palmer to preach God‘s word! One of the games we played to surprise the Youth Pastor was called “the price is exactly right.” He is sitting on one of the gifts the people blessed him with! Another beautiful Alaska travel day! I had the privilege of going to the Alaska State Fair with my sister-in-law, my niece and my two nephews! I enjoyed laying the dining room floor flowing from the kitchen that was remodeled in July. I also got to install a sink and a dishwasher at another location. It was a busy but blessed t
Read more

2022 End Of The Year Update

Image
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let’s purpose to delight in God and be a light for God in 2023. This newsletter is simple and to the point. We desire to deliver the highlights from 2022 accompanied with the current plans for 2023. PRINT THIS NEWSLETTER This newsletter is simple and to the point. We desire to deliver the highlights from 2022 accompanied with the current plans for 2023. HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2022 We were blessed to have 60 different events! We were blessed with 4 “NEW TO US" churches.  This means we had the tremendous blessing of continuing to build relationships by revisiting 30 churches. We want to express our gratitude for each new pastor and each reoccurring pastor that allowed us to visit their churches and minister to their church families. Thank you! We were blessed to sing and preached in 10 different states including  (AK, FL, IL, KS, MI, NH, PA, TN, WI, and WY). We also had the marvelous opportunity to speak several times over Zoom in Canada. We were blessed to deliver 155 serm
Read more

The Person Others Can't Live Without

Image
  The Person Others Can't Live Without Photo Credit: Ammar Rizwan on Unsplash The Person Others Can't Live Without As I ponder all the goodness of God in my life, I'm reminded today that I'm so blessed because of the many people in my life who have the touch of God on  them. These are people that I can't live without. I want to be a person that others can't live without, and the reason why God blesses other people. Think deeply about the following verse: And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes,  tarry: for  I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.  Genesis 30:27 Isn't this statement amazing!? Laban did not want Jacob to leave his presence because he had experienced the LORD'S blessings in his life because of Jacob!  Jacob worked tirelessly for Laban's daughter.  Laban abused the hard labour of Jacob.  Jacob was tricked,  and he ended up working extra time to get who he desired from La
Read more