We have been so blest these past two months by your overwhelming response to our plea to write to us. There are so many letters coming in, that we cannot possibly print them all. Please keep them coming. We have chosen to focus a bit more on international letters in this issue. These letters are so typical of the heart that beats in this group of people we are calling the Remnant. I don’t know how else to refer to them. It would make a good article sometime: Who is the Remnant? Where did they come from? Is it a new denomination? These are all very good questions that should be answered.
We have chosen to feature the letters from the international front for two reasons. First of all, because the letters and testimonies in the letters read like a scratched record. We hear it over and over again. They love the truth deeply and long to be in fellowship with others who also respect and obey the Bible. They are having a hard time fitting into the departing churches around them. The second reason is to encourage all of us. This drawing of the hearts by God is not an American phenomena only, but we are constantly finding others scattered around the world who long for a closer walk and a clearer walk with God. Oh let us all be strengthened to go on. We are not crazy, we are not being extreme, we have not gone off the deep end. God is always, in every generation, calling his people to leave all and follow Him fully. Let us join our hearts with the number of those found in Revelations “who keep the commandments of God.”
--The Editors
Dear brothers in Christ,
I would like to thank-you because you send me the two magazines you publish.
Also, I like very much the new REMNANT magazine. Congratulations! I read all articles with great interest. The REMNANT is a very good spiritual food for the children of God. Thank-you again.
With Christian love,
Manolis Calomiris
Athens, Greece
Christian greetings to all those who have so richly blessed us and others through your tape and magazine ministries. The Remnant and Mission Newsletter have give us a stronger determination to keep walking in the way that the Lord is leading us and the confession and faith and practice of your fellowship is an inspiration and guide for is. It had laid before us scriptural standards which we were aware of but have not seen or heard of as being practiced in Australia. No doubt there are some who do not like us. They would be isolated couples or individuals. And more then anything, your standards have given us the courage to go on knowing that we are not alone in our beliefs and practice.
We cannot express adequately the joy and spiritual blessings your ministry is bringing us especially through the audio tapes. It is a blessing indeed to have them because we can replay them anytime we wish and we are also able to use them in reaching others. This is not a Christian society even though many, many call themselves such and it is of great comfort to me (Joseph) to know that there are men out there who truly love the Lord and are open about their faith. It is difficult for me to find any man who is prepared to talk openly about scriptural truths. Most in fact, do not want to know at all.
We live in a rural part of New South Wales—mixed farming—very small towns especially compared by your standards and considerable distances to travel for anything. Briefly my wife Carolyn and I have been married 37 years are now aged 60 and live in a small village of 24 homes. We have been committed to Christ for most of our married life and in the last twelve months have been led by the Lord to came and of the church we were in because of their growing worldliness and desertion of scriptural standards–there are no churches near us which we could possibly attend because of the standards they have. The nearest would be over 70 miles away. As a consequence we have chose to fellowship at home on a regular weekly basics and have the attendance of other believers on a irregular basics. We would dearly love to correspond with someone in your fellowship or a like minded fellowship, so that we can have someone to express our faith to and be guided by, being on our own one can easily slip into error. Seem to have run out of room so need to run.
May the Lord bless you and your ministry and fellowship.
Yours in Christ Jesus,
Joseph & Carolyn Van Loon
Shimara
Garland Street
Leadville, NSW 2844
Australia
Dear Remnant,
A sincere thank-you for the materials (catalog and magazine) that you sent to our home.
The Heartbeat of the Remnant…is an exceptional publication and the sample that you sent to us has become a treasure in our home. My husband and I were so blessed by the Christ-centered articles and would ask that you please add us to your mailing list. We are so excited to get this material out to our Church family.
I am including our order form for tapes. Praise God for such a ministry as the one God has led you into. We hope to copy these God-honoring messages and pass them on to as many others as we can and may God use them for His glory in the lives of others. I must admit that we have had such a hard time deciding what to order—everything looks SO good and there are so many hungering after God and His ways here in Selkirk. We thank-you again for your generosity and faithfulness to God—you have blessed our hearts by your example of faith and trust in God for provision.
May He continue to strengthen you in your service for Him!
Jeff & Jani Goudy
Selkirk, MB, Canada
Dear Editors of the Remnant,
A heartfelt thank-you for the effort you are putting into the Heartbeat of the Remnant. May the Lord bless you as richly as you are blessing others with your effort—your work.
I really love the Home Histories, we can learn so much from them on raising Godly Families. Thank-you for adding the places where we can get the books that you review. There is such a need for good solid reading material.
Thank-you Brothers and Sisters in Christ for the encouragement you are to my life. May the Lord be honored and praised thru your ministry. Amen!
Mark & Delia Wollman
Henderson, Minnesota
Dear Remnant,
This is my first attempt to respond to any magazine or article I have read. This magazine is not sent to my home, yet, but a wonderful fellow Christian lady in my church has sent them home with me many times in the past year! WHAT A BLESSING and INSPIRATION they have been in reaching my husbands heart as well as my own in so many ways!
The reason for this short letter is to say: THANK GOD FOR YOU ALL AND YOUR MAGAZINE!! We have enjoyed 10 years of marriage, and have been abundantly blessed with 6 children and another one due in May! GOD IS GOOD!! ALL THE TIME!! Throughout our marriage, these last few months with the help of your articles on Humility and other people’s homes, our relationships in our own home are becoming “deeper” and more Christ-centered. Our children (ages 8, 7, 6, 4, 2, and 1) enjoy Bible Time, anyway, but now wait to hear “something” from the Remnant! GOD BLESS YOU as you continue to serve our Mighty Creator! We are praying for you daily!!
Misty Charboneau
