{"id":177,"date":"2007-10-26T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T18:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strivetoenter.com\/wim\/2007\/10\/26\/prayer-request\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T18:23:36","slug":"prayer-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2007\/10\/26\/prayer-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n<p>While freeing women to minister with their God-given to the entire body of Christ has been a very strong passion for me, it has not been the main focus of my ministry.  In 1988 God called me to give of my time, my money and my talents to help Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses find the truth about the real Jesus Christ and to come free from the bondage of the Watchtower.  Several years ago the Lord answered the desire of my heart and allowed me to go into full-time ministry.  As a video editor, researcher and full time apologist, I have been busy serving the Lord and my husband joined with me as we joined our ministry together with Keith and Lorri MacGregor of MacGregor Ministries working as a team to produce instructional DVDs on witnessing to the cults including correcting false doctrine spread by the cults against the essentials of the Christian faith.<\/p>\n<p>In June of 2007 we moved to the city where the headquarters of MacGregor Ministries is located and we prepared to take over this very effective Canadian ministry\/charity.  However there has been very strong opposition to our ministry by those who oppose anyone who preaches the Gospel to the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, Mormons and other cult groups.  The Canadian government has received several complaints against our charity that witnessing to the cults and exposing the false doctrine is not a &#8220;charitable&#8221; work.<\/p>\n<p>MacGregor Ministries (MM Outreach) has been a registered Canadian charity since 1979 and neither Keith nor Lorri MacGregor have taken a salary from the ministry choosing instead to use the funds to spread the gospel of Jesus.  Richard and I have also joined with the MacGregors working for the ministry without salary.  With this complaint on file the Canadian government has chosen to start the process of shutting down our ministry saying that while preaching the gospel is a valid charitable work, reaching those in other faiths for Christ is not charitable and because this is considered to be our primary work they want to pull our charity status and take away our equipment and our funds that we have set aside for ministry work.<\/p>\n<p>We have made attempts to separate our work of preaching the gospel to the cults from our regular work of ministering to the body of Christ by placing our web site and our quarterly magazine into the control of a new incorporated business that we set up, (MM Outreach Inc) however we are unsure if this will be good enough to stop the Canadian government from shutting us down.  Yesterday we received another notice about still another complaint from someone who said that exposing other religions is not charitable.<\/p>\n<p>Would you please pray for us that God will be glorified in our lives and in our ministry so that we can continue ministering to those who have lost their way in the world of the cults?  We need God&#8217;s protection through this time of persecution.  The next few weeks will be crucial as the Canadian government may or may not allow the changes that we have made to stop the process of deregistering the charity.  Almost 30 years of ministry is at stake and freedom to minister as God has called us.<\/p>\n<p>Will you stand with us in prayer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, While freeing women to minister with their God-given to the entire body of Christ has been a very strong passion for me, it has not been the main focus of my ministry. 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