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Welcome
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Greg Frizzell Ministries is in the
process of publishing and distributing
fifteen strategic books and resources to
millions of people in many nations.
(Read more about this on our About
Us page.)
A
Word from Greg
Dear Beloved,
How we thank God for your faithful
prayers and support of our ministry. It
has been quite a while since we have given
you a full update on God's activities and
we apology for the delay. Greg's traveling
schedule has lightened a bit the end of
this summer so there is more time to catch
up on updates.
Just to recap some of his conferences
during the second quarter of 2004, Greg
led or was involved in the Canadian
National Pastor's conference in Toronto,
Canada and the Southern Baptist Director's
of Mission Convention in Indianapolis, IN.
In additional he spoke in three state
meetings, led five associational events
and eight church-wide conferences. God
moved mightily in many of the meetings and
numerous decisions were made. How we
praise God for His touch on the
conferences.
The writing has taken a whole new depth
and we praise God for hearing your
prayers. An entirely new manuscript has
been done and is not far from publishing
on Powerful Marriage and Family Prayer.
This book grew from a Marriage Prayer
seminar he put together for several
influential leaders here in Oklahoma City.
Once the seminar was completed, God led
Greg to expand the material and several
others have been involved in contributing
material on leading children in prayer.
Now a new book on the subject is nearing
completion! God is continuing to lead Greg
in the writing of the other manuscripts
and it is amazing to see the growth of all
twelve of them (yes, twelve)! While each
book stands on its own, it appears that
God is growing them together as they
interrelate and support each other. Once
God is finished showing Greg all relevant
revelations, there will be a release of 8
&endash; 12 books within a two year
period. Only God can complete this task
and we are humbled to be His servants.
Books sales and distribution have now gone
over a million!
Distribution of Books
Another miracle has occurred in the
distribution of books. The Oklahoma
Convention gave $10,000 to distribute
books in Brazil. We were able to match
these funds and 50,000 copies of Returning
to Holiness in Portuguese were printed.
The Brazilian Convention had been urgently
requesting for additional copies and we
are thankful God raised the funds to meet
this need. Greg is schedule to address the
National Pastors Convention in Rio de
Janeiro in January of next year and it is
anticipated that another 50,000 copies
will be needed by that time. The National
Director for all of Brazil this week wrote
saying:
- "Your life and ministry have been a
blessing thousands of churches and
lives in Brazil. Each day, the number
of pastors asking for Returning to
Holiness increases and so the
testimonies about the wonders God has
performed in the churches. We are all
asking God to reward you spiritually,
mentally, financially, emotionally and
physically.
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- This month, taking place many
Baptist Assembly Conventions and
several of general secretary have
bought the book to distribute among the
pastors. Next September Brazil Baptist
Pastors Board will promote a great
Congress in Recife, northeast of
Brazil, and we are sure hundreds of
pastors will know Returning to
Holiness."
Brazil has received request for the
Portuguese version from South America and
Switzerland. The Chinese version of
Returning to Holiness is printed and being
distributed. A foundation in Oklahoma has
given a substantial gift to distribute
books which will enable us to get some of
the new manuscripts to the editors upon
their completion. This gift was made
possible by a friend of the ministry
contacting the foundation and telling them
of the vision God has given.
We have received a wonderful report
from Malawi, Central Africa on the work
God is doing through the Malawian version
of Returning to Holiness. The pastor
writes:
- "My name is Lovemore Matabwa, a
church elder, lay preacher and teacher
of the Gospel based in Mangochi,
Malawi, Central Africa. The area where
I stay has a 75% population of Muslims
being along the shores of Lake Malawi
where historically the Arabs had access
to reach the people by boat from east
Africa very easily.
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- I have just finished reading your
book Returning to Holiness. It is a
wonderful book. You will appreciate to
learn that the book has really changed
a lot of lives for the past two weeks
since I started using it during my
evening teaching of the word of the
Lord to my fellow church members of the
Assemblies of Church.
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- As a result of my teachings of the
Gospel using your book which I got from
a friend, 10 Muslims have turned to the
Lord Jesus and accepted Him as their
personal Saviour.
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- This is very encouraging.
Dr, do you have some literature that
you can send to me so that I can
continue to share with others? I will
be very pleased to hear from you
soon."
The following e-mail was received
yesterday from Anh Phan, a missionary in
Vietnam.
- "I returned Houston after staying
in VN for 1 month. During this trip I
visited my family and joined a mission
trip for 2 weeks (Medical Team Relief)
in Southern of Vietnam. I also able to
met Kenny and pastor Tuan involved in
the project of printing the book.
During my staying there. I received
several good feedbacks from those read
the book. All of these books given free
to "Home Churches" without cost.
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- These Christians gladly received
and read. One man came to a pastor and
asked for the key (of a worship's
center). The pastor was surprised and
asked him why he would want the key?
His reply was after he read that book.
God convicted him with his hidden
sins....He then asked God forgiveness
and decided to servewoman who "back
slide" and not going to Church for a
period of time now returned to Church
after read the book and on and
on....The Holy Spirit spoke to many
people through these books.
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- So far 10,000 books already
distributed to all Vietnamese to the
South. Recently, God provided us with
more money (donation from Houston
Baptist Church - 3 Sunday Classes) from
our American brothers and sisters. We
are now able to print 15,000 to 20,000
book more and will distributed to the
North and the West.
- I reminded Kenny to make sure every
Christian from North to South of VN
will received the book.
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- Dear Pastor Frizzell, thank you so
much for your obedience to God for
answered His all and wrote this book.
The affect of the book way far than
what you amaze. Even this book wrote
long time ago but His words still fresh
for everyone for every situation and
esp. for our Vietnamese Christians at
this time. We are asking God for His
Revival in every heart, Churches, and
the whole nation. May God continues
bless your ministry to bless other
nations. Vietnam is already on of the
them."
We know you rejoice with us in the way
God is using this resource as only He can
direct! Only God could have imagined a
book written in Memphis, Tennessee
translated into Malawian in Oklahoma, sent
to Africa and given to a pastor by a
friend would in turn be instrumental in
leading 10 Muslims to Christ! Stories like
this are now happening in no less than
twenty different languages. Such is the
power of the written word and the
leadership of God. You can also see by the
above e-mails, believers in foreign
countries are desperate for resources they
can afford. Many books sent to foreign
countries have greater potential than
domestic ones, as they are passed from
person to person thereby multiplying their
impact.
We receive many requests (some of which
we are unable to fill at present) for
Spanish, French, Polish and Vietnamese
versions. These translations are either
completed or nearly done but there are no
funds to produce them and get them widely
distributed. But to God's glory it will be
done in His timing. The Russian and
Ukrainian versions are just about ready to
go and the funds for these copies of
Returning to Holiness and How to Develop a
Powerful Prayer Life are already on hand!
God has been gracious in leading a
seminary student (Cathy Moffitt) to have a
burden to put together a youth version of
Returning to Holiness for teenagers and
college-age young people. She has done a
wonderful job on the work and we are in
the process of putting finishing touches
on the project and hopefully will have it
released soon jointly under Greg and
Cathy's names.
Thank you again for your prayerful
support and we praise God for each and
every one of you. Please let us know if we
can pray specifically for you. God bless
each of you!
Greg and Sandy Frizzell
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Dr.
Frizzell,
Thank
you so much for
Returning to Holiness! I
have just finished the
book for the first time
and it is changing my
life. The Women's Bible
Study Group I attend has
been working through the
book and some of us are
going to repeat it
together over the
summer. Working through
it alone and then
meeting with other women
to discuss has been a
wonderful experience. It
hasn't been easy or
painless, that's for
sure! I can see now
where my sins have been
building walls and
better understand why my
prayers and attempts to
change haven't been
successful in the past.
Since being made aware
of my sins and learning
to take care of business
with God, my thoughts
and behaviors are
changing. My goal as I
continue to work through
the book, gaining deeper
understanding and
greater dependence on
God, is for people to
actually see the change
in me--like the kind of
obvious change from
losing 20 pounds--people
can't help but
notice.
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