One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter December 2022

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Dear friends and partners:

Greetings to all of our partners and friends of One Hope Outreach Ministry. As we celebrate this Christmas season, we are very thankful for your continued support as we share the love of Jesus around the world.

As we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior may we remember the true reason for the season.

Christianity is based on two events, the birth of our Savior and his resurrection from the dead. Both are supernatural acts of God the Father. His birth is recorded in the gospel accounts and each declare that the virgin Mary conceived by the Holy Ghost and brought forth Jesus, the Son of God.

His resurrection from the dead is also recorded in the gospel accounts and all report that He was crucified, buried in a tomb, and was raised up to life on the third day.

The babe in the Bethlehem manger was God’s gift to the world and that gift was eternal life.

The birth of Jesus, the Christmas story, as we know it, was just an introduction to His life, ministry, and ultimate sacrifice. When Jesus was born he took upon himself an infant’s body but didn’t remain as a babe in a manger. His life of approximately thirty three and a half years unfolds in the pages of the Bible. There we find His love for humanity and his willingness to go to the cross to fulfill God’s plan of redemption.

So as we celebrate Christmas day, accepted as the birth day of Jesus, we will do well to reflect on the overall plan of God to save a lost world.

Both supernatural events mentioned, the virgin birth and resurrection from the dead here must be received by faith. No amount of reasoning will satisfy the human heart. Only faith in a supernatural God and His ability to do the miraculous will meet the need of the human heart. John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Make this Christmas the best by receiving Him as Savior and Lord.

Merry Christmas to all,

-Marvin Smith

One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter November 2022

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Dear friends and partners:

It is always a great pleasure to write and let you know what your love and support enables One Hope Outreach Ministry to do in various parts of the world. Thank you for partnering with us as we work the fields of harvest that the Lord directs us to.

Simon Peter is a missionary in Eldoret, Kenya and his report in this letter will bless you.

If I could be me, who would I be?

Every person’s life has a plan and purpose that was designed by God. The ultimate fulfillment of God’s plan and purpose can only be found through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Upon entry of a relationship with Jesus through a born again experience, a totally new spiritual dimension is opened to the new believer.

Jesus said it this way to Nicodemus in the third chapter of John’s gospel account, “lest a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3 KJV)

Without a relationship with Jesus Christ, we are "strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. (Ephesians 2:12 KJV)

The born again believer, on the other hand is so identified as, The called one, chosen, adopted, forgiven and his workmanship among many other words that describe one’s state of being through God’s great plan of redemption.

So if finding yourself seems to be an unanswered question, perhaps an invitation to read a portion of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church of Galatia and the Colossian church would be in order. “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20 KJV)

“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:1-3 KJV)

In total surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ a discovery of oneself can be found in Him and Him alone.

And for those who continue to pursue God’s will and wisdom, the mystery of an unseen King and his kingdom will be revealed and one’s self can be found fulfilling the plan and purpose of God’s design for life.

-Marvin Smith

One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter October 2022

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Dear friends and partners:

Thank you friends and partners. One Hope Outreach Ministry extends our heartfelt thanks to God for all that you do when you partner with us in your prayers and giving as we fulfill the assignments the Lord Jesus Christ gives to us.

We are still drilling wells, feeding orphans, supporting missionaries in India and Nepal. Our ministry supports the feeding and educating orphans in Africa. Also, our support for missions work in the slums of Eldoret, Kenya continues.

The eternal merit of every motive and every deed is determined by the measuring rod of God and not by any political correctness or standard of this world’s system. The call of God is for people to come from among the world with complete devotion to him through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

God loves the world and gave His son Jesus to redeem mankind from a debt of sin that could not be paid for by mere human kindness and good works. The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross was for the redemption of mankind and the penalty for sin was paid in full. And every person that receives Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior has, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the love of God shed abroad in their heart.

Now that the love of God is shed abroad in the heart, every deed and act of kindness done from that love relationship with God has eternal merit. If the fervor of a love relationship with God dwindles, our works can degenerate into a routine, and that routine can be as predictable as the hands of a wall clock.

In Revelation Chapter two, Jesus commended the church at Ephesus for their good works but reprimanded them because they had left their first fervor of love for him. He commended them for not lowering the Christian standard of conduct, diligence in duty, patience in suffering and their zeal against what was evil. They had not forsaken the one whom they loved but had lost the degree of fervor they had at the beginning.

Their beginning is found in Acts Chapter 19 when Paul preached at Ephesus for more than two years and God wrought mighty miracles and wonders among the people there. The Ephesian converts to Christianity burned their paraphernalia (that they had paid a great sum of money for) related to occult practices and parted from all pagan practices and devoted themselves to the worship of The Lord Jesus Christ.

In Ephesians Chapter 1:15 The apostle Paul commends them for their love for all saints (God’s people). But in Jesus’ review of them some thirty years or so later, he finds them lacking in their first love. Their love for all saints had waned and no amount of good works or sound doctrine can take the place of a heart full of love for God. Nothing can replace, by works or deeds, the implanted love of God that can pour forth from the heart of a devoted Christian that is moved with compassion and directed by the Holy Spirit.

If you find that your love has diminished, maybe it’s time to take inventory and burn all paraphernalia (that you paid a great price for), and remove everything, every routine and every religious practice that has interrupted the real flow of God’s love through you.

-Marvin Smith