Thanks for stopping by today……lets have the Christmas CUP of coffee together as I share with you…..
This is Mindi Schneider’s story. I met Mindi when I was the manager of the WFRN Christian radio sales staff back in the late 80’s in South Bend/Elkhart, Indiana. I had her tell her story on the radio one day when I was manager of KKIM Christian radio in Albuquerque. I know Mindi’s story will warm your heart. Mindi and her hubby Steve and children now live in Ohio, a strong family of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Here is Mindi’s story………
December 8th, 1970. It’s my Adoption day. My parents waited for a child. I remember mom telling me, “ they called and said we have a child for you… it’s a girl… is that ok? “ My parents went and got me. Before they left the adoption agency, my mom also told me that the lady said to the effect, “ Try her out and if you decide you don’t like her, you may bring her back.” Needless to say, my parents were never taking me back. Mom and Dad brought me home to a loving family with loving parents and a big brother. My birth mom, a loving Woman who loved Jesus more than life itself, gave me away for a better chance at life. God saved my life on earth. When I was 4, I chose to make Jesus my Savior and became a child in God’s family. At 19, when my life fell apart, I committed my life to Him to let Him take over and lead my life. God, my Father in Heaven saved me twice I say, once on earth to a loving family and the second time into His family. God also gave me the opportunity to meet my birth family and really know my birth mom for a few short years before Jesus called her home. I often think about both of my moms in Heaven discussing me. I’ve watched my dad become a believer in Christ and become an amazing man of God. My life has been forever changed both here on earth and for eternity. Happy Friday!!
Q: My marriage fell apart a couple of years ago, and I think the thing that angers me most is that my ex-husband shows no interest in our three children. Last year he didn’t even send them a Christmas card, let alone any gifts. I accept that he’s moved on in his life, but how do I explain this to our children? — L.S.A: Almost nothing is more devastating than being rejected by someone who once loved us — and when they refuse to have anything further to do with us, the hurt is even greater. This is especially true when a marriage collapses. But God didn’t design it to be this way. The Bible says, ” ‘The man who hates and divorces his wife,’ says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘does violence to the one he should protect’ ” (Malachi 2:16).
But God also understands your anger and heartache, and I pray that you will turn to Him and ask Him to give you the strength to overcome them and leave them behind. Anger and bitterness are like emotional and spiritual poisons, eating away at our souls and hurting not only ourselves but those around us. What impact will your anger and bitterness have on your children if you don’t overcome them? You can’t control your ex-husband’s reactions — but you can control yours, with God’s help. The Bible rightly says, “Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming” (Proverbs 27:4).
What can you do? During these days before Christmas, turn your heart and mind to Jesus Christ. Commit your life to Him, and ask Him to forgive you, and to help you leave the past behind and walk with Him in the future. Then ask Him to help you point your children to Jesus and His love, which will never fade.
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We praise God for what He is doing with the ministry He has given us to oversee, reaching millions for Him! From all over the world! This little ministry out of our house in Albuquerque reaching around the globe for the Kingdom of God just blows my mind away! MILLIONS! Soon to be 4 million reached through the website over the last 5 years, and this does not count the church services, revivals, radio programs, newspaper, counseling, phone calls over the last 5 years! It is truly amazing! I pray you will take time to think about what God has done here at FGGAM…it should strengthen your faith in Him and what He can do, with common folk like me and Sharon. Sharon and I are in AWE of GOD!
Please pray about becoming a financial supporter of FGGAM to help us as we go into 2018. We thank all those who have gathered around the ministry, those who believe in what God has us doing, because this is not of me and Sharon this is of God.
Isaac returned for a bit to give the website an ‘tune-up”……this was very important in the mission God has given us, to reach one person at a time for Him……….the website is a free service of FGGAM, it is not cluttered with ads. Here is Isaac’s report……
What a cold day it was! Thankfully, the laptop I work on gets nice and toasty :) Anyway, I’ll get on topic now. It’s been a blessing for me to be part of the ministry of FGGAM, and I have just finished a “tune-up” (as Dewey calls it) of the website. Let me just say, WOW, it really didn’t need me to do much with it! Pastor Paul Holt has been taking great care of it, and it has been making record stats for unique visits every day!
There was, however, needed infrastructure upgrade of a few specific technologies the website utilizes, which will bring increased speed and stability (seriously, it already has – hit that refresh button if you want!) I’m excited about the increased visitors and the performance of the website, and we’re always trying to make improvements on FGGAM.org to make it easier for you, our readers. Both Pastor Dewey Moede and Pastor Paul Holt have done a great job of maintaining it, with thousands of original articles, posts, and updates – AD FREE! Not many blog/newspaper/article based websites are ad-free these days!
Let’s not forget to mention and thank all of our WRITERS & VOLUNTEERS! What a blessing to be a part of it! And I want to thank the supporters, visitors, and the followers of For God’s Glory Alone Ministries!
From Pastor Dewey and Sharon:
Thank you for stopping by to read this our Christmas letter to you!
We so much love the work that the Lord has assigned us to do!!! We love you all and are so super blessed to serve!!!
Life Verse for Founding Pastor Dewey Moede:
“But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.” -Acts 20:24
5 years ago this past August, God pulled me out of my $80,000 job as manager of KIIM Christian Radio in Albuquerque to form FGGAM. Sharon did not bat an eye when I told her I had to quit and start preaching and oversee the ministry God had formed for us to look after. So we went from $80,000 to zero. We had Sharon’s nurses salary, more than that, I have a wife that has stronger faith than I do. Sharon has been with me all the way, selling off personal belongings for the first 2 1/2 years to help us stay afloat.
So you can see why I say Sharon is the backbone of the ministry. Sharon knows God is God and when God calls you out, even thou you may be nervous, He will provide!
We are surrounded by a group of faithful, loving people that send us love offerings each month now, and the Lord has built a strong foundation for us to go in service for Him!
Since 1986 I have been involved in one way of another with Christian radio/TV and then on Oct. 7, 2009 I became a Pastor.
I then became a circuit preacher in New Mexico. Spending most of my time in Catron County New Mexico in Reserve and Quamado.
This month I will be preaching in Albuquerque, Reserve and Magdalena.
FGGAM and friends just completed the Windom Revival. For 2 years in a row the Lord has sent us to Windom, my hometown. This year we also did a revival in Edgewood, NM.
I was blessed to have good visits with friends and my brother Dave, his wife Denise and my sister Deb in Windom.
I also was super blessed to preach in my home church, the American Lutheran Church in Windom the day after the revival. ALC is where my Christian foundation was started! I was baptized there, went to Sunday School and Church at ALC and the funerals of my Dad and Mom where there. What a gift from God and Pastor Sarah to be able to preach there! God certainly has brought me full circle.
As I just said, God has brought me full circle, the Revival in Windom is held at what is now called the BARC, it once was the High School, then the Middle School where I served as a custodian. Yes, the auditorium that the Revival was held in, is where I served as custodian from my sophomore year until 4 years after graduating. Get this, my Dad also served there as custodian before becoming Transportation Director for the School. FULL CIRCLE YES!
Windom Fire Chief Dan Ortmann also gave us a tour of the new Windom Emergency Services Building, which I still call the Fire Hall! LOL! Dan honored me with a Windom Fire Dept. hat and also two shirts in honor of my Dad and Grandpa who served on the Department for years!
We want to thank the Windom community for all their love!
As you can tell, Windom is a very special place to me, God keeps calling me back there to minister.
We are blessed to to the radio ministry program, “Windom Revival Radio” on KDOM in Windom, Minnesota and on KWOA in Worthington, Minnesota every Sunday.
I continue to have involvement with WFRN Christian radio in South Bend/Elhart, Indiana as a consultant. I took my first job in Christian radio in 1986 with WFRN, still owned by the Moore family, Ed and Jan Moore’s children now run the station, Charles, Rachelle and Doug.
It is wonderful for me to stay connected to this wonderful radio ministry.
At the end of November FGGAM.ORG website had received 529,140 visitors this year. We are on track to have reached 4 million people since we started FGGAM just over 5 years ago. PTL!
The top countries that visit FGGAM.ORG in order are: U.S., Turkey, Russia, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, Israel, France, Germany, Poland, China,India, Brazil, Ukraine, Philippines, Italy, Indonesia, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia, Pakistan, Chile, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
All stats are made available to us by AWSTATS.
The FGGAM website is a full-time position by itself!
My sermon podcasts are posted at FGGAM.
We have around 40 volunteer writers at FGGAM!
Dewey’s Daily CUP is into it’s 20th year! We still send out the Daily CUP by email and also the CUP has its own website. Deweysdailycup.com We thank the Lord for this ministry! The Lord founded this ministry 20 years ago to be a praying ministry and to also share stories of inspiration.
Please pray for Sharon and I as we go forth into 2018. We love you all in Jesus!
Thanks to all who support this ministry with their love offerings and prayers. We are so blessed by your love. We would like to give you all a Christmas hug!
As I write this Sharon is in Denver visiting our two grandchildren, Lilith and Quinn. Lilith is 3 and Quinn was just born in November! Both girls are doing great and so is grandma…she said she never has played so hard in her life! LOL!
I should add that Sharon is also visiting daughter Steph and her hubby Pat!!! LOL!!!!
I had to stay behind because of my preaching assignment.
Love in Jesus to you all!
UPDATE:
FGGAM is expanding our radio ministry! PTL! PTL! God is so very good to us! Listen in to the AWESOME NEWS!
We are so very excited in our LORD that the Windom Revival Radio program is now on KRRW Country 101.5 in St. James Sundays at 8:10am!!! PTL
I asked you all to pray for us earlier today, for the Lord’s Will to be done in this matter! Let us praise HIM for what HE has done! YES! We start this Sunday on KRRW this great FM radio station that has a great coverage area in southwestern Minnesota!
We wanted to inform you of a program change for the Windom Revival Radio program effective this Sunday.
KDOM Radio in Windom, Minnesota split their AM/FM programming this week. Our program will be on KDOM 1580AM at our regular time of 7:45am Sunday. Please make sure and tell your friends we are not on KDOM FM anymore, only KDOM AM, we are sad about the change, but we do understand their desire for separating the AM/FM. Having spent much of my life in radio management, I understand.
I want to remind you that we are also on KWOA AM730 and FM 100.3 FM out of Worthington. KWOA airs the Windom Revival Radio program at 5am on Saturdays and at 7am Sundays.
Just a reminder, please help us spread the word in the Windom area about the KDOM change.
