CUBA COMMITMENT
Thank you again for your prayers for the Cuban people and
the specific requests that have been made.
Some Churches have started weekly prayer meetings with a few of their
people. If you or your people are doing
such things, please let us know-it would encourage our people very much. As always, if you need help in anyway
fulfilling your similar commitments, we will do our best to help.
This week a trade
consultant in Tampa Florida reported his hopes for a load of frozen chicken
bound for Cuba on Friday. His hopes are
that it will be the first of regular monthly food shipments from the Port of
Tampa to the island nation. The 1.5
million pounds of poultry transported could mark the beginning of the first
regular Tampa-to-Cuba cargo shipments since the United States installed a trade
embargo more than four decades ago.
“This venture will represent the first time Tampa's federal waterways
will be consistently used to transport commodities (to Cuba) in over 42 years,”
said the shipment broker. “That is --
in my estimation -- huge,” he said. “And it's a beginning.”
Little does he know that these “little” beginnings are the
work of our Lord. These statements for
trade are especially important to our commitment. We have made a commitment to send Bibles and helps to Cuba for
the training and eventual mass evangelism of the communist country. As you know from previous letters we have
met many men already working in Cuba.
You also know by now that there are 3 containers (2 full, 1 half way)
with gospel literature, tracts, Bibles, New Testaments, and correspondence
courses. What we need is your dedicated
prayers for the country to lift all import sanctions and allow the gospel to
come in freely. This would mean
specific prayer that the communist government fall! Pray also that the new government that
would take over would not be worse than this one, which is a
possibility. Pray also for the men
here that are going in on surveys trips that we may be able to find more
contacts and that our travels will open doors that have never been seen before. This commitment is not about Metropolitan
Baptist Church. It is all about your
serious intercessory prayer for the Cuban people. Brother Milton Martin once
said something that stuck with me --“Information fuels Intercession.”
In HIS Service,
Travis A. Jones
Travis A. Jones
Metropolitan Baptist Church
6051 Azle Ave.
Ft Worth, TX 76135
www.metrobc.org