| Legacy and Ministry Adventures of Dana Bratton Contributor(s): Bratton, Dana (Author) |
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ISBN: 1977020038 ISBN-13: 9781977020031 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Religious |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.69 lbs) 528 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Legacy writing is a way of documenting your family background, life experiences, values, and opinions to share with others. To write about what is most important to the author, while still alive rather than at the funeral.At the age of 61, I am writing this to share the personal legacy of my life. My intention is to let you know my thoughts and feelings about the life I have lived, to honor the relationships that have enriched my life, to express my gratitude for friends and family and my love for God. To know Him and to make Him known. I am very thankful for those who have prayed for and supported Cindy and me through the years. The most important thing in all of life is knowing God, having a relationship with Him. My life experience has taught me that God can always be trusted to guide and provide. God can use a sinner with not many abilities to do great things for Him and take you around the world doing it. If you surrender to Him. My special memories and cherished moments are mainly of my wife Cindy, she has been the love of my life since meeting in her in 1974, she is my lover, and my best friend. She has been faithful 42 years. She has completed me, loved me during the good times and bad, bore and raised our children, homeschooled them. She has labored beside me. gone where I have gone or worked and allowed me to go. She has cared for each of our homes, cooked the meals, done the laundry and sewing. She helped me with my broken legs, my eye surgeries, and with other health problems. She prepares my daily medicine box. She has brought her insight, wisdom and decisiveness to our relationship. She has brought great joy to my life. We have been able to serve God together.I greatly love and appreciate my parents.I love my children, and my grandchildren.I love every time even just one person come to faith in Christ after I shared the Gospel.Some of my special memories are of my marriage to Cindy, the births of each of our three children, God's call on my life to be a pastor, answered prayer at a hospital bed many times. God's call to go to Thailand, and God's provision in 28 years of faith ministry. What has given me strength in difficult times is my faith in God, prayer, the Bible, and Christian music. My hope for all who would read my autobiography is for you to have a close relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ. I pray that you will step out in faith and trust Him to use you, and guide and provide for you, as He has for me. I hope this book will encourage aspiring pastors and missionaries; and will draw attention to the great need of evangelism especially among children, the sick, the elderly and in countries like Thailand, that are sometimes neglected by main stream Christianity. Ephesians 4:11-12 And He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, Verse 12 gives the main job description of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers - that is to equip the saints for the work of the ministry. That has been my life work to equip the saints, through preaching, teaching, and providing resources such as songs and flannel backgrounds, and web sites so that other believers can also do the work of the ministry. Find out what it's like for an ordinary man to do extraordinary things through pastoring, child evangelism, and hospital ministry. Read of how God worked to bring thousands of people to faith in Christ. |