New Testaments and the Christmas Story

Yesterday I spent a lot of time in the Singleton Road area looking for problem areas. Also looking into starting another mission site in a different Apartment Complex. Went over to Villas Nueva to meet Meghan and the kids for homework help. When I got there I noticed a couple of Mormon missionaries were standing at the bus drop off point. Fortunately for us most of the kids were warned by their parent to stay away from these guys. I spoke to them and asked them if they were missionaries. They replied yes.

Just as the bus came and the kids started getting off. They ran straight over to us to say hello. You see we have spent the past months building relationships, so they know we care about them. The other guys have little time invested so the kids wont have anything to do with them. We had about six kids for home work help. I see why Tim Cummins has taught us to homework help as a spring board for relationship building. Many of these kids would probably fail school of we didn't tutor them, so they treat us like heros.We always try to make Jesus the hero.

We had 3 cases of New Testaments donated by our partner Matt Johns. We started distributing them yesterday and today. The kids are virtually fighting over them. Hardly anyone seems to have their own Bible. We are thrilled that we can get them in the hands of people who really desire to have a copy of the Word.

After homework help we had a Bible study. Many of the kids are Catholic so they have been taught the Word. We are really glad that the children have been so eager to learn. We read the Christmas story to them from Luke Chapter 2. The kids were really into it! They knew a lot. Meghan did a fantastic Job helping them understand. We were proud to have the opportunity to share with them.

Today I worked on fund raising and administrative details. I am trying to figure out a way to raise support on line. We recently launched our new website. We also need to find a way to advertise the site. . If you are reading this please feel free to forward our web address to your friends and family. Or place us as a link on your site. http://www.thetablemissions.org/.

The manager wants to have a health fair.. I will need to work on that and see advice for my elders.

Have a great day tomorrow. We love you all!

Kid's Zone

I went to the mission yesterday to check on the kids and to hand out fliers for our new Saturday "Kid Zone" program which is being directed by our partner Meghan Faircloth. I went back today to do a survey of the area to see how many other organization are evangelizing the neighborhood. I found out that the new building across from the Kroger, on Singleton, is a Universalism Church. Noticed that they are really blitzing the area with their flyer's and other propaganda. Looking at their material it looks like they are some sort of charismatic prosperity/healing organization. I plan to investigate in greater detail. This is the building in the photo below.

The sign translated in English to say, "Stop the Suffering." The sign below translates into "Jesus Christ is Lord." Like I said...we plan to investigate. I saw people handing out literature on the sidewalk of Old Norcross-Tucker. They looked like Jehovah's Witness foot solders.This is just an example of the competition we face among the cults. They like to work exceptionally hard with Latinos and, unfortunately, have made some headway deceiving people. Notice the sign below is bilingual. This Kingdom Hall is only one half mile from our mission base. This congregation is larger than most JW facilities.

They really have a lot of manpower on the street. Please pray that we can keep the people we are working to influence headed in the right direction.

Kaitlyn practiced her driving this afternoon. She should be able to get her regular license soon if she can conquer dreaded parallel parking. Thanks for stopping by. We love you all!

Lilburn Dazs

This week I have been substitute teaching at a local elementary school. This school is one of the largest in the county. It is also the most ethnically diverse as well. The older kids had a chorus concert yesterday morning. All the non-participating students came. Looking over the crowd...I think every ethnic group on earth was represented there. I might have seen three or four white kids in the crowd. It is so amazing to see what God has placed right here in our back yard in Lilburn. I feel God has given me this opportunity to not only earn some extra support money, but to also work in a school as an expansion of my mission field. Missionary work takes real creativity and this is just another way to build relationships with a different ministry technique. I really do approach this as part of my ministry.


One of the administrators asked me today why I was there? I think beads of sweat broke out on my forehead. After all I am a 50 year old man working with very small children. I thought "OK God" here we go. So I was straight up with her and told her that I was a missionary looking to make some extra income, then I waited for her reaction. To my surprise she began to tell me about her church and how proud she was of all the teachers in her school who are Christian. Honestly I have been very surprised to find so many Christian teachers there. It is almost like God has strategically placed these teachers in this place for this time for one common purpose. The attitude of the staff there is tremendously upbeat!

Yesterday one little girl named Marta came to me crying. I asked her, "Whats wrong honey?" She said in a broken voice, "Phillip says that God doesn't really live in heaven. Phillip is a Muslim kid. I bent down and told her, "Don't worry! I promise God is still in his heaven." She smiled and wiped here tear and said, "I knew he was wrong." Wow what a moment.

One of the blessings of serving the Lord as your missionary, is getting to meet and know so many people. If you know me personally...you know that I have no trouble expounding on the issues. Cornelia always says I came from my mother talking at birth. She is probably right.

Cornelia and I would like to invite you to keep praying for our ministry work. The Youth Outreach United team will be back at Villa Nueva on Saturday morning for their biweekly outreach. Please pray for my partner Meghan and her team as they work to reach the children with games, snacks, and the Word of our Lord. Also pray how you can become a partner in our ministry.

We Love You All!

Election Day!!!!!

As many of you know this is a very historical day in the life of our country. The Bible tells us that God gives certain people the authority to rule. He has also given us the freedom in our country to vote. We had a very special time voting early this morning as the Harrell's voted as a family minus Kaitlyn (see is only seventeen). Man what a tremendous feeling it is to have such God given opportunity as we have in the United States of America to vote. I hope you exercised your opportunity as well.

You know sometimes we get all hyped up when it comes to elections, but let us remember that God is sovereign and He is really in control despite the outcome. Jesus also tells us in Luke 12 not to worry, so whatever the outcome, as Christians we know who really controls things. Jesus! So don't worry.

If you are reading our blog...we want to thank you for taking interest in our ministry and our family. We love you all!

Sunday heading toward Monday

I want to update you with the progress we are making at our mission. On Wednesday we had about 15-18 for homework help. Not bad for a program that was almost dead two weeks ago. The power of prayer is amazing.

We give thanks to the Lord for sending Meghan Faircloth to us to help with our homework program. She is really doing an amazing job.

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had gotten my substitute teaching certificate. I finally started receiving calls last week. This will be a grand opportunity to get a Christian influence into public school, while making extra income. My plans are to do this two or three days a week as time permits. I still have to keep our field programs running...they come first.

The entire Harrell family went to church a North Point Community Church today. Andy Stanley is beginning a new series on "Not Worrying." He really has a unique ability to preach to the heart. We have a regular home church, but we like to visit there once every other month or so.

If you are reading our blog...Cornelia and I want to say thank you. We will be back in the field tomorrow. Please pray for us!!!

Kindest Regards...we love you all!

Catching You Up on Things

Were back!
I am sorry for the lack of blogging the past few days. Friday was a miserable rainy day! I met the youth pastor of Parkview Christian Church and his team. We left their church and drove up to look at mission sites. They plan to do a block party for us November 22. They wanted to personally look at sites. I hope its not too cold then. Sorry for not having photos of the group..the camera was acting up.

After lunch I was back at the office working on administrative stuff. We also started on our news letter gathering supplies, postage, and working on layout design etc... I have a lot to tell you about in the next news letter. If you would like to be on our mail-out list send your email address to keithandcornelia@gmail.com. God has kept us busy this month with great ministry.

Saturday morning we met a team from Youth United. They came to do a party for the kids along with Bible stories at three different complexes. They were able to round up a few kids at each location. Several kids are Catholic and were at confirmation class, while others were attending Saturday school (for kids who need help keeping up). Later in the day I took Kaitlyn and her friend Vanessa back to Six Flags (yes we went back again!). We hit a few rides and came back home. It was fairly crowded.

Today we attended church at MPFBC "Bridge" service. We had a Tex-Mex lunch with our friends afterwards. We met a new family that we did not know. It was fun getting to know them. We really enjoyed Pastor Bob's sermon on "Why Come to Church."

Love you all!

Round Two

This morning started off with language classes. Learning Spanish is not really easy for me. Still I do believe that if I keep at it I just may get conversational by the time i turn 60.

Today was round two of homework help. We had approximately 10 kids. We love helping them because many of them have to go to Saturday school because they have already fallen behind this semester. It's our goal to instill success into the lives of these kids. As Truitt Cathy said...it's easier to mold a boy than to treat a man. Lord let us me molders of these kids so that we don't have to treat them later in life.This is Meghan Faircloth our new partner. She is doing a great job with the kids and has a huge heart for the lost. thank you Lord for sending Meghan to us. Meghan is a part of Youth United. They are coming Saturday to run a small fall party with costumes and lots of candy. Please pray that we will be able to share Jesus with someone.

Tomorrow I meet with two different potential partners.Tim is leaving for an out of town trip so I guess I will be running the ship. i love working with new people that are willing to move outside of the four wall. Praise God for them we need all the help we can get.

Love you all.