ACLC
and AFC Are One in Heart in Montana for the 06
U.S.
National Peace Tour
By
Pastor Mike Yakawich 5-19-06
On
Friday, May 19, 2006, we held our monthly ACLC prayer breakfast at
Perkins Restaurant in Billings, Montana. Guided by both Mr. Paul
DiLorenzo (Director of the American Family Coalition) and Pastor
Mike (ACLC co-director) a successful completion of the Montana Peace
Tour and Blessing 06 was achieved.
Based
upon the April 29th ACLC Conference "A Spiritual and
Religious Solution to Drugs in Our Community" and
this Prayer Breakfast for May 19, 2006, we are confident to report
over 100 people received the Blessing and participated in this Peace
Tour in Montana.
At
this prayer breakfast:
·
Rev. Melvin Terry began
our program with a very inspiring prayer. He is the assistant pastor
to the All Nations Christian Fellowship Church.
·
Then, Rev. Eric
Fridrichson offered sound Biblical words taken from St. Matthew 5:10
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of
God. II Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as
though God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be
you reconciled to God.
Elder
Paul DiLorenzo then
read some very inspiring passages from Gods Ideal Family and
Peace Kingdom: 120 Nation Peace Tour including:
·
I
hope that you will put on new true love armor in this new age and be
wise and brave activists in the universal peace kingdom corps, for
the sake of humanity's future.
·
Please become true
princes and princesses who can attend and live together with God,
the eternal peace king, as the true parent of humanity. Let us each
live up to the standard of a true filial child, a patriot, a saint,
and a member of the family of divine sons and daughters of God, in
order to create the peace kingdom for all eternity.
·
The family set the
pattern for all people to live together in harmony. The family where
parents and children love and respect each other, where husband and
wife are grounded in mutual trust and love, and brothers and sisters
trust and rely on each other, and all live together as one, is the
model and the ideal. This means that you need to establish a true
family where in the stem of true love emerges from the roots of true
love and bears the fruit of true love.
Pastor
Mike led in a Blessing of all guests which was well received. One
faith leader proclaimed, We certainly can receive as much Blessings
as possible! Thank you very much.
Mr.
DiLorenzo then presented five Ambassadors for Peace Awards.
This totals 24 Awards (included those presented at the drug
conference) for this special Peace Tour for Montana.
We
felt so much of Gods warm embrace as the participants shared their
appreciation for the Awards and the Blessing. Some Ambassador for
Peace were even excited to travel more in the name of ACLC to
promote peace whether outside the city or outside the nation.
Several participants volunteered to go with Pastor Mike to
the Native American Reservation at Crow to assist other ACLC leaders
there in hosting and promoting a prayer breakfast, support and
healing those in need on the reservation and border towns.
The
attacks of Satan have been strong to our Native American brothers
and sisters with serious drug and alcohol problems, poverty and even
recently several murders explained Rabbit Knows Gun a spiritual
leader of the Crow Nation. I am so grateful for the work of ACLC.
Several people reported how they
were so inspired by the Drug Conference as well held on Saturday,
April 29th. Bev Hardy of LIFTT (a service organization for disabled)
commented, "The ACLC conference gave me many new insights into
solutions for drug addiction especially inspiring was the talk by Adam
Mallack, a leader of the Muslim faith in Montana." The Blessing
and Awards program reached out to and included over 80 people
on that day as well.
Other
discussions were on the recent "Hearts and Hands"
project in which ACLC and other churches worked together on
Saturday, May 13th. Blood donations to hygiene bags to school
backpacks were put
together for the community. Kelly Kirkpatrick from the LDS church
who was the key sponsor thanked every one for all their support and
hard work on that day. She stated, “It was so wonderful when
the Family Church and other churches came last Saturday to work
together on making quilts and putting items together to help those
less fortunate. I could feel the love of God in our presence.
The
9th Annual March Against Drugs and Violence was also
discussed. It will be held on June 10th and the ACLC
membership are key sponsors to this annual citywide event. The
Police Department, local service organizations and several churches
are strong supporters financially of this event. Dr. Briggs from the
Chapel of the Diamond Hope Church offered a prayer of protection and
success for this program.
We
then concluded with James Laramee, a local Christian Therapist and
elder of the Unity Church, offering a very embracing and uplifting
prayer.
We
could see the courage and strength that the ACLC members are feeling
from True Parents Tour, their words and their role model. We felt
that the unity of AFC and ACLC is opening the doors for the Holy
Spirit to rush in.
Finally,
we are so grateful for Bishop Lee, Vice Regional Director Rev.
Wiesinger and ACLC regional coordinator Rev. Anglin who has guided
us with so much confidence, trust and freedom to sponsor and develop
the unique and special Peace Tour 06 that we could by the grace of
God, Lord Jesus and True Parents successfully accomplish here in
Montana.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Pastor
Mike Yakawich
