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BRO MCCALL & CUBA
WHO KNOWS WHEN BAPTIST MENS DAY IS? 4TH SUNDAY IN JANUARY. DESUGNED TO HIGHLIGHT THE MISSION AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF MEN IN THE CHURCH & COMMUNITIES. IT HAS BEEN CELEBRATED FOR 92 YEARS! GLORY TO GOD, AMEN!!! HISTORY REVEALS THAT ON A DAY IN “1905” EARLY MORNING A SMALL SHIP ENTERED THE BAY OF HAVANA. AMONG THE PASSENGERS WHO CAME ON IT. THERE WAS ONE WHO, WOULD PLAY A FUNDAMENTAL ROLL IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WESTERN BAPTIST DENOMINATION OF OUR HOMELAND. BROTHER MOISES NATHANAEL MCCALL. HAVING SET SAIL 2 NIGHTS AGO FROM A PORT IN TAMPA FLORIDA AND AFTER A STORMY PASSAGE. THE IMAGE OF CUBA, FINALLY APPEARED ON THE HORIZION. BRO. MOISES WAS RECEIVED BY BRO. C.D. DANIELS. THE MISSIONARY OF THE HOME MISSION BOARD FOR WORK IN WESTERN CUBA & BY BRO. D.A. WILSON MISSIONARY OF THE NORTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION OF AMERICA WORKING THE EASTERN PART OF THE ISLAND. BRO MOISES WAS BORN IN SYLVANIA GEORGIA ON DEC. 16TH 1874, A GRADUATE OF MERCER UNIVERISTY AND SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. HE SERVED AS A PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN DALTON. THEN SURRENDERED TO MISSIONS FOR THE IMB TO WORK IN CUBA! HIS WORK IN CUBA WAS FUNDAMENTALLY THAT OF AN EDUCATOR, ALTHOUGH HIS ACTIVITIES ALSO INCLUDED PREACHING AND ADMINISTERING THE WORK. PERHAPS HIS BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION WAS TRAINING NATIONALS, CUBAN CHRISTIANS TO DO THE WORK (DISCIPLING) MAKING DISCIPLES. A YEAR AFTER HIS ARRIVAL IN CUBA HE OPENED THE BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF HAVANA, IN 1906. BRO MCCALL LEFT CUBA ON OCTOBER 6TH 1946. HE WAS 31 WHEN HE LEFT AMERICA TO SERVE GOD IN CUBA. FOR 41 YEARS OF HIS LIFE. IN MARCH OF THE NEXT YEAR MARCH 8TH 1947 BRO. MACCALL PASSED AWAY. WHEN HE LEFT, WITH THE HELP OF BRO. C.D. DANIELS & BRO D.A. WILSON, PRAISE GOD THERE WAS 6,000 MEMBERS OF 61 CONGREGRATIONS. HE GAVE MOST OF HIS LIFE TO CUBA. HE WAS A HUMBLE SERVANT WHO FOLLOWED GODS CALLING. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL STORY, WHAT A GREAT LEGACY OF FAITH AND OBEDIENCE OF THESE THREE MEN USED OF GOD. HOW COULD ALL THIS HAPPEN? IT WAS BEFORE CUBA BECAME COMMUNIST “G – O – D” THE PROVIENTIAL HAND OF GOD! AMEN! 1959 THE REVOLUTION SEIZES POWER FROM THE DICTATOR BAPTISTA 1961 CASTRO DECLARES THE REVOLUTION SOLCIALIST JUST BEFORE THE BAY OF PIGS. 1965 THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA IS FORMALLY FOUNDED AS THE SOLE RULING PARTY. ISAIAH 41:10 – FEAR NOT, BE NOT DISMAYED. 2 CORINTHIANS 9: 6-8 – IF WE SOW SPARINGLY, WE REAP SPARINGLY. 2 CORINTHIANS 12: 7-10 – GRACE IS SUFFICIENT. 2 TIMOTHY 1-7 – FOR GOD GAVE US A SPIRIT NOT OF FEAR BUT OF POWER AND LOVE AND SELF CONTROL.
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Occasionally God Surprises us by letting us find out how He used some word we spoke or action that we took years ago and perhaps forgot all about. About a century ago Stephen Grellat was led one day to go out to a heavily forested area of America to preach. It was a strong inward compulsion of the Holy Spirit. When he arrived at the loggers' camp, he found they had moved to another location, and their shanties were deserted. However, he was so sure he was sent by God that he went into an empty shanty and preached to the bare walls the Sermon God has placed upon his heart. He then returned to his home. He could never understand why God would send him to preach to an empty shanty.
Many years later, as he walked across a bridge, a man grasped his arm, "I found you at last," the man said. "I think you are mistaken," said Mr. Grellat. "No, Didn't you preach in an empty shanty in the woods years ago?" "Yes," Mr. Grellat admitted, "but no one was there." "I was the foreman in charge of the loggers," the stranger explained. "We had moved to a new location, before long I realized I'd left one of my tools behind. I returned to get it and hear a voice in one of the shanties. I peered through a crack, between the logs and saw you. You never saw me, but I listened to the rest of the sermon, God touched my heart that day and I became so convicted of my sins, that after some time I purchased a Bible, repented of my sins, and became a Christian, then I began to win my men to Christ. Your sermon has led over a thousand people to Christ, and three of them have gone on to become missionaries!!" Can I get an AMEN?, never underestimate what God is calling you to do, listen to him, let him lead you and guide you. He will never leave nor forsake you. |