LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT!!!!

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.