July 2023 Newsletter

 Planting Where The Crops Grow, We Are In The Farmlands:

In May’s Newsletter, I sent out our Strategy, 4 Areas for our Plan of Attack. Getting Into The Wynford School District, Summer-school Route,On Monday Morning, June 12, after a week of testing I Started a Summer-school Route as a way to start getting into Wynford School District and the Community. I have been able to meet many new people who have some kind of responsibilities in running the school. Please pray for further in-roads. I want to be an Effective Planter for Old Paths, Our Country, and Our Christ. Working On Our Non-Members to Join is a part of our Strategy, We have been visiting the non-members and the visits have been encouraging. One of the non-members when Sunday Morning  Services is over has been asking me some questions about what she has been reading in her Bible. She knows that I enjoy talking about the Bible and when I can answer some of her questions. She leaves the church excited and ready to read more. Her husband who has been coming with her came one day without her and she said that he never does that. Amen to that!!! That makes me happy!!! On Monday Evening, June 12th another non-member made a profession of Faith, Amen! We look to see Growth there. Discipleship is another part of our Strategy,The lady my wife has been Discipling, finished with the 14 week course in discipleship. On Sunday, July 2nd we got to present her a certificate of completion and present her a Bible. Her husband and daughter have been coming as non-members to all of our services since the start of her discipleship. We look to see her husband getting saved. Please be in prayer for that.  Dominic, A Young Man God Can Use, is another part of our Strategy,On June 17th We started our VBS in Dominic’s town of Bloomville. Our biggest day in attendance was Monday, but our most rewarding days have been every day since. Our non-member family that has been faithful to every church service that my wife Jackie discipled has come with her daughter and helped every day at our VBS in Bloomville. Praise The Lord!  On Sunday Night, July 16^th the two Campers we had go to the Bill Rice Ranch gave some testimonies of their trip and you could hear and see that they are sensitive to God’s moving. We also have had some church outings. We went in June to see the Columbus Clippers baseball game where hot dogs only cost  10 cents each; and in July we had an Ice cream Social and Cake after Church. Sugar Is Good!       

Columbus Clippers baseball game

Presenting Cathy with Bible and certificate of completion

                                                                                                                         

2 of our teens joined our sending church Chippewa Lake Baptist Church
 and went to the Bill Rice Ranch

                                   

VBS in Bloomville 2023

Planting Where Some Maybe Just Gleaning, Visitors:

We have had some visitors from May and June. A Family of six from Michigan came earlier in May and was looking for God’s direction on a Church and asked us to pray for them; A man about my age from Canada on a business trip came by during a Wednesday Evening service looking to just be at Church. That was refreshing to see someone making an effort towards what God would have; Our next visitor was a mother and daughter that used to come a few years ago, but never joined. Their mother’s mother has cancer. Pray that we will see them more. 

Planting Requesting Prayers, We Need Support: 

Please prayerfully, consider what you will do in support of us at Old Paths, Our Travels to Churches as we continue seeking support. Please be in prayer for Pastor Dan Dornbirer’s family in their adjustments and Old Paths Baptist Church as we all adjust to Our Work of Church Planting at Old Paths Baptist Church. 

Bits Of Bread: Planting For A Harvest!!!  Pray that we see a Harvest for the Lord!!!                                                                                                                                  Matthew 13:4-8,18-23 in the “Parable of the Sower” we are not told that there is a Problem with the Sower of the Seed, Nor are we told that there is a Problem with the Seed, God’s Word, BUT there was a Problem WITH THE SOIL, THE HEART of Man.  “Some seeds fell by the Way Side,…Some fell upon Stony Places,…And some fell Among Thorns,…BUT Others Fell Into Good Ground,”…                                                                                                         

Matthew J Siekbert

 

 

May 2023 Newletter

 Home Going Service: 

On Thursday April the 20th Pastor Dan Dornbirer went HOME, to Glory. His Visitation and Home Going Service were May 5^th and 6^th. The Services held for Bro Dan were a testimony of the impact one can have on others. Friday’s visiting hours from 4pm to 8pm there was a constant line of people from the back doors of the church outlining the auditorium to the front. For Pastor Dan’s Home-Going Service Old Paths was packed and people were standing. For Dan’s Eulogy his family had his friend from his college years, Rick Young give it. Rick Young, Bro Dan had won to the Lord, Discipled, and for several years now has been a deacon in a like-minded Baptist Church; Dan’s pastor, Pastor Wert Officiated the Service and brought the message. Between these two men there were times of laughter and not many dry eyes in the building. The Gospel was given and God was Glorified. Churches from all over North Central Ohio brought food and catered the Dinner afterward at a nearby event center. Many a thanks to those churches.

Moving Over & Moving Forward: 

With Pastor Dan’s Home Going there are a few things now in play. We are now moving over to Rent a house in the Bucyrus, Ohio area instead of traveling back and forth from Medina, Ohio. There are some Definites that are having to be faced. Pray for our Church Planting Work at Old Paths. Some of the few that are members there, are falling away.

Strategy, Plan Of Attack in 4 Areas:

Discipleship: My wife is discipling a lady named Cathy and is halfway through, Praise the Lord. The man that I was discipling fizzled out; Non-Members to Join: There are about 11 Non-member that have been coming pretty regularly, Some, every Sunday Morning and 3 every service in the week. Some are not saved, some claim to be saved, and some  are saved and need to be baptized; Dominic: Dominic is a young man of about 12 years old that Pastor Dan led to the Lord and lives in the town of Bloomville. He is of great interest to me; Wynford School District: Wynford School district is about 3 to 5 minutes at most away from the church. I am going to try getting involved with the school in as many ways that open for me. My thoughts go back to Ghana W. Africa as we were church planting missionaries there. The Lord led  to us two young teenagers named Prince and Koasi. These young teenagers were yielded and God allowed me to Disciple Them, Teach Them, and Train Them up into the ministry. They are now in their 30’s and have been working along-side  me since their ordination in May 2012 and are the pastors of our church plant and Bible Study there in Ghana W Africa. I believe if the Lord let it happen then, He can do it again. Please help Support us in doing it again in Bucyrus, Ohio at Old Paths Baptist Church.

Travels & Prayer Requests: 

We were at Blessed Hope Baptist Church and at Calvary Chapel Baptist Church to update them about our ministry in Bucyrus, Ohio at Old Paths. There are other Pastors, Churches, and Individuals who are being voices for us and support  us in this work at Old Paths. Please prayerfully, consider what you will do in support of us at Old Paths. Please be in prayer for Pastor Dan Dornbirer’s family in their adjustments and Old Paths Baptist Church as we all adjust to Pastor Dan’s passing; Our Work of Church Planting at Old Paths Baptist Church; Our Travels; and for New Supporting Churches.

Bits Of Bread: “Nothing Doubting”

“Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.”; “And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied  me, and we entered into the man's house:” - Acts 10:20; 11:12 

                                                                                                                                    

Matthew J Siekbert