Message Magazine Online - Vol. 53, No. 02, Summer/Fall 2005

In This Issue

• A Faith-Building Adventure
  By Donna Messenger
• Answering the Call
  By Michael G. Loftis, President
• Missions: Marathon or High Hurdles?
  By Bill Commons
• The Rearview Mirror
• Before I Was a Missionary
  Thoughts from South Brazil Missionaries
• The Prefield Journey
  By Jim Ruff
• The Missionary Family
  By Russell E. Ebersole, Jr.
• The Power of a Tract
  By Kathy Laughlin
• Into Life Eternal
• Candidate Class 2005

The Power of a Tract

By Kathy Laughlin, appointee to the Republic of Ireland

I did not start out in a Christian home. When I was a little girl we did not go to church at all and had no spiritual training. When my sister and I heard that my uncle had died, we were told he went to heaven, so we figured he must be God. Yet the Lord came into our family. We were at a county fair when a young man in a wheelchair handed my sister a tract. She read it and kept asking questions. My mother decided to take us to a church that was across the street from our doctor’s office. It was a good, Bible-believing church. The first Sunday we heard the gospel my sister made a decision for Christ. I parroted the prayer too, but I continued to worry about life and dying. On the day I was to be baptized, I realized that the original decision had not been real, so I prayed to accept Christ that day.