Overview for 2024
This year has proven very productive. Both the Promise of Life Café and the Sequim Community Carwash outreach ministries flourished this past summer. The ten session training and equipping module for the local church, Four Keys to Sharing Good News, continues to be well received. We are now in the process of publishing a second edition and are currently scheduled to teach at Fairview Bible Church in January 2025. TTVF sponsors home fellowships; Elder Will Finch recently finished teaching through the book of Ruth and in September began teaching 1 Samuel. His teaching is outstanding. Mike Pritchard continues to develop our website. This year marks the beginning of our on-line newsletter. A special thanks to the Lord for very gracious and thoughtful brothers like Mike.
This year has also proven to be a year of great loss. After battling cancer, Elder Mark Simpson passed on to the Lord. Some of you will recall his art work from past Journal covers and ministry t-shirts. Locally, known as Costco’s pastor, for years Mark openly ministered to all who sought his prayer and counsel in the appliance section of the Sequim Costco. The Lord blessed Costco in no small measure with an employee who was consistently rewarded for outstanding customer service. As an evangelist, Mark was very bold, yet loving and compassionate to both believers and unbelievers. As an elder for The True Vine Fellowship His counsel was always timely and wise. He leaves behind a Godly wife and three children. Thankfully, as sad as our loss is, heaven has gained a faithful servant. The Lord is good!
The Promise of Life Café
Babbette Tyler continues to lead this outreach. Many thanks to her and all who join her in serving the love of Jesus. Over the years, the Promise of Life Caféhas been blessed to partner with several ministries, Beautiful Day, Queen of Angels School, Family Fun Fest, Sequim Food Bank, Blessing of the Bikes… to name a few, but in 2024, for the first time, this outreach successfully struck out on its own. Summer attracts many visitors to Sequim from all over Washington and the Pacific Northwest. Those who visit the Promise of Life Café go home with Gospels of John and memories of a free burger. Praise the Lord for blessing the Promise of Life Café.
The Sequim Community Car Wash
Over the years, our car washes have supported numerous charities, Sequim High School Basketball, Bremerton High School Basketball, Youth For Christ, Christmas Angels, Boys and Girls Club, and others. Each of these charities share a common need to raise money for their activities. The citizens of Sequim love to support their community; as a result, each car wash raises from $700.00 to $2,200.00. A special thank you to the Sequim Discount Tire for being a faithful partner in this outreach. Praise our God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
Home Fellowships
Very few books in the Old Testament pull back the curtain on evangelism… Ruth is one of those books. The power of “chesed” or loyal covenantal love drew two Moabite women, Ruth and Orpah, to the One True God of Israel through their mother-in-law Naomi. When darkness and loss settle into their personal lives, the Lord pours out His “chesed” through Ruth to draw Naomi back to Himself and in the process to evangelize the entire town of Bethlehem. This same daughter-in-law, who believed on the Lord through Naomi’s ministry, God rewards with a Godly husband in Boaz and ultimately a place in Messiah’s linage. The good news both in word and deed of God’s great love and faithfulness to His people abounds. Bless the Lord for His faithfulness and Will Finch who taught the book of Ruth.
TTVF Journal
Many thanks to all who partner with The True Vine Fellowship to write and/or edit articles for the Journal. The Grace Evangelical Society graciously allows TTVF to reprint articles by Bob Wilkin, Ken Yates, and John Niemelä. Lindsey Adkins wears many hats as a wife, mom, evangelist,… and thankfully a writer for TTVF Journal. Hopefully Don Crouse will soon bless our journal with more articles on apologetics… we promise not to fault him for his math skills. All of us have missed Grant Christensen’s articles; pray that the Lord restores his excellent work to our Journal. This year we will use our financial resources (normally allocated to publish the journal) to print our training manual theFour Keys to Sharing Good News.Equipping brothers and sisters in the local church to share their faith in Christ must take precedent over TTVF Journal. With the Lord’s help, we will resume publishing our journal next year. The Lord and His Word are blessings.
Four Keys to Sharing Good News
Equipping brothers and sisters to share the good news of Christ and His promise of eternal life remains at the very core of The True Vine Fellowship’s mission. As an evangelism fellowship, the only remuneration received is the joy of seeing brothers and sisters set free to share their faith openly from the Gospel of John. If you abide in My word you really are My disciples. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free (John 8:31-32, Logos 21 Version). To this end, we make disciples and provide training in the Four Keys to Sharing Good News to local churches for absolutely free. This year Frank Tyler begins a commentary on John as a companion to the Four Keys to Sharing Good News. You may read the introduction on-line.
Donations and Expenses for 2024
Agur the son of Jakeh requests two invaluable things from the Lord: Remove falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches (Proverbs 30:8). Falsehoods can be propagated through the need for financial support. Sadly, nothing could be more fatal for an evangelism fellowship than compromising the good news. For this reason, TTVF counts on the Lord to provide just enough, but not too much financial support that we may remain safely focused on our mission to equip brothers and sisters to share good news.
Donations and Expenses for 2024
Donations $5,330.00
Expenses 5,043.31
Net 286.69
Thanks to all of our supporters for their prayers and blessing of just-enough-yet-not-too-much financial support. You are all special blessings!