preacher. And let me just say right off the top this morning, thank you, church, for your support. I appreciate it so much, your faithful support. And I'm glad that I'm finally able to get down here and with a video to show you from our ministry. I am a bilingual evangelist with Save New England, have been with this ministry for two years. The first time I was down here I was representing La Espada Ministries and the Lord closed that door and now I'm with this ministry. Basically, the Lord just opened this in a way that only the Lord could do it. Was not really sure what the next step would be when the Lord closed that one door that with with that ministry But but I went to I saved New England Conference. Oh I'm gonna say the first one I went to maybe five years ago it's directed by brother Paul Chapman brother Paul Chapman is a a pastor at Curtis Corner Baptist Church in Wakefield, Rhode Island, and he's been pastoring there probably two decades now. He has been a burden for quite a while to help and encourage other pastors. How many of you have been to New England, by the way? Let me just get a show of hands so a lot of you know that New England consists of six states, okay? I always used to kind of just say New England and just assume everybody knows where that's at. And some people think it's New York, God forbid. It's not New York. But it is the, really it's where our country started, really. The six states are, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Those six states combined, 15 million people live in those six states. And it's hard to believe that, because when we think of New England, you're looking at the colonial type church architecture, small towns, and all that. And it is that. But it also is our big city. There are big cities in that region. Hartford, Boston, of course, we think of Boston. But Boston is the largest city, probably, in all of New England. But Hartford is a big city in Connecticut. Then you have Portland, which is the largest city in Maine. And when I say large, it's probably, I'm guessing, probably 10,000 or 20,000 people in that city, which is not near to compare with the larger cities in the area. But big cities that don't have anything for gospel preaching churches. We're excited right now. We're helping a church planter plant a church in Providence, Rhode Island. Now, how many know where Providence, Rhode Island is? You think of Roger Williams, who started what is called the First Baptist Church in America. And if you know the history, of course, Roger Williams went to that part of the country because the Puritans said, nope, you can't practice what you believe the Bible teaches in our colony. So basically they kicked him out and he moved down there and of course set up a colony where there was religious freedom. And so, but yet today, it's sad, but First Baptist Church of America is, or in America, is completely liberal. I think the pastor is a woman. I think they're there for gay rights and all of that. It's sad. You can go into that beautiful edifice and look at that and think that a long time ago, the gospel was being preached there. We want to see that happen again. And so we're helping a pastor who has a burden to plant a church in the city of Providence. And so we're excited about that. He's going to be going in, moving up. in several months, and we try to help pastors. So there's a need. Our burden, Pastor Chapman's burden, is to bring attention to the need to reach New England. And again, it's hard for us to kind of think of the United States as a mission field, but it is. And I think all of us would agree that our condition that we're in right now is a spiritual one. And it is affecting, obviously, politics is affecting everything in our country. And so we believe, Brother Chapman believes that in order to save our country, We need to go to the part of the country that's influencing and impacting all the rest of the United States. Think of Harvard. Think of Yale. These are schools that were started by the Puritans to train preachers. And they're completely, completely liberal. It's sad, I've been to both campuses. There's still a school of theology on the campus of Yale University. But if you go to their bookstore, boy, it's sad to see what's being put out there. But there's a need to see God do it again. And and and I believe that God is waiting not for who's going to be president in November but but he's looking at local churches like ours and and Revelation 21, okay, we think about I'm sorry in Revelation not 21, but 20, I believe and Or the beginning of the book where Jesus is knocking on the door a chapter 3 And we think of that as being you know Jesus knocking at the door of the of an unbeliever Wanting to come in but really in the context of that of that chapter. It's Jesus knocking on the door of churches and and looking for anyone within the church that says, hey, I want you, Lord Jesus. I wanna have a closer walk with you. I want to be more like you. I want you to use me. I wanna yield myself completely to you. And I think that's what the Lord is doing now. In our fundamental Bible-believing churches, he's knocking on the door, and he's trying to wake us up from our complacency, from the idea of just kind of coasting, so to speak, and he's looking for believers that want revival, personal revival in their lives, so that he can do something that only God can do in bringing revival, and revival starts here with us, and then it impacts our country, our cities, our towns, our villages. That's that's what's going to make all the difference for our nation. So with that in mind That's the spirit that brother Chapman has in regards to save New England So what we're gonna do is without further ado we'll show you the video because I I think you'll get an idea of what the ministry is about and And then we'll make some some comments after that We want America to be saved. we must save New England. New England has a rich spiritual history. Countless towns enjoy white steeples rising above beautiful buildings amid lush tree lines. The gospel of Jesus Christ was once preached powerfully throughout the region. Every village, town, city was influenced by Christ and the power of the gospel. Unfortunately, many of these churches have long since died. Their steeples and buildings are fossils of a bygone era. Today, many consider the Bible to be a fairytale. Jesus Christ is rejected as a common man. Religion is categorized as one of the world's greatest problems. Far too many New Englanders are aware of the region's rich Christian history and proudly reject it. rejoicing in the feeling that they have evolved past Christianity. Recent generations have been taught history revised to remove our nation's Christian heritage altogether. They need to hear the truth. New England is lost, and we see its effects rippling across America. It is home to some of the most influential companies, schools, and leaders in our nation. And they are leading our country further away from God every day. If we don't save New England, we will lose America. New England states rank at the bottom in every category of religious activity, pulling down the rest of the country through their influence. Belief in the Bible, belief in God, a biblical mindset, religious practices, faith in Jesus Christ for salvation, and church attendance statistics fall well behind most of the country. Even the small percentage that attend the average church don't believe fundamental Bible doctrines. We've experienced this decline for many years and have felt its effects throughout the nation. If something is not done right now, New England's powerful influence will continue to steer America towards destruction. But thank God there is hope. New England culture is godless, but individual New Englanders caught in the bondage of secularism are searching for answers. God is using faithful pastors and churches to reach their corners of the region. Souls are being saved weekly. Converts are being baptized regularly. Believers are being discipled consistently. Revival winds are blowing. It is an exciting time to serve the Lord in New England. The problem is we just don't have enough help to spread the good news. We need hundreds more effective, healthy churches to save New England. New England culture is godless, but individual New Englanders caught in the bondage of secularism are searching for answers. God is using faithful pastors and churches to reach their corners of the region. Souls are being saved weekly. Converts are being baptized regularly. Believers are being discipled consistently. Revival winds are blowing. It is an exciting time to serve the Lord in New England. The problem is we just don't have enough help to spread the good news. We need hundreds more effective, healthy churches to save New England. We are sounding the Macedonian call to all of America. Come over and help us save New England. We are an independent Baptist ministry, helping local churches experience revival, train soul winners, and prep churches. God gave us His plan in His book. The Bible is not only our message, but also our manual. It teaches us how to go to an unreached area and establish churches through personal soul-healing and believer's baptism with a pastor to lead a new church forward to reproduce. Already, we have excited families and deputations raising support to start a church in New England. We are fully committed to helping them and anyone else who will qualify to succeed in their call. We are working with experienced pastors and church planners that have thriving churches who are committed to supporting new church plans. This includes monthly support, ministry mentorship, and ongoing outreach support. Remember, If we want to save America, we must save from England. Over 14 million people live in New England. Most of them have never heard a clear presentation of the gospel. They've never had a soul winner knock on their door. They've never even read a gospel tract. They don't know God loves them. Someone must care. Someone must pray. Someone must give. and someone must go. We are striving to save New England. Will you help us? Find more information and partner with us today at SaveNewEngland.org. So I trust you see that in a brief video presentation what our ministry is about. We have at the back table for you a copy of our magazine that we put out quarterly. You're welcome to take a copy. and along with my prayer card. And again, we need your prayer support. And if you feel that of the Lord to actually send support of any kind to the Save New England ministry, we would take that and funnel it to the needs that the Lord brings our way. For example, I mentioned that Pastor who is called of God to start a church in Providence in the city he's coming by faith just like a missionary would and Most of you know how expensive it is to live in New England That's the first big hurdle for a lot of church planters. They've got to get, you know, if you're talking about just getting a one-bedroom apartment, you know, we're not even talking about the kids yet. You know, you're talking thousands of dollars, you know, that in some cases, you know, $2,000, $3,000 a month. You know, if you're in Boston area, if you're anywhere in really in the big cities, even in southern Maine, it's hard to get, come up with that kind of money. What we do is we want to obviously share that need with the pastors in New England. So we have two conferences a year. We have a conference, obviously, over at Pastor Chapman's Church in Rhode Island in the fall. And we also have another one up in Concord, New Hampshire. And we try to get pastors in northern New England as well as southern New England to be part of it. And again, just to encourage pastors, of course, but at the same time give church planters the opportunity to present their burden or call so that we could, in those conferences, raise money to help them with specific needs. And that we do twice a year, but during the year, we try to funnel any monies that we get to help pastors like we did with this one pastor. We were able to give that pastor, because that money was made available, we gave him $1,000, he and his wife, to kind of encourage and jumpstart that transition for them. They're going to Providence. Providence is a huge area and a very expensive area to live. So we don't want church planters to be automatically having this wall of, boy, how am I gonna come up with that kind of money just to move, just to find an apartment. We wanna kinda ease that financial burden. And so anytime we can, we'll take up special offerings. If the Lord moves upon a church to send a certain amount of money to save New England specifically, we take that money for that purpose to help support, as you saw in the video, in any way we can because we want to encourage these young pastors that are coming. Right now there's a pastor who started a church in Waterville, Maine. How many of you have been to Maine? Okay, so Waterville is between Bangor and Augusta. It's a big city. It needs a gospel preaching church. And so Brother Jacob Berry, who just texted me, by the way, you heard that little prompt on my phone. I help Pastor Berry on Sunday nights because my local church has a Sunday afternoon service, not a Sunday evening service. So that frees me up. I can go down to Waterville. I'm only 17 miles away. And I can flap my wings during the service, you know, and help with the song leading. And so we do that. I do that. And I've been with him, knocking on doors, really since last year. They had their first service a year ago, Father's Day, Sunday. The neat thing about that was, and I've been knocking on doors for a long time, and my, you know, I've had some good experience, but for the most part, you know how it is, you always focus on the negative aspects of it. So I was kind of getting myself reared for, okay, you know, I'm going to, we're starting a church, and, you know, I'm all set, boom, or I'm not interested, boom, you know, that kind of thing. And you know, it's interesting how that when we trust the Lord and we just obey, the Lord opens doors. And so, I'm knocking on doors and folks are just, you know, being polite and not slamming doors. In fact, I had one instance where, or a couple of instances really where I, where we, this is last year now before we had the official start. We didn't even have a place to meet yet. You know, again, this is where Save New England tried to say help with that because again, there's an expense, you know, just to rent a place, to find a place to rent, let alone even think of, you know, can't even think about obviously property yet. Got to have a place to meet. And for a while there, Pastor Barry, You know was looking looking looking, you know, nothing that that was available and if there was something available It was just way way out, you know price price range was just not not not possible and so the first couple of Sundays he was meeting in his home and And in his living room, the Lord provided a place for that. But when we went out to knock on doors, we didn't have an address on the brochures that we were leaving with people. So we'll let you know. Call us. Contact us. We'll give you that kind of thing. It wasn't ideal, but that was about all we could do. But, oh, you're starting a new church. Great. I'm not gonna go, but then they ended by saying, good luck to you, you know, that kind of thing. And I go, well, I've never had that kind of response. You know, good luck, you know. But really, for the most part, folks have been receptive in this city. And I think it's just, it seems like God had just knew when the right time was for there to be a church planted in that city. But Brother Barry right now, since Father's Day, well actually before Father's Day, provided a 2,000 square foot storefront. And all we had to do was do some aesthetic, you know, painting and that sort of thing to make it look a little more palatable, so to speak. And it really looks good. It's just one big room. But that's all we need, that's all Brother Barry needs to start a church. So in the corner we have a little partition because he has a little baby girl. And so as soon as his wife's done playing the piano for the congregational singing, she'll take her little girl back to the little corner. So we're gonna need obviously a place to have room, that has rooms. But for right now, we're praising the Lord for the place. It's just south of downtown. So it's in a good location. And so it's that kind of thing that we're trying to encourage, we're praying about. We've had Brother Barry at a couple of our conferences give updates and get other pastors to consider taking him on for support. And he and his wife did not raise all of their support when they moved to Washington. Waterville over a year ago and and I and I told brother Jacob I said, you know, you need to get your you know, we need to get you into churches and so that you can raise your support and But you know, they feel you know, God wants us to be here and we're coming We don't have all our support but we're coming and we're gonna trust God for the rest and that's the kind of spirit We want to encourage and that's the kind of thing. We want to see happen more often in New England We want to see more churches planted not just in the big cities, but in small towns in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine If you go in the northern parts of those states You have to drive an hour sometimes more just to get to a good Bible-believing Church that preaches the word and we want we want to lessen that we want to see like the small towns Right now, I'm in a small town. Probably, I don't think there are more than 2,500 people in the town of New Vineyard. And we have a church building that was built a number of years ago right next to a dairy farm. And you would miss it if you weren't looking for it, because it's up in the hills there, north of Farmington, but there's a need there. It's a college town. Farmington has the University of Maine there, and there are college kids that need to hear the gospel. And there are people that, you know, it's kind of like the hub of that area where you have all these smaller towns that go to Farmington for, you know, their groceries and that sort of thing. These small towns need the gospel. So, pray with us. We do have a website, as you saw on the video, that you can go to. We try to keep that updated on what's going on. The magazines are put out quarterly like I said and It's basically to inform the rest of the country what the needs are and at the same time to encourage The rest of the country about what God's doing. Okay, so we don't want to just come and say, you know, well, it's terrible and nothing's going on Yeah, there are things going on As you saw, and as I mentioned, we've got a church planter coming to Providence. We have new church plants that have come really since I've joined, probably maybe six or seven that I know of, and talking about all of New England, but we need more. We need more so if you'll pray along with us and I know that brother Chapman would appreciate that and I'm going to mention this because I Want you to pray also for his wife Sarah his wife Sarah has been suffering from lupus For a number of years now, so that's one of the reasons why he cannot travel like I'm doing for the ministry He does travel some but but he's limited and of course he has a church to pastor. I'm an evangelist I'm free to go wherever the Lord opens doors for me to be in churches. So So if you'll pray for Sarah Chapman, I know that brother Chapman would really appreciate that I tried to cover basically what the ministry is about how much time do I have preacher? Don't want to Okay, any questions I'll take questions at this point maybe I Good questions. The aspect of the Spanish is something that I bring to Save New England. There is such a huge need right now for Spanish ministries. Every major city in New England has Spanish people. And I know that you've got a lot of Spanish around here. I was kind of hearing it and seeing it everywhere I went this morning. But every major city has Spanish people. Burlington, Vermont. How many know where Burlington, Vermont is? There's Spanish people up there. All right? You wouldn't think, Spanish people in Burlington? Yeah. There's Spanish people in Portland. Right now, there's Portland, Maine. Right now, I had an opportunity to preach for a pastor who has a church there just south of the city, and he actually, the church was located just south of downtown, and I did not realize this until I went to a fellowship meeting, and there were Spanish people there. There was a Spanish grocery store across the street from the church. The problem is these English-speaking pastors, just they don't have anybody. And what I want to do is I want to facilitate that by trying to connect these English-speaking pastors with bilingual Spanish-speaking men who feel a call to go to New England to help I was with brother Townsley. I think some of you may know who he is. He pastors Central Baptist Church in Southington and They are now having a Spanish Sunday school for adults They're moving into this the suburbs, you know, we think of the Spanish folks as just being in the cities and just scraping a living well, there's there is that but The Spanish folks are not wasting any time moving up the economic ladder, all right? They are, you know, they're the stereotypical idea is that they're in the big cities like New York and Chicago and, you know, and that's where they stay. No, they're moving up the economic ladder. They're second and third generation Spanish folks that live in the suburbs. that are bilingual or in some cases they don't speak very much English, but there's a great need right now in New England for that. So what I'm trying to do is I make myself available to preach in Spanish churches still, so I'm doing that. I just recently spoke at a Spanish church in Knoxville, Tennessee, just north of Knoxville. And a pastor friend of mine pastoring there for probably, I'm gonna say 12, 13 years. He started two churches. One church in Sevierville area, if you know where that's at, next door to Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and the Smoky Mountains. There are Spanish folks all over that area. And for a while he was pastoring a work there. He's not doing that now because they couldn't find a place to meet. And he's pastoring up in north of Knoxville. In the beginning, they went to this English-speaking church, and they were using the downstairs. The English-speaking church said, you're more than welcome to use the downstairs. They went downstairs, and it was a dump. That's what I was told. But they had Spanish men that knew how to remodel, and they remodeled it and made it first class down there, growing, reaching people, Spanish people. And meanwhile, the English-speaking section was shrinking, because they were not proactively reaching people. And so finally the pastor said, if you want the rest of the building, you can have it. They had a smattering of people that were attending on Sunday, so now the Spanish church has the whole building. Grove City Baptist Church, and they're reaching people for Christ. I was just there to speak, and God's using that ministry. But we need churches like that in New England, you know, so we're trying to see what we can do to facilitate that. So, I'm not sure if I got the other part of your question or not. Okay, yes, we've got right now my church is in need of a pastor my pastor Pete Steve Grubbs is is Unable to continue pastoring because he's 71 72 years old. He's having short-term memory issues So he and his wife are moving back to Tennessee. And so we're looking for a pastor and Right now I I think there are two or three other churches that I know of that are in need of a pastor There's one small work in Maine that Is looking for a pastor and it's been that pastor had to resign It's been probably a year now and they still have nobody And so yeah, they're they're they're churches probably I could probably say all six states have pastors, have churches that are looking for pastors right now. I'm talking about fundamental Bible believing churches like this one. And unfortunately, you know, we have a lot of our next, you know, our ex-Generals and our millennials and, you know, I don't know why, but they're just not, you know, they're just not considering going into full-time ministry. And, you know, our Bible colleges just don't have enough guys, you know, that are going into full-time ministry to fill these pulpits. Pray for laborers. That's what we need right now. Anybody else, question? Yes. Not really, what we're trying to do at Save New England is we're trying to encourage pastors who have the same vision that we do to proactively reach their ears for Christ. Obviously we want to be on the same page doctrinally, that's a given. We realize that we don't care what school you graduated from, we don't care about that. What we want is we want to encourage pastors who are coming And they're coming from, you know, basically, they're like Pastor Todd Bell. He graduated from a college that was not one of the well-known colleges, you know, from a college down in South Carolina or in North Carolina, I can't remember, which I never heard of. And usually, there are colleges that are They were started by local churches, you know, and that sort of thing. And so what we're saying is, hey, if you come and you're on the same page doctrinally with us, and you also have a heart and a desire to reach people, come to our conference. We want you to be encouraged when you come to our conference. We're not trying to compare. By the way, we don't want pastors to come and hear about a pastor who started a church five years ago, and they're running 200 people. And I've been here pastoring for 15 years, and I can barely get 50 on a Sunday morning. We want that pastor to be just as encouraged, and we don't want to say, we don't want to discourage, obviously, other pastors and say, look, this is what God's doing in Concord, for example. There was a pastor there who started Granite State Baptist Church there, and God just blessed that work. And it's only six years old, and they're going into their second building program. maybe 15, 20 minutes away, there's a pastor that supports me, Pastor Paul Clow, you'll see his picture on there. Just steady, working, been there for years. Several people left the church, you know, a couple of families left, and they lost some people last year. I want to encourage them. You know, be faithful. You know, it would be easy for him to look at this church in Concord, which is only 20 minutes away, and say, God's not using me, and I'm a failure. We don't want that. We want to encourage pastors, no matter where they're at, and say, stay in there. What can we do to help? And what we do is we'll have what we call help days. And what we mean by that is we'll say, Pastor, we'd love to come to the church, to your church on Tuesday or Thursday, that kind of thing. And we'll come, myself, Brother Paul, and we encourage pastors in the area to come and join us for a couple of hours. knock on doors, and then wherever you want us to go, and then we take that pastor out for a meal and say, stay with it. We're praying for you. Let us know what else you need. That kind of thing. We've done it. I've done it several times with Pastor Chapman. I'm doing that with Brother Jacob Berry, myself personally. So that's what we're doing. So I don't know if that answers your question or not, but as far as I grew up, I was influenced by three groups, if you want to talk about circles in fundamentalism. Baptist Bible Fellowship, which was really good back 40 years ago. Baptist Bible College in Springfield, my pastor who came. Graduated from there, started a church in Wallingford where I got saved, and I was influenced by Bob Jones University through the school that I went to. I went to high school in Hartford, West Hartford, and was kind of influenced by that circle for a little bit, and the Jack Howell circle. They all have strengths and weaknesses. But here's what is most important, right here, okay? And my faith started with Jesus Christ, when I trusted Jesus Christ as my Savior. He's the one that is the author and the finisher of my faith. And I'm thankful for all the good influences that I've had through my pastor and through the different circles, but basically what I like about this ministry is we're focused on the book and reaching people, and that's where we're at. So, I don't know if that, any other questions? I'm thinking our time's up, right? Okay.