We have a NEW WEB SITE, the address is   www.brooks2utah.org  We went with a new site so we can control all the content. Please check it out and sign our guest book.May the Lord bless. Bro. Kevin

Just wanted to let you know that Jonathan has a clean bill of health from the Dr. Thank you for your prayers for our family. We should have our prayer letter out this week and will post it on the site. May the Lord bless.

Bro. Kevin

Just a short note to ask you to pray for Jonathan. He had been having pain in the left side of his chest. The pediatrician oredered a x-ray and ekg. The x-ray was normal with some problems with the ekg. They have referred him to a pediatric cardiologist. He has had some problems before but had recieved a clean bill of health from the same ped. cardiologist. We have an appointment April 2. We want to get him in sooner but they had  a Dr. to leave and the schedule is packed. Our trip to Utah is the week before this and we don't want to leave untill we know everything is allright. Please help us pray for Jonathan.

Bro. Kevin

January 2008

 

Greetings once again. God has blessed the past year of deputation above all that we could ask or think, how great He is.

 

MINISTRY UPDATE

 

By the end of 2007 God has blessed with 63% of our needed support coming in. We are praying about being on the field by the end of summer if our support continues to grow at this rate. The Lord blessed with a full schedule in ’07 and we were able to present the ministry in several churches.   We would ask you to help us pray for our schedule this year, that we could have a busy and productive schedule. God allowed us to be a part of 21 precious souls making a profession of faith in Christ in ’07. What a joy it is to be able to see sinners born again. Sherri, Levi and myself are planning on a week long trip at the end of March back out to Utah and would ask you to help us pray about those needs.  We have almost completed a CD of the kids singing. If anyone would be interested in it, just get in touch with us. I have also started on a CD and DVD dealing with some basic information on Mormonism. Several people have inquired about the information we give and I hope to have these available in a couple of months.  

 

FAMILY NEWS

 

God has kept us fairly healthy and safe. Other than a few viruses, we’ve not seen much sickness. God kept us safe with almost 72,000 miles on deputation in ’07 and only one deer collision, we are grateful for His protection. Lydia  has turned three this month and is growing into a little lady. Home schooling is going better this year as we have learned how to manage it a little better on the road. Please check our website ( www.brooks2utah.spaces.live.com ) we try to keep it updated as often as we can. 

 

 

 PRAYER REQUESTS                                                                                      

  Support                                                                                           

 March trip to Utah                                                                                            

 Completion of singing CD                                                                               

 Completion of Mormonism CD & DVD                                                         

 

 PRAISE REPORTS 

  21 souls saved

 63 % of needed support

Safety in travels

Faithful Supporters   

 

 

                                  

                                             

                                                   Thank you for all you do for our family,

                                                  In His Service:

                                                                                                                                                               Kevin Brooks and family

Greetings once again. we trust everyone has had an enjoyable Thanksgiving and looking forward to Christmas as we celebrate the Saviors birth. Jonathan and me just returned late tonight from Winston Salem and Liberty. We attended the Baptist Heritage Camp Meeting at Meadowview Baptist Church in Winston Salem where Bro. Robert Hutchens is the Pastor. We were encouraged and challenged through the preaching and fellowship. After service 23 people traveled to Liberty, NC to the Sandy Creek Baptist Church. Bro. Jeff Faggart led the tour. This is the place where Shubal Stearns planted the Sandy Creek Baptist Church and sent out church planters throughout the South. I will post some pictures soon. The Lord blessed the services Sunday at West Side Baptist Church in Cowpens, SC with a young lady getting saved. Please pray for this church as they are without a pastor at the present time. On a lighter note, Jonathan and myself have made the news. We were fishing one afternoon and a news crew drove by and wanted to film us. You can view the clip on WRAL's website, the link is     http://wral.com/lifestyles/travel/video/2089081/    if this doesn't work, you can go to www.wral.com, type tarheel traveler in the search box, and click on catching memories on the Natahala River . They spelled our last name wrong on the front page but the rest is correct. Once again thank you for your prayers and support. May the Lord bles. Bro. Kevin Brooks

The kids have finally reached the point that they are over the virus. Alisha is still weak, but well on her way. Thank you for all your prayers during this time for our family.We have had several churches that has had to cancel a meeting for one reason or another. Please help us pray for a full schedule to present the work. Thank you for all you do for our family. May the Lord bless. Bro. Kevin Brooks

I have prepared the prayer letter and sent out the e-mail version today and will mail the copies on Monday. May the Lord bless.

Today (October 30)we celebrated Levi's first birthday. My how time flies by. Ashley has a viral infection of the eye, Jonathan and Lydia tested negative for the flu and strep. Both are still running a high fever and are miserable. We sure do appreciate you praying for them and us. Hope you enjoy the pics of Levi.

Good Morning. We have posted a picture of our pastor and church. We are grateful to be a part of Truth Baptist Church and to have Pastor Shook as our pastor. PLease pray for the Brown family from Burnesville, NC. They lost their 42 year old son yesterday evening to a massive heart attack. Also pray for Jonathan and Lydia. They both have a high fever.Jonathan began running one Saturday and I took him to urgent care yesterday. The strep test came back negative, thank the Lord. Lst night as we started back from Victory Baptist Church in Burnesville, Lydia began to run a high fever. Please pray for them as we battle this illness. We have begun the planning fo the trip to Utah. PLease continue to pray for those needs to be met. Thank you once again for all your prayers and support. Bro. Kevin. P.S. We are going to try to get our new prayer letter out this week.  Also If you would like to be included on our e-mail list please send us your e-mail address.

Greetings everyone. It has been a while sinice I updated this and I apologize for gap. We have been very busy and we are grateful for that. We have seen the Lord bless with aprx. 58 - 60 % of our support promised or coming in.Please help us pray for the remaining support to come in. Wwe are currently making plans to fly back to Utah in the spring of the year for a week. Two dear friends have already taken care of the plane ticket expense. Please help us pray for the remainder of the needs for the trip.

As I mentioned the Lord has blessed our home church and we have been able to be in the new building now and will be having our home coming srvice this Sunday morning with a dedication service planned soon. The family is doing well right now. Thank you for all you do for our family. We are grateful. May the Lord bless. Bro. Kevin

Hello everyone. As fall and harvest season is upon us, we look back at the time of preparing and sowing and desire to see fruit. It is too late to plant any more crops. The planting season and watering season is over. We will soon be realizing that our opportunity to reach a lost and dying world will also be gone. Let us be diligent to plant and water that souls may be saved. Our desire is to be on the filed where the Lord has called us to be. We have been blessed to be in some good churches the past few weeks. God has kept us safe as we have traveled and we have seen the Lord move in the hearts and lives of His people. Thank you for your prayers and support of our family. Please continue to pray for our family. If you would like to be on our e-mail prayer letter list please contact us through the web site. May the Lord bless.

We just returned from Va yesterday and had a good trip. God has been good to us these past few weeks and for this we are grateful. Ashley hasn't had a recurrence of the heart problem since they sent her home with a monitor. We are glad she hasn't had any more episodes but do desire to know what the problem is. We are fully aware that God is able and may have already healed her. Please keep praying for her.

I would like to also ask you to continue praying for Sandra Stewart, wife of Bro. Mark Stewart, Mid East field director for MWBM. She is having a difficult time with the cancer and treatments. The Stewarts have been such a blessing to our family innumerable times and we are so grateful for their friendship over the years. PLease pray also for Pastor Richard Saunders, Pastor of Centerville Baptist Church in South Boston, Va. He was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor, had surgery, and will begin treatments soon.

We have had 6 new supoporters say they are going to join with our family in reaching the state of Utah. What a blessing this is. Please pray that God would meet that need and for the support to come in. Thank you for all your prayers and support, phone calls and everything else that you do. We appreciate it, and even though it may go unoticed to this world, God sees your faithfullness. Hebrews 6:10

Your co-laborer

Bro. Kevin

Greetings once again. We have been in some wonderful churches and services. The Lord certainely is good. I want to thank the Lord this morning for allowing me to meet and marry the love of my life 19 years ago today. I am blessed to have such a wonderful wife. "Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord." Proverbs 18:22 We have had 4 new supporters this month(three churches and one individual). Please help us pray for the remainder of our support to come in. We also wanted to thank the Lord that we have been able to move into the new church building. Pastor Shook and the people have labored and God has blessed with a beautiful building. We hope to have pictures soon. I've got to cut this one short . Please continue to pray for our family. May the Lord bless. Bro. Kevin

Grretings once again. We want to thank you for visiting our site and your interest in our family. We have traveled many miles since our last update and God has kept us safe through all the miles. We have been in Ky, Va, WVa, Nc, Ga, Tn, and Fl. Please pray for Ashley, our oldest daughter, she has been having some problems with her heart. A EKG revealed some abnormalities. We have an appointment on August 7 to see a pediatric cardiologist. The pediatrician said it may be nothing but  with an abnormal reading, wanted to make sure. Also please pray for sister Sandra Stewart, the wife of Bro. Mark Stewart, Mid East field director for MWBM. She has had a recurrence of breast cancer after chemo, surgery and radiation. She is going through more treatments.

Thank you for your prayers and support. Bro. Kevin

I want to apologize for the delay in getting the site updated. We have been in several meetings and want to thank the Lord for being so good to us. We finished a week at candidate school last week and had a good week. The people at Macedonia World Baptist Missions are a great bunch of folk to work with.

 

We now have a presentation DVD available. If you are interested please contact us. It has a 7 1/2 minute presentation with Ashley and Alisha singing, a companion booklet for the DVD that goes in more detail than our booklet "Facts on Mormonism", and will also include a copy of "Facts on Mormonism".

 

Sherri had a uncle to pass away yesterday. PLease pray for the Moody family. Also, she has a aunt that has had a major stroke at the age of 92, and a cousin that is has liver and pancreas cancer. The doctors have not given him any hope. PLease pray for Larry, as far as we know he is not saved.

 

Thank you once again for all that you do for our family. We are grateful.

 

May the Lord Bless

Bro. Kevin

Thank you for being patient with us while we post the update from the survey trip.  We flew out of Charlotte on Wed. May 9th and landed in Salt Lake City that morning. We spent two days in the Salt Lake area and then traveled down to St. George on Friday. We stayed in the St. George area untill Wednesday when we traveled back to the Salt Lake City area and flew back home on Friday the 18th.

 

While in the Salt Lake City area we were able to survey most of the Northern part of the state up to Logan. The time in St. George we surveyed the southern end of the state and we were able to go just inside the Nevada state line to Mesquite. One thing we learned is that from the southern tip to the northern tip of the state there is not a wrong location to plant a church in the state. We believe we will be in the Salt Lake valley area to begin church planting.

 

While we were in Salt Lake City, we met an Iranian immigrant who is of the Bahai faith. He left Iran because of the persecution he received because he was not a muslim. God allowed us to witness to this man for almost an hour and give him a clear presentation of the Gospel for the first time in his life. He asked if Ihad any literature, I told him the only literature we have is the Bible. He asked if I could get him one in his language (Farsi). I told him I would try to find him one. This was the first part of the trip while we were in SLC the first time. While in St George, Bro. Kindheart at Macedonia Worldwide Missions directed me to a organization and we had a Farsi Bible overnighted to us. When we returned to SLC we gave him the Bible and some verses to look at. Please pray for Shaun, I feel like he was being dealt with by the Lord. He was scared while we were sharing scriptures with him that he would be arrested. In Iran it is illegal to convert to any religion other than Islam and also illegal to proselytize anyone.

 

While in St. George we went to the temple to go through the visitors center. A young lady, a missionary, met us a t the door and escorted us through the center. Two  hours later, God had opened the door to give this LDS missionary thye Gospel and watch God tear down the walls that the Mormons had put up. Please pray for thjis young lady, MS. B.

 

Thank you to all who have prayed for our family, and those who have given that we could go. Hebrews 6:10.

 

We now have a presentaion DVD, if you are interested, please contact us. Also, if you are not on our prayer letter and would like to be please let us know.

 

Bro. Kevin

We arrived home at 4:15 this morning from our survey trip to Utah. I hope to have the details and pictures the first of the week. Thank you to all who prayed and helped with the finances of the trip.  Bro. Kevin

Greetings once again from the Brooks family. We have returned from Virginia this weekend where we were in service with pastor Ryan McGuire and the Blue Stone baptist Church in Clarkesville and then Sunday night with pastor Wayne Kennon and the Peaceful Baptist Church in Danville Virginia. The Lord gave us two good services and safe travel. This past Wednesday we were with our good friends at Fellowship Baptist Church wher Bro. Anthony Greene is the pastor. The Lord met with us and we enjoyed a wonderful service. Monday night I traveled to Maryville, TN to Midway Baptist Church where Bro. Trent McKeehan is the pastor. Bro. Mark Stewart is preaching their missions conference this week. As always Bro. Stewart did a tremendous job preaching. We want to thank you for your prayers and support of our family. We don't take for granted all that you do for us. Please continue to pray for our up coming survey trip. We will post more details soon. May the Lord Bless. Bro. Kevin

We returned today from Florence Kentucky where we were in service with Pastor Doug Foster and the Immanuel Baptist Church. The Lord blessed with a good service as we presented the ministry and Bro. Foster preached a encouraging message from Acts 3: 1-11. As we traveled back we stopped at the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum. While there we met two ladies, Michelle and Tammy. We talked for a while about the Bible, eternity, etc and the Lord began to  move and as we shared scripture Michelle and Tammy both asked the Lord to save them.  Please pray for these two precious ladies as they begin their new life in Christ. God has been so good to us this year and allowed us to see 14 precious souls saved.  Thank you for your prayers and support of our family. This would not be possible without your prayers and support. Please continue to pray for our family as we travel that God woud continue to use us for His glory. Also please pray for our upcoming survey trip to Utah. We are praying that while we are there, we would see the Lord save souls. Thank you for each one that has sacrificially given for this trip. We don't take your support for granted. May the Lord bless.

   We thank the Lord that we are now at 45% and have seen 12 precious souls savd this year. God is good.