Hope Family Ministries

Summer 2012     

For Freedom Christ has set us free!  

Summer 2012

Greetings! 

Please write what you just said down for me!
How often have I heard it? Mike

"I need you to write down for me what you
just said."

"Why don't you write a book or a booklet."

"I need a way to hear what you just told
me over and over." 
 

I know about the need for "tools that work" because of how God has provided and used those tools very powerfully in my life over the past 25 years. I am  so thankful for those God continues to use to provide direction, encouragement, truth, grace and love in my journey of faith.  The "tools" we offer in our Biblical Counseling discipleship ministry have been developed and refined through God's guidance during 17 years of counseling. When you counsel 33,285 hours to 11,157 people, witnessed 2,004 professions of faith and 4,297 rededications, hopefully, you learn some of the ways God's Word and the Holy Spirit touches lives.

A specific prayer request from Hope Family Ministries:
 
We are asking God to give us the desire, knowledge, wisdom, timing, 
coordination, resources and creativity to use what's happening at Hope Family Ministries to help more people. While we plan to continue the one on one counseling that God is blessing, many more could be assisted where they are in their hour of need. Many formats are available today, such as kindle or e-book, written publications, webinar, question and answer interview, etc.. But we need to know where and how to start.

Thanks!
His, Bro. Mike
GREIF WORKSHOP SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER
Grief WorkbookBrother Kevin will lead a grief workshop for on Wednesdays at Harrisburg Baptist Church beginning September 12th from 5:45 to 7:15.  We will be reminding everyone closer to the event.

WANT TO SHARE YOUR STORY?

 

God can use your life to help someone else through a storm in life. If you feel led to share your story, simply click the link below and write to us.  Thanks!  

 

 I want to share my story!   


 

SHORT TESTIMONY

Man, what a difference a year can make in a person. What a difference God can make in a year.  What a difference God can make in a person.  What a difference a person who has God in them can make.

God is in the healing business not the coping business.

Felt safe enough in Mike's office to cry.  

Jesus did more ministry through interruptions than through schedules. 
 
Thank you so much for being there for me and others like me. 
 
Fruit Report





                               Jan. - May. 2012        Since May 1995

Prayer of Surrender           39                         2,004
Prayer of Rededication      61                         4,297
Biblical Counsel Hours     856                       33,285
People Counseled            245                       11,157
Workshop Attendance      520                         4,608
Marriages Counseled        116                         5,945
Singles Counseled             58

           Expenses in 2011        $  82,255
           Income in 2011              65,969
                                            $-16,286

 

 

Spiritual Daggers
God's Word is a sword to fight Satan who comes to steal, kill and destroy - to steal your peace, destroy your family, kill your spirit.  Learn to use His Word to defend yourself!


VERSES FOR FREEDOM!  Ask God for it! 
(Read OUT LOUD.)


"For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32

"So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." John 8:36

"Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?" Acts 15:10

"For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of son-ship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." Romans 8:15

"We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. On Him we have set our hope that He will continue to deliver us." 2 Corinthians 1:10
"In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and He answered by setting me free." Psalm 118:5

"Since the children [are human], He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might destroy Him who holds the power of death- that is, the devil - and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." Hebrews 2:14-15

Security in Christ's Freedom:

"But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set from sin and have become slaves to righteousness." Romans 6:17-18

"Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me." Psalm 50:15

"With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape." Proverbs 11:9

"I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears." Psalm 34:4

"But for you who revere My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall." Malachi 4:2

"Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." Galatians 1:3-5






Thanks for all your prayers and financial support.  I do hope you will join in praying for opportunities to share our "tools" with more people.  We desire to share the FREEDOM only Christ can give!

Sincerely,
 

Rev. Mike Marecle
Hope Family Ministries

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8:32


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MEMORIALS

&

HONORARIUMS

  

   April -May 2012         

HONORARIUMS

Mrs. Charlotte Busby
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Jennifer Caldwell
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Kim Caron
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Carolyn Catledge
Aubry and Mariella Hays

Mrs. Ruth Chambers
Guy and Sandy Lipscomb

Mrs. Kate Farabaugh
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Cindy Gaines
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Janet Gatson
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Margaret Gibson
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Ms. Helen Hancock
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Betty Hester
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Dr. Leanna Hollis
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Debbie Hurt
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Michelle Hutto
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Jackie Ingle
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Joy Kellum
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Donna Krason
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Brittany Lipscomb
Guy and Sandy Lipscomb

Mrs. Salena Lipscomb
Guy and Sandy Lipscomb

Mrs. Sandy Lipscomb
Guy Lipscomb

Mrs. Tonya Lipscomb
Guy and Sandy Lipscomb

Mrs. Missy Lunceford
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Rosemary Marecle
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Amy McClellan
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Elise Otis
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Rosemary Rutledge
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Sallye Stewart
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Terri Stewart
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Lisa Talley
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Sherry Vance
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Sue Washburn
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Stephanie West
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Louise White
Jimmy and Carolyn Catledge

Mrs. Stephanie Wright
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

Mrs. Tami Young
Dr. Martin and Reeann Lee

MEMORIALS

Dr. Ronald Feather 
Susan Martin Feather

Ms. Sue Lipscomb
Guy & Sandy Lipscomb


Mr. Rufus Marecle  Robert & Joann Upchurch

Ms. Ruth Tollison
Anne Stennett Walker 
  
 Hope
Family
Ministries
Board of Directors
 
Mark Smith
Chair

Vice Chair
Al Pleasants

Dottie Carnathan
Linda Hale
Dr. Bill Kahlstorf
Dr. Martin Lee