Greetings and welcome to the new format we mentioned a few months ago. For nearly twenty years, Glenn Manning and Kevin Stoltenberg donated their technical talents to broadcast the Monthly Newsletter. We can't thank them enough for their faithfulness and love. With my age and health issues, it is time for me to review my writing capability. Hence, this one- or two-page update will be coming to your email each month. It will focus on a Scripture review and a mission's report, sans pictures.

Our focus in this letter is Exodus 23:31 and all of Exodus 24. Please read it as a unit and with special attention to this passage:

After God set the boundaries for Israel, and Moses heard the confessions of the people and the blood was sprinkled on the altar with twelve sections along with the people—God issued an invitation to worship Him at a distance. He specifically invited the two sons of Aaron (Nadab and Abihu), along with the elders of Israel.

When they came close, the banquet tables were set and they ate and drank in the presence of the Most High. Wow! When the Lord calls for an assembly, it is just different than when men call for one. Blood sprinkled and obedient people are often ushered into higher levels of fellowship and experience greater blessings than can be imagined.

Eating in the presence of God and the hosts of heaven evokes a picture of Jesus and His disciples (the Lord's supper) when He revealed His intention to eat again with them in the heavenlies.

Jesus also said He had meat to eat they knew nothing of. That should be our testimony too.

Until, the next issue.

Dr. Cosby R. Oliver, PhD.

From the Philippines comes a request for $4000 to build a Tabernacle -pavilion in an area where there is no church. This will be a shelter for the saints. Cost: $2990 for materials. Cost for new floor in the children's church, $1000. (You will remember in 2023, we built a complete church bldg. for Frank and Hily Carrel in a remote location, and this is a continuation of their mission vision.)