Brother Troy McGahan
Pastor Julien Baptist Church Gracey, KY.
Faith Missionary Baptist Church
P.O. Box 186 Erin, TN 37061
Mission Pastor Troy McGahan
Julien Baptist Church
3115 Gracey-Herndon RD
Gracey, KY 42232
Dear Supporting Churches and praying friends,
Acts 16:9 “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man
of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help
us. As I read this verse I get a sense of what Paul was going through.
He had a desire to go to different places and preach the gospel and
start Churches but, God shut those doors and moved him into Macedonia. I
have personally experienced this before as well. Six years ago this
month I moved from Hico, WV to start a work in Evansville, IN but the
Lord wanted me in Erin, TN. Two years ago while we were pastoring at
Julien Baptist Church in Gracey, KY I just knew the Lord was preparing
us to go to Montana and instead here we are in Nancy. So one thing I
have learned is this, there is many places that seem to be wide open and
would be a great place to start a work but, when all is said and done
the best place to work is where God opens the doors.
The work is doing well but, it is not without its struggles. We continue
to have good attendance most every service we have anywhere from 12-16
of course much of that depends on sickness and weather. We have been
indoctrinating the people here although for the most part these folks
have received excellent teaching before in the areas of good strong
meaty doctrine we are now concentrating on more practical areas of
doctrine. For instance we have preached on the doctrines of grace and
why this should motivate us to be evangelistic and why Church truth
should motivate us to greater service.
We went to MS and preached in a revival at Calvary BC in Grenada for
Brother Larry Windham and had a great time with his people and on that
Wed we gave a report to a supporting Church in Elliott, MS where Cecil
Fayard is Pastor. We enjoyed the fellowship and hospitality of both
these fine Churches and their Pastor. When we got back we had a message
on our answering machine. For time and space sake I can’t go into
everything but, we were told that someone wants to buy the building we
are in and that if they bought it they would sell it to us for about
9-10,000 more than we would ever spend on it. I told the person that we
would buy property and put a double wide on it before we would spend
that kind of money. The Lord knows all about it and I wanted y’all to
know so you could be praying for us concerning this. As I have thought
on this and prayed the Lord has seemed to give me peace about it.
We are looking to try some things that would help us to reach into the
community. Such as a newsletter, radio ministry and recording our
services. We bought a digital recorder this past weekend and have been
playing with it so we can burn it to CD and pass them out to shut ins in
the area.
I know this has been an extremely long letter but, I wanted y’all to
know some of the things going on so you can pray intelligently with us
about some of these matters. Pray for us as we desire to be faithful in
our service to God.
Sincerely,
Troy, Terra, and Zechariah McGahan
Missionary to Nancy, KY
Sent out by South Irvine Baptist Church
Irvine, KY