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Day of Silence
Hello, Dalai!
Farmers' Market and Syttende Mai
The Literature Deluge Continues
Planned Parenthood Media Skirmish
Court of Appeals Vindicates Christian Attorney!
Pilgrims
Covenant Church Public Ministry Update
June
7, 2007
Dear Friends,
I want to once again thank all of you who pray for and support the far-reaching work of our PCC public ministry efforts. It is this support that allows us to put in orders for another 100,000 of our various tracts for distribution. I trust you will be greatly encouraged by this ministry summary and also by the
press release I have
included, which we sent out in response to a decision issued by the State of Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District 1 on May 30. I have read the decision, and it is a well-written one based on the law and the facts. In other words, it is a refreshingly unbiased decision, which is not an outcome one can always depend on these days. Most importantly, it sends the signal to
Sodom's heirs that if they decide to recklessly defame a Christian pastor or ministry leader, they may wind up spending hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars defending themselves. So we gratefully bless the Lord for His mercy in this matter.
We are also encouraged that an American missionary in Poland is translating our
What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality into Polish for distribution in that country. A Russian ministry leader has already done that very thing in his own country. We have also been contacted by a ministry in Florida who purchased at cost a large quantity of CDs of my sermon on the Christian education of children as opposed to handing them over to the state system. The sermon is titled
"None Dare Call It Sin." We continue to hear from "Heart of the Matter" listeners all over the world and are pleased to know that the program, which is funded through our PCC Public Ministry, is of some value to the body of Christ as well. But with an eye on the necessity of filling you in on our last two months of public ministry work, I will close here and direct you there.
Sincerely,
Pastor Ralph Ovadal
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Mike
Foht and Mike Sweeney, a
visiting brother from New York, share
one-on-one during the Day of Silence. |
Day of Silence
The sodomites staged their annual Day of Silence April 18 this year. This propaganda stunt, which is held in a number of government schools across our nation, seems to be losing steam. This year, PCC went to Monroe, Lake Mills, and Oregon high schools to witness, hold signs, and hand out our
What the Bible Really Says about
Homosexuality. We also provided tracts for others to hand out at schools in Wauwatosa, Racine, Hartford, and Oshkosh, Wisconsin; and Omaha, Nebraska.
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A
Tibetan monk reading our
Heaven or Hell? tract. |
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Hello, Dalai!
On May 4, PCC was at the Kohl Center in Madison for a gospel witness to the sold-out crowd of 12,000 which had come to sit at the feet of the Dalai Lama. We held our large Scripture signs, preached the gospel, and handed out our gospel tract
Heaven or Hell? Due to security problems, the vast majority of
Dalai's disciples ended up locked out of the Kohl Center for quite some time—a captive audience of thousands for our preaching. Mike Foht, Dale Stanford, and I each took up a different post and all preached at the same time to different portions of the stranded multitude.
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PCC members giving out tracts to Dalai disciples. |
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I felt such a great desire to preach to the lost peace-seekers about the Prince of Peace that I asked the Lord to protect my voice and help me to continue to preach long after I would normally have to cease. He granted my request, and I was able to preach longer than I have ever done at one time. What a blessing that was to me and, I hope, to others, even if they did not see it as so at the time.
Of course, we did have to endure a certain amount of mocking from the crowd; but for the most part, it was very quiet. I suppose they were wanting to impress the many Tibetans mingled in among them. The worst confrontation we had was at the end of the ministry with a
"Christian" who first told us we were doing things all wrong and, when confronted with the Word of God, turned to vile language and
mocking!
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Mike Foht preaching at the far end
of the crowd; that's yours truly
preaching in the center and Dale
Stanford holding down the far left flank.
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Some of our number
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Farmers' Market and Syttende Mai
We preached to the slowly shuffling crowd at the
farmers' market on the Capitol Square in Madison on May 19. We used quite a number of Scripture signs as well as one banner. Four of us preached, and we gave out about 1,000 gospel tracts. Later that same day, a brother from our church, Nick Bergum, handed out hundreds of gospel tracts to the Syttende Mai celebrants in Stoughton.
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The Literature Deluge Continues
• PCC distributed gospel tracts
in the following places: Argyle, Browntown, Darlington, Janesville, Madison, Monroe, Monticello, and Stoughton, Wisconsin; and Freeport, Illinois.
• PCC lit dropped our tracts about homosexuality in the following places: Bayside, Edmund, Cobb, Cross Plains, Kenosha, Kewaskum, Lake Geneva, Lancaster, Middleton, Montfort, Mt. Pleasant, Racine, Sheboygan, Waukesha, and Williams Bay, Wisconsin; and Crystal Lake, Illinois.
• PCC provided literature at no cost for distribution by brethren in the following places:
Janesville (What the Bible Really Says about
Homosexuality, Homosexuality: The
Truth), Milwaukee (Bible, Truth), and North Lake
(Bible, Truth), Wisconsin; Norwalk, Ohio (An Urgent Plea to Roman
Catholics); Columbia, South Carolina (Truth); and Toronto, Canada
(Bible).
• PCC provided literature at cost for distribution in the following places:
Hudson (Heaven or Hell? and
An Urgent Plea), Elkhorn (Bible, Truth), and Reeseville
(No
Excuses!), Wisconsin; Whitewater, Colorado (No Excuses!); Penns Grove, New Jersey
(Heaven or Hell? and Truth); Crown Point (Heaven or Hell?), New York City
(Heaven or Hell?), and Syracuse (No Excuses!), New York; Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
(Bible, Truth); Walton, West Virginia (No Excuses! and
Truth); and Newquay, Cornwall, England (An Urgent Plea, Heaven or
Hell?, No Excuses!, and Bible).
• Educating Home Educators:
PCC paid to have 1,000 What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality and 1,000
Heaven or Hell? gospel tracts included in
"goody bags" given out at Wisconsin CHEA's homeschool spring conference.
* New *
Romanizing America through Illegal Immigration by Pastor Ralph Ovadal (booklet)—gift of $1.00
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Planned Parenthood picket.
The brother on the left is
Rev. Ivan Foster, who traveled from
Northern Ireland to preach at our Spring
Preaching Conference, April 20-22. |
Planned Parenthood Media Skirmish
In early April, the
Monroe Times ran a lengthy editorial I wrote in response to an article on the 10,000 home mailing PCC sent out here in Green County in which we exposed an under-the-radar-screen agreement between PPM and the Green County Health Department. In mid-March, Planned Parenthood of Monroe had run a large ad in a local newspaper, touting their
"services." The expensive ad was clearly a desperate bid to rehabilitate their reputation after our huge mailing which once again had exposed Planned
Parenthood's slimy business. (See the editorial below.) The Monroe Times article, slanted as it seemed toward PPM, was also because of that mailing and led to my editorial. So in the end, 10,000 homes received a comprehensive, powerful exposé of Planned Parenthood; PPM spent big bucks trying to regain lost ground; and a newspaper article which seemed to help them ended up giving us the last word in the latest skirmish in our nearly nineteen-year war. We salute the
Monroe Times for their balance and professional integrity in allowing me to put in that editorial response, and we thank the Lord for once again showing us that He does bless a principled stand based on His Word.
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May
30, 2007
Court of Appeals
Vindicates Christian Attorney!
A
statement by Pastor Ralph Ovadal
On October 10,
2003, Wisconsin Christians United held an "International Conference
on Homo-Fascism" featuring speakers from America and other countries.
The theme of the conference was threats to Christian liberty and free
speech by the homosexual movement. I was the founder and director of WCU,
the work of which has since been absorbed into the public ministry of the
church I pastor, Pilgrims Covenant Church.
Subsequent to our WCU conference, the
homosexual organization Action Wisconsin issued a press release in which
the outrageous, false claim was made that one of the WCU speakers, a
pastor, advocated the murder of homosexuals. When Action Wisconsin
officials refused to retract their claim, Attorney Jim Donohoo filed a
defamation lawsuit against them on behalf of the pastor. On June 28, 2005,
Judge Patricia McMahon handed down a summary judgment dismissing the
action. Consequently, Action Wisconsin attorneys filed a motion with
McMahon seeking costs and actual attorney's fees on the basis that the
suit prosecuted by Donohoo was frivolous. The court then awarded Action
Wisconsin costs in the amount of $2,220.09 and attorney's fees in the
amount of $85,232.50. Further, Judge McMahon took the opportunity to
humiliate Attorney Donohoo in her decision while Action Wisconsin pricey
Attorney Lester A. Pines went out of his way to ridicule Donohoo's
professional skills.
However, today, May 30, the State of
Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District 1, reversed Judge McMahon's judgment
and order, concluding, "Based on our analysis, we do conclude
that Donohoo had a reasonable basis to commence and continue the action.
Accordingly, we reverse the trial court's order granting Action
Wisconsin's motion seeking attorney's fees on the grounds that the case
was frivolous. The underlying action was not frivolous and therefore the
trial court erred in so ruling."
I congratulate Attorney Jim Donohoo, a
Christian brother and friend, on his hard-fought victory, won by the grace
of God. Now Action Wisconsin can pay their own attorney's fees; and
perhaps they, and other opponents of Christian liberty, will think twice
before so viciously smearing their opponents. This court decision
represents a repudiation of the heavy-handed intimidation tactics of
Action Wisconsin and their high-power law firm led by Attorney Lester A.
Pines. I rejoice that the professional skills and integrity of Jim Donohoo
have been vindicated. Our whole church is deeply grateful to the Lord for
this victory. "Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and
our shield" (Psalm 33:20).
I would encourage those in the media who
would wish to talk to Jim Donohoo to contact him at 414-258-5989.
The Court of Appeals decision can be viewed
at http://wicourts.gov/ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=29182.
Further information on the events
underlying this recent decision can be reviewed at www.pccmonroe.org.
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