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After my first overseas meeting in Greece, it would be four years before I had another chance to go overseas and minister again. Meanwhile, the ministry continued to expand in the United States. In each city we visited, we inevitably made friends, sometimes with the host pastor, sometimes with other ministers, and sometimes with people who had been touched through the meetings. Every week, the mailbox in our new little house seemed to be filled to overflowing with letters from the friends we had made throughout the country. Some people would send praise reports of miracles that God had done in their lives. Some people would write to let us know just how much the ministry had blessed them. Some people would write to request that we pray for them and that we agree with them for God to meet their specific needs. I knew that each letter, each communication we received from our friends, was a very personal matter to the people who had written. They had taken great care and time to sit down and compose a letter to send to us. It was important to me that each person receive a personal reply. Since my calls to preach were ever-increasing and I was away from home more often than I was there, much of the responsibility of replying to these letters fell upon Theresa, who shouldered the work with great joy. Many times, Theresa would come running into my study, smiling from ear to ear, waving a letter, shouting, “Morris! You’ve got to read this letter!” Many of the letters requested that we send the writer information on how the ministry was doing, information on how the meetings were going, stories of the healings and salvations God was performing through the ministry. Each letter writer felt they were a part of the ministry, as they prayed for God to use me and prayed for God to bring many souls to salvation through my ministry. Download and read the rest of this chapter:
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