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Posted by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 05:58 AM

In January of 1997 you invited me to the meetings you were holding at Evergreen AG in Vancouver, (now River City AG). Many members of our congregation attended the meetings at Evergreen, sometimes as many as forty on a Friday night. I must have gone to at least a dozen services, and they were all great. We really saw the power of God in demonstration at Evergreen. Pastor Bob Lindseth was flowing in the River

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To my good friend Jerry Gaffney January 17, 2000

From Pastor Jeff Dorothy

New Life Assembly of God Sherwood, Oregon

Jerry, you and I first met during the summer of 1996 at the Assembly of God in Port Townsend, Washington. An old friend, Pastor Loren Hamar, invited me to the first meetings you were holding there. I arrived the first Sunday night you spoke, and stayed through Wednesday morning. God moved powerfully in those meetings. It was during that time I asked you to come hold meetings in Sherwood.

In January of 1997, you invited me to the meetings you were holding at Evergreen AG in Vancouver, (now River City AG). Many members of our congregation attended the meetings at Evergreen, sometimes as many as forty on a Friday night. I must have gone to at least a dozen services, and they were all great. We really saw the power of God in demonstration at Evergreen. Pastor Bob Lindseth was flowing in the River of God, and the people of Evergreen were readily embracing your ministry.

I will never forget an evening of baptisms there when Pastor Bob, after baptizing many members of his church who had been powerfully touched during the meetings, did a cannon ball into the baptistry, not once, but twice. The water traveled so far I had to go on stage and move my guitar before the second wave hit!

In September of 1997, we set up a tent at New Life in Sherwood and held meetings with you twice a day, six days a week for a month. Our church body has never been the same. During those meetings we saw many people saved, healed, delivered and called into ministry. Several of those are now in ministry at New Life. One of them, Kim Fanger, just became our church secretary.

In 1998, we held another month of meetings, and once again the hand of God was upon us. Sometimes it's hard to explain the anointing that God has seen fit to allow you to walk in. I've seen unsaved men, men who've never darkened the door of a church, fall under the power of God, wondering what hit them. I've seen drug addicts powerfully moved upon by the Lord as you reach out and take their hands. The fruit of the ministry has been abundantly evident during the meetings, something the members of our church will readily attest to.

In 1999, we set up a tent, and again invited you to come and minister. During those tent meetings we saw as many as 400 people, from as many as 47 different congregations attend the same night. Baptists and Methodists, Catholics and Lutherans, some Pentecostal, some not, were ministered to during those meetings. Once again, people touched during those meetings have continued to attend New Life. God moved so powerfully, it was like nothing I had ever seen. Pastors from Africa and other countries showed up, some unknown and unannounced, yet they were used by God. One in particular, Victor James from Nigeria has now become a good friend, and has ministered in Sherwood a number of times.

Two weeks before Christmas, I asked you to come minister. We held one week of meetings, and they were glorious. One of our men had been inviting a friend from work to church for months, and for months he had been turned down. Each night of the meetings the invitation went out, and the first three nights the invitation was refused. On Thursday, Larry brought his coworker, Mike, and he was saved and set free from addictions. If we had not held that week of meetings, I don't know if Mike would ever have made it to church. His marriage has been restored; they're in church every time the doors are open, and they're bringing in their unsaved friends.

Thank you, Jerry, for listening to the Lord, and for coming to Sherwood. I know God has called and anointed you to minister His Word and power throughout the Pacific Northwest. We pray for you often. You know the doors of New Life Assembly of God in Sherwood are always open to you. I look forward to another series of meetings this year, God willing.

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