UGP 286 - God’s Call to Share the Gospel with the FLDS: I Made Your Tongue – Mike & Rosa Abbate – Part 2

By an act of God, Pastor Michael Abbate was placed in charge of the monumental 3-day FLDS LeBaron Family reunion in Lebaron, Mexico in 2006. Prep took a year. The mariachi band he’d hired cancelled at the last minute, so the Christian worship band he’d hired for the Sunday service played worship music all 3 days. On Sunday, Mike shared the gospel with 300 in Rosa’s fundamentalist father (Dayer LeBaron, Jr.)’s church. The Holy Spirit was so palpable, that the worship music brought many FLDS women to weep. Over the next few days, FLDS came to Mike and Rosa with questions and for prayer; they were stunned. “The Lord is calling us here,” Michael told Rosa. He says he had never experienced the still small voice as powerfully as this time, “Stay here in LeBaron to bless and serve the community and teach the Bible.” Mike and Rosa opened a Bible study in their home Sunday mornings an hour prior to the FLDS service. They’ve been teaching the Bible in LeBaron for 18 years. Mike implores us to always be available to how the Lord wants to use us. Don’t debate. The expository verse by verse teaching he does as a Calvary Chapel pastor was helpful to people curious as to what the Bible says the gospel is. The FLDS thought following prophet Joe and living polygamy was the gospel. Raised in this community, Rosa never heard that Jesus was God until she was 42 years old. "Polygamists do not know this!" she says. Rosa’s first experience worshipping in a Christian church slowly melted her heart until 4 years later, she gave her life to Jesus. Mike grew up Catholic and says his born again experience changed everything as well. Mike laughs that when God called him to LeBaron, he told God he didn’t speak Spanish and God seemed to answer, “Oh, don’t worry about that. I made your tongue.”

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