September 2002    

 

Dear Saints,

 

The Lord blessed Sister Bonnie and I with a healthy baby girl on June 17, 2002.  Arielle Joy weighed in at 7lbs., 12ozs., and was 201/2 inches long.  Arielle is over three months old now and both mother and daughter are doing great.  We thank you for all of your prayers pertaining to this matter.

 

The Gilles household received three other blessings this summer.  Aaron received the baptism of the Holy Ghost at a youth camp in June.  Gabrielle was saved in August and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost on September 10, 2002.  Two down and one to go.

 

Many of you have already told me that you enjoyed listening to my testimony on “Unshackled.”  Others of you have told me that you missed the airing due to various reasons.  There are several ways that you can still hear it.  Right now, you can either hear it on Unshackled’s website at www.unshackled.org or on my web site at www.thecampusministry.org.  I also purchased 1000 cd’s from “Unshackled” and I have those available.    

 

On Friday, September 20, 2002, the District Attorney of Indiana, Pennsylvania called my defense attorney and offered to drop three of the four outstanding charges against me and would reduce the forth charge to but a citation.  The fourth charge was after my arrest and was for me singing in the Campus Police Station.  I know, I know, my singing is bad, but it is not a crime!!!!!!!  This is a wholesale admission on the DA’s part that I was falsely arrested.  We declined their offer, due to the fact, that, if I was falsely arrested then I was also falsely detained inside of the Campus Police Station for 31/2 hours in painfully tight handcuffs.  We believe that this was the DA’s desperate attempt to claim even the smallest of victories in this fiasco.  Continue to bombard heaven for a complete and total victory…for I hear the walls beginning to crumble!!!!!!!!

 

On August 27, 2002, Bro. Donnie Morris and I started out on a five-week romp through the states of Indiana and Southern Michigan.  With only one rain day during the entire time we preached on a total of 10 different campuses.  We opened up a brand new campus in Kokomo, In.  We often times preached as long as six hours a day and drew huge crowds of well over five hundred students.  Bro. Donnie and expecting wife, Candra stood up to the grueling schedule quite well.  I saw Bro. Donnie have drinks poured over his head, full drink cups thrown at him, hitting him in the stomach and girls kicking him in the back of the leg.

 

We want to thank the Robert Schlag family and members of his church that accompanied us to USI, IUPUI, and IU.  Alan Bunning for helping out at Purdue.  Kevin and Kim Lloyd for helping with Goshen College and IUPUI.  Jeremy Abel for helping out at IU.  Last but not least, Attorney Jim Elsman for donning his black Judges robe and sandwich board at UM.

 

We thank you for your love and prayers.

 

Brother Jim, Sister Bonnie, Aaron, Gabrielle and Arielle