This following testimony call "Interview" by Brother Billy Paul Branham was done at Jeffersonville, Indiana in August 1994. This reason we have included this testimony on here, is because of the lack of real leadership expressed toward the youth (parental...etc). To feel the love, concern, guidance from leaders toward the youth is unmeasurable.
INFLUENCES ...Now, we find that usually... I--I think today, our great problem of what we believe to be juvenile delinquency is a parent delinquent, a home delinquent. Our--our people got away from the things that they--they should've stayed with. The church got lukewarm or cold, and the children got out into the world.
This following letter from Brother Ed Byskal that also expresses concern toward the youth was
received Dec 12, 1998.
Greetings to you in the all sufficient name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
gave himself for us that we might have life eternal.
Thank you for your kind word of encouragement regarding the International
Missions Conference. Truly the Holy Spirit was present during these days,
confirming our desire to present the missions work of other brethren as well
as the vision God has given to us, and one we have sought earnestly to
fulfill over the last many years. It is an answer to my prayers to have the
hearts of young men such as yourself moved to a deeper commitment of self
sacrifice for Christ. As you press onward, I'm certain that God will open
doors of service to you.
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When Eagle’s View began I was only fifteen years old. You might say, Eagle’s View and I have grown up together. EV had a very humble beginning. The first issues were done primarily by my dad and I. The pictures we used for the first couple of issues, were pictures that we had cut out of magazines. We would go buy a bunch of old magazines at the library, and go thru them cutting out all the pictures, that we thought we might could use. Then we would paste them with scotch tape to the page to made copies for distributing. Sometimes the rough copy would weigh almost five pounds when we were through. Back then we did not know anything about Desktop Publishing. I remember the first font program we bought. We took it home and tried to run it, we could not get it to work. It took us hours just to get it to load, not counting the time it took us to figure out how to apply the fonts to the page. Starting an issue of EV is like beginning a one thousand piece puzzle. It seems like a hopeless case. Yet, God has always made a way for us to complete each issue. Every issue is a learning experience not only physically but spiritually. As the years have passed since that humble start I am more and more convinced that EV has been divinely influenced.
Some believers claim to have very issue we have ever printed. Others often share with us, that from time to time they re-read the testimonies for encouragement. That is only one of the reasons, we feel compelled to share the good news of God in the printed format. Even tho we have this web site, I think holding a printed copy of EV in your hand personalizes the reader with this world wide message. In 1996 we posted this web site making EV among the first message web sites on the Internet. However, all along our aim has been to make EV your paper. That why we are printing more that even before. Because of the printed paper, it has led people to Christ, encourged the weak, and strengthen the church, and never goes out of circulation.
The Eagle's View has gone thru many changes since our first issue. One of the major changes is the page size format and color printing. The most recent efforts are to expand EV circulation. Through the year’s countless people have shared their testimonies. We appreciate each one of you who has given your time, prayers and offerings to see this ministry continue. I would also like to thank all those who have worked with the mailing in our church fellowship hall. The number has reached into the hundreds over the years. I know God will bless you. From day one, our desire has been to get as many people involved as possible. That is still our goal.
Please, keep us in your prayers, that the Lord will lead and guide us. Until next issue, May the Lord bless you all!
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Soon after purchasing a building in 1993 for the "Eagle Christian Church" of LaVergne, Tennessee the "Eagle's View Publication" began to take creational form. Our initial inspiration came from the building which we had bought. Because, for the previous eight years it had been the home of the "Save The Eagle Foundation". As our little group was moving eagle's cages, feathers, eagle stationary to make room for church seats, (Save the Eagle Foundation moved and continued their eagle rehab program at the Dollywood Theme Park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee), we were thinking about how they had taken special care of the little eagles as they prepared them for the wild. That's how it all begin.
One fall Sunday evening after a few months in our new building we announced to the church that we were starting a newsletter beginning the first of 1993. That we believed would go around the world touching many lives. It seemed so unreal at that time for none of us had any computer experience, especially knowledge relating to the future of desktop publishing. Despite this, the announcement was made under inspiration and we begin to look to Him. I remember the first several issues, and elementary as they were, they set the stage of our objective, to draw Believers together. The first issue carried a picture of a fellowship meeting with several pastors present. Also, meeting announcements from different places in the southren state. We quickly began funneling together articles from different churches' newsletters. Not knowing what the Lord was doing, this is what soon made EV widely acceptable along with youth sensitivity. For true pastors and Believers know as Paul told Agrippa... "this thing was not done in a corner (geographically)". It was becoming blessed.
We are not promoting ecumenicalism, however, we are spreading real quality Brotherhood. For with each issue comes dozens of different churches addresses' and names. That to me is exciting and I feel blessed to have been able to be a part of it. Knowing what is involed in running this kind of publication, I beleive there has never been a paper like it before for this message and will not be again. It is an overview of the working of the Holy Spirit among God's children, past and present. Though it will never be big in the eyes of some because of the absence of self promoting, to me, this humble approach reaches to His Highest Praise. And praising HIM is what I'm trying to live for. God bless you.
Soon our vision unfolded as we began to expand, with writers from different parts of the country and more readers. In May of '94, we had reached a circulation of 600 per issue. We began to thank the Lord for blessing our efforts and then the top blew off. We went to printing 900, 1000, 1100 each issue. By May '95 we were printing and mailing 1200 each publications. Regardless of our efforts over the years to streamline our circulation, it is now at 2000 copies per issue.
The reason we have tried to hold production down was because of printing and mailing cost. They have increased 100% since we started. That's not considering the cost of our computers and printers. At the present (December 2005), this operational cost is a step of Faith far beyond what we prayed to do in the beginning. After meditating over this situation for years, we decided in 2004 that we would continue mailing EV packages to churches free of charge, but, that all individuals would be required to pay a 10.00 dollar (us) per year subscription fee to have EV personally sent to their home. This is our lastest efforts to find a way to continue this publication. Individual copies requires more time and money than bulk packageing and mailing.