Dear Friends & Partners,

I just returned last night from two weeks of travel and ministry in Sudan and Ethiopia.  I hope to get a report with some pictures out in the next few days before I blast off again a week from today to India and Nepal.  I have returned a bit fatigued with a cold and cough that I need your prayers for a quick recovery for my Asia trip.  So thanks for your prayers for some rest, recovery and recuperation time.

As I write this quick email, it is Halloween Day.  Tonight the ghosts, goblins and creatures from the dark world come out in force to do their "trick-or-treating!"  As many of you know, I have had a life-long battle with this annual event -- especially with Christians who participate in it with naive ignorance about its Satanic roots!  It is not a battle I expect to win in my lifetime since it has become such an important part of our economy -- secondly only to Christmas in sales!  And the forecasts are that this will be the BIGGEST sales year to date for Halloween-related merchandise!  If I had only a tithe of the amount that people spend on Halloween, I could fund all of the projects around the world I am involved with!  But alas, I know that will not happen.  So hungry children will not be fed…orphans will not be supported…pastors will not be empowered…churches will

not be built -- because of "Halloween Sales!"    

I rejoice in the creativity that many parents and pastors put forth to counter this negative annual event with positive alternatives.  It is a great way to turn lemons into lemonade -- or a "witch's brew" into a authentic "food for the soul!"   So I am sharing again my annual Halloween posting to alert people about the true roots of this annual event from the "kingdom of darkness" (Col. 1:13).  Paul warns Christians that we cannot "eat at the table of demons" and the "table of the Lord" at the same time.  Nor can we "drink from the cup of demons" and the "cup of the Lord" at the same time.  As he says, this "provokes the Lord's jealousy" since He does not want to share His people with the devil (I Cor. 10:212-23)!  So I hope you will be edified and equipped by this article on Halloween.

Remember, the devil has many disguises and masquerades as both the counterfeit "angel of light" and the "prince of darkness!"  So it doesn't matter if he deceives the masses through Islam and the prophet Mohammed…Mormonism and Joseph Smith…Evolution and Charles Darwin…Atheism and Stephen Hawkins -- or Halloween, it all serves his diabolical purpose of turning people away from the truth and light of the Gospel to the "darkness of enlightenment" through the many "isms" of man in rebellion against God!

More soon on my recent trip to Sudan and Ethiopia…JL

Editors Note: Click here for more on Halloween Day from Dr. J.L. Williams