Dr. Gipp is a former pastor, an evangelist, teacher, author and Bible conference speaker. He has the unique ability to digest large amounts of information and then present it in an analytical, understandable, format. His humerous, informative and forceful preaching style make him popular with all ages and keeps him in demand as a Revivalist and Bible conference speaker.

Brother Gipp was apart of a panel of defenders of the King James Bible on the "John Ankerberg Show." Also, his life's story was featured on the national radio program, "Unshackled."

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January, 2012

Kathy's Surgery

We went to the hospital the morning of Kathy's surgery and found her blood pressure was 181/104! Higher than it had ever been. It had been high the week before when she saw her doctor. The doctor said if it didn't come down she wouldn't do the surgery. That might be a week or two postponement for you but for us it would be a scheduling "train wreck." I would have to cancel the Australia trip and the trip west. (Which I would gladly have done as long it made things easier for Kathy.)

When they checked it before surgery, before giving her any medication, it had dropped to 139/83. We both attribute that to your prayers Thank you.

Surgery took about three hours and went well. The next day they discharged her & I brought her to her sister, Donna's house. I told her all she had to do was "hold down a mattress." She has been doing well.

We'll be in Ohio for December. I have a meeting in Detroit the first week of January. Then I grab Kathy and head for Pensacola where our RV is parked. We arrive on the 10th, take the RV to a shop for some repairs and then I leave for three weeks in Australia on the 12th. Luke will be looking in on Kathy while I'm gone.

Meetings

Since our last letter we've had meetings in; Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Indiana, Idaho and Ohio. We have seen some folks get things right with the Lord and good reports back from the churches.

I also received a surprising message from a group in Croatia that's translating the Bible into Croatian. They had mistranslated "pascha" in Acts 12:4 as "passover." They read The Answer Book online and corrected it to the Croatian word for "Easter."

A Season of Death

My sister, Joni Snyder, and my Dad's brother, George, (not the famous football player) were my last living relatives. I planned on visiting my uncle when we arrived back in Massillon for Kathy's surgery. On December 1, the day before we left for Ohio, I received word he had died. He was 88 years old. It wasn't until his funeral that we found out that he had earned four Bronze Stars during World War II!

Then on Dec. 8, the morning of Kathy's surgery, I got a call at the hospital that Mel Sabaka, the man who led me to Christ and married Kathy & I had died. Mel was also 88. We went to his funeral.

Then, on the evening of Dec. 14 my sister, Joni, called to tell me her husband, Jim, had died that day. Jim was battling cancer. He was 68. Joni is now my sole living relative as everyone

In Christ's Service,
Sam Gipp

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