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HISTORY-WISE
- We're retiring!
 The
time has come for us to lay down our sound
system and begin changing directions in our
lives.
I
shared my situation about the bulging
disc and what I was going through with that
in the last newsletter. That was
the result of all the heavy lifting I did in
setting up for concerts. And I'm still
not out of the woods yet from that.
Actually I am seeing Doctor #4
(chiropractor #3), and whereas each doctor
had their place, I'm really hoping and
trusting that this doctor will be able to
complete the healing process. I've been told
by two doctors that this is not a
"quick fix", and they are most
certainly right. But I have come a
long way from what Doctor #2 said, "You
were in very bad shape when you came
here." That was a couple of
months ago. And we have no insurance,
but a ministry friend provided the funds for
me to be able to get the treatment I'm
needing. I know the Lord will bless
her abundantly. I had to miss three
concerts because of my condition.
One
thing that has come out of all my pain
experience is the new pain wonder drug -
WD-40! That's true. A
friend e-mailed me to tell me about it, and
I tried it, and many was the time it
immediately stopped the pain, and often did
not come back. Other times it worked
differently, but we have a can of it at home
and in the car, both, now, and I'll never
again be without a can of WD-40. I did
go to the web site www.wd40.com
and there are over 2000 uses listed there,
and mine isn't even included. I will
have to say it doesn't work for everyone and
doesn't work on all pain. All I know
is that it often worked for me and when a
person is in pain, even a small relief is
huge.
And
now Frankie's back (sounds like a CD,
doesn't it?) has flared up again, and he has
been unable to walk much without
holding onto walls and chairs, so we
had to cancel another engagement this past
weekend. Plus, his chiropractor
diagnosed him as having the beginnings of
scoliosis (curvature of the spine).
With twice-a-day chiropractic treatments, he
is improving, albeit slowly.
We
are neither one able to lift anything heavy
now, and don't know how long that will last.
We had to request help from our church
people to come by just to move some of our
equipment our of our van.
Actually, with both of us hobbling around
now, it's an older couple's nightmare!
 America's
Funniest Home Videos would have a blast with
us!
Suffice
it to say, our bodies are just responding to
our ages. So we have to respond in
kind and tell you that we are unable to do
concerts now. We have sent letters to
churches where we were booked for the rest
of our season, canceling our engagements
with them. There was an old song that
said, "It's Not An Easy Road," and
our 18 years of ministry have had their
untold blessings, as well as untold
challenges, not the least of which is
our current situations.
We
will eventually be doing something - we know
God has His plans for us - but for now we
must let our bodies take the time they need
to heal. We would ask for your
continued prayers, not only for our
healings, but that we would always know
God's will for our lives, and follow that
leading.
We
possibly might send out an occasional
update. But do stay in touch with us.
We thrive on that also.
 Each
one of you to whom this newsletter is going
out has had a place in our hearts and
ministry, and this goes out to well over
1,000 people, and we thank you for the
blessings you have been to us. We're
often said that presenting a concert blesses
us much as it blesses you - it does go both
ways. God has been so awesome to let
us be His kids and share His good news and
see hearts and lives strengthened and
changed and blessed and encouraged. For
that we will be eternally grateful.
And when we all stand before the mighty
throne of God some glad day, we trust we'll
hear the words, "Well done, good and
faithful servant." And we also
trust we'll see you there. Maranatha,
Come, Lord Jesus.
The first
weekend in September we were in Cherryvale,
KS with an outdoor concert in the park.
They had had a lot of rain, so moved the
concert inside to the enclosed building in
the park. However, we guessed that
people just thought that since it had
rained, there would be no concert, because
we began the evening with five brave folks,
and ended up with about 25. But we
always have a great time, whether with 25
or 250!
And we
learned that probably Cherryvale's claim to
fame is the fact that Vivian Vance, Lucille
Ball's nosey neighbor on the The
Lucy Show, was from Cherryvale and was
involved in local theater. She later
moved to Albuquerque, NM and wanting to
launch her career, the city paid for her
trip to Hollywood. Desi Arnaz spotted
her, and the rest is history. These
are some of the perks of our traveling.
The
following weekend we were in concert in
Wichita Falls, TX and Archer City, TX and
had a wonderful time there. The
outdoor concert got "winded out"
about halfway through (wind from Hurricane
Ike), but Frankie got to sing a few songs
for the antique car people before we packed
up.
While in
Wichita Falls, we met the director and his
wife of Faith Mission, the group benefiting
from the antique car show, and they took us
on the tour of that Mission. They have
quite a "plant" there and doing
wonderful things with those less fortunate
in that city. This was a much bigger
operation than we had imagined, but the
things they are accomplishing in the name of
the Lord are just wonderful. And the
director, John Welter, and his wife Jo,
became friends we felt we had known for
a long time. Check them out at www.faithmissionwf.org
.
Sunday night
we were at the Royal Theater in Archer City,
TX. The town is very small, but the
theater is very historic. Below is
a picture that professional
photographer Gregory McKenzie took, and we
are using that picture with his permission.
He gave us this bit of history:
"The Royal Theatre in Archer City was a
fixture in Peter Bogdonovich's movie The
Last Picture Show, generally on everyone's
top 100 movies of all time. The black
and white classic movie about small
town America spawned the careers
of Jeff Bridges, Randy Quaid, and Cybil
Shepperd, among others. Archer City,
for a long time, went by the monikor
"the smallest small town in
America", something to that
effect." He also states that the
area is very famous regarding the goings-on
of the infamous Jesse James.
My thanks
to Frankie's son Brian who has been
assisting me with inserting the pictures in
the newsletter.
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BLESSINGS-WISE
- All
glory to our Heavenly Father! What they're
saying. 
***Truthfully,
we considered ourselves already blessed just by
knowing you two. You two mean so much to us
and for the work that you two have done with and
for others. We have the email on our desk
about the announcement of your retirement.
You mean so much to so many people. The Lord
watched over you both during your time of
ministering to others in your songs.
***Oh
I am filled with sorrow to hear you are retiring.
But the other part of me totally
understands...Yeah, these mortal bodies wear out
and that is how it is.
You
have done so much good over the years and have
been such a blessing to me in our friendship.
We have had a lot of fun whenever you were in
town. I will miss that. What gifts God
gave the two of you. But it is true,
eventually our bodies wear out and no matter what
gifts we have we can’t do the physical things we
used to do.
I
wonder what God has in mind for you now. It
is exciting to think about.
With love
***It
is with a combination of joy and sadness that I
received this email about your retirement and
final concerts. What a blessing you both
have been to me, Sara, and those who heard you in
Hyde Chapel over the past years. But there
comes a time when we have to “hang it up” and
move on to the next stages of our lives...But I am
thinking about the energy and witness you have
given to so many scores of thousands in your
ministry together. I am absolutely sure that
God’s plan for your lives has been
fulfilled…and yet there is more on the horizon.
***. I
also want you both to know that you have been a
real inspiration to me over the last several
years!
***Your
newsletters are so good, and this last one was
great,
***Thank
You both for a most enjoyable evening. I don't go
much and don't "belong to a church", but
when asked by my sister to join her and her
husband to this evenings events, with hesitation,
I agreed. I haven't enjoyed myself that much in a
long time. If just proves you can have a great
time without the smoke and loud music of a bar. Thank
You again so very much and I WILL be seeing you
both again, soon I hope.
KJV-WISE
- This column is a regular feature of our
e-newsletters. We maintain that the Authorized
King James Version of the Bible is the only
pure Word of God.
From New
Age Bible Versions by Gail Riplinger, page
210, comes the following:
"God
wrote a world-class book, not a nineteen-nineties
novelty. The language of the KJV was carried
from continent to continent for 400 years, as the
British Empire colonized the globe. The
British presence, power, and cultural pull on the
Near, Far and Middle East, Africa, India,
Australia, Europe, Canada, Russia, etc. Has
carried Anglistics to centuries of students.
(All International students I have
encountered speak British-English, not
American-English.)
The
one in 8,000 words in the KJV, which are
unfamiliar, at first glance, to dictionary shy
Americans are actually simpler and more accurate
than their new substitutes. A 'stomacher'
for example (Is. 3:24) is not a belt, as
new versions indicate, but a chest ornament. (It
seems the only 'simpler' words in new versions are
incorrect or from a corrupt Greek text.) New
versions not only do not improve the KJV's
'sackbut' (Daniel 3:7), calling it a 'trigon', but
in the same sentence change the KJV's simple
'harp' to a 'zither'."
So,
here are some examples to increase your vocabulary
about "unfamiliar" words, from The
King James Bible Companion: Over 500 Archaic Words
Defined". Actually Frankie and I
keep this little booklet handy so when we come
across a word we're not sure of, we look it up.
"beeves"
- means "cattle" - Leviticus
22:19
"blains"
- means "blisters, sores, or boils"
- Exodus 9:9-10
"choler"
- means "anger, wrath" - Daniel 8:7
"churl"
- means "a rude, harsh person" - Isaiah
32:5, 7
"buckler"
- means "round shield held with a grip"
- Psalm 18:30
"foresaw"
- means "saw or knew beforehand" - Acts
2:25
"hewn"
- means "cut" - Exodus 20:25
Let's
be open to expanding our vocabulary and keeping
the Pure Word of God just that.
HEALTH-WISE
-
"Beloved, I wish above all things that
thou mayest...be in health..." III
John 2
As
much as we have talked about this subject, some
of our best friends are still using products
with Aspartame - diet drinks, "lite"
food, etc. And Frankie and I have even
found it in products that already used sugar.
Why the duplication? So we're sending this
around again. Check the ingredients in
your products. Frankie's son Brian had
aspartame disease. He thankfully was able
to detox. Some aren't so fortunate. Familiarize
yourself with the alternate names. Please
listen and pass this on to your friends.
If
It Says Sugar Free, Don't Touch It ! --
Aspartame Disease
Posted
8/26/08
There
is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis, systemic
lupus, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer's disease across
the country and the world.
One
of the major causes of these diseases is in our
supermarkets, drug stores, candy stores,
restaurants and it has gone from those places
into our homes. One of the poisons that is
causing these epidemics is aspartame, a
sweetener marketed as Nutrasweet, Equal,
Spoonful, etc.
What
is wrong with Aspartame?
When
the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees
F, the wood alcohol in aspartame converts to
formaldehyde and then to Formic acid, which in
turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic
acid is the same poison used by fire ants to
sting and kill their victims. This
methanol toxic condition in the human body can
mimic multiple sclerosis.
Symptoms
of Aspartame Disease:
Fibromyalgia
symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, burning
tongue, cramps, vertigo, numbness in the legs,
dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain,
depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech,
blurred vision, blindness and memory loss,
severe seizures, panic attacks, rage and
violence, severe memory loss, coma, escalates
Alzheimer's disease, birth defects (such as
mental retardation), brain tumors (lately
surgeons have found high levels of aspartame in
tumors removed from patients) , escalates
diabetes symptoms.
Aspartame is manufactured by the NutraSweet
Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto, who are
fully aware of the dangers of their product.
However, as Monsanto also funds the American
Diabetics Association, the American Dietetic
Association, the United States Congress, and the
Conference of the American College of
Physicians, there is a conspiracy of silence
with regard to the dangers of this artificial
sweetener, which is contained in over 5,000
sugar-free products sold under the brand names
listed below.
Neotame,
Nutrasweet, Nutrisweet, Aspertame, Nutri sweet,
Nutri-sweet, Monsanto, Kelco, Nutrasweet Kelco,
Benevia, Equal, Team Equal, Equal Measure,
Spoonful, Diet Soda, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Diet
Sprite, Pepsi Light, Pepsi Max, Crystal Light,
Sweeteners, Artificial Sweetener, Acesulfame-K, Sunette,
Sunnette, Sweet One, Sweet & Safe, Canderel,
Chuker, Misura, Manugel, Keltrol, Kelcogel,
Nutrifos, Stabil-9, Levn-Lite, Spoonful.
The
New York Times, on November 15th 1996, ran
an article on how the American Dietetic
Association takes money from the food industry
to endorse their products. Therefore, they
cannot criticize any additives or tell about
their link to Monsanto.
Dr.
Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon, said,
"The
ingredients stimulate the neurons of the brain
to death, causing brain damage of varying
degrees." Dr. Blaylock has written a
book entitled Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
(Health Press 1-800-643-2665).
Dr.
R.H. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world
expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written
a book entitled Defense Against Alzheimer's
Disease (1-800-814-9800).
He
writes about how Aspartame poisoning is
escalating Alzheimer's Disease.
Today
women as young as 30 years of age are being
treated for Alzheimer's disease.
Dr.
Roberts realized what was happening when
Aspartame was first marketed. He said
diabetic patients presented symptoms of memory
loss, confusion, and severe vision loss.
[Ed. Note: Aspartame is especially deadly for
diabetics.]
In
Desert Storm several thousand pallets of diet
drinks were shipped to the troops in the desert
where they sat in the 120 degree F desert sun
for weeks (remember at 86 degrees F methanol
poison is released). The symptoms of
Desert Storm Syndrome match exactly those of
Aspartame Disease.
Sources:
Sweet
Poison: How the World's Most Popular Artificial
Sweetener is Killing Us, by Janet Starr Hull,
Pub. New Horizon Press, 1999
Aspartame
Disease:
An
Ignored Epidemic, by H.J. Roberts, Pub. Quality
Books, 2001
MUSIC-WISE
-
.Frankie has finished recording his new
song "Be Still." Haskell Cooley of
Haskell Cooley Sound Studios here in Wichita did
a great job in producing this new song.
Haskell was the pianist for five years for the
famous Cathedrals Quartet.
This
new song will not go on any album since we
won't be recording any more albums, so it
will only be on our web site as soon as we
get it to Dr. Fred Metz., which will
probably be within the week. Here
is the link: http://ipod.Frankie-valens-music-ipod.com/link
. Dr. Fred has an Internet radio
station and will immediately start playing
it on his station, which is heard in about
70 to 80 countries worldwide.
Even
though we won't be traveling anymore Frankie
may still be recording occasionally
in the studio. And these songs will
be available to listen to on our web
sites.
SPECIAL
SALE -  Due
to the fact that we are not presenting any
more concerts, and we still have quite a
few CDs left, we are offering them now for
only $5.00 per CD! That's right.
$5.00 per CD! E-mail
us with your order and then send us a
check to:
Frankie Valens Ministries
620 N. Rock Road, #230
Derby, KS 67037
Enclose
$2.00 postage for one or two CDs, or $3.00
postage for three or more.
We'll sell them at this price until we run
out.
LAUGH-WISE
- UNANSWERED
QUESTIONS
??? Why isn't the number 11 pronounced
onety-one?
??? If 1 out of 5 people SUFFER from
diarrhea...does that mean that four
out of five enjoys it?
??? Why do croutons come in airtight
packages? Aren't they just stale
bread to begin with?
??? If people from Poland are called
Poles, then why aren't people from Holland
called Holes?
??? If a pig loses its voice, is it
disgruntled?
??? Why is a person who plays the
piano called a pianist, but a person who
drives a racecar is not called a racist?
??? If it's true that we are here to help
others, then what exactly are the others
here for?
??? If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen
defrocked, then doesn't it follow that
electricians can be delighted, musicians
denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed,
tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners
depressed?
??? If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would
they call it Fed UP? ?
??? Do Lipton Tea employees take 'coffee
breaks?'
??? What hair color do they put on the
driver's licenses of bald men?
??? I thought about how mothers feed
their babies with tiny little spoons and
forks, so I wondered what do Chinese
mothers use. Toothpicks?
??? Why do they put pictures of criminals
up in the Post Office? What are we
supposed to do, write to them? Why don't
they just put their pictures on the
postage stamps so the mailmen can look for
them while they deliver the mail?
??? If a cow laughed, would milk come out
of her nose?
??? Whatever happened to Preparations A
through G?
??? When it comes to income tax time,
did you ever notice: When you put the two
words 'The' and 'IRS' together, it spells
'THEIRS'?
KID-WISE
- 
***It
was the end of the day when I parked my police van
in front of the station. As I gathered my
equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and
I saw a little boy staring in at me.
"Is that a dog you got back there?" he
asked. "It sure is," I replied.
Puzzled,
the boy looked at me and then towards the back of
the van. Finally he said, "What'd he
do?"
***While
working for an organization that delivers lunches
to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old
daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was
unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of
old age, particularly the canes, walkers and
wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at
a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As
I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of
questions, she merely turned and whispered,
"The tooth fairy will never believe
this!"
***A
little girl was watching her parents dress for a
party. When she saw her dad donning his
tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't
wear that suit."
"And
why not, darling?"
"You
know it always gives you a headache the next
morning."
***While
walking along the sidewalk in front of his church,
our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that
nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his
5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead
robin. Feeling that a proper burial should
be performed, they had secured a small box and
cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for
the disposal of the deceased. The minister's
son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and
with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what
he thought his father always said:
"Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the
Sonnn, and into the hole hegoooes." (I
want this line used at my funeral!!)
***A
little girl had just finished her first week of
school. "I'm just wasting my
time," she said to her mother. "I
can't read, I can't write, and they won't let me
talk!"
***A
little boy opened the big family Bible. He
was fascinated as he fingered through the old
pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the
Bible. He picked up the object and looked at
it. What he saw was an old leaf that had
been pressed in between the pages.
"Mama,
look what I found," the boy called out.
"What
have you got there, dear?"
With
astonishment in the young boy's voice, he
answered, "I think it's Adam's
underwear!"
THE
GOD OF SMALL THINGS-WISE -
Frankie
and I left to go out for dinner recently
and the gas was at $3.36/gallon. However,
on the way home we began seeing that prices had
jumped to $3.49, and we were somewhat distressed
that we were going to have to pay the
higher price to fill up our van before we
left for Texas the next day.
So
we anxiously drove home to our local Kwik Shop.
On the way we were seeing $3.49, although one
Kwik Shop was still at $3.37. It didn't
occur to us to stop there - we were headed for
"our" station. We saw the QT and
another Kwik Shop on the way were both $3.49,
and we were really beginning to be disappointed
about being able to get the lower price.
When
"our" Kwik Shop came into view, we
strained to see that it still said $3.36, but
all the bays were full and people were in line
waiting to fill up. Of course. When
the car in front of us left, we pulled up to the
pump, and as we did so, the price outside
changed to $3.49!! How ironic! We
have to sit and wait, and while doing
so, the price changed. Oh, well.
Frankie got our gas started - and it said
$3.36!!!! Wow! We couldn't believe
it! Then as soon as he had filled up,
the pump switched to $3.49! The price
"should" have changed when the car
ahead of us left, but God kept it from
happening, taking care of His servants, and let
it hold for us. Now is that an amazing,
wonderful, caring God, or what?
FYI-WISE -
B.C. vs B.C.E.
Recently
I was watching a re-run of Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire (2000), and the question contained a
date referenced with B.C.E. The contestant
asked the host, Regis, what that meant, and
Regis told him. Then recently I saw B.C.E.
again. Do you realize that this is one
more way we have of "Christ"
being taken out of our society. Instead of
dating by B.C. now - Before Christ - that
is changing to B.C.E. - Before Common Era.
Just one more step toward the God-less
society.
FOOD-FOR-THOUGHT-WISE
- A
man was exploring caves by the seashore. In
one of the caves he found a canvas bag with
a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like
someone had rolled clay balls and left
them out in the sun to bake. They didn't look like
much, but they intrigued the man, so he took
the bag out of the cave with him.
As he strolled along the beach, he would
throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean
as far as he could. He thought little about it,
until he dropped one of the clay balls and it
cracked open on a rock. Inside was a beautiful, precious
stone!
Excited, the man started breaking open the
remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar
treasure. He found thousands of dollars worth of
jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had
left.
Then it struck him. He had been on the beach
a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of
the clay balls with their hidden
treasure into the ocean waves. Instead of
thousands of dollars in treasure, he could
have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just
thrown it away!
It's like that with people. We look at
someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the
external clay vessel. It doesn't look like much
from the outside. It isn't always beautiful
or sparkling, so we discount it. We see that
person as less important than someone more
beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy.
But we have not taken the time to find the
treasure hidden inside that person.
There is a treasure in each and every one of
us. If we take the time to get to know that
person, and if we ask God to show us that person
the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel
away and the brilliant gem begins to shine
forth.
May we not come to the end of our lives and
find out that we have thrown away a fortune
in friendships because the gems were hidden in
bits of clay. May we see the people in our
world as God sees them.
Frankie and I are so blessed by the gems
of friendship we have with you friends. Thank
you for looking beyond our clay vessels.
LAST
BLAST-WISE - UNTIMELY
DEATHS
Galatians
6:7 says, "Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap." Read about people who
mocked God.
John
Lennon
(Singer) - Some years before, during his interview
with an American magazine, he said,
"Christianity will end, it will disappear.
I do not have to argue about that. I am
certain, Jesus was OK, but his subjects were too
simple. Today we are more famous than Him."
(1966) Lennon, after saying that the Beatles
were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six
times.
Tancredo
Neves
(President of Brazil) - During the Presidential
campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his
party, not even God would remove him from the
Presidency. He got the votes, but he got
sick a day before being made President, and then
he died.
Cazuza
(Bi-sexual
Brazilian composer, singer and poet) - During a
show in Rio de Janeiro, while smoking his
cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air
and said, "God, that's for you."
He died at the age of 32 of lung cancer in a
horrible manner.
The
man who built the Titanic
- After the construction of the Titanic, a
reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be.
With an ironic tone, he said, "Not even God
can sink it." We all know what happened
to the Titanic
Marilyn
Monroe
- She was visited by Billy Graham during a
presentation of a show. He said the
Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her.
After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she
said, "I don't need your Jesus." A
week later she was found dead in her apartment.
Bon
Scott
(ex-vocalist of the AC/DC) - On one of his 1979
songs he sang: "Don't stop me; I'm going down
all the way, down the highway to hell."
On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found
dead. He had been choked by his own
vomit.
Campinas, 2005
- In Campinas, Brazil, a group of friends, drunk,
went to pick up a friend. The mother
accompanied her to the car and was so worried
about the drunkness of her friends, and she said
to the daughter, holding her hand, who was already
seated in the car, "My daughter, go with God
and may He protect you." She responded,
"Only if He (God) travels in the trunk,
'cause inside here, it's already full."
Hours later news came that they had been involved
in a fatal accident. Everyone had died.
The car could not be recognized as to what type it
was, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact.
The police said there was no way the trunk could
have remained intact, but to their surprise,
inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, and none
were broken.
Christine
Hewitt
(Jamaican journalist and entertainer) - She said
the Bible was the worst book ever written.
In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond
recognition in her motor vehicle.
FINAL
ADMONITION-WISE - "For
God shall bring every work into judgment, with
every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether
it be evil." Ecclesiastes 12:14
KJV
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