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Table of Contents
Editorials
u First Century Methods...............Wayne Barrier............6
u A Million Dollars for Printing........J.C. Choate..............7
Articles
u What Does Prayer Accomplish?..................................4
u We’re Looking for Containers.....Betty B. Choate........8
u Such is Fund Raising.........Jeremiah McCarver..........18
u Mission Methods at Work..........C. Philip Slate..........20
u We Are Not the Author... .........Glover Shipp...............23
u It’s God’s Money... ............Betty B. Choate................34
u Are We Listening?.......................................................69
u The Church Needs a Global Mentality..Demar Elam...85
u God’s Plans, His Timing... .......Betty B. Choate...........87
Reports from Team Members
u How Shall They Hear?...............Jerry Bates.................10
u The World Evangelism Team......Louis Rushmore......11
u Unknown Soldiers for Christ........Byron Nichols.......13
u World Evangelism School of Missions........................15
u The Hispanic Mission in America...Rafael Barrantes.16
u Maywood Missionary Retreat......................................17
u Tracts — Overseas Containers?.................................22
Gleaning from the Fields
North America
u Project Rescue................Ronnie Crocker....................19
u House to House.........................Matt Wallin................21
u Worldwide Radio Evangelism.......Larry Murdock.....25
uWork Among the Burmese...........George Achard........25
uWorld English Institute..........Katheryn Haddad.........27
u Mission Printing................Richard Renfro..................29
u World Video Bible School............................................31
u Gospel Broadcasting Network......Tyler Gilreath........32
u World Bible School......................................................35
u The Hands of Compassion..........Stacy Sikes...............33
u A Voice in a Barren Land.......Alejandro DelZotto.......36
Central and South America
u Haiti Christian Development......Dr. David Smith.......37
u The Collierville Church Prepares....Randy Gaddy.....38
u Ameridian Missions..........Jerry Davidson...................38
u Nicaraguan Evangelists...........Glover Shipp...............39
u Biblical Institute of Central America...George Hall...40
u The Garcias’ Peruvian Mission......Helmut Garcia.....42
Europe
u Forty Years in Geneva, Switzerland......Doyle Kee......43
u Romania — Looking at Progress.....Harvey Starling...43
u France.........................Charles White............................44
u The Lord’s Church in Syktyvkar... .....Larry Little......45
u Work with Language Groups... .......Robert Prater......46
Middle East
u Elders Appointed in Nazareth....Donnie S. Barnes.......47
Africa
u An Incredible Prison Story............Ruth Orr................48
u Operation French World.............Bren White..............50
u Setting Goals for “Gospel Chariots”....George Funk...51
u The Malawi Project.............Richard Stephens.............52
u Radio, WBS, ... in The Gambia.......Isaac K. Daye.........53
u Churches in the French World.....................................54
u Evangelism Trip to Wukari... ....Felix Onyeka............55
u The 2011 Evangelism Summit...Kinglsey Odogwu.....56
u They Came by the Thousands...LaDonna Armstrong...57
u The Preaching Power... ......Sylvester Imogoh.............58
Indian Sub-Continent
u Aid for Pakistan’s Flooding..........Luis Cusi...............60
u Reporting Evangelism... ..........Sunny David..............61
u Gospel Meeting in Nended, India......Earnest Gill......62
u Impact of Bible Courses in India......Joshua Gootam...63
u First Century Evangelism... ...Philemon and Kingsly..65
u The Word of Christ in Tamil Nadu.....B. Arjunan........67
u Annual Bible Lectureship.......S. Rajanayagam...........68
u Mission Trip to Bihar..................P. R. Swamy..............70
Asia
u Chinese Agape Foundation..........................................71
u “Refuge of Grace” Grand Opening..............................72
u Indonesia............................Colin McKee......................73
u From Australia to Papua New Guinea...Tom Bunt......75
u Papua New Guinea.................Jab Mesa.......................76
u Sonlight in the Pacific.................Randy English............77
u Introduction to the Philippines.....Priscilla Sellers.......78
u Spiritual and Physical Aid........Salvador Cariaga.........79
u A Plea from Sunrise Christian Orphan Home............79
u Divide and Conquer... .....Aaron & Cindy Baker.........80
u Voice from Micronesia.............Scott Shanahan.............81
u Cambodia and Saigon................Luis Cusi....................82
u Mission Trip to Easter Island.........Robert Martin......84
u I Am a Missionary..........................................Back Cover
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A little quiz from the pages..
1. Name four mass media tools that are very
effective.
2. How could $6,000,000 be easily raised each
month for souls?
3. Romans 10:13-15 asks, “How shall they
hear without a _________, and how shall they
preach unless they are _______?
4. The World Evangelism team, and visitors,
are busy boxing up _______ to be shipped in
___________ to people overseas.
5. What are some beneficial results from the
challenges of raising funds?
6. Does God have a purpose for our lives?
7. What is the primary work of “Mission Printing”?
8. List some ways in which American Christians
may be spoiled and self-centered.
9. Why is it a problem in India for people to have
a Bible?
10. What is being done by American Christians
to help devastated brethren in Haiti? in Paki-
stan? orphans in India and China?
11. Has the church in Syktyvkar, Russia reached
the point of maturity to have elders? in Naza-
reth, Israel?
12. What are “Gospel Chariots”?
13. What exciting thing happened recently in the
Mzimba prison in Malawi?
14. The “J.C. School of Evangelism” trains
members of local congregations to do what?
15. What does Jeremiah 29:11 say?
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What Does Prayer Accomplish?

What is the promise? “... I go to My Father. And what-
ever you ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may
be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I
will do it” (John 14:13,14). What a bold statement! But
does that mean that if I ask for a a new house and a car, Jesus
will just give them to me?
“Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if
we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we
know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have
the petitions that we have asked of Him” (1 John 5:14,15).
In order to properly understand Scripture, there must
be harmony among the passages dealing with a particular
subject. These verses promise that if the thing we are ask-
ing of God is according to His will — something that will
be good for all who will be affected by the answering of the
petition — then, not only will He do it, but a positive answer
is of such certainty that, in effect, we already have the thing
for which we asked!
James further explained in James 5:16, “... The effec-
tive, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”
So prayer is probably the most powerful tool available
to the faithful Christian, because we can petition God for His
help with any need that is beyond our human ability to meet.
What a net of security!
But prayer is even more than the act of “asking”. Think
about what actually takes place when we pray: I, as a child of
God, am turning in love, in need, or in thanksgiving to my Fa-
ther. But I don’t go alone. God’s Holy Spirit, within me, helps
me to formulate my pleas and requests with words beyond my
own capability: “... the Spirit Himself makes intercession for
us with groanings which cannot be uttered” (Romans 8:26),
as God grants us “... to be strengthened with might through
His Spirit in the inner man” (Ephesians 3:16).
And through Whom do I pray? Whose name becomes
my “open door” to the heart of God? My Brother — Who
died that I might have my sins washed away, Who died that
it might be possible for me as a human to actually come
into the presence of Almighty God — My Brother is my
Mediator! So, in the act of prayer, God’s Spirit is helping
this needy human to word the petition to and through My
Brother, Who turns as Mediator to My heavenly Father, so
that I may be assured that ... whatever I ask the Father in His
name, according to His will, will be done! The Elohim of
the universe is involved and is listening when I pray! (BBC)
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Editorial:

First Century Methods in a

Twentieth Century World
Wayne Barrier
well planned and coordinated effort to have no one to send them. The weak
carry out the mission of the church in link in the evangelism process today is
the first century. We should be more the shortage of “senders”.
careful to use the first century model This can be corrected if brethren
today. are better taught of this responsibility.
A very important “mission work” Every congregation and every indivi-
text is Romans 10:13-15. The passage dual Christian should accept and re-
says “For whoever calls on the name spond to the responsibility of the church
The Bible provides all the guidance of the Lord shall be saved. How then to send missionaries to every untaught
needed for the church to know how to shall they call on Him in whom they person in the world. Well planned and
obey every aspect of God’s will. By have not believed? And how shall they accurate assessments of the mission field
studying the Bible, we know how to believe in Him of whom they have not should be a part of the ongoing work of
become a Christian, how to worship, heard? And how shall they hear without every congregation. These assessments
and how to live from day-to-day. Also, a preacher? And how shall they preach would provide the basis of expending
we know how to carry out the mission unless they are sent?” This passage resources. Mission activities too often
of taking the Gospel to every person in includes several very important basic are near the bottom of the priority list
the world as commanded in Matthew elements that must be modeled today of work for the congregation. This is
28:18-20 and Mark 16:15,16. for success in evangelizing the world. reflected in the results of the collective
The Biblical pattern for this enor- First, for one to be saved, one mission effort of the church. Millions of
mous task is provided and we can must hear the message of the Gospel people die every month that have never
succeed if we simply follow the pattern. and believe it. A believer then obeys heard the Gospel.
This pattern involves many parts, in- what the Bible teaches. Confession A congregation’s mission planning
cluding (1) an understanding that of Christ, repentance, and baptism efforts should take into account the scope
every Christian is required to conduct are commanded for entry into the of work to be done across the world,
a “work of ministry” (Ephesians 4:11- body of Christ. But, the question is the availability of resources, the work
16), (2) an acceptance of responsibility asked, “How shall they hear without a of other brethren and congregations,
for designing mission programs to preacher?” Preachers must be trained background for potential fields, etc.
help “seek and save the lost”, as for this work. Next, the question is Mission efforts should be evaluated
in the first century by the apostle asked, “How shall they preach unless on a routine basis for efficiency and
Paul that “go to all the world” with they are sent?” Preachers go when effectiveness. Missionaries should
evangelistic efforts that touch every and where they are sent. The task be held accountable for their work.
person, (3) training of new Christians of bringing the lost to salvation is a Reports should be provided on a regular
to be preachers, teachers, and leaders partnership between those who send basis. The appropriate and essential
as quickly as possible for involvement and those who go and preach. This is criteria for success in mission efforts
in the world evangelism process, and the Biblical model for us to follow. are the number of people taught the
(4) deployment of missionaries that The massive population of the world Gospel. Not all will obey when taught,
are selected, trained, and sent (Romans today numbers almost 7 billion. Most but every person should be taught.
10:13-17, 2 Timothy 2) to do the people have never heard the Gospel. The role of the “sender” can and
specific work of world evangelism. Why have they not heard? Obviously, should be much greater than we are
The book of Acts and Paul’s letters a preacher has not taught them. Why? accustomed to seeing in today’s average
provide an excellent account of a very They have not gone there because they Continued on page 14
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A Million Dollars
for Printing
J.C.Choate
have been begun in their areas of the of dollars into church buildings and
world. We need congregations that will other projects, but when it comes to
give and send those who are willing to preaching the Gospel, we want to lower
go. We further need to think in terms the budget to just a token amount.
of working on a scale that will change But how far would a million dollars
lives and whole countries and will have go in printing literature for numerous
a definite impact on the world itself. countries around the world?
For too long we have done only That answer would depend on how
enough to say we were doing something, we would look at it. Compared to what
belittling the very image of the Lord we we have been doing, a million dollars
As the Lord’s people, we are too
serve. We have used mission work as a would make a tremendous impact!
accustomed to thinking small. We
toy, as a game. We have not been serious Compared to the size of the untaught
seldom look beyond having a missionary
about it, and therefore we have not done population of the world, a million
or two in any given country. After that,
enough to challenge ourselves, much less dollars would hardly be noticed.
our thinking gets even smaller. We
to challenge others. Brethren, the world So, on further thought, forgive me
reason that they should go there on a
is lost. What are we going to do about it? for thinking so small. I am guilty of
shoestring and within two or three years
The more I do, the more I realize the same small vision as my brethren.
be able to leave a thriving, independent
how little I am doing in comparison We could use a million dollars in each
church. If we dared to go beyond that,
to the need. What difference have my country where we work, and that would
other brethren would surely find fault
efforts made in changing the world for just be a beginning. And while I am at
with us for wasting manpower in such a
better? Unless the work I’ve begun is it, I will add that we also need millions
place and for spending too much money.
continued after I’m gone, the little gain of dollars for radio and TV preaching.
“Back to the Bible” people currently
my family and I have made will soon We need more millions for the church’s
have more than 90 radio broadcasts in
evaporate, and it will be as though I own cable network that would reach
the relatively small country of Italy. The
never lived. That is true with all of us. the world with the Gospel, twenty-four
programs sponsored by the church for the
I have decided, therefore, that I hours a day, seven days a week.
entire rest of the world would not exceed
want to do all I can in my few remaining But someone might ask, “Isn’t
that number by much. With this kind of
years to take the Gospel to as many that stretching it some?” No, not at all.
thinking, it is no wonder we have not
people and nations as I can. As far as Look at our religious friends and see
evangelized the world and, furthermore,
I am concerned, that work is all that is what they are doing. They put us to a
there is no way we will ever do it if we
important. After this life, nothing else blushing shame. Do you wonder why
continue following such a pattern.
will count. It will not matter about they are growing? It is because they
Brethren, we need to lift up our
my salary, whether I had two cars, or believe in their cause enough to take
eyes and see that the fields are white
how many degrees I had. Thousands their message to the world.
unto harvest. We need to open our
of things will not matter. But it will “O Lord, forgive us for thinking so
hearts to the golden opportunities for
matter whether I was a Christian, and a small and doing so little and for getting
evangelizing the world. We need men
faithful Christian, and how much I did in Your way so much.”
and women who will go and live in
to take the Gospel to others. I think the We can evangelize the world any
their chosen fields, where the church
same will be true with you. time we are ready. The world is ready;
is being newly established. And we
Right now, we need a million dollars the many tools that God has provided
need more Christians who can be
for the printing of Christian literature. I are ready; isn’t it a shame that the Lord’s
“circuit riders”, going about as Paul
know that would shock some of you.
did, to strengthen the churches that Continued on page 14
Of course, brethren can put millions
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We’re Looking for Containers!

Betty Burton Choate

Here at the beginning of 2011, I tremendous importance of literature, put out the word: We want to have
want to share with readers of Global he decided that providing materials materials in any container being
Harvest a greatly enlarged phase of for those who needed them should take shipped by the Lord’s church to any
the mission efforts of our “World precedence over being independent. English speaking country.
Evangelism” team. So, through the years, the money from In response, groups have come
When J.C. passed away, only God sales to individuals and to book stores to Winona to help package books for
knew what would become of the radio/TV was reinvested in the printing of more sharing with churches, preachers, and
and literature programs he had worked so books — a personal “business” whose preacher training schools, and to fill
hard to develop. It has been three years purpose had become a “service”. specific requests. About 15,000 books
since his death, and my understanding Many books were given away in the and magazines were being loaded in these
of God has grown immeasurably during States and many were sent overseas in photos for transport to Arlington, TX,
this time. The unnecessary pressure I response to requests. and onward shipment to Nigeria, along
once felt is there no more.
The work is God’s, not ours
— and God takes care of
what is His. Congregations
and individual Christians
have supported the efforts
through the years, and
have continued without fail
because their commitment
is to God, and not to any
human. We are deeply
thankful for that faithfulness.
I want to share some
further thinking with you. Giving
a little history, J.C. was writing his
first book of sermon outlines when
he preached in a meeting in Winona
in 1952. His love of writing, and his
belief in the value of the printed page,
became a focus of his life and work,
here as well as overseas. After we
began the radio programs in India,
necessitating his being in the States half
of each year to raise funds for the new
phase of the work, he gradually added
to the books he had self-published. At
first his thinking was that he would
build the printing into a business that In 35 (plus) years, a stock has built
could provide his personal support, up, in spite of freely giving. We know with materials prepared by the brethren
so that he wouldn’t have to beg from that we must keep a basic supply on with “Mission Printing”. Two thousnd
churches. But with the passing of hand to sell, in order to continue to additional pounds were shipped directly
time and a growing realization of the have books for sharing, but we have Continued on page 9
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in India, and we had only two people
Containers to the World . . . helping in the office. Today’s situation
is different: there are five of us in the
US is a mission field, too. office much of the time, and we are
Paula asked me today if I here regularly enough to be able to have
anticipate dying soon. No, I groups to come in and work at getting
expect to be around for a long time, books packaged and ready to send out.
but the surplus of books owned by We are in position to do the massive
“J.C. Choate Publications” can be distribution that thrills us to the core.
doing a lot of good for souls if Please understand that the books
we can just get them out to where are being donated. Nobody is being
they are most desperately needed. charged anything for them. Of course,
We have deliberately printed in the shipping costs are there and must be
covered, but we are doing everything
we can to keep those costs down.
Some would say, “Why bother with
Continued from page 8 books? CDs and the Internet are the
from the printer. In February we wave of the future!” While that may
plan to make a similar consignment be true, masses of people in the world
to South Africa, including 3000 do not have computers, CD players,
copies of The Church of the or Internet connections. The printed
Bible, 1000 copies of The Gospel page is still the best way to get God’s
of Christ, and 1000 copies of The message out and into the hands of those
Holy Spirit, for George Funk for his who will treasure it, read it, and pass it
“Gospel Chariots” — 18-wheeler on to others.
trucks equipped to go into cities We are
and villages throughout southern grateful for the
Africa with literature and tent facilities large enough literature and
for setting up “camp” for impromptu quantities to postal funds
Gospel meetings. Other books will be enable us to available to
addressed to the libraries of preacher keep the price us, to cover
training schools. of individual the shipping
Last month, we sent most of our books down, costs of these
stock of French books to Benin, in West so that they precious gifts.
Africa and to Haiti, for distribution would pay for Without the
among those French speaking people. t h e m s e l v e s on-going
Weeks earlier, we had shipped about and still leave partnership in
2000 pounds of books in a container a good supply reaching out to
to the Philippines. Today we received for distribution. We don’t owe anything the world, we couldn’t be undertaking
word from Salvador Cariaga that they on any of the books, and they are sound this massive movement of materials.
are in the process of being distributed materials, written by faithful brethren. Our sincere thanks to all who are a part
to those to whom they were addressed. I am thankful for J.C.’s perseverance of this greatly expanded arm of the
Yesterday I talked to one of the in getting the books printed, and work.
elders of the Jacksonville Church of establishing a base that has allowed us If you know of people who should
Christ, responsible for the publication to continue to add to the titles available. be added to our mailing list overseas
of “House to House”, an excellent During his lifetime, we shared thous- (we prefer to send to addresses, rather
evangelistic tool. I am sending samples ands of books, and 20,000 copies of than make bulk shipments for storage
of some of our books as possible The Voice of Truth International and gradual distribution), or if you know
selections that they may offer, free of each quarter, with brethren overseas. of a container going out in 2011, please
charge, to their readers — after all, the But much of his time had to be spent call us: 662-283-1192. (BBC) U
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How Shall They Hear?

Jerry and Paula Bates
“For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be
saved. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have
not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom
they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a
preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?
As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who
preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good
things!’” (Romans 10:14).
This passage of Scripture clearly emphasizes the need for
Gospel preachers and teachers. Sometimes we try to blunt the
impact of the words by saying that preachers were especially
needed in the first century because few people were fortunate
enough to own a copy of the Bible. However, the theory goes
that today it is different: Bibles are plentiful and they are
cheap, so preachers are not as necessary as in former times.
Just send Bibles all over the world, and let the people read and Jerry Bates and Kingsly Rajah
learn for themselves what God expects from us. addressing a meeting in Madurai, India.
Yes, Bibles are absolutely essential. We help supply
Or it could be the truth that we have learned from someone
Bibles as we have funds available to do so. However, just
and verified it by studying the Bible for ourselves to “see if
sending Bibles alone cannot take the place of a teacher. For
those things were so” (Acts 17:11).
example, we were in Tamale, Ghana a few months ago,
If we know the truth, it is our responsibility to be
teaching in the Tamale Bible Institute. Paula had classes
teaching that truth to others. It is not enough just to send the
with the wives of the preacher students. Soon after she began
Bible, but we must also teach the Bible. More than ever, we
to teach the ladies, she learned that most of them could not
realize why God chose to use preachers and teachers to relay
read or write. In such a case it is not practical to think they
His message to His children on earth. He needs someone to
can just “read the Bible for themselves”. And this is not an
make it personal.
isolated case. In many countries there are whole villages
wherein most of the inhabitants are illiterate, or if they can
read and write, it may be in some tribal language into which
the Bible has not been translated.
In such cases as these, someone has to verbally teach the
people. How else will they ever come to know about Jesus?
Most likely they will learn from some native teacher who
takes the time to instruct them. Moreover, who will teach the
teachers to teach or preach? Will it be some denomination
or their Muslim neighbors? No, it should be us, those who
are striving to follow the pattern as set forth in the pages of
the New Testament.
Can a person who learns the Gospel teach without being
able to read? Of course! People teach every day, verbally.
The question is, what are we teaching our friends and family?
It could be only what we have always heard, something Paula Bates with women who traveled distances
to attend her classes in Tamale, Ghana.
passed down from generation to generation. It could be
some new idea that we have recently heard someone teach. Continued on page 12
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The World Evangelism Team Louis Rushmore
Bonnie and I made two excursions abroad in 2010 –
Myanmar (Burma) in June; India and Myanmar in October
and November. In June, we were accompanied by our
daughter, Rebecca Rushmore, and Randy Gaddy, both
members of the Collierville (TN) Church of Christ. On the
latter campaign, Therman Hodge, minister for the Macon
(MS) Church of Christ rounded out our team.
Ordinarily, we primarily teach brethren (especially
in Bible schools and seminars), better equipping them to
evangelize their own nations. Secondarily, non-Christians
may attend those sessions, and occasionally one of them
obeys the Gospel. However, Bonnie, Rebecca, Randy and
I accepted an invitation in June to teach English Grammar,
Conversational English, Bible Reading and several
biblical subjects over two weeks to mostly Buddhists,
some Baptists and a Catholic. Unlike other opportunities,
this time we taught all educated persons, in high school,
college or post-college. As a sort of bonus, since we were
meeting in a nursery school, Bonnie and Rebecca taught
25 preschoolers, too. The site of our little school was a
small, steamy and humid building, which was concealed by
banana, coconut and mango trees, besides being shrouded
in brush, too.
The Myanmar team: Randy Gaddy, Rebecca Rushmore,
and Louis and Bonnie Rushmore.
Collectively, our little team instructed young adults in
biblical apologetics with a heavy emphasis on the Creator
and creation, plus seeing the Master Designer in nature’s
intricate design. We explained biblical miracles, The One
True Church of the Bible, the two covenants, Christian
salvation, Christian living, Christian service, Christian
worship, Christian doctrine and the book, Getting to Know
the Bible. Randy guided a breakout men’s class in what the
Bible teaches about true love, how to be good husbands and
fathers, and the importance of being morally pure. Bonnie
and Rebecca taught ladies’ classes especially fitting for
them, too. We gave away books (The Church of the Bible
and Baptism), literature, 30 NKJV Bibles (from which we
read together frequently), plus toothbrushes, toothpaste,
pens, tablets and snack food. I dispensed hundreds of dollars
for translation of tracts in several languages of Myanmar.
Funds were provided for feeding students and staff a full
meal daily, as well as for all other program expenses (local
government fees, building rent, local taxis for the students
and long-distance taxis for the staff daily).
In summary, we broke new ground in conducting a
summer school primarily among non-Christians in Burma.
The four of us were 42+ hours in the air, 20½ hours
waiting for airplanes in airports and 17½ hours in taxis. We
taught a combined 146 man-hours. Further, we gave away
hundreds of pieces of literature and books, Bibles, four
Teacher Activity Bags and supplemental teaching materials
for teaching children. We encouraged the brethren of the
Yangon region (including the three congregations with
which we worshipped on Sunday). After a little reflection,
we realize that we made a modest investment in priceless
souls (Matthew 16:26). We went to plant and water the
“seed of the kingdom” (Luke 8:11; 1 Corinthians 3:6), and
we did just that.
In October, Bonnie and I, along with Therman Hodge,
spent 30 days abroad from October 6 through November
6, 2010. Our travels took us approximately 25,000 miles
from Memphis to the other side of the planet and back, on
13 airplanes operated by four different airlines. We spent
63 total hours in the air, twice more than 12 hours at a
time, plus over 17 hours in airports waiting for our flights.
Further, we were 53½ hours (plus additional incidental
taxis) aboard one form or another of foreign vehicles
for ground travel, ranging from motorized rickshaws to
moving wrecks dubbed taxis to occasionally a comfortable
contemporary and roadworthy car.
Our adventures abroad in the fall took us to various
cities and villages in India and Myanmar. Bonnie had
opportunity to speak 25 hours to ladies and children,
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 12 Global Harvest
The World Evangelism Team
Continued from page 11
sometimes to over 200 at a time. I spoke 32 hours, and
Therman Hodge spoke 44½ hours, for a team total of
101½ hours. (Additional World Evangelism team members
joined us in Myanmar, and still others had preceded us
and left already by the time of our arrival. Their hours
of instruction are not included herein.) Our team of three
had 54 occasions to speak publicly in India and Myanmar,
and in those instances, we addressed a sum of about 1,655
precious souls. On more than one occasion, especially
Therman and I addressed persons representing over 13
congregations, and on other occasions in a different place,
we spoke to evangelists from 72 churches of Christ. Visible
results included 24 baptisms — 14 of which occurred in
one village — and two restorations. Brethren expressed
appreciation to us and determined to evangelize their
communities more zealously with the Gospel of Christ.
Our trip was
shortened by
ten days due to
tenuous political
circumstances
in Myanmar,
but our month
out this time
netted positive
results. Other ex-
periences along
the way included
hospitality in the
homes of Chris-
tians for two
weeks in India,
providing funds
Therman Hodge teaching a class. in both of the
countries visited
for the publication of a total of about 20,000 tracts, purchasing
Bibles in two languages of Myanmar as well as almost becoming
a grease spot on the highway on two occasions while crossing
a Yangon street.
Stateside, Bonnie and I typically travel about 3,000
miles monthly by car, whereupon I speak usually to two
congregations per Sunday about our mission work or
present other biblical lessons. Weekdays, we help keep the
printed material in production (i.e., The Voice of Truth
International and Global Harvest magazines, hundreds
of various books and tracts) and publish Gospel Gazette
Online. For more information or to find links to our
newsletters, go to www.gospelgazette.com. U the internet, the World Wide Web ...
How Shall They Hear?
Continued from page 10
There are many ways we can teach the truth. It can be
done through Bible schools, preacher training schools, in-
home Bible studies, Bible classes, sermons, TV and radio
programs, and maybe other ways I have not specifically
mentioned. The “How” is not important. God has not
specified the how; however, He did command that we teach.
Don’t just think that in today’s world, since Bibles and Bible
literature are so plentiful, we can simply send literature
without personally going. The printed page is vitally
important, but it is not enough by itself.
Still, some may say what has just been said is true in
regards to many of the third world countries; however, we
in the US do not live in a third world country. We live in a
developed country where most of the people are literate and
have easy access to the Bible. Surely in such a situation, if
anyone is interested in learning the truth of God, they can
read it for themselves. We agree that such a thing is possible,
but how many people around us truly READ and STUDY
the Bible? Surveys show that most people, even those who
attend a church, spend little time actually studying God’s
Word. Look at the Bible classes even in churches of Christ.
Most of the participants never study the lesson beforehand.
If our own people spend little time at home studying, how
can we expect a non-Christian to do so?
The fact remains, if people are going to learn the truth,
most likely it will be initially through verbal teaching. Yes,
God knew exactly what He was doing, and He knew what it
would take for most people to learn the truth.
Let us be teaching about Jesus, God, and the Bible every
day, verbally. Being a Christian is more than just living a
good life. Many think they teach by their lifestyle. That
is good and indispensable. Nevertheless, verbal teaching is
also necessary. A person will never learn how to become a
Christian by seeing us love our neighbor. That requires verbal
teaching, which requires Gospel preachers or teachers. Will
you be the teacher? Will you help send teachers to others?
Let us be ready to help people around the world to have what
we have been blessed to receive, the saving Gospel of Jesus
Christ. U
In this age of almost seven billion souls
in the world, God has not failed to supply His
family with the many means needed to reach
them: word of mouth, public meetings, the
written Word, telephone, radio, television,
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War I, World War II, the Korean War, There are many similarly gallant
and the Vietnam War. These four heroes serving in Christ’s army right
Americans are representatives of the now. Numerous ones have served
thousands who have died for their with valor and distinction, and are
country without their remains ever continuing to do so.
being identified. In the military, it isn’t always
Various other countries around the those who hold the highest rank and
world have similar burial places where receive the most publicity that render
their military heroes have been honored the greatest service, and likewise,
Unknown and lie buried. Like America’s Tomb it isn’t always the most prominent
Soldiers of Christ of the Unknowns, some or all of these
cemeteries also include far too many
members of the Lord’s Army who
wind up having rendered the greatest
Byron Nichols whose identity is still unknown. Isn’t and most noble service. So many are
One of the most significant privi- it sad that we know so little about those to be found, even today, working in
leges that I have ever had as an American who gave so much?! the shadows rather than out in front of
citizen was to visit Arlington National In the greatest army of all— THE the spotlight, because their focus is not
Cemetery, where approximately 260,000 LORD’S ARMY, there have also been on themselves, but on carrying out the
of America’s bravest lie buried, after many who are unknown — a whole orders of their Commanding Officer to
having done what they could to promote host of faithful soldiers through the the best of their ability.
and pre-serve our freedom. There lie centuries who diligently followed the The Bible makes mention of a
U.S. Presidents, generals, and great orders of their Commander-in-Chief, great many servants of God who
military heroes. But the great majority but who have not been rewarded with rendered outstanding service for the
of those buried at Arlington are folks medals for their courage and bravery, Lord, but whose names are not given.
whose names are not familiar to any of or for their diligence in serving to the It is evident that their deeds were much
us — these are just common, ordinary best of their ability. They were not more significant to God than their
Americans who displayed uncommon honored with an impressive funeral or names were! Examples of such humble
and extraordinary bravery and courage burial service. These soldiers of Christ and dedicated servants include:
in giving their lives for their country. just rose to the occasion, to the task at — The unnamed giver of the
In nearly all instances, the markers hand. In so doing, countless numbers greatest monetary gift mentioned in all
are alike. Audie Murphy was America’s truly performed heroically. They res- the Bible: (the poor widow in Mark 12).
most decorated military combat hero cued some of their fellow-soldiers — Unnamed heroes of the faith
ever. He was awarded every decoration from certain death by somehow get- (read Hebrews 11:32-38).
that is given by our military, some of ting them out of the grasp of the ene- While recognition is nice, it is not
them more than once, yet this great my, Satan. They encouraged some necessary for the true soldier of Christ.
hero’s grave marker looks very much comrades to keep on fighting, in He or she is not nearly as concerned
like the rest of those at Arlington. spite of the fact that they had become with plaques or monuments as with a
Without a doubt, the most special convinced that they just could not fight crown after this life is over.
place in this totally special place is what the enemy any longer. These valiant Dear friends, as soldiers of Christ we
is known as the Tomb of the Unknowns. warriors stood firm in their opposition must stand, contend, and fight the good
In this hallowed spot lie the remains of to the foe and stood faithfully with fight of faith, laying hold of eternal life.
four servicemen, one each from World their Commander. Continued on page 14
 14 Global Harvest

A Million Dollars for Printing Unknown

Continued from page 7
If we as a brotherhood shifted our
emphasis from church buildings to
evangelization, how many hundreds
of millions of dollars would be
available for taking the Gospel to
the world? Is that bank account not
the Lord’s money, intended by Him
primarily for outreach to the world?
Have we not been presumptuous to
make decisions to siphon off most
of the weekly contributions to Him,
investing them in our own comforts and
self-edification? If, instead, we were
focussed on using most of the funds, and
the brightest and best of our preachers
and teachers, in evangelizing the world,
while each Christian at home was taking
responsibility in edifying the church and
teaching friends and neighbors, would
not the scenario be entirely different?
Do you deny these facts? Then what
can you and I and all of us do, more than
we have been doing? We must all band
together now and make that difference
for the world. If we can get things turned
around, and be what the Lord would
have us to be, we will someday be able to
look back and say, “It was so easy to give
a million dollars — even many millions
of dollars — to evangelize the world.”
The solution to the problem — just
to get us started in the right direction —
is so simple: Let each faithful Christian
Soldiers of Christ
add only $1.00 each week to his Continued from page 13
regular contribution, to be used solely It’s unimportant whether our names are
for mission work. The result would be widely known. It really doesn’t matter
at least $6,000,000 more every month whether any earthly monuments will be
for the winning of souls! No — don’t erected in our honor. What is important
say we cannot evangelize the world. The is that all who knew us knew whose
Lord’s people can accomplish that work side we fought on. Though we were
— any time we choose to do so! U fearful at times, they will know that we
J.C. Choate was Editor and Publisher of didn’t run. They will know what we
Global Harvest until his death in 2008. stood for and what we stood against.
Through the centuries millions of
First Century devoted warriors have served faithfully
Methods ... in the Lord’s Army, but nearly all of
them remain unknown to us today.
Continued from page 6 Many are imminently qualified as
congregation. Mission resources should heroes of the faith, in spite of our lack
be allocated to get the job done. The of knowledge of their names. We have
Gospel was taught to all the world in the every assurance that every single one
first century (Colossians 1:23). We can of these who are unknown to us is
do the same today. I believe we will be definitely known to the Lord. He most
held accountable for obeying the “great certainly recognizes and remembers
commission” (Matthew 28:18-20) — the deeds of His troops.
or for not obeying it — just as we are Jesus revealed the greatest honor
accountable to obeying the commands that man can receive. He said, “He
to be baptized for remission of sins or to who overcomes shall be clothed in white
worship each first day of the week. We garments, and I will not blot out his
must re-evaluate our attitude, approach, name from the Book of Life; but I will
and efforts to evangelize the world’s confess his name before My Father and
population. We can do better. Let’s before His angels” (Revelation 3:5).
pray together that our individual and What a marvelous and matchless
collective efforts will result in this job reward awaits those faithful, but
being done in this generation. U unknown, soldiers of Christ! U

Will You Take the Challenge?

1. Will you determine today to give just $1.00 extra each
Lord’s day for missions?
2. Will you encourage others in the congregation to do the
same, working toward 100% participation among the
membership, to reach the goal?
Please write us: World Evangelism Team, P.O. Box 72, Winona, MS 38967;
or email: Choate@WorldEvangelism.org or call: 662-283-1192.
 Global Harvest 15
The new Mission Training Manual,
designed particularly for use in the World
Evangelism School of Missions, has
come from the printer and is available as
the text and guide for those who attend
the sessions. The Manual has additional
uses, though, and we encourage readers
to consider these facts: Numerous
elderships have expressed interest in
having our team come to their area and
conduct classes. We are able to respond
to these invitations only in a limited way
because of many other responsibilities.
However, those who are interested in
having such classes can use the manual
as a guide and can have their own
training school!
How is that possible? Because the
lessons are self-contained in the manual,
so that the needed guidance is there
for classes. We would encourage, in
addition, that those organizing such a
local training program contact former
missionaries, those involved in short-
term mission efforts, and area elders
who have sponsored works abroad, and
schedule two such seasoned men to
participate in each class, adding their
experience and first-hand knowledge
to what is written in the manual. In
fact, this has been our practice in the
World Evangelism School of Missions.
We cannot afford to ignore the great
contributions that experienced brothers
and sisters can make. If we can be of
help in any way, contact us:
Wayne Barrier at 256-766-2807, wbarrier@
hiwaay.net or choate@worldevangelism.org

World Evangelism School of Missions

The second class of students,
numbering 30-35 per session, has
almost finished the World Evangelism
School of Missions program. Classes
are held once a month at the Double
Springs Church of Christ, Double
Springs, Alabama. Instructors for
the year include Don Green (Asia
and Eastern Europe), Gordon Hogan
(Southeast Asia), Joey Barrier (World
Evangelism Missions), Loy Mitchell
(Africa), Don Petty (Pakistan and
Iran), L.T. Gurganus (Japan, Southeast
Asia, Ukraine, Russia), James Jones
(World Mission Radio), Dennis Larson
(Indonesia), Therman Hodge (Burma),
Louis Rushmore (World Evangelism),
Jeremy Barrier (Asia and Latin
America), and Wayne Barrier (World
Evangelism Missions). Betty Choate
and Janet Barrier will teach the ladies
classes.
The goal of the school is to prepare
workers for mission field assignments.
Classes cover every aspect of mission
work, ranging from interaction and
relationship with those who sponsor and
support the missionary to development
of mission field converts for leadership
and evangelism. The vast experiences
of instructors provide the basis for the
material in each course. By studying
lessons learned over the years,
mistakes of the past can be avoided and
successful approaches and methods can
be duplicated.
Contact us if you are interested in
attending our next session. U

Joey Barrier
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The Hispanic Mission in America

Rafael Barrantes

Six years ago a Panamanian
preacher moved from Panama to
the United States with a goal in his
mind to preach the Gospel of Jesus
Christ to the lost souls among
the Hispanic community in the
northern part of South Carolina.
It was a great challenge for Carlos
and Mary Hugues and their family,
but they were supported by a
visionary eldership of the Church
of Christ in Boiling Spring. After many months of preparation
and a lot of prayers, the mission began, and six years later
more than eighty souls have been baptized.
The growing Hispanic congregation was meeting in the
former auditorium of the church, which had become the
fellowship hall. In one part of the building, more than two
hundred members were worshiping in the English language,
while at the other end of the building close to a hundred
Hispanic members were worshiping in the Spanish language.
It was obvious that more room was needed, so the elders made
an important decision to locate a larger place for the Hispanic
congregation. They found a church building for sale, one that
can hold more than five hundred people. The building would
cost a lot of money, but they were sure the funds would be
well spent it. Many Anglo congregations joined their effort to
get such a nice building for the Hispanic brethren. They had
the inauguration of the new facility the second Sunday of
October, 2010. Of course there are still many goals ahead for
the Hispanic church in this area, but they are now rejoicing
over an important accomplishment for the Lord. Elders need to be knowledgeable about the Hispanic work
This kind of work can be done in many places of the
United States. The population of the Spanish speaking people
has increased rapidly, and we need to do something for those
lost souls. By the last decade of the twentieth century there
were twenty-two million Hispanics living in the United
States. They have now become the largest minority group
in the country, and are close to thirty million. It is estimated
that by 2025 the American population will rise from 310
million to 340 million, with the greatest increase among the
Hispanic people, considering their higher birth rate.
If there is a sizeable Hispanic population in your area,
you should consider starting a Spanish ministry in your
congregation. Good leadership with a strong commitment
must be the first stone in order to build an effective work. It
is just like planting churches in a foreign field. There will be
a different language, different cultures, and different people.
They behave like Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans etc.
even living in the United States. “Leadership is critical
because organizations rarely grow beyond the vision and
performance of their leaders” (Rheenen & Waldron). That is
why the elders must have a strong vision and they need to be
well informed of the background and culture of the Hispanic
people in order to be aware of the differences.
The spacious meeting place for the Hispanic congrega-
tion of the church of Christ in Boiling Spring, S. Carolina.
It is recommended that the leadership attend workshops
and seminars for training in how to start the mission, or invite
a Hispanic minister to work with the mission committee.
they want to do, realizing that this is a mission field right
here at home, and less expensive to evangelize than it would
be to go to a foreign land. Time, progress and maturity of the
Hispanic work are slow in many of the cases.
They both, elders and ministers, need to have a great
sense of involvement. “Pulpit ministers profoundly affect their
congregations’ mission involvement.” Many congregations
(Beltline Church of Christ in Decatur, AL; North Highlands
church in Russellville, AL; North Jackson church in TN;
Greenwood church in MS, and College Ave. church in
Tahlequah, OK) have been very successful in the Hispanic
ministry because of strong elders-ministry involvement. U
Rafael Barrantes is Editor of the Spanish Voice of Truth International.
Email address: manuelkattia@msn.comN
 Global Harvest 17

Maywood
Missionary Retreat
Plan to Come in May!
Wayne Barrier

The fifth annual Maywood Missionary Retreat is Between lessons,

scheduled for May 12-14, 2011. Each year, 100-150 mission there is also ample
workers gather for two days of fellowship, sharing, and time for sharing among
relaxation. Excellent meals are provided but participants participants and vis-
are, of course, expected to bring their own sheets and towels itors. Impromptu Bib-
(It is a camp, remember!) le discussions take
“Are You Willing to Do the Job?” is the theme of this place, mission themes
year’s retreat. Each speaker is assigned a specific area or are enlarged upon, and
approach related to the theme. a general atmosphere
The speakers planned for this year include: of spiritual emphasis
Jeff Jenkins – “What Should a Man of God Do in a pervades the entire event.
World that Has Lost its Way?” Anyone interested in mission work is encouraged to
Stacy Ferguson – “South Pacific Experiences” join us. Every year participants declare that the retreat
Robert Martin – “Long Term Commitments to a Field” is the highlight of their year. Please come and enjoy this
Don Petty – “Will You Prepare to Go Gather People to event with us. Maywood Christian Camp is near Hamilton,
Worship God?” Alabama. The camp has air conditioned cabins, acres and
Colin McKee – “Indonesia - The Future” acres of trees, comfortable assembly areas, and except for
Loy Mitchell – “Africa – Progress in an Economic Disaster” our activities, only the sounds of nature can be heard. U
Louis Rushmore – “Missions Program Literature”
Ricky Gootam – “India – Retention Methods” For reservations, call or email Janet at 256-7866-2807 or wbarrier@
hiwaay.net
Jody Apple – “Missionary Training”
Jeremy Barrier – “Thinking Big: Strategic
Missions”
Wayne Barrier – “Integrated Methods”
Gordon Hogan – “Lesson Learned from 50
years in Southeast Asia”
Joey Barrier – “China – A Plan”

Reports will also be given by these brethren:

Randal Matheny Roy Wilson
Ronnie Crocker Don Posey
James Lee Jerry Bates
James Jones Wayne Kilpatrick
Ken Wilkey Arvy Dupy
Don Norwood L.D. Willis
Tony Forrest L.T. Gurganus
Ralph Williams Leroy Cox
Usually on Friday night, entertainment is provided by
Larry Murdock Jared Kelly
the musical Barrier bunch!
Don Green others
 18 Global Harvest
Joy and Disappointment, Challenge and Opportunity:
Such Is Fund-Raising!
Jeremiah McCarver
Amanda, Elijah, and Jeremiah McCarver
In mid-February, 2009, my wife and I began raising
funds for a short-term (1 month) mission trip to Tutuila,
American Samoa. The trip’s purpose was to formulate plans
for long-term work in the South Pacific. March 26 was the
target date for arrival. We had one month to raise $7,000.
We worked hard and trusted in God. Yet, lying in bed on a
Saturday night two weeks prior to departure, unable to sleep
due to a realization that we were thousands of dollars behind
our goal, I felt a tinge of panic begin to scratch at the door
of my mind, wanting in. I answered this threat with prayer
and renewed faith. I slept in peace, awoke, and attended
services. The one who collected our mail approached me
with envelopes containing several thousand dollars total. By
the time we boarded the plane, we had raised $11,000! A
time of joy, not disappointment, it was, and with God, we
had met challenges successfully. Opportunity awaited!
Readers who have embarked on such trips may find
the preceding to be familiar. Yet, missionaries know that
fund-raising for a long-term work is a different animal. The
amounts are much larger: thousands more in one-time funds,
plus regular commitments (such as monthly) that amount
to tens of thousands of dollars annually. Opportunities and
joys increase, but so do challenges and disappointments. In
most cases, would-be missionaries are “required” to use the
“Shotgun Approach” to fund-raising1. (To our shame, some
denominations do a better job of getting missionaries to the
field, because they do not place upon them this unnecessary
burden.*) Using this method by necessity, future mission
families run themselves ragged, chasing rabbits down holes
and pursuing seemingly hopeful leads to dead ends after
sending out hundreds of packets, all in order to come away
with as many as 30-40 regularly supporting congregations
and individuals.
The result: Once on the field, when the mission family’s
reporting year comes around, they return to the States to
spend nearly all of their time and energies reporting, rather
than resting with their friends and family. The Shotgun
Approach is a full-time effort, meaning the fund-raising
family spends its time doing just that, rather than preparing
spiritually for the work ahead.* According to one source,
about 50 cents of every dollar raised goes to fund-raising
expenses, and 6 months to 1 year are required to get in the
field.* Due significantly to the present economy, my family
has been at it for almost 1.5 years, with much support still to
raise! I can almost hear the apostle Paul saying, “Brethren,
these things ought not to be so!” Rod Rutherford points
out that nearly all missionaries agree that a better method
overall is for one congregation to support a mission family
in entirety, or at least cover the bulk of the support needed.*
Yet, as long as the Shotgun Approach remains the
unfortunate reality, there is the potential for some good
to result. Even this undesirable situation can be used by
God to accomplish His will. The fund-raising process as
described previously is a trying and tiring one that requires
perseverance, faith, and character. It is a test that reveals
the future mission family’s readiness to handle the rigors of
work in the field. The theory is that the committed family
will struggle and strive, growing in the process, while the
family not committed or not “cut out” for the work will be
“weeded out” before they get to the field and use up valuable
resources, only to return home early, as many do anyway. The
committed family will emerge triumphant and more refined
for the work. The uncommitted might sink into despair,
imagining they will never reach their goals and their work
will have been in vain, dreading the shame, embarrassment,
and potential bitterness to come. They might stop praying,
Continued on page 24
 Global Harvest 19
Project Rescue
Ronnie
Breaking News! When we
began this work almost four years ago,
we believed we would be in Waycross
until God called us home. All our
actions and decisions were based upon
that commitment.
When we first received a call
from Charles Baggett regarding our in-
volvement in a work in Alabama, we
immediately dismissed it because we
were so heavily involved with the work in
Waycross. Project Rescue was stronger
than ever and we were determined to
work out existing problems. By the
time the second call came from Charles,
we began to think about our prayers
for God’s will. Was he showing us
His will by those telephone calls? We
began to listen to Charles and in early
January we made a trip to investigate
the possibilities. When we saw first
hand the strength of the Beltline church
of Christ and the interest and excitement
among the surrounding congregations, it
became obvious that God had opened a
great door of opportunity.
Before we came into the picture,
a serious search was being made for
serving “the least of these”.
We are now working to raise our
personal monthly financial support.
Ronnie & Charles would be happy to
Crocker have opportunities to speak to con-
gregations regarding this American
mission field and the problem of
addiction in the church.
It has been difficult to convince
many congregations of the great need
of addressing the drug abuse in this
country. Since it is often swept under
the rug, the magnitude of the issue has
been overlooked by the church. We
are encouraged to find a congregation
that really “gets it”. We hope many
others will follow their example and
get involved in this spiritual problem
that threatens to destroy so many
people. We don’t require professionals
in the field of drug addiction. We just
need Bible teachers and committed
facilities for the program. It has now people who have a love for lost souls.
been narrowed down to a 19 acre Please spread the word to any sound
apartment complex in Priceville, and qualified teachers. We would
Alabama, near Decatur and Huntsville. appreciate all the help we can get —
A decision should be made soon. even for short periods of time.
Charles Baggett is the chaplain for Your continued support is so
Limestone Correctional (the largest prison greatly needed and appreciated as we
in Alabama) and has been working with make this move to serve more souls in
the Beltline church of Christ in Decatur, crisis.
Alabama for many years. Charles will It’s exciting to know that we are
be the director of Project Rescue and causing rejoicing in heaven as this
Ronnie will be the program manager. work is instrumental in bringing souls
We moved Jeanie’s parents (Bill to Christ. Lives are being changed,
& Gerry Nicks) to a beautiful assisted and we count ourselves blessed to be
living facility in Priceville, Alabama, involved in this work.
and they are happily settled in their We are presently ministering to 11
new home in the independent section. men and 3 women!
Jeanie and our daughter, Kim Johnson, Our heartfelt thanks go to all of you
and granddaughter, Marlee, remain in who have partnered with us in this project
Waycross to tie up loose ends, with as we serve the Lord together. May God
plans to come to Alabama soon. continue to bless each of you. U
Project Rescue, Inc. has been  Please mail all checks and cor-
converted into an Alabama corporation respondence to:
(501c3) with a board of directors
comprised of faithful Christian men, Project Rescue, % Ronnie Crock-
to serve along with Ronnie and Jeanie. er (Manager), 1231 Main Street W, Hartselle,
AL 35640. Visit our web page at www.
What a blessing to have co-workers projectrescue.org; email address: Ronnie
who are committed to the Lord and to Crocker ronniecrocker1@gmail.com
 20 Global Harvest

Mission Methods that Work

C. Philip Slate

Consciously or not, everyone es’ live up to their claim to be New Tes-

who does “missions” or evangelism tament Christians is whether or not they
engages in some kind of methodology. have sensitivity to all people who have
It might be simplistic or very detailed, never heard the message in a meaning-
good or bad; indeed, one may not even ful way. This is not arguable. Some ef-
be able to describe what he or she does forts will be made to reach neighbors or
as a matter of routine. But it is there.
immigrants, people at home or abroad.
Obviously, it is not possible to de- 2. Communicate clearly enough
velop a one-size-fits-all method since for people to make a valid decision
among the world’s peoples there are about following Jesus. Jesus was King
so many differences of language, value as well as Savior. His parables are
systems, and worldviews. Already in kingdom parables. The task of a king
the book of Acts we observe the value is to reign, to rule, and living under
of approaching Jews one way and Gen- the rule of Christ is what is involved
tiles another. Check out the sermon dif- in being a disciple of Jesus. Disciples
ferences in Acts 14:15-17 and 17:22-31 are not only learners; they are also at-
with some of those to Jews, as in 2:14- tached to their teacher. Jesus cautioned
36 and 7:2-53. All sermons end with against thoughtless, half-hearted efforts message material. One’s life must
Jesus, but the beginning points and to follow Him; He called upon people not stand in the way of the message
lines of argument are different. But in to “count the cost” (Luke 24:25-33; cf. (1 Timothy 4:12-16). New churches
2000 years or so of global evangeliz- Matthew 8:19-22; Luke 9:57-62). must “make sense” to local people at
ing, what can be learned about methods While everyone must grow in the practical level of Christian service,
from both the New Testament and the godliness, nothing takes the place of singing, and lifestyle.
experiences of others? a valid initial decision to “sell out” to 3. Strive for persistence of faith.
Jesus. Whatever it takes to get that Jesus made it clear that He did not
A Minimal Framework messaage across must be done. Of want three-month disciples who would
For many years I have argued from course, the credentials of Jesus must be turn back after putting their hands to
the New Testament, both briefly and in communicated and the Gospel must be the plow (Luke 9:62). As surely as it
detail, that “making disciples”, which is present as “good news” in each culture. is imperative for people to begin dis-
what Jesus said to do (Matthew 28:19- These are necessary preconditions of cipleship, it is a matter of life and death
20), involves three minimal components. making a valid decision. It is possible that they continue in their discipleship
Within these components there must be for people to give invalid “Yes” an- (Colossians 2:6-7). While individuals
many variations. In a sense, these com- swers (hoping to get rice or a chance will answer for themselves, it is also
ponents are both objectives and methods. to study in Europe or America) and true that those who plant and water, or
1. Universalize the message. It invalid “No” answers (responding to who build on the one foundation, must
is the nature of God, Jesus Christ, and crazy missionaries or cankered church- take care how they build (1 Corinthi-
the Holy Spirit to be concerned about es rather than the message of Jesus). ans 3:10-15) since their work will be
the entire world of humans. Terms People must give valid “Yes” answers tested. Realizing initial converts to
like “all the world,” “all nations,” and to be valid disciples of Jesus. Christ is not the end of the process.
“every tribe and language and people One must consider the efforts that Paul and his companions went back to
and nation” are inherent features of the are involved in such communication previously planted churches in order to
Gospel (Matthew 28:19; Acts 1:8; Acts adequacy: learning languages, figures “strengthen” (Gr., επιστηρίζων) them
13:46,47; Revelation 5:9). One sure of speech, conceptual frameworks and (Acts 15:41; 16:5; cf. 14:22; 15:32;
test of whether individuals and church- value systems, and choice of appropriate Continued on page 26
 Global Harvest 21
How to Use House to House
in Foreign Fields
In the last issue of Global Harvest we talked about
how a church in the United States can use House to House
Heart to Heart to spread the Gospel in its community. As of
January 2011, more than 2,500 congregations in the United
States have used House to House. The magazine has always
been an effective way to reach communities in our country,
but it is also a very effective tool in other countries.
To date, House to House has been sent into 24 foreign
countries, including Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Belize,
British Virgin Islands, Canada, England, Ghana, Guyana,
Haiti, Honduras, India, Iraq, Japan, Malawi, Mexico,
Netherlands Antilles, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania,
Trinidad, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Since House to House is
printed in English and in Spanish (we are starting to explore
other languages), it is ideal for use in several different
situations.
Mission Trips
Numerous stateside congregations that regularly print
House to House also use it when they go on mission trips.
Whether or not you currently print, you can do a one-time
printing for a mission trip. This can be customized for the local
congregation in the foreign field. The visiting missionaries
or local members can write an article or advertise an event
on the back page. If you’re hosting a campaign, Gospel
meeting, or Vacation Bible School, the back page of House
to House is a great way to tell people about it. For just 13
cents a piece, in English or Spanish, it is a very affordable
way to leave something in the hands of those that you visit
and study with. We also have some very appropriate HTH
tracts you can order, to leave teaching materials in the hands
of those who are briefly contacted in campaign work.
Missionaries/Foreign Members
Do you or your congregation currently support a
missionary? Are you a missionary or a member of the church
in a foreign field? House to House is ideal for work in other
countries. It is a customizable, eight-page, color magazine
and is printed every two months, for a total of six issues a
year. Each issue is filled with Gospel lessons, simple biblical
truths, and encouraging stories that your congregation can
use to build bridges with those in the community. It is a
personal invitation to the members of your community to
visit services and to ask Bible questions. It is attractive and
colorful. It’s something that a congregation can be happy to
share and leave with someone.
Using House to House can get the truth into the hands
of people, get you invited into homes for further study,
and start conversations with those with whom you come in
contact.
Supporting other congregations
Does your congregation have a stateside mission work,
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House to House can be a great way to support a congregation!
It helps advertise events, provides invitations to people to the
services, and gives the local body something to work on and
contacts to follow up with. Send House to House in English
into 1,000 homes—including both printing and postage—in
their community for just $290 an issue (that’s just $145 a
month). If you’re sending 1000 copies to a foreign work, you
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a month).
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Heart to Heart in Our Mission Work?
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call the office toll-free at 877.338.3397 and ask for Blake
Hamm or Derek Raulerson. For additional information and
archives of articles, please visit our Web site at http://www.
housetohouse.com. U
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dying like a criminal on a cross — that even after death that
central figure would be able to do something for him?
And — wonder of wonders — how did the thief know
anything about Christ’s KINGDOM, and that DEATH
would not prevent its coming into existence? How did such
a man understand more about the message and mission of
Christ at that point in time than even the twelve apostles?
We may never know how he came to die as a thief, but this
was definitely not his first knowledge of Christ. (BBC) U
 Global Harvest 23

We Are Not
the Authors of our Life
Glover Shipp
the idea of purpose in life: a reality. As Olympics organizers
An elderly farmer was digging were all interdependent, so we are all
holes on his property. Despite the heat interdependent. John Donne wrote,
of the day, he was singing. A passerby “No man is an island, entire of itself.
asked him, “Old man, what do you have Every man is a piece of the continent,
to sing about. You are tired and sweaty. a part of the main. If a clod be washed
What do you hope to accomplish? Why away by the sea, Europe is the less ... ”
not take it easy?” The farmer answered, We are here because God wills for
“I’m planting fruit trees.” “But, at your us to be here. Paul says in 1 Corinthians
age, why plant fruit trees? You will 6:19,20 that we are not our own; we
not live to eat their fruit.” The old man were bought with a price (the blood of
The prizewinning Brazilian author paused, wiped the sweat from his face Jesus). Writer Allen Webster notes that
Antônio Lopes de Sá wrote a surprising and said, “Certainly I won’t eat of Jesus made a blood donation to us.
article for The Brazilians, January their fruit, but I am doing for the next Since the cost was so high of
2010, a publication for Brazilians in generation what my parents did for me. rescuing us from sin and giving us
the United States. Quoting Cicero, he I am leaving my farm a better place the opportunity to live in Heaven with
noted that “our souls are nothing less than it was when I inherited it.” our Savior, we must realize that we
that emanations from the universal Such an attitude reveals a sound have a purpose for living. What is our
divine mind.” model of ethics, human dignity and purpose? What is our mission in life?
He went on to conclude that there understanding of what we owe previous How we understand and answer
are two obvious consequences to this and future generations. We repay our these questions has a significant
assertion: parents and teachers by using wisely influence on how we travel through life
• That a superior intelligence which what they transmitted to us. and into eternity. U
gave birth to our existence is present in Just today I was conversing with a
Glover Shipp served as a missionary in
us. Christian nurse. She commented that
Brazil. He and his wife, Margie, now live
• Such a presence demands that we the younger generation of nurses has in Edmond, OK, where he is an elder in
fulfill our mission or objective for our a weak work ethic. They appear to be the church.
life. blind to the needs around them, unless
Dr. Shipp is a
His points were well taken. We those needs are repeatedly pointed out
prolific and in-
are the result of a superior act of to them. spirational writ-
intelligence, which means that we are Being motivated to do good to er. We recom-
here for a purpose far beyond just serving others brings us huge benefits. Being mend his study
ourselves. Paul reminded us, “For me useful to others, we become useful on evidences,
to live is Christ … ” (Philippians 1:21). also to ourselves. We do not serve to “God’s Hand
Our purpose for living is engraved on be served. We serve because that is the or No Hand”.
our souls from our conception. It is to nature that God instilled in us. Yet, as While working
glorify God and serve Christ in our own we serve, we find ourselves blessed in Brazil, Dr.
unique way. Each person is unique, beyond measure. “Give and you shall Shipp found
almost no ma-
with gifts and talents that no one else receive,” says Jesus in Luke 6:38.
terial in Portuguese dealing with the
possesses to the same degree. Inertia, During the opening ceremonies for subject, so he wrote this course which
accommodation to this world, failing to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C., is now available in English.
fulfill or overlooking our gifts — these the director applauded the thousands of You may go on line to www.WorldEvan-
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 24 Global Harvest
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Continued from page 18
stop trusting in God, and stop making
phone calls (working). The committed
family faces the same temptations,
but resists them and uses them as an
opportunity to grow spiritually, thus
becoming better prepared for one of
the greatest challenges they will face
on the field: maintaining the support
raised, or replacing what they will lose
inevitably, but with the added difficulty
of being afar*! That’s the theory.
Why do we future missionaries
subject ourselves to this process?
1. We are motivated by love for lost
souls (1 Corinthians 13).
2. We feel that we are “called”
providentially to our chosen field
of labor, because of the great needs
we see, and because of our personal
bonding with those people.
3. We gain peace of mind through
God and His Word (e.g. 2 Corinthians
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heaven of seeing the “fruits” grown
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labored to plant and water the seed.
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see the opportunities of which God
has called them to take hold with us
(Matthew 28:18-20).
The “Macedonian call” has gone
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family has responded: “Here we are, send
us!” What remains are for churches and
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 Global Harvest 25

Worldwide Radio Evangelism Larry Paul Murdock

“Placing the Gospel within the Reach of Millions”
THE VISION 3. He will raise funds for a brother Wayne Barrier, an extensive
Shortwave radio can reach far multiple number of “projects”. mission work stretches across the
more people with the Gospel than any 4. He will coordinate a broadcast subcontinent of India and Southeast
other current mass media tool. This schedule that supports each “project”. Asia. Radio broadcasts are an essential
tool has been used for many years by 5. He will follow-up on responses element of that outreach. Larry has
Gospel preachers and missionaries. J.C. and coordinate follow-up efforts with now become the English speaker for
Choate (Voice of Truth), Roy Beasley churches of Christ around the world. the Voice of Truth programs broadcast
(Restoration Radio), and Joe Gray THE PARTNERS for the island of Sri Lanka, supported
(Treasure of Truth) are three examples Partners in this work include by the World Evangelism mission team.
of current works that target millions of supporting churches of Christ, We invite the partnership and
people weekly with Gospel broadcasts American radio preachers, brotherhood support of churches of Christ to help us
via shortwave radio. Since a major evangelistic programs and foreign expand the broadcasts and the number of
portion of the world receives its “news” radio preachers. stations in the world that air them. The
via shortwave radio, this media is still Partners also include existing goal is to “Place the gospel within reach
an effective means of reaching lost souls brotherhood mission programs: World of millions” through means available to
with the power of the Gospel broadcast. Evangelism of Double Springs, AL and multiplied millions of people around the
And, it is working! Around 300,000 Winona, MS. A special partnership world — shortwave radio. U
responses a year are recorded by Voice exists with the mission efforts of the Larry Murdock at 256-810-5078, or write
of Truth partners. Between 3,000 and Double Springs, AL church of Christ. the Pulaski Street Church of Christ, 247
4,000 baptisms each year are attributed Led by the elders of the church and Pulaski Street, Lawrenceburg, TN 38464.
to that team effort. The vision: place the
Gospel within the reach of millions and
a substantial number will be drawn to Work Among the Burmese in the USA
the light by the power of the Gospel. George Achard
THE MISSION
George Achard, right and center, in a Bible
To produce and distribute Gospel
study with refugees from Myanmar (Burma).
messages for broadcast via radio in
order to “make disciples”.
THE LEADERS
The elders of the Pulaski Street
Church of Christ in Lawrenceburg, TN
oversee the work of Larry Murdock and
the development of Worldwide Radio
Evangelism. Their oversight will ensure
progress and the continuance of the work.
Larry Murdock serves as the coordinator
of Worldwide Radio Evangelism.
1. Larry will write, produce, and
distribute broadcasts in English.
2. He will also recruit and partner
with other radio speakers to distribute George and Gertrude Achard, with from his work with the American
their programs in both English and their three children, came to Florence, Embassy. Having been Christians
national languages. AL five years ago when George retired Continued on page 26
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Mission Methods ... Burma

Continued from page 20 be — Bible translation, training lead- Continued from page 25
18:23). For that reason “quickie mis- ers, hard-line evangelizing, developing and strong leaders in the small church
sions” will not get the job done. It is indigenous hymns, producing support- of Christ in Yangon for many years,
to be remembered that every book in ive literature, developing churches, and George enrolled in the program at
the New Testament has for at least one so forth. In each case, everything that Heritage Christian University. Side-
of its purposes that of strengthening, is done should deliberately contribute by-side with his studies, he has been
stabilizing, guiding, or protecting the to one or more of the three components active in translation work, enabling the
disciples of Jesus. mentioned above. Busyness and bustle printing of materials in the Burmese
Specifics of this process involve with good things that cannot be related language and, more recently, he
a goal of planting culturally meaning- meaningfully to the three components has worked among refugees in the
ful churches. That is the clear prec- fail to accomplish what is needed. Nashville area. Gertrude reported:
edent in the New Testament, and it is One of my teachers told the story “As for translation, we are still
also a clear message from the history of a young man who learned John 3:16 working on The Gospel of Christ. We’ve
of missions. L.S. Latourette’s writings in an African dialect, went to every already finished Bible Keys, Gospel
have demonstrated this to be the case. hut in a village, quoted the verse in the Sermonnettes, The Church of the
Isolated Christians rarely survive; the dialect, and then insisted he had evan- Bible, and Why We Believe What We
people of God were to function in edi- gelized the village! I don’t know who Believe,Vol. 1 & 2. I am also typing the
fying groups as well as individually. sent him, but they knew as little about hymns George translated into Burmese.
The “one-another” passages in the what they were doing as the young man We have already done 100 songs.
New Testament point to an important did about what he was doing! Thus, “We go up to Smyrna & Nashville
element of God’s survival and growth supporting churches need to learn how TN the first, second, and third weekends
arrangements for His people. to ask appropriate questions about indi- of each month. We’ve made many trips
vidual and group activities. A lot of vir- already and six souls were converted.
What Supporting tually useless — and sometimes even “One new lady whose name is
Churches Should Do harmful activities — can be carried out Sawng Hing (of the Chin people, 27
Churches of Christ are described under the general umbrella of “Mis- years old) was baptized on Saturday
by some as a “church-sponsored mis- sions” or “extending the kingdom” or after her Bible study class at Woodson
sions” group, meaning that we do not “spreading the Word”. It is important Chapel Church of Christ in Nashville.
turn world evangelizing over to a mis- to be specific and realistically focused. She said, ‘I am so happy to be in the
sionary society. Thus, the local church This is God’s work. Lord’s Church.’ She said that she was
must learn what is involved when it unhappy before she took baptism.
Wrapping Up She attended regular Bible study with
supports something financially. When
Responsible churches will see George for quite a long time.” U
churches provide such support and/or
to it that responsible workers are sent George and Gertrude Achard’s email ad-
guidance in the global evangelizing
out to work responsibly on biblical and dress: gertyga@gmail.com
enterprise, they should select workers
achievable goals. Our Lord
that understand and are committed to
deserves no less than our best Philip Slate’s Lest
this basic three-component framework
focused efforts to reach the lost We Forget, a compi-
or its equivalent. A person can focus
and strive for their continuance lation of mini-biogra-
on any one of the components more
in the faith. U
than the others, but he should have phies of 84 mission-
some concept of how his or her work is C. Philip Slate, longtime aries of churches of
related to the whole. missionary to the UK, and Christ in the early part
Further, churches should assure professor of Preaching and of the 20th Century.
Missiology at Harding Graduate
that the workers they send possess the School, now serves as mis-
120 pages, $8.00.
qualifications necessary to perform the sions consultant and trainer for
tasks they undertake, whatever that may Churches of Christ. Call 662-283-1192
 Global Harvest 27

World English Institute

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

to keep the school running year around. If anyone can spend

Start an English Language Center in a month or more teaching WEI students in Phnom Penh,
Your Congregation’s Building contact Julie at juliebroyles1@gmail.com. Food and lodging
“If the apostles had had WEI, they may not have had to will cost you only $13 a day. That may be the best deal
use ‘tongues’.” This is said with a smile, but perhaps it is anywhere in short-term missions.
close to being the case. World English Institute has made it
so that pagans throughout the world don’t decry or barely AFRICA
tolerate the Bible. They are ASKING for it! There are WEI language centers in Awasa, Ethiopia,
No longer do congregations need to beg people to come founded by John Ed Clark and Behailu Abebe; and in Abak,
to them so they can teach them how to save their souls from Nigeria, directed by Aniefiok and Etang Akpan. There have
hell. There is a way for the lost to do the begging; albeit, been hundreds of baptisms as a result of these works.
not to save their souls, but to learn today’s global language
— English. INDIA
English is now the official language of the UN, NATO, Prabhu Kumar was an internet student of Mike Hale in
Organization of Islamic Conference, NAFTA, the European Texas. After completing his studies, he taught his own first
Union, Pacific Island Forum, Council of Europe (to name a class with twenty-five students. He challenged his ten best
few) and of 53 countries of the world. English is also the students who had become Christians to establish language
dominant language of communications, science, business, Continued on page 28
entertainment, radio, diplomacy.
Intelligent people in all professions, as well as university
students, are turning to World English Institute (WEI) to
learn English and, in the process, are learning the Bible.
Teachers do not need to remember all their high-school
grammar rules. WEI workbooks provide very simple and
short lessons along with the answers. Most of the time is
spent seeing if the student understood the Bible lesson
written in English.

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA

The PIP/WEI English Language Center in Cambodia
was established by Bill and Marie-Claire McDonough in
2003. This work is now being carried on by Julie Broyles.
Their building is rented and very nicely meets their needs.
While helping out at the center, Dick Ady (founder of
WEI) studied with a Muslim. One day, the student bragged,
“We Muslims pray five times a day. How often do you pray?”
Dick replied that he prayed without ceasing. “In fact, I pray
for you every day,” he said. Then he demonstrated how he
prayed for him. “When I looked up, his eyes were filled with
tears.”
Julie is doing a terrific job as Director of the English
Bible school in Phnom Penh. Most students are Buddhist,
and there have been numerous baptisms. Her blogs are full
of exciting news and pictures. But she needs more teachers
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World English Institute

Continued from page 27 But others have reverted to Islam, the interpreters over a private speaker
centers in their home cities. Thus far religion of their grandparents. Baptisms system. Baptisms always result.
thirty-four WEI language centers have abound, as we see in the picture of The church also provides child
been established in this one country, and Brother Erik Oirjaqi baptizing one of care. A special banquet is given for
hundreds are being baptized. the Tirana students into Christ. Eighty graduates. Several have been baptized
WEI provides diplomas for grad- percent of those baptized in Albania into Christ as a result of this one
uates. Language centers are encouraged come from Muslim families. congregation’s reaching out to local
to have graduation ceremonies. Pictured immigrants.
here is a graduation last year at the NORTH AMERICA ADVERTISING
Vyasarpadi center in Chennai, India. Simple posters can be placed in the
Erik Tryggestad, Assistant Managing personnel offices of local companies
Editor of the Christian Chronicle, was that hire immigrants. Keep in mind
guest speaker. Having a guest speaker that the US requires immigrants
and banquet are other ideas for making to have a source of income before
graduation from WEI special. allowing them to come, legally. Many
are engineers, scientists and teachers
ALBANIA with good jobs. Other posters can be
placed in restaurants or grocery stores
in the neighborhoods where many
With so many immigrants to immigrants have settled.
Canada and the United States, there Missionaries or national preachers
should be a WEI language center in in non-English-speaking countries
every one of our brotherhood church usually prefer their posters to be both in
buildings in areas where there are many English and the native language. Ads
immigrants. are also placed in newspapers.
One such language center is at the For more information on starting a
Antioch, TN Church of Christ. L. and WEI language center, advertising, and
Dick Ady periodically visits Eng- G. Taylor help immigrants from Iraq, ordering study workbooks, go to www.
lish language centers in areas of the Iran, Somolia, and Ethiopia in their weiady.org or contact founder and
world where national preachers and studies. Sue Thweat teaches a large author of all the lessons, Dick Ady at
missionaries use WEI’s materials. class of beginners. Pictured is Lisa weiady@aol.com, or Tom Langley at
Tom Langley, Vice-President of WEI, Steele with a Muslim student. weimarville@aol.com U
leads campaigns in Oradea, Romania, Students are encouraged to attend
where a WEI language center has been worship with the congregation. Those Katheryn Maddox Haddad
established in the church building. who are beginners and do not understand Haddad1940@yahoo.com
Tom is available to organize short- the lessons very well are provided with 519-948-2828 or 520-509-8090

term mission efforts and help establish

WEI language centers anywhere in
the world. Christians all over North
America participate in these campaigns
which normally last four to six weeks.
Pictured is Dick with a student
in Tirana, Albana, during one such
campaign. Many of the students in
Albania have no religion, having been
schooled in Communistic atheism.
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Mission Printing
Richard Renfro
Mission Printing, Inc.,
located in Arlington, Texas, is a non-
profit organization that prints and
distributes Gospel tracts throughout the
world for free. We are a ‘work of the
churches of Christ’. God has blessed us
for over thirty years with hardworking
Christian volunteers and generous
contributors who want to supply the
world with “World Evangelism by the
Printed Page”. We have two full time
personnel and hundreds of volunteers
who do thousands of tasks. A dozen
congregations are now involved in
collating and stapling our material in
their own buildings.
Mission Printing does not sell
anything; we exist as God blesses us
with dedicated contributors to continue
His work of spreading the Gospel.
These tracts are especially important
for missionaries to utilize with their
preaching and studying with different
people. We print, only in English,
approximately eighty individual tracts
targeting many different biblical
topics explaining ‘how to become a
Christian’ to ‘living the Christian life’.
Please go to our webpage http://www.
missionprinting.us/ to view the tracts
in their entirety and learn all about us.
Each year we print millions of
tracts and ship them to individuals in
many different countries. Our process
begins with the Trustees and the
Director examining and reviewing the
individual tract for doctrinal soundness
and applicability for our readers. The
tract is proofed for grammar and
spelling as well as for correct scriptural
references. Then we convert it to a
software program that allows us to
burn a printing plate for the offset
printer. Volunteers proof,
print, fold, collate, staple, trim,
box, and ship the tracts to their
destinations. Also we utilize
our booklet maker that collates, staples,
folds and trims our smaller tracts at
more than 2,500 per hour. Last year
we began shipping the majority of our
material via ocean containers ($0.30
per pound) and saving $100,000 versus
the US Mail costs ($3.00 per pound).
Now we are able to ship more than
twice as many tracts as last year.
This is our first shipment to Ghana
in Oct 2009.
Nigerian preachers gather to distrib-
ute tracts in August.
Ghana received 32,000 pounds of
tracts (app. 640,000 tracts) in January
and Nigeria received 40,000 pounds
(app. 800,000 tracts) in August.
Another 30,000 pounds (app.
600,000 tracts) are due to arrive in
Ghana, November 20, 2010.
We are now working on another
40,000 pounds for Nigeria. World
Evangelism of Winona, MS was able
to ship many of their materials with
our last shipment to Ghana. They are
planning to ship material in our next
container to Nigeria in February.
A key to successful ocean container
shipping is finding a volunteer Distri-
bution Manager in the proposed
country who is willing to distribute
the tracts quickly to those who are
requesting them. This takes a person
with great experience in the local area
churches and who has many contacts
that can help him complete the task.
The Distribution Manager usually
does some follow-up work with each
recipient. Preaching school directors
make great Distribution Managers
because they have many students who
need these tools to start their preaching
careers, and they have an eagerness to
spread the Gospel.
The most difficult task of shipping
via ocean container is plowing through
all the government ‘red tape’ of each
country’s requirements for customs
clearance. Some countries will not
accept the ‘tax free’ material without a
large tax charge or government fee. As
a volunteer Vice-president of Mission
Printing, I traveled to Ghana last year
to see the conditions for our shipment
to Brother Willie Gley. I plan to go to
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Giving out tracts on the streets.

Continued from page 29
South Africa in January, Lord willing,
to discuss with Brother Rohan Jones
about being our Distribution Manager
and to explore the conditions for our
possible shipment to Cape Town. One
of our Trustees has offered to pay my
airfare with his air miles.
Monday John Akpakpan is one of
our Distribution Managers in Nigeria Books being selected and packaged for shipment from the World Evange-
and Brother Reuben Egwu is another lism office in Winona to the Mission Printing container in Dallas, Texas, for
one. I have two more brothers in Nigeria libraries for preacher training schools in Nigeria.
who are waiting on their opportunity to
receive an ocean container as well. at least four ocean containers (about May God bless the efforts of the
Mission Printing receives requests 150,000 pounds) per year in response brotherhood as we work together to
daily from around the world via email, to these requests. This would give the spread the Gospel. U
letter or phone for religious tracts. We world a free gift of about 3,000,000
Please contact me, Richard Renfro, on
pray that God will bless us with more Gospel tracts a year to learn how to live my cell 972.977.3680 for more informa-
donors who will enable us to send for Jesus. tion.

Spanish Materials Available for Evangelism and Grounding in the Faith

Class and study books.

The Voice of Truth International magazine Call 662-283-1192
Global Harvest 31

World Video Bible School

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www.WVBS.org Bible Study@wvbs,org; Orders: 877-398-5211

Sent Out Around the World:

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A newly expanded edition of the Searching for Truth Study
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posters. The charts include “Where do we go when we die?”,
“Modern Churches Timeline”, and “The Ten Commandments?”
Only $2.00 each for 20 copies of the book; single copies, $5.00.
 32 Global Harvest
I am confident that churches of Christ all over the globe
have a deep and burning desire to see souls saved and want to
do whatever it takes to accomplish this. This was the attitude
and desire Paul had, when he recorded the following words:
“Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel
is, that they might be saved” (Romans 10:1). “I have great
heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could
wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsmen according to the flesh” (Romans 9:2,3). The
apostle Paul dedicated his life to spreading the good news of
his Lord. What about us today?
We are very fortunate to have the ability to sow the seed
in the hearts of men and women, particularly via mass media.
I thank God in my prayers daily for Gospel Broadcasting
Network, as do many of you. Without the efforts of GBN,
many souls would never hear the simple and pure Gospel of
Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 11:3).
Gospel Broadcasting Network could not exist without
the prayers and financial support of many good brethren. Paul
wrote to the Galatians: “As we have therefore opportunity, let
us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the
household of faith” (Galatians 6:10). With your continued
financial support, you are living the directive of Paul. One
may ask, but how?
As a located preacher in Dalton, Georgia, I have seen
firsthand how GBN helps the souls of both Christians and
non-Christians in the community. Several months ago, a man
discovered GBN on the local cable company here in Dalton.
After much time spent watching and studying, he decided to
contact the Highland congregation and requested to be baptized
for the remission of his sins. Often, he expresses to me how
thankful he is for GBN. He is confident he would not have
heard the truth without it. The financial contributions you make
are helping continually to save souls from death (James 5:20).
Though Gospel Broadcasting Network is instrumental
in saving the lost, it also helps keep the saved, saved.
Your generosity helps to provide 24/7 sound teaching and
preaching to members who are homebound. Individuals
can become very discouraged when unable to attend the
services of the church. Sadly, some shut-ins and home
bound individuals begin to fall away from their first love,
spiritually decaying from the disease of discouragement.
With the installation of a KU Band dish, through which they
may view GBN, homebound Christians can be encouraged.
Also, the network can uplift individuals who live a long
distance from a sound, faithful congregation. Prior to the
launching of GBN, some Christians may have felt isolated
because of the distance from brethren of like precious faith.
Because GBN streams on the World Wide Web 24/7, they
are just a click away from sitting in a Bible class or worship
service of the church.
Brethren, though we live in a time when many are saving
money for rainy days, we ask congregations of the Lord’s
church to continue to spend money to save precious souls.
Jesus said, “Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they
are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth
wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he
that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together” (John
4:35,36). With cooperation, we can fulfill the words of Jesus.
Thank you for your past, present and future support of
Gospel Broadcasting Network!
Tyler Gilreath, evangelist, Highland Church of Christ
New Executive Director for GBN
The elders of the Highland Church of Christ in Dalton,
GA, who oversee Gospel Broadcasting Network, have
announced Don Blackwell as the network’s new Director.
Brother Blackwell is well recognized and respected in the
brotherhood, not only for his soundness in the faith, but
for his effective work with local congregations and as a
speaker for such media efforts as Truth for the World and
World Video Bible School, as well as for GBN. The elders
believe this new leadership will assist them in establishing
a solid foundation upon which the network may expand its
effectiveness and coverage in the years ahead. U
Gospel Broadcasting Network, 3969 Cloud Springs Rd., Ringgold, GA
30736; Phone: 866-525-4677; Email: info@gbntv.org
Hey!
How would you like to give away
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 Global Harvest 33
Are you reaching your community?
With WBS Connect, your congregation can
use WBS’ products and technologies and your
own promotional efforts to seek, enroll, and teach
your own WBS students, wherever you want.
The newly-announced WBS Connect
program will appeal to many churches. Why?
Because the church in America isn’t growing
— not even keeping up with the growth of the
population. (How’s your church doing?) We
all must do more to share Jesus right here in
the U.S. God will bless motivated, evangelis-
tic churches, including those who proactively
share the Good News, through WBS materi-
als, in their own communities.
Here’s what you’ll get with the WBS
Connect program:
Ideas — We’ll give you promotional ideas
and tools to help your congregation cost-ef-
fectively find Bible students in a targeted area
using your own outreach programs.
A Site — You will have your own customized, WBS-branded
Web site integrated into WBS’ worldwide student site. Your
targeted promotions will direct poten­tial students to this site
where they can enroll to study the Bible and be taught by
members where you worship.
Students — All postal and email students who enroll at your
WBS Connect site will be assigned to WBS Study Helpers
at your church. All Web students who enroll will be identi-
fied with your congregation and will be assigned to a Study
Helper with your brethren when they request one.
Join WBS Connect! See www.worldbibleschool.net/con-
nect. Let’s connect with those
around us. Together we can
enroll more Bible students,
with less cost, and involve
more Christians in sharing the
Good News of Jesus. U HOC in your honor in lieu of a gift.
World Bible School, P.O. Box
2169, Cedar Park, TX 78630;
800-311-2006; info@world-
bibleschool.net
The Hands of
Compassion Ministry
Stacy Sikes
“Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
Yes, our God is compassionate” (Psalm 116:5).
The Hands of Compassion Ministry in Rochester,
Minnesota is a benevolent work providing free housing
and hospital chaplaincy to Mayo Clinic patients and their
families. The door of such benevolence often makes this an
evangelistic ministry leading to many opportunities to teach
the Gospel. According to our 25-year history, approximately
half of the 7,000 people served in the House of Compassion,
as well as numerous others in the Mayo’s two hospitals,
were not members of the Church of Christ.
We need YOUR help in addressing our ministries’
financial need. We are asking every individual member of
your congregation to donate ONLY $1.00 and $1.00 ONLY.
Though this may seem like small pocket change for the
individual, collectively it can make a substantial difference
toward supporting this work. Will you help us in this way?
What compassion God has poured out upon us to enrich our
lives and to then bring compassionate change in the lives of
our fellow man. Our Lord is indeed the Father’s Compassion!
Ways you can help with ongoing funding needs:
A. Donations are tax deductible! HOC is a charitable
organization; check with your employer to see if they have a
matching gift program.
B. Register at http://www.iGive.com/hocrochester or
http://www.iSearchiGive.com/hocrochester so that every time
you shop or, even, search online, HOC can receive income.
C. Consider signing up for our “Adopt-A-Room”
program where you commit for one year to raise or donate
money to replace items that frequently wear out -- towels,
sheets, pillows, etc.
D. Have your church, employer, or school organization
collect “Compassionate Change” jars. This is also a great
way to teach young children in Sunday school classes the
power of how their change can make a difference.
E. Don’t need anything yourself for the next birthday?
Suggest to family and friends that they make a donation to
F. Spread the word about HOC to your family and friends
and ask them to help support us. U
Send donations to: Hands of Compassion 840 W. Center St.;
Rochester, MN 55902 Cell: (507) 9510628
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It’s God’s Money.
How Do We Spend It for Him?
It is so very easy. . . .
It is so very easy for Americans to
live in an isolated world of our own
making. It is so very easy for us to be
spoiled rotten, and not even to realize it
because we live in denial of the reality
for most of our planet.
We have an excess of everything.
We waste more than most of the rest of
the world consumes. We complain; we
indulge in daily food orgies; we trivialize
the important, and then we focus full
attention on entertainment, sports, and
fads. The most exorbitant salaries in the
US are paid to those who entertain us
while wrecking our morals and culture.
As major disasters are taking place in a
neighboring country, our news media
may be devoting 23-hour coverage to the
sordid details of some scandal involving
a nothing of an entertainer.
If we looked squarely at ourselves,
as the rest of the world must, we would
find ourselves to be trite and despicable
in too many instances.
It is so very easy. . . .
It is so very easy for the Lord’s
church in America to live in an isolated
world of our own making. We were born
in the country where the Restoration
Movement resulted in many churches
of Christ and many Christians. Most of
us have been blessed with a Christian
heritage from our parents — we didn’t
have the challenge of searching for
the Truth among pagan religions and
fanatics who were sworn to kill those
who left the established “faith”.
We have it easy, in most cases. We
draw strength from fellow Christians,
we can faithfully worship — or not
— with an organized congregation,
in a comfortable building, with all
our spiritual needs being met. So
how do we value this great gift of
salvation? Too often, we neglect
it; we take it for granted; we feel
imposed upon if we are asked to do
anything, or we expect to be paid
for every service.
And when someone comes
and asks for help to go somewhere
to evangelize, too many times
the elders say there are no funds
How would you like to swap your
available because we have to build old-fashioned pews for these chairs?
a new fellowship hall or swap out
our pews at a cost of thousands
of dollars for the chairs that are
today’s fads, or indulge in some
other frivilous use of God’s money.
One day, each of us will stand
in judgment before our very just
God. He has given us much, and
He promises that He also requires
much. In all honesty, how would
you judge yourself on the basis of
how you spend His money?
Or how about these “top of the line” pews?
Notice the ladies in the aisle? This is a wor-
ship assembly of your brothers and sisters.
Do You Have a Bible???
About 70% of those enrolled in
India for Bible courses complete the
courses. This is mainly because we
offer them a copy of the Bible free.
Most Indians do not know where
and how to get a copy of the Bible.
Since this is predominantly a Hindu
country, there are no Bible bookstores
in the towns and villages over the
Does your baptistery
country. The Bible Society of India look like this?
is the only place where you can get
Bibles, and it has branches only in
BIG cities like Bangalore, Delhi,
Chennai, Calcutta, and Hyderabad.
Even professing Christians often
do not know where and how to get
a Bible! U
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Worldwide, It’s God’s Family . . .

IMAGINE IF YOU WERE
REUBEN. . .
Imagine for a moment that you were not born
in the United States, but in a third-world country.
At five-years-old you wander daily from door-to-
door begging food from the people of Pothanur
village, a city in south India. Because you live in a
predominantly Hindu country, most of the children
are not allowed to associate with you. Their parents
The hurricane in Haiti left many of your
brothers homeless. Are you helping
fear that your bad karma will rub off on their children
build this “earth bag” house? and bring bad fortune to their family. Because you
have no home, there is no place to shower, and your
appearance and smell are repelling to most.
You exist because ungodly men raped your mentally challenged (retarded)
mother, who also roams the streets, homeless, helpless. What will your
tomorrow be like? Do you want to be a doctor, policeman, or lawyer? You
can’t worry about that and the necessary education. You only have time to
think about tonight, as your stomach growls from hunger, and which house
might possibly provide your breakfast in the morning.
One day, your life took a different direction. A social worker brought you
to live at Deva Anbu Illam. Immediately, you were introduced to 120 other
children who will not look down on you or be prejudiced toward you because
Bathrooms have to be “just so”. you are an orphan. They know how you feel.
Does yours look anything like this?
As you approach the cottage that will be your new home, you see for the
first time your smiling new house mother and the five other children who will
grow to be your brothers and sisters. How will you get food? This is so far
from the Pothanur houses where you have always begged. Meet Devanesan
and Dorisami, our cooks at DAI. From this day onward you can have all of the
food you want to eat.
Curiously, you observe your first worship service, and a young man stands
to lead singing, and one of your friends leans to explain that this is Paul, and he
is going to school to be an attorney. Imagine if you were Reuben.
Our American schools are so under-
Reuben is with us now. He couldn’t help where or to whom he was born. He
funded. Are they this color. . . .?
needed someone who cared, and he found just that. The Lord willing, he will
Masses
in the spend his life praising God for His mercy and grace to the fatherless. Before
world long, he will likely be the one leading the songs, the prayers, the preaching, just
have no like all of the others who have come. God is great! Reuben’s clothing, food
problem and housing will cost $35 per month. A commitment to take on the support of
with one of these children could be the best resolution you ever made. U
obe-
sity. . . . Contact us at the Banner Elk Church of Christ; doniverson@juno,com

They are starving. Many of our Christian brothers and sisters face natural disasters and other
crises too great for them to handle alone. Is it through the hearts of American Christians that
God would bring them succor? But even greater than the physical needs,
what about the SOULS? (BBC)
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A Voice in a Barren Land

Alejandro DelZotto

My name is Alex Del Zotto. I am forty
five years old, married for twenty two
years, originally from Argentina, where
my Italian grandfather had settled after
WWI. In 1999, the economy in Argentina
wasn’t great, and it wasn’t a safe place
to raise our daughters. We moved to the
United States, to Naples, FL.
We were Catholics and we went to
a Catholic church but it wasn’t fulfilling
our spiritual needs. We met the Martinez
family in 2002. They came from Argen-
tina also, and had been members of the
church of Christ all their adult lives. We
started having Bible studies together
and decided later to begin attending the
Naples Church of Christ. In 2005, my
oldest daughter, Fiorella, was baptized.
A few months later, my wife, Patricia,
and I decided to become Christians, and
we were baptized as well. Lucia, our
youngest daughter, was baptized in 2009.
From the time I became a Christian,
I was committed to be a follower of our
Master, Jesus Christ. Daniel Martinez
and I began working with a small group
of Spanish people in our area. The church
later asked us to move our meetings to
the church building, which was good
because we were growing. After a year
of classes, the Martinez family moved
to Spain. I kept the classes going and
also started visiting the church of Christ
in Immokalee, about 25 miles from our
home. I saw the need there and offered
my help. I started giving Bible classes
during the week and later became the
song leader, too.
In 2008, I started a school for
preachers online and invited the men
of the Immokalee church to participate
in the video-conference classes. I know
from the bottom of my heart the need
to be in Christ Jesus and, for the lack
of understanding the language, many
people are lost and without hope. My
commitment comes from the letter of
Jude: “But ye, beloved, building up
yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep
yourselves in the love of God, looking
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
unto eternal life. And of some have
compassion, making a difference: And
others save with fear, pulling them out
of the fire; hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh. Now unto him
that is able to keep you from falling,
and to present you faultless before the
presence of his glory with exceeding
joy, To the only wise God our Savior,
be glory and majesty, dominion and
power, both now and ever. Amen.”
We are so thankful for the joy we
have in Christ Jesus our Lord and our
Redeemer, and this joy cannot be kept
in ourselves any longer. We need your
help to reach places where the church
of Christ is not in the area. Entre Rios,
Argentina has 1,200,000 people and,
officially, there is not a congregation
in that state. For two years and a half
we  have been sending the Gospel by
FM radio station in the northwest of
the state. In the state of Buenos Aires,
a small congregation asked for help
to broadcast our programs at a cost of
$750 for a year!  This cost covers the
transmission of two programs per week
for 52 weeks, 10 minutes each time.
You can be a part of this effort with an
annual pledge of only $15. This means
that the people there will receive the
Gospel program and an invitation to be
part of God’s family two times a week
for a full year! U
Join with us in this effort!
For more information, call 662-650-0055.
My email is DESCUBRIENDOAJESUS@
GMAIL.COM
Send your support to Liberty Church of
Christ, 689 Highway 25 Dennis, Missis-
sippi. 38838; (Mention “Discovering Je-
sus” on the envelope)
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Haiti Christian Development Project
and Recovery Effort
Thank you for your love and
caring. Please know that the elders
are faithfully overseeing this recovery
work and while remaining totally
committed to evangelism and church
planting (which continues as we
respond to physical needs).
The books being donated by
“World Evangelism” will be absolutely
fabulous. We are quite serious about
trying to have a library, and we plan to
primarily utilize our building (we are
moving to another building next door –
“headquarters”) as a place from which
books can be kept as a library and
teaching materials can be dispensed.
There is no other such place in Haiti.
This container is a unique opportunity
for us to ship them without the usual
high cost. The set of 150 books for the
library of the preacher training school
will be wonderful. We will be sure that
the copies in French of The Gospel of
Christ, The Church of the Bible, New
Children being fed.
Dr. David Smith
Testament Worship, Building under construction for the use of the
and You Can Be Just a church and outreach programs in Gonaives.
Christian are put to good
use.
We want brethren to
know that in the midst
of all of the turmoil
and chaos of this year,
evangelism has not been
neglected at the Poteau
church of Christ.
Pacius has reported:
“We have more than
125 people as new converts in our We then traveled to Bangnol (Bay-
congregation. We go door to door to onaisse foothills) with the preacher,
preach every second Saturday of the John Peter Merihil. We met with some
month. People come from different of the people in the village, visited
areas in Gonaives to attend our service. the tuition-free school conducted in
Now we have more than 300 in our a tarp-wrapped tent-like structure.
worship service. For instance, today we We saw the arbor-loo latrine, saw the
have 248 people in the worship. I did children pump and carry water from the
not expect that because of the election, property well, and then saw them enjoy
but this goes over our expectation. the feeding center (for some, their only
People walked to come to worship meal of the day).
because there was no Tap-Tap today.” John Peter then traveled back with
In working with Pacius in the us to Gonaives to the office of Dr.
recovery effort, I made a trip to Haiti. Due Grenson Jeune, Pacius’ cousin. Thirty-
to delays created in Port au Prince, we nine year-old John Peter suffers from
stayed in a hotel near Montrous, but we Sickle Cell anemia, and the ulcer on his
were up at 4:45 A.M. and off to Gonaives. leg has been a major source of disability
We visited the new construction at the for him. Dr. Jeune and I biopsied the leg
HCDP headquarters and set up Pacius’ in hopes of finding a treatable infection
new computer which will allow us to that would hasten its recovery. It was
communicate through Skype. an interesting journey back to the US
Next, we met with the Poteau elders with the specimens which had to be
for two hours and discussed some of kept on ice — not such a problem here,
their physical needs. It was such an but interesting in Haiti, going through
encouragement to hear them reason customs, etc.
together in such a harmonious way. We visited the Bois Marchand
Other key issues included the building farm, visited with the chief, and saw the
and management of the proposed recent improvements. New bunk beds
village in Bangnol. Continued on page 41
 38 Global Harvest
Collierville Church of Christ Prepares
for Guyana, South America, 2011!
Randy L Gaddy
What began as a spark has taken
flame. The Collierville congregation
located in Collierville, TN completed
its 3rd trip in July, 2010 to Guyana,
South America, after teaming up with
two other congregations in efforts to
share the Gospel with precious souls
and to encourage the faithful. A fourth
campaign is planned for July, 2011.
What began as a team of two
within the congregation on the first
journey to South America has now
grown to six people (Randy Gaddy,
Staci Gaddy, Ashea Gorden, Khristian
Kellum, Beckie McGill, and Rebecca
Rushmore) with hopes of increasing
that number. During that week in
Guyana, in addition to the scheduled
classes on Saturday and each evening,
14 Americans conducted Bible studies
with 56 individuals, set up four Bible
correspondence courses, and witnessed
three baptisms. The local brethren plan
to continue the studies that weren’t
finished when we left. The work that
was done was a great encouragement
to all who participated.
Recently I Took a
Mission Trip
Khristian Kellum
Recently, I took a mission trip to
Guyana, South America. I honestly
thought I wasn’t ready to go on such a
trip. When I first arrived there it was very
late. I was shocked to find that I loved
being there, and I didn’t mind stepping
up to lead a devo before going out to
start our daily routine of door knocking
or leading a Bible study. If anything,
going on the mission trip made me want
to get up and lead. If I was given the
chance to do it again, I would have to
say “ABSOLUTELY”.
Evening meetings with Christians and
visitors during the Collierville campaign.
Amerindian Missions — Guyana
Mission: The Lord’s Church in Every Village
and a Bible in Every Hut
Jerry O. Davidson
Yupukari Village is located deep in
the interior of Guyana. The village is
made up of Amerindians of the Maku-
shi tribe. Our mission was to establish
the Lord’s church. The team consisted
of 10 Americans, 2 Trinidadians, and
about 25 Guyanese brethren. We arrived
in mid afternoon, just in time to select a
location for our camp before sun down.
A site was located in the heart of the
village for conducting services. A string
of light bulbs were strung up and, with
the use of our generator, we had lighting
for the first service of which would be
an open air campaign. Several team
members walked throughout the village
to announce that we would be having
services that very night. We were thrilled
to have an attendance of 275.
Last October we visited the village
of Yupukari and met a number of vil-
lagers. One was Maureen Laurindo
who is a member of the village council.
U She seemed to be a good prospect,
so when we arrived there on this trip
I went to her house where I met her
husband Clifton. After visiting a while,
we began a study of the Bible. Clifton
had a list of Scriptures he wanted me
to explain. The next day he had a new
list. After studying, Clifton said, “I’ve
been waiting for you to come.” What
he meant was that he had been waiting
for someone to come to teach him the
truth. I wonder how many there are,
all over the world, who are waiting
for someone to come teach them the
Gospel? After several days of studying
with Clifton and Maureen, they decided
to be baptized.
Two by two we crossed the river
in a canoe to a sandbar. After having
prayer together, they were baptized.
Clifton changed into dry clothing and
threw his old pants into the river and
said, “The old is gone and the new has
come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). With that
Continued on page 41
 Global Harvest 39
Nicaraguan Evangelists in New Groundbreaking Role
David and Kim Romero were mis-
sionaries to Nicaragua, sponsored by
the Edmond, Okla., church. Upon
their return to the U.S., they wanted
to see their efforts there continue to
flourish. As a result, they proposed to
the Edmond missions committee that
three young national evangelists be
supported by Edmond.
Back row, left to right: Juan Pablo and
Fatima Perez, Cruz and Gabriel Rivera.
Front row, left to right: Keyling Perez
(Juan Pablo Perez’s oldest daughter),
Jose Guido and Rebecca Perez (Juan
Pablo’s youngest daughter).
That appears to be nothing new in
itself, but it is. The three young men —
Juan Pablo Pérez, Gabriel Rivera, and
José Guido — were to circulate among
small, struggling congregations and
attempt to build them up numerically
and spiritually, so that they could
become self-sufficient and able to
evangelize and support their own
minister. In this, the three evangelists
would imitate the efforts of the apostle
Paul, who moved among the churches
Glover Shipp
he established, or sent others to them, repeating what was done at Masaya.
to build them up in the faith. They tell us that there are dozens of
In keeping with this model, the small churches in Nicaragua, most of
three moved recently to the town of them just struggling to survive, so they
Masaya. The young church there had see no end to the circuit they intend to
attendances of about 25, which has now make in coming years.
grown to 40. When they discovered that One long-range goal of these three
a number of the members had fallen men is to be vocational missionaries,
away, they first concentrated on them, earning at least part of their expenses
nine of whom have been restored. The through secular employment. To this
team has visited all of the members, end they are learning English and
both faithful and non-faithful. It taking university courses, along with
has started classes for both men and Bible studies. The Edmond elders
women, preparing them for service. believe them to be on a sound biblical
Members are more dedicated track, one that will not tie them down
now to attending weeknight services. permanently to one congregation or to
They report that “one Monday night American support. As Paul made tents,
the building was almost full and the so they will have secular professions
presence of so many members excited on which to rely in their efforts to serve
the leaders so much that some went the Lord effectively in Nicaragua.
forward to express their joy over the The development of this mission
attendance that night.” strategy was a collaborative effort
The team has not neglected among the three evangelists, David and
evangelism, with continued baptisms. Kim Romero, the elders assigned to
Fifteen people are attending a class missions, and members of the mission
for newly-baptized members. They committee, all of whom had a strong
are also studying with fourteen new desire to see the work and investment
contacts. the Edmond church had made in
The team’s goals include conducting Nicaragua continue in a new way. U
seminars and Gospel meetings on a Glover Shipp is an elder in the Edmond, OK
regular basis, challenging the church church, with years of missionary experience.
through sermons and
practical classes, and
acquiring a more ade-
quate meeting place
for the church. The
present facilities are
too small, they report,
and in a location that
is not conducive to
real growth.
Once the Masaya
church is more firmly
established, the team
plans to move on to
another congregation, Members of the Masaya church in front of their building.
 40 Global Harvest
Biblical Institute of Central America
Come, let us reason together.
God’s mission demands it. See if the
following makes good sense to you.
Let’s look at some numbers as we
compare two different approaches: (1)
Traditional (2) Another way.
Suppose the local church wants
to commit $70,000 a year for 12 years
to teach the lost in a certain area. The
traditional way would be to send a
family from the USA to another country.
Typically, culture and language study
would be involved. Often private
school for the children would be a need.
Generally furniture and vehicles are
shipped. Every year or two a trip to the
USA would be customary for reporting
and family visits. Surely the missions
people of the church would visit the
field, etc. If they convert 20 a year, at the
end of 12 years you would have a church
of 240 people. With the addition of 20
per year for 40 more years, the church
will have 1,040 members in a total of 52
years. Not bad — not excellent. Perhaps
the USA brethren spend an additional
$100,000 for a building. Maybe a local
person is put on USA support for years.
Dependency kills! Often there is a
leadership vacuum when the missionary
returns to the USA.
Let’s look at another way. Let’s use
the $70,000 differently. Let’s invest in
building men who will be lifetime self-
supported (not dependent) missionaries
in their own culture. Suppose you
support 15 students in BICA, a two-
year school. If seven are graduated
yearly, then in 12 years (10 graduating
classes) 70 will have graduated. Since
most are young, we project 40 years
of service. Forty years times seventy
graduates equals 2800 years of service.
(That’s like one man working from
the time of Christ until now, with 800
George W. Hall
more years to work.) It is clear; for On weekends, the students work
the same investment you get 2,800 with congregations to teach the lost and
years compared to 12. We estimate that teach the members to teach the lost.
they will baptize about 20 per year per Ten weeks per year they are on a week-
graduate. Twenty per year times 2,800 long evangelistic campaign. In 2009,
years equals 56,000 baptisms. the students started 21 house churches.
WOW! However, this is just a drop Drop them from a plane with a Bible
in the bucket when you consider the 2 and a parachute, and they will have a
Timothy 2:2 effect — teaching others church meeting in two weeks. While
to teach others. If they only teach one in school, they will have had 600-700
to teach one every year, there will be Bible studies with the lost. They get
2,800 teachers of the lost. The result is some vocational help, sometimes in
multiplication. The 70 will start many the form of tools of their trade. Others
new churches. What do you think? get schooling, while still others get
What do you dream—70, 200, 500 material assistance.
new churches? Suppose 30 churches Many people on missions commit-
take up the challenge to support BICA tees are ready to bear witness to this
with $70,000 per year ($70,000—that’s work. Simply request references, and
14 students). The 56,000 baptisms they will be supplied. Contact me,
times 30 equals 1,680,000 saved, not George Hall, Executive Director,
counting the tremendous 2 Timothy 2:2 at gwhall43@gmail.com or David
effect. You see it. I know you do. As Romero, Associate Director, at david.
you work with BICA, your joy will be romero04@gmail.com. We seek your
immeasurable. Together, you, BICA, fellowship in this work.
and God will make it happen. All of We encourage you, your friends,
our mission eggs are not in one basket. and church leaders to sign up for the
While in the Biblical Institute monthly BICA newsletter by email.
of Central America for two years, Notify either of the above contacts or
the student becomes an excellent ls_huff@yahoo.com. Please share this
evangelist. Without passion for the with friends and church leaders. U
vision, our work is in vain.
Jesus displayed compassion
for the people (Matthew
9:35-38). You can teach your
lips off, but without passion
nothing happens. The
student will have studied
every book of the Bible,
evangelism, the church,
homiletics, etc. The school is
steady, hard, practical work.
(We work seven days per
week.) Monday — Friday
is classroom work. Often at
night, they teach the lost. Students at the Biblical Institute of Central America.
 Global Harvest 41
Recovery in Haiti
Dr. David O. Smith
Continued from page 37
had been built for us by Hope for Haiti work volunteers, and
assembled by Charlie McGee. We saw the big smile on the
face of Pierre Charles as he showed us the completed earth
bag house that would allow him to live and provide security
to our Bois Marchand farm.
At 2 p.m. Pacius and I had our first meal of the day (I
would not be a good Haitian) of delicious rice and chicken.
I then had a profitable 45-minute discussion with one of the
preachers, Daniel Alexandre, whom I have known since he
was about 5 years old.
We left Gonaives about 3:15 p.m. and headed back
toward Port au Prince. Wow, a delicious meal and good rest!
The nightly tropical thunderstorm made for good sleeping
for us, but I could not help but hurt for those thousands in
their tents, tarps and sheet shelters for whom rain continues
to be a major irritant.
After landing in Port au Prince, we had a historic meeting
with our attorney, Ms. Kim Sassine. Pacius and I signed the
papers for the formation of Haiti Christian Development
Project as an official organization in Haiti. This should help
us in importing some of our shipments with less import
taxes, and it may even allow us to acquire some government
grants that were not accessible previously.
We also met with Harry Hames of Healing Hands
International and discussed the well-drilling operation in Haiti.
We are still trying to help in numerous ways and to create
housing for the many refugees in our area (it has been said
that the largest numbers of refugees went to the Artibonite).
Some of our Christians from 30 miles south and surrounding
areas died from cholera, but the numbers are not great. Our
previous teaching about good hygiene has saved lives. We
are now trying to get water filters and purification equipment
to appropriate areas.
We will be working to create housing for the refugees
over the next many months. It is a slow process, but these
little earthbag (concrete stucco) houses are very strong
and affordable ($2200-2500). They will give appropriate
housing for scores of people. The people will have a pure
water supply, and there will be some areas for gardens and
for animals — goats/rabbits, etc. U
David E. Smith, MD, of Heart Clinic Arkansas, 10100 Kanis
Road, Little Rock, AR, 72205, works with the Haiti Christian
Development Project in Gonaives, Haiti. The web site for re-
porting on the Haiti recovery effort is www.hcdp.net.
Amerindian Missions —
Guyana
Continued from page 38
comment I was certain he understood what had just taken
place. On the way back to the village, Clifton was very
quiet. When we stopped the vehicle at his house, I noticed
his entire body was trembling. He was weeping tears of joy
over his conversion. I will never forget that day.
Another couple I met was Kenneth and Inez Dorrick.
He is a forrner captain of the village and she is a teacher
at the primary school. Several individuals on our team had
studied with them. After each session they were encouraged
to obey the Gospel. Finally, they scheduled a time for us to
come to their house. We walked down to the lake for their
baptism. However, Kenneth said he was not ready that day.
He said he wanted several people to be present when he was
baptized so there will be no question about his baptism. A
few days later Kenneth, his teenage daughter and her boy
friend were immersed into Christ.
Mr. Osmond Holden had been one of the first in the
village to be baptized. His son, Sylvester, the Health Worker
in the village and his wife, Sharia, a teacher at the primary
school, were also converted. We were thrilled that at least
eight couples obeyed the Gospel during this campaign. I
believe the church will be stronger, having both husband and
wife as Christians.
Container Shipment
In June, a forty-foot container was loaded with supplies
and shipped to Guyana. This is a vital part of the evangelistic
work we are doing to help the poor brethren there with
some basic needs, such as shoes and clothing. This is an
ongoing project, and the participation of congregations in
Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and Mississippi make this
work possible. U
Jerry O. Davidson can be contacted at davidsonjo@aol.com
 42 Global Harvest

The Garcias’ Peruvian Mission Trip

Helmut Garcia

During ten days the local Hispanic minister from North and studies with the church and with individuals. We met
Highlands church in Russellville, AL, Juan Garcia and his together with the Montecarlo church, located in Lima north
lovely wife, Laura, spent time at the two Peruvian Amazon area, and took two current pictures, where the congregation
congregations. Being away from their home-country for 4 worships and also of our family.
1/2 years, they felt truly blessed to return and to be able to We thank God for the opportunity to teach His Word, as
work with the church members from those amazing places Scripture says: “Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding
called Requena, over the Ucayali River, and Iquitos, the in the work of the Lord, since you know that your labor is not
main city in the Peruvian jungle over the Amazon River. in vain in the Lord.”
First day: There were ladies’ classes on Saturday Juan and Laura Garcia minister at the Hispanic con-
afternoon with an attendance of about 25 Christian women, gregation in Russellville, Alabama. U
and from 7 to 9 P.M. a Gospel meeting was held at the
Requena congregation with 45 people attending. North Highlands Church of Christ. P.O. Drawer H Russellville,
Alabama 35653; Phone: (256) 332-3315; http://picasaweb.
Second day: At Sunday morning worship services, there
google.com/HfromSouthAmerica/AmazonChurchExperienc-
were 60 people, and when the meeting was over two new souls esAndStuff#
were added to the Lord’s church. Sixty-five people came for
the evening class.
Third day through day six, there was a VBS. For the
last VBS class, 125 children were present. For five days in
a row, several Bible studies were set up during morning and
afternoon sessions.
Children are a blessing and we recall our Lord saying:
“Allow little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me:
for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
Everybody rejoiced about such Bible studies and home
evangelism classes, and several brethren wanted us to stay
another week, teaching them God’s Word. When we were
about to leave some church members were close to the boat, Above: Juan and Laura Garcia, with their son, Helmut,
begging us not to go. We remembered the Scripture when their daughter, Maria Laura, and her daughter, Damaris,
Paul saw for the last time the Ephesus elders at Miletus with grandmom, Teofila. Below: the Montecarlo church
and building in Lima, Peru.
offshore, crying out, since they would not see him again.
We were grateful to God to know those faithful Christian
families in the Peruvian jungle. They are doing a great
job daily and, hopefully, more church missionaries will be
willing to come down and strengthen them.
Back in Iquitos City, several brethren were waiting for the
Garcias to spend time with the local congregation that meets
about 10 minutes away from downtown. This new congregation
was established ten months ago, in an area close to Putumayo
Avenue, a main road. Several brethren from Lima and Requena
have been going there to help out this very new church work,
the only one in that area. It is a great blessing to have them as
our fellow-Christians and to inspire us not to give up on working
harder for the Lord.
Coming back to Lima city after two weeks of working
at the town Amazon congregations, there were Bible lessons
 Global Harvest 43

Forty Years of the Church in Geneva, Switzerland

Doyle Kee

The church in Geneva began in

the spring of 1970 with the arrival of
Doyle and Barbara Kee and their three
children. With the help of many other
workers during campaigns and one
to two years’ residences in Geneva,
the church has matured. Today, there
are four elders, four deacons, and one
full-time brother who works with the
educational activities of the church.
The teaching and preaching is a
mutual ministry (no paid preacher)
with as many as eight brothers
involved. There are about 90 members
and an attendance regularly surpassing
100 participants. The church has good
facilities of five classrooms and an
auditorium that can hold a maximum
of 130 people. The Geneva church is
ready to move ahead into its next 40
years of history. It is growing locally
Doyle and Barbara Kee, missionaries to Geneva for forty years.
and has a strong mission program into
June 13, 2010, the Geneva, Switzerland, church celebrated its 40th French-speaking countries.
anniversary. Participants in the week-long work and celebration emphasis came More information can be obtained
from Scotland, Canada, France, and the USA. James Jones, Yann Opsitch, and at www.Geneva-churchofchrist.com or
Arlin Hendrix were special speakers. Thekees@bluewin.ch. U

Romania — Looking at Progress

Harvey Starling
Attendance for Second Annual Youth Day — 110 to find and teach people. Of course, this report sounds good
Quarterly Saturday Deaf Bible School in Pitesti — 37 but I assure you we are far from “giving our all” to reach
Number of Romanian Gospel Preachers available in more souls. We can do a better job in every way.
three districts — 15 There seems to be a great spirit of unity among the
Bibles purchased for distribution in 2011 — 1,000 Romanian brethren and also with the some 25 or so U.S. Bible
Number of children taught each Sunday in 7 churches — 176 teachers who come to work “short term” each year in the three
Newsletters published and distributed in 7 churches — 300 districts. The Midway church is a wonderful congregation.
Number of ladies in Craiova and Pitesti making warm They sacrifice much for the Romania work and also receive
garments for the needy — 50
all contributions for the work we do. There would have been
The willing liberality and sacrifice of so many congre- no “good news” this past year without them.
gations, small and large, and of individuals makes the work Great numbers of people have helped in many ways in
in Romania possible. We do not plan to “keep house” and let the past 20 years of our work here, and many are committed
things “go as they may”. Certainly God’s will must be done to continuing the spread of the kingdom in the years ahead.
,but as you have read in the newsletter, He is ready when we Specific plans have been made for 2011 and 2012 and
are. Conversions come one by one, but there are many ways Continued on page 44
 44 Global Harvest
We spent the December holidays
with Pam’s family, after coming from
Colorado Springs where our daughter,
Tess, and Stephen were married. They
made a beautiful couple; very much
in love and committed to God and to
each other. Even the folks who were
handling the details in the wedding —
people who do this all the time — were
particularly moved. All in all, it was a
truly lovely day.
We were also delighted to spend
some time with Tami and Tia and their
families during the preparations and the
wedding. Having all three daughters
in the same place is becoming a rare
phenomenon. Another special blessing
was the presence of Liliane Raude,
Tess’ best friend from France, and
Lynda Allibbe, a member of the church
in Lyon. It was like having part of home
with us in this strange land!
So, when the third little bird finds
her mate, the nest is truly empty. But,
you know, it is still as large as it always
was. In fact, it is even a bit larger than
when all the girls were still home. If
Pam and I seem a little alone in our
apartment, we are certainly not lonely.
We enjoy being together and busy at
home; and there is plenty of room for
Romania . . .
Continued from page 43
beyond. You can help by providing
funds. The Romanian brethren work
and they give. There is a sufficient
number of U.S. Christians committed
to go and teach, but we are constantly
hindered by a lack of funds to carry
out the plans made. The needs for the
year ahead are many, and we ask those
who wish to give to do so as soon as
possible. Every day is important. It is
urgent that more hear, that they may
have the opportunity to be forgiven and
added to the Lord’s church.
France
Charles White
the little birds to visit with their mates
and their offspring. We look forward to
it, though we are happy while waiting.
Meanwhile, back in Lyon, the
church is doing well, even though
at the present moment neither of the
missionary families is present. It’s the
sign of a maturing group. A letter I
received this morning tells me of one
of our future elders who preached and
challenged the church for the New Year.
Here are the seven challenges:
1) Participate in all spiritual activities
of the assembly;
2) Get rid of something in your life
that displeases God;
3) Talk to people about the Lord;
4) Learn two Bible verses per week;
5) Be an active member of the church;
6) Give regularly to the contribution;
7) Spend at least ten minutes a day in
prayer.
That’s a pretty good list, and I’m
told that it particularly touched the
assembly.
We give thanks to God for the joy
of preaching the Gospel in Romania
for nearly 20 years. The challenges and
opportunities are greater now than ever
before, and we have hardly “touched
the hem of His garment”.
The God of eternity is on His throne
and we must renew our determination
to work and pray with trust in Him. He
is faithful! If we continue to plant and
water, He will give the increase. If we
linger and close our eyes to what we
must do or wait on Him to do it all, the
church will die and some will wonder
why.
Harvey M. Starling: 101 Kelly Valley Lane,
Harvest, AL 35749; hmstar@bellsouth.net;
Phone: 256-430-9914
Our leading men are moving closer
to the eldership as they teach and
preach, visit, and counsel. I’m really
proud of them; and, if I am tempted to
feel I am training them, I know for a
fact that not I but the Spirit of the Lord
is preparing these faithful men, giving
them love and wisdom, knowledge of
the Word and experience.
Please do pray for Antoinette,
one of our sisters who is pregnant
but at risk of losing her baby because
of complications from a previous
pregnancy, and for our sister Danielle,
still confined. Thanks, too, for your
prayers for our health and for the
resolution of the insurance situation in
which we find ourselves at present.
A brother asked the Lord to bless the
New Year, 2012. That’s right, 2012! A
lapse, of course. But if things continue
to go as they are going, we’ll be in 2012
... tomorrow. A famous French writer
said it this way:
“Time flees, and carries me along;
Even as I speak, this moment is gone.”
All the more reason to “redeem the
time for the days are evil” (Ephesians
5:16). U
Charles and Pam White, Lyon, France
Email: cwhitelyon@aol.com
Charles White writes
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Lessons for serious Christians
$8.00
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The Lord’s Church in Syktyvkar, Russia

Larry Little

The decade of the 90’s began with the dramatic downfall
of the “Iron Curtain” and communism in the Soviet Union.
Immediately, hundreds of Christians from the West
began pouring into the atheistic country with evangelistic
campaigns. The Gospel was proclaimed, believers were
baptized, and churches were planted.
In the fall of 1991, one city where this occurred was
Syktyvkar, the capitol of the Komi Republic in northern,
European Russia. Within a year of the first campaign, there
existed a congregation of around 50 Christians. It soon
Left to right: Three elders of the Syktyvkar congregation,
and the local preacher whom they support.
became evident that attention needed to be directed toward
grounding these babes in Christ and preparing Gospel
preachers. Rising to the challenge, two American elderships
made long-term commitments destined to serve both the
Syktyvkar church, and the Russian brotherhood at large in
the years to come. This is the story of the Lord’s work in
Syktyvkar, Russia.
Demar Elam of, what was then, Southern Christian
University, was primarily responsible for organizing and
leading the first campaigns into Syktyvkar. Two elders and
others from the Midway congregation in Trinity, Alabama
participated in those first campaigns that resulted in the
church being planted there. Soon the Midway elders began
to realize the need for grounding the young Syktyvkar
church and training local leadership.
In the winter of 1992, in response to the Syktyvkar
church’s invitation, the elders assumed oversight of Larry
and Kay Little to work full-time in maturing the young
church. From the beginning, the Syktyvkar church was
unusually blessed with excellent leadership material. Thus,
by the year 2000, the church had selected and appointed two
qualified men to serve as their first shepherds and, in the
following year, full-time missionary presence ceased.
Brother Elam also envisioned a Bible and preacher
training school based in Syktyvkar. In 1993 the elders of the
West Main congregation in Tupelo, Mississippi committed
to overseeing and underwriting what is now called the
Syktyvkar Bible School. Following Demar as the first Dean
were Charles Tharp, West Main’s preacher at the time, and
W.C. (Dub) Hill, one of their elders. Larry Little currently
serves as Dean.
From the beginning, the simple purpose of the two-year
men’s program and one-year women’s program was to train
Russian men in their own country and culture to become
evangelists, Bible teachers and church leaders, and Russian
women how to teach the Bible to children. Through the
years, qualified American and Russian Christians have
taught the courses. Now in its 17th year, over 90 men and
women have been trained by the school and are at work in
the kingdom. Gennady Scherbakov, one of Syktyvkar’s
elders, serves as director, and administration of the school is
now under the oversight of the Syktyvkar elders.
In addition to the school, the Lord has continued to
use the Syktyvkar Church of Christ in other mighty ways
within the Kingdom in Russia. Beginning in 1996, James
Continued on page 50
The meeting place of the Syktyvkar congregation.
 46 Global Harvest
Work with Language Groups in Your Area
Robert Prater
Brethren, it is evident that most every city, on most every
continent, that has a university and/or businesses and industries
that are caught up in the sweep of globalization, will have Bible
study groups or churches in multiple languages. Erlangen,
Germany, with a population of some 104,000, but with a
280+ year-old university having an enrollment of more than
20,000 students, has “Christian” assemblies in the immediate
area worshiping in Greek, Russian, Thai, Turkish, one or more
Iranian languages, and one or more Philippine dialects. Larger
cities should have even more. Perhaps all will not be open to
outside influence, but some surely will be, if approached with
an authentic demonstration of “the fruit of the Spirit”.
You do not need personal knowledge of the languages
spoken in your city; all you need is one reliable person in the
contact group, with whom you share a common language,
who can interpret for you. Foreign students and employees
of international corporations will, of necessity, speak the
language of the people who surround them, and, likely,
will proudly exhibit their skill in interpretation. Some may
have even studied interpretation as a separate discipline.
One student at Changsha University practised simultaneous
interpretation of newscasts, Chinese to English, or vice versa,
which demanded a high level of competence.
The opportunity is there, beloved, and those who have
“come to the knowledge of the truth” themselves, and who
have the directive of “the King of kings and Lord of lords”,
will assuredly want to enable others to be saved by enabling
them to come to the knowledge of the same truth, “buying
up the opportunity”.
Despite under-funding, which besets many disciples of
the Lord abroad, an attempt is nevertheless being made by
myself to say “Yes” to every appeal that is received, in the
spirit expressed by the apostle Paul: “And I do all things
for the gospel’s sake . . .” (1 Corinthians 9:23). This
represents a personal objective that was inspired by a
visiting evangelist at the congregation that was then
“home”, and adopted, at the age of 16. He proposed, in
effect: “Don’t ever say ‘No’ to any appeal for service
to Christ”. This remains a dominant life-rule, and will,
God willing, as long as life, health and means endure.
Arising from the love engendered in my heart for
the Chinese people, an opening was gratefully exploited
here in Erlangen, beginning in February, 2010, to meet,
usually each Sunday afternoon (after morning worship
with the saints in Wuerzburg) and Wednesday evening,
with a Chinese assembly. Quasi-Pentecostal, they said that
they had been praying for someone to come and teach them
the truth more accurately. Preaching and teaching publicly
and privately “the power of God unto salvation”, progress
has been slow, but the seed has been sowed, truth in things
pertaining to “life and godliness” has been inculcated.
In early 2006, I began a renewed effort to learn Spanish,
and I have twice read through the revised version of the
“Reina Valera” Bible. I discovered that a Baptist Latino
congregation, with both Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking
members, was meeting in Erlangen, and this newly-minted
Spanish student lost little time in joining them for their
Saturday evening meetings. They have been informed about
the availability of World Bible School courses in Spanish
and Portuguese, and the Jule Miller filmstrips in Spanish,
as well as the World English Institute courses, and mild
interest has been awakened. Meanwhile, their friendshp is
being cultivated and personal study of Spanish intensified.
Friday evenings are devoted to a group of French-
speaking Camerounians. I have encouraged them to
include in their weekly meetings a serious study of the
Word of God, instead of simply singing choruses, praying
and giving “testimony”.
In 1942, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
inaugurated the OSS, fore-runner of the CIA, the original
document stipulated that that those chosen for this duty
should be prepared to “go anywhere, bear any burden, pay
any price”. In seeking to measure up to this worthy standard
in fulfilling a ministry for the Lord Jesus, only the words:
“for the gospel’s sake” have been added. U
Robert Prater: Email address:rprater33@yahoo.fr
The Chinese group to which I am teaching
“the truth more accurately”.
 Global Harvest 47
Donnie S. Barnes
The Lord’s Church in Nazareth, Israel, now has elders.
On Sunday, October 10, Bishara Bishara, and Suhail Shleyan
were appointed as elders of the Nazareth Church of Christ
before a record attendance of 76 people. The audience was
comprised of members of the Nazareth congregation, family
members, visitors from the community, and six American
brethren invited for the special occasion.
Bishara, age 70, is a retired educator. For over thirty years
he served as principal of Galilee Christian High School in the
village of Eilaboun. In addition to his administrative duties,
Bishara taught English and Hebrew and presided over the daily
chapel program. A history teacher from the school commented
during the October 10 service that Bishara lived each day of the
week as if it were Sunday. Since his obedience to the Gospel
in 1958, his humble demeanor, astute wisdom, and faithfulness
to God’s Word have long served the cause of Christ throughout
the Galilee. He and his wife Anesseh have four children, two
of which are teachers, and four grandchildren. Anesseh is
presently working with a school, also.
Suhail, age 50, has been a faithful Christian since obeying
the Gospel in 1982. He is an engineer with the municipality
(city government) of Nazareth. He and his wife, Mayada, are
the parents of two teenage sons. His love for the Bible and the
church are well known to all who have been associated with
the Lord’s work in Nazareth. Along with Bishara, Suhail is
responsible for keeping the Lord’s church alive in Nazareth
during some very difficult years in the past
The congregation’s minister, Maurice Jadon, has served
the people of Nazareth for almost three decades. It has
long been his desire to see leadership develop among the
men of the congregation. In addition to the two new elders,
the congregation is anticipating the future appointment
of deacons. Maurice began the October 10 service with
reasons why this was such an important step in the life of the
congregation in Nazareth.
Elders from three congregations in Tennessee par-
ticipated in the ordination service. Bob Mayes, elder from
the Signal Mountain Church of Christ in Chattanooga, TN,
represented the congregation that has supported the local
evangelist in Nazareth for the past thirteen years. Bob
Cowan, an elder from the Red Boiling Springs Church of
Christ, along with his wife, Regina, represented the church
that will be taking on a more involved role with the Nazareth
congregation in January. Evertt W. Huffard, an elder from
the White Station Church of Christ in Memphis, TN, along
with his wife, Ileene, served as missionaries in Nazareth for
five years and now regularly return to teach and encourage
the church in Nazareth. Donnie S. Barnes, minister of the
Red Boiling Springs Church of Christ and formerly an elder
in Myrtle Beach, SC, has had a continued involvement with
the Nazareth congregation for 40 years.
The Lord’s church was planted through the pioneering
efforts of Ralph T. Henley and Ernest Stewart in 1960. More
than nine families have served as missionaries in Nazareth
since that time. Many efforts through the past 50 years, and
especially during the past three years, led to the historical
day of October 10, 2010, in Nazareth, Israel.
To current knowledge, this is the first time in the history
of the churches of Christ in the Middle East that a church has
appointed elders, since biblical times. Even now plans are
being formulated to increase the Lord’s work in Nazareth and
throughout the Galilee. May these good efforts and these
lovely Arab brethren be included in your prayers. May God
be glorified and many souls be brought to Him as a result.  U
Donnie S. Barnes, Minister, Red Boiling Springs Church of
Christ, Red Boiling Springs, TN,
 48 Global Harvest
AN INCREDIBLE PRISON STORY
This article could be a continuation
of the Spring 2010 Global Harvest
article, “A Change of Heart, A Change
of Life” because Timplex, featured in
that article, has truly given his life to
God and His work since being restored
to his first love two years ago.
We knew as Jesus’ disciples, we
were instructed to go, go into the world
of the lost, meet them where they hurt.
Go places we would normally not go;
often working with the most difficult
of people, in the most challenging of
circumstances. Why? Because each
soul is so precious. Prissy Sellers and I
were willing to walk through that open
door. God had made it possible for
many souls to be taught the Gospel at
a place called Mzimba prison, a prison
which has been built to set an example
for all prisoners in Malawi. It can
accommodate 600 male prisoners and
15 female prisoners. No one had ever
been in this place to teach or work with
the inmates until Timplex Nkosi went
there, hoping to hand out tracts and
World Bible School lessons. Through
the chaplain’s office, the World Bible
School lessons were gladly received
and many signed up to take the courses.
When Prissy and I went to Mzimba,
all we knew was that there were many
World Bible School students and that
Church Street had sent over money
to build a baptistery for some 42 men
requesting baptism. We also knew that
Timplex was trying to get the Lord’s
church started inside the prison, but we
were really not prepared for what we
saw and heard when we got there.
I had worked in many prisons in
Africa and knew the rules, so we had our
passports ready as the guard opened the
door. He said, “We don’t need those.”
We were even allowed to keep all our
belongings. He then introduced himself
and said, “I am Peter. I will be your guide
and I am one of your World Bible School
students.” He then told us that we were the
Ruth Orr
first white women
to ever enter this
prison. We could not
help but feel a little
honored and over-
whelmed by that.
The first day we
were given a tour
of the prison, we
met all the guards
in charge and a
schedule was made Those who taught in the prison for 7 days: Prissy Sellers,
for the work we National Prison Chaplain from Zomba, Melvin Kalimani-
hoped to do. Peter sha, William Bongwa, Timplex Nkosi, two other preachers
said that we would from Mzimba, and Ruth Orr.
be allowed to come
back every day for the next six days to with him our goals and intentions, and
teach and work with the prisoners. What he agreed with all we wanted to do and
an incredible opportunity was given us, was amazed at what he was hearing
and we stood almost speechless at what and seeing. He granted permission to
we were seeing and hearing! baptize those that desired to submit to the
The next two days we were allowed Gospel of Christ and even said he would
to teach all the prisoners. I was to teach allow us to take pictures of the baptisms
15 World Bible School students for one — something no one had ever allowed
and one half hours, and then another before at any prison.
15 would come in for one
and one half hours until all
would be taught. At that
time we had 187 World
Bible School students, so
it would take the two days
to teach them all. Prissy
would go to each cell and
teach those who were
not World Bible School
students. As we taught and
they requested baptism,
their names were written
down and submitted to the
chaplain for authorization.
On the second day at the
Baptism of one of the 122 prisoners baptized that
prison, the National Chap-
day, others waiting to be baptized.
lain for all the 30 prisons in
Malawi came from headquarters in the Saturday afternoon was scheduled
Southern region of the country, some 15 for the baptisms. Every prisoner, man
hours away, to see what was going on. and woman, had been taught the Gospel
He had heard of the reform in the lives the past two days, and what happened
of so many and wanted to know what that evening is almost impossible to
had caused such a change. We shared Continued on page 49
 Global Harvest 49
AN INCREDIBLE PRISON STORY
Continued from page 48
share in words. We all stood outside
at the edge of the concrete baptistery
and watched as the Lord added to His
church 113 souls, as each confessed his
faith and was baptized for the remission
of his sins. Tears flowed from prisoners
as well as all who witnessed over four
hours of baptisms! Certainly, God gave
the increase to the seed that was planted
in their hearts.
One WBS student with arms out-
stretched after his baptism.
The National Chaplain said that he
had never seen anything like what he
had observed over the past two days
and that, of the 30 prisons in Malawi,
there had never been anyone in any of
them to teach as we had, and certainly
there had never been a baptism in any
of them. He saw how God’s Word
could truly transform the prisoners. He
then invited Prissy and me to come to
the National Headquarters in Zomba
to meet with the commissioner of the
prisons and talk about what can be
done at the others through World Bible
School teaching.
The next day being Sunday, the
chaplain gathered all 600 men prisoners
and 14 women prisoners together for
the worship service. Our preachers,
one at a time, stood up before that
great assembly and spoke the Word
of God. When it came time for the
Lord’s Supper, the officer in charge
had all the Christians come up to the
front and sit on the ground and all the
other prisoners sat at the back. There This was on Saturday, and on Sun-
was complete silence as the Supper day as we gathered for worship at the
was observed by all the new Christians. prison, Martin came running to us and
The Lord’s Church now exists in the said, “I am going to high court!” We
Mzimba prison! were all shocked and asked, “How
The next week we were asked to did this happen?” He said he did not
come back and teach all the guards. So know but the guards were ready to take
on Tuesday night every guard gathered him right then, so we just prayed with
in the library as the Gospel, in its him and wished him the best before he
simplicity, was presented to them. Each left. On Wednesday of the next week,
asked for the World Bible School lessons Martin came back to the prison a “free
to be given to them. We went back on man”. The National Chaplain had
Thursday and asked if we could meet made it happen in three days!
with just the Christians to encourage Martin and his family have now
them. We presented them with bags moved to Tombolombo, Mzimba to
made by our women at Church Street, help teach and preach in some of the
a Bible, and literature to read, and soap. newly established congregations started
The next Sunday, 15 more con- while we were there. God answered our
fessed their faith and were baptized prayers of how those young churches
for the remission of their sins, and God would have help growing spiritually by
added them to the group that is now setting Martin free to work for Him!
worshiping and growing in Christ. God opened wide a door at the
One day as we were teaching World Mzimba prison and we walked through,
Bible School students, one young but He also opened many other doors
prisoner, Martin Kamanga, wanted to talk which we were grateful to enter and
with me. He told of his being accused of teach His Word.
something at
work that he
did not do,
but because
he did not
have funds to
take his case
to high court,
he had been
in prison for
almost three
years. He
left a wife
and 4 small
c h i l d r e n 600 Prisoners. 500 are WBS students; 328 are Christians now and
behind. He worship each sunday.
had grown up in a Christian home and The preachers, Prissy, and I plant-
was a faithful Christian when he was put ed seed, God gave the increase, and
in prison. Everyone there knew he was we thank Him for this awesome, life-
innocent, they said. So, I just mentioned changing experience in which He
to the National Chaplain about Martin allowed us to take part. U
and asked him why he could not go to
high court. He simply said, “He can,” Ruth Orr, 1272 Yell Road, Lewisburg, TN
and walked out of the room. 37091
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Operation . . . Syktyvkar, Russia

French World Continued from page 45
Mettenbrink, a former missionary in the Komi Republic, began
For the past 16 years, a ministry of translating sound brotherhood works into Russian
Bren & Cheryl White have for the Russian church. The Syktyvkar church agreed to work
been working with churches with him and now serves as distribution center for the country.
of Christ around the globe to To date, 42 books and nine monographs have been distributed
help train more workers for and are now in the hands of Russian Christians, free of charge.
God’s Mission, and to help In 2000, W.C. (Dub) Hill and his wife, Shirley, had a
spread the Gospel to French- dream of establishing a foster home for children in Syktyvkar.
speaking areas where there Brother Hill worked with the Syktyvkar elders and the dream
is no New Testament church. became reality. Today, the program is under the oversight
This informal evangelistic and administration of the Syktyvkar church and boasts 15
effort is called ‘Operation French World’. Doyle Kee, S.F. homes, housing some 85 widows, destitute women and
Timmerman, Bob Grigg, Sr., J. Lee Roberts, Hilton Terry & children, including 35 foster children. Another 90 women
Maurice Hall encouraged Bren to head up just such an effort and children have benefited, having already passed through
during a mission campaign in Brussels in 1994. the program. Many have obeyed the Gospel, and the church
Bren has worked on mission efforts since a very young has received much credibility in the eyes of the government
age, but worked as a manager in international business and the community.
for nearly 20 years before focusing full-time on world Through the years, men such as Marlon Rutherford
evangelism. Bren and Cheryl have helped to start churches and Mike Nix, along with others, have continued to return
in Maryland, France, Quebec and the West Indies. They are to the Komi region, evangelizing and strengthening the
currently working with local Christians to start churches in congregations. In 2009 the Syktyvkar church, working with
Colmar, France, La Rochelle, France, Baie St. Paul, Quebec, Marlon and Ronnie Morrison, established a new congregation
on the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. As a part of their in a nearby village, and they continue to nurture it in its
outreach efforts, they are using J.C. Choate books in English, development.
French and Spanish. Today, nearing their 20th anniversary, the Syktyvkar
Next Bren church is around 140 in number, served by three shepherds,
and his wife, a full-time evangelist (paid from the church treasury), has
Cheryl, are head- numerous classes for children and adults, is engaged in many
ed to other islands, ministries and has their own building which also houses the
this time in the Syktyvkar Bible School.
Caribbean. They But, also, there are growing challenges for the Lord’s
will be working people in Russia. Under Syktyvkar’s oversight, the church is
in March with active in regional evangelization and developing a distance
the St. Maarten learning program through the school that will take Bible
evangelist, Saba Island training to congregations throughout Russia that are weak
Marlon Lawrie, in the faith. Indeed, to use the language of 1 Thessalonians
and his wife, Subrena, to do initial outreach in Statia and 1:8, the word of the Lord continues to sound forth from
Saba (among the Netherland Antilles), with the aim of Syktyvkar, evangelizing the lost and strengthening a Russian
starting the first New Testament churches on these two tiny brotherhood in need of revival. Thanks be unto God and
islands. Pray that searching souls will be found and churches all praise, honor and glory be unto Him for His church in
can be established in these places. U Syktyvkar. U

If you would like more information, please contact Bren at of- Larry Little, 23110 AL Hwy 24, Moulton, AL 35650
wmissions@gmail.com larrylittle2@yahoo.com; Phone: 256 460 7068
 Global Harvest 51

Setting Goals for

“Gospel Chariots”
George Funk

started the Downtown Pretoria Church of Christ with short

term Bible School; relocated to the Western Cape and started
the Lord’s Church in Plettenberg Bay and in Rundu and Walvis
Bay, Namibia; built and started the Vhembe Bible School in
The people of Venda; built and started the Bible School in Plettenberg Bay.
North Africa need God has blessed us over the years to not only travel with
a “Gospel Chariot” too. the Chariots into 11 countries, but to try to get another work
up and running every year. This way, we have been helping
We are very excited about 2011. There is so much planned
Africans evangelize Africa. Our goal is to leave a legacy and
for this year. The Chariots will once again be heading out
take advantage of the receptivity of a wonderful continent.
and reaching as many as possible. Last year was amazing,
and every year seems to get better and better as leaders in One kind of portable baptistery.
surrounding countries work with us and take advantage of
this receptive continent. Almost 1000 souls were baptized
last year alone. Our goal is to build a new Gospel Chariot for
North Africa in 2012, the Lord willing.
GOALS
As you know, for many years now, we, at the begining
of every year, set a goal and try to reach it. As they say: If
you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. It has been so exciting
through the years, taking a step of faith and just trying to
accomplish a goal, over and above what we should be able
to do. Here are some of the goals achieved through God who
has blessed us with a desire to do that extra project for Him.
By the grace of God we started the Downtown Johan-
nesburg Church of Christ; built the first Gospel Chariot; started
the Lord’s Church in Nelspruit; started the Downtown Durban
2011 GOAL
Church and office; built the second Gospel Chariot for central
Africa; started the Lord’s Church in Windhoek, Namibia; Our goal for this year, is to establish a study room in
Atteridgeville, Pretoria. A strong eldership and congregation
People gathered for one of the tent meetings. in Pretoria will be helping us oversee the operation.
This project is all about literature and the printed word.
Once completed, it will assist all Churches of Christ with
evangelism and leadership materials. Many denominations
will be attracted to this office and, the Lord willing, many,
many doors will open. We hope to have this project up and
running by mid year. Please pray for this goal.
2012 GOAL
2011 has hardly started, and we know what we would
love to do in 2012. Our desire to reach more of Africa has
been on our hearts for many years now. Our goal is to build
Continued on page 53
 52 Global Harvest
Malawi is a breathtaking land effort. Thousands in Malawi will have
that has been hidden from the world’s soap, toothbrushes, and toothpaste that
view for time immemorial, but today
her people are opening its doors for the The Malawi would not have otherwise been blessed
with these items.
world to see its treasures. It is a door
worth walking through. Project “Being the change” is a small boy
choosing not to spend his allowance
on himself but giving his grandfather
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Richard Stephens the $3.00 allowance so the children of
The Malawi Project was created in Malawi can have something to eat.
the year 2000 after two of its founders, “Being the change” is when a boy
spiritual needs of the nation. The groups
Richard (Dick) and Diana (Suzi) sacrifices, not just one of his many books
may be without sufficient capital, or
Stephens of Indianapolis, Indiana for children in Malawi, but it is seen
in need of equipment or expertise to
had been serving in Malawi, Africa when he gives them his favorite book.
accomplish the lofty goals they have
since 1993. During those years they “Being the change” is when a
set for themselves. The Malawi Project
experienced the intense need of its young woman makes a single quilt
comes in as a partner and provides the
people. A vision was formed to create for someone in Malawi, and others
needed resources to help them get on their
a conduit through which humanitarian catch her vision and prepare and send
feet. After this is done, the organization is
aid could be funneled to a number of hundreds of quilts.
expected to be self-sufficient.
associate programs. This would not be “Being the change” is in a man’s
The Malawi Project owns no
a project that would imitate aid program work center where he produces bicycle
property or vehicles in Malawi
endeavors of the past. It would be carrier units for people he may never
and works at the discretion of the
based on a different set of principles. meet to get their supplies to and from a
Malawians who desire its presence. As
In a practical sense, the Malawi Project trading center deep in Africa.
aid programs exist around the world,
would be an incubator where new
the Malawi Project is unique. Members Literature Fills a Critical Role
programs could be birthed, established
of the Project are sensitive not to create
programs could be nourished, then both The African Continent is different
an unhealthy dependency that will lead
given independence to grow and prosper. than most other parts of the world in its
to American oversight and management
Today, the Malawi Project serves the almost unquenchable thirst for learning.
of the programs that should be carried
people of Malawi in every region of the Estimates conclude that each piece of
out by the local people themselves.
nation. literature is read by at least 10 people.
It seems to be part of human spirit
These asso- Several examples have been brought to
to desire to accomplish noble acts,
ciated programs light by members of the Project who
to be the change, to inspire others to
do not have a tell of literature sent to Malawi in the
greatness. The noble accomplishments
profit-making early 70’s that is still being used today
of people making a difference, of
goal, but are de- by their proud owners.
doing those things that help others, of
signed to be From booklets to books, Bibles to
reaching beyond themselves to serve
benevolent brochures, correspondence courses
others is seen nearly every day in a
g r o u p s to pamphlets on AIDS, the Malawi
thousand little ways through those who
serving the Project is both a publisher and a conduit
serve the people of Malawi from other
physical for hundreds of thousands of pieces of
parts of the world.
a n d literature each year. Shipments have
You can “Be the Change...” included 185,000 Bible courses, and
“Being the change” is seen in over 10,000 booklets were shipped to
Andy at his lemon-aid stand working preachers in Malawi and Mozambique.
to persuade his neighbors to send 1000 Approximately 10,000 books and book-
pairs of shoes to the children of Malawi. lets on moral character and Christian
“Being the change” is evident when principles were written specifically
the children in an entire school committed for the Malawi culture and sent to the
themselves to obtaining soap, toothpaste, country. U
and toothbrushes. Trunk after trunk after www.malawiproject.org;
trunk were filled with the results of their Phone: 317-255-2758
 Global Harvest 53

Gospel Radio, WBS, Conversions

Chariots in The Gambia
Isaac K. Daye
Continued from page 51 Power is the capacity to produce to all our sponsors and mission
result and nothing has the power work supporters, most especially
a 3rd Gospel Chariot for North Africa.
to produce salvation other then the to my sponsoring congregation, the
We have made a commitment in this
Gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16). Center Street Church of Christ that
regard for 2012. However, there are
The Hebrews writer says the has provided my family not only
some structures we need to put in
Gospel is powerful and effective, and with financial support but with love
place, first, before running ahead with
Isaiah declares it is productive. Yes, and prayers over the last 14 years
this project. Then, it is all systems go. It
indeed the Gospel has multiple effects, of mission work, spanning three
is not just about finding the funding for
some visible and others invisible. nations — The Gambia, Liberia, and
the Chariot. Every dream has to have a
Often it is the visible results that grip Sierra Leone.
team.
our attention. One such result that We were blessed with the visit
This is what we need in this has brought me and the saints here of Eugene Prince, minister of the
stage of the preparation: in Bakau great joy is the conversion Alabaster Church in Alabama, who
and baptism of Leticia Davies who donated $8,000 towards our land
1. We are looking for a USA
started visiting us with her mother, purchase and and another $2,000
congregation that already works in
who came to know about the church towards the concreting of the front
Ghana or Nigeria, that would like to be
via my weekly radio broadcast about slab of our new edifice at Kanifing
part of this work.
three months ago. Church of Christ in The Gambia.
2. We need an African congregation
Leticia took her mother by I need your prayers for my next
with an eldership in Ghana or Nigeria
surprise when she requested baptism mission trip to Liberia and Sierra
to oversee this Chariot’s travels.
without consulting her first. Her Leone and I wish to offer special
So, in essence, we want to share
mother asked, “Why did you not wait thanks to Tusculum Church of Christ
responsibility with US and African
for me, as I am contemplating my own for their assistance in getting me a
leaders. This way we will be tapping into
baptism?” I said to her that “Baptism new and stronger PA system and $500
organization and leadership that already
for one’s salvation is personal and the to purchase some Bibles for my up-
exists, with accounting structures and so
only consultation needed is with the coming trip. I stay in need of Bibles
forth. We are from South Africa and very
Master, Jesus.” To that, the mother for free distribution to our graduating
far from North Africa. Our leadership
said Leticia should be baptized WBS students. U
style has never been one of micro-
immediately while she reflects on her ISAAC K. DAYE P.O. BOX 4066, BAKAU,
managing works outside of our country,
own response to the Gospel. THE GAMBIA. Phone 220 992 5398; E-
but rather of motivating, encouraging,
Once more we have seen the MAIL: ikdaye@yahoo.com
and stimulating evangelism. Thus, our
great visible power of the
goal is not to compete with others, but to
Gospel in the death and
work with them.
resurrection of a dead and
We have plans of advertising this in
lost soul. Leticia’s mother
the brotherhood’s Christian Chronicle
is not far from following her
newspaper. Our goal is to get more
daughter’s example. Your
congregations and brethren involved.
prayers can accelerate her
This will be a HUGE evangelistic
decision.
project for North Africa, and is tre-
With the reopening
mendously exciting! PLEASE PRAY
of our school, we will be
FOR THIS EFFORT. U
adding our sixth grade
George Funk’s email address: george. class. Special thanks go
gom@gmail.com
 54 Global Harvest
The Churches of Christ in the
French-Speaking World
FRENCH WORLD SUMMIT
October 22-24, Montreux, Switzer-
land, hosted for three days the 13th
summit of the world’s French-speaking
countries. This included the 32 coun-
tries where French is the official lan-
guage, and 38 others where French is
the second language. From the Pacific
islands to Canada to Mauritius and
beyond into Asia, it is estimated that
there are 220 million people who speak
French as a first or second language.
This represents 13% of the world’s
population and nearly all of them are
not yet God’s children! By 2050 there
will be between 700 and 750 million
French speakers.
French is the third language on the
Internet (after English and German,
and ahead of Spanish). It is the 2nd
language in the European Union after
German and before English. Forty-
four percent of the French-speaking
people of the world live in sub-Sahara
countries of Africa where the number
will reach 500 million by 2050.
UNSEEN HEROES
Sylvio Salomon
Sunday, the 15 August 2010, the
church on the island of Mauritius
celebrated the 90th birthday of David
Emmanuelle, our oldest brother in Christ.
David called the church his true and
real family. He was added to the church
in 1972, baptized by Eddy Kodye
who was a Bible student at that time
in Mauritius. As far as I know, David
has never missed one Thursday prayer
meeting during 38 years. He never
missed one Sunday service, except
when he was in bed due to sickness.
We only went to his house three times
with the Lord’s Supper. For many years
David preached once a month, until
his eyes could no longer see the Bible
print. He never attended a Bible school
like us. David was and still is a Bible
man; he read the entire Bible five or six
times a year.
Unseen Hero? Yes! During 38 years,
he never tried to be in front of anything
to impose his opinion and never tried to
have the last word, using his advanced
age. It is a privilege for me to inform you
of this hero in Christ, as I truly believe
that this man is a great example to us all.
REJEAN DESBIENS:
1941-2010
Rejean Desbiens died seven days
after his baptism in Saguenay, Canada. He
had a rapidly growing cancer. However,
when he understood the importance of
an obedient faith, he readily obeyed the
Gospel in the waters of baptism.
Even though he could hardly walk,
nothing could stop him from obeying
the Lord’s command. He was baptized at
the hospital for cancer patients. The staff
was very helpful and respectful to allow
the brethren to baptize Rejean. Heaven
and earth rejoiced at the obediant faith
of this new brother. After spiritually
coming to life with Jesus, Rejean died
physcially seven days later.
Now for the rest of the story:
Jean Grenier, the preacher in Saguenay-
Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada, relates
that after the baptism of Rejean Desbiens,
his daugther Nadia was baptized. Later,
his son Jacques followed their example.
Paul said to “come before winter” (2
Timothy 4:21), which applied to us
means to do what needs to be done before
it is too late. And when we do, there can
be the kind of fruit which causes heaven
and earth to rejoice.
Report from St.
Pierre and Miquelon
In August, Jean-Claude Schmidt
and Bren White flew to Portland, Maine,
then drove 11 hours through Canada to
fly from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to two tiny
islands off the coast of Newfoundland.
St. Pierre and Miquelon, the oldest
French overseas territory, is actually
a part of North America. Bordered by
English-speaking Canadian provinces,
these beautiful and unique islands have
maintained their distinctive French
culture and language since the 1600’s.
Very few people visit these hard-
to-get-to islands, and no one from the
churches of Christ has ever shared the
Good News. In fact, to our knowledge, no
non-Catholic churches have ever existed
here. Bren has been praying for souls on
these islands for 16 years.
With this one brief visit, God
opened up many doors! Bren and Jean-
Claude talked with over 80 people and
established 40 contacts for follow-up.
This level of receptivity is unheard of
in French-speaking areas outside of
Africa and the Caribbean. Since no
Bibles were spotted anywhere on the
islands, fifteen were distributed.
Additional Bibles and materials
will be sent to contacts throughout this
year, and rapport and interest will be
developed through email, Skype and
regular mail. Public meetings have
been discussed and are being planned
for next year. If you are interested in
being involved in this outreach effort
in some way, please contact Bren at
ofwmissions@gmail.com. U
 Global Harvest 55
Evangelism Trip to Wukari and Jalingo, Nigeria
I wanted to share the outcome of
our proposed campaign at Okwe area
of Asaba in Delta State of Nigeria. To
my greatest surprise, the brethren that
honoured the invitation were twice my
expectation. About 100 turned out for
the Campaign! We were able to stage
open-air preaching at two distinct points
simultaneously, and a great number of
those in attendance embarked on house
to house preaching.
To God’s glory, besides two fam-
ilies of about six Christians who were
converts through our TV program,
we found seven other Christians who
live in that area and are now part of
the church which we started there with
the first assembly on the following
Sunday. Fourteen adults and six
children were present. Some of our
prospects could not attend, owing to a
heavy downpour.
After the service I visited some of
the prospects, along with some of those
who had worshipped. If all is well, we
will baptize a husband and wife who
are serious members of Pentecostal
Churches and had read and digested the
tracts given out to them on Saturday. I
was just asked to clarify some issues.
We also had a productive trip to
Wukari and Jalingo in Taraba State of
Nigeria. I thank God the journey was
made without any mishaps on our ways
to and from the two cities in Taraba.
We (Raymond Onwumere, Tawo
Peter Odu — a student preacher
who is on teaching practice with my
congregation — and I) left Onitsha
around 10:20 A.M. and got to Wukari,
around 6:15 P.M. Brother Stephen
Ugbo had made arrangements for us to
meet with WBS students in that area.
We checked in at a Lodge and followed
Stephen to check on one of the students
Felix Onyeka
close by. As the student was not at
home, we retired to our lodging place
after visiting Stephen’s residence. The
next day we met the student and also
talked to one of the attendants at our
lodge. Both affirmed the truthfulness
of the message they heard, but none
yielded for baptism.
We left Wukari later that morning
for Jalingo (about three hours drive from
Wukari) as Stephen had arranged for us
to meet with some of the students from
noon and attend to others on Thursday.
We were disappointed as only one
student showed up. We attended the
evening service of Air Strip Church
of Christ where Stephen worships and
pleaded that they ask those whom they
know as students of WBS or those who
want to enroll to see us at the scheduled
venue the next day. They appreciated
our visit and promised to help.
Thursday morning, we started the
day with the visit of a Deeper Life Bible
Church Pastor who wants to enroll
with WBS (Geoffrey Gogoni). He was
referred to us by a member of Air Strip
Church of Christ. He was followed by
John G. Moses, the founder of Fire
of God Church denomination and a
WBS Student. Both attest to learning
the truth but insist that they have to go
home and ponder over the things they
were taught while still studying WBS
lessons. We persuaded Geoffrey to
possibly arrange for us to minister to
his entire congregation, whom he said
he is grooming for baptism. We pray
that after having thought further about
the message of salvation he heard he
will not only submit himself but will
allow us an audience with his group. In
my judgment, the two are only afraid
of losing their position and the material
benefits they derive from those they
lead.
We also talked with one Overseer
Yaro, a member of the Baptist Church.
Overseer was so happy about learning P
the truth that he insisted that we would th
not bear the cost of transport to the fa
stream to baptize him. The moment we an
returned from the waters of baptism, su
he went out and came back with some p
money, begging us to take it as he was
very happy.
With the baptism of Overseer, we
all rejoiced and prayed for God to give
us more souls. A group of about 20
young men and women were assembled
through the effort of Stephen’s wife and
one brother Philip, a school teacher who
lives close to Stephen. Most of those
were members of United Methodist
Church of Nigeria (UMCN), and a
good number of them were students
of a College of Education close by. To
God’s glory, four young ladies out of the
lot decided to put on Christ in spite of
distractions from their peers.
On Friday morning, Peter re-invited
some of those talked to the previous
day for further discussion, but none of
those were moved to obey the Gospel.
We left Jalingo for Wukari to see if we
could meet with some other students
before our return to Anambra State. It
is good that this move resulted in the
conversion of two young men who were
invited by brother Peter — Emmanuel
Tanko and Danasabe Ingyeka.
I can still feel the dirtiness of the
muddy water where I baptized these
two young men.
In all, I really thank God for His
mercies. Please pray for these precious
souls that they might remain firm in the
faith. U
Felix Onyeka’s email address:
aniamaluf2000@yahoo.com
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The 2011 Evangelism Summit

Organized by The Voice of Truth in Nigeria (V.T.N.)
at the Auditorium of the Egbeda Church of Christ in Lagos State, Nigeria
Kingsley Odogwu

The first annual “February Evange-

lism Summit of the Voice of Truth in
Nigeria” (V.T.N) took place this year,
as one of the outreach programs of the
Churches of Christ of the area. This
meeting was brought into being by dint
of hard work and determination.
PREPARATIONS FOR
THE SUMMIT
In December of 2010, the decision
to have the 2011 Evangelism Summit
was reached even though the team
(V.T.N) had nothing in its treasury.
This did not discourage us as had
always been the case in the previous
years. The first positive response was
when we wrote to the leadership of
the Church of Christ, Egbeda in Lagos
State, on the 1st of January 2011 as
regards to using their auditorium for
the Summit. This request was granted
immediately, after which we started
sending appeals for financial assistance
to some brethren in Lagos to enable us
to organize the meeting. We also sent
invitations to all the congregations
in Lagos State and beyond, to other
brethren in neighboring countries, like
the Republic of Benin and Ghana, all in
the West African region.
A WEEK BEFORE
THE SUMMIT
Jesus said in Mark 9:23 that, “if
you can believe, all things are possible
to him who believes.” This statement
is just as He said it. One week before
the Summit, nothing was realized
from the financial appeals we had
previously sent out, while thousands
of invitations had already been mailed.
Some of the group attending the Summit.
This particular situation brought fears
to some of us because we were faced
with a lot of worries on what next to
do. However, the determination to
make the 2011 Evangelism Summit
a reality did not in any way weaken;
instead, we trusted on God to bring the
Summit to pass. Four days to the event,
George Akpabli, Director of the Be-
nin Bible Training Center, was one
of the speakers at the Summit.
the situation remained unchanged.
At this stage, some of the organizers
started giving up and suggested that
the program be cancelled, but I said
NO to that because the God we serve
is a living God. He only requires us to
trust and obey Him. And on that same
day, I mentioned the situation to a sister
in Christ who has been a lover and
supporter of God’s business all her life.
And, on the following day, the money
used to organize the Summit was sent
by this dedicated, loving, caring, and
faithful sister. I pray that the Almighty
God will bless her abundantly and open
more windows of blessings to her in
Jesus’ name.
THE EVE OF THE SUMMIT
The arrival of our brethren, among
whom were brothers George Akpabli,
Samson Ekwe, and Patrick Ogbonna,
all from Cotonou, the capital of Benin
Republic, on Friday evening added
some new faces to the Summit premises,
Continued on page 58
 Global Harvest 57
They Came By the Thousands
Zambia Medical Mission
This year, the Zambia Medical
Mission was incredible with an
outstanding team that worked extremely
hard to see that we took care of all the
patients who came for care. these infections can be avoided when
We set all-time records, seeing the
most patients in one day at our last
clinic at Mabuyu: 3,740. This brought
our overall total to 19,560! These
patients were treated with kindness,
respect, and with the love that Jesus
showed to those with whom He came in
contact. Everyone that was treated for
a medical condition knew that we were
there because of Jesus and the example
He set. Over 80 souls were baptized
and oth­ers will follow after more study
with the Church Development team.
The free wheel­chair program has
made such a differ­ence for so many
peo­ple. Sheryl (Hamby) Ramsey
initiated this program last year. These
wheelchairs are made especially for the
terrain in ru­ral areas. Almost 60 were
given out during the clinics. It was so
wonderful to know that when you saw
someone being car­ried or struggling so
hard to walk, you could call Sheryl, and
she would be there with a wheelchair
for the individual. The burden that is
lifted from the family is great and the
patients are thrilled to have a little
independence to move about on their
own. Sheryl remained in Zambia for
another month to take wheelchairs
to rural health clinics all over the
Southern Province.
It was a great joy to see that we gave
out all the Clean Delivery Kits; 501 of
these kits were given to women who
were in their last tri-mester of pregnancy.
Each year about 60 million women in
develop­ing countries give birth with
only the help of an untrained attendant
LaDonna Armstrong
or family member, or with no help at all.
The infection rate is high and hundreds
of women die from com­plications asso-
ciated with pregnancy or childbirth, and
infection is a leading cause. Many of
Clean Delivery Kits (CDKs) are used.
Ours include a bar of soap, square yard
of plastic sheet, razor blade, string for
umbilical cord, sealed bag for packaging,
baby blanket, infant sleeper, candle,
matches, and two pairs disposable
gloves. These simple items will help save
the lives of countless mothers and babies.
We try our best to meet the needs
of the patients who come to our clinics.
Only with God’s help and the help
of so many who contribute to send a
team member, give funds for medicine,
CDKs, wheelchairs, etc. were we able
to have such a successful mission. It is a
team effort, and our Leader is the Lord.
Cataract Surgery at Namwianga
Eleanor Hamby
At Simalundu, on our first set of
clinics, an elderly man slowly walked
in, cautiously holding on to the end of a
stick that a young family member used
to lead him. The old man had been blind
for 10 years and depended on others
to guide him. Living in the Gwembe
Valley in the Simalundu area is one of
the most difficult existences a person
can have in Zambia. Life is tough, as the
land is not good and the rains are very
sparse. These people were displaced in
the 1950’s when the Kariba Dam was
built. They left a very fertile valley and
were brought to a desolate land.
On that fateful day, the blind man
most likely walked several kilometers
in the hopes of seeing a doctor for his
many ailments. Little did he know that
the trip to the Zambia Medical Mission
outreach clinic would embark him on Continued on page 58
a road that would change his life. He
knew the medical team was coming,
but no one in the area knew we were
going to be offering the hope of having
eye­sight restored.
A year ago when Sheryl Ramsey
was at the Livingstone Gener­al Hospital
donat­ing wheelchairs, she met Dr.
Monze. Dr Monze is the administrator
for the hospital, but he is also an
ophthalmologist. He is associated with a
British Optical Aid Organization called
Sightsavers. When Sheryl told him what
we do on the medical mission and that
we send patients to Zimba for cataract
surgery, Dr. Monze was very excited and
said he thought Sightsavers could work
out a cataract sur­gery partnership with
ZMM. Throughout the year, there was
dialogue between Dr. Monze and Sheryl.
When I flew into Zambia the first of
June, Shepherd Mbumwae, our hospital
administrator, and I met in Lusaka with
the Program Director of Sightsavers.
It was obvious they wanted to partner
with us. The plan was for ZMM
Optical Clinic to identify the patients
who had cataracts, and then we would
bring them in by Lorry to Namwianga
where Dr. Monze and his assistants
would perform the cataract surgery.
They knew we did not have a surgery
(theatre) room at Namwianga, but they
said all they needed was a sterile room
with an operating table and light. There
would be absolutely no cost for ZMM
except for providing food and lodging
for Dr. Monze and his team. We also
had to contract with lorries to transport
the patients, and then we provided food
and blankets for the patients and their
family members.
When the old man came to the
Optical Clinic, he was diagnosed with
 58 Global Harvest
They Came...
Continued from page 57
Bilateral Cataracts and was in the first
group of patients who traveled to
Namwianga Health Center. The old
man, as did all the others, calmly went
through the surgery. I am certain he did
not know what the outcome would be
as it is also thought by many that if you
go to surgery you do not return alive.
No one was prepared for what
happened the next day when the
bandage was removed from the one
eye on which they had done surgery.
He pro­ceeded to jump out of bed and
started running uncontrollably around
the grounds, singing praises to the
Lord and shouting, “I will see my cows
— I will see my grandchildren!” He
did not recognize any of the villagers
from Simalundu and only knew who
they were when he was able to identify
their voices. A few weeks later, he
came back and was taken to Dr. Monze
in Livingstone where he had the other
eye operated on.
Dr. Monze is an amazing doctor as
he has great compassion for his people.
He was the only surgeon, and he started
early in the morn­ing and operated until
after midnight, trying to take care of as
many cases as possible. He was very
excited to have the patients we brought
in as he said normally these people
from so deep in the valley never have
the opportunity for cataract surgery. He
was also very happy with our facility
and kept bragging on our wonderful
operating table. He said it moved up
and down with just putting his foot on
a pedal — he did not have such a table
as this at the Livingstone hospital.
Dr. Monze performed 52 cataract and
several other types of optical surgeries.
He already has scheduled partnering
with ZMM in 2011.
Zambia Mission Fund, 3103 East Memo-
rial Road, Edmond, OK 73013
The 2011 Evangelism Summit
Continued from page 56
as local brethren also started trooping in
and out of the church auditorium to greet
these missionaries from the Republic of
Benin with tears of joy in their eyes.
After the Friday evening service and
a dinner, they were driven down to a
nearby hotel where we had previously
secured accommodations for them.
THE SUMMIT DAY PROPER
(5TH FEBRUARY, 2011)
As early as 7:00 A.M., the church
auditorium was already calling brethren
in with the rendition of an Accappella
CD titled “Songs of Faith and Praise”
sent to us by brother Edward Mosby
(USA). As the Summit participants
entered the auditorium, the camera man
was already standing with his photo
and video cameras well positioned.
Brother Monday Femi Uzoyare
(The Lagos State Coordinator of the
V.T.N) was the moderator for the day,
while brother Mcintosh Chimezirim,
also of the Lagos State branch of the
V.T.N, was the song leader for the day
(a very good song leader). The Summit
opening prayer was said by brother
Sunday Effiong (One of the elders in
the Egbeda Church of Christ). I read
the welcome address, after which there
was a series of songs before the second
welcome address written by sister Betty
Choate (USA) which was delivered by
brother George Akpabli, a Cotonou-
based missionary working in the French
speaking countries of Africa.
I then delivered the report of the
achievements and challenges recorded
so far by the team (V.T.N) since inception
in 2008 till date. After some responses
U 200005, Oyo State, Nigeria.
on the report and suggestions for the way
forward from the participants, the first
Summit Bible lesson titled “The Power
of God unto Salvation” was delivered by
brother Moses O. Obakemi, the minister
of the church of Christ at Lawanson
in Lagos State. This was followed by
the presentation of the second lesson,
titled “The Church and Evangelism”
by brother Oji O. Oji, the minister of
the church of Christ at Ikeja in Lagos
State. After rendering some songs, the
participants were refreshed, and then
came the distribution of the Bible study
materials sent by the Mission Printing
and the World Evangelism Office in
Winona, MS, USA, as well as some
CDs from brother Roger Dickson in
South Africa.
The closing remarks and vote of
thanks were made by me, while the
closing prayer was said by brother
Adewole Gege from the Egbeda
Church of Christ. The Summit came
to an end at 4:00 P.M. and everybody
who attended went home rejoicing. The
next year’s edition will take place at the
church of Christ, Ikeja, Lagos State.
The following Team Leaders from the
Lagos State branch of the V.T.N joined
me in organizing the Summit:
Bro. Monday Femi Uzoyare
Bro. Ikechukwu God’spower Ossai
Bro. Augustine Ibra Dick
Bro. Ilesami Samson
Bro. Peter Igbekele
We appreciate all the brethren who
helped to make this Summit a reality,
from within and outside the country.
May the Almighty God, whose work
you have supported, bless you all in
Jesus’ name. U
Kingsley C. Odogwu, V.T.N National
co-ordinator, P.O.Box 20615 UI, Ibadan
Email: odogwukingsley@yahoo.com
thevoiceoftruthinnigeria@yahoo.com;
Tel: +2348062893417.
 Global Harvest 59
The Preaching Power of the Printed Page
This has been the heart of the rainy
season, and it has been raining ‘cats
and dogs’ and a few other animals!
Many activities have taken place
during the past months.
Leadership Seminars: July 3,
August 7, and September 4th. We
had 58 in attendance for July, and 75
in August. But for September, the
day turned into mourning for us as
we lost one of our brothers that same
day. Brother Adekunle Emmanuel
had graduated from the Bible school
on August 14th. He received the best
student awards for moral behavior and
academic excellence. He was someone
wholly prepared for service in the
church. But we lost him before we
could use him.
Evangelism at Ososo: We went
for a campaign at Okeh-Ososo and two
obeyed the Gospel. We went again to
another quarter of Ososo and had a day
of door knocking. It was a rainy day,
but we had a good turn out. We went to
the river in the rains and baptized nine
souls.
Evangelism at Dagbala: We went
to this village for a one-day campaign.
At the end, we converted six souls to
Christ.
Funeral Service at Owan: The
brethren at Eruere-Osi in Owan West
Local Area invited me to preach at the
funeral of the brother who had died
at the age of 102 years. His believing
children converted the late brother at
the age of 95 years.
World Bible School: I was very
busy going from village to village and
trying the best I can to receive and
distribute the wbs lessons that came
to my post office box from various
teachers and congregations in the USA.
Sylvester Imogoh
I went as far as Ageva and Ogori in
Kogi state to contact students.
Key To The Kingdom: The KTTK
program, as a result of the TV broadcasts,
has also ensured that I continue to have
people who contact me by phone and by
emails to request our free Bible courses,
Bibles, and prayers. I am happy to be
useful in this regard also.
The Need for Tracts
and Other Literature
Tracts: In this quarter, I have written
and published four tracts in the “Let
the Bible Speak” series: “The Church
of Christ Is Not a Denomination”,
“Religious Titles”, “Unity In Christ”,
and “Salvation In Christ”. Also, I was
able to reprint two others. Thus, for this
quarter, we produced a total of 30,000
tracts, and altogether, since we started,
we have printed 80,000 which are
being used in many ways to advance
the Gospel across Nigeria.
We take these tracts with us when
we go for our regular village campaigns.
As we go from house-to- house, we
leave a tract or two with our audiences.
Also, in our Bible lectures, seminars
and workshops, we hand out tracts to
anyone who wants to read one. Usually,
there are not enough to go around.
We have placed tracts in the post
office here at Igarra for the public,
and the tracts go along with the World
Bible School lessons in schools, to
both staff and students. As the tracts
started growing in popularity, requests
began coming from different places.
At first, I mailed tracts to a few
preachers who called to request them,
but I soon discovered that the same
‘reason’ that necessitated the writing
of the tracts [cost] would not let me
continue to mail them. Now I seek out
opportunities to send them through
brethren to congregations far and near.
I have sent to churches in Benin, Owo,
Ikare, Akungba, Abeokuta, Abraka, and
Agbor. And I have taken many boxes
with me on speaking appointments to
Kano, Abuja, Maiduguri, Sabo, and
other places.
Locally, preachers and members
come to my house or to the church
building to collect tracts for their con-
gregation’s use, or to send to others in
other states. At church, every visitor
receives a package of tracts. We give
them out at road blocks when we travel.
There is no day in which one or all of us,
whose phone numbers are listed, do not
receive a call, asking questions, asking
location, or requesting more tracts.
A friend of mine who lives in The
Gambia came home for the holidays.
He read the tracts and immediately
asked for some to take with him for
the Church of Christ in The Gambia.
[He is not a member, but he knows our
brethren in that country.] In the light
of the whole ignorance and errors of
denominations around us, and some
in the brotherhood who are ‘eying’ the
fanciful doctrines of men in the many
Nigerian [indigenous] churches, then
these tracts are in great need.
Printing Press: In the light of the
many challenges facing the church
of Christ in Nigeria in the areas of
provision of Bible literature, my hope
is that we would ultimately be able to
have a printing press to produce tracts
and books for the Nigerian brotherhood.
Please pray with us to see this dream
fulfilled. U
Imogoh A Sylvester, P O Box 251, Igarra,
Edo State, Nigeria. imogoh@yahoo.com
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Aid for Pakistan’s Flooding Chito Cusi

When I am asked “How was Pakistan?” the first word that the MARCH for Christ relief team on nationwide television.
comes to mind is Enigma; in the context of a nation, the Free And in a short time we were in an ambulance headed for the
Online Dictionary uses ENIGMA in a sentence in this manner: city of Muza Fargargh — almost a seven-hour drive. While
This country remains an enigma for the outside world. we were in Muzaffargargh till Saturday, October 9, Dr. Gerry
Relief work has always been the raison d’etre of MARCH Teves teamed up with LGH Dr. Mohammed Andnan Bhutta, a
for Christ — Medical Action for Relief, Counseling and very likeable man who spoke English and Spanish. Together,
Healing; work done all in the name of Christ, to the glory they treated over a thousand patients in five different villages
of Christ. A massive earthquake in the city of Baguio in close to the area hit by the floods and where refugees had
the northern Philippines in 1990 gave rise to this banding relocated. Shem and I teamed up with Naeem Sabir, preacher
together of about 20 Christian doctors, dentists, nurses, for the Sahiwal Church of Christ, to organize relief goods and
preachers, and plain members. Their desire was to point then distribute them to 132 Christian families from that area.
people in the direction of God in times of disaster and to
discover God’s love in spite of calamity.
Since 1990, by God’s grace, this MARCH for Christ has
conducted 54 missions throughout the Philippine islands, and
in tragedy-stricken countries in Asia (Sri Lanka, Indonesia,
Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Cambodia — our first
peace time mission); always working with the churches of
Christ. In some areas, we help churches grow their contacts
through our benevolent work, and in others we helped plant
new churches even as far as Myanmar.
Trusting in God’s mission for us in Pakistan, we set
out for Pakistan. Like Gideon and his 300 soldiers, the
Clinic under the trees.
3 of us set out to this land known as the cradle of Islamic
fundamentalism, and asked God to multiply our resources From Muzaffargargh, we would backtrack three and a half
and to open doors for us. We imagined we were the 3 hours to Sahiwal City, where we would stay and work with
columns that God used to defeat the Midianites. the Church of Christ until departure time. Dr. Teves would
Did God answer our prayers and multiply our resources?
team up with husband and wife Drs. Aftab and Sabia to have
You be the judge. medical camps, treating brethren and their Muslim neighbors
We arrived 10:30 P.M., October 5 in Lahore, got into our
from Sunday afternoon up to Monday afternoon. On Tuesday,
hotel at midnight. At 8:30 A.M., the Philippine Consul picked
Dr. Teves had a solo medical camp with Shem and Naeem in a
us up to bring us to a meeting and press conference at the
village in Okarra city. Christian flood refugees traveled from
Lahore General Hospital. The hospital’s bigwigs led by Dr.
40 kilometers away to be treated and to receive relief goods
Salahuddin Khan, Consul Rizwan Fareed and others presented
that we had prepared. In all, we gave away 460 packages of
flour, rice, cooking oil, dahl, sugar, tea, bath soap, and laundry
Luis Cusi (center) discussing work plans with brethren. soap — two sack loads per family.
We would learn when we arrived in Sahiwal the reason
for the over protectiveness of Naeem. He would not allow
us to go out of the gate or to walk in the streets by ourselves.
The church compound even had guards with an AK 47
assault rifle and a shotgun.
A few months earlier (or was it a year ago), two Christian
men studying Bible with Naeem were arrested by police
while distributing tracts. They were jailed and charged with
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Reporting Evangelism from New Delhi, India
Since 1969, soon after the planting
of the church in New Delhi, many
thousands of books in English and
Hindi languages have been printed,
distributed, and mailed throughout the
country. With their circulation, we have
been able to provide much needed sound
Bible teaching on many subjects. In fact,
the Lord’s church, itself, has been well
represented to people everywhere in the
country through these books, and those
printed in additional languages in other
states of India.
Brother J.C. Choate, who initiated
this wonderful literature ministry, used
to bring manuscripts of books, and
books which had already been printed
in the States, at least twice every year
for printing or reprinting. All of this
material was written by many sound
and faithful brethren in the States, with
the addition of radio sermon books by
Indian brethren.
Also back then, in 1969, we began
printing a monthly magazine, The Bi-
ble Teacher, which continues to be
published each month and is presently
in its 41st year. A few years ago, we
began a Hindi edition also. Almost all
the articles printed each month in these
magazines are reproduced from articles
in various brotherhood journals and
bulletins in the States, such as Gospel
Advocate, The Spiritual Sword, The
Voice of Truth International, etc.
There would be countless numbers
of people in this country, from every
religious background, who would have
known nothing about the true church
of the Bible and pure New Testament
Christianity if they had not had access
to the kind of Bible-based literature that
was made available to them from the
New Delhi church.
Though in the major cities of India
Sunny David
one might find a bookstore offering
“Christian” books and literature, we have
no such business operated by members
of churches of Christ. A service, such
as we have offered, has helped to fill
that void. Preachers and members of
the Lord’s church in various places all
over the country have been benefited by
these numerous books supplied to them,
free of cost. Many people still write and
ask me if I could send them copies of
a particular book they require. Through
these years, we have continually made
sound Bible material available to
people of all religious backgrounds, to
churches, Bible seminaries, theological
schools and colleges, libraries, etc.
Only eternity will reveal the good done.
To reach more and more people
with the Gospel, in 1975 we began
using the radio — Radio Sri lanka —
as it had become available by then.
J.C. had broadcasts in English and I
in Hindi. We also added programs in
DVDs available in the Hindi Language.
Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam, with
preachers from other states joining us
in that part of the work. As time passed,
television became available, and that,
too, became a means of evangelism
in various languages. We miss brother
Choate immensely, as he was the
source of encouragement to all of us in
these great works of the Lord.
For the past two years, I have been
producing DVDs with Gospel messages
in Hindi and English. As more and
more people are coming to know about
the availability of these, this work, too,
is generating a good response. Not
only are members and preachers in
the church asking for them, but people
from various denominational groups
and their preachers, and even some
Catholic “Fathers” are requesting them.
To God be the glory through all that is
being done to accomplish His will.
As Hindi is the national language
of India and is videly spoken in
many states, we tremendously need
a television program in Hindi. I have
been making enquiries about the cost
of a thirty-minute telecast, and I have
found that the cost will be $1000.00
for each program. The viewership will
be several million. How wonderful
it would be if we could have a Hindi
Telecast for this nation of more than
one billion souls, 85 percent of which
follow the Hindu religion! I hope and
pray that brethren will think about
this great opportunity of reaching
millions with the saving Gospel.
It is a wonderful time in which
we are living today, when we have so
many different tools available. May
God help us to see what can be done to
fulfill His Great Commission. U
Sunny David’s email address:
sunny_davidin@yahoo.co.in
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Gospel Meeting in Nanded, India

Earnest Gill
In 2010 we faced challenges to make alterations in our
places of worship and work. On October 31st we changed
the place of worship to an auditorium. It is a costly venture
but we had no choice. But on November 1, I got the good
news from brother Sonu who works in Gangoh (Saharanpur
District of U.P. state) over the phone that seven people obeyed
the Gospel on Sunday. It was an encouraging thing for us
that the Lord gives us hope whenever we are discouraged
with the things we face.
Started in September, our Daily Bible Verse Service now
has more than 300 contacts. Across the country through SMS,
daily at 6 A.M. - 7 A.M., we send God’s Word to the people.
Out of this, some who are believers and some who have never
read the Bible are given a chance to know God’s will.
Students in the North India Bible College face trouble
most of the time because they were asked by neighboring
Earnest Gill introducing the Hindi Bible Course,
tenants not to sing in daily morning and evening devotions. “Seeking a Better Life”.
Singing is a necessary tool for their spiritual growth, but we
Aurangabad Bible College and some of the local preachers.
seek God’s providence in this matter.
I should not forget to mention here that brother Sheranappa
Brother Subodh Gual from Balco township, Chhattisgarh,
came in contact with me through the Truth for Today books.
said that three more souls obeyed the Lord from the Mahant
After getting our literature he contacted me and, during these
family, and some others also were being prepared. This has
years, the relationship has grown to this level that he wanted
counted 20 baptisms at his place in this past year, and a total
me to preach in the meeting he arranged. He, among many,
of 80 baptized people now worship in that congregation every
never forgets to tell me that these books are a great blessing
Lord’s Day. They are growing in number, and the need of the
to him. Indian people are so privileged to have such study
space for gathering increases day by day. With their limited
materials. He says that in his 40 years of preaching he is very
resources, they are planning to buy a piece of land for worship.
impressed with the style of translation and the language used.
In Nanded, Maharashtra state (1900+ kilometers from
He has made a library at his house of the Truth for Today
here, 32-hour journey by train), brother S. Sheranappa
books and encourages people to learn from them.
arranged a two-day class for me. He spoke, along with brother
In Nanded, about 150 heard the Gospel. People ap-
Amul Bansod and brother Barnabas from Aurangabad for
preciated the study and were glad that they were hearing
a short time, but I was the main teacher. I had few hours
this kind of teaching for the first time in their life. One good
and thought to stop at Aurangabad and met with brother
thing that came from the meeting was that some people
Bansod’s family. I talked with the students and staff of the
asked me to come and have such meetings in other places.
Copies of the Hindi Bible course given to those Some young people even wanted to be our students, and the
who attended the meetings in Nanded. Lord willing they will be enrolled for the next session of the
school.
While I was there, I received good reports over the phone
of the Gospel being taken to the other areas as well. Brother
Ritesh James who works in Satna, MP state, told me that
they have distributed 400 Bible Courses in Hindi to various
people, and they want to invite me for a Gospel meeting in
Satna very soon. He also asked for 40 Hindi Bibles to be
given to people with whom he has been in touch. U
Earnest Gill operates the North India Bible College in Chandi-
garh, India. His email address is ernst@rediffmail.com
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IMPACT OF Bible Correspondence Courses IN INDIA

Joshua Gootam

The city of Kakinada on the south by brother J.C. Choate

eastern coast of India is better known as during the years he
the Jerusalem of India, if not the Telugu was a missionary in
speaking state of Andhra Paradesh Karachi, Pakistan.
which has a population of a 100 milllion We ran this course (it
people. One reason why the Telugu was later printed as
brotherhood feels that way is due to the Bible Keys in book
fact that out of here goes forth the Word form) from 1964 to
of God though radio, TV, and the printed 1995. Hundreds of
page. This is also a city where the first thousands of people
school of preaching was established in took this course, so
India about 40 years back by brother much so that currently
J.C. Bailey. It turns out at least 100 we have about 3.3
Gospel preachers each year, men who million people who The Voice of Truth in Telugu.
are well trained in a two year program. were enrolled through
However, it is the Bible Correspon- the years. This has enabled the church in language in 1995, to cover the people
dence course work that is impressive Andhra state to spread rapidly. of Orissa who speak that language. The
here. I started running the Bible courses How We Get the Contacts Oriya language course, in turn, has
almost from the very next week after In the early days of our work, we helped to spread the truth into many
I became a Christian, way back in used to advertize in the newspapers and homes in Orissa, and small congregations
1964, working along with brother J.C.
also took advantage of denominational are resulting in that state due to our work.
Bailey. In fact I obeyed the Gospelpapers. But from 1976 to 2003 most of There are about a 100,000 now enrolled
after taking the Basic Bible course in
our contacts came through our radio from Orissa. Incidentally, we also have
English written by Ira Rice Jr.! After
programs, arranged by brother Choate a bimonthly magazine in ORIYA which
becoming a Christian, I wanted to and broadcast on the short wave radio goes into 3000 homes, as of now.
translate that course into Telugu. Since
station from Colombo, Sri Lanka. At The Success Rate
it was extensive and would need much
the end of each lesson, we would offer About 70% enrolled complete the
funding to print it, brother Baileya FREE Bible Correspondence course courses. This is mainly because we
decided to run a more comprehensivein TELUGU. When students finished offer them a copy of the Bible free.
and well organized Bible course written
the course, we would gift them a copy Most Indians do not know where and
of the New Testament how to get a copy of the Bible. Since
and/or send them a book this is predominantly a Hindu country,
of the radio sermons. there are no Bible bookstores in the
After receiving these towns and villages over the country.
gifts, they would in The Bible Society of India is the only
turn enroll their family place where you can get Bibles, and
members or friends. it has branches only in BIG cities like
Thus, the enollment Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta
swelled like anything. and Hyderabad. Even professing
From 1995, we Christians often do not know where
began to offer each one a and how to get a Bible!
copy of the Bible FREE Thankfully, at the moment a copy
either in Telugu or Oriya. of the Bible is available here in India
We introduced the Basic for only $2.75, including shipping
Joshua Gootam with a shipment of Bibles. Bible course in ORIYA Continued on page 64
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Bible Correspondence Courses . . .
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costs. Though this sounds cheap,
most Indians cannot afford even that.
It translates to 120 Rupees in Indian
currency, which is more than a man’s
daily wages. But here we are, offering
them a copy of the Bible and that, too,
after completing the Bible course! They
write and ask for the course and finish
it as quickly as possible, and within
no time a Bible is delivered to them at
their door step! Isn’t it wonderful?
Preparing Bibles for mailing.
Many Hindus also want to read the
Bible, so they take the course and soon
have their own copy. The Basic Bible
course is written in such a way that if a
person stays through the entire course,
he would obey the Gospel sooner
or later. We now estimate about 400
people are being baptized each year
due to this effort.
Brother Choate helped us to begin to
telecast the VOICE OF TRUTH (Satya
Vani) programs from 2003. People hear
the message and see our work on TV and
enroll themselves to know more about the
Bible. This has given us an opportunity to
place the Word of God in many thousands
of homes through the years. And I reckon
it is being read in most of those homes
on a daily basis because they see it as a
precious possession. One woman wrote
that she received her copy of the Bible
from us on her knees when the postman
delivered it to her. One lady who watched
our telecasts in New Jersey, USA,
enrolled in the Bible course, completed it
and received her copy through the mail.
Her joy knew no bounds when she got
the Bible in her own mother tongue in a
foreign land!
Another reason for the success of
the entire program of work is that we
have a motto in our office which says
“24 HOURS”, which means we respond
to each contact within 24 hours! I am
assisted with a committed saff of 16 people
who work 5 hours each day, enrolling,
grading and mailing the courses. We are
averaging about 300 letters per day from
our new contacts now. We are mailing
1000 Bibles per month to those that
have succesfully completed the Basic
Bible Course. And another 200 Bibles
are personally collected by the local
contacts. Whenever any of these contacts
request us for baptism, we put him or her
in touch with the nearest congregation.
Occasionally, people come here to be
baptized also. Since religious conversion
is prohibited in Orissa, people come to
our office in Kakinada to be baptized and
then go back to their places and meet as a
small congregation.
How the Church Benefits
The people of Andhra Pradesh
are taught well through the Radio,
TV, the printed page and from man
to man. People know what to do to
be saved and are ready to respond.
So, no wonder you see or read about
100s of people obeying in meetings
when American brethren come here
to teach. We prepare the ground, sow
the Gospel seed faithfully, and it is the
Lord who gives the increase. Each local
congregation has enough well taught
people that can teach others in turn.
The church increases in faith, and the
Lord is glorified. Please keep this work
in your prayers. God bless you. U is the way into the hearts of our Muslim
JOSHUA GOOTAM’s email address is
jgootam@yahoo.com
Pakistan ...
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blaspheming Mohammed. On their way
to court, two Muslims shot them at close
range. Christians protested their death,
demonstrated and burned tires in the
streets. Naeem was one of those who led
in filing charges against the killers; as a
result, he told us that there were constant
death threats against him and the church.
SO HOW WAS OUR TRIP TO
PAKISTAN? Let me tell you why Enigma
is the first word that comes to mind.
It is like a scene right out from the
movies, and you are the man in the
camera’s lenses. Donkey carts and
bicycles alongside motorized rickshaws,
motorcycles, and cars screaming
through the streets, tooting their horns
endlessly — you see this scene in the
side streets, markets, in the highways
and expressways. Men wearing their
traditional white, cream or light blue
chemise, bearded, wearing caps; women
in different styles of clothing with veils
covering their heads, some showing just
their eyes, and as soon as they see you,
their eyes all rivet on you. And yet, we
shall return as the Lord wills it.
Winter is coming and the supplies
we gave were just enough for food. We
were not even able to reach the brethren
in Peshawar. The flash floods affected
20 million people; some of them are our
brethren, asking, waiting, and expecting
help. We cannot turn our backs.
Our meeting with preachers in
Lahore on our way home was for us
God’s signal that there is more to be
done. Unlike Jonah, we will return to
our Nineveh. If Pakistan is the only
way from the sea for NATO forces to
enter Afghanistan, perhaps Pakistan, as
the cradle of Islamic fundamentalism,
friends and leaders. U
Contact Luis Cusi at lpcusi@yahoo.com
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First Century Evangelism Methods at Work,
Effectively…
First, it is God who gives us
strength and wisdom to do His work,
and we give Glory to Him. Thank God
for the Choates who have developed
ordinary men like us, to plan this
“new” method to train the members of
the Lord’s Church for evangelism as
the first century Christians did, in our
“JC School of Evangelism”.
Also, we thank the Bates for their
encouragement and guidance in carry-
ing out this fruitful method of winning
souls for Christ. After two years of
training the ordinary Christians of the
Lord’s church for evangelism, it is
simply amazing to see the results of
this school.
Apart from the five days of theory
classes each month, we give practical
field training to our evangelism school
students to work with their own congre-
gations in the following way:
1. Going door to door and
distributing Bible lessons and tracts.
2. Getting appointments for house
Bible studies.
3. Organizing Special Area Bible
studies.
4. Conducting Gospel meetings.
5. Establishing new congregations.
And all these are arranged by our
students, about whom we were thinking
that “these people cannot do anything
to evangelize”. It is true that, rightly
motivated and trained, men and women
of the Lord’s Church can do anything
for Christ. Yes, they live in their same
house, with the same family, same
job and situations, but their priority
has changed. These men and women,
who were previously saying that,
“We live for our family and we have
come to church worship service and to
Christ for our blessings,” now started
Philemon and Kingsly Rajah
saying that, “We live for Christ and
His church.” We request your prayers
and encouragement for these dedicated
Christians who wish to bring at least
one soul a month to their congregation.
Crippled young men, handicapped
young men, visually challenging men
and women, partially mentally retarded
men and women, and ordinary men and
women, all these people are working for
the development of their congregations
and bringing souls to teach the truth
to them. Now, we have really started
Philemon Rajah and Kingsly with an evangelism class.
feeling that, “We are doing nothing
when compared to these people.”
For example, our JC School of
Evangelism students in Madurai and
K’palayam added 22 souls to their
respective congregations in the months
of September and October 2010, alone.
One husband and wife from Roman
Catholic background, who are our
contacts through JC School students,
have taken baptism, and they are
faithful members now. Initially they
were contacted by our students, and
then brothers Kingsly and Antony
were taking Bible class in their house
every Friday evening for nearly four-
and-one-half months. The study was
attended by some 15 members of their
household, and they are still studying
every Friday. But all the members of
this large family have already started
attending the worship service at
Arasaradi Church of Christ.
I am really amazed by one of our
deaf and dumb women students of
JC School of Evangelism class who
is presently studying in our second
batch in Madurai. This woman, who is
our Arasaradi congregation member,
after starting the classes, keeps on
bringing someone to the worship
service and Bible study. She lives in the
underprivileged area, and she brings
vegetable selling women, fish selling
women, friends of hers who work in
hotels, washing the waste plates.
And I am also very happy about
another young man, who lives in our
church building itself. He is fully
crippled and moves about on a hand-
pedaled tricycle to go and visit people. He
is a graduate student of our evangelism
school (1st batch, Madurai) and he is
very eagerly working now to win souls.
He was instrumental in bringing and
baptizing one of his friends and his wife.
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Now he is tirelessly working by going
on his tricycle and also crawling in small
lanes where his vehicle cannot go and
taking classes to his well known school
friends’ houses and their relatives. To be
honest, I am really feeling shamed before
this crippled handicapped student, in his
great zeal.
Two legs crippled handicapped stu-
dent “Anbu Yesudoss” of graduated
1st batch of Evangelism school. Pray
for him to have a motor fitted three
wheeler.
At present we are conducting this
JC School of Evangelism classes in two
places, one in Madurai, our local city
where the second batch students are
being trained. There are 22 students,
coming from five con-gregations
of our city. The second place is
Kumarapalayam where twelve students
from three congregations are getting
training for evangelism. We thank God
for the opportunity given to us to develop
these thirsty Christians to work for the
cause of Christ. Our sincere thanks to
World Evangelism team and especially
to our Academic President, Jerry Bates,
and sister Paula who encourages many
Christian women with great lessons.
Following is a statement by one of
the students named Mohan Raj, from
the Kumarapalayam congregation:
“I have already gone to Bible
school and studied there for two
years, but due to my family needs I
am now working. I was encouraged
by my preacher to attend the School
of Evangelism classes. Till now I was
thinking that I can only teach in the
church worship and in the Bible study.
But after attending the JC School of
Evangelism, now I have learned to go
house to house and to teach and reach
the nearby houses. When I attended
the last month’s classes in the name of
“Denominational Doctrines”, I have
taken a strong decision that it is my duty
to meet my denominational friends to
teach them the New Testament truth.
Because till now I was thinking that
the church of Christ is the true Bible
church, but at the same time other
churches are also good.”
Here is a statement by a local
preacher: “After the School of evan-
gelism classes being attended by my
congregation members, now they are
asking me voluntarily what they can
do for the church development and for
the needs of our congregation. For the
last few months our contribution has
raised. In the beginning, to motivate the
members to attend this class was hard,
but now they are very much involved in
the evangelism work. Now they say this
is ‘my’ church and I have to do whatever
I can, for my Lord and God.”
A blind man gave a strong endorse-
ment: “I was baptized when brother
J.C. Choate came the very first time
to Madurai. In those days, Philemon
Rajah motivated me and gave me good
training to serve among the visually
challenged people. But due to my
Baptism into Christ ...
financial problems, I could not continue
my service for the Lord, and then I lost
my fellowship with other Christians.
Recently my Christian faith was restored
by the JC school students in Madurai.
Now I have started to study the Word
of God in the School of Evangelism,
second batch.
“The classes by brother Philemon
Rajah, Kingsly Rajah, and Antony Raj
motivated me to work again among
the visually challenged people. Now
I am preaching among 35 people, the
exclusive congregation for the blind
people started by Arasaradi Church
of Christ. Thanks to JC School and to
brother Jerry and sister Paula Bates.
When they visited us recently, they
taught our visually challenged people.
Sister Paula took womens’ classes and
one of the Arasaradi church sisters
helped in the translation.”
Due to the work of the JC School
students, and also the work among the
blind people, three new congregations
were started in October of 2010, one
of them by the efforts of the students
at Karur with four recently baptized
members. The other two congregations
are for visually handicapped people,
one in Madurai with our TVOTI Braille
magazine and Bible lesson readers, and
another one in Trichy where five of our
Braille magazine readers recently were
baptized.
Please pray for us. U
Philemon rajah, Kingsly Rajah & Antony
Raj reporting from Madurai.
Email: petrosbible@yahoo.com
obey2Jesus@gmail.com
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The Word of Christ in Tamil Nadu
We thank God for giving us the
opportunity to take the Gospel through-
out Tamilnadu, India.
From 2001 up till now, we have
systematically travelled to 32 districts
in our state, conducting ‘The Word of
Christ’ monthly magazine seminars
and introducing our beloved brother
J.C.’s books, TV, Radio, magazines,
tracts, and TVOTI. Through all of these
methods, we have harvested hundreds
and hundreds of people for the kingdom
of Christ. Our radio, TV and magazine
programs are going well.
A Hindu blind man named Ravi-
chandran heard our radio program and
accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord, dying
to his sin and being baptized. Regularly
he hears our radio programs and informs
us happily through phone that he is
listening. Like him, the son of one of
our team preachers, who is the second
generation in the church of Christ, was
baptized. Along with him, his friend was
also baptized. All three are our TV, radio
and magazine viewers, listeners and
readers. We are very glad about these
young people. Additional young people
baptized are two girls, aged 17 and 18
years, who have been coming to Sunday
classes.
We conducted “The Fourth Church
of Christ Preachers Family Fellowship
Meeting” at Kodaikanal in September of
2010. Our neighbouring district preachers’
families attended the meeting. They all
B. Arjunan
decided to evan-gelize Back Row: Rajanayagam, Paula, Jerry,
vigorously in their places. Kingsly, Antony. Front Row: Arjunan,
One of the preachers Glory, Baby, Philemon, Priya.
told us that very soon
they will build a church
building in their place
and introduce The Voice
of Truth International
magazine and our other
books, magazines and TV
and radio programs in their
area.
We conducted preachers’ meeting at reader. Her name is Mrs. Maragathem.
Dharapuram also. All those attending are She lives in our neighbouring district
self-supported preachers from through- and is very intrested in the ministry and
out Tamilnadu. The Voice of Truth books introducing our magazine to others.
and CDs, church materials, grape juice Every month she invites a group of ladies
bottles, Bibles, tracts, song books etc., to gather and pray at her house. She
were given to help them in their local asked us to come to their place and give
work, since they do not have outside the message among the ladies. When we
support. They were very happy. Our went, Glory taught on the topic of ‘Why
team preachers and I had Bible classes Did God Create Us?’ All the ladies were
for them. They want to continue such a very happy to hear the lesson. Still they
meeting twice yearly. speak about it and how much it meant to
In September of 2010, the ‘World them. Mrs. Maragathem often calls me
Evangelism’ team workers’ fellowship on the phone.
meeting was conducted at Rameswaram, We thank God that all the programs
Tamilnadu. We were very glad to discuss are going well. We pray for our World
about evangelism with brother Jerry and Evangelism family and team workers
sister Paula. We expected beloved sister and sponsors. Thank you. U
Betty but she didn’t come to India. God
willing, we will meet her in the coming B. Arjunan: thewordofchrist@bsnl.in
trip.
Our old office room was not
sufficient, so we built a new ‘The Word
of Christ’ office on our compound. It
was opened by me. We would have liked
that it had been opened by J.C., but we
are sorry that could not be. Nearby we
made a small ‘Shunammite’s Room’
for visiting preachers to stay.
In our Gospel journey, Glory took
classes among ladies. One well-educated,
retired Headmistress is our magazine
 68 Global Harvest
Thirteenth Annual Bible Lectureship
Kangayam, Tamil Nadu, India
S. Rajanayagam
Theme: The Gospel of Christ
Warm greetings to you all, who have been extending
support to the work of “World Evangelism”, which is
propagating the Gospel in all possible ways and means, in
the matchless name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
As a co-ordinator of the spiritual feast named above, I
am extremely happy to announce that the lectureship went
very well, fulfilling the expectations of all who participated.
Here, I have no hesitation to say that, as the sponsoring
church, we had some concern for the lectureship this year. The
previous ones were conducted on public holidays, when all
the offices, schools, and companies remained closed, enabling
Christians across the state to attend without much problem. But
this lectureship fell on working days, causing some concern
about the attendance. However, the Christians in the state
proved without any shadow of doubt that they are hungry and
thirsty for the Gospel of Christ, no matter if the lectureship
comes on holidays or working days. We thank and praise God
for the faith and zeal of the Christians in this part of the world.
Actually, we had Christians attending from THREE
states of South India! The attendance crossed the 450 mark
and this number represented 70 congregations of the three
States, from at least 60 cities, towns, and villages. This kind
of saints-gathering is very rare in this part of India. We had
the participation of many of our magazine readers and TV
viewers, even from long distances. We praise God that every
year this lectureship is gaining momentum.
Although there were no baptisms during the lectureship
dates, we had six in the following week from three different
places, including Kangayam. All were people who attended
the lectures, and we are getting news that there will be
several more conversions in the near future as the result
of the program. We are happy and proud that we were able
to instill in the minds of the people about the need and the
importance of the Gospel of Christ.
Like last year, brother Jerry Bates and his wife, sister
Paula Bates, participated in this lectureship on the second
day. Jerry spoke on the topic, “The Gospel of Grace “ (Acts
20:24), while Paula taught the children who attended. Her
subject was “The Living Jesus”, explaining and showing
pictures of Jesus before and after the crucifixion.
Besides brother Jerry, we had nine other eloquent
participants who spoke on nine different topics related to
THE GOSPEL. All the speakers did their part well, sticking
to their assigned topic. It was a tough job to speak on almost
the same subject without breaking the barrier.
On the second day of the lectureship we released three
books in Tamil for the use of the Tamil world Christian
population. The first two were written by our much respected
brother, J.C. Choate, on the topic, WHY WE BELIEVE
WHAT WE BELIEVE, Vols. 1 & 2. The third one was a
collection of my editorials that have appeared in our Tamil
monthly magazine, “THIRUMARAI AASAAN” (Bible
Teacher), which has been in publication for 41 years. The
title of my book is SOUL SAVING SERMONS.
All the preachers and the Christians very much appreciated
these publications. When I read the topics that were very well
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arranged and handled by our brother J.C. Choate, they felt that
this is the need of the hour, if at all the church is to grow in this
land. Each and every Christian must be in a position to defend
his faith (1 Peter 3:15). One preacher commented that “If the
flock is to increase, the Sheep need to yield [fruit] and not the
Shepherd.” He was confident that this book will really help
to achieve this goal. So, everyone ordered their copies for the
church need and for individual use.
The Kangayam church had to spend a considerable
amount of money for this spiritual feast, and we are very
happy to say that we took care of all the expenses, including
food for three meals for 450 people, giving shelter to more
than 100 people, and helping with travel expenses for some
speakers, printing of invitations and song books, etc. I
always thank God for this congregation and am privileged
and blessed to serve as their preacher. As you might be
aware, in addition to this annual lectureship, the Kangayam
church has conducted a Summer Bible Camp on its own for
the past many years. We as a church determined to do more
good for the Lord in the coming days to spread the Gospel
through this pagan land.
In closing, brethren, we covet your prayers and continued
support for all that we do to carry out the great commission
of our Lord. U
S. Rajanayagam's email address is rajarichal@yahoo.co.in

I went to a new place today, about 160 KM from Kangay-

am, to have a study with a group of people by the invita-
tion of one brother who attended our recent lectures.
About 50, including children, took part in the meeting.
We had a special baptism class for the ones who wanted
to know about the church. It was attended by two young
couples. Finally, three obeyed.
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Mission Trip to
Bihar State and Nepal
P.R. Swamy
The purpose of this trip: Brother
Prasad has been worshipping with
Davis Road church for about ten years.
He is originally from a small village
situated in the India-Nepal border area.
This state is very poor and employment
opportunities are less, so for want of a
job, people migrate to other states in
India. Regarding climactic conditions,
there will be four months of heavy rain,
four months of extreme cold, and four
months of extreme heat.
While living in the Bihari village,
Prasad — a Hindu — began listening
to Sunny David’s Hindi broadcasts
over Radio Sri Lanka. He moved to
New Delhi and settled there, working
for the Holy Family Hospital for 20
years. During that time, he searched
out Sunny David, and also met Francis
David and J.C. Choate. Sunny and
brother Choate shared the Gospel with
Prasad and his family. In June, 1984,
he, his wife, and one of their sons were
baptized and began to faithfully attend
the services of the church.
Prasad left his job at Holy Family
Hospital and went to Secundrabad.
There, he worked with the “Back
to the Bible” organization for two
years and at Duncan Hospital, Raxaul
for two years. Finally, he joined the
Gospel Recording Services and came
to Bangalore in 2000. He identified
with the Davis Road church and started
attending faithfully every Sunday. He is
a Bihari and knows his State language,
Bojpuri, and Hindi.
Prasad’s heart’s desire and prayer
to God for the people of his state is that
they may be saved, so he persuaded
Vernon Douglas to go and preach to
them. In Feb, 2010, Douglas took
Prasad and others
to Bihar and
shared the Gospel
in his village and
started the work.
They baptized
three souls and,
in the follow
up, three more.
Douglas brought
Munilal, and his
wife, and another
young man, Sunil, to Bangalore. We
taught them the Bible, and we are
preparing them to be leaders to take
care of the Bihar work.
Prasad’s younger son lives in
the USA. He visited J.C. and Betty
Choate in Winona, MS. The Choates
had gone to Prasad’s small house in
New Delhi several times during his
studies before his conversion. They
appreciated his good faith, the fact that
here was a family, reached through
radio broadcasts, who could not have
been initially taught in any other way.
On this follow-up trip that we
made to Bihar: Departure by train
to Muzzaffarpur at 11.55 P.M. with
Prasad. Nearly 2732 km and took 3
days and 3 nights. Arrived at midnight
at Muzzaffarpur. Very, very cold. We
stayed on the platform until dawn. At
6 A.M., bought the ticket for Raxaul
and went to a small hotel in front of
the railway station. Refreshed for some
time and came back to the station and
caught another train to Raxaul at 1
P.M., reaching there at 5 P.M.. The train
was so slow.
Munilal came and we went by
taxi to their small village called Ghora
Sahan, situated in the Indo-Nepal
border. The population is approximately
1000. Prasad and I stayed in his younger
brother’s, Chotilal’s, house. All are
farmers and the village is undeveloped
and poor. No standard school. Eleven
children who are in our Ooty children’s
home are from this and neighboring
villages. Each family has half a dozen
children. I asked one lady, “Why do you
want six children, when you are poor
and can’t feed them and educate them?”
She said, “If four die, at least I have two
to call my name.”
On Sunday we conducted worship
at Prasad’s younger brother’s house. I
spoke in English and Prasad translated
into Hindi, while Munilal translated
into native Bojpuri. Twenty gathered.
Beside Prasad and me, seven broke
bread. Prasad, Munilal and I did door
knocking and spent the rest of the day
encouraging those who were already
members to be soul-winners for Christ.
We spent Monday door knocking
and sharing the Gospel with the willing
souls. On Tuesday seven were ready to
obey. We took them to a dapur tank and
I let Prasad do the baptisms. U
P.R. Swamy’s Email Address: prsdoug@
hotmail.com
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Chinese Agape Foundation
On June 29th, 2010, I boarded a
flight to Beijing and set out on a mis-
sion. The purpose of this mission was
to teach English and Bible for three
and a half weeks to the orphans at the
John Connor Brown Christian Care
Center near Tiandeng, China. But this
was not the only mission in which I
participated. There was another, the
purpose of which was to mold me into
a better servant for Him. I wouldn’t
say I was spiritually slothful prior to
this mission, on the contrary I have al-
ways been involved in teaching Bible
and youth work. But I was sedentary.
I stayed in one place and did not ven-
ture outside my little circle. That was
always for someone else to do... a real
missionary... not me.
The teaching mission was a de-
light and a challenge. It was a strug-
gle for me to figure out how to teach
English to those who were completely
unfamiliar with it. I came up with a
method that was a combination of a
few ideas I had gleaned from others.
I was encouraged when Asan, my
translator, said the lessons were very
effective. Through a curious turn of
events, I ended up teaching not only
the orphans, but also a group of local
children at a public school in Tian-
deng during one week of my stay. The
school teachers and headmaster were
also in attendance. I was nervous to
say the least, but everyone was very
gracious and made me feel so wel-
come. They even asked if I would re-
turn every year! The great thing about
this assignment was the opportunity
I had to meet many more people and
feel a real part of the community. The
unfortunate part was that I had to stick
strictly to teaching English. The Bible
lessons were saved for evenings back
at the care center.
These Bible lessons took many
forms. There were lessons taught in
a classroom setting with visual aids,
during a stroll through the rice fields,
while sitting on a stool outside in the
dark of night, on a bunk bed listen-
ing to rain beat down on the tin roof,
and on the steps of a footbridge over
a waterway. Some lessons were trans-
lated and some were not, but all were
understood. I was pleased to find out
the children are familiar with many
Bible stories. They especially enjoy
the excitement of the Old Testament.
With a little help, I am confident they
will begin to see the New Testament
as the real excitement because they
each have roles to play, and best of
all, they get to participate in the never
ending cast-party! What an exhilarat-
ing and humbling experience it was to
teach these young souls. What an awe-
some responsibility. I have so much to
learn about how to reach them. I think
about going back and my mind reels
debating what to do first, do next, do
again, and do over.
I’ve tried to think of a word to best
describe my experience in China last
July and “unforgettable” is as close as
I can get. Living in another culture so
vastly different from my own and nav-
igating the language barrier are obvi-
ously unforgettable. Sure, I remem-
ber the discomforts, inconveniences
and fears, but those impressions have
faded into oblivion. In sharp contrast,
permanently imprinted on my mind
are the sweet faces of the children and
their bright smiles, surprisingly un-
dimmed by their circumstances.
And what is absolutely unforgetta-
ble, untouchable by any other experi-
ence thus far, unmatched in impact on
my soul, is the trust I timidly placed in
God as I left the comforts of home and
the abundant, overflowing, immea-
surable blessings He poured upon me
as my undeserved reward. The result
of this “other” mission will forever
change my perception of life, its strug-
gles, and its uncertainties. There are no
struggles for the Christian other than
to let go of our burdens and surrender
them to Him. There are no uncertain-
ties in God’s providence, His care,
His love, and His promises. (Carole
Booker) U
China Mission
201 S. Peachtree Parkway,
Peachtree City, GA 30269
Tel: 678-423-4396
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“Refuge of Grace”
Grand Opening
Our newest care center, Refuge of
Grace Christian Care Center, has opened
in Luxi, PingXiang, China. Children
began arriving there in August, and 200
children will hopefully fill the walls of
this beautiful building soon.
The building was given to us by
the government of PingXiang, and the
Jackson Family Foundation provided
funds to renovate the building. A new
kitchen and dining area were added
as well as bathrooms on each floor.
Roof repairs and other maintenance
work had to be done throughout the
three-story building. The building was
freshly painted and cleaned for the
children who began to arrive recently.
There are eighty orphans at the facility
now, and more will be arriving soon.
Luxi is in a coal mining district,
and many men are killed each year in
coal mine accidents. Many more die of
black lung disease. This leaves several
thousand orphans who need care. It
full day to enjoy their company.
They were beautiful well-mannered
children. They were clean. They have
a very beautiful home with good food,
all of which is provided by the Jackson
Family Foundation. We ate lunch with
the children, took many pictures, put
together a large puzzle in the activity
room floor, and gave them the many
gifts purchased with funds from the
associates. New books for the library,
art supplies, bracelets, toys, and shoes
were brought to the children. The
children performed songs for us and
then enjoyed the fresh fruits we brought
them. There was so much joy and no
tears until time for us to leave.
As the van pulled away from the
Jackson Family Foundation Christian
Care Center in Zigong, I could not hold
back the tears. I wanted to stay there with
the orphans. It was a day filled with joy
and sorrow. The joy came from seeing
the happy orphans living and enjoying
a great life which they had never had
before. The sorrow came because they
takes time to find the orphans and to needed me to be there to love them, but
evaluate their conditions to make sure I was leaving. Even though it was about
they are true orphans. Our workers go 35C (98 degrees here) in the shade and
into the homes of each orphan to make we were dripping with sweat, I did not
this evaluation before they are accepted want to leave. No, it is a day I will not
to come to the care center to live. ever forget. U
A Day I will not Forget (Leigh Ann Dotson)
Children at Jackson Family Care China Mission
Center were on
the summer break
from their school.
Tw e n t y - f i v e
children returned
from visiting with
relatives to be with
us and joined the
other five children
who stayed at the
care center for the
summer holidays.
When we arrived,
they were patiently
waiting. We had a
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Indonesia
Colin and Ellen McKee
Jabodetabek
On our last trip to Indonesia
we visited and worked again in the
monstrous metropolis of Jakarta, and
suburbs, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang,
and Bekasi with a population in excess
of 23 million souls, on the island of
Java. Java’s population, itself, exceeds
100 million! It is the most densely
populated place on earth, and it is about
90% Moslem.
It was a genuine pleasure to work
again with brother Daniel Setiabudi
who conducts regular classes, teaching
English by using the Bible text. He also
has a weekly radio program in Jakarta
that reaches the entire Jabodetabek
area. He, along with other Bekasi
members, is maintaining a benevolent
program for some of the abjectly poor
garbage collectors’ families.
Daniel is now overseeing a new
endeavor to care for orphans in his
own home, and the renovation of that
building is almost complete. It will
accommodate 15-20 orphans, and there
will be room for a place of worship
and office/classroom facility. He and
his wife have already accepted a needy
child into their home, although they are
Colin McKee
having to temporarily live in the shop
house that is used for worship, classes,
and seminars. Steve Cate is busy raising
and funneling the funds for this “Kids
of Indonesia” project.
I taught classes most afternoons
and nights and, as usual, they dealt
much more with the Bible than with
English. We also had a six-hour Bible
seminar one Saturday, and I had classes
on “The Distinctive Nature of the New
Testament Church”. Many of those
present were non-members and we
dealt with a variety of questions after
each session. We gave out tracts that I
had just written, dealing with a number
of the most common questions asked in
seminars and classes.
Brother Adam, an older brother
who left Islam some time ago and went
into a denomination, was converted
last year and is a diligent student of the
Word. He has almost worn out his Bible
with highlighted passages and notes
throughout the text. It is a real delight
to see someone so hungry for the truth
and so willing to search and study.
Another brother who has recently
been converted from Islam is having
real difficulties as he faces strong
opposition and persecution from his
family, They have abducted him several
times, trying to turn him back from
Christ. Please pray that Darmawan will
have the strength to resist their efforts
and maintain his faith.
We had joint services with the
Bekasi and Darmawangsa congregations
because the place that Darmawangsa
rents for worship was being used at that
particular time for wedding ceremonies.
The Darmawangsa brethren are in the
process of setting up a foundation so
they can purchase a place of their own
to be used for worship, classes, and as
an office for correspondence courses
and a literature distribution center. They
have some funds already toward the
amount needed, and we are planning
to help them with the initial down
payment outlay; then they can maintain
the regular monthly expense after that.
Brother Alip Djoehari is one of the
leaders of that congregation and does
the preaching each week. He and I work
together in translating Truth for Today
materials as well as other literature for
the Indonesian churches.
Medan ( Sumatra)
From Bekasi we traveled to Medan
in North Sumatra, a city of about 3
million, some 1000 miles away. We
conducted training classes for the Suka
Baru congregation each night, Monday
– Friday. I taught on the “Greatness of
Love” and manuscripted and copied
the material for the class members.
One afternoon we visited the
plot of land that many of you have
helped to purchase with your generous
contributions. It is in a strategic place,
and I believe it will be a big boost to
the growth of the congregation. Their
building will give them recognition in the
community and will be used for classes,
and literature storage and distribution,
as well as a place for worship and
fellowship. They are running into a
number of delays in trying to get the
permit to begin construction, but we
pray that it will soon be in hand.
Brother Ndruru is doing a very fine
job working with the congregation,
and he also preaches two times per
month at another location in the city,
as well as translating books into the
Nias language from books we have
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previously published in Indonesian.
There has been a lot of growth in the
congregation over the past year and
they had two baptisms on the last
Sunday that we worshipped with them.
Ellen had prepared four sets of
special laminated visuals for children,
and they were excited to receive those
and to have them for Bible classes.
The volcano in the area, Mount
Sinabung, which has been active but
hasn’t erupted for 400 years, has become
active again. The commercial enterprises,
especially farming, have been disrupted
and many people have been forced to
evacuate. We have sent funds to help
some of those displaced, including church
members, in that area. Brother Ndruru has
conducted some special meetings, and
five who were evacuees have recently
been baptized in the Berastagi vicinity
and two in Medan. He says the receptivity
is directly related to the help that was
received from the church.
Siantar ( Sumatra)
Alepson Silalahi, who is originally
from North Sumatra, has moved with
his family from Semarang in Central
Java back to his home area. He
served the churches in Semarang and
Limbangan for several years and did
a very good job in the work there. We
and the congregation at Darmawangsa
in Jakarta have been providing some
support for him in Semarang and will
continue to provide that in Siantar. We
sent him funds for equipment to get
things going, and he was very grateful
for the help. He is facing a lot of
opposition from denominational groups
and even some from his own relatives.
Join us in praying that his efforts will be
fruitful for the Lord’s cause in that part
of Batak Land. He is well schooled and
sound in his understanding and practice
In d o n e s i a
of the truth and has proven himself
trustworthy over the years.
Nias (Sumatra)
From Medan we flew to Nias for the
last leg of our teaching/training sessions.
Men who are local leaders came for
four days of leadership training. The
subject matter was as in Medan, “The
Greatness of Love”, plus material
on “Peacemakers”, and copies of the
lessons were given to each participant.
Also, ten women from the vocational
sewing classes attended an early devo
session where we gave instruction on
teaching children’s class-es to them and
the 12 men who travel on weekends to
teach classes and help conduct services
in some 70 village churches.
The program for high school and
college students that Dennis Cady is
overseeing is going well. They have
dorms in Gunung Sitoli for the students
who primarily come from members’
homes. It is a great opportunity for
them to further their education as well
as receive regular instruction in Bible
classes and worship with the church in
Gunung Sitoli. There are only two high
schools on the entire island, and most
do not have access to them. This term,
they have 40 new students, 28 boys and
12 girls. The new students were present
on the Sunday we met with the church,
and there was an apparent delight on
their faces because they are now given
the opportunity for further education,
both secular and spiritual.
We have just published two books in
the Nias language. One is a Bible index
written by Doyle Gilliam and published
years ago by J.C. Choate and is a top quality
printing. We also have printed the book,
The Role of Women by Betty Choate
in that language. This is an important
addition to the tools for the church there
since the denominational concept of the
work of women is widely accepted in that
culture. We supplied Bible concordances
for 85 men who serve in various capacities
for the Nias congregations. We also took
four sets of visuals for them to use in
teaching Sunday School. Those will be
used on a rotating basis, week by week,
as men go from Gunung Sitoli to teach in
village congregations. They were excited
and thankful to have such materials
available. Many thanks to all of you who
have given funds to provide these vital
tools for the churches of Nias and other
parts of Indonesia.
Indonesia seems to be pulling out
of the economic crisis overall, but the
average person has not felt any benefit.
The price of basic commodities has
sky-rocketed, and the price of some
vegetables has more than doubled in
the last month. News reports told of
several families who were having to
limit themselves to one meal a day
in order to afford schooling for their
children. The people are also under
constant stress from natural disasters
like floods, mudslides, earthquakes,
and tsunamis. In contrast to the very
poor who constantly struggle, the daily
news told of corrupt officials who have
skimmed off millions of dollars from the
government and various programs, but
although they are accused in the media,
very few are ever held accountable or
brought to justice.
We are blessed to be able to write,
translate, and produce literature to dis-
tribute so that the Gospel can somehow
get out to this vast nation of about 230
million souls. We believe that there are
still many who will answer the call of the
Gospel if we do our part in getting it to
them. Please continue to pray for us and
the work of the kingdom in Indonesia. U
Colin and Ellen McKee can be contacted
through email: chmckee@hughes.net
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From Australia to Papua New Guinea

Tom Bunt
This year the team landed in Port Persecution Stops at Musep Raising Children at Indagen
Moresby, blessed in that we managed During our week at Indagen we One of the great social problems in
to take with us ‘extra weight’ at no were able to walk to the nearby village PNG is the criminal activity committed
additional cost. This included give away of Musep. Musep is within close by the youth of the country. In the cities
clothing, books, teaching materials, proximately to Indagen. Several years like Lae, these young men will congregate
soccer balls, and other things that we back when a few Christians from Indagen in groups known as ‘rascals’ and can
could give to the brethren in PNG. After started to study the Gospel with some cause absolute chaos. At Indagen, the
a couple of days preparation in Lae, we people in the village of Musep, they were whole district is working very hard to
flew to Indagen, a village that Tom and physically attacked. These attacks were parent, teach, and raise the children not to
Steve had previously visited in 2006. violent in nature and saw some brothers participate in such sinful behaviour. The
We safely returned to Lae after the being hit very hard on the head with church is helping pave the way by running
week in Indagen and then spent the clumps of timber, stabbed, and rejected. a preschool and teaching the children
remainder of our time assisting several Our brethren from the Indagen Godly behaviour and morals while they
congregations within driving distance church of Christ persevered through are very young. The team had the privilege
of the Lae Ministry Centre. Key events this persecution, but things started to of helping at the preschool and visiting
included conducting a nightly Gospel go wrong for the people of Musep. local primary and high schools.
meeting at Tampawi, visit to Tikeling, They believed that bad things were Tampawi Gospel Meetings
preaching and teaching at Boundary Rd happening to them because they had Tampawi is located close to the centre
Church of Christ and conducting other treated the people from the church of of Lae and is a location that Wesley and
studies and visits in the Lae area. Christ so poorly. Tupolin Wosse have been working with
Ten People Baptized During our visit, the village of Musep for some years. The team held a Gospel
was pleased to have us accompany meeting at Tampawi over several nights
One of the highlights of this PNG
the church at Indagen to a ‘repentance with many in attendance each night.
trip was the week spent at Indagen,
ceremony’. At this ceremony, the people Christians were ‘trucked in’ from all over
about 45 minutes flight from Lae
of Musep sought God’s forgiveness, the Lae, and a lot of local advertising was done
and 5,500 feet above sea level. It is a
forgiveness from the Indagen church to promote the series. Visitors attended,
village with no electricity, vehicles or
of Christ, and the forgiveness of the and our hope is that Bible studies will be
modern amenities (a common situation
church of Christ worldwide. The people initiated with some of these folks. U
in PNG). Indagen, though is truly a
at Musep really wanted to make amends
beautiful place. The congregation has
for their past violence! Tom Bunt: tombunt@bigpond.com
a membership of about 120, and they
welcomed the team into their homes,
lives, and hearts. During our week long
visit, the team participated in preaching
the Gospel each night. Many visitors
came to hear the Good News of Jesus
Christ, and during the meetings 10 new
souls were added to the Lord’s church.
Many of the baptisms occurred at
night in the nearby river. By torch light,
the Christians would walk to the river,
rejoicing that a new soul was being saved.
In addition to the Gospel meetings, the
team taught men’s classes, ladies’ classes,
children’s classes, visited schools, clinics,
and neighbouring villages.
 76 Global Harvest
The first week of August brings our
sixth and the final block of our school
year. Classes taught were: Christian
Evidences; Thessalonians, Timothy,
Papua New Guinea
and Titus for the Basic Year.
Jab Mesa
The One Mile Clinic continues
from Emagave in the Eastern Highlands boat service announced they would not
to assist the sick students, and we are
and Garry Geseng from the Markham have any ship for 2 weeks. That meant
thankful to our Lord for Velma and her
Valley in the Morobe Province. that those who went had no choice but
team. Our students are given a slot for
Two wives of students also graduated to fly out to their home provinces.
short preaching lessons each morning
with certificates for sitting in the
from Mondays to Fridays between 7:00 Outreach on the Highway
women’s classes. Another wife of a first
and 7:30 A.M.,. as a devotional time I was asked to drive out 40 miles on
year student, who cannot read and write,
for the sick coming in for help in their the 25th of September to meet a group
with a young man from the settlement,
sicknesses and sores. It’s another way of men from different congregations
also receive certificates from Becky their
of planting the Seed (God’s Word) into in the Markham District, to drive them
teacher. They can now read their Bibles
the hearts of sick people. Some have on to another market at Leron where
in Pidgin and write as well. Becky has
started coming to worship services they wanted to do an open air Gospel
done a wonderful job over the years
with us. God is good. meeting. Three were MBC graduates
teaching the literacy class.
with other church leaders, ten in all. I
World Radio
joined them in the Gospel meeting. I
I recorded nine more was indeed encouraged, and within me
lessons for Sunday sermons a deep sense of joy seeing these brothers
from the book of First John taking charge of their responsibilities to
for September and October. plant the Word of God. It’s about two
The Lord continues to open hours’ drive from Lae. They asked me
doors for His message to preach in their combined worship
through the air waves. service the next day, so Becky and I
Responses from those drove out to be with them. I preached
around the country who can on their theme of the month, “Be Ready
receive the signal have been for the Lord’s Coming”.
great. Christians tune in to We are grateful for many mission-
the sermon which is aired at aries that came to Papua New Guinea
Graduating students and their families. 7:30 am and repeated 7:30 and have helped with church planting
We moved our graduation forward pm on Sundays. World Radio supports and training many locals who are
from Saturday, the 11th, as half of our this ministry. Thank you, those who serving our Lord faithfully. Some
staff, Becky Mesa, Kamau Dobadob, give funds to pay for the air time. God got caught up in Satan’s snare, yet
Michael and Dogo Tatara and their bless you. many kept struggling forward. Few
two daughters, and Velma had to get The Kibung turned out well despite missionaries make it back to encourage
on a boat the afternoon of the 10th, and motivate us. Fred
traveling to Alotau for the PNG Kibung and Sandy are among
(churches of Christ in PNG Forum). I those who wanted to
had to stay back as I have RI classes equip leaders. TTM
for the two Secondary Schools still classes continue to
going on Thursdays and Fridays. challenge us to read our
Three married students graduated, Bibles and let the Bible
Billboard advertizing the Kibung
completing the required 2-year biblical speak as we learn from
studies. Among them is an elder from a lot of rain. Becky kept me updated the men and women of God. The study
Badighawa church of Christ in Port on the classes and happenings. The at this time is on Ezekiel. U
Moresby in his mid 60s, Samuel Raho forum helped the local churches in and
Misi. The other two are Suti Namiro around the Milne Bay Province. The Jab Mesa: jabmesa@global.net.pg
 Global Harvest 77
The Necessity of
Excellent Bible
Teaching Materials
In our daily lives we no doubt
consider many things useful, yea
necessary. Pacific Islanders and other
people living in remote areas of the
world have learned to live without
many of the so called “necessities” of
life. In fact, some would say that they
do quite well without these things.
Even so, there are some things
that they do not need to live without…
namely, food, shelter, clothing, water,
and certainly the Gospel. Without even
hearing the Gospel, mankind is lost —
we cannot believe what we have not
heard, as Paul reminds us in Romans.
10:14.
With each passing day, Sharon and
I realize just how necessary the Gospel
is to the Pacific Island nations, and yea,
to all of mankind. Yet, there are millions
of people here in the Pacific who have
never heard the simple Gospel that
Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 15:1-
4 and in Romans 6:1-4, but are willing
to hear...imagine that! And although
we live in a remote area of the world,
there’s more good news in the fact that
these millions of people are reachable
with the Gospel. They’re reachable
with the Word of God through our
combined efforts with you in “going”
to preach and teach, through “sending”
and distributing excellent printed Bible
materials and radio programming 24
hours a day, 7 days a week. Thank
you for joining us for a closer look at
how the necessary Gospel is spreading
through necessary means.
Literature
In the past few weeks, it has been
our privilege to receive a good quantity
Sonlight in the Pacific
Randy E. English
of new printed Bible materials. For then ready to ask questions about it.
over 20 years, we’ve had the joy of We often get the opportunity to sit and
distributing Bible materials in nations personally study with those receiving
where such is appreciated and used. Bible materials. Any of our co-workers
It matters not in what country we are can tell you how encouraging it is to
laboring — there are people who are know that these materials are being
interested in reading and using well read and studied, thus enabling the
written/ produced Bible materials. I’m person to learn the true Gospel of our
talking about tracts, books, CD’s, and Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for giving
other media that can be placed into the many people the opportunity to learn
hands of people. and obey the Gospel. U
During a recent Gospel meeting in
Randy E. English, sonlight@samo-
America Samoa, we made it our goal
atelco.com; Tutuila Island, American
to give every visitor several different Samoa, Christmas Island.
pieces of Bible materials. Some
requested and received Bibles, too.
In a mission trip to the capital city of
the Solomon Islands, we distributed
Bible studies on DVD, together with
various study guides for the Bible. In
French Polynesia earlier this year, we
were blessed to provide Bible tracts in
French, English, and Tahitian. These
Bible materials were well received and
used by the people.
One thing that we have noticed over
and over again is that people here in the
Pacific will read Bible materials over
and over again! When you give them
a tract, they want to read it! — and are
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Introduction to the Philippines
Prissy Sellers
When you think of Asia, you might think of Buddhism,
Taoism, and rocky soil in which Christianity has a hard time
taking root. Allow me to introduce you to the Philippines.
The Philippines is the second-largest archipelago in
the world, with 7107 tropical islands and the 12th most
populated country, with an estimated population of around
92 million. Rare in the Asian world, 90% of the Filipinos
claim Roman Catholicism as their religion.
Although the Filipino version of Catholicism mixes
mysticism with Christian principles, the widespread knowledge
of the name of Jesus means that there is an unprecedented
foundation laid for Christian evangelism in the Philippines. And
the harvest is plentiful. It has been estimated that there is an
80% retention rate with those who obey the Gospel. That means
that out of all of the converted believers, approximately 80%
continue on to become active members of their congregation!
That is practically unheard of in the rest of the world.
Current Involvement
For two years now, local churches have been holding
“children’s tutorials” throughout Luzon, the most densely
populated island. This pilot program has canvassed the
metropolis of Manila. Local Christians have teamed with
visiting missionaries to reach out to the communities. Their
goal: to seek and save the lost by teaching and training
children, preparing them for their educational future, and at
the same time, teaching basic biblical truths. The teachers
work diligently on a daily basis to teach habits and behaviors
that will lead to academic excellence in the local school
systems. This also allows them the unique opportunity to lay
the foundation for biblically grounded theology. While the
children are being taught inside the classroom, local church
members follow up with their parents, setting up Bible
studies and inviting them to outreach programs.
Later in the year, short term mission teams from the United
States and other countries journey to Manila and continue
one-on-one Bible studies, supporting the local work.
To date, over 160 have been enrolled in the tutorials,
and 110 of the parents have obeyed the Gospel. A new
congregation of 96 firm believers has been born of these
efforts. This is a direct result of God’s hand in this program.
When children are taught the Gospel, the parents follow.
The tutorial programs are reaching both the children and the
parents in amazing numbers. But there is a problem. The
economical situation in the Philippines is dire. Churches do
not have enough money to pay their ministers, much less to
begin new programs. Because of the unique opportunity and
the overwhelming response, there
is a great need of workers for the
harvest. This is where you come in.
Our Dream!
It is our dream to make a “CHILDREN’S TUTORIAL
KIT”. We believe this is the MISSING LINK to connecting the
local congregations to the community. This kit would equip
the congregations to do what they cannot do for themselves.
It would provide a one-year academic and Bible curriculum,
materials, and equipment, along with a one week VBS
curriculum, and a full year Sunday Bible school curriculum,
training women how to use the materials for the first year. Then,
for year two and following, it would be each congregation’s
responsibility to replace the “consumable” items in the kit and
to continue the program. The congregations would then begin
to reach out to the parents with the Gospel.
The kits would be sponsored by congregations/individuals
in the U.S., and around the world. There would be a one-time
contribution to get these kits into the hands of Filipino church
workers. Once the initial year is over, the local congregations
would be responsible for the succeeding years.
Your Involvement
This may sound like it will cost a lot of money to
accomplish, but due to the amazing exchange rate, and how
far the dollar will stretch in the Philippines, the cost of each
kit is actually quite affordable, especially when we all band
together. We pray that you will prayerfully consider joining
together with us, in this momentous effort to spread God’s
love to a people who are ready, and waiting. You don’t have
to travel to the Philippines to evangelize them. You just need
to be willing to give of your resources, and participate where
the Lord is already at work. Our goal is to create interest in
this mission endeavor.
Below are Level options for your involvement:
Level 1 – Sponsor one complete kit for one year for only $3500
Level 2 – Sponsor ½ of a kit for one year for only $1750
Level 3 – Donate a $1000 towards the Missing Link Program
Level 4 – Donate another amount $__________ U
For more information please call 573-883-9644, or e-mail
us at: info@missionhimpossible.org; www.missionhim-possible.
org. Please make donation checks payable to: Flat River Church
of Christ (In the memo write “Missing Link”); then mail to:
Mission Him Possible, P.O. Box 21, Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670.
Prissy Sellers is the widow of Dale Sellers, long-time mission-
aries to the Philippines.
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Spiritual and Physical Aid
for the Philippines
Salvador Cariaga
Over three years ago, most of our
neighbors in a village called Arapal
(in Bogo, Cebu), did not raise goats.
Today everyone of them are now goat
raisers. Over four years ago, most of
my neighbors did not raise their own
vegetables. Today, most of them have
their own gardens and people are now
buying from them, instead of the other
way around. Soon, we hope that this
village will be the bread basket of this
part of Cebu and the center of goat
raising in the region, if not the entire
country. This, in turn, will help them
become self-sufficient and be on the
giving side of human need.
Because all our goat and garden
technicians ‘happen’ to be gospel
preachers, we now have church buildings
and house churches in and around
Arapal. We now have over a thousand
goats. In ten years, we hope to have
tens of thousands of goats. During that
time, we hope to expand beyond Arapal,
beyond Cebu, and help plant hundreds
of churches and help build up existing
congregations of our brotherhood.
physically grueling and emotionally
exhausting works I have ever done.
Today, listening to the sound of
goats in every home is music to my
ears. Seeing their lush vegetable fields
puts twinkles in my eyes. Seeing our
worship halls filled with men, women,
Just as the goat served as a bridge
and children lifts my soul.
between God and man in the Old
“For I was hungry and you gave
Testament (Leviticus 16), and Jesus being
me something to eat, I was thirsty and
the ultimate scape goat, our modern goat
you gave me something to drink, I was
connects us to the community to which
a stranger and you invited me in, 36I
we are reaching out. We teach them the
needed clothes and you clothed me, I
economic value of the goats (money,
was sick and you looked after me, I was
milk, manure, and meat). We engage
in prison and you came to visit me.”
them in making productive use of their
Matthew 25:35-36 U
time, talent and treasure (land). We
earnestly show them how much we care Salvador Cariaga’s email address: car-
for days, weeks, months, and years. We iaga@yahoo.com
have worked
with them,
attended
weddings,
funerals, and
birthdays. We
have cried
and laughed
with them.
This is not
an overnight
project. It is
certainly one
of the hardest
and most

A Plea from If you could help Mercy and

Sunrise Christian Orphan Home
Less than five years ago, we brought
18 young people from Leyte. They
were from a village that was completely
buried by a massive mudslide. Over
2000 people were killed instantly. Last
March 2010, four of those young people
graduated college with Bachelors of
Arts in Education. All four now have
jobs and are productive citizens.
At the end of this year (2010),
the foundation that helped us start the
orphanage will officially cease to exist.
We now need new donors to help us
continue supporting the remaining and
younger kids there.
One of them is Mercy Naparota,
who is currently the acting student
body president of her college. Last
year’s student body leader and the top
academic student of Sunrise Christian
College was also from Leyte. Mercy lost
her mother and father and four siblings
in the disaster. Her dream is to finish her
degree and become a school teacher.
other kids in our program, it would
make a world of difference in their
lives. Please send your tax-deductible
contribution to our US 501c3 non-
profit organizations called Shepherds
Hill International, PO Box 3131,
Abilene, Texas 79601. Our Philippine
orphanage is also registered with the
Philippine government as a non-profit
organization.
For more information, please check
this site:
http://leyteorphans.shutterfly.com/
neworphans You may also contact
Cariaga@yahoo.com.
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Divide and Conquer for the Truth
Aaron and Cindy Baker
The Vanuatu Team
It has been almost six years since our mission team
left the blizzard conditions of Denver, Colorado and set foot
in our new hot and sticky home of Port Vila, Vanuatu. The
past years have brought some good tidings to rejoice in,
some difficulties to overcome, but also much growth for the
Lord’s church in Vanuatu.
In the last six years we have spent much time evange-
lizing and have been blessed to witness numerous people con-
verted to Christ. One of these most successful tools was Truth
Bible School, a two year, 16-course Bible training school devel-
oped by the three men of our mission team: Aaron Baker, Eric
Brandell and Mike Olson. Being held two days a week for two
hours, men and women gained basic knowledge of the Bible,
in-depth study of doctrinal themes, as well as practical teaching
on several topics dealing with everyday Ni-Vanuatu life.
Now, the time has come for a change. As with all in-
digenous mission works, we are striving to essentially work
ourselves out of a job by equipping the local church to be
self-sustaining Our mission team is looking into a future that
will bring much change and great potential for growth. For
the first time in almost six years we are splitting up. We will
be dividing our efforts and moving our focus to the islands
outside the main island of Efate (where we currently live), so
that we can get the Gospel into the hands of the people.
Tanna Island
Aaron and I (Cindy) and our two daughters, Kaela (6)
and Melia (3), will be moving to the island of Tanna, an hour
plane flight south of Efate. Our contact with Tanna Island
began at the end of 2005 when we met and began studying
with two couples from Etas Village: Sam and Leimawa, and
Pbles and Ruth. From the time of their baptism in January
2006, many members of their immediate and extended fam-
ily have studied and been added to the church in Etas Village.
However, knowing the Truth for themselves wasn’t enough
for these young Christians. They began to think of their fam-
ily members back on their home island of Tanna and asked
Aaron to go and teach them the Truth, as well. So, in August
2007, Aaron and a group of men from Etas took their first trip
to Tanna Island to spread the Gospel.
The wheels began turning in Aaron’s head and he asked
me if I would consider moving to Tanna to live. We spent
much time in thought, prayer, and investigation as we consid-
ered this opportunity for our family. In the end, we decided
that we were ready to take on this new challenge of living in
Lorokau Village and will spend most of 2011 in Tanna, three
months at a time with a one month break in Port Vila to get
supplies, touch base with congregations on Efate, take a break
from primitive village life, and enjoy a hot shower!
The Bakers’ house in Lorokau Village
Malekula Island
Eric and Shawnda Brandell and their two children, Titus
(4) and Alexis (3), will soon be moving to Malekula Island, a
one hour puddle-jumping plane ride north before you finally
land on a grass airstrip near a ramshackle building called,
“Norsup Airport”. Eric and Shawnda will be facing many
challenges in their work, one of the greatest being the ex-
tremely primitive conditions of Malekula Island.
Their connection with the work in Malekula began in
2005 when Eric met and began studying with a young man
named Flexon Robbie. Flexon proved to be a dedicated
student of the Word and was soon won over by the Truth,
bringing along with him his young wife, Fiona, who was
baptized not long after Flexon. Flexon and Fiona have come
to be some of the most faithful members of the Port Vila
congregation. Flexon, too, wanted his family to know the
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Voice from Micronesia:
What a Combination of Age, Experience, and Dedication Can Do . . .
Scott and Rebecca Shanahan
I first met Bill Benton in
July of 2001. I was on my
way to Fiji for my first ever
campaign. With my fellow
campaigners, I was sitting in
the international departures
lounge, fretting about what
I was about to do, when a
very old couple entered. The
husband was rolling his wife
in a wheel chair. It turned
out to be Bill and his sweet
wife, Vida. At the time, they
were 79 years old. On that
trip, Bill earned the nickname, “Bill the baptizer”, because
it just seemed like every five minutes he was in the hotel
swimming pool baptizing someone into Christ.
Two years later I returned to Fiji with my brand new wife
(that’s Rebecca in case you didn’t know), and Bill and Vida,
now in their 80’s, were right there with us. The next year
we made the first ever campaign for Christ in Pohnpei, and
there were the Bentons still going strong. By that time Vida
had gotten weaker, but she managed to have as many, if not
more, Bible studies as the rest of us. In 2006 we had another
campaign in Pohnpei, and yet again the Bentons were in full
swing. Bill was out door knocking and conducting studies
on a daily basis while Vida was conducting personal Bible
studies in her hotel room with any and every person that was
in the vicinity.
Sadly for us, but fortunately for Vida, she was called to be
with her Lord in 2007. Fast forward to this year, after great trips
to Chuuk and Kosrae, it was time for some good work to be
done on Pohnpei. Bill was just the man for the job. He arrived
on Saturday (after a grueling trip from Atlanta, which included
a nine hour layover for which he did not get a hotel room),
ready to work. We spent the day fellowshipping, visiting, and
making plans for the next two weeks. The following day we
worshipped together with both congregations and set up studies
with some regular visitors. The members of the church were
impressed that Bill, at 88 years old, made the trip to Pohnpei
to see them and to work with them. In Pohnpei, 88 is ancient.
Very few people live to be in their 80’s, and those who do are
not normally able to get around at all.
The very next day we
started our personal evan-
gelism work — five studies
with 13 people. These in-
cluded faithful Christians,
unfaithful Christians, and
non-Christians. Bill led all
but one of these. Charley and
Christian were able to attend
some of the studies and help
translate, which was good
training for them, and we
were thankful to see their
growth.
Also that day we set up a study with Urusula. She is
married to a member of the church named Eliezer. Eliezer was
first taught the Gospel by Bill in 2006 and has been a faithful
Christian since. Urusula has attended worship with us some.
What a great blessing it was for her to be taught by the same
man who taught her husband. We studied twice with Charley
translating. They are from different islands, but their languages
are similar so it was a very big help to have Charley with us.
The next day we studied with Urusula again, but Charley
could not be there. Her understanding of English is not very
good, but she does speak Pohnpeiian, so I was able to translate
for Bill, and we made it through the lesson, answering some
very difficult questions. The next day we got together again,
with Charley translating, to make sure she really understood
everything we had studied the night before. She told Charley
that she was sad when we left because she wanted to keep
learning (we had been studying for over an hour and a half
and had to go to midweek Bible class). That day we went over
the plan of salvation again and Urusula said she was ready
to become a Christian. We went straight to the ocean where
she declared that Jesus is Lord, and Charley baptized her into
Christ. We had some great follow up classes with her, and
she is starting off on the right foot. Unfortunately, Eliezer has
been off the island for several months, but he is due back in
two weeks. He is in for a great surprise!
The days went by quickly with many great studies and
opportunities for the Lord. We stopped at a store on the way
home from a study where the keeper was very kind and
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In Cambodia and Saigon
Luis
In Phnom Penh, we spent the days
teaching lessons on faith and prayer to
about 15 young men and women, most of
whom were from Muslim backgrounds.
Sunday morning I preached on the need
for those who trust in Jesus to flee from
sin such as idolatry and immorality (2
Timothy 2:22).
Prior to meeting Sokhom I had
heard many good things about him. On
this trip we met the man and had the
opportunity to see what was in his heart
and being, so one cannot help but want
to partner in the Lord’s work with him.
Cambodia is an open land for the Gospel
to be preached, and even now there are
many who are turning to denominations.
The time for the Lord’s people to move
is now. Medical, livelihood and other
humanitarian works with strong follow
ups by our preachers would be effective
in opening doors for the Gospel. While
the preacher training school prepares/
trains future preachers and teachers to
evangelize and edify the country, there
is the need for the interim involvement
of missionaries who will teach in the
preacher training school, teach English
and read the Bible with Cambodians
desiring to learn English, and at the
same time plant and grow churches —
multi-tasking missionaries who can do
all of the above.
A key conversion in Phnom Penh
is that of brother Sreng, who grew
up a Muslim. Being employed in the
government’s office of the Interior, he
is very influential and is responsible for
leading to the conversion of 18 young
Muslim men from his village who are
now enrolled at the Preacher Training
School. He is also instrumental in leading
other Muslim men to believe in Christ.
One request that Sokhom made was
to help establish an English school. His
second is an Evangelization Seminar
for believers’ families and friends.
They envision bringing 50 contacts to a
Cusi distant place, house them for one night
and have a two-day gospel seminar.
vision is for this school be an income- Since they do not have funds for this,
generating business that can support they are requesting assistance in the
the mission work in Cambodia after his amount of $1000 per seminar (they plan
five-year support is up. two a year if there is a sponsor). June
We also visited with Julie Broyles and Reuben had recently baptized their
and hope that someday Tess and I can Baptist translator (formerly known
stay a month with her to teach at her as Pastor/Rev.), who is now deeply
English school. involved with the church of Christ in
I will be bringing my son, John, to Saigon. He is helping brother Minh
Cambodia to familiarize him with the with the leadership. It is our prayer that
country and the Lord’s work there. I they will soon be able to get recognition
am praying that it is God’s direction for from the government as a religious
him to get his missionary feet wet in group. The other church of Christ in
Cambodia after he graduates from SPBC. Saigon had recently claimed they were
I am also busy now forming the already recognized, but reports reaching
MARCH team that will be helping out us say they are still being harassed by
in the Cambodian Medical & Dental the police. Hopefully, in time, the police
mission. So far, we have four dentists will stop harassing them and the group
committed to go, while we are still of Minh will also gain recognition.
looking for two optometrists. Please Since we are not able to do a
pray that we will be able to complete medical mission in Saigon soon, we
the team soon. purchased and gave $200 worth of
In Vietnam, we sat down with two assorted over-the-counter medicines
preachers and made plans for 2011. which our brethren had requested for
The first a Bible Seminar for preachers them and for their families. U
(which are the usual classes that Jeremy
Barrier has been sponsoring), and the Luis Cusi: lpcusi@yahoo.com
Eager participants in a Bible Class.
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Micronesia
Continued from page 81
spoke English. Bill, not wanting a great
opportunity to go to waste, asked her
if she would like to study. She said we
could stop by anytime and have a class.
We had two great studies with her and
her husband (during one of them, two
other friends sat in). We stopped by the
next day to have another session and,
with tears in her eyes, Bennita told me
that they could no longer meet with
us. We were crushed! The studies had
gone so well, what could have gone
wrong? It turned out that her and her
husband’s families put pressure on
them to discontinue the studies. She
was very upset to have to tell us this,
but this sort of thing happens all the
time in Pohnpei. The Lord willing,
we will get back with them very soon
and try to arrange a meeting with their
families as well.
There were other great oppor-
tunities while Bill was here. We studied
with several unfaithful brethren, five of
whom asked for prayers for restoration.
When we were not in already scheduled
classes, we went door knocking. As a
result, we got studies going with two
separate families and passed out many
tracts.
God truly blessed us with a great
co-worker in brother Benton. During
his stay, he conducted or assisted in 46
Bibles studies with 45 different people,
went door knocking and stayed busy
encouraging brethren. As a result, one
soul was added to the Lord and five
were restored. Thank you, Bill, for
making your way out here, and thank
God for this great blessing of being
able to work together!
Scott Shanahan’s email address is
scottshanahan@hotmail.com
...for the Truth
Continued from page 80
Truth. In early 2009, Eric and Flexon
began making plans to go to Malekula
to teach his family, but then Flexon’s fa-
ther passed away. While on his trip back
home to Malekula, Flexon couldn’t help
but think of how his father had not had
the opportunity to hear the Truth. This
reality brought him much grief, but also
spurred him on to tell his family of his
and Eric’s plans to come back to Tulwei
Village and teach the Gospel.
The two made their first trip to
Malekula in June 2009, teaching many
members of Flexon’s family. On their
second trip in October, Flexon’s broth-
er, Alsen, was baptized and several oth-
ers seemed to be very close to obeying
the Gospel. Eric has since made a total
of six trips into Malekula and has had
the joy of seeing the church grow to
10 members and offering possibilities
for much more increase. Due to the
teaching that Eric has previously done
in Tulwei, there are doors open for the
Truth in at least two other villages on
the island, as well.
Seeing the need for someone to
work with these young Christians and
other prospects, Eric and Shawnda
prayerfully made the decision to move
to the remote village of Tulwei. Their
family will be on a “two months in Tul-
wei, two months in Port Vila” rotation.
Espiritu Santo and Ambae Islands
As for Mike Olson, he has also
seen the need for workers in the outer
islands. He is in the initial planning
stages of working more actively with
the Christians that meet on Espiritu
Santo and Ambae Islands, both located
in the far northern part of Vanuatu. For
U Mike, there is a possibility that he will
relocate to the only other city (albeit a
much smaller one) in Vanuatu. Lugan-
ville is located on Espiritu Santo Island
and would be an excellent base for work
in the northern islands of Vanuatu.
For a long time now there have
been small pockets of one or two Chris-
tians living in a few different places on
this large island of “Santo”. However,
none of them live close enough to meet
together regularly. In essence, these
Christians are struggling due to the iso-
lation that poor roads and lack of trans-
portation bring. In addition to Mike’s
desire to strengthen those who are al-
ready Christians, he sees much poten-
tial for growth from the people on this
island who have been taking our Bible
Correspondence Courses. Mike has
spent a good deal of time grading and
answering questions for these BCCs,
and with 146 students located on Santo
alone, there is hope for increase of the
Lord’s church on this particular island.
Many times our team has heard
the words, “You all are so brave,”
and many times we have tried to as-
sure people that, no, we are not all that
brave. We simply have seen a need, set
goals for ourselves and are working to
reach them. And if it were not for the
strength of Christ or the message of the
cross that we are sharing we would not
be ready, able, or even willing to take
the Gospel to these outer islands.
“Not that I speak from want, for I
have learned to be content in whatever
circumstances I am. I know how to get
along with humble means, and I also
know how to live in prosperity; in any
and every circumstance I have learned
the secret of being filled and going hun-
gry, both of having abundance and suf-
fering need. I can do all things through
Him who strengthens me.” (Philippians
4:11-13) U
For more information, reports, pictures
and a list of current needs, please visit our
website at www.missionvanuatu.com
 84 Global Harvest
Mission Trip to Easter Island
Robert Martin
On November 6th I left for Easter
Island, also known as Rapa Nui, for ten
days to carry the Gospel to another of the
Pacific Islands. The population is 4,888.
Easter Island is located in the
Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most
point of the Polynesian triangle. It is
a special territory of Chile, the official
language is Spanish and (Repa Nui)
Polynesian language. It is an isolated,
far-flung island 2,300 miles from
Chile and 2,500 miles from Tahiti, 15
miles long and 10 miles wide. It was
discovered by Dutch explorer, Jacob
Roggeveen, on Easter Sunday 1722.
There are 887 statutes called “moai”, on
the island that have attracted research
people from all over the world. But
what had attracted me to this island is
the fact that there are 4,888 precious
souls who have worshipped stone idols
and who need the Gospel of Christ.
Two and half years ago I went to
our elders and asked that they give me
the opportunity to target the last of the
countries/territories (7 nations/territories)
in the Pacific, to carry the gospel and to
plant the Lord’s church. They agreed,
and we started working very diligently
to come up with a plan for each nation/
Offering Bible courses in Spanish.
territory, which would include finding
the partners who could help us in this all
important work for the Lord. We have
called the plan “that final push” to reach
the last unreached areas of the Pacific.
Easter Island is a part of that group of
nations/territories.
On this trip, I met up with Josh
Blackmer who is a missionary to
Asuncion, Paraguay in Santiago, Chile.
Josh and his family are overseen by the
Palm Beach Lakes elders in West Palm
Beach, Florida. This congregation is also
one of our faithful supporters.
So, away Josh and I went on this
first missionary trip to take the Gospel
and to plant the Lord’s church on Easter
Island. A few years ago Josh had said,
“We have always wanted to work
with you on one of the islands of the
Pacific.” When we landed Josh did not
know how much this older missionary
was depending on him and how the
Lord would be using him.
Josh and I started immediately
learning all that we could about the
island, the culture, customs, and the
“mind set” of the people about religion
and life. We were busy meeting people,
giving out Bible Correspondence
course enrollment cards,
and also giving out the
booklet, “Searching for
Truth”, in Spanish. I so thankful for the West Palm Beach
kept sharing with Josh
“that if we will: learn,
use wisdom, be patient,
and show the people a
loving and kind heart
toward them, that the
Lord will bless our
efforts for Him”. I was
really impressed on this
trip as I worked with
Josh and saw the way he would move
among the people. He did it in such
a loving, kind, thoughtful, and patient
way that I knew that he will do a great
work among the wonderful Spanish
speaking Polynesian people of Easter
Island.
It was because we worked in this
way that “things” began to come
together for future trips. First a bed
and breakfast place for Josh and Kara
Blackmer to stay. Secondly, and very
important, a place for night Bible
studies to be conducted, right on main
street. Meeting the owner of the bed &
breakfast house and the restaurant that
she has offered for Bible studies was a
real blessing. Vanessa and her family
have an “open mind to religion” and
you could just see the “open heart”. I
simply thought, “Well here again “the
Lord has opened a door” for His work
to be done (2 Corinthians 2:12).
We are so thankful to the Lord for
blessing us with Josh and Kara Blackmer
who have accepted the challenge,
opportunity, and responsibility of
taking the gospel and planting the
Lord’s church on Easter Island. We are
congregation and elders for sending
such a dedicated and wonderful family
to work on the foreign mission field
in Paraguay, South American, so that
they might work with us in carrying the
gospel and planting the Lord’s church
in Easter Island. U
Robert Martin can be reached at email:
RobertFIJI@aol.com
 Global Harvest 85
The Church Needs a Global Mentality
The need is great for the church to
refocus its vision on global evangelism.
Satan cannot be confronted on just one
battlefront, here in the U.S., because he
is all over the globe trying to influence
men for evil. Therefore, the outreach of
God’s people for converting lost souls
to Christ needs to be global, reaching
far beyond our local congregations. In
this new millennium the leaders in the
church need to be focused, unwavering
and driven if they are to reach the
masses with the Gospel of Christ!
Success in global missions calls for
passion and intensity in our endeavors.
The church has been blessed in years
past with some great missionaries who
exhibited immense dedication, wisdom
and zeal. They have done untold good
in spreading the Gospel in distant
lands at great sacrifice to themselves. I
have tremendous respect for all those
pioneer missionaries who paved the
way for many of us.
Send the Best
With that being said, I want to
address a flawed practice in the church
that has cropped up from time to time
through a lack of knowledge. Well-
intended individuals have all too often
said, “Well, if a man just can’t make it
here in the United States
we ought to send him to
the mission field.” Why?
The fact is nothing could
be further from the truth.
The dawning of a new
day is needed regarding the
qualifications of mission-
aries sent to serve in
foreign lands. If anything,
we should be sending
some of our most talented,
most educated and most
Students in the Philippine Theological College
effective men to carry the
Demar Elam
Gospel to the nations of the world. with presidents of universities to open
The missionary will leave behind a doors of opportunity on their campuses.
strong spiritual environment and go He needs to be capable of meeting with
into a foreign country where he’ll the president or prime minister of a
country, should the opportunity arise.
face innumerable challenges, starting
the moment he steps off the plane and
He must understand that many laws
and privileges afforded citizens of the
heads to immigration. He finds himself
U.S.A. may not exist in the foreign
working with a relatively small number
of people. He must be capable of country in which he is working.
making decisions he never had to make It will be too late for poorly trained
before. He discovers that the talentmissionaries sent to foreign lands to
then discover that they should have
pool has diminished greatly.There will
been educated and trained in cross-
be no elders, no deacons, no faithful
cultural evangelism prior to their
Christian parents, relatives, or friends.
Congregations in America are blesseddeparture for the target country. Even
with training, culture shock often
with talented leadership, organization,
and the blessings of numerically andhinders and disables missionaries. The
spiritually strong congregations. likelihood of that happening increases
Necessity is laid upon him to when there has been no proper training.
communicate effectively with govern- The apostle Paul often prayed for
ment departments just to stay in theboldness. He requested prayer from
country where he is working. He fellow Christians that he might have
must handle matters with all sorts boldness: “Praying always with all
of government agencies that will be prayer and supplication in the Spirit,
being watchful to this end with all
foreign to him. There will be Customs,
Immigration, Tax Department, and a perseverance and supplication for all
the saints—and for me, that utterance
host of other bureaucracies with which
may be given to me, that I may open
he must deal according to their laws. In
some countries even the mayors must my mouth boldly to make known the
be reckoned with because they have mystery of the gospel, for which I am
tremendous powers that can make or an ambassador in chains: that in it I
break one’s work. He needs to meet may speak boldly, as I ought to speak”
(Ephesians 6:18-20).
Missionaries
themselves often fail
to speak out boldly
concerning this subject
because they do not want
to seem boastful about
their own qualifications.
Although they know
how important it is for
the church to send only
effective missionaries
to the mission field,
Continued on page 86
 86 Global Harvest
. . . a Global Mentality
Continued from page 85
they sometimes fear that some will
misunderstand their intentions. Mission-
aries need boldness and they need to plead
the case for sending individuals who have
the talent, ability, zeal, education and
training to get the job done. Like Paul, we
need to pray for boldness regarding these
matters. We need the courage to speak out
as we ought to speak, addressing the real
issues facing us in global evangelism.
Send Effective Men
Not just anyone should become
a missionary. If a man is not willing
to receive education, instruction and
training prior to going abroad, perhaps
we should question his sincerity. Why
would a person want to just jump up
and go overseas without first preparing
himself? We don’t just need more
preachers or just more missionaries!
We need more effective preachers
and more effective missionaries! We
need individuals who are driven when it
comes to fulfilling the Lord’s command
of global conquest. Missionary endeavor
calls for the best we have in every area
and this includes the personnel being
sent to the target countries to carry out
evangelistic outreach. What do you think
about Paul, Barnabas, Silas, Timothy and
Titus, who went out to the mission field?
Were they some of the best qualified men
or were they sent because they were not
talented enough to accomplish the work
in Jerusalem and Antioch? Of course, we
know the answer to this question.
This is not to throw off on anyone
who has gone and sacrificed and given
the best they had to the Lord. No,
indeed! Thank God for everyone who
has ever gone and given God service
in foreign lands. I am not trying to
criticize, condemn, or make light of
anyone who has served. What I am
trying to say is that we need to wake-
up and send out some men like Paul,
Barnabas, Silas, Timothy and Titus. We
can do better preparing individuals for
missionary service.
We need missionaries totally
grounded in God’s Truth! We need
missionaries who are capable of
dealing with government officials. We
need missionaries who can carry on
when there is a lack of leadership and
congregational strength to draw from.
We need missionaries who are capable
soul winners and capable preachers of
God’s Word. Never forget this: “For
since, in the wisdom of God, the world
through wisdom did not know God, it
pleased God through the foolishness
of the message preached to save those
who believe” (1 Corinthians 1:21).
Preaching has taken a back seat in
the minds of many in today’s world, but
the Holy Spirit teaches that it is through
the foolishness of preaching that men
are saved. Hence, we need to send the
best preachers we have to complete the
greatest challenge before the church
today, that is, teaching the masses
of humanity residing in nations that
are presently hungering and thirsting
for the salvation offered them by the
uplifted Christ (John 12:32).
The responsibility to put our best
foot forward in proclamation is vital
in global missions. Missionaries today
have been entrusted with the same
message of reconciliation that was
entrusted to Paul (2 Corinthians 5:14-
21). Notice Paul was compelled to
proclaim that message to the lost of his
day — Paul was driven!
Where does the Lord’s church need to
concentrate its most talented and effective
men? Of course we need to have talented,
educated and dedicated men here at home
to preach in the local congregations.
Without strong local congregations to
provide the “supply line,” there would
be no missionaries going out from the
U.S.A. However, as much as we need
effective men at home, even more so do
we need effective men working on the
mission fields! The truth of the matter
is that America is less receptive to the
message of Christ than many of the
Third-World countries. We should extend
ourselves to preach in these lands where
the people are receptive to the Gospel.
We need to educate, train, motivate and
activate the best we have for service on
the battlefronts that will produce the
greatest results for God. It just makes
sense that we would concentrate our
efforts in areas where it will do the most
good. This would be true in a commercial
business. It is just as true in the Lord’s
business.
Unused Talents at Home
Many American congregations
have elders, deacons and men sitting
in the pews every Sunday as listeners
who could themselves be up preaching
and teaching and handling the worship
service for the local congregations.
The “front row” illustration is still
as true as it ever was. If you had an
auditorium full of starving people but
you fed only the front row over and
over, disregarding the pleas of all the
other people, it just wouldn’t be right.
Sometimes in the church we have been
guilty of continually feeding the front
row and ignoring the people who live
in distant lands who desperately need to
know about the “Bread of life.”
In conclusion, we need to realize
the necessity of sending effective and
qualified men to the mission fields
and we need to be generous to other
countries in sending some of the best
that we’ve got to teach and preach! U
Demar Elam, D. MIN. Director Mission
Studies Amridge University; Chancellor
Philippine Theological College; email
address: demar.dixie@comcast.net
 Global Harvest 87

God’s Plans, His Timing and

Measuring, and our Will
Betty Burton Choate

Christ in Nashville. Barry Baggott Lanka to begin the church, and J.C.
works with the French World Mission had written the studies [The Church
there, so I contacted him. He said that of the Bible; The Gospel of Christ;
Paul Gerber would be driving down New Testament Worship; and Jim
in a truck to pick up the materials they Massey, missionary to Africa for many
had printed for distribution among the years had written You Can Be Just a
French speaking nations of Africa. He Christian] as correspondence courses.
gave me the contact information, and J.C. had afterwards printed them in
I emailed Paul. His reply was that English in the US, but there was also
they would be happy to include our the desire to make them available
boxes and that he would be driving to in other languages. He had asked
Nashville early in the following week. Charles White, missionary to Lyon,
None of our World Evangelism France, to translate them into French.
team had planned a trip to Nashville, and Barry Baggott later translated Why
we would be having one of the Mission We Believe What We Believe.
Recently I made what was, for me, Training Sessions over the weekend, so Many copies had been sent to the
an unexpected trip in the van, driving I was the only one who could go. French speaking world since their
from Winona, MS to Nashville, TN, Before committing almost our en- printing, but here was an opportunity to
down to Lewisburg, TN, across to tire stock of French books to Africa, move most of our stock out and into the
Searcy, AR, and back to Winona — I wrote Dr. David Smith who works hands of people who are looking for the
thirteen hours to think, pray, and sing with the French population of Haiti. Truth! How many years, how many
along with beautiful hymns on CDs, He was thrilled that books could come people, God had moved around on
continually conscious of J.C.’s presence to them, and said that the Judsonia His board of activity to share His
(because in 52 years of marriage we church in Searcy, AR with brother Gospel with hungry hearts!
drove far more than a million such John Kachelman, was in the process of Driving along, I felt such a special
miles together) and of God’s, because filling a container. Brother Kachelman part of a great “working together”,
this was — as our little granddaughter, confirmed that their shipment was realizing that even in our inadequacies,
Arwen, would say — a “God trip”. being readied to go out in two weeks. God will take our willingness to be
I was taking about 3,500 copies of So the contacts had all come to- used and will weave it into His beautiful
books to be included in containers for gether, and in just the right time! As I tapestry of outreach to humanity! In
shipment to Benin, West Africa and drove along, I was thinking of the verse addition to His overall plan, He covered
to Haiti. As I drove along, I began of Scripture in Jeremiah 29:11 “For it with the promise that He will always
backtracking in my thinking of how I know the plans I have for you ...” provide all sufficiency in all things, so
this trip had come together. How exciting, that God had envisioned that we may have an abundance for
Earlier, we had put out word that this excursion even before I knew of it! every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8)!
we would be willing to donate books In my joy, I thought of how long ago We can rest in those words of as-
for shipment in containers being sent He had been bringing things together, surance: if we are willing to be used,
to other countries by our brethren. in anticipation of this very day: I began He will do the planning and the
George Akpabli, in Benin, West Africa to trace back in my mind all that had completion of the work, in just the
responded that brethren in Maryland been done to make it possible for us to right time, and with the “whoever”,
would be collecting things for a have the books to share. “whatever” and “whenever” is need-
container at the Crieve Hall Church of In 1967 we had moved to Sri ed! What joy! U
 I AM A MISSIONARY ...
I am a missionary.
I am being used of God to go into all the world
and preach the Gospel to every creature;
I have a tremendous task.
I am a missionary,
Yet the weakness of the body does not slow me down.
I never get a headache,
I never have a cold,
I never get tired.
I am a missionary that knows no barriers.
I can reach into the homes of the rich and the poor,
Into respectable homes and into the places of ill repute.
The race or creed of a man does not restrain me;
Bars are not a barrier to me,
Nor are the curtains of iron or bamboo.
Homes are open to me
That would never open to a preacher,
Ears will hear my message eagerly
Though they would not go to an assembly of the church.
I am an educated missionary.
I speak the language perfectly;
I speak so the professional can comprehend
as well as the uneducated.
I can approach every person
on his level of understanding.
I am an effective missionary.
I can reach more people at one time
Than Paul reached in a lifetime.
I can cover more territory with the Gospel
in fifteen minutes
Than the average missionary could cover
in many months.

I am man-made .... but God-sent!

I AM RADIO! I AM TELEVISION!
— Author Unknown