Global Harvest 14 India PDF
Global Harvest 14 India PDF
Global Harvest 14 India PDF
Team Members and Contact Information: — even those that seem closed or antagonistic
Wayne and Janet Barrier: 3000 County Road 10, Flor- toward Christianity. God has truly
ence, AL 35633; Email: [email protected]; Phone: supplied!
256-766-2807. On the other hand, it has been
Mrs. J.C. (Betty) Choate: 708 Burton Drive, Winona, MS many years since the world has
38967; Phone: 662-283-1192; Website: WorldEvangelism. seemed so volatile. We could be
org; Email, [email protected]. on the brink of major conflict, en-
Jerry and Paula Bates: P.O. Box 172, Winona, MS 38967; gulfing humanity in the worst of
Phone: 870-897-2373; Email: [email protected]. wars.
Louis and Martha Rushmore: 705 Devine St., Winona, Since the work of the church
MS 38967; Phone: 662-739-3035; Website: gospelgazette. is the spreading of salvation
com; Email: [email protected] through the preaching of the
Barbara Oliver: 607 Devine Street, Winona, MS 38967; Gospel, if we will do our part,
Phone: 901-517-7274; Email: [email protected] God will overrule to bless us
with opportunity. Let us be pray-
Edmon L. Gallagher: [email protected] ing for each other!
Nathan B. Daily: [email protected]
Joey Barrier: [email protected]
Are you a part of our
support team yet???
Jeremy Barrier: [email protected]
SINGLY, we can’t
What is the purpose of Global Harvest??? do much;
What else could it be but to say, throughout its pages, “Lift
up your eyes and see that the fields are white unto harvest”? TOGETHER,
These are pivotal times. With technology and commu- we can
nication being what they are, we have such amazing and evangelize the
powerful tools for reaching into any country with the Gospel world!
W e invite submission of feature and report articles from biblically-sound brethren, along with
colored photographs, for inclusion in future issues of Global Harvest.
D isclaimer: We believe that we must answer to God for what we teach and promote. It is our purpose
to be biblical in all that we do and, to the best of our knowledge, we will not promote in these pages
the work of unsound brethren. Because we cannot personally know all that anyone believes and teaches,
we ask your help in guarding against unknowingly publicizing those who are either liberal or fanatical.
If such material is inadvertantly printed, we ask your understanding and cooperation.
Global Harvest Volume 12 2017
Naturally, before we do any- which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16). ers. Therefore, it is necessary for our own
thing, we would want to be absolutely “Go and teach all nations ...” (Mat- soul’s sake that we be “mission minded”.
sure that it is necessary. This principle thew 28:19). “How shall they believe in The words of our Lord are still
would apply to mission work just as it him of whom they have not heard? And ringing in the ears of the church: “Go
would to any other undertaking. how shall they hear without a preach- into all the world and preach the gos-
I believe there are four reasons er?” (Romans 10:14). Going on, we pel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
that make evangelization of the entire have such statements from the Bible as Never, as long as time stands, will we
world during our generation a neces- these: “In meekness, instructing those be free of that responsibility.
sity. The first two reasons are based on that oppose themselves.” “Preach the It is a burden on the soul, but as
the individuals involved: Myself and word.” “Let him know, that he which we have seen in looking back over the
the person to whom I must teach the converteth the sinner from the error of past decades, we don’t carry the bur-
truth. Every Christian should reason his ways hides a multitude of sins.” “Be den alone. In fact, God Himself is the
from this point of view, first. ready always to give an answer to every visionary and the enabler, so that it is
Is it necessary, for my own sake, to man that asketh you a reason of the possible for us to do in this 21st Cen-
evangelize the world? From our former hope that is in you.” “For when for the tury what the church of the first century
studies we have found that the answer to time ye ought to be teachers, ye have did! How can that be accomplished?
this question is “YES”. It has been said need that one teach you again which Originally, Jesus spoke to His
that “you can’t go to heaven alone,” and be the first principles of the oracles of apostles — twelve men! Today, there
this is true. As Christians we must be do- God.” “And others save with fear, pull- are literally millions of Christians in
ing all within our power to win, either ing them out of the fire.” the world, with hundreds of millions of
directly or through out combined efforts, These verses, and many, many oth- copies of the complete Word of God!
at the least, one soul to Christ during our ers, teach us of our duty not only to our- What advantages we have!
lifetime. If we don’t make this our task, selves but also to the rest of mankind. If But there is much more! Through
we are refusing to obey countless com- we are to be saved, it is not enough that seas, rivers, roads, and airports, the entire
mands in the New Testament. “Let your we obey the first principles of the Gos- world is accessible to us, wherever we
light so shine . . . that they may see your pel — the remainder of our obedience may choose to go: just buy a ticket, get
good works, and glorify your Father lies in the teaching of that truth to oth- Continued on page 19
Global Harvest 5
Editorial:
The Brazil
Mission Model Wayne Barrier
World Evangelism Missions team co- ingness to share ideas and support of
ordinated the event and provided guid- one another as they do their separately
ance for the program of speakers. I was sponsored, overseen, and supported
greatly impressed with the quality of works. The components of their work
Heritage Christian University’s efforts discussed by these Brazil work- include (1) Mass evangelism using ra-
Center for Mission Training and Infor- ers representing the major population dio, television, and literature (2) fol-
mation (CMTI) recently hosted a forum centers of the country. They described low-up evangelism using Gospel meet-
to bring together a group of former and their work, results, and plans. I believe ings, campaigns, correspondence study
current missionaries from Brazil with their combined effort is one of the most and intensive Bible teaching seminars,
individuals representing congregations effective programs in the world. I was and (3) extensive education and train-
interested in foreign missions. The impressed by their cooperation, will- ing efforts to support congregational
formation and development.
Wayne and Janet Barrier World Missions (Jeremy Barrier, Mass evangelism programs were
have been involved in mission work Madison Church of Christ). Joey
designed to fit local and regional needs.
for over 30 years and their work is Barrier, who serves as co-director
These included (1) television or radio
overseen by the Double Springs, Al- of World Evangelism Missions, and
Jamie Barrier also work under the broadcasts to very large populations in
abama congregation. Wayne serves
as the Double Springs missions’ min- oversight of the Double Springs the Portuguese language, (2) regional
ister and directs their World Evange- congregation. and local programs to target specif-
lism Missions program with work in Wayne and Janet have served as ic groups, (3) extensive translation,
Asia, Latin America, and Europe. adjunct faculty members of several printing and distribution of teaching
The Barriers coordinate integrated colleges over the past 40 years, in- literature in Portuguese. Mass media
evangelism efforts including mass cluding Heritage Christian Univer- programs generate large numbers of in-
media teaching, follow-up cam- sity and Faulkner University. Wayne terested listeners and viewers that are
paigns, and training of brethren for presently serves on the board of di- provided teaching literature to begin
teaching and leadership. The pro- rectors for Heritage Christian Univer- the process of study.
gram involves a team of 10-12 U.S. sity and Janet serves as a Heritage
Follow-up evangelism programs
workers and 30 foreign co-workers. faculty member. Wayne is Editor
of Global Harvest and a staff writer provide more personal Bible study to
To accomplish training goals, World
Evangelism Missions funds and for The Voice of Truth International. those responding to mass evangelism
directs the operation of 10 Bible Wayne, Joey and Jeremy direct the efforts. Campaigns, Gospel meetings,
schools in Asia that provide training Maywood Missionary Retreat, the small study groups, and intensive Bible
to over 500 students yearly. Con- World Evangelism School of Mis- teaching seminars are used. These ef-
tinuous campaign efforts to provide sions, and the newly formed Heri- forts are resulting in many baptisms
follow-up to mass media programs tage Christian University Center for and formation of new congregations.
are coordinated and supported by Mission Training and Information. Missionaries and local brethren work
the Double Springs team. The Barriers are blessed to work together to conduct this phase of work.
In addition, the Barriers help with together with their children, Jenny, Bible teaching materials are adapted
radio, literature, and television pro- Jamie, Joey, and Jeremy and their from numerous books and tracts already
grams directed by the Winona, Mis- families. They have seven grand-
available in the US. They are translated
sissippi World Evangelism team. children. The Barriers live in the
They also closely cooperate with Florence, Alabama area.
and printed in the Portuguese language.
Continued on page 16
Global Harvest 7
What
the Great Commission
Means to Me
J.C. Choate [Deceased]
“Go ye into all the world, and the first one is to the church; the sec-
preach the gospel to every creature. ond one is to the world.
He that believeth and is baptized shall What did he say to the church?
J.C. and Betty Choate be saved; but he that believeth not Go and preach.
moved to Pakistan to begin the shall be damned” (Mark 16:15,16). What did he say to the world? Be-
Lord’s church in Karachi in 1962. Our Saviour spoke these words to His lieve and be baptized.
Following five years of work, with apostles just before His ascension into For years, we of the body of
six congregations established, heaven to take His place at the right Christ have wondered at the blindness
they moved to Colombo, Sri Lan- hand of God. These men who were
ka to plant the church in that city.
of our religious friends when they fail
gathered around Him had followed to understand the second command,
In 1968 they moved to New Delhi, Him since His baptism by John in the
the capital of India. that they must believe and be baptized
Jordan River; they were loyal and faith- to be saved. But we have neglected to
In 1974 it became possible to be- ful to Him even though they did not
gin airing the Gospel over Radio turn the mirror around and look at our-
always understand Him. But this com- selves in it. Is it any more unforgivable
Sri Lanka, “the Giant of Asia”, with
mand they could understand. Peter had for them to refuse to obey than it is for
India as the target of programs in
five of her major languages. J.C. just asked, “Lord, wilt thou at this time us? As individual Christians we have
did broadcasts in English, Sun- restore again the kingdom to Israel?” complied with the second command,
ny David spoke in Hindi, Joshua and Christ’s answer had been, “Tarry but we have somehow failed to see the
Gootam was the Telugu speaker, ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be importance of the first one-to go and
P.R. Swamy preached in Tamil, endued with power from on high: ... preach this Gospel to others. Are we
and P.K. Varghese was the Malay- after that the Holy Ghost is come upon also blind to the whole truth?
alam speaker. The printing of liter- you, ... ye shall be witnesses unto me
ature — monthly magazines, Bible When I think of our attitude to-
both in Jerusalem, and in Judea, and
correspondence courses, study ward the great commission, I am re
in Samaria, and unto the uttermost
books, and tracts — put follow-up minded of the statements Jesus made
part of the earth” (Acts 1:6-8).
tools in the hands of local preach- concerning the man with a beam in his
ers and Christians. The result has Christ was speaking to the men eye who tried to pick the mote from his
been widespread teaching of the who would be the first members of His neighbor’s eye. And He said, “Thou
Truth and a great harvest of souls. body, the church, and He was giving hypocrite!” That isn’t a very pretty
Television has replaced much them the instructions they were to fol- word, is it? And yet many times we
of the radio coverage. Preacher low. This command to go into all the are no more than pious hypocrites. We
training schools have been estab- world and preach the good news of the can’t see that we are failing our Lord
lished, as well as a program for gospel was not an idle one — it was even more than is our neighbor who is
training local Christians to evan- to be the propelling force that should
gelize [JC School of Evangelism].
in religious error, probably out of igno-
move God’s people not only in the first rance of Jesus’ command to the lost.
J.C. went to his eternal reward in century, but throughout every genera-
2008, but the work that he began And that ignorance may be be-
tion since that time.
continues through the efforts of cause we as his neighbor have never
In making the statement we have
the World Evangelism team.
just quoted, Jesus gave two commands: Continued on page 18
8 Global Harvest
J.C. Choate
We are thrilled with the increasing use of the u Satan — Do You Recognize Him?
tracts we have printed, in English, and in a grow- u Fig Leaves Are Back in Style!
ing number of languages overseas. In addition to u How Do We Approach God?
the original 76, these new titles have been added: u The Heavens Declare
seven studies by Louis Rushmore: u The Wrath of God
u The Foreknowledge of God Explained u The 21st Century Holocaust
u What About Instrumental Music in u Doubts and Fears: Satan’s Challenge
Christian Worship? u Women’s Liberation or Exploitation of Women?
u The New Testament Church Is Divine in u Where Grace and Mercy End
Organization u Why Did God Do This to Me?
u Did Dinosaurs Really Exist? u True Science? It Follows a Known Path!
u To Drink or Not to Drink? u He Lifted Up His Eyes
u The Nuts and Bolts of Pornography u How Do I Wear Christ?
u Foul Language u What Does Prayer Accomplish?
u The Soul and Its God
one tract by Ron Williams: u In a Time of Persecution, Can I Endure?
u When Families Deal with Grief and Loss
u To Whom and Through Whom?
these new titles by Jerry Bates: It is our intention to continue to add to the titles
u Will a Man Rob God? we offer. Many churches are ordering these handy-
u How to Study God’s Word sized, succinct, and biblically-sound tracts.
and these by Betty Burton Choate: We encourage you to order a set for $20, or bundles
u Training Children in Obedience of a single title at $2.50 for 25. Call 662-283-1192,
u Training Children in Disobedience or order online at www.gospelgazette.com.
14 Global Harvest
Spotlight
Chris Lyon
As the SEARCH staff travels live.” My response is “Yes, you can get good hearts, it will grow!
around the country visiting different the program where you live, either by During the next several months
lectureships, Gospel meetings, and cable television, Internet, satellite TV, SEARCH is asking for as many
family encampments, we find many radio, or regular airwave TV.” churches as possible to work with us.
members of churches of Christ who I was talking recently on the SEARCH will provide, at no charge,
have never heard of IN SEARCH OF phone with a preacher from a church graphics and information regard-
THE LORD’S WAY. While we under- of Christ in Pennsylvania. I had called ing where and when the program can
stand that some people have simply him the week before to ask if he would be seen in your area. Please have an-
given up on television due to the de- follow up on a request from a lady in nouncements made about SEARCH
cline in decent programming, this me- his town. She had completed the cor- during assembly times and use our
dia is still the number one method of respondence course SEARCH offers lis- graphics in your bulletin each week.
reaching the masses with information. teners. He promptly called and talked Let’s work together and make an ef-
After thirty-seven years of con- with her and was very encouraged by fort to let congregations be more aware
tinual weekly sharing the good news via her response. This preacher went on of this ministry. SEARCH is ready to
radio and television to every comer of to say how difficult it is in his part of assist you in reaching into your com-
this nation and several other countries, Pennsylvania when the members try munity with the Love of Christ and the
we wonder why so many in the USA door knocking. SEARCH gets into plan of Salvation. >
look blank when SEARCH is men- homes and hearts when other efforts In Search of the Lord’s
tioned in conversation. Others say things don’t seem to work! Our goal is to
like “I think my grandparents watched work with the local church of Christ
Way, P.O. Box 371, Edmond,
that program when I was a kid.” Or, “I to evangelize as many as will listen to OK 73083, (405) 348-3242, (800)
don’t think we can get that where we the Gospel. When the seed is planted in 321-8633; www.searchtv.org
Continued from page 4 ble School, World English Institute, ELSE SEEMS MOST EFFECTIVE
on that plane, and in a matter of hours House to House printings, Apologet- IN THE GROWING ARSENAL OF
you can be almost anywhere on this ics Press, Focus Press, Search for the TOOLS! Sufficient funds would be
earth, with access to those citizens. Lord’s Way, Mission Printing, Gospel continually given to provide man-power
When you get there, you have Broadcasting Network, and other orga- to keep everything going smoothly, and
many tools for evangelism: word of nized efforts too numerous to name. If for the necessary follow-up tools!
mouth, advertisements through many all of us continue our individual works What we need, first, is a strong,
mediums, radio, TV, printed materials, but also pool our talents and materials faithful-to-the-Word congregation to
and public gatherings. to further utilize the tools God is sup- take the leadership in sponsoring this
But look at the many great ad- plying, we CAN bring the Gospel to the proposed work, and then we need
ditional tools God has supplied for whole world in this generation! every member of the Lord’s church
our use, just in the past two and three I am compelled to think of one to be made aware of this new effort
decades: We have the Internet, You- point J.C. made in his appeals for so that all of us can work together to
Tube, Facebook, WhatsApp indi- help with the work he wanted to do: achieve the goal of evangelizing the
vidual Websites, and other mass-media He said that if each American Chris- whole world! Let’s get on board!
methods of connecting. Many churches tian gave just $1.00 more each Sun- Brethren, I beg you to listen to this
today are putting their worship servic- day, to be set aside in the treasuries idea and to set in motion this great work
es on the Internet, making the lessons for the sole purpose of world evange- in the congregation of which you are a
available for people all over the world! lism, there would be approximately member. Convince the Christians un-
Countless sermons have been shared $1,250,000 additional dollars more der your influence to partner with us, so
over YouTube and on individual church EVERY WEEK for world evange- that our Lord’s parting command to His
websites. Through Facebook, thoughts lism! In a year’s time, that would be people can be obeyed. Please contact
and even lessons can be shared with about $62,400,000, with not one pen- us with your commitment to work to-
“friends” everywhere, inviting re- ny subtracted from the local budget! gether: >
sponses and interaction. Souls can be Now, what could be done with that
World Evangelism
introduced to the Truth and can be won money, accumulating every year? THE
CHURCH COULD HAVE ITS OWN P.O. Box 72
to Christ through these exchanges. Winona, Mississippi 38967
We also have great avenues through WORLD-WIDE 24-HOUR-A-DAY
TV CHANNEL, OR WHATEVER 662-283-1192
World Video Bible School, World Bi-
This was the first church once, but Sandy did not have a single I was at the soup kitchen and sev-
child in class this past Sunday. Sandy eral came and sat by me and we had a
plant of the Antioch Initiative
has taught the class for three years now great conversation about baptism--Amy
launched 10/19/14 and is the only
and this is only the second time that has Stirling, Alica Ball, and three others. I
congregation of the church of talked with a couple of the soup kitchen
Christ in Bradford County, PA. happened. She does enjoy getting to sit
in on the adult class, though. workers also. I also received a couple
The Lord’s Church in Sayre con- of calls from Oliver Houck, the one I
tinues to hold out the word of life in this We have given thought to offering
an after-school homework club for lo- baptized, and I spoke with the other
community, though the desired response girl that was baptized, Alisha Whitsell.
is still not forthcoming. VBS was a great cal children as we see that as a definite
need. I have spoken to the area schools I was at Wal-Mart looking for someone
success thanks to the devotion and hard to talk to and went downtown to walk,
work of the brethren who came from and the idea is welcomed enthusiasti-
cally. There is nothing of this kind ex- hoping to find others.
Kittanning and Camp Hill. Quite a few I also got a request to lead some-
contacts were made, and I enjoyed fol- cept for something just beginning for
Athens elementary children, sponsored one to Christ in Liberia, Africa. This is
lowing up with Chuck and Elizabeth a woman who has become a widow and
Talada who joined us in church with by the local Calvary Baptist group.
We knew this building is in a great is unhappy with her Catholic church. I
their two sons the next Sunday. I studied notified someone I knew in the church
with them the following Tuesday and location and we intend to utilize our
porch in ways that afford us an informal of Christ over there to help that widow
received very positive feedback from find the truth. After losing her husband
Chuck and the boys. Plans were made interface with the neighbors. One idea
is to have “Prayer on the Porch” once she has lost hope in having a way to
for a further visit, and they were excited feed her kids and herself. My contact
about coming to church again. Unfortu- a week. Another is to have coffee and
donuts out there, or hot chocolate as it person in Liberia said they would give
nately, that is as far as things went and God-like assistance.
they have not answered the door, or the gets colder. Any ideas are welcome.
This Saturday some brethren from Wednesday, I had a Bible study
phone, since then. with Carl Wiesneski and his wife, Eliz-
I had talked briefly with Chris- the Kittanning church will be treat-
ing us to our annual early Thanksgiv- abeth. She has Alzheimers so things
topher, a wounded warrior as he came don’t mean much to her. We talked
out to sit on his porch. He said he was ing dinner and we are hoping to have
visitors for that. I have had positive re- over two hours. He explained that they
interested in studying the Bible, but he would be going to their winter home in
had a friend arriving for a visit, so he sponses from several contacts we have
been working with. Maryland soon. I also spoke with two
told me to look out for him on the porch other men who sat beside us.
and stop for a visit some other time. A Plans have been confirmed for a
visit from Sojourners next July 8-18, Teresa had a ladies Bible study
few days later I saw him on the porch with Molly Rivera, Mary Grace Deste-
and parked my car. When I climbed out, thanks to Dave and Lynn Laton, from
Prattville, Alabama, who have been fano and Kelly Donovan. We had a
he got up and headed inside. I called to very nice Bible study and picked up
him and he looked at me but continued involved in the church planting in this
area. We will be hosting a Gospel meet- Mary Grace from her new place about
in and closed the door behind him. 10 miles away & took her home and
A fair bit of the work follows that ing in conjunction with this activity.
then Faye and her family. The van is
pattern and it is hard not be discouraged We are still waiting for our num-
doing for us what we wanted it for. We
sometimes. I am praying for God to bers to grow, but we are also still count-
are helping many but it also gives me a
open hearts, and there are still contacts ing on God to hear our prayer to open
chance to have Bible studies. >
that are promising. Of the 10 young- hearts. May it be so. >
For contact with the Barrys and the
sters who visited for VBS we have May all the glory be His.
Weyths, go to:
been able to get four to church at least Arthur and Sandy Barry Don Myers: [email protected]
Global Harvest 21
Apologetics Press
Our History and What We Believe
Dave Miller
In the accepted (1 Thessalonians 5:21; Acts can receive by confessing faith in Jesus
late 1970s, 17:11; 1 John 4:1; John 8:32). Christ as the Son of God (Romans 10:9-
there was a God exists, and man can know 10), repenting of sin (Acts 26:20), and be-
need to make available more scriptur- that God exists, by means of His mani- ing immersed in water for the remission
ally sound and scientifically accurate fold revelations, both in nature and of past sins (Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38).
materials in the field of Christian apolo- through the inspired Word of God, the Those enjoying salvation are (a)
getics. The idea for Apologetics Press Holy Bible. members of the one, true, undenomi-
was born—an idea that soon became a The Bible depicts Deity as sin- national church (described in the New
reality. The necessary legal steps then gular, i.e., there is one and only one Testament), which is the body of Christ
were taken to allow the work to be rec- divine essence or Being (Deuteronomy (Ephesians 2:22-23; 4:4), and (b) those
ognized as non-profit and tax-exempt 6:4; Isaiah 45:5; James 2:19). However, who are living faithfully in service to
by both State and Federal governments. the Bible also clearly depicts God as a God (Revelation 2:10).
In 1985, Apologetics Press moved into triune Being—three distinct persons At some unknown point in the
its own custom-built, 11,000-square- within the one essence—with a triune future (Matthew 24:36), Jesus will be
foot building that was debt free upon nature (Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians “revealed from heaven with His
completion. Financial records are man- 13:14). Each person of the Godhead mighty angels, in flaming fire
aged by certified public accountants, (the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit) taking vengeance on those who
who also submit to the appropriate is fully Divine. do not know God, and on those
agencies all documentation required by The entire material Universe who do not obey the gospel of
State and Federal law. was specially created by this al- our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thessa-
Currently, Dr. Dave Miller serves mighty God in six days of approxi- lonians 1:7-8), while the righteous will
as the Executive Director. Dr. Miller, mately 24-hours each, as revealed in be given “eternal life” in heaven (Mat-
Kyle Butt, Eric Lyons, and Dr. Jeff Genesis 1 and Exodus 20:11. thew 25:46). >
Miller compose the fulltime profes- Both biblical and scientific evi-
sional writing staff, assisted by an aux-
Welcome to the
dence indicate (a) a relatively young
iliary staff of scientists and other writ- Earth, in contrast to evolutionary and Apologetics Press
ers including Dr. Joe Deweese, Dr. Jerry old Earth views of a multi-billion-year Bible Class Curriculum
Fausz, Dr. Michael Houts, Dr. Branyon age for the Earth, and (b) that many of the
May, Dr. Justin Rogers, Dewayne Bry- Earth’s features must be viewed in light
ant, James Spencer, Dr. Caleb Colley, of the universal, catastrophic flood of
Kevin Cain, Dr. Earl Edwards, Rob- Noah’s day (as described in Genesis 6-8).
ert C. Veil, Jr., Melvin Otey, and Matt Christianity is the one true re-
Vega. A.P. also has an excellent office ligion (John 14:6), and Jesus Christ is
support staff that includes secretaries, the only divine, resurrected Son of God
a production administrator, a graphics- and Savior of the world (1 John 4:14). “When are you going to pro-
design artist, and a general manager. The 66 books of the Bible are duce a Bible class curriculum?” For
What We Believe fully and verbally inspired of God, a period of many years, that question
and have been transmitted faithfully; has been posed to Apologetics Press
The following principles of truth
hence, they are inerrant and authorita- over and over again. It is hard to be-
are accepted by those who actively lieve that the desire of so many has
participate in the work at Apologetics tive, and a complete guide for moral
now come to fruition. We are pleased
Press: and religious conduct.
to announce the release of the Apolo-
Faith in God and the Bible must Salvation is a free, gracious, un- getics Press Bible School Curricu-
be based on evidence, and not blindly merited gift from God which mankind lum: Exploring God’s Word.
22 Global Harvest
This year has been good to us! With your help the Free Online Bible School
Lord’s work here continues to grow by leaps and bounds. 13,000 students are now actively taking studies through
We are producing more new programs, and reaching even the Free Online Bible School. Almost 9,000 of these stu-
more souls than we ever have before. Your help is essential dents are not yet Christians, making this an excellent evan-
to making these Bible lessons available to millions of people gelism tool.
all over the world.
One Nation Under God
In fact, this year to date, the free online videos have
This faith-based fiction novel is a powerful story about
received over 4,000,000 views! With these online views
God’s providence for His nation and His people. The author
skyrocketing, DVDs are in less demand. However, we esti-
is Rudy Cain and written by Elizabeth Turner Beall.
mate that we will still send out over 150,000 DVDs to places
all around the world. Let me share with you some of the Other Projects Completed:
other exciting news and also a few of the new programs you Biblical Timeline - 10 lessons on 2 DVDs by John Hall.
are helping us to produce. Poster is also available.
Proof for God Bind Us Together- 7 lessons on 2 DVDs by Doritta Johnson
We were blessed to have Kyle Butt come and teach this Colossians - Online School Program by Russell Haffner
needed program. In 8 lessons, Kyle presents the evidence Church History 2 - 18 lessons on 5 DVDs by Chuck
for God and His divine Word. One particular lesson in this Horner
program received over 135,000 views online within the first Ultimately the success of these efforts is in God’s hands,
month of being made available! but we know that without your help none of this would have
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Ronnie Crocker
Evangelism is somewhat like a killed. We read about the thrill of 2:25,26), he enters our 1-year in-
competitive sport. Ephesians 6 tells victory, as multitudes of souls were house drug program and resides in
us our opponent is not “flesh and added to the Lord’s church. One one of our 12 apartments.
blood”. In addition to describing of them, a terrorist of churches of The Balm of Gilead we offer
our protection, it also illustrates a Christ before he was converted, led and apply is the Bible. We are as-
power God provides to His minis- the spread of the Gospel into Eu- saulted with the agony of defeat
ters, which is the Word of God. rope and the rest of the world!! when our restoration (Galatians
In the 1970s ABC’s Wide World Today, through the efforts of 6:1) efforts are rejected. We feel
of Sports transmitted great sport- foreign mission works like the the thrill of victory when a sinner
ing events right into our homes! World Evangelism Team (the Bar- is converted “from the error of his
We enjoyed the Olympics, World riers, Bates, Rushmores, and sister way” and his soul is saved “from
Series, Super Bowls, and big box- Choate), we see the Gospel continu- death” (James 5:19,20)!
ing matches. This show began with ing to span the globe! Evangelisti- Certainly, the apostle Paul felt
exciting music and video clips, as cally, these brethren feel the emo- the agony of defeat over the souls
the announcer said, “Spanning the tional ups and downs, as they make who rejected his efforts to save
globe to bring you the constant va- disciples worldwide! them (Romans 9:1-5). The thrill of
riety of sport! The thrill of victory, At Project Rescue (www.pro- his evangelistic victories in Philippi
and the agony of defeat! The human jectrescue.org), we feel the range of surely motivated Paul to keep on
drama of athletic competition. This emotional extremes on a daily ba- keeping on: “Therefore, my be-
is ABC’s Wide World of Sports!” sis, as we live among 20 recovering loved and longed-for brethren,
In the book of Acts, we see the addicts! The typical man we try to my joy and crown, so stand fast
Gospel spanning the globe with reach obeyed the gospel in his pre- in the Lord, beloved.” Philippians
eternal implications. We read about teens and wandered into the world 4:1
the agony of defeat as people re- of drug addiction in his late teens. The Thrill of Victory
jected the Gospel, ministers were In his thirties, after he ruined his and the Agony of Defeat!
imprisoned, and Christians were life with prodigal living (2 Timothy Our “joy and crown” consists
of members of the churches of Christ
coming to us from 22 states (so far).
Through this ministry of reconcili-
ation (2 Corinthians 5:18,19), we
serve as a bridge back from the far
country for our prodigal (drug ad-
dicted) sons, grandsons, brothers,
fathers, and husbands. It is exciting
to see our program members being
reconciled back to God, the Lord’s
church, their families, the work-
place, and society as a whole. >
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Richard N. Ady
World English Institute (WEI) English, but they discover something worldenglishinstitute.org and sign
is a spinoff from my family’s mission far more important. up as a teacher. The rewards are “out
experience in Taiwan half a century ago Through WEI, the Lord has led of this world.” —Richard N. Ady in
when we used English classes to attract thousands of Atheists, Communists, Gresham, Oregon >
students, and the Bible to lead them to Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, even Sa-
Christ. A one-hour English class was tan worshipers to Christ. He has used
followed by a Bible lesson translated WEI to plant churches of Christ in at
into Mandarin Chinese. Students stayed least twenty-five nations and to build
for the Bible class to improve their pro- up congregations in many other places.
nunciation and their comprehension of In the beginning, WEI was a post-
spoken English. Some seed fell in fer- al correspondence ministry, but it is
tile soil, and God gave the increase. now a predominantly Internet outreach
When it appeared that China ministry. The WEI teaching website is
was opening up to Christianity in the encrypted so that students who live in
late 80s, World English Institute was nations hostile to Christianity can study
born with China as the target, but God without risk. Thousands of WEI stu-
had something bigger in mind. Since dents live in Muslim nations where it
1989, the Lord has used WEI to intro- is a capital offense to convert to Chris-
duce people to Christ in every nation tianity.
on earth. Most WEI students enroll to If you are willing to let God use
learn English, but their interest often you to save people who are lost and
shifts to the Bible. They come to learn can’t find their way, log on to www.
Seven Ways
Preachers Can
Encourage One
Another
Jeff Jenkins
It happens over, and over, and but be careful brother, about saying ENCOURAGE
over again. We hear about preachers someone who has needs to get over it. A PREACHER’S FAMILY
losing their jobs or dropping out of At least until you’ve walked in their If you know a brother who is
ministry because the pressures are so shoes. struggling, be sure to ask him how his
great. This article is not about who is So, most of us who preach under- family is doing? If your wife is a good
right or wrong when a preacher loses stand these thoughts and feelings. This encourager, ask her to call the strug-
his job. I’m certain there is enough is a plea to all of us who preach to en- gling preacher’s wife. Ask about the
blame to go around. This is a plea courage, strengthen, support, and love children. See if there is anything that
from my heart that those of us who are a fellow preacher who is struggling. can be done to encourage the family.
preaching brothers will do everything Let’s consider how we can encourage TALK TO OUR FATHER
we can to encourage one another. and support one another. If you are not It has been my personal practice
With apologies to those of you a preacher, why not join in with us as to keep a running list of preachers who
who are reading this who are not we seek to encourage one another. I know are dealing with difficulties, as
preachers, it is true that there is no OFFER WORDS OF well as preachers who have contacted
one who can understand the life and
ENCOURAGEMENT me to ask for prayers.
work of a preacher better than another
As we mentioned earlier, there I do my best to pray through that
preacher. I have talked to more preach-
are enough negative and critical words list on a weekly, sometime daily basis.
ers than I can count who are suffering
spoken in our world. Those of us who One of the greatest gifts we can give to
in silence. They have been chastised
are preachers don’t need to add to what a brother who is struggling is the gift
by their elders, their deacons, or some
has already been said. of knowing we are praying for them. If
well-meaning fellow Christian.
Remember that as Christians you tell someone you are going to pray
Their feeling is that they are un-
we have been charged with speaking for them write it down and be sure you
der-appreciated. They feel that few re-
words, that are “good for edification follow through. (If you would like to
ally know all that they do. They feel
according to the need of the moment, be added to my list, please send me a
that few really care about their families,
so that it will give grace to those who private message, no details needed!)
their health, their mental well-being,
and their spiritual walk with the Lord. hear.” (Ephesians 4:29) EXTEND GRACE & FORGIVE
Okay, take a deep breath. I know Make a phone call or a personal There are times that the preacher
that some of you guys who are reading visit, send an email, a letter, a text, or who is struggling is the one who is in
this would say, “Jeff, I’ve never felt a Facebook message. Sit down with the wrong. Perhaps he has brought his
that way, and those who have need to someone who is hurting and just listen. struggle on himself. I am not writing
get over it.” I’m thankful you’ve never Listen with your heart. Show compas- this to say that preachers are always
been treated like that or that you’ve sion and concern. There are many ways right.
never been made to feel that way, we can encourage. Continued on page 30
Global Harvest 29
True and living God, Christ, and instill in them love in its to contribute to a small effort already
Your works go before you and purest form. begun.) On November 15, Brazil’s
proclaim Your glory. In Christ we see Thank you, Lord, for reconcilia- Proclamation of the Republic, we
Your love and goodness, the justice tion, to give us peace with You and in celebrated the 30-year anniversary of
brought to man. You are worthy of ourselves, for peacemaking as our ob- the church’s start here!
praise. jective. We rented a venue for the day,
We love You, and desire that You Thank You for the recorded his- about five minutes from our home.
dwell in our hearts. Come to us, for we tory, in Scripture, of Your work to save Douglas’s wife, Ludmila, planned a bar-
have come to the Rock that shelters us mankind, for Your patience with the becue that went off exceptionally well.
above all tempests. stubbornness of Israel and with the re- Afterwards, four men spoke between
Forgive us of the sin of anxious- calcitrance of the church. songs and prayers. Ten non-Christians
ness, O Lord, that inner turmoil over our What a wonderful God You are to joined us for the day. Two of the oldest
many responsibilities or the dread con- love and save us! converts, Paulo Lelis and José Roberto
cerning current events. Give us, Father, from the East Side congregation, spoke
BBQ for region’s 30-year Mark about their spiritual journey. These
a sense of abundance and fullness that
come from the bounty of Your goodness. The Gospel penetrated our Val- meetings encouraged the congregations
We are thankful for technology ley area in October, 1988, when two and offered a vision for the work that the
that permits us to do more, be more ef- Brazilian families were sent from the Lord Jesus Christ gave us to do. For that
ficient in our work, have greater con- state capital. (Vicki and I arrived in SJ- we are thankful. >
tact with loved ones and friends, share Campos in 1995 from Belo Horizonte, Randal Matheny: [email protected]
the Gospel with the lost.
Father, bless the work of the
Good News in Argentina. May the
brethren here be strong in faith. Send
more workers into the field.
Uphold the work of Colin and
Lisa Graham in Bangor, North Ireland,
and give them fruit from their labors.
Bless parents as they rear their
children in the fear of Your Name,
transmit to them the joy of serving
These Forthright Publications are available. For prices and more information, you
may call Barbara Oliver at 901-517-7274 or email [email protected].
32 Global Harvest
lism Training Seminar in the first week
in December 2019.
Although we are not a wealthy
congregation (located in Lima city in
the northern area), all our efforts in
these past years have been focused on
visiting and helping out with church
work with the neediest congregations
around this whole nation.
Our church does mission trips
to the Andes Mountains and Amazon
jungle`s remote areas four times a year,
to teach and preach God`s Word and
do the best we can, although money
resources are not enough for the many
things that need to be done over there.
Together with some local church
workers, we do those mission trips
and we thank God for this work, since
many people have obeyed the Gospel
Dear brethren in the Lord and and up (both men and women), March of Christ, and those church members at
God´s faithful workers, my best regard 2020, to be held every three months dur- those remote locations are visited and
and season’s greetings from Montecarlo ing that year at the Montecarlo church encouraged. They are always happy for
congregation in Lima city, Peru. Hoping building`s facility, starting from a Tues- us to help out on door-knocking and
this message finds you in good health day morning and continuing through the having Gospel campaigns for them to
both physical and spiritual, and may God next week (almost 12 days in total). That stay faithful and work harder to build
continue to bless you and your church would be a three-years’ Bible program up the Lord`s church.
work ministry in this current year. in which some church members around I hope you all consider to partner
I am back in town after spending the city and within Peru will be well- with us and to visit us in Peru anytime.
time with a rural congregation in the An- trained, and we make an open invita- We will always be glad to have you, ei-
des mountain areas for about ten days. tion for you to help us out on this church ther in this coming year or in the near-
project. We will also be very grateful for est future. Romans 10:15 >
We want to let you know that we
are planning to launch a Bible training you to come over to visit us, so we can Helmut Garcia: this is our church face-
host a five-days’ Mission and Evange- book site: https://www.facebook.com/
center and missions with 10 students ideCMontecarloPeru
I find social media, especially WhatsApp, a way of mak- that book.) We are currently going through Paul’s first epistle to
ing a positive contribution to personal Bible study. One day, a the Corinthians. After one of the Gospel accounts, I move on to
sister in Christ living in Germany, with whom I was having a Acts, then to the Epistles. At the present time, we are half way
telephone conversation, asked me a question about the Bible through 2nd Corinthians.
teaching on the Holy Spirit in Acts 2. I suggested to her that I also study with another blood brother who lives in the
she first read John 16 and then we would have a discussion, Caribbean Island of St Vincent. I introduced him to the book
to which she agreed. Before we started our discussion, I asked of Mark using a study aid called 90 Days Walk with Jesus
her to read Acts 2 and then the end of Luke 24. After explain- through the Eyes of Mark, written by Malcolm Chusham.
ing the passages, especially how connected they are, I asked I asked my brother to order one copy of that book from the
her if she would like to continue studying the Bible over the Internet, which he did. It uses a method in which the student is
telephone. She said she was interested. Then she requested required to answer the questions asked, applying them to his
that we continue with John. That was the beginning of this own life. My brother liked the method so much that he is plan-
experience of Bible study via WhatsApp. ning to start a course in his congregation based on that book
So we studied John’s Gospel and went on to look at his and its study method.
epistles. After those books, we went back to Acts and from The way I conduct a study is quite simple. I ask the stu-
there we proceeded with the other Gospel books. We have dent to read the chapter we have decided to study. After the
completed the study of the whole New Testament and we are reading, I ask the student to tell in their own words what they
now in the Old Testament. From once a week initially, our understand from the passage. Then I let them say what they
study soon upgraded to two days weekly. Also, she is now have learned from the passage we have read. For example, in
seeing situations where she can help to spread the Gospel mes- a study of the conversation with Nicodemus, I ask the student
sage this way. She said she is in touch with two young Muslim to tell how one gets into the kingdom of heaven, instead of me
women, so by the blessing of God it is all possible. telling them. One more example is related to the unity of the
In the meantime, I happened to speak with another sister church. After studying the subject of the church in Acts and
in Christ, a resident of New Jersey, to whom I mentioned my other passages, I ask the student to tell how many churches
study with the sister in Germany and immediately she said there are. When they ask questions, I answer either using ele-
she was interested in Bible study. She was so excited about ments straight from the Bible or from church materials.
the idea that she wanted to study almost every day. But the This teaching experience takes place in a social setting,
only problem with that was the time difference of five hours and I believe this makes it even more valuable and appreciated
between the UK and New Jersey. So we decided to study three by people, beside the fact that the telephonic conversation on
days a week. WhatsApp is free of charge.
Then I was speaking with my youngest blood brother who So I now have altogether four students in various parts
lives in Barbados. When I told him I needed to get off the phone of the world.
because I had a scheduled appointment to study the Bible with I benefit a lot from this whole personal evangelism ex-
someone in Germany he thought it was a good deed/enterprise, perience because it helps me search the Scriptures in prepara-
to which I retorted that it would be better if he would join us in tion for my lesson. The questions the students ask equally help
the study. He said he would. I thought he was only joking, but me to dig the Scriptures. Also, after a lesson I go over it for
I realized that he was serious. He asked when we should start. I a check of what I have studied with the student. In this way
suggested once a week on Saturday but he thought that wasn’t I grow in the knowledge of the Bible. Also the brother in St.
enough; he wanted us to study three times a week. Again the Vincent has started the study with his wife and his 13 year-old
time difference was a challenge: he gets up 3 a.m. for the study, son. The sister in New Jersey now is challenging some Jeho-
which corresponds to 8 a.m. UK time. He is so eager that if I vah’s Witnesses to study with her, all thanks to her knowledge
miss calling him at 8 a.m. on the dot, he calls me. I gave him the gained through simply studying the Gospel message. >
choice to start the study either with the Gospel of Mark or John
and he went for John (everyone seems to want to begin with Kenneth Peters lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England
Global Harvest 35
Few people realize in how many up the Lord’s church throughout the couragement, and help in evangelism to
nations the French-language is used French-speaking world. local congregations. And in other cases
around the world and how much is yet A school of preaching in Ivory they teach courses in schools of preach-
to be done in taking the Gospel to those Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), West Africa, ing or provide in-depth training and/or
nations. Over 600 million people live trains faithful men from various Afri- refresher courses to evangelists already
in the 57 countries and territories that can countries to serve as evangelists. serving on the field.
consider themselves part of the French- Crieve Hall fully supports this work, Much of the literature and many
speaking world. Yet we have no more which is directed by Ivorian Christians. of the radio broadcasts mentioned
than five American missionaries living Crieve Hall also oversees a lit- above are made available on Internet
and working among French-speakers in erature ministry called French World websites for French-speakers anywhere
these countries, and almost all of these Outreach, which provides over 90% of in the world. A French site intended
are in just two European countries. the printed materials used by French- especially for Muslim seekers of truth
In spite of a shortage of mis- speaking churches around the world. has also been created and is receiving
sionaries to the French world, much Crieve Hall provides the facilities for nearly 100,000 visits per year. (There
progress has been made in the past 30 the work, a team of volunteers, and sup- is considerable overlap between the
years. The number of French-speaking port for two full-time workers, Barry French-speaking world and the Muslim
countries where the church of Christ Baggott and Garrett McGilvray. Over world.)
has been established has gone from 200,000 pieces of Gospel literature are Fi n a n c i a l N e e d s
11 to 34. The number of congregations provided each year through this work. As already mentioned, the Crieve
has increased from fewer than 90 to These include tracts and booklets, New Hall congregation provides full support
nearly 700. Schools of preaching in six Testaments, correspondence courses, for the school of preaching in Ivory
French-speaking countries are current- Bible school curriculum, song books, Coast, facilities for the literature minis-
ly training scores of local evangelists. periodicals, commentaries and other try in Nashville, and salaries for Barry
A wide selection of printed materials books for Bible study. and Garrett. Help from other congre-
in French has been developed for use in Another means of teaching God’s gations and from individuals is gladly
evangelism and grounding of converts. word to French-speakers around the received for other needs such as travel
Weekly Gospel radio broadcasts are world is an extensive radio ministry funds and money for printing and ship-
heard in at least 14 French-speaking involving numerous weekly broadcasts ping of literature.
countries in Africa and the Caribbean. heard in 11 countries. Many of these The two most urgent needs at
Nevertheless, an extraordinary lessons are prepared and recorded by the present time relate to the radio
amount of work is yet to be done. It is Barry Baggott, while follow-up is done ministry and the teaching periodical,
true that we must be busy evangelizing by local Christians in each country. Chemin de Vérité (Way of Truth):
to reach the lost in the United States, Barry and Garrett also make mul- Radio: Several weekly radio broadcasts
where only one out of 240 people is tiple mission trips each year to French- in the African countries of Ivory Coast,
a member of the New Testament speaking countries, mostly to countries Chad and the Democratic Republic of
church, but the task of reaching the where no American or European mis- the Congo are currently underfunded.
French-speaking world is even more sionaries are serving the Lord’s church. In most cases, $50 per month would be
daunting: only one of 44,000 is a New The objectives of each trip depend on sufficient to keep a program on the air.
Testament Christian! the needs in the particular country. In Chemin de Vérité: We send bun-
The Crieve Hall Church of Christ some cases they are working to establish dles of this periodical free of charge to
in Nashville, Tennessee, is working on the church where it does not yet exist. In
several fronts to evangelize and build others they are providing grounding, en- Continued on page 37
Global Harvest 37
Meetings in Pakistan
Sajjad Bano and Asghar Ali
Chandigarh, India
Earnest Gill
I do not know who will be used many people. Brother Russel had asked
by the lord to help us with the money me last year to get the price but this year
for our own place, but I have firm faith he did not come and wrote me that he will
in Him that once we start asking and no longer be able to help with the Bibles
He knows that our need is genuine, He and any other activity.
responds positively. I believe the Lord will provide,
I believe we can achieve anything but thought it good to let you know so
with the help of the Lord. I have learnt that you can also join us in prayer.
that we only can try to solve a problem, This year we are in need of 500
We pray all is well with you and once we know what it is. I mean first Bibles. One Bible costs us about $3.
the lord bless you with a sound health we need to realize that there is a need. We have ordered 5000 song books, and
and mind for many more years. We are Now when we have accepted that, I each one costs us $0.68. The Govern-
doing fine. Just get busy and making ar- think the Lord will show the way. ment has levied 18% GST on printed
rangements. We do get rain here these I have been granted a 10-year visa material. That has raised the prices
days and, as you know, Kerala got worst. for US. I had no plan but maybe the Lord very high, but I believe song books are
I had sent a text message to the has one. It was my cousin who invited necessary for the growing congrega-
printer several days ago but perhaps he me on her husband’s 50th birthday, and tions. We have been asking the breth-
did not read it. On Saturday I talked to I applied in March. I got the visa after ren to share the cost with us. Some
him and then he again gave the price 2 months, when I went to the embassy. have already come but they will pay for
for 2000 and 3000 for Holy Spirit in They granted it, even when the time was themselves only. Postage, too, has been
Punjabi. For 2000 with the same qual- gone, and they knew I had no purpose to increased a lot. For sending 10 books
ity of paper will cost $2730 and for go. Maybe there is something that we do to a place we are asked to pay Rs. 100.
3000 copies $3650. not know but the Lord knows. We have a problem in the neigh-
I also checked for Worship, As the last quarter of the year borhood. They had called the Police
Godhead, and Covenants in Punjabi starts, I am wondering about the next several times, claiming disturbance by
for 2000 copies each. Each will cost year’s lectureship because brother Rus- the students and classes we have. We
$650 (a total of $2000). One will be a sel is no longer able to come and help rented another place for the students.
little more as there are additional pages with the finances. We have not declared We also had to move to another
in that. the dates yet, but believe that we need apartment and the owner stopped us to
Regarding the price of the land, to arrange for the expenses before the do church activities. We are now very
yes, prices in the city have become so time of the lectureship is on us. Brother restricted but the Lord has been giving
high, but we need a place somewhere. Russel used to call me near this time us strength. We have started praying that
I have been trying to find something and send 1/2 the amount early. That we should have a college campus where
available outside Chandigarh. Lately I was $2000. Last year he sent 100% and many people may be trained in the com-
visited a neighboring village and was did not attend the lectureship. We have ing years and have a place of worship.
told that a plot of land may be avail- been grateful for his contribution and It is good to learn that Ricky is
able there for Rs. 4-5 million ($60,000 efforts to make it possible. planning to start a Youtube channel
to $70,000). I think if we get this kind He had been supplying us 400 Hin- “BIBLE KI BAAT”. We already have
of deal, we can ask them to give us 1/2 di Bibles each year for the past several started but could not upload the stuff
acre. That will be a great place where years. We have composed and printed because we need a basic setup to record
we can start more things. In the city, a song book containing Hindi, English, the things. Moreover their language is
near our place, but in Mohali, there is Punjabi, Sadri (Bihari), Dogri (Jammu Telugu and we need to work in Hindi
a new area developing and plots are & Kashmir’s language). The script for and Punjabi. Pray for us. >
about Rs 13,000 to-18,000 per sq yard. the regional languages is the same that is
Plots of 200-500 sq/yards are available. used in Hindi. That way it can be used by Earnest Gill: [email protected]
46 Global Harvest
Had a good trip to Balco in the cen- from 2 Kings chapter 5 about the little area so that they could help them with
tral part of India in the month of April, Jewish maid who served Naaman’s wife. their obedience.
2018. On this trip, I was accompanied On this particular Sunday, we had 3 Yes, we did talk to Ricky Gootam
by my father, Francis, as well as the Bar- young girls obeying the Lord. I was glad about the “Lads to Leaders” program. It
riers: Jeremy and Kerry. We had great to baptize them, and I hope and pray that will be a wonderful thing if a program
2 full days of Bible Seminar from the they remain faithful to Jesus and to His like this can be run in India. In today’s
Book of Ephesians and Colossians. Dur- “One True Church of the Bible.” These world, many young people are losing in-
ing this trip, one Hindu girl obeyed the three are now worshiping with the terest in spiritual matters. The churches
Lord, and another young girl came for- church that meets in Faridabad village, need to show more concern about them
ward to study more about Jesus before where brother Wilson preaches. Wil- since they are the future pillars of the
she decided to obey Him in baptism. son and five of his family members church. Anyhow, Ricky, will be sending
Again, in the middle of June, were baptized on September 13, 2008. us some details regarding how to devel-
2018, I went back to Balco for a week, and the church has been meeting there op such a program In India.
and worked with the local congregation. regularly. Brother Wilson taught these In regards to airing our Hindi TV
I bought them five new ceiling fans be- three who were baptized. They all live programs on YouTube channel, the
cause it was very hot inside the church in the same village. Shubhsandesh channel people have al-
building when I was speaking. As you The TV work has been going ready put our programs on YouTube. In
know, both May & June are the hottest strong. I just finished recording a fresh fact, the Telugu TV programs are also
months in India. The temperatures go up set of sermons. Many responses and on their channel. You just have to type
to 115-120 degrees Fahrenheit. So the contacts for the Hindi Bible correspon- the speaker’s name, and it will show
ceiling fans provided the church great dence courses, Hindi Bibles, and Hindi their program. I shared this informa-
relief from the heat. tracts are still being generated from our tion with Ricky too, but he says the TV
I also helped the congregation in TV programs. channel has not put all our programs,
building a baptistery inside the church As I said, the Bible correspondence and that might be true. Anyhow, in
building so that they don’t have to work has been running well. In fact, just regards to securing some financial as-
travel far to a river or a lake to baptize recently two of my students expressed sistance from Delhi congregation to
people. Actually, conversion is banned their desire to obey the Lord. They said run this YouTube thing, I told Ricky
in this particular state of India (Chhat- that they want to become members of that he needs to talk to the elders about
tisgarh). Moreover, there is a strong the New Testament church. I was so glad this matter since they are in charge of
presence of Hindu fundamentalists to hear about this, and I have forwarded church financial matters. >
and extremists, which makes the situ- their contacts to local preachers in their Vinay David: [email protected]
ation even more sensitive and volatile.
So when somebody is being baptized, Jerry and Paula Bates were with the church in New Delhi, India.
it has to be done in a very hidden and
quiet manner. In fact, sometimes when
people are being baptized in a river or
a lake, questions are being asked by the
local people about their act. So keeping
these things in mind, I decided to help
them build a simple baptistry inside the
church building. This will be safer, and
convenient for the future.
The Delhi congregation has been
doing well. One Sunday back, I spoke
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ELIYA SCHOOL OF
THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
Elijah Vivek Sanamanda
The month of September has been and Raju Matta in the mornings. Our With the generosity of the breth-
very successful and productive for the pulpit minister, brother Ebenezer, has ren we have installed 12 hand pumps
mission of the Lord. It has been a won- been overseeing the Personal Evange- for water in the community, which
derful sight to witness seven new souls lism part of the course in the afternoon. have been helping the people have ac-
being baptized for the remission of their Two of our baptized women, cess to water for their entire household.
sins and accepting “Christ as their Lord”. students from ESTS, Mangamma & We have been having a lot of pow-
Among the seven newly baptized Raghava, are very effective in teaching er cuts due to various reasons. With the
souls, three are the result of the ef- other women. We here in India believe support of the brethren we were able
forts of the preaching school and they that women can be the key to evange- to purchase a 62.5 KV power genera-
come from the same family. Brother lizing the entire family. tor with an automatic panel to meet the
Prasad Savarapu has been a full-time Students have been doing well so needs of electricity at the living facility,
teacher for 30-plus years. He was a far in terms of learning and implement- studio and especially the water plant.
member of the Roman Catholic faith ing the strategies for reaching souls. The generator has been scheduled to
for more than 42 years. In the last ten Soon we plan to have a door-knocking be delivered on Oct 5th and would be
months, as he planned to retire May campaign in the nearby village of Peru- completely installed before the of third
2018, he wanted to preach Christ, palem. Please pray that the students do week of October.
so he approached us to learn in the well in having a fruitful campaign and Please keep all these efforts in
ESTS School. This July as he started having a godly impact on the ones they your prayers, which are being dedicat-
to attend classes, study more into the meet in the course of the campaign. ed towards taking physical waters in to
word and understand about the Lord’s Our water plant has been the key the community, through which we hope
Church, he studied the Bible with his for us reaching souls in our communi- to teach about Christ and quench their
wife, Pusha and his son Pranay, about ty. On a daily basis, students have been spiritual thirst.
being part of the Lord’s Church. The distributing about 420 – 480 tins (hold- Our Bible studio construction
result of this effort has been the bap- ing 5 gallons) of water, which is ap- has been through a fair number of ups
tism of their family. proximately 2000 – 2020 gallons a day. Continued on page 53
Brother Prasad is a very diligent
learner and wants to drink into the
deep waters from the Bible. He plans
to graduate this December from the six
months course and start working with
the local church — Palakol Church of
Christ — in the mission efforts.
ESTS has been having classes for
five days a week (Mon-Fri) with Satur-
day being a time for practical training –
Personal Evangelism. The classes this
month have been geared towards “The
Plan of salvation” in the morning ses-
sions and “Personal Evangelism” train-
ing in the afternoon sessions. Classes
for the month of September have been
taught by two of the elders – Venkanna Distribution of Bibles to newly baptized members.
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Our TV programs are going very well. We have been in gu language first, then we are going to see how that program
mass media out-reach since 1975. We are known as “Satya- goes in Andhra Pradesh, and then we will take it from there
vani” which means “Voice of the Truth”. We had this name throughout the country. There are 29 states in India and not
from the time we started. We were on the radio, we are on all the states have strong churches. The church is stronger in
the TV and now we are entering to internet. Many of the the South India.
sermons are posted on Youtube but we are working of hav- Below is a group of students from Oklahoma State
ing our own “Youtube live” channel called “Satyavani”. To University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. These are nice college
set it up we are looking at $1500 for onetime investment and students who came and worked with us from July 4th to July
$380 (for cloud steaming, internet and one person to manage 27th.
that every month). We are praying to start this very soon and
make it a reality at the end of August. We wanted to launch
this on October 1st. We are also thinking of developing an
app so that everyone all over can be reached via internet.
Our TV programs right now come in three different sat-
ellite channels twice a week, and one channel comes twice
every day. So we have an audience of 1 million viewers all
over India. Every month 1200 finish our Bible courses and
every day we get 200 responses.
The Church in Kakinada is healthy. We have able men
who can lead and families who support all the things we do
from Kakinada. The congregation right now is 250+ (not in-
cluding children). We have 130 families who are involved at
Satyavani Church of Christ.
We had Brother Lucus from Italy and Sister Liz from
West Virginia for two weeks. They study in college in West
Virginia. They were going to climb Mt. Everest in Napal, and We had brother Roger Wright from June last week to
one of our common friends suggested they go and see us in July 5th. He has been with the church in Vincennes, Indiana
Kakinada, India. They stayed with us in Kakinada for a week for many years. That church and the Ford family from there
and worked with are instrumental in the work with the Kakinada School of
our Children home Preaching. Roger has been coming to India every two years
kids. We had 350 for the last 23 years. When he was here, he got to work in a
children from dif- village called “Shahpuram” and also with some of the chil-
ferent villages dren home kids in Kakinada. He was here when the OSU
come to Kakinada college students came, so he counseled what to do and what
that week. Next not to do when they are in India.
year we are plan- While the OSU group was with us we had another group
ning to start a pro- from Oklahoma and Texas. This was led by my friend Lanny
gram called “Lads whom I have known from summer camps in Oklahoma. He is
to Leaders—India” a great Gospel preacher. Thirteen Americans came with Lanny
from Kakinada, India. So we wanted to give the kids and some from July 21 to July 26th. We had our preachers’ workshop in
of the preachers what is this and how we are going to do this. Kakinada and also preachers’ wives workshop at which some
In this picture above you can see a “work book” which American brethren spoke and the American ladies spoke to
will be in Telugu on “Lads-to-Leaders: India”. This book has the preachers’ wives. Three hundred and fifty were present
18 chapters, and we are translating the materials to the Telu- Continued on page 50
Global Harvest 49
The J.C. School of Evangelism personally with 200 new contacts, and results. Thank you for upholding this
program started in the year 2007. Now we gave the Bible as a gift to 60 people work. Surely, our television programs
we have completed 10 graduation pro- who had completed the course. These are helping the growth of the local con-
grams and are presently training in same students through their efforts dur- gregations.
the cities of Arakonnam (Tamilnadu), ing their summer vacation time worked Insight for Blinds
Yeswanthpur, and Mysore (Karnataka). tirelessly and brought more than 12 souls through Braille literature and
This 18- month training program is de- to obey the Lord in baptism. Through Bible Camps
signed to motivate church members in the intensive classroom and field train- The Gospel and benevolence work
the field of evangelism. We thank God ing of our school of evangelism program among the visually challenged people
for the opportunity He is giving us to they continue to harvest. We humbly is giving wonderful results since 1998.
motivate and empower these Christian thank God for honoring the sincere ef- Nearly 600 blind people have been
men and women who do have the zeal forts of His children. Also this month added to Lord’s church, and many more
and burden to find new souls for their in the same place, they have organized blind men and women are having the
congregation among their day to day a soul-saving festival and to encourage opportunity to know Jesus Christ and
problems and challenges. those course-completed people on to the message from cross for the first time
The response from the members salvation. Please pray for these efforts. in their lives through our Insight Bible
of the Lord’s Church is tremendous. We Apart from the monthly school Camps for the Blinds and the Braille
had a report from one of the graduated of evangelism program, we are hav- literature that we produce and distrib-
schools that they had added some 35 ing one-day special Bible classes ev- ute through the camps. Though we face
new souls this year through the students’ ery month in 3 places for our television financial challenges now and then for
efforts. Also in another area, where the contacts. They are taught basic lessons, carrying forward this ministry, God has
school program is currently going on, and we are leading them to Christ with been always gracious in our efforts to
last month during the Bates’ visit they the help of the local congregations. This reach the blinds for Christ.
distributed and studied the Bible courses outreach effort is bringing tremendous During the time of the Bates visit-
ing us in November 2018, we had the In-
sight Bible camp in two places. The first
one was organized in the Trichy district,
135 kms. from our Madurai city. As we
do for every Insight camp, we had also
made two preliminary visits to arrange a
rental place and food for the participating
blinds and to invite them personally for
the camp. We expected some 120 people
but they turned out in good numbers, that
is 190 attended the camp! Brother Jerry
encouraged them with the word of God
from John 3rd chapter, and it was really
an eye opener message for them. Nearly
80 who could read the Braille language
were provided with THE VOICE OF
TRUTH BRAILLE magazine, a new
Participants of recent Insight Bible camp for blinds and Braille literature to be volume printed through our new Braille
given to them, displayed. 200 blinds were encouraged through word of God printer purchased for the Insight office
and benevolence.
Continued on page 50
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We are very glad to work with the World Evangelism is helpful to teach heathen people. This man received a copy
Team as fellow-workers in preaching the Gospel and fulfill- and introduced it among his congregation members.
ing the Lord’s commandment throughout Tamil Nadu and We run ‘World Evangelism Bible School’ and train the
sometimes in neighboring states. We are grateful for World students to preach the Gospel. The preachers who are work-
Evangelism in evangelizing and harvesting souls through our ing together with us teach classes in their places every week.
media works as TV, Radio and our monthly magazine, and Brother Jerry and sister Paula teach students twice in a year
we are glad to share that now we have 10 thousand readers when they come to India.
approximately! Though we print 7000 copies, the recipients Our Batlagundu church meets in the new place and is
share their magazines with others by making Xerox copies worshiping God every Sunday. Some new souls are com-
and distributing themselves. Out of these readers, we have ing from different villages and attending the worship service
78 students who attend the quiz and win by answering 10 regularly. We have Bible study program every Thursday. A
questions regularly. These questions will be taken accord- man who has been attending the study understood the word
ing to the doctrine only covering the whole Bible. So we and obeyed and took baptism. His name is Joshua. He be-
are very happy about these students’ enthusiasm. Thus our longed to a denomination church, ‘Layman Evangelical Fel-
magazine ‘The Word of Christ’ reaches the unreached. lowship’. Now he is steadfast in knowing the true doctrine,
We had gone to Turicorin, the Pearl City, to meet our and he sometimes comes to our house to study and learn
magazine readers there personally. These people are regu- scripture even on week-days. Three more people from one
lar participants in ‘Quiz’ of our magazine and score good family were baptized.
marks. To encourage them, we presented them Bibles. After
this session the ladies’ discussion from the Scripture took
place. Glory answered them from the Scriptures. I had a
class for World Evangelism Bible School students also after
preaching in the special meeting. It was wonderful.
We’ve finished our Second Round of Readers’ Seminar
successfully. We thank God for His wonderful help in con-
ducting such seminars. We had a new thought of introducing
our monthly magazine and the publications of World Evan-
gelism in all districts of Tamil Nadu State personally without
missing. We started our journey of the First Round in 2001
at Nagercoil district, a coastal city, and accomplished our
goal in 2008 at Tirupur district, the 32nd one. With sister
Betty’s encouragement and counseling we started our Sec- Arjunan (left) with readers and TV viewers in Chennai
ond Round in 2016 at Tuticorin, a coastal district and ac- On 27th of September six preachers were invited for a
complished our trip in June 2018 successfully at Sivagangai special Bible study program. They attended and decided to
district. Thus we have gone through all districts of Tamil establish the Lord’s church in their villages. We discussed
Nadu twice and were in personal touch with many readers. about evangelizing in our country where Hinduism is the
Through our TV ministry many doors have been opened dominant religion. The Indian Government is vigorously
to meet denomination people and preachers to share the spreading their Hindu religion and building the temples
doctrine of Christ. One of the denomination preachers who everywhere day by day. Some of the judgments of our Su-
previously belonged to RSS, a Hindu Formation, invited us preme Court also are against the doctrine of our Holy Bible.
to speak to his congregation in Ramapuram in Chennai. He Please pray for India.
loved to read sister Betty’s book,‘Can Man Find The Way We pray for World Evangelism Ministries and we ask
to God?’ which was translated by us in Tamil. This book is that you also pray for us. >
moving fast among our readers and viewers. Many inform
us that it is very useful to learn the only way to God, and it B.Arjunan: [email protected]
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I am very happy to submit this work report on behalf of a small thing. The other one, who obeyed the Gospel in our
Tamil World Evangelism, stationed at KANGAYAM, Tamil last Bible Camp in the month of May led several to accept
Nadu, India to the World Evangelism that functions from the one true church and she is committed to bringing more
Winona, MS, USA for the Global Harvest journal. from her old group. These are two examples to prove how
First of all, we thank God for having blessed us to have the Lord’s work, through the TV outreach, is effective.
a working relationship with World Evangelism since 1988 We have established contact with many churches across
and we are more thankful to God for the privilege of spread- Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry and are working closely with
ing the Gospel in several capacities such as TV, monthly them through our regular visits, sending literature, holding
and quarterly journals, printing tracts on a number of topics, Gospel meetings, etc. Of course, we send our monthly maga-
sending Bible correspondence courses to hundreds and, of zines to as many of the churches as we aware of and they all
course, distributing Bibles to many so that they can know the appreciate its usefulness. The printed page always has sus-
word of God. I want all of you to be aware that the Lord’s tained power.
work is growing amidst challenges in this country of India. Recently, we conducted a Bible seminar for the preach-
As we aware, no force can halt the marching of His army as ers and their wives. It was attended by around 40. Brother
the Lord Almighty is our commander-in-chief. Jerry Bates taught on Bible Hermeneutics and Paula Bates
The church where I preach is a self-supporting one, taught “wise women”. We were encouraged by these lessons.
having facilities to hold meetings with large groups of peo- The Bates have a plan to conduct two such seminars each
ple. So, we have been conducting Bible Lectures for the past year to teach on different subjects that are in Masters level
21 years and the latest one was on October 18 and 19, 2018, of Bible school education. Since many of us here took Bible
having the theme, “The Mind of Christ”. It was a well attend-
ed and, by our record book, at least 35 congregations from
the States of Tamil Nadu and Pondichery participated. We
had TEN different speakers, who did a wonderful job that re-
ally stimulated the minds of those who gathered, comparing
our thinking with the Mind of Christ. Above all, we had 6
baptisms and through this act FOUR different congregations
benefitted numerically.
Since the media rules the world, we as Christians are
to make use of the modern tool that helps us to reach people
even in remote areas. By the support of World Evangelism,
I preach the Gospel of Christ three times each week on a
satellite channel that reaches a number of countries and the
Tamil speaking people who live in those countries are listen-
ing. On their request, we send our literature to enable them
All India Preachers Fellowship Seminar in Hyderabad:
to know more, and we visit them if they are in our country Antony, Kingsly, Vernon Douglas, and Philemon Rajah
to study with them. Many who obeyed the Gospel through were among the many who attended.
TV are now an asset to the local churches. I would like to
share information about two ladies who are in Karaikkal, a courses on the basic level, these deeper studies help a lot. We
town in another State of india. One is from Roman Catholic thank God for this wonderful opportunity.
background and the other one is from a Pentecostal back- Before I wrap up this article, I want to thank our
ground. Since there is no church building for the Christians motherly-care sister Betty for anchoring this great work
in Karaikkal to meet in, the former Roman Catholic lady that spreads its wings in different directions of the globe.
opened her big house for the church meeting, which is not Continued on page 54
Global Harvest 53
Persecution in
Myanmar
Philip VanBiak Lian
Ch im a l a , Ta n z an ia, A frica Gage and Kelly Coldwater who were is eternal and he acted both in O.T.
Ellen and I celebrated 55 years of visiting there will return in December times as well as N.T. times. Although
marriage this year, and 50 years of in- with their two children for 6 months to the name Christ was not applied to him
volvement in missions in S.E. Asia. Our start an agricultural program that should in the O.T., He, as one of the three was
latest trip to Indonesia took us first to enable the preacher students to be self- interacting in various ways. John 1 and
Tanzania in Africa. Dalraida church of supporting as well as providing income Colossians 1 show that He was the in-
Christ, our over-seeing congregation, for other facets of the work. Howell strument of creation in the presence of
asked us to go along with John Kackl- and Mary Ferguson also went with us the Father. 1 Peter 3:19,20 show that in
eman II and Adam and Andrew Gifford to Chimala as he will be the new state- the Spirit he inspired Noah to preach to
to survey the work at the Chimala Mis- side coordinator for the mission. They the generation before the flood. Noah
sion near Mbeya. Dalraida will be taking will make two trips per year there and moved by the Spirit of Christ, was the
the oversight of that mission and wanted the rest of the year will be raising and tool of God to warn those rebels of his
a first hand evaluation of the work. securing funds for the work. We were time to repent. They did not do so, and
Chimala is quite remote; a one- able to spend some time with Richard are said to be “in prison” at the time of
hour flight from Dar Es Salaam to and Carol Rogers who are resident mis- Peter’s epistle. They were not in prison
Mbeya, then a two-hour drive from sionaries there and Cheryl Bode who (Hadean world) when Noah through
Mbeya to Chimala. The church has a has been the hospital administrator for Christ preached to them, but when Peter
complex there consisting of about 500 the last six years. wrote they were dead and in confine-
acres with a hospital, elementary, mid- Almost all the buildings in that ment until judgment day (1 Peter 4:6).
dle, and high schools and a preaching area are made from mud brick which are “It seems non Christians pray and
training school. There is also a piece of fire dried in their front yards. Most now receive blessings. How can this be?”
property of 200+ acres up on the moun- have tin roofs, whereas 25 years ago the Ans: Our universe operates on what
tains that is accessible by a treacherous, norm was a thatched roof, which a few we call “laws of nature” that govern
unpaved, and very bumpy road with still retain. The church buildings in the everything around us. A non-Christian
hairpin curves and deep ravines. I don’t villages have cement benches without may follow sound principles of sow-
see how it can be traveled in the rainy backs for pews. We enjoyed our few ing and cultivating and reap a good
season. Some of the missionaries in the days at Chimala and the opportunity to crop the same as a Christian. He may
early years of the work lived there. meet the workers and the brethren and apply sound principles in business and
The terrain of that area is rugged see the Lord’s work in another part of become wealthy. A non-Christian may
and since it was the dry season the land- the world. His church is truly universal. receive certain blessings because he fol-
scape looked somewhat bleak. On our Nias, North Sumatra, Indonesia lows the principles of truth and honesty
Sunday morning at Chimala, I preached We held our usual Intensive Bible and right living, but the true spiritual
at a small congregation about 10 miles Course for village preachers and teachers blessings of salvation, forgiveness and
from the compound. Bill and Cyndi in Gunung Sitoli. The class was on the fellowship with God are limited to His
Stinson took us with them for worship gospel of John, but as is always the case, obedient children. Three men who were
there. They have worked with the Chi- we had a lot of questions covering a wide not members of the church came to fol-
mala mission for 20 years, supported by variety of topics. Some were engendered low the course and were baptized on the
the New York Avenue church in Arling- from the text, but others dealt with ques- third day of the seminar.
ton Texas, where Bill was once an elder. tions from personal study and interac- Medan, North Sumatra
There were 16 locals present. tions with acquaintances. For example : The Sunday worship service at Se-
They were very friendly and the “How did Christ in the spirit layang was crowded with many young
audience was attentive and receptive. preach to those of Noah’s generation couples, children, pre-teens, teens and
We visited a second congregation in the since he was not known as Christ before older families. After worship the teens
afternoon where Bill did the preaching. his generation?” I explained that Christ Continued on page 58
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Continued from page 57 ing for the truth while taking correspon- Ellen’s Notes
did a program of spiritual songs which dence courses from several denomina- As Colin said, we began our trip
they had been practicing. They all had tions until he somehow found a web site by visiting Tanzania, Africa. This was
matching outfits with the church insig- of the church and began taking a course our first trip to that vast continent. We
nia. We had nightly Bible classes and from our brethren. He immediately rec- have read several books about various
experienced a number of transportation ognized that what he was studying was works of our brethren in Africa over the
problems getting to and from the build- what he had been looking for! Through years and were thrilled to have the op-
ing. The becak (motorcycle with side them he finally made contact with portunity to visit Tanzania. The country
car) didn’t want to run properly so we brother Jacob and obeyed the Gospel. is renowned for its wildlife and beautiful
had some delays. Then the light gave The Depok congregation now meets in scenery. There are game reserves on the
out temporarily one night on the way his home. There are still true seekers Serengeti Plain and Ngorongoro Crater,
back to the hotel, but after a few minutes who want the truth and who are will- with an abundance of local fauna. Afri-
decided to live again. Brother Ndruru is ing to commit themselves to it when ca’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, is in
doing a great job of ministering to and they learn it. the north and its largest lake, Lake Vic-
serving the church there. Earthquake and Tsunami toria, extends into northern Tanzania.
Bekasi, West Java The island of Sulawesi was hit by Lake Tanganyika, the world’s largest
We again stayed at the Connor a large earthquake and tsunami while fresh water lake, and one of the deepest
House orphanage where the church we were in Medan about 1500 miles in the world, forms part of the western
also meets for services. They have five away. Over 2000 bodies were recov- border. It was the dry season and most
children and one adult as residents now. ered and about 5000 are missing since of the trees were bare, although some re-
We conducted a Saturday Bible seminar the village, Balaroa, where they lived tained their leaves, and there were many
which was well attended and I preached was swallowed up by the liquefied earth large trees with beautiful purple blooms.
at Sunday services the next day. Daniel caused by the quake. Another village They say that during the rainy season,
and Naomi Setiabudi continue to do an had 400 acres of houses and business the scenery is breathtaking.
outstanding job of taking care of the wiped away. One woman was dragged As always, we are happy to return
residents of the home. One young girl, 10 miles by the tsunami but managed to Indonesia and visit with the Chris-
Queen, age four, is having health prob- to hang on to a roof and made it safely tians there and when we are in Bekasi I
lems that are puzzling to the doctors. through. Another lady was submerged especially enjoy staying in the Connor
Please remember her in your prayers. in mud up to her chin for 3 days but House with Naomi, Daniel, and the little
was finally rescued. Some reports said ones. While we were still in Bekasi we
Jakarta, Block M the structural damage was worse in Su- received word that our son, Marcus, had
On Saturday we had a Bible class lawesi that in the province of Aceh a been diagnosed with thymic carcinoma
and fellowship at brother Jacob’s house few years ago where about 250,000 per- and we were, of course, heart-broken. We
in the Sunter area. They asked that I teach ished. Thankfully none of our brethren trust that through the Lord and His provi-
a lesson on the Christian family. We had were affected. dential care through doctors, nurses, and
a lot of discussion after class and then a Rad io other means he will be able to overcome
fine meal of soto ayam (chicken soup). Our short wave radio program still this. We are so grateful for all the out-
On Sunday we had a joint worship draws a lot of attention. From June to pouring of love and care from so many.
of the Block M congregation and the October we had visits from 25 countries, I don’t know how people can survive the
Sunter, Depok, and Tanah Abang con- with 66 downloads of programs in PDF heart-break and tragedies of this world
gregations and a fellowship meal after format. During September we had 39 without our Lord God. We appreciate the
services. The building was jam packed hits from Indonesia, the largest for any love and support of all of you. >
and worship was uplifting. I met brother period so far. There were 193 visits to Colin &Ellen: [email protected];
Tarigan who had for years been search- the site during July-October. 205-590-1376
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We work very hard with the children here. As they say, a little dirt that is on top of the rocks, and it grows, some, but
“The children are the future.” A lot of our kids have learned doesn’t really produce. The roots do not get enough soil. Most
the names of the New Testament books already and now we do not even fertilize. The large commercial farmers do, but
are teaching them Psalm 23. Nicol the small home gardeners do not.
Barro is barely 5 years old, and she Once we get a few spots going, it will be a lot easier to
has learned the books of the New not only teach the people but also convince them that small
Testament. The kids are such a gardening can work. We also plan to even do a lot of container
blessing to work with and they are growing and help them get started with this too.
so sweet. As part of the teaching proj-
In my last report I told about ect, we started our first compost
a girl, Susanna, who was very bin this month, a layer of brown, a
poor and had clothes with holes. layer of green and a layer of cow
We had her and her sister, Susan, manure. By using wire, it gets good
over. Ritchel (my wife) had for air circulation and all you have to
three days been taking some of the do is slip it off the pile to “turn” it. I
clothes that were too big and cutting turn it every week.
them down and styling them to fit the I built a new “seedling” table
two girls. We also bought both the girls for the program. The ants ate some
a pair of pants. They, of course, were seeds that we planted directly in
very happy and so were we because we the ground, so starting the seeds
were able to help. By the way, Ritchel from cups might help keep the ants
does all the sewing by hand. at bay. We have tons, millions, bil-
Our new Livelihood Program lions, trillions, and more of ants and
starts up next month. It actually is a different types and species of them
real good program for all involved and too. Mama is sending me a box of
it does not take a lot of money, which is Borax. Thank you, Mama!!!
a good thing for us right now. Our adults are already get-
What we are going to do is ting very excited. The pictures are
teach the people how to do 4’x of a garden spot we picked out
4’ plots or gardening, beds that and have started cleaning out to
are raised and filled with soil, plant a garden.
which they do have available PLANNED UPCOMING WORK/PROJECTS
and can get fairly easily. This is P Continue to work on and plan our “livelihood” program
what we had to do on our prop- as funds allow us.
erty because all we have is sand
P We mostly are concentrating on the new Tambo area to
– no dirt. We will teach them
build the church there for the next few months.
how to maintain the soil, rotate
Please consider us in your budget and please continue to
the crops, how to do companion
pray for us. We only have one month worth of funds left in our
planting, and of course we will
account, again, as of this typing.
teach them how to make compost. We will also teach them
how to plan out their planting so all their crop does not come And again, some of you have been adding a little extra
in all at once. Remember, most do not have a refrigerator. each month for us. AND THAT IS GREATLY APPRECIAT-
ED! Thank you very much! >
Most of the people in this area, again, are very poor and
very uneducated. What most people do is plant something in Allon Brumley: [email protected]
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PACIFIC BROADCAST PROJECT tion’s coverage area is being greatly expanded through the
The Pacific Broadcast Project is comprised of three use of FM translators. An FM translator simply receives the
different works, each of which has grown considerably in primary signal of the radio station and then re-transmits it
goals of serving the Lord and the people of the Pacific Island to hard to reach, distant areas. In addition to these improve-
nations. First, the project includes a radio Bible ministry ments, the radio station will be installing a new tower for its
entitled Sonlight In The Pacific Radio which we began in primary antenna, plus increase its team of those providing
1995. These radio Bible programs are produced twice each excellent audio content for our daily broadcast.
week for distribution to radio stations and individuals in the We want to bring the Gospel in truth to remote resi-
Pacific Islands. dents like Gideon Alamu in the Solomons. Short-wave radio
Second, the Pacific Broadcast Project includes an FM facilities can accomplish this great task!
Radio Station in the country of American Samoa which we Short-wave Radio: The Way to Reach People
began working to develop in June 2000. Licensed by the in Every Nation of the Pacific!
FCC in August, 2004, KULA-LP FM 95.1 operates 24 hours Years ago, while I was working in the Solomon Islands,
a day/7 days a week, with extensive programming in Bible, I had the privilege of studying with Gideon Alamu. Brother
culture, education, and health. Gideon lives in a very remote area of the Western Province.
The third element of the Pacific Broadcast Project is the One day after a long journey by canoe, we came upon this
development and operation of an International Short-wave man and began studies. He was baptized and has remained
Radio Station. This high frequency international broadcast faithful to God to this day! In Gideon’s native thatch home,
facility will primarily serve the millions of Micronesian, he has a short-wave radio. Short-wave radio is far superior
Melanesian, and Polynesian people living throughout thou- than other radio broadcasts because of its ability to reach
sands of scattered islands in the Pacific. long distances. Short-wave receivers are popular in the Pa-
FM Radio: Bringing God’s Word To Thousands cific Island nations and readily available, allowing Pacific
on Tutuila Island and Beyond Islanders to listen to the broadcast in their own homes. As
With the FM station broadcast fully underway in the with any great “tool” used in teaching God’s Word, radio
country of American Samoa, we are now able to focus on a broadcasting is not intended to be an absolute replacement
second phase of improvements for this great work that God for Christians teaching God’s Word “face to face”. But even
has blessed us with. First, we are making additions to the the apostles and Jesus recognized that in their absence their
daily broadcast. One of the most recognizable needs is for us words through letters would teach, encourage, and equip
to present regular programming in the various languages that others. Today, their words can do the same for millions of
are used in our nation, with Samoan being the greatest need. people in the Pacific through short-wave broadcasting. >
Other programming in Tongan, Korean, Philippine, and Chi- Randy English: [email protected]
nese, will likewise be added to the broadcast. Although the
number of people using languages other than English and
Samoan may be small, they nonetheless are present in the
country of American Samoa and therefore we believe it is a
great opportunity to reach them with programming in their
own language. Second, architectural plans have now been
completed for the radio station facility here in American
Samoa and construction can soon begin. The need for this
facility is great and once completed it will be of immediate
use in advancing the station’s daily work. Third, the sta-
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