Prayer letters

Our Ministry Vision

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The core of our ministry is to fulfill the mission statement of Barnabas International:

“The mission of Barnabas International is to edify, encourage, and strengthen servants in ministry. We creatively seek ways to fulfill our charter through personal, small group, and conference ministries. Our ministry priorities are targeted toward missionaries, pastors, national church leaders, and their families."

How we became a Christians

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I grew up in a home in which my mother went to church every Sunday, but my father attended only Christmas and Easter services. I went to Sunday School through high school but never heard the Gospel. It was the summer before my senior year in high school that I began my search for more substance in Christianity than what I had been exposed to.

Our backgrounds

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I grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, where I lived until enrolling at Miami, University in Oxford, Ohio. My father was a traveling salesman for the safety shoe company founded by his grandfather. He was away from home five days a week and in the summers the entire family traveled with him. By the age of eleven I had been in 48 states and traveled in over seventeen countries. Upon graduation from high school in 1977, my parents gave me a trip to any place of my choice. Remembering the Soviet flags I had seen flying in Prague in 1970, I chose to go to the Soviet Union. Although I was not yet a believer, that summer trip to Leningrad would have a tremendous impact on my future desire to serve Christ in the Soviet Union.

- Charley

Volume 25, issue 1-3 January-March 2011

administrator@servantek.net (Second Level Administrator) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:02:27 +0000

A special note to our prayer and financial supporters:

Communications

After August 31, 2011, allour communication will beby email and through ourwebsite. We will no longerbe sending out paperprayer letters. This meansthat we need you to emailus the best email addressfor contacting you. Pleasesend an email to us atwarner7784@gmail.comAlso, note that during thistransition you may receiveboth paper and emailnewsletters until August31st. Thanks for your pa-tience as we switch frompaper to email/Internet.We want to stay in touchwith you, and this will helpus do it with greater efficiency and less expense.Thanks for your help.NOTE: Receipts for donations will continue to be sent to you on paper from theBarnabas Internationalmain office in Rockford, IL.Financial Updatepage 3 for details)

How we were drawn to missionary service

administrator@servantek.net (Second Level Administrator) — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:07:10 +0000

Having been to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union before I became a Christian, I immediately decided to be involved in that area of the world once I did make a commitment to Christ. In fact I was determined to start the first mission to the Soviet Union when I realized, the first time I was in a Christian bookstore, that such a mission, Slavic Gospel Association, had been in existence for over forty years. I visited SGA for the first time in the summer of 1978, and came to study at their Institute of Slavic Studies in January 1982. That spring I heard about the ministry of Biblical Education by Extension (BEE) for the first time.
Cheryl and I were accepted to missionary service in March 1985 and were with BEE until April 1992 when we joined the staff of Barnabas International.

- Charley

Volume 24, Issue 12 December 2010

administrator@servantek.net (Second Level Administrator) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:59:43 +0000

2010: Four Girls, Four Seasons of Change

Merry Christmas!

Volume 24, issue 10-11 October/November 2010

administrator@servantek.net (Second Level Administrator) — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:22:14 +0000

Charley to Attend Evangelical Theological Society in Atlanta

From November 16-19 Charley will attend the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) in Atlanta, Georgia. He will be attending several sessions on global Christianity and theology, and he also plans to meet with professors and other missionaries during the conference. Please pray for his meeting with a member of the ETS Executive Committee on connecting ETS with a similar society of evangelical theologians in Eurasia (the countries of the former Soviet Union). The Evangelical Theological Society hopes to forge a partnership with the Eurasian Theological Society, with Charley acting as liaison between the two organizations.