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April 25th in World Evangelism History

austin gardner — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:10:59 +0000

On this day in 1936, Henry Nau opened the first mission station among the Ibesikpo people of Nigeria.

About ten years earlier, some European missionaries had arrived in Nigeria and began to work hard among the people there. While traveling through the area where the missionaries were working, some young men from the Ibesikpo tribe heard the Gospel and gladly accepting Jesus Christ. They gladly went back to their village and shared the Gospel with the other Ibesikpo. Desiring to know more about the Gospel, they sent word to the missionary, begging to come to their people and teach them more. When he couldn’t, they asked for him to send another missionary instead. But there were no to send. Desperate to hear more about the Gospel, the Ibesikpo pooled their resources together and sent one of their young men, Jonathan Ekong, to America to bring back a missionary. Ekong was one of the young men who first heard the missionaries and was able to speak English. This made him an obvious choice for the task.

When Ekong arrived in America, he was soon connected with several churches there, who readily prepared a missionary and resources to send back to Nigeria to start a mission there. Henry Nau was chosen to lead the work. Born and raised in Germany, he came to America to study at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. After completing his studies, he served several years in India. But now he headed to Africa, to start his greatest work.

When Ekong and Nau arrived in Nigeria, they quickly began to start churches among the Ibesikpo people and teaching the Bible. Nau started to train Ekong to be a pastor and he, hungry to learn, soaked it in. Soon, he was the main national pastor among the Ibesikpo. Nau and Ekong started a seminary, where they began to train the other young men to be pastors. The churches that these two men started are still going strong today, most of them under the leadership of Nigerian pastors. In fact, some of Jonathan Ekong’s sons and grandsons are serving as pastors and leaders in the churches there.

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The Beginnings of Work in India

On this day in 1799, Ephraim Weston Clark, was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire.

Clark, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary, was sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). He was a member of the third team sent over by the American Board to Hawaii.That means that the work was already established. But Clark, a gifted linguist, helped to make needed revisions to the Hawaiian Bible and also translated a Bible dictionary, among other books. He worked in Hawaii for more than twenty-four years. In 1852, he was sent to help start the Boards mission work in Micronesia.

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April 25th in World Evangelism History

April 25th in World Evangelism History

austin gardner — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:10:59 +0000

On this day in 1936, Henry Nau opened the first mission station among the Ibesikpo people of Nigeria.

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The Beginnings of Work in India

On this day in 1799, Ephraim Weston Clark, was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire.

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April 25th in World Evangelism History

austin gardner — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:10:59 +0000

On this day in 1936, Henry Nau opened the first mission station among the Ibesikpo people of Nigeria.

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Christ Follower Today

The Beginnings of Work in India

On this day in 1799, Ephraim Weston Clark, was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire.

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April 24th in World Evangelism History

austin gardner — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:30:57 +0000

On this day in 1844, Asahel Grant, missionary to Persia, died.

As a young man, Grant received his training as a physician and began to work in a successful practice. When his young wife died, Grant, filled with grief and left to care for two small children, left his home and practice and moved to Utica, New York, to be near his family.

Here, seeking strength and comfort during this terrible loss, he began to attend a small church there and soon became extremely involved in it. The pastor of the Church began to refer to Grant as “my eyes and hands.” But Grant’s heart was slowly being turned to the exciting new mission movement that was shaking the American Churches. Many of his friends tried to persuade him to stay at his church in New York. They told him how important he was for them and how much the church would miss him if he was gone. But Grant’s reply back to them was this: “The foreign field needed no man who would not be missed at home.”1 Grant was determined to serve as a missionary.

At about the same time Grant was preparing to be a missionary, a group of “missionary explorers” were spreading the call to American Churches to reach out to the area of Peria with the Gospel. These men had just returned from exploring the area, where they had found remnants of the old Nestorian churches struggling to survive. These churches, founded in antiquity, had lost nearly all their former glory. Their leaders could barely read. Their doctrine was polluted and misleading. Immorality and drunkenness plagued the people. But these explorers felt that if properly taught and worked with, the Persians, whether Muslim or Nestorian “Christian”, would come to Christ and strong churches could once again shine in the mountains of Persia.

When Grant applied to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, they felt that he would be a very qualified candidate for a mission among the Persians. His medical training would allow him to help the poverty stricken people and would open a mutual ground upon which to work with both the Muslims and the Nestorians, who hated each other and were often fighting. Grant gladly accepted the assignment and, along with new wife, Judith, and two children, set sail for the unreached plains of Persia. He would be the second medical missionary ever sent out by the ABCFM.

When he arrived in Persia, Grant started his first work in a large plain where hundreds of villages, both Nestorian and Muslim, were scattered and thousands of people lived. It wasn’t long before the people of the area heard of Gran (his family were the only foreign people in the entire area) and the medical help he could give them. Soon, Muslims and Christians together were coming to see Grant. Once he had a group at his mission, he took time to preach to them the gospel.

Soon, he had a faithful group of Christians gathering at the mission every week and he was able to form a Church. His wife opened schools and helped teach the Persians how to read. Many of the Nestorian Church leaders began to look to Grant as a leader and some came to him asking him to teach them the Bible. Other missionaries began to arrive from America to re-enforce the work in Persia.

Throughout his life, Grant slowly knocked down the prejudices the Persians had against him, each other, and Jesus Christ. By the time of his death, the mission in Persia was flourishing. Less than ten years after his death, an account was taken of the Persian Mission. It was recorded that there were 29 churches that held weekly worship services and 13 villages that held church services at least once or twice a month. 70 schools were being run in the villages. Two Bible translations had been made for the people, one in ancient Syriac and one in Modern Syriac. Twenty years earlier, when Grant arrived, the language wasn’t even a written one. Persian evangelist, formerly Muslims or Nestorian, traveled to villages in the mountains and plains, preaching the Gospel.

In a letter to the Board in regard to the death of their veteran missionary, the following was written by the missionaries who had carried on the work:

While Dr. Grant was watching over the sick, and the survivors were slowly recovering, little did he think that he was doing his last work for the people that he loved ; yes, Loved. Seldom has missionary been so attached to the people for whom he labored. Many felt and acknowledged that he cared for them more than they did for themselves or for one another, and few sorrowed more over their personal bereavements than he did over the miseries of a strange people, who had conferred on him but one favor, and that the opportunity of doing them good. 2

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1 Great Missionaries: A series of Biographies by Andrew Thompson

2 Memoirs of Asahel Grant

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Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:30:42 +0000

• These Monday Updates sneak up on me so quickly, but I have a good excuse this time, I was on a 10 hour train to the Capitol. We left around 9:30 Sunday night and arrive Monday morning around 7:30. We had four adults, two kids, and lots of luggage in a room with four beds about the size of most Americans bathrooms! Good times!

• My parents are in town, so we have been spending a lot of time with them. This is their first time to China.

• Sunday school was good this week. I asked my dad to give a testimony and I was able to translate for him. I preached a strong gospel message from John 3:36 and another class member also gave a short message.

• Almost all of the Sunday’s during our short furlough (December 2012–February 2013) are filled up. We still have a few spots open and then we will look at booking Wednesday. If you are interested in having us in, let me know!

• There are two families coming to China soon. You can check out their blogs sinoproject.org and asiachurchplant.com. Consider helping them get here to train and prepare for missions work in China!

• Past Post: Undercover or Under-the-Covers | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | The theme in the following post have to do with the problems in being undercover. | “Suffering is part of God’s plan in spreading the Gospel.” | “We desire more than to train them to be saved and safe. Our training says ‘we are training you to be exposed to danger or risk for the sake of the Gospel!’”

• Missionaries working in closed countries PLEASE read the article above!

• Two awesome missions events that you and your church should consider are the Our Generation Camp (May 28-June 1) and the Our Generation Summit (December 27-29). Lord willing, we will be part of the Summit in December.

• We visited Tiananmen Square yesterday. An older lady tried to make some sort of “statement” and threw some papers over the railing where they raise the flag. Not a good idea! A guard and police officer quickly grabbed her and dragged her to the side. A few minutes later a big police van with tinted windows came by. They got her into it the van and drove off. Yikes!

• Pray for one of the guys I have been working with. He seems to be understanding more and seems convicted by the gospel. Pray he gets saved!

April 23rd in World Evangelism History

austin gardner — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:00:39 +0000

On this day in 1982, William Cameron Townsend, founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics, died.

As a young man studying at Occidental College, Townsend heard of the need for laborers in central America to work among the large number of tribes down there. His heart was touched by this plea and, after finishing school, he sailed to Guatemala with the Los Angeles Bible House. His job was to distribute a large number of Spanish Bibles to the local Indian tribes living there.

Townsend’s excitement to be reaching the Indians soon turned to disappointment when he discovered that the majority of the people he met did not understand Spanish. He could give them a Bible, it it did nothing to reach their hearts and turn them to Christ. Townsend’s disappointment grew when he tried to find Bibles in the local language of the Cakchiquel Indians and found that their language wasn’t even written. This experience convinced Townsend to change this.

Townsend gave up his job with the Bible House and, with his wife Elvira, settled among the Cakchiquel Indians of Guatemala and applied themselves vigorously to the task of learning this unwritten language. He studied the structures, words, and verb system and began to work on creating a written language. The work was slow, but Townsend persisted. He began to hold classes to teach the Cakchiquel how to read their own language. As he found men who seemed to be gifted linguist in his small reading classes, he hired them to help him with his greatest project: the translation of the Bible.

Within ten years, the Cakchiquel New Testament was translated. Soon, small Bible studies were being carried out among the different tribes of the Cakchiquel. The people who could read would read their new Bible out to large groups of their fellow villagers. They loved their Bible!

As Townsend continued his labors in Guatemala, he met a professor from Mexico, who begged him to come do the same type of work there. But when Townsend surveyed the work in Mexico, he saw a task to great for one man to handle. He needed help.

Despite the Great Depression in the United States, Townsend dared to start a training school to recruit and prepare young men and women to work with him. Accordingly, the summer of 1934 found him, along with a young Cakchiquel man and two students, in an abandoned farmhouse in Arkansas. This first training session, called Camp Wycliffe, later became the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now known as SIL), where students not only learned linguistic skills, but also became experienced at living in difficult conditions—in this case the backcountry of the Ozarks.

The students sat on donated wooden barrels. Their linguistic theory was derived from Townsend’s work on the Cakchiquel language, and the Cakchiquel young man was an invaluable asset for putting theory into practice.
Two students attended the first session; five came the next year.1

This was just the start of two programs that have been used to get the Bible to a countless number of unreached tribes. Today, thousands of missionaries fill the rank of Wycliffe Bible Translators. Dozens of Bible translations have been made by these organizations. Hundreds of people who have never before read God’s word in their language now read it daily. This all came from a man who saw a grat problem and said, “With God’s help I will fix this!”

A friend said of Townsend: “Not since the third century has there been a man like Cameron Townsend who attempted so much, and saw so many dreams realized in his lifetime.”

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William Cameron Townsend

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April 22nd in World Evangelism History

austin gardner — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:00:11 +0000

On this day in 1801, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, the first American Protestant missionary appointed to China, was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts.

As a young man, Elijah attended Amherst College and Andover Theological Seminary. Upon completion of his education, Elijah applied to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for mission work. At the time he had applied to the Board, Robert Morrison had also written the Society, begging them to send men to get involved with the work in China. The Board decided to send their new recruit, Elijah Bridgman, to join the great fight for the souls of China.

Generous ship captains provided Elijah a free trip aboard a ship named “The Roman” to China. At the age of 29, Elijah set foot in Canton, China, where he was met by Morrison. Working with Morrison, Elijah soon became an expert at the Chinese language. He wrote several books in Chinese and was one of the main men who translated the Chinese Bible. Elijah started a missionary press, which printed hundreds of copies of the Chinese Bible and other books to be distributed among the Chinese people.

Aside from his work among the Chinese people, Elijah’s other great achievement was the promoting of China in America. When he first arrived in China, very few Americans knew anything about this great land. He wrote and published The Chinese Repository, the world’s first major journal of sinology (this word simply means the study of China and things pertaining to it). The book became a classic and Elijah was seen as the foremost authority on Chinese culture in America, both among the churches and even the government. Several times, he was called upon to advice the government in relation to their dealing with China.

Elijah’s The Chinese Repository dealt with a wide range of issues, from political to education to religion. In his book, in regards to the printing of the new Bibles, he wrote:

Finally, to every department of this work—to the revision, printing, and circulating of the oracles of the true God, the most constant and unwearied attention should be given, until the millions of this empire, with all those in the surrounding countries who understand the same written character, shall each and all read of the condescending love, the perfect justice, and the almighty power of the King of kings, the Father of the fatherless, and the eternal Judge of both the living and the dead. The night is far spent, and it is high time to awake out of sleep. The welfare of millions of our race, and the word and providence of God call on the disciples of Emmanuel to put on their armor, and come up to the help of their Lord against the mighty, remembering that the battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift, that it is Jehovah alone who can make truth, righteousness, and peace everywhere victorious, and fill the whole earth with praises to the great I AM.

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Elijah Bridgeman

The Chinese Repository

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April 22nd in World Evangelism History

April 21st in World Evangelism History

austin gardner — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:00:14 +0000

On this day in 1783, Samuel J. Mills was born in Torringford, Connecticut.

The son of a congregationalist minister, Mills grew up among the strict religious life of the New England churches. His mother, having a heart for the Lord and a desire to see her son serve Him, began to pray for Samuel at an early age that he would become a foreign missionary. At this time, there were no foreign mission agencies in the United States and no foreign missionaries from there. But his mother had a dream that God would use her son to change that.

At the age of 17, Samuel accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. Eight years later, he went to Williams College to study to be in the ministry. While attending the college, Mills began to attend a prayer meeting with other students on the banks of the Hoosack River every Saturday and Wednesday afternoon. One Saturday afternoon, as they were returning from their praying meeting, a massive rainstorm overtook them. The men found shelter under a haystack and waited there until the storm passed. As they sat under this haystack, the five young men continued praying that the Lord would send out missionaries from their college and other colleges in the area to Asia. Mills, the leader of the group, asked if the other four men to commit themselves to missionary service, which he saw as the primary duty of all Christians. Mills then famously said, “We can do this if we will.” 1

The influence Mills had that day in promoting the cause of missions was only the beginning in his great life. He later helped pave the way for the creation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the first foreign missionary society in America. While many of his friends from the Haystack and college went on to serve as foreign missionaries, Mills stayed behind to help promote the cause and get the churches behind the missionaries.

As he traveled the United States, Mills became increasingly concerned about the lack of Bibles in the hands of the people. At many place he went, he found few people with Bible and even fewer places for them to get some. He estimated that 70-80 thousand families in the Southern United States didn’t have Bibles. So Mills set about to create the American Bible Society, an organization that printed Bibles and distributed them among people who had no access to the word of God. He was also instrumental in founding the The United Foreign Missionary Society and The American Baptist Missionary Union.

Because of the works of Mills, thousands went out to serve as foreign missionaries. By the time of his death, Mills was being called “the Father of foreign mission work in Christian America” 1. Did his mother ever imagine such great things coming from that small boy when she would humbly beg God to use her son as a foreign missionary? Did she have the faith to see that God would hear and answer her prayers? What dreams are you instilling in your children? What prayers do you make for their future? That they will be rich and famous? Or that they would serve God and love Him, regardless of the job they have or the area they work in? Do you pray for your spiritual children, the ones you are training and discipling, that their lives would shine brightly for Christ? That their lives would make a difference for the Lord Jesus? Oh that we would have the faith to pray that God would use our children, both spiritually and physically, to bring Him great glory and praise!

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1 The Traveling Team

On this day in 1855, D.L. Moody, a man who would hold evangelistic services all over World and start several schools to train young men and women for missionary work, was converted in a shoe store.

A young, ambitious Moody arrived in the big city of Boston eager to work his way up in the world to great fame and wealth. Desperate for a job, he soon agreed to work in his Uncle’s shoe shop as a salesman. The only condition was that Moody had to attend church with his uncle every week. Moody had grown up in a Unitarian church and had no knowledge of the Bible. But desperate for a job, he agreed to the terms.

After a few Sundays of attending the services of the Church, Moody was assigned to attend the Sunday School class of Edward D. Kimball. When Moody walked into the room for the first time, Mr. Kimball smiled at him, handed him a Bible, and told him the lesson was in John. Moody sat down and nervously began to leaf through the Bible. The other boys began to chuckle, realizing that Moody had no idea where John was. But Mr. Kimball gave them one stern look to silent them, and then handed Moody his Bible open to the passage. This was the first meeting of these two men whose lives would be so important to each other.

The following was written about Mr. Kimball in the book, The Life and works of D.L. Moody:

This Sunday school teacher was not one of the ordinary type. Mere literal instruction on Sunday did not satisfy his ideal of the teachers duty. He knew his boys, and, if he knew them, it was because be studied them, because he became acquainted with their occupations and aims, visiting them during the week. It was his custom, moreover, to find opportunity to give to his boys an opportunity to use his experience in seeking the better things of the Spirit. The day came when he resolved to speak to young Moody about Christ, and about his soul. 2

That meeting would literally change the course of history! An event so important deserves to be told by the very men who were there. Below is Mr. Kimball’s recollection of the meeting:

I started down town to Holton’s shoe store. When I was nearly there, I began to wonder whether I ought to go just then, during business hours. And I thought maybe my mission might embarrass the boy, that when I went away the other clerks might ask who I was, and when they learned might taunt Moody and ask if I was trying to make a good boy out. of him. While I was pondering over it all, I passed the store without noticing it. Then when I found I had gone by the door, I determined to make a dash for it and have it over at once.

I found Moody in the back part of the store wrapping up shoes in paper and putting them on shelves. I went up to him and put my hand on his shoulder, and as I leaned over I placed my foot upon a shoe box. Then I made my plea, and I feel that it was really a very weak one. I don’t know just what words I used, nor could Mr. Moody tell. I simply told him of Christ’s love for him and the love Christ wanted in return. That was all there was of it. I think Mr. Moody said afterward that there were tears in my eyes. It seemed that the young man was just ready for the light that then broke upon him, for there at once in the back of that shoe store in Boston the future great evangelist gave himself and his life to Christ.” 2

Years later, Mr. Moody recounted this day:

When I was in Boston, I used to attend a Sunday school class, and one day I recollect my teacher came around behind the counter of the shop I was at work in, and put his hand upon my shoulder, and talked to me about Christ and my soul. I had not felt that I had a soul till then. I said to myself ‘This is a very strange thing. Here is a man who never saw me till lately, and he is weeping over my sins, and I never shed a tear about them.’ But I understand it now, and know what it is to have a passion for men’s souls and weep over their sins. I don’t remember what he said, but I can feel the power of that man’s hand on my shoulder to-night. It was not long after that I was brought into the Kingdom of God.”2

It would have been very easy for Mr. Kimball to overlook this young man, like we so often do. He could have just been satisfied to teach him week after week and never went out of his way to ensure his salvation. In the lives of others, sometimes it is that simple “out-of-the way” moment that could change their lives. How far are we willing to go to bring one soul to Jesus Christ?

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2 The Life and Works of D.L. Moody

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April 21st in World Evangelism History

April 20th in World Evangelism History

austin gardner — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:15:20 +0000

On this day in 1718, David Brainerd, missionary to the Native Americas of New England, was born in Haddam, Connecticut.

David was the sixth of nine children born to Hezekiah and Dorothy Brainerd. Hezekiah served as the local Justice of the Peace and was a very dedicated Christian, as was also his wife. Because of the piety and dedication of his parents, David grew up in a home where he often heard the gospel and the timeless truths of God’s word.

Tragedy struck the family, however. When David was only nine, his father died. When he was fourteen, his mother died. By the time of his mother’s death, the young teenage Brainerd had been seriously seeking after the way of salvation. But with the loss of both of these spiritual leaders in the life of this young man, David now seemed lost. He went to live his older sister, where he fell into the trap of trying to establish his own righteousness. He attended church services faithfully, read the Scriptures through twice in a single year and joined a group of young men meeting weekly for prayer and Bible study. All the while, he hoped that he would be good enough for Heaven. “I had a very good outside,” he says. “Thus I proceeded a considerable length on a self-righteous foundation.”

When he was nineteen, Brainerd returned to Haddam, where he took up residence with Phineas Fiske, the pastor of his youth. Under the influence of Fiske, David soon became a very avid student of the Bible. Ignoring the other pleasures most of his friends participated in, David would spend his days studying the words of God. After spending less than a year with his former pastor, Fiske died.

For David, it seemed that death was all around him. The continued deaths he faced, the constant study of the Bible, and his own realization that he was just not good enough drove David to his knees. He would spend days at a time just praying and seeking after God. But he could still not find peace. It was not until nearly half a year after Fiske’s death that David finally found the truth. During one of his all day prayer/study times, he carefully read and studied Isaiah 53. The text captivated his heart and the Spirit opened his eyes to the fact that he was a worthless, vile sinner and Christ was a loving,forgiving Savior. And his sins had been placed on Christ. All he had to do was believe. “Unspeakable glory seemed to open to the view and apprehension of my soul. My soul was so captivated with the excellency, loveliness, greatness, and other perfections of God that I was even swallowed up in Him,” said David of the day he was saved.

The peace and joy that salvation brought to this young man made him wonder why “this lovely, blessed, and excellent way” was not sought by more people. The rest of his short life was given to sharing with others the joyous peace for those that take the waters of life freely.

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David Brainerd: Aflame for God

The Life and Ministry of David Brainerd

On this day in 1850, a Baptist gathering being held in the home of Karl Rauch was raided by the police in Vienna, Austria. The police, being controlled by the Lutheran State Church, arrested the nine men and eight women who were attending the meeting. Under military escort, they were lead away to prison. Their children, who were also at the meeting when the raid happened, where taken by the Lutheran religious leaders and “baptized” into the Lutheran church. The main thing the authorities had against these Christians was that they refused to allow their children to be baptized as babies into the church.

The women were soon released. The men who were not natives of Vienna were expelled from the city and forbidden to ever return. The other men were released after being put on trial, fined, and imprisoned for several months. The Baptist churches in Austria continued to suffer persecution for many years and would not be given legal rights to worship until the mid-1900s.

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McBeth, H. L. (1987). The Baptist heritage (477). Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

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April 20th in World Evangelism History

April 2012 Prayer Letter

Travis Snode — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:35:04 +0000

Dear Pastors & Praying Friends,

From the end of January until St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, we put a great deal of work into renovating our church building. We painted walls, insulated, opened fire exits, and did many small things to make the church look much more welcoming.

A big word of “Thanks” goes out to everyone who helped with the financial costs of the renovations. We had $1100 come in from various individuals and churches. At the moment, we are holding off on making any more improvements to the building because we just found out that there is a possibility that the building we are renting may be turned into a hotel next year.

For St. Patrick’s Day, we had a big open day at the church to invite people from the community in. Over 30 first-time visitors came through the doors to enjoy a cup of tea and get involved in the various activities and games we had set up. It was a great opportunity to share the gospel and to meet people.

Last week, a few of us went to a Men’s Retreat in Waterford. We had a great time fellowshipping with men from all over Ireland, and I was privileged to preach one of the sessions on “Getting Right with God.”

Please pray for the following things. First, Teri and Heather are starting a Mother-Toddler Group on Thursdays to reach out to young mothers. Second, our third trimester of Bible Institute starts this Saturday with classes on Teaching a Bible Lesson, Hermeneutics II, and Personal Discipleship. Finally, we have some special financial projects coming up in the next couple of months that we would like you to pray about: May Visa Renewals ($1700), June Vision Tour Expenses ($1200), July Youth Camp ($1500), July Evangelistic Meeting ($1000), and August Homeschool Curriculum ($500).

This summer, our sending church is hosting a very exciting missions camp for college-age and high-school young people from May 28 – June 1, 2012. To find out more info, go to www.bcwe.org.

Travis & Teri Snode

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