Silent Blessings
Marshall Lawrence is the Executive Director of Silent Blessings Deaf Ministries in Anderson, IN. Marshall recently wrote to tell us about their trip to Iowa with volunteers to shoot thirteen segments for their 5th season of Dr. Wonder’s Workshop. Silent Blessings has created a beautiful DVD they will give away to over 5000 families this summer which presents God’s unconditional love, His plan for salvation, and an invitation to accept Jesus as Savior. We should all keep praying for this ministry and the deaf community they serve so ably.
World Missionary Press
World Missionary Press in New Paris distributes literature, booklets, Bible studies, New Testaments, and coloring books to countries all over the world. If your I 3 Group or Sunday School Class is interested in helping out, they do accept volunteers to assist in the binding and boxing operation! Of course, your church supports them each year but individual gifts are extremely helpful, too.
WMP reports a request for 150K pieces of literature for the Canary Islands, booklets for the small and poor nation of Burkino Faso, a 40 foot container of materials headed to both Congo and Ivory Coast in Africa, 20 foot containers to Cameroon and Romania among other recent developments. God can work through His Word in thousands of lives!!
WMP also has seen a significant increase in requests from missionaries in Costa Rica, Honduras, and Mexico indicating a revived and growing mission field at work. They now publish over 14 1/2 million Spanish Scripture boooklets (plus new Testaments, Bible studies, and more) for Latin American countries.
WMP is also gearing up for China, reporting that there may be a need for as many as 100K-500K of each title of booklet EACH MONTH. Reaching the 1.3 billion people of China, most of whom have never received the word or the grace of our Savior, will be a huge task for missionaries there as well as for WMP.
Fellowship, Christian Athletes, youth, coaches, campus, camp, community
Nicole Rapagnani is our Northern Indiana Area Representative to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). Nicole reports that FCA has outreach activites in four areas: coaches, campus, camps, and community. Over the past year FCA has many highlights in these areas to share:
A local COACH came to know Christ as his Savior and then was invited to share his testimony at a local FCA meeting, which he did. When a family lost their home in a fire, students at one school took the intitiative on CAMPUS to meet the next morning and discuss how they could assist and minister to the family. Currently 25 high schools in our immediate area have FCA “huddles” on CAMPUS.
Several years ago, a family was introduced to FCA by merely attending an FCA banquet. This led to their volunteering and ultimately to two daughters attending FCA CAMP where the daughters recommitted their lives to Jesus Christ.
The ripple effect of CAMPS can be seen all over our COMMUNITY. Huddle leaders living out their faith day by day; CAMPERS coming back and being of greater service in their schools and churches.
FCA has grown in the past year from 78 huddles (small groups) to 103 and will no doubt continue to grow in our communitites. They rely on our prayers and our gifts.
One Name – Savior
April 12, 2009 by nwcog
Filed under Archived Messages
It’s been said that everyone needs a savior. But such a statement begs the logical question: What do I need a savior to save me from?
That’s certainly a valid question and one that we must endeavor to answer. For the word savior implies that we need to be saved from something. It suggests that there’s some kind of threatening situation or condition from which we need to be rescued or delivered. Yet the question remains, from what?
In today’s message, Pastor Jeff will seek to answer that question by diving headlong into the Scriptures and taking an extended glance at the saving nature of a man named Jesus.
Fizz
February 2, 2009 by admin
Filed under Current Message Series
