September 2016 Newsletter

“You have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” –2 Timothy 3:15b

Fleeing want, finding Truth in Ghana

In the crowded streets of Accra, Ghana, hundreds of refugees struggle to find a way to survive the gripping famine that has driven them from their homes in the northern part of this West African nation. Many of them are Muslim and may have had little or no opportunity to know the truth of who Jesus is. One Friday night a team from Crusades for Christ went into the city giving out WMP Scripture booklets and inviting people to a meeting. Within minutes a crowd of approximately 600 people gathered to hear what this might b e all about. As the truth of God’s Word was shared, God’s Spirit moved among the people. At the close of the service many raised their arms as a sign of accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior and renouncing the enemy that had held their souls and lives in the bondage of sin.
Crusades for Christ in Ghana just recently received a new shipment of WMP literature. They joyfully unloaded the container, one box at a time, and within a few days separate shipments of boxes were being sent out to various churches in the area. This ministry is just one of many in Africa that has new shipments in process, or recently received. Armed with a new supply of Scripture booklets they will head for the streets, the villages, the fields, and the rivers …wherever there is someone to tell about Jesus.

When Randy H. ordered more copies of A Bible Study on John for ministry in Ghana, he wrote, “WMP booklets have been with us the past 17 years as we have planted churches in Ghana. Over the 17 years, WMP has been a part of starting more than 165 new churches and more than 50,000 people who have received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.” Praise God!

Growing Need for Scripture booklets in Tanzania

A long-time major distributor in Tanzania expressed his appreciation, along with a request for replenishments, “Your ministry is very unique, powerful and active for winning the lost and building Christians to become mature spiritually. I last received 2,000 boxes of booklets sent through your coordinator in Tanzania, and it has been a great blessing to the churches and ministries in Tanzania. At present I am out of stock.”

Bishop Ungele, WMP’s national coordinator, reported that he had been receiving emails and calls for literature and having to tell people that they would have to wait until he received another container of WMP literature. But because of the continued requests, he decided to share boxes from his own supply of WMP booklets for distribution to unreached people in Dar-es-Salaam and other places.

The need in Tanzania is for two containers each year. In March of 2015 Brother Ungele received a 40’ container (2 million booklets). In addition, a 20’ container (1 million booklets) was received by EHC Tanzania for their home-to-home ministry. The current shipments (one 40’ container and one 20’ container) are expected to be shipped late in 2016 with arrival in Tanzania early 2017. This is almost a two-year interval. With the request for two containers each year, the need is far exceeding what we are sending.

Hearts Open to the Word in Rwanda

A recently received shipment for Rwanda included Scripture booklets for the refugee camps in Goma, on the western border of Democratic Republic of Congo, as Congolese pastors have expressed their need of WMP literature. Brother Ananie, in expressing the need for Rwanda, told us last year of training distributors. “There will be a lot of harvest from the fields due to 272 well-trained [distributors], ready to penetrate villages.” Earlier, Brother Ananie reported on a major distribution of WMP literature in 3 districts of Rwanda.

  “We divided ourselves into groups in order to achieve the goal of giving out over 20,000 booklets. When each group reached its assigned village, it used to go two by two to different homes and also shared with the people on the way the love of Jesus.  This strategy enabled distributors to distribute 21,524 booklets.

   “Workers said it was amazing to get involved in this action of distributing Christian booklets. There was a good opportunity to socialize with people and they were open to us and to the Word of God. The ministry was so amazing because over 20,000 homes were visited and over 6,500 people received Christ as well. We thank the Lord that they will get to churches to nurture them in Christlikeness. Backslidden people repented and even churched people who heard us speak confessed that something new was added to their faith.”

New Opportunities in Zimbabwe and Liberia

A 40-foot container for Zimbabwe will include a variety of languages, including Chinese for Chinese workers there. The tragic meltdown of Zimbabwe as a nation needs God’s intervention and the hope which only He can provide. We have been encouraged to pursue translating WMP booklets into Ndebele, a language used by the second largest segment of Zimbabwe’s indigenous population.

Sydney T., WMP national coordinator for Liberia, reported the need for another shipment for Liberia, where stock was running low. He wrote, “We are very, very grateful for this partnership that greatly accelerates our quest to reach every home in Liberia with the unchanging gospel of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.”

   [You can help provide God’s Word for African nations. Every donated dollar puts 24 powerful Scripture booklets into the hands of God’s people zealous to share His Word. An investment of $25 will provide a Scripture booklet for 600 people; $100 will touch the lives of 2,400 people.]

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Meet the Team

Phil K.

Dispatch Manager

When my uncle and aunt, Watson and Rose Goodman, returned from sixteen years of missionary service in South Africa, I learned of their excitement about starting a new faith venture in Winona Lake, Indiana, to be called World Missionary Press, Inc. It wasn’t until many years later that the Lord brought me to WMP, which had by then moved to New Paris.

In January of 1985 I hired on as a framer with a construction crew based in Bremen, Indiana. However my boss told me he would not be able to use me until the weather permitted getting concrete trucks into fields for pouring foundations. It was a very, very wet Spring. I was still waiting for the contractor’s call when WMP’s newsletter came in the mail announcing two or three job openings.

After consulting with my father, I called my uncle and offered my services. Watson said he would call me back. Later that same day he called to say that I could start working at WMP the following week. Within half an hour, the contractor called and said that he was ready for me to start work! I sensed that the Lord had kept that door closed long enough for Him to get me where He really wanted me, so I told the contractor, “Thank you very much. However, I already have a job.” My first day at WMP was May 7, 1985. I was trained to operate the web press bundler and soon made many friends.

As WMP’s dispatcher since 1997, I am responsible to gather boxes of languages/titles for freight shipments. After obtaining competitive quotes from forwarders and freight consolidators, I contract the shipment, and schedule loading from the warehouse. It is a real blessing to call WMP staff and volunteers together to pray over outgoing container shipments and see them leave WMP’s dock, headed for places all over the world!

God has been so good. I’ve experienced His abundant blessings and His marvelous mercies, which are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22, 23). My wife Martha and I have two grown children and a wonderful son-in-law. As a family, we love to spend time together doing all manner of activities. For instance, just before July 4 we traveled to southwest Michigan to pick cherries together!

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WMP Partners Around the World

Dries and Valerie D.

Madagascar

  As WMP’s national coordinators in Madagascar for more than ten years, Dries and Valerie are a great encouragement to us as distribution of WMP literature has increased, and their work as Every Home for Christ National Directors has grown. They have been involved in translating several WMP Scripture booklets into Malagasy, one of the official languages of Madagascar.

WMP: How long have you been distributing WMP literature?

Dries: In 1990 or even before, Valerie prepared our first order on a small manual typewriter. We first used the material for ministry to seamen in our port city in South Africa. At that stage we knew that we would go to Madagascar, but didn’t know the dates yet. We were waiting on the Lord. It was a blessing to minister to the seamen. We had so many different languages from WMP, we got carried away! Then we ordered some in Malagasy to use when we visited Madagascar in 1993. We distributed booklets to whoever moved!

When we moved to Madagascar fulltime in 1995, you were sending boxes of Scripture booklets in post-office bags. I think it was in 2003 that we were asked to become WMP co-coordinators. Soon EHC asked if they could come alongside us in Madagascar. You sent the first 20-foot container at the end of 2004, then others in 2006, 2009, and 2014.

WMP: How long does a shipment last now?

Dries: It was about the middle of July, 2015, that we received our first 40-foot container filled with powerful booklets. We know the next 40-foot shipment is in production for 2016. We have great faith that we will receive this shipment soon, because I do believe that we will run out of stock in the next 2 weeks (mid-July). So, it seems we need a 40-foot container at least once a year.

WMP: How effective are the Scripture booklets in evangelism?

Dries: They are so effective and powerful. In December, we visited more than 161,000 homes in six cities in three provinces before Christmas, distributing one Help From Above and one copy of The Way to God plus a seasonal tract to each home. What a joy it was to have 12,329 respond positively to the gospel! We see how effective the booklets are. Lives are changing when the logos words become a Rhema Word. It will not return void to the Lord, but brings forth fruit and seed. We also use the He Is Risen! salvation coloring book, another powerful blessed tool.

WMP: How does having free literature available affect evangelism in Madagascar?

Dries: Free literature is always a blessing, as most of the churches can’t afford to have tracts and material printed, so when we can’t supply them with free material, they just don’t share the gospel message the way it should be done. We have just seen how powerful your booklets are, as we used them during our midyear project. We visited about 185,000 homes, and we praise the Lord for all the fruit. On the island of Nosy, on the northwest coast, it was awesome to see how the churches took hold of the booklet distribution; some 38 denominations and churches took part in the project. To have booklets available free was a great blessing; they could not believe it! So many cell groups were planted and, as far as we know, to date three churches were planted. I was with our team for about ten days on the island, so I can say that is what I saw, and not only what our workers shared.

  August 2016 Newsletter

“For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” –1 Corinthians 16:9

MORE THAN 5,000 PASTORS and church leaders gathered for Thailand’s 8th Congress on Evangelism last year to plan strategy for how better to reach Thailand with the gospel of Jesus Christ. ActsCo and WMP Scripture booklets were there! Thousands of pieces of Christian literature and more than 100,000 Scripture booklets were given away within 48 hours.
As WMP’s coordinator in Thailand, ActsCo—a Christian printing company—operates BookHouse to disperse free Christian books, Bibles, and tracts, logging all the free literature given out daily. “Practically every pastor in this country knows about it,” wrote ActsCo President Kendall C. A recent ActsCo mailing of a free book contained a flyer announcing FREE booklets for evangelism. “In the past three days,” Kendall reported, “the BookHouse has been jammed with people, and our office has been receiving many calls specifically for WMP booklets.”

In addition to a 40-foot container of 4,215 ten-pound boxes of Scripture booklets in various languages planned for shipping to ActsCo, a second 40-foot container is being planned for Every Home for Christ. Last year EHC reached nearly 500,000 homes with two titles each plus handing them out in prisons and to each student in schools. “We are so thankful and praise the Lord for your kind giving to the Thai people generously,” wrote EHC’s Sister Buakab. “This is the time that God’s hands have moved through many parts of the country, even the South! God is at work in many churches and mission organizations to reach out to that difficult area tremendously! I have been training women across the country to rise up and do evangelism. Our teams reach out to youths and children as well.”

Malaysia

When EHC reactivated work in Malaysia in 2014, Sister Koh became their national director and was able to receive a variety of Scripture booklets and Bible studies—a few boxes at a time. The first freight shipment of one pallet (192 ten-pound boxes) was delivered late last year. A second pallet was expected to arrive in mid-July. Earlier this year the High Court in Malaysia ruled in favor of religious freedom for a Muslim man to convert to Christianity as an adult (his parents had converted to Islam when he was a child). Pray that this landmark ruling will open more doors in Malaysia.

Fiji

Literature distribution in Fiji is expanding to the point where EHC teams cover an average of 500 homes per day. Plans are to send increased quantities of Scripture booklets in Fijian and a first printing of 80,000 The Way to God in Fijian Hindi. In April a church in Queensland, Australia, ordered booklets to take along on a ministry trip to Fiji to help after the cyclone. Earlier, booklets were ordered for one-to-one evangelism on the streets of Fiji’s capital city after a member of the Gideons shared a copy of The Way to God and they saw the address on the back. More recently, a ministry in New Zealand ordered booklets for outreach in remote areas of Fiji and Vanuatu in June and July.

Pakistan

Printings in Pakistan can often face delays because of power outages or lack of manpower. Delivery of 20,000 copies each of My Bible Reading Book and A Bible Study on John in Urdu was delayed because “some of the Muslim workers feast before their holy month of Ramadan.” In the meantime, the translation of A Bible Study on Revelation into Urdu was completed and is now being printed ($12,100). In addition to printing WMP materials in Pakistan, we also send containers of Scripture booklets for use by our major ministry partners there.
Brother Nadeem emailed Harold Mack, “WMP booklets are being delivered to churches and ministries throughout our country, and God is definitely using them wonderfully in His appointed ways. We are thankful to you and WMP for this great support for Pakistani Christians!”

Indonesia

Opportunities in Indonesia seem to be increasing as Frans K., WMP’s coordinator in Indonesia, tries to keep sufficient quantities of Scripture booklets in stock in the nation with the largest Muslim population in the world. Large orders from churches in Central and West Java and North Sulawesi kept staff busy packing boxes of Indonesian Help From Above and The Way to God. Indonesian Bible studies on John and Matthew needed to be reprinted. Reprinted He Is Risen! coloring books were delivered in time for a large meeting of pastors in Surabaya.

Then came an urgent email from Frans! “Today when our staff went to pack WMP booklets for West Borneo, South Sumatra, and other churches in Java, Bali, and Timor, they found that Help From Above and The Way to God is out of stock!” In addition, more stock would be needed in September for Batu Bible School’s big reunion—from its first class (1955) to its 60th class (2015)—bringing thousands of pastors from around Indonesia. What better time to provide supplies of Scripture booklets to take back to their churches! Reprinting 150,000 of each title was approved.

Brother Frans has also facilitated recording the audio version of Help From Above in Indonesian (now available on the “World Missionary Press” app), with more recordings “in the works.”

Nepal

Brother David L. expressed his thanks for the willingness of WMP to print a good amount of WMP booklets in Nepal—250,000 copies each of Nepali Help From Above and The Way to God and 50,000 How to Know God (total cost $22,223). “It will be wonderful help to our 48 pioneer crusaders for reaching homes of Nepal.” Others request booklets from them as well. Right now distribution is not much of a problem, but this situation may not last. Pressure from Hindu agitators compelled the present government to take back the Christmas holiday, which was sanctioned in 2006, and they are likely to pass anti-conversion laws. “In this background, we are so much in a hurry to reach out to homes by the gospel booklets. In fact, we need it huge,” wrote Brother David. In mid-June he reported, “Last week eight Christians were arrested . . . for distributing gospel literature among little kids in two schools.” Much prayer brought their release, but a case has been filed. Workers need prayer “because we are doing literature evangelism so openly.”

Enlargement in India

This fiscal year WMP has printed 9.4 million Scripture booklets in multiple languages for shipping on five containers to India. In addition, 6 million booklets have been printed in India, with another 3.7 million in the works.  They will be delivered to four regional headquarters of a partner ministry which has more than 20,000 pastors and evangelists involved in pioneer evangelism, church planting, leadership training, and mobilizing intercessory prayer for the nation. Their work is reaching 409 people groups in seven states of North India.

The burden to do MORE for India’s 1.2 billion people, trusting God for increased resources, led to PROJECT INDIA, a vision to provide 100,000,000 Scripture booklets for India over a period of three years.  Distributors in India believe the time is growing short, with reports of increasing hostility in many areas. WE CANNOT HOLD BACK. Now is the time to move forward in faith and passion!

  [You can provide God’s Word for the nations of Asia. Every donated dollar puts 24 powerful Scripture booklets into the hands of Christians eager to share God’s Word. An investment of $25 will provide a Scripture booklet for 600 people; $100 will touch the lives of 2,400 people.]

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Meet the Team

Trent B.

Finance and Prepress Departments

I was born and raised very near World Missionary Press, but until 2013 I had never visited. After teaching English in Hong Kong for eight years, I felt God had a change for me, so I moved back to Elkhart County at the end of 2012 to consider a few work possibilities.

During the month of March, when my church focused on different ministries and missionaries, Harold Mack shared about WMP in a Sunday service. The following day I took a tour of World Missionary Press and was amazed! How could I have been so unaware of such an incredible ministry right here in New Paris, Indiana? Before leaving that day, I was given a work application to fill out and return the next week. After a couple of interviews, feedback from key people in my life, and lots of prayer, I accepted a position at WMP. It’s hard to believe how quickly the past three years have gone.

I work in two departments: Finance and Prepress. My responsibilities in the Finance Department involve collecting paperwork related to the arrival of shipping containers sent around the world and sending funds to WMP national coordinators and contract printers in other countries. In the Prepress Department, I help prepare aluminum plates that are used on the different printing presses. Even though these departments are very different, I enjoy the variety.

What a blessing it is to work for a ministry that impacts people around the world! It is great to pray for shipments that are sent out and also for the people who will receive the Scripture booklets. God is working, and I get the privilege of being a part of what He’s doing! If you are ever in New Paris, please stop and take a tour of WMP. We love to share what’s happening and how you can get involved.

When I’m not working at World Missionary Press, I enjoy flower gardening, eating out, and playing games with friends. I also like to collect foreign money when traveling overseas.

Grateful Quotes

“I Wish You Could See the Faces”

Scripture booklets were sent to a family in California for a short-term YWAM mission trip in Uganda and South Sudan.

“We mainly used the gospel booklets in villages and in prisons. Life savers! We couldn’t get Bibles over there, so the booklets were the only Scripture we were able to give out. It was so wonderful to have them in native languages. They speak so many!

“No photos were allowed to be taken inside any prison facility we visited, but the Youth prison director was so pleased with our missionary team he took a photo with us and pleaded with the YWAM base to please keep coming back. He said it was making a difference in the lives of the youth, and they had tried many other programs unsuccessfully.

“Books and Bibles are very hard to get in these parts of Africa, so passing out the Scripture booklets was so precious to these at-risk kids. I know God is doing wonderful things in Uganda and South Sudan . . . and World Missionary Press is helping accomplish them!”

 After their return, Christine requested a ten-pound box of booklets in Arabic, Bari, and English be sent to YWAM missionaries on furlough in Texas to take back with them in July. On hearing it would be sent the next day and arrive in a few days, she wrote:

“Thank you so much!!!! I’m so excited. . . . I wish you could see the faces as they are given out. They will truly be a blessing in South Sudan. God bless you!”   —Christine R., California

WMP Partners Around the World

Victor S., Chile

When Harold Mack, now WMP President, travelled to Chile in 2007 to meet with distributors, he reported:  “Victor S. is the Every Home for Christ national director for Chile and pastor of a church. . . . He is also a former professional soccer player! Over the past few years, Victor has organized home-to-home distribution of literature throughout the length of Chile, relying heavily on large quantities of WMP booklets.  We PRAISE THE LORD that Victor has agreed to serve as [volunteer] WMP national coordinator for Chile!!! . . . This is an answer to prayer, and a vital ingredient in getting WMP material throughout Chile.”

WMP: Victor, how long have you been involved in distributing WMP literature?

Victor: In 1996 we opened the ministry of the crusade to every home in Chile. From the beginning, WMP was present with literature in our country, and we have been working in the distribution of literature for 20 years.

WMP: How does having free literature encourage evangelism in Chile?

Victor: During 2015, together with WMP and EHC we have done hard work all over our country. Thousands of people have received in their hands several booklets that have transformed their lives. Hundreds of witnesses have confirmed to us that the work we have been doing all these years has not been in vain, and the planting done has borne much fruit.

This year, we had two major projects in addition to distributing literature monthly throughout Chile. First, we visited the cities of Concepción, Coronel, Arauco, Contulmo, Temuco and Los Angeles, a journey of 1500 km. A total of 206,500 booklets distributed, with 2,119 responses to the gospel.

Second, five cities in the North of our country—a distance of 1990 km—were visited; 127,000 booklets were distributed, with 1,982 responses. As we began our return trip, it started raining in these cities (unusual), ending up with a flood that killed hundreds. Thank God we began our journey in time, and we were saved out of this tragedy.

WMP: How does WMP literature assist local churches in Chile?

Victor: We continue to implement a project that spans our country, distributing literature to the churches of Chile to reach the homes, hospitals, prisons, and streets of their cities. From January through November (2015), we distributed 765,900 booklets.

WMP: How can WMP help you and the EHC teams reach your goal of evangelizing to the last corner of Chile?

Victor: A container shipment lasts 10-12 months. We would like an increase of 50% and a frequency of one 40-foot container (2 million booklets) per year.

Victor concluded his 2015 report with praise to God for the families reached, the homes restored, and the “many children who have returned to the Heavenly Father.” He wrote, “It has been wonderful this year! And we give glory to God! Although we have not been exempt from problems, disasters, and earthquake, we exalt God because everything has helped well! We are rejoicing together to bless Christ in Chile through the material that you provide us.”

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Meet the Team

Randy B.

Electronic Formatting Specialist

I came to WMP more than 33 years ago after hearing about it from my aunt who lives in Oklahoma. A friend of hers was volunteering at WMP, and when my aunt mentioned my desire to work in Christian ministry, the friend informed Watson Goodman of my interest. Consequently, he sent me an application and, after reviewing it, offered me a position in the prepress department. Initially I turned the position down, but the Lord had other plans. I could not get WMP out of my mind.

About two months later, I hesitantly called Watson to ask if he would reconsider me for the position there; however, he had hired someone for the job he had offered earlier, and no suitable job was available. Still, when I hung up, I knew God was calling me there and vowed to go if the Lord ever made it possible. Four days later, Watson called, offering me a position in the same department as before and I accepted whole-heartedly.

Typesetting was quite a change from packing eggs on a chicken farm in Pennsylvania! I learned various aspects of the process of preparing Scripture booklets for printing in new languages and loved the variety of work. While serving as prepress supervisor for 26 years, I saw many changes in prepress technology. My current position at WMP involves scanning translations from the pre-computer era into digital format to be used on our website and in the direct-to-plate system now being used. This involves hundreds of languages.

What I like best about WMP are my co-workers, who have been so supportive in many ways, especially by prayer and encouraging words. Also, how else can one reach the world from a single location to such a great extent? Only God knows how many have come to know Him through the Scripture we have sent.

When I am not at work, I like to garden and also to read, run on the treadmill, play piano, and talk to good friends whenever possible. My family lives on both sides of the country, with two brothers and a sister in Pennsylvania and my oldest brother living with his growing family in California. My aunt in Oklahoma is still living and will be 100 years old on May 1!

The years at WMP have not been easy, but God has been good through it all and I love Him way more than when I first began. Praise the Lord!

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WMP Partners Around the World

Gilford M., Malawi

Gilford M. serves as WMP’s national coordinator for Malawi, a nation of 16.3 million people in southeastern Africa, hit hard by HIV-Aids, with more than one million children orphaned by the disease. Words of hope through Jesus Christ find fertile ground here.

WMP: Please describe your current ministry in reaching your country with the gospel.

Gilford: As WMP’s national coordinator for Malawi since 2010, I am responsible to receive and distribute literature to ministries and churches for evangelism. WMP distributors and volunteers across the country also help distribute literature. I am also National Director of Every Home for Christ. WMP literature has been a primary source of the literature we are using in reaching every home with the gospel. Several other ministries and churches are using literature from WMP for Bible study and evangelism.

WMP: When did you first learn about WMP? 

Gilford: I started distributing WMP literature in 2005 when I was volunteering with EHC Malawi; however, I first got booklets such as Help From Above and Who Am I That a King Would Die in My Place? in the mid-eighties when I was growing up as a young Christian. The topical layout of these booklets helped me to understand God’s plan of salvation. This helped me in evangelism and witnessing. I have been involved in distribution work for the past eleven years.

WMP: How does the availability of free literature affect evangelism in Malawi?

Gilford: The availability of free literature has helped us reach many people in rural areas which could not have been the case if the literature were not free. Many people in the rural areas do not have Bibles, because they cannot afford to purchase them. The opportunity to have portions of the Bible helps churches not only in their outreach programs but also in discipleship programs. Free literature has increased the number of souls reached, which has greatly helped churches to grow.

WMP: When you receive a shipment from WMP, how long does it last?

Gilford: Because many churches and ministries constantly request literature, the supply does not last long. We first distribute the literature to all those who had requested material before we received our consignment. This makes it difficult to give literature to new requests that come after it arrives.

WMP: How would you describe the effectiveness of the topical Scripture booklets in Malawi?

Gilford: WMP booklets have been a very good discipleship resource to the body of Christ. The topical Scriptures have helped new believers and churches to study topical subjects without problems, which has helped to ground Christians in the faith. As there are very limited resources available in the local languages for discipleship, WMP materials—the main resources available—have helped the Church to grow.

Making Inroads into Asia with God’s Word

AT ONE TIME IT WAS SAID of Asia that “the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed” (Acts 19:20). With today’s teeming populations, Asia is a vast continent with immense spiritual need. But the good news of Jesus Christ is making inroads, with World Missionary Press playing its part by providing Scripture booklets in various languages to ministries on the front lines. Here are some glimpses:

 China

Tourists from mainland China frequently visit Hong Kong and Macau, China’s densely populated special administrative provinces, where WMP’s coordinator for the region has connected us with two ministries to Chinese (and international) visitors, spreading the love of Christ in a difficult part of the world. We are privileged to supply both ministries with Chinese Scripture booklets and to receive exciting reports of God at work.

Founded in 2007, Chinese Tourist Ministry (CTM) distributes free gospel bags, spreading the good news of Jesus with mainland Chinese face-to-face in tourist hot spots in Hong Kong. Local Christian churches and organizations are invited to participate, making these trips to Hong Kong life-changing journeys.

CTM’s goal is to give away 70,000 gospel bags per month, filled with—among other things—WMP Scripture booklets!

Testimonies coming from this ministry are touching. “Who does Jesus love?” is a question CTM workers are called upon to answer quite often: “Anyone and everyone.” What joy it brings to see faces light up in amazement when they hear about what Jesus did, and to see the smiles etched on faces of those who receive Jesus into their lives right “on the spot.” For the volunteer workers there, “It makes everything worthwhile.”

Their work inspires fellow Christians to join them: “After seeing us and reading our tracts, they were so moved yet ashamed that all these years they merely believed in Jesus, but [had] not followed His teachings. They vowed to start actively spreading the gospel, and asked whether we could send them materials to help them.”

Between January and November of 2015, CTM’s total distribution of gospel bags in Hong Kong reached nearly 775,000. They distributed 58,060 bags In November alone, with a total of 19,647 new believers in Christ!

CTM’s sister ministry in Macau sent a similar report. Since 2008, Blessed Journey has been distributing year-round in several locations around Macau. Their distribution goal is 50,000 gospel bags per month, and God has been working.

One woman watched Blessed Journey workers distributing from their booth for some time before her curiosity got the best of her. “Why do you give out all these for free?” she asked. “You give away so much money! For the people from mainland China, this is so unimaginable!” They answered, “Because Jesus loves us and died for us freely, we Christians are willing to spread the gospel to other people for free.” Hearing this, she received a gospel bag.

Blessed Journey told of another woman who had received literature from the booth of a cult. “Then she came to our booth and wanted a Bible. Our co-worker told her that what she was holding was not Christian, but heretical materials. She was very surprised, and after confirming that with us a few times, she returned those books and came back and respectfully received a Bible from us. How urgent it is that lost souls be rescued from the hands of Satan!”

Shipments of literature from WMP reached both ministries in October of 2015, but they were soon asking for more, as materials were quickly taken by hungry tourists. WMP will be sending a 20-foot container to each location, full of Scripture booklets in Simplified Chinese. We can expect God to continue to draw many Chinese to Himself this year, as hundreds of thousands of tourists return to their homes in mainland China with His printed Word, some of them already new believers.

 

Myanmar (Burma)

Last year thousands of Burmese WMP booklets were distributed among churches, seminaries, evangelists, and pastors ministering in areas directly affected by civil war. Martin L. wrote that the need for literature in the area was huge, with distributors requesting more WMP booklets in tribal languages. “WMP booklets are one of the most effective tools for the people to grow in their reading skills and knowledge about God.” The first printing of 100,000 Shan Help From Above Scripture booklets was distributed in Shan State, where 5 million people live and where revival movement has been seen.

When the people of Myanmar suffered disastrous flooding (October WMP newsletter), relief teams asked for spiritual food to minister to families being counseled in the aftermath. Currently 100,000 Burmese How to Know God Scripture booklets and 30,000 Burmese God Loves You salvation coloring books are being printed in Myanmar for a total cost of $9,500.

 

 Indonesia

“In 2016 God’s field is still open,” wrote Frans K. in January. “We still have time and opportunity to share His love through booklets when the night is still not come.” The print shop had worked overtime to reprint 25,000 copies each of Indonesian Bible studies on Matthew and John before Christmas. Requests for quantities of salvation coloring booklets were streaming in from churches and individuals in the provinces of Gorontalo, Papua, West Papua, North Sulawesi, and others for upcoming Sunday-school retreats and scheduled church activities. WMP responded. “Yes, please go ahead with printing 50,000 copies of Indonesian He Is Risen!” The cost is $9,200, or 18 cents each.

 

 India

Distribution of Christian literature is a major factor in evangelism among the 1.2 billion people of India. Of a reported 456 languages in India, 18 have more than 10 million speakers. By providing free Scripture booklets in more than 40 languages of India, WMP helps arm evangelists and pastors to reach village after village with the message of hope.

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Meet the Team

One-Year Volunteer Opportunities

Jim Z. had “always known about World Missionary Press” and had passed out WMP booklets since he was young. When he graduated from high school, he decided that he wanted to volunteer at a ministry for a year before starting a career. He chose WMP and since being accepted, has been volunteering regularly since last June. His favorite parts of volunteering have been working on the New Testament bindery, going to chapel each day, and even mowing the lawn!

World Missionary Press has several internship opportunities for volunteers able to support themselves or to be supported by their church while serving for a year.

Website Programmer — Volunteer internship:  Assist in maintaining and enhancing the World Missionary Press website. World Missionary Press recently upgraded to a responsive-design website built on a WordPress platform. We are looking for an intern to help with enhancements and additional functionality. Proficiency in WordPress development and database programming desired.

Print Shop Production Apprentice — Volunteer internship:  Assist in operating various print-shop machines, including running booklet and New Testament binderies, web printing press, and sheet-fed press. Assist in print shop upkeep and maintenance functions. In this position you would learn several print-shop-related skills—which could prove valuable for future missions work both in the U.S. and overseas—while helping to produce and send millions of portions of God’s eternal Word to countries around the world every month.

Project India Administrative Assistant — Volunteer internship:  World Missionary Press is launching Project India, with the goal of producing 100 million Scripture booklets to help reach India’s 1.2 billion people with the gospel message. This person would assist in organizing and managing project-related information, making phone calls, data entry, and related tasks. Requirements include excellent verbal and written communication skills, computer skills (MS Office programs), attention to detail, and organizational skills.

 

For almost a year I’ve been doing a variety of finance- related tasks, including helping to process payroll, preparing and sending checks to vendors, opening and processing donations, and preparing month-end adjustments and reports. The staff here is amazing, and it has been exciting getting to know them.

Outside of work, I enjoy playing (and sometimes writing) music on the piano and ukulele. I also love outdoors activities like camping, canoeing, hiking, and so on. Often I spend time with friends or family. When I’m actually at home, I usually have plenty of chores to keep me busy, but occasionally I find a few hours of blissful relaxation.

I am the youngest of eleven children and a proud aunt to four nieces and five nephews, with two more on the way. Growing up in a big family was a lot of fun, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything! My dad was a pastor until 2013, when he was no longer able to preach due to a series of severe health issues. Most of my family lives in Indiana. We enjoy getting together for game nights, movie nights, or just to hang out.

Mission Ideas for Children

To request a copy of this brochure, e-mail mailroom@wmpress.org or call 574-831-2111 ext. 213.  You may also download the following online version…Missions Ideas for Children(pdf)

For your children’s ministries, Sunday School, children’s church, or VBS – You will find here a variety of suggestions for your consideration as a focus for your children’s ministry missions offering.

These project ideas relate to reaching boys and girls in other countries with the powerful Word of God.

What better investment can there be! What better way to encourage children to begin focusing on worldwide outreach and the influence they personally can have in fulfilling the Great Commission?

Idea #1

God Loves You! Coloring Books

Your children can provide God Loves You! salvation coloring books, filled with pictures to color and excellent teaching from God’s Word!

WMP can provide a variety of languages for the God Loves You! coloring book so that you can use them to make an attractive poster or project display.

If you wish, you could announce that for every $10 raised, a picture of one coloring book will be added to a display at the front of your meeting room. (You can photo copy the front cover of a God Loves You! coloring book, making enough copies to represent the offering raised.)

Idea #2

Your Change Brings Change

About five cents will print and send one Scripture booklet anywhere in the world! $1 will print and send 21 Scripture booklets on average. Banks can be provided by WMP for this purpose. These banks can be placed in many locations–people always have loose change! When finished, collect the money from the bank(s), write a check to WMP for the amount, and re-use it!

You can also print your own labels at www.wmpress.org/get-involved/kids-korner and tape them on a jar or can.

Idea #3

Fill a Suitcase

Leaders can present a big, empty suitcase at the beginning of VBS, labeled “Sending the Word to the World.” For each dollar a child brings in offerings, he/she can place a (rubber-banded) pack of 25 Scripture booklets into the suitcase. (It actually costs about $1 to produce 21 booklets!)

The goal is to fill the suitcase as full as possible with Scripture booklets!

You can request a supply of The Way to God Scripture booklets for this purpose. They come 500 per 10-lb. box.

Boys and girls in countries around the world need to learn about Jesus and His love. By reading Scripture booklets in their language, they can know how to have their sins forgiven and receive the gift of eternal life!

Idea #4

Thermometer Display

Make a large poster of a thermometer showing funds raised for The Way to God Scripture booklets. Color with a red marker as funds increase. Adjust the numbers on the poster according to your expectations.

Idea #5

Buy a Roll of Paper

One 35″-wide roll of paper for our big printing press, costing about $1,360, can produce the inside pages of more than 85,000 48-page Scripture booklets!

An investment of $680 provides for the inside pages of about 42,500 Scripture booklets like The Way to God!

Idea #6

Faces of the World

Prepare a large colored drawing of the world (about 10 ft. wide) to post at the front of your meeting room. Have the students color the faces of children from other parts of the world. (You can download these faces from our website: wmpress.org/get-involved/mission-ideas-for-children).  As every $25 comes in for the missions offering, one of the children can glue or tape one of the colored faces onto the world.

This serves as a visual reminder that your students are touching other children around the world with God’s Word. At some point, each child can be given a copy of a God Loves You! coloring book or The Way to God Scripture booklet as a reminder of the ministry they are supporting! (Request enough free copies for this purpose.)

Boys and girls in countries around the world need to learn about Jesus and His love. By reading Scripture booklets in their language, they can know how to have their sins forgiven and receive the gift of eternal life!

Please send offerings in a check to the address below. If you can, please also send a photo and/or description of the project you used to raise funds.

PDF’s available:  Color or Black and White.

Pointers for Success

1. Help young people learn and practice faith by setting a realistic goal that is not simple to meet. Emphasize that “with God nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:37).

2. Involve elements of suspense, surprise, and challenge, using realistic goals on the one hand, but at the same time acknowledging the power of God and the wonderful faith that children are capable of.
3. In telling the stories about the NEED involved in the project selected, be truthful. Use no fabricated stories. If the teacher has pondered the story so well that he/she is moved emotionally, it will relate effectively to the children. They will catch the impact and will respond enthusiastically.

4. It is good to show each day the total money given that day and the total number of booklets the offering represents. (Each booklet costs 5 cents for production and mailing. Each dollar pays for 20 booklets on average.)

If you have created projects of your own that would help to send out God’s Word, we would like to hear about them. Also, it would be of interest to us to hear about the blessings you received from using the projects listed above.

Projects for Adults

Our Number One Need

PRAYER – PRAYER – MORE PRAYER! Satan will bring every type of confusion, onslaught, and battle against the Word of God, which he despises.

We can send you a detailed prayer letter with a request for every day of the month. As you join thousands of others in prayer for specific requests, we will literally see God’s power at work. To join our prayer team, click here to receive our prayer sheet via E-mail, or click here to receive our  prayer letter  via regular mail.

Monthly Support

Establish a personal “$30.00 Club” (or “Club 30”). Through World Missionary Press you can reach an equivalent of one person every hour, 24 hours a day, for $30.00 per month.

Smaller Gifts

Perhaps you can’t take on any of the above projects, but you could send $5 or $10 each month, trusting God to provide it for you.Little is much when God is in it!

Projects which Cost Nothing in Dollars and Cents

Have a Garage Sale
Collect and sell items at a garage sale or auction. Several families could cooperate in conducting a garage sale and send proceeds to WMP.

Used Bibles
Many letters come from pastors, Sunday school teachers, and others overseas, asking for complete Bibles. Do you have good new or used King James Version or New King James Version Bibles you could send? Those with study helps are especially appreciated by workers overseas.

Used Postage Stamps
Yes, we can use them, too. They are exchanged for money so we can print more booklets. Care must be taken when cutting stamps off envelopes so the stamps are not cut or torn. Leave 1/4 inch border around the stamps. We can use only FOREIGN and COMMEMORATIVE U.S. stamps.

WMP Videos/DVDs
Invite some friends or neighbors in and show them one of WMP’s videos or DVDs. Give each one a copy of Help From Above and the latest issue of WMP News. Prayerfully introducing the work in this way can pay rich dividends.

For more resources click here.

Boys and girls in countries around the world need to learn about Jesus and His love. By reading Scripture booklets in their language, they can know how to have their sins forgiven and receive the gift of eternal life.

Please send offerings in a check to the address below. If you can, please also send a photo and/or a description of the project you used to raise funds.

World Missionary Press, Inc.
P.O. Box 120, New Paris, IN 46553
(574) 831-2111 –  FAX (574) 831-2161

https://www.wmpress.org   E-mail: mailroom@wmpress.org

January 2016 Newsletter-Special Edition PDF

GOD IS RAISING UP A TEAM throughout the world to share His Good News, to provide portions of His Word to those who have none, to make disciples in all nations as Jesus commissioned His followers to do. As part of that larger team for 54 years, World Missionary Press continues to praise God for how He has been enlarging and strengthening us for the future. In recent years He has expanded our property and provided for newer and upgraded equipment, enabling us now to breeze through levels of production that we used to struggle with, to stage more large shipments simultaneously, and to be more flexible and effective in scheduling and tracking production of hundreds of languages and titles.

This past year God has built up our team in amazing ways as we have increased the use of full-color covers; and focused on the electronic formatting of Scripture booklets—necessary for direct computer-to-plate processing for in-plant printing as well as for making them accessible worldwide from smart phones, tablets, and computers.

 Every day God is at work through His Word. What a privilege it is to provide tools for God’s team in all parts of the globe!

 In Colombo, Sri Lanka, a two-day conference onboard the OM ship Logos Hope encouraged pastors with a missions focus to persevere in the race. With humility and transparency, George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilisation, imparted lessons from years of ministry and shared his life verse: 
“However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace” (Acts 20:24). When these energetic pastors were offered boxes of WMP Scripture booklets to take with them,  96,000 copies of The Way to God in Sinhala and Tamil left the ship as seed to be sown.

  In Honduras, WMP’s coordinator Walter P. held eleven  personal evangelism seminars in various places, with 680 pastors from different churches attending; 747 ten-pound boxes of Spanish Scripture booklets went home with them, including the last of his supply. Other boxes had been delivered to those working with the military and among children in poverty as well as to those evangelizing in hospitals and prisons.

Requests for Scripture booklets are increasing from those working with refugees in various places. Imagine the need for Arabic and Farsi-language booklets in Finland! “A lot of people in Helsinki on the street are turning to the living Jesus.” In Sweden, a couple from South Africa reported, “We have three main language groups arriving here . . . something like 40 nations represented in our town which  has a population of 3500!” Thirty-five boxes sent to Hungary arrived just in time for outreach by a Bible college to a refugee camp. A couple from Michigan, ministering with food and blankets to Iraqi refugees in Jordan, reported, “These people, nominal Christians, many professional people, having been stripped of everything, now realize that who they need is Jesus.” Many have come to Christ for salvation and for healing from  anxiety and trauma.

Josemon P. is a missionary  evangelist with a fruitful ministry in North India. He loves the WMP booklets he was getting from a brother, describing them as “the complete gospel” and “very much useful for pioneer evangelism” and has seen Hindus getting saved. For two months every year he sets up a book shop in a big trade fair attended by 50,000 people.

“Gospel bags,” given to tourists from mainland China coming to Hong Kong and Macau and containing WMP Scripture booklets, continue to bear fruit, with hundreds receiving Christ right on the spot when the gospel is explained. As one lady prayed, her heart was touched by the Holy Spirit and her eyes filled with tears. “God has already prepared the hearts.”  

 [You can impact people around the world. Every donated dollar provides for the production of 24 powerful Scripture booklets for Christians eager to share God’s Word in the languages of their nation. An investment of $100 will touch the lives of 2,400 people; $1,000 will impact 24,000 people who need to know God.]

 
FROM THE TIME WMP receives a request for a shipment of literature from a national coordinator or major distributor until the booklets are distributed throughout the country, WMP carefully guides the order through preparation, production, shipment, and final receipt. Our coordinators are national pastors, missionaries, or ministry leaders who know the value of the printed word and give much time and effort into working with WMP to provide Scripture booklets for their countries.

As the accompanying charts show, there are many, many shipments in process at one time, each requiring a financial commitment from WMP for printing, shipping and distribution support.

What we can do is heavily dependent on  the funds we receive. The requests keep coming and we want to honor each one of them. Only as God supplies through His people can we print and send the word for those who are waiting to go and share.

May God bless you as you consider the requests of our brothers and sisters in Christ who are looking to WMP for tools for the harvest.

The Urgent Need for Increase

WMP networks extensively with hundreds of ministries in providing tools to national Christians eager to reach their nations for Christ, by making disciples and planting new-believer groups where there are no churches.

More than 80 ministry leaders in 74 nations serve as volunteer WMP national coordinators to receive container-size shipments and share the contents with booklet distributors throughout their countries. This arrangement saves as much as $130,000 per container over what it would cost to send boxes through the postal system to individual distributors.

Over the years WMP coordinators have developed strong distribution networks in their respective countries. As the distribution of WMP Scripture booklets has been used by God to great eternal effect, the distributors have been greatly encouraged by the fruit of their labors, and the urgent plea for WMP materials from around the world continues to increase significantly. For many distributors WMP is the only source of free gospel literature—God’s Word accomplishing His purpose in reaching the lost and discipling new believers. We frequently hear that entire distribution networks are idled when they run out of WMP materials.  National coordinators regularly wait many months, sometimes even a year or more, for replenished supplies.

It is the desire of our hearts to increase production to an equivalency volume of 9,000,000 Scripture booklets per month in-plant. (Equivalency=relating different size booklets to our standard unit of production: a 48-page Help From Above Scripture booklet.) The urgent need is to grow far beyond our current budget of 7 million per month in-plant production as soon as possible.

The addition of increased work-space, faster and more reliable equipment, and key staff has positioned us for growth as God provides the budget and beyond.

God is building us!

The Lord continues to build our infrastructure. Just as He has blessed us recently with additional property, buildings, and equipment, this past year He has also been building our staff. During 2015 eleven staff members left, most through retirement or moving to other locations. But the Lord brought just the right people to replace them—talented, energetic, and joy-filled workers that are a real blessing to our team! Praise the Lord, He is positioning us for the future!

When Every Home for Christ national directors gathered in Zimbabwe in August to discuss strategies for saturating their countries with the gospel, WMP President Harold Mack and his son Stephen (WMP Visual Communications) were there. As ministry partners of World Missionary Press, EHC Africa directors often double as national coordinators for WMP, receiving large shipments of materials to supply hundreds of volunteers who journey village to village, door to door, to bring the Good News to every last person.

Scripture Booklets Are Vital

For many, Scripture booklets from WMP are indispensable for their ministries. Antonie B. was emphatic: “Our team in South Africa cannot be successful without this literature. Whenever I go, wherever I am – if I do not have it, I feel incomplete…. This is something that we could never, ever in our lives be without.”
“Without the support of gospel booklets,” said Richard K., EHC’s director for Zambia, “our campaigns would have been almost impossible. We have seen our work in the nation penetrating so many areas, particularly because of WMP. We couldn’t really make it, communicating the gospel verbally. [It’s] different when you give something to somebody to read. That is the power behind the printed page.”

Responses to Scripture Booklets

Story after story unfolded of people responding enthusiastically to the Scripture booklets, even becoming distributors themselves right in their own neighborhoods. Fred M. of EHC Uganda shared, “I found that one guy, who I used to give these booklets to, had torn [them] in half. I said, ‘Why are you spoiling this?’ He said, ‘I’m not spoiling it. Did you not know each page carries a different message? So, I’m able to reach more people with one booklet when I tear it up….’ That was so amazing.”

Antonie B. of South Africa related, “Many times when we go into an area and minister to people, people get saved, and you’ll always have one or two persons say, ‘Can I get five booklets?’ I give him the
five booklets, and immediately he turns around and starts to minister where he lives. Immediately! I look at what we do at Every Home for Christ, and the impact that World Missionary Press has with the literature, and I can see the fruit of the gospel being produced.”

Richard’s testimony was especially powerful: “It’s one thing to distribute, and [another] when you begin to hear testimonies of how God is using those booklets. A woman told us of visiting a village house. No one was home, so she dropped a booklet inside the house and left. When the owners of the house came back, they found the booklet and read it. After some months, she went back to that village and was amazed to be told that… the booklet Who Am I that a King Should Die in My Place? led them to the Lord. This is a true story, proven by many people around.”

Upcoming Shipments

Tanga C. from Botswana is eagerly awaiting his shipment of booklets and Bible studies in English and Tswana, currently in production. Tanga effused, “[I’m] so glad and happy, excited and expectant for the shipment of literature that is coming to our country. We have been waiting for this for a long time, and we can’t downplay the impact that this shipment will bring to this nation, where you can hardly find a piece of literature anywhere. We are desperately in need of this. A lot of churches have [contacted] my office requesting gospel literature. It will actually help make our work much easier, because we will have something to give to the people as we go home to home preaching the gospel, particularly in rural places where people are least reached. Nothing excites me more than the printed page of the gospel.”

WMP is also preparing a shipment, scheduled for early 2016, for Rwanda, where EHC’s Ananie B. will use Scripture booklets to “invade Rwanda with the gospel.”

New Faces

Among familiar faces, the Macks encountered some new ones. Douglas M., who has taken the helm of EHC’s activities in Namibia, a largely unreached country, said, “I believe that hearts are very receptive to the gospel and this is a time that we can partner together and make Jesus Christ known to the nation.” (WMP is preparing its first large shipment in many years for Namibia.)
In Mozambique, Godfrey B. has taken up the torch when the beloved Anacleto F. was suddenly called Home to be with the Lord. “I want to assure you that the Lord is on the move,” Godfrey reported. “These wonderful gospel booklets have helped us impact communities and change lives. Lives marred with drug and alcohol abuse and prostitution have been transformed. My team says they love to use WMP booklets because of their portability. They are very small but very powerful, and in many homes it will be the only piece of gospel they have.” Expressing appreciation for WMP’s national coordinator in Mozambique, Tanneken F., who channels materials to EHC, Godfrey said, “She always gives us the literature when we request it; she always brings it rapidly, without any delay. Our partnership with her has gone a long way in taking the gospel across the nation of Mozambique.”

For Harold and Stephen, the trip was well worth four intense days of travel, as the bond between the two ministries was heartily reaffirmed. The intrepid Americans sampled such delicacies as crocodile and
warthog (which they found especially delicious) and witnessed a variety of wildlife during their stay by the Zambezi River, including an elephant which skirted the perimeter of their outdoor dining area one evening at dinner.

Networking to Reach Zambia

Cleopas C.  of Zimbabwe, recently installed as EHC’s regional director over 25 Southern and East African nations, was the keynote speaker at WMP’s 54th anniversary dinner in October. Soles for Jesus (partner of EHC and WMP) was represented by founder Diane S. New or lightly-used shoes were to be collected through October to be part of a shipment of 8,000 pairs of shoes and more than one million Scripture booklets for EHC ministry in Zambia.Thank God for cooperation between believers to reach the world for Him!

   Visit www.wmpress-restofthestory.org or scan the QR code on the right to view national leader testimonies from Harold and Stephen’s trip.

[You can play an important part in reaching African nations with the gospel – Each 48-page Scripture booklet costs under 5 cents on average to produce and ship! No gift is too big or too small to make an eternal impact through the printed Word of God!]

 

 

Meet the Team

Jenny H.

Volunteer Coordinator

My family heard about World Missionary Press in 1994 through friends who volunteered here. Our large family has attended WMP’s annual dinner each fall for many years. In November of last year, my family and friends were volunteering at WMP when my dad heard about a job opening. Growing up, I had a desire to work at WMP, but never really thought I would be able to for various reasons. I was so excited when I heard that God had opened the door. I started working two days a week as a receptionist and assistant to Angelee, secretary to the president.
Since March of this year I have worked as Volunteer Coordinator, which involves scheduling the many bindery groups that come to WMP on a regular (usually monthly) basis to man our binderies which operate many hours of every work day. I also schedule and oversee volunteers who regularly stuff envelopes for mailing. My involvement with donor communications consists mostly of entering data and handling the bulk mailings, which include the monthly newsletter and prayer letter, the Public Service Announcement (PSA) mailing to radio stations, and introductory packets to new partners.

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do at WMP, mostly because of the many Christians I come into contact with. From co-workers to volunteers, many have blessed my life in so many ways. I also appreciate the time set aside each day to meet in chapel. It is such a blessing to be able to pray for and encourage one another.

When I am not at work, I enjoy practicing piano and flute, reading, gardening, writing to friends, and being outdoors. Most of all I enjoy spending time with my brothers and sisters. I live in South Bend with my family. I have eight older siblings and four younger. Two of my siblings are married and have a total of five children.

 

Grateful Quotes

Refugees Arriving in Europe Receive Scripture Booklets

 As the immigrant situation has intensified in Europe, pleas for WMP Scripture booklets have increased from several churches in Hungary who are reaching out to Muslim refugees from Syria and Afghanistan.

   “The church is doing outreach to Muslim refugees who are arrested at the border and taken to the train station here for a few hours. We help with food and clothes as well as share the gospel when the language permits.”   -Andrew F. (July 2015)

“Thousands of immigrants are flooding into Hungary from both the Middle East and Africa. Some are living at the train station in Budapest. We need these booklets to distribute among them! Help!!”  -Zachary G. (August 2015)

“Received the Arabic booklets! We will hand them out to the Syrian refugees in Hungary this week.”  -Zachary G. (September 2015)

“We spent the day at Keleti train station again. Hundreds more had arrived late that night.”  -Phil M. (September 2015)

“Calvary Chapel has a Bible college and churches throughout Hungary which have been serving the thousands of refugees who are crossing the border into Europe daily. We work with other churches and relief agencies and have been sending teams out in various cities and refugee camps to service these people’s desperate physical and spiritual needs. We have been giving out the How to Know God booklets, and almost every person we give it to receives it gladly. They are a great way to communicate the gospel and share Bible verses when no translator is available. We have pretty much run out. We would like to place a large order so that we can distribute booklets to various churches and teams.”  -Andrew F. (September 15, 2015)

   Upon receiving word from WMP that his order would be sent out right away (a total of 12,000 booklets in Arabic, Farsi, Hungarian, English, Urdu, Dari, Bengali, Uzbek, French, and German), Andrew replied,

 “Thank you so much! We are blown away by the work of the body of Christ. If the refugees end up being rerouted around Hungary, we are still working with them just across the border in Serbia. Thank you for your prayers and support.”   -Andrew F. (September 16, 2015)

 

WMP Partners Around the World

Harrell Family Missions, Honduras

Harrell Family Missions has received almost 1,850 boxes of Scripture booklets, New Testaments, and salvation coloring books in Spanish over several years. Recently Ken Harrell shared many ways in which WMP materials have been used as part of their varied programs and projects in Honduras. We thank God for this wonderful partnership and the seed that has been sown in a needy land.

“Harrell Family Missions and Children’s Gift Ministry is celebrating eight years of ministry to Honduras and among many other things we’re giving God thanks for thirteen construction projects, many of them churches! These churches were birthed because of evangelism, many with World Missionary Press Scripture booklets. They continue to grow through discipleship and small groups which also use WMP Scripture booklets.

“WMP Scripture booklets are used in our Children’s Gift Ministry outreach programs such as EQUIP children’s pastors’ conferences, which have trained hundreds of children’s pastors who are presently reaching thousands of children throughout Honduras. These new children’s pastors use Scripture booklets and coloring books in outreach events to evangelize the children in their communities, to bring children to the knowledge of God’s love in their children’s churches and Sunday schools, and then for discipleship as children grow in their relationship with God.
   “In January 2015, through its annual ‘Back to Classes with Jesus’ event, in which WMP Scripture booklets are included in each backpack filled with school supplies, Children’s Gift Ministry reached 2,600 children in twelve cities across Honduras. This truly is a great need, as Honduras continues to be the most violent and dangerous country in the world per capita for violent murders, mostly because of the gangs that recruit children to peddle their drugs and commit murders, as many cannot afford the basic school supplies required to attend school. Our goal for January 2016 is to reach 4,000 children in twenty cities across Honduras, getting them off the streets and out of the reach of the gangs through the ‘Back to Classes with Jesus’ event.

“The Children’s Gift Ministry recently received a special request from the Honduran Assemblies of God National Office for 100 boxes of Scripture booklets for National Day of the Bible outreaches on September 26, when young people from many churches would be out on the streets, at tollbooths, at red lights, and [going] from house to house in many communities, sharing the love of God through WMP Scripture booklets.

“Finally, at the National Evangelical Conference in December, more than 1,200 pastors and church planters from all over Honduras will receive Scripture booklets to take back with them to use for evangelism outreaches, church planting, and discipleship – from the jungles of the Moskitia to the islands of the Caribbean (including the Northern island of Roatan), to mountainous villages and to inner cities like the one we live in – San Pedro Sula – dubbed the most violent and dangerous city in the world.

“We are nearly completely out of booklets and are praying for a shipment that will give us fresh wind in our sails. We’re committed to planting and building churches and reaching as many as we can as long as we can, and WMP Scripture booklets are an integral part of that.

“Words cannot express our gratitude to World Missionary Press for your partnership with us, enabling us to provide the invaluable tool of the Word of God in such a convenient Scripture booklet form, as well as the evangelistic He is Risen coloring books. Thank you!”  -The Ken Harrell Family

Harrell Family Missions is scheduled to receive another 768 ten-pound boxes of WMP literature to continue and expand the projects and opportunities Ken described. They will be shipped on a 20-foot container holding a total of 2,560 boxes, also supplying WMP’s national coordinator Walter P. and Jim T. of  “Jesus Es Real Ministries” of Honduras.

[You can help reach Hondurans with powerful portions of God’s eternal Word! A gift of $25 enables us to produce and send 500 Scripture booklets; $100 helps provide 2,000 souls with Help From Above!]

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Teenagers “Acquire the Fire” in Myanmar
MISSION MYANMAR began July 16 when 50 young missionaries from the U.S. and additional teams from China, South Korea, and Taiwan converged on the city of Yangon,” stated a press release from Teen Mania International, announcing that they had been invited by Myanmar Evangelical Christian Association to share the gospel in their country (also known as Burma). Other ministries joined in this unprecedented opportunity “to provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and to take His life-giving message to the ends of the earth!”

After two days of intense training, these young missionaries provided support for ministries and local churches, working in orphanages and medical missions as well as visiting destitute communities to extend invitations to the two-day “Acquire the Fire” youth rally in the capital city. Invitations had been posted throughout Yangon and teams had traveled all over Myanmar for six months to appeal to pastors, youth workers, and leaders to attend this life-changing event. No one could predict how many would come. It had been 60 years since the gospel was publicly proclaimed to this predominantly Buddhist nation. “We were completely dependent on God.”A group of ladies prayed “on location” for 24 hours before the rally began on Friday, July 24.

Seven hundred volunteers from area churches assisted with all aspects of the amazing event. Enormous tents provided cover for 10,000 seats on the field of Yangon’s outdoor Insein Football (soccer) Stadium, with its covered bleachers.

Just days before the main event, David J. (pictured right, already in Myanmar) called Kendall C., his long-time associate in Thailand, about a possible supply of Christian literature. Apparently certain literature plans had not come through, and other sources had to be found quickly. Kendall thought of WMP’s national coordinator in Myanmar and offered to make the connection. “It was a shot in the dark getting a quick reply from Martin (pictured above left),” said Kendall. “But I tried, and he responded!”

For more than half an hour, Kendall in Thailand and Martin in Myanmar shot messages back and forth on Facebook concerning what WMP booklets Martin had available for the event that weekend. “It really was something that only the Lord could have orchestrated!” Kendall wrote later.

Martin committed to 5,000 copies total of Help From Above, A Bible Study on Genesis, He Is Risen! and God Loves You as well as copies of The Way to God andHow to Know God from his “very low supply.”

That very day a Twitter message from David J. informed his followers: “Just secured over 5,000 free Christian booklets from @WMP_USA in Yangon for the @TeenMania @acquirethefire Mission Myanmar! So blessed.”

Teen Mania reported, “Many people traveled hours and hours, by car or bus or train. Some groups rode the train for three days, coming from the northern region…. You could sense the desperation for God that transcended language.

“What a stunning, awe-filled moment to hear the sound of thousands of voices singing in worship to our God! Even more amazing to experience it in the pouring rain, under a massive tent, right in the middle of the capital city of a country where it has only become legal to worship God with this kind of freedom in the past several years. The sounds of around 13,000 people worshiping in both Burmese and English… felt a lot like heaven.”

When the invitation was given to follow Jesus Christ with their whole lives for the first time, “thousands got out of their seats and moved through the mud-soaked ground to lay their hearts before God. About 3,000 people over the course of Friday and Saturday committed their lives to Christ.”

It was on the second day of the “Acquire the Fire” youth conference thatnearly 6,000 WMP booklets were handed out to attendees, along with a free lunch provided by the conference hosts. What a privilege for WMP to be involved in providing God’s Word for such a far-reaching event!
In recent weeks, heavy monsoon rains and Cyclone Komen (with landslides and flash floods) have devastated vast areas of Myanmar. In the Kalay region alone, where Martin’s ministry has churches and where some of WMP’s booklet distributors live, nearly 5,000 families still need food and shelter.

Printings of Help From Above in the Shan language and Meditations in the Psalms in Mizo for Bible study have recently been completed in Myanmar. Martin wants to print 100,000 copies of How to Know Godand 30,000 copies of God Loves You in Burmese to distribute along with relief aid to flood-affected families. “During this time of disaster in Myanmar, people are looking for God.”

Find out more about the Myanmar “Acquire the Fire” event and the recent devastation in Myanmar by scanning the QR code at right or visit www.wmpress-restofthestory.org

  [You can help provide Myanmar with much-needed Scripture materials – a gift of $50 to produce 1,000 Scripture booklets; God Loves You salvation coloring books cost just 15 cents each!]

Grateful Quotes

“Something Written in Their Language”

   Bruce and Gail U. have used World Missionary Press literature in Peru for 20 years. They have planted churches, built safe houses for women and children in distress, established a Bible school for pastors, and developed a camp ministry for children and families. They also visit those in hospitals and prisons.

“Greetings from Peru! Gail has been ministering to four women in prison – one from Germany and three from Thailand – who need Christian literature in their languages. The German [woman] comes from an atheistic family where not one believes in God. And the Thai women all believed in and served Buddha. But now they have all accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior! Praise God! Is it possible that you could send us literature in German and Thai for these new believers?”

 In response, WMP sent Scripture booklets in Thai and German as well as a German New Testament which someone had donated to WMP. Bruce replied,

“Thank you so much for the German New Testament and the booklets in German and Thai. They arrived safely and have already been given to the four women in the Iquitos prison. I wish you could have seen the three Thai women as they saw something written in their language. They were exuberant!! They told me the titles of the booklets and were all smiles as they kept telling me thank you for such a precious gift. The thanks go to you and WMP for making this all possible. May God continue to bless you and the ministry of WMP.”         –Bruce U., Peru

Meet the Team
Marilyn C., Prepress Assistant
I first heard about World Missionary Press through Every Home for Christ. Their prayer request list included World Missionary Press at New Paris, Indiana. When I discovered it was only 55 miles from where I lived, I decided to attend the next open house. A desire had always been in my heart to work for a mission ministry. A couple of years after my first visit, I was asking God if it would be possible for me to be involved with this ministry. It wasn’t long before He  answered this prayer!

After expressing my interest, I was interviewed by Jay and Vicky Benson and Jay asked me to join the staff.  I  guess I passed the test!  I started in January, 2006, more than nine years ago, in the prepress department. I burned and developed printing press plates – before we acquired CTP (Computer-To-Plate) equipment, scanned booklet typesetting and negatives into the computer, and now I prepare languages on the computer for plating.  I also enjoy proofreading.

The best part of WMP is the  printing and sending  of Scripture booklets in many languages to get the  Word of God into the hands and hearts of those who don’t know who Jesus is. It’s amazing how God has brought together so many different personalities, all with the goal of producing and sending out Scripture booklets all over the world. I feel “at home” here, working alongside others who share my desire.

In my spare time I enjoy playing the piano (especially when accompanying someone who sings or plays an instrument), reading, and Bible study.  A friend and I give music programs each week for residents in nursing homes in the Knox, Indiana area.  She plays the flute and I accompany her. With the Lord’s help, I have participated in ministry trips to Guatemala (twice), Cuba, and Argentina.

The Lord has blessed me with  four wonderful children, fourteen grandchildren, three granddaughters-in-law, and six great grandchildren – who were a great comfort to me when my husband passed away in December, 2013. Several have been on mission trips to various countries, which is a great blessing to this mother’s heart!

And now Dale C., a long-time staff member at WMP, is part of my family, too, since we were married on July 18! God brought us together to serve him here at WMP.  To God be the Glory!

   [Last month’s Meet the Team featured Marilyn’s new husband, Dale.]

WMP Partners Around the World

Pioneer Outreach Ministries, Int’l.

For 40 years Howard and Helen T. have been leading teams overseas to build, teach, and evangelize. Each team takes World Missionary Press literature to help give every opportunity to share the message of Christ’s love and sacrifice for hurting, hungry hearts.  WMP celebrates with this faithful couple in what God has done through their obedience to His call.

WMP: Could you briefly describe your ministry and the impact WMP literature has had?

Helen:  I am excited to write a short testimony regarding World Missionary Press literature. We are Rev. Howard and Helen T., Pioneer Outreach Ministries, Int’l. We will celebrate 40 years of ministry and 57 years of marriage in October. Pioneer is a building ministry for churches, Bible schools, pastors’ homes, and feeding centers in remote parts of the world. We have helped in 33 countries, teaching and preaching the Word of God with helps from WMP in many languages and dialects.

Approximately 35 years ago, I was given a coloring book from World Missionary Press by a pastor in Ohio. My heart was inflamed by this book. I immediately made contact with WMP and began receiving these coloring books, New Testaments, and Scripture booklets for Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, India, and many other countries. Many children and adults in remote areas have never seen a coloring book, crayons, or literature such as this. These items are first in our packing. We see smiles from every recipient and have even had teachers of schools request them as literature to teach with. Pastors request the material over and over.

Our visit to World Missionary Press [several years ago for the Open House and Anniversary Dinner] was amazing – to see seniors and others volunteering to run machines. May God keep this press rolling for Jesus!

Howard and Helen both struggle with major health issues. But when planning for a team to Peru in July of this year, Helen (82) called WMP from her hospital bed to be sure they would have Spanish coloring books and New Testaments for the pastors and for the children particularly. The team of 17 returned home with full hearts – blessed beyond measure – stirred by the great needs and what the next step would be for each of them.

President’s Corner

Here at World Missionary Press we just can’t stop praisingGod for the privilege of producing and sending millions of portions of His Word throughout the world every month!Imagine the eternal impact, as He uses these Scripture materials to bring light and life to the lost. Wow!

As a valued member of our team, you are invited to join us October 24 to celebrate our 54th year of ministry! See the enclosed flyer for details about our open house and carry-in dinner. Has it been awhile since you’ve visited? Come see our new property, building upgrades, and new equipment in operation.
You don’t want to miss our carry-in dinner that evening, featuring main speaker Dr. Cleopas Chitapa, Regional Director of the Every Home for Christ work in 25 African nations. Too far to
drive? You can join us via live stream at www.wmpress.org.

A Bonus Blessing – This fall WMP is partnering

with Soles for Jesus, collecting shoes for a container shipment to Africa. Shoes and Scripture are shared together, meeting both physical and spiritual needs. Bring new or gently-used pairs of shoes to our Open House or Dinner to bless bodies and souls in Africa!

Thank you so much for your partnership in reaching millions with the Gospel!

Harold Mack, President

September, 2015 Newsletter (pdf)

Outreach to Our “Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria”

CHRIST’S COMMISSION to His disciples – and to those who followed after – was to GO. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, they would be His witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and “unto the uttermost part of the earth.” The beginning of obedience to this far-reaching command is to GO to those in our “Jerusalem” – the place where we live.

Summer in the United States is a time of festivals, fairs, reunions, parades, sporting events, and busy tourist attractions. These are times when people gather to celebrate, to come out into the community for something new to do and see. Many cities have annual festivals that draw people from surrounding areas – “Judea” and “Samaria” – and even include people from around the world.

Many churches and ministries get involved, realizing that God’s grace has drawn people to their area to perhaps hear the truth of His Word for the first time or to have personal contact with someone who will pray with them and introduce them to the Savior. WMP Scripture booklets play an important role to provide God’s printed Word, which is able to go home with people and speak to hearts over and over.

Michael C. wrote, “We lead people to Christ at fairs. Last year we had 4,400 salvations in Washington State. We use your booklets in our efforts. Thank you so much.”

Joan K. ordered copies of The Way to God and shared plans to man a Prayer Station Booth at the Ohio State Fair. She wrote, “Last year we prayed for 1,000 people and gave out numerous booklets.”

God’s plan for sharing Himself and His Word with the world is implemented when His people follow His command to GO.

Juanita I. was referred to WMP by a minister in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she lives. She wrote, “I have English and French-speaking neighbors who I know are not saved, and I would love the opportunity to reach out to them with the Word of God in both languages. No, I don’t speak or read French, but I’m willing to try to be a witness. We used to have a Bible study in our building for seniors, disabled vets, and other residents, but not anymore. Because I would like to try and get it started again, I am requesting a sample [booklet] display to help me.”

Many groups take WMP gospel literature on summer mission trips. A mission team from northern Indiana reported the blessing of taking Kreyol New Testaments to Haiti. Since Haiti is not a closed country and is so close to the USA, they thought everyone would have a Bible or New Testament. They were saddened to find out that many have never had one. The few Bibles they saw were hard to read, with small print on dark pages.

“The thrilling thing about WMP [New Testaments],” they wrote, “is the larger print on white pages. They are the perfect size! The Bible coloring books were a blessing beyond words! We always pray for an evangelistic tool – these were perfect.” When they return to Haiti in October, they plan to provide salvation coloring books and goodie bags for a pastor/principal who has a school of 1,000 children. “The booklets and teaching books (John and Matthew) will be handed out in the churches, encouraging evangelism among the Haitians – to reach out and share Jesus with their neighbors! Thank you so much for blessing so many!!”

Several WMP staff have also been involved in mission trips to Cuba, India, Mexico, and Nicaragua. In late July, office worker Sharon Z. took a team of five young women to Mozambique (photo below) to work with WMP’s national coordinators in various activities. Their plans included a three-day VBS (using WMP’s coloring book God Loves You in Portuguese), a one-day youth revival, and a special birthday party for orphans.

WMP’s outreach to our own community includes manning a booth at our local county fair – said to be the second largest in the U.S. While sharing Scripture booklets, there is often opportunity for one-on-one conversations and prayer with visitors who have heavy hearts.

Cal Z. asked concerning an India festival in Saginaw, Michigan: “What should we have done? Nothing? Complain about non-Christian immigrants? Or GO and evangelize.” He chose to GO, his green shoulder bag made in India filled with Hindi Scripture booklets from WMP. He reported: “Not one single Hindi-speaking person refused our Scripture booklets.” One man who had been seated when given a copy of Help From Above in Hindi, got up and followed them, exclaiming, “I value this! I value this! Please give me some more.”

As we lift our eyes and see opportunities around us, let us ask the Lord of the harvest where He would have us work for Him this day. At a local softball tournament? A city celebration? A family reunion across the street? As we GO, He has promised to be with us.

   [You can help provide Scripture materials for short-term mission trips, and for outreaches throughout the US and Canada. $25 will fund production and shipping of 500 power-packed Scripture booklets; A gift of $100 will help reach 2,000 with portions of God‘s eternal Word!]

Grateful Quotes

So Many People Groups to Reach in the Netherlands

“I pray the Lord will lead me in giving booklets, tracts, Bibles, etc. I meet people from many countries because there are so many people groups in the Netherlands. First of all I evangelize among truck drivers, but I also see other people. Last Sunday I was biking in our city, and I felt led to offer a Gospel of John to a man I saw walking along the road. I soon discovered he couldn’t talk and read Dutch very well, so I said, ‘I’m sorry to ask, but perhaps your native language isn’t Dutch?’ He admitted it. He told me he could speak Farsi, so I looked for something in Farsi. I couldn’t find Farsi so quick, and I said, ‘I see a Dari New Testament, but well, that’s not Farsi.’ He said, ‘But Dari is officially my mother language. Dari is better than Farsi!’ I have so long taken this Dari New Testament with me for nothing, but after all these years I could give it to this person!

“A week before, I was evangelizing at a parking place. There were many truck drivers. After I had given them tracts, etc. I saw a coach from Germany. Most of them were Germans. Only some of them would accept a booklet. I also saw some very dark-skinned people. I also offered them a booklet, but they couldn’t speak German.  They could speak English, but their native language was Hindi. For the first time in years I met someone who could speak Hindi, so I offered them a booklet in Hindi that I once ordered from WMP…. They were so happy!

“There are nationalities I meet very often, like Polish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian truckers, but I try to take as many languages with me as I can. I always think I might meet a ‘new nationality.’ In those years I couldn’t once offer anything. Those people were from Ethiopia or Eritrea, I don’t remember exactly. I would like to also order languages I didn’t meet until now because I know there are people of those languages in my country. May God bless you.”     –Francis W.

   Francis ordered booklets in 27 languages, including the Gospel of John in Dari.

Meet the Team

Dale C., Small Orders

I found a Help From Above in the tract rack in my church in Wisconsin and sent for a sample packet. I was planning a three-day vacation, pondering where to go, saw the newsletter on the coffee table, and decided to come for a visit and volunteer. I worked in a variety of jobs while here and asked the president to keep me in mind if they ever needed a pressman. About four weeks later I was employed at WMP.

I first learned how to run a printing press in the basement of my church in Wisconsin, printing the Gospel of John and Romans. While working in the printing ministry at church, I was able to get a job in a commercial print shop. I prayed many times asking the Lord to let me work full time printing His Word. As useful as other tracts may be, I felt the Word of God was the best piece of literature a lost soul could receive.

I’ve been working at WMP for 22 years. Currently I work in the Small Orders Department with eight faithful and dedicated volunteers, fulfilling domestic and foreign orders from one booklet up to 50 ten-pound boxes. Over the years I have also worked on the web press, printing the insides of booklets, and the two-color Hashimoto press printing the covers of the booklets.

God reveals Himself through His Word. He reveals the true condition of a person’s heart toward God, the need for forgiveness of sin, and the worship due to the true and living God through the Lord Jesus Christ. He has saved me for this purpose and that I would be a laborer in His harvest field. I see how God is using others by the number of different languages requested, and sending the booklets all over the world to the people who have prayed asking the Lord to supply a means for reaching the lost. We at WMP are privileged to be a part of God’s answer to their prayer.

I enjoy gardening and woodworking as well as being a frustrated student of the hammer dulcimer. I am also head greeter at church and involved in a men’s prayer group and nursing home ministry. I am married to the most beautiful, godly woman I know. I see much of Jesus in her and she encourages me much in Christlikeness. God has blessed Marilyn with great piano accompaniment skill and much patience as we attempt to play our instruments together.

   [Dale and Marilyn met at WMP and were married July 18, 2015. Marilyn will be featured in next month’s Meet the Team.]

WMP Partners Around the World

Ricardo M., Costa Rica

Pastor Ricardo has served as WMP’s national coordinator in Costa Rica since 2010. Availability of WMP literature has energized believers in Costa Rica, leading to greater outreach. On a visit to the U.S., Pastor Ricardo encouraged our staff with his enthusiasm and gratitude for the Scripture booklets. He will soon receive another 20-foot container of Scripture booklets for Costa Rica as well as for a new, developing ministry in Belize.

   WMP: Please describe how you are currently reaching your country with the gospel.

   Ricardo: As a missionary/pastor in the Republic of Costa Rica, it has been a great blessing of God to be able to count on the help of WMP to reach more lives in communities and cities. [Your material] is a powerful tool for pastoral work in the various denominations and ministries of Costa Rica. One of the greatest things that has happened is that [it has] united the body of Christ, breaking down denominational divisions and lifting up the powerful name of Christ.

   WMP: How long have you been distributing WMP literature?

   Ricardo: In 2008 I met Brother Adalberto S. [WMP’s national coordinator in Puerto Rico] at a Voice of the Martyrs conference in Costa Rica. He visited us where we did street evangelism. When I saw the booklets, my soul was happy. I told him that we needed booklets in Costa Rica, as we did not have any.  He gave us about 800 booklets in a bag and told us that we would soon receive more. We began to learn about WMP and to receive booklets by mail. A year later we received 2 skids of booklets [95,000 Scripture booklets plus Bible studies and salvation coloring books] that provoked great joy in the people of God. We have been distributing them for six years. Every year we have received more. Last time there were 1,782 boxes, and with this new order, we hope for 2,000 boxes.  (He will receive 2,560 boxes – 1,186,340 items –  in the upcoming 20-foot container shipment.)

WMP: How does having free literature affect evangelism in your country?

   Ricardo: Since Scripture booklets became available, we have been able to develop massive campaigns in communities, which have brought growth to the congregations. It’s a blessing of God to see both children and adults reaching people for Christ. Organizing churches to work together, not considering denominations, has brought down walls that had divided them. There is much work in the streets, and many desire to reach out with the gospel.

It has helped the churches deepen their faith, and we have made discipleship classes with the children on Sundays. Those who do not have a Bible now have a New Testament and can read the Word of the Lord. What a blessing it has been to respond to these questions! We desire rich and abundant blessing in the Lord to all that comprise WMP!

   [WMP is planning the next shipment for Brother Ricardo in Costa Rica. You can help impact lives for eternity! A gift of $26.70 will fund a box of 30 Spanish New Testaments; $50 will provide 1,000 48-page Scripture booklets.]