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Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau Trips 2009
The Cape Verde trip dates are set for May 26th - June 9th of 2009. The cost is $2500. Register for the Cape Verde Trip HereThere are two Guinea-Bissau trips this year. The first is set for August 4th - 21st of 2009. The cost is $3500. The second is set for November 9th - December 1st of 2009. The cost is $3500. Register for the Guinea-Bissau Trips Here
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How Do You Reach 360,000 Students?
There are three aspects to literature distribution in West Africa: printing, shipping, and distribution. Simple as that may sound; each of these is paramount to the salvation of souls in foreign cultures. These three equally important legs strongly support our evangelistic thrust into the heart land of countries in darkness. Actually, this is teamwork at its finest. Let me explain.The lion’s share of printing for Guinea-Bissau has been accomplished by
- Colonial Baptist Press of Charlottesville, Virginia,
- Bearing Precious Seed of Milford, Ohio, and
- Fellowship Tract League of Lebanon, Ohio.
Our home church, Fellowship Independent Baptist Church of Radcliff, Kentucky, and other churches have labored tirelessly preparing the packets for Guinea-Bissau. Whetstone Baptist Church of Mountain Grove, Missouri hosted a packing project for churches in Southwestern Missouri. Packing 360,000 packets demands over 6,500 man-hours of hands on work. Logistic Solutions of Elizabethtown, Ky. allows us storage space in their warehouse for shipping with a local trucking company. We have had the added blessing of a company in Augusta, Georgia, Thompson Lift Truck Company, donating an electric pallet jack for moving the many heavy pallets in the warehouse.
All of these have labored on this front to support Preach Evangelistic Ministries and the volunteer team who will step into Guinea-Bissau in November 2008. With all of these done, preparations are not complete. The twelve containers of literature must be delivered to port, shipped overseas, received out of port, unloaded, and then someone must put their hands and back into moving the 11,250 boxes onto trucks, off of trucks, into classrooms, and finally into the hands and hearts of those who do not know our Savior. One day the psalmist David viewed the battlefield, heard the defiance of God’s enemies, and cried out, "Is there not a cause?" Our cause is right. Our course is set. Our challenge is before us. Thank you each and everyone who are laboring for God’s glory. TEAMWORK still works!
Ladies' Retreat: The Tender Touch
World Evangelism Vision: The Unfinished Task
It has been said that a vision should be so clear and well defined it should fit on the front of a T-shirt, or told in just two words. Well, those two words are "Portuguese People". Every tool, resource and opportunity God gives us, we wish to utilize, that the gospel might be preached among the Portuguese nations of the world. PREACH Evangelistic Ministries was born out of a vision to reach not just one country, but also a people.Today scattered across four continents, and nine countries, you’ll find over 240 million people of the Portuguese expression. Our vision is to prepare national pastors to plant churches in every single one of these countries.
The 10/40 Window is the area between the 40° Parallel north of the equator, and the 10° Parallel south of the equator. Shown in the graph above is activity by missionaries, from all denominations, including those that do and do not proclaim the Gospel. About 30% of these are evangelicals.
Christianity In the Window
... Only 1.2% of all mission funds goes to the Window.... Only 1% of all Scripture distribution are distributed to the 10/40 Window.
... Only 3% of all the languages for which the Bible has been translated are directed toward the Window
EVERY 13 MINUTES, OVER 2,300 SOULS PASS INTO ETERNITY...
As the leadership of the Holy Spirit's guiding in the area of missions is being replaced by the institutions of men, a disproportion has occurred in that 90% of the missionaries today are in only one-third of the world's countries, leaving just 10% to cover the remaining two-thirds of the globe. The most modem countries are the most evangelized, with our missionaries rather choosing the comforts and conveniences of a modernized society over the responsibility to reach where Christ has not been named. The strain and effort of learning a foreign language and adapting to a substandard culture has prompted us to embrace and pursue a substandard calling.Because this unwillingness to abandon our familiar environment generates endeavors that are powered only by human strength, 49 of every 50 missionaries sent to the field will never return for their second term of service. Although the Great Commission was not intended to be an unending task that would continue indefinitely, the structure of our means to fulfill this command has restricted our effectiveness such that the number of souls being born is outpacing the number of souls that are being born again.
Brother Paul Pritchard tells the story of a man who walked a great distance to meet with the PREACH team. There was initially some confusion when this man returned a salvation tract; it appeared as if he was rejecting the Word. Paul speaks Portuguese fluently and discovered that this man had gotten saved, signed the back of the tract, and walked this great distance to publicly announce that he was saved and with great pride he signed the back of the tract!