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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!
Tons of Truth
Goal: 2008 264 Tons (12 containers)
Behind the varying colors of each persons face, the culture and practices of every people, and the confusing sounds of their tongues, still we have only people. People who wander aimlessly searching for the meaning of their lives, people groping in the darkness without even a hope of light.John 1:1 says; "In the beginning was the word. The word was with God and the word was God." The word "Logos" is the Greek word from which is derived the English word "Logic". Jesus is the logic of life! The answer to this worlds confusion. By placing in peoples hand the written word of God, we are helping to provide them a map out of sins maze of madness, and clear directions to the foot of Calvary's Cross.
Tons of Truth is our effort to give them a map. We ship not cartons or crates but containers full of the precious word of God.
Lord willing we are planning to be in Guinea Bissau middle to late August on a 2 to 3 week trip sharing the gospel with 360,000 students. This will require assembling the packets in 3 phases of 120,000 each. It takes $1.00 + per packet to produce and about $1.00 to deliver. The packing dates are tenative for January, February and May. The first two will take place in Radcliff Kentucky at the Fellowship Independent Baptist Church and the third will be in Mount Grove Missouri at the Whetstone Baptist Church.
For trip information check the Special O.P.S. section of the website.
Here at Preach Evangelistic Ministries we have arranged through years of reputation and relationships, the facilitation of printing, trucking, and warehousing of these materials. Yet, these Tons of Truth must not be held hostage by indifference or indolence. We as the stewards of the seed, must get it out of the barn:
Your sacrificial gift of $380 pays the shipping from port to port of an entire Ton of Truth.
With every 22 individuals or churches collectively working together, a 40 foot shipping container will be sent from our storehouses to their searching souls. Please help us now to sow this generation with the seed of God's precious word.
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Preach Evangelistic Ministries
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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!