World Missionary Press, Inc.
October/November 2006 Newsletter

    Marina's mother accepted a Scripture booklet in the marketplace and took it home to her crippled daughter. Now, 21 years later, though still unable to walk, Marina counts her blessings and says, "Oh, how good God was in bringing the gospel to my home!" It was through the printed gospel message that Marina came to accept Christ as Savior. God has been at work in Brazil for years!
    When WMP plans for shipments to Brazil, it is a BIG project. This fifth largest country in the world, with 172 million people and almost half the total land area of South America, presents vast opportunities and challenges for the spread of the gospel. Approximately 82 percent of the population lives in cities, providing for concentrated evangelism. But among these city dwellers, 40 million survive in the "favelas" or urban slums, including 13 million children living without sufficient care or food. Many find the only means of survival through crime.
    Along the mighty Amazon River in northern Brazil, there are villages that can only be reached by boat and precious souls who have never heard of Jesus. From the vast Amazon Basin in the north to the mega cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in the south, the gospel is being heard and received. One report says that Brazilian Christians are one of the fastest growing forces in Latin American missions, sending out a substantial number of missionaries throughout the world.
    WMP has many faithful distributors in Brazil, including national coordinator Erno Engelsdorf, who eagerly await the next supply of Scripture booklets. When Jay Benson and Harold Mack last visited Brazil, they heard many reports of how the booklets had been dispersed and what the Lord is doing in hearts through the power of His Word. Other reports continue to arrive by mail:
    "After I was baptized, I had to share the gospel with others. I have made four trips to the north of Brazil, and since I began receiving booklets from [WMP], I've made four trips to the Amazon region. It is a very poor area. Every trip I've made, there were 200-210 people who accepted Christ. Every trip I take, I include 50,000 [WMP] booklets."  ---P.J.S.
    "I have a son who is in prison. When I went to visit him, I saw the door open to sharing Christ. Every time I go to visit my son, I take booklets and have a service at the prison. Many prisoners (50-60) come to hear about Christ and receive booklets. And when family members come to visit the prisoners, they ask for booklets to take home to give to other members of the family. I have just a small problem now - I'm out of booklets. I have a 'debt' of over 20,000 booklets that I've promised to give to different prisons. There are over 50 members of my church ready to work with me in the prisons." ---P.C.M.
    "I have been a pastor for 10 years. Before that, I was a robber and in prison. I accepted Christ in prison. When I was in prison, I came to know the booklet, Who Am I That A King Would Die in My Place? I loved this booklet so much. I asked someone in prison to read the booklet for me. He read to me, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes unto the Father but by me.' When I got out of prison, I used this material in my evangelism work. I distributed booklets in prisons, police departments, hospitals, and on the streets. When I go on the buses, I say to the people, 'Before, I was a robber and got on buses to steal; now I am here to give you something good.' Many of the people who ride the buses to work have accepted Christ."   ---P.S.
    "The work you are doing is very important for us. When we leave the hospitals, we know we have left part of the Word of God so the patients have something to read."    ---M.A.B. (retired nurse)
    Brother Clovis Nogueira of São Paulo is an ardent distributor who has been using WMP booklets for many years. He writes,
    "Dear brothers, we are desperate because we have no literature and the job of evangelism has been stopped. Brothers, we cannot stop with evangelism because thousands of souls are dying."
    A young woman from central Indiana recently visited WMP and shared the burden she and her family have for the area of Obidos, Para, Brazil. They had heard that WMP had literature for Brazil and came to see how to obtain booklets once they reached the field. They will be working with local pastors who have no material to share with their people or to use for evangelism.
    To help meet the vast needs in Brazil, WMP is preparing three 40-ft. containers with 12,626 boxes of booklets, including 2,040,000 copies of The Way to God in Portuguese. These booklets are urgently needed to encourage and train Christian leaders as well as reach those whose hearts are heavy with hopelessness and fear. As WMP's coordinator Erno Engelsdorf has shared, now is the best time to reach Brazil with the gospel.
    [You can help reach people in Brazil. A $20 gift provides 500 Scripture booklets; $100 provides 2,500 booklets; and $500 reaches 12,500 precious people of Brazil.]

    WMP recently provided Scripture booklets and Bible study books for two ministry outreaches in Nicaragua. Each one expressed their gratitude for the material and praise to God for what He is doing in this land.
    The Way of the Cross Ministries received over 870,000 Scripture booklets in Spanish as well as more than 200,000 copies of A Bible Study on John for a major outreach in seven specific areas of Nicaragua. Teams from the USA joined with Nicaraguan pastors for a one-week evangelistic thrust into the countryside. God touched hearts and a reported 125,175 people accepted Jesus Christ as Savior.
    "What a great blessing World Missionary Press is to the nation of Nicaragua! We have handed out thousands upon thousands of Scripture booklets throughout the whole nation, as well as [Bible studies on] John to all who received Jesus. We have shared extra Scripture booklets with more than 1,000 pastors and spiritual leaders of the nation of Nicaragua. It was such a blessing to see their desire for literature. I watched the school children read everything so intently, especially A Bible Study on John. I would really encourage all [who are involved in] WMP. The work you do for the Lord is tremendous. You will never know the great blessing it is for the kingdom until you go to be with Jesus. Thank you so much."   

    Steve Bakos of the Messiah Project in Managua, Nicaragua, requested 1,416 boxes of Spanish literature as well as 600 boxes of The Way to God and Help from Above in the Miskito language.
    "All I can say is God's timing was perfect once again. I say that not only because we have handed out all of the first shipment you sent, but also because this shipment arrived on the heels of a 40-ft. container of rice donated for the starving Miskito Indians on the Rio Coco. We were in the process of getting the 40,000 lbs. of rice cleared through customs when your container of literature arrived.
   "I stood in awe of God as my mind went back to the first distribution of booklets in the Miskito language. The Lord had given a village 2,000 lbs. of bean seed, and your booklets arrived just in time to be handed out with this blessing. Now the Lord has multiplied that, and this week we will begin distributing 30 lbs. of rice per family to more than 1,200 hungry families in all 12 villages of the lower river. With this new shipment, every person in those villages will receive copies of both booklets in Miskito. We will not only be preaching of the Lord's mercy and compassion, but we will also be showing it as well. Thank you so much for this wonderful gift of God's Word."

   45th Anniversary Celebration
  You are invited to our 45th anniversary Celebration carry-in Dinner and program on Saturday, October 21, 6:00 p.m. at Maple City Chapel (former WalMart), located on U.S. 33 southeast of Goshen, Indiana.
    Forty-five singers and Director Menno Beachy of the Mountain Anthems from Salisbury, Pennsylvania, will provide special music.
    Santosh Thomas, who uses WMP Scripture booklets in his ministry in Kashmir, India, will speak. Doors open at 5:00. Special music starts at 5:30. Call 1-574-831-2111 to ask questions or to indicate your plans to come.
 The Dinner is preceded by Open House at WMP from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Tours, films, refreshments.

If you would like a printout of the dinner flyer please click here... Invitation to Dinner Flyer  "Shrink oversize pages to paper size" for printing.

Email us your reservations, please include Name, Address, what food items you are bringing and number of people who will be attending with you!  Email us at:  mailroom@wmpress.org

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