World Missionary Press, Inc.
October/November 2008 Newsletter

No Place His Love Cannot Reach

IN 1978 IN THE INTERIOR of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I was converted when I read the booklet, Help From Above. A year later I gave this same booklet to my cousin, and he also was converted. Today he is a pastor. For this reason I would like to receive more booklets for personal evangelism, because I know of no other which is more complete."

   The power of the Word of God to touch the heart and lead a seeker to salvation is not bound by geography. No place on earth is beyond the Savior's love and wooing.

   The region of the South Pacific is filled with small islands and vastly populated nations. Indonesia, Australia, Philippines, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Malaysia, East Timor, Samoa, New Zealand, and many others all receive booklets from WMP. In some areas gospel booklets can be shared openly, while in others believers must be wary of angry responses and recriminations. Still, God is calling out His own in those distant places.

   John Sticking, an active distributor of WMP booklets for 15 years, shared this testimony: "Thank you for your faithful supply of Christian literature in the form of booklets for the years we have served the Lord in our outreach here in Perth, Australia. Our population has tripled during this time, and we now have around 2 million people from 120 countries. We are reaching out to them using 60 different languages - all of which have been supplied to us from WMP. We are very grateful to the generosity of WMP, because without you we could not do what we do.

   "We have had the joy of seeing many souls from many different cultures and languages turn to faith in Jesus Christ. One in particular stands out. I had a call one day from a man who had befriended a Hungarian family in his apartment block. They were new immigrants and spoke very little English. The father was critically ill with a terminal illness. Not only did they need friends, but they also needed hope. I sent Who Am I That a King Would Die in My Place? and Help From Above in the Hungarian language for them through this man. 

   "I didn't hear back from that man until I was speaking at a church meeting about one year later. I had finished speaking, when he stood up and told how he was the one who had called and asked for the literature for the Hungarian family. He said that the father had since died, but before doing so, he and his whole family had put their faith and trust in Jesus [for their] salvation. I wept for joy. So often we don't hear of what happens in the hearts of those we reach out to so diligently. A special thank you to WMP and to those who faithfully support the publishing of God's Word. You enable us to reach so many others, and for this we are deeply grateful."

   A young man from the USA, serving the Lord in Fiji, is able to take booklets into the public schools. A man working throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific arranged for boxes of booklets to be sent to several ministries in East Timor. An international ladies ministry in New Zealand uses WMP booklets to reach foreign nationals. They regularly do home visits and report that people are hungry for Jesus. "They love having something to read in their own language." A couple from New Zealand discovered WMP and reports that the booklets "are a hit in our country. They are so appropriate in what we do in obeying the great commission."      

   Every Home for Christ in Samoa is using How to Know God and The Way to God in English as well as Help From Above in Samoan to reach every home in that island nation of 170,000 people.  

   In spite of growing resistance and danger, believers in Indonesia and other parts of the region continue to request booklets to share. WMP's faithful partner in Indonesia prints booklets as we are able to provide funding. 

   "I read your booklet Help From Above given by a friend while I was a student. I am richly blessed by its contents from the Word of God. Now that I am in the ministry, it is my desire to reach souls by giving them gospel literature and to build the faith of the brethren through solid Bible-based material like yours. I would like to request Help From Above in Cebuano. We are committed to distribute as many as the Lord will provide."

   This request from the Philippines, and many others like it, was forwarded to our national coordinator there. Bert Manlapaz replied, "I have no more stock of WMP booklets in my warehouse, hence I cannot comply with the many requests through letters and emails that I am receiving." Our production team is currently preparing a 40-ft. container to help meet this great need. Bible schools are encouraging their students to "saturate their community and schools with the booklets." Inner-city churches regularly go to the streets where sin holds men and women in bondage. Every opportunity requires a resupply of booklets.

   [You can help provide Scripture booklets for the Philippines. Every donated dollar reaches 25 people with the gospel. A gift of $50 touches 1,250 people; a $200 investment impacts 5,000 Filipinos with God's powerful Word.]

   Whether in a modern, heavily populated city such as Singapore or on one of the 100 inhabited islands of Micronesia, people need God's love and His Word. He knows each one personally and wants each one to spend eternity with Him in the place He has prepared for them.

Around the World with the Word of God

   

    These school children in a very remote part of Bolivia were visited by Brother Gus and his team for the first time. Their teacher wanted them to have The Way to God booklets and learn from the Word of God. Distribution of over one million booklets is scheduled for schools throughout Bolivia.

     A family from Port Orchard, Washington, traveled all the way down to Los Cabos, Mexico, across the Sea of Cortez, and around the mainland through Texas, passing out WMP Scripture booklets. This young man is just one of many children who were discipled using The Way to God.

    A distributor from Arizona took a supply of Scripture booklets on a trip to the Philippines. 

   "My main thrust was to minister to the Mungyan people. A pastor from Korea has started nine churches on Mindoro Island with native peoples and native pastors. I gave him this box of booklets so he could distribute to his contacts in the hills who could not come to the meetings."

   In one month, distributors in Chile shared 62,500 Scripture booklets on the streets, in hospitals and jails, and in homes. They are happy because they know they can evangelize Chile thanks to the work of WMP. 

   Pastor Alfredo Pena, WMP's national coordinator in Uruguay, has a strong ministry to prisoners. Permitted to enter the prison, he set up his music and began singing and preaching. Many prisoners listened through the bars of their cells, sending down requests for prayer. Seven men responded to the gospel and prayed to receive Jesus Christ as Savior, ignoring the ridicule and taunts of other prisoners. They were desperate for the peace of God in their hearts. Brother Alfredo shared WMP's Spanish New Testaments with these new brothers in Christ and distributed 1,800 Scripture booklets to the prisoners and their visitors.
 

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