World
Missionary Press, Inc.
2010 August/September - News Letter
Needed:
An Unrelenting Effort
At the other end of the journey, eager hands are waiting to begin their
part. Many have waited long months for
the precious booklets. Plans have been laid to reach villages, schools, prisons,
and markets. Requests for booklets reach national coordinators day after day
even if there are no booklets to offer. But at last the boxes arrive!
"With hearts full of gratitude we send you our thanks and
appreciation for all the effort by the WMP team to make this shipment of a
40-foot container to Central African Republic (CAR) a success. We were
full of joy when the container was delivered. Twelve people worked for four
hours to transfer the booklets into our literature storage. We praise the Lord
for these invaluable tools for the harvest of souls in the sub-region. We thank
God for your sacrifice and dedication to seeing that we are equipped. Believe
God with us for multiplication of faithful disciples through new church plants
this year. Pray also that our evangelistic efforts in both the prisons and
among the elites will be crowned with huge success."
The request for this shipment to CAR was first entered into the WMP production
sequence in May 2009. It arrived in CAR in June 2010. Often WMP national
coordinators will have nothing to share for many months while they wait to
hear that their shipment has reached the production stage. Other coordinators
will carefully share the few boxes remaining to assist as many ministries and
churches as possible. Each one has received enthusiastic reports of how the Word
of God is changing lives.
"I always interact with the churches that collected the literature,"
wrote J.O. of Nigeria, "and from my interaction I found that the
material is making a great impact in the life of youth and new converts.
Booklets used in evangelism and Bible studies [result in] many souls
converted. New believers have been grounded firm in the faith.
"I thank World Missionary Press for sending the materials to Nigeria. And I
encourage them not to relent in their effort. God is using the materials to
touch a lot of souls. More people are discovering the potential in your
literature day by day. We have less than 100 boxes in stock, and in one month it
will be finished. Therefore I am requesting another container."
For 49 years God has been our great Provider. He has sent money, staff,
volunteers, and prayer partners. More than 1.5 billion booklets have been
sent throughout the world in fulfillment of the vision God gave Watson and Rose
Goodman as they served among children and teenagers in South Africa. They knew
that a crucial factor in reaching so many needy hearts in so many places was
through use of Scripture booklets. By faith, they followed God's leading. Today
WMP sends out millions of booklets each month - and yet many still wait to
hear. Why should they wait?
"I will not sleep until I send this report to you this night," wrote a
distributor in Cameroon. "Thank you, thank you,
World Missionary Press - to every person who has helped in any way to get the
printed booklets into the hands of the people, especially the lost. We could
not have reached out the way we do without these printed booklets."
God has provided coordinators in 70 nations to help distribute WMP booklets.
Each one gives voluntarily of his time and effort to process the shipments, deal
with officials, arrange storage and transportation, and oversee widespread
distribution. A new coordinator for the greater Mexico City area agreed to
receive a 40-foot container with 4,215 boxes. An association of more than 750
churches there wanted to give each church opportunity to have these tools
for their evangelism. Eighteen months after this group submitted its request,
the container arrived in Mexico City. From the 4,215 boxes, these 750 churches
will at last have booklets to share - but they will have only several boxes
each. One day after the container arrived and was unloaded, the WMP
coordinator put in a request for another shipment! "I just want to tell
you that we already have many requests for the material you are sending this
time, and that we probably will need more as soon as you can send it."
[An investment of $100 for Scripture booklets for Mexico reaches 2,500 people.]
The need is great! Mexico City has a metropolitan population of more than
25 million people. One container, that took 16 months to be produced and arrive,
carried about two million booklets. Meanwhile shipments to Brazil (194
million people), Nigeria (154 million), and India (1.2 billion
people) wait in line. National pastors and
evangelists visit WMP with hearts full of gratitude for the booklets they
have received - but broken by thoughts of all those waiting to
hear.
WMP's coordinator in Chiapas, Mexico, reports an increased responsiveness
to the preaching of the gospel in many areas as a result of WMP booklets
being distributed. In one municipality, 
the
brothers had always been run off because the people there did not want the
preaching of the gospel. The brothers then distributed booklets in the area and
trusted that the seed would do its work. Last month, when they visited again,
they saw what God had done through the booklets: The people received the Word
of God with joy! "We that live here in Chiapas understand that this is
a true miracle of God."
In another city, booklets were distributed house by house. An outdoor preaching
service followed the booklet distribution. After the service, the leader of the
community came to 
the
evangelists with tears in his eyes. "Please do not leave us. We want
you to continue preaching the Word of God. My town needs not only these booklets
but also to have the Word of God explained to us." 
The arrival of boxes from WMP can carry the breath of encouragement and
brotherly love from afar. "Thank you very much for the help you have given
us," wrote Raul from Ecuador. "It is a great blessing to know brothers
who are involved in the work of the Lord like you are. This encourages us
greatly to continue working in evangelism because many times we get a little
faint and weary when we don't have materials necessary to work efficiently for
our Lord. But thanks to God that He put in our way faithful servants like
yourselves in order that we can complete the great commission."
Bishop C. of Malawi wrote, "We have been blessed by your booklet entitled 'Njira
ya kwa Mulungu' (The Way to God) in Chichewa. Please, please, men of God,
would you send us these booklets? They are in high demand. We have 12,000
members in our ministry in different places here in Malawi."
When WMP receives requests such as this, we realize it may be months before we
can fill the order. Like Hezekiah, we lay these requests before the Lord and ask
for His supply.
[God has provided facility, equipment, staff, and volunteers to greatly
increase production. As financial support allows that increase, we will
gladly do the work . . . to reach many more millions with portions of the
powerful Word of God. A gift of $200 will reach 5,000 people. An investment of
$1,000 will touch 25,000 precious readers with life-giving truth from God's
Word. Every dollar counts.]
"Direct-to-Plate"
Technology for WMP Pre-Press Department
WMP
had been investigating equipment for "direct-to-plate" capability for
several years. This technology sends printing jobs directly from the computer to
platemaking equipment, eliminating the process of making negatives (and
stripping up negatives into forms) before printing plates are burned with the
printing image. Printing plates can be produced direct from computer for all
three of our presses at the rate of 26 per hour, allowing capacity for growth
in production. Fixing errors and making new plates is easy and fast, saving
time and money.
God led WMP to lightly-used direct-to-plate equipment in good condition for just
$30,000 plus $2,000 for shipping. We praise God for quickly providing complete
funding for this need through many friends who responded to this opportunity.
The equipment is now in our plant ready to be installed.
49th
Anniversary Celebration - October 23
YOU
ARE ENCOURAGED to attend our 49th Anniversary Celebration carry-in Dinner and
program on
Saturday, October 23, 6:00 p.m. at Maple City Chapel, located on U.S. 33
southeast of Goshen, Indiana.
Special
music starts at 5:30.
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