World
Missionary Press, Inc.
2011 August/September Newsletter
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Ministry to Schools in Bolivia FOR
YEARS missionary Gus Schlamp and a terrific team of pastors and co-workers
have been responding to awesome open doors into
public schools throughout the countryside of Bolivia. School principals or
headmasters readily welcome these visitors and invite them to share with their
students, either in individual classes or during assemblies of the entire
student body.
After questions have been answered, the workers invite students and teachers
alike to pray: "Dear Lord Jesus, Thank You for dying on the cross to take
away my sins. I am sorry for all the wrong things I have done. I ask You to
please come into my heart and live in my heart forever. I am trusting You right
now to make my heart clean. I take You to be my very own Savior and Lord. In
Your name I pray, Amen." In
addition to the rural schools mentioned above, pastors have also been visiting
schools in the cities of Bolivia, and during that same period of time shared
The Way to God with 2,012,804 students and teachers. What a wonderful open
door into hearts and minds of the young people in Bolivia! Mother
saved at childbirth
Pastor
Jaime has worked in rural communities in Bolivia for five years, distributing The
Way to God Scripture booklets house to house. Each booklet has his address
and cell phone number on the back. He wrote, "One night, close to midnight,
I received a call from a 12-yearold boy whose mom was having childbirth
contractions and didn't have anyone to help her. Her son found my number on a
booklet and called me. I went there with others to take care of her, and she
accepted salvation along with her new child." Massive
Production for Spanish-speaking Nations
The e-mail from Dominican Republic carried a sense of urgency. When would the
shipment of WMP booklets arrive? It was expected before now, and so many were
pleading for booklets. As Harold Mack, WMP Director of Global Distribution, sent
his reply, it carried the same message he had sent to so many other distributors
waiting for booklets:
"Thank you for your e-mail regarding the upcoming shipment for Dominican
Republic. I am sorry that it is taking so long to complete the production of
Spanish for many Latin American countries. So many of our distributors
throughout Latin America have been waiting and waiting for another shipment of
Scripture booklets.
Unfortunately our income recently has been far below budget. We are totally
reliant on God for provision when the income is
In Sonora, Mexico, an increasing number of churches have taken up the challenge
of reaching their part of Mexico with the gospel, particularly through
distribution of WMP booklets. WMP will be sending its first container shipment
for this area of Mexico in the coming weeks. These pastors and church leaders
are eager to begin major outreach campaigns once the literature is received. Our
coordinator for Sonora state wrote, "Any word when we might look for the
container for Sonora, Mexico? As you know this shipment covers over 3,000
different church groups and more than that in mission groups."
Requests for WMP literature in Spanish has continued to grow. The current
production schedule calls for the equivalent of 21,158,184 Scripture booklets.
This printing will provide for 25 national coordinators and major distributors
in 15 countries, including Spain and Equatorial Guinea, the only
Spanish-speaking country in Africa.
[You can help provide Scripture booklets for reaching Spanish-speaking nations.
A $50 gift will provide 1,250 booklets; $100 will provide 2,500; and $1,000 will
provide 25,000
The Way to God Scripture booklets. What an investment into open hearts and
minds!] Urgent
Prayer Needed
While contributions in the first 8 months of this fiscal year are only 5 percent
below last years level (and under budget 8.8 percent), the impact is more
because we began last year with an extra $523,000 to work with assets
transferred from a ministry which dissolved. Please believe God with us to
provide for what He knows is needed and to multiply the effectiveness of the
Scriptures we are able to print and ship.
6:00
p.m., Saturday
The Jesus Movement swept hundreds of thousands of young souls (including Pat)
into the kingdom of God nearly 40 years
In 1987, pressing into missions outreaches in Guatemala, Mexico, and then
China (where Pat met Windy, the girl who became his wife), the fervency
and dedication of ministry developed into full-time missionary work which
has expanded into Burma and Thailand, where Pat and Windy live and
preach the gospel in jungles. World
Missionary Press has provided Scripture booklets they have handed to tens of
thousands during the past 23 years in Asia, among the tribal villages and
inner-cities of the Buddhist bamboo nations. Saturday,
October 22, 2011; 6:00 p.m. Special
music begins at 5:30 p.m. Maple
City Chapel, 2015 Lincolnway Maple
City Chapel has a BIG sign by the road.
Call
(574) 831-2111 (ext. 0) for Reservations.
Workers pass out copies of Spanish The Way to God Scripture booklets,
then teach through the booklets page by page, emphasizing and clarifying points
of the gospel message. When they come to page 24, "How to Find Your Way to
God," they talk through the steps leading to salvation.
An amazing number of students and teachers in public school settings choose to
give their hearts to the Lord. From 2005 through 2010, teams visited 5,669
schools, ministering to 44,734 teachers and 687,196 students. Of that number,
549,756 indicated that they had invited Jesus into their hearts as Savior. The
Way to God Scripture booklet is left with each student and teacher as a
follow-up tool.
down, we must reduce the rate of production. This month we had to further
reduce our targeted production to 3 million booklets (we averaged 6 million
per month all of last fiscal year). So because we are producing at
such a reduced rate, the production takes much longer to complete. As
the Lord provides, we hope to send out all of the many Spanish shipments
during the next few months."
October
22, 2011
Pat
Caspary
was raised in a family of ten in American suburbia, but as the tumultuous 1960s
took their course, Pat went the way of drugs, arrests, and the hippie lifestyle.
ago. Immediately, and for most of the next 16 years, Pat became a street
evangelist and ministered in pulpits, leading teams onto the boulevards to
share the Way, the Truth, and the Life found in Jesus.
50th
Anniversary Celebration
Carry-in Dinner - 16 serving lines!
Doors open at 5:00 p.m.
(U.S. 33 East), Goshen, IN
There's
lots of parking space.
Talented
Musicians To Share in 50th Anniversary Celebration
Arturo Osorio and Chara Sonntag will
present flute, piano, and vocal music - inspiring arrangements of hymns, worship
songs, and classical melodies.
Arturo, originally from
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, graduated from the National Conservatory of Music in
Honduras and performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Honduras
1999-2004. After graduating from Grace College with a degree in Music and a
minor in Business Management, Arturo has been working full time as Director of
Productions for the Christian Performing Artists' Fellowship and the MasterWorks
Festival - ministries dedicated to spreading the gospel and encouraging
Christian artists in the performing arts field.
Chara lives with her parents
and sisters in Middlebury, Indiana, where she operates her private studio,
Joyful Sounds Ministry Academy. She holds both Bachelor's (Judson College, AL)
and Master's degrees (Ball State University, IN) in music performance. Chara
serves as a church musician, as the pianist for the sacred music trio Soli
Deo Gloria, and as a freelance soloist and accompanist for numerous
ensembles across the region.
Arturo and Chara pray that their God -
given musical gifts will bless, uplift, and inspire their audiences and exalt,
Special music begins at 5:30 as a
prelude to the Dinner.
Windy
Caspary
was born in a village in China and grew up in an atheistic 
One and one-half years later, Windy met Pat, who was carrying Bibles into China.
For 22 years since their marriage, Windy and Pat have teamed up to courageously
and persistently preach, teach, and baptize people in dangerous and difficult
areas of China, Thailand, and Burma. They have trained pastors and
ministered to orphans and widows.
Windy is a gentle woman with a loving heart.
She testifies that World Missionary Press Scripture booklets are a vital tool
they use in sharing the gospel everywhere they go.
Zeal
for distributing Gods Word in the U.S.
A taxi driver in Reading, Pennsylvania, requested English and Spanish Scripture
booklets. He wrote, "Thanks to you, I am an effective evangelist. I am a
taxi driver who has memorized more than 100 verses from the Bible in order to
share the gospel with precious souls. If I dont get to speak the Word, I rely on
your anointed messages."
A faithful Christian man from Brooklyn, New York, wrote: "Recently someone
who was very close to me died. She was a faithful woman of God. Everywhere she
went, she passed out these booklets, and now that she is gone, it is up to me to
pass around the Word. I will be using these booklets to introduce those who do
not know God to get to know Him."
"My name is Jeff. Recently there was a representative of WMP at our church.
I think it is a wonderful thing you all are doing. . . . It has been weighing
heavy on my heart since that day in church. Even though he addressed all of
us, I feel as though God was speaking directly to me, to go out and sow His
Word.
"After church, I waited until the crowd subsided, then I took as many
[booklets] as I could stuff in my pockets! I distributed all of them by handing
them out to other people and planting them in various locations where people
would pick them up. I prayed that if only one person would come to Jesus out of
all the booklets I had, if just one person would be saved, that would be
a good victory."
What about you? If you would like a supply of Scripture booklets in languages needed for your area, call 1-574-831-2111 or email mailroom@wmpress.org. You, too, can be an instrument of sharing Gods love and hope. You can read the booklets and find out what languages we have available at our website, www.wmpress.org.
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