November 2015 Newsletter PDF

When Every Home for Christ national directors gathered in Zimbabwe in August to discuss strategies for saturating their countries with the gospel, WMP President Harold Mack and his son Stephen (WMP Visual Communications) were there. As ministry partners of World Missionary Press, EHC Africa directors often double as national coordinators for WMP, receiving large shipments of materials to supply hundreds of volunteers who journey village to village, door to door, to bring the Good News to every last person.

Scripture Booklets Are Vital

For many, Scripture booklets from WMP are indispensable for their ministries. Antonie B. was emphatic: “Our team in South Africa cannot be successful without this literature. Whenever I go, wherever I am – if I do not have it, I feel incomplete…. This is something that we could never, ever in our lives be without.”
“Without the support of gospel booklets,” said Richard K., EHC’s director for Zambia, “our campaigns would have been almost impossible. We have seen our work in the nation penetrating so many areas, particularly because of WMP. We couldn’t really make it, communicating the gospel verbally. [It’s] different when you give something to somebody to read. That is the power behind the printed page.”

Responses to Scripture Booklets

Story after story unfolded of people responding enthusiastically to the Scripture booklets, even becoming distributors themselves right in their own neighborhoods. Fred M. of EHC Uganda shared, “I found that one guy, who I used to give these booklets to, had torn [them] in half. I said, ‘Why are you spoiling this?’ He said, ‘I’m not spoiling it. Did you not know each page carries a different message? So, I’m able to reach more people with one booklet when I tear it up….’ That was so amazing.”

Antonie B. of South Africa related, “Many times when we go into an area and minister to people, people get saved, and you’ll always have one or two persons say, ‘Can I get five booklets?’ I give him the
five booklets, and immediately he turns around and starts to minister where he lives. Immediately! I look at what we do at Every Home for Christ, and the impact that World Missionary Press has with the literature, and I can see the fruit of the gospel being produced.”

Richard’s testimony was especially powerful: “It’s one thing to distribute, and [another] when you begin to hear testimonies of how God is using those booklets. A woman told us of visiting a village house. No one was home, so she dropped a booklet inside the house and left. When the owners of the house came back, they found the booklet and read it. After some months, she went back to that village and was amazed to be told that… the booklet Who Am I that a King Should Die in My Place? led them to the Lord. This is a true story, proven by many people around.”

Upcoming Shipments

Tanga C. from Botswana is eagerly awaiting his shipment of booklets and Bible studies in English and Tswana, currently in production. Tanga effused, “[I’m] so glad and happy, excited and expectant for the shipment of literature that is coming to our country. We have been waiting for this for a long time, and we can’t downplay the impact that this shipment will bring to this nation, where you can hardly find a piece of literature anywhere. We are desperately in need of this. A lot of churches have [contacted] my office requesting gospel literature. It will actually help make our work much easier, because we will have something to give to the people as we go home to home preaching the gospel, particularly in rural places where people are least reached. Nothing excites me more than the printed page of the gospel.”

WMP is also preparing a shipment, scheduled for early 2016, for Rwanda, where EHC’s Ananie B. will use Scripture booklets to “invade Rwanda with the gospel.”

New Faces

Among familiar faces, the Macks encountered some new ones. Douglas M., who has taken the helm of EHC’s activities in Namibia, a largely unreached country, said, “I believe that hearts are very receptive to the gospel and this is a time that we can partner together and make Jesus Christ known to the nation.” (WMP is preparing its first large shipment in many years for Namibia.)
In Mozambique, Godfrey B. has taken up the torch when the beloved Anacleto F. was suddenly called Home to be with the Lord. “I want to assure you that the Lord is on the move,” Godfrey reported. “These wonderful gospel booklets have helped us impact communities and change lives. Lives marred with drug and alcohol abuse and prostitution have been transformed. My team says they love to use WMP booklets because of their portability. They are very small but very powerful, and in many homes it will be the only piece of gospel they have.” Expressing appreciation for WMP’s national coordinator in Mozambique, Tanneken F., who channels materials to EHC, Godfrey said, “She always gives us the literature when we request it; she always brings it rapidly, without any delay. Our partnership with her has gone a long way in taking the gospel across the nation of Mozambique.”

For Harold and Stephen, the trip was well worth four intense days of travel, as the bond between the two ministries was heartily reaffirmed. The intrepid Americans sampled such delicacies as crocodile and
warthog (which they found especially delicious) and witnessed a variety of wildlife during their stay by the Zambezi River, including an elephant which skirted the perimeter of their outdoor dining area one evening at dinner.

Networking to Reach Zambia

Cleopas C.  of Zimbabwe, recently installed as EHC’s regional director over 25 Southern and East African nations, was the keynote speaker at WMP’s 54th anniversary dinner in October. Soles for Jesus (partner of EHC and WMP) was represented by founder Diane S. New or lightly-used shoes were to be collected through October to be part of a shipment of 8,000 pairs of shoes and more than one million Scripture booklets for EHC ministry in Zambia.Thank God for cooperation between believers to reach the world for Him!

   Visit www.wmpress-restofthestory.org or scan the QR code on the right to view national leader testimonies from Harold and Stephen’s trip.

[You can play an important part in reaching African nations with the gospel – Each 48-page Scripture booklet costs under 5 cents on average to produce and ship! No gift is too big or too small to make an eternal impact through the printed Word of God!]

 

 

Meet the Team

Jenny H.

Volunteer Coordinator

My family heard about World Missionary Press in 1994 through friends who volunteered here. Our large family has attended WMP’s annual dinner each fall for many years. In November of last year, my family and friends were volunteering at WMP when my dad heard about a job opening. Growing up, I had a desire to work at WMP, but never really thought I would be able to for various reasons. I was so excited when I heard that God had opened the door. I started working two days a week as a receptionist and assistant to Angelee, secretary to the president.
Since March of this year I have worked as Volunteer Coordinator, which involves scheduling the many bindery groups that come to WMP on a regular (usually monthly) basis to man our binderies which operate many hours of every work day. I also schedule and oversee volunteers who regularly stuff envelopes for mailing. My involvement with donor communications consists mostly of entering data and handling the bulk mailings, which include the monthly newsletter and prayer letter, the Public Service Announcement (PSA) mailing to radio stations, and introductory packets to new partners.

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do at WMP, mostly because of the many Christians I come into contact with. From co-workers to volunteers, many have blessed my life in so many ways. I also appreciate the time set aside each day to meet in chapel. It is such a blessing to be able to pray for and encourage one another.

When I am not at work, I enjoy practicing piano and flute, reading, gardening, writing to friends, and being outdoors. Most of all I enjoy spending time with my brothers and sisters. I live in South Bend with my family. I have eight older siblings and four younger. Two of my siblings are married and have a total of five children.

 

Grateful Quotes

Refugees Arriving in Europe Receive Scripture Booklets

 As the immigrant situation has intensified in Europe, pleas for WMP Scripture booklets have increased from several churches in Hungary who are reaching out to Muslim refugees from Syria and Afghanistan.

   “The church is doing outreach to Muslim refugees who are arrested at the border and taken to the train station here for a few hours. We help with food and clothes as well as share the gospel when the language permits.”   -Andrew F. (July 2015)

“Thousands of immigrants are flooding into Hungary from both the Middle East and Africa. Some are living at the train station in Budapest. We need these booklets to distribute among them! Help!!”  -Zachary G. (August 2015)

“Received the Arabic booklets! We will hand them out to the Syrian refugees in Hungary this week.”  -Zachary G. (September 2015)

“We spent the day at Keleti train station again. Hundreds more had arrived late that night.”  -Phil M. (September 2015)

“Calvary Chapel has a Bible college and churches throughout Hungary which have been serving the thousands of refugees who are crossing the border into Europe daily. We work with other churches and relief agencies and have been sending teams out in various cities and refugee camps to service these people’s desperate physical and spiritual needs. We have been giving out the How to Know God booklets, and almost every person we give it to receives it gladly. They are a great way to communicate the gospel and share Bible verses when no translator is available. We have pretty much run out. We would like to place a large order so that we can distribute booklets to various churches and teams.”  -Andrew F. (September 15, 2015)

   Upon receiving word from WMP that his order would be sent out right away (a total of 12,000 booklets in Arabic, Farsi, Hungarian, English, Urdu, Dari, Bengali, Uzbek, French, and German), Andrew replied,

 “Thank you so much! We are blown away by the work of the body of Christ. If the refugees end up being rerouted around Hungary, we are still working with them just across the border in Serbia. Thank you for your prayers and support.”   -Andrew F. (September 16, 2015)

 

WMP Partners Around the World

Harrell Family Missions, Honduras

Harrell Family Missions has received almost 1,850 boxes of Scripture booklets, New Testaments, and salvation coloring books in Spanish over several years. Recently Ken Harrell shared many ways in which WMP materials have been used as part of their varied programs and projects in Honduras. We thank God for this wonderful partnership and the seed that has been sown in a needy land.

“Harrell Family Missions and Children’s Gift Ministry is celebrating eight years of ministry to Honduras and among many other things we’re giving God thanks for thirteen construction projects, many of them churches! These churches were birthed because of evangelism, many with World Missionary Press Scripture booklets. They continue to grow through discipleship and small groups which also use WMP Scripture booklets.

“WMP Scripture booklets are used in our Children’s Gift Ministry outreach programs such as EQUIP children’s pastors’ conferences, which have trained hundreds of children’s pastors who are presently reaching thousands of children throughout Honduras. These new children’s pastors use Scripture booklets and coloring books in outreach events to evangelize the children in their communities, to bring children to the knowledge of God’s love in their children’s churches and Sunday schools, and then for discipleship as children grow in their relationship with God.
   “In January 2015, through its annual ‘Back to Classes with Jesus’ event, in which WMP Scripture booklets are included in each backpack filled with school supplies, Children’s Gift Ministry reached 2,600 children in twelve cities across Honduras. This truly is a great need, as Honduras continues to be the most violent and dangerous country in the world per capita for violent murders, mostly because of the gangs that recruit children to peddle their drugs and commit murders, as many cannot afford the basic school supplies required to attend school. Our goal for January 2016 is to reach 4,000 children in twenty cities across Honduras, getting them off the streets and out of the reach of the gangs through the ‘Back to Classes with Jesus’ event.

“The Children’s Gift Ministry recently received a special request from the Honduran Assemblies of God National Office for 100 boxes of Scripture booklets for National Day of the Bible outreaches on September 26, when young people from many churches would be out on the streets, at tollbooths, at red lights, and [going] from house to house in many communities, sharing the love of God through WMP Scripture booklets.

“Finally, at the National Evangelical Conference in December, more than 1,200 pastors and church planters from all over Honduras will receive Scripture booklets to take back with them to use for evangelism outreaches, church planting, and discipleship – from the jungles of the Moskitia to the islands of the Caribbean (including the Northern island of Roatan), to mountainous villages and to inner cities like the one we live in – San Pedro Sula – dubbed the most violent and dangerous city in the world.

“We are nearly completely out of booklets and are praying for a shipment that will give us fresh wind in our sails. We’re committed to planting and building churches and reaching as many as we can as long as we can, and WMP Scripture booklets are an integral part of that.

“Words cannot express our gratitude to World Missionary Press for your partnership with us, enabling us to provide the invaluable tool of the Word of God in such a convenient Scripture booklet form, as well as the evangelistic He is Risen coloring books. Thank you!”  -The Ken Harrell Family

Harrell Family Missions is scheduled to receive another 768 ten-pound boxes of WMP literature to continue and expand the projects and opportunities Ken described. They will be shipped on a 20-foot container holding a total of 2,560 boxes, also supplying WMP’s national coordinator Walter P. and Jim T. of  “Jesus Es Real Ministries” of Honduras.

[You can help reach Hondurans with powerful portions of God’s eternal Word! A gift of $25 enables us to produce and send 500 Scripture booklets; $100 helps provide 2,000 souls with Help From Above!]

 

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October, 2015 Newsletter (pdf)

Teenagers “Acquire the Fire” in Myanmar
MISSION MYANMAR began July 16 when 50 young missionaries from the U.S. and additional teams from China, South Korea, and Taiwan converged on the city of Yangon,” stated a press release from Teen Mania International, announcing that they had been invited by Myanmar Evangelical Christian Association to share the gospel in their country (also known as Burma). Other ministries joined in this unprecedented opportunity “to provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and to take His life-giving message to the ends of the earth!”

After two days of intense training, these young missionaries provided support for ministries and local churches, working in orphanages and medical missions as well as visiting destitute communities to extend invitations to the two-day “Acquire the Fire” youth rally in the capital city. Invitations had been posted throughout Yangon and teams had traveled all over Myanmar for six months to appeal to pastors, youth workers, and leaders to attend this life-changing event. No one could predict how many would come. It had been 60 years since the gospel was publicly proclaimed to this predominantly Buddhist nation. “We were completely dependent on God.”A group of ladies prayed “on location” for 24 hours before the rally began on Friday, July 24.

Seven hundred volunteers from area churches assisted with all aspects of the amazing event. Enormous tents provided cover for 10,000 seats on the field of Yangon’s outdoor Insein Football (soccer) Stadium, with its covered bleachers.

Just days before the main event, David J. (pictured right, already in Myanmar) called Kendall C., his long-time associate in Thailand, about a possible supply of Christian literature. Apparently certain literature plans had not come through, and other sources had to be found quickly. Kendall thought of WMP’s national coordinator in Myanmar and offered to make the connection. “It was a shot in the dark getting a quick reply from Martin (pictured above left),” said Kendall. “But I tried, and he responded!”

For more than half an hour, Kendall in Thailand and Martin in Myanmar shot messages back and forth on Facebook concerning what WMP booklets Martin had available for the event that weekend. “It really was something that only the Lord could have orchestrated!” Kendall wrote later.

Martin committed to 5,000 copies total of Help From Above, A Bible Study on Genesis, He Is Risen! and God Loves You as well as copies of The Way to God andHow to Know God from his “very low supply.”

That very day a Twitter message from David J. informed his followers: “Just secured over 5,000 free Christian booklets from @WMP_USA in Yangon for the @TeenMania @acquirethefire Mission Myanmar! So blessed.”

Teen Mania reported, “Many people traveled hours and hours, by car or bus or train. Some groups rode the train for three days, coming from the northern region…. You could sense the desperation for God that transcended language.

“What a stunning, awe-filled moment to hear the sound of thousands of voices singing in worship to our God! Even more amazing to experience it in the pouring rain, under a massive tent, right in the middle of the capital city of a country where it has only become legal to worship God with this kind of freedom in the past several years. The sounds of around 13,000 people worshiping in both Burmese and English… felt a lot like heaven.”

When the invitation was given to follow Jesus Christ with their whole lives for the first time, “thousands got out of their seats and moved through the mud-soaked ground to lay their hearts before God. About 3,000 people over the course of Friday and Saturday committed their lives to Christ.”

It was on the second day of the “Acquire the Fire” youth conference thatnearly 6,000 WMP booklets were handed out to attendees, along with a free lunch provided by the conference hosts. What a privilege for WMP to be involved in providing God’s Word for such a far-reaching event!
In recent weeks, heavy monsoon rains and Cyclone Komen (with landslides and flash floods) have devastated vast areas of Myanmar. In the Kalay region alone, where Martin’s ministry has churches and where some of WMP’s booklet distributors live, nearly 5,000 families still need food and shelter.

Printings of Help From Above in the Shan language and Meditations in the Psalms in Mizo for Bible study have recently been completed in Myanmar. Martin wants to print 100,000 copies of How to Know Godand 30,000 copies of God Loves You in Burmese to distribute along with relief aid to flood-affected families. “During this time of disaster in Myanmar, people are looking for God.”

Find out more about the Myanmar “Acquire the Fire” event and the recent devastation in Myanmar by scanning the QR code at right or visit www.wmpress-restofthestory.org

  [You can help provide Myanmar with much-needed Scripture materials – a gift of $50 to produce 1,000 Scripture booklets; God Loves You salvation coloring books cost just 15 cents each!]

 

Grateful Quotes

“Something Written in Their Language”

   Bruce and Gail U. have used World Missionary Press literature in Peru for 20 years. They have planted churches, built safe houses for women and children in distress, established a Bible school for pastors, and developed a camp ministry for children and families. They also visit those in hospitals and prisons.

“Greetings from Peru! Gail has been ministering to four women in prison – one from Germany and three from Thailand – who need Christian literature in their languages. The German [woman] comes from an atheistic family where not one believes in God. And the Thai women all believed in and served Buddha. But now they have all accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior! Praise God! Is it possible that you could send us literature in German and Thai for these new believers?”

 In response, WMP sent Scripture booklets in Thai and German as well as a German New Testament which someone had donated to WMP. Bruce replied,

“Thank you so much for the German New Testament and the booklets in German and Thai. They arrived safely and have already been given to the four women in the Iquitos prison. I wish you could have seen the three Thai women as they saw something written in their language. They were exuberant!! They told me the titles of the booklets and were all smiles as they kept telling me thank you for such a precious gift. The thanks go to you and WMP for making this all possible. May God continue to bless you and the ministry of WMP.”         –Bruce U., Peru

 

Meet the Team
Marilyn C., Prepress Assistant
I first heard about World Missionary Press through Every Home for Christ. Their prayer request list included World Missionary Press at New Paris, Indiana. When I discovered it was only 55 miles from where I lived, I decided to attend the next open house. A desire had always been in my heart to work for a mission ministry. A couple of years after my first visit, I was asking God if it would be possible for me to be involved with this ministry. It wasn’t long before He  answered this prayer!

After expressing my interest, I was interviewed by Jay and Vicky Benson and Jay asked me to join the staff.  I  guess I passed the test!  I started in January, 2006, more than nine years ago, in the prepress department. I burned and developed printing press plates – before we acquired CTP (Computer-To-Plate) equipment, scanned booklet typesetting and negatives into the computer, and now I prepare languages on the computer for plating.  I also enjoy proofreading.

The best part of WMP is the  printing and sending  of Scripture booklets in many languages to get the  Word of God into the hands and hearts of those who don’t know who Jesus is. It’s amazing how God has brought together so many different personalities, all with the goal of producing and sending out Scripture booklets all over the world. I feel “at home” here, working alongside others who share my desire.

In my spare time I enjoy playing the piano (especially when accompanying someone who sings or plays an instrument), reading, and Bible study.  A friend and I give music programs each week for residents in nursing homes in the Knox, Indiana area.  She plays the flute and I accompany her. With the Lord’s help, I have participated in ministry trips to Guatemala (twice), Cuba, and Argentina.

The Lord has blessed me with  four wonderful children, fourteen grandchildren, three granddaughters-in-law, and six great grandchildren – who were a great comfort to me when my husband passed away in December, 2013. Several have been on mission trips to various countries, which is a great blessing to this mother’s heart!

And now Dale C., a long-time staff member at WMP, is part of my family, too, since we were married on July 18! God brought us together to serve him here at WMP.  To God be the Glory!

   [Last month’s Meet the Team featured Marilyn’s new husband, Dale.]

 

WMP Partners Around the World

Pioneer Outreach Ministries, Int’l.

For 40 years Howard and Helen T. have been leading teams overseas to build, teach, and evangelize. Each team takes World Missionary Press literature to help give every opportunity to share the message of Christ’s love and sacrifice for hurting, hungry hearts.  WMP celebrates with this faithful couple in what God has done through their obedience to His call.

WMP: Could you briefly describe your ministry and the impact WMP literature has had?

Helen:  I am excited to write a short testimony regarding World Missionary Press literature. We are Rev. Howard and Helen T., Pioneer Outreach Ministries, Int’l. We will celebrate 40 years of ministry and 57 years of marriage in October. Pioneer is a building ministry for churches, Bible schools, pastors’ homes, and feeding centers in remote parts of the world. We have helped in 33 countries, teaching and preaching the Word of God with helps from WMP in many languages and dialects.

Approximately 35 years ago, I was given a coloring book from World Missionary Press by a pastor in Ohio. My heart was inflamed by this book. I immediately made contact with WMP and began receiving these coloring books, New Testaments, and Scripture booklets for Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, India, and many other countries. Many children and adults in remote areas have never seen a coloring book, crayons, or literature such as this. These items are first in our packing. We see smiles from every recipient and have even had teachers of schools request them as literature to teach with. Pastors request the material over and over.

Our visit to World Missionary Press [several years ago for the Open House and Anniversary Dinner] was amazing – to see seniors and others volunteering to run machines. May God keep this press rolling for Jesus!

Howard and Helen both struggle with major health issues. But when planning for a team to Peru in July of this year, Helen (82) called WMP from her hospital bed to be sure they would have Spanish coloring books and New Testaments for the pastors and for the children particularly. The team of 17 returned home with full hearts – blessed beyond measure – stirred by the great needs and what the next step would be for each of them.

President’s Corner

Here at World Missionary Press we just can’t stop praisingGod for the privilege of producing and sending millions of portions of His Word throughout the world every month!Imagine the eternal impact, as He uses these Scripture materials to bring light and life to the lost. Wow!

As a valued member of our team, you are invited to join us October 24 to celebrate our 54th year of ministry! See the enclosed flyer for details about our open house and carry-in dinner. Has it been awhile since you’ve visited? Come see our new property, building upgrades, and new equipment in operation.
You don’t want to miss our carry-in dinner that evening, featuring main speaker Dr. Cleopas Chitapa, Regional Director of the Every Home for Christ work in 25 African nations. Too far to
drive? You can join us via live stream at www.wmpress.org.

A Bonus Blessing – This fall WMP is partnering

with Soles for Jesus, collecting shoes for a container shipment to Africa. Shoes and Scripture are shared together, meeting both physical and spiritual needs. Bring new or gently-used pairs of shoes to our Open House or Dinner to bless bodies and souls in Africa!

Thank you so much for your partnership in reaching millions with the Gospel!

Harold Mack, President

 

 

 

September, 2015 Newsletter (pdf)

Outreach to Our “Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria”

CHRIST’S COMMISSION to His disciples – and to those who followed after – was to GO. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, they would be His witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and “unto the uttermost part of the earth.” The beginning of obedience to this far-reaching command is to GO to those in our “Jerusalem” – the place where we live.

Summer in the United States is a time of festivals, fairs, reunions, parades, sporting events, and busy tourist attractions. These are times when people gather to celebrate, to come out into the community for something new to do and see. Many cities have annual festivals that draw people from surrounding areas – “Judea” and “Samaria” – and even include people from around the world.

Many churches and ministries get involved, realizing that God’s grace has drawn people to their area to perhaps hear the truth of His Word for the first time or to have personal contact with someone who will pray with them and introduce them to the Savior. WMP Scripture booklets play an important role to provide God’s printed Word, which is able to go home with people and speak to hearts over and over.

Michael C. wrote, “We lead people to Christ at fairs. Last year we had 4,400 salvations in Washington State. We use your booklets in our efforts. Thank you so much.”

Joan K. ordered copies of The Way to God and shared plans to man a Prayer Station Booth at the Ohio State Fair. She wrote, “Last year we prayed for 1,000 people and gave out numerous booklets.”

God’s plan for sharing Himself and His Word with the world is implemented when His people follow His command to GO.

Juanita I. was referred to WMP by a minister in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she lives. She wrote, “I have English and French-speaking neighbors who I know are not saved, and I would love the opportunity to reach out to them with the Word of God in both languages. No, I don’t speak or read French, but I’m willing to try to be a witness. We used to have a Bible study in our building for seniors, disabled vets, and other residents, but not anymore. Because I would like to try and get it started again, I am requesting a sample [booklet] display to help me.”

Many groups take WMP gospel literature on summer mission trips. A mission team from northern Indiana reported the blessing of taking Kreyol New Testaments to Haiti. Since Haiti is not a closed country and is so close to the USA, they thought everyone would have a Bible or New Testament. They were saddened to find out that many have never had one. The few Bibles they saw were hard to read, with small print on dark pages.

“The thrilling thing about WMP [New Testaments],” they wrote, “is the larger print on white pages. They are the perfect size! The Bible coloring books were a blessing beyond words! We always pray for an evangelistic tool – these were perfect.” When they return to Haiti in October, they plan to provide salvation coloring books and goodie bags for a pastor/principal who has a school of 1,000 children. “The booklets and teaching books (John and Matthew) will be handed out in the churches, encouraging evangelism among the Haitians – to reach out and share Jesus with their neighbors! Thank you so much for blessing so many!!”

Several WMP staff have also been involved in mission trips to Cuba, India, Mexico, and Nicaragua. In late July, office worker Sharon Z. took a team of five young women to Mozambique (photo below) to work with WMP’s national coordinators in various activities. Their plans included a three-day VBS (using WMP’s coloring book God Loves You in Portuguese), a one-day youth revival, and a special birthday party for orphans.

WMP’s outreach to our own community includes manning a booth at our local county fair – said to be the second largest in the U.S. While sharing Scripture booklets, there is often opportunity for one-on-one conversations and prayer with visitors who have heavy hearts.

Cal Z. asked concerning an India festival in Saginaw, Michigan: “What should we have done? Nothing? Complain about non-Christian immigrants? Or GO and evangelize.” He chose to GO, his green shoulder bag made in India filled with Hindi Scripture booklets from WMP. He reported: “Not one single Hindi-speaking person refused our Scripture booklets.” One man who had been seated when given a copy of Help From Above in Hindi, got up and followed them, exclaiming, “I value this! I value this! Please give me some more.”

As we lift our eyes and see opportunities around us, let us ask the Lord of the harvest where He would have us work for Him this day. At a local softball tournament? A city celebration? A family reunion across the street? As we GO, He has promised to be with us.

   [You can help provide Scripture materials for short-term mission trips, and for outreaches throughout the US and Canada. $25 will fund production and shipping of 500 power-packed Scripture booklets; A gift of $100 will help reach 2,000 with portions of God‘s eternal Word!]

Grateful Quotes

So Many People Groups to Reach in the Netherlands

“I pray the Lord will lead me in giving booklets, tracts, Bibles, etc. I meet people from many countries because there are so many people groups in the Netherlands. First of all I evangelize among truck drivers, but I also see other people. Last Sunday I was biking in our city, and I felt led to offer a Gospel of John to a man I saw walking along the road. I soon discovered he couldn’t talk and read Dutch very well, so I said, ‘I’m sorry to ask, but perhaps your native language isn’t Dutch?’ He admitted it. He told me he could speak Farsi, so I looked for something in Farsi. I couldn’t find Farsi so quick, and I said, ‘I see a Dari New Testament, but well, that’s not Farsi.’ He said, ‘But Dari is officially my mother language. Dari is better than Farsi!’ I have so long taken this Dari New Testament with me for nothing, but after all these years I could give it to this person!

“A week before, I was evangelizing at a parking place. There were many truck drivers. After I had given them tracts, etc. I saw a coach from Germany. Most of them were Germans. Only some of them would accept a booklet. I also saw some very dark-skinned people. I also offered them a booklet, but they couldn’t speak German.  They could speak English, but their native language was Hindi. For the first time in years I met someone who could speak Hindi, so I offered them a booklet in Hindi that I once ordered from WMP…. They were so happy!

“There are nationalities I meet very often, like Polish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian truckers, but I try to take as many languages with me as I can. I always think I might meet a ‘new nationality.’ In those years I couldn’t once offer anything. Those people were from Ethiopia or Eritrea, I don’t remember exactly. I would like to also order languages I didn’t meet until now because I know there are people of those languages in my country. May God bless you.”     –Francis W.

   Francis ordered booklets in 27 languages, including the Gospel of John in Dari.

 

Meet the Team

Dale C., Small Orders

I found a Help From Above in the tract rack in my church in Wisconsin and sent for a sample packet. I was planning a three-day vacation, pondering where to go, saw the newsletter on the coffee table, and decided to come for a visit and volunteer. I worked in a variety of jobs while here and asked the president to keep me in mind if they ever needed a pressman. About four weeks later I was employed at WMP.

I first learned how to run a printing press in the basement of my church in Wisconsin, printing the Gospel of John and Romans. While working in the printing ministry at church, I was able to get a job in a commercial print shop. I prayed many times asking the Lord to let me work full time printing His Word. As useful as other tracts may be, I felt the Word of God was the best piece of literature a lost soul could receive.

I’ve been working at WMP for 22 years. Currently I work in the Small Orders Department with eight faithful and dedicated volunteers, fulfilling domestic and foreign orders from one booklet up to 50 ten-pound boxes. Over the years I have also worked on the web press, printing the insides of booklets, and the two-color Hashimoto press printing the covers of the booklets.

God reveals Himself through His Word. He reveals the true condition of a person’s heart toward God, the need for forgiveness of sin, and the worship due to the true and living God through the Lord Jesus Christ. He has saved me for this purpose and that I would be a laborer in His harvest field. I see how God is using others by the number of different languages requested, and sending the booklets all over the world to the people who have prayed asking the Lord to supply a means for reaching the lost. We at WMP are privileged to be a part of God’s answer to their prayer.

I enjoy gardening and woodworking as well as being a frustrated student of the hammer dulcimer. I am also head greeter at church and involved in a men’s prayer group and nursing home ministry. I am married to the most beautiful, godly woman I know. I see much of Jesus in her and she encourages me much in Christlikeness. God has blessed Marilyn with great piano accompaniment skill and much patience as we attempt to play our instruments together.

   [Dale and Marilyn met at WMP and were married July 18, 2015. Marilyn will be featured in next month’s Meet the Team.]

 

WMP Partners Around the World

Ricardo M., Costa Rica

Pastor Ricardo has served as WMP’s national coordinator in Costa Rica since 2010. Availability of WMP literature has energized believers in Costa Rica, leading to greater outreach. On a visit to the U.S., Pastor Ricardo encouraged our staff with his enthusiasm and gratitude for the Scripture booklets. He will soon receive another 20-foot container of Scripture booklets for Costa Rica as well as for a new, developing ministry in Belize.

   WMP: Please describe how you are currently reaching your country with the gospel.

   Ricardo: As a missionary/pastor in the Republic of Costa Rica, it has been a great blessing of God to be able to count on the help of WMP to reach more lives in communities and cities. [Your material] is a powerful tool for pastoral work in the various denominations and ministries of Costa Rica. One of the greatest things that has happened is that [it has] united the body of Christ, breaking down denominational divisions and lifting up the powerful name of Christ.

   WMP: How long have you been distributing WMP literature?

   Ricardo: In 2008 I met Brother Adalberto S. [WMP’s national coordinator in Puerto Rico] at a Voice of the Martyrs conference in Costa Rica. He visited us where we did street evangelism. When I saw the booklets, my soul was happy. I told him that we needed booklets in Costa Rica, as we did not have any.  He gave us about 800 booklets in a bag and told us that we would soon receive more. We began to learn about WMP and to receive booklets by mail. A year later we received 2 skids of booklets [95,000 Scripture booklets plus Bible studies and salvation coloring books] that provoked great joy in the people of God. We have been distributing them for six years. Every year we have received more. Last time there were 1,782 boxes, and with this new order, we hope for 2,000 boxes.  (He will receive 2,560 boxes – 1,186,340 items –  in the upcoming 20-foot container shipment.)

WMP: How does having free literature affect evangelism in your country?

   Ricardo: Since Scripture booklets became available, we have been able to develop massive campaigns in communities, which have brought growth to the congregations. It’s a blessing of God to see both children and adults reaching people for Christ. Organizing churches to work together, not considering denominations, has brought down walls that had divided them. There is much work in the streets, and many desire to reach out with the gospel.

It has helped the churches deepen their faith, and we have made discipleship classes with the children on Sundays. Those who do not have a Bible now have a New Testament and can read the Word of the Lord. What a blessing it has been to respond to these questions! We desire rich and abundant blessing in the Lord to all that comprise WMP!

   [WMP is planning the next shipment for Brother Ricardo in Costa Rica. You can help impact lives for eternity! A gift of $26.70 will fund a box of 30 Spanish New Testaments; $50 will provide 1,000 48-page Scripture booklets.]

 

 

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A Year of Great Increase

God has done amazing things this past fiscal year, and it is evident that He is positioning World Missionary Press for even more increase in sending His Word around the world to fulfill His purpose in the lives of individual people, one by one.“Other sheep I have… ; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice” (John 10:16a).

The highest annual income in WMP’s 52-year history led to record production. By God’s grace we received 43% more in contributions than the previous year (including $442,618 designated for capital needs). We praise God for enabling WMP to increase its volume of printing by 31% (see “Interesting Facts” on page 2 for more details). Besides filling many small orders, WMP shipped 152,707 ten-pound boxes destined for 118 nations, including 39 ship containers (see shipment summary table on page 4).

Because of the God-given increases in provision and production, millions more souls throughout the world are being touched with God’s eternal Word! It was God who enlarged our territory as He blessed us with additional land, facilities, and equipment. Property adjoining WMP, purchased in April with cash previously received, needed extensive upgrades to make two large buildings functional for our use. A 12-pocket bindery/collator was purchased at auction to streamline production of New Testaments. (Kreyol New Testaments for Haiti will be the first to be produced in the upgraded facility.) These and other needs were all provided for by God’s people, whose hearts He had touched!

As we look back at the amazing events of the past year, we are filled with awe at the bountiful provisions of the Lord and humbly look to Him as He leads us forward.

Knowing that God does all things well, that He is not willing that any should perish, that His way is to send His Word(Isaiah 55:8-11), and that He is the One enlarging us even through loss, we are filled with eager expectation for what the coming year holds – looking to Him to continue His work in and through World Missionary Press.

 

Equipment Needs for Continued Growth

As the Lord positions WMP for ongoing increased production, we are seeking Him for specified funds to purchase three key pieces of equipment in the coming months:

� a reconditioned primary cover cutter (estimated $20,000) to cut large sheets of covers down to the size needed for the booklet binderies;

� a reconditioned newer, faster, more dependable bindery to replace an ailing one (estimated $70,000-$100,000); and

� an automated stacker/bundler for gathering booklets off the new bindery, aiding in full-speed operation (estimated $166,000).

Please pray:

� for wisdom in the effective use of new staff, facilities, and equipment as WMP continues to step up production in 2014;

� that contributions will continue strong and that God will provide the additional equipment needed for continued growth;

� that equipment will run smoothly and that additional volunteer groups will get involved;

� for distributors who faithfully go where God’s Word is needed; and

� that multitudes will come to Christ and be transformed through the power of God’s Word in their own languages.

[You can impact people around the world. Every donated dollar provides for the printing and shipping of 25 powerful Scripture booklets to Christians eager to share God’s Word in the languages of their nation. An investment of $100 will touch the lives of 2,500 people; $1,000 will impact 25,000 people who need to know God.]

Free DVD of WMP’s 52nd Anniversary Program, available on request, includes the commissioning of Harold Mack as WMP president and message by Dick Eastman, “The Power of a Single Seed.”

 

World Watch

One of the most complex projects in WMP history was 18 months in the planning, as 15 shipments to Francophone African nations were prepared, some going where we had never before sent large quantities of God’s Word. Extra prayer was needed. Shipments arrived safely; however, the Gabon container is still awaiting release from customs.

Four new translations were printed in 2013: How to Know God in Uzbek; The Way to God in Nyaneka; Help From Above inInuktitut; and The Power of God in Blin, bringing the total number of languages printed by WMP to 341 languages. Three Bible study booklets (Psalms, John, and Romans) were printed in Portuguese for the first time.

More than 2,240,000 copies of A Bible Study on John were printed in nine languages this past year. One missionary wrote, “Out here in the more remote parts of the world, your literature is a total GOD thing. I was out talking to pastors this morning about the new study of John in Portuguese.”

Partnering Toward Completion!

A Special Word from Dick Eastman
International President, Every Home for Christ

“Blessed are those who die in the Lord …. They are blessed indeed, for they will rest from their hard work; for their good deeds follow them!” -Revelation 14:13-14 (NLT)

IT HAS BEEN SUCH A JOY to partner with World Missionary Press in taking the Good News of Jesus to the uttermost parts of the earth. It wasn’t long after I became the international president of Every Home for Christ 25 years ago that one of my first assignments from the Lord was to visit the WMP headquarters in Indiana. I wanted to meet more personally with Jay and Vicky Benson to look at ways we might strengthen our partnership in reaching literally millions of homes together with the gospel and thus see an even greater harvest of souls than either of our ministries could gather on our own.

Over the ensuing years that partnership has grown dramatically, and it is not an exaggeration in any sense to say that Every Home for Christ is literally following up multiplied thousands of new believers globally every month as the result of the contribution World Missionary Press continues to make to this thriving partnership.

Because Jay Benson was so specifically used of the Lord to initiate and cultivate this partnership over the years, one can imagine the shock and sadness we felt at EHC with the sudden home-going of Jay early in 2013. My wife Dee and I felt that we needed to travel as soon as possible to New Paris to share our appreciation for all WMP had done over the years and especially to celebrate Jay’s unique contribution to this Christ-honoring partnership. We invited a key EHC board member, Doug Stanich, with his wife Joan to join us for the visit, specifically to help express on behalf of all the EHC board of directors what Jay has meant to all of us personally in our ministry.

It was during this visit, while having a tour of the WMP operations, that Doug asked one of the pressmen if the ministry had everything it needed to do all that was desired. As a result of this conversation, we became aware that a six-color press would be a special boost to all that World Missionary Press is presently accomplishing. On the drive back to Chicago following our time in New Paris, the four of us – Doug, Joan and Dee and me – discussed the possibility of Every Home for Christ purchasing that press yet this year, and presenting it in Jay’s memory. It was such a joy to see how quickly God provided all the funds needed for this gift, which now is becoming a wonderful reality.
We continue to thank the Lord for the continuing partnership with World Missionary Press in reaching the nations for Jesus and the surge in the ministry’s growth in recent months. We are particularly joyful over the new appointment of Harold Mack as WMP president and that our beloved friend, Vicky Benson, continues to serve Harold and the WMP team with her unique gifts.

As the Revelation passage I quoted at the outset declares, and particularly as we think of Jay in reading those words, we can say with a certainty that Jay is truly “blessed indeed” and as he enjoys a well-deserved eternal rest from his lifetime of hard work, his good deeds (in the form of a remarkable harvest) do follow him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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For widespread distribution:
(Pocket-size 48-page Scripture-by-subject booklets)

 

Help From Above (HFA): Designed to lead the reader to Christ and to live a victorious life. Good for evangelism and follow-up of new believers. (Languages)

 

How to Know God (HKG): Tells how to have a personal relationship with God. Designed for Muslims, but excellent as a general evangelistic tool. (Languages)

 

 

 

Let’s Praise the Lord! (PTL): Especially for Christians. Compiled as a practical tool for praising God faithfully and joyfully. (Languages)

 

 

 

Satan versus CHRIST (SVC): Warns against demon worship, witchcraft, idolatry; reveals Satan’s character and tactics. Offers believers victory over the enemy through the power of Christ. Good especially for areas where occult practices are followed. (Languages)

 

The Amazing Life of Jesus Christ (ALC): Shows who Christ really is, why He came to earth, His miracles and teaching, His death and resurrection, and what He is doing now. Encourages a personal response.(Languages)

 

The Path to Life (LIF):  This 8-page Scripture handout includes a simple guide to salvation.  It can be used as an initial outreach tool and followed up with booklets as more interest is shown.   (Languages)

 

 

 

 

The Power of God (POG): Shows God’s creative, saving, sustaining, and overcoming power. For believers and non-believers. (Languages)

 

 

The Way to God (WTG): Especially for children. Its purpose is to share God’s love and plan of salvation and how to live for Jesus. Features illustrations and a larger type size. (Languages)

 

 

Who Am I That a King Would Die in My Place? (WAI): Shows who we were made to be, what we became, where that leads us, our need for God’s rescue, and what we can become by accepting God’s grace. (Languages)

 

Who Do You Say that I AM? (WDY): Contains some of the powerful things Jesus said about who He is, why He came to earth, and how we can receive eternal life, along with Old Testament passages confirming who He is.  (48 pages)

 

 

 

 

Wings Over Zion (WOZ): Especially for Jewish friends, but is good for all who are interested in Biblical prophecy relating to Israel. (64 pages) (Languages)

 

 

 

For individual and group study only:
(Bible Studies – Not for widespread distribution)

 

Alive in Christ (ACH): Designed to disciple new believers, to understand who God created them to be– empowered by His Spirit to know and walk with Him in the light of eternity.  (96 pages)

 

 

 

A Bible Study on Matthew (MAT): Teaches simple but important truths for Christian living. (64 pages) (Languages)

 

 

 

 

 

Meditations in the Psalms (PSA): A devotional booklet using selected Psalms. (64 pages) (Languages)

 

 

 

 

 

A Basic Study of New Testament Scriptures : For use with any Bible or Testament; lists many important topics along with Scripture references dealing with them. (48 pages) (Languages)

 

 

 

 

 

A Bible Study on Genesis (GEN): Emphasizes God’s plan of salvation from creation; reveals the presence of Christ in Genesis. Includes much practical application. (112 pages) (Languages)

 

 

 

 

 

A Bible Study on John (BSJ): For assurance of salvation and personal growth in the Lord. Can also be used by new Christians in sharing their faith. (80 pages) (Languages)

 

 

 

 

 

A Bible Study on Revelation (REV): Exalts Christ, exposes Satan, inspires faith, comforts in persecution, and warns of false teaching and the wrath of God. (112 pages) (Languages)

 

 

 

 

 

A Bible Study on Romans (ROM):   Paul’s masterful letter reveals God’s heart for mankind and the good news of freedom and transformation for all who put their trust in Jesus. (112 pages) (Languages)

 

 

 

 

 

 

God Loves You! Coloring Book (GLY): This salvation coloring book is ideal for children and adults.  The beautifully illustrated coloring pages bring associated verses to life–from creation to the second coming of Jesus. (48 pages)  (Languages)

 

 

 

 

 

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Abbreviations: ALC-The Amazing Life of Jesus Christ; BSJ-A Bible Study on John; BSS-New Testament Study Supplement; GEN-A Bible Study on Genesis; GLY- God Loves You! Coloring Book; GOJ-Gospel of John; GOL-Gospel of Luke HFA-Help From Above; HKG-How to Know God; LIF- The Path to Life; MAT-A Bible Study on Matthew;

POG-The Power of God; PSA-Meditations in the Psalms; PTL-Let’s Praise the Lord; REV-A Bible Study on Revelation; ROM-A Bible Study on Romans SvC-Satan versus CHRIST; WAI-Who Am I That a King Would Die in my Place?; WDY-Who Do You say that I AM?; WOZ-Wings Over Zion; WTG-The Way to God.

* Note:  A 10-lb. box contains about 505 small-size booklets.  Booklets marked with * are twice the regular size and there are 250 or less per box.

 

May, 2015 Newsletter (pdf) 

Spreading the Word in Asia

Philippines

WHEN WMP CO-FOUNDER Watson Goodman first flew to the Philippines with enthusiastic supporter Dean Baker, little did he dream that a divine connection there would make such a difference to so many lives. A Filipino Christian, Bert M., was intent on contacting Watson, but it seemed a miracle that they found each other in Manila. Bert convinced the WMP team to accompany him to refugee camps in Bataan, to see for themselves the need for Scripture booklets in the languages of the people who had fled out of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Two camps, surrounded by barbed wire, housed up to 10,000 people without God’s Word. Watson promised Bert that he would go back and produce Scripture booklets for those in the camps. Soon the promised shipment of booklets arrived in Manila, and Bert was able to distribute it all among the refugees.

  Just two weeks after the distribution of the booklets, when Bert returned to the camps to follow up and meet with the pastors, the camps were empty! The refugees had been dispersed to other parts of the world. The shipment from WMP had come “just in time.” The refugees had been able to take Scripture booklets in their own languages with them, wherever they went.

Bert became WMP’s volunteer national coordinator for the Philippines and served faithfully in that capacity for more than 30 years, greatly expanding the availability and effectiveness of WMP literature in the Philippines through his conviction that the Word of God was and always will be the answer for man’s needs. Recently Bert turned over the coordinator responsibilities to Pastor Rene L., mentored for this responsibility by Bert for several years.

WMP will soon be producing two containers of Scripture materials for the Philippines:  one for coordinator Rene L. to share with thousands of distributors throughout the nation, and one for Every Home for Christ.

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World Missionary Press has been blessed with the opportunity to print and ship gospel literature to people all over the globe for more than fifty years. Some areas, however, are harder to supply than others. When governments disapprove of such material coming into their countries, it becomes the joy of enterprising Christians who value our booklets to handle printings within their borders. Several ministries in Asia have been doing this for many years.

Myanmar (Burma)

Martin L., WMP’s long-time contact in Myanmar, emailed us in January after an extended trip to the state of Shan, networking with Gospel Outreach Mission’s evangelists and missionaries there. GOM distributes WMP booklets at their education centers, including their newest, Damadi Home, where they have an orphanage ministry and train leaders, and which will become the main distribution center for WMP materials nationwide.

Martin wrote, “Currently our missionaries and distributors need books and booklets for distribution in the areas where we have free education centers and [where] the population is growing. These areas are slum areas and most of the people are very poor. But they are very eager to hear the good news of Jesus Christ …. Please pray for our missionaries, evangelists, and pastors who are reaching out to non-Christians in these areas.”

Martin asked WMP to fund the printing of 50,000 copies of How to Know God in Wa – the language spoken by many in Shan State – as well as 100,000 copies of Help From Above and 25,000 copies of He Is Risen! salvation coloring books in Burmese. Martin reports that WMP Bible studies have proven very useful to Mizo-speaking churches in Myanmar with classes on Sundays, both for children and adults, because of the question-and-answer, fill-in-the-blank format. The translation of Meditations in the Psalms in Mizo is currently waiting to be printed, and the translation of Help From Above into Shan is in process.

Indonesia

Frans K., WMP’s national coordinator in Indonesia, is the primary printer of our materials there. We recently gave him the go-ahead to print 50,000 copies each of WMP’s Bible studies on John and Matthew in Indonesian. With the great demand for these Bible studies, these 100,000 copies will not last long. Some were to be sent to Papua as well as Central Borneo for use in Easter outreach.

Around the same time, our other printer in Indonesia, Jan L., sent an encouraging report on his own work in the island nation. In the nine months between May, 2014 and February, 2015, various churches and Christian groups distributed 90,000 copies of How to Know God in Indonesian and Javanese to cities and villages throughout the country, resulting in 178 confirmed conversions to Christ and four new churches formed! Jan’s report came with the request to print another 100,000 How to Know God booklets in Indonesian, which WMP happily agreed to.

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Grateful Quotes

Enabled to be an outreach church in Kenya

“I am personally grateful to God for His provision for our church and Bishop Mulea (Every Home for Christ Kenya), who received a lot of gospel literature from World Missionary Press. This man of God has been generous to supply as much as we need when we have placed orders or requests to him.

“Thank God for the publications of World Missionary Press. These have enabled our church to be an outreach church this last year more than ever before; because of the many new converts, we have been able to plant three new churches (the smallest has 120 members). Glory to God in the highest!”   -Pastor C., Kenya

Changed lives and living testimonies

“I am so grateful to God for His provision of literature, of which booklets from World Missionary Press have been a big blessing to many Bible study clubs and groups. This has enabled many churches across my region to come up with organized Bible study sessions from time to time.

“I have a weekly ministry to prisoners in Kitui G.K. prison. These books have transformed lives of many inmates who have gone back with changed lives and living testimonies. During the last six months, I have seen 674 prisoners give their lives fully to Jesus Christ, and these [booklets] have enabled them to grow to maturity.”  -Rev. K., Kenya

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Meet the Team

Karen W. -Business Displays, Volunteer

I saw a sign in front of World Missionary Press advertising an open house and tour. As I am home-schooling my grandson, I thought this would be a great field trip for us. Our family took the tour, and all of us were impressed by the whole operation! I signed up to volunteer and was excited to know that I could bring my grandson with me and that he could make boxes or stuff envelopes.

As I waited for my husband, Steve, to finish the tour (he was observing the new six-color press), I was eating a hot dog and talking to Marie Mack. When she told me that they were looking for someone to fill a part-time position in the Finance Department, I asked for an application. I loved the thought of being part of a team working to get God’s Word out to the world. I had always wanted to be a missionary and being part of the mission at WMP meant I could be on the mission field 20 minutes from home!

I am so thankful that God brought me here. I love it! The people are wonderful! I thank God for our “Press family” and the privilege of serving Him.

I worked in the Finance Department until last October, when, due to family illness, I had to be at home more. I still volunteer as much as I can. I like the fact that my son and grandson can also volunteer.

In my free time, I like to read and fish and garden. I like to can or dehydrate the food I have grown so that we can enjoy it in the winter. I also like to spend time with my family.

Steve W. -Quality Assurance Coordinator

My wife, Karen, heard about a free tour of World Missionary Press, and we decided to use it as a “field trip” for our grandson, Keith, whom we home school. When I mentioned to one of the tour guides that I had taught some printing classes and I liked seeing the operation of the large presses, he told me that WMP was hiring and that maybe I should apply. When I got to the car, I heard my wife was also told that she should apply if she would like to work here, so we both applied and were hired in July, 2014.

I am the Quality Assurance Coordinator and I also work in the prepress department. I love the atmosphere here at WMP. I am a retired public school teacher from South Bend, and I really appreciate the lack of “drama” here. People cooperate with each other, and we get the Lord’s work accomplished.

When I’m not working, I enjoy fishing, woodworking, and construction as hobbies. I also enjoy family time. I think I like working at WMP as much as any hobby. I have a wonderful wife, adopted grandson, and stepson living with me. Most of my extended family likes to fish, swim, or go for boat rides. As we live next to Lake Wawasee, we enjoy water sports all summer.

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WMP Partners Around the World

Steve B., Nicaragua

Steve B. (center) and the Messiah Project have used WMP literature to reach the far corners of Nicaragua since 2004. By helping to translate WMP Scripture booklets and A Bible Study on John into the Miskito language, they introduced God’s Word to a people who had never heard of God’s love for them.

WMP: Please describe your background and ministry.

Steve: As a new believer, I began sharing the gospel in Northeast Oklahoma. Two years later, the Lord opened the door for ministry in Mexico, when I first began using WMP literature. In 2002 He opened another door – Nicaragua. For the past 12 years, the Lord has opened numerous doors for the Messiah Project (MP) to share the gospel, even to remote unreached regions – doors such as helping bring the written Word of God to the Miskito Indians of the Rio Coco for the first time, reaching mountainous villages throughout northern Nicaragua, and traveling the rivers of the Sumu Indians.

WMP: How has free literature affected evangelism?

Steve: Having free materials available increases exponentially our ability to share the gospel. Virtually everyone receives a Scripture booklet gladly. The gesture of offering a booklet to an individual as a “gift” often becomes a door to talk about Jesus.

Men, women, and children who otherwise might feel inadequate to share the gospel are often willing to share Scripture booklets, enabling more people to be involved in evangelism outreach. Often these individuals go on to be involved in hospital or jail visitations or become street preachers, pastors, or even MP missionaries. The value of the booklets in raising people to share the gospel is indispensable.

Each month native MP missionaries, loaded with WMP literature, are sent on short-term trips throughout northern Nicaragua. These missionaries – native pastors and church leaders prepared by the Lord through years of faithfully sharing the gospel locally – report God’s goodness and grace through numerous miracles and salvations each month.

Scripture booklets play an important role in 568 feeding centers, where more than 58,000 children, pregnant women, elderly, and disabled receive a vitamin-enriched meal along with the Word of God.

WMP: How effective are the topical Scripture booklets in your country?

Steve: After years of experiencing their impact first hand, I believe that God truly inspired the topical format of the Scripture booklets, as they have proven an effective way to introduce the Word of God to people in a  “bite-size” approach. Many in rural and remote regions haven’t had the benefit of a highschool education, but – with the help of the Holy Spirit – are able to grasp a topic through the selected verses. People of all education levels are able to focus on a particular topic without distraction. Plus, the format makes it easier for missionaries with less experience to share the gospel more effectively and with more confidence.

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President’s Corner

Last month’s newsletter included a table of freight shipments awaiting production. I thought it would be helpful to summarize this information each month, to keep you up to date with what we have “in the works.” Each month we get new requests; work with the requesting coordinator or major distributor to refine, plan, and prioritize the requested shipment; and add it to our queue. Combined with the Shipment Status Report table we have been including in our newsletters, this monthly summary of waiting requests will help give you an overview of what’s happening here and insight on how best to pray for our ministry.

We use a standard unit of measure for planning and tracking production we refer to as “equivalency,” based on a 48-page English Help From Abovebooklet. For measuring our volume, items produced such as Bible studies, coloring books, and New Testaments are related to the equivalent number of Help From Above booklets.

Thank you so much for your partnership with World Missionary Press! We greatly appreciate your prayers and donations, helping send millions of portions of God’s eternal Word throughout the world each month. May He bless our efforts together with much lasting fruit!

 

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Acoli HFA Afrikaans HFA, WTG, WAI Agusan Manobo HFA Ahanta HFA, SvC Albanian HFA, HKG, WTG, MAT* Amdo WTG* Amharic HFA*, POG, SvC Anal HFA Arabic  HFA, HKG, WTG, GEN*, GOJ*, GOL* Arabic (N. African) HFA, POG Armenian HFA* Assamese HFA, HKG Assyrian WTG* Ateso HFA*, HKG, WTG Ayacucho Quechua HFA, WTG (for Peru) Aymara HFA* Azumeina HFA*, PTL Bambara HFA, WTG, HKG Bangala HFA, SvC, WTG Baoule HFA* Bari HFA Bariba HFA* Basque HFA, HKG Bassa (Cameroon) HFA Bassa (Liberian) HFA, POG, WTG Bassa-Kwomu HFA Bassari HFA Bemba HFA, WAI Bengali HFA, HKG*, WTG, POG Bengali, Muslim HKG* Bhojpuri HFA Bicol HFA Blin (Bilin) POG* Boomu HFA* Bulgarian HFA, HKG, WTG, ALC, PTL Burmese HFA*, HKG*, BSS*, ALC*, WTG*, POG+ Catalan HFA Cebuano (Visayan) HFA, HKG, POG, SvC, WAI, PTL, WTG Chaldean (Roman) WTG* Chaldean (Script) WTG* Chavacano HFA Chichewa (Nyanja) BSJ, HFA, HKG, WTG, SvC, WAI Chinese (Traditional) HFA, HKG, WTG, ALC Chinese (Simplified) HFA, HKG, GEN*, ROM, WTG, ALC, BSJ*, WOZ Chisena HFA Chitumbuka (see Tumbuka) Chokwe HFA, WAI Chol (Tumbala) HFA Chumburung HFA* Chuukese HFA Corsican/French HFA* Cree (Western Script) HFA* Creole (See Kreyol) Croatian HFA Czech HFA, HKG Dagbani HFA Dangme HFA Danish HFA, HKG, WTG Dari HFA*, GOJ* Darlong HFA Dayak Ngaju+ HFA Dendi HFA* Dhu Alur HFA Ditammari HFA* Dompago HFA* Douala HFA* Dutch HFA, HKG, ALC, WTG Dzongkha WTG Ebembe HFA, POG, WAI Ebira HFA Edo HFA Efik HFA, HKG, POG, WAI Ekegusii HFA Elimbari HFA English, KJV HFA,  WTG, BSJ*, WOZ, PSA*, SMB*, BSS* English, NKJV ACH, GLY, HFA, HKG, LIF, WTG, POG, SVC, WAI, ALC, MAT*, PSA, PTL, BRB*, BSJ*, GEN*, REV*, ROM*, WDY Estonian HFA, HKG, WTG Etsako HFA Ewe HFA, HKG, WTG, SVC Fakai  GOL* Fante HFA, SvC Fijian HFA, WTG Fijian Hindi WTG Finnish HFA, HKG, WTG Fon HFA* French ACH, ALC, HFA, GLY, HKG, WTG, POG, ROM, SvC, WAI, WDY, WOZ, BSJ*, BSS* Fulfulde (Cameroon) HFA Ga HFA Gawigl HFA* Georgian HFA, HKG, BSJ* German HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, PTL, ALC, WOZ Getsogo HFA* Giriama HFA Goan Konkani (Roman) WTG Goan Konkani (Script) WTG Gourma HFA, WTG Greek HFA Guarani HFA Gujarati HFA, HKG, WTG Gun HFA Halbi HFA Hamtai HFA* Hausa HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, BSJ* Hebrew HFA*, WOZ* Hiligaynon (Ilongo) HFA, HKG WTG, SvC Hindi HFA, HKG, WTG, ALC Hmar HFA, POG Hmong Daw HFA* Hungarian HFA, HKG, WTG, WAI, WOZ, BSS* Ibaloi HFA Ibanag HFA Ibo HFA, HKG, WAI Icelandic HFA Idoma HFA

Ifugao: Batad HFA Igala HFA, HKG, WAI Igede HFA* Ilokano HFA, HKG, POG, WTG Ilongo – see Hiligaynon Indonesian HFA, HKG, WTG, SvC, MAT*+, BSJ*+ Inuktitut HFA* Isoko HFA Italian HFA, POG, WTG Izi HFA* Japanese HFA*, POG, WTG Javanese HFA+, HKG+ Jibu HFA+ Jingphaw/Kachin HKG*+ Jula HFA Kalenjin HFA, WTG, BSJ* Kana HFA Kannada (Kanarese) HFA, HKG*, WTG Kanuri HFA Kaonde HFA, WTG, WAI, MAT* Karbi HFA Karen S’gah HFA*, WTG K’ekchi+ HFA*, WTG* Kharia HFA Khasi HFA Khmer HFA Kikamba HFA, SvC Kikongo: Fioti HFA Kikuyu HFA Kilega HFA Kiluba HFA, HKG, POG, SvC Kimeru (Kenya) HFA, WTG Kimeru (Tanzania) HFA Kinandi HFA, HKG*, WTG Kinshasa-Lingala HFA, WTG, ALC Kinyakyusa HFA Kinyarwanda (Runyarwanda) HFA, HKG, WTG, SvC, WAI Kirundi HFA, WTG, HKG Kisanga HFA Kisongye HFA Kissi HFA Kiswahili GLY,HFA, HKG, SvC, WTG, POG, MAT*, BSS*, PTL Kituba HFA, WTG, SvC Kokborok BSJ+ Kom Rem HFA Konkani (Kanarese script) HFA Konkomba HFA* Konyak Naga HFA Korean HFA, HKG, POG, WOZ*, WTG Kreyol (Creole) HFA*, HKG, WTG, SvC*, PTL*, MAT* Kriol (Australian) HFA Kuki HFA, WAI Kumam HFA Kuna HFA, WTG Kuranko HFA* Kuteb HFA Lahu HKG+ Lamba HFA Lango HFA Lao HFA* Latvian HFA Lepcha WTG Liangmai Naga HFA Lingala (Haut Fleuve) HFA, HKG, WAI Lingala (see Kinshasa) Lisu HKG*+ Lithuanian HFA, WTG Lozi HFA, SvC, WTG Lubukusu HFA, WTG Luchazi HFA Luganda HFA, HKG, POG, SvC, PTL, WTG, BSJ, MAT* Lugbara HFA Lumasaaba HFA* Lunda-Ndembu HFA Luo HFA, WAI,  SvC Luragoli HFA Luvale HFA Luyia HFA, HKG, WTG, SvC Maasai HFA Macedonian HFA Ma’di HFA, WTG Maithily HFA Makua  GOJ* Malagasy ALC*, GLY, HFA, HKG, SvC*, WTG Malay HFA Malayalam HFA, HKG*, WTG, ALC Maltese HFA, HKG Mam, Northern HFA, HKG Mam, Southern HFA* Mambila HFA Mandinka WTG Manipuri HFA, HKG* Maori WTG Marathi HFA, HKG, WTG, ALC Marshallese HFA, WTG Marwari HFA Mashi HFA Mataco HFA Mawchi HFA, WAI Melanesian Pidgin (see Tok Pisin) Miskito HFA*, HKG*, WTG, BSJ* Mizo HFA, POG+ Mofa HFA Mongolian  HKG, ROM*, WTG Monkole HFA* Moore  WTG Mufian HFA* Mundari HFA Nangjere HFA, HKG, SvC, WAI Naga HKG+ Navajo HFA* Ncam (Bassar) HFA*, WTG* Ndau HFA Ndonga HFA*, WTG Nduga HFA* Nebaj Ixil WTG Nembe HFA, HKG Nepali HFA, HKG*, WTG Ngakarimojong HFA, HKG, WTG, ALC Ngambai HFA*, HKG*, POG

Ngo-Chang HKG*+ Norwegian HFA, HKG, WTG Nupe HFA Nyaneka WTG Nzebi HFA Nzema HFA, POG Odia (Oriya) GLY, HFA, HKG, WTG Oraon HFA Oromiffa HFA* Otelela HFA Paite HFA Pampango HFA, HKG, POG, SvC Pangasinan HFA, HKG Papiamento HFA* Pare HFA Persian (Farsi) HFA*, HKG*, GOJ* Plautdietsch (Low German) WTG Pokot HFA Polish HFA, SvC, WTG Portuguese HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, SvC, WAI, ALC, PTL, BSS*, BSJ*, ROM*, PSA*, MAT Portuguese-Creole HFA, HKG Punjabi HFA, HKG, ALC, WTG, Quechua, Ayacucho HFA, WTG (for Peru) Quechua (S. Bol.) HFA* Quiche, Central HFA, WTG, WAI, BSS*, BSJ* Rawang HKG*+ Reshe  GOL* Romanian HFA, HKG, WTG, BSS* Rongmei Naga HFA, POG Roviana HFA Runyankore-Rukiga HFA Runyoro-Rutooro HFA Russian HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, SvC, WAI, WOZ, PTL, GEN*, BSJ*, REV*, BSS* GOL* Sabaot HFA* Sadri HFA* Samoan HFA, WTG Sango HFA, WTG Santali HFA Santali-Odia HFA* Sepedi HFA Serbian HFA, WTG+ Sesotho HFA, WTG, MAT* Shona HFA, POG, SvC, WAI Sindhi HFA* Sinhala HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, SvC, WAI, MAT*, BSJ* SiSwati HFA Slovak HFA, HKG, WTG Slovenian HFA Songhai  HKG Soomaali HFA Spanish GLY, HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, SvC, WAI, WOZ, ALC,  PSA, PTL, MAT*, BSJ*, REV*, BSS*, GEN*, ROM* Sranantongo WTG Subanen Lupuyan HFA Sukuma HFA Sundanese HFA+, HKG+ Surigaonon HFA Swahili, Congo RDC HFA, WTG, BSS* Swedish HFA, WTG Tagalog HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, SvC, WAI, PTL, BSJ* Tahitian HFA Taita HFA Tamil HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, SvC*, WAI, ALC,PTL, MAT* Tangkhul Naga HFA Tboli HFA* Tedim Kam HFA, SvC Telugu HFA, HKG* WTG, ALC, POG, SvC*,  MAT* Temne HFA Thai HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, BSJ*, GEN* Tibetan HFA Ticuna (Brazil) WTG Ticuna Peru/Colombia WTG Tigan Rom-Gypsy HFA Tigrinya HFA*, POG, WTG Tiv HFA Tok Pisin HFA, SvC*, WTG Tonga HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, SvC, WAI Tshiluba HFA, SvC, WAI Tshwa HFA Tsonga (Shangaan) HFA, WTG Tswana HFA Tumbuka HFA, WAI Turkana HFA Turkish, Roman HFA, HKG, WTG, GOJ* Turkish, Cyrillic WTG, GOJ* Twi (Asanti) HFA, HKG SvC Tzeltal de Oxchuc HFA* Ukrainian HFA, HKG, WTG, POG, SvC, WAI, PTL Umbundu HFA, WTG Urdu HFA, HKG*, WTG, SvC* ALC*, POG*, WAI, WDY Urhobo HFA Uzbek HKG* Vaiphei HFA Venda HFA Vietnamese HFA, HKG, WTG Wa HKG*+ Waray HFA Xhosa HFA, HKG, POG, SvC Yagaria HFA* Yalunka HFA* Yao HFA Yipunu HFA Yissangou HFA Yoruba HFA, HKG, SvC, WAI Zande HFA*, WTG Zarma HFA Zomi HFA Zulu HFA, SvC, WTG ONLINE ONLY: Belarusian WTG Ojibwe HFA

 

Abbreviations: ACH- Alive in Christ; ALC-The Amazing Life of Jesus Christ; BRB-Bible Reading Book; BSJ-A Bible Study on John; BSS-New Testament Study Supplement; GEN-A Bible Study on Genesis; GLY-God Loves You; GOJ-Gospel of John; GOL-Gospel of Luke HFA-Help From Above; HKG-How to Know God; LIF- The Path to Life; MAT-A Bible Study on Matthew;

POG-The Power of God; PSA-Meditations in the Psalms; PTL-Let’s Praise the Lord; REV-A Bible Study on Revelation; ROM-A Bible Study on Romans SMB-Scripture Memory Book; SvC-Satan versus CHRIST; WAI-Who Am I That a King Would Die in my Place?; WDY-Who Do YOU say that I AM?; WOZ-Wings Over Zion; WTG-The Way to God.

* Note:  A 10-lb. box contains about 505 small-size booklets.  Booklets marked with * are twice the regular size and there are 250 or less per box.

+ Languages marked with this symbol are available and produced overseas only.

What language do they read in that country?  Click Here to Find Out!

Updated as of August 2023

 

 

 

 

Mission Ideas for Children

 

To request a copy of this brochure, e-mail mailroom@wmpress.org or call 574-831-2111 ext. 213.  You may also download the following online version…Missions Ideas for Children(pdf)

For your children’s ministries, Sunday School, children’s church, or VBS – You will find here a variety of suggestions for your consideration as a focus for your children’s ministry missions offering.

These project ideas relate to reaching boys and girls in other countries with the powerful Word of God.

What better investment can there be! What better way to encourage children to begin focusing on worldwide outreach and the influence they personally can have in fulfilling the Great Commission?

 

 

 

Idea #1

God Loves You! Coloring Books

Your children can provide God Loves You! salvation coloring books, filled with pictures to color and excellent teaching from God’s Word!

WMP can provide a variety of languages for the God Loves You! coloring book so that you can use them to make an attractive poster or project display.

If you wish, you could announce that for every $10 raised, a picture of one coloring book will be added to a display at the front of your meeting room. (You can photo copy the front cover of a God Loves You! coloring book, making enough copies to represent the offering raised.)

 

 

Idea #2

Your Change Brings Change

About five cents will print and send one Scripture booklet anywhere in the world! $1 will print and send 21 Scripture booklets on average. Banks can be provided by WMP for this purpose. These banks can be placed in many locations–people always have loose change! When finished, collect the money from the bank(s), write a check to WMP for the amount, and re-use it!

You can also print your own labels at www.wmpress.org/get-involved/kids-korner and tape them on a jar or can.

 

Idea #3

Fill a Suitcase

Leaders can present a big, empty suitcase at the beginning of VBS, labeled “Sending the Word to the World.” For each dollar a child brings in offerings, he/she can place a (rubber-banded) pack of 25 Scripture booklets into the suitcase. (It actually costs about $1 to produce 21 booklets!)

The goal is to fill the suitcase as full as possible with Scripture booklets!

You can request a supply of The Way to God Scripture booklets for this purpose. They come 500 per 10-lb. box.

Boys and girls in countries around the world need to learn about Jesus and His love. By reading Scripture booklets in their language, they can know how to have their sins forgiven and receive the gift of eternal life!

 

Idea #4

Thermometer Display

Make a large poster of a thermometer showing funds raised for The Way to God Scripture booklets. Color with a red marker as funds increase. Adjust the numbers on the poster according to your expectations.

 

 

Idea #5

Buy a Roll of Paper

One 35″-wide roll of paper for our big printing press, costing about $1,360, can produce the inside pages of more than 85,000 48-page Scripture booklets!

An investment of $680 provides for the inside pages of about 42,500 Scripture booklets like The Way to God!

 

 

Idea #6

Faces of the World

Prepare a large colored drawing of the world (about 10 ft. wide) to post at the front of your meeting room. Have the students color the faces of children from other parts of the world. (You can download these faces from our website: wmpress.org/get-involved/mission-ideas-for-children).  As every $25 comes in for the missions offering, one of the children can glue or tape one of the colored faces onto the world.

This serves as a visual reminder that your students are touching other children around the world with God’s Word. At some point, each child can be given a copy of a God Loves You! coloring book or The Way to God Scripture booklet as a reminder of the ministry they are supporting! (Request enough free copies for this purpose.)

Boys and girls in countries around the world need to learn about Jesus and His love. By reading Scripture booklets in their language, they can know how to have their sins forgiven and receive the gift of eternal life!

Please send offerings in a check to the address below. If you can, please also send a photo and/or description of the project you used to raise funds.

 

PDF’s available:  Color or Black and White.

Pointers for Success

1. Help young people learn and practice faith by setting a realistic goal that is not simple to meet. Emphasize that “with God nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:37).

2. Involve elements of suspense, surprise, and challenge, using realistic goals on the one hand, but at the same time acknowledging the power of God and the wonderful faith that children are capable of.
3. In telling the stories about the NEED involved in the project selected, be truthful. Use no fabricated stories. If the teacher has pondered the story so well that he/she is moved emotionally, it will relate effectively to the children. They will catch the impact and will respond enthusiastically.

4. It is good to show each day the total money given that day and the total number of booklets the offering represents. (Each booklet costs 5 cents for production and mailing. Each dollar pays for 20 booklets on average.)

If you have created projects of your own that would help to send out God’s Word, we would like to hear about them. Also, it would be of interest to us to hear about the blessings you received from using the projects listed above.

Projects for Adults

Our Number One Need

PRAYER – PRAYER – MORE PRAYER! Satan will bring every type of confusion, onslaught, and battle against the Word of God, which he despises.

We can send you a detailed prayer letter with a request for every day of the month. As you join thousands of others in prayer for specific requests, we will literally see God’s power at work. To join our prayer team, click here to receive our prayer sheet via E-mail, or click here to receive our  prayer letter  via regular mail.

Monthly Support

Establish a personal “$30.00 Club” (or “Club 30”). Through World Missionary Press you can reach an equivalent of one person every hour, 24 hours a day, for $30.00 per month.

Smaller Gifts

Perhaps you can’t take on any of the above projects, but you could send $5 or $10 each month, trusting God to provide it for you.Little is much when God is in it!

Projects which Cost Nothing in Dollars and Cents

Have a Garage Sale
Collect and sell items at a garage sale or auction. Several families could cooperate in conducting a garage sale and send proceeds to WMP.

Used Bibles
Many letters come from pastors, Sunday school teachers, and others overseas, asking for complete Bibles. Do you have good new or used King James Version or New King James Version Bibles you could send? Those with study helps are especially appreciated by workers overseas.

Used Postage Stamps
Yes, we can use them, too. They are exchanged for money so we can print more booklets. Care must be taken when cutting stamps off envelopes so the stamps are not cut or torn. Leave 1/4 inch border around the stamps. We can use only FOREIGN and COMMEMORATIVE U.S. stamps.

WMP Videos/DVDs
Invite some friends or neighbors in and show them one of WMP’s videos or DVDs. Give each one a copy of Help From Above and the latest issue of WMP News. Prayerfully introducing the work in this way can pay rich dividends.

For more resources click here.

Boys and girls in countries around the world need to learn about Jesus and His love. By reading Scripture booklets in their language, they can know how to have their sins forgiven and receive the gift of eternal life.

Please send offerings in a check to the address below. If you can, please also send a photo and/or a description of the project you used to raise funds.

World Missionary Press, Inc.
P.O. Box 120, New Paris, IN 46553
(574) 831-2111 –  FAX (574) 831-2161

https://www.wmpress.org   E-mail: mailroom@wmpress.org

Extend Your Reach – To Latin America!

Every year World Missionary Press supplies large quantities of Scripture booklets, Bible study booklets, Spanish New Testaments, and Salvation coloring books to countries throughout Latin America. The following are some of the projects you can help us with:

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Bolivia: The WMP booklet The Way to God has become a standard teaching tool in hundreds of rural schools in Bolivia. Teams are able to go into classrooms, give each student their own copy and then teach the material to the class. Many students and teachers are finding the Savior through this wonderful open door. Such a project requires thousands of copies of The Way to God in Spanish. WMP is preparing a shipment of over 1 million copies along with Bible studies, New Testaments, and salvation coloring books for Bolivia. Total cost to print and ship the material requested for Bolivia is $51,200. You can provide The Way to God booklet for 500 Bolivian children through a donation of just $20. You Can Help!

 

 

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Cuba: Opportunities to share WMP literature in Cuba are steadily growing. Believers are finding encouragement and strength through WMP Bible studies and have asked for large quantities of the Bible studies on Matthew and Romans. To meet the challenge of filling these needs WMP is preparing a 20′ container of material that will include over 100,000 copies of each of these Bible studies as well as the Help From Above Scripture booklet and He Is Risen salvation coloring book. Total cost to print and ship the almost 700,000 items in 2,560 boxes for this project is $51,200. A donation of $5,120 will provide a pallet of 51,456 Bible study books. You Can Help!

 

 

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Dominican Republic: Outreach to children in their local communities is a vital part of ministry in Dominican Republic. Teams hold local Bible clubs, giving The Way to God booklet from WMP to each child. Churches are also meeting the needs of Haitians who have come to find work and help. Through Scripture booklets, New Testaments, study books, and topical Scripture booklets the word of God is meeting needs in this country. WMP is preparing a shipment of 874,000 items in Spanish and Kreyol, including more than 10,000 New Testaments for Dominican Republic. Total cost to print and ship the 2,350 boxes of literature is $47,000. You can provide 100 Spanish New Testaments for a donation of $90. You Can Help!

 

 

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Mexico: Violence, uncertainty, and fear are part of the daily life of many Mexican people. Christian workers there know that to face these difficulties it is vital THAT the word of God be planted in the heart. Teams are spreading out to every state in Mexico with WMP literature, bringing the message of hope and peace through Jesus Christ. They often face danger, threats, and personal attacks, but they keep on. To assist these faithful believers WMP is preparing a shipment of over 1.475 million Scripture booklets, Bible studies, and New Testaments at a total cost of $80,000. A donation of $6,180 will provide 154,500 copies of the booklet Satan Versus CHRIST . You Can Help!

 

 

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Paraguay: Through the faithful partnership of the Bible Society of Paraguay WMP is able to provide more than 1.7 million Scripture booklets, Bible Studies, and salvation coloring books for large and small ministries in Paraguay. They work in schools, train pastors and teachers, and evangelize villages and cities, making known the truth of the word of God. Included in a new shipment being prepared for Paraguay is a supply of 51,500 Help From Above booklets in Guarani, a second national language understood by almost 90% of the people. Each of the ministries receiving a portion of this shipment is serving in a different way toward a common goal. Total cost to print the 4,215 boxes for this shipment is $84,300. Every dollar will help to provide 25 school children with a copy of The Way to God.. You Can Help!

 

 

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Peru: A newly formed association of churches in Peru has taken on the task of reaching into the schools and remote areas with the word of God. They have asked WMP to provide the literature to help them fulfill this commitment. In addition they recognize the need to train those who accept Christ as Savior and have requested WMP Bible study books.WMP is preparing a shipment of over 650,000 items including over half a million copies of The Way to God booklet in Spanish. Total cost to print and ship the 2,075 boxes of literature for Peru is $41,500. Your donation of $1 will provide 25 school children with a copy of The Way to God. You Can Help!

 

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Madagascar: Lost – and Found – in Translation

The famous explorer Marco Polo set out from Venice in 1271 AD to explore the East, returning more than twenty years later to chronicle his many travels in A Description of the World, published sometime around 1300. In his writings, Polo described a rich African island he called “Madeigascar,” his attempted transliteration of the name Mogadishu, the port city in Somalia – not at all the same place! The adventurer’s confusion spread to European cartographers, who mislabeled the island on their maps with Polo’s version of a different place’s name, and so it is known to this day as “Madagascar.”

Centuries later, in 1818, three missionaries from the London Missionary Society (of which the notable Dr. David Livingstone was a member) – James Cameron, David Jones, and David Griffith – came to Madagascar to spread the gospel, build schools, and introduce the people to new inventions. Jones and Griffith translated Scripture into Malagasy, the native tongue, and Cameron oversaw the installation of the first printing press on the island. Their combined efforts produced the first Bible ever published in an African language.

Today, nearly two hundred years later, World Missionary Press is carrying the torch of these LMS missionaries, supplying Dries D., our national coordinator for Madagascar, with regular shipments of Scripture booklets in Malagasy. Dries has been using WMP literature for almost a quarter of a century now, first encountering our materials while ministering in South Africa.

Since moving to Madagascar nearly twenty years ago to minister full-time as national director for Every Home for Christ (EHC), Dries has continued to order WMP booklets to the present day. In February, 2014, WMP sent him a 20-foot ship container carrying over 1,000,000 booklets. It arrived in late April and when it finally cleared customs in mid-May, Dries sent encouraging photos to WMP and wrote, “Thank you, WMP, for letting us have so many powerful tools from you, so that we can share the blessed Good News by giving a paper missionary to so many homes in our country.” Some days EHC teams in Madagascar visit up to 6,000 homes. They’d like to do that at least three days a week in different locations in the country. Each home gets a minimum of one Help From Above booklet (for adults) and one Way to God booklet (for children).

Recently Dries emailed an enthusiastic report of EHC ministry in 2014:

“We had the best year ever … God is moving, and we need to be ready at all times with His Word. Our Harvest project (Nov/Dec) and our Christmas project were wonderful. Totals for the 2 projects were 145,650 homes visited, 353,000 tracts distributed, and 8,198 responses. Believe me, it is awesome.

“I can’t explain the feeling when I go through all the reports that come from our six regions. The other day, in just one day, more than 11,000 homes received two or three tracts per home. If I remember correctly, we had over 1,200 responses. God is so GOOD, dear friends. We are VERY excited about our next container (we are always excited about our containers). May our Lord and God bless WMP even MORE.”

Distributors all over Madagascar look to Dries for a supply of literature from the containers WMP regularly sends him. Islands Mission is leading an inter-denominational church-planting movement in the Indian Ocean islands. Already, third-generational churches have been planted in 1,500 remote villages. But in Madagascar’s mountainous region, crisscrossed with rivers, there are more than 15,000 unreached villages hidden in dense rainforest, many not even appearing on a map. “The people groups in these villages are steeped in generations of witchcraft, superstition, and animistic religions – unreached, and they need to be followers of Jesus Christ!” wrote Dinah R. when she asked WMP for the Malagasy material they need – more than 10,000 booklets for now.

Richard R. found WMP’s website and requested a small supply of booklets on behalf of a foundation focusing on the health of women looking for medical attention and financial aid in their fight against cancer. He wrote, “I saw these booklets for the first time in a waiting room of a private hospital. I took some and placed them also on my desk. I saw that the patients who came into my office were very interested to get some, either to practice English or really to look for help from God by reading them. I am not a good Christian, but I am trying to search a  better way to help other
people who would like to get a chance to know the way to God with the help of your booklets.”

God’s love for Madagascar is obvious and so is His work there. WMP is glad to be a part of the continuing missionary tradition in this island nation – from the envoys of the London Missionary Society who first translated God’s Word into Malagasy to the devotion of Dries D. and so many other evangelistic distributors across the country today. May the Lord Jesus, the Word Himself, continue to make His love, a language free of mistranslation, clear to hearts in Madagascar, a land with a misplaced name.

  [You can help supply God’s Word to Madagascar. Your gift of $20 provides for about 500 Scripture booklets; $100 helps to supply 2,500 booklets.]

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Grateful Quotes

Sharing God’s Word from Michigan

“The Children’s Church program here at our church adopted your organization for a month and raised $80.00 to help support theUSS Scripture Booklets project. We are a small church and generally have 4-6 kids in the Children’s Church, so we were very pleased with the amount donated.

“I have enclosed a check and a picture of Avalon, Amelia, Autumn, and Olivia – the girls present the day the picture was taken. They took this very seriously and were very interested to hear all the info about what you are doing to spread the Good News. I actually have some of your booklets and passed them out in class and asked the girls to read them at home, but Avalon wanted to read hers immediately and did not put it down until she had read it through.

“Thanks for all you are doing in the name of Jesus!”      -Theresa P., Michigan

Meet the Team

Stephen M., Creative Team

I heard about World Missionary Press when my parents discovered WMP via Intercristo in 1994. After a trip to Indiana to investigate, and serious prayer for guidance, we moved from Reading, Pennsylvania, so they both could start working here. I was five when we relocated in September of that year.

When I was sixteen, I had the opportunity to fill a part-time position as an assistant to my dad, who was WMP’s Systems Manager at the time. I’ve been here for nine years, serving in a variety of areas including IT, data entry, field representation, and shipment tracking. Currently I’m working in the Creative Development department, which involves editing and producing promotional videos, graphic design and illustration (in which I have a bachelor’s degree from Grace College), as well as writing for WMP’s monthly newsletter.

I appreciate the opportunity to serve God alongside Christians of various backgrounds and convictions who lay aside personal preferences and doctrine to cooperate for the sake of the gospel. It’s also a privilege to be part of something that impacts people all over the world. The gratitude and enthusiasm of so many who receive Scripture booklets from World Missionary Press inspire me.

In my spare time I enjoy drawing and painting, dabbling in music and writing, reading, and spending time with friends. I’m an only child and don’t live very close to many relatives, but I’ve been blessed with a number of close friendships here in Indiana, and there are always opportunities to travel and see extended family. I commute to WMP each day from Winona Lake, where World Missionary Press began and where I attended college while commuting from home in New Paris.

WMP Partners Around the World

Dennis G., Distributor in China

Since 2006, WMP has provided 432 ten-pound boxes of Scripture booklets for Dennis and his teams from the U.S. to distribute in China. Two pallets of literature will soon be produced and shipped to a storage/distribution facility in Hong Kong to help keep teams supplied.

WMP: Please describe your background and current ministry.

Dennis: I began gospel literature distribution in China about ten years ago. Our focus has been on unreached people groups. Over the years we have used WMP booklets to reach Chinese, Mongolian, Muslim, and Buddhist cities, towns, and villages across China. I would estimate that we’ve distributed several tons of literature in areas that had never heard a clear presentation of the gospel.

WMP: How does the availability of free literature affect your evangelism in China?

Dennis: Having access to good, free gospel literature has been essential to fulfilling our mission of reaching the vast areas we focus on. This year alone we hope to take as many as four or five teams to China. Each team works for as long as a month to see that unreached areas hear the gospel message. I honestly don’t know how we would do what we do if it weren’t for the help we get from WMP.

Our supplies from WMP are used immediately. We order just enough to cover the needs of the teams on the field at that given time. We are currently obtaining a large shipment (384 boxes) from WMP that we hope will greatly meet the needs of our teams for a number of months.

WMP: What challenges do you face in the free and open distribution of WMP literature?

Dennis: Since the open spread of the gospel is not possible in our target country (China), our work is done during the night hours. We have been able to saturate areas with the Good News. A partner missionary on the ground in China is able to follow up when the teams have completed their work.

WMP: How would you describe the effectiveness of the topical Scripture booklets?

Dennis: It is an awesome thing to see people standing on the street or at the door of their business or home, reading the literature they find in the morning as they begin their day. This is by no means an unusual occurrence. In the mornings after we work the street in areas near schools, we often see young children sharing the gospel booklets they find with their friends. These booklets are read in China!

We work in areas where we often don’t know of any established churches. These are truly unreached areas. Often these booklets are the first seed sown in these areas. Thank you for your prayers for us as we work in China. We are very thankful for the help we receive from WMP to get the job done.

President’s Corner

We continue to stand in awe of all God has been doing at World Missionary Press. Now that new (for us) equipment is in place and operational, we are experiencing the greatly increased potential for production we anticipated. The six-color press and direct-to-plate equipment give much-needed flexibility in scheduling production of covers; and wow, can that press produce! The Pivano cover cutter is running like a champ, turning large press sheets into bindery-size sheets. The Osako bindery and our newest piece of equipment, the Palamides stacker/bundler, give greater efficiency and higher speed when binding and boxing Scripture booklets. What a blessing it was, as we zoomed through more than 9 million Help From Above-size equivalency on our binderies during the month of January! Praise the Lord!

The challenge now is to make use of this new production capacity to meet the urgent high demand for Scripture booklets throughout the world. Our operating budget for this fiscal year allows for production of 7.5 million booklets per month on average – but the need is for so much more! Would you join with us, fervently seeking the Lord for a significant increase in income – so we can bump that monthly average up to 9 million or more? The need is great. Distributors in countries around the world are crying out for more of God’s eternal life-giving Word, and our time is short. Because of economy of operation, WMP Treasurer Marie Mack calculates it will cost $45,000 per month over budget to increase from a monthly average of 7.5 to 9 million (only about 3 cents per additional booklet for both production and shipping).

Thank you so much for your faithful support for World Missionary Press! We greatly appreciate your prayers, all the time freely given each month by hundreds of volunteer workers, and the funds donated to the work of the Lord. We praise the Lord for you!

A long-time WMP supporter and distributor writes,

“Be encouraged and press on in this life-giving eternal work. Praise God for increases in output of Scripture booklets and Bible studies and all other food for the soul. Your improvements/changes in packaging the Scripture booklets [Palamides bundles] are making a difference in their condition upon arrival. The paper banding of bundles within the boxes helps keep them from moving and becoming bent and folded-over…. The new glossy color cover on Who Am I That A King Would Die In My Place? is outstanding.”

What a blessing to serve the King of kings in such a meaningful way!

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