June 30, 2004
Vol. 11 Issue 12
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EDITORIAL
Isaiah 58:6-7 6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Sharing the abundance that our Lord has blessed us with is our privilege. God bless you for your support of missions.
The needs are many; pray for God to direct us we serve Him. Editor
ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT – INFO+
The Balance ledger for our 11th year of publication is:
Balance as of June 30, 2003: -($471.90)
Expenses July 1, 2003 – June 30, 2004:
Postage: $676.60
Printing: $904.00
Total Expenses: $1,581.60
Income: $2,324.90 (includes $900.00 in special donations)
Balance, June 30, 2004: $271.40
We now have 104 paid subscriptions; this is a loss of 16 over last year. I am mailing out 138 copies monthly (52 less than last year) with complimentary copies going to overseas missionaries, youth campers and to a few selected individuals in the United States. 86 are receiving the Info via email and it is posted on our website. Email is a significant savings; if you prefer email to a printed copy, email your request to me. The Info+ is going into 23 states and 7 foreign countries.
Subscribers: Check the date by your name on your address label for your expiration date. Re-new early and encourage others that may be interested in mission reports and Church of God news to subscribe. Consider giving a gift subscription to someone.
Pray for our efforts in this ministry. Editor
WORLD MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP (WMF)
Annual meeting is set for Thursday July 15 @ 2:00 PM; Licking County Church of God Camp Meeting, Newark, Ohio. All who are born again, support missions and have an interest in helping us to serve missions, foreign and domestic, plan to attend. Tuesday morning, July 13 will feature presentations of Mission organizations including WMF.
Continue to send offerings identified for specific missions to the Treasurer:
World Missionary Fellowship
C/O Bro. Steve Yoder
P. O. Box 418
Sugarcreek, OH 44681
I am available to visit congregations or groups to present needs and discuss WMF, Nigeria or the Philippines. Bro. Stanley J. Rexroth, Chairman.
NIGERIA
REPORTS FOR THE MONTH OF May:
Abam/Abala, Pastor Cyriacus Nwachukwu: Attendance = 60 to 73, 2 souls added. Activities include Visitation to the inmates, witnessing, and our normal church activities. Fasting and praying 3 days, open-air preaching carried out for four days, God added two souls unto his church. We are grateful in what God is doing in our mist.
Umuahia, Pastor Christian Ogbuka: Attendance = 46 to 66; 4 souls added (children). The Lord is faithful who has continued to strengthen His work here in Umuahia and WMFCOG Nigeria as a whole. Youth Ministry here in Amafor is well on the way. The children ministry not left out.
Calabar 1, Pastor Johnnie Austin: Attendance = 39 to 80 Apart from our normal house-to-house evangelism, we have introduced a system titled, “Call them out” which is carried out every Sunday morning during Sunday school period. On this, selected few will go around the church vicinity and invite people for church service. This has yielded positive result mostly on children. There was 3 days fasting and Prayer conducted. Also, a tarry night. This comes up once on every last Friday from 9.pm – 5am. Our Weekly activities on Wednesday and Friday were also conducted. Requirement: We are please requesting for Evangelical equipment such as: - Public Address System, Generator, Traits and Bibles to enable us carry our effective evangelism and Church Services.
Calabar 2, Pastor Bassey Ekpe: Attendance = 14 to 23. 1 soul won. Evangelical Activities: - We could not relax our efforts in going out with other members of the church for evangelism always apart from our normal going on Saturdays. We have now device a way to go out after Sunday school period, to speak Christ to the teaming population who still seat down at home without going to church, this actually paid off with the increase you witness as per the record above. We had three days Prayer and Fasting about the Church growth, and those supporting the Church from W.M.F in America. There was Tarry Night, also which witness a large turn out of people with diverse problem, and God healed them.
Omoba Isiala Ngwa, Pastor Ronald Iheanacho: Attendance = 13 to 20; I engaged myself in house-to-house evangelism and visitations. We have been conducting Bible studies every Mondays in the month and Prayer Meeting every Fridays. May 3, I went out for bus evangelism. We are planning for indoor revivals. Omoba is desperately in need of land, church building and parsonage. We are all praying for W.M.F.
Ikot Edibon, Pastor Okon Jim Ibok: Attendance = 18 to 29; Evangelism activities: 3 days revival, & House to house Evangelism.
Ikot Inyang Eti, Pastor Udobong Okon Essien: Attendance = 67 to 74; 1 soul saved; Evangelism activities include Bible Class, prayer and fasting, tarry night and Revivals.
Ehere, Aba, Pastor James Igbokwe: Attendance = 15 to 16. Things moved well with us this day. Myself as a Pastor of the church at Aba, my greatest joy is when I see the word of God work. Daily we encounter new people.
Eket Urban, Pastor E. David: Attendance = 20 to 30; Activities: House-To-house Evangelism For One week. It is with respect that I make this appeal concerning the amount approved for me to use for re-location. Our congregation at Eket is suffering because we have no good place of worship.
Obinze Owerri, Imo State, Pastor Albert Emeh: Attendance = 6; Proper Evangelistic activities have not commenced due to my living far away from this place, however, on Sundays, normal church service, Sunday School Class, Visitation and personal Witnessing to sick and other people around do take place. Our Services take place in a Sister’s Room. Our contacts about securing a place have not yielded nice reports. Hopefully we shall succeed. Pray for us.
Evavalley Amafor Isingwu Umuahia, Pastor Comfort (wife of Albert) Emeh: Attendance = 21 to 27. This month is a wonderful month in this church. The Lord has wakened the weak members. Series of promises to stand firm and serve the Lord has been made. Moreover, those who formed the habit of coming to church late on Sunday have resolved not to do so. Everybody is serious. The teaching of 3 boys for Water Baptism is still on and they are serious. We had our monthly Holy Communion service. We had prayer Revival service to help the Ministry. I did travel to a part of Owerri where I engaged a soul on Teach/Preaching work.
Report From WMF Bible College, & Church of God Lagos Area, Nigeria
June 11, 2004
Greetings.
A 2 day Crusade was held June 3 & 4 at Bariga. Theme was “Repent For The Kingdom of God is at Hand” Evangelist was A. O. Edet. He preached on the topic "HELL FIRE” quoted his text from Matt. 10: 28. A film showing HELL FIRE was shown how sinners were tormented in the everlasting fire. We had a big crowd watching this film show and many moved to the altar to confess and forsake their sins.
Friday he preached on “The Kingdom of God” with emphasis on prophecy and fulfillment. The power of Jesus was also preached. Many souls moved to the altar for prayers and 3 souls gave their lives to Christ.
The next crusade is scheduled on September 2004 at Church of God, Orile Apapa Lagos. Lord's willing please pray for us.
A. O. Edet, Reporter
June 15, 2004
Dear brethren, Greetings,
We have the pleasure to share the present situation affecting our college with you. This is the problem of accommodation. We are occupying the Church hall. {1} The church hall is located in a swampy area and the whole place is over flooded this time. Our lessons are affected. {2} This hall is not presentable and can not be approve by the Government during the inspection [3} The church and college are two different entities that can not be allowed by the Government even if it is convenience.
In view of these and other psychological effects, we have decided to rent a decent place even if it is small to relocate the Bible College to meet the international & Government standard in NIGERIA.
Please we need your prayers and your financial supports. Thank you.
A O EDET
for WMF BIBLE COLLEGE
LAGOS NIGERIA
PHILIPPINES
May 27, 2004
Dear Bro. Rexroth & Saints,
Greetings to you with Sis. Rexroth including all our loving supporters in the WMF in the precious name of Jesus. Trust you have received the copy of our Camp Meeting Journal 2004 that remind you of your visit that is not in vain, but really help your Filipino brethren in the other side of the globe. It also encourage the member of your family absence to them you’re used for the prosperity for the Lord’s work.
Since our last hurrah we are busy in the Father’s business preparing the new site of our Pastoral Training School in Ma-a Davao City. This week we’re in Ma-a with 7 carpenters and Mason. The money you gave we used to start the project. Noemi also gave P55,000.00 ($1,000.00) more from her Elementary School fund. Sis. Luzan also released P60,000.00. The work is still going on. In my evaluation we need $1,200.00 more to complete the dorm. We are praying that God will supply this need before the opening of the school last week of July.
Before close my brother we need your intercessory prayer because our May Presidential election was already finished but there are unbelievable report that hinder the true winner. It is sad to note that the administration took advantage of the time to proclaim the true winner, though most people don’t want her anymore and I am one of them. So please pray for us. The prayer of the righteous availeth much.
In God’s Cause
Bro. & Sis. D. B. Luzan Jr.
INDIA
June 1, 2004
Pastor’s Meeting Report:
My message was “The Trouble & Sadness Brought About by Lack of Unity in Organization & Church”. The beauty & blessedness of brethren dwelling together in unity is brought to us in Psalm 133. It is a wonderful and delightful thing. We are all different, we serve in different ways for the Spirit distributes as He wills the various gifts to be exercised.
K. P. Dass brought a message on “Pastors Should Have Four Main Characters to do The Lord’s Service” from 2 Timothy 1:3-8.
Pastor Aseervadam taught “Triangle Problem in the Lord’s Work” from Nehemiah 6. Pastor Premnath also preached.
Father John reported that the church building in Iskapalem is coming under control of the Church of God; the building is leaking and need some repairs.
All the pastors extend loving thanks to the saints.
Yours Servant,
K. Bobby Emmanuel
June 16, 2004
REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF MAY
"Those who love him be like sun when it comes out in full strength"
Greetings in the matchless name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. We thank the Lord for his wonderful guidance and protection in the month of May at Tirupati Gospel services in Andhra Pradesh India. We are very happy to let you know that we have advanced monsoon this year and the weather is getting cool in the very hot summer. By all your prayers and the prayers of the saints, we have a Christian faith Governor at our State is being elected praise God. This is the right time in Andhra Pradesh to develop spiritual with the Gospel in this region. The Governor (Chief Minister) is also belongs to the same region.
The First week of the month of May - we have more rains. God Blessed our lands in this district. Even though we have rains. The Holy spirit strengthened us to work more burdenfully for the Gospel we are able to visit the branch Churches with the two wheeler along with my wife Linda. We have met the branch church pastors, elders - and their families and strengthened with the word of God. we had prayer fellowship - sharing our ministerial needs and developments.
In the Second week on Sunday after the church worship service and Sunday school after the lunch - our UCG team and Co-pastors traveled by a passenger train to Chavatapallem where we have started U.C.G. tribal community church in forest areas. This is 50 k.m. distance from my home. We have reached the village railway station in the evening. We went by walk the 5.k.m distance to reach the Chavatapallem tribal village. Pastor yesupadam, his family and saints of the church happily received up. Evening service! started in the thatched shed temporary built with coconut leaves and with mud walls. This hut chapel accommodates nearly 30 people. In the worship meeting gathered more than 30 people. We started prayer with brother Azraiah. After singing Telugu songs with responsive reading pastor martin shared the word of God. After the massage brother Joshua shared his witness. The Holy Spirit poured into their hearts and many people responsively received and prayed with tears. After the meeting pastor Martin and team pastors prayed for the sick people. Pastor Yesupadam arranged food for the night, slept on the floor but it is very remote area without power supply we are enable to sleep we spent more time in prayer. Pastor Yesupadam is a very poor man he has four children. He belongs to tribal community. He needs your prayers, blessings and support. If you help, he lives for the Lord and spend his life gratefully for the Lord.
In the Third week our Gospel team visited Charitable Hospital run by Hindu religion trust. Our Gospel team visited - T.B. Hospital and distributed few gospel tracts and prayed the T.B. patients who are suffering with lung infection. My father is a retired Community Health Officer who is interested to visit the sick people and to preach the Gospel. After that we reach cancer ward and we put our hands to the wounds of the cancer and prayed for the un wounded ulcers and boils. A patient Vijaya Ratnam accepted the Lord Jesus tearfully and received prayers. After seeing the sick and infectious persons we returned home painfully and prayed in the presence of the Lord to heal all these sufferers. The Hospital is 7 km distance from my home. The end of the week we visited children prison along with Linda and the U.C.G. Team distributed sweets and fruits. The superintendent of prison also interested and impressed the truth of living God. Previously he refused to take pictures but the lord opened his heart to take pictures this time.
The Final week of the month after Sunday service we went to the P.K. Lay out branch Sunday service, which is 9 Kilometers, from my place. Our team reached this place by bus. P.K. Lay Out is in side the Tirupati city, which is center for Hindu high caste (Hindu Priests) families. There is a pastor appointed by our church by name Pastor Moses is a reborn Christian gifted by God who is the fruit of UCG Church. Later he, came forward and dedicated for the God's ministry. He is in charge pastor among the high caste Hindu families. We started new church service in the house of Moses. This is a rented house. Even though the rain disturbed us and the power failure, The Lord helped us to complete the service for the glory of God. Nearly 35 members heard the word of God. Pastor Martin spoke on Jeremiah 33:3 " Call to me - I will answer you". In the New testament the lord answered his people who called for him like Mary and Martha for their brother Lazarus. So the Holy Spirit is moving very fast in the high caste stanch Hindu families and two families are coming forward and received Jesus as lord and savior and taken decision to take baptism we are going to arrange baptism service. Please up hold in your prayers to all these services.
Your servant in the Lord,
K. Martin
June 19, 2004
REPORT OF THE PASTORS ORDINATION, ANOINTING AND BAPTISM SERVICES- TIRUPATI
It is a beautiful and blessed day on 17 th June at v.p.nagar.It is very much joyful gathering of 200 holy saints and 60 pastors participated in the anointing service. All glory to the lord Jesus. Thank you very much for your love and prayers for anointing day. The seven pastors shared their testimonies and the god’s call. The congregation and the holy saints are very much happy about the testimonies and praised the lord. Praise god the lord again touched some of the hearts and gave new hearts through the labors of united church of God ministry 9 members came forward to take baptism. Please pray for the new born souls and 7 dedicated pastors. Thank you for your prayers, It would have been impossible to make this day glories for the lord without your prayers, blessings, guidance and love. I am sending a few photographs of each service. Your servant in the lord, K .Martin.
June 19, 2004
To WMF Info+ Editor:
I and my wife Angel, and our daughter Roseline are very much grateful to the Father and Mother WOOD, and Dr. Edward. N Beck, and Pastor. Glen Dryden, and Pastor. Willy cash who visited us and recommended us to the WMFUSA to accept us in to the family of the Church of God. And we are really praising the good Lord Jesus Christ whose love is shown towards our family in taking us as missionaries of the WMFUSA, and once again we express our gratitude to the WMFUSA, and the saints who recommended us to the Church of God USA spe
First of all let me introduce my self I was born and (on February 23rd 1961) brought up in a non Christian family, who were worshiping the idols, and I was under great darkness of sin, helping to a witchcraft man costing out evil spirits for money and my life was restless no peace of mind and no sleep in the nights all the nights roaming around and also I was street fighter and leading a group of people,
In 1980 I was invited by a friend to one day youth meeting on November 23rd 1980 there GOD touched me with gospel of salvation and at 5pm, I could feel GOD’S presence there I was convicted and I had accepted JESUS as my personal savior, and at the same moment the great light come from heaven to my heart and the darkness was gone away from my heart and I was lightened. The very next day I started to ask pardon from all the people with whom I had did wrong they were amazed when I return their things back.
In December 31ST 1980 I took baptism, And started to preach the gospel near by villages by taking 7 young people, in 1983 I joined with Indian Evangelical Mission to work as missionary 1983 to 1986 they helped me to do my B.Th. And in 1986. I married with Angel then we both did cross-cultural training for 4 months, then we worked for three years in a hill tribe people and in 1987 we got our only baby girl Roseline and now she is dong first year Inter. Then In 1989 we three landed on islands called Andaman and Nicobar Islands. They are about 1200 nautical miles from the Indian subcontinent. There we worked for 7 years among fisher folk God could use us to established two churches among Telugu aking people.
Then for two years we worked among the orthodox, non-Christians who are the idol worshipers and where Mother Theressa worked.
About ministry.
The Lord had opened the door to start the ministry at Nellore; those people are having much interest to the Word of God, in the rural areas of the Nellore. First we started the work with the preaching of the Gospel and distributed the Gospel tracts to house to house. There was not even single Christian at that time we started to Evangelize. We had done hard work with on our foot and knees. The Lord started His work in their hearts; one by one gather and requested us to preach more about the Jesus Christ. After 4 months we could able to enter in their houses and started the cottage meetings, they also opened their houses with cheerful hearts. As work is going on recently 7 people came forward to take baptisms, and we started Sunday worship in a small hired hut.
The surrounding people started to join with us as the Lord blessed this work many people started to gather for Sunday & weekday meetings. Now we have a hunger need of a Church building. Now it became too difficult to conduct meetings, and we need to construct permanent Church building. And by the Gods grace a believer donated a land but we are able to rise the building about 6feet's, as months passing our financial status is not allowing us to go for it, and we are unable to complete the Church building for this hunger need we humbly request you to pray and support.
Thanking You,
Your servant in Christ,
Rev. M. PREMNATH. B.Th.
YOUTH CORNER
Well it is time to catch up on the corner. As I sit here typing, there is a song that I just can’t get out of my head. And that song is . . . “Pomp and Circumstance” for those of you who do not know what that is, that is the song that is played during graduation. Yes, many of you have walked across the stage already and the rest of you dream of the day when you graduate from High School and some even from college. You know that is a great accomplishment. You have walked across one stage of life onto another. Our heavenly Father has designed this life to be a series of graduations. He wants us to first move across the stage of sin and death and into a victorious life in Him. It doesn’t stop there; he also wants us to graduate from a spiritual baby into a mature adult. Many of you have become contented in the grade level of spirituality that you have attained. However God is calling you to walk across the stage and graduate to the next level.
Power Passage:
Proverbs 3:3-6 “3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
That is all for now, take care and don’t hesitate when God calls you to graduate.
If your youth group is doing something cool this summer email and let me know. Also if you have some cool pictures send the to me as well.
Living God Loud,
Brian Bridges
123 Lambert Drive
Manassas Park, VA, 20111
E-Mail Badleg@juno.com
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FELLOWSHIP DAY REPORT
The annual Fellowship Meeting was held at Ebenezer Road Church of God, Orrstown, PA on June 5, 2004. Although the pastor, Charles Beltz, was in the hospital with pneumonia the meeting went on. Bro. Henry Marquiss III brought the morning message on “The Last Day” from Luke 17:26-30. Bro. Stanley J. Rexroth brought the afternoon message on “The Journey Is Too Great For you” from 1 Kings 19:1-8.
YOUTH PASTOR SOUGHT
Robinwood Church of God, located in Hagerstown, Maryland, is seeking a youth pastor with a love for God and a love for youth, together with strong leadership skills to direct our growing youth group currently from 20 to 40 members. This includes age 5 through 21. Initially, we are offering a part-time position, which we hope to expand into a full-time position in the future. Inquiries please send resume to Troy Cosner, President of the Board, 14219 Rockdale Road, Clearspring, MD 21722 or email at troy@intrepid.net or by phone at 301-582-3336
PASTOR NEEDED
The West Side Church of God in Lebanon, Missouri is in need of a pastor. Interested persons may contact Bro. Mike Griffin 417-532-4784
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