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 “The OIKOS Strategic team of Every Home for Christ Liberia is bringing blessings and peace to parents and school authorities through the propagation of God’s Word. Many young minds are being set free from the bondage of sin and temptations through this program. This OIKOS outreach took place at Tender Hearts School in Neezoe community. This school hosts 1,500 pupils, many of which are Muslim by birth. The World Missionary Press beautiful Scripture booklet God Loves You! made an impact as 146 made the decision to be born again as believers and 310 raised their hands for rededication. It was a joyful day as Christ’s love was exhibited through our OIKOS team.” –Jonel W.
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 “Every year I prepare blessing bags with booklets and coloring books for children, crosses, devotionals and booklets for teens, and Meditations in the Psalms and blessing rocks for the adults. We usually see about 250 children, 100 teens, and 200 adults at the annual Community Day in the Park. We love being a blessing to others, and your resources permit us to do much more than we could do on our own. The children love gathering at the table and picking a gemstone with a cross painted on it to go with your Who Am I that a KING Would Die in My Place? booklet and coloring in the God Loves You! booklet as we tell the stories! I love your outreach materials, small group studies, and of course the coloring books. Thank you for your commitment to God’s work!!!” —Jennifer R., West Virginia  "I'm lying here thinking about outreach and cannot sleep. I miss being in the field. I was looking at photos and came across this one. Many children are so hungry for truth. How can we turn them away? I'm so thankful for World Missionary Press and their booklets for children. They need hope, and Jesus is their only hope. I'm praying that we will all be a part of bringing Jesus to them. 'And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.' (1 Corinthians 13:13 KJV)"
-A Facebook Post from one of our precious distributors and long-time friends, Tom Faunce 
"Hello, I am writing to you on behalf of the East Grove Union Church. We are a small, non-denominational church located in north-central Illinois. Each year we hold a Vacation Bible School during the summer and each year we choose a missionary or organization to donate to. Our students have a friendly competition to see which team can bring the most funds. The money that our church collects is then donated and the kids receive a small prize for bringing in their donations. I am the current VBS director and after finding your organization on the internet, I chose World Missionary Press as our organization to donate to. I was so impressed with the work your group does in spreading God’s love and the Gospel to the world. I especially like that you also have a focus on children. Our kids were able to take home and share with their families some of your coloring papers and information from ‘Sammy’! Enclosed you will find our donation check. Although it isn’t a huge amount of money, it is an impressive donation from the kids in our small community. We pray that these funds will help you to further your mission and bring new souls to God’s kingdom. Thank you for the work that you do and we will keep you in our prayers."  “We will distribute these booklets to public school children who do not have Bibles and know very little about the Gospel. They will receive their booklet during their Christian Released Time Education which is held once a week and upheld by Supreme Court decision, Zorach vs. Clauson. This weekly class is the only Bible study any of these children have.”
-Norma B., CA, U.S.A.
“Our organization is a small one—just me, my wife, and our two children, for now. We have been involved in several initiatives where we collect items and help distribute them to those who need them most. Our most current effort has been to collect school materials and distribute them in the Dominican Republic. By God’s good grace, we have been able to do this mission for the second year in a row, more than doubling last year’s back pack count to close to 70. We do not only want to help with the children’s scholastic future but their spiritual future as well. A co-worker shared one of these booklets with me and I really enjoyed how my children reacted to it. So, I would like to share the Scripture through these booklets with each of the kids who receive a back pack. We want to share the Grace of God with them in such a way that they begin to enjoy a relationship with God through this action." -Wascar R., NY By Julie Bourdon Honduras (MNN) – Honduras is said to have one of the highest murder rates in the world. In some cities, the violence is so bad, it’s only slightly safer than a war zone. Take San Pedro Sula, for example. According to Reeuters, about 200 people fled the city in a month’s time earlier this year. The violence stems from gang activity, intertwined with drugs and organized crime. Sadly, children are often drawn into the violence, one way or another. Sharing the Gospel as an organization World Missionary Press provides Gospel literature in hundreds of languages for organizations and individuals around the world. One of their major distributors in Honduras is addressing these societal issues with two very important tools—education and the Gospel. A branch of their ministry called Children’s Gift Ministry is reaching out to children specifically. Helen Williams of World Missionary Press says last December, they received a call from this distributor with a testimony of how the last shipment of booklets was helping their network of pastors. “He said, ‘Because of what you sent us, we were able to evangelize more than 25,000 children and young people in this particular area.’” One pastor, for example, hands out the booklets with colored teddy bears called “faith bears.” These bears are color-coordinated to tell the salvation story. The booklets and the bears work together to help children understand the Gospel. But as is often the case, the praise report came with a request. The group was nearly out of Scripture booklets, and the school year was about to start! Part of Children’s Gift Ministry is the annual "Back To Classes With Jesus" program. It provides children, aged six to 12, with a backpack full of supplies. These backpacks can be the difference between going to school, or not. Church leaders hold local, community-wide evangelism events. As they distribute the backpacks, pastors take the children through the Scripture booklets from World Missionary Press. Each child receives their own booklet. Many children have given their lives to Jesus during these events. And as the program grows, so does the potential to see lasting change in Honduras. “You know, you reach these children, you have a chance to change a culture and change a community, and change a nation. And that’s what the Spirit can do through His Word,” Williams says. So before the current school year began, World Missionary Press sent a large shipment of booklets, including some in the Miskito language. When classes started up, the back to school program had reached 30,000 children in 200 locations across Honduras. That means 30,000 children got to encounter the Word of God. “They are going to know the Scriptures, they’re going to have it in their hand, they’re going to take it home, it goes with the backpacks, it’s taught,” Williams says. In addition to the backpack project, these booklets are an important part of pastoral outreach, church planting, and discipleship. And so, the requests for more Scripture booklets keep coming. “For many of those people and their churches and believers down there, this will be the closest thing they get to a Bible. And so, we just want to encourage people that the Lord is blessing and the Lord is using this and we are trying to keep up. This is one major distributor out of about 85 that we have that keep saying, ‘hey, that was wonderful, can I have some more?’” Later this year, World Missionary Press will be sending another shipment with about 500,000 pieces of literature going out. Williams says the shipment, made up of both Spanish and Miskito booklets, will be one of their largest to Honduras. Sharing faith as an individual But it’s not just organizations that have effectively used Scripture booklets for ministry. Williams shares one story that shows the power of the individual who is willing to share God’s Word. She received a letter from a lady earlier this month who lives in a low-income housing project in Colorado. “She says, ‘I gave some of your booklets to the cleaning lady in the morning. And then in the afternoon, God led me to verbally witness to her. She then received Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior. She was ready and willing and I am very happy about this.’” This lady wasn’t just sending a praise report, she was requesting more material. Why? To keep on witnessing. The woman explained that people come and go all the time. Most of them accept the booklets, and she has been blessed every time she’s handed one out. Williams says, “I think of this wonderful lady who just gave a Scripture booklet to the cleaning gal that came to her apartment, and later in the day followed the Spirit’s prompting to talk to this lady directly, and a child of God was born, a soul came to Christ.” For Williams this story means that, “there is no one that the Spirit cannot use if we’re willing to be used and He will bring us the opportunities if we are sensitive to His leading.” And that applies across cultures and language barriers, too. In fact, World Missionary Press is equipping ordinary, monolingual people to witness to their neighbors who come from other countries and have a different first language. “Everywhere you’re going to run into someone who speaks Arabic, or French, or Spanish, or Portuguese, or Swahili, or Gujarati, or Hindi. And we can provide them material—just one or two booklets that they can share with an in-law or a neighbor or a tradesmen or a friend, someone that they want to share the truth of the Scripture but not quite sure how to get it across.”  "God provided our team in Uganda with a chance to share His love with 150 students, and 25 of them decided to receive Christ as their Lord and Savior! Praise God for these young hearts that are now living a life for Jesus." Pictured: Children receiving The Way to God Scripture booklet. With your help, we are helping Every Home For Christ and thousands of other individuals, missionaries, churches and ministries reach the world with the Good News!  "A few months back, the spirit of sharing that l saw being exhibited by these little ones was so touching; for even when they were hungry, they shared among themselves the little they had. It was obvious that what was at hand was not enough for just even one person! This communicates volumes.
1 John 3:16-19 'We know what real love is because Jesus gave up His life for us. So we ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion-how can GOD's love be in that person? Dear children, let's not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. Our actions will show that we belong to the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before GOD.' Please pray for our upcoming Outreach with Frontline Ministries. With the LORD's provision, we shall reach the little ones with Love, clothing, etc., and the Word of hope using Scripture booklets from World Missionary Press.. In serving the LORD, our entire focus is to move forward always since the onus is on us to live to the expectations of our Father in Heaven. Every influential person on earth was once a helpless baby. Every oak once was an acorn, and every great structure was once a mere blue print on paper. No matter where we stay or come from, once we walk and talk to the LORD faithfully, with all our hearts, bodies, souls and minds, He listens and responds. Therefore, it’s not where we are today, but where we are going that counts, for there is always Light at the end of the tunnel. John 1:5 "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it." Shared by Mike Prieur on Albert Kisembo's Facebook Page, WMP Ambassador in Uganda |
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