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WMP Partners Interview Don and Ellen F. East Coast USA and Beyond Volunteers are at the very heart of World Missionary Press, helping keep costs low at our production facility in Indiana. Volunteer national coordinators and major distributors in more than 80 countries receive and process large shipments of Scripture booklets for churches and ministries in their nations. Volunteers all over the world take the booklets into villages, cities, mountains, and deserts. WMP is blessed to have these shoulders to help carry the load of fulfilling the vision to give God’s Word to the world. WMP: Don, please describe your background and current ministry. Don: Ellen and I are retired business owners, celebrating 53 years of marriage. We dedicated our lives to serving the Lord in 1974. After retiring, and in full-time ministry since 2009, we share the good news on the streets and highways along the US East Coast from Florida to Maine, where there are more than 100 million people of all nations. We are also large-volume distributors of gospel materials to businesses, churches, and organizations. WMP: How did your association with WMP begin? Don: Our introduction to World Missionary Press was through a direct intervention from God. Early in the ministry, we purchased a case of Spanish New Testaments from another source. With all the other expenses at the time, a decision was made one night to no longer provide Spanish. The very next morning, a man drove up to our ministry vehicle and asked if we could use 1,000 Spanish New Testaments! These originally came from WMP, and a new connection was made. Our purpose is to educate, encourage, and energize the body of Christ and those now seeking God, to help make disciples of all nations. World Missionary Press prints the exact type of products we need for this type of ministry. Our first motive in ministry is to reach out with the compassion and love of Christ. The topical Scripture booklets accomplish exactly that without condemnation. WMP: How has WMP literature helped churches and ministries reach their communities and beyond? Don: The Bible study books and Scripture booklets can be used by churches and ministries for outreach. Making connections with missionaries is a priority, as many cannot get material in the languages they need for their countries. In every church we visit, we put out a table at service times with all of the products for the members there. This gives them the opportunity to have good free materials for their own use and personal outreach. The US East Coast is our launching point from which to reach the world. The I-95 corridor connects with hundreds of exits, with crowds of people traveling the interstate. The time to spread the gospel is now, and only through Christ is real life found. We have materials in stock in many languages, and more readily available thanks to WMP. This has also enabled us to reach into some 30 countries. The adventure begins all over again every day, as Florida is one of the greatest mission fields in the world. WMP: How do you reach into other nations? Don: As an example, in the Florida Keys early this year, we discovered a need through the church that had sent us out in ministry eleven years ago. Two boats were being loaded with needed equipment and supplies for the northern Bahama Islands devastated by the hurricane last year. Cases of WMP material (25 boxes in four languages) were put on board. After spending three weeks restocking locations throughout the Upper Keys, we traveled on to Key West. Outreach from our church partner there and throughout the city continues to grow. New connections with pastors and businesses were made. Boxes of booklets go out from here to the Bahamas, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Cuba. WMP: How do the Scripture booklets work in conjunction with other material to reach hearts? Don: The new booklet Who Do You Say That I Am? has been perfect to put with the Jesus film DVDs. Watch the film and then read in depth who Jesus is to establish a solid foundation. Ellen and I firmly believe in establishing converts in the Word of God to become lasting disciples of Christ. The materials do exactly that. We would like to thank WMP for supplying quality products in many languages since the beginning of this ministry. The connection with WMP was made by the Holy Spirit and is an amazing story in itself. We have found many new locations, and the volume of booklets going out is ever increasing. We see limitless potential for further distribution of the gospel.
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“I lead a Christian group of nine Christians who visit the three largest nursing homes in South Orange County, California, every Friday Night. We hand out your booklet called The Way to God to many patients in these three nursing homes, with great success. I am enclosing a love gift to help with your expenses. We lead many patients to the Lord with your prayer on page 29. We ask that the patients repeat the prayer out loud and many do. I’m almost out of the booklets you mailed to me about a year ago. Could you please mail to me a box of 500 booklets entitled The Way to God? Thank you again.”
-Will A., U.S.A.
“I was absolutely delighted to receive the coloring books. They are so wonderful and beautiful and present the Gospel in simple and easy-to-understand words. Many of their parents read with their children so they can understand and accept Jesus as Savior. We have many families who are saved and baptized, but who also need to study the Word to grow in Christ. So I’m very happy to give their children the coloring books but now there are more children so I need thirty more coloring books. Also, Scripture Memory Books are perfect for the young people and their parents. It’s great! I think I have enough memorizing books for now. Thank you so much! We are getting more and more Muslims moving here so I could use more The Way to God booklets, but in Farsi language...maybe 50. Though I’m 88 years old, my husband and I pray for your ministry every evening. He is 95 years old. Receiving the booklets makes me feel like jumping up and down and clapping my hands, but I still must hold onto my walker! We love your ministry!" -Pearl P., U.S.A. |
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