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There is a great need for your help among our starving brethren in
Mindanao. Recent infestations of rats, locusts, and worms in the ag fields and
vegetable gardens have destroyed almost all of the produce in many
areas of Southern Mindanao. Unlike most of us in the U.S., these
brethren rely on their crops and gardens for physical survival.
Although they are working hard to overcome this heartbreaking dilemma,
they certainly could use your one-time donation to help ease their
burden and feed their children.
Brethren, when we carry out the Great Commission and go into
third-world countries, we are blessed with new brothers and sisters in
Christ Jesus. All of us also acquire responsibilities because these
brethren become part of our spiritual family. Many of these brethren
are seriously in need of being "warmed and filled." Will you please
help?
Documented, detailed information is available at the following link:
http://www.newtestamentchurch.org/needs.htm
People throughout Mindanao are also starving for the Gospel; many have
requested meetings with our preachers. There are souls hungering and
dying spiritually whom we can help save! Some of our supported
preachers have been traveling to the point of physical exhaustion as
well as being too long away from their families. For several good
reasons, including security, they try to travel in small groups--not
unlike the apostle Paul's missionary journeys. There is a real need
for additional preachers to conduct requested meetings and to
follow-up on many, many leads. Right now, the preachers try to
schedule requested Gospel Meetings as they have time and can afford to
make the journeys. Many meetings have not taken place because of a
lack of funding and/or available preachers. More faithful preachers
are needed in the field (for it is ready for harvesting). Additional
support is needed for more faithful preachers who stand willing to
serve.
Some of the established preachers are trying to help the situation by
conducting monthly preachers' studies. As many "new
preachers" as can afford to make the trip come together at a
local meeting place for a day or two of intensive study. Some of the
"new preachers" bring other preachers with them, and many of them are
converted as well.
Often an entire denominational or cups congregation is converted.
That creates a need for a veteran, faithful preacher to come in and
work for awhile with them and their local preacher. Many of these
local preachers have college and/or seminary degrees but have given
up their support by accepting the truth. However, they still are
needed full-time to edify the newly-converted congregations. Some of
them are in real need of help to feed their families. They also need
to travel to monthly preachers' studies for their continued learning
of the truths in God's Word.
Desperately needed:
#1. More than one hundred congregations need food for their members
because of major damage to farm crops and gardens caused by an
infestation of rodents and insects. In many cases, they are at the point of
near-starvation. (Many of them are boiling roots and eating them to
try to fill their stomachs.) Please give what you can, and
established preachers in Mindanao will handle the distribution.
Signed distribution records will be kept and confirmed. (If there are
any surplus funds, they will be used for medical needs and/or
unsupported preachers' needs.)
#2. Support for seven additional preachers at $150/mo. + $40
traveling expenses, totaling $190/mo. each.
#3. Support for eleven preachers at $50/mo. each so that they can
work at their local congregations.
PLEASE... discuss this with your home congregation and ask the
brethren to
help. We know that we will be blessed far beyond what we give, and
the need is so great.
If you can help, contact me as soon as possible for instructions on
sending funds directly to the appropriate preacher in Mindanao for his
support or for distribution to the needy.
In His Service,
David Risener
P. O. Box 57 Sulphur, OK 73086 817-710-4291 voice 817-473-6164 fax gospel@NewTestamentChurch.org http://www.NewTestamentChurch.org
Note: This letter has been sent out with the approval of the
Heartland congregation in Wichita, Kansas, that is working with
brethren in the southern Philippine area. Also, the Mindanao effort has become so
productive that new areas need help, and Heartland is not
able to oversee such an overwhelming expansion. If your
congregation would be interested in overseeing an evangelistic effort
in one of these areas, please get in touch with the Heartland congregation.
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