EMPOWERING NATIVE MISSIONARIES
MAY 2019
CONTENTS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S NOTE 03 LEGACY GIVING 04 THE MISSION CRY BIBLE 05 COUNTRIES REACHED MAP 06-07 UPCOMING CONTAINERS 08 GOLF TOURNAMENT 09 GOAL SHEET 10 REACHING THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN 11
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S NOTE I write to you with hope and expectation that God is meeting your every need, as my staff and I pray for you every Thursday. Within the next few pages you will read of some truly marvelous upcoming opportunities and stories of how our partnership with you is making a difference in discipling people around the world. South Sudan, Africa is going to hear your Mission Cry! In nearly 60 years we have not been able to send a container to this part of the globe due to corruption. I have recently been able to partner with a former Marine and now minister who can receive and clear a container. This will provide Rev. Jason & Maria Woolford nearly $600,000 in new and slightly used Bibles and Christian books for the Sudanese people and Chaplains who are literally fighting a physical and spiritual war. You and I will equip them with the Word!!! Lastly, in the following pages, you will read of the first ever, brand new, New Testament NASB Bible with the G300 Discipleship Program in the back of the Bible. This will help with the shortage of Bibles we have and provide access to the Word of God, all the while discipling hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters around the world without access to a Bible or other Christian materials. For every $2 donated, we will provide a brand new, beautiful New Testament Bible with the G300 Program to someone overseas, absolutely free. I look forward to seeing all we did together as we trusted God in the giving of his Word and Christian books to help in changing the spiritual, financial and physical areas of peoples’ lives around the world.
LEGACY GIVING We have talked about Legacy Giving in the past and would like to remind you that you can partner with the ministry even after you are in the presence of God Almighty. You can choose to add the mission to your Will or Trust, helping us You can choose to well into the future, add the mission to letting the world your Will or Trust, hear your Mission helping us well into Cry by sending our new Mission Cry the future, letting Bible and sea conthe world hear tainers filled with your Mission Cry in used Bibles and sending our Mission Christian books. Cry Bible and sea The photos you see containers overseas. are real people with a real desire to get
God’s Word. We can do this free of charge for them, due to your faith in action. From small children running over each other and screaming to get their very own Bible or Christian book, to the seminary student in India who has a calling on his life but cannot afford the books, to those imprisoned for their faith, you and I are letting them hear our Mission Cry! Please read on through this magazine for information on how you can help send the first ever container to South Sudan, Africa, and sponsor a brand new Mission Cry Bible.
“The ground began to shake The stone was rolled away His perfect love could not be overcome Now death where is your sting? Our resurrected King Has rendered you defeated” – “Forever” by Kari Jobe As the lyrics above emphasize, Christ our Savior, in His perfect love, died for us so we could be saved. His love for us is so perfect! He loved us. He died for us. But the stone was rolled away and He is alive! Please take time to meditate on the sacrifice He made for you, and on what you can do to help spread the Word of God to others, so all may know His love. One way you can help spread His Word and love is by sponsoring the Mission Cry Bible. This is a cost-effective way of sending thousands of New Testament Bibles overseas for others who do not have access to the Word of God.
THE DIFFERENCE YOU CAN MAKE FOR ONLY $2 A BIBLE... Sponsor 20 Bibles.......Cost: $40 Sponsor 100 Bibles.......Cost: $200 Sponsor 1000 Bibles.......Cost: $2000
2019 COUNTRI
OVER $325 MILLION IN DONATED BIBLES
BELIZE
86% of the 360,000 people who live in Belize are professing Christians. Belize is ripe for the Word of God and eager to receive it!
GHANA
While Ghana’ of people still unreached with the gospel is over 1.5 million, Christianity is religion there, evangelism is
IES REACHED
AND BOOKS SENT TO OVER 173 NATIONS.
HUNGARY
86.8% of the population of Hungary profess to be Christian, but they lack the access we have here to the Word of God. These Bibles are changing families and the culture of Hungary!
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SOUTH SUDAN
The South Sudanese people have suffered terrible injustices and have been crippled with fear. We have the opportunity to reach these people and give them the much-needed Word of God!
CONTAINER CODES: CONTAINERS SENT CONTAINERS NEEDING SPONSORSHIP
HONG KONG
With nearly 7.4 million people living in Hong Kong, and the majority of the population following ethnic religions, Hong Kong is in desperate need of hearing the Word of God.
Hong Kong, China Last year we sent a container filled with 22,000 pounds of Bibles and Christian books to Hong Kong, China. With your help, we have that opportunity once again. With nearly 7.4 million people in Hong Kong alone, and the sale of Bibles being banned, the Word of God is scarce. Christianity is not an acceptable religion by the Chinese government, but the Word of God is being spread throughout the nation regardless! Pray that every one of these Bibles gets into the hands of people whose eternities will be changed as a result.
Belize With 86% of the nation’s 360,000 people professing Christianity as their faith, Belize has a huge need for not only Bibles but for Christian books that will train and encourage our Christian brothers and sisters there. With Bible schools developing and churches reaching their communities, we want to send Bibles and books to help equip these people for the work of the ministry. We thank God for the growth we are seeing in Belize (a growth rate of 4.8% annually for evangelicals) and want to do what we can to help!
South Sudan Because of a God-ordained connection with Far Reaching Ministries, we have an open door into Sudan, and will be infiltrating the country with God’s Word. This container will be filled with the new Mission Cry Bible, and South Sudan will hear our Mission Cry!
Hungary Currently over 86% of Hungary’s population claim to be Christian. This makes Hungary a prime location for biblical teaching and evangelism. The Christians of Hungary are eager to grow in Christ, but with Islam also still being a primary religion there, the nation needs more of God’s Word and still more evangelism.
UPCOMING CONTAINERS CHANGING THE NATIONS
ONE BIBLE AT A TIME We’ve reached 173 nations with the Word of God. With just 42 to go until we have sent the Word of God to every nation, you can help us reach the world by sponsoring a pallet of Mission Cry Bibles. Our goal is to reach every nation by 2020 through containers or, for the most difficult countries to enter, through a pallet of Mission Cry Bibles. For just $2 per Bible, we can print, ship, and distribute these Bibles in countries across the globe.
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Have you heard of our Trucker’s Ministry? Recently we had two companies, In On Time and Palmetto Trucking, who partnered with us and worked together to pick up Bibles and books. These came from a Christian organization wanting to donate Bibles but who could not send them to us. People around the world will be getting the Word due to the faithfulness of these truckers. Thank you to the owners of both companies in helping us with this. You, too, can partner with us if you have a truck.
MY 2019 GOALS This is a gift from Rev. Jason Woolford. You may have seen this goal sheet on our website earlier in the year. Please use this as a reminder to stay in check with the goals you have already set, and/or re-evaluate and set new ones. For the full article and larger printable sheet, please visit our website at www.missioncry.com/2019/03/06/goal-setting/
SPIRITUAL Example: Read two chapters from the Bible daily, spend 15 minutes in prayer, read a Christian book every two months, share my faith with four people every week
PERSONAL Example: Lose 10 lbs. by a certain date, get haircut every four weeks, jog one mile a day, get all A’s in school
FAMILY Example: Read three books on being a good spouse, spend a full day each week with family, take spouse out to dinner once a week
MINISTRY Example: Write a Christian book, train 50 Ministers, get involved in a Life Group, go to youth group once a week
PROFESSIONAL / FINANCIAL Example: Read Dave Ramsey, be debt-free by a specific date, give 10% - save 10% - live on 80%, finish education level within specified time frame
REACHING THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN In His usual fashion of opening doors that seem impossible to open, God has lead us to new ground and given us the opportunity to send a container of Bibles to South Sudan. This opportunity has come with help from a Mission Cry partner – and friend of Rev. Jason Woolford’s – Wes Bentley, and his organization Far Reaching Ministries (FRM). At the time of this letter, we are preparing the shipment, which will be sent in May 2019. Wes Bentley, a former Marine and missionary, founded FRM in 1998 out of the vision God gave him to reach the entire continent of Africa. FRM Sudan gained its independence from England in 1956. Since then, it has been devastated by two civil wars. In July 1983, the second civil war erupted in Sudan. Two million people died in South Sudan as a result of that war, as well as the famine and disease that followed. An additional four million people were displaced. The Southern Sudanese people have suffered from decades of violence, injustice, terror, and poverty under the Government of Sudan (GoS) and a terrorist group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The GoS and LRA attacked and burned entire villages. They abducted children from their homes in the middle of the night, forcing some to kill their own siblings and parents—and paralyzed an entire country with fear.
has planted churches and Bible schools throughout African nations, and Mr. Bentley currently resides in the States where he trains up Chaplains to advance the Kingdom as they serve the Military. Upon graduation, the Chaplains are immediately commissioned and sent to minister at the front lines. It is because of this God-ordained connection that we have an open door into Sudan, and will be infiltrating the country with God’s Word. This container will be filled with the new Mission Cry Bible, and South Sudan will hear our Mission Cry! Countless innocent civilians were tortured, raped, disfigured, mutilated, and murdered based on their Christian or animist beliefs, as well as the color of their skin. The same LRA terrorist group oppressed Northern Uganda just across the border, leading families to camp together and children to huddle in churches, schools, and wherever they could find a place to sleep. That is when FRM established a project in the Kitgum District that erected night shelters, taught Bible studies for children, and cared for orphans.
We need your help! Sponsoring a pallet of Bibles will help fill a container going to South Sudan. Help us to let South Sudan hear our Mission Cry!
The Nations are Hearing your
MISSION CRY!