EMPOWERING NATIVE MISSIONARIES
JUNE 2018
CONTENTS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S NOTE
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BELIZE UPDATE
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2018 CONTAINERS
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MISSION CRY NEWS & UPDATES
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TESTIMONIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S NOTE Do you understand whose you are? When we ask Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior we are saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. Think of it, we have a part of God living within us and empowering us. This should cause us to walk, talk, think and expect differently! Many believers do not fully understand the power to pray and command those things that God has shown and taught us in his Word. When you give financially and send books you are giving people the ability to be fully equipped to be saved and soul winners. When you and I are serving, living and giving as God instructs there should be a peace that surpasses all understanding in our lives. Do you want that peace? Then live and give to God as he has instructed. Proverbs 3:9 states, “Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the first fruits of all your increase; Jesus, the Holy Spirit and our Father are always giving beyond the norm.” When we get beyond the norms of living and giving to the point it is sacrificial, you begin to position yourself for favor. Thank you for helping people around the globe freely get a Bible and Christian book, which allows them to meet HIM, the guilt eraser and the grace giver. I pray God’s favor on you and yours,
Rev. Jason Woolford
Update
While in Belize last year, where you and I made it possible for every home in the entire country to have a free Bible and or Christian book, we encountered many miracles. One of those comes from the man pictured above. Our team was scheduled to minister at a Christian school; however, once the team arrived, they cancelled on us. So, we loaded a bus, and two vans full of our team and Bibles, and headed out. We by “chance” stopped at a school where we asked if we could hold an assembly and present the gospel and give the school Bibles. This man began to get excited, as he had been praying for three years that someone would come and bring Bibles for the entire school and staff. God strategically sent us to that school so we could be the answer to a man’s three year prayer. I want to remind you today to never give up on your prayers, as we serve a God who fixes the unfixable and provides where there seems to be no provision. Watch the video of the above story here: www.youtube.com/cribooks
WHOSE ARE
You?
On this trip to Belize, we were also scheduled to meet with the Belize Coast Guard. While sitting at breakfast we got the call that it was cancelled. I mentioned that was too bad, because we were going - the devil, the government - nothing was going to stop us. I mentioned that God sent us, and if they needed to drive me to the front gate of the base I would tell them “Whose” I am and we will be, in Jesus’ name, ministering to the military. Just then, the son of the Prime Minister of the Country walked in to where we were eating. They introduced me and I told him that we had plans and they were cancelled and asked him what he could do about it, in Jesus’ name! He paused, picked up his phone, and called the Secretary of Defense. After a short conversation he mentioned the Secretary of Defense was unavailable, but he would give us a personal escort to their biggest base and give us a platoon to talk to. After preaching, worship and testimonials, many stood to give their life to the Lord. The Colonel of the unit, who was so drunk at the beginning of this meeting, started to quote scripture and repented, making the decision to return to serving the Lord. My point is, if you understand “Whose” you are, it will cause you walk, talk, think and expect differently.
GOD MOVING EVEN IN THE SMALL THINGS Les Mack, a prayer warrior, supporter of
Mission Cry, and most recently an attendee to our Belize mission trip. Our goal was to send enough Bibles and Christian books for every home in the country of Belize last year, and that goal was met with your help! Les has volunteered at CRI with a group, and has sorted through thousands of books over the years. He helped pack boxes for the nation of Belize. Prior to attending the trip, he asked the Lord if he could have the opportunity to find one of the boxes he packed so he could give a Bible he packed to someone. Thousands of books were sorted, in order to send approximately 3,000 boxes. As that was his prayer, and as we ministered at a church, some of the boxes were sitting there for distribution from all the containers we sent and wouldn’t you know, he looked down to see his handwriting on one of the boxes, and he was able to give his Bible from that box to this precious woman shown in the picture below.
2018 COUNTRI
OVER $325 MILLION IN DONATED BIBLES
Mission Cry Headquarters 200 Free St. Fowlerville, MI 48836
1 Container Belize
BELIZE • 86% of population claims Christianity • Mission Cry has sent enough Bibles for every household • Need for revival & true Biblical teaching • Need of culturally appropriate ministry
1 Container Haiti HAITI • Population of 10,949,000 • 94.8% population Christian • In need of Bibles $ Christian literature
1 Container Ghana, A
TEMA, GHANA // AFR • Population of 28,584 • 19 unreached peopl • We sent Christian bo for distribution in sch
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AND BOOKS SENT TO OVER 171 NATIONS.
KERALA // INDIA • Kerala population over 34.5 million • 365 unreached people groups • Over half the population is Hindu • Established a Bible College Library
Africa
1 Container Kerala, India
RICA 4,000 le groups ooks & Bibles hools
Container Lusaka, Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA // AFRICA • 92,000 people yet to be reached • Christianity is most common religion, at 87% of the population • Bibles are very appreciated!
MAKING 2018 A RECORD YEAR We are off to a great start for 2018. So far this year, we’ve gone into Belize, Haiti, Ghana, Zambia and India with containers full of Bibles and Christian books, delivering the Word of God into all the world. We also have our bookstore in the U.S. where hundreds of pastors and missionaries have come to shop for free, taking resources they can then distribute freely overseas. Our goal is to freely give Bibles to 500,000 people around the globe in 2018. We already have many containers filled with God’s Word and Christian books, ready to go. Will you consider funding a container or contributing monthly to help us meet this goal?
NEWS & UPDATES FIRST ANNUAL Gyve is an online and mobile giving platform that allows you to give to great causes, like Mission Cry, and allows organizations to seamlessly share updates and stories with donors. Our partnership with Gyve allows us to be better partners with you. This interactive tool is simple and free to use. Just text “gyve” to 313131 or download Gyve from Google Play or iTunes App Store. After a one-time setup, you will be on board and able to help us continue to spread the Word of God.
Bible Drive
Thank you to all who have rallied together with us in gathering Bibles for our Bible Drive. It has been hugely successful, bringing in thousands of Bibles, even from across the country! These Bibles will be sent to countries around the world on our sea containers and given freely to people who cannot afford Bibles. Your contributions both financially and materially are affecting the eternity of people to the ends of the earth.
GOLF TOURNAMENT
HUNTERS RIDGE GOLF COURSE Sept. 15, 2018 at 9:00 AM 8101 Byron Rd. Howell, MI
Your day of fun and relaxation will put a Bible and a Christian book into the hand of a person who would not otherwise have them. Come enjoy a day of golf and a buffet dinner with us. You also won’t want to miss our surprise giveaways!
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Stop in to our headquarters to watch Mission Cry: The Movie and JJ’s story. See next page for details.
We invite you in for a tour of the Mission Cry facility, where you can watch Mission Cry: The Movie and the Woolford family’s testimony. Enjoy some popcorn, tour the facility and learn about our many volunteer opportunities.
SPECIAL FEATURE:
JJ’S STORY
“They love God, They love people, and they are passionate about taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth!”
THE TESTIMONY THAT HAS BEEN HEARD AROUND THE GLOBE
LET THE WORLD HEAR YOUR
CRY
THE MOVIE
DOUBLE FEATURE!
MISSION
Jason II begins to experience headaches and is later diagnosed with a cancerous inoperable brain tumor. All the while, his two sisters also came under attack. Doctors gave the family no hope, but the family had hope and faith in God and his Word.
NOW THEN
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
TESTIMONIES
from around the world
Hello Rev. Jason,
Dear Rev. Jason,
Additionally, I am also grateful for this support and thank you for helping me with Christian materials. We need a lot of Bibles to help my people, including my church, sick patients in my hospital’s halls, clinics and prison yard to read as a weapon for every Christian member to developed their Christian faith.
We have started distributing the Christian books to the new converts whom have received Jesus Christ as [their] Lord and their personal savior together with their families. – Rev. Dr. B.
Additionally, I am also grateful for this support and I thank you for helping me with Christian materials. – Rev. D. A. “The resources we received are a great blessing to the Christian community in Cameroon. One of our major goals was to open three Christian Libraries to the general public. We had a facility secured but once we received the books we noticed that we had aimed too small. The facility would now be used as a store. God was kind enough to provide us a hall. This was an old abandoned building and there was much work for us to do. Below are pictures of the building when we got it and you will see from the pictures the amount of work that has been done so far.” – Levi, Cameroon
A ministry report update from Liberia... Greetings in the peerless name of our awesome Lord and Savior, King Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I wanted to bring you up to speed; the Lord has added a mobile Bible training ministry to our church’s ministries. This will help give biblical training to impoverished rural dwellers who have the desire to study the Word of God and to proclaim it within their respective communities but are unable to migrate to urban areas of Liberia to acquire formal biblical training. I have sincerely been burdened over the past two years with thoughts that the rapid promulgation of the gospel will remain elusive in many rural unreached communities of Liberia, if nothing is done to help quickly train these called believers. We have been praying for an open door to jumpstart the ministry, and thankfully, the Lord has given us great ideas on how to go about extending our Bible training ministry in those rural communities of Liberia. We have selected three training sites in three counties of Liberia. Called men from those regions who will be able to successfully complete the required courses within two or more years will earn a “Certificate� in Biblical Studies, licensed, and fully enlisted on our church planters list. Remember, we have a goal to plant 100 Bible-believing Baptist churches within the next 10 years, should the Lord delay His return. Below: Boy receives Bible at one of our televised crusades where we distributed hundreds of free Bibles to the people of Belize.
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