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JOHN BRADSHAW
January 2025
Dear Partner in ministry, I hope this finds you well and encouraged about the new year. Throughout this year, It Is Written will be involved in major evangelistic outreach here at home and around the world. For evangelism to be successful, we need to invest in preparation. Evangelism is not an event, but an ongoing process, and people who will patiently and kindly prepare the soil are indispensable if we are going to realize a harvest. Here’s an account of just how effective the preparation work is. I shared this story with you after our last visit to Ethiopia, but I want to share it again because it illustrates my point perfectly.
She knew she wouldn’t have peace until she rested her entire life on the Bible. So, she prayed.
Prior to our evangelistic meetings in Ethiopia two years ago, a team of Bible workers was employed to study the Bible with people wanting to learn more about God’s Word. An elderly Orthodox woman who attended our health outreach meetings was so impressed with what she learned that she was eager to study the Bible. As our It Is Written Bible workers met with her week after week, she was excited to see the Bible come alive as she learned things she had never before known. Best of all, she came to know Jesus as her Lord and Savior and surrendered her life completely to Him. Before long, she was attending church along with the Bible worker who ministered to her. Although she had a great desire to be baptized, it was a difficult decision for an elderly woman who had attended one church her entire life. Yet she knew what she had learned about Jesus, the love of God, the Sabbath, death, and the second coming of Jesus was true, and she knew she wouldn’t have peace until she rested her entire life on the Bible. So, she prayed.