JANUARY 2005

CARDBOARD SHEETS

 

Whenever we connect with Christian leaders, we ask them to fill out a helpful Information Sheet.  The result

provides an immediate snapshot outlining background experience and current applications of audiovisuals used in the applicant’s ministry.  Dr. Mrs. Joy Agbazue from Enugu, Nigeria shared, “I generally use writings and drawings on cardboard sheets when I minister to the people.”

 

When we first connected with Dr. Joy back in mid-2000, she had been praying and seeking God’s direction for her evangelism ministry.  “I am involved in bringing greater awareness and motivations for evangelism in churches over here.  I now have much need of the audiovisuals to make the message more vivid.”

 

Later in response to our letter, discussing available media, she wrote,

“I really cannot find words to express my gratitude and appreciation for your promise to provide audiovisuals.  Do you know that God has just used you to meet my dream of owning such tools for evangelism?  Thanks very

much for yielding yourself for God’s use.  My husband, who is a spiritual Christian, is praying with me that these tools will arrive soon, as we have plans for village evangelism.”

 

Arrangements were made for a wide variety of items to be hand carried.  Now Dr. Joy is equipped with a Torch Kit, Christian videos, tools for the Overhead Projector, a 16mm Film Projector, and a selection of drama films, all to expand the ministry of the Gospel.  “Now that I’m equipped, I have trained 8 people to work with me.  We call our new outreach, ‘Light on the Hill

 

 

Evangelical Fellowship’.  Our plan is to minister in marketplaces, bus stops, hospitals, street corners, orphanages, rehabilitation centers, and unreached villages.  The Torch Kit is small, but mighty.  It is easy to manipulate and gives excellent projection, providing results.  The Torch Kit is wonderful, and we use our Igbo Language to tell the stories.  At our first showing to a group of 41 youth all 41 claimed they were born again, but after showing your drama Filmstrip story, ASHA, THE BLIND GIRL WHO COULD SEE, we gave an invitation.  22 of the youth accepted Christ.  The Torch Kit provides a great advantage.  Since we tell the story each time, we can mix language, as needed, making the message very clear.  Another village showing took place near a hospital.  Your drama, THE UNFINISHED STORY, was very pertinent to this audience of handicapped persons - lame, blind, deaf, and dumb.  They were thrilled that there is hope of healing in Heaven where disabilities will no longer exist.  16 persons accepted Christ after this meeting.  It gives us great encouragement to know that you and your prayer partners are praying for us.  In fact, your prayers are yielding wonderful fruit in this ministry.”

 

Dr. Agbazue and her team at Light on the Hill Evangelical Fellowship have thus far been blessed with 1,264 souls won to Christ using AVangelism.  Do please continue to pray for this powerful ministry.

 

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LIKE A ROD IN THE HAND OF MOSES

 

Our Burmese Language director, Rev Myint Nwe from Yangon, Myanmar, had been leading a couple of seminars a year ago and was sharing the power of audiovisuals as had been experienced by some of the Evangelists and Pastors participating.  He wrote, “InterComm audiovisual tools, such as the Torch Kit, videos, and VCD’s are like a rod in the hand of Moses (Exodus 4:2-4).  God is using these tools in the hands of all of us here miraculously in the ministry.  Praise God!”

 

 

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COVER MORE VILLAGES

 

Rev. Badini KS Silas from Bam, Burkina Faso writes:

“I am glad of dropping you a line, covering our 3^rd evangelism campaign with the Torch Kit.  This trip took us to villages having strong Muslim communities.  That is the reason that so few people gave themselves to the Lord.  We are asking that you please pray for us that our next revival campaigns with the Torch Kit will cover more villages.  Our hope is to reach the highest number of villages possible.”

 

Let’s please pray for Rev. Silas and his team as they go out to the difficult places.  His Report covered an audience of 545 with 19 accepting Christ.

 

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DUBAI MINISTRY

 

Our Sri Lankan Project Manager, Priyantha Senapatiratne, was excited to share with us that an opening has occurred in the Middle East for the Sinhala Language translations that were completed in Colombo last year.  He wrote, “I met a couple working in Dubai.  They are ministering among the Sri Lankan housemaids in this country.  They are excited to learn about the Sinhala films becoming available, which they can freely take into Dubai and distribute.  Already a set of VCD’s have been put in their hands for this purpose.  Let’s do pray that God will bless the ministry to these house girls, as the videos are shown in these Muslim homes.  We thank God for this new opening and other countries where the Sinhala will be used in such similar ways.”

 

Let’s also remember to pray for Priyantha and all Christians in Sri Lanka, as they minister effectively to those who have lost so much through the devastation of the recent Tsunami event on their eastern shores.

 

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HEARTBEAT

by Ken Anderson

 

In the October TORCH, I introduced to you the concept of the 6^th and 7^th senses.  We continued on this theme in November, and then highlighted the function of the brain in December.  I thought it would be helpful to give you a little more background on how I came to my conclusion that there were 6^th and 7^th senses.  Here then is some background.

 

Although I have been a believer since September 13, 1937, I only recently have been able to firm up positive concepts on which to pursue key truths from the Bible, some of which are intensely exciting.

 

Several years ago, Bob Bland, director of Teen Missions International, asked me to give a serious of talks on choices to members of his staff.  He was genuinely excited about the series.  I, in turn, was motivated to do some serious thought about choice and decision, particularly the “mechanics” of real commitment.  Fortunately, the more I thought about depth in making of choices, the more I found myself searching the Scriptures.  WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE BIBLE became my continual resource.

 

I began having delightful ideas popping into my head.  For example, the 6^th and 7^th sense!  I began finding key Scriptures in the Old Testament.

 

Gathering all my Bible readings prior to this, I had pretty much stayed away from the Old Testament.  Now I began to experience a feeling of the old axiom, “The new is in the old contained.  The old is in the new explained.”

 

For example, I came upon Jeremiah 29:11-12: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.  Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.”  I especially noted verse 13, “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”

 

Wow!  At this moment, I employed a new technique which the Lord had given me.  It was simply a matter of finding meaningful Scripture and then asking God to reveal its meaning to me.  Beautifully, I saw it!  The 6^th sense was awareness of someone being available and willing to help me understand the Bible.  Jeremiah 29:13!

 

The 7^th sense had to be the message the Lord had for me in verses 11 and 12 of Jeremiah.  Suddenly it hit me!  I felt confident that the Lord was telling me how to find answers in the profound teachings of the Bible itself.  In that moment, I turned in my Bible to Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.  Against such there is no law.”  Without missing a beat, I bowed my head and prayed, “Lord, make this Scripture reality in my life!”

 

I hope to share a little more with you about the senses next month.