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FEBRUARY 2007

"Evangelist John Sokro"

Passionate Pen

Evangelist John Sokro, from Ho in the SE Volta Region of Ghana, was introduced to InterComm in 2002 through the literature ministry, World Missionary Press. These friends publish Scripture booklets in over 300 languages of the world, the best known titled, “Help from Above”.

You could call John an opportunist or any number of other adjectives. He literally pounced upon our offer to be equipped with media which would help him share Christ to the 21 million souls who share his country. John has passion. He writes with passion, and he writes by hand - often!

You grow to respect a man like John, who gets in your face - demands - tells you what he expects of you - and keeps repeating his demands over and over. Yes, respect! Because John is sincere. He sees people dying of HIV/AIDS and other maladies in large numbers all around him, and he wants to share Christ with them before they die. Much of John’s demands we cannot provide. Usually this centers on equipment - hardware or various means of transportation. We have tried, however, to impress upon John that we will provide those things which we can.

“Our goal is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the hinterlands. Unemployment here creates social needs that are above human comprehension. We see people in living conditions, who are severely deprived of most necessities. We fight against hunger, armed robbery, prostitution, and every other form of evil in crisis. Please help us transform many souls from darkness to the Light of God through your Christian media. We are very hard working!”

John shared page after page of how our assistance would help his country. Eventually a Torch Kit, 7 African drama videos, and an additional selection of other materials were sent to encourage his ministry. “The Torch Kit is very good.” John wrote. “It is a wonderful machine and very helpful in AVangelism. It is indisputable that some places in my country there is no electricity at all. Actually the needs in the villages are much greater than even the cities. So we have chosen to concentrate our ministry in the remote areas where we will be facing idol worship, witchcraft, and even fetish spirits. The very first day we launched the Torch Kit ministry we had an audience of 836 people of which 41 chose to follow Christ. We praise God that InterComm has provided us with these tools for eternity.”

Mary Sokro with Twins, Emmanuel & Emmanuela

Beginning in 2002, John and his team have ministered the Gospel to over 200,000 people face to face. He’s reported 7,379 decisions for Christ thus far on his Reports. He shared, “We visited the village Deme. The chief there is a life-long idol worshiper, who has never been interested in hearing about the Living God. He allowed us to present the Torch Ministry. So we showed the African drama story, JUMA. To our great surprise, after watching this story and listening to our invitation, he chose to denounce his idols and accept Christ as his Savior. In fact I am lack of words (speechless) to express the importance of the use of this powerful tool. It is a fact that as we show stories at night time, God is breaking the evil bonds of the devil any time, anywhere.”

Our TORCH Newsletter is not large enough to share more from John. Our file on his ministry is thick and full of other blessings. Please do praise God with us for John Sokro, his wife, Mary, their 3 small children, and their ministry team in Ghana.
 

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PHILIPPINES RECORDING PROJECT

 Leadership Team in the Philippines

Gifts for the Philippines Language Recording Project have surpassed the 50% budget figure, which now allows us to proceed in setting dates towards the actual Recording Session on the island of Mindanao. It has been the tradition of InterComm to proceed on any Project once all of the known costs anticipated for any overseas trip and recording project can be safely covered by the proposed budget. Although this leaves nearly $40,000 still needed in funding for this important program, which would cover the costs of editing, laboratories, and equipping, we are willing to commit to complete the Recording Session, as an encouragement to those who have been laboring since April of last year to prepare the way. Please see page 4 as to how you can contribute financially.
God has given us a quality team of National Leaders, headed by medical doctor, Dr. Nora Laus, and Pastor Ver Nallos. We are anticipating recording in a Far East Broadcasting studio in Koronadal City, and we’ve been asked to complete 4 films in the Ilongo Language, and 2 films in the Cebuano Language. Primary target for the finished video dramas will be the predominant Muslim population centered on the island of Mindanao.

Lane and Jill Anderson will depart the USA on Wednesday, March 7, and arrive at the recording location on Saturday, March 10. Recording is scheduled to begin promptly on Monday, March 12. So we would appreciate your prayers, as we spend the month of February organizing ourselves for all aspects of this ministry outreach. Please pray for God’s blessing on all the preparation in the Philippines, for those who will come to the microphone and share their voices, as well as those who will critique the drama and the quality of language used. Likewise, please pray that the equipment will function at its peak performance and that both Lane and Jill will enjoy excellent health during this time away. Our goal is to build up the body of believers working together on this Committee, as well as to provide tools which will greatly impact future ministry.

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2006 MINISTRY EQUIPPING SUMMARY

Over the last 16 years, God has allowed the ministry of InterComm to provide audiovisual media resources to hundreds of countries and thousands of individuals around the world. Here is a specific breakdown of what God permitted in 2006.

130 ministries were equipped in 53 countries, including locations such as Armenia, Benin, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Hungary, Lebanon, Sudan, Ukraine, and Vietnam just to name a few.

A large percentage of the ministries equipped over the years are not in a position to send twice yearly Reports, but of the Reports that have been received last year media was presented to 1,214,905 people with 381,784 decisions for Christ recorded. This does not include the various television placements that have occurred around the world, however, as totals for those programs would not be available.

54 Torch Kits were placed free of charge to National Christian Leaders.

12 of our 16mm Film Projectors and 84-16mm Films traveled overseas. An additional 1,894 videos or DVD’s were placed in an ever-growing number of languages.

We completed the Telugu Language Recording Project in India with 6 new videos. A bonus video was translated into the Oriya Language, spoken in the neighboring Orissa State.

 

Significant progress was made in other areas of the world where Recording Projects had previously taken place. Details of these Reports and much other work, which has been completed, highlighting ministry around the world last year, is available upon request. It would be a pleasure for us to send you the complete Report. We know it will be a blessing to see what God has accomplished in just 12 months.
 

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UNREPORTED

From time to time we infer that ministry’s equipped do not report very regularly. One example is a ministry first equipped with 16mm Films in 1997. Rev Gabriel Adebayo from Nigeria had never reported. We finally received some updates in October of 2004. He listed 101 showings to 92,833 people with 6,756 people accepting Christ. This, however, was not a complete Report. And since its receipt,over 2 years ago, he has not updated us with additional statistics. So, as you pray for God’s servants around the world, and for the ministry of AVangelism, please understand that many of these servants, even though well-intentioned, never get the data into our hands. Yet, God is doing remarkable works of evangelism because of your faithful prayers. It is absolutely imperative that we continue praying for these saints and for the work of the Gospel under their care. How we praise God, even when we can’t see the end results.

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HEARTBEAT
by Ken Anderson

 

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