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Ideas for Ladies on How to Be a Blessing to Missionaries

Teri sent this list to me from a friend on Facebook who compiled a list of ways to be a blessing to missionaries.  The list was prepared to teach a Pastor’s Wives’ class in Bible College.  Maybe some of the ideas will help you.  Feel free to comment with other ideas you may have. BEING A BLESSING [...]

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The 11 Commandments of Missions

My pastor send me this and I wanted to pass it along. William Carey and his team set forth principles that still guide us today in mission work. Here are excerpts from the “Form of Agreement” drafted by Carey and his colleagues in October 1805. The Redeemer, in planting us in this heathen nation, rather [...]

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Halloween Outreach

Over the past weekend, we passed out about 5000 leaflets to the people who were in the city for Halloween.  Derry has one of the largest Halloween festivals in Europe, so it is a great opportunity to reach out. We print up the tract with the text below and went out on Saturday, Sunday, and [...]

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A Challenge to Wives

Article by Teri Snode Proverbs 31:10-11, “Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.” Have you ever wondered why there is almost an entire chapter in the Bible that talks about a [...]

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Getting the Most Out of an Overseas Internship

source The following material that is being quoted is taken from here! At the Our Generation Training Center we have all of our students spend 6 months living and studying overseas. I think that there is much to be gleaned from the following article! The American bubble that is mentioned is a great danger. They spending so much on [...]

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The Virtuous Woman Is A Crown

Proverbs 12:4 “The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.” In these verses, we are given a contrast between a virtuous woman and the woman that makes ashamed.  The virtuous woman is one who is full of virtue (of goodness, of character, or [...]

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Quotes About Today’s Outreach

I wish you could have seen and heard the excitement in the hearts of the people from our church today when we all got back to the church office after having passed out 4000 gospel leaflets in 1 hour. People from our church have been texting me all evening.  One of our teenagers made a [...]

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Don’t Be a Lazy Pastor or Missionary

One of the most common statements and disgraceful commentaries of those who work in the ministry is that they are lazy.  So many people think that being a pastor, missionary, or full-time Christian worker is an easy, cushy job because you don’t have to work hard, you don’t have to work long hours, and you [...]

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Love Is Blind

Song of Solomon 4:7 “Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.” In the late 1500s, Shakespeare coined the phrase “love is blind” which appears in several of his plays including Two Gentlemen of Verona, Henry V and The Merchant Of Venice.  ”Modern-day research supports the view that the blindness of love is not [...]

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Today – Not Glamorous but Necessary

Today was one of those days.  You may have had them.  You did not get anything major done but your whole day was spent doing alot of little things.  That is what happened to me today.  Below is a look back at how my day went: 7:30 AM – Started the day.  Got the kids [...]

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