Dear Pastor:

Thank you so much for your labor of love for our Lord. I am not selling anything, nor am I an employee of any Christian ministry. I am simply a fellow lover and follower of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ sharing my burden for the North American church to be a more cost efficient and effective force for our Lord. Please consider the possibility of expanding your church’s outreach further around the world, and with less resources than your current great commission budget. Without the faithfulness of pastors like yourself in \"equipping the saints for the work of the ministry to wit that God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world unto Himself\", God’s work will continue to suffer. We American Christians have everything we need to complete the great commission. We only lack Vision! There are Christians in every country (not every language). We also have the means of mass coverage and individual follow-up.

I truly believe God has blessed America in part because we have sent out so many missionaries around the world, but approximately 60% of our current world’s 6 billion people, or 3 billion, 600 million people live in countries closed to our American missionaries for evangelism. Today there are multiplied millions of Christian-pastors, evangelists and workers around the world working, but who have little or no resources for mass coverage and discipleship.

We American Christians have also exported the Bible and Christian literature worldwide, but again there is a limit to this outreach. A substantial number (hundreds of millions) around the world are illiterate. These people cannot read the written word no matter how many bibles, tracts, or books we send.

In light of “to whom much is given much is required “, my prayer is that we might be better stewards of the wealth God has loaned us for His work and that He might continue to trust us with it. It is not our responsibility to convert America and then evangelize the rest of the world. It is not our responsibility to convert anyone---period, but to evangelize. We spend the majority of our efforts preaching to the evangelized but unconverted while millions, perhaps billions have never been evangelized.

Now I would like to get back to my original question. Would you please take a just a moment to consider the possibility of expanding your church’s outreach worldwide and with less resources (in other words, more bang for your buck). 95% of our North American church $ is being used to reach 5% of the population of our world (America). 4.5% (most of what we give for foreign missions) is going to the same groups of people, 1.5% goes to reach those who have never heard. Over the past 40 years I have found certain Christian ministries to be the most cost-efficient and effective. The following ministries concentrate on the truly unevangelized people and use a means of evangelism that the illiterate and closed country populace can benefit from:

Haggai Institute
P.O. Box 13
Atlanta, GA 30370
(PH: 770-449-8869) www.haggai-institute.com

HI works in 180 countries. They train proven Christian military, political, religious, business, medical, ect, leaders in the how of evangelizing their own people and passing their training on to other Christians. HI has trained over 70,000 national leaders in 180 countries who each try to train at least 100 others, to train 100 others etc. These 70,000 have passed on their evangelism methods to over 7 million others. An average American “career” missionary and their family will cost $1,000,000 plus with their education, language training, trips to and from the field, and monthly support. Our missionaries must then adjust to a new culture, food, and climate, and are many times mistrusted as outsiders. Keep in mind that 60% of our worlds’ population live in countries closed to our American missionaries for evangelism. National Christians know the language, people, are used to the climate and food, and are more easily known and trusted by the people. HI has even trained leaders from Arab Moslem countries and China. Many of these soul-winners in many nations are turning their countries upside down, and, with HI, for what it would cost to support one American “career” missionary and family for life you could train 30, 50, or 100 nationals (depending on the exchange rate of the country). These National Christian leaders are first of all screened and proven leaders, secondly much better qualified because of their background, and thirdly, once they return home they are self-supporting. HI will send detailed statistics if you wish.
Trans World Radio
P.O. Box 8700
Cary, NC 27512-8700
(PH: 919-460-3700) www.TransWorldRadio.com

TWR is broadcasting to 160 countries in over 225 languages and are working on the remaining languages. Hundreds of millions people on our planet today cannot read a bible, or tract, but can hear the gospel, if presented to them in their own language. Radio has and is playing a major role in world evangelism. Here in America very few of us listen to foreign radio, but in other countries radio is the only affordable media option for the masses. TWR has had a unique impact on closed countries. Each year hundreds of thousands of letters are received from all over the world telling of salvation, churches being started, and lives changed. By radio TWR is evangelizing, training Christians, and training pastors and evangelists. Radio waves are going into countries and homes where our missionaries would be imprisoned, beaten, or martyred for sharing Christ. You can specify any country in which TWR is working to which you wish your gift to be given to reach. TWR will send detailed statistics if you wish.

The JESUS Film Project
P.O. Box 628222
Orlando, FL 32862-8222
(Ph: 407-826-2400) www.jesusfilm.org/

The JESUS Film Project has made a film of the life of Christ. Filmed in Israel, and taken directly from the gospel of Luke. The film has been shown to several billion people so far in 236 countries with over 225 million professions of faith. These new Christians are then grounded in the faith and many new churches are started. This film is shown in over 1,050 languages with a goal of translation into all the languages of the world. Dollar for dollar this is the most profitable soul-winning ministry I have come across in my 40 plus years of research (on the average for every one dollar you give one soul is saved). If you know of a more productive ministry, I would like to be a part of it.

Gospel Recordings
41823 Enterprise Circle North
Temecula, CA 92590 (PH:951-719-1650)
www.globalrecordings.net/

Gospel Recordings sends workers to areas where the gospel has not yet penetrated. These dedicated workers painstakingly record the languages, take the recordings home, and return later with the gospel and an invitation in the language of the tribe or group on cassette. The workers leave a durable cassette player and gospel cassettes with the people. Many of these previously unreached people groups have come to Christ as a result. GR have made the gospel available in over 5,772 languages and are working toward completion of all languages. GR concentrate on smaller language groups that are not economically feasible to reach for mass coverage means like radio, television, film etc.

Pastor, I am not an employee of any of these ministries. If you know of any outreach comparable to these (reaching new languages and closed countries), please forward the info to me. For further study, read my free ebook “Building Eternity From A Bed Of Roses,” at the “Christianity Oasis” website under “Purity Publishers,” free books.
Yours in Christ,
Vic Morton

Hello,

My name is Bill Stahl and I am a former senior warden at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbus, Georgia. Having taught the Bible for many years, I have recently written a book, published by Iuniverse, "The Bible's Story of Salvation," which will be very useful for you in your Bible study classes. This book makes the Bible easier to understand with easy-to-read language, and it incorporates into the stories the contributions of the Bible scholars, plus the historians, archaeologists, and even scientists. Now twenty-first century readers can easily relate to and discover the meaningful teachings of the ancient scriptures.

You can order my book through most bookstores, or from Amazon.com. Its ISBN is 978-0-595-48840-7. It is also available through most Episcopal bookstores and I would recommend supporting them. You can contact Ms. Jane Reynolds at GOODBOOK935@aol.com.

This book will be of great assistance to people who want to know and understand the Bible. People are yearning for an understanding of themselves, the real truth, God's truth, and with all the spiritual and self-help books available, the Bible is the one book that contains the answers to their questions. The problem is, much of the Bible is confusing and hard to understand. My book solves that problem.

Many people have told me they love my book; they couldn't put it down; or they competed with their spouse to read it. I have yet to hear the first negative comment. The closest was a man who told me, "I am really enjoying your book, although I don't agree with all that you said." Fine, I thought. At least the book got him to think.

This book is the first of what will be a three volume series. It covers the first half of the Old Testament and is almost four hundred pages long. A single volume covering the entire Bible would simply be too much. Part of my objective is to make the Bible more approachable and easier to understand, and so I think three smaller books is better than one huge book. More than that, this volume stands on its own; it does not depend on the books to follow. Looking at it another way, God's revelation of truth to the human race from Adam to 587 BC, was probably similar, if not the very same, as his revelations since then, even to the present day.

Best wishes and blessings to you,
Bill Stahl

P.S. I have promotional material available (3 MB in size) that tells you more about my book, and about me. I will be happy to email it to you. Or, if you go to Amazon.com, you can look inside the book.



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I just finished a phone call with your gracious administrator, Caroline, who told me about the Health Care panel that was held at St. Thomas Episcopal this past weekend. It impressed me to hear that such a wide variety of experts participated---should a similar event be organized in the future, I would be very interested in attending.

Best,

Loren Bondurant, Campaign for Better Health Care volunteer

I think the services you are providing are amazing, if you ever need a volunteer to help out with the Angel Food or other community events please let me know. Have a blessed day!
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