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In our Winter Newsletter
I announced we would be focusing on supplying ministry resources,
at no charge,to those who needed them. We have been busy doing
this, as you'll see from this newsletter.
We are asking for a lot of prayer in this newsletter. Please
pray for our ministry, asking the Lord to always be guiding
us in doing His will and using us to do the things He wants
us to be doing.
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Sending The
Gospel Through The Mail
For
several weeks in January and February we were mailing out up
to 8-10 copies of the Gospel of John per day.
People
can request a free Gospel of John after going through the Good
Person Test on our www.911christ.com
web site.
With the sudden increase in requests I started wondering if
everyone was going through the gospel presentation. But, I was
happy to send out God's word to as many people as requested
a copy. Please pray for those who have received, and will be
receiving a copy of the Gospel of John.
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DVDs For Russian
Pastors & Others
Last
fall a young missionary traveled from Beaverton, Oregon
to Moscow (Russia) to begin a two year mission with Campus Crusade
for Christ. As we have been doing with other missionaries, we
gave him a free copy of the MOST
DVD. In February he sent an email asking us to send him
five more copies right away. Other CCC missionaries in Moscow
wanted to start using this video.
This
DVD is a powerful evangelism tool in Russia!
Working
through our contacts, and with East-West Ministries International,
we have been supplying copies of the MOST DVD, the Most Writer's
Notes (translated into Russian), and the MOST
Russian Gospel tract to new graduates of Russian seminaries.
In March we shipped 42 MOST DVD evangelism packs to new pastors
in Russia. Please pray for this spring's newly graduated pastors
in Russia. They are going into a very difficult field with very
few resources.
We have
also been supplying the MOST DVD to missionaries and churches
around the world, and to schools such as the Africa School For
Missions in South Africa.
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Free Books
- Why Pro-Life? by Randy Alcorn
Abortion
is murder. The Bible makes this clear. Our soil
is soaked in the blood of aborted babies. And the situation
is even worse in other countries. What are we going to do about
it? We can't just sit in our pews and let children be killed.
Randy Alcorn
has written an excellent book called "Why Pro-Life?".
I have given away copies to women considering abortion, and
lives have been saved. We have given copies of this book to
pastors who support abortion.
We were
recently able to obtain twelve cases of this book and we are
now looking for opportunities to get copies into the hands of
people who most need this book. Your suggestions and prayers
are welcome.
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Our Plans
For The Future
For
the past four months we've been very involved with ministry
to homeless people. This has been using a significant amount
of time, so some of our other projects have been delayed.
Our other
projects include: Making a video of the Jesus
Code sermon is still at the top of the list, as soon as
time becomes available. There are several new downloadable tracts
in the works. And I have noticed some of the GodTube videos
we use in our Online Witnessing
School have disappeared. We plan to make our own videos
to replace those so we are not depending on GodTube for videos.
However, when we get these projects done depends on how and
where God leads us. Please be praying for God to guide us.
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How You Can
Help
Steve
will be heading to Russia on a Mission trip in June. Please
be praying for the Dimitrovgrad Mission team, the Christians
in Dimitrovgrad, and for the city of Dimitrovgrad. There are
only about 35 Christians in this Russian city of 100,000 people.
In addition
to your prayers, you can help with this mission trip by saving
Oregon quarters and sending them to us. Last year Steve gave
out Oregon quarters as souvenirs from America. As he explained
the words printed on the quarter, he talked about the words
"In God We Trust" and what it means to trust in Jesus
for your salvation. It was a great way to share the gospel.
Steve expects to need about 200 Oregon quarters. He will also
need new children's underwear and socks for the kids at the
orphanage in Dimitrovgrad.
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Do You Remember
Natasha?
Natasha
is the 12 year old girl in Dimitrovgrad, Russia with very serious
birth defects.
Please continue
to pray for Natasha. We were not able to find a place for her
to stay in the Springfield, MA area, and we have not been able
to find a hospital willing to consider accepting her near where
we live. (See last month's newsletter.)
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Closing Thoughts
and Notes:
Please
feel free to forward this newsletter to others.
We'd be pleased to have others read this newsletter. If you
received this newsletter from someone other than MTA, please
sent us your email address. We'd be happy to add you to our
mailing list. (Our email address is mta@mtainfo.com)
Thank
you for your prayer and support. If you have any
comments, suggestions or if there is any way we can pray for
you, please email us at: mta@mtainfo.com.
May the Lord bless you.
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