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.

 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.

 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.

  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.

 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.

 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.

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.)

Closing Thoughts and Notes:

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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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