Here’s an “advertisement” for a special event for kids ages 5-12 who live at Siloam Missionary Homes and in the surrounding area. We are hosting a 5-Day Club® here at SMH, July 12-16, 10:30-11:30 a.m. See the details by clicking on the poster link below and click here to learn more about Child Evangelism Fellowship and 5-Day Cubs®. CALL 336.376.8200 AND REGISTER TODAY to get in on all the fun and learning!
Meet Eric and Casandra Pardine, missionaries to Peru. God burdened their hearts, as single adults, to go to Peru to teach in a Christian school. While there, the Lord showed them that He had a plan for their lives – together. Listen to their story and hear about the miracles that God gave them and how He has directed them to serve Him.
Today, as missionaries fly into the “back country” overcoming obstacles, landing on unimproved runways, lakes or rivers, they have the unique opportunity to minister to people who often are referred to as “the forgotten.” But landing on short, undeveloped landing areas, can be a challenging undertaking. This week on a place missionaries call home, Dr. Davis Goodman, founder of Harvesters International Mission will tell you about what it takes to make a missionary bush pilot.
Often we live by the “what if’s” – what if something terrible happens? What if I don’t get that job? What if the Lord doesn’t provide? Instead, we should live by an “even if” kind of faith. The three Hebrew boys in Babylon were threatened with the fiery furnace if they didn’t bow down to the gold image. They refused, stating that the God they serve could deliver them, but “even if” he did not, they would still not bow down. Jackie & Santiago Olortegui are living by an “even if” faith. Join us as we listen to their story
Lying in a hospital bed in Manaus, Brazil, Les Bowden’s body was shutting down, threatening to end his lifelong service as a missionary. His wife, Debbie, watched and prayed that God would provide a way for her to get Les airlifted to the Mayo Clinic in the United States. This week on a place missionaries call home, join Larry & Joyce as they talk to the Bowdens about a miracle in the air and how God provided thousands of dollars through a Sunday School teacher to get Les the medical help needed to save his life.
Listen and laugh as you hear stories shared by some missionary dads and their sons. So, what’s it like to raise a son overseas? And what’s it like for the sons being raised there? You will enjoy this radio interview.
May 19th marks the Day of Pentecost or Shavout. It is celebrated by the Jewish people around the world as the day God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses (Ex. 19:1-20,26) and is also celebrated by Christian followers of Christ as the day the Holy Spirit came in Acts 2:1-21. The message is clear. The Lord demands obedience. God works in the hearts of His children through obedience. It was a result of the act of obedience and the preparations of the heart that Moses and the people heard from God. This same act of obedience was shown by the Holy Spirit coming to them on the day of Pentecost. By the act of obedience, the Jewish people received the law. By the same act of obedience, the followers of Christ received the Holy Spirit, and the church grew. “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.” The same day! Praise the Lord, there were added three thousand!
The Lord told his disciples to look at the fields, which are white unto harvest. His message to them was “I will go and send you the Holy Spirit so that you can reach the world.” The message today is the same. “Go ye into all the world.”
May we renew our hearts today to reach the world through obedience to Christ. Happy Pentecost!
Do you remember your mom saying, “do as I say, not as I do?” What wisdom can we get from those who have already walked through experiences in their lives? This week on a place missionaries call home, we will be talking to two missionary families. One of these couples has “been there and done that” for more than 42 years, and the other family is going to the field for the first time. Join us to hear what these veteran missionaries will say to encourage this new family as they follow God’s direction along an unfamiliar path.
Or witness a bulldozer gone wild into a crowd of people just because they are Jews. Where becoming a Christian can cause you to lose your job, take away your home and be shunned from family and friends. Today we are talking to a missionary couple who God has called to help befriend, comfort and be intercessors for the people of Israel.
Comfort Ministry to Israel May 8 seg 1
It’s difficult to understand how some Christians can read the Bible, affirm their belief in it as the word of God and yet say, “We have no business going to other countries trying to force our religion on them. Why don’t we just run our church affairs here and mind our own business?” Do you know people who believe like that? Perhaps this last article and the three previous ones in the series may help you convince them that Jesus calls us to take His gospel of truth to the entire world, whether they have a religion or no religion.
In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus commissioned us with three primary tasks to fulfill in reaching the world with the message of salvation.
Jesus calls us to Evangelize: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations (ethic groups).” As you go, go in obedience whether to the lost one next-door, in a remote jungle or sophisticated metropolis.. It’s not an either/or (home or foreign) for the Christian, but a both/and commandment (“all the nations”).
Jesus calls us to Baptize: “baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” which involves planting churches, increasing the Christian community around the world, gathering them into the fellowship of believers in identification with Jesus Christ; others know they belong to Him.
Jesus calls us to Teach: “teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.” We work to develop believers and help them grow into the likeness of Christ, to be obedient to Him in all things through building and teaching in churches, schools, training centers, seminaries, teaching others to obey His commandments and to meet human needs by establishing hospitals, clinics, agriculture and food programs, and many other kinds of spiritual and physical ministry.
John 17 is the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus, the Lord’s Prayer for His disciples and for all who would believe in Him as a result of their testimony. Here, Jesus again speaks of sending “into the world” those who believe in Him:
“As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” (John 17:18-23, The New American Standard Bible, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation)
Twice in these few verses, Jesus prayed that we might be one, “perfected in unity,” the same unity that exists in the Father and the Son. Did you catch the purpose of this, “so that the world may believe that You sent Me” and “so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me”? He prayed that the world might believe and know because of unity among believers. Do we have that unity in the Body of Christ? It is not thinking exactly alike on every detail, but being one in the spirit of Christ and in knowing our purpose as believers. Otherwise, we hinder the work of Christ in the world He came to save. We must be one in recognizing that Christ as Head of the Church has told us plainly in His commandments what the Church’s business is.
To enable us to accomplish the task that Jesus gave us to go into all the world, He promised that He would provide His power. He said, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” He also said, “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts l:8). Let’s get on with minding our business of winning a lost world to Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus Himself has given us.
If anyone reading this is a part of that lost world who needs Jesus, you can receive Him as your Savior and Lord today. Contact us and we will help you in your decision to take that step or click here.
H. Milton Wilder
Missionary Pastoral Care