July 9, 2010

Dear Partner in world missions,

It was a joy to receive some of our international family at the Family Church Conference 2010. I was particularly glad that we could have a special event for these special people on Friday after the conference. This year we arranged for about thirty of our missionaries and international leadership to stay overnight at Bridle Creek Ranch just outside of Tulsa. Besides a taste of cowboy country, the participants were treated to an overnight stay in the rustic cabins, three delicious meals, practical instructions on partnership development in the morning, and an inspirational service at night. You helped to make this event happen for these ambassadors. I am so pleased that you, our Mission Partner, were able to bless them in a manner worthy of the work they do for the kingdom. Thank you!

This month Rev. Balie Kirha completes his tenth year of ministry in Guwahati, Assam (India). FCF Int’l helped to send Rev. Kirha fresh out of Bible College. Since 2000, our partnership has helped Abundant Life Faith Church to be established and flourish. Together with Balie, we also started Harvest Bible Training Center which has produced nearly 500 graduates. The students of the school have been prepared and then sent all over northeastern India. God has opened doors to these graduates, and thousands of people have been evangelized through this ministry. Balie recently wrote to us, “My heart is filled with gratitude as I reflect on these 10 years of ministry in India. Most of all, I am grateful and indebted to my FCF family who believed in me before it was reasonable and for being there and helping me in every sense to carry out God’s purposes for this part of the world.” Congratulations to Balie and you, our partner, in reaching this part of the world. We truly are making a difference and storing up treasures of souls in heaven.

Another ministry training center we established with your help is in Serbia. Pastor Eva Nagy and her husband oversee works in Hungary and Serbia. They recently wrote, “Dear Gail please tell Bob that in Serbia our students in the Bible school took an exam in the last week, and yesterday it happened also in Budapest with four students (from the first semester ) with a great result. Everybody increase by the Bible school also me and our pastors. Our heart is very thankful to Bob, because of the Bible school.” As Eva thanks me in her broken English, she is really thanking you for providing the curriculum for these two schools.

We are getting ready to purchase another ISOM (International School of Ministry) curriculum for a group of Eritrean believers in Kenya. An interpretation of the Tigrinya dialect spoken in Eretria is provided with the curriculum. It is amazing that the Bible is translated in so many different dialects and that solid materials to train leaders are available in many languages.

Part of our Mission campaign is to START people in the ministry God has for them. Bible training is a vital and necessary part of this strategy. All over the world we are helping to make training available to ministers. We have you to thank.

God bless you for your faithful financial giving and prayer support. We are bringing closure to the Great Commission of Jesus to preach the Gospel to every creature. And we are doing it together!

Reaching the World for Jesus,

 

 

Bob Buse

International Director