EMPOWERING NATIVE MISSIONARIES SINCE 1956
CONTENTS NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT 03 2020 CONTAINERS SENT 04-05 NIGERIA PERSECUTION 06-07 MISSION CRY DISTRIBUTION CENTERS 08 MUSLIMS COMING TO CHRIST 09 REACHING CHINA 10 OUR RESPONSE TO COVID-19 11 MISSION CRY BIBLE 12
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NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT You have heaven and all its host behind you for the fight that you may be facing now, or in the future. You need to realize that you have Royal blood pumping through your veins. The living God, living in you, a Guardian Angel, and the Angelic army are all behind you. Once you truly understand this you won’t run from the fight, you’ll run to the fight!
Rev. Jason & Maria Woolford
David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.” 1 Samuel 17:45-47 NIV
You and I win when we choose to stand in the gap, to take a step of faith, to speak as a warrior. God has not called us to watch the “Davids” of the world but to stand with them, or to possibly be the one that others stand with. Thank you for being an armor bearer, a warrior standing with me in leading the charge on the enemy. With the free distribution of God’s Word and Christian books, you are helping those who have been physically and spiritually attacked and teaching them how to properly fight. You are bringing holy encouragement. In 2 Kings 6:17 we read about Elijah praying that God would open his servant’s eyes and that he would be able to see what Elijah was seeing. The Lord reveals to the servant a mountain full of horses and Chariots of fire all gathered on behalf of Elijah! We know Elijah eventually wins the battle. His servant also learns that God’s heavenly hosts (Angels) are not dispatched for those not living for God, but how God and his Angels rally behind those who love and serve God! You are helping open the eyes of those around the globe letting them see the fullness of God in and through his Word. Only heaven knows the full story and the impact that you are having. Someday you will also know and see your impact of hope, in what appears to be a hopeless situation. All throughout the Bible we see that it took God’s people to engage! I am so thankful that you have decided to engage. Your donation helps supply our brothers and sisters around the world with the only things that don’t return void: His Word and Christian books. You are helping people to receive a Bible and the ability to fellowship one on one with God in and through his Word. I thank God for you and the eternal partnership that we have forged! Together, you and Mission Cry have given over $390 million in donated Bibles and Christian books to over 177 nations. My staff and I will continue to pray radical provisions over you in the spiritual, physical, and financial realms of your life, as we continue to let the world hear our Mission Cry.
Rev. Jason Woolford President Mission Cry / CRI
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COUNTRIES R
$390 MILLION SEN
MISSION CRY WORLD HEADQUARTERS 200 FREE ST. FOWLERVILLE, MI 48836
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ANTARCTICA
REACHED 2020
NT TO 177 NATIONS
2020 CONTAINERS Dark red indicates area of major persecution
Where the devil is working overtime to destroy nations and lives, we are working overtime to share God’s Word and spread His love! In addition to the containers we sent this year, we did the following: Sent food to Pakistan where there has been desperate need for food. We reached 20,000 people in Guadalajara, Mexico with Bibles.
ALBANIA PAKISTAN HONG KONG (4) INDIA (2)
SOUTH SUDAN NIGERIA (3)
GHANA (4)
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UGANDA (2)
MYANMAR (2)
We supplied 20 pastors in Peru with Bibles & teaching material.
KENYA (2) TANZANIA
500 Bibles were distributed to people in Pakistan in their own language. 23,000 military personnel in South Sudan received the Mission Cry Bible with the military cover. For the first time ever, we reached Antarctica with Bibles to a military outpost. 2020 has brought major expansion in where we were privileged to send the Word of God, and we have now surpassed $390 million in Bibles and books sent. 05
NIGERIA DANGER & PERSECUTION “Every day by day, the Islamic Terrorists in Nigeria known as “BOKO-HARAM” are Persecuting and Killing the Christians in Nigeria and all over Africa, and they are also destroying and bombing all the Churches in our country Nigeria. On 20th of December 2019, My Church was attacked and bombed by the Islamic terrorists and My Wife and Two Daughters and 64 Members of my Ministry were killed inside the Church during our Sunday service. Over the past decade, more than 70,000 Christians have been killed by the Islamic Terrorists Groups in Nigeria. Only Almighty GOD can help and Save the Souls of the Christians in Nigeria from the constant killing by the Islamic terrorists in Africa. The loss of my wife and two daughters in one day to the Islamic terrorists, have been one of the hardest things that I have ever walked through in my life. Their death really touched my soul so much, and it makes me to believe in this Word of God that says; ‘For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.’ (Philippians 1:21.)”
The man shown to the left is a minister in Nigeria who reached out to us when the killings of Christians by Boko Haram elevated in Nigeria. His wife and two beautiful little girls (shown beneath) were slaughtered by the terrorist group, whose agenda is to kill Christians. Yet even so, he goes on preaching the gospel and sharing God’s love in his home country, as the violence gets worse. Despite the many physical needs the people of Nigeria have, this man asked us for Bibles, simply so he could continue sharing God’s Word. So far we have sent him three containers filled with Bibles; one of those has yet to be sponsored. This is an immediate
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need, and one that we need your help with. Will you consider donating to help fund this container and future containers to share God’s Word with the world? Pictures below and to the right show some of the violence happening in Nigeria with daily killings; cars, homes, and churches being burned; and more. We received other images that would be far too graphic to show here; images where children have been slaughtered. Please know this violence is so real, and we simply cannot ignore it.
THREE CONTAINERS SENT. WITH THESE, WE HAVE REACHED 90,000 PEOPLE IN NIGERIA. FACTS ABOUT NIGERIA • With over 205 million people, Nigeria is the most populated nation in Africa • Christianity is the largest religion in Nigeria • Currently, Nigeria is considered the most dangerous place for Christians to live • Evangelical Christianity is seeing an annual growth rate of 3.4%, nearly one percent higher than the rate of growth worldwide • Over 2.3 million people in Nigeria have been displaced from their homes due to the violence and attacks of terrorist groups such as Boko Haram
BRUTALITY OF BOKO HARAM • Boko Haram, one of the largest Islamist militant groups in Africa, is also the deadliest terrorist group in the world and was formed in northern Nigeria • Boko Haram’s attacks are almost entirely against Christians, and they target mainly women and children • The meaning of Boko Haram is “Western Education is forbidden”, and the group also targets those affiliated with political parties, secular education, and the police
NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE Many of the people of Nigeria who are being persecuted for their faith don’t even have a Bible so they can read about the very God they are giving their lives for. They also need continued and urgent prayers for their protection, and that the killings would stop. We have sent three containers filled with Bibles to Nigeria, which will arrive in December. Please pray with us that these containers arrive without interruption to those who need Bibles. We are also still in need of financial sponsorship for these containers.
• There is much unrest in the country due to Boko Haram, though the government claims the group has been defeated
Christians are being slaughtered on the streets by a violent and extreme Islamist group named Boko Haram. Women and children are prime targets, but the group has also burned homes, churches, and more.
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NEW MISSION CRY
DISTRIBUTION CENTERS
THIS YEAR WE WERE ABLE TO ADD NEW DISTRIBUTION CENTERS BY SENDING CONTAINERS TO SUDAN, TANZANIA, PAKISTAN, AND NIGERIA. THESE CONTAINER RECIPIENTS WILL DISTRIBUTE THE BIBLES THROUGHOUT THEIR COMMUNITIES AND HAVE ACCEPTED TO BE A DISTRIBUTION CENTER FOR OTHERS WHO ARE LOOKING FOR BIBLES WITHIN THEIR COUNTRIES. WHERE THE DEVIL IS WORKING OVERTIME TO DESTROY NATIONS AND LIVES, WE ARE WORKING OVERTIME TO SHARE GOD’S WORD AND SPREAD HIS LOVE!
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Greetings, Praise God! By God’s grace today we have completed our trip according our ticket. In these 7 days we reached more than 5,000 people with the message of love and forgiveness. It was very difficult to manage things, but we thank God for his favour. Tommorow early morning we will be back to our home. Please pray for us. Pastor V., Pakistan
MUSLIMS COMING TO CHRIST
as a result of sending God’s Word
ter in the same ward, and he came to meet me for a purpose. My father was trying to accuse him, but my mother stopped him. This is a letter we received from a man in GhaHe came towards me, and he was calling na who came to Christ after hearing the gospel God’s anointing power of healing upon from someone who received our literature. my life, and really the Lord interceded and had his hand of healing open for me, and I Thank you so much for diligently doing felt a move in my body. It was like a heat, the work of Christ, and for the love and the pains were vanishing. My and kindness shown to God’s chil- MY FATHER & HIS FRIENDS WERE CONSULTING blood was again tested for the last dren, and for your determination time, and it showed my liver and of serving the Lord in your country ISLAMIC HYMNS TO PROCLAIM HEALING IN MY kidneys working beautifully, and I BODY, BUT OUR GODS FAILED THEM. IT WAS was completely whole. and throughout the world. The picture above was sent to us from the recipients of our container to Albania.
days, I got attacked by a dreadful disease. I was admitted into the best hospital with doctors working on me around the clock. I was given four bottles of blood, and was on oxygen throughout six days. My pulse was disappearing, and my breathing was reducing. The doctors gave up hope. The chief doctors said that I would have to be
THEN A BROTHER WHO WAS SAVED THROUGH
Me and my family belonged to the family and the doctors were YOUR LITERATURE AND MINISTRY, CAME TO SEE My Muslim Association of Ghana. We all surprised to see the demonstrawere all accordingly in one body HIS SISTER IN THE SAME WARD, AND HE CAME tion of God’s power upon my life. of Allah. We believed Allah was My father realized that the gods TO MEET ME FOR A PURPOSE. our God, and we worshipped him we were worshiping were not in the Islamic religion. We were against shifted immediately to Bombay for dialy- true gods, and we got on our knees and Christians, we spoke evil of them, and we sis, but may not survive the journey itself. confessed Christ as our Lord and personhated them. al Savior, and the Lord transformed our My father & his friends were consulting lives through the blood of the Lamb, and One day a believer came to our Islamic Islamic hymns to proclaim healing in my changed us from Muslim to Christian, and ground preaching the doctrine of Christ. body, but our gods failed them. It was then we took our Muslim books and bible, and We captured him and killed him, but we a brother who was saved through your lit- burnt them. We are now fellowshipping in didn’t know we were wrong. After some erature and ministry, came to see his sis- this brother’s church. 09
WHEN THE WORLD SHUT DOWN,
MISSION CRY KEPT GOING As the President of this organization, I decided that we were and are essential. Despite businesses around us halting their work, we never shut down and never will. We are here to spread the Word of God to the nations, and to raise up leaders in the church even when circumstances change. During this time, Mission Cry has fed over 1,000 orphans and seminary students in India, 1,500 orphans and students in Pakistan, and purchased land in India where we have plans to build an orphanage. It is truly by the grace of God that this ministry has been able to continue moving forward with each of these things, in addition to sending out containers. Since early spring, 10
with all that has happened in our world, financial donations to Mission Cry have been down. We need support to continue seeing the plans God has laid before us come to fruition. Will you consider donating today? Your donation goes toward letting the world hear our Mission Cry by sharing the Word of God with others across the globe!
Read on for details on specific ways we were able to let the world hear our Mission Cry.
AS OF 2020, Mission Cry has reached
every continent on the planet with the Word of God, after having recently sent the Mission Cry Bible to a military outpost in Antarctica.
WE HAVE NOW SENT OVER $390 MILLION IN BIBLES AND BOOKS TO 177 NATIONS. This is because of your faithfulness and God’s provision! We thank every one of you who has prayed or given of your time and/or finances. You have let the world hear our Mission Cry!
In Pakistan, Mission Cry was able to send food and Bibles that were distributed through our Mission Cry missionary to 2,500 Muslims, in addition to reaching 500 people in Pakistan with a Bible printed in their own language. We sent Spanish Bibles and Spanish material to be distributed to 20,000 people in Guadalajara, Mexico, and reached 20 pastors in Peru with Bibles. 23,000 South Sudan military personnel received Bibles printed with our Mission Cry military cover, including the G300 Discipleship Program.
THIS YEAR, 21 CONTAINERS WERE SENT AROUND THE WORLD FROM MISSION CRY HEADQUARTERS. That is a record number for us, and during a time of global chaos and division. We praise God for this!
Albania
Peru
WHEN COVID HIT,
WE RESPONDED WITH $2 MILLION IN DISTRIBUTIONS, WHICH INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING:
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SEA CONTAINERS sent during strict lockdown
1,500
2,500
MUSLIMS GIVEN BIBLES & FOOD in Pakistan
PEOPLE IN NEED reached with food & Bibles in India
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