Mission Cry Magazine December 2018

EMPOWERING NATIVE MISSIONARIES

DECEMBER 2018

CONTENTS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S NOTE 03 GOLF RECAP 04 UGANDA HAS HEARD YOUR MISSION CRY 05 COUNTRIES REACHED MAP 06-07 WAYS TO GIVE 08 NAGALAND CONTAINER 09 JORDAN & PALESTINE 10 CHINA HAS HEARD YOUR MISSION CRY 11 COMING SOON! Mission Cry will be publishing a Bible to send overseas in addition to the materials we receive through donations. Please consider donating to help make the Mission Cry Bible happen!

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S NOTE With your help, Mission Cry is sending the Gospel to nations where people have very little access to it.

Together, we are changing eternity, but we are also changing cultures, financial landscapes of these nations, families, and more, because that is what the Word of God does. Thank you for making this your Mission Cry! You can read about the impact you and I are having globally on the following pages. However, I wanted to point out a few that are very strategic.

This year, while China is ramping up its persecution of Christians and is destroying Bibles, you and I have been able to send Bibles, Seminary books, and Evangelistic Christian resources to Hong Kong, China.

As you read this article, they are being distributed to over 25,000 people. To put that into perspective, if it was one person who was changed through the reading of a Christian book and then would pen the most Rev. Jason & Maria Woolford famous hymn of all time “Amazing Grace”, think of the impact in China by giving 25,000 people the Word of God. It statistically will end up reaching 500,000 people just of this one shipment, and many more to come as the Lord provides. I encourage you to read on about how over 50,000 people in two of the surrounding countries attacking Israel have had the chance to have their eternity changed forever. I can only imagine the impact, and how proud God is of you and me, as we are giving the only thing that does not return void - for free - around the globe.

I hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas, and please know that my family, staff and team of prayer warriors are praying God’s Favor over you in the spiritual, financial and physical areas of your life.

FIRST ANNUAL

GOLF SCR AM BLE We had a great turnout at our First Annual Golf Scramble, and we raised the funds to send a container overseas, filled with $400,000 worth of Bibles and Christian books! In addition, about 30% of our attendees were people who are unchurched and may have been hearing the gospel for the first time themselves. They enjoyed a great day of golf, dinner, a short message from Rev. Woolford, and many incredible giveaways. We are so grateful for all who helped make this event happen.

We want to give a special thank you to our sponsor location this year, Hunters Ridge Golf Course. They were so generous and accommodating. Please consider using them for your next event or day of golf.

Hunters Ridge Golf Course 8101 Byron Rd. Howell, MI 48855 (517) 545-4653

HESSEL CHURCH

Making a Difference in Uganda UGANDA HAS HEARD YOUR MISSION CRY! Hessel Church in Sebastopol, CA participated in one of our 2018 Bible Drives and made it possible to send a container filled with Bibles and Christian books to Uganda.

If you are interested in hosting a Bible Drive, please contact our office today. It will make a difference in the eternity of countless people!

Thank you to each of you who bring books, drive, volunteer, donate financially and pray!

2018 COUNTRI

OVER $325 MILLION IN DONATED BIBLES

1,000 Indians 1 Great Crate living stateside Mission Cry Headquarters received this 200 Free St. crate Fowlerville, MI 48836

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GUYMAS, MEXICO This crate was filled with teaching material for pastors and children’s books to be distributed at an orphange

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1 Great Crate Guymas, Mexico 2 Great Crates Haiti 1 Container Belize BELIZE • 86% of population claims Christianity • Mission Cry has sent enough Bibles for every household • Need for revival & true Biblical teaching • Need of culturally appropriate ministry

HAITI • Population of 10,949,000 • 94.8% population Christian • In need of Bibles & Christian literature

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SIERRA LEONE // A • Almost 7.7 million • 60% of population • Seeing nearly dou growth rate of eva

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GHANA // AFRICA • Population of 28,584 • 19 unreached peopl • We sent Christian bo for distribution in sch

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2018 COUNTRIES REACHED Total containers: 17 Total Great Crates: 9 Nations reached: 15+ Nearly $6 million worth of Bibles and Christian books sent Over 1,000,000 people reached with the Gospel

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AND BOOKS SENT TO OVER 171 NATIONS.

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HUNGARY • Nearly 87% of the population professes to be Christian • Biblical teaching material is welcomed and eagerly distributed

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NAGPUR, INDIA • 94% of the population in India is unreached • This container included material for theological seminaries and evangelical distribution

10 Boxes ($5,000 in material) Pakistan 1 Container Nagpur, India 1 Container 1 Container Kerala, India Karnataka, India

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HONG KONG, CHINA • 7.3 million people in Hong Kong • Nearly 13% of the population professes to be Christian • The majority of religion consists of ethnic beliefs

1 Container Hong Kong, China

1 Great Crate Kochi, India 2 Containers Uganda, Africa 2 Containers Kenya, Africa

1 Great Crate Mozambique, Africa 1 Container Lusaka, Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA // AFRICA • 92,000 people yet to be reached • Christianity is most common religion, at 87% of the population • Bibles are very appreciated!

Changing Cultures With your help, Mission Cry is sending the gospel to nations where people have very little access to it. Together, we are changing eternity, but we are also changing cultures, financial landscapes of these nations, families, and more, because that is what the Word of God does. Thank you for making this your Mission Cry!

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We love to have volunteers tour our facility and help us sort through Bibles and books, but there are so many other options as well! Would you take just a few minutes of your time to learn about some of our other giving options?

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him and hear how his first shipment has advanced the work of the ministry happening Urgent Request. Last year, we sent a sea in Nagaland. container to our friend, TL, in India. TL has been hearing the evangelizing and leading people to the Lord Upon testimonies, I pledged in his hometown. to send him another With the partnership of Mission Cry, TL has container before the given 30,000 people a Bible and Christian end of the year. With book just in the last year. He has also baptized this container, we will also send a pallet of nearly 1,000 people.

Bibles to our friend, In October of this year, TL came to Michigan Pastor Ken Campbell and was able to shop our free bookstore. The in Nagpur. We need very first thing he found was a commentary $10,000 to make this set that he has been wanting and praying happen. Please hear for, something to the urgent tone in this use for his students. letter when I say, we What a blessing need you to make this this was to him! At happen! Nagpur and that time, I was Southern India need to able to interview hear your Mission Cry!

Bibles for Nagaland, India

TL was an orphan who was on the verge of killing himself, when God told him, “You are My son.� He enrolled in Bible school and began evangelizing.

He has been imprisoned and beaten to near death, for simply distributing the Bible and Christian books. He would always hand out food, clothes etc. without problem, but once he started handing out the Bible, things began to get violent. After all of the problems, he continues to understand the importance of distributing the Word of God. He came to Mission Cry last year in hopes of getting a few pallets or boxes of books to continue evangelizing. Instead, you partnering together with us, made it possible for him to receive nearly half a million dollars of used Bibles and Christian books.

Additionally, while trekking into Burma he was, on three occasions, thrown into jail. The last time he was thrown in a 3x7 cell without food or water with nine other prisoners in that same cell. Even with his son under attack, they believe as a family that they will continue to distribute the Word regardless of the Hindus and Buddhists that come against them and try to stop them.

Lastly, your support is making it possible for his Bible College to be recognized now that he has enough Bibles and books to establish a Bible College library. I wonder how many people will greet you in Heaven.

Thank you for changing their eternity.

JORDAN & PALESTINE HAVE HEARD

Your Mission Cry with 50,000 Arabic Bibles

In recent news we have celebrated the news that the Jerusalem embassy has opened, and the great United States has mentioned to the Israelis ‘you are not alone’.

What a wonderful way to show God’s love in sending materials that will have an eternal impact. The materials we have sent are being, and have been, distributed.

As a minister of the Gospel and a U.S. Marine, I am thankful for the support we have given Israel, and I President Trump addressed a crowd via a taped can only Imagine the blessing God will bestow on video message, saying that the opening had the United States for our faithfulness in standing for been “a long time coming.” “Today, Jerusalem Israel as God has mentioned repeatedly in his Word. is the seat of the Israeli government, the home of the Israeli Legislature, So, I find it fitting that the Israeli Supreme we should also try and Court, and Israel’s help our brothers and Prime Minister and sisters in Christ Jesus in President,” he said.

Palestine who have no “For many years, we means in which to buy a failed to acknowledge Bible or Christian book. the obvious ... the plain Through strategic and reality that Israel’s anointed relationships, capital is Jerusalem.” we were able, with your help, to send Israeli Prime Minister over $50,000 in brand Benjamin Netanyahu new Arabic Bibles and addressed the Christian materials to crowd, emphatically Palestine. announcing that Monday was a “glorious day” and thanking I think of those who might be planning an President Trump. “Remember this moment, this is attack on Israel but might come across a Bible history,” he said. “President Trump, by recognizing or Christian Book in Arabic that you helped send, history, you have made history.” and instead surrender to the Great, Powerful and one true God. My hope and my prayer is that Both Jordan and Palestine surround Israel and these materials will make an eternal difference in throughout history have attacked God’s people. someone’s life.

CHINA HAS HEARD

Your Mission Cry On a single Sunday this past March, 31 churches were leadership and yes, even the one who just got saved, shut down in China. In the past few years, hundreds of will now be able to access God’s Word and help thousands of churches have been shut down, making strengthen the Body of Christ in this precious nation. this the worst persecution of Christianity in China since 1982. Scores of churches are being Yet, time is short and there is more dismantled, leaving believers without work to be done. Here’s how you a place of worship to call home. can help...

Authorities are confiscating Bibles and setting up surveillance videos in • Pray for Mission Cry (CRI) the house churches that are left.

• Pray for the nation of China • Consider supporting Mission Cry Jesus said in Matthew 10:22, ”And (CRI) with a one-time gift as well you will be hated by all for My Name’s as monthly support. We want and sake.” We are seeing this hatred for need to do more. China has over God’s People in China like we have 1.3 billion people, and many still not seen in many years. But, that’s not the end of the don’t have a Bible. story...

The Chinese government says, “No”, to the Gospel…

On October 15, 2018, with the help of faithful friends Romans 8:31 tells us, “If God is for us, who can be like you, Mission Cry (CRI) was able to send over against us?”

22,000 pounds of literature (Christian books, seminary materials and Bibles) to Hong Kong, China, and with We need your help, the people of China need your that we were able to provide the only thing that does help. Together, with the Lord’s help... great things will not return void to this nation of persecuted Christians. be accomplished.

That means seminary students, those who are in

In recent years, the Bible has been available for purchase online in China. It has now been removed from online sales. Public listings of the Bible have been forbidden.

Religious groups, and even topics of discussion, are highly sensored in China.

China recognizes five faiths as allowed (but controlled) religion.

Christianity is not one of them.

The Nations are Hearing your

MISSION CRY!