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“Ye Shall Be Witnesses”

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

MISSIONARY VIDEOS: Derek & Julie Thomas; Dwight & Jeanne Billingsley

DRAMA – William Carey

SPECIAL MUSIC – Connie Mars

CORPORATE SINGING

MESSAGE – Missionary/Pastor Sam Stricklin and Pastor Ayub David

Sam & Virginia Stricklin My wife and I have been married for 55 years, and we have five sons, three daughters-in-law, and ten grandchildren. We have been in the ministry for 52+ years. I served as a music and youth director in Ft. Worth, Texas, for one year before becoming a pastor in Stillwater, Oklahoma, for six years. Following that, we moved to Rhode Island to start a church and I was a pastor there for 30 years. I started Christian Schools, and served as Superintendent at both of these churches. Fifteen years ago, I resigned as a pastor, and moved to Missouri to become involved in a missionary ministry to the 10/40 Window, primarily in the Middle East. Our ministry has been one of training national pastors through teaching and preaching at seminaries, Bible colleges, conferences, and in local churches. To date, the Lord has given me the privilege of teaching and preaching in 25 countries.

Ayub David I was born in Sialkot, Pakistan. I accepted Christ at 12 years of age. I started serving Jesus Christ at the age of 16. I received my bible training from my local church in Pakistan. I loved evangelism and telling people about Jesus. When I was young, I preached the gospel all over Pakistan and in Saudi Arabia. After my marriage, I moved to Sheikhupura, Pakistan. In Sheikhupura, I started a sports business to help different ministries and provide for my family. My wife was loving and God fearing. I have 5 children. My wife went to Jesus when I was 33 years old. After my wife went to Jesus, I decided to stop business and start full time ministry. I continue to help with church planting and evangelism in Pakistan. Overall, we have planted over 500 churches in Pakistan. Thousands of people have accepted Christ because of our evangelism ministry. We also started a school in Pakistan for little children. Right now, we have over 200 children. We also started a seminary in Pakistan in 2015 to train the next generation. Right now I am traveling in different countries to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Many people accept Christ through our preaching ministry. God is also using me in America in Muslim people. Please pray for my ministry that God will use me more for his glory. Please pray for my finances that God will provide for all my needs in the USA and all over the world.

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MISSIONARY VIDEOS: Brian & Mindy Clark; Dillon & Sarah Renner

DRAMA – Saint Patrick of Ireland

DEPUTATION TESTIMONY – Eddie & Sarah Ziss

SPECIAL MUSIC – Pastor Stephen & Meghann Wineka

CORPORATE SINGING

MESSAGE – Missionary/Pastor Bob Hutton

Bob Hutton I have been involved in ministry most of my life. My first ministry experience came while living with my parents who were missionaries in Guatemala. After graduating from college I was an assistant pastor in Nebraska and Ohio, and for over 10 years was the senior pastor of a church in Ohio. In 2006, I went as a missionary to the Republic of Ireland where I was able to begin a work in Mallow, County Cork, that is thriving today. Along with being the Mission’s Director at Canton Baptist, I am on the board of SENT, Incorporated. I continue to be actively involved in discipleship, training and church planting in the UK and Ireland through my organization Emerald Isle Missions. I have three daughters Trisha (Brad), Tara (Chad) and Tiffani (Dom) and four grandsons.

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FAITH PROMISE SLIDE PRESENTATION

SPECIAL MUSIC – Pastor Stephen & Meghann Wineka

DRAMA – David Livingstone

CORPORATE SINGING

MESSAGE – Missionary/Pastor Rick Osborn

Rick & Brenda Osborn I pastored a small church in Venice for 14 years. During that time, I would take short mission trips around the world. It was during this time that God began to give me a burden for missions beyond our personal financial support of missionaries. In 2013 God called us to full-time missions to Liberia, West Africa.

Liberia is an extremely poor country where people struggle from day to day just to get food. The educational system there is terrible. There are sometimes more than 50 in a classroom; they often must share a seat; and they have no textbooks. They learn by copying everything from the chalk board into a composition notebook. Often, the teacher doesn’t even show up. That is why we want to start Christian schools along with starting churches. Liberia is a deeply religious country with every kind of religious group. This allows us to share the Gospel with great freedom. However, because they are so religious, they think they already are going to heaven, not realizing they are lost in their sin.

I have started a Bible College in Liberia where we can train people for ministry. We have between 45-50 students regularly. Our youngest student is 28 and we have three over 70. The average age is 46.

Brenda has more than 30 years’ experience teaching in Christian schools. Little did she know that God would use her on the mission field to the extent that he has. Brenda has a class to train people for Children’s ministry. Most of the churches have no ministry for the children and no materials at all. She provides materials and trains them how to use them. It is a wonderful ministry. We are blessed to use our years of experience to share the Gospel, train nationals, plant churches, provide needed materials, and give direction to the pastors of Liberia.

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Derek & Julie Thomas Derek Thomas grew up in Kansas City, Missouri attending church with family and making a decision

for the Lord after being convicted deeply of sin at age 12. After graduation from Missouri State University in 1985 he was married to Julie Brooks, and entered the business world while attending and serving in a local church. During this time Derek’s heart was stirred for the gospel ministry and in 1995 he and Julie surrendered to the call of missions. In April of 1997, Derek, Julie and their three boys moved to Vilnius, Lithuania. There the Lord allowed them to begin Vilnius Bible Baptist Church and Bible Baptist Institute, a ministry that helped to train lay leaders and pastors in the doctrinal truths of God’s word. In August 2007 the Thomas’, after returning to America, took the lead in a

church plant or re-start ministry of what would become Faith Baptist Church of Raymore. Located in Raymore, Missouri Derek acted as head pastor of FBC for 7 years. During this time he became acquainted with a ministry named Slavic Baptist Institute, a ministry began by Dr. Neil Cadwell to better train Ukrainian Christians for Christian service. In October 2013 Derek was installed as president and resigned from his pastoral position at FBC. He and Julie moved to Ukraine in September of 2017. They now live and in Kyiv, where Derek remains as president of Slavic Baptist Institute and pastors Living Hope Baptist Church of Kyiv. Derek and Julie have been married for 33 years and have three sons, Luke, Joel and Andrew. Dwight & Jeanne Billingsley Dwight and Jeanne Billingsley, missionaries to the Middle East, have had a long career serving the

Lord together. They started out on the plains of Kansas, married young, completed their college education at Baptist Bible College, Springfield, MO, and were on their way to the mission field in the Middle East while still in their early twenties. In September of 1966 they moved into a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon and began an intensive Arabic study program to prepare for a life of ministry to the Arabic-speaking people. Beirut, at that time was a major center for banking, commerce, and a center of international intrigue; it seemed like the logical place to be. Little did they know that there were war clouds on the horizon, and over the next years they found themselves living in the middle of major conflicts. The first was the 6-day war, the second was the 1973 Yom Kippur war, and the third was the Lebanese civil war, which began

in 1975. Each of these is a story by itself and required temporary departures from the country. But, the Billingsley’s kept coming back, claiming their call from God. A student center and church were established during these troublesome times. In July of this year the Billingsley’s celebrated 60 years of marriage and are currently developing a major outreach to Arabic speaking people in Dearborn, Michigan, where a majority of the population are immigrants from every country in the Middle East. They are still going strong and still involved in planting Arabic speaking churches and other Arabic projects. The Billingsleys are quick to thank God to be able to represent churches like yours for his name’s sake.


Brian & Mindy Clark

Brian and Mindy were both born in Springfield, Missouri; and it was in this same town 20 years later that they would meet and fall in love. They also both received Christ when they were seven years old. From the moment he was saved Brian knew he was called to be a preacher; and in 1998 God called Brian and Mindy to be church planters in the great city of London and has given them a vision to turn London into a launching pad for world missions. The heart of their ministry is the preaching the Bible, sharing the gospel, making disciples and planting churches. In 2007 they started Crossroads Baptist Church in their living room in Bromley, in the Southeast part of London. Today they are training their disciple, Paul Waller, to pastor CBC so they can continue planting more churches.

Dillon & Sarah Renner GOD’S LEADING TO THE UNITED KINGDOM

My wife and I had the great opportunity as students at Crown College to study abroad for a semester in England, through Crown UK an extension of our school in TN. While in England the Lord started stirring and doing a work in our hearts separately about going back one day as missionaries. We weren’t even dating at this time. For me, I desired to live my entire life, as a pioneering missionary planting churches like the short semester we got to experience in the UK. We had the great privilege while students to help the church

plants that were already established as well as helping start up other new chapels. We would go out, sometimes for six hours at a time, witnessing and handing out gospel literature and going door-to-door. It was in this semester God began working in both our hearts to go back. We know the Lord seeks to show us his will for our lives through his word, through circumstances and through people. The verse that the Lord used to confirm this in our hearts is found in 1 Corinthians 16:15-16, “I beseech you brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,) That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.” It’s our strong desire that those working with the Crown Heritage Trust have addicted themselves to the ministry and we want to help with them in this church planting effort across the United Kingdom.


William Carey (1761-1834)

Father of modern Protestant missions

Carey was raised in the obscure, rural village of Paulerpury, in the middle of England. He apprenticed in a local cobbler's shop, where the Anglican was converted. He enthusiastically took up the faith, and though little educated, the young convert borrowed a Greek grammar and proceeded to teach himself New Testament Greek. He continued his language studies, adding Hebrew and Latin, and became a preacher with the Particular Baptists.

Carey was impressed with early Moravian missionaries and was increasingly dismayed at his fellow Protestants' lack of missions interest. In response, he penned An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens. He argued that Jesus' Great Commission applied to all Christians of all times, and he castigated fellow believers of his day for ignoring it: "Multitudes sit at ease and give themselves no concern about the far greater part of their fellow sinners, who to this day, are lost in ignorance and idolatry."

In 1792 he organized a missionary society and Carey's family (which now included three boys, and another child on the way) were on a ship headed for India. In December 1800, after seven years of missionary labor, Carey baptized his first convert, Krishna Pal, and two months later, he published his first Bengali New Testament. Over the next 28 years, he and his pundits translated the entire Bible into India's major languages and parts of 209 other languages and dialects.

By the time Carey died, he had spent 41 years in India without a furlough. His mission could count only some 700 converts in a nation of millions, but he had laid an impressive foundation of Bible translations, education, and social reform. His greatest legacy was in the worldwide missionary movement of the nineteenth century that he inspired.

*Excerpts from: www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/missionaries/william-carey.html

Saint Patrick of Ireland (386-451 approx.)

Patrick isn't really a Saint with a capital S, having never been officially canonized by Rome. And Patrick couldn't have driven the snakes out of Ireland (as legend says) because there were never any snakes there to begin with. He wasn't even the first evangelist to Ireland (Palladius had been sent in 431, about five years before Patrick went). Patrick isn't even Irish. He's from what's now Dumbarton, Scotland (just northwest of Glasgow).

The man who would come to be known as Saint Patrick, apostle of Ireland, was born in Britain circa 386 A.D. Much of his life is unknown to historians and can't be verified, though some sources have listed his birth name as Maewyn Succat, with the name Patrick later taken on

during his religious journeys or ordainment.

Patrick was 16 years old in about the year 405, when he was captured in a raid and became a slave in what was still radically pagan Ireland. Before he was a prisoner, Patrick’s Christian faith meant little to him. That changed during his captivity. His previously ambivalent faith galvanized and served to buoy him through those long, dark days. Forced to tend his master's sheep in Ireland, he spent his six years of bondage mainly in prayer. He escaped at the suggestion of a dream (408 A.D.) and returned home.

As time passed, he never lost sight of his vision to convert Ireland to Christianity. In 432 A.D., he was ordained as a bishop and was soon sent by Pope Celestine I to Ireland to spread the gospel to non-believers while also providing support to the small community of Christians already living there.

Patrick was in his mid-40s when he returned to Ireland. Palladius had not been very successful in his mission, and the returning former slave replaced him. Intimately familiar with the Irish clan system (his former master, Milchu, had been a chieftain), Patrick's strategy was to convert chiefs first, who would then convert their clans through their influence. Reportedly, Milchu was one of his earliest converts.

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Saint Patrick died circa 461 A.D. in Saul, Ireland, and is said to have been buried in the nearby town of Downpatrick, County Down. A significant monument stands atop the hill overlooking the town. Panels depicting scenes from Patrick’s life surround the monument’s base.

What casts a far greater shadow than his monument, however, is St. Patrick’s Day. And that day in the middle of March raises a significant question: Should Christians celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? If you do, you might want to consider wearing orange. Orange? Here’s why. After 1798 the color of green was closely associated with Roman Catholicism and orange with Protestantism—after William of Orange, the Protestant king. The holiday is certainly not to be used as means for excessive partying and celebration. But wearing orange and trying to tell people who St. Patrick really was might be a good way to celebrate.

“I, Patrick, a sinner, unlearned, resident in Ireland, declare myself to be a bishop. Most assuredly I believe that what I am I have received from God. He is witness that this is so.” –St. Patrick of Ireland

“Thus I am a servant in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of life everlasting which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” –St. Patrick of Ireland

*Excerpts from: www.biography.com/religious-figure/saint-patrick; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick; www.christianitytoday.com/history/2008/august/real-st-patrick.html; www.ligonier.org/blog/who-was-saint-patrick-and-should-christians-celebrate-st-patricks-day/

David Livingstone (1813-1873) At age 25, after a childhood spent working 14 hours a day in a cotton mill, followed by learning in class and on his own, Livingstone was captivated by an appeal for medical missionaries to China. As he trained, however, the door to China was slammed shut by the Opium War. Within six months, he met Robert Moffat, a veteran missionary of southern Africa, who enchanted him with tales of his remote station. For ten years, Livingstone tried to be a conventional missionary in southern Africa. He opened a string of stations in "the regions beyond," where he settled down to station life, teaching school and superintending the garden.

After his only convert decided to return to polygamy, Livingstone felt more called than ever to explore. During his first term in South Africa, Livingstone made some of the most prodigious—and most dangerous—explorations of the nineteenth century. His object was to open a "Missionary Road"—"God's Highway," he also called it—1,500 miles north into the interior to bring "Christianity and civilization" to unreached peoples.

When Livingstone spoke out against racial intolerance, white Afrikaners tried to drive him out, burning his station and stealing his animals.

After a brief heroic return to England, Livingstone returned to Africa, this time to navigate 1,000 miles up the Zambezi in a brass-and-mahogany steamboat to establish a mission near Victoria Falls. A year later, he was on his way back to Africa again, this time leading an expedition sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society. The source of the Nile was the great geographical puzzle of the day. But more important to Livingstone was the possibility of proving that the Bible was true by tracing the African roots of Judaism and Christianity. For two years he simply disappeared, without a letter or scrap of information. He reported later that he had been so ill he could not even lift a pen, but he was able to read the Bible straight through four times.

When Livingstone had arrived in Africa in 1841, it was as exotic as outer space, called the "Dark Continent" and the "White Man's Graveyard." although the Portuguese, Dutch, and English were pushing into the interior, African maps had blank unexplored areas—no roads, no countries, no landmarks. Livingstone helped redraw the maps, exploring what are now a dozen countries, including South Africa, Rwanda, Angola, and the Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). And he made the West aware of the continuing evil of African slavery, which led to its being eventually outlawed.

*Excerpts from: www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/missionaries/david-livingstone.html


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