People group formal definition: this refers to a sociologi-cal grouping of individuals who perceive themselves tohave an affinity for each other due to language, ethnicity,location, occupation, and/or geographical location.Usually there is a common self-name and a sense ofcommon identity of individuals identified with the group.A common history, customs, family and clan identities, aswell as marriage rules and practices, age-grades andother obligation covenants and inheritance patterns andrules are some of the common ethnic factors defining ordistinguishing a people. What they call themselves may varyat different levels of identity, or among various sub-groups.People group working definition: A group of peoplethrough whom information can travel unhindered.

STRATEGYDr. Charles Keen describes the process through which Godleads us in order to see His work accomplished. Accomplishingthe Great Commission begins with prayer, but where does it gofrom there? PAGE 12

AN ENQUIRY - ART ICLE 2This is the second of four chapters of WilliamCarey’s An Enquiry. Editor Charles Keen declaresit to be the most important document in moderntimes on the subject of missions. PAGE 15

MISSIONARIES TO THE UNREACHEDA short list of missionaries and the countries theyare working in as well as contact information.PAGE 18

CHANGES IN WORLD REL IGIONNew statistics reveal the growth or decline of theworld’s major religions. PAGE 14

MONGOLIA REPORT15 travelers, 8 days, 18,000 miles. The FirstBible Team’sFebruary trip to Mongolia was both eventful and blessed ofthe Lord. Great progress was made in our effort to translatethe Scriptures for these needy people. This article explainswhy we believe God led us there. PAGE 13

EDITORIALDoctrine is unchanging but methodology must sometimes beadjusted. Our methodology must change if we are to reversethe present situation of leaving one-half of the worldunreached. This guest editorial by Dr. Mike Norris presents anew approach which makes the task of world evangelismbelievable, manageable and measurable. PAGE 4

FIRSTBIBLE INTERNATIONAL EXPANDS NATIONALLYAND INTERNATIONALLYUpdates from both the national andinternational ministries of FirstBibleare submitted by the respective leaders of each ministry. PAGE 9

HOW TO BE AWORLDVIEWCHRIST IANIn this excerpt fromThinking Outside theBox, Dr. Charles Keenstates that perhaps thesingle greatest need infundamentalism is toinstill in every individuala worldview. A world-view will cause us to seethat everything we domust become a means toone end: world evangel-ism. PAGE 5

Unpublished WORD - Editor – Charles Keen, Assistant Editor – Ken Fielder, Circulation/Advertising – Jerry Rockwell, Graphic Design – thegraphic edge, Frisco, TX, Production/Printing – Clark’s Printing Co./Ventura, CA

The Unpublished WORD Journal is a quarterly publication of FirstBible International. All correspondence should be sent to the editorial offices at:FirstBible International, 3148 Franklin Road, Murfreesboro, TN 37128. Phone (615) 796-0043, email: info@firstbible.net, website: www.firstbible.net. FirstBible International is a ministry of Franklin Road Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, TN, Dr. Mike Norris, Pastor.

C O N T E N T S

Some of the authors and their material featured in UW Journal are not necessarily in agreement with the theological position of the UW Journal.Their writings are included because of their insight into the particular subject matter published in the UW Journal.

4 BIG THOUGHTSFOR CHURCHESTHAT WANT TOREACH THEUTTERMOSTKen Fielder offersencouragement andadmonition to theincreasing number ofchurches that are becom-ing interested in theunreached peoplegroups. A more deliber-ate methodology is nec-essary if we are to reachthe unreached. PAGE 10

STRATEGY

Rethinking Our Missions Approach“…a fundamental approach to the 10/40 Window.’’

Obviously we cannot adjust doctrine to times and culture, but we have historicalevidence to show that methods of ministry can be culturally sensitive. The safeguard is toestablish that ministry methods cannot override or violate scripture. We have severalillustrations of rethinking the approach to missions in modern church history.

• William Carey challenged the church to rethink its approach in the 1700’s from a fatalistic attitude to one of outreach.i

• In the 1800’s Hudson Taylor challenged men to penetrate countries, moving from coastal evangelistic efforts to inland ministries. He founded the China Inland Mission and many others followed his pattern such as the Sudan Interior Mission, etc.

• In the early 1900’s Cameron Townsend saw the need for Bible translation work in world evangelism.

• May I suggest that we fundamentalists in the twenty-first century need to rethink our mission approach, moving from reaching individuals to reaching individual people groups.

Personally, as a Christian I seek to reach the individual. As a pastor, I lead our church to reach ourcity (a corporation of individuals). And, of course, the goal of the local church missionary is to reachindividuals on foreign soil. However, individual people group thinking makes our task of world evan-gelism: believable, manageable and measurable.

If we are individual minded in our missions approach, we must see our remaining task to number3.4 billion individual souls. This is a daunting task beyond our comprehension and outside most people’sfaith limits, but individual people group thinking makes our assignment:

A. Believable: If we become “nation” or people group minded, we do not reduce the goal of “everycreature evangelism,” but we do reduce our assignment to 6,000 remaining unreached people groups.In theory, if we plant 6,000 self-supporting, self-propagating, and self-governing churches, one in eachindividual unreached people group, then every creature could be reached through the ministry outreachof the church plants.

B. Manageable: We can track the areas with the greatest needs, those where progress is beingmade and those that are still overlooked by the church. (These are the areas the Bible calls the uttermost.)We can, through prayer, preaching and counsel, guide men and women to reach the unreached. Wecan involve our lay people to pray and give by providing people group profiles that define the peopleand their existing needs within any given group. This is what Jesus said to do in Matthew 9:38 and iswhat the church at Antioch did in Acts 13:1-3.

C. Measurable: We can start to realize that we not only have the pledge of Jesus’ power, presenceand provision, but also that our existing resources far exceed our remaining assignment. When we shiftour approach to people group thinking, we realize we are only 6,000 strategically planted churchesfrom eliminating the unreached category in world evangelism. Our resources exceed 12,000 funda-mental independent Baptist churches. (We have 2 churches for every unreached people group.)

Another encouraging and, at the same time, discouraging fact is that it is estimated only 3% of ourpresent membership has an active plan for world evangelism in place. This is encouraging in that if wehave accomplished what we have done with only 3% active in the Great Commission and still have alarge pool from which to draw (97%), what could we do if we experienced revival and that 3% grewto 30%, 60%, or more who would become involved in the Great Commission?

A third sad fact is that it takes four of our churches to produce one missionary. Through revival, thatnumber could change. We believe the amount of funding would increase for the unreached as prayerincreases.

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GUEST EDITORIALby Dr. Mike Norris

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This is the age of specialization. Aspecialist knows more and more aboutless and less. In the medical field, aspecialist must first be a general practi-tioner. He must first know how all theparts (members) relate to each other tomake the body. Then he narrows hisfocus to one area. In sports, athletesfirst excel at a particular game andthen become proficient in one area:extra point kicker, punt return special-ist, relief pitcher, or designated hitter,etc.

Though they are experts in their areas,specialists cannot lose sight of the team (orthe body) as a whole. They cannot seetheir contribution as an end in itself but asa means to an end. And that end is to winthe game or heal the body. In our special-ized 21st century, the days of “playingboth sides of the ball” are long gone.

What is true of medicine and sportsrings true in the Christian world. We havebecome specialists. This is probably good,but it has caused us to look at the worldthrough the keyhole instead of the door-way. In other words, because we havebeen taught to discover our gifts and tal-ents, and because we have colleges thatcan hone our skills in the area of our calland giftedness, we have become betterand better at less and less.

Unfortunately, this approach to theLord’s work has reduced our vision to aspecific contribution while robbing us of aworldview. Now is the time to step backand discover the panoramic view. Whatdo we need to see? We need to increaseour peripheral vision, become hemisphericin our outlook, and recognize the wholepicture of world evangelism.

Over the ages our thinking has beenthat the missionary is that part of the bodyof Christ with a worldview or a global call.Hence, we leave the responsibility of worldevangelism up to them. It is true that theymust be global-hearted because when mis-

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sionaries lack a worldview, so do the churches theyplant. But it is also true that they are not to be the onlyglobal-minded members of the church. Though we arenot all called to be missionaries, we are all command-ed to have a worldview lifestyle. We are all to be apart of world evangelism.

Jesus said to the whole church membership, “Goye into all the world, and preach the gospel.” He didnot utter that to just a few select ones in the congrega-tion. In other words, every member of the church needsa worldview that dominates their life’s decisions,whether their energies are applied as “goers” or“senders.”

Their worldview may take the shape of going, giv-ing, or praying. The issue is not so much what you dobut what is your worldview and what are you doing tofulfill it.

We need to eliminate this idea of home and worldmissions. It is all world missions, even if it is in that partof the world next door to you. The goal is to eliminateareas of the world that do not yet have the Gospelavailable.

I had the privilege of pastoring a church that wasa headquarters for world conquest for over 35 years.We cannot rest until the world is rid of unreached peo-ples. I can be blessed but not satisfied with my home-town victories. I need to see my local blessings fromGod as His way of equipping me to fulfill a worldview.My personal gifts and talents enable me to become abetter member, and in doing so, I help my church bet-ter fulfill its world responsibility.

Everything is a means to an end: world evangel-ism. Where we fail is letting a means to an endbecome the ultimate end. Budgets, ministries, growth,and revivals are great endeavors that make the churchmore damaging to the kingdom of darkness, world-wide as well as locally. However, if we are not careful,we overlook the fact that it is the proper worldview of

the church that allows the missionary to fulfill his call togo into all the world and preach the Gospel.

Probably the greatest single need in fundamental-ism is to inject the individual with a worldview andmake that the motive for all local ministry. We shouldnot discount our special God-given gift, but neithershould we disconnect it from the whole. We were notcommissioned to preach, sing, or teach, but to evan-gelize the world. Though my particular gift may be insome ways my largest area of contribution, it is not myonly area nor is it profitable if it is the goal of my min-istry. I am to join my gift to yours and together with oth-ers keep our eye on the goal given to us by Jesus to gointo all the world and preach the Gospel.

Maybe the question that needs to be addressed iswhy do we do what we do? If what we do does not insome way better equip us to the fulfillment of Jesus’worldview for the church, is it of any value? On theother hand, a thing is only of value to God in propor-tion to how it contributes to His goal of world evangel-ism, which is the building of a multi-ethnic global groupthat will worship Him forever.

My friend, Gerry Baughman, has said, “I do notfear failure, but I fear that I will learn to succeed inareas that matter not to God.” If what you do does nothelp the church toward its goal of global significance,it matters little to God regardless of how good you maybe at it or how much people enjoy it.

What would give real purpose to our lives wouldbe to do what we do for God’s glory and to the fulfill-ment of His stated purpose for His church. Let us askourselves, “Why?” Why do I want a saved husband orseparated kids? Is it for God’s glory and the strength-ening of my church? Do I want to contribute saints forthe battle, or do I want them to be moral for lesser rea-sons? The same question could be asked of revival,church growth, increased budgets, and ministryamong the membership. These are good but lesser rea-sons. They are neither the wrong nor the best reasonsto want God to visit us. The highest reason is His glory.

The issues of the day become idols when theybecome ends within themselves. Why do we preachseparation, have music standards, defend the KingJames Bible, and go soul winning? If they are endswithin themselves, they soon make us Pharisees andidol worshippers. Those things only stay in right pro-portions in our lives as they stay attached to our world-view. Our major agenda as set for us by the divine

over the ages our thinking has been thatthe missionary is that

part of the body ofchrist with a worldview

or global call.

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Head of our church, the Lord Jesus, is to be that ofexporting the gospel. All other church ministries areonly designed to strengthen us for the task.

We all have known good men who have gone toseed in some areas, become unbalanced, developedpersonal agendas, and lost their perspectives of min-istry not because they fell into sin but because theyoveremphasized a good thing until it became the focusof their ministry and an end within itself. A. W. Tozer

was right: “Our differences lie within the degree wepursue the disciplines and doctrines of the Christianlife.” Many of us do not believe wrong things, butmaybe we believe some good things too much or someright things too little.

A worldview is the only thing that will keep allother beliefs in their proper relationships to each other.It alone gives balance and sanity to our ministryapproach and creates kindness toward each otheramong our ranks.

Before you write me off as a shallow thinker with-out Bible basis for such an assumption, consider thefact that every major initiative in the Scriptures thatGod launched had a worldview as part of its foundingpurpose and platform.

Consider the following examples:

• Creation – After placing Adam in the garden of Eden, God told him to “...Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Gen. 1: 28).

• The Flood – In the restoration immediately following the flood, God told Noah to “...Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth”(Gen. 9: 1).

• Israel – God told Abraham, “...in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Gen. 12: 3).

• The Church – Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15 and four other times after his resurrection).

I also think it is important to note that each personin the Godhead is clearly represented:

• God the Father developed a worldview in Adam (Gen. 1:26), Noah (Gen. 9:1), and Abraham (Gen. 12:3).

• God the Son gave the church body a worldview in Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:15, Luke 24:49, John 20:21, and Acts 1:8. Look at the report of some of the New Testament churches (Rom. 1:8 and 16:19, 26 and Col. 1:6). Reread Paul’s worldview in Rom. 15:21.

• God the Holy Spirit came to gift, energize and administrate the church so she can fulfill her founding purpose (Acts 1: 8).

I do not think you can have a proper worldviewuntil you have settled in your heart God’s goal forHimself. Contrary to the thinking of many, God’s goalis based, not only on multitudes worshipping, but alsoin the diversity of the worshippers (Rev. 5:9 and 7:9).

Of course He wants as many in heaven as willcome. And for the longest time we have overlooked theunreached tribal areas of our world and focused on thelarger population centers with a mentality of getting asmany saved as possible. That is admirable, but that isnot the basic passion of God. His goal is to be wor-shipped by a diverse representation from every tribe,nation, tongue, and family (Gen. 12: 3), which is whyour worldview must be global and all-inclusive.

After we understand the goal of God for Himself,we must then back up and discover what part we havein the process of Him achieving that goal. That part isour worldview. It is developed after we properly assessour gifts, talents, passions, opportunities, responsibili-ties, and call. Our worldview may change as some ofthose things change.

I am not suggesting that God needs help becauseHe has weaknesses that our service will cover. That isjust the way He has chosen to do His works. He allowsus to help as a way of getting in on the blessing. Mostof the biblical miracles were done with human assis-tance (water to wine, rolling away the stone, and feed-ing the 5,000) not because He could not do the partbut so His “helpers” could be both blessed and a bless-ing. Therefore, in His goal for Himself of worldwideworship He has assigned to you a critical role that,when fulfilled, will enrich your life beyond measure. ❖

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probably the greatest single need in

fundamentalism is toinject the individual

with a worldview andmake that the motive for all local ministry.

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Missionary describes an action.

Missionary describes a calling.

Missionary describes going.

Missionary involves a few in the church.

Missionary invokes thoughts of receiving.

Missionary suggests clergy.

A Missionary gives the Worldview Christian what they do not have (time and call).

A Worldview Christian describes an attitude.

A Worldview Christian describes a command.

A Worldview Christian stays.

A Worldview Christian involves everybody in the church.

A Worldview Christian invokes thoughts ofgiving.

A Worldview Christian suggests laity.

A Worldview Christian gives the Missionary what they do not have (resources and prayersupport).

What is the difference?

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FirstBible International / FloridaPastor Shane Skelton, Director“The LORD hath done great things for us;whereof we are glad” (Psalm 126:3). Ourhearts echo the overwhelming gratitudethat David felt when he first penned thesewords because the Lord has done some

truly great things for us here in Florida over the past sev-eral months. In December of 2007, the Lord moved mefrom the panhandle to central Florida to pastor CalvaryBaptist Church in Lakeland. With this move to centralFlorida we will be located more efficiently to reach ourstate. The Lord has given us a great church in which tominister that has an enormous burden to reach the worldfor Christ. The Lord has not only added to us a new min-istry, but also new personnel as well. Rev. GaryWimberly has been a fulltime representative with FBI forfive years and we are happy to have him serve with usnow in Florida. Please pray as this transition continues;we are trusting God for great things.

FirstBible International / TennesseeDr. Mike Norris, DirectorWhat a blessing it is to be a part of theministry of FirstBible International. Ourchurch has had the privilege of beingthe representative for the state ofTennessee. Locally, our church made an

official motion to take on the nation of Mongolia in aneffort to give them their first Bible. This year FranklinRoad Baptist Church has committed to send $3,000each month to aide in the translation and printing of theBook of John for this nation. We also financially sup-port many of the missionaries on the FirstBibleInternational / Mongolia translation team. Our churchhas targeted unreached people groups and shiftedmuch more of our mission dollar to these areas.

Throughout the state of Tennessee, we are encour-aging other churches to adopt a nation and work at get-ting them their first Bible. We are encouraging them toconsider the unreached people groups of the world asthey make out their mission budgets for the year. Therehas been a tremendous response from the pastors in ourstate to take a fresh look at their missions programs.

FirstBible International / MexicoRev. Mark Brown, DirectorAs director of FirstBible International /Mexico, I believe there is power in work-ing together. The Bible says, “Two arebetter than one”(Ecc. 4:9). It is becauseof this that we have established a part-

nership with Dr. Luis Ramos and the Bible BaptistChurch of San Luis Potosi, SLP, Mexico. We have thefollowing goals. First, to see the Mexican nationalchurches become true missionary sending churcheswith a world vision. Second, we want to present theneeds of the unreached peoples of the world to the rap-idly expanding and untouched work force in Mexico,trusting God to thrust forth laborers into His harvestfield. It is especially exciting to think of Mexico as aplatform for the launching of missionaries directed tothose people groups which are yet unreached. Pleasestand with us in your prayers and support in this excit-ing endeavor.

FirstBible International / MongoliaRev. Mickey Cofer, DirectorFirstBible International / Mongolia existsbecause of the providence of God.While serving as a missionary in theKhatgal Province of northern Mongolia,God brought us into contact with Dr.

Keen and people of FirstBible International. We havebeen blessed to see great progress toward reaching theunreached through three different ministries whichreflect the three-fold goal of FirstBible.

First is the establishing of local churches both inKhatgal and in the capitol city of UlaanBaatar. Secondis the Bible Institute led by Martin White which is train-ing men for ministry to the neighboring countries ofChina, Russia and the five “Stan” countries. Third is thefully operational printing ministry where Scriptures andother good literature are already being printed, and welook forward to printing the new translation recentlyundertaken by FirstBible International / Mongolia.

1. ANY SIZE CHURCH CAN DO IT.

There is a quote credited to Dwight D. Eisenhowerconcerning the fighter planes of World War II whichwere often smaller than the enemy planes with whichthey had to do battle. He said, “What counts is notnecessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the sizeof the fight in the dog.”

In reaching the uttermost, please let this be anencouragement to you: “It is not the size of the churchthat matters, but the size in the church’s heart and pas-sion for God.” Any size church has the potential to reachinto the uttermost with great impact if we do not overlookthe God who wants to work through the church.

Although there are many churches in the UnitedStates, there are few churches that really have a heartto reach the uttermost. God wants to reach them andwhen He finds a group of people in whom He canplace His burden to reach them, He will work in amaz-ing ways. His work will cause all of us to concludewithout any question that He did it.

No church that is preaching the gospel at homeand desires to preach it abroad is a small church to

God. There are so few churches who take the GreatCommission seriously that God will work through thosewho do in mighty ways.

2. IT’S A LONG-TERM COMMITMENT BUT IT’S WORTH IT

This is not something that will see instant results. Itmay take some time to get a missionary on the fieldand preaching the gospel. We might not hear glow-ing reports of huge numbers of souls saved. It could beseveral years before measurable results are seen. Itcould be even longer before men are trained to carryon the work and even longer before Scripture can betranslated into their language. But is it worth it?

Ask Lewis Young who has already given twenty-fiveyears of his life to reach a tribe of less than 500 peo-ple in Papua New Guinea. He developed a written lan-guage, wrote a language primer, taught the people toread their own language and then began the tediouswork of translating Scripture.

Ask Gene Scott who recently returned home toAmerica after laboring just sixteen days short of fiftyyears among the approximately 1200 people of the

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The tide is turning in missions. Churches are becoming increasingly aware of the need to specif-ically target the unreached people groups of the world, taking responsibility to get the gospel tothem. Yet there are still many of these groups that are unreached and unengaged. More church-es are needed that will adopt one of these groups and begin the prayer effort through whichGod will call a missionary to go there for the purpose of church planting, national training andas God allows, help get a Bible translation project started. For pastors and churches that areinterested, the following thoughts are offered.

Sharanahua tribe of Peru. He gave them the NewTestament, Genesis, portions of the Psalms and select-ed Old Testament passages dealing with Bible charac-ters.

Turning the tide of 2000 years of missionary effortwhich has left one-half of the world still ignorant of thegospel will require long term dedication and the diligenceto see the project through to the end.

3. DON’T BE MISSIONS-MINDED; BE MISSIONS-HEARTED.

The church must begin to take a more active role inmissions. The burden must come from our church andour people. It must become personal. Every membermust be involved in the praying and giving and someof our members must be involved in the going. Wemust initiate the process of targeting some unreachedpeople group and take personal responsibility for get-ting them the gospel. We must pray God will allow usto send some of our own.

4. WRESTLE WITH WHAT MISSIONS REALLY IS.

Moving beyond the role of passive involvement toactive involvement will require us to become moredeliberate in our methodology. If we are going toinvest personally in getting the gospel to the uttermost,we will want to be sure we are doing it the way Godwould have it done. What is the purpose of missions?What is the biblical methodology of missions?

The missions program of many churches could usea good house-cleaning. Many churches take pride inhow many missionaries they support, yet are oftenunaware of whether those missionaries are reallydoing the real work of missions. The real work of mis-sions is the planting of local New Testament churches.These churches must preach the gospel, disciple theconverts and train them to reach their own people. Thischurch must seek to reproduce itself. This process donebiblically and repeated even a few times will result inthe multiplying effect seen in the book of Acts.

These churches are to be like the church youattend: indigenous (native, birthed in a country),autonomous (self-governing), self-supporting, and self-propagating. They should not be perpetually depend-ent on American leadership or finances to operate.Their leadership must come from among their own.They must learn that “the things which thou hast heardof me among many witnesses,” are to be committed to“faithful men who shall be able to teach others also.”

Mission hearted churches must not reside onlyamong us. Any church started on any mission fieldshould develop a missions heart. Teaching thesechurches to become sending churches is part of theprocess. They must carry on the work of bringing peo-ple to Christ and teach them to reach others. No mat-ter their size, location or economic status, they mustalso develop a worldview, taking responsibility toreach the world beyond their world.

Mission efforts may include social work, children’shomes, medical assistance and other noble endeavors.Those who have the burdens, gifts and skills to carryout this kind of work must be applauded and appreci-ated. But the over-arching mission must always be tospread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a church-planting movement.

Conclusion

Would you be willing to step outside the comfortzone of the usual business of missions? More of thesame will continue to produce the same result of one-half of the world still in total darkness. Would you bewilling to re-examine what you are doing, why you aredoing it and how you can improve it in order to reachthose in the uttermost? ❖

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WHO ARE THE OWENA?by Lewis Young, Missionary/Bible translator

WHO WE ARE: My wife and I are back in PNGfrom furlough and it is our desire to complete thetranslation of at least the New Testament into theOwena language.

WHO THEY ARE: They are a people group locatedin an isolated area of the Eastern Highlands Provinceof Papua New Guinea and composed of four villageswith a total population of approximately 600 people.Access into the village is by foot, small plane, or heli-copter. They have no electricity, no telephone service,no road, no school, no Bible, and no place to shop.

With the Lord’s help, during our previous servicein that area, we were able to establish an alphabetand grammar for the language, make primers andbegin teaching literacy, and translate four books ofthe New Testament into the Owena language. Threechurches have been established in three of thevillages, and national pastors are overseeing thosechurches.

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There is a simple five-tier level of activity leading toaccomplishment that I wish to review with you. We atFirstBible International believe it would be helpful inorganizing our thinking as we seriously consideraccomplishing the Great Commission as given to thechurch by our Lord.

Level #1 - VISIONThis is basic to any goal. “Where there is no

vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law,happy is he” Proverbs 29:18 (Hab. 2:1-4, Acts 2:16-18).

A simple but clarifying definition for vision is: some-thing God has given you to do from His Word. Weknow our Lord Jesus Christ gave us the visionfor the Great Commission in some formu-la of words five different timesbetween His resurrection and ascen-sion (Matthew 28:18-20, Mark16:15, Luke 24:47, John 20:21,Acts 1:8). We may differ onmany things, but most all agreethat the local church has beengiven human-wide responsibili-ties with the gospel. The GreatCommission is not a call but acommand. The command settlesthe fact I am to do it; the call dealswith the position I occupy while I do it.Let us settle the fact we are to have anactive part in world evangelism. That is our God-given vision delivered to us from His Son through HisWord.

Level #2 - BURDENThe burden comes out of a vision. A vision lets me

see what I am to be doing. The burden comes becauseI am not doing it. I am not referring here to “a burdenfor souls” as much as one caused by knowing we aredispleasing the dear Lord Jesus in His vision for thechurch and its members. Simply put, I now see what Ishould have been doing but was not, and I feel a bur-den because it grieves Him.

Level #3 - COMMITMENT Once I see the vision of what I am to be doing and

get a burden because I am not doing it. I make a com-mitment to Him to get involved at whatever level Heassigns for me. Once again, do not confuse this com-mitment as being to a place. That will come later. It isa surrender/commitment to the command of our Lord.Paul verbalizes it in chapters 9, 22 and 24 of Acts:“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” Isaiah respondsto the Lord in chapter 6, “Here am I; send me,” andSamuel in I Samuel 3 replies, “Speak, LORD; for thyservant heareth.” Please note these commitments are toa person, not a place. In fact, Jesus never called a per-son to a place until He first called them to Himself - a

good policy for us to follow.

Level #4 - STRATEGY Strategy is the point where I

start to look for ways to getinvolved. It begins with assessingmy gifts, talents, gender, age,opportunities, existing responsi-bilities, etc. This inventory is notto determine if I will get involvedbut at what level does He wants

me to plug in for service. Moses, in Numbers 34, gives

us what is called the directions forthe conquest which we call the

Principle of Reduction. He taught the peo-ple to individualize their assignment within the

cooperative effort and reduce Canaan down into man-ageable segments without reducing the whole. It wasreduced from the national assignment of a nation, to asection for each tribe, to a family assignment. Wheneach has done their part, the whole is accomplished.This can also be seen in the Great Commission. A sys-tematic approach to people groups (nations), is seen inthe ministry strategy of Paul (Romans 15:20-21, IICorinthians 10:13). A body principle is seen in IICorinthians 12. In industry this is called “division oflabor.”

STRATEGY

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by Dr. Charles Keen

On February 12, 2008, the FirstBible team of Dr.Charles Keen, Ken Fielder, Mark Brown and Eric Leealong with eleven other travelers returned from aneight day trip to Mongolia. Our trip to this ruggedcountry coincided with Tsagan Tsar, a three-day NewYear’s holiday. Several team members had the oppor-tunity to visit Mongolian homes and participate in thetraditional celebration which included fermented horsemilk, roasted lamb, dried yogurt, small dumpling-liketreats filled with unidentified meats and other tastyitems.

Emerging from a communist dictatorship in 1990,there were less than a dozen known believers in theentire country of Mongolia. The Christian populationhas grown to the tens of thousands.

There is a great need for more missionaries andmore churches to be planted. The presence of severalindependent Baptist missionaries who are passionateabout reaching the people of Mongolia was encour-aging to us. On the Sunday we were there, our teamhad the privilege of preaching in four different church-es, three of which are now being led by Mongoliannationals.

There is an even greater need for the pure Word ofGod. Two translations have been done in recent years,but because they came from the wrong source text andfollowed the wrong translation philosophy, they are nottrustworthy. A Mongolian pastor testified of the chal-lenge and difficulty of teaching his people to trustGod’s Word while he constantly has to correct it andapologize for its poor translation.

Several meetings were held to discuss theMongolian translation project. The American mission-aries, the Mongolian pastors and the FBI team were allunited in the vision and desire to further this project.We were also privileged to have two other men whoare going to play vital roles in this project. Dr. PaulRowland will lend the involvement of the TrinitarianBible Society of London, England. Brother Bill

Patterson brings to the table a great giftedness in lin-guistics, a thorough knowledge of translation philoso-phy as well as several years of experience teachingGreek and a thirteen month tenure in Israel duringwhich he studied Hebrew. The coordination of sched-ules required to have these men present was no smallmiracle. It was obvious God had brought us together“for such a time as this.”

During these meetings it was decided that FBIwould make full commitment to providing Mongolia theScriptures. It will be our goal to translate the Scripturesaccurately, realizing that with the passing of time andgrowth of knowledge of the language, some revisionsmay be necessary.

After several years of participation in Bible transla-tion effort by partnering with others, this will be the firstproject directly coordinated and produced solely byFirstBible International. The organizational structureand budgeting for this project have been determined.The help of Roland Gay, an American missionary toMongolia and a Bible translator, has already beenenlisted. The project will be led by Bill Patterson whowill be moving there with his family in May 2008.

Early during this trip, we once again asked our-selves, “Why Mongolia?” Here are four reasons:

1. Divine ProvidenceIt was the providence of God that brought us to

Mongolia. We became interested through the personalacquaintance of some American missionaries whoserve there. We were also invited by Robert Painter, aTexas attorney who serves on theMongolian/American Business Council. AttorneyPainter introduced us to the now former prime ministerof Mongolia who invited FBI into his country. That factalone is humanly responsible for the printing ministrynow fully operational in the capitol city ofUlaanBaatar.

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Mongolia Report on February 2008 Tripby Ken Fielder

People group thinking has both Scriptural and historical support. A. Old Testament Support: In Genesis 12:1-3, we see a people

group mentality given to Abraham: “...in thee shall all families ofthe earth be blessed.” Here we see Abraham is given a world viewassignment accomplished through an incremental retirement,“…through thee all the families of the earth will be blessed.” He istold to reach every small people group (families), not every indi-vidual. Which will result in the whole earth being blessed?

B. Gospels Support: We see Jesus giving command to theChurch in Matthew 28:18-20, “Go ye therefore, and teach allnations…” This is the same thought, a world view assignment (all)with incremental retirement (nations) (Luke 24:27-28). A biblicalnation is different than a political country. Our world has approxi-mately 225 countries that are made up of 24,000 people groupsor nations. All but 6,000 of them have been reached and of thosethere are 639 that are unengaged or get no attention at present inany way from anyone.

C. Pauline Epistles Support: In Romans 15:19-28, see how theApostle Paul included the unreached in his ministry portfolio –Spain. Spain is described in verses 20-21 as an unreached peo-ple. Paul describes his ministry success in: “…fully preached thegospel of Christ.” vs. 23 “…now having no more place in theseparts…” vs. 19, “…from Jerusalem, and round about untoIllyricum…” These are within reach of the gospel so it is time to goto “the regions beyond” - Spain. In II Cor. 10:16, it is evident thathis desire to go to the unreached was rooted in the Church’s will-ingness for growth in faith and vision for them.

D. Biblical Church Examples: I wonder if the world impactingefforts of the New Testament as described in Romans 1:8, 15:9-28,16:15, 16:26, I Thess. 1:5, Colossians 1:6, 23, etc. can be attrib-uted to unreached people group thinking.

If we implement unreached people group thinking, we need tohave an adjusted four-fold emphasis. (1) Bible translation must beintegral because we cannot take it with us nor can we purchase itwhen we get there. (2) We must see the national as the key andtrain him to take the Bible in his mother tongue (3) and plant church-es for (4) the Glory of God as the basis of our obedience andappeal to the sending churches, the missionary and the national.iPeople group formal definition: this refers to a sociological grouping of individuals who percieve themselves tohave an affinity for each other due to language, ethnicity, location, occupation, and/or geographical location.Usually there is a common self-name and a sense of common identity of individuals identified with the group. Acommon history, customs, family and clan identities, as well as marriage rules and practices, age-grades andother obligation covenants and inheritance patterns and rules are some of the common ethnic factors defining ordistinguishing a people. What they call themselves may vary at different levels of identity, or among various sub-groups.People group working definition: A group of people through whom information can travel unhindered.

Changes in the World’sMajor Religions

In the last half century...

Christianity increased 47%from 682,400,000 to1,000,000,000

Confucianism & Taoismdecreased 13% from350,600,000 to 305,000,000

Judaism decreased 4% from15,630,000 to 15,000,000

Eastern Orthodox decreased36% from 144,000,000 to92,000,000

Protestant increased 57% from206,900,000 to 324,000,000

Catholic increased 70% from331,500,000 to 565,000,000

Buddhism increased 63% from150,180,000 to 245,000,000

Hinduism increased 117% from230,150,000 to 500,000,000

Shintoism increased 152% from25,000,000 to 63,000,000

Islam increased 235% from209,020,000 to 700,000,000Growth rates taken from:(World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1935)(Reader’s Digest Almanac and Yearbook, 1983)

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AN ENQUIRYINTO THE OBLIGATIONS OF CHRISTIANS TO USE MEANSFOR THE CONVERSION OF THE HEATHENSin which the Religious State of the DifferentNations of the World, the Success of FormerUndertakings, and the Practicability ofFurther Undertakings are Considered.by William Carey and edited by Charles Keen(This is the second in the series featuring four sections ofCarey’s Enquiry.)

Section Two: CONTAINING A CONDENSED REVIEW OFFORMER UNDERTAKINGS FOR THE CONVERSION OFTHE HEATHEN.

BEFORE the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ thewhole world were either heathens, or Jews. After theresurrection the disciples continued in Jerusalem tillPentecost. Being daily engaged in prayer and suppli-cation, on that solemn day, when they were all assem-bled together, a most remarkable effusion of the HolySpirit took place, and a capacity of speaking in all for-eign languages was bestowed upon them. This oppor-tunity was embraced by Peter for preaching the gospelto a great congregation of seventeen nations and threethousand were converted, who immediately after werebaptized, and added to the church.

It was but a little after this that Peter and John,going up to the temple, healed the lame man; this mir-acle drew a great multitude together. The consequencewas that five thousand more believed. About this timea man and his wife, sold an estate, and brought partof the money to the apostles, pretending it to be thewhole; for which dissimulation both he and his wife,were struck dead by the hand of God. This awful catas-trophe however was the occasion of many more menand women being added to the church.

Seven were accordingly chosen, over whom theapostles prayed, and ordained them to the office ofDeacons by imposition of hands: and these thingsbeing settled the church increased more and more.One of these Deacons, whose name was Stephen,being a person of eminent knowledge and holiness,wrought many miracles, and disputed with great evi-

dence and energy for the truth of Christianity. Thesesoon procured his death, and carried their resentmentso far as to stir up such a persecution that the church,which till now had been confined to Jerusalem, wasdispersed, and all the preachers except the apostleswere driven thence, and went everywhere preachingthe word.

A young man whose name was Saul, was veryactive in this persecution; he had been educated underGamaliel, a member of the Sanhedrin. But on his way,as he was almost ready to enter into the city, the Lordchanged his heart in a very wonderful manner; so thatinstead of entering the town to persecute, he began topreach the gospel as soon as he was able. In the timeof this trouble in the church, Philip went and preachedat Samaria with great success. A great numberbelieved in reality, and being baptized a church wasformed there.

Soon after this the Lord commanded Philip to gothe way which led from Jerusalem to Gaza, which hedid, and there found an eunuch of great authority inthe court of Ethiopia, to whom he preached Christ,who believed, and was baptized; after which Philippreached at Ashdod, or Azotus. About the same timePeter went to Lydda, or Diospolis, and cured Eneas ofa palsy, which was a mean of the conversion not onlyof the inhabitants of that town, but also of the neigh-bouring country, called Saron. A woman of Joppa, asea-port town in the neighborhood, dying, they sent toLydda for Peter, who went over, and when he hadprayed she was raised to life again; which was anoccasion of the conversion of many in that town.

Now another circumstance also tended to the fur-ther propagation of Christianity, for a Roman militaryofficer who had some acquaintance with the OldTestament Scriptures, but was not circumcised, was oneday engaged in prayer in his house at Cesarea, whenan angel appeared to him, and bid him send for Peterfrom Joppa to preach in his house. Before this the workof God had been wholly confined to the Jews, andJewish proselytes, and even the apostles appeared tohave had very contracted ideas of the Christian dis-pensation; but now God by a vision discovered toPeter that Christianity was to be spread into all nations.He accordingly went and preached at the house ofCornelius, at Cesarea, when several were converted,and baptized, and the foundation of a church laid inthat city. Some of the dispersed ministers having fled toAntioch in Syria, began to preach to the Greeks in that

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city about the same time, and had good success; uponwhich the apostles sent Paul and Barnabas, whoinstructed and strengthened them, and a church wasformed in that city also, which in a little time sent outseveral eminent preachers.

In the Acts of the apostles we have an account offour of the principal journeys which Paul, and his com-panions undertook. The first, in which he was accom-panied by Barnabas, is recorded in the 13th and 14thchapters, and was the first attack on the heathenworld.

The account of the second journey into the heathenworld begins at Acts 15:40 and ends chapter 18:22.He took a western direction, passing through Phrygia,and the region of Galatia.

When Paul had visited Antioch, and spent sometime there, he prepared for a third journey into heathencountries, the account of which begins Acts 18:23,and ends chapter 21:17. At his first setting out he wentover the whole country of Galatia and Phrygian order,strengthening all the disciples; and passing through theupper coasts came to Ephesus. There for the space ofthree months, he boldly preached in the Jewish syna-gogue, disputing, and persuading the things concern-ing the kingdom of God.

Paul’s fourth and last journey (or rather voyage)was to Rome, where he went in the character of a pris-oner. Here he made his defence before Felix andDrusilla. Here also he made his defence before Festus,Agrippa, and Bernice, with such force of evidence thatAgrippa was almost persuaded to be a Christian. Paulwas constrained to appeal unto Caesar. This was theoccasion of his being sent to Rome, preaching the king-dom of God, and teaching those things which concernthe Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man for-bidding him.

Thus far the history of the Acts of the Apostlesinforms us of the success of the word in the primitivetimes; and history informs us of its being preachedabout this time, in many other places. Peter speaks ofa church at Babylon; Paul proposed a journey toSpain, and it is generally believed he went there, andlikewise came to France and Britain. Andrew preachedto the Scythians, north of the Black Sea. John is said tohave preached in India, and we know that he was atthe Isle of Patmos, in the Archipelago. Philip is report-ed to have preached in upper Asia, Scythia, andPhrygia; Bartholomew in India, on this side theGanges, Phrygia, and Armenia; Matthew in Arabia,

or Asiatic Ethiopia, and Parthia; Thomas in India, asfar the coast of Coromandel, and some say in theisland of Ceylon; Simon, the Canaanite, in Egypt,Cyrene, Mauritania, Lybia, and other parts of Africa,and from thence to have come to Britain; and Jude issaid to have been principally engaged in the lesserAsia, and Greece. Their labours were evidently veryextensive, and very successful; so that Pliny, theyounger, who lived soon after the death of the apos-tles, in a letter to the emperor, Trajan, observed thatChristianity had spread, not only through towns andcities, but also through whole countries.

Justin Martyr, who lived about the middle of thesecond century, observed that there was no part ofmankind, who lived in tents among their cattle, wheresupplications and thanksgivings are not offered up tothe Father, and maker of all things, through the nameof Jesus Christ. Irenaeus, who lived about the year170, speaks of churches that were founded inGermany, Spain, France, the eastern countries, Egypt,Lybia, and the middle of the world. Tertullian, wholived and wrote at Carthage in Africa, about twentyyears afterwards, enumerated the countries whereChristianity had penetrated.

Presently after this, truth spread further among theSaracens, and in 522, Zathus, king of the Colchiansencouraged it, and many of that nation were convert-ed to Christianity.

In 596, Melitus, Justus, Paulinus, and Ruffinian,laboured in England. In 589, Amandus Galluslaboured in Ghent, Chelenus in Artois, and Gallus andColumbanus in Suabia. In 648, Egidius Gallus inFlanders, and the two Evaldi in Westphalia. In 684,Willifred, in the Isle of Wight. In 688, Chilianus, inupper Franconia. In 698, Boniface, or Winifred,among the Thuringians, near Erford, in Saxony, andWillibroad in West-Friesland. Charlemagne conqueredHungary in the year 800, and obliged the inhabitantsto profess Christianity. In 833, Ansgarius preached inDenmark, Gaudibert in Sweden, and about 861,Methodius and Cyril in Bohemia.

About 960 or 990, the work was further extendedamongst the Poles and Prussians. The work was begunin Norway in 960, and in Muscovy in 989, theSwedes propagated Christianity in Finland, in 1168,Lithuania became Christian in 1386, and Samogitia in1439.

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2. The Glory of God God is our focus. He deserves a more accurate

representation of Himself than Mongolia presently has.We are doing this for Him more than for them. A weakand inaccurate translation of Scripture hinders theknowledge of God and the glory of God among theMongolian people. We want them to know Him sothey can worship Him in spirit and in truth.

3. A Nation of One LanguageOuter Mongolia has a population of approximate-

ly 3 million. Inner and Outer Mongolia together totalabout 7 million. Although there are a few small peoplegroups that have migrated from other nations, practi-cally all Mongolians speak the same language. This

causes us to believe that with one Bible translation,Mongolia is a nation “conquerable” for Christ.

4. Strategic LocationPositioned just north of China, Mongolia is an

ideal location from which to reach into this country thatis closed to the gospel. Mongolian citizens can travelfreely across the border from the southern Gobi Desertinto China without a visa. Many of them also speakChinese. To the north is Russia. Many Mongolians overthe age of forty also speak Russian. To the west are thefive Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.Most of these are hostile toward the gospel and domi-nated by false religions. It is far more likely thatMongolian Christians will be able to enter thesenations rather than American missionaries. Once we

get past our belief that Americans have to be theones to evangelize the world, we will be moreeffective in training others to help and sendingthem to places where we may not be able to go.

ConclusionBy the Word of God we know that He longs

to be worshipped by the Mongolian people. Bythe clear leadership of God, we know that Hewants FBI to be directly involved in giving themthe Word of God.

Would you please partner with us in prayerfor all who are involved in this project? We musthave the wisdom of God for this awesome task.Would you and your church consider partneringwith us financially through a special offering orthrough monthly support?

We truly desire that God will be knownamong the people of this nation that are hope-lessly lost without the gospel of Jesus Christ. ❖

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FirstBible announces the newly formed partnership of

Trinitarian Bible Society of London,England, Missionary/Translator

Bill Patterson of Mt. Abarim BaptistMission International and

FirstBible International for the purpose of translating

the Word of God for the people of Mongolia.

NAME & FIELD PERSONAL CONTACT INFO SENDING CHURCH INFO

Dennis Blankenship – Sudan denkar82@hotmail.com - 318-470-3440 Shady Grove Baptist Church - 318-746-0256

Justin Brenenstuhl – Russia justinrussia@clevelandbaptist.org - 216.220.0952 Cleveland Baptist Church - 216-671-2822

Bobby Burdett – Madagascar growin_n_grace@yahoo.com - 336-499-752 Northpoint Baptist Church - 336-767-8297

Mickey Cofer – Mongolia vesselsofhonor@hotmail.com - 828-384-1332 Winchester Baptist Church - 937-695-0641

Dave Douglass –Thailand pastor@thepastorspen.com - 904-622-7207 Calvary Baptist Church - 904.282.0407

Tim Faulk – Philippines TimFaulk@AsiaReach.org - 850.308.5069 Midland Baptist Church - 989.631.1384

Gary Greenwood – Venezuela gsgreenwood@juno.com - 330.936.5208 FairHavens Baptist Church - bob.kirkland@sympatico.ca

Bob Hutton – Mongolia bhutton@sentinc.org Canton Baptist Temple - 330.477.6267

Tom Keller – Mongolia iminclass7@yahoo.com - 513.348.7500 First Baptist Church of Glen Este - 513.752.0936pastorsnook@fbcge.org

Ken Lalman – China Windsor Hills Baptist Church - 405.943.3326

Chad Mann – India Go2india@gmail.com - 513.226.3109 First Baptist – Milford, OH - 513-575-1705

Joshua Mead - West Africa joshuamead@hotmail.com - 810.688.8508 or Fostoria Baptist Church - 989.795.2185

810.247.2457

Olacheas – Bible Translation olacheadj@yahoo.com - 352.694.2212 Central Baptist Church

Jeff O’Derry – Madagascar jeff@theoderrys.com - 427-545-197 Lighthouse Baptist Church

James Owenby – Mongolia Lighthouse Baptist Church - 619.461.5561 Ext. 125

Bill Patterson – Mongolia bpindia@aol.com Riverview Baptist Church - 509.547.2021

Paul Scott – Vietnam PLScott7@yahoo.com Emmanuel Baptist Bible Church - 315.564.6087

Jerry Sellers – Nepal jwsellers@juno.com - 731.616.7278 or 7277 Bethlehem Baptist Church

Nathan Sloan – Nepal 423.313.8987 Fairview Baptist Church - 423.745.6781

fairview@usit.

Phil Stephens - Zambia, Africa zambiastephens@sbcglobal.net - 512.778.6303 Victory Baptist Church - 512.826.7861

Cherith Stevens – P. New Guinea Cherith@TheRegionsBeyond.com - 267.882.7668 Faith Baptist Church - 215.946.7550

Margaret Stringer – Indonesia mstringer16@aol.com - 864-268-3071

Michael Sullivant, Jr. – Thailand Pembina Valley Baptist Church - 204.325.5670

pvbc@mts.net

Gabriel Swope – Liberia Fairview Baptist Church - 423.745.6781 churchoffice@fairviewathens.org

Martin White – Mongolia bbcmongolia@yahoo.co Lighthouse Bible Baptist Church - 585.288.3243

lbbc1@frontiernet.net

Lewis Young – P. New Guinea lwjlyoung@earthlink.net - 704.472.5986 Emmanuel Baptist Church - 704.739.9339

*Some names have been withheld for their safety.

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MISSIONARIES TO THE UNREACHEDrecommended by FirstBible International. If you know of others, please send us their prayer card.

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Our suggested strategy has three sequential levels:First, establish a prayer ministry for the 6,000unreached people groups. By owning a world respon-sibility and then individualizing the assignment bysome adopting a continent, others adopting a country,and still others adopting a nation (people group), it isconceivable we could have all the unreached groupsbeing prayed for daily (Acts 13:1-3).

Adding to our prayer plan, we ask churches toadopt a language. Keep in mind there are 12,000independent Baptist churches in the USA and only6,000 unreached people groups. It seems our assign-ment is within reach of collective obedience.

Add to the prayer plan and the Scripture effort, thetraining of nationals to plant reproducing churches and

our God given goal becomes an obtainable objectiveawaiting only our obedience. This brings me to thefinal level.

Level #5 - REALIZATION OF VISIONWhen we get a vision, add a burden, add a com-

mitment and develop a strategy, the next and obviousitem is realization of the vision. Does that mean theGreat Commission is do-able? Yes! Is that time setting?No! But it is Scriptural (Rev. 5:9, 7:9, Hebrews 10:16,Matthew 28:19-20). What we should worry about isnot time setting, but our disobedience to the clear com-mand of our Lord Jesus Christ (God’s Son and God inthe flesh), to go into all the world! There will come atime when the world will know the gospel. I do notknow the time, but I do know that during my time hereI want to add my part to the whole. ❖

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FirstBible International Receives a GrantFBI has been given a $500,000.00 grant to fund the development of a language department fora masters program in missions at Crown College in Knoxville, TN, that will include a major inBible translation. Fundamental Baptists need to include translation ministry in their world evan-gelism efforts. This means we must train men and women in translation skills. This is a greatstep in that direction. If you have or know of believers who have leadership in that direction,please contact us for more information.

Latest Research Reveals…

What is the Current Condition of the World?There is a great need to translate the Bible into the mother tongues of unreached and reached peoples. The total number of languagesbelow comes from The Ethnologue which is the most complete listing ofthe world’s languages available.

• Total Number of Living World Languages - 6,912• Languages with the Whole Bible (Approximate) - 422• Languages with only the NT - 1,079• Languages with at Least One book - 876• Languages with active projects - 1,640• Languages with NO Scripture - 2,895

For more information go to www.ethnologue.com.

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The Scripture and world history record both the high and the low points of world evangelization.Here is an example of one of the low moments in missions; one that the church still regrets. Bob Weiner writes...

Recent events in Russia remind me of another historic moment, when the leader of

another super power wrote these words to Christians: "Send me 100 men skilled in your religion...and I

shall be baptized, and then all my barons and great men, and then their subjects. And so there will be

more Christians here than there are in your parts."

Those words were written by Kublai Khan, ruler of China, the largest empire in history, to Marco

Polo in the year 1266. The emperor's heart had been touched by the news of Christ's death for the

world's sins, and he wanted his whole empire to be evangelized!

How did the church respond to this incredible chance? After many years, only two missionaries came

forward who were willing to endure the hardships necessary to bring the good news of Christ to the

Chinese Mongolian Empire. And even then they turned their back halfway into their appointment before

reaching their destination. They left behind the legacy of the greatest missed opportunity in history.

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About 1369 Wickliffe began to preach the faith inEngland, and his preaching and writings were themeans of the conversion of great numbers, many ofwhom became excellent preachers; and a work wasbegun which afterwards spread in England, Hungary,Bohemia, Germany, Switzerland, and many otherplaces. John Huss and Jerom of Prague, preachedboldly and successfully in Bohemia, and the adjacentparts. In the following century Luther, Calvin,Melancton, Bucer, Martyr, and many others, stood upagainst all the rest of the world; they preached, andprayed, and wrote; and nations agreed one afteranother to cast off the yoke of popery, and to embracethe doctrine of the gospel.

In England, episcopal tyranny succeeded to popishcruelty, which, in the year 1620, obliged many piouspeople to leave their native land and settle in America;these were followed by others in 1629, who laid thefoundations of several gospel churches, which haveincreased amazingly since that time, and theRedeemer has fixed his throne in that country. In 1632,

Mr. Elliot, of New-England, a very pious and zealousminister, began to preach to the Indians, among whomhe had great success.

About 1743, Mr. David Brainerd was sent a mis-sionary to some more Indians, where he preached,and prayed, and after some time an extraordinarywork of conversion was wrought, and wonderful suc-cess attended his ministry.

In 1706, the king of Denmark sent a Mr.Ziegenbalg, and some others to Tranquebar, on theCoromandel coast in the East-Indies, who were usefulto the natives, so that many of the heathens wereturned to the Lord.

But none of the moderns have equalled theMoravian Brethren in this good work; they have sentmissions to Greenland, Labrador, and several of theWest-Indian islands, which have been blessed forgood. They have likewise sent to Abyssinia, in Africa.The late Mr. Wesley lately made an effort in the West-Indies, and some of their ministers are now labouringamongst the Caribs and Negroes, and I have seenpleasing accounts of their success. ❖

AN ENQUIRY continued from page 16

The Librarian’s ChoiceHOW CAN GOD ANSWER PRAYER?

by William Edward Beiderwolf

In this issue of the UWJ theLibrarian’s Choice is How CanGod Answer Prayer? by W. E.Biederwolf. Beiderwolf becamea Christian at the age of twenty,studied at Wabash College,Princeton and then went on tostudy at the University of Berlinand Sorbonne. He served as aPresbyterian pastor, Spanish-American War Chaplain,evangelist, Winona College President, director of theWinona Lake Bible School of Theology, and founded

the Family Altar League. Beiderwolf died September3, 1939.

I have found few good books on prayer with thedepth of an E. M. Bounds, R. A. Torrey or John R.Rice, but this is such a volume. Prayer is somethingwe all talk about but do very little of and write on thesubject even less. I do not know of a Bible doctrinethat presents any more challenge to the thinking ofman than prayer. Biederwolf deals not only with thenecessity of prayer and the results of it, but also thereasons for prayer. This book is out of print and thecopyright has expired. FirstBible International is in theprocess of republishing it. Please watch our maga-zine’s resource page for its availability. In the meantime, you can find a few copies on the web.

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