In the parable of the “Pearl of Great Price,” Jesus told of a man who sold everything to purchase something highly valuable. In China, a woman named Yip and her family also found something valuable – God’s Word. To allow Yip to study the Bible and to teach others, her family sold their most valuable […]
ALL GRACE – THE MISSION FOR THE PEOPLE OF SEA & SHORE Seafarers International Ministries Rev. John Van Hemert, Chaplain, 6178 Vermilya, Lantana, Fl., 33462 Mobile: 561-351-1239 Email: johnvanhemert@hotmail.com Dear Friends, Prayer Partners for the Harvest: WHEN OUR LORD OPENS DOORS FOR THE GOSPEL, we truly believed and knew, for He promised He would. He […]
Quoting from the Christian Weekly News and an absolutely astonishing article by Tamara Cohen entitled, “Christian Beliefs DO Lose Out To Gay Rights,” we read, “A Christian couple facing a foster parenting ban because of their view on homosexuality were told by a court yesterday that gay rights ‘should take precedence’ over their religious beliefs.” […]
My name is _____, and if there was one picture that describes my former life, it would be a boat going down a river with a big hole in the bottom of the boat. I was slowly sinking in my sin and my addiction. Someone asked me what was really in the bottle of booze […]
A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending church services regularly, stopped coming to church. After several weeks of this absenteeism, the pastor decided that he would make a visit to the delinquent. When the pastor made the call on him, it was a chilly evening. The preacher found the man at […]
MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL Vasili is a young man from the Ukraine. While home from college, his grandmother brought a Gideon New Testament to the house and left it lying on a table. Vasili picked up the New Testament and started to read it, but the stories made no sense to him.
The American Bible Society tells us that 22% of the world’s population lives in China. And 1/3 of the world’s non-Christians also live in China. The actual number of Christians in China is difficult to be precise about. We are told from unofficial sources that the number can range from 20 million Protestants and 6 […]
Pastor George writes to me from India that on Palm Sunday 2009, he traveled almost six hours from his own city in India, and reached a small village in a far away district. Most of the people there are illiterates, teenagers and kids studying how to read. A small group of believers and seekers gathered […]
In 1971, the Islamic Shi-ite Republic of Iran was formed with a Muslim Theocratic form of government. In the Iranian theocracy, the assembly of Shi-ite Muslim experts selects an ultimate supreme leader. All are Shi-ite Muslim clerics. Under the supreme leader, a lay president is elected by the people for a maximum length of two […]
We received the following report from a Christian missionary in a sensitive country, as well as being given the permission to bring it to you. A young Shi-ite Muslim man recently accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. God powerfully called him to be a missionary to Shi-ite Muslims.The new young Christian first of […]
It was the fall of 1975 when I began visiting the Du-Page County Jail in Illinois. I am Gideon Ray, and we Gideons had free access to walk from cell block to cell block bringing Scriptures and talking to men about the Lord. Most cell blocks had 20 beds except those confined to maximum security. […]
Our missionary friends share this story with us from the mission fields of India. The missionary/pastor led a would-be magician to Jesus Christ. This ex-would-be magician now a Christian witnessed to the Master Magician (MM) about Jesus Christ. The MM is now a seeker after God and reader of the Bible. The MM sends all […]