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Greetings in the njiino of our Ijord ;i,nd Savior J<>siis Clirlst. Wo are liappy
to report that everyone is doing well, at least we are feeling well. My
white blood cell count is down to ahoiit hall' of the mininuiin that it
should he. The doctoi's are adjusting the medications and we hope and
pray that it will take ca re of the problem. Crystal is getting over an ear
infection hut seems to be doing OK. Otluu- than your normal winter colds,
flu's etc. we have been doing good. We praise God for the health that we
have .and for the oppoitunity we h.ave to go through h.ard days and easy
days. We can also thaidc the Lord for having more easy days than tough
ones.
We had a good time at (diristmas and New Ye:u-s with dad, mom, Sonja,,
Karen, Toai, jnid Jonny. A fun tiiru; was h.ad by all. Slieila. had not seen
her family in Casp(>r Wyoming for (piite some time, so in J.anuary, her
and Ciystal went up to spend <i week with lavi* himily. They both enjoyed
that too. I did not go with them since I was still getting over getting sick
in Novenih<>r. Sonja caiiK^ and stayed with me dining that week in case 1
decided to catch something and neiHled to he taken to the liospital. Sonja
and I were able to get a, lot of work done. Bveryom^ in Bethel is fine.
Outrejich International and Youth Educational services are looldng for
six tecachcj-s of English to go and join the teaiu in Bankok Thailand and
te<a,ch at the school there. We are praying that the Lord will raise some
Tooplc up to do the job. PLEASE LET US KNOW IP YOU WOULD
LIKE TO GO i\ND BE ONE OF TIIE TEACHERS FOR A YEAR We
need you by the summer or therafter. There is of couise a need for you in
jWNISTRY projects
OF
1. Some of the areas cannot be listed in this article, since they are classified as
highly resistant to the Gospel of Christ. We cannot therefore, put the work or the
local people in jeopardy. These areas can be provided to those who wish to write to
us personally to find out how to serve on a team for one year (or more), or how to be
a supporting helper to the work. All staff and workers raise their own support.
family are the full time workers. Our mission provides the non-profit status needed
for their ministry. Mawai is Bangladeshi and his wife, Young Soon, is Korean. He
came to our mission through Floyd E. Clark, one of our senior consultants. Floyd
Clark went to Bangladesh in January 1989 to assist in the beginning of the Church
in a village where Mawai was called to start the church. The church in Singapore
also took part in the early work in the same village, where Floyd Clark baptized four
men, and the work began. Mawai had been in Bangladesh much earlier and
established a beginning place there in Dhaka, the capital city, as well as the
3. Teams now work in Asia, Jamaica, South Africa, and Thailand and we expect,
Lord willing, to have more countries for TESL teams.
Blackwells have been associated with Outreach International since 1981. Jacques,
along with Timothy Thomas, first went to Uganda as a summer intern to check out
further potential for further work there.
Jonathan Hamilton and his wife, Sheila are Directors of Recruitment for
Outreach International. Jonathan has serwed 5 years in mission work in Africa, and
1 year in Hungary. They now live in Bedford, Texas directing inteniews and
orientations for new mission workers. In April of 1997 Jonathan received a double
lung transplant by the grace of God he will be available for camps and speaking
engaaements in the summer of 1998.
Sonja Hamilton has worked in Uganda (East Africa), China, Hungary and
Vietnam, She is a TESL teacher and has been the team leader for new student
Karen Hamilton Sguyen worked in Uganda, East Africa and received her
mission training there. She then was a pioneer worker for China as a student
worker. Karen has helped start new work as a team member and has finished
courses in linguistics at SIL in Dallas, Texas. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and
Vietnamese fluentlv. In 1995 while serving as a teacher of English in Vietnam, she
helped lead Toai Sguyen to the Lord and married him. Toai & Karen Sguyen are
currently in the USA recruiting and raising support to return Co Vietnam as
Teachers of English.
George & Connie Keralis are currently involved in Preacher &. Teacher
traininc^ for the new church leaders in Russia. They are training the local
church
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leaders in Bible and helping them in evangelism as well. They have been working in
Russia since 1994.
Glenn & Sherri Capps are teaching English as a Second Language in Asia.
They have begun their third year of work in Asia. They continue to need fellow
workers to be in their university as student workers and teachers of English.
Institute so that the students would be able to obtain jobs and support themselves as
ministers and teachers of the Gospel of Christ. The Bible Institute has a standing
requests for teachers of English.
In October of \991^ Stacy Garner joined the volunteer staff of Outreach
International under "Gateway International Educational Services" to recruit for
mission work in the Bible colleges and university Campus Ministries.
senior consultants are Floyd E. Clark of Creswell, N.C. and Cyril Simkins of
Lincoln, Illionois.
mission. John O. Schofield and Greg Stephens are Executive Directors. We praise
the Lord that new recruits and new fields are given to this work every year. To God
be the Glory! We pray that more workers will be going this year into the har> est!
(660)284-6528
FAX: (660)284-6256
E-MAIL: 102476.3367@compuserv'e.com
OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL
1 Corinthians 4:1,7
fission .work since. 1960.}^ Throughfi.th^e: yeairsy it has been a ^vehicle or^ tpQl for
seafching out unreached' countries or. arej^ of the world, whene the Independent
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ had not been working, qr where .the
fiamiltons felt there was still great need. This mission was designed for the purpose
of recruiting workers for and discovering opportunities in needy areas of the world.
The name of Outreach International was suggested by John O. Schofleld who
worked closely with the Hamiltons along with David Pettit who died in December
1990. David and A1 worked in recruitment and research as well as conducting
mission internships from 1978 until A1 and family went to Uganda, East Africa to
J^in^new wrk. i^ny other^have ben a part of this mission work in going-as
missionaries, or in supporting the ministryTn^rayer~and finances. Many people"
have done both. But the work began with the burden of the Lord upon these three
men: Pettit, Schofleld and Hamilton.
One area of special emphasis began in 1987 when Wing Wong, missionary to
Hong Kong came to A1 Hamilton and asked for help in starting internships in his
part of the world. Wing invited A1 over to Hong Kong as a consultant to look at the
area. Outreach International agreed to send a small team to work in that part of the
world, and this team was led by A1 and Annette's t\vo younger daughters, Sonja and
Karen, both worked in UgaOrda^reviously.
This was the beginning of the approach now used: that of sending college
students to foreign countries as students of Language/Culture and Teachers of
English to do "missionary" work. The first team was followed by others who now
stiil are serving in China, and God has blessed this approach and effort with fruit. A
holise church type ministry is now continuing in areas where there was no complete
New Testament message being preached. Because of this success, a further work
was started by students going to Hungary in 1990. That area is now ser\'ed by a
team of workers tbat was^ a part of the original "pioneer" team. In 1994 a teamofstudents/teachers of English were able to enter Vietnam as Teachers of English.
Teachers are sent every year to continue on with that work, along with the countries
of Thailand and Myanmar (Burma) in 1997.
Outreach International has been involved in the survey work and
recruitment of workers for ministry in several parts of the world: East Africa and
South Africa, the South Pacific, ^ia, Hungary,.So.utheast Asia, \yith other areas
Proverbs. 16:9). We w^Ul noJ; report
:un.^er jdeyelopment (Lord willingJames
missionary ministry. With the advice and counsel of men like Cyril Simkins, Floyd ;
. Clark (men with years of mission experience and spiritual leadership skills) and
many others, the Lord provided the necessary guidance and motivation that was
fundamental to this approach to missions.
' Through the experiences and work of the recent years, we have learned that
a different missionary iis rising to meet -the needis of'the hour in the "decade of
missibns". The
taission^ry
needed ^biecad^^^
itself is
different: i.e. in'years past, the people of the world's widely diverse countries all
lived id their own culture and land areas. Japanese lived in Japan Chinese lived in
China, Africans lived in Africa, etc. BUT today we have a different world.
Everybody lives in everybody else's back yard. There are no longer boundaries in
this changing and very different world. There must be a strategy for missions that
will meet the needs of unreached people groups. To fulfill the Great Commission, we
must send as many people as we can to as many places as they can go! In a time
when professional missionaries are not welcome or wanted in many parts of the
worM, we haye s.een it not only-advisable,^biit nec^sary for-the-chu^Jch to-send
"tentniakers": people of various skills to do the church planting which in the past was
done solely by the educated (Seminary trained) missionary. This is still effective in
some places, but we cannot reach the entire world by depending upon this method
alone. It has been our experience to see God use the "different missionary", for
reaching some of this "different world",
, The NEW "Missionary " being added to the work of world evangelism can be
expected to be seen in the following role (and this, role has been the emphasis of
OutreachfInternational): ..
; .k 1. He/She will be single.
2. He/She will be a team member.
"
EXPLANATION
only married personnel could be effective for the foreign field. But the
history of missions from earlier years shows that this is not necessarily
so. Today we have seen teams of college age people start churches,
hold Bible studies and help lead other students or even adults of their
own sex to Christ and help the new Christian learn to worship and
witness for the Lord. It is going on in many places with success. Most
often in our work, the single person is a student, or is on student status
; In: the foreign country.-There are obviously mady advantages to this.
We have seen students in the foreign land.^; Many countries want
students from America in their colleges.
.3. The new worker is ^hnrt term. This means that for one year, the
country in which they work/study and live. In one year, a student ci^n ,
get a good conversational grasp of the language, and by depending
upon fellow classmates (new found friends in the school they are
attending), the Christian student shares the Gospel of Christ and gains
a knowledge of language and culture as well. Upon returning from
the oneyear commitment, other student workers coming in will follow
up these contacts.
As we said, this is not said to suggest that we stop doing what we are
doing, but to help our churches today understand the value of the
worker for the Lord, who was not used or considered as a missionary
worker in years past
This-meaiM-tha t-ow^
information age in full swing, we can see that college age people have
become more informed on political, social and basic world conditions.
This can work to the church's advantage. We can now send out
students who are Christians, who will be informed on the needs of
.people in the country to which they go, and be quite competent to live
: .in ithe'student.environment and be-accepted,.when,older persons may
; - /
and send these single, team-member, short-term, student status workers. Our
research and present field work clearly indicates that this type of missionary worker
is welcome in many countries which are definitely not open to religious missionaries.
It is also obvious, we believe, that after one year on the assignment as a missionary
in this role, the worker comes back prepared to work with foreign languages and
cultures hjere in the U.S. Something our churches are sadly uninvolved in for the
most part. If the Decade of Missions is to find success, if this emphasis is to be as
meaningful and as far reaching as it possibly can, with the guidance of the Lord,
thieh we mtfst use every person that we can^ not making requirements where the
Scmptures 'lise none. If we are to speak where the Scriptures speaks and be siient
Svh"ef"e'the ScriptuFes"'are^^ilertt,'then'iet-%'#pTaetiee-''if by^
on
^people^ thaf-ate^ hdf-put there by theLt^rds-' If we believe'that^it k^ &RSENT thht all
Unreached people be'reached'with the Gospel of Christ, and if we believe that
leading someone td-Christ and helping them walk with the Lord Is really what our
commission is all about, accepting this method of outreach will be one simple way to
prove it Our work is urgent, and God can use those whom He has called, lets give
them a chance, meaning a college degree should not be seen as a prerequisite for
service.
For^us, the question is not, "which country does Putreach international work
in?", but "which world?" The answer is
world". There are still many
countries with colleges and universities where American students are welcome. Our
appeal to students is: take one year for missionary work and study overseas as part
of a mission team. The cost of tuition in the foreign country will likely be much less
than you spend in the USA, and the opportunity to share the Gospel of Christ will be
greater than you may have found by staying at home. We have enough Christian
students in America to reach 100 countries where there are students wafling to
know the way of the Lord. May the Church and Christian young people rise to the
decasion. We_believe we can help the churches understand this approach, and we
are helping students preach the Gospel of Christ even while being students.
Yours in Christ,
A1 Hamilton
International Director
Outreach International
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BEDFORD. TX 76095
(817)355-9598
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"For God
is not un
just so as
to
June
AA.1998
MISSION
forget
NEWS
TRAVELING
ministering to the
saints."
We continue to give
week.
A fun time
heen so faithful in
ministering to us
through
your
VoiifDr^heihg part
ners with us in the
We are planning,
Lord willing, to at
TOSERVE HIM.
E-mail
lonham@nash.net
about sending in a
team. We are praying that these
terested in Missions.
tend a missions re
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SOOTHEASTASIA
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HUNGARY
SOUTH AFRICA
MISSION NEWS
JAMAICA
MOSCOW
0^A STAFF
CONTINUED
BANGLADESH
HEALTH
Mission Income
Personallncome
Total income
7,355.00
11,888.00
19.243.000
so ripe
for the harvest.
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TOQOTHEWORKTHAT
THE LORD
HAS IN
TRAVELING
STOREFORUS.
THE UNREACHED AR
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gives us.
Please let us
con\t:ntion cont.
December 1,1998
NEW RECRUITS
We are excited
doing.
The missions
OF YOU A
VERY
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
we held up in Northeast
Missouri the end of Oc
Campus
AND A
WONDER
FUL AND
JOYOUS
NEW YEAR.
Bible
in
Moberley.
church in an unreached
ministry in another
country. Praise God.
country.
countries
without
Christian
Church
in
them.
Franklin
enough volunteers to
were in Ohio.
BLESS EACH
AS YOU
CONTINUE
TO SERVE
HIM AND
EXPAND
THE KING
opportunity to speak at
great response.
Christian
NEW
COUNTRIES
MISSIONARY CONVENTION
AND EVERY
ONE OF YOU
By the way,
MAY GOD
RICHLY
Outreach Interna
looking
into
have
been
invited
ILOVE YOU
ALL VERY
MUCH
We
to
DOM OF
GOD.
putting
PRAYER REQUESTS
Outreach international
Romans
15:7
For the
Kingdom
of God is
not eating
and drink
ing, but
righteous
ness and
peace and
back
in
He and his
in
the
Uganda.
joy in the
I made a three
he who in
serves
Christ is
acceptable
to God and
approved
by men.
ary.
They will be
ing persecuted.
Holy
Spirit. For
this way
80's
in Riverton.
health problems in re
cent months.
1praise Godevery
day for all the great
cious to me.
was
invited
to
Also 1 have
had
no
^natkan
CT^amii^
Jonathan
I am writing this
letter with a very heavy
through a divorce.
My doctor did tell
TX 76095
in September. It has
been a long couple of
transplant patient.
(317)555-9598
months.
Hamilton
P.O. Box 952
Bedford,
jonham@,
flash.net
terrible ordeal
Sheila,Crystal and me as
ing me be so close to
To make a
watch
we go through this.