March 28, 2010
Flowers and trees are blooming, and fresh warm breezes are blowing through East Tennessee. Spring is a reminder that exciting times are coming in our WEI ministry.
The time is quickly approaching for several of our WEI short-term summer mission teams to be launching out to different places around the world to begin personal Bible studies with hundreds of precious souls. Some of our short-term mission sites have a full compliment of teachers, and others still need a few teachers to complete their teams.
Here are a few sites and dates that still need WEI teachers this summer:
- Guatemala City, Guatemala (needs two teachers), July 31 – August 14.
- Tirana, Albania (needs several teachers), July 17-31.
- Padova, Italy (team does not yet exist), October 17 – November 13.
One of the blessings of the WEI short-term mission is that the WEI material was originally written as a correspondence course. Study by correspondence enables our short-term mission teachers to easily follow up with their students. One of the greatest concerns of long-term missionaries and national evangelists is the difficulty they face in following up with every student who studies during the short-term mission. Thus, many of our teachers continue teaching their students by correspondence. They enjoy the spiritually thrilling and rewarding experiences of sharing their faith even after leaving the mission field. Students don’t feel abandoned by those they have grown to respect and love. Many students have come to the Lord through post-short-term mission correspondence. There is no greater joy than to hear through the Internet or postal mail that a former student has obeyed the gospel.
Our Maryville office is experiencing some financial difficulties due solely to the national economic downturn. A few churches have had to regretfully reduce or eliminate their support. If you are in a position to support an extremely effective Bible teaching mission ministry, please give WEI prayerful consideration. We love and appreciate all of you who continue to make this ministry available to lost souls all over the world. Thank you!
—Tom and Angela
