March 31, 2010
As winds of violence swirl around the earth, we take comfort in the fact that the Prince of Peace is at work drawing people to himself. God is using WEI to accomplish his eternal purposes.
In November 2003, John Ed Clark, Behailu Abebe, and I inaugurated a WEI Center in Awasa, Ethiopia. Since then, hundreds of people have been baptized into Christ. In a recent report, Behailu said that 85 people had been baptized in the Awasa area in one month, and three new churches had been planted.
On March 31, we received a report from Larry Ware, Prison Minister at Oklahoma State Reformatory, saying that “at least fourteen (14) inmates have requested baptism.” Larry uses WEI materials in his prison ministry.
When the disastrous earthquake hit Haiti January 12, death and devastation gripped the nation. Since that tragic day, however, God and his people have been busy saving lives and souls.
Brother Jean Robert St. Hilaire, minister of the Church of Christ at Delmas 43 in Port-au-Prince and Director of WEI in Haiti, reports that “seven precious souls” were baptized February 7, and ten more were baptized February 8. On February 14, 118 people were baptized, including Jean Robert’s son, Nahum. And the harvest goes on.
Chuck Gusek, a WEI teacher in Hanceville, Alabama, reports that Jean Robert baptized one of his WEI students in Haiti.
The earthquake in Haiti was a terrible tragedy, but God has used the tragedy to bless the lives of many people
W.E.I. NEEDS YOUR HELP!
In the United States, our national economy has taken a nosedive. Countless people have lost their jobs, and many have lost their homes. At the same time, WEI is suffering, a shortfall of several thousand dollars a month. We look to God and to God’s people for the resources needed to keep this worldwide ministry going.
We ask that you provide copies of this update for your congregation.
To all our friends who are supporting us with their prayers, time, effort, and financial resources, we say, “Thank you. We love you; and we are grateful.”
NEED 1
WEI’s Internet Teaching
Website and Postal Mail Have Reached 202 of the World’s 203 Nations
To become an Internet teacher, send email to jrtowell@aol.com
WEI currently gets 1000 new students per month. Almost 40% are Muslims, many are Hindu and Buddhist
Man, 37, in Mongolia with no religion: “This is really interesting history which I have never heard about, so now I know history of who created the earth.”
Atheist Woman, 44, in China: "I didn't believe any super natural power prior to my taking this course. I'm anxious to know more. I wish I could really find God.”
NEED 2
Campaign Teaching: Short-term Mission Trips
To join a short-term mission team, send email to Tom Langley at weimaryville@aol.com
A campaign is arranged to attract students by offering FREE English. Each student is assigned to a campaign teacher. Typically, up to a hundred students study during the summer's 6 week period. Books are available in several foreign translations including Albanian, Chinese, French, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.
NEED 3
There is no way of knowing how many lives have been impacted by WEI in 202 nations during the past twenty years. Perhaps a million. Maybe two million. God knows. However, I am convinced that we could have 100 million students by the end of this decade if (1) we had the money for round-the-clock Google ads, (2) the funds to develop and maintain a web site that could handle 100 million students, and (3) teachers to teach them.
By running Google ads one hour a day around the globe, we are now getting more than 1,000 new students per month. Every time we double the Google ad time, we double the number of students. That means we could potentially get 24,000 new students per month from every nation on earth. The only reason we are not attracting that many students right now is limited finances and teachers
ALMOST 40% OF OUR WEI STUDENTS ARE MUSLIMS, and nearly all Muslin students are studying via the internet. A number of them have renounced radical Islam and have embraced Jesus Christ. I have been telling people that Muslim leaders plan to take over the world by (1) immigration, and (2) multiplication. The average Muslim family has eight children. The best way to keep Islam from conquering the world is to convert Muslims to Jesus Christ, Prince of Peace.
I have on file several pages of testimonies from WEI students who have left Islam to become Christians. Most of these testimonies run something like this: "I have decided I can no longer worship a God who rewards people for killing themselves in order to kill innocent men, women, and children. I have decided to follow Jesus Christ and worship the God of love."
Churches in the U.S. (such as Sunset in Lubbock; Texas, Waterview in Richardson, Texas, Adams Blvd. in Bartlesville, OK, etc.) have used WEI MATERIAL FOR PLANTING CHURCHES in Albania, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nigeria, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, to name a few. In many cases, if funds are available, we mail WEI materials to national preachers free of charge to help them reap a fruitful harvest. In some cases, we send one set of materials to missionaries, and they reproduce them locally. God is also using WEI materials in jail and prison ministries throughout the U.S. and in local Hispanic outreach ministries. As time passes by, more and more churches and church leaders are using WEI as an evangelistic tool for saving the lost.
—Dick & Maudine
