December 19, 2008
The Grant Street Church of Christ in Lebanon, Oregon, a small mission-minded church, is teaching hundreds of WEI students.
Jim Vice, the local minister, writes, “We have another student who has requested baptism. Aye Aye Mar, from Yangon, Myanmar, has just finished The New Birth Bible lessons and has indicated that he is ready to be baptized for the remission of his sins.
“What’s interesting is that, before he did this lesson booklet, he said that “sprinkling is just as good as immersion” for baptism. God does work in wondrous ways on the hearts of people. Please let me know, and I will send information to a contact person in Myanmar to assist Aye Aye.
“Thanks a bunch. This makes 22 students that have requested baptism! Praise God!”
“We have had people from age 10 to 85 working on WEI courses at different times, and all of them agree that the experience is faith-building. It has increased their awareness of the broadness of the kingdom, and has encouraged their own Bible study habits.
“Mildred Buettner states, ‘I feel like I am contributing something meaningful to the church.’
“Boyd Roberts comments, ‘It’s really got me thinking and studying, not only the Bible, but geography also.’
“Rhonda Vice says, ‘Working with WEI students gives me opportunity to pray for specific individual students.’
“For me personally,” says Jim, “it is exciting to see the growth of both teachers and students, to hear of those individuals who submit to the Lord in baptism, and to communicate with students and WEI workers from around the world.
“I always tell our workers that even though the numbers of the Lord’s church may be declining in our country, the Lord’s church is healthy and growing by leaps and bounds in other countries. Thanks for the opportunity to work with WEI.”
What the Lebanon church is doing, your congregation can do also. The sky is the limit if we all work together.
Future historians could look back on this generation and say, as Luke said in New Testament times, “So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed” (Acts 19:20).
