June 18, 2012
Even after adding several teachers recently, we still need more. 815 new Bible studies started in the second quarter. Think what that number represents: 815 people from every nation in the world studying God’s word, many for the first time!
Think of the potential of WEI’s Internet program! Many want English lessons, and most don’t object to the Bible being used to illustrate them. Advertising buys high placement on Google’s search engine. Response is so great that advertising was turned off 60% of the days in the 2nd quarter. If we had bought more advertising, current teachers could not have serviced the number who responded.
See Matthew 9:37, 38 and sound the trumpet in your congregations! When Jimmy Lovell started World Bible School, he said the church needed to get “ordinary members” teaching. This has accounted for the great success of WBS because it follows the model in Acts when the disciples who left Jerusalem because of persecution “proclaimed the good news of Jesus everywhere they went.”
One of our dreams has been for churches to see the potential of offering a facility where more students could access the Internet. The church on St. Thomas has now opened the first free Internet café, called “Caribbean WEI.” Internet teacher, Sam Matthews, their evangelist, caught the vision! As part of their outreach to Haitian immigrants who otherwise could not afford Internet study, they have made computers available in the church’s Family Center. Sam is there from 10 till 4, Monday thru Friday. Local volunteers study on the Internet with those who register. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they allow themselves to be used by God. —Bob & Jan Towell
