November 12, 2012
During the 4th quarter of 2012, the Lord of Harvests answered the prayers with 30 new teachers, bringing the number to 265. However, the number of new students decreased from 1,000 per month in 2011 to 750. This means projections on the number of teachers needed to achieve WEI’s goals in the next 5 years is too low, so our plea still is “send more workers” (Matthew 9:37, 38).
If you are already teaching, we have a number of brochures and materials you can use to recruit new teachers. Tom, Dick, and the Towells are all willing to travel to your congregation if invited.
We are at the time of life when, as the song “Autumn Leaves” says, “the days dwindle down to a precious few.” The parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins speaks loudly on what we should do when waiting for Him. We are not to let our lamps run out of oil. What are our “lamps”? What is the “oil”? Conclusions we’ve reached: Our “lamps” are our lives; “You are the light of the world.” Think of the “oil” as our good deeds; “Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.” Therefore, whatever your age, while you are waiting, don’t quit.
Don’t depend on good deeds of the past, but keep doing the good you can, for he may come when your lamps are going out. 1 Timothy 4:4: “we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”
As Lola Crouch’s student, Samuel, in Mozambique wrote after his recent baptism, “You cannot imagine how happy I am today to be one of the members of the kingdom of God! There is a lot to be done. I will not sit back and see people being misled. I will teach the truth that I have found. Thanks to God”!
We hope in 2013 you will consider joining teachers from 29 states, Canada, Crete, Cambodia, Poland, St. Thomas, Thailand, and Ukraine in fulfilling the Great Commission.
God is good, and we are ready to do the work of God no matter what.
—Bob and Jan Towell
