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Edwin Leads Businesswoman to Christ

  • January 9, 2025
  • Asia

Edwin E. Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in Tuguegarao City, Philippines was walking from his apartment to the Learning Center one day when he went into a store to buy a bottle of water. The owner of the store, a 65-year-old woman, Mrs. Luisa A. Cabael, noticed that Edwin was carrying a Bible…

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Four Typhoons Strike Philippines

  • October 9, 2024
  • Asia

Edwin E. Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in Tuguegsrao City, Luzon Island, reports that four consecutive Typhoons swept through Luzon Island during the last quarter of 2024 ruining his new laptop computer and bringing his WEI teaching ministry to a screeching halt.  Now Edwin is reactivating the twenty-four students he was teaching prior to…

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Another Jail break in Afghanistan

  • August 28, 2024
  • Asia

We named him Adam.  Dr. Abraham took a chance and told his friend he was a Christian.  Adam wanted to be a Christian too, but Muslims know about as much about Christianity as Christians know about Islam.  So I fast-tracked him through the Intermediate course to pull him away from Satan’s grip. Yesterday, Adam worked…

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God Is at Work in the Philippines

  • August 16, 2024
  • Asia

Ten months ago, Edwin E. Vicente moved to Tuguegarao City, Luzon Island, hoping to find a job, to start a new WEI Learning Center, and to plant a church.  His job didn’t work out, but he found fertile soil for a WEI Learning Center and good prospects for planting a church.   Living on subsistence…

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Report From the Philippines

  • June 13, 2024
  • Asia

Edwin Vicente, Director of the WEI Learning Center in Tuguegarap City in northeastern Luzon Island reports that he is now teaching twenty-four WEI students and has received permission from parents to baptize two of them.  Edwin With Six of His Twenty-Four Students

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A New Afghan Brother

  • March 2, 2024
  • Asia

Katheryn H. writes, “We welcomed a new brother-in-Christ in Afghanistan this morning.  He is an Afghan law student at the University of Iran. Coincidentally [?], he is friends with another of our secret Christians-–in the same home town—and they did not know about the other reading the Bible.    “We are continuing to have one…

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WEI Learning Center in Philippines

  • February 25, 2024
  • Asia

In our last newsletter, we showed you a picture of the new WEI Learning Center in Tuguegarap City in northeastern Luzon Island.  In that picture, the chairs were empty.  Since then, Edwin E. Vicente has gathered twelve WEI students who study with him at various times through the week. These are baby steps in the…

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Five New Baptisms in India

  • February 10, 2024
  • Asia

Prabhu Kumar, the Director of WEI-India, reports that Bro. Babu and his son-in-law in Morusumili baptized three of their WEI students into Christ, and Bro. K. Payani baptized two people in a recently constructed “baptismal tub.” One of 5 WEI Students Baptized in India W.E.I. THANKS ALL OF YOU FOR YOURCONTINUED SUPPORT! The contributions and…

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International Teachers’ Conference

  • January 5, 2024
  • Asia

In early January Prabhu wrote, “By the grace of God, yesterday our yearly planning meeting of WEI teachers was conducted successfully.”   Twenty-five WEI teachers from all parts of Central and Southeast India gathered for fellowship, inspiration, and planning.  Several preachers proclaimed the Word of God and ignited a holy fire in the hearts of…

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WEI Work Continues in Philippines

  • December 26, 2023
  • Asia

In the last issue of this newsletter, we reported that Edwin E. Vicente’s personal support from American Christians has gradually declined as our nation’s economy has deteriorated.  Consequently, Edwin was forced to seek employment to supplement his income.     At 60 years of age, Edwin was not able to find a job in San…

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Zoom Classes Continue in Myanmar

  • December 9, 2023
  • Asia

In spite of political unrest in Myanmar, Colleen Busch of Keizer, Oregon and Sheila Yeager of Grand Junction, Colorado continue teaching WEI students in Myanmar via Zoom.  In a recent email, Sheila wrote, “Philip V. is the evangelist for the church in Yangon; therefore he leads the prayers and directs the WEI students to read…

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God Bears Fruit in Afghanistan

  • November 14, 2023
  • Asia

Katherine H. has been teaching Muslim students in the Middle- and Far-East for thirteen years, and she has never had a woman convert who remained faithful to God following her baptism.  Recently, two Afghan women became Christians within nine days.  One was from Ghazni near Kabul, and the other was from Herat. Katherine writes, “Things…

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God’s Work Continues in Philippines

  • September 11, 2023
  • Asia

Soon after Edwin E. Vicente was baptized into Christ, the Covid-19 pandemic engulfed the Philippines, and Edwin lost his job. With no source of income, he sold most of his earthly possessions to pay for food and lodging. Instead of complaining, he gathered a group of children in his community and taught them what he…

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Leading People to Christ in PNG

  • July 29, 2023
  • Asia

While Arthur Tatara was studying in the Singapore branch of Sunset International Bible Institute, he became a WEI Internet student. He got so excited about what he learned in the WEI courses, he decided to use them in his ministry in Papua New Guinea. Since then, he has taught WEI Intermediate lessons in public high…

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International Conference in India

  • June 26, 2023
  • Asia

Prabhu Kumar, Director of WEI-India, reports that their third annual Global Online Video Conference was a great success. This Zoom conference lasted five nights (June 21-25) from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Twelve men from Australia, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Sri Lanka, and the USA, took turns speaking and listening to one another speak via Zoom….

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