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Evangelistic Trip To Moldova
  • April 09 April 27, 2007

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I Thank God For All Of You
  • First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for
    all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in
    all the world. Romans 1.8

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I Thank God For All Of You
  • I give thanks to God always for all of you for
    your work of faith and labor of love and
    steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ
    and because the word of the Lord is sounding
    forth from you in Moldova and your faith in God
    is going forth everywhere
  • Thessalonians 1.2-8

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I Thank God For All Of You
  • I thank God for your concern for brothers and
    sisters in Christ, most of whom you have never
    met
  • I thank God for your genuine interest in sharing
    the Gospel with those who been shut off from the
    Gospel for 80 years

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I Thank God For All Of You
  • These things prove your tenderness of heart and
    interest in spiritual matters
  • They also produce a heavenly celebration

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The Efforts Of Many People
  • An effort such as this cannot take place without
    the involvement and commitment of many people
  • And, certainly not without Gods care and
    answered prayers!

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The Efforts Of Many People
  • Many prayers over several years have toppled a
    government, opened doors of opportunity,
    strengthened new Christians, emboldened workers,
    spread the glorious name of Jesus, and given
    courage to those who have decided to answer the
    call for help from foreign lands

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The Efforts Of Many People
  • This congregation and several others are
    cooperating to make this trip possible
  • It involves the sacrifice of four wives, several
    parents and children

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The Efforts Of Many People
  • It involves men and women in several different
    congregations, most of who have never met, who
    are willing to take care of bulletins, preach,
    teach classes, look after families, and do a host
    of other things in the absence of their local
    preachers and elders

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The Efforts Of Many People
  • This trip is not just Johnny Felker, Steve
    Brewer, Phil Morgan, Rebecca Brewer, Emily
    Prasuhn and John Gentrys trip
  • In many very significant ways this is OUR trip
    and OUR work!

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Gods Fellow Workers
  • What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants
    through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned
    to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God
    gives the growth. So neither he who plants nor
    he who waters is anything, but only God who gives
    the growth. He who plants and he who waters are
    one, and each will receive his wages according to
    his labor. For we are God's fellow workers. You
    are God's field, God's building.
  • 1 Corinthians 3.5-9

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Gods Fellow Workers
  • Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to
    grow up in every way into him who is the head,
    into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and
    held together by every joint with which it is
    equipped, when each part is working properly,
    makes the body grow so that it builds itself up
    in love. Ephesians 4.15-16

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The Gospel Is A Universal MessageThat Meets A
Universal Need
  • What then? Are we any better off? No, not at
    all. For we have already charged that all, both
    Jews and Greeks, are under sin for all have
    sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans
    3.9, 23

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The Gospel Is A Universal MessageThat Meets A
Universal Need
  • And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in
    which you once walked, following the course of
    this world, following the prince of the power of
    the air, the spirit that is now at work in the
    sons of disobedience among whom we all once
    lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out
    the desires of the body and the mind, and were by
    nature children of wrath, like the rest.
  • Ephesians 2.1-3

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Jesus Made Salvation Possible
  • But God, being rich in mercy, because of the
    great love with which he loved us, even when we
    were dead in our trespasses, made us alive
    together with Christ--by grace you have been
    saved--and raised us up with him and seated us
    with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
    so that in the coming ages he might show the
    immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness
    toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have
    been saved through faith. And this is not your
    own doing it is the gift of God, not a result of
    works, so that no one may boast. For we are his
    workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
    works, which God prepared beforehand, that we
    should walk in them. Ephesians 2.4-10

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Gospel Must Go Into ALL The World
  • And Jesus came to them and said, saying, All
    authority in heaven and on earth has been given
    to me. Go therefore into all the world and
    proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. And
    make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in
    to the name of the Father and of the Son and of
    the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all
    that I have commanded you Whoever believes and
    is baptized will be saved but whoever does not
    believe will be condemned. Thus it is written,
    that the Christ should suffer and on the third
    day rise from the dead and that repentance and
    forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his
    name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
  • Matthew 28.18-20 Mark 16.15-16 Luke 24.46-47

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The Need In Moldova
  • Brethren in Moldova need to be edified,
    encouraged and strengthened
  • The lost in Moldova need to have an opportunity
    to hear the gospel preached to them

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Our Work With The Brethren
  • In addition to the regular mid-week and Sunday
    Bible studies, we will conduct a nation-wide
    Bible Conference
  • April 23-25 (Monday - Wednesday)
  • 13 lectures
  • 4 periods of singing
  • 3 extended QA periods

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Our Work With The Brethren
  • This will maximize our time for study
  • Allows us to present a lot of material to the
    most people in a shorter amount of time
  • Will allow Christians who only met last year, but
    live only 2½ hours apart to enjoy spiritual
    fellowship with one another

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Our Work With The Brethren
  • Topics for the conference will include
  • Building A Spiritual Life
  • Members One Of Another
  • Contentment
  • Godly Relationships
  • Our Tongues
  • How Should I View My Job
  • Suffering
  • Grace And Forgiveness
  • Alcohol And Drugs
  • How To Change Sinful Behavior
  • Helping The Poor And Needy
  • Overcoming Guilt
  • Making Wise Decisions

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The Door For Evangelism
  • Concentrated efforts with all churches with 2 men
    in Balti, 2 men in Tiraspol, 2 ladies working
    with childrens Bible classes in Chisinau
  • Daily studies with church in Chisinau
  • Studies at Pedagogical University
  • Bible Conference (including studies with the
    Church of Jesus Christ in Chisinau)

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We Need Your Prayers
  • At the same time, pray also for us, that God may
    open to us a door for the word, to declare the
    mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in
    prisonthat I may make it clear, which is how I
    ought to speak.
  • Colossians 4.3-4

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Love The Lord And His Kingdom
  • We should have an abounding love for the Lord and
    His Kingdom (Matthew 6.33)
  • With courage and boldness we should go into the
    world with the powerful Gospel!

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Love The Lord And His Kingdom
  • For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is
    the power of God for salvation to everyone who
    believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek
  • Romans 1.16

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Love The Lord And His Kingdom
  • The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as
    some count slowness, but is patient toward you,
    not wishing that any should perish, but that all
    should reach repentance 2 Peter 3.9

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Gods Plan For Your Salvation
  • Hear Gods Word Mt 17.5 Rom 10.17
  • Believe in Christ John 8.24 Rom 10.9
  • Repent of Sins Luke 13.3 Acts 2.38
  • Confess Faith in Christ Rom 10.10
  • Be Immersed in Water Mark 16.16
  • Live Faithfully Rev 2.10 Col 1.21-23
  • Repent of Sins Pray for Forgiveness - Acts 8.22
  • Confess Sins - James 5.16 1 John 1.9

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Our Work With The Brethren
  • Christians in Balti have asked for a list of
    challenging questions to be discussed
  • Shows their desire for serious Bible study

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Our Work With The Brethren
  • Authority in religion
  • Miracles
  • How to make sure that your faith is true
  • How to be filled with the Holy Spirit
  • The temptations everybody faces
  • Why is Satan so overwhelmingly powerful
  • Who stands behind the natural disasters of our
    day God or the devil?
  • A model day schedule for a Christian

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Our Work With The Brethren
  • The Christian way to solve problems in the family
    and in the world
  • How to learn to control the tongue and to protect
    from the tongue of others
  • Attitude toward money
  • How to overcome disagreements among the members,
    how to avoid them
  • How to help an unbeliever to overcome the vanity
    and concentrate on more spiritual things

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The Door For Evangelism
  • The door at the Pedagogical Institute has swung
    wide open
  • No longer cloak lessons with secular topic
  • Present a series of lessons on evidences
  • Is God real and should I be concerned about
    serving Him?
  • Is the Bible really from God and is it relevant
    in a 21st century world?
  • Is it reasonable to accept Jesus as a real
    historical person? As the divine Son of God?

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The Door For Evangelism
  • Opportunities exist at the Moldova State
    University, but they are not quite as open
  • We will have to cloak our lessons with a secular
    topic (history, US politics, etc.)
  • However, this is certainly an opportunity worth
    pursuing

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The Door For Evangelism
  • The leader of the theater group has been in
    London studying for several months and will be
    gone while we are there
  • Serious questions exist about his marriage
  • The serious and open-hearted among them are more
    open to study and change than ever before

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The Door For Evangelism
  • A small group of Christians in Benderi and
    Tiraspol who are slowly studying their way out of
    institutionalism have invited us for private
    studies
  • Their leader recently forbade them from
    studying with us, which has caused more of them
    to want to study with us
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