Charles and Tamara Cook, Missionaries to The NortheastNorthwest, USA

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Focus Northeast/ Northwest
This is a mission program based at Sunset
International Bible Institute in Lubbock, Texas
to reach out to the Northeast/ Northwest states
where the church has historically struggled to
survive. WE ARE WORKING TO CHANGE THIS!!
Charles and Tamara Cook, Missionaries to The
Northeast/Northwest, USA
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• THE WORKS OF FOCUS NORTHEAST/NORTHWEST
• There are many densely populated areas in the
  Northeast and Northwest where a congregation of
  the churches
• of Christ has never existed. Both the Eastern
  and Western coastlines represent the most densely
  populated
• regions of our nation. One can travel through
  numerous urban centers throughout these regions
  without
• finding any evidence of the existence of a
  church of Christ. The Northeast and the
  Northwest are indeed
• mission fields.
• Focus Northeast/Northwest is designed to
  stabilize and encourage existing churches of
  Christ in these parts of
• the nation and to plant new congregations where
  they are needed. Through our programs, graduates
  of Sunset
• International Bible Institute are introduced to
  the possibilities of fulfilling their ministries
  in these mission
• fields. My wife, Tamara, and I were long time
  missionaries to Asia, and now we direct Sunsets
  efforts to
• place its graduates in one of these neglected
  parts of our nation. For three terms out of four
  I serve as
• an instructor at Sunset. This schedule allows
  the us several months out of each year to devote
  to the
• Focus programs.
• It is estimated that 150 Million people live in
  the areas we call Northeast and Northwest. If
  each one, the
• Northeast and Northwest, were a nation themselves
  they would constitute two of the largest mission
  fields on
• earth. They both deserve an adequate
  presentation of the Gospel of Christ just like
  the rest of the world. Are

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FOCUS NORTHEAST/NORTHWEST In the Northeast, the
program includes our nations capital, Washington
D.C., plus the states of Delaware, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and the
combined New England states. In the Northwest, we
are including the states of Washington, Oregon,
Northern California, Nevada, Iowa, Idaho, Utah,
Montana, Wyoming, Alaska and Hawaii
Our demographic studies show that there are at
least 6000 cities and townships in these regions
without a congregation of the churches of Christ.

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OUR MISSION VISION FOR THE NORTHEAST/NORTHWEST E
STABLISH REPRODUCTIVE CHURCHES IN EVERY MAJOR
POPULATION CENTER BY... 1. Planting new churches
in communities where none exist. 2. Encouraging
and helping train already established churches to
be self-propagating, self-governing and
self-supporting. 3. Communicating this vision to
the brotherhood in general. 4. Identifying and
targeting the key areas where churches need to be
planted. 5. Researching demographics, culture,
receptivity and current works in each state. 6.
Enlisting available resources in our brotherhood
among current missionaries, training schools and
local congregations. 7. Recruiting sending
congregations, ministry families and mission
teams. 8. Finding available resources for
training ministers/missionaries and helping them
get settled in either the Northeast or Northwest.
9. Providing adequate mentoring, encouragement,
guidance and resources to the missionaries after
their arrival on the field. 10. Helping
missionaries and/or mission teams in the
transition of leadership to the local
church. 11. Establishing Satellite Schools and
Distance Learning facilities in the key cities to
assist the Northeast/Northwest churches in
training and developing church leaders in local
congregations. 12. Conducting Church Growth
Seminars, Leadership Retreats, Gospel Meetings
and other activities for churches anywhere in the
Northeast or Northwest...our services are freeby
invitation only.
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Focus Northeast/Northwest OUR ASSIGNMENT

• Help train and mentor ministers and missionaries
  at Sunset International Bible Institute.
• Represent the interests and needs of these two
  domestic mission fields to churches, schools and
  individuals in the southern parts of the USA.
• Encourage and Strengthen existing works in the
  Northeast/ Northwest through campaigns, mission
  seminars, gospel meetings and personal visits.

Charles and Tamara Cook

• Recruit Workers, Form Teams, encourage these two
  mission areas, help begin new congregations,
  Distance Learning Schools, local Satellite
  Schools, enroll World Bible School students,
  preach, teach, train, visit and do every-thing
  possible to spread the Kingdom.

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• FOCUS NORTHEAST
• SOME OF THE THINGS ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR1998 TO
  2007... TAKING CHRIST TO MILLION IN THE GREAT
  NORTHERN STATES OF THE U.S.A.
• WE HAVE HELPED PLACE 40 OF OUR GRADUATE
  FAMILIES IN THE NORTHEAST AND NORTHWEST REGIONS
  OF THE NATION.
• WE HAVE PERSONALLY ENGAGED IN HUNDREDS OF
  PREACHING APPOINTMENTS TO ENCOURAGE STRUGGLING
  NE/NW CHURCHES (1998 - 2007).
• WE HAVE MADE NUMEROUS PERSONAL VISITS
  THROUGHOUT BOTH REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY.
• WE HAVE PERSONALLY AND/OR SENT OTHERS ON
  NUMEROUS SURVEY TRIPS TO VARIOUS PLACES TO MAKE
  PLANS FOR SETTLING A FUTURE SIBI TEAM OR PLANTING
  A NEW CHURCH.
• WE HAVE CONDUCTED TWELVE AREA WIDE CAMPAIGNS IN
  MAJOR POPULATION CENTERS (ONE IN CANADA).
• WE HAVE CONDUCTED THIRTY LEADERSHIP
  DEVELOPMENT/ CHURCH GROWTH WORKSHOPS.
• WE HAVE HELD TRENTY-FIVE GOSPEL MEETINGS.
• WE HAVE STARTED A DISTANCE LEARNING SCHOOL IN
  FALL RIVER, MA AND WILL OPEN ANOTHER ON IN
  SEATTLE, WA THIS YEAR.
• WE HAVE HELPED IN THE PLANNING AND PLANTING OF
  THIRTEEN NEW CONGREGATIONS.
• IN VARIOUS PLANNING STAGES, WE HAVE CAMPAIGNS,
  LEADERSHIP SEMINARS, CHURCH GROWTH SEMINARS,
  NUMEROUS PREACHING APPOINTMENTS AND GOSPEL
  MEETINGS IN THE WORKS.
• SEVERAL MISSIONARY FAMILIES PRESENTLY IN
  TRAINING AT SIBI ARE TALKING WITH ME ABOUT DOING
  THEIR MINISTRIES IN THE NORTHEAST AND NORTHWEST.
• REQUESTS FROM THE NORTHEAST/NORTHWEST BRETHREN
  FOR OUR SERVICES COME IN ON A REGULAR BASIS.
• WE HAVE EITHER WITNESSED OR HAD REPORTED MORE
  BAPTISMS THAN WE CAN REMEMBERHUNDREDS ARE
  REPORTED EACH YEAR.

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SIBI Satellite Schools

• Local congregations purchase our SIBI video/DVD
  library and use them to conduct their own local
  Bible Training Program. We assist in helping set
  up these schools. Dozens of Satellite Schools
  operating in the Northeast and Northwest States.

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We Work Closely With
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DISTANCE LEARNING SCHOOL -- LIVE CLASSROOM VIA
VIDEO CONFERENCING NE NW SITES
Seattle, WA
Fall River MA
Lubbock, TX

LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS CONCEPT AT
http//www.sibi.cc click on Academics
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CHURCH PLANTINGS IN THE NORTHEAST
TROY, NY TORRINGTON, CT MILFORD, DE NEW
YORK CITY, NY WESTERLY, RI LEWISTON
/AUBURN, ME PHILADELPHIA, PA HARTFORD, CT
BALTIMORE, MD (3) BROCKTON, MA PRINCE FREDERICK,
MD
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COURSES TAUGHT AT SUNSET BY CHARLES COOK

• Pauls Letters to Timothy and Titus
• Leadership Development
• Evangelistic Methods
• First Corinthians
• Homiletics
• Introduction To Missions
• Advanced Missions
• Church Growth
• Romans
• Revelation
• Gospel of John
• World Religions
• Interpretive Reading
• Conflict Resolution (seminar)
• The Islamic Religion (seminar)
• The Hindu Religion (seminar)
• Postmodernism (seminar)
• Servant Leadership (seminar)

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We are asking that you form a partnership with us
in this great workplease support us with your
prayers and funding Charles and Tamara
Cook Sunset International Bible Institute 3723
34th Street Lubbock, TX 79410 Your resources can
make a difference.
CONTACT US [phone]/798-1744 email
ccook00_at_suddenlink.net http//www.focus-USA.org