News From Sam & Mandi Abrams
Missionaries serving in Southeast Asia
People are everywhere! We must go out and find them, into the highways and hedges, if we want to win them. Trevor is a young man I met at a local coffee shop where I do my studies. I have found it to be a magnet for relationships. We both help each other in our language and have begun a new friendship. In the U.S we have the privilege and opportunity to go door to door, but on the field this is not so, you must find people using different methods. The coffee shop is just one. I have met many playing basketball and even just riding buses. We have not been able to share the Gospel with these because of the language barrier, but we trust and hope that our time spent with them and studying the language will turn to their salvation.
We are progressing in the language and give God the glory, but it will take much time before we are able to preach. We have been told most of the missionaries who come never really learn the language. We need to endeavor that much more so we can.
Merry Christmas!
The wise men had it right. In Matthew 2:11 we read, “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.” When we see Jesus our immediate response is to worship Him and to give Him gifts!
From all of us at the BIO it is a pleasure to serve our Savior together with you. We wish you a wonderful Christmas and a blessed New Year!
A Chile Summer
Missionaries David & Andrea White
Our missionaries in Chile are enjoying the warm weather of the southern hemisphere after finishing up their official language studies. David and Drea White are heavily involved with a new church plant, Trinity Baptist Church, in the capital city of Santiago. This young church is enjoying exciting times with folks several saved and growing in the Lord. I know they appreciate your prayers!
David is planning a short visit to the States in March of 2015 in an attempt to boost their support. If you would like to have David visit your church this coming March please send him an e-mail invitation.