Into All The World: Volume 4, Issue 1

By Dr. John Yingling | Published: January 23, 2015

News From Paulo & Marilza Tavares

Missionaries serving in Brazil

We have received several visitors during the past few months. It has been a great opportunity to share the gospel. Our prayer is that they may come to know the Lord as their Savior. We have been distributing John and Romans and New Testaments as we go out soul winning. The majority of our church members love going out soulwinning and distributing gospel literature. There is a lady that even takes her 2 year old boy who also loves to pass out gospel tracts. We have had many opportunities to witness to those we come in contact with. Lots of people gladly received the New Testament and gospel tracts and some start reading it right way.

In November, a man named Beto came to our Sunday Evening service. He used to be my mechanic, and after many years of witnessing and inviting him to church, he decided to attend and heard the gospel one more time and asked the Lord to be his Savior!! Praise the Lord!!! Please pray for his spiritual growth.

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Happy 2015!

We are gearing up for a great year! Pray with us as we begin creating a BIO ministry presentation video. Please also pray for Director Terry Childers, as he develops the next SMART Module on culture. Among other things It will cover cross-cultural communication and culture shock. A foreign missionary can never have too much training in this area. If you have any good materials that Brother Terry could glean from, feel free to contact him. Have a great year; and remember, it is on Him we must lean in 2015!

Gomeju Is Coming To The States!

Displaying Written by Faye Dykes, Director of Joyce’s Kids

We are so excited to announce that Gomeju will be coming to the States in February for a short furlough. She has not had the opportunity to come since 2000, and she needs to raise more monthly support for the school and try to raise the funds to finish the VICKtory School for the Deaf building. Again, the government has told her that the building they are renting will not be available for the next school term, and this means that if we cannot get this phase of the building completed we are back to the problem of trying to locate a place large enough for all our deaf students. Gomeju will only be here a few months. Please e-mail me or call me at the BIO office to schedule Gomeju at your church.

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Tavares December 2014 Prayer Letter

By David Peach | Published: January 23, 2015

This letter was written by BIO missionary Paulo Tavares

The Tavares Family Missionaries to Brazil

“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” – II Corinthians 4:6

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends,
Here we are at the end of the year and we want to share with you what the Lord is doing with us here in Brazil. We have been in the new church building now for 4 months and are enjoying every minute in it! We always praise the Lord for that!!!

We have received several visitors during the past few months. It has been a great opportunity to share the gospel. Our prayer is that they may come to know the Lord as their Savior. We have been distributing John and Romans and New Testaments as we go out soul winning. The majority of our church members love going out soul-winning and distributing gospel literature. There is a lady that even takes her 2 year old boy who also loves to pass out gospel tracts. We have had many opportunities to witness to those we come in contact with. Lots of people gladly received the New Testament and gospel tracts and some start reading it right way.

In November, a man named Beto came to our Sunday Evening service. He used to be my mechanic, and after many years of witnessing and inviting him to church, he decided to attend and heard the gospel one more time and asked the Lord to be his Savior!! Praise the Lord!!! Please pray for his spiritual growth.

There is a new couple, Francisco and Valeria that just moved to Rio from the Northeast with their two precious children. They have been regularly attending the services. Also there is a single lady named Fabiana that is faithfully coming to all the services. Please pray for salvation and continual spiritual growth of our church!

We are almost ready for the cantata that we will present just a few days before Christmas on the 21st. The church in Itaboraí will be with us also. Please pray for God to use this time that many would come to know Him as Savior.

We are very happy that Kayla and Tiffany will come to be with us for Christmas and the New Year. It will be a blessing to have them with us. Kayla has been back in the US for almost 4 years and Tiffany for almost 2 years. It seems like it was just yesterday.

We would like to thank you very much for all your prayers, financial support, and encouraging cards. We also are thankful for all the Christmas cards and gifts. We appreciate all of you, and we praise the Lord for having you as a vital part of our ministry here in Brazil.

May the richest blessings of the Lord be upon your lives and ministry. Have a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!!!!!

Under His Care

Paulo & Marilza Tavares
Your Missionaries to Brazil

Prayer Requests

  • Salvation of our community
  • Salvation oi the visitors
  • Spiritual and Physical Growth of the church
  • Our Safety
  • Our Health
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Into All The World: Volume 3, Issue 12

By David Peach | Published: December 22, 2014

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.

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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.

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It’s Not A Building

By Dr. John Yingling | Published: December 19, 2014

“But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” 1 Timothy 3:15

We Americans are infatuated with buildings. It so permeates our culture that the foremost definition for church in most English dictionaries is a building used for religious services. Many times we assume the work of a church plant is not complete unless the congregation is “dried in.” Securing a building is often the very first thing on a church planter’s agenda. I think if we take a closer look at the Word of God we will see that a building was NOT a priority for the local New Testament Church.

Look at these Scripture references:

  • Acts 12:12 “And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.”
  • Acts 16:40 “And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.”
  • Romans 16:5 “Likewise greet the church that is in their house.”
  • 1 Corinthians 16:19 “The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.”
  • Colossians 4:15 “Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.”
  • Philemon 1:2 “And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:”

I think it is important to realize that all of these references except for the church in Lydia’s house (Acts 16:40) refer to established churches with no missionary presence. How delightfully informal and cozy these family gatherings (God’s family) must have been. There is no doubt that this mutual love and respect was a powerful attraction to the communities of which they belonged. John 13:35, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

The House of God is not a building; it’s a Body – the local and visible habitation of God.

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Abrams October 2014 Prayer Letter

By David Peach | Published: December 19, 2014

This letter was written by BIO missionary, Sam Abrams

Dear Supporting Churches and Friends,
We just want to tell you we love you and miss you, but we love the people here and are continually being strengthened to study and work the ministry so people might be saved.

Ministry Opportunities:

The Lord has allowed us to re-start Wednesday evening prayer meetings with the church. We average eight people. This previous week, we had a Chinese visitor attend, thanks to saints that care for souls! We also were able to organize our first outreach ministry (Soul Winning).

Mandi has joined a choir and also has been assisting in the children’s classes on Sunday mornings. Because Jocelyn is old enough, she has also joined the children’s classes and has begun making new friends and picking up language we have never heard. We rejoice in the Lord for these things and know you rejoice with us.

Relationships:

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 where we work 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.

Language:

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.

Prayer:

Pray for Trevor, Joe, Isaac and Kevin that God would open their hearts to me and the Gospel. They need to hear the Gospel of Christ in their language. We hope that even now, as you read you will fall to your knees and desire that God would save these men. Again, we love you and thank you for taking time to read our letters and pray for us.

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