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Betty (Mrs. J.C.) Choate(Continuing the work begun
by J.C. in 1962)708 Burton Drive
Winona, MS 38967662-283-1192
email: [email protected]
Web site: WorldEvangelism.org
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Sponsor:Liberty Church of Christ
689 Highway 25Dennis, MS 38838
662-454-7362
Co-worker withWayne and Janet BarrierByron and Gay NicholsJerry
and Paula Bates
Louis & Bonnie RushmoreAllon Brumley
Robin Dunaway
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Dear Ones, Through the prophet Hosea, God described His patient
and gentle care for His people: When Israel was a child, I loved
him.... I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; but
they did not know that I healed them. I drew them with gentle
cords, with bands of love, and I was to them as those who take the
yoke from their neck. I stooped and fed them... But in response to
their disobedience and idolatry, God cried, How can I give you up,
Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? ... My heart churns
within Me... (Hosea 11:1,3,4,8).
We cannot read these words without feeling in our own hearts all
the emotions we know toward our own children, or toward the ones to
whom we would give spiritual birth through the Gospel the love, the
patience in helping them to take their first stumbling steps, the
kissing of the wounds when they fall, the gentleness and love with
which we lead them along, easing their burdens whenever we can,
even bending down to their little heights to provide whatever care
they need. God used these very words to describe His
emotionally-induced provisions for His children. But in Israels
disobedience that required correction, what strong words God used
to describe what the thought of that punishment did to His own
heart: it churned within Him!
I have to believe that He has the same feelings toward this
nation which seemingly could have come into existence only through
His providential work, knowing that the church would flourish here
and that more Gospel would go out to the world from the US in the
Twentieth Century than in many previous centuries. But with the
growing apostacy in the church, and with the
humanist/atheist/pro-gressive movement that is turning America away
from God, what does our future hold? How Gods heart must churn
within Him, seeing all that is happening and will happen unless
things are turned around. I pray that we who are faithful will have
the spiritual strength to endure whatever comes.
Whats Happening Stateside? At the time of this writing, Bonnie
is in the hospital in Jackson, MS. Besides the build-up of fluids
in her stomach, she was running a temperature, and her blood counts
were low enough that she has had three transfusions in less than
24-hours. Her brothers from Pennsylvania visited her this week, and
Rebecca (their daughter) is with Bonnie and Louis this weekend.
Please pray for her and for the family. Even in the hospital, she
and Louis continue to do work on their computers!
Since Jerry and Paula were in India most of the past two months,
and Bonnies work has been hindered to some extent by her
treatments, much of the day-to-day work in the office has been my
responsibility. Layout work on the printing, phone conversations,
email communications, book orders taken and filled, data entry on
contributions, bookkeeping and check-writing for the overseas work
have kept me a little busy for which I am very thankful. God bless
each one of you who calls, gives, comes to help with work days, and
is involved through prayer with all we do.
It was thrilling to take part in the India Missions Conference
at Heritage University in Florence, AL, April 21-24. About 60 were
present, some of Indian origin, and some were missionaries who have
worked for India for many years. The reports on progress in the
work were so very encouraging.
I am very thankful that Jerry and Paula are Stateside again.
They had a busy trip to Sri Lanka, then to Myanmar to teach two
weeks in the Bible school there. They moved west to India, to
Shil-long, Imphal, Madurai, Visak, and Kakinada. While in Shillong,
helping with one of Philemans J C School of Evangelism sessions,
training men and women in the church in door-to-door evange-lism,
they met a man who has been preaching the Gospel for 50 years!
[Picture is on page 2]
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Reports from Brothers OverseasRajanayagam in Tamil Nadu, South
India
I am happy to tell that SIX precious souls have been added to
the Lords body, TWO in the town of Karaikal, Pondycheri State and
FOUR Yesterday in Mayiladuthurai by the result of the meetings I
had last week and all these areas are East Coast belt of Tamil
Nadu. A lectureship was held in Perambur, Chennai and was attended
by around 200. I was one of the speakers. The church there made
good arrange-ments on its own. Then we went to Chennai where
Racheal and I participated and had meeting and ladies class. The
ladies meeting was represented by at least six congregations and
was very useful. I had a three days trip to East coast area from
21st-23rd and had meetings in 4 different towns called Karaikal,
Tiruvarur, Thiruthuraipoondi and Mayiladuthurai. Thiruthuraipoondi
and Tiruvarur are towns where the sound
Gospel was totally untaught and as for I know NO Lords churches
are functioning although there are many thousand souls. It seems
some efforts were made sometime back during Tsunami time, but
nothing fruitful. Pray for these lost ones.
Earnest Gill and the North India Preachers lectureshipThis time,
a couple of weeks before the lectureship we all had virus one by
one. Even during the lectureship I had a bad cough.
Brother Russel Bell was suggesting me to avoid much speaking,
but it all went well. About 100 people from Bihar, Chhattisgarh,
MP, Maharashtra, Punjab, Chandi-garh, UP, Nepal- near UP border,
Chennai, Bangalore showed up. Brothers from Mumbai and Nagpur were
also present this time.
It was almost for the first time that we realized that the
church is in existence in Nagpur. Brother Pardeep came with his
wife and 5-6 years old daughter. Many came with their families this
time. And it was good for everybody to see each other. Brother
Russel Bell and brother John ONeal were here from the US.
We asked brother Victor Venkatesh from Banga-lore to speak for
the ladies among the mixed audience (Brother Venkatesh teaches New
Testament Greek and we encourage him to be a visiting teacher and
teach sometimes). He did well. Benu also had a separate class for
the ladies. In addition, Monica and Sonia were asked to teach in
the ladies and childrens classes. Sister Shalu from Mumbai also
helped them. Benu used sister Rushmores book on Ruth she recently
got, so the lectureship was a rich experience for the ladies as
well. Everybody enjoyed the fellowship and informed me after their
reaching home.
Left: Jerry, Paula, and Philemon with our preacher brother who
suffers with rheumatoid arthritis. Right: Brother Basil Overton
continues to teach, as his book Conversions in Acts is released in
Shillong, India.
The graduation ceremony for North India Bible College, 2015.
Racheal teaching one of the ladies classes.
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From Vinay David in New Delhi, IndiaWell, Ill be busy with 2
days meeting starting from tomorrow. We have invited all our Delhi
TV contacts for this meetings, so
please keep us in your prayers. Wayne Barrier, Robin Dunaway,
and Ricky Berger got here in Delhi this afternoon. They are doing
fine, and we look forward to have great time in the meetings with
them. [Later: Had a good meeting today. Around 30 people gath-ered
and we hope to have more joining us tomorrow since Saturday is an
off-day for some people.]
In regards to the Bible seminar that took place in Central part
of India, brother Francis, and brother Roger Wright from Indiana,
and I conducted 3 days Bible seminar. Our train ride took us 32
hours to get close to this place, and from there we went by car for
about 2 hours more to actually get to our destination. You can see
it was a hard and a difficult travel but as strong soldiers of
Christ we kept marching forward because we knew that we had a task
in hand: the task of saving the souls through the powerful and
saving message of the Gospel.
We started the seminar by 10 in the morning, and we finished by
7 in the evening. Since the local congregation is not financially
strong, we took care of the arrangements: breakfast, lunch, and
din-ner. For 2 days we had about 150 people, and then for the final
day we had about 200 people. Six people from Hindu background
obeyed the Lord, so it was just wonderful to see these people
making the right decision in their lives.
We also utilized Sunday, and worshipped together with the lo-cal
church. In fact, we even conducted a meeting on Sunday evening
again because people wanted to hear more. People really loved and
appreciated Bro. Rogers lessons. I am personally very thankful to
him for making this difficult trip with us. We really admire his
love, dedication, and sincerity for the Lord.
B. Arjunan in Batlagundu, South IndiaHere we would like to share
about our Gods ministry this
month. I went to Erode District and met our TV viewers in an
interior place with Brother Thangaraj who is doing ministry in this
area. Here most of the people are illiterate and many are
idolaters. On the way we could see an old man, who was cook-ing
food for him. I took Bible study for our viewers there.
On third Sunday we went to Theni District to preach the Word of
God in Anamalaiyanpatti Church of Christ. This is our gospel
journey with Church members. We have planned to go there every
month with them since it is baby congregation.
The young students those who are writing their Public
Ex-amination now came to our local congregation for special prayer.
They have been coming for two months interestingly. Please pray for
these youngsters to be saved and also for scoring high marks in
their examination. They have been helping for the last months in
preparing magazine for mailing with our local believers.
Gods Providence at Work: Please Read Randal Mathenys ReportPORTO
ALEGRE, Brazil (BNC) Daniel Araujo in southern Brazil watched some
videos posted on YouTube by World Video Bible School, based in
Maxwell, Tex. A video about premillenialism convinced him. He
contacted WVBS for information about the church in his city. He
wrote, Since watching your videos on YouTube and studying in other
sources Ive been bothered. Thats the prob-lem with the truth, it
sets you free. Where I live, state and city, all churches preach
premillennialism and the rapture, so I need your help! For some
time now the whole subject has been troublesome as I couldnt
understand what would happen to those left behind. Now that Im free
from that mistake, I can no longer admit participating in those
churches services. But I also dont want to be without a house of
prayer. So what does one need to open a church of Christ? What do I
have to know or do? Please, help. I want to do Gods work and I want
to do it right. WVBSs Al Washington asked brethren at the Sherman
Drive congregation in Denton, TX about a contact in Brazil. Theyre
one of our [Randals; and they also help with funds for our work
with the North India Bible College] supporting churches. Al emailed
me March 24, and the same day I emailed Daniel for a first
contact.
Brother Roger Wright works with the church in Vin-cennes,
Indiana, which supports one of the weekly Hindi TV programs and
also supportive outreach.
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He quickly replied to my email.I was actually going the wrong
way about the understanding of the gospel. Believing in things that
are not
biblical at all. I cant do that. I wont do that.So, please, lead
me in the direction of some church who preaches the pure and true
gospel. Or please
teach me how to open a branch of the Church of Christ here where
I live. Anything so I can get closer to Jesus. I only know I have
to talk to my current pastor and say I have to leave as my heart is
changed (God only knows how that conversation will go, but I intend
to make it peaceful).
I just want to do the right thing. Be my brothers and help me.
Please.I then emailed several brethren in or near the city of Porto
Alegre, state capital of Rio Grande do Sul. (We are located near So
Paulo, some distance from the city.)On March 26 Almir Barbosa
emailed me from Porto Alegre.
Im already in contact with Daniel and helping him with his
doubts and questions. We pray he may learn Gods will and be a
faithful Christian.I saw Almir Apr. 4 at the National Christian
Workers Encounter near So Paulo, and he told me that Daniel and his
wife were meeting with them in their congregation. We look forward
to more news about them in the gospel.After only two days since Als
initial contact, Almir had done follow-up on the ground with
Daniel. Everyone was kept in the loop as the emails ew back and
forth. Al wrote that he was sure that Daniel was impressed with the
prompt replies and follow-up.On April 7 Daniel wrote to every-one
involved.
The Lord not only revealed His truth clear as crystal, but also
indicated me where to go. For that I praise the Lord and here I
thank each and every one of you for the support and love. I follow
steady our Lord Jesus Christ and now Im attending the Church of
Christ.In a lengthy Facebook chat, Daniel commented, God opened my
eyes because I was searching for the truth. This serves [as an
example] for everyone.UPDATE: On Sunday, April 12, Daniel and his
wife were immersed for the remission of sins, after a study with
several of the brothers of the congregation where they were
attending. Praise God for such working together!
The Gospel is our mission. The world is our home.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all
things that I have commanded you;
and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
Amen.
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you (John
14:18).
[Angels are] ministering spirits sent forth to minister for
those who will inherit salvation... (Hebrews 1:14).
Mrs. J.C. Choate
World Evangelism
P.O. Box 72
Winona, MS 38967
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What has God entrusted in our hands? The souls of the
world and His unfolding plan since creation!
What are we doing with that treasure?