Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Greetings in the name of our Blessed Savior! Hope this note finds all well this Holiday Season. Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year. Keeping our eyes, heart and mind on the Reason for the Season, which is indeed our wonderful Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. To Him be all the glory.
Thank you for the many prayers that are still going up on our behalf. I believe the only reason I am still here is because someone is praying. Thank you for sticking close to us during this time of testing and rehabilitation. Thank you for your support for IAM and the work going on each day in Africa. Please pray for Dick and Eve Jarvis as they work with the Deaf in Zambia. They are running the Deaf Orphanage and are teaching the children sign language so they can eventually hear the Gospel. We need only $400 a month to run the operation of housing and feeding the children. Please pray about this need. The Jarvis's also need about $6000 to buy a van for the transportation of the children. They have raised half of it and are asking churches and individuals to pray about matching this so they can purchase this much needed vehicle. Please pray!!!!!
The work with our Pastor/Church planters is going well. Village after village are being reached with Bible studies going on almost every day, teaching and training others in the Word. I am currently finishing the Pastor Curriculum which will be used hopefully around the globe to help train pastors so they can train others and reach their people with the Gospel, and disciple others so they can reproduce themselves with the Message of Hope. Jesus is the Blessed Hope that they need.
Please continue to pray for my rehab. It's going too slow for me. The Lord is teaching me some patience and a bunch of humility, which I am sure each of you know I need. We love you all and are indeed thankful, humbled, and grateful for all of your prayers and support. I am praying that my schedule for 2010 will fill up with meetings so we can indeed report to our churches here and get into new churches so that we can find partners for IAM, to reach this world with the Gospel, and plant churches around this world.
In Jesus Name,
Bobby and Becky Bonner
IAM Ministries
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
News from Mexico
December 2009
Dear Friends in Christ,
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
How wonderful is the reason for this season. Celebrating Christmas in the Mexican churches is a very great time to worship and to serve the Lord. The children of the churches present a special program concerning the birth of our Lord. New parents come to see their children perform and many thereby have found Christ as their personal Savior.
Last month, the BBF of Mexico celebrated their annual fellowship meeting in Celaya, GTO. There were over 600 out of town messengers from the churches present for this occasion. The night services were even larger and there were over 750 present each night. The host church attended the visitors with splendor. The preaching was great and for the first time the services were broadcast on the Internet to those who could not attend. The next two meetings, in April and next November, will be conducted at the Rawlings Camp near Cuernavaca. All are invited to attend.
The "Filidelfia" Bible Baptist Church of Reynosa, Dr. Angel Zapata pastor, was a church host for a regional Youth meeting of the Border BBF churches of Mexico. The attendance was great for this all day Saturday meeting. Many of the young people dedicated their life anew to the Lord. All enjoyed a great time of fun and fellowship. Ten churches participated.
Beloved, we are so thankful for your faithfulness in prayer and support for our ministry. Our prayers are with you during these difficult economy times.
Yours for souls in Mexico,
Lonnie and Margie Smith
Dear Friends in Christ,
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
How wonderful is the reason for this season. Celebrating Christmas in the Mexican churches is a very great time to worship and to serve the Lord. The children of the churches present a special program concerning the birth of our Lord. New parents come to see their children perform and many thereby have found Christ as their personal Savior.
Last month, the BBF of Mexico celebrated their annual fellowship meeting in Celaya, GTO. There were over 600 out of town messengers from the churches present for this occasion. The night services were even larger and there were over 750 present each night. The host church attended the visitors with splendor. The preaching was great and for the first time the services were broadcast on the Internet to those who could not attend. The next two meetings, in April and next November, will be conducted at the Rawlings Camp near Cuernavaca. All are invited to attend.
The "Filidelfia" Bible Baptist Church of Reynosa, Dr. Angel Zapata pastor, was a church host for a regional Youth meeting of the Border BBF churches of Mexico. The attendance was great for this all day Saturday meeting. Many of the young people dedicated their life anew to the Lord. All enjoyed a great time of fun and fellowship. Ten churches participated.
Beloved, we are so thankful for your faithfulness in prayer and support for our ministry. Our prayers are with you during these difficult economy times.
Yours for souls in Mexico,
Lonnie and Margie Smith
Monday, November 30, 2009
Letter from Turkey
Gateway Thanksgiving Letter from Turkey: November 25, 2009
E. of G.E.S. has written you all a Thanksgiving greeting that I have translated. For avid Turkish readers see his original below:
Happy Thanksgiving to all those who support us spiritually and materially and who are members of and who belong to the family of the Messiah. Together with you because we possess eternal life in the Lord and because we will be one day together bowing before the Throne of the Lord and praise Him together forever we are thankful to the Lord and also thankful for you dear brothers and sisters.
Because there are millions of brothers and sisters like you in the world, we thank the Lord who gives us the honor to be members in His large family. May the Lord bless and use each one of you and may the Lord make you strong like Himself, the One that cannot be shaken! Amen.
Happy Thanksgiving
E. of G.E.S.
Highlights to pray for and praises:
1. Engagement party of K. (elder of Beytel) and L. (Music leader of Beytel) this Sunday!
2. Two new baptisms this Sunday.
3. Immediate answers to prayers already concerning the last email I sent.
4. Two guest speakers in at Beytel for a week.
5. Five Churches now wish to work together with us for the Kingdom in Mercy Ministry/Zacchaeus projects! We are praying and planning concerning what projects to do in Istanbul and in the East together!
I am grateful and thankful for you all and your friendship and prayers.
J. of G.E.S.
Bizleri maddi ve manevi yönden destekleyen Mesih'in büyük ailesinin, bedeninin üyeleri Şükran Gününüz Kutlu Olsun.Sizlerle birlikte Rabbde sonsuz yaşama sahip olduğumuz için ve Rabb’in tahtı önünde hep birlikte onu yüceltip secdeler sunabileceğimiz için ve sonsuzluklar boyunca birlikte olucağımız siz kardeşlerimiz için Rabbe teşekkür ediyoruz.
Sizin gibi milyonlarca olan kardeşlerimiz olduğu için ve bu büyük ailenin üyesi olarak bizleri onurlandıran Rabbe teşekkür ediyoruz.Rab herbirinizi bereketlesin ve kullansın.Sizi güçlü ve kendi gibi sarsılmaz kılsın! Amin ŞÜKRAN GÜNÜNÜZ KUTLU OLSUN! E. of G.E.S
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Letter from J & L in Turkey
Gateway Prayer Requests
November 14, 2009
“And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.” (Revelation 5:8).
Your prayers rise up before the King who sits on the Throne. The four living creatures and the twenty-four elders also are before the throne and participate while lifting our prayers up to the King. This is every time you pray. Every time you sing to God you also join into this worship in heaven as well! David knew this:
“But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.” (Ps. 88:13).
Our time of great need and Turkey’s time of great need:
“You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.” (2 Cor. 1:11).
We need your help here in Turkey, please pray for us as Paul asked the church in Corinth pray for them.
Prayer needs:
1. Pray that the Lord would cleanse His church here in this country. Pray that the Lord would protect His church here in this country. Many have asked why Turkey is still the largest unreached country in the world. I can state in all honesty it is not merely the hardness of the people and lack of interest. Many are interested and have a desire to learn. However, there is a fundamental problem within churches here as a whole. That problem namely being in the Christian leadership. There are some who work too close to the government, abusing their power and lording it over others, some who are alcoholics, some who beat their wives, some who commit adultery, some who steal and many who are two-faced and not honest and some who are seeking money over the Kingdom of God, there is also much back-biting, gossiping and slandering. Some leaders are teaching that there is not a difference between being a Muslim and a Christian and that Muhammad was a prophet too. These leaders are leading others to do and think the same and have the same attitudes. They are the sick leading the sick.
The question is then if the Lord of the Harvest brings 10,000 into to the Kingdom here (now), where will they go? The answer is they would be sheep without a shepherd and thrown out to the wolves. Our Good Shepherd does know this and is patiently waiting.
I have never shared these realities with you our prayer and financial supporters, because it is generally not the kind of thing one wants to hear, I have kept these in for years, however I cannot bear this burden anymore and need all of you to please plea and beg before the throne, please beg with me and cry with me for this country and these people. I know now that this is the key that is missing to unlock the flood-gates of the Kingdom here. There are few true shepherds! I know that if you do pray the King will listen to your prayers the prayers will come up before His throne and He will respond. Please help.
2. Pray that the Lord would cause those in leadership to repent and or that the Lord would remove them from their positions.
3. Pray that the Lord would raise up faithful servants that are sold out to live and die for the King. Pray that these new servants would give full allegiance to the King and live Holy lives to be examples to their flocks.
4. Pray that the Lord would please send these faithful to us so that we may minister together and reach the West and the East here together in unity.
“praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,” (Eph. 6:18).
I do know that the Lord said in Matthew 13:29-30, that with the wheat, tares do grow and at the end the tares will be sifted and burned. Also In I Timothy 5:24, “Some men's sins are evident, going before unto judgment; and some men also they follow after.” However my cry to the Lord is that we need a swift cleansing. In Luke 18 in the parable of the unjust judge our almighty King gives us a promise concerning this, and that is if we continue to “bother” Him day and night over these issues:
“And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?” (Luke 18:7).
Thank you for your help in prayers,
J. of G.E.S.
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J. of G.E.S.
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