Update ~ Autumn 2025 September 1, 2013 – Posted in: News

Dear Prayer Warriors,

As we look at the world around us, no doubt most of us will agree that we are living in perhaps the most troubling times of our lives here on earth! The Lord’s coming seems to be just on the threshold, as we wonder at His long-suffering mercy over those who reject Christ. Yet He continued to wait patiently for those who will come to Him.

Did you know that over half of our language materials now go to seamen who travel the seas in favor of trade and pleasure (ie. Cargo/cruise ships)? Over half of these seamen are from the Philippines and of those who enter North American ports, the number climbs to 60% being from the Philippines. Serving on the high seas is not an easy job, with the weather conditions, being away from home for long periods, etc. Of the millions of ship containers sailing across the oceans at this moment, about 10,000 containers are lost at sea each year.

We keep active in the South Asian work here in Tacoma. For any that may be interested, records are now available of literature sent out over the past 30 years.

We value your continued prayers for our Lord’s blessing on the work to many precious souls. How exciting heaven will be with myriads of testimonies of souls saved and blessed through the printed page, the air waves and other means of multi media. So let’s keep praying and we’ll keep sowing ~ workers together! 1 Cor. 3:8, 9.

Toronto, ON, CANADA ~ I would like to  order double of what I already ordered, so in total 200 assorted tracts each in Hindi & Punjabi.  Beginning this month, the building next to our church building is the site of a college for international students.  I heard that most of them are coming from China but we have seen South Asians as well.  We are a Chinese church so we know very little about Indian language or culture. I cannot pass this opportunity to minister to them somehow.  So we’ll just start with handing them tracts and see where it leads.

Midland, MI, USA ~ Just received your packages.  Thank you so much for providing these materials and all the extras! Very grateful and praying they will all hit their God-ordained targets and bear good fruit!

Parafield Gardens, AUSTRALIA ~ Can I just order 7 of the Bibles and 7 Ultimate Questions in Burmese? The material we collect is used as a ministry of ours reaching out to the Burmese people living locally. Many are Christian.  However they are very attached to their cultural roots, which I don’t have a problem with, but in many cases it has a detrimental effect on the gospel and spiritual growth of the people.

NYC, NY, USA ~ Yes, please send the Pashto NT. I have a young man who is learning and seeking. Here soon I will quite possibly look at your Bengali material. We have many Bangladeshi Muslims here in NYC that we are trying to reach as well.

Piding, GERMANY ~ The Tamil believers in Sri Lanka have received the Tamil posters you had sent. They would like to get more copies of the scripture mottos and picture posters. They can use up to 100 copies per of each kind of the scripture mottos and picture posters you have.

Woodmere, NY, USA ~ I am a missions director and New Hope Christian church and also volunteer at Urban Impact where we teach English to mostly South Asian people. My neighborhood where I live in Queens NY is about 90% South Asian. So you can see I have a great need for these resources I am ordering from you.

Toronto, ON CANADA ~ Thanks a lot for the information. Of course my team and I can send you many addresses to distribute lots of the material to many churches and organizations around the world. We need them in America, Canada, and many other countries, such as Turkiye and India. We shall need Farsi,  Dari, and Pashto literature.  By the way, I had had ordered these materials from you before. They were well distributed.

Dalton, GA, USA ~ This will be my 4th trip to Nepal, see details below regarding the mission. I will need all the materials to arrive to my US address by August 21st in order for me to package the materials. Shalom

Stratford, PEI, CANADA ~ Many thanks for shipping these Gospel coins. We have a couple who own a large steel manufacturing company who hire Vietnamese people, so they have connections both in Vietnam and locally. They can make good use of the Vietnamese materials… We also have an Iranian man coming to our church and he’s looking for a Farsi Bible. We gave him a NT but he’d like a full Bible. Also, he’s interested in a large print. He’s not a believer yet but very interested so we definitely want to encourage him to find the Lord.

Crossroads, TX, USA ~ You were very generous to send free materials with my last order ~ a whole separate package! I’m not expecting such, but if you do typically send some freebies, things in Tamil and/or Telugu would be useful at this juncture (as we are relating to univ students and their families). The packages you sent were obviously packed with a high level of care… work to the glory of God!

Armidale, NSW, AUSTRALIA ~ I am trying to reach the Yazidi people with the Gospel.  About 50 families have been repatriated here to Armidale. It’s my understanding they speak either Kurmanji  (northern Iraq) and in the south some speak Arabic. I showed some people an Arabic gospel tract and they couldn’t understand it so I presume Kurmanji is the language in which I need to reach them. They have a very strange belief system which has a strong Jewish influence.

Dublin, IRELAND ~ I received my Bible and its perfect, thank you. I just placed another order on the website for 2 of my friends for 2 Urdu Bibles and 2 Roman Urdu Bibles. Recently a lot of Pakistanis have been arriving in Ireland so myself and some friends are learning Urdu and trying to get Bibles to them.

Memphis, TN, USA ~ Thank you for your extraordinary assistance. We have an informal group of about a dozen guys and an extended informal group of about 100 men who do evangelism primarily in the US, but not exclusively.We simply get on the ground where we live and travel to other communities and share the gospel where the people are; where they live, where they work, where they recreate, where they shop, where they are entertained,  and more. Over the past four years, we have reached out to nearly 400 communities distributing well over 1 million gospel tracts, booklets, gospels of John.

Cambridge, ON, CANADA ~ We have missionary friends who minister to the staff and crew aboard cruise ships. They meet with their Christian fellowship when they are travelling on board and holds services for the guests if asked to do so. The people who work on these ships are from all over the world and often ask him for a Bible in their own language which they are happy to do with no charge. Unfortunately, it is difficult to find such a variety of material in Canada at an affordable price. I kept your information as I found your ministry to be exceptional. Thank you for your ministry.

Clarksville, VA, USA ~ As for how these Ukrainian materials will be used, we are giving them to members of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. They are currently touring in the Eastern US and the church I attend is hosting a concert. They will take them back to Ukraine. Thanks for your prayers for this event as we look forward to Ukrainian musicians proclaiming Christ in our public school auditorium!

St. Catharines, ON, CANADA ~ I’m leaving in October for a missionary voyage on a cruise ship. This involves ministry to guests as well as staff and crew. I’m looking forward to another opportunity for service to our Lord in this outreach He has called us to. Int. Seafarers Ministry

Orange City, FL, USA ~ We are visiting friends up north and I was able to chat with a Farsi speaker at the check-in desk of the motel. I gave him a gospel of John in Farsi. He looked at it and said “that’s my language!” I get that response quite often. Anything in Bosnian and Albanian? They would work also.

O’Leary, PEI, CANADA ~ Here in PEI, we have a large population of Filipino’s who live in the western part. A good handful have already been saved and attend our local assembly, but there are many more yet to be saved. Some already attend gospel meetings, but more come each year. We have been trying to reach the newcomers in their own language of Tagalog to help spread the word as they work on their English.

Yuba City, CA, USA ~ I am interested in obtaining 1000 Punjabi calendars for a mass distribution event on November 3. (The Sikh parade in Yuba City, California – an outreach event.) … and later… The calendars arrived on Friday. They look lovely. We prayed over them tonight. Thank you for prayers for outreach. It was a joy to give them out and they were well received, especially by the elderly folks.

Abbotsford, BC CANADA ~ We have been having great success in reaching out to the Punjabi speaking people in Abbotsford. On one occasion alone we went door to door soul-winning on a street that was all Punjabi people and 7 people came to know the Lord through the preaching of the Gospel in English to them (not just individuals but families as well).

Acacia Ridge, Qsld, AUSTRALIA ~ I have a strong evangelistic zeal and the Lord seems to introduce me to Asian people. Today I’m having lunch in a Vietnamese cafe. I made friends with these lovely people and gave them a copy of Ultimate Questions in their native language… yesterday a Canadian man saw me with my Bible in a library and he started a conversation with me. Eventually I shared the gospel and my testimony with him and he accepted a book, Ultimate Questions. God is doing amazing things and He blesses me in sharing the gospel. Without the Holy Spirit I could not serve in this way. God has filled my heart with His love and I can only respond in gratitude by sharing His love with those who do not understand or know Jesus… I was so excited when I walked upstairs and saw the package on the patio seat. The post was so quick and all the booklets are in excellent condition. I’m looking forward now for the Lord to direct me in evangelism. Thank you so much for all your help.

Richmond, TX, USA ~ Thanks for all the great materials! We appreciate the wide variety. We received them in good time for our August outreach… We recently had our IndiaFest Outreach and wanted to thank you for providing booklets & Bibles in so many different languages. It was very good to have so many materials to share.

Vancouver, BC, CANADA ~ With regard to the Indonesian John’s Gospel, I believe that, Lord willing, we would like to order 300 or so. We would also like 300 copies of AWAY FROM HOME in the Tagalog language.