Baptists Committed to World Evangelism

• These Monday Updates sneak up on me so quickly, but I have a good excuse this time, I was on a 10 hour train to the Capitol. We left around 9:30 Sunday night and arrive Monday morning around 7:30. We had four adults, two kids, and lots of luggage in a room with four [...]

• My in-laws are in town. • I translated in Sunday school for my father-in-law as he taught the class. This was my first time translating in a “live” setting. It went pretty good. • Went to Grace last night across the river and the pastor led one person to Christ! Amen! • Been in “decision mode” for about [...]

Heather Trojahn is originally from South Caroline and is the daughter of Horst Trojahn, Pastor of Blythewood Baptist Church in Blythewood, SC.  She graduated from Pensacola Christian College with a degree in biology and also attending the Our Generation Training Centre at our home church in Alpharetta, GA.  She has been working for a while [...]

We are currently in our third back-to-back missions conference (whew!), Cornerstone Baptist Temple in Dayton OH, and we are staying with some pretty amazing people. One of the awesome things about deputation is that we often stay in homes of church members. We have not only made great friends this way, but we also get [...]

Dear Pastor and Praying Friends: We have just returned from a short visit to the states and are very excited to be back home and back in the work. The reason behind our visit was to attend a few meetings that we were invited to, and to visit family. But most importantly, to find out [...]

During this year’s OG Summit I taught a class on Short Term Mission Trips.  I wanted Missionary Matt Allen to take a few minutes and speak about his field in person, but unfortunately he wasn’t able to because he was teaching another class at the same time.  Instead, he wrote out a testimony that I have placed below that really touched my heart.  He also wanted me to let others know that currently, from people visiting him on the field, there are 6 families on deputation who are raising support for Papua New Guinea, and two more that are starting this year

Deuteronomy 1:21-28 “ Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.  22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. 23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: 24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us. 26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:  27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.” In Deuteronomy, God through Moses is rehearsing the history of the nation of Israel and reviewing the law of Moses again to remind them of what it says.  In chapter one, we find something that is not mentioned in the previous account in Numbers 13.  It was the idea of the people to send men in to spy out the land.

Numbers 34:50-53 “And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.” When the Israelites came into the land of Canaan, they were instructed by God to do several things: Drive out all the inhabitants of the land before them Destroy all the pictures of the inhabitants of the land Destroy all the molten images of the inhabitants of the land Pluck down all their high places Dispossess the inhabitants of the land They were to take complete control of the land, to completely drive out all the inhabitants, and to destroy everything that had to do with idol worship.  This was for their own good. Later on in this passage, God said that if they did not drive them out, those that remained would be pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides to vex them.

Numbers 32:6 “And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?” The nation of Israel had been commanded to go up into the land of Canaan and take the land that God had given them.  Several of the tribes wanted to stay where they were instead of going over the Jordan River.  By wanting to stay behind they were discouraging the hearts of their brethren who had to face the enemies and challenges over on the others side of the river.  They were not going to be allowed to sit there in comfort while their brothers went to war. This applies to Christians today.

Numbers 20:7-12 “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.” Moses was a very meek man.  He was a good man.  God really used him, but he had problems with his anger.  It got him into trouble more than once.  As a young man in Egypt, his anger resulted in the murder of an Egyptian taskmaster