Baptists Committed to World Evangelism

We finished revelation with with 2360 attendees and 499 professions of faith!! We had over 1100 people come through on Friday and Saturday night! This is from Friday night’s “Great White Throne” scene (Bekah was our angle). We celebrated Thanksgiving (Peruvian style) Sunday morning at IB Omega.  Pot-luck dinner afterwards with over 120! Bekah prepared turkey! Heard some awesome testimonies of how God has changed lives this year!! We also baptisized a couple of people. This is Luis Alberto baptizing Luisa. I baptized Paul who accepted Christ a little over a month ago.

We finished revelation with with 2360 attendees and 499 professions of faith!! We had over 1100 people come through on Friday and Saturday night! This is from Friday night’s “Great White Throne” scene (Bekah was our angle). We celebrated Thanksgiving (Peruvian style) Sunday morning at IB Omega.  Pot-luck dinner afterwards with over 120! Bekah prepared turkey! Heard some awesome testimonies of how God has changed lives this year!! We also baptisized a couple of people. This is Luis Alberto baptizing Luisa. I baptized Paul who accepted Christ a little over a month ago

In Tim Tebow’s autobiography, “Through My Eyes,”For as long as I can remember, this was instilled in me: to have fun, love Jesus and others, and tell them about Him.” If you have given Tebow a moment of your attention you will see that he is living up to these principles in his life. He is having a blast and pointing people to Jesus on and off the field. You do not have to be a Broncos fan to be a Tebow fan nor would you have to be a follower of Jesus to appreciate Tim Tebow’s work ethic. His contribution as starting quarterback cannot be argued. His dedication to Jesus may not be cared for by some but He is consistent.

People often wonder what size is normal for a church. There are two ways of determining the size of a church. The median size is determined by taking the number of churches and getting half as larger and half as smaller. That puts the median church attendance at 75 regular participants for Sunday worship

As Christians we should know our geography better than anyone! I am often embarrassed about how hard it is for me to find a country on the world map. Since I am part of a church that is responsible for getting the gospel to the world maybe I should study the world. What about you? Go here and play games on line that will help you learn about the locations of different countries. Play with your children and friends

I think everyone remembers the shock of 9/11. You probably remember where you were, and what you were doing, as well as the progression of thoughts: “Is this real? How did this happen? Who would do this?” I’ll also probably remember the progression of thoughts when I heard the newscast last night that Osama Bin Laden was dead. And I can’t say that I’m very proud of them.

We just had $100 more donated to the land project at Lighthouse Baptist Church. Our new total is $7100! This coming Sunday we are going to present Pastor Juan with this offering. If you are interested in giving toward this need write me at jmhall@bcwe.org.

I want to give you an idea of the economical changes that we have seen since we arrived in Peru, less than two years ago (23 months). The exchange rate was s/.3.19 (soles) to $1, now s/.2.76 to $1. That may not seem like much of a difference, but that is a loss of 13.5%.

Egypt David and Beth X. live and serve in Egypt. You should know by now that life is very turbulent there.

“A Global Day of Prayer for the Chinese” is a day in which we are reminded and encouraged to pray for the largest nation and largest people group in the world today! We need to pray for the over 1.3 billion in China and the millions of Chinese that live outside of its borders. It is a day for you and your local church to say a special word of prayer for the souls of China and the Chinese community all around the world. Pray that the Lord will send forth laboueres, that the gospel will be boldly proclaimed, and that God will be glorified among the Chinese people! This year Chinese New Year is on Thursday, February 3, 2011. What can you do? Here are a few ideas: Have special prayer for China on Thursday.