Hope and Help International

Dear Friends and Ministry Partners,

Below is a short email from Lori in regards to the Timothy Leadership Institute being held in Chickabalapur, Karnataka, India with our coordinator Albert Jayaraju during the next two weeks. This is the 3rd and final year for these 30 students. Please be in prayer for God’s continued blessing and strength as the teachers share and encourage these Faithful Men.

"After a missed flight we arrived in Bangalore a day later than planned. The TLI was scheduled to start on Wednesday, June 25 and it did, but because we were late getting in the night before, we began in the afternoon rather than the morning.

All the students had arrived on time so they spent the morning in prayer for the training. They were much more relaxed about the delay than we uptight Americans were!

Albert, our coordinator, had been in the hospital just a few weeks ago. He had severe headaches and high fever. He is somewhat better but it's obvious that he is not completely well. The doctors still don't know what caused his problems. We are praying that he will be OK throughout the TLI.

Ed began the TLI by teaching on evangelism, with a focus on the biblical elements of the true Gospel. He encouraged the men to develop their testimony, giving a brief background of their life before Christ, but with the main emphasis on what Christ has done for them.

Mike is teaching on developing biblical messages. He emphasized the need to understand the context, to interpret the passage correctly and to always include an application.

The students are eager to learn and are participating in the classroom discussions and answering questions in a way that makes it apparent that they are understanding the material. We pray that the rest of the TLI goes as well as the first two days."

Blessings,

Larry Malone
Hope and Help International

FBCE Missionaries- Robert and Mary Jo Foster

The following is an update from FBCE Missionaries Robert and Mary Jo Foster, who are working with Evangelism Explosion in Brazil:

Friends & Supporters,

The other day the latest edition of SouthwesternNews arrived in the mail. On page 64, seminary professor, Dr. David Mills, starts his article by saying: "One could say that it is nearly impossible to exaggerate when speaking of the importance of personal evangelism."

His statement causes me to reflect on the "tagline" for EE-Brazil's new Workshop training for personal evangelism: "Easy to learn...fun to share...and hard to forget!" In the Workshop that I taught in São Paulo on April 26th, the participants found this to be true. Since personal evangelism IS so important, how cool is it that EE-Brazil can offer training for a Gospel presentation that is easy to learn, fun to share and hard to forget? God is certainly good!

I just spent 26 days in São Paulo. It was the latest in my string of marathons! Much of the time was spent on finalizing the Portuguese materials for our Workshop. PTL this phase of the project is completed, as the materials are at the publishing house! God is really good!

Upon returning, I remember saying to one Brazilian in São Paulo in an online conversation that "so many good things are happening within EE-Brazil that I can't keep up!" Truth is that when good things are happening, it generates additional work, too. I confess to being a little overwhelmed right now by all the opportunities and resultant new tasks! But, God is good, and "His Word is a lamp to our feet and a light for our path." (Psalm 119:105) We'll appreciate your prayers during these busy days!

Here are a few Praises:

Praise the Lord for the excellent contacts made among pastors while in São Paulo.
A Kids’ EE clinic was held in Rio de Janeiro in April.
We met with the director of a hospital chaplaincy ministry and discussed how we could work together in training chaplains and hospital volunteers, using our new Workshop and Kids' EE.
A Share Your Faith Workshop was held April 26th in an English-speaking church in São Paulo , as part of EE-Brazil’s intercultural ministry to other language groups in Brazil.
Praise for the Lord leading us to a Brazilian pastor who is well-connected in the Korean

community in São Paulo . He speaks Korean and will be able to help us discover key contacts
among the Korean churches there. We want to offer our training in Korean to these
pastors/churches.
Continued praise to the Lord for the churches, Christian businesses, friends and family that pray
for us and give faithfully to our support!

...and, a few Prayer Requests:

Please pray for my next major project, as I begin to adapt/translate Youth EE materials into
Portuguese for Brazil. There are other projects in line, too, awaiting the completion of this one.
So, please pray for good time management.
Please continue to pray for EE-Brazil’s need for a greater number of clinic teachers for both
Adult and Kids´ EE.
Plans for a Chinese clinic in São Paulo have been shifted to 2009. Please pray for these plans to
mature and for a possible Workshop in April 2009 to promote a training clinic later in the year.
Pray for the launching of the Kids' EE EvangeCube in Brazil. I am working now on details of how
EE-Brazil will become the exclusive distributor for this witnessing tool in Brazil. This should
generate training opportunities and needed income for EE-Brazil.
Pray for the development of a new website for EE-Brazil. Work began last week.
Pray for the filming of two short videos to be used in conjunction with our new Workshop.
Pray for training material sales in Brazil to continue to increase in order that adequate funds for
the ministry will be available.
Our family must find economical health insurance without sacrificing too much more on
coverage. Pray that we can find a solution to this constant financial burden.
And, perhaps the most urgent at the moment: Please pray for adequate family support and that
eventually we can raise sufficient funds in order to return to full financial support.

Chinese Bible Translation Update

The goal of this project is to enable Chinese scholars to create an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand contemporary Chinese Mandarin Bible that also is theologically accurate. Recently the CSB New Testament was completed, which is especially timely due to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Holman Bible Outreach has a distribution strategy in place, and initially will give away 200,000 copies of the New Testament to Chinese people around the world.

"Most of the brothers and sisters agree that this new translation is making better sense, and is easier to understand. Beijing church is surprised and excited to receive the newest translation from U.S. church; they appreciate it greatly," writes Lu, a Chinese house church member.

The Old Testament translation work continues to progress, with a target date of 2011 for completion.

Hope and Help International Update

Hope and Help sent this update from their latest project in Assam, India.

258 Salvations
201 Baptisms
142 Villages Visited
15 New Churches