April 1999
The Seamen House
While in the Falkland Islands, Woody Lajara, EE Vice President for Latin America, visited the Seamen House, a place where fishermen are given clothes, meals, and fellowship. The Seamen House is a ministry managed by a couple from New Zealand, Mike and Kathy, focusing on social services, not on evangelism.
A group of Spanish-speaking fishermen from Peru arrived there for a short visit. They told Woody about their fishing vessel that caught fire and sank a few days earlier. Woody seized the opportunity. “I told them that I was a fisherman, too, and that my boat will never sink.” This caught their attention and they began questioning Woody about what kind of boat never sinks. Woody then shared the Gospel. Ten of the seventeen fishermen accepted the gift of eternal life. Three others were already Christians.
Mike and Kathy were astonished to see ten people receive Christ at one time. When their kids returned from school, Mike and Kathy told them, with tears and excitement, what happened. Woody explained the EE ministry to Mike and Kathy, and now the Seamen House may not only provide for temporal needs, but eternal.
Youth update—Philippines
Rick Bond, EE Vice President for Youth, reports that the Youth EE ministry in the Philippines has certified 131 youth leaders since launching the ministry there nine months ago. The Gospel was presented to 549 people and 455 received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Two Youth EE clinics were held there last year. This year, EE is conducting five. Praise God
EE growing rapidly in Hong Kong
Zephaniah Yu, EE Director in Hong Kong, reports that clinic number 69, recently concluded, was successful. Forty-one clinicians attended. They represented 27 different churches, with two in the U.S. and one in Australia. Ninety-one people heard the Gospel and 46 professed Christ as Savior.
This clinic-base church has led 400 people to Christ in 1999 alone. It’s growing so fast that they hold five services on Sunday.
Misunderstanding leads to multiplication
A Chinese lay man taught a six-day underground clinic. Following the clinic, he encouraged his clinicians to “do for 16 weeks what you saw us do here for six days.” One clinician misunderstood the instructions. He trained his church all day, seven days a week, for 16 weeks. Incredibly, more than 30,000 people heard the Gospel, and 20,000 received Christ!
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