Meanwhile, missionaries are seeing success in their evangelism efforts at the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia. Gospel Literature Services Doctor David Crandall explains. “The entire Olympic Chinese track and field team came up to our folks and asked for booklets in Chinese. Then, a Chinese television station came up and wanted to interview our people. And, they interviewed a couple of our folksthere and we’re just hoping it gets shown on China TV.” Crandall says many are turning to Christ. He says they’re sending 65 additional staff to help with the outreach. “We will actually be involved in going out every day on the streets distributing the literature as well as talking and witnessing to folks about the Lord. And, then once the games are over, of course there’s going to be a lot of people still in Sydney, we’ll continue that.”
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Young people and discipleship is the focus of Kids Hope USA, an outreach of International Aid. Constant training is part of what keeps the vision alive. Kids Hope’s Virgil Gulker says this past weekend’s training session was a crucial part of the anticipated future. “We were at Cornerstone University training 267 new Kids Hope USA mentors. The huge number of men and teenagers that were there suggests now that we are going to be able to really address the fatherless need of children as well.” Gulker explains how they work. “One of the privileges that we have is to be able to teach churches to be able to engage one to one mentors and prayer partners with at-risk public elementary school children.” The next training session for Kids Hope is slated for October 21rst in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
We turn next to Northern Ireland where Sammy Tippit Ministries is preparing for a week of evangelistic
meetings. Tippit is anticipating the conference adding that Northern Ireland is filled with stories of the 1800s prayer revival to extraordinary meetings of the great Irish evangelist, W.P. Nicholson. Tippit asks believers to pray that for work of God in Northern Ireland. At the conclusion of the Ireland meetings, the team heads to Ukraine next week for a pastor’s conference and an evangelistic summit.
Meanwhile, Evangelist Billy Graham has been released from the Mayo Clinic, and has returned home to continue his upcoming ministry schedule. Mr. Graham was hospitalized at Mayo Clinic in June for several surgical procedures to treat normal pressure hydrocephalus, as well as to monitor his Parkinson’s condition. Mr. Graham is continuing preparations to lead his upcoming crusade in Jacksonville, Florida, November 2nd through the 5th. Please continue to pray for his recovery and strength.
A ministry serving the needs of young people around the world has reached an incredible milestone. According to Book of Hope’s John Young on September 15th they distributed their 100-millionth copy of the Book of Hope. Young says the use of this scripture book has grown by leaps and bounds. “We began in 1987 and from 1987 to 1998 it took us approximately about 10 years to reach the 50-millionth copy – distribution. And, within the past two years we’ve doubled that to reach 100-million.” Young believes the Book of Hope could be one of the tools used to see the Great Commission completed. “I really believe that the Book of Hope is one of the tools to help motivate and facilitate kids to reach their world for Christ. This generation, the 14 to 18 year olds that God is raising up right now could be the generation that gets it done.” The Book of Hope has been translated into 44 different languages and is being used in more than 90 countries.
