Every four years the United States political machine goes into high gear. Presidential candidates raise millions of dollars to tell others they can best lead the country. They travel, meet with groups, give speeches and court media attention. Today our world is confronted with another form of politics too, but this race has eternal consequences. It’s a spiritual duel. One side has a multi-billion-dollar propaganda machine to persuade people to choose the path of sin and self. The other side … [Read more...]
One Million for Jesus
The year has started off with much to be thankful for at Gospel Outreach. Our deep appreciation to everyone who prays for this ministry and who supports work in the 10/40 Window. We’ve just heard a report from the 500-village evangelistic effort in India. Meetings have been held covering 220 of those villages. Baptisms total approximately 49,000. The harvest truly is ripe. We’ve just completed a three-year plan called ONE MILLION FOR JESUS. The goal is to reach and baptize at least 1 … [Read more...]
Harvest
I recently began volunteering at Gospel Outreach and have been impressed that God is working in and through this place. This year, GO celebrates 20 years of spreading the gospel in the 10/40 Window. As the new year begins we see numerous opportunities. GO has received requests for more than 1,000 additional workers. The requests have been approved by the respective divisions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, reflecting plans in each area to spread the gospel further. The Lord is working … [Read more...]
Treasure
Every Christian can become a foreign missionary. Here’s how I heard it shared in church by Keith Walde: Time and talent, in spite of their otherwise good qualities, have one restriction. They cannot be stored or transferred easily. Time past is gone forever. Also talent cannot be stored for future use. This brings us to the last of the three Ts of stewardship responsibility, which is treasure. Treasure, or money, is a possession. When we agree to work for someone, they agree to pay us an … [Read more...]
Highways and Hedges
Our Lord’s characterization of the last days is that they would be like the days just before the Flood (Matthew 24:37-39). To my thinking, we meet all the signs today like a hand in a glove. I have pondered the year Noah was on the boat. The first days were filled with awful disappointment that more folks didn’t accept the invitation. Walking past the empty staterooms must have been extremely painful. Often the question must have arisen in his mind: Could I have done more? Where did I … [Read more...]
Urgency, Efficiency, United, Certainty
The Adventist-Laymen’s Services & Industries (ASI) convention in Sacramento earlier this year was fantastic. Lay leaders from across the world and church leaders from every corner of the globe emphasized the need to join together in this battle to share Jesus with the world. Today, most people are struggling to find a direction. There are riots, wars, financial turmoil, famines and natural disasters. These signs of the times are pushing the volunteers at Gospel Outreach to pray with … [Read more...]
Priorities
Have you listened to the winds of strife blowing through our world? These gales have people from all walks of life very concerned. We are looking for someone who can help, someone who can see through this storm, someone who has the answers. We are in search of a Savior. In John 6:29 Jesus said, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one He has sent.” This verse is calling Christians to action. For years we have heard that we must be a part of “finishing the work.” Jesus gives us … [Read more...]
Your Support
The influence of a life or enterprise cannot be separated from the Holy Spirit. All of our successes are the result of leaning wholly upon God moment by moment. Gospel Outreach is a far-flung endeavor reaching around the world, affecting the lives of many for eternity. Each month we are reminded of God’s recreative power and His unfathomable love in the accounts sent in from the 10/40 Window. But now and then there is revealed a cameo of the other side of the great equation—the people … [Read more...]
GO Beginnings
Gospel Outreach became operational May 1, 1993, with the sponsorship of Edgar Navalles among the Ifugaos in the territory of the Mountain Provinces Mission in the Philippines. That represented the genius of GO. It sponsors native workers who present the gospel to their own people. It is very effective because people hear the message in words they can understand, and spoken by someone of their own ethnicity. From that humble beginning in the mountainous region of the Philippines, GO was next … [Read more...]
No moving vans to heaven
“Buyers must not count on keeping what they buy... for the whole frame of the world is passing away” (1 Cor. 7:31, NEB). Paul urges us not to count on keeping what we can buy, or to set our affections on such things, or to consider them indispensable for our happiness and peace of mind. Someone has reminded us that there will be no moving vans accompanying us on our trip to heaven. Let the uncertain nature of the things of the world teach us that they cannot possibly satisfy us and … [Read more...]