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Your sacrifices will result in eternal praise

Your sacrifices will result in eternal praise from every nation (and) tribe

We want you to know how grateful we are for your faithful giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Your gifts make our ministry – and the ministries of more than 5,300 International Mission Board missionaries serving around the world – possible. Your sacrifices will result in eternal praise from every nation, tribe, language, and people.

We fully understand the financial hardship many are facing during these unstable economic times. And we know that a rough economy hasn’t changed your heart for the lost any more than it’s changed our call to reach them. Below is a list of how your gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering are used to reach the lost tribal people of Bangladesh:

• $0.50 will buy a songbook of indigenous hymns.
• $1 will provide a meal for one person attending a leadership meeting. Since these are rural farmers, if they don’t work, many don’t have money to eat.
• $1 will buy a complete Bible for a new believer.
• $10 will cover the costs of a team taking the JESUS film to remote villages. LMCO gifts from last year bought a portable projector and generator for showing the film.
• $25 helps to cover the monthly travel expenses of trainers as they travel to give Bible and leadership training for new church leaders.
• $30 will send one village pastor to a weeklong, intense Bible training to receive formal Bible teaching from seminary-educated and field-experienced instructors.
• $50 will fill a tank of gas, enabling missionaries to travel to leadership trainings in district towns and to remote areas to share the Gospel.
• $50 will cover one month’s tuition for one of the tribal team’s children to attend a local, national school, providing a beacon of hope to their Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist classmates lost in darkness.

Thank you for your faithful and sacrificial gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.

The Galvins*

*Names changed for security reasons for missionaries serving in South Asia.

God often uses you all to be His hands and feet – and His Voice

God often uses you all to be His hands and feet – and His Voice

It’s that season of the year that one’s heart turns toward home and the joy of memories of family, friends, food, and lots of fun. After following a friend’s blog the other night, I found myself growing a tad homesick. Praise God that His mercies are new every morning and that He always knows right where we’re at! As I began to ponder my feelings, He gently reminded me of a few things – you know, those things you know, but you just need help remembering sometimes. I heard Charles Stanley say a long time ago, “Feelings are satanic slush.” It’s something I’ve held on to because I tend to be one of God’s extra-emotional beings. Feelings are just that – feelings; they are not fact.

So as we head into this season, pray for us – and so many others like us – who would love to be at “home” for the holidays but whose deepest desire is to honor the One who paid a debt He did not owe to obtain for us eternal life in a heavenly home with Him. Now that’s something to be thankful for!

Please know also how very thankful we are for the support you give us through your prayers and your notes of encouragement. God often uses you all to be His hands and feet – and His voice – as He ministers to us through you. We are blessed beyond measure!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generous support to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering in the past. It is because of your unselfish giving that we, and 5000-plus like us, are able to live on this side and minister in Christ’s name.

The Cargills*

*Names changed for security reasons for missionaries serving in South Asia

Support keeps the called in strategic places

Thank you:  Your support keeps the called in strategic places

Dear Southern Baptists,

We serve in a sea of lostness – dark and hopeless without the light of Jesus Christ. Your support allows called-out men and women to live in strategic places throughout our region of the world in order that those who are blind can see Truth and respond. The two of us provide member care to those who come, live and work in difficult places and to their families. With your help, we are able to encourage, empower and equip these servants to stand firm. What you do makes the difference, keeping those on the front lines healthy and effective for the kingdom’s sake.

Each personal visit, phone call or e-mail we make or resource we share to strengthen our front-line folks is possible through your faithfulness and generosity. You are extending the ministry of the Body of Christ throughout South Asia. The result is that more and more are accepting Christ. The kingdom is advancing in record numbers here. We rejoice! We give thanks! As we express our gratitude to the Lord for what He is doing, we also express the same gratitude to you.

Reid and Eve Godsey*

*Names changed for security reasons for missionaries serving in South Asia.

Lives have been changed, for eternity

Thank you:  Jiva* no longer worships idols

Dear Faithful Supporter,

Lives have been changed, for eternity, because of you!

The darkness of South Asia can sometimes seem impenetrable. Thank the Lord for the greatest supporters in the world to help us continue the task of taking the gospel to the ends of the earth. Because of your prayers and financial support, Jiva*, formerly in bondage to idol worship, is now a born-again believer in Jesus Christ, along with many others.

With sincerest love and gratitude, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generous donation to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.

Yours in Christ,   Vincent, Reba and Salem*

*Names changed for security reasons in South Asia.

God healed Parvez when they prayed

God healed Parvez* when they prayed

Dear Southern Baptist family,

In a South Asia city of 3 million, we have interacted with Hindus, Muslims and Jains on a regular basis. Last week, we received a call from Parvez, one of our Muslim friends. Parvez’s morning phone call was not his usual invitation for another visit. Instead, he informed us that he had been sick for four days and unable to work. Then he asked if we would pray to Jesus for him. Hayden* prayed for Parvez over the phone, asking God to heal him that very day. Later that evening, we called to see how Parvez was feeling. He cheerfully relayed that he was feeling very well and would be going to work the next day. Parvez expressed his appreciation for our prayers. Once again, God provided us an opportunity to share with Parvez that Jesus, our Healer, was the One who heard and answered prayer.

God is opening many such doors to share the gospel in South Asia in response to your faithful prayers and generous giving. Thank you, Southern Baptists, for loving Jesus, loving us, and loving the lost world. We are greatly blessed through your cooperative undergirding in prayer and your faithful giving through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. God continues to use you as partners in reaching South Asia for Christ.

Hayden and Taffy Monticello*

*Names changed for security reasons in South Asia.

Come back to visit often to see what God is doing in South Asia.