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From the Memo Board: August 2014
New Missionaries
Please be in prayer for these new additions to the World Wide family, as they complete survey trips in the near future and then make plans to begin their deputation ministries.
Michael & Honorah Deatrick have recently joined the World Wide family. The Deatricks are both graduates of Ambassador Baptist College and are from the First Baptist Church of Wayland, MO, where his father, Dan Deatrick, is the pastor. They are planning to go to the Solomon Islands.
John & Sarah Sinskie have also joined the World Wide family. The Sinskies are both graduates of Pensacola Christian College. They are from the Trinity Baptist Church in Warrenton, VA, with Pastor Vinton Williams. Their plan is to be involved in education ministries in the Far East.
SecureCloud Account Settings
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Receiving Donations
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From Our President: August 2014
Do you have an electronic device or kitchen appliance that has a reset button? Many times you can use one of these and not even know it has one simply because there is not a need for it. However, when the day does come that it is needed it is the first thing to look for. Perhaps there is an electrical surge that would have destroyed the device or appliance, but it was saved by a small circuit breaker that kept the power from torching it. When that happens you can just press the reset button and you are back in business.
So many things clamor for our attention these days. We have often heard someone say, “information overload!” There was a day when things were not so complicated. You would know the people that lived right around you, and probably every intimate detail of their lives, but apart from them you only knew what the evening news would tell you in half an hour. Today, twenty four hours a day we are bombarded with information every waking hour. It is so easy to lose sight of the important things in the midst of all of the “information overload.”
Is it time to pause and look for the reset button. We know that we need to pray, read our Bibles, study the Word, witness to others of the saving grace of God, and teach others how to live out their faith. Have you noticed how easily the world can overrun these very important things in our lives. It seems obvious that we have many responsibilities because we are saved by the mercy of God, but because of our calling these duties are even more obvious. We have been specifically called of our Lord to go into the world to witness, baptize and teach. How can we justifiably permit the world to so intrude into our lives to the degree that these things are put on the back shelf and gotten to only when time permits?
Press the reset button on your life today if the circuit has indeed been broken. Let’s focus on the things that not only matter for time, but for eternity as well. Let’s move on from the survival mode the the service mode. We are servants of the living God, and we have been sent out to serve among a very specific people. That isn’t to say that our burden isn’t for the entire world, but by virtue of our call of God He has gotten very specific with our location. Look around today and see the faces of the souls that the Lord has put you in the midst of, then ask yourself if you are truly focused on completing the task given you by God.
It is good to understand the unfolding of events surrounding us today, but not to the exclusion of our duty before God. Paul fought a good fight. Paul finished his course. Paul kept the faith. Are we?
In His Service,
Danny A. Whetstone
President
July 2014
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January 2014
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