AUGUST 2010

   Our hearts have been blessed by the challenge of a new couple called of God to church-plant—the Todd Vossen family. After much prayer and deliberation God has led the Vossens to Port Clinton, Ohio. For a full fledge update on this new work visit their web site: lakepointbaptist.blogspot.com. Bro. Vossen has listed a number of items we need to join them in prayer over as well as financial support for this new church.
   Church-planting can be rapid or prolonged, joy-filled or difficult. You arrive in a location, find a meeting place, the gospel is preached, and when the seed falls on fertile soil, it takes root in the hearts of those who become followers. But seeing a church come into being is only the first phase.
   The next step after the church is planted has the potential to affect what the church will be like for many years to come. It is during this time, hopefully, the new church will learn how to develop its own resources, not just to meet their own needs, but for the purpose of self-propagation. Unfortunately, many times a new church falls into what some call the syndrome of church development. This occurs when a church’s resources are consumed on themselves with little or nothing left over for reproduction. The result is a maintenance mentality that leaves a church focused inward.
   Praise the Lord for those who support our Home Mission program. We thank you for your personal support and the support of the new works in Colorado, Georgia, Texas, Kansas, and now Ohio.

Unworthily His,

                   Wendell & Daisey Hiers

World Baptist Fellowship Mission Agency
817.274.7161   .   817.274.2742  .   Fax: 817.861.1992  .  E-mail: whiers@joimail.com