|
|
|
|||||
|
|
This song is about how Fred Potter got saved, written by Danny Minton. |
|||
|
It is our privilege to welcome you to the Charity Baptist Mission web page. We hope this will be a testament of what the Lord is doing in America and throughout the world. In 1973 the Lord laid upon my heart to start Charity Baptist Mission Inc., here in Bristol, Tennessee. We started it because we were opening a children’s home in Mexico. From there the Lord continued to bless and increased the areas to other countries by which we could share the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour. It has been truly a blessing to see how the Lord has used missionaries to reach the lost and see them saved. We believe in the Authorized King James 1611 version of the Word of God. It has stood the test of time and we believe this is the only true Bible. To God be the Glory!
|
|||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
updated 5-2-24 |
Watch Brookside Baptist Church live streams at:
youtube.com/@brooksidebaptistchurchtn1954/streams
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Missions Updates
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Halito!
Hello!
Spring 2024
Spring is here and we are thanking God for seeing us through the winter months.
I say “seeing us through” because we’ve had quite a bit of sickness this winter
and early spring, but are finally on the rebound. We are now preparing for the
months ahead and the road before us.
Imagine how it would be living in the USA in 2024 and the Bible you are holding
is printed in French. You couldn’t read it. It wouldn’t have passages marked by
your father or grandfather unless they were of French heritage. Many Americans
have an English Bible that’s been handed down and it’s marked with precious
notes from a relative or mentor in the faith. For most of us reading this
newsletter, the ability to read the Word of God has changed our lives. In April,
we were able to attend the Native American Camp Meeting in Great Bend, Kansas.
It’s a meeting for Native missionaries, or missionaries working with Natives, to
come and share their work and burden.
One of the blessings that has been coming to fruition in the last couple of
years is the ability to get the Bible, or parts of the Bible, printed/reprinted
in several tribal languages. Most tribes have NO BIBLE in their language. This
is most likely because the government sent the children to boarding schools and
wanted them to assimilate English. God gave a language to each tribe and they
are now realizing what has been taken from them. These Bibles are being printed
as parallel Bibles, for instance, Ojibwe and English, side by side. They can be
used by the tribe to teach the language. The missionaries that labored in the
1800s translating and printing Bibles for the five civilized tribes, (Choctaw,
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek) gave the tribes a great light! These
five are considered the most Christian of the 574 federally recognized tribes in
the US. When we first went to the Choctaw reservation in Mississippi years ago,
I remember seeing the grandmothers bringing their Choctaw Bibles to church and
reading from them. These copies didn’t even contain the entire 66 books! How
different the reservations would be if this light had been available all across
North America. We’ve given thousands of ENGLISH John and Romans, but giving a
Native American a parallel John and Romans, in their language, is received more
quickly.
Maybe the time has come for this light to shine to more than the five civilized
tribes. Please pray for those involved in the translating and printing. This is
an expensive endeavor. For some people or churches in America there is no
shortage of money, but unfortunately there is a shortage of time. Thy word is a
lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105)
We have meetings coming up in May and then start the summer work. We look
forward to seeing you as we go to your area of the country. We just realized we
have been in our field of service for 40 years!! Wow! Thank you Lord, for Your
Grace and love that has enabled us to sew the seed of the Gospel for 40 years.
Thank you, co-laborers, for your love, prayer, and support these many years.
In HIM, The Higginbothams, Mrs. Shirley, Elena, and Daniel
(A printable PDF
version is available here)
----------------------------------------------------------------
January - February 2024
“And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our
brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how
they do.” Acts 15:36
Dear Pastors, Churches and Fellow Servants,
We send greetings from all the saints that are with us.
Paul and Barnabas had a desire to go again and visit their brethren where they
had preached the word of the Lord and see how they do. The Bible says “As
newborn babies desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby” 1
Peter 2:2
While in Bulgaria, we follow a schedule for visiting the churches. The apostles
went out two by two, Paul with Barnabas and then with Silas. I myself go with
national pastor Demir. Paul's program did not change; they prayed, they sang
praises to God and spake the word of the Lord. Acts 16:25,32
It's a real privilege to visit the churches and see how they are doing. In
Acts16:4 “…they delivered the decrees for to keep…” Acts 15:28-31, and through
the preaching of God's word “…so were the churches established in the faith, and
increased in number daily.” Acts 16:5
It's a real joy to visit the churches every week that are in: Sadovo, Venilin,
Kamindell, Dolgapol, Kamarvo, Bliskovo, Gradenarovo, Provadia, Markov and Snezna.
While there we sing praises to God, pray and preach God's word. We are thankful
for these people, and pray for them, Philippians 1:3,4, while enjoying our
fellowship in the gospel from the beginning to now. To see God working in them
and us makes us long to see each other every week. “For God is my record, how
greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:8
Through this we are encouraged to stay on the battlefield by God's grace.
All because of Calvary,
Matthew and Jane Welch
(A printable PDF
version is available here)
------------------------------------------------------------
“O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years,
in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.”
Habakkuk 3:2
Dear Brethren, February 2024
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I pray this letter finds you in His nurturing grace.
As we come into a new year I am wonderfully reminded of how good and loving and patient our God is and how he continues to strive with man in His creation. The meetings in Valen and Lespez are going well and continue to grow. When we first started these meetings, it was mostly children, but now in both meetings many adults and young people are starting to come. The Christmas packets were enjoyed more by these two villages because most of these children are so poor, they’ve never even celebrated their own birthdays, let alone Christmas. We’re very grateful for everyone who helped us make these children’s lives a little brighter because of our Savior’s birth.
Last week I was able to take two of my children to the meetings in Medgedia and Castelul. They got in the car after school and most of the car ride was quiet. Fifteen minutes before our first meeting Uriah asked me a question,” Dad, why do you get up and go to these meetings?” I remembered asking my father the same question when I was younger, and my response was the same. I told him, “Well son, I know where God is going to be today, and I don't want to miss Him.” He then asked me again,” Why would God meet with poor people?” I responded by telling him, “That is what he did 2,000 years ago when he walked this earth. His message hasn't changed and is still the same.” The verse comes to my mind “For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;”
Psalms 102:19
For the past few months in the town of Pecineagra, the Lord, through the support from the churches and brethren in America, we have been able to build a building to have church and feed afterwards. We meet once a week and pray and in time we want to have morning prayer meetings there also. Many of my wife's family lives in the village and it is an opportunity to reach people who are further away from our weekly meetings. My own nephews and nieces are coming to know the love of Christ and I would be ashamed not to take this opportunity from the Lord. Please be much in prayer for this meeting and us.
I thank all the brothers and sisters in Christ who have contributed and prayed for the work here in Romania. We love you dearly and covet your prayers. “Finally brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.” 2
Corinthians 13:11
From Constanta, Romania,
Jacob Reed and Family jakereedfamily1994@yahoo.com
(A printable PDF version is available here)
----------------------------------------------------------------------