Good Samaritan Churches Report for January

As I pen these lines Bro. Mark Logan from Trinity Baptist Church in Asheville, NC is in Malawi Africa teaching approximately 600 Pastors and Christian workers. Bro. Toru Marshall will arrived (Africa) on today and will be speaking to churches and leaders in another part of the country for 1 week. We have now planted 422 churches since April 2000. To God be the Glory with over 5O, OOO people now attending these village churches on Sunday mornings with many hundreds being saved each week. In the last newsletter I mentioned a 74 year old man (crippled with arthritis in his hands and feet) who wanted to come to Africa to win souls. He came in 2006 and won over 500 people to the Lord in one on one "hut to hut'" visitation. This year he was able to come again (Thanks to so many of you who gave towards his plane ticket!). He just wanted to come again to win souls and Praise the lord in 3 short weeks he won 1,668 souls to Christ, and is already making plans to come again this next year with Gods help! I say all this to tell you that Malawi, Africa is a “Soul winner’s paradise” THE HARVEST IS PLENTEOUS! More examples of this soul winning Paradise - Chuck and Sheila Miller from Florida came for the month of September and they won over 800 to Christ (14 days) the chief of a village was led to the lord by Bro. Chuck. That Chief told Bro. Chuck that if he would come back on Friday he (the chief) will tell my entire village they must come and hear the Word of the Bible! They went back on Friday and over 175 were saved! A church has now been planted in that village. Bonnie and Lewis Carrier from Maplewood Baptist Church in West Virginia came to work with the Good Samaritan Children's Home for a month, they were a real blessing to those kids - If you check out our website (heart4malawi.blogspot.com) it shows pictures of the tie-dye shirts they made with the orphans. They also went out soul winning and won many to the Lord. Bro. Jim and Tammy Jorgenson from N.C. (who are working with the Children's Home ministries) came for a month recently and won many souls and planted a new church. The Hottles family (dad, mom, and 2 sons) from Hillsboro, Ohio came for a week and passed out over 40,000 tracks of their own and 10,000 of ours, winning many to Christ. Not one of these tracts was thrown away. Bro Mike Shanaberger the well digger from Maryland (whom I have spoken of often through the years) came and put in wells for us in the day light hours and in the night time hours (using electrical generators) went out with the men and showed the "Jesus'" film, again hundreds being saved. I repeat again Malawi, Africa is a “Soul winner’s paradise” Pastor's, teachers, regular church members If you feel that you just cant get people to respond to the Word of God and you are discouraged and about to give up wining souls, come for a week (or longer) and be spiritually renewed by the precious people of Africa who have never heard about Jesus and who beg you "'tell me more Jesus”! When was the last time you heard those words?
Several new churches have been started this year. One new church was started on our 420
acre plot we are clearing in the jungle. We are making two million bricks and clearing this land that will house our new second Children's Home, a school and other parts of the Good Samaritan Ministry. We have about 70 workers there right now so a church was planted in late September with 64 in attendance and 40 of those received the gospel and were saved. The church is now running over 150. There is no church building to meet in yet so they are using our 50 x 70 storage building as a church. A good church could be built there reaching 4 to 5 thousand which will also serve as a church for the new Children's Home.
Let me say Thank You for supporting this good work. Please keep us daily in your prayers. Our biggest need right now is some good folks who would support Bible College student for 10 months at $10 a month.
This letter was scanned from original and may contain spelling errors not of the author. wcm