I think Special Projects goes back to almost
the beginning of the work, even though it
didn't have a name.
I was always making use of some of
the money the Lord brought in in answer
to prayer to get involved in literature projects,
both in and outside of OM.
The leaflet I've just given you is out
of date.
I guess both of these are out of
date.
One is about Special Projects.
In fact, I'm going to be meeting with
Graham Turner this morning as we're trying to
produce a new leaflet.
The other one is about one of the
ministries, just one of hundreds of ministries, that
Special Projects has put considerable finance into.
That is, in fact, another organization, ALOC.
And there's a photo missing there.
If you look at the back, see the
blank space?
That's the photos missing the person who created
the leaflet, who is the secretary and the
only full-time worker in that movement.
And he's not full-time.
That's Jerry Davey.
And Jerry has put an enormous amount of
time into this.
And we've worked very, very closely together on
projects in Eastern Europe.
It's absolutely phenomenal, the amount of literature, especially
in places like Bulgaria.
This is only a few of the titles.
This was done some years ago.
And John Stott is very involved.
There's his photo.
I had a chat with him on the
phone just the other day.
He, by the way, is in Papua New
Guinea.
We're on the way there.
And I know he'll be appreciative of our
prayers.
The purpose of sharing about this, and this
tape may or may not go around to
other OMers, is to get all of you
on ICT to take a little bit of
ownership of this.
I think I have failed to communicate Special
Projects in a way that the rest of
the team felt a little bit of ownership.
It's always a humbling experience to realize, when
you're in the field of communication as I
am, how many areas of failure you have.
And I am actually doing graduate studies on
communications on my own, reading some of the
best authors, listening to some of the best
tapes of the best communicators in the world.
Very humbling experience.
And it's amazing how people in the secular
world take communication far more seriously than people
generally in the Christian world.
Ministers who are satisfied being C-minus speakers,
when with a little bit of work and
study and willingness to receive evaluation from the
poor souls that sometimes have to listen to
them, they could improve in their communication skills.
Sometimes spirituality or false ideas of spirituality cause
us to be slipshod.
We say, well, the Holy Spirit does all
the work, and we're nothing.
We have these great phrases we use among
us.
The Lord uses his word.
How sad it is that so much Bible
preaching is so boring, and that young people
say it's boring, and that great, vast numbers
of young people are leaving the church.
I believe, in the case of both of
my children who have difficulty with the Christian
faith, if the churches where they went had
more exciting, relevant, cutting-edge kind of communications,
I dare to say both of them might
be going on today.
I remember when my daughter was a little
bit too late, heard the ministry of Charles
Wendell in California, just the impact that made
on her.
So I'm trying to improve in communications on
many levels.
It gets a bit discouraging sometimes.
Even though there are always many encouragements in
meetings, I tend to see the areas where
I fail more easily than the areas where
I may be successful.
And certainly, I've failed to communicate at times
right here on the team about things we're
all involved in.
I wonder if you realize, for example, that
without the subsidy of special projects into this
team over the past years, we would really
be out of business apart from God's intervention.
Of course, as Christians, we tend to think
that we can never be put out of
business.
That's not a very good term.
But if you look at what's going on
in the Christian world, if you look at
what's going on in churches, it is amazing.
And as we're in the midst of this
financial crisis, let us not presume.
Yes, it is true.
Again and again, the Lord has rescued us,
but not without a battle.
And in the battle, some have been wounded,
probably me among others.
But God has a wonderful way of healing
our wounds.
Some of you know I'm a movie lover
and watch the movies.
That shirt, I probably don't recommend.
And it's amazing how Christians are so much
against these violent movies.
But as I study the Old Testament, I
see things that are so violent that if
you put them in film, it would definitely
be X-rated.
So if you have the simplistic answer to
violence in the Old Testament, I know what
it is.
Oh, we don't make movies out of it.
Look, some of us have an imagination.
We can make a movie better than what
they put on the screen.
But I think God's view of violence may
not be the same as some very soft
people on planet Earth about violence.
But it is interesting in these films how
many wounds the heroes can get and still
come back and beat the other guy up.
It's absolutely amazing.
Of course, what we don't realize, or of
course we maybe do realize, they stop after
a particular scene, go have a glass of
beer and a cup of tea and go
home and come make the next bit of
film the next day after they're well rested.
So yes, I've been wounded in my efforts
to try to communicate this vision of world
evangelism.
And the main thrust of special projects is
to provide the tools to get the job
done, to provide the tools to get the
job done.
Last year was the breakthrough year.
It was a dream of a decade.
And our budget in special projects went from
$300,000 to over $1 million.
So some of that is frozen in an
account and being doubled at this present time.
A number of people have worked extra hard
last year, especially my wife, and Vera, and
May, and people who are very much tied
into special projects, which really indirectly includes everybody
on the team.
Because if you're providing the services and the
backup for something we're doing that may look
more cutting edge in terms of special projects,
then you're involved on the team.
And there is a real sense, without any
exaggeration, that everybody on ICT is involved in
special projects.
I'd like us, when we have some prayer
at the end and we're watching the clock,
to really give thanks for what the Lord
did in 94.
It was in August when the dream about
seeing a million above budget and basically special
projects is the kind of thing that is
all above budget.
We can move just depending on the income.
We don't have many fixed things that we
have to give finance to no matter what.
We have a few.
Westwatch is one of them.
But Westwatch is not some kind of cheap
operation, even though we have it rent-free.
You get an old house like that, and
the changes we've made there, including even putting
things in like a shower, all of that
has cost money.
But we don't have many things like that
that are sort of always there.
And we put in writing in August that
we were praying that God would bring in
a million, a total of a million, within
the next six months.
Even as I wrote that and put it
in print, I was really nervous.
I have a lot of struggle with putting
anything in print that's a faith goal, because
many times I haven't reached those goals.
Anyway, we did it, and by January we
had seen a total of about one million,
including some of the money that will not
get back to us until May or June.
So that's a real item of praise.
The biggest breakthrough came in connection with two
matching funds, one initially out of Singapore, where
the money was all doubled.
That went back as far as last May.
You may not remember when we launched that
first matching fund.
It was only for $20,000.
It seemed huge.
And then Mr. Gui added another $30,000,
and we saw that check come in in
August.
And that was eligible for the match that
later came on, or in that case it
would be a rematch.
And then Brother Frank Seeley, who I met
at Network 94, and we were on the
train together.
We had talked on the phone before that.
Somehow we got involved in another match, which
was initially $50,000.
And that match was going when I hit
Singapore and presented it to the people who
attended some of the meetings there arranged by
Mr. Gui.
We saw a great response.
Immediately that $50,000 was matched.
He said, well, let's go for another $50
,000, but I want to make it harder.
It's two for one now.
You've got to find $2 for every one.
And we saw that come in fairly soon.
Then he went to the third $50,000.
Then he went to the fourth $50,000.
Around that time we had a famous New
York City visit with Mr. Gui, who was
stuck there having an operation.
And he, when we heard about the new
special match over in the States, he got
excited about that and put out a match
for $200,000 American dollars.
Eventually it was only $160,000, and we
had to go around and match all of
that.
And miraculously by the end of the year,
the giving around the world took us over
the million dollar.
Because there was a backlog of projects, actually
almost 10 years backlog of dream and projects,
that money was quickly gone.
None of it in any way that was
just sort of, well, we've got a lot
of money, where are we going to spend
it?
All of it well thought through, well prayed
through, requests from around the world.
Just for an example, what would 2,000
copies of Operation World in Portuguese cost?
$12,000.
I don't think most people realize when we
talk about spreading Operation World around the world,
what we're talking about.
They're $4, $5, $6 a copy.
We've ordered 5,000 in Korean.
Now these projects will bring some money back,
but generally I let the money stay in
the country.
Brazil needs money.
When they sell Operation World in Brazil, we
let them keep the money.
This is one of the ways that special
projects help fields that are in difficult financial
situation.
We provide them with books, which is our
vision.
They have a vision for books.
They also have a vision for paying their
bills and continuing the basic ministry.
So it's what's described in Stephen Covey's book
as win-win.
And we have a lot of interesting win
-win projects going on, not just matching funds,
but other partnerships where both people in the
partnership come out with benefit for the kingdom
of God.
I think you've understood this far that our
biggest vision for special projects in regard to
tools is in fact literature.
What are some of the other literature challenges?
The biggest is evangelistic literature.
We're just right now sending off a check
for tracts, desperately needed tracts in Togo.
Again, it's quite a mystery how people write
to us.
Of course, we are in correspondence with a
lot of people all over the world, but
we now have an application form that people
fill out if they're interested in getting money
from special projects, and these people pursued.
And though Togo isn't the 1040 window and
isn't considered our first priority, we released that
money because evangelistic literature is one of our
first priorities.
We also try to do things that other
people aren't necessarily planning to do.
If some other group is already committed to
doing that, then we'll choose one of the
other many projects.
Evangelistic literature in the 1040 window is the
number one priority rate we have right now
for special projects.
We're trying to put $10,000 into a
children's Bible project in Kazakhstan.
Many other groups are into this, think they
need $500,000 for this one project.
So let's just understand when we're talking about
a million dollars, a greatly, how can we
say, a greatly reduced value dollar in 1995
compared to 1955 when I was converted, it
isn't a lot of money.
That one project in Kazakhstan, they need $500
,000.
All we're committed to so far is the
$10,000.
I don't even think I actually have the
$10,000 until perhaps May or June.
We are sending literature or giving finance for
literature now in over 100 nations in the
world.
It's going to be exciting to get to
heaven and see the fruit of some of
this giving, especially when it's backed by prayer.
We just had another opportunity in Kurdistan.
We have regular opportunities in Turkey.
We have more opportunities in Eastern Europe than
we know what to do with.
We also, of course, are committed to publishing
or helping finance literature for believers, to stir
believers into action, evangelistic action, church renewal, and
especially now missions mobilization.
The biggest single project we're involved in where
we're attempting to raise the money for the
whole budget, unlike that Kazakhstan project, we're trying
to raise the money for the whole budget,
is Operation Support Breakthrough.
Some of you have seen that one-page
little paper.
I've got a design company, ExoEmer in Canada,
with that paper on his desk right now
that may produce a leaflet.
What in the world is Operation Support Breakthrough?
I can honestly say I'm more excited about
Operation Support Breakthrough than anything else I'm involved
in right now, including the ship ministry in
India.
You say, wow, what an over-the-top
statement.
These Friday mornings we really go right over
the top.
The reason is I don't want to just
talk about India.
I don't want to just talk about the
ships and do a little bit to help
them and pray for them, which is the
most important thing.
I want to help these ministries take giant
steps forward.
I see Operation Support Breakthrough as one of
the best ways we can help not only
OM and mega ministries in OM, like the
ships in India, both of which have budgets
that go way, way beyond a million dollars.
The ships a couple of million or more,
as well as other organizations, especially not only
through special projects, but my AD2000 responsibilities is
Operation Support Breakthrough.
It was very encouraging when the area leaders
agreed that Operation Support Breakthrough would be an
international project.
Since those famous days of this high-level
decision, I have seen other people outside of
our little special projects group do almost nothing
for Operation Support Breakthrough.
In other words, getting a high-level decision
in OM is not always the most meaningful
experience in the world, because we're doing so
many things.
There are so many projects, and this project
is very new.
The concept is new.
I have not communicated it properly, though I've
made a few efforts.
Maybe when we get our more attractive leadership,
and also sometimes I've made the mistake of
giving the idea, we're going to do this.
Our little special projects group in ICT, we're
going to do this.
But in fact, we can't.
It takes $500,000 for Operation Support Breakthrough,
first stage, first stage.
That $500,000 is broken into producing and
distributing, financing literature in five languages.
All of this literature is aimed primarily toward
teaching a new person coming into the missions
challenge, like these young people who make these
decisions in these meetings, like against the night.
I hope some people are making that kind
of decision in these meetings, to immediately, within
24 hours, give them a packet to get
them over the initial minefields, because 50%
are knocked out within the first year.
Even in places like Moody Bible Institute, where
they have these whole weeks of missions emphasis
with the best speakers, and all these young
people stand up and make these commitments, and
they're already in Bible college, a very tiny
percentage ever get to the field, especially anything
beyond the summer.
I don't think in mission statistics we should
use the summer thing very much.
When we use that, it must be very
cautious, because some people today, when they go
on a summer, it's a misfire experience, and
they decide that summer missions is not for
them.
This is the tragedy of some summer missions,
whereas you cannot possibly evaluate missions through some
little summer event.
If you make a positive evaluation, of course,
you're forced to go on, aren't you, and
get more information, and then you may make
a positive or negative decision later on.
But if you immediately make a negative decision,
then it is very hard to follow up
on that.
Operation Support Breakthrough has as its lofty goal
that everywhere in the world, for anybody in
the AD2000 network, or even outside the network,
we will supply them with these materials, a
packet.
It can change from one language to the
other.
The present packet is people raising, friend raising,
we may use one or the other, operation
world, how to be a mission mobilizer, and
serving as sender.
Now, that may not sound like much, but
when you start talking about producing those books
in good quantity and in five languages, it's
a lot of money.
I want to say this as clear as
I can say it.
If we don't think that a major factor
in holding up world evangelism is lack of
money, then I really don't believe we know
what is going on on this planet.
Even in my position in AD2000, every other
day it's money.
They need money.
Many are not going to Korea because they
don't have the money for the air tickets.
I personally did not commit a lot of
money to air tickets, so within OM, we
certainly have a big commitment toward OM people,
and they're all starting to phone, fax, and
write us right about now because they're booking
tickets.
Even places like southern Africa, South Africa is
not a poor country, my friends.
South Africa is an incredibly wealthy country.
Some used to boast one of the most
wealthy in the world.
It's hit, of course, recession, but there are
individuals even in the body of Christ that
could write out big, very big checks for
the kingdom.
Instead, they have to fax us to get
money internationally just to get an air ticket
to South Korea.
These are realities that we don't always like
to face in OM, and Special Projects is
committed to fundraising.
Biblical, faith-filled, straightforward, loving, non-manipulative, New
Testament, biblical, apostolic fundraising, and it's exciting.
One of the more exciting things that I've
been in in my life because we're seeing
the breakthroughs and we're seeing literature come off
the press.
Do you remember years ago when it was
decided by people in relief and development that
rather than just give people equipment or especially
just give them bread, just give them food,
we should teach them how to do it
within their own country?
Do you remember that concept when it came
into the body of Christ?
It was nothing new now, but in that
day, it was revolutionary and it impacted relief
and development organizations in a big way.
In fact, the word development is linked with
helping a nation develop its economy so they
can be self-supporting.
On our particular track, Mobilization of New Missionaries
track, we didn't have a lot of money
for airfares, so we sent everybody who was
supposed to get to Korea a copy of
a book on how to raise money.
A revolutionary move.
I'm sure it got criticized.
It's like the guy that says he has
all these needs and instead of giving him
some money, you say, well, be ye warmed.
Here's a guy who's presenting all of his
needs and you say, here's a book on
how to raise money.
It's not the total answer.
It might bring some cynicism in, but we
are talking about air tickets.
We're not talking about food.
But as I've looked around the world and
tried to find people who are into this,
people who want to teach all these Moody
Bible Institute students how to raise money.
I knew how to raise money before I
got to Moody.
That's how I paid my fees.
That's how I got to Mexico.
The average person does not know how to
raise money.
I even have field leaders telling me on
the phone, they don't know what to do.
They don't know how to raise money.
And so we want to get these materials
out.
We want to see better materials.
These materials need to be dovetailed into mentoring,
into conferences, into seminars.
We have a great seminar in Tyrone on
how to raise your support.
People are going through that.
We've used other people's materials.
Campus Crusade has had materials on this.
Navigators have had materials on this long before
OM was hardly thinking about it.
Some of these materials have been complications in
regard to copyright, and they weren't that attractive.
They weren't so easily marketable.
So now with the book Friend Raising and
other materials, we have things that are more
marketable, but we're looking for better things.
We're looking for seminars on video where people
can sit and go through a seminar on
video and learn how to raise support, how
to raise money for the kingdom of God.
And we want material that combines the whole
counsel of God with this particular vision.
So one of the main projects right now
we'd like you to pray about, get involved
in, is teaching as many people as possible
how to raise finance.
Even if they already have their own support,
they will want to raise money for their
ministry.
That was a major principle in the earliest
days of OM through the book by Samuel
Vila, a Spanish man challenging American missionaries not
just to come to Spain with survival support,
but to come to Spain with a little
extra money to publish books and to get
the ministry going.
Of course, that was one of the cardinal
principles of the whole movement of OM.
Long after we receive and see the breakthrough
for our personal support, we want to raise
money for our ministry.
And of course, a lot of individuals now
within OM, they have projects.
Gary Jean just shared on the phone he's
found out that his son going to university
can be a project, an official project linked
to which is going to save tax.
It's going to save money.
This is why, of course, some of the
accountants within OM, the very word projects, sends
lightning up their backbone because coordinating projects, keeping
track of money in connection with projects is
quite complex.
And there are a number of rules.
So not everybody in OM or any field
can just run off and launch any project.
Fortunately, we were in special projects in there
way ahead of all this.
And we have a field.
We have a fund, which means within special
projects, we have a lot of freedom to
get on.
We can have projects within projects.
The person may send the money into Tyrone.
And on the check, it just says special
projects.
But on the phone, he tells me where
he wants that money to go to.
Special projects at present is very high touch.
There's a lot of relationship.
That means there's also a lot of correspondence.
Please pray about operation support breakthrough.
Maybe dig through your file and find out
that piece of paper that you stashed away
or request another copy.
Because if we don't see a breakthrough in
the area of support, the goals and dreams
of aimed of both OM as well as
82,000, it will not happen.
And people acknowledge that.
When I challenge top leaders about that, they
acknowledge that.
They don't know exactly what to do about
it.
They don't usually have much of a plan.
But they acknowledge without major breakthrough financially.
And it's interesting that this morning while I'm
sharing this after many months or years of
failing to do so in this hopefully clear
way, we are in the midst of a
financial crisis.
But it's interesting, the little bit of communication
we sent out, most of it's going in
the mail today, in the post today, some
maybe tomorrow, but we sent advanced copies to
just a couple people.
Just to see what they thought of our
little situation here.
And one of them has been on the
phone and is already sending equivalent from Singapore
of 20,000 pounds toward our financial crisis.
And this is just one of many proofs
that we've had over these past months.
If we pray straight and we shoot straight
and we maintain our walk with Jesus and
maintain these relationships, we can see the money
come in for these projects that are on
our hearts all over the world.
And we can see people raised up who
have a ministry of fundraising and releasing finance
for the kingdom of God.
The first group, I believe, are the intercessors.
In any work of God, the first group
are the intercessors.
But after we have intercessors, we often think
of that as the heavy artillery, we need
foot soldiers.
It was C.T. Studd who said that
even prayer can become a cop-out.
I tell you, I always found praying a
lot easier than fundraising.
That's why the old system, that was a
beautiful cop-out for many of us, though
we didn't realize it at the time.
And I'm not picking on our old system,
but it is.
I saw this way back in the area
of door-to-door.
How easy it is to pray about evangelism,
pray for people to be converted, pray about
all kinds of things.
Actually go out door-to-door and talk
to somebody cold turkey about Jesus?
Let's have another prayer meeting.
The door-to-door vision of OM, that
kind of evangelism, that went downhill fast.
That started downhill the moment it was born
and has almost died in some places.
Praise God, there are many examples where it
hasn't died.
But the prayer meeting, the nights of prayer,
the days of prayer, that has not died
in OM.
It's hard to say this, but in fact,
prayer meetings and prayer together is easier for
most of us human beings than going in
cold turkey evangelism or cold turkey fundraising.
The biggest reason consultants tell us that people
don't have support is they are petrified at
asking anybody for money.
Pride comes in, super spirituality comes in, old
ancient concepts out of British culture from 200
years ago come in.
All kinds of things come in that keep
us from asking people.
In special projects, we ask.
In special projects, we have a motto, faith
without hints is dead.
We see men and women going out into
eternity without Christ.
That's what should be disturbing us.
Why is the church disturbed by so many
little things?
Even now with this Toronto blessing controversy, let
us not allow that, whatever side you're on
that controversy, let us not allow that to
distract us from the bigger vision.
Even most of the people who are in
that would say there are things far bigger
than that.
And the bigger vision is that we may
reach men and women with the gospel.
Of course, the first task we always have
is to know him, walk with him and
become more Christlike.
But as we work on that night and
day, the big vision is to reach people.
Why aren't more people upset that souls are
going to hell?
Now some theologically are upset and so they're
writing books about it so that we can
change it and it's not quite so hard
as the whole discussion goes on and on.
That's not what I'm talking about.
Some people are professionals in the area of
theology.
That's what they do.
They discuss theology.
They get paid big money to teach theology.
I'm not talking about that.
Why aren't more people disturbed that souls are
going to hell?
On this team and in this project, we
believe men are lost.
Everything is geared in that direction and this
is why we're asking God for big finance,
evangelistic literature, literature to move believers into action,
literature to see support breakthroughs, bicycles.
I just heard India's lacking money for bicycles
to get the literature people out.
Our special project that's being doubled right now
is quite narrow.
The man who launched this project just turned
down fuel for the ships.
He just turned it down.
That's one of the reasons that money is
coming into ICT.
Anything connected with literature, the 1040 window, helping
get that literature out and that always includes
video cassettes.
You've seen what we've been able to do
lately with the Jesus film that it always
includes audio cassettes, any method of communication.
Well, our time is gone.
I hope this little sharing about special projects
will help some of you to pray.
We have many people on OM who want
to get money from special projects.
The letters are pouring in from all over
the world and some of you listening to
this tape are going to think you need
to write immediately and ask for money.
Actually, special projects is broke right now.
All money we have is already designated, so
you're late.
What we're looking for right now is some
people to give money.
You say, well, OM people don't have much
money to give.
Well, that day is gone.
OM is a mixed multitude.
There are OMers who have money and some
OMers have just put some money into special
projects revolving fund.
You say, what is the revolving fund?
We've been doing it with Back to the
Bible broadcast for 30 years.
They loan us money, no interest, and we
revolve it back at their request.
In their case, we have to give some
of it back every month, which is a
bit of a pain.
We prefer to get money, as this one
ICT member loaned to us recently, I think
it was over $10,000, another one came
in with $5,000, and give us one
month to get it back.
We've been doing this for 30 years.
Everyone has always got their money back.
So anybody in OM who's sitting on money,
maybe they need that two years from now
to go to college.
Fine, that's wonderful, but what is that money
going to do between now and college?
Sits in some bank account.
The banks are giving such measly interest now,
if you sneeze, it may disappear.
Where when you put some revolving fund money
into special projects, if that goes into Operation
World, say in Korean, where we buy them
at $5 and sell them at $10, it
multiplies.
Even if we don't get the money back,
somebody's going to get money.
Even the Korean group in California has just
asked us for 500 free copies.
We're seeing amazing things happen right now because
we've got finance for literature and for things
related and we want you to be involved.
Many of you will receive benefits in one
way or the other, all kinds of things,
but we're also looking for some people that
would like to take ownership.
Taking ownership, sometimes that word gets spiritualized, but
generally taking ownership costs.
So we're looking for some people that maybe
put a little investment, a little investment, like
this businessman I met last summer.
He thought, OM is a good investment.
I'm looking for things that get fast return
on big bucks.
Boom, he gave me $10,000 right on
the spot and he hardly knew me.
It's interesting that people who have only met
me one day sometimes take bigger steps of
faith than people who have known me their
whole life.
Of course, what does that say about me?
It might create a major misunderstanding at this
point, but I believe most OMers are committed
to special projects and that if they knew
there was a door open, that they could
get in on a little bit of investment,
that they would perhaps do that.
This is limited to an inner circle of
people and only the people that hear this
tape, which is not going that widely because
organizationally you can only handle so much money.
Remember that.
Money is work.
In myself, and this may sound like a
contradiction, in myself, there's many a day I
want to run away from the whole thing
because it's work, it's stress, it's more relationships,
it's complex.
We have to follow up on every project.
We have to make sure money is used
for what it's designated for.
We're subject to all kinds of rules and
regulations.
I'm subject to a board over me, to
a committee that I make the decisions with.
It's a lot of work.
We appreciate your prayers and we're believing God
for great things through special projects, which is
part of the heart ministry of ICT.
It is not a separate thing.
It is part of the ministry of the
whole team.
I'll share more about that some other time.
Let's pray.
Father, it's just your mercy that I got
the idea and the strength and courage, whatever,
to just share these things with the team
this morning.
That we may take ownership of this phenomenal
ministry whose budget has now gone over a
million dollars.
To see that happen again in 1995 is
not going to be easy.
But we believe, as we already have, this
million Australian dollar matching fund launched, where we
have to more or less find $3 for
every $1 that that is going to enable
us again to reach our goal this year.
At present, Lord, that's going rather slowly.
We would pray for the money to match
this money from Australia.
We would pray for other money that has
not necessarily matching or has no strings attached,
for other projects that are not necessarily part
of that particular project, that particular matching fund.
We thank you again for the breakthroughs we
have seen.
And here we are, God, this morning, sharing
this vision to give away when we ourselves
also need for our own food, our own
clothing, our own basic needs.
You said the labor is worthy of his
or her hire.
And maybe you're just waiting for us to
put a little more oomph in our praying,
a little more oomph in our investment program,
spiritually and in other ways to be part
of the release of the finance we need
for ICT, which again and again we've seen
you wonderfully, wonderfully provide.
Father, I just thank you for everybody on
this team.
Lord, I just thank you that in your
mercy, I like everybody on this team, and
I encountered a joy to work with them
and that we stimulate one another.
We thank you for Carlisle, for Peter Maiden,
for Mike Leith, for all the people who
are laboring there, some of them for so
many years, like the Phillips family.
And we believe that together as two entities,
knit with a whole of O.M., knit
through 82,000 to thousands of groups and
churches and millions of believers across the world
that we're somehow going for a mega goal
in this thing of world evangelism, that everybody
by the year 2000 may receive the word
of God.
And Lord, at least in my own heart,
that there may be as many, many churches
as possible planted in the unreached people's groups,
from Cameroon to Cambodia, Lord, from Central Asia
to the jungles of the Amazon.
Bring this to pass, we pray in Jesus'
name.
Amen.