Church Planting

What a great opportunity we have in helping to start churches around the world. 

In the past year we have helped start churches in Colombia, Argentina and the Philippines.   We are praising God for people being saved and baptizied in each of these churches and the growth of new Christians.   One of the churches we started in Panama over a year ago is now averaging about 200.   We have plans on starting serveral more churches this year and get excited to see what doors the Lord opens for each one.   

I can't thank all of you enough for making this possible!

Soul Winning

As I travel I have many opportunies for so soul winning. One of the best places for me is at the airport when I fly to meetings. God has opened many doors to give out the Gospel. Please continue to pray for me as these opportunities come my way.

Lighthouse Baptist Church ~ Leighton, PA

This past week I have been at a Missions Conference with Pastor Wolverton and the Lighthouse Baptist Church in Leighton, PA.  On the flight there, I was able to share the Gospel with a few different people from Bangladesh, Egypt, and Paraguay.

One of the  Missionaries in the conference was Dan Gardner, a missionary to Japan. He was the first missionary I met 36 years ago. Our family support him for twenty years. What a faithful man and blessing to hear of God's blessings in his work in Japan.  Here is a picture of Bro. Gardner and myself:

Pastor Wolverton and Lighthouse Baptist Church were planning to break their record attendance of 377. The church prayed, worked hard, went soul winning and on Faith Promise Sunday they had 467 people come.  What an exciting Sunday to be a part of.

The church also broke their record in their Faith Promise Giving! I like it when a church has a Mission's Revival! I want to thank all of those people for their hard work and faith in God!

Prayers

Please continue to pray for my health. I have been traveling heavily over the last four months overseas and around America.  I've picked something up that has me not feeling the best and a little weak.  I am struggling with Vertigo.  The doctors haven’t been able to figure out what else is wrong yet.   I'm just trying to keep up the pace.  

April 17, 2012 - High School Chapel

Today I had the privilege to preach in our high school chapel at my home church Shenandoah Bible Baptist Church. I always enjoy preaching and spending time with our young people.

April 11-15th, 2012

After seeing the doctor and having more blood work done I flew into the San Francisco area to be with Pastor David Owens and Westside Baptist Church.

I have been on missions trips with Pastor Owens and his family and what a great blessing they always are.  We had a great time with his people and really enjoyed the fellowship. His son,  David Owens, who is a missionary in Guyana was there for one service with his family. I have been to visit his work several times and have enjoyed preaching for him in Guyana.  The mission’s conference was a great success and their faith promise was increased. 

One of the things I appreciate about Pastor David Owens is that he has a few of his children on the mission field.  He has a son, Jonathan, that is a missionary in Bulgaria, a son, David, that is a missionary in Guyana, and a son, Nathan, in Cameroon, Africa as a missionary.  Their youngest son, Samuel, just got married and he plans to go to the mission field as well.  The Owen's have a great love for missions!

Home A Few Days

I had a doctor's appointment today and would like all of you prayers. With all the traveling I've done recently and being overseas I am not feeling 100%.  The doctor told me I have Vertigo and also took blood to check a few other things.  Pray it's nothing serious and easy to fix quickly!

First Baptist Church, Dayton, Ohio

I flew to Dayton, Ohio to be with Pastor Rick Carr and the First Baptist Church. I always enjoy the spirit of Pastor Carr. 

I really enjoyed the music and presentations of the missionaries that were there for the conference.  There was an excitement with the people each night.   The church was able to increase their faith promise which is always is a help in getting more missionaries to the field.  There were people saved and baptized during the conference. I always look forward to being with this church.

Freedom Baptist Church

My meeting this past week was with Pastor Worley and the Freedom Baptist Church in North Carolina.  I always enjoy being with the people of this church. What a hard working bunch of people who are great at fellowshipping after the church services each night. I enjoy getting to know their people. 

This church has a heart for missions and it can be seen everywhere.  We had a great response to faith promise during the week and had people  baptized during the conference.

What a blessing it was to be with this church.

Fort Cooper Baptist Church, Florida

After flying back from the Philippines I had the opportunity to have a meeting with Pastor Marne Palmani and the Fort Cooper Baptist Church. What a great church and the people were exciting. They had a meal Sunday afternoon that was outstanding. The services were exciting and people respond well. God did a work in their hearts for the people of the world.

Public Schools in the Philippines

On Friday, March 17^th, we spent the day by going into the public schools and giving the plan of salvation. We were able to see 714 people saved that day.  These are picture of some of the teachers we were able to see saved.

A special thank you to all the people who sacrificially gave to make this all possible. Only eternity will tell all that was accomplished on this trip.

Gospel Baptist Church ~ Faith Promise Missions Conference 2012

Our Faith Promise Missions Conference was March 13-15^th with much work put into the conference by many people. 

Preparation Materials Gathered:

 

65,000 tracts printed, 20,000 John & Romans, 2,500 preaching CD’s,   2,000 Bibles and 1,000 books and other printed materials.

 

Pastors who had registered received a Pastor’s Box:

10 English Bibles, 29 New Testaments, 80 John & Romans, 300 Ilonggo John & Romans and 1500 tracts.

One Pastor received a Acer Netbook, 3 couples received a night in the hotel for Valentine’s Day.  Many other gifts were given away to help encourage the pastors and their families that came.

We had over 300 people attend with 37 of those being pastors and over 40 churches present.

The picture above is some of the pastor's boxes won. 

Over 10 young people were called to be missionaries with many pastors dedicating their churches to Faith Promise Missions! Hundreds of other decisions were made for the Lord.  We were so excited seeing the Lord work in so many ways.

Gospel Baptist Church had the special honor of sending out one of their own missionary couple to start deputation to Nepal.

Gospel Baptist Church, Calinog, Philippines

On February 6, 2012, the day started out with a 6.9 earthquake and very hard rain in the Philippines. I left that day for the Philippines hoping that I could get there without any delays. The Lord was very good with the trip as I landed, met up with my son, Sam, and grandson, JP, and was able to make up into the mountains. The rain continued but we were able to accomplish great things for the Lord.

 Sunday, March 12^th, was an exciting day as we saw 37 souls saved and 6 baptized.  

To the Philippines I Go!

Please be in prayer for me as I leave today for the Philippines.  I will be gone for a couple weeks to help with a Missions Conference and preach for a couple different missionaries.  I'll also have the opportunity to see my son and his family, the church I started and all the people there.    Hopefully, I'll have some pictures to share in a few days.

Salisbury Baptist Temple ~ Salisbury, MD ~ January 18-22, 2012

This past week I was at a Missions Conference with Pastor Carlo Leto and the Salisbury Baptist Temple in Salisbury, MD. We had a great Conference with people saved and baptized as well as people's hearts burdened for missions. 

Over all there were over ten missionary families through out the seven day conference. At the close of the conference on Sunday evening the people of Salisbury Baptist Temple promised to give in faith over $102,000 to missions.

We enjoyed fellowshipping with missionareis each night! I want to thank all the people that prepared meals. I mean really delicous food!

We went and played soccer after church with the young people. What a great Missions Conference we had and God is still blessing the giving for the Gospel of His Son!

Clarksburg, WV ~ January 12, 2012

I traveled to Clarksburg, WV to be with Pastor Leonard Ludwick at the Old Time Baptist Church. What a wonderful spirit the people had.  

I preached my sermon on, The People of Missions, and we had two people trust Jesus as their Saviour.  I enjoyed the fellowship with Pastor Ludwick and the time we had with the people.

 

Glen Burnie, Maryland ~ January 8, 2012

I had the joy of being at Lighthouse Baptist Church in Glen Burnie, Maryland.  What great job they did on remodeling their auditorium. The church was almost packed out that Sunday and the people were full of excitement.  

One thing that I really appreicate about the people of this church, they have a tremendous love for missions.  This definitely says a lot about the heart of Pastor Paul Arcand.  I always enjoy  being at this church.

Merry Christmas from the Heidenreich's

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6

We want to thank each of you for investing in us as we work to reach the world with the Gospel!

Merry Christmas,

The Heidenreich's

Greensboro, North Carolina

On December 18th I was with Pastor Bill Davis in Greensboro, North Carolina. The church was full that Sunday morning as I preached on missions. There were three people saved in the services and many other decisions made that day.

What a tremendous work they are doing in that area. I was really thankful for the way that they were working with the young people. I want to thank Pastor Davis and his family and the church members for a tremendous job they did preparing for that day.

Linton, Indiana

The first week in December I went to Linton, Indiana, with Pastor Doug Cassle. What a great meeting we had with the people at his church.

They had such a strong committment towards their mission program. It was very evident that they had spent many hours praying and preparing for this mission program. The way that they treat their missionaries when they come in is very special. I walked away being truly blessed of God being at that meeting.

I want to thank Pastor Cassle and all his people for a special missions program.