One week before the dedication of the Gospel of Luke, three hundred homes in the village of Bambalang, Cameroon, were burned by a neighboring village. But hearing Scripture in their own language has brought comfort and forgiveness.
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The Great Commission Is For Everyone
STEER, Inc. has been in the ministry of MULTIPLIED GIVING for missions ever since its founding in Park River, ND in 1957. Evangelical and Interdenominational in scope, STEER is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. The goal of STEER’s ministry is to assist existing missions organizations in financial way so that they may follow their calling to bring about world evangelization. This non-profit organization works to bring together people (Donors) who provide the working capital (UNITS), these UNITS are invested with farmers and ranchers in the agricultural project of their choice. The farmers and ranchers contribution is the feed and care for the project. This program is especially helpful to farmers and ranchers who may desire to be actively involved in missions but who may lack the capital to expand their herds or acreage in order to support missions like they really want to. Working together, the Donors and the Farmers and Ranchers help to provide the funds for the Lord’s work so that the missionaries and mission projects that are the benefactors of this program can do what God has called them to and that is telling others about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
We believe THE GREAT COMMISSION IS FOR EVERYONE.
This organization is:
– A non-profit evangelical, interdenominational, agricultural, mission fund-raising program
– A service arm to missions around the world, dedicated to help financially strengthen and under gird all aspects of foreign mission work such as individual missionary support, radio, literature, hospitals, Bible institutes, world relief, etc. through its member mission organizations.
– A three-way stewardship program involving the DONOR, FARMER/RANCHER, and MISSION SOCIETY.
They also support the work of Bible Translation and literacy projects in the whole world through Wycliffe. If you would like to know more about this organization, please visit their website HERE.
Equip #14: First Week
There are more than 2000 languages that need Bible Translation, 350 million people never heard of the Good News!
We started every morning with Meditation on God’s word and worship. Our class started right after the morning worship until noon, then we took lunch break, and came back to class again until 4 p.m. This first week of our Equip Training we covered lots of stuff including orientation about the organization and vision 2025, translation methods, public speaking skill and modules, financial and ministry budgeting, missionary kids and issues, moral issues, life resources, media, and practicing for our partnership development.
They equipped us with a lot of materials, resources, ideas and life testimonies from each staff. We had a chance to meet the President of Wycliffe USA, Bob Creson (follow his Twitter here) and his wife. On Friday morning worship, we had an opportunity to hear a great testimony from George Cowan, a 94 years old Wycliffe member. His testimonies were encouraged us to take our steps in faith and dependent on God through prayer is the most important in doing ministry. He said that only God who can open the doors and provide every single things that we need and will need on the field. God is our greatest resources!
Testimony from The Cresons
Many of you might ask how Abigail is doing. She is doing very well at her class every day! Yes, she LOVES her class, teacher and friends. It is an answer to our prayer. Every morning she couldn’t wait to go to her class. On the second day she told me, “Mama I like school.” I was so surprised when she said that. My girl is ready to go to school! She is a big girl now. Can’t believe it. Time flies so fast.
The other fun things we did this week were swimming, walking around the complex, ice cream day, and we had a quite adventure taking pictures at the studio and outdoor.
We had a fruitful first week of training. We would like to thank you all for all your prayer for us. God is listening to your prayers and He is faithful! So thankful for all of you! Thank you for sending us to come to this training! God bless you abundantly!
Equip #14: Arrival
Atlanta, GA in the night from above
We made it.
Our trip was great. The unexpected things I experienced this time were: Abigail was SOOOOO EXCITED about flying and she was all about it. She even couldn’t wait until we got on the next flight when we were layover about an hour at Atlanta International Airport. She kept on saying, “Wanna go on the plane?,” or “Mama, look I am flying,” and she would keep on counting down from 10-1 and then shouted “Blast off!” on top her lungs on the airplane. Honestly, I was a little bit nervous about what she would think or feel about flying this time. She flew before when she was 14 months to Indonesia and it was another adventure for all of us. But this time, God truly took care of her and prepared her in a way that I cannot imagine. I know there were a lot of people were praying for us yesterday and God has answered all your prayer! Yes, we did had a good and safe flights.
This Is Why We Are Going
The Bible
How many Bible versions or in how many languages do you have at home? Yes, we have a lot at home. My husband went to Bible Collage so he has several versions on his desk, and I has several from Indonesia. This not counting various versions we have on our electronic devices. We have access to all kind of Bible version as we want, at anytime, and from any device. But,
Today about 340 million people do not have any Scripture in their language. Wycliffe’s vision is to see the Bible accessible to all peole in the language they understand the best. To make this vision reality, Wycliffe also focuses on Community development, literacy development and church partnerships. (Wycliffe.org)
We went to Summer Short Mission Trips (called Discovery trip) with Wycliffe in 2006-2008, we searched, experienced the live of missionaries, connected with the locals, discovered and confirmed by God that this is our calling.
Then, last year we sent our application to Wycliffe and after going through all the membership application and background screening process, we got accepted as members on February 22, 2012. It was an answer to our prayers for about 6 years. God has been leading us step by step, and we still trust Him to lead and guide us further more to bring the Good News of Kingdom of God to those who haven’t heard about it in the language they understand the best. After doing the 6 weeks Equip online training, we are now at the next step.
We are going to Equip Onsite training with Wycliffe USA this week!