Please Consider

“God has not given this superabundance of blessings to American and Canadian Christians so we can sit back and enjoy the luxuries of this society – or even in spiritual terms, so we can gorge ourselves on books, teaching cassettes and deeper-life conferences. He has left us on this earth to be stewards of these spiritual and material blessings, learning how to share with others and administer our wealth to accomplish the purposes of God.
What is the bottom line? God is calling us as Christians to alter our lifestyles, to give up the nonessentials of our lives so we can better invest our wealth in the kingdom of God.”
- K.P. Yohannan (Gospel for Asia)

I put together a « Bank for the Native Missionaries » Gospel for Asia (http://www.gfa.org/) has a list of things we can purchase for native missionaries to help them to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who never heard His name and to ease their daily life.
Since we are so blessed here in North America, I thought that it was our duty to help provide for our brothers and sisters who toil for the gospel of Jesus very often traveling form village to village in the cold or lacking New Testaments or other literature to tell the people about Jesus. There are different ways of helping them, we can sponsor a native missionary for 30$ a month, but if you can’t commit yourself to such a sharing of God’s resources to you, but still want to help, I encourage you to look at the list of things you can purchase for these missionaries, to send the money to Gospel for Asia (245 King St E, Stoney Creek, On, L8G 9Z9) with a note telling them what you want to purchase and leave them your address. Something else I want you to think of is this: many of us just don’t have much money, but still want to help our brothers and sisters out there. I believe that if lots of us would put our few bucks together, we would have enough money to buy something… So if you feel like me, send your few bucks to me and I’ll keep the money of everybody in that bank for the native missionaries, when we have enough money for anything you guys want to buy, I’ll send it to Gospel for Asia, who will in turn send it to the mission field and buy the article we want and give it to the missionary who needs our article the most. For more info, leave a comment or email me gabeleroux@yahoo.ca
Here’s the list:

1 bible: 3.60$
1 set of 8 New Testaments: 5$
1 Bicycle: 130$
1 Bullhorn: 135$
1 Pack of 250 gospel tracks: 1.50$
1 Kerosene lantern: 29$
1 Winter clothing packet: 45$
1 tambourine: 6$
1 drum: 27$
15 min. radio program: 53$
* There are other things, but they are much more expensive.

Let me know if you are thinking of sending something to Gospel for Asia! It’ll be an encouragement for me. As well, I encourage you to get your church giving a few bucks here and there and help our brothers and sisters overseas. I’ll keep a record of how much money there is in the bank for them on this blog at each entry.

BANK FOR NATIVE MISSIONARIES: 0.00$ / as of Feb. 19 2006