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A Message from the President: Growing and Changing

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As I reflect on my second anniversary at Leadership Ministries Worldwide, it has been an honor and a privilege to walk alongside this dedicated staff and Board of Directors focused on providing The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® to trained pastors, leaders and scholars. It is clear that God is moving in big ways at Leadership Ministries Worldwide. We have seen an unprecedented number of pastors equipped, our materials have gone out to all corners of the world, and we are on the cusp of rolling out Lystra Global – our cloud-based training and translation system.

Already this year, 6,846 books were distributed free of charge to seminaries and training organizations that train and equip pastors in the Global South who are hungry for biblical materials. In the last month, Timothy Olonade, our Vice President of International Training, trained 353 leaders throughout Africa, including pastors, professionals, and leaders in Nigeria, Uganda, and Rwanda.

Our digital training platform, Lystra Global, will launch in June 2016 at the Global Proclamation Congress in Thailand – an event project to be attended by over 5,000 Bible trainers. Using Lystra Global, our training partners can make The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® and other biblical resources easily accessible to pastors and scholars around the world.

Psalms Volume 3 is scheduled for release this summer. This is an exciting event, hailing the completion of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® series. More than 40 years have been dedicated to developing this amazing resource. We appreciate the part you have had in bringing us this far, and we invite you to partner with us in prayer as we celebrate all that God is doing through LMW.

Blessings,

Dave Worland

President and CEO

Pray for Seminary Students and Leaders in India

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P.J. Mathias (left), President of Maranatha Baptist Bible College and Seminary in Bangalore, visited our offices this week along with Bill Fortner of Frontline Fellowship, who works closely with the College and Seminary in Bangalore.

The seminary has had over 600 graduates since its start in 1998, and has planted 18 churches across India. Students there are hungry for biblical education, coming from all parts of India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, China and Nepal. Some of these students walked hundreds of miles from their homes to go to this school in Southern India.

Please pray for these dedicated students and the faculty that serves them. The faculty is very stretched with just 8 members and a current enrollment of over 150 students. P.J. and Bill ask us to pray for the students, faculty, and that God will provide for their every need in abundance.

Pray for Pastors in Africa

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Gideon Umukoro of Akure in Southwest Nigeria visited us at the Leadership Ministries Worldwide office this week. Last year we were able to provide Gideon with a complete New Testament set of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® for seminary students in his country. Our hearts were touched to hear how much he appreciated the books:

“Thank you for the books. The gift of a book continues as they are shared with others. Pastors scramble to get them – as many as 3-4 will request to check them out each week as they prepare their sermons.”

Gideon is opening a ministry center in Lagos and wants to have these biblical materials available for pastors in and around the city of Lagos. He has found The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® to be an invaluable reference source that is easy to understand. The simplicity of the language makes it accessible to a carpenter, a farmer, a fisherman – but also useful for a seminary trained professional.

“When you can put this resource in a village pastor’s library – you are giving them food. It’s like a hook – they can go to a stream and catch fish for themselves.”

Please join us in praying for Gideon, the pastors and people he serves, the ministry center in Lagos, and all those in Africa who are training pastors, sharing God’s grace, and teaching sound doctrine. May God bless their efforts as His Kingdom grows.

Pray for Pastoral Trainers Worldwide

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“You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.” Titus 2:1

The Lord is calling pastors around the world to serve Him and His people. These pastors are hungry to understand the Bible and their call to ministry. They want to know how to meet the challenges they encounter daily among their congregants and within their community. They are sought out for biblical guidance and counseling, and they need a firm foundation to shepherd their people.

Please join us in praying for those who are using their God-given gifts to train these pastors, sharing God’s grace, and teaching sound doctrine.

“Wherever we turn in Africa or Asia, there is a palpable cry for Biblical and theocentric ministry and leadership development tools as well as preaching content development for the growing number of God’s servants worldwide. All these needs call for our attention, in spite of the increasingly severe persecution of the Body of Christ worldwide.” Timothy Olonade, Vice President of International Training, Leadership Ministries Worldwide (pictured above, left)

“95% of the pastors we train in the field have no training of any kind. They are dry sponges. They are alert, eager, and soak up the training we offer them. They want to know the Word and understand how to minister.” Philip S. Hunt, Principal, Central Africa Bible College & Seminary (CABC), Zambia, Africa

May God protect and guide these pastoral trainers as they share His Word, growing His Kingdom across the earth.

Pray for Pastors in Yap (yep, Yap)

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Yap – yes, it is a real country – a part of a chain of islands in Micronesia in the Western Pacific. Yap has been home to Christian missionaries for many years. Last week, we shipped 50 Gospel sets of The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible®  to pastors serving Christ throughout this island chain. We invite you to pray for the pastors who will be receiving these volumes, and for the congregations and communities they serve. We are thankful to be able to equip these pastors for ministry.

Missionary Paul Zimmer, his wife Sherry, and their six children, have been serving God in Yap for almost 20 years. They have planted churches, trained pastors, and served God in all they do. Paul’s vision for outreach led him to start a Christian radio station, Joy Family Radio, erecting a 200 foot tower without the assistance of cranes or other large machinery. This station now broadcasts 24/7, reaching the furthest ends of the islands.

The Zimmers started a small sawmill on Yap to help residents find lumber to build homes and businesses. Soaring electric power costs led Paul to use his engineering background to install solar panels and windmills on his house and broadcast tower and for the sawmill. He now holds seminars on alternative energy throughout the islands, explaining the importance of alternative energy and sharing gospel truths whenever he can.

Paul and other missionaries on the islands have evangelized, nurtured and trained pastors, and planted churches, all while working to build relationships in their communities. They are excited to be able to give The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible® to the local pastors they work with in Yap and across the islands.

Please keep this country, these pastors, and the believers in Yap in your prayers as God’s Word continues to spread around the world.