Posted by Ray Pritchard on 12.6.07 in Keep Believing Ministries, Missions, Travel
In late September Marlene and I traveled to Thailand for ten days. We were joined in Thailand by Bill and Mary Jo Price of Columbus, Ohio. During our time there we met missionaries Charles and Lourdes Holmes. Lourdes has served in Thailand for forty years. A large part of their very effective ministry involves reaching out …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.11.07 in Devotional, Missions, Travel
We will never forget last night’s “Celebrate the Nations” concert at the Missions en Fete conference in Montreal. Here is the program (translated into English):Worship by the Reconciliation ChoraleAnnouncements and OfferingChildren’s ChoirCongolese ChoirCambodian ChoirLatino ChoirFilipino ChoirHaitian ChoirChine …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.26.07 in Missions, Word of Life
Peter Odanga handing out An Anchor for the Soul at a prison in KenyaLast night I received a phone call from my friend Peter Odanga, who serves on staff with Word of Life Kenya. I first met Peter about five years ago at the Word of Life Campground in New York. Since then he has married and moved back to his native Kenya. He …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.22.07 in Evangelism, Missions
Three weeks ago Marlene and I were Thailand leading a seminar on evangelism and the gospel for 250 Christian workers in preparation for an upcoming free English camp. Here is a report from Charles and Lourdes Holmes from the camp held last week:We had a great LIFE (Learning Intensive Free English) camp in Wangree. We regist …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.8.07 in Current Events, Missions
Each week during the Gull Lake summer conference season, a different missionary organization shares its ministry. This week the missions focus is Life International, a relatively new organization in Grand Rapids, MI, that reaches out to what they call the largest and most unreached people group in the world—the unborn. The …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 7.2.07 in Missions, Travel
This week Marlene and I are at Camp Nathanael in Emmalena, Kentucky. If you don’t know where that is, we’re in far southeastern Kentucky, a few miles east of Hazard, not far from Pigeonroost, Topmost, Dwarf, and a few miles from a community named Rowdy. Emmalena is not a large town. It’s a store, a school …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.26.07 in Missions
Tonight I ate dinner with John Bouquet who is also teaching here at Word of Life this week. Because his church is located in an area with many Amish people, they support a ministry called Mission to Amish People. John said there are 60-70 former Amish who have come to Christ and now attend the church he pastors. Joe Keim wh …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.8.07 in Books, Missions
Just received this note from a missionary serving in South Africa: I just want to let you know that I gave An Anchor for the Soul to a waiter I met at a restaurant. He is from Zimbabwe but working here in South Africa. That is a tough county to be from right now needless to say. Almost 2000% interest from what a pastor fro …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.25.07 in Missions, Sermons
We have just posted the sermon I preached last Sunday at Elmhurst (IL) Christian Reformed Church:Ballistic ChristianityHere’s an excerpt:Jesus saw the multitudes. That’s hard to do. In the last year, I’ve been traveling a lot, preaching in different places. I’ve been in and out of so many airports th …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.20.07 in Churches, Keep Believing Ministries, Missions, Travel
I am writing these words at 4:52 AM at Gate L9 in Terminal 3 of O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Last night, which really hasn’t ended yet, we had a Keep Believing Ministries board meeting that finally wrapped up sometime after 11 PM. We did our final packing and got to bed about 12:30 AM. That was OK except that we c …
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