This is so exciting to me. These flags that are here represent not only countries right here at East End, but the countries of missionaries that we support. And so we're going to be able to go to these countries one way or another and see a report of what God is doing. And here's the lesson. We have a part in God's global plan of making disciples. That's exciting, friends. That's what we must be about as a church, making disciples here in Brooklyn and around the world. So when you put money into the offering plate, whether you designate it missions or not, 10% of our total giving will be for missions. And here's where it's going. It's supporting these ministries. Four of them we mentioned today, Edgar in Maryland, Nono in the Philippines, John and Anna Kelly, young couple raising support to go to Togo, West Africa. Manuel and Holly Tago in the Philippines. And a ministry, Our Daily Bread ministry. So we'll be saying more about each one. Let me say something too about Mission's movie night on Wednesday nights. In fact, a scripture was just read from Isaiah 30 and I remember hearing this in the movie, Wednesday night. Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction. I believe that was the quote that William Carey said to his family when they were going through such a hard time that they needed to eat the bread of affliction. And I think one of his sister-in-law, I believe it was, said, well, you can eat it by yourself or something like that. Remember that? if you were here. So we are being challenged on Wednesday night with some mission movies and we're learning this past Wednesday and this coming Wednesday about the man who's called the father of the modern missionary movement, William Carey, who over 200 years ago went from England to India. So indeed, they often face the bread of adversity and the waters of affliction, but there's also great blessing. So with that in mind, I would like to read a passage before we see a little bit about the Nonos in the Philippines. Brother Nono was here last September. You may remember him. We were gone that Sunday, and he was here and spoke. I heard the message on Sermon Audio. It was a great message about the church at Antioch. So let's go to Psalm 72, verses 8 through 11, because there's a little phrase here that I think is so significant. Psalm 72, 8 through 11. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea. Ultimately, this is the Messiah in the reigning of the kingdom. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before Him and his enemies will lick the dust. The kings of Tarshish and of the isles, keep that in mind, the isles, the islands, will bring presents. The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts. Yes, all kings shall fall down before him All nations shall serve Him. One day the Lord Jesus Christ will reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords and all the nations, all the islands are going to bow down before Him. In the meantime, we have the privilege to carry the gospel so that those who bow have already called upon Him as Lord and Savior. Father, I pray that you will bless us as we view these reports and these burdens for ministry from various places. We pray Lord that you will challenge our hearts in Jesus name. Amen. All right, we're ready for the presentation from the no-nos. you He made his way, he made his way to Gordon's Hill. He made his way to Calvary, friend. And he died on the cross for every person in the entire world. The most important question in all the world, what must I do to be saved? God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And Josie Nichols told me about the sound of rain. You are God you you Young people, the greatest ways the devil will cause you to get away from God is the sins of the flesh. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, but this is... Amen. So we have a part in that. Extensive ministry to Philippines, children, youth, adults, Bible college. Praise the Lord. I'd like to read from Exodus chapter 4 verses 1 through 5. Then Moses answered and said, but suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice. Suppose they say, the Lord has not appeared to you. So the Lord said to him, what is that in your hand? And he said, a rod. And he said, cast it on the ground. So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent. And Moses fled from it. Then the Lord said to Moses, reach out your hand and take it by the tail. And he reached out his hand and caught it. And it became a rod in his hand, that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has appeared to you. What is that in your hand? John Kelly at, I think it was Penn State University, majored in biomedical engineering. And then he went to Appalachian Bible College. He met Anna there. Anna had been on a mission trip to New York from Texas before they got married. In fact, right before we moved to New York, I had their wedding in a little place, Poetry Baptist Church in Poetry, Texas. And now they're on their way to Togo, and we have a privilege to be a part of them. So this is a little Zoom interview with John and Anna Kelly. All right, well, John and Anna, nice to see you all today, and we're glad that we can partner with you in the work of missions. So we have a few questions here to ask you. First of all, just give us an update. Give us an update of your lives and what you desire to do for the Lord. The last time that you guys saw us, we were traveling a lot. And that's been, what, two, three years now? So we were traveling all across the country, raising support. And we continued that process till about, I'd say, 70%, 80%. That's when Anna got pregnant with our second child. And we decided that we really didn't want to be traveling and trying to take care of a newborn. So we kind of slowed our pace down. We rented a house in West Virginia, where we still reside. And we've slowly increased our support up to about 90%. And at this moment, we're just finishing up getting the final preparations for going overseas. and also just doing work in our church in the surrounding area. Okay, very good. So now your household has increased to four. Yes. Caleb, Daniel, Kelly. So hopefully we can see those little guys before we're done here. So here's another question. What will your work and life be like when you reach Togo? So for me, my life will probably consist of getting up at probably 5.30, 6 a.m. every morning. In Togo, because they're directly over the equator, the sun sets at six o'clock at night and it rises at six o'clock in the morning. Every single day, there's no fluctuation. So the Togolese are wide awake and working before the sun gets up, so that way they can be as productive as possible. and typically the Americans follow a similar standard. So yeah, I'll probably be getting up at about six in the morning and I will go to the hospital that should be just down the road from where we're staying at. We don't have a house set just yet, but it's there in the hospital that I will be fixing the machines and trying to keep everything running appropriately so the doctors can be more effective and the nurses can be more effective in their jobs there in the hospital. So we can provide an affordable healthcare to the Togolese people and through that hospitalization have an opportunity to witness with them and pray with them. So what's the name of the hospital? We call it HPB. The actual name is up tell that these big leak. And there's an English name as well. Carolyn Kempton Memorial Hospital. Okay. And that's in which city. That is in Chico Togo. You would spell that T i s k o Don't know how that's possible, but that is how you spell Chico. And then we also have another hospital, which I will travel to on a regular basis. I'd say probably once a month or maybe every other month. And that is in Mongo, spelled like mango, Mongo Togo. And in that hospital, I'll be doing the exact same things. It's about an eight hour travel between the two hospitals. That's why it's only gonna happen every so often. And the name of that hospital is the Hospital of Hope. Yeah. And so tell us exactly what kind of equipment you would be working on in a hospital. All of them. So x-ray machines? Every piece of machinery that you see in a hospital, I've been trained to work on. Ventilators? Yes, sir. Wow. Ultrasound equipment? Yep. Very good. So if it breaks, they call John to fix it. Absolutely. Yes. If I don't know how to fix it, I better learn real quick. And do the hospitals have all that equipment? There are some pieces of equipment that we can't have due to the climate and the weather. For instance, we can't have a ventilator. A ventilator uses a lot of paper and very thin plastic. Um, but in Togo, due to the harsh weather and the sand, it will eat away the paper and destroy it in mere weeks. I'll give you an example. We actually had an air filter for a tractor inside a sealed bag, inside another sealed bag, inside a sealed container. And when we got it out, it disintegrated. So the weather is just absolutely awful to anything paper or plastic. So yeah, we can't have ventilators. Because we can't have ventilators, there's no need for a defibrillator. If somebody's getting defibrillated, they're going straight on a ventilator. And so we have a defibrillator, and I did examine it when I was there in 2015. And the doctor, when I was looking at it, came over and says, we haven't used that in probably six years. So I don't know if it even turns on at this point. So yeah, there's really no need for those, but like our x-ray machine, our MRI machine, those are, you know, top priority. We also use infusion pumps quite a bit. EKGs, electrical surgical units, those are all major things that, you know, we use and abuse them because they just need them so often there in the hospital. Is there anyone in this position now who's fixing the equipment and maintaining it? There's a guy in Samaritan's Purse. His name is Todd Boyd Campbell, and he travels to Togo once a year and fixes the machines. Um, and you know, that wasn't the best, but it, it managed to suffice. Uh, but ever since we put in the second hospital, now his time is split between two hospitals. And so it's just that much bigger of a demand, uh, for a person. So is there someone technically yes, but at the same time, no, he's there once a month, he can't get a whole lot done in one, uh, or he's there once a year for a month and he can't get everything done in one month. No, I, It's really important that we in the home front have an understanding of what it's like to be a missionary and to travel, to raise support from churches. So let me just ask some logistic questions. First of all, how long have you been raising support? Basically, you've got what you need right now to go, but how long did that take? When did you start? We started as soon as we graduated in 2016. I think it was July 2016. We started raising support and we raised support until this summer. We finally are at 100% and I don't know exactly what the day was. I think it was in June. So basically four years that we've been raising support. And you have traveled. all over, how many states or how many churches have gotten behind you to support you? So we have presented in 35 different churches. I know it called well over 350 pastors. And I think we have eight supporting churches. Eight. So Easton Baptist Church is one of eight churches. Yes, sir. And then you do have some individuals? Yeah, we have lots of individuals. Okay, so it's actually more individuals than churches? Oh, absolutely. And how many states are these churches in? Churches, I think they're only in three different So who are five? Five different states, but individuals that support us, it's probably triple that. And you've made presentations in how many states? At least 10, maybe 11 if we're missing one. So as we were discussing this, just a ballpark, you think you've gone how many miles? Somewhere over 20,000 miles. And so they would range from West Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, you said even Wisconsin and Michigan. We have Michigan, Wisconsin, all the way down to Texas, and Georgia coming up. Georgia. Well over 20 different states that we've either traveled through or traveled to. And the biggest blessing, by far the biggest blessing, is not a single flat tire in 20,000 miles. Amen. That one blows me away. And this one might surprise some people, especially if they know me. I haven't even been pulled over. Like not even given a warning. I do try to follow the speed limit, but when you travel a lot, you know, it tends to, you just tend to wander sometime and never once have I even been pulled over. So I'm not intentionally speeding. That is for certain. That is, that's, that's just great. What have you found in churches? Have they been interested in the work? Yeah, I mean, every church that we have presented in, you know, some of them are just up front and said, hey, look, we can't support you. And I said, that's fine. I don't, you know, you can pray for us. That's just as much support as financial support. But they're all very interested. We always find at least one person who kind of corners us and blocks us in until everybody, until the lights are off and wants to ask questions. And so, yeah, we always find somebody who's very, very interested. But for the most part, the churches are excited just to hear about the work. you know, we don't feel this way, but everyone says, you know, you're young people going to the mission field and that you just don't see that nowadays. And so, yeah, it's definitely a lot of interest out there. I've been very encouraged to see just the small churches all across the United States who are serving the Lord and who are standing for the word of God. And it's been a big encouragement to me to meet people in those churches. Amen. Amen. Anna, this is from your perspective. What's it been like traveling with little ones? I mean, that's hard just going from home to church when you live five miles down the road, but going all over the country, what's been one of your biggest challenges there? It's just been a big challenge, I think, to keep my perspective right. and to keep my focus on the Lord and not get discouraged, especially when Will was really little and we didn't really have anywhere to call home. And it was hard to go from place to place and to not get discouraged by that. And then when we started raising more support, then things kind of got better. And when we found our own little home, that definitely helped as well. Sure, sure. Well, just walk us through the next five months. This is September 1st, and when do you hope to arrive in Togo? We don't have an arrival date yet, but hopefully around the beginning of January. The beginning of January, okay. So what do the next four months look like for all four of you? Doctor's appointments for different immunizations for the boys, specifically. and a couple for me and John, I think, and then getting the boys' passports in the mail, figuring out what stuff we're going to take to Togo, figuring out how we're gonna get it there. We're in contact with our team in Togo right now, trying to figure that out, if we can share a container with some medical supplies going over, and then all the containers are being held up due to COVID, so not sure if that would be a great idea after all. And then just going through all of our stuff in storage here at our church, deciding if we need to, um, what we need to bring, what we should leave here. And, um, then just packing up our house and there's other things we need to do. I'm sure I have a big list on my phone. Yes, of course. Um, so when you arrived there, tell us about this new language concept. It was in your prayer letter. Um, You will arrive at which city? Where will you be when you get there? The capital of Togo is Lome and there's an organization there called Converge Ministries, I believe. and they also plant churches in Togo but they're not affiliated with ABWE. But their missionaries have decided to start a language learning program there so that their missionaries don't have to go to France. So they've been trying this out with several, I believe for several years with different missionary families and They come live there in Lomé in the housing provided by Converge, as we will also. And then some of the best French tutors in Togo will come to your house and just work with you. And it will be personalized to whatever your needs are. And so we're really excited about this. We don't have to have childcare or daycare or anything for the kids. We can just switch off. That's a huge blessing to us as I was really worried about sending Will to French daycare where he can't understand anyone, doesn't know anyone. And so we're really excited about this opportunity. So you will be in Lomé and in the housing provided by this ministry, and then tutors will come to your house to help with the language. Yes. And then how long will you be there? Do you know it'll be several months or a year? They say that three months should be good to give us just a basic understanding of the French language so that we can speak and be able to do ministry on a basis there in the hospital. And then you will go to the place where the hospital is. Yes. And that was, what was that city? Chico. Chico. Chico. Yes. Okay. All right. Well, how can we pray for you? the next four months. Just pray for all the details to come together, just, um, shape and wisdom for all the little decisions that add up over time. Um, and then pray that we'll be able to figure out something for a container to take our belongings over. Um, because of COVID, everything is, all the shipping is messed up. So pray that that will work out. We will have furnished housing with Converge in Lomé. So that's a blessing if our belongings get held up, then we can at least not have to have them for those three months. All right, very good. Well, any final word that you want to share with the East End Baptist Church family? Just thank you for your support and your prayers. We appreciate all the things, the little gifts and cards that you all have sent to us over the years. And we wish we could be there with you guys. So thank you for all of your support. And we're getting the boys over to say hi. Come say hi. This is Caleb. Say hi. That's Caleb Daniel. This is Caleb Daniel, and this is Will. Hello, Will, Will and Caleb. So this is a great picture, but we will be praying for you all. We're excited about you coming to this point, and we will uphold you before the Lord in prayer. Thank you so much for sharing this with us today. We appreciate it. God bless you. So the text was, what is in your hand, John? at biomedical engineering. Some of you, all of you, have talents, skills. We could do a short-term mission trip somewhere. That would be exciting. Some of you have language skills already. You know more than one language. That's a blessing. Well, we briefly want to go to the Philippines once again, to the Tagos. How many islands are in the Philippines? Isn't that amazing? 7,600 plus. Psalm 97. The Lord reigns. Let the earth rejoice. Let the multitude of isles be glad. Clouds and darkness surround him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. A fire goes before him. and burns up his enemies round about, his lightnings light the world, the earth sees and trembles, the mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth, the heavens declare his righteousness and all the peoples see his glory. What a day when all the nations bow before the Lord, all the islands bow to him. He walked along the shores of Galilee. From clay he formed the healing balm that caused the blind to see. When stones of wrath weighed heavy in their hands, he knelt to write his mercy in the sand. Jesus came to set the captives free. Showed us by the way we live, the way we need to be Our love is more than words could ever say We must touch them with compassion To help them find their way How can we reach a world we'd never touch? How can we show them Christ if we never show them love? Just to say we care will never be enough How can we reach a world we never touch? Could we be so busy being sick? Trying to impress a world that's long since lost its way? We pride ourselves in being set apart Yet we don't take time to touch a broken heart Even if we found the time to care Would we take the risk involved in always being there? Or we hold the very thing they need so much? Sometimes the word of God can pass through just a simple touch. How can we reach a world we never touch? How can we show them Christ if we never show them love? Just to say we care. How can we reach a world we never touched? We hide behind these walls And the security of friends While beyond the stained glass windows The world is lost in sin How can we reach a world we never touched? How can we show them Christ if we never show them love? Just to say we care will never be enough. How can we reach a world we never touch? How can we reach a world we never touch? It matters so little The places you've been or the people you've known It all comes to nothing when placed at his feet It's nothing to Jesus, just memories Only one life, so soon it One for Christ will last Only one chance to do His will So give to Jesus all your days He's the only life that pays When you recall you have but one life The days pass so swiftly The months come and go The years melt away Like new fallen snow Spring turns to summer And summer to fall Autumn brings winter Then death comes to call so soon it will pass. what's done for Christ will last. Only one chance to do His will. So give to Jesus all your days. It's the only life that pays when you recall you have but one life. Only one life, so soon it will pass Only what's done for Christ will last Only one chance to do His will So give to Jesus all your days Amen. Only one life will soon be passed. Only what's done for Christ will last. Someone needs to find that song and sing it here. That one and the other one. How can we reach a world we never touch? How can we show them Christ if we never show them love? Two wonderful songs. So now we go to one of our ministries. It's very easy to take for granted every month Every quarter we make available this little booklet, Our Daily Bread. And this comes from a ministry. It used to be called Radio Bible Class. Now it's called Our Daily Bread Ministries. Not only do they produce the daily bread, but they produce some excellent materials like this. What does the Bible say about patience? What can I do with my worry? And there's some on the track rack back there. They've published some excellent books as well. For example, they have republished some of J. Oswald Sanders' books, Here's the Power of Transforming Prayer. I just got this in the mail this week. They sent it to the church for free. And this ministry was started by a medical doctor, Dr. M. R. DeHaan. And I have on my bookshelf a book that he wrote. 508 Answers to Bible Questions, M. R. D. Hahn, and the date of this is 1952. And Radio Bible Class was founded even before that, and you'll see it here. So we're going to go there. This ministry has blessed us. It's produced this little booklet. We don't support them a lot, but we do support them at basically $25 a month. Isaiah 55 is encouraging. We saw this scripture last week. It's about the power of the Word of God. The power of the Word. And God has promised that His Word will not return void. Isaiah 55, starting with verse 6. Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake His way and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him. And to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. Some of you may be gifted writers, or you may have an interest in writing. God can use every skill set for his honor and glory to promote the gospel. And by the way, these things are free. If we didn't send them a dime, we could still get our daily bread. So it's a blessing to support this ministry of disseminating the word of God to jails. When I was serving in the guard, a man said, I will be glad to take old copies of daily breads, and I have to take the staples out. And we use them in our prison ministry, because we don't want anything that the prisoners could use to harm others. So we got to remove the stables, but we still use booklets in the jails. So this is a tremendous thing that we have a blessing to be a part of getting the Word of God out around the world. It's said that little things can make a big difference, like a tiny seed. that becomes a towering tree. Even God is known for starting small, revealing himself not only in the earthquake, but often in a whisper. He chooses small things to show his presence. Well, in 1938, a seed was planted. One man, humbled by the impact of Jesus Christ in his life, took one microphone and began one mission. To share the message of God's grace and forgiveness with anyone who would listen. And it began to grow. That program became known as Radio Bible Class. Then, in 1956, another seed grew from the first. It was Our Daily Bread. That one small book became a big source of encouragement to those who read its daily dose of insight and inspiration. And God used that small seed of our daily bread, and it began to grow around the world. It grew into Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, and more. In 1968, it grew into TV with the Day of Discovery program. It grew into more books with world-renowned classics like My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers and the popular Discovery series of Bible study booklets. It grew into more radio programs to more audiences, like Discover the Word. Today, it's serving people in more than 55 languages in print and 20 languages online, and reaching millions through social media. It's bloomed into online Bible learning with free classes and available college credits in several languages, including Russian, Arabic, Spanish, and Chinese. It's grown to include sites like YMI that help people navigate life's deep questions. and even an app that daily sends biblical truth and wisdom to mobile devices everywhere. So, as a small part of the much greater Kingdom of God, that seed grew into something larger, spreading the Word of Christ around the world, encouraging people to draw closer to God, to teach, encourage, inspire, heal, redeem, and bring hope to generations, planting tiny seeds of truth in the hearts of people from all walks of life worldwide. I'm serving a life sentence in prison. For a person like me, our daily bread is very important. I've died to my sins and have been reborn to a new life. And this happened thanks to our daily bread. My mother is in a vegetative state. I read Our Daily Bread to her and see tears streaming down her face when she hears the Word of God. I'm impressed. The Word of God through Our Daily Bread is alive and effective. I wanted you to know that because you kept sending these booklets, I came back to Christ. Thank you for not giving up on me. I read it faithfully again each morning. The people who write our daily bread are Holy Spirit driven. They are a mouthpiece for God because it's always relevant. Our daily bread is like living water to irrigate our hearts every day, making our spiritual life grow. I started a new small group with friends. Most of them are seekers, so I hope they can know God through our daily bread. The companionship of Our Daily Bread is such a poetic, beautiful feeling. God's love is piercing right through those pages into my heart. I'm so thankful. Today, Our Daily Bread Ministries is making the life-changing wisdom of the Bible understandable and accessible to all. Every day, in every way. Our Daily Bread Ministries. Amen. Well, that concludes our mission's message today, except for this verse, Romans 116. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. God would have us have willing hearts. Lord, here am I, send me. Let's just bow our heads for a moment. The good news of the gospel is that Christ died for our sins, he was buried, he rose again the third day. Have you believed the gospel? And if not, will you believe it today? Will you say, Lord Jesus, I know I've sinned, I've done bad things, but I believe that you died, you rose again, I'm asking you to save me. this very day, believe on the Lord Jesus and be saved. If you're a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and you told the Lord, Lord, I want you to use me. I'm willing to go where you want me to go. That's a life changing decision. Young people, have you told the Lord that? I'm willing to go where you want me to go, Lord. I want you to use me for your honor and glory. Dear Father, I pray that you will stir our hearts, that we would be willing to go where you want us to go. I pray, Father, that you will raise up laborers from Easton Baptist Church to be sent out to the far flung corners of the world. I pray, Lord, that you would use us right here in these neighborhoods to share the light of Christ. I pray, Lord, that you will call some servants for your glory right from this place. Lord, if there's anyone that's not yet believed in Jesus, show them their need, that they would run to the cross and be saved. In Jesus' name, amen.