Easter @ the Y

Are you looking for a place to go on Easter? Hope Baptist Church is starting pre-launch Bible studies this Sunday, March 23 at 9:00am. How are pre-launch Bible studies different than regular Bible studies? Pre-launch, because not only are we going to study the Bible, but also our plans are to start a new church here in Middletown. Our vision is to see people come to know Christ, help them find their spiritual gift so that they can be effective in the body of Christ, and do our best to evangelize Middletown, Orange county, New York state and then the world. So if you want to be part of an exciting and mobilizing church, come this Sunday morning to the Y.M.C.A of Middletown and get in on the ground level of something life changing.

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One more week!

Next Sunday Hope Baptist Church will have it’s first Bible study at the Y.M.C.A of Middletown. We will be in the book of Galatians and discussing the topic, ” Religion only enslaves.” If you feel like you have been lied to, or that you are enslaved to an addiction or religion. Come find Hope this Sunday March 23!

Wayne

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Hope Baptist Church

March 23 2008

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Wayne

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Good News!

Just got word from the  Y,  and it looks like we will be using their multipurpose room for our meetings. If all goes as planned we will have our first Bible study March 23, 2008 @ 9:00am. The Y.M.C.A.is located @ 81 Highland Ave. Middletown, NY 10940. We would like to invite anyone who is looking to be part of a new and exciting church. At Hope Baptist , our goal is to preach the truth straight from the Bible. No man made traditions or religious fables. If you are tired of going to church and leaving feeling the same , come home to Hope and hear a message that will forever change your life.

Wayne

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Neighbor

Hi! My name is William Perdido, and I am a teacher in the local public high school. I enjoy teaching biology to all of the students. The sciences have always interested me since I was a young boy. Just to think of how our planet evolved from solar gases and microorganisms, it just stirs my soul!

Sometimes I have a student who does not agree with me concerning the origin of man, but most of my students agree with the laws of evolution. You know, I feel so content having such a mighty impact on hundreds of teenagers. I love educating.

My wife and I enjoy our family. I left my first wife when I met Susan; she completes me! I have a daughter, Rhonda, who is studying anthropology at the local university. She is a beautiful young lady, but I sometimes worry about her drinking habits. My son, Neil, is the branch manager of a local bank in town. He is a homosexual; but I told him that as long as he is happy, Susan and I are happy.

I have never really thought too much about religion. To be honest, I do not know a whole lot about it. My science professor in the university lectured on topics like where we came from, how the earth formed, and how religion can corrupt. Who needs religion? Science explains everything.

Though, I do sometimes feel empty, like there is something more out there, something that could ” complete “me even further. Some people hike to the top of mountains to discuss ” life ” with friends and strangers, and others lie in the aisle of a church and talk jibber-jabber.

Sometimes I stare at the sky and think about a higher being, but who is He? I wonder if there is anyone who could tell me about ” Him. ” Who could possibly tell me of Him? Is it possible for a “god” to make me feel complete and give meaning to my life? I wonder…..

By the way, I am your next door neighbor. ( article from B.C.W.E. )

I wonder how many people in Middletown are doing the same, just wondering………

If you are one of those people please let us know www.hope.fm   845-467-1235

Wayne

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Crazy about serving Jesus!

” He is no fool who will give what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose.” — Jim Elliot

In January of 1956, Jim Elliot and four companions landed on a beach of the Curaray River in eastern Ecuador. They had many friendly contacts with the fierce tribe that had previously killed several Shell Oil company employees.

Two days later, on January 8, 1956, all five men were speared and hacked to death by warriors from the Auca tribe. Life magazine featured a ten-page article on their mission and death.

Perhaps you are thinking that missions is just for crazy Christian radicals who are obsessed with living in a grass hut and eating bugs. Jim Elliot was indeed “crazy,” but only about one thing: serving Jesus Christ. Jim had dedicated his life to see that the unreached people groups of Ecuador could hear the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ.   ( article from B.C.W.E.)

This is what kind of people we are looking for , to help start Hope Baptist Church  Middletown, NY.  People who are crazy about serving Jesus and have a heart for those who are without Christ. If you are one of those kind of people,  give me a call and let me know.  845-467-1235 or wayne@hope.fm

Wayne

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Hope Is Coming To Middletown NY

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How To Pray For Missionaries #3

continuation from previous post….

4. Pray that he will have open doors to preach the Gospel.  2 Cor. 2:12

That is exactly what your missionary is going to need the minute he arrives on the field. Just where will he preach? Who will listen to him? He needs God to direct his paths. Even Paul had to have doors opened for him. There are millions of people out there, and most of them have never heard the Gospel. They need someone to tell them. But your missionary needs to be able to find them; he needs your prayers for those open doors. Today why don’t you pray for your missionary that God would show him where to go and find these open doors and that He will prepare the people’s heart for the Gospel message?

5. Pray that he would know how to preach, witness, and talk.    Gal.2:2

The missionaries not only need open doors, but they need to know how to talk to them when the doors are open. What should he say? How should he get the message across? Crossing cultural boundaries and speaking in another language, missionaries need special help from God. This also would include special prayer for your missionary while he or she is in language school. They have the message, they just need to be able to communicate it. We must pray that God would encourage them and help them learn the language.

6. Pray that the Word of God may have free course and be glorified.   2 Thes. 3:1

Paul asks the people to pray that the Word of God may have free course. Meaning nothing would hinder the working of the Word of God, and that the Bible would have freedom to change people’s lives and the society around them.

Paul wanted people to sincerely pray to God for specific needs and desires. So let’s pray for our missionaries as Paul wanted people to pray for him. Let us put aside our generalized prayers and beseech God’s aid in every aspect of our missionary’s lives. Watch as God honors the sincere, heartfelt prayers of His children for one another.

information taken from ” Go Ye” a World Evagelism Journal by Our Generation and B.C.W.E.

Wayne

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How To Pray For Missionaries #2

In our last post we started talking about how to pray for missionaries. In the next 2 posts we will look at 6 different things that we should pray for our missionaries.  First 3…

1. Pray that they might be delivered from unbelievers.   Romans 15:30-33

We know that our war is not against flesh and blood,(Eph.6:12) but against Satan and his forces. Paul is going forth into areas totally dominated by Satanic forces. He realized that he would be under attack. He literally begs the church to pray that he be delivered, protected, and rescued from these ungodly forces. Every day we watch as other men of God fall into sin. Often times we are quick to criticize, but slow to pray. When a man goes forth to war he is taking a chance. He is risking his life against a roaring lion that hates God and all that He stands for. If the Devil can stop the man of God, then the work of God will not go forward. He will use persecution, discouragement, sex sin, pride, money problems, and a thousand other things to destroy the effectiveness of the man of God. Will you pray for your missionary by name, asking God to protect him and deliver him from Satan and unbelievers?

2. Pray that his service will be accepted by the saints.

Paul did not want to offend the brethren, he just wanted to be a blessing. He wanted to do what God had called him to do, but he knew that God would need to open the doors for him and prepare the way. As your missionary travels, he needs the saints to accept him and his ministry. What is the key to raising support as a missionary? Simply stated, saints accepting his service. That is exactly what we need to pray for. Often times, the missionary is on deputation longer than necessary and we wonder why. I would like to beseech you to strive together with him in prayer that wherever he goes the saints will accept his service. How many times do men of God prepare good Bible messages that the church members need to hear, but do not accept? Let us pray that after the missionary has sought the face of God that his message will be accepted and taken to heart by the members of the church.

3. Pray that he may return with joy.

How important this prayer is to the missionary. When the missionary leaves to go out on deputation, many obstacles are planted in his path. Will he be able to return with joy? Will he be successful? If he goes out and preaches ten meetings with small love offerings and no support it will be hard to have joy. If he goes to the field and spends a term and sees no real results, it will not be easy to return with joy. We must pray for him, and ask God to give him success in the work he has been called to. Have you ever gone soul winning? You know what it means to come back with joy and you know what it means to come home sad and defeated. Let’s pray that God opens doors for him, that souls will be saved, and that he can come back with joy, excited about what God is doing. Do you want to see him excited about what God is doing in his life? If so, then you must pray and help him.

Later we will look at the other 3…. all material taken from “Go Ye” a World Evangelism Journal by Our Generation and B.C.W.E.

Wayne

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How To Pray For Missionaries

Couldn’t sleep, so I thought I would write a little bit. Since we are going to be starting Bible studies soon, which then will turn into a church. I want anybody who might be interested in coming and helping, to be aware of one thing about Hope Baptist Church. We are outsider focused, not insider focused. If you think that church is all about you, than you need not apply. Not to be mean , but Christ’s message was about others, and I think his church should preach the same. One huge way that Hope is going to be outsider focused is, we will send and support missionaries. I have been reading through a devotional book called “Go ye”  A world Evangelism Journal, put out by Our Generation, and B.C.W.E. Over the next several posts I will be putting out some information from this journal, to try and teach the future people of Hope Baptist how to have a huge heart for world missions. The first post is on “How to pray for missionaries”

We have been told throughout our lives that we should pray for both our pastor and our missionaries. We want to pray for them but we just don’t know how. We pray for them, saying, “God bless the missionaries,” but we want to do more than some generic prayer. This material will help you to know how to Biblically pray for missionaries. Everything that you read  also be applied to your pastor. This will be a blessing not only to the work of god around the world, but also to your local church.

The Apostle Paul felt the need to have people pray for him. If Paul felt he needed people to pray for him, just think how much more important it is for each of us to pray for others.

” Ye also helping together by prayer for us that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.” II Corinthians 1:11

As we can see from the above verse, Paul was not asking lightly for prayer. He felt that the prayers of God’s people definitely “helped.” He felt that they became an actual part of his ministry. Your prayers do make a difference. When you come before God seeking aid for a missionary’s specific needs you make yourself a co-laborer with him in his ministry.  

” Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.” Isaiah 45:11

In this verse we see that God invites us to out him into motion. There is so much that God wants to do that He will not do because we are not spending time in diligent prater for our missionaries. He has not only invited us to pray, but has commanded us to tell Him what to do. We can not actually tell God what to do if it is not already His will, but He does often times limit Himself due to our lack of prayer and faith.

 ” Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.” James 4:2

Why are the needs of missionaries not being met? Why aren’t they seeing the results of their labors? I am convinced that the reason so many missionaries are struggling to produce fruits in their ministry is that we have failed to ask God.

I am going to stop there for now, but will be continuing on the same topic for  a little while longer.

Wayne

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