Only one month before his 95th birthday, Bro. Rene Bardales passed from this life to receive his eternal reward. Bro. Bardales and his wife, Lois, served as missionaries in Mexico from 1967-1987. After returning to the United States, he had continued involvement until 1998. His heart to serve the Lord led him to prepare sermons and Bible study aids in Spanish. By 2001, he was sending his Spanish Ministerial Resources to Christian workers in five different countries. By the ti

The new school year for Shiloh Bible College in Myanmar started on June 1. This year they have sixteen students. On June 8-9, they had an evangelistic meeting with a guest speaker. Then on June 11, they celebrated the 23rd anniversary of the college. Andrew Bawi Ceu, the founder and director of the college, started SBC in 2000 specifically to train church planters to spread the name of Christ. Currently, we support 5 church planters (a limited stipend for the first four years

Another servant of the Lord has been called home. Leland Trussell was promoted to heaven on May 25, 2023. Bro. Trussell served our churches in Bolivia with his wife and family from 1961-1973. He served the Lord faithfully in ministry for almost 55 years. Two of his children and their families, Joe and Faith Trussell and Paul and Lois (Trussell) Confer later served in Bolivia, as well. He leaves behind a legacy of loving and dedicated service to the Lord. In his memory, the Wo

Last month World Missions sent more funds for war relief to Zaporizhzhia Bible Seminary in Ukraine. This is the same institution where missionaries Gordon and Nancy Snider worked from 1996-2011. The report below was in reply from Mark Mackey, our contact and the founder of the seminary. We’re still accepting donations for Ukraine Relief. June means graduation at many schools across our country and at Zaporizhzhia Bible Seminary (ZBS) in Ukraine. More about that, below. Horre

In April, Pastor George traveled to a small community named Gore near our church in Glang to show the JESUS Film. Three ladies gave their lives to Jesus after watching the film! The next week, Pastor George tried to show the JESUS Film at another village nearby. But such outreach efforts are not without risk. It soon became apparent that there were fights and quarrels going on in the village for reasons unknown, and Pastor George and his team had to stop the film early. He la

Seven months ago we started on what has been a very common path for us throughout the years: renewing a couple of passports. This normally takes one to two months, then we are free to pursue other paperwork and travel. Little did we know that our October 6 applications for two of our boys’ passports would become a much longer saga. At the end of November, the two passports came back in the normal time, but with pictures switched. We called the 1-800 number within minutes, and