Please, PRAY for this Team!

MISSION LINK from GP Conference Missionary: Dr. David Upp

Teaching Team You can just barely make out the long-West-pointing Tiburón Peninsula of Haiti with Hurricane Matthew sitting atop it.

That Peninsula is expanded below so that you can see the route I must take (by bus?) from the capital Port-au-Prince to the SW

town of Jérémie (via Les Cayes & other severely devastated Haitian towns)!

In March, I sailed to Typhoon Winston- ravaged islands of Northern & Eastern Fiji (the best way to travel after a storm) & we

had all of our food/supplies on board. Now we must somehow carry our supplies

from the Capital, so as not to deplete resources for those trying to survive on that

Peninsula. Please, pray for all of us!

Jerry Freese, also from the Great Plains Conference, will serve as a Facilitator. All the rest of this VIM Team is coming from

the UMC’s Michigan Episcopal Area.

“Explosion” of Francophone Global Methodist Churches

John & Charles Wesley were English & only served in British

Territories, but John did learn German so that he could

communicate with Zinzendorf and the Moravian Pietists. In 1968 the German & English branches of US Methodism united. Twenty-First Century Methodism is fully global & multi-lingual –but its Fastest Growing Wing speaks

FRENCH! This has also impacted Haiti, where a French-based-Creole, Ayisyen Kreyol, is the National Language, and where one District of The Methodist

Church of the Caribbean & the Americas is thriving. I’ll serve as 1 of 5 Teachers

for 300 New Methodist Lay Preachers,

plus all our Facilitators & Translators!

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Serious Students of God’s Word Here’s a photo from an earlier Round of the Haitian MCCA

Lay Pastor’s Academy. I will be teaching Methodist

Doctrine—with copious quotations from John Wesley’s

Explanatory Notes upon the Old/New Testament.

Sad & Joyous Items from Mindanao:

The Supreme Datu Lipatuan received the Salimba’a from Caleb Byerly,

opening a new era of Religious Revival for The Tinananon Manobo

Tribe of Mindanao. He also authorized the Training of NT Translators. But Datu [in a yellow shirt, below] died of a stroke, around October 1st.

Good news is the Birth of Caleb and Gladys

Byerly’s second son: Izaac Rees (pictured with his

big brother Roshan). Caleb will lead his next

Mission Team to The Philippines: 12/1-12, 2016. That’s before my Pakistani classes end, so I can’t go this time, Pray for a new Tinananon Datu who’ll

be very open-minded to the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Student Protests block Lahore Roads A large number of students protested lastWednesdayagainst revoking the affiliation ofBahauddinZakariyaUniversity’s (BZU) alleged Lahore Campus with themain campus, located in Multan. National EducationDepartment officials refused to issue themdiplomas.So they blocked Canal Road {this caused DavidUpp’sTuesdaynightLeviticusclasstobecancelled}.

Great Plains Conference Loses a Missions Motivator!

This photograph captures a massive display about the Life & Ministry of GP’s Rev. Mark Conard, who died

October 18th. Mark was The Key Kansan behind our Chabadza Relationship with UM’s across Zimbabwe.

In an era when few mainline Christians prioritize

Global Missions, Mark called Kansas-West to serve the Booming East Zimbabwe Conference. A Preacher’s Kid—

he was a Scholar, Pastor, and District Superintendent!

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Jesus Christ’s “Man of Peace” Strategy in Luke 10

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At that moment, we realized Why God had sent these 2 men to us, so we the spent the next 2 hours explaining how God brought salvation to man through Jesus. Before they left, we asked if they could arrange a meeting in which we could share this Good News with Muslim women. We knew that if Muslim women would become believers, then the entire family would follow them. Gaining access to Muslim women in order to share the Gospel had been an impossible task up until that point. Early the next morning, we found that the two men had arranged the meeting which we had requested. Inside a room in a village home, twenty-five Muslim women were sitting on the floor waiting for us. We shared with them for three hours the Gospel story beginning from the Creation story in the book of Genesis. When it came time to tell the story about the birth of Jesus, we told the two men that we wanted to show a film (the Jesus film). They quickly went into the city and returned with a rented television and video player. After the women saw the Jesus film, we were fed lunch. The only expense we incurred that day was the cost of a rickshaw ride to and from the meeting place. Having fully explained the Gospel that day, we left. Six months later, we received word from the two men requesting a visit. A church planter colleague was asked to visit the two men. The church planter discovered that 125 Muslims had been baptized and five churches had been formed. From these five churches, another three churches were started a few months later. Our normal method of evangelism and church planting was to spend lots of money on distributing tracts, enrolling people into our Bible correspondence school, and showing the Jesus Film to large crowds. Rarely did we start a single church through this method. Questions: 1) What did the three church planters do that helped to start the eight churches? 2) What were the two Muslim men able to do that the three church planters could not? 3) Did the three church planters find where God was at work and Did they join Him?

-The “Camel Method” Team

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In 1995, I heard a sermon about “Finding the Man of Peace” from Luke chapter ten. Five years later, I decided that I would actually try to find a man of peace by following the instructions Jesus gave his disciples in Luke Ten as closely as I could. Two friends joined me on this journey. We decided that we would take nothing with us except one change of clothes, a Bible, one Jesus Film video, and a small amount of money. We charted out a city that would be our destination. There had not been any churches planted in this city and its surrounding area. As we were dropped off on the side of the road to begin our journey, immediately a crowd gathered. We spent time sharing the Gospel with them. Throughout the day, we continued to share the Gospel with Muslims instead of going straight to the town as Jesus instructed us in Luke Ten. By the end of the day, we arrived into the city and felt discouraged because no one responded to the Gospel along the road to the city. Moreover, according Jesus’ instructions, we were supposed to find a man of peace who would provide us with food and shelter. Finally, we found a government office which had a small guest room attached to the back of the building and stayed there. Just as we bedded down, we heard a knock on our door. As I opened the door, there were two Muslim men standing there. They told us that they had heard from people in the city that three men had come preaching Christianity. They then told us their story. One of the two men said that four years earlier, four foreign missionaries had come to their city and ended up going to his house. There the four men prayed over his daughter who had a problem with her leg. They prayed in the name of Jesus. Within a few weeks, the daughter was healed and the two Muslim men were convinced of the power of Jesus. As these two Muslim men stood in our doorway, they explained that they needed more information about Isa. They understood about Isa’s healing power, but for four years they have been waiting to hear more about Isa. We asked the two Muslim men why the four missionaries did not tell them any more about Jesus. They replied, “They could not speak our language.”

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Rebellion in the UMC must wait longer to be Ended

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the Bible and Book of Discipline of the UMC are saying to the global UMC community that they are taking their exit and transferring their loyalty somewhere else.” {To this I add “Good Riddance!” My plea to UM's is “Stay, IF you’re Biblical (in Kulah’s sense)”. Conflict has arisen because many Conservative UM's have fled out of our Denomination. This Illegal Election is DESIGNED to drive Biblical UMs OUT of our Church. “Stay. It is the Liberals' Turn to Leave!” Persevere and Strengthen the UMC. Insist on Legal Elections for UMC!}

More Monthly Trivia Questions from Mission Link November T.Q.: Who is the next US President? Will a Third Party cross the 5% Election Threshold?

Answer: No, it's a myth. Abraham, a Hebrew (= a descendant of Eber, son of Shelah, son of Arpachshad, son of Shem, son of Noah), had seven sons www.bible.ca/islam/islam-myths-arabs-descendants-of-ishmael.htm]. Arabs are probably descended from people called Sheba (son of Joktan, a Shemite) & Seba (Son of Cush, son of Ham) also called Yemen/ Arabia-Felix. 'arab is Hebrew for mongrel/mixed, perhaps because Genesis 10 lists them descended from both Ham and Shem. 'arab also means "to ambush" as Arabs survived by attacking caravans. The most famous religious founder among the Arabs tried to imagine himself as a Jewish Prophet, after the model of ancient prophets he had heard about, but no Jew would accept his claim. So, he then imagined he was descended from Abraham’s son Ishmael (whose mother was Sarah’s Egyptian servant named Hagar). Run-a-ways & refugees from many nations hid in the vast Arabian deserts.

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In response to the illegal UM election of a "Lesbian Bishop", Rev. Jerry Kulah (Dean of Gbarnga School of Theology, a United Methodist Seminary in Liberia where I was a Bible professor in 1979) says: “We are in prayers here in Africa as we trust God to continue to lead us on the ancient path (the holy, undiluted Word of God -Jeremiah 6:16). We shall not be moved. We will continue to remain obedient to the teaching of Scripture and loyal to Jesus Christ.” The Bible is the primary authority, supported by the United Methodist Book of Discipline. “Those violating

October T.Q.: Are the Arabs Ishmaelites? Are they truly Descendants of Abraham?