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I N T E R N A T I O N A L G O S P E L O U T R E A C H

To All Nations • To Make Disciples ‘Til He Returns

May -July 2006

One grain of wheat does not

make a loaf of bread.

All the grain on one head of wheat can-not feed even one person. So it is with reaching the unreached. One missionary, working alone cannot reach the nations. Just like it takes thousands of wheat grains to make a loaf of bread, it takes an army of world class believers to reach, teach and preach to the lost.

Are you a part of that army? Are you do-ing your part to feed the nations the Word of God? Or, are you just a single head of wheat out there in the field simply doing your own thing?

I invite you to read the following article from the writings of our founder, Bertist Rouse. It sums up the need for all of us to pull together and complete the task. As you read, ask yourself, “Am I a part of the solution, or a part of the problem?”

THE UNSUNG HEROS OF THE GREAT COMMISSION.In one of the many periodicals that come across my desk each month there appeared an article that told a story that I need to share with you. It sheds light on a hidden side of missions that needs attention. Let me borrow a few minutes of your time to expose and throw light on this area that needs to be uncovered. The author of this article told the story from his personal perspective on what I am attempting to convey here. I think it can introduce my message better than I can.

He wrote:

“There is a missionary couple living in California and they have done their work so well that they may be forced to leave missionary work entirely! I recently met this couple and sympathize with their plight.

Several years ago they started working for a large mission that has over 3,000 missionaries scattered around the world. They went to the Middle East where they learned Arabic and plunged into their work. As they completed one project successfully, they were moved by their supervisor to another project and then to another. Soon the husband was asked to coordinate the work of other missionaries in that part of the world.

All was going well until the husband was given still one more promotion, but this one required him to live in California as a home-based representative and coordinator. Although he now had more responsibility than ever, churches and individuals dropped their support because, they said, he was no longer a “real missionary.”

This story documents what I desire to say about a forgotten member of the missionary outreach team. There are certain ‘behind-the-lines’ missionaries that are either overlooked or forgotten. They do not labor under the spotlight and glitter that goes with the excitement, thrill, adventure, danger and romance of some of the missionaries in exotic and fascinating corners of the world.

Many people get ‘caught-up’ in the emotions of all the excitement that

accompanies this type of situation, and fail to see the work force that keeps the installation and maintenance of missions going on out there on the front lines. These “Un-sung Heroes” are those that work back-stage and truly keep the wheels of the missionary machinery running.

Let me urge you to pray and seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit to help you not to overlook this important engine that is the power train that moves the missionary vehicle forward. What kind of military strategy is it that leaves the men in the trenches and does not support them from back behind the lines. What if the men in the trenches had to leave the front lines unguarded to run back to pick up supplies? What would happen when these G.I.’s retreat to get food, supplies, reinforcements, battle strategies and other support items?

These missionaries I am referring to will not make the headlines, or be the featured speakers at some of our leading conferences, neither will their names be etched in stone nor will there be a statue in their honor on some university campus somewhere. Please take it from me, the good ship of the missionary enterprise could never sail without them.

Many mission agencies across the USA are wrestling with the same problem, and they too are crying out on behalf of those that help them keep this ship afloat. In fact, in a letter from the CEO of one

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of the leading agencies in country, that I received recently, started his message in the letter by quoting another missions leader who was crying out on behalf of these unknown, overlooked, and forgotten missionaries. He said, “I make no apologies, for emphasizing the needs of our US administrative support efforts—the health of our fields never surpasses the overall health of our home base.”

Where would we be without these foundation stones that lay quietly and unseen and yet keep the building of world ministry crumbling?

What I am attempting to do is speak out on behalf of those missionaries God has placed around me to help with the work load of serving our dedicated missionaries on the field. “IGO” is a servant ministry. We, in your headquarters office, serve the missionary and the cause of Christ around the world. Our daily work load is tremendous. It calls for a dedicated work force that determines daily to serve our workers out on the front lines. Our home staff workers work extra hours, at peak times, to meet the needs of our field staff. They count it a privilege to be able to serve Him and them.

Our missions statement says a great deal about what we are and what we do:

“To influence the worldby serving the church worldwide.

We do this byEducating, Equipping and Employing

World Christians to becomePray-ers, Do-ers,

Send-ers and Go-ers.”

The service that we provide for your missionaries, and for local churches keeps those missionaries on the field and able to focus on the task of reaching the lost.

When you pray and seek the face of God about your missionary giving and stewardship, please consider these “Unsung Heroes” of global missionary warfare. They are the ones that stretch your over-seas missionary dollar to its greatest extent. When you give to the home office - you are giving to support the work of home based missionaries that fuel other missionaries and the gospel around the globe.

Bertist Rouse

IGO MISSIONARIESVoted “Most Helpful”

In the early part of 2006, the pastor that is responsible for over 35 churches in Northwest Russia (St. Petersburg area) asked Travis and Sue to start a work with

Travis & Sue Barfield

Construction Continues at the IGO Kenya Bible College

The first floor of classrooms is almost ready to occupy, according to IGO Kenya Director Patrick Ndirangu (far left in above photo). Once they have poured the concrete deck for the second floor they can move in and start holding classes in the first four rooms completed.

The IGO Global Fellowship Women of God Interna-tional is undertak-ing the task of rais-ing funds to help furnish the class-rooms, so that the students will have desks and chairs. (See article on page 3 of this newsletter) Help is still needed to help pay for the materials to com-pete the second floor, library, offices and dining hall.

Currently, the IGO Kenya Bible College is ministering to the needs of a wide range of denominations and church groups. The school will be able to handle 200 students a semester once it is completed.

Will you help us train pastors, missionaries and leaders from all over east Africa? Your prayers and gifts will help to strengthen and establish church planters, mis-sionaries and pastors that could otherwise never receive such a quality education. Send your tax deductible contribution to; IGO, P. O. Box 1008, Semmes, AL 36575

Please include a note that your gift is for the IGO Kenya Bible College Project.

all 35 churches in his care. He asked them to teach the people of the various churches about knowing God and doing his will.

Travis and Sue will work with two churches each week for sixteen weeks, then move on to two more churches until all 35 churches have been reached.

Travis and Sue have been working with the Russian people for over nine years and have maintained a pure reputation among the Russian Pastors; the leaders have come to trust the Barfields and their message.

In addition to this great honor of being asked to teach at these 35 churches, the Barfields have been voted as “The Most Helpful Missionaries” in their region by the pastors of those very churches.

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How can you explain our fellowship gathering in Mississippi this year? Awesome is really not a big enough word! Deeper fellowship and family ministry than ever before was one

of the high-lights for me. Getting to know J. Lee Grady was another mile-stone. I think everyone agrees that he is a watchman on the wall for the body of Christ.

Lee has been anointed to stir the Body of Christ to places and posture in the Spirit that I haven’t seen before. His affirming and activation of women was refreshing and enlightening. Indeed, he is a mighty voice speaking on the behalf of women around the world.

The revelation and insight that has been given to brother Grady touched all that attended. Not to mention the presbytery that he and Charles Green participated in over the lives of many of the people at the conference.

What can you say about our Spiritual Father, Dr. Charles Green and his lovely wife Barbara. As brother Green ministered and interwove stories about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, you could tell that he had been affected, but remains unshaken. His masterful ministry in teaching painted pictures in our spirit that will continue to bless us as we remember his ministry.

Wisdom, instruction, edification and warning flowed from him like he was a four-fold fountain that God had sent to wash and

cleanse our lives. It is always a joy to have an Elder indeed to guide us through the week. Lee Grady and Dr. Green made a dynamic duo for the day.

Set your calender, save your money and invite others because next year (June 12-15, 2007) Dale Yerton will be with us. Dale is the Chairman of WME. Dale served as a missionary evangelist for many years before Worldwide Missionary Evangelism voted him in to take the place of our Dear beloved W. M. Mc Masters (who went to be with the Lord a few years ago).

Dale is a prolific teacher of the Word and a diplomatic missionary statesman. He has taught the best mission classes I have ever attended. God will stretch, us using this servant.

Many thanks to Eric Burnette who did an outstanding job worshiping and he let us worship with him. His ministry was fresh and passionate as he lead all of us in worship, pouring our

2006 Global Fellowship Conference

R E P O R T

Clear Your Calendar...Set your watch...Synchronize your schedules...2007 Annual Global Fellowship ConferenceJune 12-15, 2007Lake Tiak O’Khata ResortLouisville, MississippiRegistration will open in January

Women of God International

Introduces New Project For AfricaWomen of God, International, the women’s ministry of the International Gospel Outreach Global Fellowship, whose vision is to reach out and assist World Missions introduces it’s newest project for Africa. After having raised funds for children’s ministry in the Ukraine and the Living Hope Orphanage and Clinic in India, this ministry will be raising needed funds to help and provide desks and furnishings for the International Gospel Outreach - Kenya Bible College. IGO – KBC is under the direction of Bishop Patrick Ndirangu, who has overseen its construction and implementation from the very beginning.

The school will provide quality Bible training for local pastors and leaders across denominational lines. The IGO – KBC currently is staffed and equipped to handle about 90 students, the new classroom facilities and campus will be able to train 200 students initially, and provide for an additional 200 students in the near future.

Special thanks to J. Lee Grady, Editor of Charisma Magazine, for his powerful message to the women who attended our 3rd annual Women’s Luncheon at the annual Global Fellowship Conference at Lake Tiak O’Khata. Admiring the courage and determination of Caleb to take his own mountains, were challenged by Lee Grady and the example of Caleb’s daughter in Joshua 15 who had her own brand of courage by asking for her inheritance. In those days, the inheritance went only to the men, but Caleb’s daughter, “Stepped up to the plate,” as they say, and asked for her part of the land. We were challenged as women to ask “What is my dream?” and then to be bold and confident in taking our territory and inheritance for God.

Finally, special thanks for all you ladies who helped to raise over $5000 to help children at risk in India. Our hats go off to you, and God bless you for your generous and loving hearts. Together, we can do more for God, than we could ever do alone. Please feel free to contact us at wog@igogf.org (e-mail) or call us at 618-452-1070 for questions and information regarding Women of God International.

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In the summer of 1995, during one our staff meetings here at IGO, James Graham made a comment to Bro.

Bertist that he felt that IGO needed to establish some kind of fellowship where pastors, ministers and missionaries could meet, build relationships and have a place to experience a sense of belonging.

At the time, it seemed like a great idea, after all, there were already some of these people meeting informally just for dinner and fellowship on a periodic basis. So we sent out invitations to the few pastors and leaders that we knew and then on Labor Day weekend of 1995, we met for the first time.

We called the group “The WorkNet” with the idea that we would pull together those who were “working the nets of the harvest.” and we had over 30 people show up for that first, organizational meeting. We knew that we had hit a chord of need, and hoped to provide a way to meet it. For some reason, after that inital meeting, the concept was put on a back burner, and allowed to die. The desire to do something still existed, but we lacked the structure to really make it happen.

In the spring of 1998, a group of us were on a trip to Mexico, when Larry Burgess, one of the pastors who had been in the original meetings asked “Whatever hap-pened to the fellowship that we started back in 1995?” That one question started

a line of conversation that consumed the rest of our trip. By the end of our trip, all of us agreed that it was time to seriously do something about reviving the idea of a fellowship for those in ministry.

Those great men turned out to provide the synergy needed to give life to the idea. Larry Burgess, Eddy Brown, Owen Eubanks, Herbert Beasly, Steve Farmer and James Graham came home with a pas-sion and a plan to give new life to this old idea. What we used to call the “WorkNet,” would soon become much larger and become “The IGO Global Fellowship.”

The vision of the Global Fellowship is to provide a safe place for those in ministry to belong, create accountable relation-ships, and share ideas and resources. Every-thing we do has a mis-sionary flavor to it. One of Bro. Bertist’s requests was that we keep it about missions, and keep it

pure. To this day, we have been able to do both.

Since it is a fellowship and not a denomi-nation, membership in the fellowship is completely voluntary. Rather than opening up membership to the public, the leaders of the fellowship opted to enroll new members through invitation only. To join the fellowship, another member

What is The Global Fellowship?

Healing Prayer School is a specialized training offered here at the IGO Home Office that

teaches that God desires to and will heal our emotional and spiritual wounds. *“God the Father, through the Living Lord Jesus Christ, by the Holy Spirit is able and willing to bring peace to our minds and spirits through prayer.”

Under the direction of Charles and Barbara

must recommend you. This insures that we maintain a high level of relationships inside the organization.

In 1999, in order to bring order and more structure to the Global Fellowship, Bro. Bertist appointed Dr. Eddy Brown (Senior Pastor of the Family Worship Center in Granite City, Illinois) as the Bishop to oversee and become a spiritual father to the member-ship, and He has done a great job, and continues to function in that role.

In order to encourage growth and continu-ing education among our members, the Global Fellowship works closely with the International College of Bible The-ology and Midwest Seminary to provide degree programs at a reasonable cost for its members.

In June of each year, the Global Fellow-ship has a fellowship gathering designed to enhance relationships, bring encourage-ment and find ways to partner together for World Missions. The June conference is also the time that the fellowship holds ordination and licensing for members. Anyone is welcome to attend the Annual Global Fellowship Conference.

If you know a pastor, or someone in min-istry that is looking for place to belong, or just looking for fellowship with other pastors and leaders, I encourage you to connect them with the Global Fellowship. It will bless their life and ministry.

Turner, The Department of Missionary Health is starting another session of Healing Prayer School in August. One of the good things that we get to do here at I.G.O. is to teach others about healing emotional wounds. This involves working with and teaching our missionaries and others about healing

emotionally wounded people.

Twice a year, we conduct a video Basic Seminar using the Theophostic method of healing emotional wounds. This is followed by a 12 week teaching and training course in the application of the principles of the Theophositc method of Healing Prayer Ministry. The next course

will start the weekend of August 18-19 for the Basic Seminar and will end November 6, 2006.

If you have a desire or calling to help emotionally wounded people, this special school will provide the tools needed to bring pracitcal help to those hurting and in need. Contact Charles and Barbara Turner at the IGO Home Office for more information.

* Quoted from Dr. Ed M. Smith, founder of Theophistic Ministries and author of “Healing Life’s Deepest Hurts.”

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Every year just gets better and better!Each year when we finish up another six months of the Institute of World Ministry, we hear this comment from staff and returning students alike. By the time we have that last class, filled with tearful good-byes and fond memories; we have seen another group of students become a family of missionaries.

Some students attend the mission’s school in order to deepen their own knowledge of missions, help in their home church’s missions endeavors or to build relationships with missionaries going to the field. Other students come to the school in order to prepare for missionary service with IGO. This year we had students as far away as Portage, Michigan, Pam & Jeff Jones. They are our first correspondence students who will go on to be IGO missionaries to Romania. All our students come from different walks of life and church backgrounds. All with one purpose, build God’s Kingdom here on earth.

The picture of this years graduating class is missing five students who couldn’t make graduation night. They are Reginald and Gail Peters who were in East Africa with the Jesus Film Project, Jeremy Hall was

with a church group in Honduras doing a missions outreach and David and Cindy Walls was at Singing River Hospital. Cindy is much better today thanks praying classmates, our friends and family.

The Institute of World Ministry is one way for this ministry to teach you about God’s heart for the Nations. These classes will give participants a clearer understanding of God’s actions and intentions in the world, helping you make informed decisions about your strategic participation with Him.

We use practical ways of teaching and relevant materials that will fulfill your call to become doers of the word, and not hearers only. We want to challenge you and deepen your comprehension of God’s plan for the church worldwide to take HIS message to every people group. Some of the things that require study and homework are World Geography and World Wide Perspectives. Everything we do is mission minded and disciple oriented. It’s not about the denomination, its about spreading Jesus.

Our ultimate aim is not to give you theories or just vast amounts of information, but to encourage you toward an obedient response to the great commission.

We have a great team of teachers scheduled for this year who are as excited about their part as I am to have t h e m s p e a k . These are special men and women who are giving their time to bring our class a “hands on” presentation o f w h a t G o d has taught them about their part in building His Kingdom. Each teacher brings unique and timely experience from their lives and

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ministry to impart to the class. These are men and woman f rom var ious denominations with a heart for missions who are very conscious of the need to reach the lost and training others to do just that. Come and experience something that brings to life your call to touch the nations, bringing life to the lost.

This coming year I will have a new assistant, Brother Bill Anderson. He is a long time friend of this ministry, a church planter himself and a graduate of this years class. Bill & Wander are residents of Bay Minette , Al. He will be helping me with this new class on Thursday nights here and Tuesday nights we wil l be in Pensacola, Florida helping Globe Missions Agency get their school started. Yes, that’s right. IWM is spreading out. Globe Missionary Evangelism out of Pensacola, Fl. has asked us to help them start a missions school patterned after ours using the same teachers and curriculum. My counter part for new venture is a long time

missionary with Globe brother Glenn Hatcher. We are both excited about this opportunity and honored.

Classes begin January 12 at 6:30 PM here at the IGO office and go through June 22nd when we celebrate your achievement with a formal graduation and a certificate of completion. We have already started registration and at present we have 15 students doing homework and reading to get a head start. You too can start now and began your journey through God’s plan for all of us to “Go to the nations.”

Praise God for all He is doing in the world.

2006 GraduatesFront Row (seated) Christi Hutton, Randy Seals (Director)

Bill and Wanda AndersonBack Row (Standing) Jeff and Pam Jones,

Pete and Eloise Qualey, David CrimJoe Williams (Standing in center) Jolene Bloodsworth,

Casey Crim and Martha Smith

ReginaldPeters

GailPeters

JeremyHall

DavidWalls

CindyWalls

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IN YOUR HANDSBy Ashley Renee Robertson - Russia

When life is so uncertainand I just can’t understand,when I can’t see what’s ahead of meand I feel like giving in;When I’ve tried my bestbu that’s not enough,and I’m tired of ‘taking a stand,’Lord, give me strength to love your will,and place everyday In Your Hands.

When everything seems hopeless,and I can’t face the world again,when people disappoint me,and the hurt never seems to end,when very day’s a struggleYou still have a perfect plan;Help me to know that you’re in control-everything’s In Your Hands.

When I need someone to listenbut no one seems to care,when I feel so aloneas I realize no one’s there;When I feel the pressure to try to fit in,to find my value in man,help me to learn that my worth is in Youas I look at the scars In Your Hands.

Even when the pain seems pointless,I know You’re working it out for good.I want others to see this in my life.Help me handle things like you would.When it feels like I can’t do anything right,When people misunderstand,when everything’s confused around me,I know I’ll always be safe In Your Hands.

My daughter Ashley (19 years old), served with Teen Missions in the vil-lages of Africa several summers; through the hardship of living in tents and bathing from buckets she learned to truly depend on God and not peers nor oth-ers. This is a poem she sent me from the field.Linda Robertson - Michael and Linda Robert-son are IGO Missionaries in Moscow, Russia

In Memo-ryLong time friend and missionary Marlene Patterson passed away early on Monday, July 24. Marlene was a char-ter member of the IGO Global Fellowship and a missionary to Eastern Europe where she was strongly involved in ministry to women. She is also the author of “The Claws of the Vulture,” her testimony of growing up in Nazi occupied Austria, Czechoslovakia and

Hurricane Katrina Relief continues...A full year after the events of Hurricane Katrina, teams from all over the USA are still coming to the southern USA to help rebuild the lives of those devastated by the storm. The above photo is the youth group from Crossroads Bible Church, in Norris City, IL (Chad Everett, Pastor). They had just completed a week of building, pouring cement, painting and feeding through the ministry of Church of the Good Shepherd in Pass Christian, MS. (Mike Barbera - Pastor)

One of the comments made by an adult member of the team was that “None of these teenagers complained about a thing! They were always upbeat and positive and did anything they were asked to do.”

Many thanks to Crossroads Bible Church for send-ing their best to the coast!

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