Contemporary Missions: The Challenge, The Reward
Sept. 19, 2024
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest(s): Dr. Gary Dull
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 9/19/24. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer: Hello and welcome to this Thursday edition already of Stand In the Gap Today, and it’s a special program today where on this day I’ve asked Pastor Dr. Gary Dahl, one of our three original Stand in the Gap today co-host. You all know him and love him. I know that because I hear from you. But I’ve asked him to join me today for a conversation on a theme that’s of real critical importance to him obviously and clearly as you’ll understand. But it starts with a theme of great importance to the Lord Jesus Christ himself and to all Bible believing churches and all true believers. And that theme is missions that which arises from the commands of our Lord to, well, you recognize this, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature and make disciples of all that command has motivated the gospel and the communication of the gospel around the globe.
Sam Rohrer: Well, these past 2000 years, because that’s when the commission approximately was given, the Apostle Luke in Luke 21:24 refers to, I’m going to say this period of time since the ascension of Christ to where we are now as the times of the Gentiles. And of course we know Jesus said that this time would be the time also that he would build his church. And that’s been happening and that it would come to a close though where the building of the church would not go on forever, come to a close at the rapture of the church, the bride of Christ. And obviously in that day the church would no longer be able to fulfill that responsibility of carrying out the gospel since there would be no more church here. Does that make sense? So it’s a time period in which we live. It’s a fantastic time for all of you listening to me and myself.
Sam Rohrer: That’s all we’ve known. We’re in that time. The scripture tells us that at time and moving into the tribulation period, that God himself will assume, in my words was Psalm, responsibility for global evangelism. And we’ve talked about it on many programs and it will be in that time where the greatest harvest of souls, the scripture tell us will take place the world have ever seen will happen, and it’ll be at the hands of and utilized by these entities. 144,000 Jewish young men will travel the world and preach the gospel. Three angels we know are going to be involved, two witnesses as well, all declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ and his righteousness. So in a nutshell, I’ve just summarized one way of looking at missions and how it’s continued but will change, but until the Lord returns as the church, all of us listening now are to occupy and spread the gospel of which the missions is a vital part. So the title I’ve chosen to frame our conversation today is this contemporary missions, the challenge and the reward. Gary, thank you for being here today in this capacity and letting me interview you. It’s a blessing.
Gary Dull: Well, thank you Sam. It’s a joy to be able to be on this side of the microphone as it were, or maybe I should say this side of the program. I’d rather be giving the questions I think than answering the questions, but I’m looking forward to it.
Sam Rohrer: Yeah, I know you would and that’s one of those interesting things, Gary, let me get right into it because over the years now you’ve been in the pastorate, I don’t know coming up 50 years close to it, give or take I think. But you’ve witnessed a lot of changes. We’ve talked about it, changes in our nation, changes in our culture, changes in the church in our nation, but you’ve also been more dedicated to missions than most people that I’ve known and most pastors that I know. And I say that sincerely, it’s a wonderful thing. Here’s my first question. Can I ask you to share from a personal perspective what missions means to you personally and as a pastor to when God has called you and why it’s been so important to you over these years?
Gary Dull: And thank you Sam, and I do want to thank God for his faithfulness as of February the third. This past I celebrated 50 years in pastoral ministry and God’s been good down through those years and I gave him the praise and the glory for it. But I do love missions, Sam. I grew up in a church that was a good Bible believing church, but there was not a strong emphasis on missions. Every now and then a missionary would come by, but we never had a missions conference or anything like that. But when I went off to Bible college in those days, the Washington Bible College that is now absorbed into Lancaster Bible College, I just very early on in my time there became excited about missions when a missionary would come in and we had them on a regular basis. I just felt a spiritual hunger well up within me.
Gary Dull: I love to hear the missionaries come to give their messages. And of course as time went on, I got involved with what they called Student Missionary Fellowship and became a leader in that and for three years had the opportunity to work along with the Bible College administration in planning the missions conference. And so even though I did not get a lot of teaching on missions as a child growing up in my home church, what I learned there at the Washington Bible College really struck my heart as it relates to missions and God just gave me a love for it. As a matter of fact, I did not really expect that I would be going into the pastorate. I figured I’d be going into some kind of missions ministry, but the Lord redirected me into the pastorate back in 1974, and that’s where I’ve been ever.
Gary Dull: But since then, I’ve had the opportunity to be in about 35 nations of the world doing missions ministry for which I’m thankful the Lord never gave me the opportunity to live on a mission field permanently. But he’s sure given me the opportunity to visit many nations of the world to support missionaries. And I think I counted one day, God’s so gracious, God’s good Sam. And I think that I counted one day that the Lord has allowed me to lead about 35 to 40 people in the missions ministry and of course have confirmed them through the local church. So I’m thankful for that. He’s never put me on the mission field, but he’s been allowing me to be involved with missions from the very beginning.
Sam Rohrer: And Gary, not only that, at some point in time and we’ll be able to complete it in this segment, we’ll carry it over, but at some point in time, the Lord laid further on your heart to establish a mission board of sorts, I’m going to call it that, called Way of Truth Ministries that now involves and oversees the involvement of many, many missionaries all around the world. And rather than ask you to give any kind of an answer at the break, let’s just go into that in the next segment. When I look at WOTM, which stands for a Way of Truth ministries, I often say word of truth ministries because you’re all focused totally on the communication of the word, but it’s way of Truth ministries. And now ladies and gentlemen, that ministry, that Mission Board has missionaries all over the world. And when we conclude this program in the last segment, we’re actually going to share some involvement in an African nation where Way of Truth ministries and Gary and actually myself are going to be involved in others and coming up doing something very, very unique, but something that really is all about missions abroad.
Sam Rohrer: So we’ll talk about that here shortly. So stay with us. We’ll be back in just a little bit. Well, thank you for being with us today here on Stand In the Gap today. And if you’re just tuning in now, I know many, many people, at least here in my area in Pennsylvania, listen to this program delayed. We’re actually live about 50 stations across the country. Carry this, hear it Live, you’re listening immediately as we’re doing it. Others will hear this program at various times throughout the day. So you may be joining us in your car, you may be in your kitchen, I don’t know where you are, but thank you for being aboard the focus today. This is not so much headline news where I generally will focus except that it is headline news in a different way. The theme is this, contemporary missions, the challenge and the reward.
Sam Rohrer: And I’m talking with Dr. Gary Dahl. Gary is pastor of a church in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Been a friend for a long, long time, been as you know him, listened to this program, co-host on this program, but he’s had a heart for missions. Well, unlike many or most that I know. And just thought it would be good to take a look at missions, kind of look back, look around, look ahead and what God has put on his heart. Gary, you’ve been in the pulpit, you were talking about 50 years, I think back in February you said. So you’ve seen a lot. One of those things that God has put on your heart is the area of missions. You said you’ve visited about 30 some Mission fields, number lived there, but you’ve been involved, but God also laid on your heart establishing a mechanism, a ministry to help place missionaries to help them in their calling to go to missions abroad. The name of it is Way of Truth Ministries. WOTM. Tell us how did that come about?
Gary Dull: Well, Sam, thank you for that opportunity. The idea of this particular ministry was something that God put on my heart back in the last part of the 1970s. And it was something that though it was in my heart for many years, I did nothing about it. And interestingly enough, it was the idea of having a radio ministry. I can recall growing up in Western Pennsylvania listening to people like Oliver B Green and just a number of different people. And every time I heard them on the radio, my heart was blessed and I was just challenged to get out the gospel through radio before the Lord called me into the ministry. Sam, I was going to go into radio and television. And so after he called me into the ministry, he never put me in that particular occupation as it were, but he did open the door and put on my heart the idea of this concept of having a radio ministry.
Gary Dull: So after it was on my heart for about 10 years, one day I called my father and I said, dad, can I take you out to lunch? I’ve got something I want to share with you. And so we met for lunch and I shared with him what the Lord had placed on my heart nearly 10 years prior to that. And I said, dad, what should we do? He said, well, I would encourage you to go ahead and follow through with the vision that God gave you. So in July of 1989, I called together six other men and we met at the Family House restaurant in Breezewood, Pennsylvania to discuss the idea of putting together a ministry that would be primarily radio. But as we put that ministry together, God gave our attorney, by the way, who was a born again Christian, she loved the Lord.
Gary Dull: God gave our attorney, I think, a greater vision than he had given us. And in putting together our founding and our charter papers, she a vision in there that we didn’t have, but the Lord has allowed us to develop down through the years. So we started out as a radio ministry and we have two programs that we produce one 15 minute daily program called The Living Truth and one Weekend 30 minute program that we call the Message of Truth. And the Living Truth is on about a hundred stations across the nation and in some foreign countries it’s just 15 minutes of Bible teaching. And we’ve been doing that since July, I’m sorry, since October of 1989. But over the period of time the Lord kept leading us into other forms of ministry under this umbrella. The Way of Truth Ministries. It was interesting when we started to talk about the ministry, we thought we should come up with a name and I had no idea what to call it when you’ve got a last name like Doll, which is me, DULL, you don’t want to call it the Doll Ministries or the Gary Doll Ministry.
Gary Dull: So I just began to search the scripture and one day in reading Psalm one 19, I came across verse 30 where it says, I have chosen the way of truth. And so we call this new ministry the Way of Truth Ministries and today we have 10 separate ministries and we are in 11 countries of the world with 72 indigenous missionaries in those 11 nations. We have about 15 other individuals working here in the United States in Highway Ministries. We’ve got people involved with children’s ministries altogether we have a staff of about missionaries and workers of about a hundred people that see that the way of Truth ministries functions on a regular basis.
Sam Rohrer: And Gary, that’s a remarkable, remarkable thing and it’s a testimony to your obedience and the grace of God and being faithful to what God has called you to do. Now, you’ve mentioned a couple things, missionaries overseas, you’ve mentioned some missions here at home. So here, just take the missions abroad piece for right now. You’ve mentioned how many were involved, how many of those missionaries are actually on, we call foreign mission fields or missions abroad, and then go right into this. How have you seen both challenges and rewards in that regard? Because they go together I think, to actually carrying out the Great Commission in Missions abroad. What kind of changes, challenges, and rewards have you seen over the years of involvement?
Gary Dull: Well, overseas, as I said, we are involved with 11 different nations and we work with indigenous Sam. I can remember a long time ago, and I don’t know how far back it’s been, but I was talking to a missionary who was serving the Lord in Germany and in the course of our discussion, I remember he was saying that there’s going to come a time when American missionaries may have a hard time getting into some of these nations of the world, even if it might not be impossible. And I thought, wow, that’s sort of a serious challenge to take into consideration. And so as the way of Truth ministries begin to grow and develop, rather than trying to get people from the United States to go to these nations in which we are involved, we felt that we would be better off to train the locals, to train the indigenous people in the word of God, that they might be able to do the ministry out there on the field as they understand the culture, as they understand the language, as they understand things out there much better than we, and it doesn’t cost as much. I was in a missions conference back in April, Sam with a missionary going to Denmark and he has to raise, listen to this $20,000 a month. Think of that Sam,
Gary Dull: He has to raise $20,000 a month to go to Denmark. And that’s high. I think probably the average missionary today from the United States has to raise anywhere from eight to $10,000. But in the nations in which we are located, we can support a missionary, an indigenous missionary for a month, for 150 to $200, and they don’t have to spend a lot of money going out and raising support. Of course, we do that for them here on the home front as it were. And so we work with indigenous missionaries in these 11 nations and usually about twice a year in the fall and in the spring, I will go to these various nations and sometimes take somebody with me to help train these pastors. We have a number of different Bible colleges located in those 11 nations that are part of of Truth ministries. And so we go into those Bible colleges and we train those local indigenous people doctrinally and from the perspective of the word of God. And I’m sorry, you want to say something?
Sam Rohrer: Okay, no, I didn’t, but I was just thinking here before we leave this segment and then go to home missions, I’m going to call it that in the next segment, Bible colleges that you’ve established a part of the Great Commission is about making disciples. How has that aspect of making disciples directed? Is that what shaped what you’re just talking about?
Gary Dull: Oh, absolutely Sam. I think that in reading through the book of the Acts, we can see what missions is all about. As a matter of fact, I’ve said to people that the book of the Acts is the handbook of missions for the New Testament. And in Acts chapter 14, verses 21 through 23, as the apostle Paul was talking about his own ministry, he emphasized that they were involved in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. And I think that that is the definition of New Testament missions, evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. And that’s what we attempt to do in our ministry overseas through way of truth, evangelism, leading people to Christ and then discipling them either on the person to person basis or getting them into one of our Bible colleges that we have located in these countries so that they in turn can go out and do church planting. And it’s just been a blessing for me to see how God is using that in the countries in which we are involved. You were involved with a meeting this morning with me when we were talking about our upcoming Kenya meeting, and you will recall that I said to them, we are coming as your servants. We don’t want to tell them what to do, but we want to serve them in these areas of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. And if we can do that, we believe that we’ll be pleasing and honoring to God.
Sam Rohrer: So ladies and gentlemen, as you’re listening next segment, stay with us. We’ll come back, we’ll talk about home missions. Lemme just ask you a question as you’re listening to me right now. Have you considered yourself a part of missions, a missionary? Well think about that. We’ll come back next segment. Gary, you’re talking about God laying on your heart Missions years ago, put a vision in your heart, took 10 years I think you said, or whatever, for things to begin to work out because the Lord moves in mysterious ways and bringing it to the point where the Lord allowed you with others to birth way of Truth ministries. And you talked about great involvement in, I’m going to call missions abroad overseas generally, but then you also mentioned some things here at home and in the Great Commission mandate, Gary, there’s a description that when I read it in my mind, it kind of configures like a bullseye type of an image.
Sam Rohrer: The gospel is to be declared in Judea that’s close in ring Samaria, the next ring a little bit bigger than the uttermost parts of the world. You were talking mostly in last cycle about the uttermost parts of the world. As I would see it, clarify in your mind if it’s different than that, but as you considered missions and the great commission mandate, do you consider the command to carry out the gospel mandate to Judea and Samaria the closer in rings as much as I would put it this way, would you view those closer in things perhaps as missions at home as compared to missions abroad as we’re talking about? And how do you differentiate that as a pastor and a founder of Way of Truth ministries? Because it sounds to me like you definitely have both as a part of your outreach.
Gary Dull: Well, we do. And Sam, I think that based upon Acts one, eight particularly that you have made reference to missions begins at home. And I’ve often said in my own personal life as well as in my church life and teaching others that going overseas does not make you a missionary or does not begin the missionary process. Missions begins at home, and I know we make that distinction between home missions and foreign missions, but missions involves everywhere there are people, and that is right outside the door where you and I are sitting today. There are people who need the Lord. I do believe that you can make a distinction between general ministry and missions. I believe that missions itself involves evangelism, church planning and discipleship. And so not every ministry may be called a mission, but every ministry is involved in missions or some aspect of missions, if that makes any sense to you. And if it doesn’t by asking me, I’ll try to clarify it.
Sam Rohrer: No, it does, it does. Gary, and I’d like you to restate that because I think that distinction, repeat that again. So repetition can help because I think it’s very good.
Gary Dull: Well, I believe as you study the scripture that missions involves three things, evangelism, church, planting and discipleship. And so not every ministry is a mission, but every ministry does mission work. And I mean here at the way of Truth Ministries, for instance, with the effort or the intent of reaching all people everywhere, we have 11, excuse me, 10 separate ministries and we have a Bible conference ministry, we have a church planning ministry, we have a children’s ministry, we have a highway truckers ministry, we have a local church aid ministry, we have a military ministry, a radio ministry, and all of that is involved in reaching people here at home, wherever our home is, Jerusalem, Judea, Samari most part of the world. We believe here at the Way of Truth Ministries that reaching people for Christ. As a matter of fact, that was our first logo reaching the world for Christ.
Gary Dull: And I often laugh at that because when we established that we were on one little radio station reach in about 11 counties, but God gave us a vision beyond what we thought that we had ourselves I guess. But missions does begin at home and that’s what we try to do here at the Way of Truth Ministries in the 10 ministries that God has given us to be able to get out the word of God, both at home as well as abroad. But I will tell you that I am very excited to see what God is doing around the world. We are mostly involved in third World Nations, Sam through way of truth ministries and those men and women who serve the Lord in Asia and in Africa, they run circles around us in church planting and evangelism and discipleship. And every time I go and visit one of these mission fields, I come home challenged asking the Lord, Lord, give me the opportunity to do what our indigenous missionaries are doing abroad. And that’s why I say to everybody, you need to visit a mission field to see what God is doing there and then come home and try to put it to you to work in your own ministry at home.
Sam Rohrer: And Gary, that brings up a thought I thought much about, I think we’ve talked about it, but it’s a combining of two things you’re talking about. Let me just phrase it this way, working with indigenous missionaries, people who’ve lived in other countries as you’re doing and discipling them there, you’ve said it’s more efficient. They know the culture, they fit. The productivity from that perspective is incredible when that is the case. Now here’s the part. Over the years Gary, we now have had so many people come to America, some legal, some illegal, but frankly in many, many cases I know Korean populations and Singapore population, I mean whatever it may be, oftentimes the second largest population of those people outside the nation itself is right here in America. So it almost seems that the mission field has come to us. How does that factor into your thinking as we talk about changes as we see missions over the years, the challenges and the rewards? Isn’t that one of ’em that’s changing or has changed and how do you address that?
Gary Dull: Oh, absolutely. The Bible teaches us that God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And he wants people to hear the gospel so that they can come to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I can remember a number of years ago, and I think it was at a conference I attended down at Bob Jones University, your alma mater, where someone said that if we don’t go to the mission field, God may send the mission field to us. And Sam, I think that we are seeing that in many ways we talk about the border down at Texas and wherever it may be, how all of these people are coming into the United States. And I believe that you’ve got to come into America legally. We know that having illegals come into our country, that’s another story. And I wish our government would become more effective in guarding what’s taking place at the border.
Gary Dull: But I do believe that if we ourselves don’t actively and aggressively go into the world to preach the gospel, that God will send the world to us. And I think that that’s what we are seeing here in United States of America today. I know in the city that I live in Altoona, Pennsylvania, we’re a small city of about 50,000 people. More and more we are seeing folks here from other parts of the world and I’ve said to our people, God is sending those people to our back door, maybe our front door, that we might talk to them about the things of the Lord because they need to know about the Lord Jesus Christ. So God is a god of his word. He wants the people of the world to hear the word of God. And we must go, that’s our command, that’s our commission. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
Gary Dull: We’ve got the responsibility from God to do that. And one of the things that concerned me today, Sam, is that fewer and fewer young people are surrendering to going into the world with the gospel message and maybe churches aren’t giving the emphasis on the great commission as we should be. I think that’s one of the problems that we’re seeing today as well. But God is still God and he still wants people to come to Christ. And so I believe that on the practical basis, if we don’t go to them, God will send them to us so that we can talk to them about the things of the Lord. I said to Dave Kisler one day that I’d love to get down and spend about a month on the border in Texas to be there to pass out gospel tracks to those who are coming across the Rio Grande River into the United States to give them the Gospel of Christ. God has not yet opened that door, but if you opened that door, brother Sam, I’d be willing and ready to go.
Sam Rohrer: I know you would, and Gary don’t have much time left, but let me just throw out something. I don’t think you and I have talked about it, but I have thought much. I’ve talked to some people about this and that is this, the mission field is coming here. We’re talking about that. What do you think about the idea of perhaps reverse missions? In other words, I have actually talked to some people who have come here to segments of African population from Africa and they are ministering almost literally, they are as missionaries within communities of Africans, within our bigger cities, and they’re doing it in a wonderful way. It’s reverse missions. Have you ever thought about that and what do you think?
Gary Dull: Yes, and I’ve seen that in operation. In fact, some of our churches over in Ghana that we are involved with way of truth, they are praying that God might give them the opportunity to send missionaries to the United States, to the city of New York, for instance, to speak to. There’s a large delegation of gone east people there to reach them with the gospel of Jesus Christ. I think that’s all a part of God working as we are drawing toward the rapture, which of course we know could happen at any moment. I think God is doing as much as he can to call his people to get out the gospel to those people who need it. And that’s where reverse missions comes into play. I believe it. I believe that’s a part of God’s working. We may not have planned that ourselves here in the United States, in our local churches here, but God has planned it and has put that in the hearts of many of those in foreign countries and I’m thankful for it.
Sam Rohrer: Amen. And ladies and gentlemen, you may not be a part of a missionary. I’m not an official missionary, but I hope that you are viewing part of your role as being in missions, spreading the gospel to those who may live right next door or for those that God brings into your path, we all have that duty or let’s put that way a privilege to be a part of the spreading gospel. When we come back, we’re going to go back to Africa and talk about an upcoming event of which Gary and I will be a part. Alright, Gary, we’re going to wrap things up here right now. So glad that you’ve been in this capacity on that side of the microphone. And I know as you said at the beginning of the program, you like to be interviewing, which you do so well. But it’s also nice that I’m able to interview you and allow you to share a little bit of what the Lord has done, which has been so very, very much particularly in this area, our focus today on missions.
Sam Rohrer: But that being said, let’s go back to Africa. You referenced earlier, and I did as well about an upcoming event very soon, right at hand here in Africa, a direct extension and an evidence of the way of truth missions working with indigenous, well, they’re missionaries in that sense, but they’re there in Africa. Share what you can, what you’re able to about this upcoming conference and events and also include within it, not just what but why, what’s the objective and how does it fit within the mission of way of truth mission, carrying out the gospel and making disciples?
Gary Dull: Yes, Sam, I’m very thankful for the opportunity to do it. As I mentioned, my first mission field I ever visited was Kenya back in February, March, I’m sorry, March of 1980. And since then it seems as though the Lord has continued to give me the opportunities to go to that nation. And back in 2017 and 2018, I was there two consecutive years in a row and began to see how that so many false religions are growing in that country and leading people astray. And in speaking to some of the pastors and missionaries over there, they were saying to me, we just need help. We understand where a lot of these false religions have gone away from the word of God, but we don’t necessarily know how to reach them and we do want to reach these people for Christ. And so consequently, we began to plan a specific conference to reach a specific group of people that we held in Mombasa.
Gary Dull: A year and a half ago. We brought 50 Christian leaders in church pastors, missionaries, chaplains, and gave a seminar on certain forms of reaching certain people with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And out of that, it’s as though the Lord put upon our heart the idea of having a larger conference that we are calling Project Kenya. And so what’s taking place, it will take place the seventh through the 11th of October over in Nairobi is we are going to be bringing pastors and Christian leaders together. There will probably be a thousand people attend this conference. There would be more Sam if we would allow them to come. But here at way of truth, we’ve got to raise the funds for that. It’s going to cost us about $55,000 to put on that conference for that particular week. And I’m thankful that the Lord has brought in all but $9,000 for that.
Gary Dull: God’s been good so far. We would ask people to pray for that extra $9,000 that’s needed to conduct this conference. But we are going to be bringing in about a thousand Christian leaders to encourage them mainly on biblical truth. And of course, when we started putting this conference together, I began to ask the Lord, who would you have involved? And of course your name came up and you’re going to be talking about the concept of the church and government and some other things. As a matter of fact, the closer we get to the conference, the more you’re looking like the keynote speaker for which I’m very thankful, but you’re going to be involved with it. George Barna is going to be involved with it. He’s not going to be able to go, but he’s already I think put together his presentation that will be done by video.
Gary Dull: Nehemiah Paul, a great friend of mine will be going, David Kissler was going to go as the keynote speaker, but as most of our audience realizes now that just about six weeks ago, his son and daughter-in-Law were killed in a plane crash. And so he’s got a lot to take care of in relationship to that. That is preventing him from going, I’ll be doing more speaking. Dan Woodring, who is the international director for the Wave Truth Ministries will be involved and then some of the indigenous pastors from over there will be involved as well. So this conference has the theme entitled Ministering in the 21st Century. And so I thankful Sam that you’re going to be involved with it. I’m thankful that we’re going to be able to put it on in a large church over there that seats about 3000 people. We would just ask folks all across the nation to be praying for us that God will use that in ways beyond our imagination.
Gary Dull: We surely do need a lot of prayer. And this is a part of what we believe that way of Truth Ministries has been called to do and that is to train indigenous people in the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Even though I’ve been going to Africa for many, many years, establishing an office in a way of truth office or a ministry I should say in Kenya is relatively new. It’s the newest nation in which we are involved with, but we’re putting on the largest conference that we’ve ever put on in any international location. So I appreciate, Sam, the opportunity that you’ve given me to share with it today. You’re going to be a part of that, a very critical part of that, and I appreciate your willingness to be able to go. And so I just ask our folks who are listening to pray earnestly that God might use it for His glory.
Sam Rohrer: Thank you, Gary, by the way. And it is a blessing to do so. Ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to share this with you today so that you could be a part, be aware to pray in this nation. We’re engaged in a spiritual battle, are we not as we go into elections, but we see it globally. Just yesterday, the United Nations by a great majority vote, voted to condemn Israel, basically lifting their fist against the God of heaven. It’s a spiritual issue at its heart, and we know these things are underway, but God, in the midst of this is providing really unique and great opportunities. And we can’t all go. We can’t all do things like Gary’s doing. Hopefully a group of us will be doing there in Kenya. However, we can all be a part. You can be a part by praying for us. So remember that this particular trick, 6th of October, through the balance of that week, it’s at approximate time. Remember that. Pray for God’s protection. Some of you may be able to help financially. As Gary mentioned, a need exists for about $10,000 yet to cover all of that. But wow, how magnificent that it does so much. Gary, if God lays on anybody’s heart here right now to help specifically to that, how should they respond?
Gary Dull: Well, thank you, Sam. They could go to wtb m wtb m.org and or if they would want to talk to us personally, they could call at nine four four two eight nine four. That’s 4 9 4 4 2 8 9 4. And certainly we do appreciate the prayers of people all across this nation and I thank you, Sam, for the opportunity not only to talk about the way of Truth ministries today, but also this upcoming conference and just ask people to pray that God will be honored and glorified through every aspect of it.
Sam Rohrer: And thank you so much, Gary. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being a part today and again, participate, partner in prayer, finances, possibly if that is a ability. But remember, each and every day, you and I should be involved in missions right here at home. Our neighbors, our friends, those we meet, that God arranges those connections. May we be a witness that points people to the Lord above. That is why we’re here. God bless you all. We’ll see you back tomorrow.
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