Newsletter from Rev. John Parker

Below is a letter from Bro. Parker - Bible Methodist Missions General Secretary

Dear Prayer Partners of Bible Methodist Missions: - Aug. 31, 05

I am writing as I sit in the airport, catching my breath from the weekend trip with Missions Board Chairman, Rev. Walter Hedstrom to Mexico to share with the Mexican Nationals in a weekend celebration to honor the Tomes for their many years of faithful ministry. It was a special event with many tears and some laughter as the Bible Methodist people of Mexico said "Dios La Bendiga!" (God Bless You!) to the Tomes.

Just a few hours after arriving home and repacking the extra large
suitcases with all I could cram in them from all the people who want to send things with me to the Philippines, I am on the way on a ministry venture that is exciting and at the same time a bit overwhelming! I am meeting Melvin Adams, from our Great Lakes Conference and Co-Director of Barnabas Ministries, in the airport in Tokyo, Japan. We will then go to Phnom Phen, Cambodia through Bangkok, Thailand. We will be speaking for two 3 day Pastor's conferences there for Vietnamese pastors from the
persecuted, underground church in Viet Nam. The numbers wanting to attend necessitated breaking them into two groups. What an awesome opportunity this is to minister to such worthy brothers from the underground church. Please pray for us that we will be able to impart truth and edification to these dear laborers in the whitened harvestfields of Viet Nam that will send them home strengthened and better grounded in the Word and Work of God!

We will leave there on Sept. 9 with a Vietnamese Church leader
accompanying us for the Philippines. We will visit the new conference center project there on the first weekend and minister in Sunday services in Banaue, and then hurry back to the College campus for the September National Pastor's Conference to be held there Monday night through Thursday. This is a very important event. Please pray that God will use those of us who will be sharing the speaking responsibilities to challenge and strengthen the ministry and personal lives of our faithful pastors in the Philippines!

I am praying that God will call one of our Filipino Bible Methodist
pastors to Viet Nam as a missionary from the Philippines! This has been our desire and focus for some time! It would truly mark the maturity and growth of the Filipino work! The visit of the Vietnamese church leader from Barnabus Ministries to our Philippine National Pastor's Conference will be both beneficial to him and to his fellow laborers in Viet Nam as well as a challenge to their Southeast Asian brothers and sister church in the Philippines!

The day following the end of the Philippine Pastor's Conference our Field Director from the Philippines and I will travel to South Korea to meet with a Church Leader there that is a product of the training and ministry of Dr. Dale Yocum in S. Korea. He has heard of our thriving ministry in the Philippines and came to visit the work this past year. He is excited and anxious to connect his people to what God is doing in the Philippines. They would like to sponsor and support an inner-city church plant in the Philippines. We will be speaking in their churches and visiting with Church Leaders to share the wonderful way God is working in Southeast Asia through Bible Methodist Missions. Please Pray that God will use our ministry there to challenge and bless His church in South Korea also!

I will be returning on Sept. 20 after three weeks of ministry and travel in Southeast Asia. I ask for your prayer support over these next three weeks! Please pray with me also that God will supply the funds for the multitude of challenges and changes that we are responding to at this time! It seems at times that everywhere I look there are needs that are above and beyond the normal supply of funds! I know that you get weary of our incessant appeals! But it seems that God keeps us overwhelmed in our own strength and resources so that we remain totally dependant on His supply of Daily Bread! We need "Manna from Heaven" ! Our weaknesses and
limitations are only opportunities for Him to show Himself STRONG in our behalf!!! Please help us pray about these needs!

I am Depending on your Prayers! I will try to keep you posted over the next 3 busy weeks!

SEEKING HIS KINGDOM FIRST
John D. Parker - Bible Methodist Missions
JPARKER@BMMISSIONS.ORG