Foreign and Local Missions

Mark 16:15 KJV "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature."

Faith Promise Mission's Banquet: June 28, 2020 at 11:00 AM

Special guests - To Be Announced

Please accept our invitation to the Faith Promise Missions Giving as we support our local evangelist Dr. Charles Sanders and foreign missionaries that advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ and establish churches for God's glory around the globe. 

August 22, 2018 

These three phrases describe our first three months back in Uganda.  June was a month for just putting our house back in order after being away for a whole year.  I was so amazed that as we plugged things in, like the fridge and freezer, they actually worked.  Then in July we worked on immigration things, (and even this week I was working on the final leg of all of that), but after that we focused on making memories with our oldest son, Andrew, who returned to the States at the end of July.  He is at our sending church in Florida, doing his senior year of high school at their Christian Academy.  

Then came August, my vision month.  My goal was to seek God’s vision for what I should be doing in the ministry this term.  Through meetings with my students and two pastors’ conferences, the Lord has really answered that prayer.  The goals for the next 3 years is as follows:  

1.  Spend more time with the pastors and leaders in our Bible institute.  Help to push some of these men to finish before I leave.  

2.  Have special meetings of a “Core Group” of leaders in the three Bible institutes that I have been teaching in.  They need to go deeper in the Word so they will be better teachers, and they need the practical tools for organizing and running the Bible institutes.  

3.  Invest in projects that will help the pastors and ministries to be sustainable and to be more suitable for the needs of the ministries.  

4. To do more evangelistic outreaches in ours, and the surrounding districts. 

In Ugandan culture, burials are one of the biggest gatherings of the family and community, and it therefore becomes a platform for politicians to give their speeches.  Though it is sad to see them take advantage of such a solemn occasion, the acceptance of political speeches also preps the crowd for whatever the preacher might say at the end.  However, most of the ministers who preach at these events are either gospel-illiterate pastors or Muslim imams who pray for the souls of the dead and give the crowd a false hope.  This burial was for one of our church member’s brothers, and I was therefore asked to preach upon arrival, (“In season, out of season”).  I had the opportunity to bring the gospel to more than 150 people, and our church people passed out tracts as I did also.  God really brought a spirit of seriousness upon both nominal Christians and Muslims alike as I preached the gospel message.  

Please pray for fruit of God’s life out of this exercise of death. 

Thank you,

Matt and Sherri Winkler

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