Friday 13 December 2013

JSM/Gospel seminar


Some of the senior youth from Jesus Saves Mission gathered for a whole day of teaching about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
  • The Gospel of your salvation
  • The doctrine of the Gospel
  • The exposition of the Gospel
  • The practical implications of the Gospel







Wednesday 4 December 2013

ISOM

Nov 25 through Nov 29 we were teaching at the International School of Missions of the Jesus Saves Mission, in Cebu, Philippines.  It was a great visit as it is each year.  Stephen taught the book of Amos, while Ruth gave two seminars on Sunday school preparation.
Stephen preached each morning on the Authority of the 
Word of God









Wednesday 13 November 2013

Calvary Church



This past weekend, we were invited to speak at Calvary Church in Godavarikhani.  We arrived on Friday morning and Stephen starting speaking 11:30am.  Ruth had a ladies meeting each day at 2:00pm and a children’s meeting at 5.  Each evening there was a general meeting with Stephen speaking about Christ: our Prophet, Priest and King.  Stephen also had the opportunity to speak to the men when Ruth was having the ladies meeting on Saturday afternoon. 





 

We had a wonderful time, and our prayer is that the Lord would truly bless this group of believers.  Our interpreters were our friends Wilson and Jubilee.  They were our students when we were teaching at Bharat Bible College.  We will be having some special meetings at their church in January.










Wednesday 9 October 2013

PrayerletterOct2013



Dear praying friends, since our arrival back in India three months ago, a lot has happened here and we are so very grateful to our Lord—and to you for your prayers to Him on our behalf.



During the last quarter, our Lord enabled me to meet with various Indian brothers for times of counseling, fellowship and instruction.  (Malachi 3.16!)  In addition to these, nearly 60, times, several joined me during some 24-hours’ fasting and prayer sessions—six times over these three months.  There were about 20 other occasions around the city this quarter in which I was involved in teaching Bible to various-sized groups.



In July, I was privileged to teach the Book of Psalms to a batch of students at Pune for three days.  Then in September, Ruth and Stephanie joined me for another trip to that place to be an encouragement in the ministry to the same dear saints.  For three more days, then, I was able to teach concerning The Holy Spirit, The Gifts of the Spirit, The Errors of the Charismatics, The Cessation of the Miraculous and Revelatory Gifts at the end of the First Century, and Finding God’s Will. 



Some other pastors’ fellowships have invited me to speak to them around Hyderabad, and lately I’ve spoken to two such groups, teaching them many lessons for the “Man of God”, mostly from the Pastoral Epistles.



To a place near the border of the next state, Ruth and Stephanie also traveled with me for a few days’ Gospel ministry.  They taught three childrens’ Gospel ministry sessions, on our Lord and His sayings: “I AM the bread of life,” “I AM the light of the world,” and “I AM the resurrection and the life.”  Then Ruth taught three sessions for Ladies.  Two sessions were on the Beatitudes, and one was on Three things which make us Christlike.  I spoke in three evening sessions on Christ as Our Prophet, Christ as our High Priest, and Christ Our King.  Additionally,  a large group met in another assembly in that town and allowed me to teach them The Life Of Christ Seminar for three hours.



Other seminars (in a few other places away from home) which I taught included “Life of Christ”, “Christ our Mediator, Prophet, Priest and King”, “Deuteronomy 6 and Daily Family Devotions”,  “The Holy Spirit, His Gifts, The Errors of the Charismatics and the Cessation of the Miraculous and Revelatory Gifts at the end of the First Century”, “What is the Gospel and How Do We Preach It?” and other topics.


In order to keep up with the expenses of the ministry here in India, we have a special account in the IGM home office which we call our Church-Planters’ Training Fund. We are grateful for each of you who has sent to this special ministry fund over the years.  The amount in that fund, month-to-month, is still quite low, and not sufficient for our current needs.  Just now, for example, I placed a $1000.00 order for Gospel tracts. As our ordinary support levels have eroded by more than 15% per month during the past year or so, may I request you to consider giving something to our Church-Planters’ Training Fund?  Thank you.




Please Pray:

  • For our continued good health, and especially for spiritual and moral progress into Christlikeness.
  • For more and more opportunities to serve our Lord in the Gospel would open up to us.  I am feeling a little tired these days, but it is a happy tired.
  • That our financial support will remain steady.  The Lord is always so good to us, and we are grateful just that He allows us to know Him, and that we are His.
  • For the Lord Jesus to be glorified in us at all times.  And for our faith to increase.  May our Lord Jesus answer your prayers, and our prayers for you as well, in all these areas.


Chit-chat:                   Ruth and Stephanie have been invited to conduct monthly children’s ministry meetings in one local assembly.  In the last two times, Ruth taught from Luke 15, and the story of Genesis and Exodus, to acquaint the youngsters with their Bibles better.                               In several local Christian assemblies around Hyderabad, and elsewhere, too, I preached on some Sundays from Psalm 133, “The Brotherhood of Christian Believers” (two times),  John 9.1-7, “Work, for the night is coming”, Matthew 9.14-15, “A Plan For Prayer”, from Deuteronomy 6,  “Maintaining Daily Family Devotional Times”, Exodus through Deuteronomy, on “The Life of Moses (True Greatness—Service to Others)”, Luke 9 & 14, “Self-Denial”, John 17.22, on “The Glory Of Our Lord Jesus”, and from Romans chapter 14, “Sanctification Through the Work of the Indwelling Holy Spirit of God.”                      Ruth boarded a train all by herself early on the morning of the 23rd August, and traveled four hours to a place where she’d been invited to speak to a ladies’ fellowship. They all had a very blessed time in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus.  Ruth returned to us safely the same day at evening. 



In Christian Service,
The Schaefers