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Dear Staff & Members of Milwaukie First Baptist Church Nursing Home Ministries, Inc. is even more exciting today than when we first started. In thirty-two years we have grown from two active chaplains serving in the Portland and Oregon City area to 165 chaplains serving from Bellingham, WA to San Diego, CA, then east to Arizona, Texas and Georgia. God is especially moving in Vancouver and Tacoma, WA, where most of the 12 chaplains we appointed last year serve. Our chaplains, both men and women, serve some 350 facilities, holding 210 weekly services attended by 2800 residents. They also visit one-on-one with 2200 residents who are unable to attend a group function. These chaplains faithfully serve the residents by sharing God’s great love and His Word. During the last year we know of 172 residents who placed their faith and trust in our Lord and Savior, some right on the edge of eternity. We are ministering in a world more liberal and uncaring than ever before. Governmental restrictions and great changes in the medical industry make it considerably more difficult to serve as we have in the past. Our great need is for your consistent prayer that God would allow doors to remain open and for more people across this nation to become aware of this ever-increasing field of ministry.
P.S. Bev and I are privileged to travel south to visit chaplains in California, Arizona and Texas, then through the central U.S. visiting with other leaders in care center ministry. We plan to visit family and friends in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota and then visit with chaplains in Iowa, South Dakota and Idaho on the way home.
Julius Twongveirwe & FamilyMany of you know Julius Twongyeirwe from his time spent here at Milwaukie First Baptist Church while attending Western Seminary. Julius is back home in Uganda now and his ministry is beginning to take off. Following is some information about Proclamation Task-Uganda, the ministry that Julius is involved in and that we desire to remain supportive of. -Your Global Missions Team
To this purpose, PT organizes, supervises and coordinates theological training and pastoral enrichment among leaders in a Christian evangelical and interdenominational setting in Uganda. In its work, PT has a deliberate approach of assessing Christian ministry needs and doing research to develop a contextual philosophy and practice of a training that can help preachers face the challenges that the newly emerging paradigms in society and in the church present to the proclamation of God's word. PT's Bible agenda is arranged in such a way that the acquired spiritual knowledge shapes leader's attitude and world view, which in turn bear upon their lifestyle in socio-cultural living as they "put off and put on" (Eph. 4:22-23), practicing life in a mindset of new ethics for wholesome living. The details of instruction are meant to cut through the world system, biblically redefining an integrated life. To this end, PT serves ministers so that they may be refreshed spiritually, stimulated theologically & pastorally, and uphold the wonderful favor of preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ to others. Copyright© Milwaukie First Baptist Church 1998-2008 |
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The Proclamation Task (PT) has been set up in Uganda for the purpose of
helping the local church to establish biblical priorities and methods for
Christian ministry, centered on the prominence of studying, teaching, and
effective preaching of God's Word.