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IN THIS ISSUE: • Tracing College Students’ Influence in Modern-Day World Evangelism • We Can If We Will • Five Smooth Stones Approach

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CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Christians need to study history and see if there is something we need to do again that was done in the past, in order to become more effective in reaching our world for Christ.

TRANSLATION WORK IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Fundamentalism moves into translation work. Meet two missionaries with a burden to reach into the 10/40 Window.

TRACING COLLEGE STUDENTS’ INFLUENCE...

REACHING THE UTTERMOST ̶ MONGOLIA

A FIVE SMOOTH STONES APPROACH

WE CAN IF WE WILL

What do Peter Helling, Count Nicholaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, John and Charles Wesley, Aconiram Judson all have in common?

C. T. Studd, missionary extraordinaire shares ﬁve principles to challenge people to join the battle on the mission ﬁeld.

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Mongolia could use your help in supplying materials and sports equipment for their youth camp project.

The prayers of ﬁve college students sparked an unparalleled missions efforts in American history.

Some of the authors and their material featured in UW Journal are not necessarily in agreement with the theological position of the UW Journal. Their writings are included because of their insight into the particular subject matter published in the UW Journal. The Unpublished WORD Journal is a quarterly publication of FirstBible INTERNATIONAL. All correspondence should be sent to the editorial ofﬁcers at: FirstBible INTERNATIONAL, 3148 Franklin Road, Murfreesboro, TN 37128 (615) 796-0043 ∙ info@firstbible.net ∙ www.ﬁrstbible.net

FirstBible INTERNATIONAL is a ministry of Franklin Road Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee

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EDITORIAL There is a famous quote by Edmund Burke (1729-1797) who said, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” There are many illustrations of how this has played out historically. The problem today is that many don’t have the commitment to the Great Commission as those of the past did. Subsequently many fail due to a lack of knowledge of the past. This issue of the Unpublished Word Journal (UWJ) has the goal of helping the pastor and his church view a portion of history that made a tremendous impact on our world and missions. FirstBible International (FBI) as well as the UWJ has a burden to be a catalyst in moving the local church to a biblical view of missions. Part of this burden is to see the local church become a vehicle of challenging and sending people to do the work of the ministry. As most readers of the UWJ know the greatest area of neglect in evangelism and church planting is the 10-40 Window. The statistics are staggering. The distribution of missionaries to the fields that are being evangelized versus those which are not evangelized is out of balance. The 10-40 Window is one of the most neglected areas of our world as far as missions and missionary deployment is concerned. The Bible still says that the church has a responsibility to see that the whole world is evangelized. The major question is how do we accomplish this? One way is to study past history and see if there is something we need to do that was done to aid in becoming effective in reaching our world with the message of salvation through Jesus Christ. With 30 million people in secular colleges today surely some of these could be challenged to serve the Lord not to mentions sharing the Gospel with those who are not saved. As you read this issue of the UWJ you will learn how God used the college student to mobilize believers and evangelize the lost. The question that must be asked is, “Why is this not happening today?” There are several things that could be posed as an answer and most of them feeble excuses. Why not consider that the church is not doing the job of challenging their people to the responsibility of the Great Commission? Has the church lost its missionary vision? It seems that many churches no longer have the burden to send people to the mission field. Are some building monuments to themselves at the expense of obedience to the mandate of the Bible? Why not reconsider John 4:35 again which says, “Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the ﬁelds; for they are white already to harvest.” As this was true in Jesus day, is it not more so now?

Dr. Mike Norris, Pastor Franklin Road Baptist Church Director of FirstBible INTERNATIONAL

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MINISTRY PARTNERSHIP IN INDIA South India Baptist Bible College (SIBBC)

n 2007 a partnership began with FirstBible International and South India Baptist Bible College (SIBBC) in Combiatore, India. The founder and president is Dr. P. D. Cherian. The school has been in existence for over 25 years and is one of the effective means of doing missions on a world wide scale, especially in the 10/40 Window. The students come from places like India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Myanmar (formerly Burma), and Bangladesh. These places are basically closed to the traditional or foreign missionary. The graduates of SIBBC have access to these countries because it is their home. They are effective in cross-cultural ministries because of their ability to speak many languages and dialects. This year, 2010, six new churches were started under the oversight of SIBBC. The fall semester has an enrollment is 420 students for the 2010-2011 academic year. This is a sixty percent increase over the previous year. During the summer months (March-June) the students usually return to their home country and do ministry. They travel there by bus, train, and bicycles to conduct evangelistic ministry in various ways.

This summer (2010) the youth camps, vacation Bible schools and evangelistic meetings resulted in many conversions. VBS was conducted in seven places in India with 1,060 children attending and 255 trusting Christ as Saviour. Dr. Cherian also has a Baptist Academy with nearly 500 students from the surrounding area. Some of these come from Hindu families where the parents want their children to receive a quality education. This is an opportunity to present the Gospel to families that otherwise might be unreachable. In February 2011 FirstBible will conduct a Pastorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School at SIBBC. The last two years there have been approximately 500 preachers/pastors come and attend this school. It is designed to educate and edify these servants. If anyone reading this is interested in going with FirstBible to this event you can contact Ken Fielder at 317-410-4600. Please pray for SIBBC and these students that have the potential of reaching a segment of their home countries with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Tracing College Students’ Inﬂuence in Modern-Day World Evangelism 1

DR . MIKE NORRIS

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Tom Malone wrote a book entitled Mountain Peaks in the Life of Jesus. His work was an attempt (and a good one) to show us the high water marks of Jesus’ earthly ministry. This article is an attempt to show us the mountain peaks and high water marks of His body, the church, in world missions since the 17th century, and the place the college and college students played in the those peak times in world evangelism. The college potential in America cannot be overlooked by anyone with serious contemplations about world evangelism for three reasons: First, the ethnic mix of the college population (add to that their educational background, financial strength, and social skills, and you have prime candidates for worldview Christians). Second, the sheer numerical strength on our college campuses would suggest they are a good place to find laborers for the fields. According to the United States Department of Education there is approximately 22,000,000 college students on campus in public colleges and universities across America. Add to this number the distant learning student, the private colleges such as the Ivy League schools and the Christian colleges and universities and the numbers could be approximately 30,000,000 (1 in 10 of the population) college students across the United States. There must be some significant percentage of the students population in the USA that are Christians. Others would represent fields ripened for harvest. The Christians should be reapers in the harvest field. Within this great pool of college students there must be some number that can be effective as world reapers for the gospel. And finally, the historical evidence we see of the contribution Christians attending colleges have made to the Great Commission. This third point will be covered in detail in the following article. QUESTION: What do Peter Helling, Count Nicholaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, John and Charles Wesley, Charles Simmons, C.T. Studd, Samuel Mills, Adoniram Judson, Luther Rice, the Cambridge Seven, the Haystack Prayer Meeting, and the Student Volunteer Movement3 (SVM) all have in common? ANSWER: These are all collegians who committed themselves to the Great Commission while college students and became leaders in world evangelism or missionary movements. Some established colleges that resulted in students committing their lives in great numbers to go to the ends of the earth.4

INTRODUCTION A cursory reading of the church’s missionary activity in the 18th and 19th centuries makes it evident that colleges and college students played a large part in the high tide of world evangelism, either starting the movement or sustaining it. We should not overlook the availability of the college students today and the necessary part they can and must 6] Unpublished WORD

play in evangelizing the world with gospel of Jesus Christ. There are more local church sponsored colleges today than in the history of Fundamentalism, and I therefore assume, today, we have the largest student pool from which to draw men and women for world evangelism in the history of our movement. It has been said if we study the

past, we can be more effective in the present and make better plans for the future. In this article, our goal is to trace the impact of college students of the past, their inﬂuence on world evangelism, and to encourage a God-inspired duplication of their efforts in our colleges today. I believe it would only take two things to see a revival of interest in world evangelism among us:

(1) Pastors giving pulpit time to missions, seeing he is the Godappointed change agent in the local church; and (2) conserve his fruit by our colleges having substantive missions training programs for those who surrender under their pastor’s preaching. Would you agree there is an observable absence of preaching about missions today in our Fundamental pulpits? And it is equally true by reading many of our colleges’ handbooks they don’t give evidence of the presence of substantive missions training programs in our colleges.5 A SHORT NARRATIVE OF STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN MISSIONS The earliest record we have of student activity in world evangelism is in the early 17th century. It is recorded that seven young law students from Lubeck, Germany, while studying in Paris, committed themelves to carry the Gospel overseas. We have a record of only one of the seven, Peter Helling, who went to Egypt in 1634, spent the next 20 years translating the Bible, and planting a church, then died a martyr. No doubt, his church planting and his Bible translation effort was a significant contribution in those early days. Moravia We do have a more detailed record of the activity of the Moravians in the mid-1700s. Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, who was one of

the leaders in the Moravian movement, was educated at the Halle College in Germany, founded by Spencer and Francke. With five other college students, Zinzendorf founded the Order of the Grain of Mustard Seed. Their stated purpose was to carry the Gospel of Christ overseas. Zinzendorf ’s burden carried over into his days at Whittenberg and Utrech. The Moravians’ first two missionaries went to St. Thomas in 1732. This is another example of the great influence college students have had on world evangelism. England At the same time God was moving among the students in England. No serious church historian could miss the contribution two college students, John and Charles Wesley, made to our world. Their influence started while they were students at Oxford, founding the Holy Club, and upon graduation, went to Georgia (North America) as missionaries to reach unevangelized Indians. Though they are known as theologians, evangelists, church planters and hymn writers, what some overlook is the fact they were greatly influenced by Count Zinzendorf of the Moravian movement. Another student, Charles Simeon, became part of the Holy Trinity Church of Cambridge while studying at Cambridge University. There he became a tremendous leader in Great Britain and around the

world, and had a great impact on students in the area of world evangelism. Simeon had direct influence in the formation of the British and Foreign Bible Society at Cambridge in 1811. The purpose of the society was to make the Word of God available throughout the world in the languages of the people. Simeon’s influence continued long after his death, and in 1848 the Cambridge Union for Private Prayer was formed. In 1857, David Livingstone visited Cambridge. Shortly after, the Cambridge University Church Missionary Union was established for the purpose of encouraging a missionary spirit and bringing forth candidates for missionary work. Cambridge Seven During that era, there was a great interest in the China Inland Mission, founded by J. Hudson Taylor. In 188384, a group of seven students, six of them from Cambridge University in England, formed a small brigade called the Cambridge Seven. They were all outstanding young men from affluent families: Montagu H. Beauchamp, William W. Cassels, Dixon Edward Hoste, Arthur T. Polhill, Stanley P. Smith, and, the greatest cricket player of his day, Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd. The seven shared their passion and vision for world evangelism with the college life of England, resulting in many young men going to the mission field continued on page 16 Unpublished WORD [7

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Definition of Terms Adapted from: Principles of Scripture Translation, by Dr. G. Allen Fisher

Apocrypha: A Protestant term referring to books containing some historical facts written during the time between the testaments. These books had Jewish writers and gave an historical account of events such as the wars of the Maccabees. They also gave good descriptions of temple worship. These books are included in the Roman Catholic Bibles. Aramaic: Classified as a northwest Semitic language. It is closely related to but distinct from Hebrew. Its square script replaced the Hebrew archaic script, and by the time of Jesus was the normal script for writing Hebrew. Aramaic was originally the language of the ancient Arameans, used as a lingua franca from the Babylonian captivity until it was supplanted by Arabic in the Middle East in the seventh century.1 Back-translation: Translating a text back into its original form from the translated form. It is useful in translation checking. Concordant principle of translation: The regular use of a certain TL word to translate a certain Greek or Hebrew word used within limits. It allows the Target Language reader to see the verbal connections that exist in the original. Dead Sea Scrolls: About 800 texts, mainly Hebrew, written from 250 B.C. to A.D. 68. They were found in caves in the desert of Judea between A.D. 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea at Qumran. These scrolls contain Hebrew scriptures, translations, and documents of the Essene sect. Languages of the scrolls are by volume: 96% Hebrew, 2% Greek, and 2% Aramaic. Discourse Structure: The way a language is put together. The elements include phrases and clauses. Differing purposes require different structures: teaching, speeches, conversing, questions, and commands all work differently. First Language Translator: FL is the national translator into whose mother tongue the translation is being produced (see second language translator). Hebrew tyrbe: The language derived from the man Eber2 and spoken by Jews from the time of Abraham to the present. Hebrew largely (but never completely) died out as a spoken language of the populace after Hadrian depopulated the Jews from Israel in the second century. 1

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Translation Work in Papua New Guinea Jason & Cherith Ottosen Ministering to the Kamea People

irstBible International has become one of the leaders among Fundamentalists in developing and deploying translation work and workers in areas where there are people groups with no written Word of God. In fact many of these are people who have no written language. Jason and Cherith Ottosen are a couple with a burden to do the work of translation among the Kemea people of Papua New Guinea. They are in the process of deputation and are eager to get to the field. Cherith has already developed four primers in the Kemea language and done work among this people group. She and Jason were married this past December and need to raise further support for their work on the field. Cherith Stevens grew up in Delaware and after her completion of Bible college she joined Faith Baptist Church in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, to teach in their Christian School. She grew up in a Christian home and through the influence of her parents and pastor she became interested in mission work. At a missions conference in Faith Baptist Church she came under the preaching of Dr. Charles Keen and became burdened for the Bible-less people groups and to become a Bible translator. She resigned her position as teacher and began the process of raising support and attending the Baptist Bible Translatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Institute (BBTI) in Bowie, Texas. Her deputation work in California brought her into contact with a young man that would become her husband, Jason Ottosen. Jason grew up in a non-Christian home. After a long search for meaning in life he came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ in a Fundamental Baptist Church in California. He graduated from a state university with a BA in Communication Studies. This included the study of linguistics and intercultural communication. Little did he know this was an excellent preparation for translation work. Jason became a part of the Gethsemane Baptist Church in Long Beach, California, and worked in the bus ministry. It was here where Jason came to develop a burden for those in darkness throughout the world. He first heard about the Bible-less people groups from a young lady, Cherith Stevens, who had come to their church to preseÂşnt her burden of ministry to the Unreached People Groups of the world. The two, after deciding that God had brought them together and because they shared the same burden, decided to unite in marriage. Jason visited Papua New Guinea on a survey trip to where Cherith was already engaged in linguistic work. The couple then returned to BBTI for Jason to study the process of translation under Dr. Rex Cobb. The Ottosens plan to minister to the Kamea people and translate the Bible into the Kamea language. This work involves living in the bush where there is no running water, no electricity, no telephone service (except a satellite phone), and no housing accommodations similar to those in the United States. Their burden is certainly worthy of our support and prayer. By Jerry Rockwell

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Dear Reader, Please be in prayer about an opportunity that has been made available to FirstBible International in the form of a $75,000.00 MATCHING FUNDS GIFT. We will be in contact with many of you in the near future about partnering with and additional information.

A Five Smooth Stones Approach C. T. Studd ministered in three locations: China, India, and the continent of Africa. Those who knew his ministry best said Africa was his crowning work. CT had always had a burden for Africa, but his call was anything but textbook perfect. He was in Liverpool, England, in 1908 when he saw a sign which read, “Cannibals Want Missionary,” which was the account of Dr. Karl Kumm’s walk across the African continent. Kumm reported big game hunters, Arabs, European officers, traders, and scientists who had visited the heart of the continent, but no Christians had yet been there to tell the story of the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus. When in prayer, Studd asked God why no Christians had gone. God asked him, ‘Why don’t you go?’ To which Studd answered, ‘I am not healthy [asthma]… I am fifty years old… not familiar with the language… without financial backing… already a missionary serving in India… counseled by my church leaders not to go... Adding to those the facts, that I am married with four daughters who could not go with me, and we prefer not to be separated as a family after 25 years of marriage.’ The call of God, the illumination of the Holy Spirit, and the cross of Christ outweighed the answers of the ﬂesh. In 1911, Studd set sail for Africa in spite of his many reasons not to go. He had as his companion Mr. Alford P. Buxton, a man thirty years his junior. In October of 1913, they arrived in the heart of Africa. Mr. Studd said we should go crusading for Christ, believing we have the means, the men, and the ways. He realized steam,

By Dr. Charles Keen

electricity, and iron had leveled the land and bridged the seas. The world and its doors had been opened wide for us by God. We sing ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’ and then we say, “I pray thee have me excused (Luke 14:18,19).” He called that the glorious humbug. While prospectors, traders, merchants, and gold seekers wait for the borders to open so they can go in and pan their gold, we have the gospel and are deaf to the call and the command of God to go in. CT saw the need and the possibility to extend the Gospel into the regions beyond and developed a ﬁve smooth stones approach to slay his Goliath as David before him had done. He returned to America, challenging men and women on and off our college campuses to join him in the battle. Mr. Studd reminded them there would be five principles upon which the victory would be based: 1. Absolute faith in the deity of the Trinity. 2. Absolute faith in the inspiration of both Old and New Testaments. 3. Vow to preach nothing but Christ and His crucifixion as the means of salvation. 4. Be obedient to the command to love all those who love Christ. 5. Faith in the will, power, and providence of God to meet the needs of His children in His service. Those who considered accepting the challenge were reminded they would be working under a very small committee of three: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He told them two of the three would be accompanying them on every excursion. This committee, though small, has tremendous testimonies for providing substance and dividing seas, and they will have the last word in the planning of each trip. Brother Studd had a special name for those who would be accompanying him back to Africa; he called them the Etceteras, making reference to men who do or have done great exploits without so much as receiving name recognition this side of eternity. That is another chapter for another day in the history of one of God’s great missionaries. He was called God’s gambler because he staked so much upon the faithful hand of God.

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he Translators Training Institute is in full operation at South India Baptist Bible College (SIBBC) in Combiatore, India. The linguistics teacher, Michele Bass, has recently returned from teaching a three week module. Twelve of the students enrolled in the class have made commitments to pursue Bible translation work. Our response is “Praise the Lord!” A second class will be taught during the spring semester of 2011. In the fall semester of 2011 a full scale linguistics program will begin which will run the entire school year of 2011-2012. The goal is that within two to three years this program will be fully staffed by teachers/ instructors of Indian descent who have completed these studies and gained some experience in actual Bible translation. At present we are praying for another qualified instructor to come on board and partner with us in this translation effort. Ken Fielder, Newsletter

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Projects Update By Wayne Holder

Mongolia Project:

The Trinitarian Bible Society has checked and approved our translation of the Gospel of John for Mongolia. The next step is to publish a trial run for distribution among the believers in Mongolia to determine the readability and comprehension of our work by the Mongolian people. Once this phase is completed, we will be ready to mass produce the Gospel of John for distribution in Mongolia. Please remember to pray for Missionary Billy Paterson and his translating team as they continue their work on the translation of the New Testament for Mongolia. This work is difficult and time consuming. However, much progress is being made. In addition to the Gospel of John the translation of several other books of the New Testament are nearing completion. A projected target for completion of the translation of the New Testament for Mongolia is January 2014.

Manipuri whole Bible for India:

The translation work for the Manipuri Bible has been completed. The formatting is nearly finished. They are doing the final proofing. The goal is to have the formatting done and the Bible ready to go to the printers by the first of August. To God be the glory!

Falam Chin John & Romans Project:

The Falam Chin New Testament was completed, printed, delivered and dedicated in the fall of 2009. Missionary Tom Gaudet has requested 150,000 copies of the Falam Chin John & Romans. This week, we received the file from Bibles International to print these 150,000 copies of the Falam Chin John & Romans for Burma.

Cebuano John & Romans Project:

FirstBible will provide our friends in the Seedline Ministries an opportunity to help provide 300,000 copies of the Cebuano John & Romans for the Philippines. This translation of the Bible has been twenty years in the making. The translation was completed and the first Bibles were dedicated in May 2009. Please read the attached pdf files for this project. In the day we live, it is difficult to find the kind of dedication to Bible Publishing demonstrated by Pastor Ruben Supalas and the fine people of his church. 14] Unpublished WORD

Burmese Bible Project:

Several things are happening in the Burmese Bible Project at this time. 1. The Dear Lord has allowed us to print 250,000 copies of the Burmese John & Romans for Missionary Tom Gaudet. This is a 10/40 Window project our friends in the Seedline Ministry. 2. We shipped a container of more than 40,000 pounds of Burmese Scriptures this past July Tom Gaudet. The container included 10,000 beautiful copies of the Burmese New Testaments with a four color cover from Beacon of Truth Baptist Ministries. 3. The Burmese whole Bible is at the printers and is currently scheduled for printing. We plan to print 20,000 copies in the first run. These will be sewn, hard back bound Bibles. This process will provide a greater life expectancy of this production of Bibles.

New Matching Funds Gift of $75,000.00:

FirstBible has received a commitment for another Matching Fund Gift of $75,000.00. Dr. Keen will provide more information about this project soon.

Urdu and Hindi Bible Projects:

Research is underway for both of these languages. It looks like, we may be able to secure copies of an old translation of both of these languages that is King James equivalent. If we are able to secure these, it will expedite the process of producing a King James equivalent New Testament for the Hindi People and the Urdu People. Please keep the Urdu and Hindi Bible Projects in your prayers. Please note: This update is not intended to be a complete, all inclusive update of the activity of FirstBible International. These notes are given to help FirstBible Representatives rejoice in Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blessing on this ministry and to pray more effectively for the ministry of Reaching the Unreached of our world with the Word of God.

Bearing Precious Seed, Milford PRINTING THE WORD

r. Bill Duttry, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, and Dr Charles F. Keen, Pastor Emeritus, stand in the Bearing Precious Seed (BPS) printshop, Wednesday, August 18, 2010 as the 100th million copy of God’s Word is printed. BPS was founded in 1973 under the authority of the First Baptist Church in Milford, Ohio. Scriptures have been printed in over 30 languages and have been delivered to over 130 countries. Scriptures are distributed free as available and/or on a love offering basis. Many seed-line churches assist in the assembly. On BPS’s annual National Bible Day many churches across America raise funds to contribute to the ministry. Over the years, there has been a dedicated group of men traveling and presenting the work and challenging others to partner with them in getting God’s Word to God’s people for God’s work. Many volunteers come to the shop weekly and add their labor and prayers. Thirty seven years ago Dr Keen said to the

First Baptist Church “We will print the Word of God if we have to do it with a pencil in long hand,” and print they have; not with a pencil but with state-of-the-art equipment. Only the Lord Jesus knows how many people have been saved and how many churches have been planted through the corporate effort of the missionaries and that of Bearing Precious Seed. Their college, Baptist School of World Evangelism (BSWE), is dedicated to the training of men and women in linguistics and translation work. BPS gives God the glory and we give BPS the honor on this monumental, glorious day in By Joel Powers, Assistant Editor August, 2010!

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continued from page 7 from colleges and universities across England. In 1885, the Cambridge seven sailed for China, followed by scores of other students, with a desire to plant the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the regions beyond. North America Haystack Prayer Meeting On the North American Continent, God would use a young man named Samuel Mills, a student at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He was saved at the age of 17, through the First Great Awakening lead by Jonathan Edwards. In 1806, Mills and four other students were caught in a thunderstorm and took refuge under a haystack. These five young men (Samuel J. Mills, Harvey Loomis, James Richards, Francis Robbins, and Byram Green) gave themselves in prayer toward world evangelism. The American historian Kenneth Scott Latourette observes, “…it was from this haystack meeting that the foreign missionary movement of the churches of the United States had its initial impulse.” 6

Samuel Mills, while attending Williams College, continued its emphasis and founded the Society of the Brethren for extending the Gospel around the world. Other colleges picked up on the burden, colleges like Middlebury College, Yale, and Andover Theological Seminary. It was at Andover, under the inﬂuence of Samuel Mills, that Adoniram Judson surrendered to foreign missionary service in India. In June of 1810, the General Association for the Foreign Missionary was founded at the request of Mr. Judson and other students such as Luther Rice. Later, Judson and Rice persuaded the Baptists to start their own missionary society, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which became the second foreign missions agency in the United States. They joined hands with William Carey in their India effort. It should be noted, all this happened within four years of the famous haystack prayer meeting.

Student Volunteer Movement It is believed that the single greatest missionary movement on the North American continent in modern times was the Student Volunteer Movement7 (SVM), and historians tell us it also had its roots in the Haystack Prayer Meeting. The genesis of the SVM started when Robert Wilder settled in Princeton, New Jersey, and established the Princeton Foreign Missionary Society. It was during this time that D.L. Moody invited 251 students to Mount Hermon for a month-long Bible conference. At this conference, Dr. A.T. Pearson, the keynote speaker, planted a world vision in the hearts of the attendees. One hundred students volunteered for overseas mission duty at the meeting, and the foundation of the Student Volunteer Movement was laid. By 1945, over 20,000 missionaries were on the field, either under the authority of SVM or because of their inﬂuence. Like most Para-church organizations, this movement had a shelf life.

1 Please note we are not endorsing all of the theological factors in this article, or every leader, but tracing the historical impact of those mentioned. My candid observation as I study churches in history is, many of them did not have our truth, and many of us do not have their commitment. I am forced to wonder if we added our truth to their commitment what impact we could have for world evangelism on our world and in our day. 2 7th - 20th Century 3 We do not include this group as an endorsement of their beliefs but to illustrate the success of their recruitment program. 4 Cambridge Seven, 1882, Cambridge University, England, Key figure, J. Hudson Taylor; The Haystack Prayer Meeting, Williams College, USA, 1806, Key figure, Jonathan Edwards; Student Volunteer Movement, USA, 1886, Key figure, D.L. Moody. 5 It should be noted, any time in history a worldwide effort for world evangelism broke out, it did not break out in the college, it broke out during a time of revival in the church. 6 Cited by David M. Howard, “They Sought A Country” in The Perspective, Ralph Winter, Editor (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1950) page 46. 7 In a companion article, we trace the decline of the SVM movement. 16] Unpublished WORD

The Student Volunteer, A Critique The Student Volunteer Movement was the direct result of a month-long Bible conference held in 1886 at Mount Hermon under the direction of D.L. Moody. The keynote speaker was Dr. A.T. Pierson, and at that initial meeting a hundred students volunteered for overseas missions ministry. The volunteer movement peaked statistically in 1920 with 637 volunteers going to the field, the highest in a single year. From that high point, it experienced a rapid decline, and by 1940 it ceased to be a decisive factor in the promotion of world evangelism. Today it is hardly known by any except the careful students of church history. What happened to the most influential movement (seemingly) in modern history for world evangelism, and what can we learn from it? Dr. William Beahm makes the following observations: #1: Frequent changes of leadership resulted in lack of continuity in the ministry. #2: Increasing difficulty in finances. #3: It became top-heavy in programming. #4: It overlooked the glaring needs in America spiritually. #5: Missionary education was overlooked. #6: A decline in missions in the American church. #7: Shifting from Bible study, evangelism, discipleship, and original purposes, in favor of new issues such as race relationships, economical injustices, and imperialism. #8: The rise of indigenous leadership reduced the need

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for Western personnel. #9: The rise of a social gospel, which dulled the need for the Gospel of Jesus Christ among the lost. #10: Loss of a revival mentality in the churches. After 1940, the SVM steadily declined from an emphasis on world evangelism to an effort toward political and social matters. In 1959 SVM merged with the United Student Christian Council and became affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. Later action taken on June 30, 1969, disbanded what was once the most visible missions movement in America. Eighty-three years after its birth in the heat of student revival, the Student Volunteer Movement died of multiple ailments. What can we learn from the demise of the Student Volunteer Movement? Some personal observations: 1. Everything outside of the local church has a shelf life because it loses its God-appointed authority and becomes its own ruling body. 2. Ecumenicism has within it the seeds of its own destruction, and, of course, SVM was totally ecumenical. Ecclesial separation should not turn into isolationism, but neither should it be dismissed from our theology. 3. There is a great danger in over balance in ministry. This happened in the Christian Missionary Alliance movement, and I believe we have seen this happen in our own local churches in other areas of ministry.

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t was on a sultry Saturday afternoon in August of 1806 that five young men from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, gathered together for prayer on the north campus, called Sloan’s Meadow. A thunderstorm rolled in with lightning, forcing them to take cover in a haystack. That event has become known in church history as The Haystack Prayer Meeting. Unbeknownst to these five college students (Samuel J. Mills, Harvey Loomis, James Richards, Francis Robbins, and Byram Green), this modern-day, burning-bush experience would result in a mission influence in America unparalleled before or since in our nations religious history.1

Some church historians trace the roots of several key events and many early missionary leaders of world evangelism in America to the prayer meeting by this band of five on that Saturday afternoon in 1806. They trace the formation of the first mission society, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in 1810 to the haystack meeting. The first Baptist missionaries2 sent to India in 1812 to work with William Carey, Adoniram Judson

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and Luther Rice, were inﬂuenced by men from this same prayer meeting. The American Bible Society was largely a product of Samuel J. Mills, and he was also instrumental in the development of the United Foreign Missionary Society.

however, see the haystack meeting as the forerunner of missions in America, but more of a continuation of the work of God in a revived church. The names of men like John Eliot, David Brainerd, Cotton Mather, and Jonathan Edwards were household names and had great Another important contribution influence in the church of this that came out of this Haystack period. Prayer Meeting was the founding of a magazine called the As in any great movement, Missionary Herald. Before the there are no stand-alone items. advent of radio, TV, email, and Things lead up to a crescendo, internet, it served a real purpose and certainly the haystack prayer as a window to the world, keeping meeting was a great crescendo world evangelism in front of with a broad shadow and a long the church of Jesus Christ in reach. We should factor into America. As one of the wisest of this equation a knowledge that our race said, “Mine eye affecteth the church of Jesus Christ of their day was in the midst of a mine heart” (Lam. 3:51). great revival, called the Great During this Haystack Prayer Awakening. These five young Meeting, Samuel Mills men were simply the tools challenged the college students God the Holy Spirit chose to that they could be the first from spearhead the greatest national America, though still young, to effort in world evangelism since carry the gospel to Asia and the Bible times. Somebody has said Middle East. He concluded with it would be easier to measure that famous statement, “Men, we the sun with a yard stick than can if we will.”3 to measure the influence of the What caused this great explosion Haystack Prayer Meeting. That of world evangelism in the may be a stretch, but I think American church? Was it the we get the point. God give us a Haystack Prayer Meeting? mighty revival. God give us men Obviously they had a great part from the haystack, and help us to do with the turn of events to know… we can still do it if and emphasis. We should not, we will!

This was not the first interest shown by the churches in America in world evangelism (in fact, they had previously sent $6000 to William Carey’s work in India). Missionary societies were not newly introduced in the days of the Haystack Prayer Meeting. Several societies existed before the haystack event: in 1796 (12 years before the haystack event) the Baptists organized the Society for Evangelizing the Lost, the Connecticut Missionary Society was founded in 1798, Massachusetts Missionary Society in 1799, and the Western Missionary Society in 1802. These societies (boards), with the exception of the American Board, were birthed to reach the pagan Indians of North America, what we would call home missions, and not the lost of Asia or other parts of the world. Even those that had statements concerning world evangelism did not show up in practice. 2 They converted from the Congressional Church to the Baptist faith on the boat. 3 One of the most startling facts surrounding the haystack prayer meeting is that only one of the original five zealots who helped launch world evangelism in the heart of the American Christian, James Richards, became a career missionary with extended service on foreign soil, serving in Ceylon and India as a medical missionary. Byram Green served in the State Legislature of New York and then in the United States Congress. Henry Loomis pastored most of his life in Bangalore, Maine. Francis Robbins engaged in missionary work in New Hampshire. Samuel Mills served God in America’s frontiers, visiting Africa one time for two months. 1

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continued from page 9 Idiom: An idiom is an expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up. It is a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language; the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people. “They went hog wild” has more to do with people than swine. Intransitive verbs: A verb characterized by not having a direct object. These verbs give information about the subject only. He sits. They run. Dogs bark. Law and Psalms and Prophets: A term encompassing the whole Old Testament (Luke 24:44). Loan Words: A word or phrase borrowed from one language and included as a normal word in the new language. Pizza is as English as it is Italian now. Pizza is an example of an Italian loan word in English. English has hundreds, if not thousands, of loan words. Maccabee: The Maccabees were Jewish national liberators that fought for and won independence from Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Hellenistic Seleucids. The Maccabees founded the Hasmonean royal dynasty and established Jewish independence in Jerusalem and Israel in the Hasmonean Kingdom for about one hundred years, from 164 B.C.E. to 63 B.C.E. Masoretic Text (abbreviated MT): The text of the Hebrew Scriptures as punctuated and furnished with vowel points by the Masoretes, Jewish scholars in Tiberius, Galilee, Jerusalem, and Judea, of the 6th to 9th centuries A.D. It is the basis of all modern texts of the Hebrew Scriptures. Septuagint: The Septuagint, the “seventy,” is a document which is the translation of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek by Jews sent from Jerusalem to Egypt. Ordered and financed by Ptolemy Phaladelphus II (a Greek) who ruled Egypt 285246 B.C., it was started in 250 B.C. and the 39 books of the OT were completed during the first century B.C. It is usually identified by the abbreviation LXX. Synagogue: The local assembly building where Jews met to worship every Sabbath day (the 7th day of the week). Every town that had at least 10 Jewish men had a synagogue. Towns of large Jewish populations had more than one synagogue. The synagogue started during the Babylonian exile at the time of Ezekiel when the Jews had no temple. At the time of Christ, Jerusalem had hundreds of synagogues. 20] Unpublished WORD

Targum: Official Jewish translation of the Old Testament Scriptures in Aramaic. The first written Targum was the book of Job a few years before Christ. The Targums of the Old Testament books were completed in stages in the first and second centuries. Text: The original words of something written or printed, as opposed to a paraphrase, translation, revision, or condensation. Spoken words appearing in print.

Textus Receptus: Latin words for “received text.” It is the Greek text of the New Testament that became standard in printed editions from the 16th to the end of the 19th century. It… [was used] for the translation of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale, the King James Version, and for most other Reformation-era New Testament translations throughout Western and Central Europe. The series originated with the first printed Greek New Testament to be published, a work undertaken in Basel by the Dutch scholar and humanist Desiderius Erasmus in 1516.

Torah: (Hebrew word for “teaching” or “instruction”) It refers to the first five books of the Bible, also called the Pentateuch. Trade Language: Any language that gains international currency as a language of trade or business. It is also a diplomatic language widely used beyond its native speakers, primarily for international commerce and extending to other cultural exchanges.3 When a language becomes a trade language, it becomes simplified, and loses some of its grammatical specialties. It is not a language of the home or soul and becomes a second language to local languages. Transliteration: A systematic way to convert characters in one alphabet or phonetic sounds into another alphabet. This transmits the letters or approximate sounds of one language by letters of another language. This is not to be confused with translation, which involves transmitting the meaning of one language into another. Version: Two or more translations of the same material in the same language. The Tyndale Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the KJV are all English versions in relation to each other, and each is a translation in relation to the originals.

Wikipedia, <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca> (13 June 2006).

FBI Ministry Extension FirstBible International has entered a fellowship role with Faith Baptist Church in Avon, Indiana, to expand the influence of work in the 10/40 Window. Ken Fielder has been named the director of what is now known as FirstBible Midwest. Ken will have the responsibility of developing this ministry of FirstBible in area churches as well as expanding the FBI outreach. Dr. Mike Norris, Director of FBI, and Dr. Charles Keen, Founder, have given their full support in this opportunity to expand the ministry of FirstBible to the Midwest. This is an important step in making more people aware of the important work of FirstBible in the 10/40 Window.

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