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It's always exciting to hear the different ways God uses to further the message of the Gospel. Just today we received this email from a missionary in Haiti who has put together a translation team for the Creole language and had a chance to recruit help...in a rather unconventional way:  

“Here's a short note that might interest you.  The UN provides transportation for the prison ministry that we do since we are installing water filters in the prisons [in Haiti].  We have lots of conversation time with the UN people and try to evangelize to them when we have opportunity.  One particular gentleman is a Haitian-American that works here in Port.  We have been talking alot about translation etc.  He really had no interest in translating Biblical literature so we thought we would see if he would be interested in doing Answers articles.  The other day we were riding with him in the car to a prison (about a 3 hour trip) and handed him a magazine opened to the sea bear article and asked if he would be interested in translating it.  He stopped the driver, got out to get a piece of paper and immediately started translating.  He finished the article before we arrived at our destination (and ran out of paper).  He continued flipping through the magazine and came to the wilberforce article, I asked if he needed more paper and he said yes and started working on the wilberforce article!  Before the day was over he had finished that too.  In a conversation that my father-in-law had with him later he made statement like "I'd never thought about it that way before".  What a unique opportunity and way to reach someone with the truth of the gospel.  He is interested in doing more so we plan to take advantage of it!”

 

What a unique way of sharing the Gospel! Please pray for this man, that God would work in his life and use this as a way to reach him.  Our Creole translation team is also very close to completing translations for a new Creole website which will be launched soon! God continues to work in amazing ways! 

In the summer of 2006, Ken Ham, Dr. David Crandall, and our AV crew traveled to Mexico to film the Creation Mini-Series in Spanish. It’s been a blessing to hear how the conferences have made a difference. Just recently we received another letter from a man who attended the conference:

 

“I want you to know that the video-conferences you gave us are bringing so much blessings to our brothers and sisters as well to some non-christian friends of mine. I have been using them in my classes and teachings. I have made various copies of them and have shared them with another pastors and churches and they have told me that are really good. Thank you very much for your help and your willingness to share this invaluable material with us.”

 

The Spanish videos are available in our online store on the AiG website.  

We recently received this newsletter (see below) from Creation Research Japan that announces the AiG events that will take place in Tokyo next year. Dr. David Crandall of Answers WorldWide will be in Japan in March of 2009 to prepare for the event next August with Ken Ham. Ken will be presenting the Creation Mini Series which will be translated live into Japanese and filmed for DVD distribution all over Japan.

Newsletter (PDF)

Every timeAnswers in Genesis produces another book we get responses of people beingblessed. The greatlypopular New Answers Book 2 has beenacclaimed by its readers as giving substantive answers to such questions as: What’s the Best “Proof” of Creation? andIsn’t the Bible full of Contradictions?

 

Dr. DavidR. Crandall, using his 30 years of pastoral experience, was privileged to havethe opportunity to write the last chapter of this book with an emphasis onsalvation. The chapter is entitled TheBiggest Question of All—referring to the question asked by Jesus Christ:“Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” 

 

The chapterbegins with a tragic suicide that Dr. Crandall witnessed in Rome, Italyand the hopelessness in the young man’s life. The body of the chapter discussesPeter’s answer to Jesus’ question and the need for all mankind to answer thatquestion correctly. The article concludes with a story of a young Australianman who was about to commit suicide, but God miraculously brought a Christianto him; he was saved from suicide, but more importantly—he was saved eternally.

 

AiGrecently received a phone call from Japan from a woman greatly excitedabout this chapter because over 30,000 Japanese commit suicide every year. Wehave translators working on this chapter so that Japanese Christians will be ableto use it all over Japanto find hope in Christ.

 

AiG booksand DVDs are being used more and more around the world for God’s glory! 

 

 

Dr. Crandall and Michiko, Operation Manager of Creation Research Japan, discovered AiG book in Japanese bookstore. 

 

Written by AiG’s International Director, Dr.David R. Crandall

 

Answers WorldWide provided 150 books of The Lie: Evolution to those at the conference in Malaysia. Jerry Layton (pictured at booktable at right), an ABWE missionary to the Philippines who was with Dr. Crandall at the conference, sent this update:

It’s good to report we were able to distribute all the books. We had seven left over which we took with us to Singapore, where the church just happened to have seven pastors who did not yet have The Lie. Victor did a wonderful job helping me there. We spoke Sunday at the Gospel Light Christian Church which partners with Doane Baptist Church missions outreach in Asia.

I preached two services on “Restoring our Foundations in Genesis”, and Vic preached a shorter version at an evening service for Telugu workers from India. A member of the church had an Answers in Genesis book table in the foyer which sold out completely of Ken’s and other books. Two church members pledged to help us get Creation Science into a university and government schools. A Telugu returning to India plans to help us schedule in Bangalore, where I have previously been invited to a Bible school and Indian pastors who graduated from my alma mater in Tacoma.

Glory to God!

Victor is one of the Filipino pastors at Doane Baptist and is planning to attend the next International Training Seminar hosted by Answers WorldWide next March. Please keep him in your prayer as he applies to get his Visa in the next few weeks.

Dr. Crandall has spent this last week at a Creation Conference in Peru hosted by ITS graduates Creous and Elizabeth Ramdath. He says it has been a very successful conference! He spoke eight times and had the opportunity to give the closing address the last evening of the conference. Over 400 people were in attendance, and all were so eager to hear the Word. Dr. Crandall had an unexpected opportunity to do a 45 minute interview with the largest Christian TV network in all of South and Central America which he is told is seen by millions! God continues to do amazing things around the world. Thanks for your prayer!

Dr. Crandall did a one hour Christian interview show and then was invited back on two other occasions to be interviewed to share his life story and ministry experiences.

The Asian Missions Congress has gotten off to a great start.  Over 250 leaders from that part of the world have assembled for planning and teaching. Dr. Crandall is one of its featured speakers.

 

Another participant is Creation Speaker Jerry Layton from the Philippines.  In the last 3 years he has spoken to over 70,000 people and has seen 15,000 people come to Christ through Creation Evangelism. Glory!

 

 

Dr. Crandall and Jerry Layton meeting with three of WorldWide’s next International Training Seminar candidates from Malaysia and the Philippines 

A note from Ken Ham:

 

AiG is thrilled to be able to congratulate our Director of AiG’s WorldWide outreach, Dr. David Crandall, for receiving the honor of being named “Alumnus of the year” by the Baptist Bible College and Seminary—Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. Dr. Crandall wrote to me:

I am very much honored that Baptist Bible College and Seminary alumni have selected me as alumnus of the year. Thousands of alumni vote every year on this selection. On October 10^th I will be honored at a special banquet on campus. All four of my children are flying in for the event—it is the first time in years that all four have been with us at the same time. Only problem—10 grandchildren at the same time.

I praise God that He has chosen to use me in His ministry. I am especially thrilled to be with you and AiG and to see the global impact that is being made.

-David  (Philippians 1:21)

You can read about this at this link: http://www.bbc.edu/alumni/past_award_recipients.asp

Greeting from Saipan, where America’s day begins. During the last two weeks AiG’s days have begun here too!

The Saipan team has completed the medical outreach portion of the trip. Tuesday evening the final patients were seen. We have spent time dealing with infections and allergy problems primarily over the last couple of days. A big issue here is helping the students deal with the change in climate and change in diet. Counseling about preventative health issues has been a theme throughout the clinics.

 

The nightly seminars will continue through Friday night. We have had a full house every evening for the sessions. The kids from the local community school have been on the front row each night, armed with many, many questions. One child has even started bringing his unsaved mother to the talks. Liz has spent a lot of time witnessing to her.

Each presentation has been translated into Chinese, but this has not thus far seemed to be a problem. The language barrier has been overcome. It seems that my Southern drawl is much easier to translate than Ken’s Australian accent!

 

The ESL classes continue to go well. Laura has thoroughly enjoyed teaching, and the students continue to eagerly practice their English in the evenings at the seminars. One recent topic in class was the difference between the phrases “Good evening” and “Good night.” One of the students had been going around greeting everyone at church saying, “Good night!” The funny part was that once the students understood the difference and that “Good night” is used as a way to say “Goodbye,” when Laura left class (in the middle of the afternoon), one student jokingly said, “Good night!” With students like that, you can understand why she enjoys teaching the class!

The team will leave for the states very early Saturday morning, travel for about 27 hours, and arrive in Kentucky on Saturday afternoon. Oh, the joys of the international date line. Please pray for travel mercies for a very weary team!

Saturday brought a welcome rest for our Saipan mission team. The entire day was devoted to sightseeing. There are all sorts of interesting things to visit on Saipan, many relating to events of World War II.

The team first visited Banzai cliff on the northern tip of the island. During WW II many people took their lives by jumping from this cliff onto the rocks below. There are several memorials here remembering this sad event. It is difficult to imagine such a horrible tragedy occurring in such a beautiful place.

Bird Island Sanctuary was also one of the stops during the day. The lookout point here provided one of the most breathtaking sights of the trip.

Since Dr. Mitchell is one of the team members, food was a primary concern. All are happy to report that Dr. Mitchell’s problem was taken care of. After feeding Tommy, some shopping was done along with a short visit to the beach.

The team enjoyed dinner at a Thai restaurant with the teachers who are hosting Laura while our team is here.

Then the team returned to prepare for the seminar session Saturday evening. The team sends its regards to all who helped make this trip possible. A difference is being made in Saipan.