March 20, 2009 - This is a pivotal date for my wife and I as we stepped onto Korean Air headed for Cincinnati Airport for a week's worth of training with a Creation Apologetics Ministry—Answers in Genesis.

Besides spending our 13th Wedding Anniversary (23 March) enjoying real American ice cream (thanks to Dr.Crandall and his team), this training has expanded our view on the critical importance of developing a Biblical Worldview in all areas—especially in domains where the opinion of man has superseded the authority of God's Word. We are now so excited about home schooling our two daughters in subjects of science and history from the God's perspective!

Also, we look forward to working with Christian families who desire to provide real answers to the next generation who is growing up in an ever increasing skeptical, humanistic and anti-God world.

We thank God for the generosity of Mr.Ken Ham, Dr.Crandall and the Answers in Genesis team for organizing this training. The friendship with fellow believers from Australia, India, Russia, Moldova, Egypt, Scotland, Hungary and Portugal really made this a fantastic experience for my wife and I.

Joseph Tan, Malaysia

Dr. Crandall arrived safely in Japan last Thursday (March 5) and has hit the ground running…as usual. Just this morning we received news that he will be speaking at a church in Korea this Sunday, March 15.

 

Koreans concept of a mega-church is much different of what we think of here in the States. This Korean church has an average attendance of 20,000 each week which is small by their standards! There are five service times at 9:30 am, 11:00 am, 12:00 pm, 1:30 pm, and 3:00 pm.

 

Please pray for Dr. Crandall as he has many different meetings this week in Japan and Korea. Pray for his strength (he left with the flu) and that God would bless these speaking opportunities and work in the hearts of the people.  

We recently received this letter from a missionary in the country of Georgia:

 

“Answers in Genesis played a HUGE role in my life. After coming to Christ in 1990, I still often struggled with believing the Bible, and especially struggled to believe God had forgiven me. My father was a Christian and Bible teacher, but he believed in long ages. I can remember thinking, if “all” doesn’t mean “all” when it talks about the flood “ALL the high hills and ALL the high mountains” ALL the whole earth, etc, maybe it doesn’t mean ALL when it says God forgives ALL our sins. Then my sister gave me the book, the Genesis Flood, and I began reading. Then an AIG seminar came to my town, “Greenville SC” and I attended. I soaked up everything like a sponge! Through your ministry, I gained a passionate love for and trust in God’s Word, learning that every word is true and trustworthy.

 

“Now, I often use your materials in my ministry. I use Answers magazine with some of my English students (I also do some tutoring in English) and I used your materials on death and suffering when working with refugees.”

 

We praise the Lord that He is using this ministry around the world to strengthen believers’ faith and their confidence in God’s Word.

The Apostle Paul told Timothy to be certain that he used his training to teach others. We at Answers WorldWide are committed to training people from all over the world to defend the Bible from Genesis 1:1.

 

Last year 10 internationals received creation speaker training at our International Training Seminar. In the last months these graduates have held dozens of seminars before thousands of people.

 

Another 12 Internationals are prepared to travel a combined 163,602 miles for the March 21-28 ITS program.  WorldWide raises the funds so that these chosen trainees can receive training that will challenge and change their lives.  This year’s class comes from 9 different countries: Russia, Hungary, Moldova, India, Portugal, Egypt, Malaysia, Australia and Scotland. After this Seminar, we will have Creation Speakers ministering in 15 Countries that represent every continent in the world except Antarctica.

 

Two of last years candidates have had seminars in China, and one of this year’s candidates will conduct seminars all over the Arab world including Iraq, Iran and Syria. Not only is this ministry discipleship, it is also missions with a global impact.

 

Dr. David R. Crandall, Director of WorldWide, says that he cannot wait until the flag ceremony when each trainee enters the auditorium and is introduced to the AiG family. Each flag will be on permanent display in the Creation Museum.

 

Pray for:

Alexandru Sanduleac (Moldova)

Joseph & Debra Tan (Malaysia)

Jyoti Chakravartty (India)

Nalla Thomas (India)

Rui Pereira (Portugal)

Matthew Cserháti (Hungary)

Char Cheah (Singapore/Australia)

                        Yasser Farah (Egypt)

                        Nikolai Gunichev (Russia)

                        Nagy & Nashwa Iskander (Scotland/Egypt)

 

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.