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Dear Dr. Crandall,

 

My name is John I study at Temple Baptist College in Cincinnati; I met you once at the creation museum along with Dr. Paturi and also another time at the Telugu Christian Conference in New Jersey. I am writing this mail to thank you for the blessing that you where in my personal life. Your sermon on the Rosh Hashanah was extremely enlightening; I and my school mate could not stop discussing the same for almost 2 weeks. I am now in India for my summer break and shared that message and also the creation message with other believers and pastors here as well, and they have found it to be a blessing. Thank you for being such a blessing in our lives.

 

The modern Indian society is stuck in two extremes, while one section is uneducated and remains polytheistic the other moves towards atheism due to the education system which strongly advocates Evolution. I personally feel that God wants me to take creationism seriously and help the millions of confused young Indians who seem to moving from hopelessness to hopelessness. One hopelessness that advocates many gods, while yet an other that denies God. Jesus is truly the only hope for India; I am willing to take this message of hope to my perishing brethren in India.

 

I thank you and all the staff at AiG for being such a blessing in the lives of millions of people in Indiaand around the world. It is indeed a great joy to know that I labor with fellow laborers like you, for the one and only true God who spoke the world into existence.

God Bless

AiGWorldWide will be ministering next February in Vancouver, British Columbia, atthe XXI Winter Olympic Games. We need servant-minded helpers! Canada’sbeautiful city of Vancouver, with its nearby Whistler Mountain and other sites,has been preparing for these Olympics since 2003. In preparation forthese games, Answers in Genesis has developed its own special Olympics logo.This will serve as our official emblem and will appear on the clothing of ourvolunteers and staff, plus on our special pins, letterhead, etc. If you areinterested in going to the Olympics and being part of this historic outreach,visit our Olympics ministry website, www.aigolympics2010.org.Volunteer applications will be processed on a first-come basis; please notethat there are a limited number of volunteers we can take. This unique ministrywill involve literature distribution, personal witnessing, and attending aspecial AiG teaching seminar in Vancouver with Ken Ham. There will even be an opportunityto attend an Olympics event during our time in this gorgeous part of the world. Donations are now being received to help finance this amazing ministry to themany tens of thousands of people who will be coming from all around the world.

David and Diana Crandall spent Father’s Day in the Ancient City of Ephesus in the Country of Turkey.  They have been re-reading the book of the Bible named after the city.  Hundreds of Biblical thoughts raced through their minds as they literally stood where the Apostle Paul stood to proclaim the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the pagan city.  They recalled Paul’s words to “HONOR YOUR FATHER” on this very special day of the year.

It should be noted that Paul wasted no time in the book to mention Creation to the Ephesians’.  In fact in Ephesians 1:4 Paul wrote: “For He chose us in Him before the CREATION of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight.” Later as he wrote to the Ephesus Church he reminded them:  “who (God) created all things” Ephesians 3:9.

It has been an exciting day as we have walked in the steps of the Apostle Paul.

Forty-Six years ago Dr. David Crandall, International Director of AiG WorldWide stood with hundreds of other horrified onlookers and watched a young University student jump from the top of the Roman Coliseum. Dr. Crandall and his wife Diana returned to that site in Rome yesterday and sadly remembered that horrible day so long ago, however, a day that would change his life forever.

David has often said that he promised God on that day that he would take the hope of the Gospel to the world to save lives physically and spiritually. That long ago commitment brought him to Answers In Genesis to enable our AiG missionary work to grow and thrive.

The New Answers Book 2 has the full story of that fateful and frightful day in Rome and how it changed his life---Crandall wrote the conclusion of that best selling AiG book. That story from Rome has now been translated into Japanese and being used successful to reach that Country that experiences over 30,000 suicides per year.

We wanted you to see what was going on in Jerusalem. Please read Ken Ham's report about it in his blog. Dr. Crandall commented on it as well:

I had the joy of planning and orchestrating the AiG Holy Land Tour and I was so excited because of our previous 17 visit to Israel and Jordon.  However, because of a death in the family I needed to cancel out of the tour just weeks before it was planned to begin.  I was so glad to hear the report of the tour and the many blessing that all who traveled to the Holy Lands received.
- Dr. David Crandall

It's the first of its kind in our 15-year history: Answers in Genesis and Creation Research Japan have signed an agreement that allows CRJ not only to translate our creation/gospel materials into Japanese, but also to print AiG books and duplicate DVDs in Japan. It's the "delivery" part that makes this agreement different than what we've done in the past.

The new relationship with CRJ will be a great means to get Bible-affirming resources more quickly and inexpensively into a nation that desperately needs the gospel. This is because we will no longer have to produce the Japanese-language materials in the U.S. and then ship them all the way across the Pacific. Having this Japanese-based cooperative outreach will save multiple thousands of dollars each year in shipping costs, and will get the resources completed more quickly.

Michiko Mizumura of CRJ met this past March with Dr. David R. Crandall, Director of AiG's "Answers WorldWide" missionary arm, to sign this historic document. CRJ (which has had many of its members travel to America to meet with us and tour the Creation Museum) and Answers in Genesis are now what could be called "sister ministries." We share the same biblical approach to Genesis chapters 1-11 and hold the same respect for the authority and accuracy of the Word of God.

We are also pleased to report that Answers WorldWide is working on similar agreements with Christian leaders in Peru and South Korea. Please pray for those to blossom as well, and that the wider distribution of creation/gospel resources into the Land of the Rising Sun will be blessed by God.

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)