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Team Timothy 2007 Application Deadline: The deadline for Team Timothy applications to arrive in the PMU office is November 15th. Please phone or write to PMU headquarters or download an application packet from our website. Mark Baldwin preps for ordination Please keep Mark in prayer as his ordination exams approach on November 9 & 10. Mark is looking forward to heading back to the field, and needs to put this hurdle behind him! BP Minister Robbed

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On September 17, Rev. David Quisbert was assaulted in a taxi in La Paz, Bolivia, and was beaten severely and robbed of all that he had. He was returning from a training ministry, and so he lost his computer and other equipment, as well as money, wedding ring, and even clothing. He is recovering, so please keep him in prayer, and contact our office if you would like information on how you can provide assistance directly. Please do not send funds directly to PMU, as we cannot forward funds to him due to IRS regulations. Miriam F on Temporary Leave Miriam is home to be with her mother, who is terminally ill with cancer. Please pray for Miriam and the family. Ed Paauwe Defends Dissertation Rev. Paauwe travels to South Carolina on the 19th to defend his D. Min. dissertation at Bob Jones University. Please keep him in prayer!

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Pine Log: Australia and Myanmar, September 1-22 After initial weather delays caused me to miss my international flight and required hanging out in NYC for an additional 24 hours, all went well and I landed in Perth, Western Australia, nearly 60 hours after I set out. Early the next morning, I caught a plane to Esperance, a small coastal town on the Southern Ocean, where I was met by Rev. John Barlow, a good friend of the Paauwes whom I had met some years ago in Singapore while he was on sabbatical. Our friendship was immediate then, and he invited me to come minister in Esperance when he heard I was coming to work in Perth. Windabout Lakes Christian Church is an independent congregation. I had a terrific

Rev. & Mrs. John Barlow Lord’s Day with the people there and much good fellowship in homes. I returned to Perth on Monday evening. The basic activities during the two weeks that I was there included attending Greek class (presenting the ministry of Western Reformed Seminary there, as several of the students are interested in distance studies, and Ed has just been named an adjunct instructor of WRS), lecturing in the evenings for Evangel Bible Institute (Music in the Church), presenting PMU’s work in Myanmar and Bolivia, preaching in services on the Lord’s Day, and attending various church functions for different fellowship groups. I also presented a concert on Friday evening of the first week, and spent Sunday afternoon evaluating their choirs and doing some basic training in musicianship and vocal techniques. Of course, there was a

Rev. & Mrs. Ed Paauwe

great deal of warm fellowship, usually around a meal! Ed and Lehia enjoyed being tourist guides for me and we saw some of the wonders of Western Australia while I was there, too. The response to the Word was phenomenal. The congregation is eager to really know the Word and respond to it appropriately. Ed and Lehia are doing a terrific job in ministering to them. Ed’s health is good, and Lehia’s, too, and they are very happy. Evangel Bible Institute is doing well. There is a small group of credit students and a large number of audit students. They are looking forward to strengthened ties to the US BPC through the various teachers from WRS who have, and will, come in the future. The Perth church is extremely excited about the possibility of participating in PMU team ministries in the future. In fact, they are planning on organizing a team to go to Rev. & Mrs. Khawl Ro Myanmar and Kim, with Dr. Pine work with Khawl next year. (Khawl is thrilled with this, and we did some preliminary planning to(Continued on page 2)

Presbyterian Missionary Union is a non-profit missions agency associated with the Bible Presbyterian Church. Our purpose is to advance the cause of missions that are biblically based and practiced and to stand against any compromise of the saving gospel of Jesus Christ. PMU is directed by a Missions Council of Christian leaders who volunteer their time to guide the ministry. To learn more about missions opportunities through PMU, or to learn more about the BPC please contact us. The Missions Banner is published ten times a year and is mailed to interested individuals and churches. It seeks to promote the clear stand of the BPC by providing a biblical perspective on issues, fads, and theories in missions and church development. Editor: Len Pine

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gether when I got to Myanmar later.) It will be an all-Perth effort, and should be a tremendous blessing to the brethren in Myanmar. The last week of ministry saw me in Myanmar. I was met in Yangon by a large group of the brethren at the airport. After some fellowship at my hotel, they let me rest for the evening. I was able to safely deliver support funds for the Kims, which was a major answer to prayer. Friday was busy. We made arrangements for printing the Burmese and EBI Greek Class Mizo translations of the Confession of Faith, the Form of Government, and Book of Discipline. We also visited the kindergarten and had some fellowship over a light lunch at the Kim’s apartment. After a break in the afternoon, we met for dinner and the evening training session. About 30 people attended the session, most from the congregation, and others from a couple of other churches. The response to the training on basics of what the church is biblically was enthusiastic and eager, with many good questions being asked. On Saturday, after some fellowship and sightseeing in the morning, we continued the training. New people were there, and we covered material that shifted the focus to Presbyterianism in particular. The material was very eye-opening for many of them, and encouraging to all. Again, many good questions – they want to do this right. After the training, we had a fellowship dinner together on into the evening.

EBI Music in the Church Class

The Kindergarten

Services on Sunday were a great blessing. About 45 people were in attendance, the usual crowd from what I could see (not just a larger number because I was there). I baptized two infants, including Khawl’s little boy, Lal Nun Siama. The preaching was well reTraining ceived, and the people’s love of worship in song was manifested in singing throughout the service. Afterwards, we had a fellowship tea and spent another hour or so answering questions about the church and their future. On Monday Khawl and I flew to Inle Lake. We visited the orphanage in a suburb of the city of Taunggyi and held an evening worship service at the mission station there. A good group of people gathered, and I saw a good response to the Word once again. Currently, eight children are ministered to at the orphanage.

Yangon Mission

On Tuesday, we moved a little south to Ngiang Shwe, a town on the shores of Inle Lake. From there we traveled by boat to Kay Lar, a village on stilts in the middle of the lake, surrounded by floating gardens. We had an afternoon service that lasted a good while, had dinner there at the home where we met, and returned to Ngiang Shwe for the evening. (In the rain – the boat ride is about an hour one way!) On Wednesday we returned to Yangon and had another service that evening at the Kim’s apartment. It was packed. We had a great time around the Word and singing. Khawl is doing a good job of teaching his own congregation to appreciate and underCovenant Baptism stand the Scriptures. He is also carefully overseeing three mission stations, an orphanage, and a kindergarten. He is determined to do things properly, and not go too fast. The numbers of the gatherings at the missions points are growing. Regular evangelism is taking place. Khawl and Mawite expressed their desire that an English teacher come and Taunggyi Mission assist at the kindergarten, preferably a woman. Pray with us that the Lord will raise up a ministry couple, if possible, who would go on a business visa as teachers under VGI and Kay Lar Mission work to help strengthen the churches as they develop. Thursday it was back in the plane to the States, with a stop in Singapore to visit the Rev. Dr. Jack Sin (Maranatha Bible Presbyterian Church) and his wife, Angie, for a few hours during my layover there. So, it was a great three weeks. Thanks for your prayers for me while I was on the road and in the air, and for your support of PMU that makes these vital trips possible.