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News to Know • Finally!! Our PMU

web site is back up and running, thanks to the labors of Cambodia missionary Mark Baldwin. Thanks, Mark! Watch for updates and new information to be added soon. • Team Timothy funding deadline for travel funds is February 28. If you or your church would like to help underwrite this summer’s Team Timothy ministry to Bolivia, please contact our office! • PMU Missions Council member Rev. John Dyck, pastor of the Edmonton, Alberta, BPC, will travel to Kenya in late February to minister with the brethren there, including in the north with the Rendille work of Miss Judith Collins. He will also take the opportunity to visit Uganda to evaluate potential PMU church planting contacts in that needy nation. He plans to return in mid-March. • Ed & Lehia Paauwe will be enjoying some R&R time with their family in Adelaide January 22-February 3. Please keep the Paauwes in your prayers for a fruitful ministry in Australia!

Report on Home Missions Progress Here at PMU, we have been fervently praying that the Lord would rebuild our Bible Presbyterian testimony in America’s Midwest. Recently, we’ve mentioned a couple of church planting opportunities that are developing in that region, and we’d like to tell you a bit more about them. The first (chronologically speaking) of the opportunities came about as a result of the web presence of the BPC, which directed a hospital chaplain in Evansville, Indiana, to contact our offices some months ago seeking assistance in starting a Bible Presbyterian church in

Declare His Glory!

of the Faith BPC in Trenton, Michigan, moved to Westmont, Illinois, awhile ago and had difficulty in finding a good Reformed church. Mr. Gordon Chevalier contacted PMU to find out what would be involved in starting a church there. Mr. Chevalier hopes to be used of the Lord in getting the church off the

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that area. Rev. Robert Craig is now seeking membership in the South Atlantic presbytery, and has begun the groundwork for establishing a BP church as the Lord directs. Please pray for his work in Evansville, and that the Lord will lead the presbytery in their undertaking of this effort. The second work being considered is in the Chicago, Illinois, area. A member

ground, and then stepping aside for a permanent pastor when the time comes. A small group of interested individuals has already gathered to ready themselves for this effort as the Lord leads. Please pray that the Lord would work all the details for each of these prospective ministries. Both men are seeking the Lord’s clear direction for them, and both are depending upon the Lord’s people to pray with them! Pray, too, for PMU as we are involved to one degree or another in cooperation with our presbyteries to help grow the BPC here in the USA. We ask you, too, to please remember PMU’s Church Planting Fund in your giving plans for 2006. Thank you!

Mission Accomplished! Baldwin Home for Deputation We’re delighted to have Mark Baldwin back from Cambodia for a few months. He has worked hard and settled in well in the Cambodian culture, and is now desiring long-term ministry there. PMU’s Missions Council is working with Mark to determine the timing of his return and the nature of his long-term appointment. We look forward to Mark traveling to the churches and presenting his work in the near future. If you would like him to come, please call our office to schedule a visit. Please make the Cambodia mission a part of your church or personal budget, and keep him in your prayers. Critical components are his health and increased funding due to housing changes on the field. Thanks!

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 distributed without cost 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. Our Editor is Len Pine, and our Publishing Coordinator is Tito Lyro.

A New Job for Miriam

Children’s Choir performs at Christmas

We rejoice to report that our laborer in Ch-na, Miriam F, has been offered an exciting teaching position that will expand the reach of the good news into remote areas of the country — without her having to travel there! The Ford Foundation (a liberal organization to be sure) is sponsoring the education of villagers from remote provinces in the western part of Ch-na, teaching them English, and then sending them here to the US for further vocational training before sending them back to their home villages to aid in bringing technological advancements to poor agricultural areas. Miriam has been offered a position which will give her an opportunity to bring the good news to adults who will return to their villages with a new perspective — not to mention that they will be coming to the US, where we hope we will be able to have our local fellowships contact them and befriend them. Miriam also continues working with individuals and small groups with great success, and in ever increasing numbers. We are grateful for the many facets of her work that the Father has arranged for her. Please remember Miriam, and her roommate, Jannah (an independent worker), as they work for our Father in Asia.

Miriam and Jannah resist temptation….

The Yangon congregation of the BPC in Myanmar

A Church is Born in Myanmar January 15, 2006, was the day scheduled for the official birth of the Bible Presbyterian Church in Myanmar. Rev. Khawl Ro Kim reports about the opening services: “We held the service at one apartment next to my apartment building. We started the service at 12:00 noon. Now we have 25 people who have enrolled as members of BPCM.

Preschoolers at the Kim’s kindergarten in Yangon, Myanmar

“The orphanage and mission in Inlay is going well. I am praying to have one week training in Yangon for the Intha people. I want to invite a few (probably 15) people to come down to Yangon and get one week of training. If God is willing, I will do this in March. “Being a new church, we have many basic needs. Most of all, we need one keyboard or piano for church music (I already bought one guitar), and one pulpit, and 30 chairs. We will rent one apartment when we receive the support. Please continue to pray for these basic needs.” “Praise the Lord for His wonderful guidance and providence.”

Kids start rowing early on Inle Lake among the Intha people

Please remember the Kims in your prayers, and the several works that are under their care: the kindergarten in Yangon, the orphanage in Taungee, the evangelistic work and church planting in the Intha village of Kay Lar on Inle Lake, and the planting of the “mother church” in Yangon. Please remember the Kims in your missions budget as well: they need regular supporters to carry on their work.