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THE WORKS OF FOCUS NORTHEAST/NORTHWEST
There are many densely populated
areas in the Northeast and Northwest where a
congregation of the churches of Christ has never
existed. Both
the Eastern and Western coastlines represent the most
densely populated regions of our nation.
One can travel through numerous urban centers
throughout these regions without finding
any evidence of the existence of a church of Christ.
The Northeast and the Northwest are indeed mission
fields.
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Focus Northeast/Northwest is
designed to stabilize and encourage existing churches
of Christ in these parts of the nation and to plant
new congregations where they are needed.
Through our programs, graduates of Sunset
International Bible Institute are introduced to the
possibilities of fulfilling their ministries in these
mission fields. My
wife, Tamara, and I were long time missionaries to
Asia, and now we direct Sunset’s efforts to place
its graduates in one of these neglected parts of our
nation. For
three terms out of four I serve as an instructor at
Sunset. This
schedule allows the us several months out of each year
to devote to the Focus programs.
It is estimated that 150 Million
people live in the areas we call Northeast and
Northwest. If
each one, the Northeast and Northwest, were a nation
themselves they would constitute two of the largest
mission fields on earth.
They both deserve an adequate presentation of
the Gospel of Christ just like the rest of the world.
Are there some churches in these regions of our
nation? O,
yes, there are at least 400 in each one…but we are
speaking of many churches with 10 or 30 or 60 members
in urban centers with populations in the millions!
Though several fine works have been planted in the
Northeast and the Northwest, the fact remains that the
ratio of members of the churches of Christ to
population is far below the middle and Southern
sections of the Nation, the Bible Belt.
Our primary emphasis is to help
settle our Sunset graduates in strategic locations in
either the Northeast or Northwest.
Each year we also organize and conduct
campaigns, seminars, leadership retreats, workshops,
VBSs, and other activities throughout these regions to
strengthen existing congregations, and, of particular
importance, we try to plant new congregations in the
population centers without churches of Christ.
We have a list of trained families
willing to
give themselves to evangelizing the areas, but they
need sponsorship and oversight from mission minded
churches that would really get involved with them.
Please contact me if you and your congregation would
be interested in learning more.
Sunset International Bible
Institute’s proven forty year curriculum of Bible
Training is now being made available in the Northeast
and Northwest via Distance Learning Technology…any
students in either of these areas of the country
interested in being trained for ministry should
contact us immediately for more information about
Bible Training via Distance Learning Technology.
The Distance Learning Projects
will allow "real-time, interactive, live
broadcast" of Sunset International Bible
Institute’s resident classroom courses from Lubbock
to be beamed anywhere in the world.
These remote broadcasts run concurrent with our regular school year. The
technology involved is available and several with
technology backgrounds are helping with this part of
the project.
We are excited about this part
of the Focus Northeast/Northwest project because it
not only holds prospects for training leaders and
preachers for churches in the USA, it also holds
possibilities for enhancing the proclamation of
God’s Word all over the whole world. We solicit your
prayers and financial support as we move ahead with
all the outreaches designed further the spread of the
Kingdom in the Northeast/ Northwest regions of our
great country.
Contact:
Charles Cook
Sunset International Bible Institute
3723 34th Street
Lubbock, TX 79410
(806) 792-5191/798-1744
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