Kelty Evangelical Church Newsletter for June

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May 30, 2021
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Kelty Evangelical Church

NEWSLETTER

June 2021

Upcoming Events

ZOOM Meetings

6th June – Eric J Scott

13th June – Eric J Scott

20th June – Andrew Maybin

27th June – Prof Andy McIntosh

In times like these you need a Saviour, In times like these you need an anchor; Be very sure, be very sure, Your anchor holds and grips the Solid Rock!

In times like these you need the Bible, In times like these, O be not idle; Be very sure, be very sure, Your anchor holds and grips the Solid Rock!

In times like these I have a Saviour, In times like these I have an anchor; I'm very sure, I'm very sure My anchor holds and grips the Solid Rock!

This Rock is Jesus, Yes He's the One, This Rock is Jesus, the only One; Be very sure, be very sure, Your anchor holds and grips the Solid Rock!

Kids’ Corner

Ambassador’s update.

We continue to be blessed in our preparations and recording of God’s word for the children. We pray for the children and for God to open their hearts to His word.

Once again we thank each family for tuning in to the face-book page every Sunday to give the children an opportunity to listen to the word of God and have fun with the singing.

The lesson plan for the month of June;

30th May - Peter and 3000 new Christians – Winnie

6th June - Peter heals a crippled beggar – Carol

13th June – Stephen is stoned – Ross

20th June – Saul’s conversion – Winnie

27th June – Peter imprisoned – Carol

Ross, Carol and Winnie will meet again before the school holidays to discuss an agenda for July and August.

Thank-you once again to the parents who encourage the children. We have been truly blessed to deliver God’s word in story, song, film and in pictures. God has used this time to help us grow and learn more about unfailing love. We know everything is in God’s hands.

Winnie

Children’s Bible Quiz

Q: How many days did God take to create the world? A:

Q: What day did God create man? A:

Q: Who was the first man? A:

Q: Who was the first woman? A:

Q: Where did they live at the beginning of the world? A:

Q: Who were their three sons listed in the Bible? A:

Heroes of the Faith - Sir James Young Simpson

Pioneer of Anaesthetics

Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870) was born at Bathgate, Linlithgowshire.

Like most Scots children of his time, he was brought up on the Bible and the Shorter Catechism. In 1840 he was elected to the Chair of Obstetric Medicine in Edinburgh University.

Here he carried out a series of hazardous experiments upon himself in the use of anaesthetics, resulting in the revolutionary medical discovery of chloroform.

Queen Victoria’s favourite doctor was Sir James Young Simpson. Although another Christian, Dr James Millar, first used chloroform on a patient during a medical operation, Simpson used chloroform on the Queen when she gave birth to Leopold, which made the practice publicly acceptable.

He is regarded as the father of anaesthetics and he was also a professor of midwifery.

An active Christian, he set up the Medical Dispensary for the poor in Carrubbers Close Mission on the Royal Mile.

He was an elder at St Columba’s Free Church.

Once a journalist asked him what was his greatest discovery. He replied clearly, ‘That I am a sinner and that Jesus is a great Saviour!’

Simpson wrote in his personal testimony: ‘But again I looked and saw JESUS, my substitute, scourged in my stead and dying on the cross for me. I looked and cried and was forgiven. And it seems to be my duty to tell you of that Saviour, to see if you will not also look and live: How simple it all becomes when the Holy Spirit opens the eyes!’

Forgotten Scottish History – Scottish Martyrs

THE COVENANTERS – ‘Freedom is a noble thing and usually it comes at a great price’

The Covenanters Prison, Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh 18,000 Christians in Scotland who would not compromise their beliefs suffered persecution and death over twenty-eight years of persecution from 1660 to 1688. The period from the summer of 1684 until the autumn of 1685 when persecution of the Covenanters was at its peak is known as the “Killing Times”. During that period the covenanters were hunted, tortured and executed. Ministers preached at secret open-air meetings. If caught they were executed. Those who were not executed would be imprisoned or could be banished to the colonies. Thousands were banished to America. The names of those who were not attending the established Episcopalian Church were given to the Royalists. They were heavily fined, questioned and even tortured. Battles between the covenanters and the Royalists occurred at Rullion Green 1666, Drumclog 1679 and Bothwell Brig. They were fighting not only for their religious freedom, but also for the freedom of speech. After the Battle of Bothwell Brig, 1,400 covenanters survived and were imprisoned at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh. Many of them died of suffocation, starvation or exposure. Relief for the Scottish Presbyterians did not come until the Glorious Revolution with William of Orange in 1688.

Patrick Hamilton (1504 —1528) First Protestant Martyr– St Andrews

Scotland’s first Protestant martyr was a member of the mighty Hamilton family. While some Hamilton men grew rich from their powerful positions in the church, Patrick did something different: he began to take his faith seriously.

While studying at Scotland’s St. Andrews University, he became attracted to the views of Martin Luther. He wrote a book that was condemned as heretical and for a time he took refuge in Germany. He quickly returned to Scotland and began preaching the Protestant faith.

In 1528 the powerful Archbishop of St. Andrews summoned Hamilton, saying he wished to have a debate. However, it was a ruse, and before Hamilton’s influential friends could muster any support, a church court hurriedly found him guilty of heresy. (While heresy trials ordinarily took weeks, Hamilton’s was rushed through in a mere twelve hours.)

In contrast to the trial, the punishment was long. It took six hours for Hamilton to die by burning at the stake. A witness of the execution noted that the martyr “never gave one sign of impatience or anger, nor ever called to heaven for vengeance upon his persecutors.”

Knox, who did not know Hamilton, claimed that the execution led many throughout Scotland to begin questioning the beliefs and practices of Catholicism. Or as one witness put it, “The smoke of Mr. Patrick Hamilton has infected as many as it did blow upon.”

George Wishart (1513–1546) – St Andrews - His death ignited reform

When Knox met Wishart in 1545, he was deeply impressed by the tall, handsome, well-mannered young preacher who had the curious habit of washing himself in a bathtub every night.

Wishart, who had been born into a refined family with aristocratic connections, was the spokesman for Scotland’s growing and rugged Protestant faction. Gentle and peace-loving, he worked hard to restrain the sometimes violent lairds (nobles) who supported him.

The formidable Cardinal David Beaton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, executed five Protestants in 1544 and tried twice to have Wishart murdered. The Protestant lairds feared for Wishart’s safety and encouraged him to move from place to place to avoid capture. Knox, armed with a two-edged sword, was part of the bodyguard that travelled with Wishart.

Only in Scotland could a band of fifty armed Protestants (“heretics”) have wandered about, entering churches and preaching without government interference. Instead of the usual Latin Mass, worshipers heard fiery, hour-long sermons in their own tongue. Wishart denounced ceremonies and prayers to the saints, and advocated a married clergy.

Another shocking feature of Wishart’s services was congregational singing. His followers helped popularize The Good and Godly Ballads, a collection of songs that promoted the Protestant cause.

Wishart frequently predicted that he would be captured and burned. In 1546, believing his arrest imminent, he bade his followers farewell, saying, “One is sufficient for a sacrifice.” Knox reluctantly left him, and Wishart peacefully surrendered to authorities. He was condemned as a heretic, strangled, and burned by order of Cardinal Beaton.

A few days later, his death was avenged with the savage murder of Beaton by Protestant sympathizers—and the Scottish Reformation began its political phase. Still, it would take another fifteen years before Protestants would see any significant victory.

The Wigtown Martyrs - Killed: 11 May 1685

On 11 May 1685, Margaret Wilson and Margaret MacLauchlan were drowned in the Solway Firth at Wigtown for attending conventicles and refusing to take the oath against James Renwick’s Apologetical Declaration. Growing up, Margaret Wilson (18), and her brother and sister had often had to hide from government troops because they wouldn’t go to hear the Episcopal ministers. One day, however, Margaret and her sister Agnes (13) were finally caught. Their father managed to get his younger daughter released, but he couldn’t save Margaret. She was to be drowned with an older woman, Margaret McLaughlin. The soldiers tied them both to wooden stakes in the water. The younger Margaret was tied nearer to the shore so would see the older woman die first and be persuaded to give up her beliefs – so she wouldn’t die as well. As the older woman was drowning, the soldiers asked the younger Margaret what she thought of her now. Margaret Wilson replied “I see Christ wrestling there”. Then, just when she herself was about to drown, the soldiers lifted up her head and asked her to pray for the king. She answered “God save him if he will, for it is his salvation I desire”. However, when they asked her take the oath, she said “I will not, I am one of Christ’s children, let me go”. The soldiers then pushed her head down under the water again until she died. Just before she died, Margaret had sung from Psalm 25: “My sins and faults of youth do thou, O Lord, forget: After thy mercy think on me, and for thy goodness great.

Andrew Melville (1545–1622) Architect of the new church

If Knox had a successor as the spiritual leader of Scotland’s Protestants, it was Melville. well-educated in Scotland and France, Melville came under the influence of reformer Theodore Beza in Geneva. He returned to Scotland, pursued a distinguished academic career, and changed the Scottish church.

Melville was strongly presbyterian and at one point turned down the offer to become Archbishop of St. Andrews, the most prestigious church office in Scotland. Going further than did Knox, he rejected the episcopal system of church government altogether. He believed that ministers and elders should be elected by the members of the church, not appointed by bishops, let alone a king!

In 1582 he became moderator of the Scottish church’s General Assembly. He played a key role in its ratification of the Second Book of Discipline, often called the “Magna Carta of Presbyterianism” because it was the first document to lay out the key tenets of presbyterian government.

His staunch defence of Presbyterianism angered King James VI (James I of England), who sought to impose the episcopal system on Scotland.

An audience with James in 1606 led to Melville’s four-year imprisonment in the Tower of London. After his release, Melville spent the rest of his days in exile in France as a professor of biblical theology.

But Melville and his followers ultimately prevailed; Scotland never accepted the episcopal system. In fact, in the reign of James’s son, Charles I (1625–1649), the resistance of the Scots to Episcopalians precipitated the bloody civil war that culminated in Charles’s execution and permanently secured the place of Presbyterianism in Scotland.

James Stewart (c.1531–1570) Protestant in high places

Though an illegitimate son of King James V (and thus half-brother of the notorious Mary Queen of Scots), he was a Stewart. That combined with his stellar character would make him an influential figure in Scottish politics, especially during the Reformation.

By the time he was 19, he was a member of the Privy Council, essentially the queen regent’s executive committee, which ran the country’s affairs. He was instrumental both in the 1558 marriage of his half-sister Mary to the French Dauphin (heir to the French throne) and in Mary’s return to Scotland as queen in 1561.

During the same time, Stewart was won over to Protestantism and became a member of the Lords of the Congregation, nobles who came together to bring about religious and political revolution. Though his conversion annoyed the devoutly Catholic Mary, he became her chief adviser when she returned to Scotland.

In that position, Stewart used his power to maintain and extend the influence of Protestantism while not alienating the queen. His patience and tact irritated Knox, who thought him a traitor to the cause. But in general, Stewart maintained the respect of both Protestants and Catholics. He was, as one historian put it, “a Puritan with natural charm and diplomacy.”

In 1562, he gained the earldom of Moray (so that today he is often referred to as such, or simply as “Moray”), but he found himself eclipsed when Mary wedded the vain Lord Darnley, another Roman Catholic. Moray, seeing that Protestant gains might easily be reversed, attempted to revolt. But Mary, dressed in armour, joined her husband and drove Stewart out of Scotland.

A series of political blunders forced Mary to abdicate in 1567. The throne now belonged to infant James VI, and Stewart was appointed regent ruling briefly in his stead. After Mary’s tumultuous reign, Stewart determined to set Scotland on a course of peace and unity. He strengthened the Protestant church, restrained warring nobles, and gave protection to the common people. Stewart is known in Scottish history as the “Good Regent.”

Still it was a violent age, and Stewart died a violent death, shot by a member of the rival Hamilton family.

John Calvin (1509–1564) Left his imprint on Scotland

One secular historian described Knox as “Calvin with a sword.” Indeed, John Calvin, the great theologian and leader of the Reformation in Switzerland, gave Knox his theology. But in one significant respect, Knox outpaced his mentor.

Calvin was born in France and was trained as a lawyer; he had a gradual but solid conversion to Protestant teaching. He became a Protestant leader in Paris, but after an explosion of anti-Protestantism, he travelled through Europe to avoid arrest.

He finally settled in Geneva, where his Scripture-centred theology soon became the basis for the city’s life. There he tirelessly preached, wrote, and acted as moral overseer of the city.

Calvin and Knox first met in 1554. Knox, like other Protestants in England, had taken refuge in Switzerland during the reign of Catholic Mary Tudor. Calvin described Knox as a “brother . . . labouring energetically for the faith.” Knox, for his part, was impressed with Calvin’s Geneva, calling it “the most perfect school of Christ that was ever on earth since the days of the apostles.”

For a time, Knox pastored the English congregation in Geneva, where he soaked in the orderly Protestant theology of Calvin’s famous Institutes (first published in 1536 and enlarged throughout Calvin’s lifetime). Thus Calvin, via Knox, gave Scotland the rudiments of its presbyterian system of church government, its Bible—centred love of learning, its concern for strict morality, and its ceremonial, sermon-centred worship.

When it came to the relationship of the Christian to the state, however, Knox was more radical than his mentor. Where Calvin merely permitted disobedience to an ungodly ruler or immoral law, Knox championed armed rebellion—a type of Calvinism that made religious revolution in Scotland possible.

News From Other Parts:

Kenya

Muslim Extremists Burn Down Christian Widow's Reconstructed House Mother of five fled in 2015 after her husband was killed. By Our East Africa Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya, May 17, 2021 (Morning Star News) – A widow and her children who fled their home in eastern Uganda after her husband was killed in 2015 returned this year, only to narrowly escape an attack this month that burned down her reconstructed home, sources said. Muslim extremists burned down the home of Kanifa Namulondo in Kaliro, Bulamogi County, Kaliro District on May 2, Namulondo said. Widow of Siriman Kintu, a convert from Islam beheaded on Sept. 8, 2015 for his faith, Namulondo and her five children had returned to Kaliro in January and lived in the house for a week. Friends had helped reconstruct the house they left more than five years ago, completing it in mid-April. The family moved into it on April 25. There was an unusually early call for Muslim morning prayers at 3:30 a.m. on May 2, said Namulondo, who left Islam for Christianity in 2015. “At around 4 o’clock [in the morning] I heard people talking near the door,” Namulondo told Morning Star News. “One of them said, ‘The husband betrayed our religion. We should do away with the entire family.’” She woke up her children and escaped out the back of the house, broke into a neighbor’s home and hid in the bathroom, she said. Soon her house was in flames, waking neighbors whose cries caused the assailants to flee. At about 6 a.m. neighbors found Namulondo and her children locked inside the bathroom at the home of Musana Kyakwita, Kyakwita told Morning Star News that Namulondo and her children are living in great fear in temporary quarters outside of Kaliro and must relocate far away, again.

The assault was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented. Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country. If you would like to help persecuted Christians, visit http://morningstarnews.org/resources/aid-agencies/ for a list of organizations that can orient you on how to get involved. If you or your organization would like to help enable Morning Star News to continue raising awareness of persecuted Christians worldwide with original-content reporting, please consider collaborating at https://morningstarnews.org/donate/?

Nigeria from Release International NEWS

1470 Christians killed in four months’

Three new reports confirm the growing spread of violence against Christians in Nigeria.

According to the latest report by the Nigerian NGO Intersociety, in the four months from January to April 2021 Nigeria ‘lost no fewer than 1,470 Christians… the highest number recorded since 2014’.

And reports just published by both the US State Department and the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) single out Nigeria as a ‘country of particular concern for tolerating severe violations of religious freedom’.

Intersociety calculate that 2,200 Nigerian Christians were abducted by jihadists between January and April this year. Of those 220 are believed to have been murdered.

The NGO say Fulani militants killed more than 800 Christians, in a conflict often simplistically characterised as clashes over resources between herders and farmers.

Their findings support research suggesting more Christians are being killed in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world.

Intersociety details attacks on churches and pastors and goes on to accuse the government of Nigeria of concealing the jihadist agenda.

Targeting Christians

Mass grave at Gonan Rogo, Nigeria, where Fulani militants killed 17 villagers. Picture Release International, Stefano Foundation

Release International has long pointed out a religious dimension behind the growing violence against Christians in the North and Middle Belts of Nigeria. That is also the position of many British parliamentarians and the US State Department.

According to the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief Fulani militants have adopted ’a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP [Islamic State West Africa Province], and demonstrated a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity.’

In its 2021 Annual Report USCIRF notes that Boko Haram fighters beheaded the local chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Adamawa State because he refused to renounce his faith, while ISWAP fighters executed five aid workers as a warning to “all those being used by infidels to convert Muslims to Christianity”.’

The US State Department report cites Nigerian Minister of Culture Lai Mohammed, who declared Boko Haram and ISIS fighters, ‘have started targeting Christians and Christian villages… to trigger a religious war and throw the nation into chaos.’

The US State Department also quotes CAN president Reverend Samson Ayokunle, who warns his country is ‘under siege’ by terrorists, Fulani militants and others who share ‘a goal to Islamise Nigeria’.

The USCIRF report also raises a concern about the implementation of blasphemy laws in Nigeria. Sharia courts are operating in 12 northern states, even though the country’s constitution is secular and guarantees freedom of religion and belief. USCIRF notes: ‘State-sanctioned Sharia courts handed down harsh sentences on individuals convicted of blasphemy.’

Wake-up call

Release International CEO, Paul Robinson, says: ‘These latest reports reinforce what Release has been saying for many years, that the world must wake up to what is happening in Nigeria.

‘Boko Haram has publicly declared war on Christians and stated its aim to Islamise the whole of Nigeria. Fulani militants are killing even more Christians than Boko Haram fighters, and appear to be serving the same agenda.

‘This latest dimension to the violence can no longer be described as simply herder-farmer clashes.

‘These reports also reinforce what Release partners are saying – that the government of Nigeria is simply not doing enough to protect its Christian minority in the North against attack from religious extremists.’

And Release International patron Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali warns, ‘If Nigeria is to continue as a single entity, a concerted military and political effort has to be made to stop the depredations of so-called herders in the Middle Belt and Yoruba land.’

Through its international network of missions, Release International is active in some 25 countries around the world, supporting pastors, Christian prisoners and their families; supplying Christian literature and Bibles, and working for justice.

Pray for Kelty

Pray for a return to normality and the ability to have fellowship..
Pray for those in care homes remembering Alison Ireland and Robert Fetter and Lena Laing who at the time of writing is still in hospital.
Pray for opportunities in the Gospel with the opening up of lockdown open air work throughout Scotland will start once again and that God will bless open air work which has already begun in Glasgow, Leven and Falkirk.
Pray for speakers who bring God’s word to us on Zoom each Sunday.
Pray for the children that God may bless them and the lessons they learn may have an effect on their young lives.
Pray for the Church Elder’s and Church Council that they may be given wisdom to act according to the mind and will of God.
Pray for those who are experiencing illness because of Covid 19 especially the nation of India where at the time of writing one person is dying every four minutes.
Pray for our nation and it’s rulers that God may give them wisdom in leadership and that they may turn to God for the answers they need.

BIBLE PROPHECY

Article 6.

The Return Of The King.

[2 Thessalonians Chapters 1 & 2 and Revelation 19 are recommended background reading for this part of our study].

Unlike The Rapture, which was an undisclosed secret until fully revealed to the Apostle Paul. (1Corinthians 15:51. 1 Thessalonians 4:15), the Return of The King has been revealed frequently in the Old and New Testament. It has been stated abundantly and clearly by the Psalmist and the Old Testament Prophets

- Psalm 2, Psalm 72, Isaiah 31:1, 35:4-9, 59:20, Jeremiah 33:15-16, Daniel 7:13-14, Zechariah 14:4 - to mention a few.

The burden of The Prophets concerned : The Sufferings of Christ and The Glory that should Follow. They foresaw a Messiah who was both to SUFFER and yet REIGN, and they were mystified by their own writings! Of course they did not foresee the ‘valley’ of the present Dispensation of Grace between these two great mountain peaks.

In our last study we looked at The Time Of Jacobs Trouble – The Tribulation. Now that 7 year period will be suddenly and finally terminated by the PUBLIC REVELATION of The Lord Jesus Christ from Heaven. I want us to consider three Questions and seek their answers from the Word of God.

Why Must He Appear?

To Fulfill His Promise: In such passages as Matthew 24:29-31 and Matthew 26:64, He clearly predicted that He would return in power and in great glory to take over the Government of the earth. His very character depends upon his literally fulfilling these forecasts.

To Answer The Cry Of Israel’s Remnant: When the persecuted remnant of Israel cries, “Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord”, then he will appear to deliver them, Matthew 23:38- 39. By the remnant we mean that Godly minority of Jewish people who will be aware of the false claims of the man of sin (see 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4) and who will, therefore, refuse to acknowledge him. These will turn contritely to the true Messiah Jesus and will be a valiant witness to him during the dreadful period of the tribulation. Because of this they will suffer fearful atrocities. This will produce the cry, ‘thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven’. The true King of the Jews will answer this prayer at his second advent in glory.

To Execute Judgment and Establish His Kingdom: At the time of the second coming, the entire earth will be seething in rebellion against God and his anointed, under the leadership of the devil. The returning Christ will burst forth in righteous wrath against his enemies, and thus the reign of grace, as illustrated in David will be followed by the reign of righteousness as seen in David's successor, Solomon.

When Will He Appear? Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only potentate, The King of Kings and Lord of Lords. (1 Timothy 6:15). At the close of Daniels 70th week see Daniel Chapter 9, “The Son of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings.” Needless to see, it is utterly impossible to fix any precise calendar date. Matthew 25:13.

How Will He Appear? For the answer to this question, the student of the Bible is referred to Matthew 25:31, where we read that our Lord will return in a public display of Divine excellence and will be accompanied by the holy Angels. He will flash forth like the lightning (Matthew 24:7, 2 Thessalonians 1: 8). His armies will accompany him. One army will be made up of innumerable Angels and the other will be composed of all the Saints. As earth's final King, Christ bore the office of a Prophet on earth, he officiates as priest in heaven today, he will exercise the office of King when He returns.

God's ideal government is not democracy, but rather a supreme monarchy. However, when any mere son of Adam gets unlimited power in his hand, he invariably abuses that power. This is borne out abundantly by the pages of history. When, however, the last Adam exercises despotic authority in the best sense of the word, it will be absolute power balanced by absolute grace. He shall be a priest upon his this throne (Zechariah 6:13). There will be a perfect balance between the grace of the priest and the power of the King! Only then will be fulfilled the age long prior, thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Recommended Reading

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Recommended Viewing

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David Wilkerson was the Founding Pastor of Times Square Church in New York City. He was called to New York in 1958 to minister to gang members and drug addicts, as told in the best-selling book, The Cross and the Switchblade.

John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He tells his faith story and his continuing debates with the new atheists such as Richard Dawkins. This video is from the Unbelievable? archives.

ZOOM Meeting every Thursday evening at 8.00 pm with: Dr Charles Sommerville who will take us through the book of Daniel.

Charles reports the following:

I still have commitments with Silas in Kenya 4 mornings a week teaching / mentoring Church Leaders.

Wednesday mornings 11.00 a.m. and every Sunday morning 9.00 a.m teaching in Pastor Karan's Church in Pakistan.

Discussions with Pastor Okello who is the President of The Joint Christian Association of Churches in Africa. Possible in-depth involvement beginning in Uganda and then on to other Nations. Teaching could be aired on Christian Radio across the Continent.

Tuesdays and Thursdays Bible Studies will continue for the foreseeable future.