Samuel Martin
C/O Maranatha Baptist Church
200 Acorn Dr.
St. Robert, MO 65584
Phone: (303) 810-3896
Email: martin604@juno.com

Bearing Precious Seed Update

   As Bro. Byers always said, "Greetings in the wonderful name of our Lord Jesus Christ". I want to thank everyone that had a part in the scripture ministry this past year. What a tremendous blessing we've had doing the Lord's work.

   As part of this newsletter, I would like to sum up the blessings of 2004. Not often do we realize how much has been accomplished for the Lord until it's before our eyes. We traveled to 10 states in 2004, presenting the ministry to several new churches. We spend much of our time distributing scripture, updating many of our supporting churches and participating in their seedline work nights. We attended 4 missions conferences, 2 church planting conferences, and held a World Missions BPS conference. Through the mission conferences we were able to pick up four new supporting churches.

   We feel blessed in the amount of paper support that came in during 2004. We received $55,000.00 for paper and shipping costs. This helped to ship three containers of scripture containing 914,000 Gospel of John and Gospel of John/Romans. This includes 2.5 million tracts that was donated to us. In addition to those scriptures shipped overseas we have sent 75,000 English for church planting efforts in the United States, including 5,000 Spanish Gospel of John/Romans to churches as outreach ministries.

   We praise the Lord for the untold souls who have accepted Christ as their personal Saviour through this ministry. Eternal treasure is in the storehouse. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal."

   In 2005 I have set a goal of shipping four containers in with 1.5 million scriptures to help meet the needs of missionaries. I would like to send the first container in June with the Tamil we are now printing. In order to see this goal accomplished we must have $80,000.00 dollars this year. With your help this is all possible.

   We look forward to what the Lord has in store for us in 2005. Please continue to pray for us as we pray for you. May the Lord bless you this year as we serve HIM together.

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