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Declare His Glory!

O CTOBER 2006, #212

News to Know Pine Log: Australia and Myanmar, September 1-22

Team Timothy 2007 Appli- After initial weather delays caused
cation Deadline: me to miss my international flight Rev. & Mrs. Ed Paauwe
The deadline for Team and required hanging out in NYC
Timothy applications to ar- for an additional 24 hours, all went
rive in the PMU office is No- well and I landed in Perth, Western
vember 15th. Please phone or Australia, nearly 60 hours after I set
write to PMU headquarters or out. Early the next morning, I
download an application
packet from our website. caught a plane to Esperance, a
small coastal town on the Southern
Mark Baldwin preps for Ocean, where I was met by Rev.
ordination John Barlow, a good friend of the
Please keep Mark in prayer as Paauwes whom I had met some
his ordination exams ap- years ago in Singapore while he
proach on November 9 & 10. was on sabbatical. Our friendship was great deal of warm fellowship, usually
Mark is looking forward to immediate then, and he invited me to around a meal! Ed and Lehia enjoyed being
heading back to the field, and come minister in Esperance when he tourist guides for me and we saw some of the
needs to put this hurdle be-
hind him!
heard I was coming to work in Perth. wonders of Western Australia while I was
Windabout Lakes Christian Church is an there, too.
BP Minister Beaten, independent congregation. I had a terrific
The response to the Word was phenomenal.
Robbed
The congregation is eager to really know the
On September 17, Rev. David Word and respond to it appropriately. Ed and
Quisbert was assaulted in a Lehia are doing a terrific job in ministering
taxi in La Paz, Bolivia, and
was beaten severely and
to them. Ed’s health is good, and Lehia’s,
robbed of all that he had. He too, and they are very happy.
was returning from a training Evangel Bible Institute is doing well. There
ministry, and so he lost his
Rev. & Mrs. John Barlow is a small group of credit students and a large
computer and other equip-
ment, as well as money, wed- number of audit students. They are looking
ding ring, and even clothing. Lord’s Day with the people there and forward to strengthened ties to the US BPC
He is recovering, so please much good fellowship in homes. through the various teachers from WRS who
keep him in prayer, and con- have, and will, come in the future.
tact our office if you would I returned to Perth on Monday evening.
like information on how you The basic activities during the two weeks The Perth
can provide assistance di- that I was there included attending Greek church is ex-
rectly. Please do not send class (presenting the ministry of Western tremely ex-
funds directly to PMU, as we Reformed Seminary there, as several of cited about the
cannot forward funds to him
the students are interested in distance possibility of
due to IRS regulations.
studies, and Ed has just been named an participating
Miriam F on Temporary adjunct instructor of WRS), lecturing in in PMU team
Leave the evenings for Evangel Bible Institute ministries in
Miriam is home to be with (Music in the Church), presenting the future. In
her mother, who is terminally PMU’s work in Myanmar and Bolivia, fact, they are
ill with cancer. Please pray preaching in services on the Lord’s Day, planning on
for Miriam and the family.
and attending various church functions organizing a
Ed Paauwe Defends Disser- for different fellowship groups. I also team to go to Rev. & Mrs. Khawl Ro
tation presented a concert on Friday evening of Myanmar and Kim, with Dr. Pine
Rev. Paauwe travels to South the first week, and spent Sunday after- work with
Carolina on the 19th to de- noon evaluating their choirs and doing Khawl next year. (Khawl is thrilled with this,
fend his D. Min. dissertation some basic training in musicianship and and we did some preliminary planning to-
at Bob Jones University.
Please keep him in prayer!
vocal techniques. Of course, there was a
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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 gos-
pel 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 ses-
sion, most from the congregation, and others from a couple of other
churches. The response to the training on basics of what the church is bib-
lically was enthusiastic and eager, with
many good questions being asked.
On Saturday, after some fellowship
EBI Music in the Church Class 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,
The Kindergarten
we had a fellowship dinner together on into the evening.
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,
Training including Khawl’s little boy, Lal Nun Siama. The preaching was well re-
ceived, and the people’s love of worship in song was manifested in sing-
ing 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 Yangon Mission
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 or-
phanage.
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 sing-
ing.
Khawl is doing a good job of teaching his
own congregation to appreciate and under-
Covenant Baptism stand the Scriptures. He is also carefully
overseeing three mission stations, an or-
phanage, 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
assist at the kindergarten, preferably a woman. Pray with us that the Lord will Taunggyi Mission
raise up a ministry couple, if
Kay Lar Mission possible, who would go on a business visa as teachers under VGI and
work to help strengthen the churches as they develop.
Thursday it was back in the plane to the States, with a stop in Singa-
pore 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.