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Victory Baptist Press Non-Profit “The Lord gave the P.O. Box 766 Organization U.S. Postage word: great was the Milton, FL 32572-0766 PAID Return Service Requested Milton, FL company of those Permit No. 118 that published it.” (Psalm 68:11) September-October 2012 Victory Baptist Press is a ministry of the Victory Baptist Church of Milton, Florida. Founder: Dr. Thomas F. Woodward (1935-1994) Pastor: Tim Fellure Editor & VBP Director: Jim Fellure The Newsletter is the official publication of Victory Baptist Press and is sent free of charge to those who request it. The main purpose of The Newsletter is to promote missions, with an emphasis on the printing and distribution of the Word of God. While we may not agree with every statement printed from outside sources, we will make every effort to keep the paper as free from error as possible. To receive The Newsletter, send your complete mailing address to: P.O. Box 766, Milton, FL 32572-0766. Phone: 850-623-0086 Fax: 850-623-3502 • e-mail: [email protected] PAGE 2 - VICTORY BAPTIST PRESS SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2012 making plans to start their eighth Navajo Indian Independent Baptist Church. They MEMORIALS are doing a wonderful work and are All memorial and recognition gifts to Victory worthy of our prayers and support. Baptist Press go to print and distribute Bi- bles without charge. Each contributor listed There is a great need for more below, through their individual contribution, financial support for Bible printing has helped provide 243 Bibles for the mis- sion field. One of the things that I become a Memorial Gifts to Victory Baptist Press little irritated with is the “positive only” Notes Editor’s attitude that has crept into our From In Memory Of fundamental Baptist circles. I don’t see First Baptist Church of New Lisbon, WI ................................................. Linda Denton Jim & Mary Fellure the Bible promoting a positive attitude, ............................. Donald Everett Blackman but rather an honest one. If the truth Calvary Baptist Church of Batavia, IA Dear Friends, happens to be positive, leave it as it is, ................................................... Roy Goodell but if it happens to be a negative, don’t Grace Baptist Church of Excelsior Springs, MO This is Tuesday, August 28, and I am change it either. While recently reading .....................................................Carl Boone writing from Hamlet, North Carolina, through my Bible, Joshua 8:34 caught my Bible Baptist Church of Plymouth, IN where I am preaching a Faith Promise attention. The verse says that when ..............................Margaret “Peggy” Young Missions Conference for Pastor Michael Joshua was reading to the Israelites “he Riverdale Baptist Church of Riverdale, NJ ............................................. Carol Whiteside Carpenter and the Hopewell Baptist read all the words of the law, the Matt Swiatkouski ................ Gary Paul Worley Church. So far the meeting has been blessings and cursings . .” He gave ................................................ Louisa Beatty great, and we still have two more nights the people both the positive and negative Danny Webb .................. Joshua Ryan Brenn to go. sides of the law. To listen to some of our Christy Burns .......................... Mark Seymore One of the highlights of the meeting brethren preach, you would think that all Betty Gentry ....................... Douglas Haycraft for me was Sunday night when of our good Baptist churches were in the Francis Nawlin ...................... Geraldine Davis Missionary Wilson Calvin gave his heat of a great revival, when in reality, Mr. & Mrs. Don Moore ....... Rev. James Jones testimony and presented his work among many ministries are struggling to even the Navajo Indians. Brother Wilson said exist. Recognition Gifts to Victory Baptist Press Heather Kennedy .............. Raymond Stevens all the Indians on the reservation with the We are greatly blessed to have a last name of “Calvin” are related to him home church where the pulpit is red hot and went on to tell how his very name is and the building is full for just about every a testimony of the influence a good service, including the Wednesday night met the need through the prayers and support missionary can have. In the early 1940s, prayer service. Souls are being saved, of His good people. After bathing the financial there was a Baptist missionary by the missionaries are being sent out, a Bible situation in prayer for several months, I believe name of Morgan Calvin working among Institute is starting this fall, and I expect the Holy Spirit led me to take the need to our the Navajos. In 1942, Brother Wilson’s things to even get better as time goes on. friends and supporters by way of the letter father, a Navajo Indian, was inducted into That’s the positive side. The negative inserted in this Newsletter. Would you please the US Army. When he went to the local side is that the Scripture printing ministry read the letter and join me in prayer for the post office (which also served as the is feeling some very, very serious need to be met and believe with me that the induction center), they discovered a slight financial pressure. In fact, we are not lost support will be recovered before the end of problem. He didn’t have a name! But it growing at all. We are printing less than 2012? was no big deal since it was war time and we were two years ago. Now, please Also, please pray for the James Bartels the Army needed soldiers. They gave don’t get the wrong idea! We are not family. Brother Bartels has many years of him the missionary’s last name and the about to quit, throw in the towel, close printing experience and will be a great asset to postmaster’s first name and this Navajo up shop, or shut down the ministry. the ministry. He is waiting for his house to sell Indian became Hermon Calvin. Now, Just as long as we can hear the call “. in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, so he can move more than seventy years later, because ringing o’er the restless wave, ‘Send the his family to Florida and work with VBP. of the tremendous mission work that light! Send the light’ . .”, we plan to do In the next issue of this Newsletter I will Brother Wilson and his son Terrence are just that, but we desperately need some give a report on the response to this plea, and doing among their own people, the Calvin more financial help. hopefully it will be very, very positive. name is well-known among the Navajos. For the past twenty-two-years I have I have preached in one of their been with VBP, each time a financial Thank you for being our friends. churches on the reservation at Klagetoh, crisis has occurred, the Lord came Bro. Jim Fellure Arizona, and have seen some of the work through and met the need right on time, there first-hand. Brother Wilson is now every time. I have also noticed that He SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2012 VICTORY BAPTIST PRESS - PAGE 3 this, you probably already have some leave of absence for nearly two weeks burden for the printed page, but if not, because of a surgery that I have needed please think about this. In the digital age for a long time. The doctor said it would be that we Americans now live in, the Bible is a very painful operation, and she was right. probably available in more formats than God was good through it all, though. My ever before, and often for free. We tend to wife made an excellent nurse, mostly think that anyone can download an app for leaving me alone. One night I was listening their Iphone and have the Word of God, to some soft music on my wife’s mp3 but please remember that there are billions player to get my mind off myself and onto of people who still do not have a Smart the Lord. As a wave of pain was coming phone or computer. The masses still need over me, I was praying for relief and the The Print TheShop Print to be reached with the printed page, song that came up next was at the end of a Al & Heidi Berg preferably in their own language. It is still CD from Crown College. It was an old the Gospel that is the power of God unto recording of Dr. Lee Roberson and Dr. Dear Friends and Supporters, salvation. Preachers can and should Clarence Sexton that someone at Crown preach it, but someone who has never College had found and put at the end of In our last letter we told you about a heard it before needs to be able to read it that CD. They sang just one verse of piece of new equipment coming in—an themselves so they can meditate on it and “Have Thine Own Way.” As I listened to image setter that makes high quality films digest it. Victory Baptist Press may never that, I prayed, “Lord, have your own way. If which will be used to make plates for all of be able to fulfill every request for Scripture, you want me to hurt, I will hurt for your the presses we have in the shop. It has but we can certainly do more with your glory.” I wish I could tell you that the pain arrived and has been installed in working help. Please help us to keep the presses subsided right away. It did not, but God’s order. Now the trick is to get the time to rolling. grace was sufficient, and I am pain free learn all that it can do, or at least what we Our next project is another truckload now and 90% recovered.