From: heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:55:32 +0000 Subject: News from HaY'Did and Associate Ministries
From: "HaY'Did" <shalom@haydid.org> Reply-to: shalom@haydid.org Organization: HaY'Did Learning Center To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com Subject: Letter from Dr. Brad Young November 18, l997 Dear Cheryle and Tom, GOD IS GOOD! I have so much to be thankful for by God's goodness to me. I am thankful and grateful for each one of you...your love, prayers and support that you have so generously planted into Gospel Research Foundation. With Thanksgiving upon us, I want to encourage you during this season, to reflect on the goodness of God in your own lives. A wonderful Thanksgiving Psalm is found in I Chronicles 16:8-36. The Lord has brought me to this scripture over and over with a rich blessing added to my life: a clearer understanding of who He is and how He sees me. "Recount His wonders regarding you this past year, remember His wonderful deeds! Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad! O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good: For His lovingkindness is everlasting." I rejoice in the opportunity, that on May 24, 1998, I once again get to lead a spiritual pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate Pentecost as it was celebrated in Bible days. I wish you would join me on my bus. This is more than an archaeological historical survey of the land, it is a spiritual encounter as we participate in an international transdenominational event. Pray for me and all who participate. Prayer continues to be an urgent need in the development of Gospel Research Foundation. Please continue your prayer support for teh work that must be done. Without your prayer support, I will have a difficult time overcoming the spiritual forces opposing this work. Remember, I love to pray for you and your needs. I go to the Jess Little Prayer Garden, here at the ranch, to pray for the needs you share with me. Keep me informed of your concerns. I am thankful that the sequel to Jesus the Jewish Theologian, which is titled Paul the Jewish Theologian: A Pharisee Among Christians, Jews and Gentiles, is due to be available about the first week of December. Some of you have prepad orders for $15 which includes postage. If you would like to order a copy, or have already ordered one but would like to autograph your copy, then please let me know. I am very excited about the publication of this book. I hope you will be, too. Let us hope we gain a fresh perspective on Paul. Please consider the Israel trip in May. There will never be a better time for you to experinece Israel. The Feast of Pentecost Tour will make the Bible come alilve. "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting." May our Lord richly bless you in every way. Shalom for your help and sharing our vision with so many. Brad Young, Ph. D. Gospel Research Foundation PO Box 703101 Tulsa OK 74170 PS: For more information or questions about the Gospel Research Foundation, please write directly to Brad. If you would like a copy of the Paul book, please send $15 (includes postage)in check or money order to that address. HaY'Did also has a new supply of Jesus the Jewish Theologian available. If you would like a copy to give as a gift, then please let us know. $20/$22 + shipping. The set of two books should be on everyone's shelf, and certainly would make a wonderful gift for any pastor or Bible teacher. Shalom, Cheryle and Tom Holeman **************************************************************** From: "HaY'Did" <shalom@haydid.org> Reply-to: shalom@haydid.org Organization: HaY'Did Learning Center To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com Subject: News from HaY'Did and Associate Ministries Dear Mishpachah (family): As Missions Representative for the associate ministries Randy recently finished a trip to Juarez, Mexico with Tom Holeman, Rabbi O, Marshall and Suzanne Martz, and others. We pray that you enjoyed their reports that were sent out to the newsgroup last week. A side note to you all is that Andy, who was the site supervisor for the trip to Mexico, is using Eddie Chumney's THE SEVEN FESTIVALS OF THE MESSIAH to teach his Sunday School class from! You never know where it will show up, do you? We also wish to thank all the people that prayed for Rabbi O to have a car. Your prayers were answered and he is now the proud but humble owner of a family car in top running condition. His family was overjoyed and unbelieving all in one emotion! We have chuckled at them for a week now, and wanted to again thank you for your faithful prayers and faith for our God to supply this need. We also have added a few more questions to the Volunteer Questionaire on HaY'Did's website that are designed to get feedback from our volunteers on possibly going on some missions trip. Many of you have filled out the questionaire and we thank you. But if you would like to go on a short term trip or even a long term trip, please let Randy Felton know at Potter's Clay (pottersclay@mail.icnet.net) by writing to him now. Some people have talents and gifts that they would like to share. A dentist contacted us that he would like to go and provide dental care the next time. Another friend contacted us that they had been on tours to Israel before, and wanted to give service in Israel to the people there through helping Bridges for Peace with remodeling of homes or working in their food pantry. Again and again we see people feeling the need to give service to people, and we pray that we can network together to help all. Part of our calling is to build a network within the structure of the contacts that are made either directly or indirectly through the newsgroup. We ask for prayer to purchase the much needed ACCESS program to put the information into a data base so we can start using more of the volunteers that have filled out our form. We also ask for prayer for someone---other than Cheryle---to locally take on the project. If you haven't filled out the Volunteer Questionaire, please go to our website and do so now. If you have already received a free issue of our magazine, could you also pray about becoming a member of the Learning Center? If you have not received a free issue of our magazine, then we have sample articles posted on our website for you to copy off, and read over. And if you would like a free issue---and have not received one---remember that they are free but cost us approximately $2 each to send out---thanks to our members and donors---then please feel free to fill out our guestbook to receive one issue. Over and over we hear people who aren't even on the internet who have friends that save the study materials on disc and give them to people at work, or friends who stop by. My own husband shares with five people at work, and they love it. So, if each person only touches one other life, then the newsgroup would be touching over 3000 families approximately! WOW! On our website this week we will be adding a revised catalog, and information about Hanukkah, as well as a new link to all the popular photo albums. A photo album of the Mexico trip will also be going up. So, there is lots to see on our site. Check it out next weekend, okay? We have revised extensively our site and added LOTS of new materials. So bring your three ring binders and fill them up! We've archived many of our past magazine articles, too, so you can see what kind of quality teaching is presented in this magazine. May I ask those of you who haven't become a member to consider membership in the Learning Center at this time? We ask $15 a year per family for a membership fee. If you visit our site you will see that we have MORE FREE information than any other site out there. We are a volunteer network...totally volunteer. No salaries, no buildings or upkeep, and so forth. We only ask that you pray about becoming a member and IF HE directs then join. Its that simple. Over 1500 FREE magazines have been sent out only through the efforts of the members' prayers. Of that only 200 have joined. We often call it "Gideon's Army". But we ask you to pray about belonging, and helping us get the message out. We are offically a 509a1 non-profit ...that means we are a publically supported organization that is now offically recognized by the IRS for tax purposes. Most people that are familiar with us, know that our heart is to serve and teach. We offer books and teaching materials on our site that help support us financially, too. Someone asked, "But do you accept donations of money and computers and stuff?" YES, we do. But the first donation that we need are your prayers. Remember that our magazine is designed for duplication on any Xerox copier. One lady says that she gets hers, and takes the two staples out and makes copies for her Sunday School Class of 25 people, and she knew that one man in the class made at least 25 copies of his after that! Remember the GearWorks Prophesy and Pastor Nayra's confirmation teaching that went out a few weeks ago (also may be seen on our site)? Well, Nayra now has her own English site on our homepage where we will be posting her teachings as often as we can. Nayra writes a "MOrning Dew" article each day that is posted on the internet in Brazil. Then as she has time she sends them to me in English, I edit them, and post them. She now has a photo album page, too, from her trip to Basillia last month. Her comments are a riot! And you will enjoy them. Other things are in the works around here for more and more additions to our website. We pray that it will truly be a blessing to you, and that you will stay in touch with us. I can't tell you how much the email and phone calls of encouragement mean to Tom and I here. Thanks for thinking of us. Now I want to share a very important report that is posted on our website by Randy Felton, our Missions Representative. Thank you for all your kindness and prayers. They are greatly appreciated! Cheryle Holeman HaY'Did Learning Center PO Box 804 Independence, KS 67301 http://www.haydid.org 1-316-331-7712 (credit card orders) shalom@haydid.org *************************************************************** Randy Felton's African Report September 1997 Progress of the Timothy Program http://www.haydid.org/potter.htm (Photo Album Link is now on site! Please remember that Photos take extra time to load, so please be patient.) Dear Mishpachah (family): I work with a group of men who feel called to provide correct teaching for third world pastors. We call the teaching the Timothy Program. In it are Torah studies developed by Dr. Clifford Denton and a whole series of curriculum by Dr. Karl Coke. Dr. John Garr and Dr. Doug Wheeler are writing curriculum and are an integral part as well. I will try to give you a summary of the trip and the consequences. I traveled to England where I met up with Dr. Clifford Denton and we then traveled to Nairobi, Kenya. There we met with Dr. Karl Coke and met with a group of pastors meeting at the Church of the Nazarene under a Bible School taught by Bill Bisset. Dr. Coke had taught there for a week before Dr. Denton and I arrived. We had only two sessions on the day we were there but were well received. That evening we were joined by Dr. Coke's wife, Karen, who had gone to the north with a team led by J.L.Williams to visit some of the more remote villages. The next day we set off for Malawi by air. Upon arrival in Lilongwe, Malawi we were met by Ross Collier with the Baptist Bible School. Ross was a contact I had been given through friends here in Oklahoma City. Ross was invaluable in arranging for our lodging and car rental. We were able to stay in guest houses and save the cost of hotel accommodations. Malawi is one of the poorest countries on earth with no natural resources and yet the hotel and car rental rates are the highest of anywhere I have been. The hotels which would relate to a Holiday Inn begin at $198.00/night with double occupancy. The rates for car rental are similar. We rented a Nissan Patrol from a shop that does wreck rebuilding and they also rent cars on the side. So we picked up our 4-wheel drive and headed off for Blantyre some 240 miles to the south. The highway is a two lane black-top road which is not maintained by Western standards....lots of pot holes. We did make our journey safely and then proceeded to the village of Samuti in the middle of the Mphezu Tea Estate which is down Thyolo Road, through Bvumbwe Village and then out into the "bush". Often we drove down foot paths which were pretty rough. We needed the ground clearance of the 4-wheel drive. There are a couple of places where we were jostled pretty good. I swear it was not my driving! Upon arrival at the village we discovered that they were not expecting us until the next week. The letter I had written them a month before had not been received yet. The Pastor, Joe Mukiwa, had gone to do his math exams and left two weeks prior to our arrival and so the letter was in his post office box waiting for him to return. We found Joe's brother Eric, who is seventeen, and he offered to take us to Joe at his school in another village. After dropping Dr. & Mrs. Coke off at the Baptist Guest House in Blantyre we set off to find Joe. While driving through the bush I simply asked Eric "Who is Jesus?" Eric thought for a second and began to answer; "He is my Savior.....He is the Son of God..................He is the living Torah!" You could have knocked me over with a feather. All of a sudden it became clear. Pastor Joe had not only received the teaching material he had been sent and done the assignments for Dr. Denton to examine, but he was already teaching what he had learned to his congregation. This seventeen year old boy had gotten the essence of the teaching and was able to respond without prompting. We did find Joe and had a good meeting with him and then we went to the village the day after to hold services and talk to his elders and other church leaders from surrounding villages. We were able to give them an accordion and tambourine that had been donated for them. They did enjoy their song service with the added music. After sharing our hearts we left and went back to town. The next day we picked up pastor Joe and two of his church leaders and set off for the Chikwawa district to a village in the south. We had to drive over the mountains, through heavy fog and down through the valley across the Shire River and past sugar cane plantations. Finally we arrived at the village and it was stark. The last visit we sat under a brush arbor next to a large tree and had services. Now there is no brush arbor...washed away in the fall floods. The village has been hit hard by the floods of the Shire River overflowing it's banks. Since they are not a part of a large denomination, they do not have the aid of others around them. They depend on the UN relief which is not always adequate. Yet, they have retained their joy and we were well received. I had purchased some maize(corn), rice,beans and salt and had pastor Joe give it to the pastor of the village church. When we presented the Timothy Program to them we then asked them if it is something they would want. Through our interpreter, the pastor very kindly refused saying that he did not read English and it would be of no use to him. It was then explained that we would have it translated into their local dialect and then with a very large smile he gratefully accepted. We often forget that not everything we would offer is useful or wanted. I think we learned a valuable lesson and were grateful that we were preparred for their needs. >From Malawi we flew to Harare, Zimbabwe. Dr. Coke had a series of meetings at a local Pentecostal Church for the week. Dr. Denton and I went to stay at Shiloh Shalom, a farm owned by Denis and Joan Cooper in the Highlands district of Harare. This gave us time to visit with Rod & Penny Valentine (Penny is the daughter of Denis and Joan) who are the African representatives for Christian Friends of Israel. Rod kindly offered his office and services to help with the printing and distribution of teaching materials throughout Africa. This means we can send masters over and not have to ship the printed materials to each country from here. What a blessing and savings to the ministry. We were also able to meet with a young man we had met earlier in 1996 named Farayi (fa-rye). Farayi is doing Torah studies with Dr. Denton and is preparing to teach local pastors and lead them in the Timothy Program. Farayi is a key man in Zimbabwe for this work. Next was a stop in Johannesburg,South Africa for Dr. Denton and me. We met Joan Hooper who had arranged a Bed & Breakfast for our stay. Michael Page flew up from Cape Town and we had a full day of meeting with him. Michael is leading a home study group and is already teaching Hebrew. Michael will take on the Timothy Program for South Africa. He has a like heart and mind. We are anticipating great things to come out of South Africa. This ended our tour in Africa. We feel the meetings and contacts were solid and the work will go as we feel the Lord has directed. All of us involved in the Timothy Program are convinced that we have key people in place to do what the Lord has led us to do. God has gone ahead of us and preparred the way before us. Things did not go as we had planned but they certainly went the way God had planned them. Randy Felton Potter's Clay Ministry pottersclay@mail.icnet.net Oklahoma City, OK http://www.haydid.org/potter.htm 1-405-528-7205 *********************************************************************** From: "HaY'Did" <shalom@haydid.org> Reply-to: shalom@haydid.org Organization: HaY'Did Learning Center To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com Subject: Report from HaY'Did Learning Center Dear Mishpachah (family), God is good, isn't HE? Lately we have seen so many wonderful things happening. I'd like to share some with you. Kansas has just published their new Foundations Directory and also put it on line. If you want to play around with it go to http://www.ink.org and push the link to "libraries". This is on Kansas State's homepage. Maybe your state has one? You can also buy a copy of the Directory for $65 if you choose. The man who wrote it works for Topeka Public Library. I know him and he is very thorough in his work. If you have never written a grant but are interested in them, then you should know that most grants are given within a certain geographical area. In other words, if you don't live in Kansas then you probably wouldn't get one from one of our foundations. But each state or geographical area have these directories available either online or at a location within your state. The Foundation Center has cooperating collections at libraries throughout the USA for over 40,000 foundations. There are over 200 such collections throughout the country. The Foundation Center is also "online" at http://www.fdncenter.org and has several helpful courses that you may print out and study right on their site. Suggested Resources: The Council on Foundations http://www.cof.org Grantsmanship Center http://www.tgci.com/sampmenu.htm Chronicle of Philanthropy subscriptions@philanthropy.com If you are interested in joining a network of non-profits in your area, you can call your State Offices or Public Library to see if there is a version of THE KANSAS NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATION. This is open to any and all non-profits including churches, ministries and anyone who is a non-profit. You can find support from the lawyers, accountants, members and resources that work with such an organization. It is very reasonably priced and once a month you will have a chance to meet other non-profits that may have information that you are looking for. A survey may be sent out to all of the KNPA members about such things as interest in health insurance as a group, insurance for our offices, legislative matters, software for non-profits, fund raising technics, public relations seminars, and effective volunteerism. If you are interested in any of these things, then I would strongly recommend that you pursue this invaluable support system. I have been involved in non-profits since 1981 and I can assure you that there is knowledge here that is not being used effectively by the majority of ministries. When I went to our recent KNPA meeting Wednesday I got to meet the President of the Board of KNPA for the first time. I send our magazine to the office as a courtesy copy to be put in our file incase any one wants to see what we do. I was pleasantly surprised when the president told me that he was enjoying reading the magazine. He said that he didn't understand everything that we had written but that he always looked forward to each issue. He was glad to see that we were online, also as we are the ONLY non-profit that is in KNPA that is! He also shared with me that because he had read our magazine he had some ideas on helping us. Would I mind calling his office next week to visit? He mentioned grants specifically which is his area of expertise and agreed to look over any grant proposals we might write in the future, and he also said that he may have some ideas on specific givers, too. Needless to say, I almost shouted for joy right there on the spot---okay, I did! Here was one of our magazine opening doors that may benefit the work that is going forth. Afterwards several came up to me and asked me if they could come to my office and visit about getting on the web and finding out how to do a website. They also asked for copies of our magazine which I always carry in the trunk of my car. Needless to say, doors ARE opening, and we thank you for your prayers. Many of you either head or belong to a non-profit that may need this information. If you are a head of one of these organizations then I would encourage you to go as a guest to one of their meetings. Test the waters and see if there might be some information there that you use. I do NOT evangelize at these meetings. I simply state that I represent HaY'Did Ministries of Independence, KS and then listen to what people are saying. Do you know that I was the ONLY ministry that was in attendance? Why? Because other churches and ministries don't attend! They do not realize what a valuable asset this information can be! Many ministries are not associated with a denomination and therefore do not have health insurance or other things. Through the non-profit organization there may be a large group that you can join! In Kansas we just formed this KNPA organization within the last year, so we only have 100 member organizations of the 3000 non-profits that are in existence in the state. It is QUITE A LARGE insurance group, and believe me when the premimum is offered, it will be quite attractive to the members. The more members---the better the price...I know...I use to sell Prudential Insurance years ago, and health insurance is needed by most non-profits. At HaY'Did we are busy revising and adding to our website. We invite you to bring your notebook and study with us at the Learning Center, and if you haven't ordered your free issue of our magazine, please drop us your mailing address, okay? Of course, we welcome your notes of encouragement and support. Shalom, and may the God of Israel smile on you and bless you! Cheryle and Tom Holeman HaY'Did Learning Center PO Box 804 Independence, KS 67301 1-316-331-7712 (credit card orders) http://www.haydid.org ********************************************************************** From: "HaY'Did" <shalom@haydid.org> Reply-to: shalom@haydid.org Organization: HaY'Did Learning Center To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com Subject: Gearworks/Joan Womack] Dear Mishpahah, Here is a report from Joan Womack in Oklahoma City from the Prayer Gathering. Tom and I went to OKC on Monday and met Joan and a good friend as the Prayer Gathering began. We have kept in touch all week, and we have been blessed by others in the newsgroup also setting aside this special time to pray around the world. You may now contact Joan directly through a friend at trader1@earthlink.net if you have a prayer request. We do ask that you copy the newsgroup or HaY'Did at http://www.haydid.org so that we can also pray in agreement. Let's use Joan as the main coordinator for the prayer requests whenever possible. Her Concert of Prayer group in OKC will also join in prayer at the same time. At Gearworks website at http://www.haydid.org/gearworks.htm we will also post an automatic email link so you can get in touch through there. Any other website that would like to link to Gear Works is also welcomed to do that. I will also post a short cut in our new main directory that will say simply: "Prayer Requests" in case any one gets to our site and forgets the extension for Gear Works. Others may also want to do the same. Shalom, Cheryle and Tom Holeman HaY'Did Learning Center PO BOX 804 Independence, KS 67301 shalom@haydid.org ***********************************************************************