Notes from Missionaries and National Pastors

Dear Brother Dan,
Greetings in the most precious name of Our Lord Jesus Christ,
I am sorry my brother I am writing you after a long time actually we were very busy in our village out reach program that I could not found time to come online. Thanks God today I am here to write you about an awesome Bible Conference that we are going to arrange in _________ on 15th of November. We plan to invite people from 7 different cities of Pakistan in this Bible Conference. We hope and pray that this Conference will bless our all participants. As you remember you send me one of your awesome Bible studies "COME AND SEE" an introduction to Christian Discipleship. Your Bible study blesses every one whoever we share in our all target areas. We wish if you can send us your another Bible study for our Bible Conference. We desire to translate your study in our Local language and share to our all participants and hand over them one copy Free. Please if you are agreed please contact us as soon as possible so that we can start work on it. May God bless you abundantly and your work!
Hope to hear from you soon..
Yours Brother, 
Pakistan

Hello Bro. Dan,
Thanks for the email and I gave our Advisory Council a copy of your course and they all liked it. Great! Now a question for you, we are starting a work in Paraguay to train nationals to be pastors and missionaries. I understand that you have already given us permission to use your material and we thank you. I will keep you posted as to what we are going to do.  This is all new to us and an undertaking I am very unfamiliar with, but I think God will honor it and I have a man that will be assisting me directly in over seeing the teaching and making sure all is done correctly. Brother, all I want is to get some men trained and doing something for God that will last.
We will do nothing until we are all on the same page scripturally, legally and cooperatively.
May the Lord bless and thanks again for your help and considertation.

Dear Bro.Dan,
Thank you so very much for BIBLE material that you sent to me. It was so nice and a blessing to me as I read, I thank God for you as you know that we have a Bible school in the slums, but we don't have the material. I am requesting you Please if you have some lessons for me to study more so that I can gain more knowledge in theology please send them to me and to some other pastors that we teach bible school with. because you have an institute you will consider my request please. God bless you looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you in advance as I pray for you.

DEAR PASTOR
I am happy to congratulate for the encouraging material i received from you through brother Peter Morris known as COME AND SEE. It has proved to be a great blessing in my spritual life. Iam therefore requesting that you send me more materials to teach my church on fundamental Truths. (Kenya)

Bro. Botterbrodt,
Thank you for making your discipleship program available to us. I am
about to take a church with new converts and this will be a help as I
cover the basics with them. Thank you for your efforts and again making
it available for us.

Dearest Bro. Dan,
Greetings!
I am glad to have received your message and for informing me about your tremendous ministry in your country. I am also a pastor of an independent Baptist Church, Grace Missionary Baptist Church in Iloilo City, Philippines. I lead a small Bible School and I long how I upgrade our curriculum. I am interested in your program, and I would like to ask how it works in our country. I hope that God, somehow, would open a door for you to extend your ministry in our country, in Philippines. If you want to sponsor a work, especially Bible College, it would be great.
The harvest truly in the Philippines is great, but laborers are few.
May your church will take interest for Philippine mission.
May God continue to bless you and your ministry.
In His Vineyard,

Hello Pastor...The Lord has allowed me to start 2 churches and 1 Christian school.  Both are pastored by national pastors now.  I am in a new town called Baguio City.  I plan to start a Bible Institute here.  I received your emails about your Bible institute materials, I am very interested.  I plan to start our Bible institute here soon, I just need Independent Baptist KJV materials to draw from.  Keep me informed about what you have available, I am interested....Philippines

Pastor Dan,
I looked at your info and am very interested. Please let me know what you have available for use here in the Philippines. I am starting my Bible Institute in a year and your recourses may be something I can use...

Praise be to the lord our GOD.  I received your mail and meteriel you send. Thank you so much for your care and concern. They are very usefull to me and my church. I welcome you to send any other resources if you had.  S. India

Dear Pastor Botterbrodt,
Greetings in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour.
I trust that this e-mail finds you doing well.
I want to thank you for e-mailing me a copy of the Bible Study Course - "Come and See" for our evaluation. I must apologize first for taking so long to evaluate it. I have taken the time to go through the material and I see a number of possible ways for us to use this study. The primary way that I see it being most effective at this point would be using it to help train our pastors and church leaders in India and the Philippines.
You indicated to me that Pastor Bane had asked you to teach this at Grace on a few occasions. I am interested in knowing what type of setting did you teach this course in? Was it on the Institute level, Sunday School, or one on one? I can see how it could be done in all three of these settings.
As we continue to develop our program of training nationals, I see us incorporating this Bible Study Course into our plans - provided we have your continued permission to do so.
Please keep me posted as to the continued development of Teaching All Nations as well as the Lord's leading as far as future ministry goes so that I may better pray for you. Please remember that you all are in my prayers on a daily basis.
My family sends their greetings to you and your family.

Thank you for the pdf files. Can we translate it into German language?

By the way, one of my young people here in our church got interested on your good courses. She's also a fresh graduate in Christian Education in a Seminary in Cebu. And she's requesting me to ask from your good office also, if you can, and as God supplies, to have free copies of your articles that she can used in her further study on God's Word. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much. Am looking forward for our favourable response regarding this matter. Thank you once again...
Am so much interested to know more about your good ministry.

Bro. Bodderbrodt,
Greetings from Tanzania! Thank you so much for the email about the Local Church Bible Institute Ministry. We have already downloaded the info from your website in order to study it more and put it to use here. Thanks also for the discipleship course "COME & SEE". We have printed it out and would like to work on translating it into Swahili - with your permission, of course.
We do have a Bible Institute here in Tabora, but feel the need to develope it further. Thank you for this wonderful help! We really appreciate the LOCAL CHURCH emphasis in your ministry. We will definitely forward the email to missionary friends. Be assured of our prayers for you and the work God has called you to. God bless you!
Yours for Africa,

Thank you so much for your prayers for us. We certainly need God’s people behind us in prayer. I also appreciate your institute ministry, and look forward to looking at it more in the days ahead.

Thank you for this special blessing, I know the Lord will bless you for your concern for souls and the grounding of those who have received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

Brother Botterbrodt, I recently checked out your website and the Bible course you had prepared. Looks great so far, our prayers are with you and your efforts to help others!

Thanks. We arrived back in Peru at the end of last month. We are staying very busy getting ready for our 3rd church anniversary and getting ready to start our building project among several other things. I kept the file you sent me in my "In" box so I will remember when I have time to translate it. The building that we will begin around Sept. will house the church, a Christian school and Bible Institute. I want to have good materials to train the nationals.
Thanks again. May God bless your efforts for Him,

Dear Bro. Botterbrodt,
I'm not sure how I got on your list, but thank you for sending me the first
course. I've been in Thailand for 4 1/2 years now and we are just beginning
to get some Institute curriculum translated into Thai. Can we have
permission to translate the material we need into the Thai language?
We are currently translating material from Bible Baptist Church in Oak
Harbor, WA and also Lehigh Valley Baptist in Emmaus, PA. We are always
looking for more resources. I would appreciate it if you would email us
more courses as they become available.
May the Lord richly bless you.

Wow this is great material we just started a new church in Hopedale IL Blessed Hope Baptist Church thank for sending this.
I will use it for ss material.

Thank you preacher for sendining this to us this is a big blessing for us and to our congregation here in the Philippines
May the Lord Continue to bless you and the Lord's Ministry!!!!

Brother Botterbrodt,
I took a look at your web site and your statement of faith and I like what I see. I appreciate your stand on the KJV and on Biblical separation. I will be watching as material is added to the site.
I teach part-time at a small Bible Institute that is run by another church. This is in addition to our regular missions work as church planters in New Zealand. I am always looking for good material to use in my classes, so I will be anxious to see what is uploaded onto your site. We have been here since 1988 and we have seen through the years how vital that it is to have Bible Institutes to train the people here.
Thank you again for your ministry and service for our Lord.

Dear Brother Dan,Thank you very much for sending me this copy of lesson, very timely because it is one of our subject in our sunday school and it will be very helpful for us. Rest assured i will forward this to all my contact missionaries and pastors.. God bless and more power to this kind of ministry of yours.

Dear Servante of God:
Thank you very much for your first biblical course that you sent me, I already sent it to another missionaries I know.
May The Lord Bless you.

Just wanted to say thank you Brother for the teaching helps. Please keep them coming. God bless

Thank you for the first course attachment, I have printed it out for our use in the Bible College in Benin City, Nigeria.

Dear Dr. Botterbrodt,
We are starting a Bible institute & would like to receive material... Thank you for your ministry & the tremendous blessing you all have been to so many people throughout the world. May the good LORD continue to greatly bless you in His service. 
Metro Vancouver, Canada

Dear Bro. Botterbrodt,
This in reference to the information received from you regarding the
Bible institute ministry you are developing. We have a Bible College
(full time curriculum with up to 20 course hours a week) with 32
students. We also have a Bible Institute (part-time evening courses
three times a week) with more than 80 students. We are also assisting
a church two hours from ours to start their own Bible Institute. They
have 20 students for their first semester. In all we are training more
than 130 students. We are developing our own curriculum, but would
appreciate any assistance we can get to develop the best curriculum
and obtain printed material in Spanish. Do we fit the profile of
churches you would like to assist? Please let me know.
In Christ, 

Dear Dan,
Greetings in Jesus’ Wonderful Name! 
I was interested in what you had to say about training the nationals. Here at Bible Open Air Mission, which I have the privilege of directing, we have been emphasizing that in all of our overseas work now for a number of years. Of course there are dangers in training the nationals, and there are the unknowns, as well as cultural language barriers. But having said that, the nationals know their own language and culture very well. They can live on a fraction of what an American missionary can live on. We have been convinced for years that nationals who love the Lord, and have been called and properly trained, can reach their own people more effectively than anyone else. This has certainly been working for us in India and in the Philippines and now in Myanmar. I believe it is going to be the same in many other countries where we hope to see the work of BOAM established. (www.bibleopenairmission.org)

Dear Bro. Dan Botterbrodt,
Peace in the name of Christ our Savior,
We are missionaries ministering in San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan, Philippines. We are happy to know about your ministry and your burden in training nationals. In the near future our church will start out its own Bible Institute to develop our men however few they are, for we do see the need now. We look forward to a partnership in the Lord's work for the furtherance of the Gospel in our area. God bless you and your ministry! 
 
Dear Bro. Dan Botterbrodt,
Surely your Bible Institute ministry will be a blessing to lots of Christian workers around the globe.. I am very much interested and will watch out for the courses/lessons you will post in the website.. i pray for more blessings to come to BEAMS and your family!
In Christ, 
(Philippines) 

Bro. Botterbrodt,
That is exciting!!! I'm excited about seeing this new ministry develop! We
have been working also to have materials for these such things. I don't have
much, but have been looking. To help save yourself some costs, would you
please consider making some of these materials available online for our
printing and usage? I have been looking for good materials in Spanish right
down this line, and have yet to come across things to use. We are able to
get many things printed here in Peru, and I have learned to assemble books
and booklets, just lacking materials. I will keep checking back at the web
site for materials. Thank you for the tremendous help you are to
missionaries. God Bless! 

Thanks for this wonderful ministry. Do you have any Bible Institute material in French? We are plannig on starting our Bible Institute this fall and it would be very helpful to have some different materials. 

Hello Bro. Dan Botterbrodt,
I haven’t ever written or talked with you as far as I know but I must say as a missionary in Ghana West Africa a BIG AMEN on your new change. This is the step many missionaries and churches leave out of missions. To train nationals to teach their own people I believe is more effective. Although church planting and establishing the new church takes time, we as missionaries need to remember we are on a mission of planting and establishing not pastoring what a national can do much better at with and for his own people. We are to help not hurt which may seem as a help to others even the national. We must train them to be dependent on God “ LIVE BY FAITH”, not on us. We need to preach Christ not us. This step is Truly a part of the Great Commission and God’s Command of teaching others. Thank you! It was encouraging to see hear see that Truth in God’s Word.