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Dear Friend,

"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Isaiah 41:10

As a loving Father, who takes care of his children, He is always there to guide, point in the right direction, encourage, and most of all love. We praise the Lord for all His blessings poured out on Bible Teaching Ministries and we thank Him, our Lord and Savior, for what He did on the Cross.

We are rejoicing in the arrival of the book Beyond Believing by Paris Reidhead. This has been out print since 1976. Bible Teaching Ministries printed 2000 copies of this wonderful, insightful book and it is now available online, through our website or by writing to us.

Our excitement continues with the news that Rick found a job working with Sears.
After being laid-off and seeking a job for a year and two months, God opened a door to work at Sears as an Appliance Repair Technician. They called during the second big snow storm in February here; he was shoveling about three feet of snow from his drive at the time. God not only provided a job, He also provided transportation through a company van, tools and uniforms. Further proof that God's hand was in all this came from the man responsible for mentoring Rick who turned out to be a well grounded man of God; Many of the other technicians are Christians as well.

We receive many letters from around the world.

Rebekah writes from South Carolina: Well, I am speechless... Thank you so much!!! I do have a story to tell about how I came across "Ten Shekels and a Shirt." I want to share it with you soon. Thank you again for your very generous and kind consideration.

Pastor David, from Pennsylvania writes: I am a pastor of a very small conservative Wesleyan Methodist Church in Pennsylvania. As a young Christian back in the early 1990's, the Lord used Brother Reidhead's Ten Shekels message to really establish me in the "true Gospel." Praise God! I rejoiced to find this web page. Please send me 5 copies of "Finding the Reality of God" and 2 copies of "Evidences of Eternal Life." I will put them in needy hands.

Our Lord is worthy of praise as this letter illustrates:

Bob writes from Richmond, Virginia: About 20 years ago I heard Paris Reidhead in a Christian & Missionary Alliance Church in Richmond. He quotes Isaiah 55:11,

"So shall my words be that goeth forth out
Of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I send it !"

To God be the GLORY ! ! ! and may our Blessed Lord – mightily bless you and all those you love and all your efforts for HIS GLORY ! ! !

The Lord provides abundantly to this ministry, through our website master, wonderful letters, and generous contributors. Recently, we had to purchase a new tape deck to continue digitizing the old taped sermons into a more up to date format. This enables Rick to make CDs of the messages, for eventual distribution. The tally so far is 148 Paris Reidhead sermons and 3 other speakers from the old tapes have been converted to digital format. Those sermons were sent to a young man named, Jason, who is cleaning the raw files and he will forward those to Greg at Sermon Index, to be put out on the Internet.

"Ten Shekels and a Shirt" has been translated into six languages, and additional languages are planned. These translations are available on our Website. And Paris Reidhead's personal testimony That I May Know Him, written in 1953, was recently put on the Website, and available for download.

The CD duplicator is having a problem when coping from CD to CD. When we make copies from the hard drive of the duplicator to CD there are no problems. Keep us in prayer about these goals - to purchase a new CD duplicator especially with new sermons being added to BTMI titles and to update our computers (the optical drives on one have failed already) here at BTMI.

If you have noticed a new look about our prayer letter, our printer, Schaffner Printing, Inc., went out of business this spring. We would ask for prayers for Eddie, who is a believer and is relying on the Lord for income now. We believe it is time as well to begin E-mailing the prayer letter to those of you who would be interesting in receiving it this way. Our E-mail address is btmiwebpage@dmv.com.

We have been encouraged by the different groups that our tithe goes to each month. Our list of groups continues to grow with the addition of:

1. Youth for Christ in Missoula, who have a heart for Native Americans

2. Invisible People, one man's quest to give a voice to the homeless here in America
   

3. We have continued to give to Grace Ministries, a Thailand mission for at risk for sexual exploitation to girls and boys in that country
   

4. The Whole Truth Ministry, our website master's ministry whose heart burden is that those who profess to be Christians would see that the Church was never meant to be a social organization, but rather truly the Body of Christ.
   

5. Mission Aviation Fellowship who continues their Haiti's earthquake relief efforts
   

6. Songs of Joy, a ministry caring for the abandoned, neglected and abused children in Guatemala.

In closing, as a word of encouragement,

"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint." (Isaiah 40:31)

Yours in His service,

Marjorie N. Reidhead

Dear Friend,

"How great is your goodness which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you. Psalm 31:19 (NIV)

We ask that you rejoice with us in the blessing of God in Bible Teaching Ministries (BTMI). After receiving a generous donation, we sought God's will in reprinting a companion book to Beyond Petition, titled Beyond Believing. Both of these bookletts were at one time published by Bethany Fellowship, Minneapolis. Our leading was to reprint it.Within a couple of days we saw confirmation of our decision by receiving an additional generous gift enabling us to proceed.

Reprinting the booklet Beyond Believing, gives the ministry a companion to the audio series, the Cost of Discipleship (02-0040). This brings to four, the book/audio series sets we have available for distribution, many of which have and are being used as teaching tools around the world by ministries and believers. The other companion sets are Beyond Petition with, Develop Your Potiential In Christ series (02-0060); Finding the Reality of God, with So Great Salvation I series (05-0010); Evidence of Eternal life, with So Great Salvation 11 series (05-0020). We also have Ten Shekels and a Shirt (01-0011) available in both booklet and audio.

In early July of this year, our PCs were infected by a virus and it was necessary to reload the operating system from a previous back-up of the software. Because of this our mailing list is not as up to date as it was prior to this date occurance. Therefore we aplogize if you are receiving this and have requested to be removed from our mail­ings, please feel free to inform us again.

As usual in our fall prayer letter we report the materials sent during the calendar year and the recipients of our tithe.

"The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed; those who help others are helped."Proverbs 11:25 (The Message)

We have seen this verse active in BTMI as we have sought fellow workers in Christ to whom we may give back to God by helping them through our tithe. The following were recipicents these past months:

Frontier Missions who provide medical help to the needy in remote places around the globe as well as here in the United States. Mercy Ships does much of the same except they have a hospital ship with volunteer doctors and medical personnel who go to various ports around the world. Grace Ministries in Thailand reaches out to children who have been kidnapped or sold into slavery, to give them a way of escape and shelter from the exploitation as child prostitutes.

In Guatemala Carla Rose and her husband, started an orpanage there after seeing the need of children while vis­iting during a vacation to the area. After returning home, they sold all they had, moved, and were called by God to serve many homeless orphans there.

Pastor Eric Reed and his wife after serving on the Rocky Boy Indian reservation in Montana, were led to help the people in Ghana, working with them on their infrastructure, digging wells and improving their living conditions.

And a tithe was sent to Mel Baars, who is working with HIV/AIDS victims and their families in South Africa. She also helps families meet their daily needs, as well as education for their children, so they can break the poverty cycle.

From the many people who have requested our materials we receive feedback telling of how God has used BTMI to touch their lives and walk with Him.

Graham from Living Stones Christian Center in Scotland wrote us saying "Just received the package-wow! What an absolutely wonderful collection of books, cds etc. What a feast of teaching from Paris and also other well known ministries. I am so grateful."

From Rose in Michigan, "I would like to let you know that your postings of the five sermons by Pastor Paris Reidhead for free download are a tremendous blessing. I have been greatly moved by God the Holy Spirit in seek­ing the LORD for changes in my life in many areas after reading the following five sermons."

Mike in North Carolina told us, "I would like to credit Paris Reidhead's sermon "Ten Shekels and a Shirt" for God revealing to me the breathtaking truth about the Glory of God, and my incredible short comings as a confused Christian so many years ago. Being brought up in the prevailing humanistic culture of the 80"s and 90's, this ser­mon was a major wake up call for me in a time of my life that I needed so badly. Thank you so much for continuing to make it available to the public. The importance of this sermon grows as the years go by."

And a last one, my name is Heath and I am one of the founders of Repent Nashville. The reason that I am writing is to inquire as to using a portion of Paris' message "Ten Shekels and A Shirt" for a short sermon jam that we would like to feature him on. We take the main points of the message and jam pack them into a short but powerful mes­sage and add the music so that it can be preached to a demographic that might not normally be open to hearing it."

In our continuing effort, Rick Collins has completed transferring 118 Audio Tapes to Digital format 16 of which are copies of sermons we already have in our catalog. We have decided to begin releasing these unheard sermons as soon as we can get them cleaned up and posted to the Internet. Brother Jason in North Caroline has offered his considerable time, talents, and equipment helping prepare these for release. We will make them available on the Internet initially while making CD copies available with cover art and at a later time with synopsis when they have been produced. A brother Kenn has offered to use his talent of writing to provide our synopsis for the new sermons and has been busy doing so with the originals that are currently on www.sermonindex.net. If you'd care to read some of his work look under the "Comments" link on several of the sermons posted there. Since mentioning these unheard sermons to some, we are increasingly being asked when they will be available thus showing people's hunger for the word.

"Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest."Matthew 9:38

We thank God that he has continued to send laborers to BTMI, helping us reach more people around the world in different countries and cultures speaking to them in their own tongue God's Word in Ten Shekels and a Shirt. Just this week we added French to the German, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish translations (with Dutch and Portuguese in the works) that Ten Shekels and and a Shirt is available in. We praise God for Pastor Dominique of Luxembourg, who translated and sent us the copy after listening to it. He told us, "it has deeply impressed all my being." He was so impressed that he began sharing it with his church and decided his "sheeps" should have a written copy as well. Not just a copy but a translation (that was the best he could do) "so that other people can use it." His copy will join the others posted on our website, www.bibleteachingministries.org as well being made avail­able through our mailings.

Mary from Michigan, has offered her time and talents, to transcribe into writing, the audio sermons in our catalog. This further helps our ministry make available the teachings of Paris Reidhead in multiple formats; written, audio and posted on the Internef for downloading in PDF.

I close with these powerful words from the Prophet Isaiah:

Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint- and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. "Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint " Isaiah 40:28-31
Thank you for your continued support and prayers.

Yours in His service,

Marjorie Reidhead

Dear Friend,

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. [KJV] Romans 8:38-39

This has been a year of challenges and victories for the Reidheads as a family and for Bible Teaching Ministries as an organization. Jim Reidhead received a successful bone marrow transplant in June, 2008, with his brother David as the donor. Julia Reidhead made a phenomenal recovery from an accident while in the ocean surf with potential paralysis from a broken neck. This occurred in July, 2008. Board member Brenda Stewart is battling a mild case of lymphoma. Wanda Collins is claiming victory over a pinched nerve and strained muscles in her back requiring bed rest for a time.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. [KJV] Romans 8:28

Rick Collins is still unemployed but the Lord has spoken to him leading him to spend as much time as possible here at BTMI. It seems God spoke three times to Rick before he finally heeded Him. The first time was shortly after becoming unemployed, God tried to tell Rick that if he would take care of God's work at BTMI, then God would take care of him and his family's needs, which he promptly ignored. The second was from his wife who told him since he had so much time on his hands, now would be a good time to work on all those audio tapes at BTMI that need remastering, which he also ignored. The third time was from an Elder, who is a good friend, not knowing of the other two times, told Rick that God told him to tell Rick to stop doing things his own way and get over to BTMI and do those tapes! Rick got the message and has been coming 6 days a week to do God's work His way! And God has provided for all his needs these past months.

We do indeed have a faithful God whose promises we may rely on! "But seekye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." [KJV] Matthew 6:33

The Phillips translation reads: "But Christ, because He lives forever, possesses a priesthood that needs no successor. This means He can save fully and completely those who approach God through Him, for He is always living to intercede on their behalf. " Hebrews 7:24 & 25

David Wilkerson, who Paris knew years ago in New York City, recently wrote in The World Challenge.

"Indeed, to face our trials in these trying days, there are several things we must be fully persuaded of about our Lord.

1.) We must be fully persuaded that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.

2.) We must be fully persuaded that God faithfully rewards those who diligently seek him.

Now, after more than sixty years of service to God, I want to tell you what proper faith has become to me:

• It means holding fast to God's promises when there is no physical evidence that His promises are being fulfilled.

• It means trusting the Holy Spirit to keep my soul at rest, convinced God is working out all things for my good.

• It means resting in this declaration from Paul: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. " [KJV] Romans 8:28

Honoring God's blessing to us, BTMI continues to give a monthly tithe. Thus far in 2009 some of the recipients have been Mission Aviation Fellowship, World Challenge Missions, Go International, Remote Area Medical Foundation, and the Whole Truth Ministries.

Are we blessed? Certainly. From South Africa, a woman writes: "My husband and I have been listening to Paris Reidhead's messages. It has been a great blessing and encouragement to us. I want to ask permission to translate these messages into our mother tongue Afrikaans. Dear brother Reidhead has been a good friend, as are A.W. Tozer and A. B. Simpson. Thank you for the MP3s I received!"

In a letter received June 1, 2009 from Nigeria, Brother Udema writes: "Since late in 2008 until now I have been very busy. I have been highly involved in expansion of the Bible schools to different regions and church planting movement. From June 1 to 14, 2009 we are having a revival crusade in Mbe-Ndoro fishing village. We plan to open a new church in the village after the crusade in order to nurture the souls that will be won."

And from Chinh Vu, a youth pastor in San Jose, California: "I was deeply impacted by Paris Reidhead's sermons and would like to use some of the written materials in my youth groups." We sent him ten copies of each available book.

Brother Sydney T. Ndayambi from Zimbabwe expressed, "I have had the opportunity of listening to `Fear of God' and have acquired a lot of insight on the importance of the fear of the Lord. Words cannot express my gratitude at the gift." We shipped him copies of Evidences of Eternal Life and Finding the Reality of God.

BTMI is currently sending CDs, MP3s, tapes, Bibles, books, pamphlets and tracts to more than 20 countries. Included are: China, Malaysia, Tasmania, Kenya, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, Germany, Holland, and Romania.

We now have "Ten Shekels and a Shirt" as PDF documents in German (Deutsch), Russian and Spanish on our website. It is also available as a pamphlet in Romanian. Soon we hope to have Dutch and Portuguese available as well.

At the present time, Rick has completed remastering around 65 of the 200 +, not heard sermons in our collection. We are also working toward transcribing from audio to PDF documents all 55 of our original messages using Dragon Speak, a program that takes an audio ".wav" file then produces a written copy of it for us. The results have to be edited by our staff which takes time to do. So far we have made available 5 written sermons on our website for anyone to read or download.

His work continues.

Thank you for praying for us.

"Tremendous power is made available through a good man's earnest prayer. " [Phillips] James 5:16

Yours in His service,

Marjorie Reidhead

Dear Friend,

"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork..." Psalm 19:1. All about us the beauty of God's natural creation reflects the personality of the Creator. How great is our God to have formed such diverse beauty for each season.

Nature not only reminds us of God's creative ability, it also warns us that change is coming. The number and severity of storms and other world wide natural phenomena, with the attendant property damage and loss of life, seems to be on the rise. Nature is indeed groaning, waiting for the revelation of the sons of God, and that is one of the signs of Jesus' return for which we are watching. Time is growing short, and there is much to do. We thank God that He has called us to be about His business of winning souls and helping to mature the saints.

We praise God for the opportunities He is giving us to distribute His word in the form of the messages He gave to Paris Reidhead. My husband always went fully prepared to the conferences where he was asked to speak, but he also left room for the Holy Spirit to speak to him. In one such conference, Pastor Reidhead went back to his room after breakfast to pray and refresh his mind concerning the up-coming message he was to give. As he reviewed his notes, the Holy Spirit began to speak to him, exchanging the message Pastor Reidhead had planned to give for a totally new one. With only a few verses jotted down on the back of an envelope, Pastor Reidhead stepped behind the pulpit and delivered "Ten Shekels and a Shirt", a message that has gone on to bless countless numbers of people.

On May 1, 2008, our National Day of Prayer, Crosstalk, a ministry of Voice of Christian Youth America, broadcast "Ten Shekels and a Shirt." The listener response was overwhelming, with requests pouring in from all over the country.

"Dear BTMI," wrote one listener, "The Berean Call ministries sent me the CD "Ten Shekels and a Shirt." What a wonderful message! I learned so much from that CD. I wanted everyone to have it. The back of the CD said 'to be copied freely' and 'not to be sold.' So I bought 200 blank CDs and asked my church to make copies, and it was offered to all for free. It is a small church so the second 100 CDs I'm keeping to give out as the Lord leads."

God continues to bless BTMI. He watches over us and meets our every need. Thanks to your prayer and financial support, BTMI continues to have the privilege of sending out tapes and CDs of the messages God gave to Pastor Reidhead, as well as books and Bibles. In the time between our last prayer letter until now we have sent packages to China, Malaysia, Tasmania, Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Jamaica, Sweden, Denmark, South Korea, and in partnership with Greater Hope Church and Ministries, to Sierra Leone.

Rick Collins, our technical expert, and the electronic equipment he handles, are two of the great blessings God has given us, and we are more than thankful for them. We rejoice that all of the tapes mentioned in the catalogue are now available in CD Rom format. BTMI has over 200 tapes of sermons by Pastor Reidhead that have been in storage for forty or more years. We have begun the delicate and painstaking work of transferring the messages from cassette tape to CD's. We understand the urgency of this undertaking. The tapes are now fragile, and two of them broke during the re-recording. Our technicians had to resurrect long forgotten techniques and materials in order to preserve the sermons. Because of the blessings contained in these messages we consider the time and effort well spent. We are anxious for others to hear these messages, and we will work as quickly as we can to make them available.

"Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said, Here am I. Send me!" Isaiah 6:8

BTMI was blessed this summer to be able to assist three people who went out personally to minister in the field. God directed Katie Collins, Rick and Wanda's older daughter, to go to El Salvador with Campus Crusade for Christ. She both ministered and learned. Katie says, "I learned that God has a powerful plan for all our lives. God wants to use each one of us, and He is literally in control of all situations. God wants us to to experience the freedom that He offers us through Christ. He wants to fill us with His power to go out and reach the people. I learned that the Scriptures really do live, and I heard God speaking to my heart clearly. God gave me a love for these people and I want to go back."

Wanda Collins, Rick's wife and faithful treasurer and tireless BTMI hands-on servant and the Collins younger Gennie went to the Living Water Assembly of God church on the Rocky Boy Reservation in Montana under Youth for Christ. They saw first hand the stark destitution endured by our Native Americans. Colton, a five year old boy, tugged at Wanda's heart strings. As a male, Colton faces a 60% chance of being physically or sexually abused. A female faces a 90% chance. As an adult, Colton must deal with 25% unemployment, drug abuse and alcoholism. If he leaves the reservation to find work, his tribe will shun him. Truly we need to pray for our Native Americans, for only God can change their lives in this situation.

Once again we thank you our partners in this work for Christ. Without your constant prayer and support we could not continue to reach out to those who need to have a growing relationship with Jesus. It is our desire to reach and teach as many as possible that Jesus may have the reward of His suffering.

Yours in His service,

Marjorie Reidhead

Dear Friends,

How delighted we are to greet you again. In our world only two things remain constant. One of those things is change, and we are certainly in a time of change, morally, politically, and economically. The other unchangeable is the Trinity. God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They never change. Jesus said that He was the same, yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Thank God for His constancy. Because of His steadfastness we can walk with confidence through each and every day, no matter what happens in our world.

God said He would bless His people as they sought to carry His good news to a lost and dying world. Here at BTMI we are rejoicing in the blessing of God. This year God has freed up Rick's time so that he has been able to finish putting all the tape sets of Paris Reidhead's messages on CD's. This change will be reflected in the new catalogue. How grateful to God we are for the technology that will allow us to make these crucial messages available for the hungry hearts and seeking minds we hear from weekly. We are now planning on tackling the huge challenge of listening and recording on CD the 200 plus single sermons by Mr. Reidhead not heard for over thirty years. We are expecting a feast of sound Bible-based messages to reach the lost and to perfect the saints.

God is blessing us in the area of expansion. At the last meeting, the BTMI Board gave us permission to make the written version of Paris Reidhead's sermons available on the internet. "Ten Shekels and a Shirt" has been translated into Russian. Individuals from The Netherlands and Denmark have asked permission to translate the same message into Dutch and Danish respectively. Paris Reidhead's messages are going further and further afield. We have new contacts in Peru, Kenya, Zambia, and Brazil. We are excited about these new opportunities.

"Song of Joy" ministry is one of the ministries that BTMI supports with our tithe. Carla Rose recently came to our area of Maryland, and we made contact with her. Years ago she and her husband Robert went to Guatemala on a one week mission trip. Once there the Roses fell in love with the place and the people. Seeing the great need in Guatemala, Robert and Carla returned to the States, sold everything they owned, and returned to that country to run a children's home. It was a joy to meet this on-fire servant of the Lord.

Our thrust is not just electronically. This summer Rick, Wanda, and Gennie, the Collins' younger daughter, plan to go west on a mission trip. Under the auspices of Youth For Christ, the Collins family will be going to Rocky Boy Reservation in Box Elder, Montana. While there the Collins family will be doing minor construction projects, painting, landscaping, and cleaning, interacting with as many people on the reservation as possible. There will be evening evangelistic events and Bible Clubs for the children.

Katie Collins is planning on joining a group going to El Salvador with the Global Aid network. GAIN is a part of Campus Crusade for Christ International. She will be working in a team, serving in children's ministry, working with the local church. Her team will be distributing food, care packs of school supplies, and Christian literature. Their main concern, of course, is sharing the Good News of Jesus with anyone God brings to them.

Plans are underway to send a second team to Ethiopia for supplemental English for the "Light of Hope" teachers from the remote village schools. Rev. Virginia Teitt, daughter of Paris Reidhead and president of BTMI, will be leading a third trip this fall. This exploratory group, made up of people from various churches, is going especially to discern the next steps to empower the Orssi Oromo people in the areas of medical care, sustainable agriculture, and micro-business opportunities. Concord Presbyterian Church in Delaware, Ohio, recently received a most generous donation that will enable "Light of Hope" to begin the construction of a college vocational school in Sheshemane.

If any of you feel moved of God to help financially or to cover these teams with prayer we would be delighted. Any financial gift destined for Ethiopia should have Ethiopia written on the memo line. Financial gifts for Katie should have El Salvador on the memo line. Any financial gifts designated for the Collins family should have Montana written on the memo line. All of those heading out for ministry this summer would like to know that they are being covered by your prayers.

Whether we are physically taking the Word to those in need or working here at the BTMI headquarters to spread the messages given by God to Paris Reidhead by way of tapes, books, or CD's, we are grateful to God for allowing us to serve Him. We thank you, and we thank God for you, our partners in spreading God's word, for your faithfulness. We covet your continued support.

In His Service,

Marjorie Reidhead

Dear Friend,

I am a dedicated reader. Certain authors are my favorites, those who have a "way with words." I appreciate some news magazines more than others because I believe they are less biased in their approach and closer to the Biblical view. I subscribe to and read the local newspaper... even the editorials and the write-in opinions, and I have been known to voice mine on occasion. Because of my rural upbringing I like stories about life in the country. In fact, my favorite place in the kitchen is my highback, platform rocker, surrounded by books and magazines. Foremost is Paris' well-worn, King James Bible, with portions underlined and notes in the margins.

I call this chair my meditating, praying, reading, relaxing and resting spot ... and I have been known to take a nap on occasion. I guess that is allowed at my age.

Saturday is Bible Teaching Ministries, Inc. work day. Our local volunteer staff converges on the library to collect e-mails, make CDs and labels, write receipts. The kitchen becomes a packing area. A long-time friend of the Ministry maintained that this "kitchen ministry" accomplished more for the Kingdom of God than many large offices. I trust so.

In our fall prayer letter BTMI gives a brief report of the materials sent up to this point:

Letters, e-mails, and even phone calls continue to request books and materials.

Our radio ministry continues to expand, reaching into prisons. At our recommendation, lending libraries and listening centers have been established overseas. The scope of our ministry broadens through our tithe ministry and encircles the globe. . . Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, Guatemala, Liberia, Afghanistan, South America.

"And He said unto thee, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen" Mark 16:12, 20.

The mission trip to Ethiopia in June was blessed by God. Two young people, sponsored by BTMI, were involved in a short term teacher training project working with Urgessa Biru, founder of Light of Hope Mission. My daughter, Rev. Virginia Teitt, President of Bible Teaching Ministries, along with Dr. Biru, will be conducting a follow-up mission in November, 2007. They will be dedicating a school which has been built, bringing a Christian presence in a radically Muslim area. Her accompanying letter will explain more about this ministry.

Please pray for the safety of this ministry team. Continue to pray for us. We need you.

Yours in His Service,

Marjorie N. Reidhead

Dear Friend,

The greatest passion of my father, Paris W. Reidhead, was that hurting, hungry and hopeless people all over the world might know of the great salvation offered by God through Jesus Christ. Dad understood that the love of Christ is lived out when we offer to come along side and help others in areas of great need. In the past year with your support BTMI has had an impact in one of the poorest areas of the world.

Just over a year ago our first visionary trip to Ethiopia revealed a region where 60% of the population is under the age of 15, less than 10% of the people are educated. There are hundreds of thousands of people with no sustainable economic base, where clinics and hospitals are virtually nonexistent. In partnership with an organization called Light of Hope we are working to train Christian teacher/evangelists, build and equip schools, in order to demonstrate the love of God and offer hope for the future.

Last year we recognized that English must be taught in the village schools in order for students to progress beyond primary education. English is the common form of communication in this country, made of over 80 tribal languages. This past summer with your help a group of tutors was sent to offer supplemental ESL to 76 village teachers. The program was challenging in that 50% of the teachers could not pass a fifth grade equivalency test. It was important to assess their proficiency to offer support in the future.

The Arssi-Oromo region of south-central Ethiopia is almost completely Muslim. By placing Christian teachers in village schools the love of Christ has become incarnate in their life. The Muslim leaders have welcomed us, walls are breaking down, and soon churches will be built by the villagers. Our team returned deeply impacted by their experience and challenged by the amazing faith of the Ethiopian teachers. New and renewed commitments were made to serve God by the Ethiopians as well as the American tutors.

I would like to share with you a miraculous happening in our local community in Ohio. The teaching team was asked to give a brief report with pictures of their experiences in Ethiopia. A woman whom I knew briefly via e-mail and telephone but had never met personally, came to the presentation. She approached me with a check in hand for Light of Hope Ministries. I thanked her graciously, pocketed the check, glancing at the first three numbers, thinking $100.00 would be most welcome. However, when I examined the check more carefully I discovered that the amount written was $10,000. The decimal point had been moved two places to the right! Praise God! This completely covered the deficet of the tutoring ministry. This dedicated woman is a member of the November trip to Ethiopia.

One of the purposes of this trip is to dedicate two newly built schools. The fields are white for the harvest; doors are open. (Matthew 9:37-38)

Dad's voice preached, and both my parents lived their belief that "one is either a missionary or a mission field." In the past year we have come to understand more deeply how vital it is to "perfect the saints for the work of the ministry." (Ephesians 4:12)

I want to thank you for your support and to challenge you to step in a little deeper.

In Christ,

Virginia R. Teitt

Dear Friend,

For ten years Paris Reidhead was privileged to serve as the pastor of the Gospel Tabernacle Church of the Christian & Missionary Alliance in mid-town Manhattan. This Church was founded by Dr. A. B. Simpson as an afternoon fellowship of believers burdened for world missions. The C&MA headquarters, the missionary home, bookstore and church were a block off Times Square. The outside appeared to be an Eighth Avenue office building. However, arched over the sanctuary was a stained glass skylight. On the wall above the massive pulpit were etched in gold letters this Old Testament scripture, "The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty..." (Zeph. 3:17)

Missionaries on furlough from different agencies were frequently in the congregation and visitors in our New Jersey parsonage home. The six Reidhead children were exposed to the needs of the entire world.

The tenament area around the church became our home mission field. The Tabernacle sponsored an afternoon Bible School in Spanish which involved a dedicated bilingual staff of "pedagogues" who conducted the children to and from Sunday School--door to door delivery. The children weren't safe in the dingy halls.

In 1969 the Reidhead family moved to Northern Virginia where Paris became involved in several international relief agencies and I taught English as a Second Language in Fairfax County Public Schools. Once again hospitality to internationals became our focus. Bible Teaching Ministries, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 to further world-wide outreach.

Many changes have evolved in these twenty years. We strive to keep abreast with current technology with several immediate goals:

1) to upgrade our internet connection to DSL,

2) to have higher quality CD's. and use the MP3 format

There are two recent accomplishments:

1) "Ten Shekels & a Shirt" has been translated into Spanish and will soon be available in the booklet form. A recent letter from Minsk, Belarus informed us that this powerful message has been translated into Russian for distribution in the local church. "Our God is able..." (Heb. 7:25)

2) A Christian radio station at State College is currently broadcasting to Penn State University, using BTMI material. There are several other Christian stations that have aired our material and others are imminent. We'll keep you informed.

This summer two of BTMI young adults will be involved in a short term teacher training project in Ethiopia working with Urgessa Biru, founder of Light of Hope Mission, a Christian non-profit that promotes literacy in his poverty-stricken country. Mr Biru's vision is to empower Ethiopian communities to educate their children and to bring a Christian presence to radical Muslim areas. The land and some building materials are customarily donated by the communities. The teachers are dedicated Christians. What a God-given privilege! Urgessa, as a teenager, was abandoned by his family when he became a Christian, denouncing his family's traditional Muslim religion. The time is short.

BTMI will assist these two young people with travel expenses. Please pray for this critical project.

Our organization continues to tithe each month's donations, thereby extending our world-wide scope of ministry.

I am indeed grateful for a Christian heritage... for grand-parents who read the Bible daily and had family prayer, for godly Bible believing parents who gave of themselves and their means to further the gospel. Proverbs 22:28-29 gives a succinct summation: "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. Seest thou a man diligent in business? He shall stand before kings: he shall not stand before mean men. "

God bless you.

Yours in His service,

Mrs. Marjorie Reidhead