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can do that. This leaves us with another option.

We must reach the individuals of India tactically.

The Tactical Situation
(A view of missions from an individual perspective)
Reaching India tactically means reaching
individuals one at a time. An effective
missionary disciples the people he reaches,
and part of that discipleship is teaching these
folks how to win souls. However, if I do not
have a church for them to become a member
of, my soul-winning efforts are somewhat
shortsighted and incomplete. And how shall
they preach, except they be sent? (That is, except
they are divinely commissioned and sent forth
by God) as it is written, How beautiful are the
feet of them that preach the gospel of peace,
and bring glad tidings of good things (Romans
10:15)! Therefore, for a church to be started,
and hopefully under the leadership of a
national pastor, one must have preachers—not
foreign preachers but native preachers.

A missionary can use Paul’s tried-and-true
method as shown in 2 Timothy 2:2: And the
things that thou hast heard of me among many
witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful
men, who shall be able to teach others also. If
done well and done faithfully, one can reap
great fruit. I have used and continue to use this
method with great success.

There is another method being reported on
by SEA missionaries in this series of BIMI
World articles. That is the establishment
of doctrinally sound Bible institutes, Bible
colleges, and seminaries.

18 There are some issues in establishing Bible
training institutions:
1. Obtaining permission to open a school
2. Getting qualified students—prospective
students having other reasons for wanting
to receive a Bible education than being
called of God to be a preacher
3. Acquiring funding, initial and residual—
schools unable to pay for themselves and
tuition not covering the costs
4. Finding qualified teachers—a person who
can teach in the heart language or has the
ability to teach through an interpreter
5. Having access to training materials—
culturally applicable and Biblically sound
in their heart language
6. Having resources to sustain during lean
years 7. Training the trainers’ schools (seminaries)
needed 8. Teaching village preachers as well as city
preachers 9. Recognizing that cults and other ministries
may try to capitalize on your successes
(usually better equipped and better funded)
10. Training wives for sustainable income
producing jobs—key in helping a national
pastor succeed
As you read through the other articles about
various training efforts of nationals, please
keep the strategic and the tactical information
in your mind. There are great needs in all of
SEA. Now is not the time to stop our efforts.

Please continue to pray and support missionary
efforts in SEA in training others as Paul did in
2 Timothy 2:2. W



Home with the Lord
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints (Psalm 116:15).

Evertie Moore
(90) went Home to be with the Lord on Thursday, October
14, 2021. His wife, Joyce, went to Heaven in 2006. Inspired by the words of Harold
Sightler who had just returned from a revival meeting in Kentucky, Evertie answered
the call of God to go and reach the Appalachian Mountain people with the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. He and Joyce joined BIMI as USA missionaries in 1963 and served the
Lord together for over 40 years. Brother Moore faithfully pastored a church in a small town in the
mountains of Kentucky.

Robbin Demarest
(64) went Home to be with the Lord on
Missionary Monday, September 6, 2021. Robbin and her husband joined BIMI in December 2000.

Robbin grew up in a family that was involved in missions when she was in high school.

Her father worked for the Bearing Precious Seed Ministry. Robbin visited Mexico
with her family and worked with a missionary for two summers in Mexico. While
in Mexico, she met Jeff Demarest who also had a heart for missions. When Jeff and
Robbin were married, he asked her if she would go with him anywhere in the world.

Robbin and Jeff served in Uganda and South Africa.

John Hornbeck
(77) went
Home to be with the Lord on Thursday,
September 23, 2021. John was called
Memorial Gifts have been
to be a missionary to the United States
received in memory of
Military in 1984. The following year he
and his wife, LeeEtta, joined BIMI and
Walt Beach by Judy Wixson
began their preparations for deputation by Sandra Byrd
to raise support to go to Aviano, Italy. John and LeeEtta by George & Sandy Burrus
by Cliff & Helen Cooper
were commissioned as missionaries in March 1989.

Kat Solomon by Gary Solomon
The Hornbecks served the military in Italy, Panama,
Roy Ackerle by Mr & Mrs Eugene Murphy
Karen by Richard Huskey
and Germany. While in Panama, the Hornbecks
H Hughes by Bible Baptist Church
worked with BIMI Missionary Al Sligh. From August
J Reiss by Bible Baptist Church
1997 to November 1999, John served as the pastor of
Christine Ulsh by Bible Baptist Church
R Sprowls by Bible Baptist Church
Maranatha Baptist Church. The Lord led the Hornbecks
Joyce Stoute by Faith Baptist Church
to serve in Germany with Dr. Tom Lancaster and the
Jay Broyles by Lakewood Baptist Church/
Rhein River Baptist Church. He was involved in
a Friendship SS Class
Sarah Cates by First Baptist Church
number of teaching ministries. Many were saved and
Bill Cornett by Dale Potter
some called to full-time Christian service.

Pastor Dan Reeder by Friendship Baptist Church
Gail Reece
Harold Lakow by Douglas & Patricia Cunningham
by Mr & Mrs Ellis Charles, Jr
by Sheila Fiscus
by Adrian & Judith Combs
by Jerry Kelsey
by Jeannine Vigerust
by Bible Baptist Church
by Bible Baptist Church
by Bible Baptist Church
by Philadelphia Baptist Church
by Daniel Funeral Home
by Steve & Deanna Laepple
by Joe & Beverly Ramseyer
by Lester & Christine Fast
by Tim & Patricia Greene
19 Robbin Demarest by Faith Baptist Church
Missionary Emeritus
Jeffery Garrison
(83) went Home to be with the Lord on
Wednesday, November 10, 2021. Gail
Joshua Kelsey
and her husband, Jerry, joined BIMI in
Lorene Tyson
James Curler
1966. They were some of the first early
Sherrie Caudill
missionaries to Nicaragua. Jerry and Gail
Sheldon Barber
served in Nicaragua for four years and in El Salvador
William Godfrey
Daniel Weinstein
for ten years, planting churches and Bible institutes.

Since 1980, Jerry and Gail continued serving the Lord
in a ministry of writing, translating, and printing
Gospel tracts and Spanish literature.