About Us
TESTIMONIAL
Salvation and Ministry experience
In 1968 my wife had heart
failure and was rushed to the hospital for examination and treatment. It was
discovered that she needed to have open heart surgery.
I took her to Cleveland Clinic, where she under went a heart value
operation. During that time, a
preacher from my hometown came to visit her. This man was also a wonderful
comfort to me, as I didn’t know if she would live or die.
He invited me to attend his church when we returned home.
Virginia
came home, but was still too sick to do much.
I told her that I would like to go to that church.
I went by myself and God spoke to my heart about my soul.
I didn’t go forward at that time, but returned the next night.
At the invitation I went forward and the pastor took the Bible and showed
me how to be saved. I asked Jesus to
come into my heart and went home and told
Virginia
what I had done. This was November
16, 1968.
During the next few months, Virginia recuperated and saw a great change in
my life. I had a desire to go to
church, read the Bible and pray. She
thought there must be something to this experience I had.
She began going to church with me, and in February 1969 she received
Christ as her Savior.
In February 1971, a
missionary came to our church to speak. It
was at this time that God called me to preach and be a missionary.
I went forward and told the pastor how God had spoken to my heart about
missions. I wanted to make my life
count for God so I decided right away to apply to a mission board.
I wanted to go where people had never heard or had little chance to hear
about Jesus Christ and what He had done on the cross for them.
We began to prepare ourselves to be missionaries.
We went to
Norman
,
OK
where we had four months of intense missionary training for working in
primitive areas. Then we went to
Mexico
for four months of jungle training. We
learned many things about surviving in the jungle.
This training has been a tremendous help to us in our ministry over the
years.
We chose Brazil to be our
first field of service. We left for
Brazil
after deputation in 1973. We worked
with other missionaries in the jungles of northern
Brazil
. God blessed our ministry there and
in 1987, we changed our field to
Zambia
,
Africa
. Our ministry was planting churches
and training nationals. We had a
Bible Institute and God allowed us to plant three churches and from those, the
nationals we trained have started over one hundred new churches.
Thousands have been won to Christ. We
praise the Lord for this and give Him all the glory.
In February 1999, we
returned home from Zambia because of the government’s change in policy
concerning missionaries. Our mission
director decided it best that we leave
Zambia
.
We are now Bearing Precious
Seed missionaries, although I am not a field representative of BPS.
I started my ministry because, while in
Zambia
, we had very few Bibles to give away to people.
They simply were not available. I
believe that many missionaries have the same problem I had.
My ministry is to raise funds from churches of like faith that will
enable me to provide Scriptures free of charge, (shipping included) to
missionaries around the world that do not have them available where they
minister. Six out of ten people in
the world have never read one line of God’s Precious Word.
The need to get Scriptures into the hands of missionaries so they can do
their job is overwhelming.
My ministry presentation
consists of showing a 10 minute video of our work and three mission trips
(Mexico, Brazil, China) where we have taken folks to the field for short term
visits. I also share my burden to
get God’s Word out to missionaries and preach a challenging message as well.
It is our desire to be a blessing and encouragement to people.
Jim and Virginia Menkhoff
