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October 7, 2023

To Our Beloved Supporters,

Deb and I recently received an email from Megan, who is organizing prayer for the upcoming Global Reach missions conference at Faith Baptist Bible College & Theological Seminary, asking for our prayer request. Here is what we sent.

Thanks for helping to organize this. Deb and I (Bill) are Emeritus missionaries with Baptist Mid-Missions, but we are starting a second career—kinda. We are working on a non-profit called InterGlo Ministries: international peoples/global discipleship. For all our ministry lives, we have done gospel-centered ministry in the USA to international people. InterGlo Ministries is taking that ethos one step further. We hope to extend our ministry through those global citizens with whom we minister here to there, their homelands. We have done this for years and have seen relatives and friends receive Christ as the gospel went from Boston (we served in Boston for 20+ years) to other lands. We hope to take this a step up.

Our goal is to be part of ten new discipleship centers (churches) initiated in ten global cities representing the ten major civilizations of the world (10 civilizations, 10 cities, 10 discipleship centers). Although we believe God has prepared the world for this, and although we are honored to join Him in this, it is much bigger than us, so we need prayers and supplications.

  1. A main feature of our ministry is an online discipleship center starting tomorrow (Sunday) at 10 AM, Iowa time—we now live in Williamsburg, IA. We will have a friend who is Chinese and lives in Des Moines, join us, as well as a family in Los Angeles, and Lord willing, a person in Beijing. We plan for this small nucleus to expand and one day include individuals from the ten major world civilizations.  It will be from this online discipleship center that we hope to see the gospel spread to ten global cities around the world. We have many friends with whom we have ministered in the past who will be asked to join us over the next several months.  Please pray for us!
  1. I am 69 years old and get tired. Although we believe what has been outlined above is a stewardship assigned to us by God, fatigue often makes me wonder if I have what it takes to finish the job. Please pray for stamina and perseverance. 
  1. We need prayer as we organize the InterGlo Ministries nonprofit.
  1. Since we are starting a 501c3 nonprofit, I am working on a Certificate of Nonprofit Leadership and Philanthropy at the University of Iowa. This includes seven courses and will be completed in July of next year. The course work is exceedingly helpful, but the time demands are great. I need prayer to glean all I can from this.
  1. One more item for prayer:  this afternoon Deb and I will pick up three international scholars from the University of Iowa and go with them to an international event in Kalona, Iowa. These new friends are from India. We also have friends from Columbia, Myanmar, Nigeria, China, Netherlands, Kazakhstan, and Japan, as well as other places. Some of these are just acquaintances at this point, but we hope they will become close friends with whom we can study the gospel together
  1. Yet one more prayer request. Deb and I will be traveling to Kurdistan (northern Iraq) in late February and early March of 2024. I will have the incredible joy and privilege of teaching Global Church Planting on both a Bible institute and graduate level. Deb will be ministering to the women involved in the ministry and to ladies who live in the large refugee centers of Kurdistan. Please pray that we will stay safe and healthy, and that our ministry will be effective.
  1. Finally, the Lord just reminded me, we need prayer that our ministry during the Global Reach Conference will be effective and well received.

We so appreciate your desire to join us by means of prayer,

Bill & Deb Edmondson
Baptist Mid Missions Emeritus Missionaries
Founders of InterGlo Ministries

ABOUT INTERGLO MINISTRIES

InterGlo Ministries endeavors to join our Savior in building His church by ministering the gospel to the global community locally and then discipling our new friends as they spread out globally.

UPCOMING EVENTS

International Scholar Social Event -Sept 16

Missionary Conf FBBC Oct 23-27

Global Trainers Conf
Phoenix, Ariz. Feb 16-

Kurdish Teaching
March 1-18