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My first experience with a new church came when I was a 16-year-old high school student. A young lady—now my wife—had invited me to a youth activity at a nearby church. I later discovered that the church had been planted only a few years earlier and had just moved into their first building.

It is not uncommon, especially after a missions conference, to hear a young child talk of being a missionary and going to a place like Africa or China to serve God. But more often than not, when that child gets older, that kind of talk begins to fade away. I’m afraid that many times children who had a desire and even a calling from God to be a missionary forsake that idea as they become a teenager. It isn’t something that is immediate upon a child turning thirteen, but often as that teen gets older, there are many excuses that enter his life to deter him from serving God on the mission fiel...

Faith Promise giving was years ago looked at and presented as man asking God to give to him, and then he would give back to God. This puts God as the giver and the recipient. If God gives it, then I will give it as my faith promise. Though there are examples of such requests in the Bible, such as Hannah’s request of a man child in which she gave back to God what God gave her, this puts God as the one responsible for my giving and not me giving by faith.

Since the beginning of Bearing Precious Seed 136,387,289 scriptures have been produced. Think about the potential souls that have been reached through that number. It is estimated that seven people read each copy. If that is true it is possible that 954,711,023 people have read scripture printed at Bearing Precious Seed. The reason that this is possible is the teamwork that has gone on through the years. We have men that work in the shop, missionaries that have traveled through the years raising funds, and faithful volunteers that come to the shop each day. We have churches that support the...

PASTOR TIMOTHY BUNCH What a wonderful opportunity this is for me to be able to introduce myself to the folk here at First Baptist Church! My name is Tim Bunch and I am Pastor of the Garden City Baptist Church, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Together with my wife Gweneth and our four children, we have served in this church since its inception. My personal upbringing was in a Christian family; my father was a Navy man who had spent time in Vietnam. He suffered a major head injury during a rest period back home, leaving him both medically unfit to serve and an epileptic for the rest of hi...

Our perspective on raising mission-minded children did not come from textbooks or seminars. It began in the pulpit of our own church where a missionshearted pastor hammered weekly messages of the importance of missions. These messages were both direct and others more subtle. Missions was a normal theme and missionaries were special people. It seemed as though each week we heard from or about another missionary. At an early age, our children were fascinated with missions due in large part to our pastor’s heart for it and his emphasis on it. We remember them eagerly tugging at us after yet an...

My wife, Vinnie, and I started sending our only son, Tim, to church on a church bus when he was six years old. When he was eight years old, he made a profession of faith. Because we later moved to a different area near First Baptist Church of Milford where Dr. Charles Keen served as pastor, we sent Tim to First Baptist on one of their buses. Vinnie and I, however, did not attend. When Tim was in sixth grade in a public school, the school planned to pass him to the next grade even though he had failing grades. As a result, we removed him from the public school system and enrolled him in a Ca...

I would like to introduce you to Bro. Sam Caudill, my friend and colaborer for many years. Whether it is the steady drum of the Heidelberg Harris press or the roar of a diesel truck leaving with another Scripture-filled container, such are the background sounds heard by printer/pressman, Sam Caudill, on any given day at Bearing Precious Seed in Milford, Ohio. Bro. Caudill has told me that he was an unlikely candidate to have seen this phenomenal work of God grow from the early days of manually binding individual Scripture portions with a soda bottle to producing a semi-truck load of Scriptu...

As we reflect on our arrival in Australia in 1986, Juanita and I remember it as a wonderful time. God blessed and showed us His goodness in so many ways to get us there. We worked with another missionary, Sid Hunter, the first six months to become used to the culture. Then we started our first church, Victory Baptist Church. I also started a small Bible college class to train some of our men who wanted to learn more. Wayne Sehmish was one of those men, who later became the pastor of Victory Baptist Church. During those ten years, we started two more churches, Fellowship Baptist Church, whic...