May/June

2015 Report
Dear Ones,
Sometimes our hearts cry within us, How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
having sorrow in my heart daily?... But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall
rejoice in Your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with
me (Psalm 13:1,2,5,6).
Life for all of us is comprised of ups and downs, times of spiritual strength and of weakness, of extreme contrasts. All of my family has been with me during the past two weeks [and
I will exult over that blessing further down in the report], but everyone is gone now and the
house seems very empty. Obviously, that emotional impact is part of my problem.
But I look around at all that needs to be done with the physical responsibilities: the grass
needs to be cut again, the weeds are head-tall in places, the bushes and trees are taking over;
there was water in the basement, and when it rains there is water running strongly from some
mysterious source under another part of the house; the freezer keeps showing a light that the
door is ajar even though it isnt and I havent been able to locate the local people to fix the
problems. I miss J.C. for countless reasons, but one of those is that standing alone is hard.
I look at all that is stacked up in the office: this report to write today so that the printing can be done and it can be mailed before others in the office are out for an extended time;
Global Harvest to finish and get to the printer; volume 86 of The Voice of Truth International to finish; five books to go over and then submit to the printer; emails to write...

(Continuing the work begun

by J.C. in 1962)
708 Burton Drive
Winona, MS 38967
662-283-1192
email: Choate@
WorldEvangelism.org
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Co-worker with
Wayne and Janet Barrier
Byron and Gay Nichols
Jerry and Paula Bates
Louis Rushmore
Robin Dunaway

Global
Harvest

So I scold myself, reminding me how blessed I am to have family that does come and that
cares, how blessed I am to have physical responsibilities, and how blessed I am that God has
entrusted work in my hands! I look back at challenges and problems in the past, and recount the
ways God took care of everything that was greater than this limited staff of humans could handle, and I wait in faith for Him to rescue me again. He knows the need for more team members
here. He knows that, at my age, my years of strong participation are numbered. He knows that
the volume of work we are doing cannot continue without additional strong and dedicated coworkers. I remind myself that it is HIS work, not mine, and at the right time, in the right way,
and with the right people, He WILL supply what is needed, through Jesus our Lord. Amen.

Betty (Mrs. J.C.) Choate

Bonnie Goes to Her Reward

It was with mixed feelings that those who love her faced the reality that Bonnie would
soon be leaving this world. It hurt us to see her in great pain, it hurt to think of the vacuum
in our lives when she would not be here, it hurt to think what an ongoing excruciating pain
it would be for Louis not to have her at his side in everything he would be doing yet,
knowing that Bonnies condition would only get worse, it was with a feeling of joy for her
that we knew on May 18 that she was borne on angels wings to that eternal reward God had

The Voice
of Truth
International

Funeral services for Bonnie Sue Rushmore were conducted Thursday, May 21 beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the meetinghouse for the Old Union Church of Christ in rural Carroll
County, Mississippi. Grave side services and burial were in the adjacent church cemetery.
Louis Rushmore.

promised for His faithful children. Spiritual and physical family were there to offer comfort to Louis and their
children.
In addition to Gods help with spiritual strength,
two things will be instrumental in Louis healing: their
daughter, Rebecca, teaches school and is spending the
summer with him; and he has ongoing work to do both
here and overseas. Because that work is of great spiritual
importance, I know well from my own life what a healing
power it will be. We would ask your prayers for him, for
the family, and for all of us as we take up the reins and go
forward.

Events Here and There

An Unexpected Trip
Seldom do I make a spur-of-the-moment decision, but early in May I saw an email about a tour of Israel that Evertt
and Ileene Huffard were making. I have long wanted to be a part of such a group. The realization that the Huffards lived
in Jerusalem when Evertt was a teenager, that he and Ileene spent five years as missionaries in Nazareth, and that he
knows the language, the country and the Scriptures motivated me to respond with an enquiry about the cost. That turned
out to be less than anything I had seen, so since I no longer spend money on clothes or other such things, I decided to be
one of the group of 21 members of the Lords church. I was overjoyed when my brother, Curtis, and his wife and daughter (Emalee and Casey) also signed up!
The tour was an inspiring journey through much of the Old Testament and the New Testament, shared with Christians
who had both Bible knowledge and keen interest in everything they were privileged to see. Each day we had two or three
times of devotionals at particular sites, and a lengthy devotional each evening in which we shared our thoughts about the
days tour and a Scripture-related lesson. I heartily encourage any of our readers to save toward making such a trip with
the Huffards. For more information, contact i h u f f a r d @ h a r d i n g . e d u Phone: 9 01 . 4 3 2 . 77 2 6.
Partial wall of a synagogue built
on the remains of the first century
synagogue in Capernaum

Above: The Sea of Galilee

Below: The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, said to be part of the wall of
Herods temple area

Jacobs Well, very deep and still

supplying water to the thirsty
The caves of Qumran, west of the
Dead Sea in Southern Israel where
the Dead Sea Scrolls were found

Racheal teaching one of the ladies classes.

Between the
time of the
trial before the
Sanhedrin and
being taken to
Pilate the following morning, tradition
says that Jesus
was kept in this
dungeon below
Caiphas palace.

Left: One of the ancient olive trees on

the Mount of Olives
where Jesus prayed
and where He was
arrested by the
temple guard

The Gospel for which Christ Died

Continues to Bring a Harvest:

From Joshua Gootam, Kakinada, India

We held a three-night record-breaking Gospel meeting here in
Kakinada on May 26, 27 & 28. Even though a severe heat wave was
blowing across this state, people came in great numbers to hear the Gospel.
This is first time ever in 51 years of the history of the church in
modern India that more than 100 congregations in this district came
together to plan, finance and execute the open air Gospel meetings on
the grounds of McLaurin High School which is a stones throw away The Garden Tomb, probably not the tomb in
from my house. More than 10,000 people were estimated to have attended which our Lord was laid, but the tomb and
these meetings. Attendance was highest when I spoke the last two nights. the surrounding garden and wine press fit
Six preachers were used in those 3 nights. Each congregation generally the description well.
holds Gospel meetings on their own, but this was good fellowship.
The meetings were extensively advertised both on local TV channels and on huge billboards at important crossroads into
the city. Forty thousand handbills were passed out and 4,000 wall posters were used to inform and attract people to the meetings.
All in all, it was a great success.

The Gospel is our mission. The world is our home.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you;
and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you (John 14:18).
[Angels are] ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation... (Hebrews 1:14).

Dont miss out on these treasures!

Summer 2015

What has God entrusted in our hands? The souls of the

world and His unfolding plan since creation!
What are we doing with that treasure?

The latest issue of Global Harvest will be

available soon. Many will receive a free copy
because we are trying to make more brethren
aware of its existence. We do need you to
order the magazine ($10 for 2 issues), so that
its future publication can be secured. The
church needs this.

News!!! The Voice of Truth

International, our 116-page teaching magazine
is now printed in color! If you do not already
receive it, now is the time to subscribe! Four
issues of TVOTI are $15, 8 issues are $25; or
the congregation can enlist for a box of 35 copies of each issue for $30 a month.

Mrs. J.C. Choate

World Evangelism
P.O. Box 72
Winona, MS 38967

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We now have 120 titles, full-color,

pocket-sized tri-fold tracts that will be
extremely useful to you in your outreach ministry. In packets of 25, they
are only 10 cents each. BBC

Yes, I now have the advantage of being old enough to have a little clout! Even if I dont get my way, the act of
ignoring my wishes is very politely done! Ha!
God be with us all in these troubling times. Hugs, Betty
Our daughter, Sheila, and granddaughter, Stephanie, with her two little ones announced plans to come home June
20-July 1; husbands were working and couldnt come; Alex was in training in California for mercenary soldiering;
Brad and his family said they would be here June 22-July 3. Someone exclaimed, Your 75th birthday comes during
that time! Having been shocked into remembrance of the historic event, I began to put pressure on everyone else to
join the crowd: Steve and his family, Darla and Dave; Curtis and his family (including Casey, and Chance, Rylee and
their little ones; my sister, Onirah, and her daughter, Betty Ann and her family; J.C.s brother, Don, and his wife and
daughters; and spiritual family: the Bates, the Gibsons, Elijah Sanamanda a total of 39! It was such a wonderful and
blessed time all faithful members of the Lords church, and loving each other. Even the kids played happily together
without a single squabble! No wonder the house seems a lonely place now....

The Three-Quarters-of-a-Century Birthday!