September 2023

Dear Friends,

The psalmist declared in Psalms 126:3, “The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.”  Today, Cassie and I make that same declaration.  The Lord has certainly done great things for us! Therefore, we too are glad.  We are glad to be involved in the service of the Lord.  We are glad to partner with you, our friends, to reach the world with the Gospel.  From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your prayers and financial support.

Tuesday, August 15, Cassie and I returned to America after having filled in for MWBM missionary Jonathan VandenHurk at the Calvary Baptist Church of Peterborough, England.  Over the course of our six weeks there we not only ministered each Lord’s day at the church, we also participated in street evangelism, Bible studies, as well as children’s Sunday school.  CBC is an exciting, growing work with a heart to make a difference in the lives of families.  Please help us pray the Lord would provide this church plant with a more adequate place to assemble.  As the church continues to grow this will become an even more pressing need.

While using the UK as our home base, it was also our desire to visit with our other MWBM European church planters.  We were able to visit Brother Junior Haley and his family at the Ghent Baptist Church of Ghent, Belgium.  God is blessing the church!  The Lord has recently led them to acquire their own facility.  They are currently in the process of refurbishing it.  We were so impressed with how the church is working together to make a difference for Christ in Ghent.  We were also able to have a short but pleasant visit with Brother Jeremiah Cooley and his family.  They met us in Milan, Italy, where we were able to enjoy fellowship and hear firsthand about the triumphs and challenges of the unique ministry God has given them in Germany and the surrounding countries.  From Milan we traveled to Reggio Emilia, Italy, to visit with Brother Brandon Cook and his family.  The Cooks have planted the La Verita Baptist Church there and are being used of the Lord in a mighty way.  God has blessed them to learn the Italian language, and they continue to labor diligently to reach their city and beyond with the Gospel.  Our final visit was with Brother Jason Rongione and his wife Dana in Wales.  They have been in the town of Rhayner now for over a year and are hard at work in the weekly outreach of the Bethanaia Baptist Church.  Please join us in prayer over current issues that have arisen with their visas in order that they can stay in the country.  That is certainly their heart’s desire.

As we returned home our hearts were stirred yet again for the great need of the Gospel in the UK and Europe.  We have also gained a greater understanding of the daily challenges our missionaries face on the field.  Therefore, for each of you that invested in the this trip on our behalf, we can assure you your gifts have made a difference.  Again, from the bottom of our hearts we thank you!

Since returning to the states we have already been busy in missions Sundays and conferences.  We also praise the Lord for three new missionary families we have approved just since our last prayer letter to Spain, Brazil, and the Netherlands.  Praise the Lord!  We are also hard at work preparing for our Annual Conference at the Catoosa Baptist Tabernacle of Ringold, Georgia, October 15-18.  These are busy days but very good days.  Therefore by God’s grace and with your help, we will continue by faith.

For the sake of souls,

Scott Caudill
 

 



June 2023

Dear friends and co labourers,

As I write this quarter my heart is filled with gratitude.  It was nine years ago this May that Cassie and I left the pastorate after almost twenty-two years in order that I may serve as the General Director of Macedonia World Baptist Missions.  We are grateful first and foremost to the Lord who has graciously supplied our every need thus enabling us to do what He has put in our hearts to do.  However, we are also grateful to each of you.  God’s people have been so good to us!  Some of you reading this letter have partnered with us from the very beginning of this missions journey.  From the bottom of our hearts Cassie and I thank you for your prayers, your faithful support, and your friendship.  Please know we are ever mindful of your sending “once and again” unto our necessity.  We never take your prayers or your support for granted.

We also wanted to thank those of you that have given to help with the expenses of our missions trip to Europe this summer.   Our tickets to England have been purchased!  Lord willing, we will be leaving Monday, July 3rd in order to fill in for our missionary,  Jonathan Vandenhurk of Peterborough, England, for a period of six weeks.  We also have plans to visit some of our other church planters in Europe.  Throughout the course of our time in England, we will be scouting some surrounding areas prayerfully seeking a city that is in need of a Bible preaching church.  I am sure we will not have to look long to find one.  Will you go?   Will you help us reach the lost of Europe for God’s glory?  We look forward to sharing more news concerning our trip next prayer letter.  Stay tuned!

It has been a very busy spring!   Our efforts to fan the flame of world evangelism have taken us through nine different states this quarter.   We are very thankful for traveling mercies as well as for every door of opportunity God opens for us to challenge churches concerning world evangelism.  We were also blessed to see a record number of teenagers attend our “Reach the World” youth conference this year here on our property in Hoschton, Georgia.  Would you please help us pray that God would bless the seeds that were sown that day in order that another crop of missionaries might be raised up to reach the world with the Gospel? 

We rejoice in the fact God is still calling people to the mission field!  Just a few weeks ago we were blessed to host four new missionary families here at our training center for a two day orientation.  We are very grateful for the Matt Stahlman family (Europe), the Leland Johnson family (West Indies), the Alex Larson family (Iceland), and the Brian Delany family (South Korea) who were present during the orientation.  I feel that whatever partnership the Lord leads your church family to form with them will result in fruit that will abound to your account.  If you would like to have them present their burden to your church family, please email me at drcaudill@mwbm.org, and I will be more than glad to put you in touch with them.  I also rejoice in another application that has recently come into our office for a family that God has called to plant churches in the Netherlands.  Can I say it again?  God is still calling people to the mission field!  To God be the glory!

Truly the hour is late, and the need to reach the world with the Gospel has never been greater!  Whereas the need is great all over the world, each of us ought to strive to remember that world evangelism does not begin across the sea, it begins across the street.  It does not begin across the border, it begins around the block.  Let us be a “missionary” for the Lord today wherever we are!  With your help and by God’s grace that is our plan.  Therefore, we continue by faith.

 

For the sake of souls,

 

Scott Caudill
 

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