“Working hard ... we must help the weak.”“Working hard ... we must help the weak.”

6/15-22/2015 Evangelistic

Campaigns

Throughout

Honduras

6/25-26/2015 Seminar: “Set an

Example for the

Believers” with

Howard Norton

9/3-4/2015 Seminar with Dr.

Rick Oster of

Harding School of

Theology

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We honor those who in the last six months have been an example of Paul’s words: “In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” Acts 20:35

The first day of school in January, 100 Baxter students, kids, teachers, administration, clinic doctor, dentist, nurses, and workers spent the entire day working hard. We painted, mowed, dug, and built for the La Cienaga congregation.

In the first quarter (January-March) I had the opportunity to give back. From my forty years of preaching in both the U.S. and Argentina, I had so many ministry experiences to share in a class to the third-year students. The class, Positive Preaching, was meant to help the young preacher preach the Gospel—the Good News. Latin culture, in the harsh realities of the Third World, is dominated by a negative spirit. The dominating religious belief is that one is born in sin. I encouraged the students to preach Jesus’ optimistic message of hope, love, forgiveness, eternal reward, ...

Beginning in January, a wonderful group of Christians committed to “help the weak” with a monthly donation for the hungry. One sees poverty daily in this city and every Sunday in the churches. The churches are doing their best by feeding a bowl of rice and a tortilla to children during Sunday School. Unfortunately, it is not enough, and children of Christians die. Monthly donations of $45 are growing which allow us to help more in our nutrition program.

In February and June Rich Quinn and Dennis Duvall were seen “working hard” on our Internet and phones. August 2014-May 2015, Barrie Jo Mitchell gave back much love as an apprentice. Please continue reading in this newsletter of others who know that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and imagine how you might too give back.

Summer 2015

Volume 3 Number 1

Meet the 2012 Graduates

Evangelism — Students Give Back

Fourth-year student, Transito, in his six-month internship (January-June) has had many opportunities to evangelize. He reports five baptisms in his hometown back in El Salvador.

In May, four third-year students (a Guatemalan, Venezuelan, Salvadorian, and Cuban) preached in

a campaign for the Mololoa congregation where 2013 graduates Pablo and Argentina Canales serve. There were 11 baptisms and four restorations.

In June, Cuban third-year student, Yariel, has baptized yet another individual (a total of six in four months) in his weekend ministry assignment where a 1990 graduate, Adrian Diaz, has preached for more than a decade. The student body has baptized 60 since beginning the year.

Please pray for the annual week-long campaigns, June 15-21, in four Honduran cities. Last year 21 were baptized.

Giving Baxter’s Clinic a Paved Road In March, a mission group from the Memorial Road Church in Edmond, Okla. arrived with three board members: Lynn Mitchell, Tom Poteet, and Norm Easter. The group took on the challenge to provide funds to pave the road in front of the clinic and make a new parking lot behind the clinic. Amidst work of backhoes and cement trucks, the mission group shoveled dirt, painted, and relocated the children’s playground next to the classrooms of the mothers involved in the Nutrition Program. Moving the clinic parking has allowed us to create a green space from the clinic to Baxter’s arbor. The entrance to Baxter was also moved to the clinic entrance, and the Baxter sign was moved to that entrance.

SEMINARIO BAXTER 2015 In May, the annual lectureship had as its theme, “DIACONIA (Greek for Ministry): Successful Ministry with the Humble Spirit of Christ.” Keynotes were given by former missionaries Dr. Dan Coker and Dr. Philip Slate, Baxter’s dean, Selvin Monterroso, and Baxter graduate, Leopoldo Villalcorta. The five breakout classes were: Preaching by Chris Frye, ex-missionary to Paraguay and now with Great Cities, Personal Evangelism by Salmaron, Baxter graduate who ministers in Guatemala, Song-leading by Marvin Tercero, Baxter graduate who ministers in Guatemala, Pastoral Counseling by Baxter teacher, Lupe Mayo, and Let’s Start Talking by Mark Woodwared of LST in Dallas. Elders Cesar Velásquez of the Guanacaste

congregation, and Armando Pacheco of the La Vega Church, along with Phil Slate, Dan Coker, and

Steve Teel participated in the question and answer session. There were excellent crowds of 250 – the best in many years, such that we moved the sessions from the chapel to the amphitheater. For the closing area-wide worship, Leopoldo gave an excellent

lesson on humble service to some 700 attendees.

We also honored the efforts of the

Global Campaigns. For a decade, 1981-89, the campaign crisscrossed Latin America. U.S. missionaries, Baxter fourth-year students, national Christians, and a chorus from Abilene Christian University hit the streets in major Latin American cities. They sang in parks, distributed flyers, and studied with contacts. Each night Dan Coker, educator and missionary, spoke about the Christ of the Bible contrasting Him with the traditional views of Jesus.

The responses to the campaigns were overflowing crowds, Bible studies, and many baptisms. In a one-week campaign in Santiago, Chile, 93 were baptized. In the Prado Hotel in Mexico City, the doors to

the conference room had to be closed due to the

huge crowds. It had the largest crowds and baptisms—116.

Three key individuals made this effort happen: Dan Coker who conceived the idea, Les Bennett of ACU who formed the student chorus, and Jim Frazier who organized the travel and funding.

1981 Global Campaign group singing and preaching on the

streets of Santiago, Chile

ANOTHER DIES Jose Isai died on Saturday, June 5. He was a one-year-old

in our nutrition program. His mother took him to the state

respiratory clinic. Malnourished, suffering from ashthma,

and sickly, the doctors chose to send him to the Teaching

Hospital to die ... and within two hours he died. Please

pray for his family, the 34 other children in the program,

and the six on the waiting list waiting for donors. His

mom wants to continue with the sewing classes in the

Nutrition Program to help her get a job; her husband has

a low paying job as a guard. We ask that you consider

supporting a child on the waiting list. (See info below.) ANOTHER WALKS In May, a medical group, Hope to Walk, from

Blacksburg, Va., gave the ability to walk by fitting eight individuals with prosthetic legs. The group originally came into contact with Baxter through VCOM. The need and interest is so great in this Third World nation that return trips are already being planned.

HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL In March, Randy MacAdams of Healing Hands International conducted a seminar with twelve students and our campus workers. It focused on drip irrigation and composting. The group built two raised beds in the low area behind the clinic on top of very rocky soil. Some of our students will work in poor mission areas and it is hoped that the skills learned will aid their ministry to the hungry.

Baxter Foundation “Baxter Institute and James Moody Adams Clinic”

c/o Memorial Road Church of Christ

2221 E. Memorial Road

Edmond, Oklahoma 73013-5518

Scholarship Fund—Truly it is “more blessed to give.” We need your support toward students’ scholarships. This covers room and board (married student apartments and the men’s dorm), school uniforms, textbooks, computer lab, tuition, weekend ministry assignments, six-month internship for seniors, and the annual campaign. The cost for a single student is $650 a month and $900 for a married couple.

Join the 51-51-600 Campaign and be one of 51 individuals who honor Baxter's 51-year history

with a gift of $600 (the number who have graduated).

The Nutrition Program urgently needs your support. For $45 a month you can support a malnourished child.

Consider giving directly through our PayPal Account or send checks payable to: Baxter Foundation Memorial Road Church of Christ, 2221 E. Memorial Road, Edmond, OK 73013