Because so many of you have been giving to buy Chick tracts for missionaries, a tremendous amount has been happening. Here is a brief review of what has happened since the last printed Battle Cry.
Missionary Brian Green of Seed for the Cities is going back to the Azores. They descended on these islands in June with a team that covered the island with Chick tracts and had eight services during 21 days, seeing many people saved. Now, thanks to your giving, they are going back with another 20,000 Chick tracts. There are still many who need Jesus!
Missionary Stan Kamps has been faithfully distributing the tracts you gave him in April. He reported that the church is growing! He wrote, “We have continued with mass distribution in the greater Amsterdam area and other parts of the Netherlands as well. With fewer people out and about we have been delivering them house to house and on mass apartment blocks as here we will have access to the mail boxes... this year’s events seem to be waking them up!”
Thanks to your giving, we just shipped him another 100,000 Chick tracts, which include 30,000 for the Syrian church in Almere.
Veteran missionary Dan Cuthbertson is on a short furlough but is loading a container to go back to Ivory Coast with him, and he asked for 80,000 Chick tracts to go in that container. Your giving made that possible, and they were shipped to him in early September. He wrote that they are currently working in church plants in the port city of San Pedro and a nearby village. They are also helping with eight other church plants further north.
Missionary Paul Buskager is planning another big outreach in Mexicali, a city of 3,000,000 people. Because you gave, we were able to supply the 277,000 Chick tracts that he needs for this outreach. They pass out the tracts all over the city, and have evening evangelistic services.
Also in Mexico, we continue to work toward completion of the 2.4 million tract project for Missionary Joe Hendrigsman in Oaxaca. We have now completed the printing of more than half this project, with just 800,000 tracts to go. We have made some shipments, and Hendrigsman is already using the first ones. He wrote:
“We have been able to send some to the border of Chiapas and Guatemala. Some even went into Guatemala. We have sent some to the states of Puebla and Vera Cruz. We have received permission to give each student in the municipality of San Andres Paxtlan a Bible and they will each get two different titles of Chick tracts. This will be done in November. I just received a call for tracts for the state of Hidalgo. I will send them in the next few weeks.”
We continue to supply the evangelists of Cross Mission in the United Kingdom. These Korean believers have come to the country that gave us our English Bible (the KJV) to minister to Brits who don’t know the Lord, and also to the many Muslims that have come here. Thanks to your giving, another 30,000 Chick tracts were just delivered. In addition, we are just completing printing for a shipment of 200,000 more. You are making an impact here.
Missionary Anthony Reitberg, a veteran missionary who has spent 23 years in Thailand, preaches on the streets and passes out the Chick tracts that you provide to him. You just sent him 8,000 more.
Also in Thailand, tens of thousands more Chick tracts have gone to the workers connected with Missionary Pat Caspary. They work not only among the Thai people, but also the refugees from the terrible war in Burma, where the troops are bombing their own civilians. They receive rice, help and Chick tracts. The children also are taught, and learn about Jesus’ love for them.
We are continuing to print the Chick tracts to fill the next container to the Philippines. It will hold 2.4 million Chick tracts. The tracts from the last container (number 6) are going all over the country, bringing people face to face with their need of Jesus.
Missionary Dave Darling (Campaigns For Christ) is planning an outreach in Brazil with Missionary Brian Lawson. Your giving made possible a shipment of 50,000 Portuguese Chick tracts to supply these missionaries.
In addition, we have ordered printing of tracts for Missionary Jonathan Hernandez in Tabatinga, deep in the Amazon basin. Getting tracts to him has always been challenging, but a printing has been ordered which will travel down the Amazon River to reach him.
Missionary Ricardo Portillo came to the U.S. on a short furlough. Your giving provided him with 8,000 Chick tracts to take back with him on the plane in his luggage. Shipping there is very difficult, so this was a special opportunity to help this church planter.
Five-thousand more tracts were shipped to Missionary Mark Gerosin in Medellin, Colombia, to help with a church plant in Pitalito, a town of more than 100,000 people.
Faithful donors have provided for a second printing of 65,000 dual-language Chick tracts for the missionary in Israel. Due to import difficulties, we are printing them in Israel.
You provided 5,000 tracts for a 2026 outreach in Costa Rica, Honduras and Dominican Republic. It will happen the beginning of the year and the tracts are now waiting there for the team to arrive.
Missionary Junior Haley has been building his church for years with Chick tracts and street preaching. Your giving enabled us to send him 20,000 more tracts in October.