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January 2, 1997 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - A very helpful forum for Fundamental Baptist missionaries is the IBMissions list. This Internet list service was established in July 1995, as an aid to Independent Baptist missions. Missionaries can describe their fields and make prayer requests, make emergency announcements, seek meetings in churches, search for information, announce missions opportunities, communicate with pastors and other missionaries. The possibilities are endless. Pastors can communicate directly with missionaries, as well as with like-minded pastors. The Moderator of the IBMissions forum is Tom Gaudet, who is with the Old Paths Scripture Press in Amarillo, Texas. He has done an excellent job with this forum.
The Internet is the ideal communications system for such a thing. In recent weeks we have heard personally from men in South Africa, Thailand, Mexico, Kenya, England, Chile, Germany, India, Nepal, Brazil, and many other countries, as well as from most of the provinces in Canada and dozens of states across America.
Subscribing to IBMissions is free. Simply send an e-mail message to hub@xc.org, put anything or nothing in the Subject category, and in the body of the message type these two words only:
subscribe IBMissions
If you have any problems and need help in getting subscribed, send a message to TomGaudet@xc.org.
From time to time IBMissions has lively discussions of the various things relevant to missionary work, such as the proper way for churches to support missionaries; and I have found the discussions very interesting. IBMissions is an excellent forum for such a thing. It is broader-based than most forums I have attended in missions conferences. No one is under pressure to conform to any certain position. I have been impressed with the wisdom expressed by various men who have responded on this subject in the IBMissions forum.
Another service of IBMissions is posting missionary prayer letters to their web site. The prayer letters can be sent to IBMissions, and they are archived for automatic retrieval. Address letters to:
What other medium allows missionaries to participate in such discussions INSTANTLY FROM THE FIELD?