MISSIONARY PROFILE
Tony
& Kathy
Stark
Missionary Update 12/07/2023
Sending Church: Higher Plains Baptist Oklahoma City, OK September and October 2023 Dear Pastor and Church Family, Our Annual Pastors’ Conference: We have been hosting this conference for many years. Our goal has been to encourage these pastors and their churches. We give out tracts, John and Romans, Bibles, Sunday School material, music, and Thompson Chain Bibles. We had 547 Pastors, 172 Pastors’ wives, and many church workers. October Was Our Missions Month: I told our members that I have three goals for every member concerning giving. First: Learn to tithe. Second: Continue to tithe. Third: Give to missions (Pastor Adam Thompson) weekly. God has blessed our church and our people because of the giving to missions. The Lord has taken care of our church and our Bible College because of our missions giving. I do not ever want our church to be satisfied in the area of our missions giving. I want us to do more and more to help local churches and the sending of Foreign Missionaries to other countries. Short Trip To The States: I was invited to be in a Missions Conference in Texas. I was able to visit a few of our supporting churches. I am sorry that I was not able to be with all of you. I will be returning back to the Philippines on November 24. Return Address: On the mailing envelope, the address is temporary while I am in the States. If you need to contact me, text or call me on my cell number 661-429-9039 (only temporary). We send out our Prayer Letter every two to three months. If for any reason, you do not receive our letter, please contact me by email. Pray that we will continue to do what we started to do 27 years ago when we arrived in the Philippines. I want to thank you for your prayers and financial support over the many years. Enclosed is our Prayer Cards and picture for your missions board. May God Bless you, Doug & Becky Sisson (Pastor’s Conference)
Missionary Update 01/03/2023
Dear Friends and Family, I was scheduled to fly to Rwanda tomorrow. That journey has been postponed. At the present I do not have a new date. To be very honest I just was not able to make the journey. The seizure/spells continue to increase in frequency and intensity. My blood pressure is now being affected by pressure and stress. Recently it was 218/123. I wrote in my December praise and prayer letter that I was taking a special time for waiting on the Lord according to Isaiah 40:28-31. Waiting on the Lord is not just sitting idle doing nothing. It is taking definite time and effort to look to the Lord. Kathy and I are in Florida for the month of January waiting on the Lord. Thank you for your prayers. Keep on praying for me. I believe the Lord still has things for me to do in Africa. Today I received an email from Pastor Hyacinthe in Ruhengeri. January 8th Victory Baptist Church will hold its first church service in their new building. While working with Enoch and Kinigi on the church building today, Hyacinthe led both men to the Lord. They both have families. Please pray they will bring their families and come to church this Sunday. Your missionary, Tony Stark
Missionary Update 10/03/2022
Dear Friends and Family, I will be leaving for Rwanda this Tuesday and returning on the 28th. There are a number of things I need to accomplish. Please pray for wisdom in encouraging and challenging God's laborers. Pray for more laborers according to the words of Jesus in Matthew 9:35-38. Pray for physical, mental and spiritual strength for me daily. Pray for adjustments to our approach in planting the last five churches. Pray for the power of God to be upon Calvary Independent Baptist Mission. Pray for the seed of God's word to fall on good ground and bring forth fruit. The people that make the decision for our getting a radio frequency for Calvary Radio in Kigali called Ferdinand and requested a meeting. That meeting will take place some time today. Pray that they will grant us an FM frequency. A radio station will multiply our ministry of teaching and preaching the truth to the people of Rwanda and some surrounding countries. Please read the attached article that was sent to me by someone in Rwanda. It will tell you why it takes us so long to get a building permit and why we are forced to build such expensive buildings for a church to meet. Pray for the President Kagame to be saved and to see the value of a good church. Pray for favor as we meet with government officials relative to church buildings. Last week Hyacinthe was fined $1000 because he used trees for scaffolding instead of finished lumber. He was told that the foundation for a 3 room nursery school had to be finished before we would be able to meet in our new church building. James 5:16 says ...The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Thank you for holding up my hands in prayer. A praise from Pastor Santo who is from Uganda and ministering in Congo. "We lost one of the old ladies, she got saved two weeks ago, she was a Catholic, she was old 90 years. I conducted the burial and hundreds of people attended. The Catholics wanted to bury that lady but her children sent them away, and it made many to hear the gospel." Your missionary, Tony Stark
