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GETTING MARRIED
Outreach

international

LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO TERI

Teri Layman and I

a lot of time with her dad

the field.

"have known each other for

forward

cruitment and all the other

Texas in the summers. Teri

and mom, Mark and Janet

Layman. They spend a lot
of time going overseas,
making trips to encourage,
preach, teach, and serve

has not been in the States

missionaries all over the

for us as we embark on a

during the school years for

the past 10 years now.
Due to her being in China
and teaching English widi
an organization called
ELIC (English Language
Institute of China), Teri
has spent her school years
there teaching English and
most importantly, sharing

world.

new life together.

several years. We got ac

quainted at our home
church here in CoUeyville

the love of Christ.

Teri

and I have spent a lot of

time together in the sum
mers with the Singles group
at church.

I have had the

oppommity to get to spend

Teri and I look

to

working

to

gether in the work of re

reasonability's we wiU have

in the mission. Please pray

Outreach International

Jonathan Hamilton

Teri and 1 plan to

be married August 9, 2003.
Teri is in China right now
and will return late June.
Teri will be coming back to
the States to help me in the
work the Lord has given me

P.O. Box 952

Bedford, TX 76095
(817)355-9598

E Mail: jonham@flash.net
O.I. Main Office

in Outreach International.

Widi her mission experi

P.O. Box 72

ence and abilities in teach

Bethel, MO 63434

ing English, she will be a

(660) 284-6528

great asset to the work of

reauiting, training, and
seeing recruits from contact
stage to overseeing them on

shamilto@niaTlawa in .net

As it says in

Romans chapter
10, How beautiful
are the feet of

THANK YOU FOR YOU SUPPORT

I want to thank

you for all your support

over the years to make it
possible for me to continue
the work that the Lord has

I also praise God for the

great health to be able to
do this work and travel.

really enjoy contacting peo

ple and helping them do

efforts and see these re

the work that God is lead

ing them to do in going

cruits go and work for the

Lord starring campus minis

time without your support.

overseas

tries and churches.

serving

glad tidings of
good things.

God in countries that so

desperately need tlie Gos

pel of Christ. It has been
good to see God use these

given me. 1 wouldn't be

able to do this work full-

and

those who bring

May we all be seen

with beautiful feet,
having a part in
reaching the lost.

RECRUITS
We praise the Lord for peo
ple that stand up to the task of tak
ing the Gospel of Christ to places
that are un-reached. Sonja and 1
were up at Lincoln Christian Col
lege in Febnmry and both spoke at
workshops. One young lady, after
hearing Sonja speak, has decided to
pursue going overseas for at least
one year to work.
We have Kevin and Andrea

Mclnturff and their two kids mak

ing plans to go back to Budapest

GOING

OVERSEAS

Hungary full time to work. They

also plan to oversee a new campus

ning a orientation for them in June,

before they leave.

ministry in Slovakia and wherever

else we can get into in that area.
Vanessa Vannoy from
Ozark Christian College and Brent

Charles and Bridget Ulibarri are planning to join the team

in Equatorial Guinea in a year and
a half, after some training at SIL in

Messimer ftom Central Christian

Duncanville Texas.

College of the Bible, are both plan

ning to go to help our team in
France with the local church there

and work with the already existing

campus ministry there. They plan
to go this September. We are plan

Please pray for these people

as they make plans, raise support,
and make all the preparations for
going to the field. We are glad we
can be of service to them to help
them go where God is leading.

MISSIONARIES ON THE FIELD

We do continue to ask for

your prayer for all our missionaries

on the field. This time in history
can be a difficult time and a more

greater degree than ever before.

The church in Sudan con

tinues to need our prayers. Dad

just got back from a three week trip

from teaching an advanced course

for preachers there in Mbale
Uganda. He had 8 students from
Sudan.

stressful time for them than normal.

With the war going on, all

Our missionaries in South East Asia

have this flue epidemic to be look

ing out for among everything else.
Christians are continually being
persecuted around the world to a

4000 CHRISTIANS CONTINUE TO

BE KILLED FOR THEIR FAITH
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY

TWO WEEKS, THAT WE KNOW OF.

our

missionaries

overseas

are

on

alert with the political situation the

way it is. Pray tlie Lord may be glo
rified in all these things.

FUTURE PROJECTS AND CONTINUED WORK

We are continuing
to look for students to be involved

in the research project of un

reached people groups. After the
research, they make a survey trip,
and together we find someone to
go. We desperately need more info
on all 3000 un-reached peoples so
we can determine what it will take

to

get

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missionaries

in

there.

My income last year was

$15,500 total. That included living
an mission expense.
Obviously
Teri and 1 are going to need at least
$10,000 more to live and to travel
to these Bible Colleges and Campus

ministries. Please pray that God

will provide these funds to make it
possible to continue with the work
and responsibilities that we will

have together in O.l.

Our heart in recruiting is to

find people that God is calling to go
to these countries that desperately
need the Lord. Having been en
couraged, and informed about the
needs and opportunities, they can
make a decision that they might not
have even thought about before.

GETTING MARRIED

OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL

Board ofDirectors

Churches

Advisory Board

President

Recruiting involving
Visiting Colleges and

Consultant Services

And USA support services

Churches

Holding interviews
With potential

Informed and Interested

Recruits towards mission work

Recruits

Pre-field training

Orientations

Starting churches in un-reached areas

Through Campus Ministry or any other
Strategy needed in that coimtry

See the recruit to the field and oversee the work until they
are on their own, unless they decide to stay under
the mission organization, Outreach International.
Texi Layman will be helping Jonathan Hamilton, as his future wife, in
all the following responsibilities he has as president.
To oversee all daily and usual duties of the corporation and its activities in the USA and
abroad. To enlist volunteers for service in the USA and appoint Field Directors for overseas field
projects and USA programs for recruitment and development. To design field orientation pro
grams and conduct and arrange for conducting interviews of recruits and volunteer missionary
teams or individual missionary volunteers who will be associated with Outreach International
ministries.

OUTREACH

INTERNATIONAL

Directors

Churches

Advisory Board

President
Jonathan Hamilton

I FuUTime
I Missionaries

j Recruiters

I &Trainers |
George & Connie
Keralls (Russia)

USA Support Services

& Consultants

New Missionary Recmits

(long & short term)

A1 & Annette Hamilton

Kevin & Andrea

A1 & Annette

Bill & Anne-Caroline

Hamilton

(Bedford, Texas)

Mclnturfif (Hungary)

Baird (France)

(Bedford, Texas)

Karen Richardson

Jonathan Hamilton

(France)

(Bedford, Texas)

Allen & Betty Pierce

(Equatorial Guinea)

Teri (Layman)

Double Vision
Christian Ministries

(Haiti)
Labors of Love

Wayne & Judy Black

(Haiti)
Youth Ed. Services

Roland Joseph
(South Africa)

Kathy Lyies
(Research Projects)

Vanessa Vannoy
(France)

Jonathan & Teri

Charles and Bridget

Hamilton

Steve & Laurie

(Equatorial Guinea)

Brent Messimer

Hamilton

(Bedford, Texas)
Westlake

Sonja Hamilton
(Bethel, Missouri)

Stacy Gamer
(St Louis, Missouri)

(Starting Aug. 9,2003

Bedford Tx. Office)

(France)

Ulibarri

(Equatorial Guinea)

Outreach

International
Outreach International
P.O. Box 952

Bedford. TX 76095

TCease Cook at the insert with this

Phone; 817-355-9598

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Fax; 817-355-0272

E-Mail;jonham@flash.net

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July 8th 2003

Orgauization

Dear Friends,

Summers are usually busier than normal, and this one is no excep

tion. In some ways, busy for different reasons. Teri arrived here in the
DFW area on May 13th from China. She arrived about a month and a half
early, due to the SARS epidemic in her area of North West China. It was a
pleasure, of course, to have her back early. So, between spending time
with Teri and doing some traveling, the past couple of months have really
been busy.
Teri and 1 drove up to Bethel Missouri for a mini orientation with
Vanessa Vannoy. Vanessa is a new recruit that just graduated from Ozark

Christian College and is going to be spending a year in Poitier France with

our team there. Vanessa will be involved with the campus ministry along
with Karen Richardson, one of our team members.

She will also be in

volved with the local church with Bill and Ann Caroline Baird.

We had a

good time with Vanessa.

While our orientation was going on, Wayne Black, our missionary
that spends a lot of time in Haiti and is over our Haiti projects, came and
built a storage shed there on the office property in Bethel. The storage
shed will be used for missionaries goods that they store here. The office

house attic is about ready to cave in and a storage shed was needed badly.
After our orientation in Bethel, we drove to St. Louis to have our O.I.

bi-annual meeting. Stacy Garner, who does our short term summer intern
ships with Outreach, hosted the meeting at the church where he minis
ters- Ferguson Christian Church. We had a great meeting. We had most of
our board members there and several of our board of advisors. The meet

ing was very informative and we felt a lot was accomplished with new
projects such as the invitation for Outreach International to return to
south Sudan, recruiting opportunities expanding with Teri coming on
board as my wife while being involved in the work here in the office as
well as her being a big part of recruiting missionaries, the research pro
ject for un-reached peoples expanding euid growing, and hoping to get a
good video done of the work of Outreach International, in the near future.
Other things were discussed too, all in all, we had a good meeting.
By the way, we want you to let us know if you would like us to put
you on an e-mail list where we can send newsletters to you via e-mail.

Please e-mail me at jonham@flash.net to let me know if you would like

to be on the mailing list. Thank you!

Teri, her dad Mark, and 1 went up to Englewood Kansas a couple of

weekends ago and shared. The church up there is one of Teri's support
ing churches. It has been good to be out speaking, going to camps and
being out with people. Teri and 1 also help out and attend church regu
larly at DeSoto Christian church here in DeSoto Texas, when we are in
town. We enjoy the people there. We are hoping to get Teri involved in
several things within the mission as well as teaching locally. There are a
lot of opportunities that we can take advantage of. Highland Meadows
Christian Church has also asked Teri to help out in the missions depart
ment there two days a week. We will try to help as time allows. So many
things to do and so little time.
Teri's grandmother, Eileen Layman, passed away the day after our
Board meeting, we went to Oklahoma that Sunday and were able to be
there before she went on to Glory. What a great example she was to
everyone around her. It was truly a pleasure to know her and we look
forward to seeing her again in Heaven some day.
Teri and her mother, Janet, have been doing a lot of work getting
ready for the wedding. I have been trying to stay out of the plans. Her
dad has been painting the church house here where we will live. It
seems like a lot is going on.
I am looking forward to spending a little over a week with Csaba
and his wife, Bettie. Csaba was one of our good church members in Hun
gary when I was there several years ago. He and his wife are here in the
States and coming to visit the 16th of this month.
It is always neat to see God still working in the areas where Out
reach International has had the privilege of working and starting
churches and missions in un-reached places. We praise the Lord for all
that He does in us, and through us. May the work of the Lord Continue.
My prayer is as long as we all are alive, we will strive to serve Him more
and do more for the Kingdom as God has given us the privilege to be a
part of the task of reaching the lost for the Gospel of Christ. Pray that
we will be faithful to the calling that He has given us. As Jesus prayed,
That the world may believe that God has sent Me. John 17

God Bless all of you! Thank you so very much for all the support
that you give, prayers and Financial help to make it possible for us to
serve the Lord in this way. We praise God for the all that we have seen
Him do.

Your Servant,

Jonathan Hamilton

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OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL
JKONATIHIAN AND TEKI HAMllLTON.

October/November 2003

Npinr

We were married on August 9 and are enjoying married life and working together

as partners in Outreach International. It is evident that God prepared us for each

other and for the work He's called us to do. Our combined years on the mission

field and our experiences and passion to reach the unreached peoples of the world
make us a team united in goals and vision. Many have told us, even in the few
months that we've been married, that we truly complement each other. We have
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had fun setting up house together in Bedford, Texas and have been doing a lot of
traveling in the past few months as well. As we are writing this letter, we are driv
ing fi"om Missouri backhome to Texas; enjoying the colors of Fall.

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OUR TRAVELS

October has been fiiU of speaking appointments and ministry opportunities. The
first weekend of October we took part in a CIY missions emphasis conference

called "On Purpose" in Tulsa Oklahoma. We had a display to represent 01 and

were able to talk to a lot of high school and college students about mission opportu
nities around the world. The second weekend of October we attended another CIY

conference at Dallas Christian College for youth leaders, where Jonathan led a
workshop entitled "Evangelism in the Post-Modem Age." While we were at DCC
we were able to visit with Nathan and Jessica Pykkonen, who are Outreach Interna

tional missionaries returning to Cameroon, Africa when Nathan finishes his school
ing at DCC in a year and a half.
The third and fourth weeks of October we traveled to Missouri and Indiana. While

JonatiUtn <C

in Missouri we met with one of our board of advisors who is helping us with a new

project of putting together a video for Outreach International. On Sunday we had

the privilege to visit Countryside Christian Fellowship in Lebanon, Indiana. We

Outreach International

Jonathan Hamilton
. President

PC Box 952

Bedford, TX 76095

thaii the Lord for their love and support over the past fifteen years. We enjoyed
sharing with them. After church on Sunday, we met with a family about a possible
new project in New Guinea. Please keep this project in your prayers. We'll keep
you updated as things progress. Later that week we also met with a group of stu
dents from the university campus ministry in Kirksville, Missouri.

817.355.9^

The last weekend in October we are planning to visit New Life Christian Church in
Chickasha, Oklahoma. In November we plan to speak at Mt. Fork Christian
Church in Mena, Arkansas. And of course we plan to attend the National Mission

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ary Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio where we will have a booth and we pray for
many opportunities to share during that time. We hope to see youthere! Be sure to
stop by our booth and say hello.

Check us out on the web...

www.outreachinternationaionline.org

NEW PROJECTS

Charles Ulibarri, an 01 recruit with his femily planning to go to Equatorial Guinea next year, is currently
helping us get an 01 website up and running. The website is under construction at the moment, but otir pur
pose is to have a website available for recruiting purposes as well as updates on some of our missionaries.
The address is www.outreachintemationalonline.org We hope you'll take a look at it.
We are in the process of putting together a video for Outreach International. We hope it will be useful for
motivating and recmiting people as we look for teams to place in unreached areas around the world. We
are praying to have the funds to be able to complete this project with Good News Productions within the
next few months.

As we mentioned previously we have a family making a three-year-plan to set up and build a literacy center
in New Guinea. They will be making a trip in November to New Guinea to get Outreach Intemational reg
istered in that country so they can begin the project. Please pray for them as they meet with all the officials
and get all the paperwork in order. They will be there for six weeks in November and December.

Outreach Intemational has recently added one more local preacher in Haiti, Obison Joseph. Obison works
with Wayne and Judy Black with Labors of Love. Please keep him and his family in your prayers as he
ministers to the church in Haiti.

Two men, James and Moses, that A1 met while in Sudan have asked Outreach Intemational to help and be
involved in youth ministry in Southern Sudan. Funds are needed for them to continuein this youth ministry
full-time. They've also asked A1 to spend some time with them, and he plans to do that when he makes his
next trip to Sudan. Please continue to pray for the persecuted diiirch in Sudan.

RESEARCH PROJECT

Outreach Intemational has had an ongoing research project under Youth Educational Services (YES) pro

gram targeting unreached people groups around the world. We are looking for people to do research on a
specific unreached people group and then make a survey trip to that country to find but what it would take
to get a team in that country, with the ultimate goal of planting a church among those people. We believe
that university students ^e in a good position to be involved in this project. Please pray for us as we try to
find students to take on this chaUenge.
WIAYER REQUESTS-

Pray for our OI personnel in France, Haiti, Equatorial Guinea, Russia, Southeast Asia, and our office

and recruiting st^inthe USA

Pray for those we've talked to about overseas work as they consider the needs and their part in service
To meet all the opportunities we have, we need additional funds to be able to travel to churches and Bi
ble colleges and university campus ministries for recmiting

Here at home we continue to minister at DeSoto Christian Church, a small church in the Dallas area, as we
work with the youth on Sundays and Wednesday nights. We also continue to work with the missions team
at our homechurch. Highland Meadows Christian Church. We taught a citizenship class at HMCC this Fall
helping people wMi the process of becoming a citizen of the US, which includes a test in history and gov
ernment.

If you would like us to visit and share with your church or youth group, let us know. Thank you all for your
prayers and support and your partnership in this ministry that God has given us. God bless you.
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jfONATJHlAN AND TIERII HAMILTON

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We trust that your holidays were happy and blessed. We began this let
ter a month ago and it was our intention to wish you a Merry (Christmas;
however, we have not been able to get this outto you until now, January
1 due to Jonathan's health and hospitalization.
/^\bout a week before the fjational Missionary (Convention in Novem
ber, the doctortold us not to travel because Jonathan was showing signs

of achest infection. Me spent three days in the hospital and was treated

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for infection and r^ection. JTie week of Thanksgiving he was sent home
with IV treatments. The doctors changed his anti-r^ection drugs, hop
ing that his spirometries (lung function) would go back up, but during the

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weeks to follow they did not prom Uecembcr 15 through the ^ist,
Jonathan was in the hospital being treated for infection and r<^cction.
We came home for four days and ended up back in the hospital for ten
more days. Jonathan's lung capacity is still low, but seems to be heading

up. f' I[__! fleasejoin us in prayer that Jonathan will return to full health,
as (jod wills.

pmathan S. Sefd

Outreach International
Jonathan

In November we met with a lady who is Joining the O^^treach |ntema~

tional team to work with Alien and E>etty perce in E-quatorial Guinea,

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West Afnca. We had an interview with Mendall f^odgcrs here in E)ed-

817-35^^^^ ford, and are excited about her being involved with the literacy program in

cjuatorial G^'^ea, as well as other ministry opportunities. 5he is planpierces when they return in January, please keep
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Mendall in your prayers as she raises support and begins ministry. A"d
for the pierces asthey return after a short stay in the states.

Check us out on the web...

www.outreachmternationalonime.org

Jesse and
Pryor and their two children are the family that are working toward getting Out
reach International registered in New Gi^inea. "They are planning to build a literacy center in
order to help one of the tribes learn to read the >ible in their own language as it^s being trans

lated at the present time. Tiease pray that OI will successfully get registered and for the f ryor
family asthey make plans to move and begin their workOutreach International has been invited to register and work in ^udan, Africa. J~h's opportu
nity has come about as a result of the ministry with Voice of the Martyrs that A Mamilton and

M'ke 5"i'th have been a part of over the past two years. Or. 5rn'th will be trying to raise funds
for medical assistance, and Al will be in charge of evangelism and preacher training. Wo have
two local Sudanese evangelists that we are currently wor^'ng with. 5hawn ylor, a missionary
in (Jganda who was invited by Al Maniilton in ZOOZ to work in 5udan, and his team have com
mitted to help in preacher training with their E>ible school in Mbale, (Jgaoda.
Outreach International had a good board meeting at the National Missionary Oonvention in
O'ocinnati, where most of our board of directors and advisors were able to attend. The board

meeting went well, and much was accomplished. We were disappointed that we were not able to
be at the Oi^nvention or the board meeting, due to Jonathan's health. We have had to cancel

several speaking engagements and conferences that we had scheduled in ebruary because
Jonathan is still in recovery and on high immune suppressant drugs. We'll use our time "in" on
some specific projects, such as avideo script, country and university profiles, and research.
The year ZOOJ has been full of changes and excitement for us. We were engaged on New
Years F ve. and then spent four months apart while | finished my ministry in (Jhina. ] returned
to the states in M^y, and we were married in August and began right away to work together as
one, having the same goals and vision for seeing the world reached with the (jospel ofJesus
(Jhrist. The end of the year was a somewhat challenging time for us, but, as always, (jod saw
us through, jje renewed our strength and gave us wings like eagles. Wc p'"3f^ that ZOCH- will
bring many opportunities to serve.
Love,

Aw'
Jonathan and T