One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter October 2025

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Dear friends and partners:

Thank you for joining hands with One Hope Outreach Ministry every day with your prayers and financial support. As you support the work of this ministry you are helping us carry the gospel to those in need.

The Bible, in the book of Acts 1:3 says that after Jesus’ crucifixion, burial and resurrection, “He showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them for forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” He said to His disciples on the last day of His forty-day appearance, “you shall be witness of me unto the utmost parts of the world,” (This author’s paraphrase).

As followers of Jesus, One Hope Outreach Ministry has extended its ministry to the country of Pakistan. The ministry there is to one of the many brick kiln areas. The brick kilns are places of very impoverished people that are living in slavish like conditions. The men, women and children are usually under-nourished over-worked and sometimes very horribly treated.

One Hope Outreach Ministry recently provided medical supplies for a one-day medical clinic that helped some of the people with basic care. We also supplied sewing machines and started a sewing school for the women. They are learning to make and mend clothes for their families and others. Also, your support has enabled us to start a school for the children. There are currently thirty-seven enrolled in the learning sessions. A well for fresh drinking water is needed so the people can have clean, healthy water. One Hope is currently planning to have a new well drilled that will service the community of people near the brick kiln.

Thank you once again for your contributions and prayers. That is what enables us to answer the call to share the good news of the gospel.

-Marvin Smith

One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter September 2025

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Dear friends and partners:

Thank you for you generous and steadfast giving which enables One Hope Outreach Ministry to continue spreading the gospel through many outlets.

From Here to There:

Have you noticed bumper stickers that say “I’d rather be fishing”, “I’d rather be flying,” etc.? There is a tendency in the makeup of humanity to believe things could always be better doing something or being something other than what is presently at hand. The imagination can project one into a better circumstance or better station in life, over “there.” The belief is that peace and contentment can be found by being over “there” or by doing this or that.

When circumstances or situations can be improved upon, we should strive to change or make things better. Sometime there are things that take time to change or maybe are beyond human ability to change or control.

The apostle Paul was one that found difficult circumstances and situations in his own life and ministry beyond his own ability to change or control. In reflecting upon the many difficulties, he said -“I have learned, whatever be my outward experiences, to be content” Phil 4:11 (WEY). Paul had learned to be content regardless of the situation. The contentment he is talking about is an inner peace, an inner knowing that God was in control of his life. In Acts chapter 16, Paul and his traveling partner, Silas, was arrested, beaten and thrown in prison for preaching the gospel and casting the devil out of a young girl. A most undesirable situation. I am sure he wanted to be somewhere over “there” rather than the “here” situation and circumstance he was in. So, what did he do? The Bible says, “at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God”- not for the terrible “here” situation, because God did not cause it. They prayed and sang in spite of it; “and the prisoners heard them”.

The Bible narrative continues to unfold by saying, “and suddenly there was a great earthquake” that shook the prison doors open. When Paul and Silas’ prayed and praised at midnight; their darkest and most isolated moment; God brought about a change in their difficult “here” and released them to a more desirable “there.”

Learning to be content is not an instantaneous transformation of life but a continual process of completely trusting God in all things big and small. Learning to pray, and praise God in spite of circumstance or situation is a good place to start a change for your life.

Now is the time to trust God and submit all to Him, allowing His peace to master your inner being while He changes the very difficult “here” into a more desirable “there.”

-Marvin Smith

One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter August 2025

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Dear friends and partners:

Thank you for your generous support each and every month. Your prayers and financial gifts to this ministry are seed sown into the lives of those who hear the gospel through the various media outlets and the Home Church Group of One Hope Outreach Ministry.

13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? 14 The sower soweth the word. -Mark 4:13-14 (KJV)

The Eden within:

In the Holy Bible’s creation account, God made man in His own likeness and image. Since God is Spirit then man in likeness is also a spirit being. The spirit of man is the heart of man, the innermost part of his existence. In the innermost part of man, “the heart” God has enabled man to receive words that come as seed planted. In Mark’s gospel account (4:14-20 KJV) Jesus likens the heart of man to soil of which seed are sown and the seed sown here are words. In this scripture account some seed fell on hard, rocky soil and didn’t produce anything while other seed fell into good soil which produced abundantly. The seed in this parable was all the same. The determining factor was the condition of the soil or the heart. The hard, rocky soil represents a hard heart that is resistant to truth. The good soil represents a tender and open heart to the truth.

When the seed of gospel truth is received into the heart and acted upon, that seed will then produce a harvest of eternal value both in this life and in the life hereafter.

What about you? Has the soil of your heart been tilled lately? Are you receptive to the life changing message of the Holy Bible? I urge you to open the Bible and read afresh with an open heart to receive. God will meet you there!!

-Marvin Smith