One Hope Outreach THE HUB Newsletter November 2025

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Dear friends and partners:

It is a great honor to write each month and let you know how much One Hope Outreach Ministry appreciates your prayers and generous giving. As the ministry reaches into the darkness of this world to help those in need. your prayers and financial support are a joining of your hearts and hands with us to carry the gospel to the world. Proverbs 19:17 says, “Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.”

The sewing school as well as the children’s school is up and running and is progressing quite well. The children are learning their educational basics and are eager to learn even more new things. They are also learning to sing elementary songs about Jesus.

At present, the one-day, monthly, medical physician just completed his second, one day visit to help those in need of the basic care. We are so grateful for his contribution and willingness to provide his professional help to those of less fortunate circumstances.

The community clean water well project has been completed and the people of the brick kiln area are now able to have clean water to drink and to use for cleaning and cooking purposes.

There have been two hundred reported to have received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

The need is great but God is always greater than the need. Thank you again, partners for your generous help in reaching out with the love and compassion of Jesus.

-Marvin Smith

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