Still Equipping With Your Help

Twenty years ago, Equipping The Saints was started by Keith Jones as a way of meeting the needs of missionaries and national church leaders for equipment, materials and supplies. The need still exists and we are so thankful for your help.

This past year you have helped us send hand cranked sewing machines to Haiti, as well as supplement the cost of vitamins (shipped to Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti , Honduras, India, Mexico, Nepal, Northern Vietnam, Peru, Philippines, and Vietnam).

In March ETS was able to send the Digital Bible Society a check for $10,000 to help with the production of Arabic Treasures. Arabic Treasures is a computer "Chip" that contains 300 hours of video, 1000 hours of audio as well as printed materials (Bibles, books and commentaries in Arabic or Farsi). You made that happen with your giving.

In April you helped ETS buy 1440 Bibles to send Ohene Kumi (one of our ministry partners in Ghana). We were able to buy brand new Easy Reader Bibles with soft covers for about 2 dollars apiece . Ohene has a Bible discipleship ministry to thousands of school age children in Ghana, Togo, and Liberia.

We rejoice to report that ETS was able to send Ragaee A. Danial $8,612 to purchase a Daewoo Lanos. The vehicle will be used to transport children to his evangelism festivals and to transport teachers to the villages. Thank you for your generous giving .

Throughout the year you have given countless hours of your time in volunteer labor. We have seen thousands of pounds of clothing boxed up and sent worldwide. With your help we have been able to reach out, "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of the these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it Me." Matthew 25:40

Thank you for giving to the Lord!

The ETS Staff

Celebrating 21 years of ministry

Dear Ministry Partners,

As Equipping The Saints completes 21 years of ministry, we thank God for His faithful direction and provision. Your encouragement through your prayers and gifts has played a vital role in making this work possible. Thank you!

Over the years we have seen many changes in both expressed needs and available resources. We are traveling farther to auctions and finding fewer items that can be used in ministry. This past year we have seen increased interest in our Spanish literature ( over 1700 titles), in vitamin sales to 14 countries, in technology ( computers, video projectors, etc.) as well as in the Missionary Resource Directory (installed on the ETS website), and in our used clothing (sent to countries such as Nicaragua and North Korea).

ETS sponsored several projects this past year. We were able to send Ragaee A. Danial $8,612 to purchase a 2004 Daewoo Lanos in Egypt. Ragaee has been able to start 5 new "Good News" Clubs in 5 small villages that have never heard the gospel message. The vehicle helps him to bring teachers into these villages each week.

We rejoice that over $4,500 has been raised for the Christian Worker's Personal Manual, to be printed and distributed in Cuba. This is enough for over 2250 church leaders to each receive his own copy.

ETS bought and sent 1440 Bibles to Ohene Kumi (one of ministry partners in Ghana). Ohene has a Bible discipleship ministry to thousands of school age children in Ghana, Togo, and Liberia.

What a joy to serve our Lord by serving His people!

Keith Jones

ETS Christmas Project

When you hear the word Cuba does this picture come to mind? do you think of Caribbean breezes, Cuban cigars, sugar plantations? Or do you think of economic collapse with the Soviet meltdown, US trade embargo, devastating hurricanes, corruption, poor productivity and a repressive centralized communist government?

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Challenges for Prayer for Cuba according to 2010 Operation World are:

A) Bible distribution -the need remains urgent as church growth outstrips supply. Over 1 million copies of Scripture have been printed in-county on the Cuban Bible Society Press, and many thousands are imported every year.

B) Christian literature has been extremely hard to acquire for years and is an intense need. As the church and its leaders grow, more materials are needed. More can now be imported, but permission for local printing is difficult to obtain.

Did you know that for $1.94 you can have this book printed in Cuba and distributed to a Cuban pastor?
"The Christian Worker's Personal Manual" teaches what the Bible says to church leaders.

It has 272 pages taken directly from Scripture, in combination with the experience and wisdom of Godly men and women of Christian history.


It features both subject and scripture reference indices.



List Price (USA) $10.99

Printed in Cuba $1.94


The Cuban Government has given permission to print 10,000 copies. We invite you to join with Titus International, The Cuban Church and Editorial Portavoz to make this happen.
What can you buy for $1.94?

Can you make a better buy?

This $1.94 Christmas gift can change a life.

The books will be printed as paper and supplies are available throughout the year. The Manuals (published by Editorial Portavoz) will be distributed to Cuban pastors and workers at conferences sponsored by Titus International.

Equipping The Saints delights in teaming up with ministries that share our desired to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. We believe that discipleship is the key to growing fully committed Christians and we endorse the ministries of Titus International and Editorial Portavoz.

Give Thanks to the Lord!

November is traditionally the month for us, as a nation, to stop and give thanks for the bounty of the harvest. As Christians it is a time to stop and reflect on God's goodness and to give God the honor and glory He deserves. We have been blessed at ETS with 20 years of serving missionaries worldwide. From the humble start of an overfilled basement in Keith Jones' home, to our current buildings and storage buildings in Weyers Cave, God has always been faithful to provide for His children.

We rejoice to report that ETS was able to send Ragaee A. Danial $8,612 to purchase a 2004 Daewoo Lanos. The vehicle will be used to transport children to his evangelism festivals and to help transport teachers to the villages. ETS has never been able to raise this large amount before and we praise the Lord for each of you who gave so generously.

We also rejoice to report that the Missionary Resource Directory has been updated and installed on the ETS website. Many hours of research went into the Directory as 90% of it had changed since its last updating. Many thanks to Margaret and Jerry Baron from Tomoka Christian Church in Ormond Beach, Florida for their endless persistence and tenacity in seeing to its completion. It is our hope that the ministries represented will be able to assist countless missionaries and ministries in proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ.

We were also blessed by a group from Savannah Christian "Late Church". They helped us fill a container of summer clothing for Nicaragua as well as loading a truck for a container going to Liberia. While the boys loaded the 992 boxes of clothing, the girls were feverishly packing them for loading.

We are a staff of 5 people so our volunteers are our life blood and enable us to accomplish the things we do for our missionaries. We want to thank you, whether you have volunteered your time, your talent, your money or your prayers, they are greatly appreciated and we have been blessed. Thank you. The ETS Staff

God Winks and we smile!

"God Winks" are events, gifts and unusual circumstances that God brings about in your life to let you know that He loves you. A wink is intimate....usually silent communication between two people who know each other well and share a history with each other. Sometimes God Winks are small, like hearing from a friend that you've been thinking about or finding an object at a flee market that you though was lost forever.

Five years ago God smiled on ETS and sent Tim and Joyce Duncan with their daughter Kathy, to live in the apartment at ETS and volunteer their time.

Tim is the Shenandoah Valley Child Evangelism Ministry Coordinator and has been very successful in starting after-school Good News Clubs, VBS programs and camp programs. Tim is very gifted with children and is excited to see more and more schools opening up from Winchester to Lexington.

God recently winked at the Duncans by enabling them to buy a bank repossessed home in Woodstock, Virginia for half of its value. The location is ideal for new clubs in Woodstock and Winchester. The house will put the Duncan right at the heart of where God is working and will definitely save Tim many hours on the road.

We rejoice for them but at the same time wonder who God will bring in to fill the void. Here's just a small sample of the gifts the Duncan's have given to us in the past 5 years:

Landscaping and yard work, building repairs, security, hospitality to overnight guests, organizing the Book Room and other areas, painting, sorting clothing, cleaning the building, checking out customers, operating the Saturday bookstore,office work, order processing, inventory, shipping, GIK receipts, processing used books and yard sale donations.

We know God is not without His resources and if you are one of them we would be glad to welcome you as a volunteer or to our staff.

Profiles in Partnership-Ragaee A. Danial

For 20 years ETS has sought partnerships with national church leaders around the world. We would like to introduce you to a new partner Ragaee A. Danial. Ragaee is on the board of SSTI (Sunday School Training Institute) in El Minya, Egypt. He oversees and helps develop materials for the Institute as well as directing training events. His life verse is 2 Timothy 2:2 "And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also."

In addition to his work with SSTI, he is busy working with poor and needy families, to help them meet their need for food, clothing, shelter and to teach them about the love of Jesus Christ. Earlier this year ETS was able to send Ragaee a projector and 29 Christian children's videos to use his work.

According to Voice of the Martyrs, Egyptian Christians face ongoing persecution in spite that this country has the largest Christian community in the Middle East. The country's constitution gives preference to Muslims. Christians are treated as second-class citizens, denied political representation, and often discriminated against in education and employment. While the constitution allows for freedom of conversion, Muslims converting to Christianity have often been unable to change their religion or name on their identification cards. Without the freedom to make this change, Christian women remain designated as Muslims and are unable to marry Christian men. Children of those designated Muslim (even if the are, in fact, Christian) are educated as Muslims and those with Islamic names are routinely turned away from entering churches by the police.

Larry Williams, Children's Pastor of Canyon Hills Community Church in Bothell, Washington has worked with Ragaee in Egypt 5 times and has taught in several of his training programs for teaching adults how to lead children to Jesus. Larry says, "Ragaee goes to villages where there are no churches. He will bring in 380 to 500 kids for an all day program. He transports them in a rented vehicle that is used to transport animals. He packs in about 50 kids standing and transports them to the festival about 40 minutes away from the village. He feeds them, tells them Bible Stories, prays with them and does basic discipleship. He has made a significant impact and wants to ultimately plant churches in these villages. The people he works with are desperately poor and Ragaee offers them help and hope. A vehicle would be a tremendous blessing and a great help to transport the teachers to the villages and to bring the children together."


A typical Children's Evangelism Festival will have as many as 800 kids. They are put in smaller groups of 10, given a teacher a T-shirt and play 10 games that each teach a different message about Jesus. They learn songs about Jesus, hear Bible stories, and will have an opportunity to ask Jesus into their hearts. The teacher will pray for the children about any needs they have and kids are fed 3 sandwiches, juice and chips.


This festival had 74 teachers from 20 different churches and 728 children from 24 villages that are without a church. There was a village of 64 children that were not allowed to attend due to problems between Muslims and Christians.

How can help with this dynamic ministry? We are raising money so that Ragaee can buy a vehicle in Egypt to transport these children and adult leaders. I am sure that you have been reading about Egypt in the news and you know about all the changes happening in their government and society. This is an incredible chance to make a difference in a strategic Muslim nation and possible impact other states in the Middle East as well.

Thank you for your prayerful consideration.

Grace and peace,

The ETS Staff

Reuse, Recycle and Bless Others

What has 10 wheels, drinks diesel fuel, is retired and goes up and down the east coast? If you guessed Bob Lester and his truck then were correct. Bob Lester lives in Kentucky but he will move domestic shipments for the cost of fuel and a small donation.

ETS is a drop off location for Bibles, VBS materials, Sunday School quarterlies, Christian books, Christian videos,and audio tapes. Whenever Bob is in the area, he will call us to see if we have any materials that need to be transported to Edwin L. Hodges Ministries in Decatur, Alabama. The used Bibles, literature and hymnals are shipped to Bible schools, Bible colleges, seminaries, churches, missionaries and individuals worldwide. According to Hodges' ministry one used Bible will have an impact on at least 20 people.

Charlie and Earl loaded 10,500 pounds of literature and materials on Bob's truck during his last visit. We strongly urge you to check with your church and see what happens to your Sunday School materials, VBS supplies, and other literature. Rather than throw it out, why not bless other Christians you may never meet this side of heaven?

Thank you for supporting us to we can support other ministries to proclaim the "Good News" world wide.

The ETS Staff