Looking back on a year of ministry

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope this will be the most fulfilling and fruitful year of your life and ministry! Before I share with you about our upcoming ministry events for this year, let me share with you how last year ended:

Our ministry concluded December 5-7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is one of the most dynamic cities the Lord has ever sent me to preach the Gospel. The photo to the left was taken from the hotel room I stayed in…the view was breathtaking! I spent hours watching from the window and praying over this beautiful city that desperately needs the Savior of the world—Jesus Christ!

We worked with a church that had two locations in different parts of the city. The pastor and church leaders prayed and prepared these two congregations for several months and their hard work was blessed by the Lord! The church members took this opportunity seriously and applied the OPERATION ANDREW strategy our ministry uses for our crusades, which is where Christians are mobilized to PRAY for, and INVITE, and BRING non-Christians and un-churched Christians to the crusade. The two congregations of this one church together has about 300 people in their Sunday services. As a result of their prayer and bringing people to this crusade, 500 people attended this unique one-night Crusade Event held in a public theatre (photo below), which means approximately 40% of those attending were visitors! God moved in great power and 70 people made a public decision for Jesus Christ! The church had an immediate follow-up system in place that is now in full motion to help make disciples of the new believers and the Christians who rededicated to God! Here are some testimonies:

One lady in the church, who prayed for and invited some of her friends and family to attend the crusade, saw two people she invited make life-changing choices. Her sister, a Christian already, attended the crusade and came forward to publicly rededicate her life to Jesus! A second woman, an acquaintance, came forward to accept Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior! This woman had been struggling with depression and after the crusade service she talked to, and prayed with, the lady who invited her to the crusade, and this helped her begin processing the depression she had been “stuck” in. A third person who made a commitment to Christ said this, “Today I can say that my past life will only be a memory to me and will serve as an example of how God can restore my heart, my family, and my life!”

Your prayers and support helped our ministry to end last year impacting lives in Argentina—Thank You! We begin this New Year of ministry next month in India…may more lives be changed forever!

For a New Year of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ,

Scott Nute

Merry Christmas from Argentina!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! What a joy it is to share with you what Jesus Christ—The Baby born on Christmas day—did through our project two weeks ago in Honduras! Born in that manger so long ago, HE is still changing lives today!

Over the past several months the churches in Gracias, Honduras united together to pray over, and prepare for, an Area-wide Evangelistic Crusade. During the two nights of the Crusade (photo to the left), over 4,500 people (which is 12% of the regional population) attended to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ proclaimed through worship, testimonies, and the preaching of the Gospel! In tandem with the crusade, we proclaimed God’s Word in the local junior high and high schools. It was a glorious display of how God in the Flesh, born in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago, is still powerfully impacting the world today! During this project we saw over 600 people make a public decision to repent from their sin and turn to Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior! Our website www.scottnute.org has a video clip of this event for your viewing.

There were numerous testimonies of lives that were touched by the Lord during this Crusade, such as the young woman in a wheelchair who, in spite of the rain, had her friend push her forward so she could make her commitment to Christ! One of the pastors involved in the outreach said, “The Crusade was backed by the Holy Spirit, and we received a great blessing hearing evangelist Scott preach the message of The Cross.” Please pray for the local churches as they continue the follow-up of those who trusted in Christ during the Crusade and School Programs.

As you read this letter, I will be arriving in Buenos Aires, Argentina. What a blessing to spend a portion of the Christmas season serving with my brothers and sisters in reaching people in Argentina with the Gospel! December 5-7 we will conduct strategic evangelistic events with a “mother” church and their church plants. On the closing Sunday all the churches will meet together in a public movie theatre where I have the privilege to proclaim Jesus Christ. We will also conduct a Leadership Development Conference in connection to these single-church “crusades.” Please, join me in praying for many Argentinian moms, dads, single adults, youth and children to come to know the Savior of the world this Christmas season through these unique outreach events!

We are already preparing for our projects next year in India, Bangladesh, Honduras, and other countries. Your generous end-of-the-year CHRISTMAS GIFT will help us to continue our ministry around the world! It is exciting to know we will be starting the New Year—2015—proclaiming new life in Christ to people who are not only seeking meaning to their lives for a new year, but are seeking meaning to all the years of their lives! THANK YOU for all the support and prayers you gave to our ministry this year! I am forever grateful to you!

Merry Christmas,

Scott Nute

Preaching Hope in Honduras

In a few days I fly to Honduras for our next project, a Region-wide Evangelistic Crusade November 5-8 in Gracias, Honduras! In tandem with this event, we will proclaim Jesus Christ Crucified & Resurrected to hundreds of students and teachers in local schools, such as in the Philippines’ school program photo below. Please, join us in prayer for a sweeping move of God that will stir the regional population to come hear how wonderful it is to know and follow Jesus Christ, just like in Acts 13:44, where the Bible says,“…almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.”

There is a special place in my heart for the Spanish-speaking world because my mom, brother, and I are from New Mexico…our hometown is Las Cruces, NM (my mom, Pat, and my brother, Todd, still live there. Please, pray for God’s will to be done in their lives). Growing up in the Hispanic culture is a natural part of who I am, and I connect with the Spanish culture better than any other. I can hardly wait to preach the Gospel in English and then listen as a Honduran pastor interprets and preaches the words into Spanish! The local Honduran churches have been working hard for the past 5 months praying and mobilizing for this event. The photo below is a copy of the thousands of flyers, posters, and banners, along with radio and TV spots, that have now saturated the entire region with news of, and invitations to, the crusade. We are asking and believing God for a HARVEST of people to turn to Jesus Christ…to then become active and growing disciples in the local churches! God is moving because the word began to spread during the preparations for this crusade, and two other towns in Honduras have now invited our ministry to conduct crusades…God opens doors!

I want to say a special thank you to my home church, Houston’s First Baptist Church (HFBC), because they recently gave a $5,000 “Challenge Gift” to our ministry! The financial support from HFBC, and allowing our ministry to host our annual “BENEFIT DINNER” at the church, is helping our ministry add more PARTNERS who help us cover project needs, such as the $13,400 budget for the current Honduras project (our next benefit is February 20, 2015, and those of you in the Houston area are invited to join us for an evening of fellowship, good food, and hearing about our ministry!).

Since we first announced that HFBC gave our ministry this “Challenge Gift,” other people felt moved in their hearts to take advantage of this opportunity to help us multiply this gift, and you can too! You can give a Safe, Secure, & Easy online gift today on our website. Some people prefer sending a gift directly to our office, while others prefer giving through stocks, bonds, and planned giving. If you choose to help us equal and surpass this $5,000 challenge gift, your gift of any size will help families and young people all over the world say YES to Jesus, and they will have their lives and souls changed forever! THANK YOU!

For Honduras,

Scott Nute

Using all means to save souls

It is “WORLD SERIES” time! October is when the world baseball championship is played; when old memories from over two decades ago return to my mind…the great memories of when God allowed me to play professional baseball as a pitcher in the minor leagues for the Detroit Tigers. To share a brief testimony with you…

I went on my first mission trip in 1989 with a Christian baseball ministry called “Athletes in Action.” We were in Honduras, and it was there that God divinely opened the door for a Latin Scout to sign me to a free-agent contract after he watched me pitch an exhibition game against a Honduran national team. It was a dream come true that God allowed me to play pro baseball as a platform to proclaim the Great News of His Son, Jesus Christ! During my second year of professional baseball, however, I had a “freak” accident to my pitching shoulder that ended my pro baseball career just as suddenly as it had begun. At the time I was devastated, but now, 25 years later, I am so glad the Lord allowed me to get injured and that HE shut the door to play baseball because shortly after the injury God called me to be an evangelist (at first I didn’t even know what an evangelist was). Never in my farthest imagination could I have dreamed that God would still be using baseball in my ministry today as a stage to proclaim the Great News of His Son, Jesus Christ. Sports is a major area of common interest internationally and some people who would not normally attend a “religious” event are “drawn” to come and hear a former athlete, and thus hear the Gospel presented. Sports also can open unique doors to reach young people (such as the school outreach in Hong Kong in the photo below). Our next project just “happens” to be in the country where it all began 25 years ago—Honduras! And, guess what is being used as a major part of the publicity for this Crusade?—Baseball! Praises to God for His Sovereign plans!

 A great verse in the Bible says, “Whatever you do, do it ALL for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). Our ministry is doing all we can to use all God gives us to reach and train people to follow Jesus Christ and to be laborers in His Great Commission of reaching the world with the Gospel. Because of the support we receive from people like you, we are able to conduct projects like the one coming up November 4-8 in Gracias, Honduras. Your support covers project expenses for such vital things as: public transportation rentals to bring non-Christians to and from the crusade services, training & follow-up materials, Bibles, sound system & stage rentals, food for the training conferences, posters & flyers, personal travel costs, and other needed expenses. Thank you for your partnership!

Churches throughout the region of Gracias, Honduras have been praying and preparing the past 4 months for this Crusade…praying for people to turn to the forgiveness of sin and eternal purpose Jesus Christ offers to us all! Please, join us in prayer for a powerful move of God to start in, and spread throughout, Honduras!

Still “pitching” the Gospel for Jesus,

Scott Nute

PRAY for Honduras & Argentina!

We have upcoming projects in Central and South America. Your prayers for the souls of men, women, and  youth to come to Jesus Christ will pave the way for the Gospel! Please join us in prayer for lives to be changed and transformed from the inside out in these upcoming projects.

Last month in Honduras 130 pastors and church leaders attended our Pre-Crusade Church Mobilization Training (photo on left). In preparation for the upcoming crusade November 4-8 in Gracias, Honduras, the pastors and church leaders received training in various areas, such as OPERATION ANDREW, a personal evangelism strategy we use where Christians PRAY for, and INVITE, and BRING their lost friends and family to the event. These leaders will now return to and equip their congregations with the same strategy they were instructed with. We also distributed 100 New Testament Bibles and 5,000 evangelism tracts to the local pastors and churches, both in Spanish. For this project we will be working with churches from various denominations in the area and also churches from surrounding villages. We will be proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ to the entire vicinity of 35,000 people through an Area-Wide Evangelistic Crusade. In tandem with the crusade, we will take our School Program into local schools to reach students with the Gospel, and we will also invite all the students and teachers to attend the crusade and encourage them to bring their families and friends with them. God is already moving…through the preliminary events we saw 45 people make a public decision for Jesus Christ!

Then, December 3-8 I will travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where our ministry will be conducting “Single Church Crusades” in this alpha-city with a metropolitan population of 12 million people. These single church events are essentially the same as our outdoor area-wide crusades, using the same practical mobilization strategies of prayer, personal evangelism training, and post-event follow-up to connect those who commit to Christ to the local church. We will have evangelistic services in three local churches and then conduct a final meeting where the churches will meet together in a neutral location, a theatre. We will also host our Leadership Development Conference, where pastors and church leaders from throughout the area will gather for ministry training.

If you will remember to pray for the people of Gracias, Honduras, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, what a blessing that would be! Pray for the Holy Spirit to prepare the hearts of the people to respond by faith when they hear the message of The Cross.

Your prayers and financial support are a continual source of strength and encouragement! Thank you!

For reaching Central and South America,

Scott Nute