June 2019
Dear Co Labourers,
To God be the glory, great things He has done! Cassie and I write with exciting news since our previous letter. Over the course of the last quarter our Executive Board has been very busy. We have approved new missionary families to the Southwest as well as the Northwest USA. Another couple has committed to be a part of our “church rescue” ministry and assist struggling churches across America. In just a few days we will be interviewing another family that has filed application to take the Gospel to China. These are exciting days to say the least; days in which we have been reminded that God is not through calling His people to very specific fields of service. It is our joy here at Macedonia to labor alongside of these sending churches and pastors in order that others may hear the same good news that changed our lives. Praise the Lord!
We have had the busiest spring since our service began with Macedonia. Week after week, while staying in close contact with our home office, it has been our joy to travel from state to state as ambassadors for world evangelism. God has granted safety over the course of thousands of miles of traveling for which we are grateful. He has also given us souls for our labor. Recently, while soul winning during a mission conference at the Freedom Baptist Church of Fayetteville, NC, where Brother Paul Worley serves as the pastor, I had the privilege of leading a seventeen-year-old young man to the Lord. What a joy! I am also praying for another man I met that week by the name of David. David was so kind to allow me to share the Gospel with him; however, he has yet to respond to it. Will you please join me in prayer for David? The greatest need right now in David’s life is his need of a Saviour.
We also want to ask you to be much in prayer as Cassie and I plan two separate missions trips in 2020. We are not sure at this point if she will be able to attend both; however, our plans are to be in Africa in January, as well as Europe in July of next year. Currently we are saving as much as we can and trusting the Lord to supply the finances in order that we may purchase the airline tickets. The Lord is able! He has reminded us of that time and time again. In fact, we want to personally thank Pastor Travis Blackwell and our friends at the Westside Baptist Church of Spartanburg, SC, who have been so very gracious to send monthly support specifically designated for travel. From the bottom of our hearts we thank you. God has been so gracious to us through His people. We do not take that lightly neither do we take it for granted. We are determined to be good and gracious stewards of the support that God gives. We have set up a separate travel account here at the office as we plan for the trips I have mentioned next year. We sure would appreciate your prayers for safety as well as for the financial need to be met.
Five years ago last month, Cassie and I left the pastorate after twenty two years in order for me to serve as the General Director of MWBM. It would be absolutely impossible for me to share the names of all the people that God has used to assist us in doing what God has called us to do. However, let me say to each of you yet again, thank you. We love and appreciate you all and count it an honor to labor alongside of you for the Gospel’s sake. Therefore, in light of the great need of the world, we continue by faith.
For the sake of souls,
Dr. Scott Caudill
March 2019
Dear Fellow Labourers,
Cassie and I greet you in the name which is above every name, the Lord Jesus Christ. We are honored to labor alongside of each of you to reach the world with the Gospel. I often think of how God could have chosen any number of ways to impact this world for the cause of Christ, yet He has chosen to use both you and me. Therefore, if we are to make the greatest difference for the Lord, we must see the need to labor together. Paul wrote in I Timothy 3:6-7, I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Some of us may plant, others may water, but only the Lord can bless our efforts together to the point that a harvest is produced. We pray for that and are honored to labor with you to that end. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for your prayers and financial support.
Since our last prayer letter our travels to “fan the flame of world evangelism” have taken us to Florida, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and our home state of Georgia. Of course, when I say, “fan the flame of world evangelism,” I am not just talking about special meetings and opportunities to preach, I am also talking about being soul winners ourselves. Cassie and I remind ourselves every day to be “soul conscience” everywhere we go. Throughout the course of our daily lives we continuously come in contact with people that Jesus died on the cross to save. Please help us pray that God would use each Gospel tract and each Gospel presentation that we give to take root in the hearts of the people that hear it, thus resulting in precious souls being saved for God’s honor and His glory.
Cassie and I are also asking the Lord to use us to play a small part in helping local churches raise one million dollars this year for world evangelism. Thus far, every Mission’s Sunday and conference have resulted in an increase in faith promise giving. Praise the Lord! An increase in mission’s giving means more missionaries getting to the field and more churches being planted, thus resulting in more people hearing the Gospel message. Of course, giving is just one way we can reach others with the Gospel. We were very pleased this quarter to be reminded that God is still calling people to go themselves as we approved another missionary to South Africa. We are convinced that God is still calling men and women to the mission field! Whether it be across the street or across the sea, each of us have been commissioned by our Lord to take the Gospel to whosoever we may meet along life’s way. Here in our home office we pray daily not only for our Macedonia missionaries on the field, but also for God to burden many more hearts to surrender to do whatever God would have them to do to reach others with the Gospel. Certainly, the Lord Jesus said it best when He said in Luke 10:2b, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. Please join us in prayer this quarter that God would raise up more labourers for His harvest.
Again, thank you for partnering with the Caudill family in your prayers and financial support so we can continue to do what God has called us to do. In May of this year, we will mark five years since leaving the pastorate to become the General Director of MWBM. We are firmly persuaded to believe that the best is yet to come. Therefore, we continue by faith.
For the sake of souls,
Dr. Scott Caudill