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 Ron Birthday 07/09
Laura Birthday 03/27
Ron & Laura Wedding Anniversary 08/07

My name is Ron Back. When I was eight years old, a missionary from a local independent Baptist church in Pierceton, Indiana, invited my brothers and me to church.  My parents enjoyed the thought of having a break from us boys every Sunday, so they encouraged us to go with the missionary family.  Shortly after this first encounter with Bro. and Mrs. Ernie Mason, I received Christ as my Saviour in Junior Church in 1980. I believe, even though I was only eight years old, that God put the desire in my heart to be a missionary, but since my family was not saved nor in a local church, Satan was able to quench that call.

My young adult years were spent out of church.  I did not get scripturally baptized until 1994 while I was attending a Baptist church in Rancho Santa Marguerita, California, during my enlistment in the United States Marine Corps.  Shortly after I was baptized, God called me a second time to the mission field under a missionary to Australia.  I went to the pastor and inquired of him about missions.  I thought God wanted me to go build churches physically with hammer and nails, not by preaching.  My pastor told me that we did not support missionaries except the kind that go and preach the Gospel and win souls to Christ, building the churches with people, not materials.  I was convinced that I was not the missionary type because I did not think I could talk or preach to large groups of people.

When my enlistment in the USMC was up, I chose to be a husband and a father instead of a career soldier.  We went back to Warsaw, Indiana, where my family was and decided to start our family there also.  Within two weeks of getting back to Warsaw in the spring of 1996, we found Open Bible Baptist Church, pastored by Sam Carns, a Hyles-Anderson College graduate.  I thought that I had finally found a home that would be permanent for my whole family.

In May of 1996, Layne Jones, a missionary to the Philippines, preached at my home church of the need for more missionaries.  This time I realized God’s call on my life. I immediately responded to the invitation and surrendered to be a missionary.  Within just a few months, I understood that God wanted me to go to Australia.

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507 State Street
Hammond, IN 46320
Field Address		 51 Queen St. Moe, Vic, 3825 Australia

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  • Ron and Laura Back Prayer Letter: 10-Year Anniversary of Calvary Baptist Church

    Ron and Laura Back Prayer Letter: 10-Year Anniversary of Calvary Baptist ChurchGod is so good! I was just mentioning to Laura how good God has been to us and to our family. It has been over 20 years that we have been sending out prayer letters, and I love starting them all out with “God is so good.” I just cannot believe what God has done for Laura and me and the kids over the years, and I don’t think we can praise Him enough. We want to thank Kim Marsack with FBMI, who has diligently proofread our prayer letters for the last 20 years and has helped me sound somewhat intelligent on paper by making sense of my thoughts and sometimes my grammatical errors.

    In September, I got to drive to the NBF (National Baptist Fellowship) in Sydney with Missionary Jeff Hallmark and his wife Regina. They had a tremendous time meeting missionaries and national pastors here in Australia. There were many of the brethren that I had been able to work with and help in attendance. The Hallmarks were able to do a little sightseeing. I showed them the Sydney Opera House, and they in turn took me to Outback Steak House (there are only three that I know of in Australia). There is a famous story (worth Googling) of a man witnessing on George Street in Sydney, and we were able to walk that path almost 90 years later.

    God has also used me to make four trips to the airport, a two-hour drive away. First, I took the Hallmarks for their trip to Canada; then in that same week, I picked up Bro. Neil Smith, an Aussie evangelist, to preach our Ten-Year Anniversary at Calvary Baptist Church. Praise the Lord, he did an excellent job, as he usually does when he preaches for us. Then, I returned him back to the airport on Monday, the 13th, and I picked up the Blanchards on the 23rd for their return from furlough. I want to thank you for all of your prayers, especially as the road mileage over the last several months has been accident- and incident-free.

    In the aged-care facility in Warragul, I have noticed God blessing exceedingly. It was a miracle that they asked me to come and start a chapel service there weekly. Then they bought us a very nice keyboard for us to play hymns in the chapel. As I was going up to Sydney, they called me. I expected it to be negative, but I was surprised when they asked me for three King James Bibles for their palliative-care carts; Beams provides Bibles for us for such a thing as this, which is a huge blessing.

    Just recently, I had two visitors come to church as a result of witnessing and letterboxing—it still works. Please pray for a young man named Wil at Fulham Prison. He has not yet trusted Christ as his Saviour, but I got to give him the Gospel. He was telling me how being ostracized in the prison and from his family for reading his Bible was affecting him. I told him it would be a shame for him to go to Hell after suffering so much because he never trusted Christ as his Saviour.

    Sincerely,

    Ron Back
    Missionary in Australia

    Published On: November 8th, 2025Tags: , ,

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