Jeremy & Sandra Barker2024-05-01T18:42:15-05:00

JEREMY BARKER FAMILY

ON DEPUTATION TO NIGERIA

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Jeremy 4/2
Sandra 8/24
Anniversary 3/23
Carina 1/27
Barrett 1/25
Henry 4/8
Alex 6/28

I was a teenager when my dad accepted Christ, and although he didn’t know how to explain salvation, he made sure I read the Bible.

It was through the Word of God that I learned of my need of salvation, and at the age of sixteen, I accepted Christ.

Immediately afterward, I asked God to show me what church He wanted me to attend, and a few days later, a man from Wayside Baptist Church of Ridgeway, Virginia, knocked on my door and told me that if I wanted to go to church, a bus would come by and pick me up.

I began riding the bus to church, where I followed the Lord in baptism and was first trained to be a soul winner.

Five months later, our youth group attended Youth Conference at the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, where I was called into full-time Christian service during an invitation given by Dr. Jack Hyles.

I enrolled in Hyles-Anderson College in the fall of 2000 and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in missions in January of 2005.

Sandra grew up in Germany in the home of a missionary. It was after a Missions Conference one evening that her dad led her to Christ. She later followed the Lord in believer’s baptism, and as a teenager, she surrendered to full-time Christian service.

I first met Sandra when I went to help two of my coworkers move, not knowing that they would be my future brother- and sister-in-law, as Sandra made the 3½-hour drive to help also. God used that to introduce us to each other, and at a stage in our courtship, as we are still courting, we got married.

We both have experience in the bus ministry, teaching Sunday school, and soul winning. Sandra has experience teaching in a Christian school.

I’ve had the desire to go to the mission field for years, and when God confirmed with me that it was time, we sold what we could (house, vehicles, etc.) to finance a three-month survey trip/internship to Nigeria, working with veteran missionary, David Maskey.

-Jeremy

David Maskey has been a missionary to Nigeria since July of 1994, and we are raising support to return to Nigeria to work alongside him for a brief period before starting our own independent work, which would be a soul-winning, discipleship, and church-planting ministry.

The day after we arrived in country was the 28th anniversary of Port Harcourt Independent Baptist Church, and they had…

  • 817 in attendance.
  • 170 first-time visitors.
  • 60 people saved.
  • 6 baptized.

The Nigerian people are wide open to the Gospel, and everywhere we went, they were asking for missionaries.

We are looking forward to returning to Nigeria so we can continue to reach the people with the Gospel, as well as disciple them.

-Jeremy

Roanoke Baptist Church
11015 Lafayette Center Rd.
Roanoke, IN 46783
260.478.5500
roanokebaptistonline.com

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219.276.9162
Email Address
jeremy.barker@fbmi.org
Mailing Address
5496 US Highway 220 Bus
Stoneville, NC 27048

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Jeremy and Sandra Barker Prayer Letter: Meeting New Friends!

Jeremy and Sandra Barker Prayer Letter: Meeting New Friends!The month of September had a lot of driving for us, as we were invited to share our ministry in Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Michigan, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. One of those meetings was Bible Baptist Church of Grove City, Ohio, where our family participated in a town-wide parade and helped the church pass out over 2,500 tracts. Carina, Barrett, Henry, and Alex had a blast riding along in a golf cart and throwing out candy near the end as I walked along. Later on in the month, we were all out soul winning in a mobile-home community near First Baptist Church of Geneseo, Illinois, when we knocked on the door of Sue and were invited inside. I had our daughter Carina with me, and after conversing for a bit in the living room, the opportunity to share the Gospel presented itself, resulting in Sue trusting Jesus Christ as her Saviour. Amen!

Our visa interviews were actually in October; however, some have asked about it, so I’m including it here. After our scheduled Missions Conference at New Hope Baptist Church of Leesburg, Georgia, we headed to our interview in Atlanta with 530 pages of documents, which the church had graciously allowed us to print, only to find that we needed to leave and come back with an additional 264 pages worth of documents. We were also 1 document short; however, because we had everything else and were not local, they agreed to allow us to email that 1 document as soon as I got it from Nigeria. The process took 3½ hours, and at this point, everything is in. Please pray that everything gets approved. Lastly, please pray for wisdom with housing in Nigeria. Veteran missionaries, David and Rose Maskey, are graciously allowing us to stay with them when we first arrive in the country. However, rental houses typically require a two-year commitment, with the entire lease being paid up front and a few fees on top of that. In addition, landlords are usually not willing to perform any repairs, so we need God’s leading and wisdom in this matter.

Working hard to bring fruit to your account,

Jeremy, Sandra, Carina, Barrett, Henry & Alex Barker

 

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