New Hope International Ministries

New Hope International Ministries NHIM was founded to provide people and funding for the Great Commission. NHIM was founded to provide people and funding to accomplish the Great Commission.

NHIM’s goal is to promote missions awareness at the local level, to offer opportunities for service on short-term mission trips, to support existing works, and to provide medical/financial assistance to those in need. NHIM stands firmly on its commitment that 100% of all donations go directly into ministry.

In the days following Pentecost, the young church of Jesus experienced explosive growth. From 120 in the Upper Room, to ...
07/15/2025

In the days following Pentecost, the young church of Jesus experienced explosive growth. From 120 in the Upper Room, to 3,000 on the Pentecost-crowded streets of Jerusalem, to people being added to their number day by day, a new thing was clearly happening. A new family was taking shape.

Across the intervening two thousand years, the church of Jesus has gone down a lot of rabbit trails and diverged into many different traditions and spiritual practices – some good, some a little weird, some downright unbiblical. It is a good idea, from time to time, to look back at the early days of the church of Jesus, review the impact of the Gospel message and the presence of the Holy Spirit in the lives of these early Christians, and consider how our lives compare to the early days of the movement. Is the message of the Gospel and the presence of the Holy Spirit producing similar fruit in our lives as it did in the lives of the early believers?

Church attendance in our country is in steep decline. Since the 1990s the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans has nearly tripled from less than 10% to now over a quarter of all Americans. Mainline denominations are hemorrhaging as leadership drives them further from orthodox Christian teaching. Explosive growth in non-denominational churches often becomes flashes in the pan as corruption and abuse are exposed. Small rural churches struggle to reach younger generations and marginalized communities. The culture at large views Christianity as a religion of hate, not of love. It is easy to get dismayed about the state of the church of Jesus in our day.

But when we read the accounts of the early church, we read about a sense of awe, and signs and wonders, and gladness and sincerity of heart, and praising God together, and sharing meals together, and taking care of one another, and having favor with all people, and abundant grace being upon all, and people being added to their number day by day. I think the church in our day could use a little of what that church had, don’t you?

What characterized the church of Acts 2? Verse 42 tells us: “They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Over the next few days, we will look at each of the things to which the early Christians were “continually devoting themselves”. Perhaps we will find some guidance for our own local communities in the example of the first followers of the Way. Stay tuned…

~ Matt Kinnell, NHIM Board Chair

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The NHIM board gathered this past weekend to reflect on the Lord's blessings as we continue to engage in missions at hom...
01/28/2025

The NHIM board gathered this past weekend to reflect on the Lord's blessings as we continue to engage in missions at home and abroad. It was a meaningful time of laughter, fellowship, and renewed focus on our mission. We are grateful for how God continues to work through this small but impactful organization. Stay tuned throughout the year as we share updates on HIS work and ways you can be part of the mission of New Hope International Ministries.

Recently Bro Roy Lauter was able to preach at Ohio Christian University. Here is a video of his sermon. Of course it has...
12/04/2024

Recently Bro Roy Lauter was able to preach at Ohio Christian University.

Here is a video of his sermon. Of course it has a classic Roy sermon title, One More Night With the Frogs.
The sermon begins around the 17 minute mark.

https://youtu.be/QfRkn1XVxg8?feature=shared

Just a few photos of a New Hope missions trip with Asbury University students to Costa Rica. Will continue to share more...
05/23/2024

Just a few photos of a New Hope missions trip with Asbury University students to Costa Rica. Will continue to share more photos over the coming weeks.

This Little Light of Mine- A thought from Bro Roy. For more snippets, visit https://newhopeinternationalministries.wordp...
05/21/2024

This Little Light of Mine- A thought from Bro Roy. For more snippets, visit

https://newhopeinternationalministries.wordpress.com/

Perched high on a shelf in my family room is a small tin lamp. This antique miner’s lamp is one of my treasured possessions. My attachment to it may be traced to the fact that many of my extended family members from Eastern Kentucky were coal miners. In the early days, the only way to see in the inky, black mineshafts were these small oil wick lamps. Miners hung cap lamps on their hats as they worked in the mines. The lamp produced a modest, smoky flame, but they burned brighter and longer than candles. Perhaps by modern standards the flickering light was very dim, but in the total darkness of a coal mine it was a welcome, life-saving light.

The expression, “Better to light one small candle (lamp) than to curse the darkness” seems appropriate here. This saying has a spiritual corollary that encourages use to let the light of Jesus shine in a sin-dark world. Jesus said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:15, NKJV).

It sometimes seems the darkness is slowly enveloping our world. If you doubt that, just watch the news. Violence stalks our streets. Mass shootings are becoming a daily occurrence. Robbery, r**e, and home invasions are showing an alarming increase. Hatred and prejudice divide people in our nation and around the world. Addictions touch almost every family. Homelessness is in the millions and overdose deaths are in the tens of thousands. Human trafficking, sexual perversion, and po*******hy darken human interactions.

Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.” Jesus said, “I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should stay in darkness” (John 12:46). The Apostle Paul wrote these powerful words to the church, “For God, Who said, ‘Let there be light in the darkness’, has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6).

Each time I look up at the small miner’s lamp on my shelf, my heart sings:

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine…
Ev’rywhere I go, I’m gonna let it shine…
Jesus gave it to me, I’m gonna let it shine…
(Public Domain)

Prayer: Lord let me rest in the ‘eternal truth’ that darkness cannot extinguish the ‘Light’.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:5)

~ Brother Roy

A Mother’s LegacyWhat a blessing and a treasure it is to have a legacy of faithfulness passed down through generations. ...
05/15/2024

A Mother’s Legacy

What a blessing and a treasure it is to have a legacy of faithfulness passed down through generations. If you had such a legacy handed down to you, please, notice that. Thank God for that. Honor that.

But maybe that just isn’t the case in your personal history. Maybe the advantage and privilege of having a mother and a grandmother who faithfully passed the truth of Scripture down was not a reality in your upbringing. Maybe you didn’t have that important example of faithfulness to emulate. If that is the case, I’m sorry that you did not have that benefit.

But if you have received the grace and love and salvation of Jesus Christ, why not start that legacy with your own family? Your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren, need the prayers and encouragement and wisdom and love that you can offer. That which you’ve received from Jesus, pass along to those under your influence.

This idea of a holy heritage is something that goes even beyond motherhood and fatherhood. Mothers and fathers are by nature placed in a position of influence over their children, but you do not have to be a mother or a father to share a legacy of faithfulness. That’s why God envisioned the church as a family: so that regardless of physical bonds or kinship, we all can build one another up and admonish one another to righteousness.

Don’t be afraid to be a Eunice or a Lois to anyone you encounter. Don’t be shy about pouring your faith and the truth of the Scriptures into people around you. Who knows but that the person you have the ability to influence might just become a Timothy or a Lydia or just a faithful believer who is committed to living under the lordship of Jesus Christ.

~ Matt Kinnell NHIM Board Chair

I have recently had a heart-wrenching encounter with bureaucracy. My cancer had returned, and I needed a very expensive ...
04/26/2024

I have recently had a heart-wrenching encounter with bureaucracy. My cancer had returned, and I needed a very expensive medication. My insurance company approved the drug, but I would be responsible for a small co-pay. The co-pay would be $3,323.00 a month for the foreseeable future. It was an amount that was beyond my financial means. I started the process of requesting a waiver of cost from the drug manufacturer.

I came face-to-face with a bureaucracy. I sent page after page of forms; I made phone call after phone call; I sent fax after fax. Days passed without being able to obtain the urgently needed medication. A month passed. Then news came that my application and necessary documentation was finally going to a review committee.

As I anxiously awaited the committee decision, I remembered something my dad told me when I was a boy. My dad came to saving faith later in life than most. He became an active and committed member of the local Methodist Church. Because he was eager and able to serve the church, he was soon loaded down with jobs. Eventually, he was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Committees. That committee was to review the church roll of active members, identify and recruit potential members for the numerous committees.

One evening after a particularly long meeting, he came home weary and frayed. He said to me, “Son, remember this – ‘For God so loved the world, He didn’t send a committee!’” With my recent experience fresh in mind, I want to affirm my dad’s observation. After many anxious days of waiting, the committee finally met and approved my request.

How grateful we should be that we don’t have to go through a committee, a preacher, a priest, or a bishop to have direct access to the Lord. On Calvary the way was cleared for us to come directly to Him. The veil of separation was torn top to bottom (Matthew 27:51). Such an act of grace is beyond understanding. No paperwork, no panel of judges, no review board is needed. “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9, NIV). We have this blessed assurance from God’s word: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9, NKJV). Words from a Charles Tinsley hymn are beautiful: “Nothing between my soul and the Savior… Jesus is mine! There’s nothing between”.

Prayer: Lord, we thank You for opening the way for us to come directly to You. We need no committee or creed. “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all” (I Tim. 2:5-6, NKJV).

~ Brother Roy

Imagine you are approaching the starting line of a race. You stretch out your muscles, trying to loosen up any tightness...
03/21/2024

Imagine you are approaching the starting line of a race. You stretch out your muscles, trying to loosen up any tightness that might lead to injury. The starting official approaches you. “Are you really going to run dressed like that?” What the official was noting was that you are dressed more for shoveling snow than for running a sprint: heavy boots, stiff denim jeans, a bulky sweatshirt, an overstuffed parka, a backpack filled with books. Who would attempt to run a race weighed down by all that?!?

The writer to the Hebrews encourages us to “rid ourselves of every obstacle and the sin which so easily entangles us, and run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1, NASB). If we are going to be effective citizens of God’s Kingdom, if we are going to find our place in the Gospel vocation of “His Kingdom come, His will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”, we are going to have to strip off and leave behind spiritual baggage that is weighing us down.

Before we can move forward to pursue the life of righteousness to which God has called us, there are things of which we must rid ourselves. Maybe it’s a specific sin in which we know we shouldn’t be engaging. Maybe it’s a grudge or bad attitude that we just can’t let go of. Maybe it’s an unhealthy relationship. Maybe it’s something we’ve prioritized over God’s Kingdom, like wealth or success or politics. Maybe it’s that thing inside us that makes us want to have our own way. Maybe it’s a prejudice or hatred against someone who is different than us. Maybe it’s an insistence on our own comfort that prevents us from being generous to our fellow humans in need. Maybe it’s a spirit of unkindness toward someone. Maybe it’s just plain old self-centeredness. These kinds of things are weights – spiritual baggage that keeps us from being what God has called us to be.

Sometimes weights are not necessarily bad or evil. Judson Van de Venter was a Pennsylvania art teacher and an accomplished musician, singer, and composer who was also a faithful member of his church. He began to feel that God was calling him to go into full-time evangelistic work, but he was afraid that if he committed himself to full-time ministry, he would have to abandon his dream of becoming a recognized musical artist. One night as he was struggling with this conflict between his art and his calling, Van de Venter sketched out the words to a song:

All to Jesus, I surrender, all to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him, in His presence daily live.

All to Jesus, I surrender, humbly at His feet I bow,
Worldly pleasures all forsaken – Take me, Jesus, take me now!

Once Van de Venter was willing to surrender – to lay aside – his ambition as a musician, he was able to walk into the calling that God had for him as an evangelist. He preached all over the U.S., England, and Scotland. Late in life, he took a teaching position at Florida Bible Institute, where he influenced a young student named Billy Graham.

And that great hymn of surrender he penned? It has been sung from the smallest churches to the grandest cathedrals. It has been performed everywhere from Billy Graham Crusades to the Grammy Awards to the Oprah Winfrey Show. And to think he worried that if he surrendered his ambition to God, his art would never have an audience.

Sometimes God has a way of taking the things we lay down for Him and returning them to us in ways we never imagined. But first, we have to surrender them to His purposes – to be willing to leave them behind if that’s what He requires.

The writer to the Hebrews admonishes us to rid ourselves of any obstacles or sins that would weigh us down in the course God has set before us. Whether that admonition calls to mind something specific in your life, or you want to commit not to hold back any encumbrance that the Spirit might reveal to you, now would be a great time to pray with the hymnwriter:

I surrender all! I surrender all!
All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all!

~ Matt Kinnell, NHIM Board Chair

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From Brother RoyAfter a tiring day, I returned home to find I had received a certified letter. My wife had signed for th...
02/13/2024

From Brother Roy

After a tiring day, I returned home to find I had received a certified letter. My wife had signed for the letter. She handed it to me when I came in and sat down. It was from my primary care physician. This was the first time I had ever heard of a certified letter being sent from a doctor to a patient. I must admit the letter caused me no small amount of angst. I opened the letter nervously.

The letter indicated the results of recent blood work had returned from the lab. Those results had prompted the letter. My doctor wanted to be sure I came in soon to discuss the findings. The elevation of certain scores could be signaling the return of an aggressive cancer. I had received extensive treatment for the cancer ten years earlier. It took me a few minutes to calm down and think of my next step.

I recalled a sermon I had preached decades before titled ‘The Letter’. The sermon focused on King Hezekiah, who had received a distressing letter. “And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord” (Isaiah 37:14). Now, I knew to what to do. My wife and I spread the letter before the Lord and prayed. Then I made an appointment to see the doctor.

What a blessing it is to know the God of all comfort. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4, NKJV). The awareness that the Lord is with us in all of life’s circumstances allows us to face each day without fear. God’s promise is to comfort and help us amid our worry. “For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you” (Isaiah 41:13, NIV).

If you happen to receive a “disturbing letter” in any of its many forms (it could be a phone call, an email, a text), my advice to you is to spread it before the Lord. “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7, NKJV).

“I prayed to the Lord, and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears.” (Psalm 34:4)

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