February 2010  
Volume 4, Issue 2
  YAIY
Yahweh's Assembly
 
       
in Yahshua
 
             
YAIY NEWS    

What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.                                              

     

     — James 2:14-17 NIV

 

 
YAIY
   
   
   
   
   
     
   
Getting the Truth Out, Around the World
     
     

It is no small task to accomplish the Great Commission of getting the truth of Yahweh’s Word around the world. On a regular basis we take large amounts of literature to the post office that goes around the world to such places as Madagascar and Japan.

     We also continue to see an increase of interest from various areas in South America, India, Africa, Philippines, and Australia to mention a few. This all costs money, and yes, we are now asking and letting everyone know that more is needed. We are at critically low levels.

     Out of necessity we are currently holding off from sending literature overseas and paying other bills. Please help. We don’t want to see the mail just sit here. We would like to get it into the hands of those who are in need.

     This last January has been one of the most exciting and yet hardest months for us, because we are now at the busiest levels we’ve ever seen. More phone calls; more online requests; more seeking local fellowship; more seeking Yahweh and baptism into Yahshua’s Name! While all this is great news, we need more funds to meet the demands.

 

Please Give

We are asking everyone to please pray and give what you can to help with the current crisis. We are at a crossroads. We feel we must continue to stay the course and provide for all that are asking and to continue printing the needed literature to help, but without the funds to do so we will plateau and not be able to expand the work forward.

      Currently there are usually only two workers here in the offices with two others coming in as needed. Other volunteers also share their time as they are able, but without funds we won’t be able to continue sending the literature out nor have regular employees helping. Two, in fact, are now looking for other work but hope to continue helping Yahweh’s Assembly in Yahshua reach out as they are able.

    

Questions and Answers

Q: Do you accept donations and what is the money spent on?

A: Donations are welcome to further the Good News of the coming Kingdom of Yahweh and His Son, Yahshua the Messiah and King of kings. This is done at Yahweh’s Assembly in Yahshua (YAIY) via mini-studies, booklets, audio CDs, video DVDs, and a bi-monthly magazine called the YAIY Beacon. Newsletters such as the YAIY News, Sister’s For Yah and Kid’s For Yah are sent out monthly. Websites by

the same names have been built, are being maintained, and a new one called Teens For Yah is on its way.

     All of these, along with the New Moon Report website, are tools to proclaim Yahweh’s Word to keep brethren and co-workers informed.  A new Bible Correspondence Course is currently being developed and the Revealing The Truth telecast is a weekly program that has started to go out to cable stations for viewing. Some of these local stations have viewers surpassing 600,000.

     Donations in the form of monetary offerings and regular tithes also help pay for equipment, maintenance, heating & electricity, not to mention all the postage and packaging to send out available study materials.

     
     
     
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Master, you know all things; you know that I love you." Yahshua said, "feed my sheep." -John 21:17b NIV

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
       
       
   

   In This Issue

 
       
       
    Getting the Truth Out  
  Philippines Update  
  Bible Verses to Consider  
  Maintenance Fund  
  3 Easy Steps  
  Christian Sabbath?  
  Prayer List  
     
     
     
 

Q: Do your ministers receive salaries?

A: Many “Churches” have salaried ministers. However, none of the speakers or writers of YAIY receive compensation or funds whatsoever for those things (such as writings for the Bible Correspondence Courses, YAIY Beacon, mini-studies, booklets, or any speakers for Sabbath Services or the Revealing The Truth telecast); this includes all deacons and elders. They all have regular jobs of their own and even tithe and give regular offerings of their increase.

      In the daily office operations there are only a handful of workers, none of whom receive salary, but do receive an hourly wage. There are in-house materials that require skilled pre-press, press, and collating skills. There is editing done to all media and then dubbing of masters which is a regular activity at YAIY headquarters. Administrative and secretarial work, such as ordering, answering phones/letters, and helping in the other areas, is also done. In all of this, there is no overtime pay, and in fact, many hours are donated to make sure that the monetary donations (which include regular tithes and offerings) go to furthering the work.

 

Q: Can I send a donation using a credit card?

A: It was decided by YAIY's Board of Directors at the outset that no donations were to be accepted using a credit card. Reasons for doing so is the cost of time to send each to the appropriate credit card company, postage to do so, and the percentage charge the credit company charges for each charge we would accept. This, we feel, would not be using tithes and offerings for Yahweh's work. Besides, one can easily overuse credit cards and become mired in debt.

 

Q: How do I send in a donation, can I send cash?

A: Please do not send cash through the mail, but rather a check or money order made out to “YAIY.” All donations are tax-deductible and a receipt is sent upon receiving each donation. A year end statement is sent showing the total donations received throughout the year. Donations should be sent to:                      

 

Yahweh’s Assembly in Yahshua

2963 County Road 233

Kingdom City, Missouri 65262

 
   
 
               
 
 
Philippines Update

We just received word from Elder Eddie Tadea (YAIY Chairman, Philippines) that he had visited Gandiangan to visit brethren and check on lumber to be used for the construction of an assembly structure. This project, Yahweh willing, will start in March 2010.

    A comprehensive restructuring has taken place in the Philippines this last year, with members and other leaders joining with Yahweh’s Assembly in Yahshua because of the continued dedication to following Yahweh’s Word and keeping doctrines pure.  Too many, it is recognized, are not paying attention to sound doctrines, but rather are keeping with traditions of men and are allowing  false teachings to go forth.

     Teachings that are contrary to the Bible cause problems for those just coming to understand that the Heavenly Father has a Proper Name and that it is an impossibility that the Savior could have ever been called “Jesus” in His lifetime.

     We, as Yahweh’s people, need to come together! Let’s work together and be a strong light showing Yahweh’s way to people. This world needs to see Yahshua living His life within His people, living and teaching the same things He lived and taught.  It is not acceptable for us to live and teach things contrary to Yahweh’s Instructions, in the body of Messiah.

      Please keep the brethren in the Philippines in your prayers as they become an increasing bright light for those in their area and beyond. Focusing on the right path will lead others to it also. May Yahweh bless His people!

 
 
 
 
 
Bible Verses to Consider

Genesis 44:18b “you are equal to Pharaoh.”

Just as Yahshua is said to be “One” with Yahweh, John 17. However, They are separate Beings, Yahweh is also still above Yahshua, 1 Corinthians 11:3.

 

Deuteronomy 2:4b-5a “be very careful...do not provoke them (Esau).”

We are not to provoke Esau. Today, Islamic peoples are seen as probably descendants of Esau. Genesis 28:9 Esau/Edom married one of Ishmael’s daughters and Esau was already Ishmael’s nephew. So, Ishmael and Esau are tied by marriage and family history, but even more so by their similar characteristics. Arabs today say they are from Ishmael.

 

Deuteronomy 18:13 “You shall be blameless before Yahweh your Elohim.”

Deuteronomy 30:11a “this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you.”

Does Yahweh give His people instructions that cannot be followed? Is Yahweh a liar? (Roman 3:4)

 

Deuteronomy 32:1a “Give ear, O heavens.”

The start of the Song of Moses, see also Exodus 15:1-21. Though Moses was also known as a leader, he was evidently also a song writer.

 

Above verses taken from the NASB. Look for future “Bible Verses to Consider” in YAIY News to come. These aren’t in the Quick Bible Verses booklet (insert for the back of your Bible), but you can add them to the appropriate sections.

   
   
               
 
               


He who despises

his neighbor sins,

but blessed is he who is kind

to the needy.

 

—Proverbs 14:21 NIV

 

  
     
YAIY
 
   
   
   
 

Yahweh's Assembly in Yahshua

2963 County Road 233

Kingdom City, MO 65262

 
 
 

Main Line: 1.573.642.4100

Toll Free: 1.877.642.4101

Fax Line: 1.573.642.4104

E-Mail:  Newsletter@YAIY.org

 
   
MAINTENANCE FUND
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Three Easy Steps

Getting the made-for-cable program called “Revealing The Truth” into your local area is as easy as 1, 2, 3:

 

1.  Check your local listing, phonebook, or call a local station to find out if there is a “Public Access Station” for your viewing area. Note: they may tell you of a station outside of your viewing area that you could take media to once a month. Please consider doing this as it can help fulfill the commission we are given to proclaim the coming Kingdom and other Good News of Yahweh’s Word.

2.  Contact us with the station information and then let us send you a sample DVD. If you prefer we can contact the station directly, but normally they will want a sponsor. You can fill this vital role and be part of the work that Yahweh is accomplishing in these end times.

3.  Once we have confirmation that the station will accept our programming, we will provide one month, (four 1/2 hour programs) of the weekly telecast, each episode being a different one.

     

The above will allow you to share Yahweh’s neglected truths into the homes here in the United States, but there are also ways the program can be shown overseas as well. Video DVDs will be acceptable to stations overseas. Made-for-radio audio CD versions are also now available. Four new 1/2 hour programs each month!                

 
Christian Sabbath?

Some will say that they obey the “Christian Sabbath,” but when asked if they observe the 7th day Sabbath, the day called “Saturday,” they admit that they actually keep the 1st day of the week called “Sunday.”

     Keeping another day holy, other than what Yahweh made holy, is lawlessness and a lie in general. Sunday came into being as an adjustment to fit in with the pagan “Sun” worship. Hence, the day “Sun-day” was instituted as law by a man named Constantine, who was a pagan sun worshipper himself. The Emperor Constantine’s law said:

     “All judges, city-people and craftsman shall rest on the venerable day of the Sun. But countrymen may without hindrance attend to agriculture, since it so often happens that this day for sowing grain or planting vines, so that the opportunity afforded by divine providence may not be lost, for the right season is short. 7 March 321 [C.E.]” (Cod. Justinianus III xii 3) Introduction to the History of Christianity, by Dr. Tim Dowley, Fortress Press, 1995, page 152.

     It is interesting to note that Constantine made sure that the food harvests were uninterrupted. He may have been aware of the Sabbatical land rest that believers in Yahweh were to keep. In a sense he may have, as the saying goes, “killed two birds with one stone.”

 
Prayer List

Elder Dick Vaow, Hap Tew, Alice Findling, Cindy Gustke and Family, Michelle Love and Family, Jewell Holt, Dolores Parker, Elder Don and Mil Mansager, Maxine Conrad, Patricia Prince, Terrel Frasure, Donald Appling, Lois McDonald, Beth Watson, Beverly Filbertson, David and Barbara Creel, Renee McKinsey, Vincent Gay, David Jones Jr. and Family, Larry Skinner, Charlie Pelton, Brenda Lewis, Mike Matney, Tami Lanphere, Robert Dorchester, Dries Van Zyl,  Angela Sulton, Daphne Griffith and Family, Donald Carringer, Clare Kane, Rusty Bullinger, Lance Bullock, Elizabeth Bailey, Rosemary Henry and Family, R.C. Fernald Family and Friends, Donald Huck, Ricardo Delgado, Gerald Bennet and Family, Elder Buel Hallpike, Manuel Longoria, Al Jones and Family, David Wilson, Mark Williams and Family, Heidi Ann Eve Isdell, Diana Silva, William Borgne, Stella Rogers, Sean Rogers, Gloria McDuffey, Al Pagano, Bernadette Figueredo, brethren around the world, world leaders, Jerusalem and all the land of Israel.