Our biggest efforts this year were given to revamping and launching the new and improved OTT website. While the previous website served us well for many years, this new site will make finding and accessing resources easier. Our goal is to collect and distribute high quality, Biblically based, theologically appropriate teaching materials that are absolutely free to download and use in IPHC churches and schools. Our top contributor for Sunday school material has been Dr. Terry Tramel. He is making available the years of Sunday Schools lessons that he wrote and soon all will be easy to access on the website. There are also fully developed Bible and Theology courses there along with resource material. The amount of resources is growing monthly and we will soon begin sending out monthly updates as new materials are added. The purpose of the website is to get materials into the hands of leaders to make disciples and train leaders. So far, we are seeing about 30 downloads a month. Visit the website today to see more.
OTT has also sent some financial support to two schools in Asia: college in Hyderabad, India as well as the Holiness Academy in Bangladesh. We are in contact with other educational leaders in Asia in hopes of doing more to support the work of teaching in 2024.
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OTT is very active in Africa. We worked to support discipleship efforts in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and South Africa. Many are asking for help and we hope to work in 2024 with more countries to expand access to materials and training. In October I was able to visit the Bible school in Ethiopia and speak in the graduation there where 22 students graduated from their program. OTT was able to buy each graduate a Bible and commentary in the Amharic language. I was also blessed to meet three of my former students. These are men that I trained in Kenya between 2009 and 2022. Now they are helping to lead the Bible school in Dilla, Ethiopia where they are able teach many more who are hungry to learn.
OTT is also trying to do more in Latin America. In February, we heard the testimony of the Bible school in Mexico that Ron and Phyllis Roy are supporting. This is a branch of Holmes Bible College and they are working to build a new building for this great school. OTT gave $1,000 to help this work move forward. We also donated 100 pounds of quality commentaries and theology books to the training center in Belize. Finally, we are planning with Chris and Alicia Dunlap to produce more materials in Spanish for our churches in Latin America.
In the USA, OTT is still collecting quality books to send to Bible schools and training centers around the world. In November, we were able to distribute over 600 pounds of books to leaders and teachers from at least 11 nations. This happened at the WMM Global Leadership Summit. At this event, I was also grateful for the opportunity to present our online resources and speak about the importance of discipleship. We still have thousands of books to distribute and are looking forward to helping get these books into the hands of those hungry to learn in 2024.
Thank you for your faithful support and prayers for this ministry. We will continue to help make disciples and resource the disciple makers in the new year. We pray that God will bless you in 2024.
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