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World Missions Far
Corners, Inc. was founded in 1958 by the late Dr. J. Leonard
Bell. When he passed away in August 2001, the work continued under the
leadership of his wife, Mildred E. Bell, until the Lord took her Home in
November 2006. Patricia Murdock-Cook, who joined the office staff in 1964, and
who served as the ministry's Executive Secretary/Treasurer from 1973 until
Mildred Bell's death, continues to move the ministry forward, as President,
along with a staff of capable, dedicated workers who share the same vision for
ministry as Dr. Bell. The work initially began in Old Mexico making audio
visual aides for primitive people. These visual aides were used in 45
countries. Then we crop dusted the Gospel by dropping Gospels of John from
low-flying airplanes. Native Evangelism began March of 1964. Today the ministry
of World Missions Far Corners, Inc. is world wide, ministering in North
America, South America, the Islands of the sea, Europe and Asia. "Far
Corners" is the name of the outreaches of World Missions Far Corners, Inc. that
are legally organized and recognized in third-world countries as indigenous to
the country. It is a faith fellowship of New Testament evangelists brought
together by the Holy Spirit to present the claims of Christ, care for the
suffering and establish churches according to the indigenous principles of the
New Testament. (Acts 1:8) World Missions Far Corners provides a canopy
for many missionaries. This includes the handling of their finances, receipting
donor gifts and mailing out their newsletters. These missionaries serve in a
number of countries and are a part of the evangelism effort on five continents.
Far Corners is nationalizing the work as quickly as possible. We believe it
important to minister to the whole man -- body, soul and spirit. Many unique
facets of evangelism are used to reach special groups of people: Chaplains
ministering in U.S. penal institutions, Church planting, Day Care Centers, Film
Ministries, Leper Hospital and Clinics, Literature programs, National Training
Centers, Native Evangelism, Newspaper Evangelism, New Life Centers the
rehabilitation of former prostitutes and their children, Rice Kitchen
Ministries, River Launch Ministries, and schools for the children of Scavengers
and Slum dwellers. In the U.S. and in Canada a daily radio broadcast on select stations is heard across the
nation.
Dr. J. Leonard Bell
Founder J. Leonard Bell began
his missionary career over 60 years ago. What started as just one young man
with conviction and call, seeking for the perfect will of God, seeking the
Lord's special assignment for him, has now become one of the largest private
missionary societies in all the world. Since it was just the one man on a
mission, through a number of transitions and designs, there has now developed
World Missions Far Corners, with ministries spread over five continents with
about two thousand individuals involved directly in some form of ministry, and
multiplied hundreds of thousands directly serving the Lord, and multiplied
millions of individuals introduced to the Gospel. |