God's Way Is The Best Way! ~by Rev. Dr. Jeffry David Camm Toowoomba, Australia

Despite what man thinks or does, God is still in control of this planet. He has his plans all mapped out from before time was invented, and He will still be in control well after time has been extinguished, and there is new heaven and a new earth.

We have seen through the teachings of His prophets, that God Almighty laid out the foundation plans for his “selected nation” [Israel] to be an example for all other nations to follow.

Through Moses, He made a covenant with the Nation of Israel that they would be His people, and He would be their God.

When they were obedient to His plans for their nation, He poured His blessings upon them, and there was peace and prosperity in their nation. However, when they were disobedient to His plans for their nation, God was merciful and sent warnings to them through His prophets, to give them a chance to repent, and turn back to His plans. If they did, there was peace once again for the Nation of Israel.

But if they refused to turn away from their wickedness, their rebellion against Him, He withdrew His blessings, and famine, disease, wars and even captivity, erupted against them.

This is the pattern that God Almighty has set out for each nation. Through Jesus Christ, it is also a pattern that God Almighty sets out for each person who commits their lives to God Almighty, through the saving blood of Jesus Christ.

God has promised to guide us and teach us, through His Holy Word and through His Holy Spirit. God has made us into new creations, so that we can start afresh in His Son, without the “inherited baggage” of past generations, and of our past lifestyles.

God has given each of us “a special gift” that each of us can do well, for the glory of His kingdom. This gift is for us to use for the Body of Christ, to glorify Jesus Christ, not to glorify our denomination, or to glorify ourselves.

We are to use our individual gifts to strengthen the Body of Christ, so that the world will know that we are Christians by our love, firstly within the Body itself, and also in Satan’s domain, the world of unbelievers still outside of the Body of Jesus Christ.

Next year, (if God permits) I will celebrate my 60th year on the mission field. It has been a long and sometimes difficult journey, but such an exciting journey and I have seen mighty changes happen to villages, towns and cities, even countries, as the Word of God has spread under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

To give just one example: In 1959, the people in Singapore were less than 10% Christian. Now there are less than 10% of the people in Singapore who are not Christian. What a mighty change in a nation in 60 years! What a mighty change in their economic situation as well. Peace and prosperity, no wars, and no terrorist attacks. God is now clearly protecting that nation.

This can happen to any nation, who proclaims at the national level, that Jesus Christ is sovereign in their nation. This requires the leadership in the Churches at the national level, to be actively promoting Christianity in the political arena, because Satan is definitely promoting his own agenda there, without any opposition from the churches, and because of this lack of opposition, he has successfully promoted legislation which is directly contradictory to God’s word to become the laws of the land. [Abortion, SSM, LGTBI, and “assisted deaths”] to name just a few.

These are just some of the 43 countries where 39 churches have been planted.

When I came back to Australia in 1993, I saw the need for people to have a simple series of teachings, to get them interested in reading their bibles, to study their bibles and to become engaged with Jesus Christ on a one-to-one level; to get to know Him as their “personal Saviour”, not some distant spiritual being, who lives in Heaven, but who came down to earth 2,000 years ago, just to prove that He existed. No! Jesus came to earth to save sinners! That was His primary role then, and it still is today.

Those people who have accepted Jesus, are commissioned into His service, into His army, to follow His example, to go out into the streets, the highways, the streets, and the lanes, to preach the good news and to bring people to Christ; so that the Person of the Holy Spirit can convict them of their sins, and that they can then be washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ.

That is our primary role, as commanded by Jesus Christ Himself in the scriptures. Unfortunately, some denominations put other priorities ahead of their primary responsibility, as laid down in the scriptures.

So, over time, I prepared teaching messages, which became part of the Bible College teachings at Bethel Ministry Training College in Coffs Harbour, where we had an accredited Certificate III course in Practical Ministry and Theology, established in 1999 and implemented in 2000.

Once that college was established, Rani and I moved to Toowoomba, where I continued to develop teaching courses and went to teach them in Western Australia at the Eagle Rock Indigenous Bible College, in Perth, in short-term, block sessions.

In 2006, it was decided that the University of Southern Queensland [USQ] would develop a faculty of religious studies, but the Federal Government reduced their University funding, so the University was forced to allocate what funding they had, to existing faculty courses.

In 2007, Rani and I went to Kenya to do a 10-day Leadership seminar for Pastors and Elders. Over 250 pastors and elders attended the class sessions during the day and many others came for the evangelistic meetings at night. They had no church in the village where we were to have the seminar, so they built one out of corn stalks. There was no electric power, just one solar cell, which connected to a car battery, and it was enough power to run a small amplifier with 2 microphones and speakers. The picture of this “corn stalk church” is now used on Facebook for another website. [Christians in Forgotten Nations].

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Teaching in the corn-stalk church in Ogembo, Kenya in 2007, with some of my teaching books on the table

Night revival meeting, Ogembo, Kenya 2007

Dedicating a set of twins in Ogembo Kenya, 2007

Ordaining 6 husband/wife teams into the ministry for God’s service.

Elementary school – with only a temporary roof

Rudimentary school in the Elimonya orphanage of 300 children, Ogembo, Kenya.

Another orphange school, Kenya

Rani Camm, and Elijah and his wife & children, who built these huts and run this 300 children orphanage

Victory Life in Perth, which has a fully accredited Bible College in Perth, liked the idea of having an “eastern campus” in Toowoomba and it was planned to register and have accredited a Certificate IV course here at Victory Life in Toowoomba.

In 2009, I wrote the course material for 10 subjects for this Certificate IV course and it was accredited by ACOM, to be taught in any RTO in Australia, under the newly created National Vocational Education Legislation, which standardised all trade and vocational education in Australia.

It was scheduled to start in January 2010 and we had students registered to commence that course, but at the last minute, it did not happen. It was not part of the plan that God had for this course. That revelation came 6 years later!

From 1986 onwards, I have been writing teaching books and by 2010 there were over 25 books published and available online for anyone who wanted to learn more about Jesus Christ. [www.facebook.com/cammbooks]

The Holy Spirit gave me the revelation that as He had given me the wisdom to research and write these books, therefore I could not charge money for His knowledge given to me, so these books were made available free of charge, to download pdf copies of the books. Now there are 31 books available to anyone who wants a copy, by requesting a copy on my email address at nlmc@live.com.au. Some of these books have been featured by other International organizations. Triumphant One Christian Magazine featured 2 books in successive monthly editions of the Christian Magazine in October and November this year www.triumphant1.org/equipping-center, where I have been making monthly teaching contributions since August 2017. But the Bible College notes were still not getting used, so I prayed for the Holy Spirit to give me a template of how to use these notes for His glory.

To my surprise, the Holy Spirit said to come and join the Salvation Army Corps in Toowoomba, to put “salvation” back into the Salvation Army Corps. I wrestled with this command from the Lord, but finally came kicking and screaming to join the Salvation Army in 2011 after the Tsunami, which was a spiritual cleansing of the city, as well as a physical cleansing of the city, an opportunity to start afresh, by being obedient to God’s word.

The churches in the city had joined together under Churchlink and co-ordinated the receipt and distribution of emergency counselling to victims who had lost loved ones, homes and their personal belongings.

Emergency food, clothing and other essentials for the hurting people were distributed and I personally delivered 119 tonnes of emergency food aid in my truck/trailer to towns from Laidley in the east, and to Blackall in the west, and to all the towns in between.

Despite doctrinal differences, the churches in the city were all united in helping all those who were in need, just as the Bible proclaims. Programs were even arranged so that other churches could send their trade’s people to the Darling Downs to rebuild houses that had been demolished, or badly water damaged in Grantham and Helidon. Businesses in the city joined in this program, by supplying materials at wholesale (or below wholesale) prices and everybody was happy to be part of the reconstruction process.

The church became alive, as people worked together to help others, to change lives of people on the Darling Downs, one life at a time. (Now part of the Salvos’ new national motto)

When this crisis was over, I handed the complete accredited Training Course material to the Salvation Army corps officers here in Toowoomba corps in 2012 so it could be used in Salvation Army districts/countries where there is a need for people to learn about Jesus but at present, there are no Salvation Army Training Centres established. It was forwarded to DHQ where it was sent to their Training Section for assessment, and that is the last I ever heard of it.

But the Holy Spirit wanted this course to be established, so in 2015 I got a vision about of how to start this course, so that people in any country could avail themselves of the subject material, free of charge.

I was to set up CHRIST TO THE NATIONS BIBLE COLLEGE, [CTTNBC] an online Bible College, where people could request the course material, by sending me an email to nlmcs@live.com.au and I would forward them a list of subjects and a pdf copy of the first subject, if they wanted to proceed.

I built a website at www.facebook.com/cttnbc so that people could be made aware of this FREE course material.

Some people said that they wanted the subject material for “private study”, but they did not want to do the assignments, was that ok? If people wanted to learn more about Jesus Christ it was fine with me!

But then the Holy Spirit modified the template for those students who wanted to complete the course and get a Certificate IV in Practical Ministry and Theology, for recognition of their satisfactory completion of the course material.

At the satisfactory completion of each full subject the student would receive a Certificate of Attainment for the subject completed.

When the students completed their first subject: [CTTNBC-001: The Call of God] they were to select 12 people that would become their students and they would teach them what they had just learnt. This was to become the “practical part” of the course. Once they had done this task, they were to send them out to 12 different villages, where they in turn, would pray and each select 12 people in each village to teach and train what they had just been taught. This meant that one student doing the online course would now be responsible for interacting and teaching 156 people (the initial 12 he trained + the 144 that they were training in their respective villages.)

Now at the end of 2018, there are 784 students doing this course in 33 nations. This means that at the moment, the word of God is going out and being taught to 784 x 156 people = 122,304 people in 33 nations. When these 784 Students complete the course, they will be eligible to receive this Certificate IV, which is the minimum qualification required in Australia to be registered as a pastor.

As a pastor, they already have trained 12 elders, so each pastor can plant 12 new churches in 12 new villages. [That is 784 X 12 = 9,408 new churches].

Sadly, they could have all been Salvation Army churches. It just goes to prove scripture ~~ without a vision my people perish!

Some of the pastors in India, Kenya and Uganda already have churches but do not have the education, or the religious training they know they need, to move their churches forward in spiritual maturity. They are using these teaching modules to teach their whole congregations a more in-depth knowledge of the scriptures, to encourage them to learn to search the scripture for themselves and to grow into more mature Christians. (Which we are all commanded to do).

Nearly 4 years ago, a group of musicians and singers from 14 different churches in the city got special permission for the Toowoomba Regional Council to go out into the streets to sing and pray for the people. Since then, we have been out on the streets every Friday and Saturday nights in Margaret Street (with exception of 3 weeks over the Christmas/New Year break) singing worship songs, praying for people and leading them to Jesus Christ.

Street Team

Witnessing to people on the street

We have also been invited to sing in the Wilsonton Shopping Centre, Whyalla Plaza Shopping Centre, and out in the streets in Pittsworth.

God has been faithful and we have seen souls saved on average of more than one soul saved per week. This is great news for the city and more than 300 new believers are the result of this ministry called the ALL SAINTS (because we come from ALL CHURCHES).

We have sent these new believers to churches which have well established discipleship classes in place. Sadly, none could be sent to the Salvation Army, because at present they do not have a well-established discipleship classes in place.

Every Tuesday evening, we come together at the Toowoomba House of Prayer [https://www.facebook.com/ToowoombaHouseofPrayer] for praise & worship, and to pray for the ministry people who go out onto the streets at the weekends, and for the new believers who have been referred to churches to commence discipleship classes.

So, we are eagerly looking forward to what Jesus and the Holy Spirit have in store for us in 2019.

Blessings.