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About Dr. Ian Traill

Dr. Ian Traill retired missionary to China where he has been for more than 18 years. Previously he had planted a Church in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia and now he is involved in planting Churches in China and developing Traillblazer, Tony Smits Bible College throughout the nation. Arriving in August 2000 to take up a position teaching English at Universities and Colleges, working as a "tentmakers" ministry, he has been conducting Bible classes and training people in the area of leadership with the view of them starting their own home church. Ian has a strong desire to bring teaching to the people, thus he has written many books. A missionary is one who is sent to cross over geographic and cross-cultural boundaries to plant the Word of God and a local church, thus establishing God’s culture in a new location. The Gospel of John clearly portrays Jesus as fulfilling the ministry of a missionary sent from God (John 3:17-34, 4:34, 5:23, 5:36-38, 6:29-57, 7:16-33, 8:16-42, 9:4, 10:36, 11:42, 12:44-49, and13:20). Jesus Christ came as a missionary to this world to save us, but non-Christians reading His story in a newspaper at that time, would say that He was a failure. We, of course, are aware He did not fail. It is because of His mission that we are here today, and it was through someone else that we heard about Jesus too. Faith comes by hearing the Word, but if there is no preacher how can people hear? So we are going to all nations.

Vision of an International Music Festival

The vision the Lord gave me about twelve years ago was that there would be an International Music Festival in Changsha in the football stadium. People from all over the world would come and play and sing. It would run as a competition but that would not be its main aim. The aim would to introduce the Gospel to the people in song.

The stadium was full of 20 or 30,000 young Chinese students listening to groups of singers performing Christian songs. There would be no preaching as we would think, but the music would do its job with the help of the mighty Holy Spirit.

While this is going on many Chinese home churches would move through the crowd and look for fish that were ready to be caught.

This would be just be the first of many Music festivals held in other cities in China.
Please pray as the Holy Spirit leads.

Dr. Ian Traill

Request for Christian Volunteers for one to three weeks in July 2017

Hello Friends, Supporters, Pastors and Church Leaders,

We have Children English training schools in many places all over China now with thousands of Kids. Some learn other subjects too.

We are looking for some native speaking English Christians volunteers (that is to say English is the first language spoken) to come to China in July 2017 for 1 to 3 weeks, teaching English in our home training schools to Primary and Middle school Kids. You may come just for one week or more if available. Starting time will be after the 3rd of July.

All cost to get here and accommodation needs to be met by you, but in some cases we may have some accommodation. Plus you may not want to live in local conditions.

BUT, please before you say yes, please consider these points.

Can you be part of a team and be subject to the leadership for your own safety? Plus for smooth communication with the Chinese teachers.

Can you work with another person, for example everyone will have a Chinese teacher working with you in a buddy system.

Can you teach a song?

Can you teach some reading? etc

Can you work to a timetable? If needed to change your plans can you communicate this desire with the leaders before doing so?

Can you work six days? 2 to 4 hours a day as per your fitness and health.

Can you dress modestly?

If you believe that body piercing and tattooing is acceptable, please do not request to help, although if you are remorseful about getting tattoos and you have removed all the piercing from noses, cheeks, eyes and etc; feel free to offer. It is the condition of the heart attitude that is important.We are trying to protect the impressionable children here. In this culture these things are related to the underworld.

We would also like to see your pastor’s endorsement.

Can you greet the children with a smile?

A simple Christian board games and activities that Children in Australian Sunday School play, would be good to consider.

You are welcome to bring some Aussie souvenirs and stickers to give to your students, if you feel led to.

We are trying to develop a library of English resources;

If you have room in your bags or that you could carry another case. If you could bring some Children’s Bibles stories that will be helpful. We may be able to organize a case of books sent to you to bring.

Application should be made to Dr. Ian Traill, this can be done through our contact page on this site.

Please note that you will need to have medical and travel health insurance including luggage protection.

We would need to write a letter of invitation for you to come and have a vacation with us,  so that you could apply for your visa.

Bless you in Jesus’ name

Computer, Bibles, clothes, books and laptops

Hello Friends, Supporters, Pastors and Church Leaders

We have two requests.

The first one is we are looking for some people to come to China in July for 3 to 4 weeks teaching English in our training schools to Primary school Kids. We have training schools in many places all over China now.

In Africa

The second request is, We have a friend Paul Tsiros who is helping Traillblazer Ministries CRC to send computers and kids books to Uganda

Paul lives in Victoria, Australia and he is organizing a container to go to Uganda.

Between Paul and us have three schools that we are eager to send computers there to help the Kids. We will be there in May or April.

We already have number of computers now but if you could help with any old computers and some laptops for pastors in our Bible colleges.

Clothes and BIBLES

Please write back to me your expression of help and I will send you Paul’s address in EPPING, Victoria, Australia

You can give $1.00 or as much as you like.

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Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists are looking for Jesus

The fight that Jesus fought was a fight for freedom from sin and death, but this can be opened to pinpoint areas in a person’s life that has had them in bondage. People in religious bondage do not need psychology, humanistic and religious trappings which are associated with teachings other than Christ. The Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists are looking towards the Christians to see the difference.

Christians Victory, liberty and freedom should be the exultation of a Born-again Christian. Dancing and singing before the Lord should be the example and demonstration that Christians portray to the lost and dying world. Christians have been set free from the bondage of sin and death by the grace and love of a wonderful God through the Divine sacrifice on the cross of Golgotha for the atonement of our sins. Neither death nor sin can hold the Christian down anymore now that he or she has been set free. It is through this new found transformation that all Christians can walk in this life with their heads held high with a smile on their faces. Christians look forward to the return of Christ waiting for the resurrection, when they will receive a new house (body) and new clothes, our new resurrected body of greatness and permanence. As Christians we neither struggle to hold on to life at all costs, nor do we pine to die. To us, both positions are irrelevant. It is a positive outlook on eternity to adhere to now; therefore we can live to the full knowing of our destination. Our place of judgment is this side of the resurrection and it is our decision to accept salvation now, so we will receive a reward and not a penalty.

Muslims The followers of Allah anticipate a resurrection, as Christians do and it is at that time they will be judged for good or bad done in this life. So beyond the resurrection, for the devout Muslim, there exists a horrible literal hell, and a remarkable sensual paradise. For the Muslims, paradise has nothing to offer higher than any wealth a Muslim male may already enjoy now. Some are violent and aggressive about the Islamization of people.

Islamization is the Muslims’ efforts to permeate throughout the whole world in an effort to breed and out-populate any nation over time, with a view to implementing their Sharia laws, and taking away the right of Christians to worship (Revelation 16:14) or for others the right not to have any belief.

Buddhists The Buddhists do not believe in a god. They believe that the belief in a god comes from fear and that each individual has the power to change himself. They follow the doctrines of reincarnation and karma, which means liberation on a journey of death and rebirth toward Nirvana, which literally means extinction. This is to say that they believe in the removal from ones makeup, the desires, memories and habits of the flesh and as they do not believe that a person has a soul or spirit, the cycle ends one day in nothingness ending suffering through enlightenment.

Hindus Hindus believe in a one, all-pervasive Supreme Being and the individuals karma, which means he or she can create his or her own destiny through the law of cause and effect. Hindus seek “nirvana”, through the process of re-incarnation where the believers come into a state of nothingness, becoming absorbed into the supreme impersonal Soul of the Universe. Re-incarnation is a long process of trans-migration of the soul to get to a Transcendent Absolute. The believer through his or her efforts achieves this state by personal discipline, good conduct, purification, pilgrimage, self-inquiry, meditation and surrender to a Supreme Being (god). There is no promise of moving forward and therefore they have very strong pessimistic view of eternity, which is full of fear and accountability.

Atheists Atheists do not believe in life after death and they say that death is the end and they base this on their rational thinking. Atheists have as their goal the cemetery; their destiny is death. They hope only for dissolution of the flesh and extinction of consciousness, a total annihilation. This is a strong statement of faith.

Christians should proclaim the Gospel of Jesus, as all need to find freedom that Jesus Christ presented. We need to get away from humanistic, sociological and psychological approaches which have gripped mankind throughout the ages and some parts of the Church. Preach Jesus, the Cross, the atoning blood, and repentance.

He comes, the Isles are living carelessly! ©2015

Ezekiel 39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. (KJV)

When we look at the book of Daniel, in chapter two it gives us an understanding of the King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. In this interpretation, it talks about many kingdoms. The first kingdom is the head of gold which is King Nebuchadnezzar, he then talks about the chest and arms of Mede/Persia. The next part of his interpretation is the kingdom of Greece. It was started by Alexander and then we see by the end of it with Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The two legs, are talking about the Roman Empire and the other leg was the Roman Catholic Church. Finally he came down to the two feet and ten toes of iron and clay. The feet talk about a governmental structure and a religious fervour which don’t mix. When we looked at the Roman period, we have the Roman government and Roman Catholic Church who had supreme power. The Roman Catholic Church does not have that power anymore.

When we look at Daniel’s final stage of the interpretation we come to the feet, in Daniel 2:33-42. The feet are made of iron and clay and this kingdom of the iron and clay has ten toes. Ten represents governmental structure, wherever we see ten, it is talking about governmental structure. The Iron talks of absolute dominance while the clay is talking about ineffectual wishy-washy leadership.

With the European government and the Muslin living in Europe, we see symbolically the ten toes, five are iron and five are clay, and iron and clay don’t mix together. When we take a religious fervour that is ideological mixed with political aspiration of dominance and mix it with political power which is trying to please everyone, they don’t mix. The clay is the government of Europe and the iron is the Muslim uncompromising ideological stance. When clay comes in and contacts with the iron, the clay starts to break away. The iron covertoes are relating to the Muslin going into the Europe with a view of dominance, either by outgrowing the local populations or forcefully trying to bring change.