General Encouragment

NOTE: To all our friends and supporters: please read this email sequence through carefully and see what our God is doing through all of us at Ariel as we work together! It is an example of what can happen when we use the resources and invite people to use the platforms we are producing. Thank you for everything you are doing. I don't say that enough! Arlie Francis (Executive Director, Ariel Ministries).

FROM: Leslie C. (Pastor - Hillcrest Olive Tree Church, Natal South Africa)
TO: Ariel Ministries Home Office
February 11, 2008

Dear Friend,

I am a pastor of a small local church in the province of Natal, South Africa. Our congregation is made up of predominantly English-speaking Gentiles. We also have a sister Zulu-speaking church which we support materially and spiritually. We are one of the very few churches (perhaps the only one) in all Natal that holds to a dispensational Israelology as taught by Dr. Fruchtenbaum. There are three issues which I would appreciate your counsel upon:

• 1. Would Ariel Ministries be accommodating to us by allowing us to reproduce your Discipling teaching materials on to CD/audio tapes in order to make these teachings freely available to local people who ordinarily would have no access to them. a) The great majority of Zulus have little or no discretionary financial resources; and they mostly have no access to computers or Internet facilities. b) Our intention would be to distribute the electronic-based teachings completely free of charge. Our church would bear all the costs of the copying and reproducing of materials. c) We would also use the materials to attempt to encourage other local churches away from their replacement theology errors.
• 2. Does Ariel Ministries produce hymn books which are fully consistent with Dispensation Israelology doctrine, which we could purchase? Or are you aware of such a resource?
• 3. Does Ariel Ministries make Dr. Fruchtenbaum's written works available on a single DVD with a text search facility?

May the Lord richly bless your wonderful ministry which speaks God's biblical truth in such clear and accurate teachings.

God bless you,

Pastor Leslie C.

What must I do to be saved? Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, ... (cf. Acts 16:30-31) The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine on you, and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance on you, and give you peace. (Numbers 6:24-26)

FROM: Arlie Francis (Executive Director, Ariel Ministries)
TO: Leslie C. (Pastor - Hillcrest Olive Tree Church, Natal South Africa)
February 22, 2008

Dear Pastor Leslie C.,

Thank you for your note of inquiry. We are grateful for your desire to reproduce a dispensational approach to Scripture in the lives of both the members of both your congregation and in the work you are involved among the Zulus.

As for permission to reproduce materials for distribution the various groups, we will give you permission to reproduce our “Come and See” discipleship series for use in this purpose. Please look at our website for a complete listing of the topics of study available in that series. This series of lessons was assembled for precisely the kind of work you have suggested.

As for hymnbooks, we are not aware of a resource like that. Regarding Dr. Fruchtenbaum's written works, they are all available as part of Logos Bible Software study system. You would need to purchase both a library collection of your choice and our suite of books to use with their system. It is a very powerful resource. If I can be of further service, don't hesitate to contact us again.

“Come and See,” John 1:35-39

Arlie Francis, Executive Director

FROM: Leslie C. (Pastor - Hillcrest Olive Tree Church, Natal South Africa)
TO: Ariel Ministries Home Office
July 11, 2008

Dear Ariel Ministries,

Greetings to you in the name of our Lord Yeshua. I just thought I would briefly encourage you with the information that our church has purchased a 3 CD copy of the Come and See discipleship series. We also printed and bound the entire PDF files for our Church library. We have so far copied and freely distributed 35 complete sets of these teachings in the province of Natal, South Africa, with the proviso that they can be further copied but “not for profit”.

We have a Zulu pastor who is distributing among other Zulu Christian leaders. We are also distributing to people from other ethnic groups, especially those in need of loving doctrinal correction. I believe we are reaching people who ordinarily would not have computer or Internet access, or those who would not be inclined to access the Ariel website. We pray that by the grace of God the sound bible teachings of Ariel will spread in our local region over time to combat replacement theology and other serious doctrinal errors.

May our God continue to bless your ministry,

Pastor Leslie C.

The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine on you, and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance on you, and give you peace (Numbers 6:24-26).

FROM: Leslie C. (Pastor - Hillcrest Olive Tree Church, Natal South Africa)
TO: Ariel Ministries Home Office
June 24, 2009

Dear Ariel Ministries,

Hi there to Ariel Ministries from Natal South Africa. Grace and peace to you all and your families in the name of our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ from the congregation of Hillcrest Olive Tree.

Just a very brief update of encouragement to you. In February 2008, you kindly gave our small local church permission to copy the audio and PDFs from the Come and See discipleship series to distribute freely among the Zulus and other groups who would otherwise not be able to communicate with Ariel by Internet. We have not kept the precise numbers, but we have so far distributed at no cost around 100 3-CD sets of the audio/pdf Come and See files across Natal primarily.

• A few sets have gone cross-border into Transkei and Malawi to leaders there hungry for the true word of God.
• Notably, we had the blessing of seeing an Anglican pastor from northern Natal of 30-odd years of Amillennial-ministry having his eyes properly opened to “Israel” in Scripture for the first time.
• This Anglican pastor's wife is learning basic Hebrew with other members of their congregation.
• He and his wife are travelling to Israel for the first time this year, sponsored by members of their congregation.
• He is being encouraged to study from the Come and See printed PDF files.
• We pray God will use this pastor greatly in these end-times.
• We hear of two new groups of believers in Natal doing their Bible studies based upon the Come and See teachings.
• The Zulu pastors coming within our sphere of influence have been given copies (some just audio, some audio plus printed PDF files).
• We are not sure of the impact in this area because the tentacles of their cross-church inter-relationships are complex.
• But we have managed, through a Zulu pastor to to present and offer Come and See teachings freely at a number of Zulu pastor fraternals.
• Around 25 sets have gone out through this particular route so far.
• We have also reached out to leaders in replacement theology churches near us with copies, where they indicate some objectivity to consider biblical truth.
• We have also been encouraging people who have the financial resources to acquire Footsteps of the Messiah and other important books from Ariel.
• We have also given away a few copies of Arnold's key books to people we can see are “on fire” to learn from Ariel's teachings.

So, thank you for the wonderful teachings made available from Ariel ministries — and know that there are things happening through divine appointments that neither we nor you are fully aware of which are bearing fruit by the Holy Spirit to God's glory through His Son Yeshua.

Blessings in Christ,

Pastor Leslie C.

Whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things; and the God of peace shall be with you (Philippians 4:8). The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine on you, and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance on you, and give you peace (Numbers 6:24-26).

FROM: Johan V. (Auckland, New Zealand)
TO: Leslie C. (Pastor - Hillcrest Olive Tree Church, Natal South Africa)
July 11, 2009

Hi Leslie,

My name is Johan Jansen V., and my family lives in Auckland, New Zealand. We have immigrated from South Africa almost nine years ago. Let me first explain how I got your e-mail. Arlie Francis (Executive Director, Ariel Ministries) has forwarded his correspondence with you to all the Ariel Ministry Leaders including Tony Wood leader of Ariel New Zealand. Tony has forwarded it to me to share with our Monday and Thursday night Ariel studies as encouragement. There are quite a few South African immigrants attending. I have asked Arlie (Ariel's Executive Director) if he would mind if I write to you (see below).

Hearing of how the Lord is working in Natal and how Dr Fruchtenbaum's material is being distributed is fantastic news. See, me and my wife grew up in replacement theology churches. Me in the "Gereformeerde Kerk" and her in the "Herformde Kerk". The Lord took us out of South Africa to new Zealand to save us from Replacement Theology and from Racism. Here in New Zealand we learned to see people as people and not looking first at what color their skin is but to see all as in need of a Savior. The Lord also lead us to Ariel and to Dr. Fruchtenbaum's material. At the moment I do Come and See on Thursdays and the Life of The Messiah from a Jewish Perspective on Mondays.

On my last visit to South Africa in 2006, it really dawned on me on how entrenched the people in South Africa are in Replacement Theology and also how we wasted the opportunity everyday to evangelize the black people working with us and for us. Also many of those people are already our brothers and sisters and we do not even know it. I started praying that the Lord would open the door to Ariel in South Africa and that Dr. Fruchtenbaum would be able to visit Sout Africa. That is why I am so very excited about your work. The people in our study groups have also said that they will pray for you and the Zulu and Anglican pastors.

Please let me know of specific areas in which we can pray. Also if there is any thing we can do please let me know. I am thinking if you can keep me up to date with the work there I can share it here with people and get them to pray and South Africans here can share with family back there. Like you say "there are things happening through divine appointments that neither we nor you are fully aware of which are bearing fruit by the Holy Spirit to God's glory through His Son Yeshua."

Johan V.

FROM: Johan V. (Auckland, New Zealand)
TO: Ariel Ministries Home Office
June 25, 2009

Hi Arlie,

Tony forwarded me your correspondence with Leslie to share with the Thursday night study here on Auckland's North Shore. As you know the North Shore is little South Africa. Everybody was greatly encouraged by the developments taking place in Natal South Africa, and they promised to pray for Pastor Leslie and the Zulu and the Anglican pastors. Replacement Theology is so deeply rooted in South Africa and Arnold' s teaching is so desperately needed there. I also regard this as answer to personal prayer because I am praying that the Lord will open the door for Ariel to enter into South Africa. Arlie, I would like to e-mail Leslie, but I did not just want to use his e-mail in case any confidences are broken. Do you think it would be o.k? Thank you so much for this news.

Johan V.,
South African Kiwi

FROM: Arlie Francis (Executive Director, Ariel Ministries)
TO: Johan V. (Auckland, New Zealand)

Johan V.,

I think contacting Pastor Leslie would be a great encouragement to him. Tell Leslie that I sent my correspondence with him to our ministry leaders and that Tony Wood is part of that group. That is how you received it.

Thanks, brother!

Arlie Francis, Executive Director