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The Bible Apostolic Logo features the
golden sun rising
from a
deep blue
morning sky. The Bible as the one foundation upon which we build and
are
establishes is marked open by the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Great
Creator who so loved us that He became flesh and dwelt among us, then
bled
and died to pay the debt for our sins. Then the golden sun arc doubles
to represent the open tomb from which He arose triumphant. The
descending
dove represents the coming of the Holy Spirit to us and the flame
represents
the fire and power of the Holy Spirit in the life of every true
believer.
When asked if we are Fundamentalist, we are more Fundamental than they.
Are we Evangelistic? Very!
Are we Baptist? We place a higher value on
Biblical
water baptism than the Baptists.
Are we Pentecostal? We definitely
believe
in the entire of the Acts 2 experience including that the promise of
2:38
and 39 is to all that the Lord our God shall call.
Are we Apostolic?
Our
desire and goal is to preach, teach and practice that exact same Gospel
that Jesus Christ and His Original Apostles taught and would still be
teaching
if here in person, as we prayerfully try to be their faithful
representatives.
—
Samuel M. Smith,
Presiding Elder
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In accomplishing Number ~
1.
above,
we have been
publishing Total
Gospel Tracts and the MARRIAGE:
Delight or Disaster book since
September 1969. Until 1999, all Up Way Publications and the related
Bible
Apostolic Study materials were print format only, but in 1999, with the
aid of Rev. Steve Bennett and the OneGod.org website, we began an
internet
presence. Talk
to Ministers began with the first issue of Up
Way for Christians
magazine in the Summer of 1972. Newsletters (Now Up
Way News)have been published, always with some praise to the
Lord
and some exhortation. Message
of the Month, Selected
Sermons and the Motto
Catalog and our Apostolic Internet
Seminary [still being prepared]
all perform in this area
of training any and all believers to spread the genuine Bible Gospel of
Jesus Christ as the Bible tells us He and His original Apostles plus
Paul did to anyone who has internet access worldwide. We have All
Scripture
Verse (ASV
series) tracts in 11 languages and some of the tracts written by
Rev.
Samuel M. Smith have been translated into Russian, Georgian, Brazilian
Portuguese, Ilocano Philippine and more recently Burmese, Pakistani
Urdu and Telegu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi Indian
languages. More than 14 languages in all.
2.
above,
We are establishing Apostolic
Internet Seminary [still
being prepared] specifically to
train future ministry leaders
and provide Certificates and Diplomas which will open doors of ministry
to them. We will only issue Diplomas to students who have completed a very
intense Bachelor, Masters or Graduate Student level Bible and
Ministry
course. We are NOT an easy Diploma mill. AIS students
will
have the knowledge base to respond to any challenge to their faith and
doctrine.
3.
above, Our
doctrinal position must and always shall be in careful agreement with
the
Bible and as directed by the Holy Spirit as outlined in the Up Way
Guarantee.
When sufficient trainees and other already established Apostolic
ministers
have expressed a desire to have a Fellowship organization, Licenses and
Certificates of Ordination valid within the Fellowship and recognized
by most apostolic organizations will be established with strict
guidelines of doctrinal accuracy, holy living, vision of mission
and loyalty, first to the Lord Jesus Christ and His service and
secondly,
to the Fellowship.
4.
and 5.
above. Elder Samuel M. Smith has already worked as a Personal
Evangelist
for many years, has opened and attempted to reach communities in the
United
States by pioneer pastoring churches, and has worked with The Jesus
Church and Philippine Bethel Churches in short-term
missionary
efforts in the Philippines, plus preached and taught in several
different
churches, including Baptist, Pentecostal, Evangelical and Seventh-Day
Adventist in T'bilisi and Kobuleti in the former Soviet Republic of
Georgia,
which is the cradle of all European races and is the ancient and
prophetic
Bible city Tubal. He has also personally distributed several thousand All
Scripture Verse and other Georgian
Kartvelian
language tracts in T'bilisi and /Batumi
plus also personally distributed six (6)
thousand All Scripture Verse and
other Russian language tracts in Moscow
and St. Petersburg,
Russia. As personnel and funds become available, approved mission
workers
with a calling from the Lord will be sent to the harvest field whether
in his or her home area or distant lands.
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Recently, our website was
awarded the Apostolic 'Acts 2' Award by the Indiana Bible College
(IBC). The 'Acts 2' award has been given out over the past
10 years by
IBC to recognize quality web sites that promote and spread the
Apostolic message of truth. For more information about the award
"Click" on the 'Acts 2 Award' logo above or feel free to visit the IBC
Perspectives website at: http://ibcperspectives.com/acts2.php
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A
Sincere Thank You. We
experienced
substantial growth in readership during 2005 and
more in 2006, due to much prayer and also in large measure to
the fact
that you have
recommended
the Followers of Jesus Christ website to your
friends and
associates.
We do no advertising,
so YOU, our
readers are our best human promoters. Demands for print
literature have
dramatically increased in Ghana, Nigeria,
Burma,
Brazil, India, Pakistan, Russia and the USA. In the year 2006, certain
DONORS who prefer
not to be identified have made possible the printing of a total of over
100,000 Up Way Total Gospel tracts in
Brazilian Portuguese, English, Russian, Burmese, Telegu, Urdu, Tamil,
Malayalam and Hindi. Your PRAYERS and FINANCIAL
SUPPORT are
requested.
As of
2006, Up Way Publications International
now includes Up Way Publications India, Up Way
Publications Pakistan and Up Way Publications South India.
With the ministries in Brazil, Ghana, Nigeria, Russia and the
Philippines as well as the United States, we have now officially added
INTERNATIONAL to our name. We hope and pray that you
"Help Send the Light
To Conquer Satan's Night
Before it's Too Late
In Two Thousand Eight (2008)."
We need your help if you are
a Computer Programmer, a Key Edit person,
an Artist, a Translator, a Fund Raiser, an Email correspondent and if
you can donate some time to the spread of the Gospel around the world.
Click Here to find out where and
how you might fit in.
Thank
you
for spending some time with the Lord Jesus Christ and us. May you have
a great day in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Brother
Sam and Sister Virginia.
Soon available for chapter-by
chapter looseleaf purchace,
see UP
WAY Book Catalog
for
"In The Hollow of His
Hands" the
true life story of Rev. Samuel M. Smith,
a major autobiography. Attacked in his own bed at 18, the night his
mother was killed in the next room over, sought for with bicycle chains
and tire irons at 30, robbed at gunpoint as a taxicab driver at 33 and
47, the second time with injuries, two missionary trips to the
Philippines when tensions between the U. S. and Philippines were high
and people were saying it was dangerous, and one of the very first
Apostolic ministers into the city of T'bilisi after Georgia became
independent of the Soviet Union to preach and teach and distributed one
thousand All Scripture Verse tracts in
Russian, mostly in Moscow while it was still the Soviet Union. On the
second trip to T'bilisi, gave out thousands
of All Scripture Verse tracts in T'bilisi, Moscow and St. Petersburg,
Russia in the Georgian Kartvelian language, Armenian and Russian
languages. Father of nine living children ages from early 50's to 4 and
with many other unexpected happenings.
People say I should write my life story, so I am and here's your chance
to get chapters via internet.
In the future, watch UP
WAY Book Catalog
for a "New Believers " studies type
King James Bible called "MANUFACTURER'S
DIRECTIONS for Successful Living".
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Please check our  frequently
for newly available literature offerings.
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Please
visit our Christian
Patriotism page.
See
why
we believe every Apostolic Christian should be strongly involved in
citizenship.
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Followers of Jesus
Christ
Ministries, Up Way Publications and Apostolic
Internet Seminary are an Establishment of Religion as defined in the First
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
and therefore,
since Congress shall make NO law regarding this Establishment of
Religion,
we are NOT tax exempt under the Internal Revenue Service code. All
donations will be reported as income of Rev. Samuel M. Smith and all
expenses debited therefrom as operational expenses. Donors may receive
report of how their donation was actually spent to promote the Gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Please see
disclaimer
of tax
exemption
above.
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