Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

I'm Bill Crowder and I titled our reading, Share Your Faith.

In 1701, the Church of England founded the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

in order to send missionaries around the globe.

The motto they chose was Transient adjuva Nose, Latin for Come Over and Help Us.

This has been the call to gospel ambassadors since the first century

as followers of Jesus take the message of his love and forgiveness

to a world in desperate need of it. The phrase come over and help us comes from the Macedonian

call described in Acts 16. Paul and his team had arrived at Troas on the west coast of Asia Minor,

modern-day Turkey.

There, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him,

come over to Macedonia and help us.

Having received the vision, Paul and his companions got ready at once to leave for Macedonia. They understood the vital importance of the call.

Not everyone is called to cross the seas, but we can support those who do with our prayers and finances.

And all of us can tell someone, whether across the room, the street, or the community about the good news of Jesus.

Let's pray that our good God will enable us to cross over and give people the greatest help of

all, the opportunity for forgiveness in Jesus' name.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Acts chapter 16 verses 1 through 10.

Paul came to Derby and then to Listra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer, but whose father was Greek.

The believers at Listra and Econium spoke well of him.

Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, though they all knew that his father was a Greek.

As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles

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