About Anchor Missionary Fellowship
Anchor Missionary Fellowship, with offices and a missionary guest house located on 10 Preble Street, Gorham, Maine, and church and parish hall located on 450 county road, Scarborough, Maine, adopted the name Anchor Missionary Fellowship based on Hebrews 6:19, " Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;" KJV.
Anchor Missionary Fellowship church is an Anchor support for missionaries dedicated to "rightly dividing the word of truth" II Tim 2:15 (KJV) and laboring in love. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." Matt 9:38 KJV
Anchor Missionary Fellowship missionaries have planted several sister churches in the former Soviet Union. Among these are Love and Salvation church, Kharkov, Ukraine, Lighthouse of Salvation church located in a small village outside of Kharkov, Ukraine, and the Rock of Salvation church outside of the city of Ust Kut, in the rugged terrain of the Siberian wilderness. Anchor Missionary Fellowship has sent a couple who live in and operate a missionary guest home in the city of Irkutsk, Russia. Our missionaries are actively involved with a local Baptist church and they are a support to the local brethren. These missionaries are also dedicated musicians, using their talents as opportunities to love each individual they meet and present the Gospel to them.
Anchor Missionary Fellowship recently added to its membership a missionary to Cambodia, Anchor Baptist Missions. Working in difficult terrain and conditions, this brother is dedicated to bringing the Gospel to the more persecuted individuals in repressive environments.
Anchor Missionary Fellowship has been the support of missionaries from various missionary organizations. Members have been responsible for sending sixty much needed hospital beds, surgical tools, anesthesia machines, EKG's, gurneys and much more to an Australian missionary surgeon in Ethiopia. They have also hand carried medical supplies to a jungle clinic in the Amazon, hand carried anesthesia into Africa and have been available for critical needs of missionaries with ABWE (Association of Baptist for World Evangelism), SIM, Society of International Ministries, and HCJB.
The following excerpt, aptly describing God as our Anchor, is from Peter Colon's article "Our God Cares", in the March/April 2008 issue of Israel My Glory, published by The Friends of Israel. All rights reserved. Quoted with permission.
God Our Anchor
The Sea of Galilee is known for its sudden, violent storms. The best way fishermen fought a storm there was to throw an anchor deep into the water. In this world we will have endless "storms" and personal turmoil. But because God cares, He has provided a secure anchor to help us weather them.
That anchor is found in the word hope. In Scripture hope generally refers to having "confidence in the outcome." Peter said our anchor of hope is found in the gospel; it is our "living hope" (1:3). Sin and Satan cause many waves of doubt to overwhelm us. But Christ is the guarantee of forgiveness and heaven. Peter encouraged the persecuted brethren to hope in Christ's cross, resurrection, and return (vv. 2-13).
Such hope is not blind optimism but a confident certainty. An early church symbol for hope in Christ beyond this life was, in fact, the anchor. Featured on many Christian tombs found today in the catacombs near Rome, Italy, it was based on Hebrews 6:19: "This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil."
The fisherman Peter would have made his own anchors. He would have carefully selected a heavy stone, then painstakingly hacked a hole through the middle to tie a rope through the opening. During a storm at sea, his trust rested in his anchor.
In his epistle, he presented Christ as a "living stone," rejected by most people but chosen of God and precious (1 Pet. 2:4). Jesus Christ is our trusted anchor that can never slip or fail.
So when storms of doubt and despair assault, know that God's anchor holds and that He cares. William C. Martin expressed this truth in his words to the hymn "My Anchor Holds," written in 1902:
Though the angry surges roll
On my tempest driven soul,
I am peaceful, for I know,
Wildly though the winds may blow, I've an anchor safe and sure,
That can evermore endure.
And it holds, my anchor holds:
Blow your wildest, then, 0 gale,
On my bark so small and frail;
By His grace I shall not fail,
For my anchor holds, my anchor holds.
From the March/April 2008 issue of Israel My Glory, published by The Friends of Israel. All rights reserved. Quoted with permission.