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LHPM PRAYER NEWS CHRISTMAS 2014
issued quarterly and online on
www.lhpm.proboards.com and
www.lthopm.proboards.com
Founded 1954
John Maddams. Administrator
35. Four Acres, Saffron Walden, Essex,
CB11 3JD, ENGLAND, UK
JOHN WESLEY once said “ PRAYER IS WHERE THE ACTION IS”
EXPECT great things from God ATTEMPT great things for God ACHIEVE great things with God
JESUS taught concerning prayer “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. [ Matthew 6 v 6-8 ]
JUDE the half brother of Jesus wrote “Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires." These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy-- to the only God our Saviour be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
PRAYING INTO THE MOSLEM WORLD. We constantly hear these days of Islam or Moslems, usually connected to violence, but how many of us actually pray for them. There is increasing disillusionment amongst many Muslims and a willingness to question their faith. More Muslims are becoming disciples of Jesus than ever before & God is speaking to Muslims calling them to Himself
One way of maintaining informed praying is by joining the Fellowship of Faith for Muslims, a Christian fellowship founded 100 year ago in 1915. Several people local to Saffron Walden are members of it. For a £10 a year sub we receive a Monthly Bulletin of prayer requests drawn from a lot of mission organisations in various countries working amongst them. For details contact www.ffm.org.uk or write to :- The Administrator. FFM. PO Box 190. Stockport.SK6 OBF E-mail:- admin@ffm.org.uk LHPM have been members of FFM for about 20 years. We get a lot of confidential information.
GOSPEL PRINTING MISSION - JESUS SAID "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the Vine, You are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in Him He will bear much fruit Apart from Me you can do nothing” [ John 15 v 1-5 ]
GOSPEL PRINTING MISSION started in 1960 until recently had grown to a team of 18 volunteers producing printing and distributing free of charge just about 2 million tracts and booklets a year in 39 languages for use in approximately 80 countries. However on Sept 8th the younger of their 2 printing presses caught fire and was destroyed so their ability to print has been halved. The press is irreplaceable as they are no longer made but a larger design is purchasable. Should they see this as the Lord pruning their vine to produce more fruit, and buy the larger machine? If so with what?. They need the money. For details of their work access www.gpmgb.ork.uk or write to them at 46 Roxy Avenue, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex RM6 4AY. LHPM have found them helpful over the years to supply tracts to overseas contacts
BIBLES FOR NIGERIA Since March this year until mid November LHPM have been enabled to make 27 grants for Bibles amounting to 3494 copies, and bringing from 2011 to date the total to 5785. We supplied in the second half of the year 70 copies to a Prison Group. They are praying that 18 Muslim cell mates will come over to Jesus. 45 to lay pastors and lay evangelists from the Limelight Bible Institute at Benin City who had been on a training course in use of the Bible but had no copies to minister from. 400 Bibles to Pastor Terry Bon who is ls also an itinerant evangelist and he wrote “ How happy and highly excited I was when I received the Bibles you sent to us. Pen can never express my profound gratitude enough. I am very grateful for your sacrificial giving and love. 50 to Michelle Erhun a woman evangelist working amongst women in a Muslim dominated area where women are regarded as second class citizens. She was thrilled to get them. 18 large print to Pastor David who asked for them for leaders for research and study. He is 50 and with his wife they are leading a rural congregation in a community area of 8000, the only Church there. The JW's and Radical Islamists are pro-active there. 65 to Pastor Jude 400 to Pastor Sam Imade 50 to Sister Gabriella to replace those burnt by Islamist barbarians on May 24th when her Church's building was destroyed and people injured. So we have now supplied all those requests received this year but to do so to meet the last 2 requests amounting to 500 I had to borrow about £300 as we had run out of funds, but in doing so I was able to buy them at a 20% discount offered in connection with the countrie's Golden Jubilee having warned them previously that they might not get them until next year,.
OPEN DOORS MINISTRY report over 400 churches in Nigeria destroyed by fire since 2007 due to Boko Haram terrorism. Other sources report over 5000 dead and thousands more wounded as a result of the violence.
WE ALSO FUNDED 130 CHRISTIAN BOOKS from a bookshop to a village Church in the outskirts of the Benin City which has 105 members and had about 15 Bibles till we supplied 25 more. We also sent just over 20 books given to us from UK by air but it cost £73 of which £40 was donated by the supplier. The books have enabled the pastor to set up a lending library at the church for his community. We hope to add to this in future years DV.
OTHER BIBLES We have this year also made further grants for Bibles in Malawi, Iran and China
NEW TESTAMENTS FOR ZAMBIAN SOLDIERS may still be sent to Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka c/o Tug-Argan Barracks, at Ndola. We recently sent 12 AV donated by Anne Revell a former BB Officer at Walden who is moved North that were surplus to those distributed to boys in the Company in 1983 Some song books used by the Bible Class in the 1980's we have also sent abroad to an orphanage.
ENCOURAGING ZAMBIAN PRISONERS
In recent week we have responded to a letter from relatively young man in prison on Zambia
Frank Chilufya
who is in for maybe 25 years for murder that arose from a chance argument that led to someone getting killed. He is hundreds of miles from his home area and unlikely to see his wife and children for that amount of time. He has since become a Christian. Prays 3 times a day. Fasts once a week, using a NT he has recently finished reading the Gospels for the first time. We have supplied him Christian books, magazines and a study Bible, He has joined a singing group and said he would like to take up painting. We have sent him crayons, tubes of oils ,paints for water colour painting and art paper. He also asked for Christian magazines, 2nd hand Bible reading notes, mission magazines, and some have been sent,.
GOD'S POSTMEN Since March Ken Bedward and I have delivered VIA Gospel Magazine to over 5700 homes, Due to circumstances beyond our control we have not yet completed Great Canfield and that may have to wait until March but we have in 5 years now delivered to homes in every Parish in Uttlesford as well as Duxford, Pampisford, Linton, some in Lavenham, new homes in Walden and half of Sawston, We've completed the 300 homes on the the 3rd stage extension of Prior's Green, Little Canfield. I hope DV to finish Sawston by bus during the winter and when we resume with in March to visit Great Bardfield and various villages to the North and West of Uttlesford.
THIS CHRISTMAS as for many previous years we will again circulate to a number of people Gospel Gem Calendars which they find helpful to meditate upon
GLOBAL RECORDINGS NETWORK UK. Next year we hope to provide another new Saber Solar & Clock work powered CD Player with Gospel recordings to another remote place. We have 9 in use & try to supply 1 a year.
Also I have mailed over 40 Bible teaching cassettes to 5 locations last month & have blanks to record more copies.
ISRAEL We would encourage you to help there through Christian Witness to Israel. Access www.cwi.org.uk and www.shalom.org.uk Apparently 80% of Israel's Jewish citizens are atheists or agnostics.
MALAWI AND MOZAMBIQUE VISITATIONS Pastor Enoch Dimba Director of Christian Resource Ministries in Blantyre keeps in touch and I pray and sometimes share his prayer requests for the villages he and his team visit .CRM provide pastors for over 700 village churches in the 2 countries. We support CRM through their office in Scotland. These pictures come from their mid-November 2014 visits to churches in Muslim villages in Northern Mozambique . View pictures on FACEBOOK John Edward Maddams page.
OUR DEFICIT IS CURRENTLY AROUND £300 of which the loan repayment forms part and will be repaid by instalments by June and the rest probably by the early January both from known income sources.
GIFT AID. Donors who are taxpayers can still add to the value of their gifts 25p in each £1 if the cheques are made payable to SAFFRON WALDEN BAPTIST CHURCH with an accompanying letter that it is for The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry and request Gift Aid be added. I can then pass this to the Church Treasurer. Otherwise please make cheques payable to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry. Send either to me John E Maddams 35 Four Acres, Saffron Walden,Essex CB11 3JD Kind regards JOHN
issued quarterly and online on
www.lhpm.proboards.com and
www.lthopm.proboards.com
Founded 1954
John Maddams. Administrator
35. Four Acres, Saffron Walden, Essex,
CB11 3JD, ENGLAND, UK
JOHN WESLEY once said “ PRAYER IS WHERE THE ACTION IS”
EXPECT great things from God ATTEMPT great things for God ACHIEVE great things with God
JESUS taught concerning prayer “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. [ Matthew 6 v 6-8 ]
JUDE the half brother of Jesus wrote “Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires." These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy-- to the only God our Saviour be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
PRAYING INTO THE MOSLEM WORLD. We constantly hear these days of Islam or Moslems, usually connected to violence, but how many of us actually pray for them. There is increasing disillusionment amongst many Muslims and a willingness to question their faith. More Muslims are becoming disciples of Jesus than ever before & God is speaking to Muslims calling them to Himself
One way of maintaining informed praying is by joining the Fellowship of Faith for Muslims, a Christian fellowship founded 100 year ago in 1915. Several people local to Saffron Walden are members of it. For a £10 a year sub we receive a Monthly Bulletin of prayer requests drawn from a lot of mission organisations in various countries working amongst them. For details contact www.ffm.org.uk or write to :- The Administrator. FFM. PO Box 190. Stockport.SK6 OBF E-mail:- admin@ffm.org.uk LHPM have been members of FFM for about 20 years. We get a lot of confidential information.
GOSPEL PRINTING MISSION - JESUS SAID "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the Vine, You are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in Him He will bear much fruit Apart from Me you can do nothing” [ John 15 v 1-5 ]
GOSPEL PRINTING MISSION started in 1960 until recently had grown to a team of 18 volunteers producing printing and distributing free of charge just about 2 million tracts and booklets a year in 39 languages for use in approximately 80 countries. However on Sept 8th the younger of their 2 printing presses caught fire and was destroyed so their ability to print has been halved. The press is irreplaceable as they are no longer made but a larger design is purchasable. Should they see this as the Lord pruning their vine to produce more fruit, and buy the larger machine? If so with what?. They need the money. For details of their work access www.gpmgb.ork.uk or write to them at 46 Roxy Avenue, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex RM6 4AY. LHPM have found them helpful over the years to supply tracts to overseas contacts
BIBLES FOR NIGERIA Since March this year until mid November LHPM have been enabled to make 27 grants for Bibles amounting to 3494 copies, and bringing from 2011 to date the total to 5785. We supplied in the second half of the year 70 copies to a Prison Group. They are praying that 18 Muslim cell mates will come over to Jesus. 45 to lay pastors and lay evangelists from the Limelight Bible Institute at Benin City who had been on a training course in use of the Bible but had no copies to minister from. 400 Bibles to Pastor Terry Bon who is ls also an itinerant evangelist and he wrote “ How happy and highly excited I was when I received the Bibles you sent to us. Pen can never express my profound gratitude enough. I am very grateful for your sacrificial giving and love. 50 to Michelle Erhun a woman evangelist working amongst women in a Muslim dominated area where women are regarded as second class citizens. She was thrilled to get them. 18 large print to Pastor David who asked for them for leaders for research and study. He is 50 and with his wife they are leading a rural congregation in a community area of 8000, the only Church there. The JW's and Radical Islamists are pro-active there. 65 to Pastor Jude 400 to Pastor Sam Imade 50 to Sister Gabriella to replace those burnt by Islamist barbarians on May 24th when her Church's building was destroyed and people injured. So we have now supplied all those requests received this year but to do so to meet the last 2 requests amounting to 500 I had to borrow about £300 as we had run out of funds, but in doing so I was able to buy them at a 20% discount offered in connection with the countrie's Golden Jubilee having warned them previously that they might not get them until next year,.
OPEN DOORS MINISTRY report over 400 churches in Nigeria destroyed by fire since 2007 due to Boko Haram terrorism. Other sources report over 5000 dead and thousands more wounded as a result of the violence.
WE ALSO FUNDED 130 CHRISTIAN BOOKS from a bookshop to a village Church in the outskirts of the Benin City which has 105 members and had about 15 Bibles till we supplied 25 more. We also sent just over 20 books given to us from UK by air but it cost £73 of which £40 was donated by the supplier. The books have enabled the pastor to set up a lending library at the church for his community. We hope to add to this in future years DV.
OTHER BIBLES We have this year also made further grants for Bibles in Malawi, Iran and China
NEW TESTAMENTS FOR ZAMBIAN SOLDIERS may still be sent to Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka c/o Tug-Argan Barracks, at Ndola. We recently sent 12 AV donated by Anne Revell a former BB Officer at Walden who is moved North that were surplus to those distributed to boys in the Company in 1983 Some song books used by the Bible Class in the 1980's we have also sent abroad to an orphanage.
ENCOURAGING ZAMBIAN PRISONERS
In recent week we have responded to a letter from relatively young man in prison on Zambia
Frank Chilufya
who is in for maybe 25 years for murder that arose from a chance argument that led to someone getting killed. He is hundreds of miles from his home area and unlikely to see his wife and children for that amount of time. He has since become a Christian. Prays 3 times a day. Fasts once a week, using a NT he has recently finished reading the Gospels for the first time. We have supplied him Christian books, magazines and a study Bible, He has joined a singing group and said he would like to take up painting. We have sent him crayons, tubes of oils ,paints for water colour painting and art paper. He also asked for Christian magazines, 2nd hand Bible reading notes, mission magazines, and some have been sent,.
GOD'S POSTMEN Since March Ken Bedward and I have delivered VIA Gospel Magazine to over 5700 homes, Due to circumstances beyond our control we have not yet completed Great Canfield and that may have to wait until March but we have in 5 years now delivered to homes in every Parish in Uttlesford as well as Duxford, Pampisford, Linton, some in Lavenham, new homes in Walden and half of Sawston, We've completed the 300 homes on the the 3rd stage extension of Prior's Green, Little Canfield. I hope DV to finish Sawston by bus during the winter and when we resume with in March to visit Great Bardfield and various villages to the North and West of Uttlesford.
THIS CHRISTMAS as for many previous years we will again circulate to a number of people Gospel Gem Calendars which they find helpful to meditate upon
GLOBAL RECORDINGS NETWORK UK. Next year we hope to provide another new Saber Solar & Clock work powered CD Player with Gospel recordings to another remote place. We have 9 in use & try to supply 1 a year.
Also I have mailed over 40 Bible teaching cassettes to 5 locations last month & have blanks to record more copies.
ISRAEL We would encourage you to help there through Christian Witness to Israel. Access www.cwi.org.uk and www.shalom.org.uk Apparently 80% of Israel's Jewish citizens are atheists or agnostics.
MALAWI AND MOZAMBIQUE VISITATIONS Pastor Enoch Dimba Director of Christian Resource Ministries in Blantyre keeps in touch and I pray and sometimes share his prayer requests for the villages he and his team visit .CRM provide pastors for over 700 village churches in the 2 countries. We support CRM through their office in Scotland. These pictures come from their mid-November 2014 visits to churches in Muslim villages in Northern Mozambique . View pictures on FACEBOOK John Edward Maddams page.
OUR DEFICIT IS CURRENTLY AROUND £300 of which the loan repayment forms part and will be repaid by instalments by June and the rest probably by the early January both from known income sources.
GIFT AID. Donors who are taxpayers can still add to the value of their gifts 25p in each £1 if the cheques are made payable to SAFFRON WALDEN BAPTIST CHURCH with an accompanying letter that it is for The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry and request Gift Aid be added. I can then pass this to the Church Treasurer. Otherwise please make cheques payable to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry. Send either to me John E Maddams 35 Four Acres, Saffron Walden,Essex CB11 3JD Kind regards JOHN