Post by John on Jun 14, 2009 19:34:45 GMT -5
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY NEWS
Privately distributed half-yearly with an edited version on our Web Board Site
LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
SUMMER 2009
From :Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
The object of Lighthouse Prayer Ministry (MCCPF) is “The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the world
HOW SHALL THEY HEAR? Romans 10. Verses 8 - 18
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8 "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 12For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
14How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone proclaiming to them? 15And how can they proclaim unless they go to them ? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
16But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our message?" 17Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY began in July 1954, most of it’s earliest supporters have died, together with several others picked up over the years, and others are in their 70’s and 80’s although we still get new supporters. There are about 25 of us left who pray, or give in cash or kind,
It has been a series of projects reaching out to people locally and across the world, operated through various teams of people, and funded by various friends. I as Administrator act as co-ordinator, and delivery boy for local distribution.
55 years operations can be summed up statistically as Resources Distributed , just over 268,000 items, to over 46,000 people of whom 20,100 were overseas, across 191 other countries.
Through support for TV and Radio evangelistic projects we reached out potentially to 2 million in Ukraine, and some thousands in Tibet. Many people were helped from 1963 - 2008 by hundreds of small grants.
Many of the ministries in which we shared during years past are ongoing, and from some we know there have been converts, and churches formed. All the achievements are the result of what God has done. We are just the channels and the messengers.
The aim throughout has been to sow seed that God the Holy Spirit may use to reach people. I know enough to know that lives have been changed, and the Kingdom has benefited. I don’t ask for more.
Last December we ran out of money having used up the budget and everything donated to us and we ran into deficit. To deal with that some changes had to be made and we are now back in a small budgeted surplus.
LOCALLY
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We have been associated with 5 previous projects to Distribute Christian Literature to Every Home in Saffron Walden, in the 1960’s (St John’s Gospel AV in newspaper format) 70’s,(Challenge newspaper & LCM Messenger) 80’s ( localised covered St Luke’s Gospel TEV.) 90’s (Easter Booklet) and the Millenium Gospels (St Luke NIV)
Since then St Mary’s Parish Church has continued their Annual distribution of Christmas & Easter Cards and the United Reformed Church and Methodists have developed their ongoing project of “We are praying for your street” Since 2003 a small group of Baptists have funded provision of a once off copy of NEW LIFE NEWS to every home in Saffron Walden, with a localised flier, which I completed distributing in May.
Sometime during the 1980’s the Council of Churches, now Churches Together, launched their Welcome Leaflet with church contact data in. It was delivered once to every home then, by those who distributed the Christian Aid Week envelopes. Since then it has been updated annually but available only at the TIC, CAB, Bell College, Library and the 9 congregations but homes built since the 1980’s missed out. During 2003 - 2009 I’ve now distributed it to all the new houses.
Since March I have been using VIA Magazine, produced by a Brethren group in Canada. Jesus said “ I am the Way,” and the first believers were sometimes called followers of The Way before, first at Antioch in Syria, they were called Christians, as a term of contempt. VIA is the Latin for “The Way”. The magazine articles provide a basic introduction to what Christians believe and the centre page spread is a diagram based on what Jesus taught about the Broad way that leads to destruction and the Narrow way that leads to life, and the events which lie ahead before the return of Jesus Christ and the fulfilment of God’s plans, to make people think. They provide on request a free copy of the New Testament, and a Bible study course, and offer other booklets, for anyone wanting to discover more. They also provide 3 web sites for anyone who is On Line to the Internet.
I have distributed VIA at Four Acres Community, Audley Court, Hatherley House, Sewards End, Audley End Village and Estate houses, Little Walden Hamlet, and to various elderly people’s groups I have been invited to speak to during this year. I have about 1000 copies left and believe I should use the remainder visiting other local villages within walking distance or by using my bus pass.
OVERSEAS
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As from January we had to discontinue sending to most overseas contacts after doing this work for 50 years.
The needs still exist. The people we have prayed for and tried to help are still out there, but the resources have dried up. If any further money is donated to me I can certainly use it [ cheques to John E Maddams]
During the passed year we were able to supply Christian Books to libraries created in some prisons and churches in Zambia, and ministries in Ghana and Malawi .
We receive from a charity book shop second hand copies of Gideon NT with Psalms which are regularly handed in but which they are not allowed to sell. These would otherwise finish in the recycling skip We send periodically to Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka C/O TUG-ARGAN BARRACKS, ALPHA COMPANY , POSTAL AGENCY
NDOLA , ZAMBIA . A Chaplain with the Zambian army who uses them to meets requests from soldiers.
Essential Supplies This year as funds have allowed, requests have been met for two more pair of shoes, underwear, trousers, medicines, razors, soap, soup and some Bibles
PRAYER REQUESTS From or for:
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ALGERIA AND FRANCE
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Back in the 1960’s I was at a Christian Guest House in Devon where I met Ralph Shallis , a faith missionary to Algeria and supported him there after. After pioneering churches in Algeria, he moved to mainland France for many years of ministry to university students, and wrote a number of teaching books. After his death a Trust Fund was set up to publish translations of his books and after a long period of silence I recently heard from France of their plans to extend the work of that Trust with translations into other languages.
ANGOLA
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This year we have been able to provide funds for 2 Clockwork Bibles, one in Angola and one in Malawi via Language Recordings UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY
These are wind up clockwork cassette players sent with cassettes and illustrated posters to remote jungle regions where the people cannot read nor write, where the forest canopy prevents using solar panels, where there is no electricity, and batteries are unavailable.
These machines used by a team of African Christians can reach quite large groups and be passed from village to village. They cost £30 each, and we sent enough for 2 and to provide cassettes and Bible teaching posters
There are opportunities out there for 300 more. There have been quite a lot of responses to this outreach and some new congregations formed.
BRAZIL
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Ashley Townsend, a young man, a baptised member of Thaxted Baptist Church, who is a Scout leader at Thaxted, and a member of the local VBS Committee, has been accepted by the BMS World Mission for one of next year’s Action Teams for Sao Paulo in Brazil. He will need help in fund raising so I pass that on for prayer and practical support He begins training September 2009
CAMBODIA
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Saffron Walden Baptist Church have a Missionary Prayer Meeting on the first Monday of each month at Hunters Cottage, Hunters Yard, Debden Road, 10am-11am. We welcome any other intercessors. One person we pray for is Ruth Elliott who used to live in Walden who is now serving in Cambodia helping rescue women from Prostitution and getting them fixed up with new jobs.
ETHIOPIA
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The long saga with Ayele Haliso and his brothers seems to have ended. The contact in USA tried for 9 months to establish contact with him and his pastor but to no avail. His last suggestion was that we fix him up with a UK based charity that supplies renovated computers to NGO’s, schools and charities overseas. The idea was to supply Ayele with two, to set up a Cyber Cafe. But they don’t supply unknown individuals and he is unwilling to get involved with an organisation there and his pastor has not replied. His Church through it’s national headquarters might be able so to act but until someone there does something, we can do nothing more. He would still need accommodation, start up costs, a printer.
GHANA
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Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc , our friend in Ghana has recently emailed us. He is 49 and married with three children and who has trained on courses to do with Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in America and India, who was House Officer and later as a Medical Officer Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana. Then he was Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery at Our Lady of Grace Hospital in Breman Asikuma in the Central Region of Ghana. While he was there we sent him quarterly The WORD for TODAY, and with the help of Gideons International in America were able to get 160 Bibles planted there.
Thomas has now left the hospital and gone into partnership with others in a new NGO, UNITE FOR SIGHT,
to set up a Mobile Clinic to reach deep into rural areas where there is the greatest need. 220,000 people need cataract surgery and at present progress it will be 11 years to deal with this backlog. He was challenged to become a doctor when his baby sister died for want of hospital facilities . He writes “ Like a joke I told everyone that I wanted to become a doctor. It seemed such a wishful, fanciful childhood dream then. “He cared for a blinded uncle when he was in his teens. A fuller account is on our web board. His postal address is Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, c/o Eye Unit, Ghana Health service, PO Box M44, Ministries, Accra, Ghana, West Africa. His email address is ttbaah@yahoo.com. Gifts could be sent to him by postal order.
Anthony who we helped through college into teaching and had hopes of entering the Baptist Ministry and was Secretary of Victory Baptist Church Accra and President of the Baptist Youth Association in Accra, has now followed a different route, teaching in a Methodist School attending a Methodist College to get qualifications to progress further in teaching, and has moved to another area of the city and to another smaller church
Robbie the young business man we helped through college from secondary school who led the pioneer work to establish the new village church at Mangoase has this year married and has not been in touch since. The work at the village was prospering last autumn under it’s second pastor.
Ebenezer at Takarodi, a growing 15 yearold wrote earlier this year grateful for a grant we sent end of last year that enabled him to buy new crutches, and new shirts and boots, and that he was progressing with his apprenticeship in leather work and shoe making.
Haruna Bawah at Accra who grew up a Muslim, son of an Imam and converted to Christ aged 16 whom we helped through Secondary school and college and went into engineering, last wrote a year ago seeking financial support to start a degree course to advance his qualifications. We could not help and he has not written since..
Francis Gorman at Agona Swedru the Junior School Headmaster and villages evangelist, who educated Robbie, to whom we used to send a lit of literature has now completed ministerial training and been ordained.
Patric Gyam, at Dunkwa on Offin contacted us recently. He is suffering from advanced leprosy. He said that that his wife has separated and left him, leaving him with 3 children to care for, and all he can do is beg in the market place, and by help of a friend who writes to addresses he gets hold of
I replied with a gift but in detail explaining why we could not respond with a lot of money and offering some health agency addresses eg Mercy Ships, from whom he might get help, and sent a Study Bible he requested..
IRAN,
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In April we funded 10 New Testaments in modern Persian as part of the project to supply believers and seekers in Iran, through Elam Ministries. Since 2003 they have printed 330,000. One church in Iran at the Iranian New Year in March this year distributed 3500 to Iranians who joyfully received them. In June the new Azeri New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs is being launched aimed towards the 20 million ethnic Azeris in the North west of the country. The first 10,000 also carry a CD of the scriptures and that audio version is available on two web sites. For more news about Elam ministries access www.elam.com or write for ELAM NEWS to PO Box 75, Godalming, Surrey GU8 6YP. [ or email contact@elam.com
IRAQ
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Sandy and Kirsten Russell MECO missionaries amongst the Kurds in Northern Iraq,. Sandy is playing a big part in getting the Bible translated into Kurdish. They have 2 children Jonty and Vi
They work also in Medical & Educational Development Services with Esther in the care of physically disabled children helping them to relearn to walk and with Stanley & Wendy in care and education of blind and deaf children. We hope to have them at Walden later in the Summer They will be over from June 13 - Aug 11th
ITALY
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Pastor Carmello Lero pastors two churches at Funadi and Monti Lamage and they loaned their 700 seater evangelism tent to the victims of the Italian earthquake. Someone else gave wooden pallets for flooring and someone else loaned carpets to cover them. Please pray for him, his churches and care of the refugees.
MALAWI
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Pastor Enock M Dimba PO BOX 883, BLANTYRE, MALAWI is the pastor who directs Christian Resource Ministries to whom over the past 3 years we have been enabled to send Christian Books, tracts, and papers, and pictures for the hostel dormitory, world maps for the classrooms, and money to help rebuild the storm damaged school and clinic, and provided money for local language Bibles in Malawi and Mozambique.
He is now appealing for money to buy maize at £8 a bag while the market prices are low as this year they have reaped a bumper crop. This time last year it was £13 a bag.
He also needs 100 AV Bibles for use in the classrooms for teaching English and Christian Faith. They don’t use Modern English scriptures there. It would be as expensive to send second hand copies from UK as to buy them there, so if we could donate at the rate of £4 a copy we could help him. The money can be sent to me in cash or by a cheque made out to Christian Resource Ministries and I can send that to their agent in Scotland to send electronically to Malawi. It is a registered charity so if desired gifts can be Gift Aided..
MOROCCO AND TUNISIA
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We also associate with ARAB VISION Access www.arabvision.org or from Anna Nassanian PO Box 21258, 1505 Nicosia, Cyprus. Good things are happening in the Arab World, but we still need to pray for more civil liberties, like freedom of speech, and Pray that their TV programs will help more people, to be less intimidated by the social pressure to conform to Islam.
FROM ARAB VISION DIRECT
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www.arabvision.org PO Box 21258, 1505 Nicosia, Cyprus
contact@arabvision.org -
Dear friends,
It's been 4 weeks since our last prayer letter. We are grateful for your
ongoing prayers, even when we are not able to send updates.
The country of Lebanon needs our prayers this weekend as its citizens cast
their votes in a fiercely contested and tense parliamentary election. Let us
ask for God's protection and control over the situation; that there would
not be any violence or further escalations.
Let me also share some up-to-date prayer points from our team members:
* One of our production offices just completed six recordings that
were behind schedule. Three focus on the rights of children and the other
three on domestic violence. These are important issues in the Arab World, so
thank God with us that these programs are now ready for broadcast. Pray that
they will be used to impact the lives of families across the region.
* A series of programs will be produced next week on how medical
professionals, families and NGOs can help people with handicaps and
developmental disabilities. Pray that the Lord will remove hurdles as we
begin recording, and that the final productions will again have great
impact.
* Also seek God's provision of sustaining income for productions now
scheduled throughout the summer. Crews will be traveling to Iraq, Lebanon
and other Arab countries. The programs will be costly, and we need God's
provision to see them through to completion.
* More generally, continue praying for our overall finances. We had
good recent months of giving, but pray that the Lord will continue to bless
us with financial support in the months ahead.
* We need to do a lot of production for the Moroccan Testimonies
series and another studio series in Europe over the next two months to a
very tight schedule. There is no room for things to go wrong, so please pray
for all involved that we can work efficiently and well together across three
different countries.
* Please continue to pray for our search for a new Personnel Director
and a new Managing Director for one of our ministries.
Thank you!
Anna Nassanian
Arab Vision Prayer Coordinator
THAILAND
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Peter & Liz Maythingy, missionaries in Thailand, will be home during the summer and we hope to have them here. They moved this June from work amongst young people in the Karen refugee villages in the north, to the city of Chiang Mai
They write
As we have moved to the city of Chiang Mai we've been reflecting on our experiences in this rural village.
We won't miss:
1) Power cuts... between Sunday and Wednesday this week our power was on for a total of 4 hours. After a 7 hour power cut the mobile phone signal cuts out so we feel really isolated from the outside world! Most days in the rainy season the power cuts or drops to low power - not much use for anything except light bulbs.
2) Not having running water... the novelty of scooping water from a tank, to heat up in a saucepan on the gas stove, to wash-up has all but worn off now! We have to start preparing well in advance to take a wash. We're looking forward to having a real hassle-free shower (and a flushing toilet!) again.
3) Only being able to collect precious post once a month.
4) Being 75 minutes drive over mountains from the nearest shop which sells bread, fresh milk, cheese or chocolate!
But we certainly will miss:
1) Wonderful opportunities to share our lives and our faith with the many, many Karen villagers around here.
2) Eating delicious fresh Karen home cooking with meat, vegetables and fruit often organically farmed within a few miles of our home.
3) Collecting our own drinking water. There's something very fulfilling about drawing water from the well, carrying it home, boiling and filtering it - you feel like you've earned it!
4) Being accepted and welcomed into our neighbours' homes for weddings, funerals, family thanksgivings, harvest celebrations, new home celebrations etc
5) Our friends, (check out the attached photos!) especially for Pete : Ajarn Prawit, Ajarn Jantra, Ajarn Bunchuay, Ajarn Jirasak
For Lizz: Mae Pinay, Mae Nalo, Mae Ido, Pi Yunapo
For Abi & Jacob: Nam Fon, Alpha, Tina, Er Chi, Om
6) The adventure and excitement of rounding the last mountain bend from Chiang Mai and seeing 'our' home village across the rice fields.
...and much else! Praise God for the wonderful opportunity to live in this amazing place and to experience first-hand the deep and living faith of the Karen Christians. Please pray for us in all the packing and preparing to move and particularly on these dates:
24th May : Farewell service at Musikee Church
26th May: Farewell to our retiring BMS colleague and friend, Jaqui Wells
4th June: Moving to Chiang Mai
Thank you for all your prayers, we're looking forward to seeing many of you soon!
With love,
Pete, Lizz, Abigail & Jacob & Chloe
UGANDA
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RICHARD & SARAH LUBALE, P O Box 1306 JINJA UGANDA still appreciate any funding for ALPHA CHILDCARE & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT which cares for Aids victims, both patients and orphans. They have a vehicle to extend the range of their outreach running Aids awareness courses and preventative work. But they need more funds to keep it operational Having acquired some land and tools they are building a vocational training centre so orphans can be taught skills. For individual children to benefit from this they will need sponsors to sponsor them.
ZAMBIA
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Most of my prisoner contacts of the past 12 years have now stopped writing. as have those contacts with ministries and churches, as I am no longer able to help them
Mayamba
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my first contact whom we funded through 4 diploma courses in Business studies, and someone else sponsored to do a degree level course, and was teaching in the prison in the last years of his sentence, received a Presidential Pardon last year and found a job, and has since begun an organisation to help train prisoners in prison for life outside later.
Cephas
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is one such prisoner who has left prison but there was nowhere to go. No family that wants him, No friends, about 500 miles from where he originally lived and no means of getting there. He asked for shoes, trousers and shirts, to help him to be respectable when seeking work We were able to send shoes but have had to ask for clarification of clothes measurements.
Peter Mwamba
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has written from Kabwe. He asks for pen pal’s prepared to help him materially . He has been held 10 years and his case has not yet been brought to the High Court . This in Zambia is normal. I have put him in touch with some people who may be able to help him.
Danny Chipulu
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has written from Kabwe. He asks for a Bible, 8½ size shoes. A size 18 shirt, size 37 trousers with a belt, medium vests, medium pants, towel, soap, disposable razors, tooth paste, flannel, handkerchiefs. He is a believer but his family are not and he prayers for them that thy will hear of Jesus . I have asked him for their address
Stephen Kayombo
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aged 32 claims he has been on Death Row for 10 years having been mistaken for one of a gang of Angolans who violently stole herds of cattle from his village and he was sentenced to hang. He was not a Christian but in prison met Jesus and is now a believer. He waits to have his sentence reviewed. He is living in threadbare clothes, He asks, on the basis of James 4 v 17 and a verse The Bible says “Have pity on the poor” for payment to pay for a lawyer [ £600 ], for clothes to wear at court, size 11 socks, size 8 leather shoes, size 20- T Shirts, trousers 35/36, size 17 shirts.
A Sony Walkman portable player CD D-f J 65, FM/AM radio, cells, rechargeable batteries, cells charger, shaving razors, shaving sticks, shampoo, padlock, scientific calculator, typewriter with spare parts, and ribbons, videos, CD’s, pens, towel, flannel, handkerchiefs. soap, First certificate Language Practice with Key ISBNI 405 00766 4, English Grammar vocabulary, a NKJV Study Bible, a Bible commentary,
We sent a couple of booklets and will send a Bible. The rest we cannot deal with from depleted funds
It may seem a lot of requests from a criminal on Death Row, but if his story is true that he is a victim of mistaken identity, then a grave injustice may have been done and he might well deserve all these things which many of his contemporaries may enjoy, certainlty in the UK. I am making wider enquries about this case.
Duke Olnson Phiri
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thanking us for shoes, says how lonely and isolated he feels. He would like a battery operated cassette walk-man with Gospel cassettes. We have requested this before but no one seems to have one. He would appreciate it if any other Christian could correspond with him as a pen pal.
The address of theses last 3 people is Death Row Section, Maximum Security Prison. PO Box 80915. Kabwe. Zambia.
Elder Jackson Chanda
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of Final Message to the Lost Sheep, P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia can still use Christian literature and cassettes if anyone can send him anything direct, Also for his orphans he would appreciate biro pens, pencils, pads .
Other Zambian ministers still request Christian literature including second hand Bible reading notes
TIMOTHY CHALI. of the SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS P. O. Box 760078 Mwense, Zambia
DR MWILA B KATYERA Therapy & Human Concern Ministry, P O Box 740031 Nchelenge - Luapula Zambia.
ALBERT CHILIMA. Nchelenge District Box 740096. Luapula Province. Zambia
JOSEPH S MUSONDA C/O Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, KABWE . ZAMBIA
BIBLES TO PRISONERS
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Rosemary Page of Blackpool who used to serve in Zambia now collects AV Bibles and send them to prisoners who request them around the world, She asked us whether we could supply her any addresses to send to but has recently heard from a contact in the USA so she now has some 200 requests to respond to in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon. Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Germany and India. Although now unable to assist us, we pray for her. And the recipitents of these Bibles.
Web Board Site
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I also continue to post material on our web board site lhpm.proboards.com that people continue to access and read. A steady drip, drip of guests visit it each day, . The board set up in 2005 crashed on Feb 1st. We began to create a new one but in April Proboards were able to salvage the original boards and all the posts on them and put it on the new address above. So we will continue to use and promote that site. The site has 36 listings on Google.
AFRINSPIRE and TREE PLANTING.
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We continue to support AFRINSPIRE whose General Secretary is a former Baptist Minister They supply computers and agricultural equipment to Uganda. Our interest is in trees. We have two 250 tree woods on the Uganda / Congo border and we funded 750 saplings last year and hope to do so this year, bringing our total in 15 countries to 7035. Afrinspire operate in Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan and Tanzania. They also supply medicines, & school supplies, and support literacy and education.
Charity No 1095001. 22 Melvin Way ,Histon. Cambridge. CB24 9HY. www.afrinspire.org.uk email office@afrinspire.org.uk ( 01223 233367
TOOLS WITH A MISSION
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and our Zambian Contacts. Inquiry has been made of the possibility of funding despatch of sewing machines and knitting machines to help those caring for orphans in Zambia.
GUEST HOUSE for MISSIONARIES
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Jim Figgis asks for our prayers about setting up such a place for visiting speakers and trainee missionaries in his part of Scotland.
CARROT TOPS PROJECT 2009.
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To help Poomani A young unmarried Christian woman at Chennai in India. She needs knee surgery, callipers and a special shoe costing approximately £500. Her parents are unemployed and no one else can help her. Carrot Tops is a Charity [ No 1016820 ] supported by the Wellspring Evangelical Church at Saffron Walden that disbanded a few years ago, their members joining various other local churches. For details email jangreen@buxhall.co.uk or write to Green Pastures, Buxhall, Stowmarket,IP14 3DX.
[ phone 01449 736628]
PASTOR TRAINING INTERNATIONAL
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another ministry we support supplies qualified instructors who organise pastor training conference camps in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ukraine, Malawi, Zambia and India, and supply mini-libraries to Pastors around the world through their sister organisation Christian Books Worldwide. Charity No 1102013. Web site www.pastor-training.org Address PO Box 1082 Woking Surrey GU22 8WX Email info@pastor-training.org They supply a regular Prayer News
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FOREIGN STAMPS
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We get from overseas letters we now send to, my cousins Michael and Robin in Hawaii who take out any suitable for their collection and then send with their surplus to Christian Witness to Israel for sale in support of their missionary work amongst the Jews.
Michael was in Walden a couple of weeks ago and he tells me he gets thousands of stamps a year in connection with his work so this will be quite a boost to CWI Stamp Bureau William Cumming 76 Oakfield Road Lobley Hill, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. NE11 OAE . UK,
SECOND HAND POSTCARDS
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for sale to raise money to keep Mission Aviation Fellowship Aircraft in the air are still acceptable by Mrs Heather Yule 10 Calverden Road RAMSGATE Kent CT12 6JU.
Kind regards JOHN
Privately distributed half-yearly with an edited version on our Web Board Site
LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
SUMMER 2009
From :Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
The object of Lighthouse Prayer Ministry (MCCPF) is “The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the world
HOW SHALL THEY HEAR? Romans 10. Verses 8 - 18
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8 "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 12For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
14How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone proclaiming to them? 15And how can they proclaim unless they go to them ? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
16But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our message?" 17Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY began in July 1954, most of it’s earliest supporters have died, together with several others picked up over the years, and others are in their 70’s and 80’s although we still get new supporters. There are about 25 of us left who pray, or give in cash or kind,
It has been a series of projects reaching out to people locally and across the world, operated through various teams of people, and funded by various friends. I as Administrator act as co-ordinator, and delivery boy for local distribution.
55 years operations can be summed up statistically as Resources Distributed , just over 268,000 items, to over 46,000 people of whom 20,100 were overseas, across 191 other countries.
Through support for TV and Radio evangelistic projects we reached out potentially to 2 million in Ukraine, and some thousands in Tibet. Many people were helped from 1963 - 2008 by hundreds of small grants.
Many of the ministries in which we shared during years past are ongoing, and from some we know there have been converts, and churches formed. All the achievements are the result of what God has done. We are just the channels and the messengers.
The aim throughout has been to sow seed that God the Holy Spirit may use to reach people. I know enough to know that lives have been changed, and the Kingdom has benefited. I don’t ask for more.
Last December we ran out of money having used up the budget and everything donated to us and we ran into deficit. To deal with that some changes had to be made and we are now back in a small budgeted surplus.
LOCALLY
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We have been associated with 5 previous projects to Distribute Christian Literature to Every Home in Saffron Walden, in the 1960’s (St John’s Gospel AV in newspaper format) 70’s,(Challenge newspaper & LCM Messenger) 80’s ( localised covered St Luke’s Gospel TEV.) 90’s (Easter Booklet) and the Millenium Gospels (St Luke NIV)
Since then St Mary’s Parish Church has continued their Annual distribution of Christmas & Easter Cards and the United Reformed Church and Methodists have developed their ongoing project of “We are praying for your street” Since 2003 a small group of Baptists have funded provision of a once off copy of NEW LIFE NEWS to every home in Saffron Walden, with a localised flier, which I completed distributing in May.
Sometime during the 1980’s the Council of Churches, now Churches Together, launched their Welcome Leaflet with church contact data in. It was delivered once to every home then, by those who distributed the Christian Aid Week envelopes. Since then it has been updated annually but available only at the TIC, CAB, Bell College, Library and the 9 congregations but homes built since the 1980’s missed out. During 2003 - 2009 I’ve now distributed it to all the new houses.
Since March I have been using VIA Magazine, produced by a Brethren group in Canada. Jesus said “ I am the Way,” and the first believers were sometimes called followers of The Way before, first at Antioch in Syria, they were called Christians, as a term of contempt. VIA is the Latin for “The Way”. The magazine articles provide a basic introduction to what Christians believe and the centre page spread is a diagram based on what Jesus taught about the Broad way that leads to destruction and the Narrow way that leads to life, and the events which lie ahead before the return of Jesus Christ and the fulfilment of God’s plans, to make people think. They provide on request a free copy of the New Testament, and a Bible study course, and offer other booklets, for anyone wanting to discover more. They also provide 3 web sites for anyone who is On Line to the Internet.
I have distributed VIA at Four Acres Community, Audley Court, Hatherley House, Sewards End, Audley End Village and Estate houses, Little Walden Hamlet, and to various elderly people’s groups I have been invited to speak to during this year. I have about 1000 copies left and believe I should use the remainder visiting other local villages within walking distance or by using my bus pass.
OVERSEAS
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As from January we had to discontinue sending to most overseas contacts after doing this work for 50 years.
The needs still exist. The people we have prayed for and tried to help are still out there, but the resources have dried up. If any further money is donated to me I can certainly use it [ cheques to John E Maddams]
During the passed year we were able to supply Christian Books to libraries created in some prisons and churches in Zambia, and ministries in Ghana and Malawi .
We receive from a charity book shop second hand copies of Gideon NT with Psalms which are regularly handed in but which they are not allowed to sell. These would otherwise finish in the recycling skip We send periodically to Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka C/O TUG-ARGAN BARRACKS, ALPHA COMPANY , POSTAL AGENCY
NDOLA , ZAMBIA . A Chaplain with the Zambian army who uses them to meets requests from soldiers.
Essential Supplies This year as funds have allowed, requests have been met for two more pair of shoes, underwear, trousers, medicines, razors, soap, soup and some Bibles
PRAYER REQUESTS From or for:
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ALGERIA AND FRANCE
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Back in the 1960’s I was at a Christian Guest House in Devon where I met Ralph Shallis , a faith missionary to Algeria and supported him there after. After pioneering churches in Algeria, he moved to mainland France for many years of ministry to university students, and wrote a number of teaching books. After his death a Trust Fund was set up to publish translations of his books and after a long period of silence I recently heard from France of their plans to extend the work of that Trust with translations into other languages.
ANGOLA
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This year we have been able to provide funds for 2 Clockwork Bibles, one in Angola and one in Malawi via Language Recordings UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY
These are wind up clockwork cassette players sent with cassettes and illustrated posters to remote jungle regions where the people cannot read nor write, where the forest canopy prevents using solar panels, where there is no electricity, and batteries are unavailable.
These machines used by a team of African Christians can reach quite large groups and be passed from village to village. They cost £30 each, and we sent enough for 2 and to provide cassettes and Bible teaching posters
There are opportunities out there for 300 more. There have been quite a lot of responses to this outreach and some new congregations formed.
BRAZIL
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Ashley Townsend, a young man, a baptised member of Thaxted Baptist Church, who is a Scout leader at Thaxted, and a member of the local VBS Committee, has been accepted by the BMS World Mission for one of next year’s Action Teams for Sao Paulo in Brazil. He will need help in fund raising so I pass that on for prayer and practical support He begins training September 2009
CAMBODIA
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Saffron Walden Baptist Church have a Missionary Prayer Meeting on the first Monday of each month at Hunters Cottage, Hunters Yard, Debden Road, 10am-11am. We welcome any other intercessors. One person we pray for is Ruth Elliott who used to live in Walden who is now serving in Cambodia helping rescue women from Prostitution and getting them fixed up with new jobs.
ETHIOPIA
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The long saga with Ayele Haliso and his brothers seems to have ended. The contact in USA tried for 9 months to establish contact with him and his pastor but to no avail. His last suggestion was that we fix him up with a UK based charity that supplies renovated computers to NGO’s, schools and charities overseas. The idea was to supply Ayele with two, to set up a Cyber Cafe. But they don’t supply unknown individuals and he is unwilling to get involved with an organisation there and his pastor has not replied. His Church through it’s national headquarters might be able so to act but until someone there does something, we can do nothing more. He would still need accommodation, start up costs, a printer.
GHANA
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Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc , our friend in Ghana has recently emailed us. He is 49 and married with three children and who has trained on courses to do with Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in America and India, who was House Officer and later as a Medical Officer Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana. Then he was Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery at Our Lady of Grace Hospital in Breman Asikuma in the Central Region of Ghana. While he was there we sent him quarterly The WORD for TODAY, and with the help of Gideons International in America were able to get 160 Bibles planted there.
Thomas has now left the hospital and gone into partnership with others in a new NGO, UNITE FOR SIGHT,
to set up a Mobile Clinic to reach deep into rural areas where there is the greatest need. 220,000 people need cataract surgery and at present progress it will be 11 years to deal with this backlog. He was challenged to become a doctor when his baby sister died for want of hospital facilities . He writes “ Like a joke I told everyone that I wanted to become a doctor. It seemed such a wishful, fanciful childhood dream then. “He cared for a blinded uncle when he was in his teens. A fuller account is on our web board. His postal address is Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, c/o Eye Unit, Ghana Health service, PO Box M44, Ministries, Accra, Ghana, West Africa. His email address is ttbaah@yahoo.com. Gifts could be sent to him by postal order.
Anthony who we helped through college into teaching and had hopes of entering the Baptist Ministry and was Secretary of Victory Baptist Church Accra and President of the Baptist Youth Association in Accra, has now followed a different route, teaching in a Methodist School attending a Methodist College to get qualifications to progress further in teaching, and has moved to another area of the city and to another smaller church
Robbie the young business man we helped through college from secondary school who led the pioneer work to establish the new village church at Mangoase has this year married and has not been in touch since. The work at the village was prospering last autumn under it’s second pastor.
Ebenezer at Takarodi, a growing 15 yearold wrote earlier this year grateful for a grant we sent end of last year that enabled him to buy new crutches, and new shirts and boots, and that he was progressing with his apprenticeship in leather work and shoe making.
Haruna Bawah at Accra who grew up a Muslim, son of an Imam and converted to Christ aged 16 whom we helped through Secondary school and college and went into engineering, last wrote a year ago seeking financial support to start a degree course to advance his qualifications. We could not help and he has not written since..
Francis Gorman at Agona Swedru the Junior School Headmaster and villages evangelist, who educated Robbie, to whom we used to send a lit of literature has now completed ministerial training and been ordained.
Patric Gyam, at Dunkwa on Offin contacted us recently. He is suffering from advanced leprosy. He said that that his wife has separated and left him, leaving him with 3 children to care for, and all he can do is beg in the market place, and by help of a friend who writes to addresses he gets hold of
I replied with a gift but in detail explaining why we could not respond with a lot of money and offering some health agency addresses eg Mercy Ships, from whom he might get help, and sent a Study Bible he requested..
IRAN,
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In April we funded 10 New Testaments in modern Persian as part of the project to supply believers and seekers in Iran, through Elam Ministries. Since 2003 they have printed 330,000. One church in Iran at the Iranian New Year in March this year distributed 3500 to Iranians who joyfully received them. In June the new Azeri New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs is being launched aimed towards the 20 million ethnic Azeris in the North west of the country. The first 10,000 also carry a CD of the scriptures and that audio version is available on two web sites. For more news about Elam ministries access www.elam.com or write for ELAM NEWS to PO Box 75, Godalming, Surrey GU8 6YP. [ or email contact@elam.com
IRAQ
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Sandy and Kirsten Russell MECO missionaries amongst the Kurds in Northern Iraq,. Sandy is playing a big part in getting the Bible translated into Kurdish. They have 2 children Jonty and Vi
They work also in Medical & Educational Development Services with Esther in the care of physically disabled children helping them to relearn to walk and with Stanley & Wendy in care and education of blind and deaf children. We hope to have them at Walden later in the Summer They will be over from June 13 - Aug 11th
ITALY
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Pastor Carmello Lero pastors two churches at Funadi and Monti Lamage and they loaned their 700 seater evangelism tent to the victims of the Italian earthquake. Someone else gave wooden pallets for flooring and someone else loaned carpets to cover them. Please pray for him, his churches and care of the refugees.
MALAWI
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Pastor Enock M Dimba PO BOX 883, BLANTYRE, MALAWI is the pastor who directs Christian Resource Ministries to whom over the past 3 years we have been enabled to send Christian Books, tracts, and papers, and pictures for the hostel dormitory, world maps for the classrooms, and money to help rebuild the storm damaged school and clinic, and provided money for local language Bibles in Malawi and Mozambique.
He is now appealing for money to buy maize at £8 a bag while the market prices are low as this year they have reaped a bumper crop. This time last year it was £13 a bag.
He also needs 100 AV Bibles for use in the classrooms for teaching English and Christian Faith. They don’t use Modern English scriptures there. It would be as expensive to send second hand copies from UK as to buy them there, so if we could donate at the rate of £4 a copy we could help him. The money can be sent to me in cash or by a cheque made out to Christian Resource Ministries and I can send that to their agent in Scotland to send electronically to Malawi. It is a registered charity so if desired gifts can be Gift Aided..
MOROCCO AND TUNISIA
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We also associate with ARAB VISION Access www.arabvision.org or from Anna Nassanian PO Box 21258, 1505 Nicosia, Cyprus. Good things are happening in the Arab World, but we still need to pray for more civil liberties, like freedom of speech, and Pray that their TV programs will help more people, to be less intimidated by the social pressure to conform to Islam.
FROM ARAB VISION DIRECT
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www.arabvision.org PO Box 21258, 1505 Nicosia, Cyprus
contact@arabvision.org -
Dear friends,
It's been 4 weeks since our last prayer letter. We are grateful for your
ongoing prayers, even when we are not able to send updates.
The country of Lebanon needs our prayers this weekend as its citizens cast
their votes in a fiercely contested and tense parliamentary election. Let us
ask for God's protection and control over the situation; that there would
not be any violence or further escalations.
Let me also share some up-to-date prayer points from our team members:
* One of our production offices just completed six recordings that
were behind schedule. Three focus on the rights of children and the other
three on domestic violence. These are important issues in the Arab World, so
thank God with us that these programs are now ready for broadcast. Pray that
they will be used to impact the lives of families across the region.
* A series of programs will be produced next week on how medical
professionals, families and NGOs can help people with handicaps and
developmental disabilities. Pray that the Lord will remove hurdles as we
begin recording, and that the final productions will again have great
impact.
* Also seek God's provision of sustaining income for productions now
scheduled throughout the summer. Crews will be traveling to Iraq, Lebanon
and other Arab countries. The programs will be costly, and we need God's
provision to see them through to completion.
* More generally, continue praying for our overall finances. We had
good recent months of giving, but pray that the Lord will continue to bless
us with financial support in the months ahead.
* We need to do a lot of production for the Moroccan Testimonies
series and another studio series in Europe over the next two months to a
very tight schedule. There is no room for things to go wrong, so please pray
for all involved that we can work efficiently and well together across three
different countries.
* Please continue to pray for our search for a new Personnel Director
and a new Managing Director for one of our ministries.
Thank you!
Anna Nassanian
Arab Vision Prayer Coordinator
THAILAND
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Peter & Liz Maythingy, missionaries in Thailand, will be home during the summer and we hope to have them here. They moved this June from work amongst young people in the Karen refugee villages in the north, to the city of Chiang Mai
They write
As we have moved to the city of Chiang Mai we've been reflecting on our experiences in this rural village.
We won't miss:
1) Power cuts... between Sunday and Wednesday this week our power was on for a total of 4 hours. After a 7 hour power cut the mobile phone signal cuts out so we feel really isolated from the outside world! Most days in the rainy season the power cuts or drops to low power - not much use for anything except light bulbs.
2) Not having running water... the novelty of scooping water from a tank, to heat up in a saucepan on the gas stove, to wash-up has all but worn off now! We have to start preparing well in advance to take a wash. We're looking forward to having a real hassle-free shower (and a flushing toilet!) again.
3) Only being able to collect precious post once a month.
4) Being 75 minutes drive over mountains from the nearest shop which sells bread, fresh milk, cheese or chocolate!
But we certainly will miss:
1) Wonderful opportunities to share our lives and our faith with the many, many Karen villagers around here.
2) Eating delicious fresh Karen home cooking with meat, vegetables and fruit often organically farmed within a few miles of our home.
3) Collecting our own drinking water. There's something very fulfilling about drawing water from the well, carrying it home, boiling and filtering it - you feel like you've earned it!
4) Being accepted and welcomed into our neighbours' homes for weddings, funerals, family thanksgivings, harvest celebrations, new home celebrations etc
5) Our friends, (check out the attached photos!) especially for Pete : Ajarn Prawit, Ajarn Jantra, Ajarn Bunchuay, Ajarn Jirasak
For Lizz: Mae Pinay, Mae Nalo, Mae Ido, Pi Yunapo
For Abi & Jacob: Nam Fon, Alpha, Tina, Er Chi, Om
6) The adventure and excitement of rounding the last mountain bend from Chiang Mai and seeing 'our' home village across the rice fields.
...and much else! Praise God for the wonderful opportunity to live in this amazing place and to experience first-hand the deep and living faith of the Karen Christians. Please pray for us in all the packing and preparing to move and particularly on these dates:
24th May : Farewell service at Musikee Church
26th May: Farewell to our retiring BMS colleague and friend, Jaqui Wells
4th June: Moving to Chiang Mai
Thank you for all your prayers, we're looking forward to seeing many of you soon!
With love,
Pete, Lizz, Abigail & Jacob & Chloe
UGANDA
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RICHARD & SARAH LUBALE, P O Box 1306 JINJA UGANDA still appreciate any funding for ALPHA CHILDCARE & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT which cares for Aids victims, both patients and orphans. They have a vehicle to extend the range of their outreach running Aids awareness courses and preventative work. But they need more funds to keep it operational Having acquired some land and tools they are building a vocational training centre so orphans can be taught skills. For individual children to benefit from this they will need sponsors to sponsor them.
ZAMBIA
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Most of my prisoner contacts of the past 12 years have now stopped writing. as have those contacts with ministries and churches, as I am no longer able to help them
Mayamba
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my first contact whom we funded through 4 diploma courses in Business studies, and someone else sponsored to do a degree level course, and was teaching in the prison in the last years of his sentence, received a Presidential Pardon last year and found a job, and has since begun an organisation to help train prisoners in prison for life outside later.
Cephas
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is one such prisoner who has left prison but there was nowhere to go. No family that wants him, No friends, about 500 miles from where he originally lived and no means of getting there. He asked for shoes, trousers and shirts, to help him to be respectable when seeking work We were able to send shoes but have had to ask for clarification of clothes measurements.
Peter Mwamba
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has written from Kabwe. He asks for pen pal’s prepared to help him materially . He has been held 10 years and his case has not yet been brought to the High Court . This in Zambia is normal. I have put him in touch with some people who may be able to help him.
Danny Chipulu
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has written from Kabwe. He asks for a Bible, 8½ size shoes. A size 18 shirt, size 37 trousers with a belt, medium vests, medium pants, towel, soap, disposable razors, tooth paste, flannel, handkerchiefs. He is a believer but his family are not and he prayers for them that thy will hear of Jesus . I have asked him for their address
Stephen Kayombo
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aged 32 claims he has been on Death Row for 10 years having been mistaken for one of a gang of Angolans who violently stole herds of cattle from his village and he was sentenced to hang. He was not a Christian but in prison met Jesus and is now a believer. He waits to have his sentence reviewed. He is living in threadbare clothes, He asks, on the basis of James 4 v 17 and a verse The Bible says “Have pity on the poor” for payment to pay for a lawyer [ £600 ], for clothes to wear at court, size 11 socks, size 8 leather shoes, size 20- T Shirts, trousers 35/36, size 17 shirts.
A Sony Walkman portable player CD D-f J 65, FM/AM radio, cells, rechargeable batteries, cells charger, shaving razors, shaving sticks, shampoo, padlock, scientific calculator, typewriter with spare parts, and ribbons, videos, CD’s, pens, towel, flannel, handkerchiefs. soap, First certificate Language Practice with Key ISBNI 405 00766 4, English Grammar vocabulary, a NKJV Study Bible, a Bible commentary,
We sent a couple of booklets and will send a Bible. The rest we cannot deal with from depleted funds
It may seem a lot of requests from a criminal on Death Row, but if his story is true that he is a victim of mistaken identity, then a grave injustice may have been done and he might well deserve all these things which many of his contemporaries may enjoy, certainlty in the UK. I am making wider enquries about this case.
Duke Olnson Phiri
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thanking us for shoes, says how lonely and isolated he feels. He would like a battery operated cassette walk-man with Gospel cassettes. We have requested this before but no one seems to have one. He would appreciate it if any other Christian could correspond with him as a pen pal.
The address of theses last 3 people is Death Row Section, Maximum Security Prison. PO Box 80915. Kabwe. Zambia.
Elder Jackson Chanda
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of Final Message to the Lost Sheep, P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia can still use Christian literature and cassettes if anyone can send him anything direct, Also for his orphans he would appreciate biro pens, pencils, pads .
Other Zambian ministers still request Christian literature including second hand Bible reading notes
TIMOTHY CHALI. of the SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS P. O. Box 760078 Mwense, Zambia
DR MWILA B KATYERA Therapy & Human Concern Ministry, P O Box 740031 Nchelenge - Luapula Zambia.
ALBERT CHILIMA. Nchelenge District Box 740096. Luapula Province. Zambia
JOSEPH S MUSONDA C/O Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, KABWE . ZAMBIA
BIBLES TO PRISONERS
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Rosemary Page of Blackpool who used to serve in Zambia now collects AV Bibles and send them to prisoners who request them around the world, She asked us whether we could supply her any addresses to send to but has recently heard from a contact in the USA so she now has some 200 requests to respond to in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon. Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Germany and India. Although now unable to assist us, we pray for her. And the recipitents of these Bibles.
Web Board Site
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I also continue to post material on our web board site lhpm.proboards.com that people continue to access and read. A steady drip, drip of guests visit it each day, . The board set up in 2005 crashed on Feb 1st. We began to create a new one but in April Proboards were able to salvage the original boards and all the posts on them and put it on the new address above. So we will continue to use and promote that site. The site has 36 listings on Google.
AFRINSPIRE and TREE PLANTING.
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We continue to support AFRINSPIRE whose General Secretary is a former Baptist Minister They supply computers and agricultural equipment to Uganda. Our interest is in trees. We have two 250 tree woods on the Uganda / Congo border and we funded 750 saplings last year and hope to do so this year, bringing our total in 15 countries to 7035. Afrinspire operate in Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan and Tanzania. They also supply medicines, & school supplies, and support literacy and education.
Charity No 1095001. 22 Melvin Way ,Histon. Cambridge. CB24 9HY. www.afrinspire.org.uk email office@afrinspire.org.uk ( 01223 233367
TOOLS WITH A MISSION
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and our Zambian Contacts. Inquiry has been made of the possibility of funding despatch of sewing machines and knitting machines to help those caring for orphans in Zambia.
GUEST HOUSE for MISSIONARIES
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Jim Figgis asks for our prayers about setting up such a place for visiting speakers and trainee missionaries in his part of Scotland.
CARROT TOPS PROJECT 2009.
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To help Poomani A young unmarried Christian woman at Chennai in India. She needs knee surgery, callipers and a special shoe costing approximately £500. Her parents are unemployed and no one else can help her. Carrot Tops is a Charity [ No 1016820 ] supported by the Wellspring Evangelical Church at Saffron Walden that disbanded a few years ago, their members joining various other local churches. For details email jangreen@buxhall.co.uk or write to Green Pastures, Buxhall, Stowmarket,IP14 3DX.
[ phone 01449 736628]
PASTOR TRAINING INTERNATIONAL
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another ministry we support supplies qualified instructors who organise pastor training conference camps in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ukraine, Malawi, Zambia and India, and supply mini-libraries to Pastors around the world through their sister organisation Christian Books Worldwide. Charity No 1102013. Web site www.pastor-training.org Address PO Box 1082 Woking Surrey GU22 8WX Email info@pastor-training.org They supply a regular Prayer News
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FOREIGN STAMPS
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We get from overseas letters we now send to, my cousins Michael and Robin in Hawaii who take out any suitable for their collection and then send with their surplus to Christian Witness to Israel for sale in support of their missionary work amongst the Jews.
Michael was in Walden a couple of weeks ago and he tells me he gets thousands of stamps a year in connection with his work so this will be quite a boost to CWI Stamp Bureau William Cumming 76 Oakfield Road Lobley Hill, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. NE11 OAE . UK,
SECOND HAND POSTCARDS
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for sale to raise money to keep Mission Aviation Fellowship Aircraft in the air are still acceptable by Mrs Heather Yule 10 Calverden Road RAMSGATE Kent CT12 6JU.
Kind regards JOHN