Post by John on Apr 13, 2010 15:52:40 GMT -5
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY NEWS APRIL 2010
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LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
From :Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
The object of Lighthouse Prayer Ministry (MCCPF) has been
“The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the world
WHERE NOW ?
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On April 1st there was a 2p increase in the minimum price of letters within the UK but there was a huge increase in all the overseas postage rates. Just to reply to a letter from abroad costs at minimum £1.
Sending packages even at small packet rate has risen a lot. We are also getting less letters from abroad because postage rates there have risen sharply too. Added to which our income has reduced. Lighthouse Ministry is maintained on a regular basis by just 2 people with 3 others making, up to last year an annual or half yearly donation. We are living hand to mouth and we now have a growing deficit being paid off by these two contributors. So we have now discontinued accepting second hand Bible Reading Notes and stopped replying to letters from abroad.
From now on once the deficit has been cleared I feel drawn away from helping people overseas, who though poor, are already Christians, to concentrate on people who have not yet heard of Jesus across the Moslem world and in the deep forests of Africa and Central America.
So instead of spending a lot of money on postage sending things to a few individuals I feel we should be reaching communities in native dialects in remote places through providing more clockwork Cassette/CD Players with cassettes and CD’s and illustrated posters, for teams willing to reach out to these areas.
At £35 a machine we can help reach thousands, for the price of 35 overseas letters.
Last year we were able to provide 2 Players, one in Angola and one in Malawi and this year one in Kenya
via Language Recordings UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY
These reach 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. There are opportunities out there for 300 more machines.
Also we can reach more Muslim families across North Africa through Christian Radio at a cost of £1 per family per year. Their address is HCJB Global Radio, The Media Centre, 131 Grattan Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire. BD1 2HS. We recommend you if you are able to do so to access www.onehousehold.com.uk ]. and also through Arab Vision TV. Our resources are small and so the most needs to be made of them.
OVERSEAS OUTREACH,
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During the first 3 months of this year we were able to fund supply of 5 Bibles to Mongolia, some Children’s Bibles to Iran and Israel and 12 Bibles to Dandora Church in Kenya and replacement Bibles through the Bible Society for typhoon victims in the Philippines.
We have paid this year school fees at Nchelenge High School Zambia for a Christian orphan Grade 11 student Mwila Gerard by bank transfer to the school.
Please continue to pray for fellow Christian Patrick Guyam in Ghana, a beggar suffering from severe leprosy with 3 children to care for to whom we supplied a Study Bible and are further assisting him.
Please continue to pray for the orphan teenager Ebenezer we supported on the apprenticeship in leather work and shoe making.
We continue to pray for Ayele Halliso now 36, a lay evangelist in rural Ethiopia with his group of undernourished siblings now in their late teens and early twenties roaming from place to place begging. All attempts to get Ethiopian Christians in UK or USA to help them have failed. They have all been ill this year.
We support as able Elam Ministries PO Box 75, Godalming, Surrey GU8 6YP. [ or email contact@elam.com. ] Since 2003 they have printed 330,000. New Testaments in Persian.
One church in Iran at the Iranian New Year in March last year distributed 3500 to Iranians who joyfully received them. In June the new Azeri New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs was launched aimed towards the 20 million ethnic Azeris in the North west of the country. The first 10,000 also carried 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.
Bibles are still needed in Malawi in the local languages at a cost of £4 each for pastors of churches and orphans in schools, and money for them may be sent to Mr Jim Figgis. Christian Resource Ministries, The Bible Shop 168 King Street, Castle Douglas. Kirkcudbrightshire DG7 1DA SCOTLAND. He is helping work in Kenya, South Africa and India too.
IN THE UK
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I continue locally, to introduce as opportunity provides, various versions of the OUR DAILY BREAD Bible study devotional booklets. These have brought some interesting responses recently.
I have resumed distribution of VIA message magazine published by Brethren Christians in Canada after distributing 3600 last year.
This year I believe I should complete distribution of several hundred more homes in Stansted, and proceed to do Thaxted and Dunmow.
Forest Gate Park,
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At Stansted I distributed to about 600 homes last autumn and have resumed in April. I have discovered a new estate of about 200 completed homes on the former Rochford’s Nurseries site off Church Road to the south of the main village, known as Forest Gate Park,
There are many other houses being built there with plots pegged out for more, with some footings done, and other spaces awaiting development. The site is a hive of activity, and the 10 completed roads are frequented by young mothers with prams, toddlers, and some teenagers racing about on mountain bikes. There does not appear to be any site a community hall, or on site shops, nor much land for recreation facilities.
The nearest active congregations are about one and half mile to the North or over in Stortford.
Please pray that Christian families will move in and begin to move out to their neighbours. There might be opportunities here for house groups, and for more intense leafleting and visitation, and maybe youth work or assistance for mothers and toddlers. There is a good bus service into the main village.
DV I will be at St Ives on May 10th and hope to reach 200 more homes there on the housing estate I distributed to last year.
I may also be visiting Bury St Edmunds and Clacton where there are huge housing estates where I may go.
I also continue as for many years, as other folk locally, to support Stort Valley Gideons who continue to supply annually New Testaments with Psalms to all 12 year olds in our local secondary schools.
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 already have two small woods on the Congo-Ugandan border,
We funded 750 saplings last year, bringing our total in 15 countries to 6885. 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
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.
ADDRESSES
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If anyone wants to continue to send Bible Reading Notes abroad you may do so direct by Small Packet Rate surface mail with a white customs sticker on it, obtainable from the Post Office, stating what is in it and the approximate value and marking it as a gift. These can still help and the following could use them.
Pastor Enock M Dimba Christian Resource Ministries PO Box 883, Blantyre, Malawi
Elder Jackson Chanda, P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia
Mr Lamech Chilima Nchelenge District Box 740096. Luapula Province. Zambia
Mr Joseph S Musonda c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia.
Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka C/O Tug Argan Barracks, Alpha Company, Postal Agency, Ndola, Zambia. He is a Chaplain with the Zambian army who can still use English New Testaments such as second hand Gideon Testaments.
PRAYER SUPPORT for MISSION
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There is a Baptist Missionary Prayer Meeting at Douglas & Betty Thornton’s home Hunters Cottage, Hunters Way, Debden Road, Saffron Walden on the first Monday in every month at 10am to pray mainly for people connected to our congregation who are serving abroad, and the next is on May 2nd.
We pray for Sandy & Kirsten Russell in the Kurdish area of Iraq including Sandy’s work co-ordinating translation of the Bible into modern Kurdish,
for Ashley Townsend from Thaxted who has been 6 months in Brazil with a BMS Action Team and arrived back on Good Friday to help at the Ashdon Bible Week [ VBS ] and preparing to tour UK Baptist Churches for 6 months.
for Ruth and Amanda serving with the Daughters of Cambodia, in that land helping to rescue girls from prostitution, and caring for, educating and training them. Some are producing hand made goods and now have a small shop in the capital to sell them.
for our BMS Link missionaries Pete and Liz Maythingy in Thailand and particularly for the Karen Youth Camp for a week from April 26th.
for our Baptist Church team, 4 adults and 7 young people going to Brazil for about 3 weeks in August, for which a team of about 8 young men of the Church are doing a sponsored cycle ride from York to London in May.
To the Jew first and also to the Gentile.
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May I also ask for prayer support for Christian Witness to Israel. Their roots go back into the mid 19thcentury, and they work amongst Jews in Australia, Bulgaria. France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, the UK and have just begin work in the USA.
Their largest community now is in Israel, created for them in 1948 amidst much continuing hostility towards them from Arab and other Muslim nations. Within 30 years it is estimated that the majority of the world’s Jews will live there.
So CWI are anxious to recruit and train new young Jewish Christians who will be able to work in Israel as evangelists of the fast growing Christian Church in Israel. For about a decade they have been working on a new Bible in modern Hebrew. All the Old Testament up to Proverbs have been published since 2001. To discover more contact them at CWI Worldwide 166 Main Road, Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent TN1 6EL. www.cwi.org.uk and www.shalom,org.uk.
CELEBRATING IN 2011
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Next year brings us
the 400th anniversary of the first publication of the Authorised Version of the Bible,
the 300th anniversary of the first Baptist Church in Saffron Walden formed in 1711 at Gold Street from a group that seceded from Abbey Lane Independent Church in 1708 and finished up as Hill Street General Baptist Church until 1950, and
the 250th Anniversary of the forming in 1761 at Abbey Lane Independent Church of the Baptist group which in 1774 became the present Baptist Church.
My grateful thanks to all who help us with gifts and prayer support.
Kind regards JOHN
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LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
From :Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
The object of Lighthouse Prayer Ministry (MCCPF) has been
“The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the world
WHERE NOW ?
##############
On April 1st there was a 2p increase in the minimum price of letters within the UK but there was a huge increase in all the overseas postage rates. Just to reply to a letter from abroad costs at minimum £1.
Sending packages even at small packet rate has risen a lot. We are also getting less letters from abroad because postage rates there have risen sharply too. Added to which our income has reduced. Lighthouse Ministry is maintained on a regular basis by just 2 people with 3 others making, up to last year an annual or half yearly donation. We are living hand to mouth and we now have a growing deficit being paid off by these two contributors. So we have now discontinued accepting second hand Bible Reading Notes and stopped replying to letters from abroad.
From now on once the deficit has been cleared I feel drawn away from helping people overseas, who though poor, are already Christians, to concentrate on people who have not yet heard of Jesus across the Moslem world and in the deep forests of Africa and Central America.
So instead of spending a lot of money on postage sending things to a few individuals I feel we should be reaching communities in native dialects in remote places through providing more clockwork Cassette/CD Players with cassettes and CD’s and illustrated posters, for teams willing to reach out to these areas.
At £35 a machine we can help reach thousands, for the price of 35 overseas letters.
Last year we were able to provide 2 Players, one in Angola and one in Malawi and this year one in Kenya
via Language Recordings UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY
These reach 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. There are opportunities out there for 300 more machines.
Also we can reach more Muslim families across North Africa through Christian Radio at a cost of £1 per family per year. Their address is HCJB Global Radio, The Media Centre, 131 Grattan Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire. BD1 2HS. We recommend you if you are able to do so to access www.onehousehold.com.uk ]. and also through Arab Vision TV. Our resources are small and so the most needs to be made of them.
OVERSEAS OUTREACH,
####################
During the first 3 months of this year we were able to fund supply of 5 Bibles to Mongolia, some Children’s Bibles to Iran and Israel and 12 Bibles to Dandora Church in Kenya and replacement Bibles through the Bible Society for typhoon victims in the Philippines.
We have paid this year school fees at Nchelenge High School Zambia for a Christian orphan Grade 11 student Mwila Gerard by bank transfer to the school.
Please continue to pray for fellow Christian Patrick Guyam in Ghana, a beggar suffering from severe leprosy with 3 children to care for to whom we supplied a Study Bible and are further assisting him.
Please continue to pray for the orphan teenager Ebenezer we supported on the apprenticeship in leather work and shoe making.
We continue to pray for Ayele Halliso now 36, a lay evangelist in rural Ethiopia with his group of undernourished siblings now in their late teens and early twenties roaming from place to place begging. All attempts to get Ethiopian Christians in UK or USA to help them have failed. They have all been ill this year.
We support as able Elam Ministries PO Box 75, Godalming, Surrey GU8 6YP. [ or email contact@elam.com. ] Since 2003 they have printed 330,000. New Testaments in Persian.
One church in Iran at the Iranian New Year in March last year distributed 3500 to Iranians who joyfully received them. In June the new Azeri New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs was launched aimed towards the 20 million ethnic Azeris in the North west of the country. The first 10,000 also carried 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.
Bibles are still needed in Malawi in the local languages at a cost of £4 each for pastors of churches and orphans in schools, and money for them may be sent to Mr Jim Figgis. Christian Resource Ministries, The Bible Shop 168 King Street, Castle Douglas. Kirkcudbrightshire DG7 1DA SCOTLAND. He is helping work in Kenya, South Africa and India too.
IN THE UK
##########
I continue locally, to introduce as opportunity provides, various versions of the OUR DAILY BREAD Bible study devotional booklets. These have brought some interesting responses recently.
I have resumed distribution of VIA message magazine published by Brethren Christians in Canada after distributing 3600 last year.
This year I believe I should complete distribution of several hundred more homes in Stansted, and proceed to do Thaxted and Dunmow.
Forest Gate Park,
##############
At Stansted I distributed to about 600 homes last autumn and have resumed in April. I have discovered a new estate of about 200 completed homes on the former Rochford’s Nurseries site off Church Road to the south of the main village, known as Forest Gate Park,
There are many other houses being built there with plots pegged out for more, with some footings done, and other spaces awaiting development. The site is a hive of activity, and the 10 completed roads are frequented by young mothers with prams, toddlers, and some teenagers racing about on mountain bikes. There does not appear to be any site a community hall, or on site shops, nor much land for recreation facilities.
The nearest active congregations are about one and half mile to the North or over in Stortford.
Please pray that Christian families will move in and begin to move out to their neighbours. There might be opportunities here for house groups, and for more intense leafleting and visitation, and maybe youth work or assistance for mothers and toddlers. There is a good bus service into the main village.
DV I will be at St Ives on May 10th and hope to reach 200 more homes there on the housing estate I distributed to last year.
I may also be visiting Bury St Edmunds and Clacton where there are huge housing estates where I may go.
I also continue as for many years, as other folk locally, to support Stort Valley Gideons who continue to supply annually New Testaments with Psalms to all 12 year olds in our local secondary schools.
AFRINSPIRE and TREE PLANTING.
###############################
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 already have two small woods on the Congo-Ugandan border,
We funded 750 saplings last year, bringing our total in 15 countries to 6885. 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
SECOND HAND POSTCARDS
#############################
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.
ADDRESSES
############
If anyone wants to continue to send Bible Reading Notes abroad you may do so direct by Small Packet Rate surface mail with a white customs sticker on it, obtainable from the Post Office, stating what is in it and the approximate value and marking it as a gift. These can still help and the following could use them.
Pastor Enock M Dimba Christian Resource Ministries PO Box 883, Blantyre, Malawi
Elder Jackson Chanda, P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia
Mr Lamech Chilima Nchelenge District Box 740096. Luapula Province. Zambia
Mr Joseph S Musonda c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia.
Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka C/O Tug Argan Barracks, Alpha Company, Postal Agency, Ndola, Zambia. He is a Chaplain with the Zambian army who can still use English New Testaments such as second hand Gideon Testaments.
PRAYER SUPPORT for MISSION
##################################
There is a Baptist Missionary Prayer Meeting at Douglas & Betty Thornton’s home Hunters Cottage, Hunters Way, Debden Road, Saffron Walden on the first Monday in every month at 10am to pray mainly for people connected to our congregation who are serving abroad, and the next is on May 2nd.
We pray for Sandy & Kirsten Russell in the Kurdish area of Iraq including Sandy’s work co-ordinating translation of the Bible into modern Kurdish,
for Ashley Townsend from Thaxted who has been 6 months in Brazil with a BMS Action Team and arrived back on Good Friday to help at the Ashdon Bible Week [ VBS ] and preparing to tour UK Baptist Churches for 6 months.
for Ruth and Amanda serving with the Daughters of Cambodia, in that land helping to rescue girls from prostitution, and caring for, educating and training them. Some are producing hand made goods and now have a small shop in the capital to sell them.
for our BMS Link missionaries Pete and Liz Maythingy in Thailand and particularly for the Karen Youth Camp for a week from April 26th.
for our Baptist Church team, 4 adults and 7 young people going to Brazil for about 3 weeks in August, for which a team of about 8 young men of the Church are doing a sponsored cycle ride from York to London in May.
To the Jew first and also to the Gentile.
################################
May I also ask for prayer support for Christian Witness to Israel. Their roots go back into the mid 19thcentury, and they work amongst Jews in Australia, Bulgaria. France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, the UK and have just begin work in the USA.
Their largest community now is in Israel, created for them in 1948 amidst much continuing hostility towards them from Arab and other Muslim nations. Within 30 years it is estimated that the majority of the world’s Jews will live there.
So CWI are anxious to recruit and train new young Jewish Christians who will be able to work in Israel as evangelists of the fast growing Christian Church in Israel. For about a decade they have been working on a new Bible in modern Hebrew. All the Old Testament up to Proverbs have been published since 2001. To discover more contact them at CWI Worldwide 166 Main Road, Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent TN1 6EL. www.cwi.org.uk and www.shalom,org.uk.
CELEBRATING IN 2011
####################
Next year brings us
the 400th anniversary of the first publication of the Authorised Version of the Bible,
the 300th anniversary of the first Baptist Church in Saffron Walden formed in 1711 at Gold Street from a group that seceded from Abbey Lane Independent Church in 1708 and finished up as Hill Street General Baptist Church until 1950, and
the 250th Anniversary of the forming in 1761 at Abbey Lane Independent Church of the Baptist group which in 1774 became the present Baptist Church.
My grateful thanks to all who help us with gifts and prayer support.
Kind regards JOHN