Post by John on Dec 4, 2010 22:52:34 GMT -5
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY NEWS
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LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
DECEMBER 2010
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Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
Our object has been “The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the World”
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF)
#####################################
grew out of the Saffron Walden Baptist Sunday School and Young People’s Fellowship in the mid 1950’s and Saffron Walden and District Youth for Christ from the same period. Since then the LORD enabling us we have reached out through various team projects to over 170 countries. We have no bank account, no committee, just a group of friends from various churches who have provided money in cash, or cheques to me, various resource materials to send out, and prayer support, and other friends online who pray too. We rely upon God the Holy Spirit to work through us as He desires, and to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit all credit, gratitude and praise is due.
IN THE UK
###########
Building on House to House distribution in Saffron Walden from 2003 - 2009 when for some of the time I was General Secretary of Churches Together, using NEW LIFE Newspaper, THE VOICE and VIA, last year I visited 8 villages in Uttlesford and some other locations in East Anglia, and then this summer I have distributed house to house in 11 Uttlesford villages and 6 other locations in East Anglia several more thousand copies of VIA Gospel message magazine. This is published by Brethren Christians in Canada, Money has been donated to pay the carriage costs for 8,800 more VIA, so DV, I may continue next year distributing VIA in other parts of Uttlesford.
Booklets, Gospels, Our Daily Bread, and Tracts
########################################
We now use a Gospel of John with a Lighthouse Lantern pictured on the front in the New King James Version, 1982, issued by the Scottish Bible Society and purchased from the Open Air Mission with a reply card available to them for assistance. These past 2 years I have also left SGM booklets on tables at cafe's as a tip, Gospels in the public shelters on the cliffs at Clacton, bus shelters in various places, at several telephone boxes, and in the letter boxes of a Mosque and a Spiritualist Church advertising séances, and pinned tract messages on several public notice boards.
Alongside and following up literature At Takeley I gave a copy of VIA to and had a two hour conversation with, a young back packer who had flown into nearby Stansted Airport from Spain to visit friends. He had sat down in the Airport Lounge and taken his jacket off and fallen asleep. When he woke up his jacket had been stolen with his wallet in it. He had his passport OK but was held up waiting to get more money through the following Monday. I found him on a seat in the graveyard of Holy Trinity Church. He had been able to land a temporary job cutting the grass and tidying the church yard in exchange for food and was camping in his own sleeping bag and tent.
Also at Takeley I found a mobile home park with 140 units and a local Christian told me that her church had distributed leaflets there and visited and she was pleased that I had distributed there too. After each of my 38 visits this year there has been additional activity on our web board site, varying from a low of 25 to a high of 79. and an average in the mid-60's so there is interest out there. The labels in VIA and the Gospels commend the address, phone, and website of Christian Enquiry Agency. On Nov 10th they re-launched their site www.christianity.org.uk Try it out
Also make known to everyone the BBC 4-part pre-Christmas series THE NATIVITY. Details on this Christian Enquiry Agency site. We are sending 30 copies of Gospel Gems Calendars ( GG ) this year to selected people. We started doing this decades ago when they cost 6d each [ 3p ] and now they cost 75p each.
NEW OUTREACH
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Thaxted Baptist Church after a 16 months of praying seeking the LORD's will, including on site prayer walks, distributed an invitation to all the 500 homes, built over the past 3 years at the new village of Prior's Green on the Takeley/Canfield border to which I distributed VIA in September, inviting anyone there interested to a meeting at the Neighbourhood Centre with a view to beginning a Christian group that might grow into a new Church plant. So on October 28th 2010, 15 people met some from Great and Little Canfield, some from Takeley, some from Thaxted , two from Prior's Green Estate, and me. We introduced each other, discussed and prayed together and agreed to establish a monthly prayer group at the Centre in a hired room. So let us continue to pray that God the Holy Spirit will work there drawing Christians together and non believers to the LORD.
OVERSEAS OUTREACH,
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During this year we were able to send help to
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
China 50 Bibles printed in China for Chinese people
Israel to provide some Children’s Bibles
Jamaica for the Patois Recorded New Testament project - 5 million Jamaicans world wide speak Patois Kenya 12 Bibles to Dandora Church
Madagascar. for poor families,
Malawi, Bibles for 8 orphans
Mexico for helping to provide Scriptures in Chamula for the Tzotzil people of Southern Mexico where Christian converts have faced great persecution
Mongolia, to fund supply of 5 Bibles,
Philippines Bibles through the Bible Society for typhoon victims.
Please continue to pray
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Cambodia
~~~~~~~~~
for Ruth Elliott and Amanda serving with the Daughters of Cambodia, helping to rescue girls from prostitution, caring for, educating and training them. Some are producing hand made goods and now have a small shop in the capital to sell them and an associated Cafe.
Ethiopia
~~~~~~~~~~
for Ayele Halliso now 36, a lay evangelist in rural areas with his group of undernourished siblings now in their late teens and early twenties roaming from place to place begging. They have all been ill this year.
Ghana
~~~~~~~~
for the disabled orphan teenager Ebenezer Cobbina age 16 whom we supported on the apprenticeship in leather work and shoe making and assisted to buy a new wheelchair for this year.
for fellow Christian Patrick Guyam , a beggar suffering from severe leprosy with 3 children to care for to whom we supplied a Study Bible and are further assisting him..
for Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc , who is Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in partnership with others is operating with a new NGO, UNITE FOR SIGHT, restoring sight in rural areas
.
for Stephen Aggrey whom we helped through the Maritime Academy in Accra some years ago when he was a professed Christian to obtain a diploma in electronic engineering. Then he ceased to write and now we have been reunited on the Internet through Face Book. He has been through terrible times and lost everything and turned to male prostitution to survive. He has a soul that Christ has redeemed. Pray for his restoration.
for Richard Owuso whom we helped back in the 1990’s has been in touch again. He is a Christian and active in the LORD’s work, married with children and successful in business. Praise the LORD
for Robbie Amusu who is now working for an NGO in Accra, has hardly a moment to live but 3 evenings a week he ministers to a Prayer Meeting at the back of his house, and monthly motor cycles 45 minutes to Bawjaise to encourage the mission there.
for Anthony Aboagye at Accra, continues to teach at a Methodist School & helps youth work at Weijah Church. We sent him a quantity of "WAR CRY" , "Jan-Mar 2011 The WORD for TODAY" and a GG.
Iraq
~~~
for Sandy Russell in the Kurdish region co-ordinating translation of the Bible into modern Kurdish, and encouraging the church at Arbil with his wife Kirsten in Kilburn London with their two children where there are a lot of Kurdish people
Malawi
~~~~~~
Bibles are still needed 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.
Nigeria
~~~~~~
for Brother J Keneth of House Block N-7, University of Ibadan , Post Office Box 2094, Ibadan, Oyo State, who wrote asking us to supply 120 Bibles to a student group formed apparently through reading booklets with our address on . If anyone can send them a Bible direct please do so. We are trying to arrange other help. Apparently a lot of students were seeking the LORD after 8 students were shot dead. The new believers want to reach out to the other 12,000 students there.
North Africa
~~~~~~~~~~
Also we were enabled to 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. [ www.onehousehold.com.uk ].
Poland.
~~~~~~
We have sent our last 15 copies of NASZ CODZIENNY CHLEB - OUR DAILY BREAD in Polish, Introductory edition to
Major Denise McGarvey at Ul Zakladowa 6/17 ,27-200 Starachowice in Poland for distribution.
Thailand
~~~~~~~
for Pete and Liz Maythingy working amongst the Karen people whose families originated in Burma
Pete and Liz helped organise a youth camp attended by 750 young people and are now helping to provide leadership training for some who made a commitment then, They are looking after a BMS Youth Action Team for 6 months - Ross, Sarah, Peter and Hannah working in local schools, and with church youth groups teaching English at the Bible school and helping at the Hope Home
Zambia
~~~~~~
for Francis Mwansa of Maximum Security Prison, Death Row Section, PO Box 80915, Kabwe, Zambia. He is 34. married with 2 children and came to death Row in 2007 charged with murder. In prison he became a Christian and is a Roman Catholic who would like someone to exchange letters with.
for Kelly B Mambwe at a Blind Centre for the Disabled, the grandson of a blind widow we helped years ago, asked for help in getting a job as a crane or forklift driver. He has had only 4 years education. We could not send him money so I commended to him the Salvation Army address and sent a copy of TORCH magazine from Torch Trust for the Blind who have a contact in Zambia.
for Levy Hamwanza who is at the prison at Kabwe and wants Linen and toiletries. Replied saying why we could not supply and commended ti him the Salvation Army contact address.
for Mwila Gerard whose 2010 year’s school fees at Nchelenge High School we paid & hope to pay his final year next year.
for Nkuba Davies Chola, a Christian, who is alone, with no family, homeless, ill, and has had our address about 11 years given by a friend who got it from someone else. Having sold his mattress and 2 chairs to pay a herbalist for medicines all he has left is a Bible and a bed but no where to put it, and nothing else. I sent him 11 addresses of people I know in Zambia hoping that one of them might be able to help but none can. He just wanders the streets and from time to time gets temporary lodging.
for Lewis Muleba who in April 2009 successfully completed his training and was appointed a Tutor for Theological Education by extension in Zambia. He is serving as a prisoner at Kamfinsa State Prison, at the Education Bay Box 21596, Kitwe, Zambia. He and the group he works with on 20-25 years sentences also suffer from AIDS and HIV. They need Bibles, Electric Razors they can share , Bibles, exercise books, pens, pencils, toiletries such as toothpaste, tooth brushes, soap, flannels, towels, and shoes sizes 6 to 9. If you can help please send them direct, and not o us as we have no funds with which to send them. We have sent Christian literature and possibly useful addresses. His department teaches IT Skills, human development, communication skills, and counselling.
for Duke Olson Phiri and his family Jesper and Saidy with his sister Faides,
for Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka C/O TUG-ARGAN BARRACKS, ALPHA COMPANY , POSTAL AGENCY NDOLA , ZAMBIA . A Chaplain with the Zambian army who can recycle Gideon New Testaments.
for Mayamba Geoffrey Kuletela at PO Box 910402 Mongu, who is an ex-Prisoner now working outside and organising a prisoner support organisation with support of the Prison service
SECOND HAND POSTCARDS
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for sale to raise money to keep Mission Aviation Fellowship Aircraft in the air. MAF last year raised over £10,000 this way. They 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. He still needs Good News Bibles for the orphans ..
Mr Joseph S Musonda c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia. He asks for Colgate tooth paste, soap, A4 paper pads, C6 envelopes, Sony ear phones, small Christian magazines, newspapers and books, puffed and salted corn, tea biscuits, If anyone can send any of those, please do so and let me know that you have.
He is still requesting £60 to be sent by Moneygramme to buy for the prison school library stools, chairs, another wooden book case, and a bell for school programmes. We don’t have the money to buy and send what he asks though we will send a bell.
Please pray for Barnaby Linscott ex 1st SWBB beginning training in Oct at Kingdom Faith Bible College at Horsham.
This year we have made a donation to the 25 yearold Christian Television Association who produce DVD programmes for use around the world in English, Arabic, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Italian. We commend their web site www.cta.uk.com HQ are at Avalon House. Lower Strode Road, Clevedon, BS21 6UU
Celebrating CHRISTMAS; The Birth of Christ the King. The Bible Society has brought out a set of Christmas labels produced by a Danish Artist Hanefelt Kristensen to put on evelopes which includes an invitation to their web site address
christmasunwrapped.org.uk so people can access it and listen to the Christmas Story.You can get them free, from that website or by phone on 01793 418222.
Remember 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the AV or KJV Bible. UK needs to re-engage the Bible.
ChurchAds.net Christmas Publicity Campaign this year involves a Baby Scan picture with the message " He's on His way. CHRISTmas starts with CHRIST". Last year with 700 sites they reached potentially 20 million people. This year they are aiming at using 2010 sites reaching 40 million people in the UK. Anyone with a spare £150 could donate to provide this advert for 2 weeks on a bus shelter or a high visibility site in a city centre. They also plan radio ads. Contact them on www.churchads.net
Contact too www.word.org.uk for local outreach to Moslems & other Asians.See the lovely Bi-lingual calendars Word of Life produce in English with Arabic, Bengali. Somali, Turkish, Kurdish, etc or write for newsletter to Word of Life PO Box 14 Oldham OL1 3WW
Language Recordings UK In the past 18 months we have been enabled to supply 5 clockwork Cassette/CD Players with cassettes and CD’s and illustrated posters, for teams willing to reach out to remote places be reaching communities in native dialects through Language Recordings UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY.The 5 we were able to provide were in Angola, India, Kenya, Malawi, and Sierra Leone. We hope to continue to increase these each year..
Interested in improving your Christian impact at work we commend to you TRANSFORM WORK UK Brook House, Ouse Walk, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 3QW, or on-line www.transformworkuk.org
2011 marks 300 YEARS OF BAPTIST WITNESS IN SAFFRON WALDEN 1711 - 2011 which spilled over into the villages and we are preparing an exhibition for Wed Sept 21 to-Fri Sept 23 leading up to Back to Church Sunday and following it with a Church Weekend Oct 1st & 2nd.. I'm also planning for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Four Acres Community in 2012.. Kind regards. JOHN
#################################
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
DECEMBER 2010
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
Our object has been “The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the World”
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF)
#####################################
grew out of the Saffron Walden Baptist Sunday School and Young People’s Fellowship in the mid 1950’s and Saffron Walden and District Youth for Christ from the same period. Since then the LORD enabling us we have reached out through various team projects to over 170 countries. We have no bank account, no committee, just a group of friends from various churches who have provided money in cash, or cheques to me, various resource materials to send out, and prayer support, and other friends online who pray too. We rely upon God the Holy Spirit to work through us as He desires, and to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit all credit, gratitude and praise is due.
IN THE UK
###########
Building on House to House distribution in Saffron Walden from 2003 - 2009 when for some of the time I was General Secretary of Churches Together, using NEW LIFE Newspaper, THE VOICE and VIA, last year I visited 8 villages in Uttlesford and some other locations in East Anglia, and then this summer I have distributed house to house in 11 Uttlesford villages and 6 other locations in East Anglia several more thousand copies of VIA Gospel message magazine. This is published by Brethren Christians in Canada, Money has been donated to pay the carriage costs for 8,800 more VIA, so DV, I may continue next year distributing VIA in other parts of Uttlesford.
Booklets, Gospels, Our Daily Bread, and Tracts
########################################
We now use a Gospel of John with a Lighthouse Lantern pictured on the front in the New King James Version, 1982, issued by the Scottish Bible Society and purchased from the Open Air Mission with a reply card available to them for assistance. These past 2 years I have also left SGM booklets on tables at cafe's as a tip, Gospels in the public shelters on the cliffs at Clacton, bus shelters in various places, at several telephone boxes, and in the letter boxes of a Mosque and a Spiritualist Church advertising séances, and pinned tract messages on several public notice boards.
Alongside and following up literature At Takeley I gave a copy of VIA to and had a two hour conversation with, a young back packer who had flown into nearby Stansted Airport from Spain to visit friends. He had sat down in the Airport Lounge and taken his jacket off and fallen asleep. When he woke up his jacket had been stolen with his wallet in it. He had his passport OK but was held up waiting to get more money through the following Monday. I found him on a seat in the graveyard of Holy Trinity Church. He had been able to land a temporary job cutting the grass and tidying the church yard in exchange for food and was camping in his own sleeping bag and tent.
Also at Takeley I found a mobile home park with 140 units and a local Christian told me that her church had distributed leaflets there and visited and she was pleased that I had distributed there too. After each of my 38 visits this year there has been additional activity on our web board site, varying from a low of 25 to a high of 79. and an average in the mid-60's so there is interest out there. The labels in VIA and the Gospels commend the address, phone, and website of Christian Enquiry Agency. On Nov 10th they re-launched their site www.christianity.org.uk Try it out
Also make known to everyone the BBC 4-part pre-Christmas series THE NATIVITY. Details on this Christian Enquiry Agency site. We are sending 30 copies of Gospel Gems Calendars ( GG ) this year to selected people. We started doing this decades ago when they cost 6d each [ 3p ] and now they cost 75p each.
NEW OUTREACH
#################
Thaxted Baptist Church after a 16 months of praying seeking the LORD's will, including on site prayer walks, distributed an invitation to all the 500 homes, built over the past 3 years at the new village of Prior's Green on the Takeley/Canfield border to which I distributed VIA in September, inviting anyone there interested to a meeting at the Neighbourhood Centre with a view to beginning a Christian group that might grow into a new Church plant. So on October 28th 2010, 15 people met some from Great and Little Canfield, some from Takeley, some from Thaxted , two from Prior's Green Estate, and me. We introduced each other, discussed and prayed together and agreed to establish a monthly prayer group at the Centre in a hired room. So let us continue to pray that God the Holy Spirit will work there drawing Christians together and non believers to the LORD.
OVERSEAS OUTREACH,
############################
During this year we were able to send help to
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
China 50 Bibles printed in China for Chinese people
Israel to provide some Children’s Bibles
Jamaica for the Patois Recorded New Testament project - 5 million Jamaicans world wide speak Patois Kenya 12 Bibles to Dandora Church
Madagascar. for poor families,
Malawi, Bibles for 8 orphans
Mexico for helping to provide Scriptures in Chamula for the Tzotzil people of Southern Mexico where Christian converts have faced great persecution
Mongolia, to fund supply of 5 Bibles,
Philippines Bibles through the Bible Society for typhoon victims.
Please continue to pray
#######################
Cambodia
~~~~~~~~~
for Ruth Elliott and Amanda serving with the Daughters of Cambodia, helping to rescue girls from prostitution, caring for, educating and training them. Some are producing hand made goods and now have a small shop in the capital to sell them and an associated Cafe.
Ethiopia
~~~~~~~~~~
for Ayele Halliso now 36, a lay evangelist in rural areas with his group of undernourished siblings now in their late teens and early twenties roaming from place to place begging. They have all been ill this year.
Ghana
~~~~~~~~
for the disabled orphan teenager Ebenezer Cobbina age 16 whom we supported on the apprenticeship in leather work and shoe making and assisted to buy a new wheelchair for this year.
for fellow Christian Patrick Guyam , a beggar suffering from severe leprosy with 3 children to care for to whom we supplied a Study Bible and are further assisting him..
for Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc , who is Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in partnership with others is operating with a new NGO, UNITE FOR SIGHT, restoring sight in rural areas
.
for Stephen Aggrey whom we helped through the Maritime Academy in Accra some years ago when he was a professed Christian to obtain a diploma in electronic engineering. Then he ceased to write and now we have been reunited on the Internet through Face Book. He has been through terrible times and lost everything and turned to male prostitution to survive. He has a soul that Christ has redeemed. Pray for his restoration.
for Richard Owuso whom we helped back in the 1990’s has been in touch again. He is a Christian and active in the LORD’s work, married with children and successful in business. Praise the LORD
for Robbie Amusu who is now working for an NGO in Accra, has hardly a moment to live but 3 evenings a week he ministers to a Prayer Meeting at the back of his house, and monthly motor cycles 45 minutes to Bawjaise to encourage the mission there.
for Anthony Aboagye at Accra, continues to teach at a Methodist School & helps youth work at Weijah Church. We sent him a quantity of "WAR CRY" , "Jan-Mar 2011 The WORD for TODAY" and a GG.
Iraq
~~~
for Sandy Russell in the Kurdish region co-ordinating translation of the Bible into modern Kurdish, and encouraging the church at Arbil with his wife Kirsten in Kilburn London with their two children where there are a lot of Kurdish people
Malawi
~~~~~~
Bibles are still needed 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.
Nigeria
~~~~~~
for Brother J Keneth of House Block N-7, University of Ibadan , Post Office Box 2094, Ibadan, Oyo State, who wrote asking us to supply 120 Bibles to a student group formed apparently through reading booklets with our address on . If anyone can send them a Bible direct please do so. We are trying to arrange other help. Apparently a lot of students were seeking the LORD after 8 students were shot dead. The new believers want to reach out to the other 12,000 students there.
North Africa
~~~~~~~~~~
Also we were enabled to 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. [ www.onehousehold.com.uk ].
Poland.
~~~~~~
We have sent our last 15 copies of NASZ CODZIENNY CHLEB - OUR DAILY BREAD in Polish, Introductory edition to
Major Denise McGarvey at Ul Zakladowa 6/17 ,27-200 Starachowice in Poland for distribution.
Thailand
~~~~~~~
for Pete and Liz Maythingy working amongst the Karen people whose families originated in Burma
Pete and Liz helped organise a youth camp attended by 750 young people and are now helping to provide leadership training for some who made a commitment then, They are looking after a BMS Youth Action Team for 6 months - Ross, Sarah, Peter and Hannah working in local schools, and with church youth groups teaching English at the Bible school and helping at the Hope Home
Zambia
~~~~~~
for Francis Mwansa of Maximum Security Prison, Death Row Section, PO Box 80915, Kabwe, Zambia. He is 34. married with 2 children and came to death Row in 2007 charged with murder. In prison he became a Christian and is a Roman Catholic who would like someone to exchange letters with.
for Kelly B Mambwe at a Blind Centre for the Disabled, the grandson of a blind widow we helped years ago, asked for help in getting a job as a crane or forklift driver. He has had only 4 years education. We could not send him money so I commended to him the Salvation Army address and sent a copy of TORCH magazine from Torch Trust for the Blind who have a contact in Zambia.
for Levy Hamwanza who is at the prison at Kabwe and wants Linen and toiletries. Replied saying why we could not supply and commended ti him the Salvation Army contact address.
for Mwila Gerard whose 2010 year’s school fees at Nchelenge High School we paid & hope to pay his final year next year.
for Nkuba Davies Chola, a Christian, who is alone, with no family, homeless, ill, and has had our address about 11 years given by a friend who got it from someone else. Having sold his mattress and 2 chairs to pay a herbalist for medicines all he has left is a Bible and a bed but no where to put it, and nothing else. I sent him 11 addresses of people I know in Zambia hoping that one of them might be able to help but none can. He just wanders the streets and from time to time gets temporary lodging.
for Lewis Muleba who in April 2009 successfully completed his training and was appointed a Tutor for Theological Education by extension in Zambia. He is serving as a prisoner at Kamfinsa State Prison, at the Education Bay Box 21596, Kitwe, Zambia. He and the group he works with on 20-25 years sentences also suffer from AIDS and HIV. They need Bibles, Electric Razors they can share , Bibles, exercise books, pens, pencils, toiletries such as toothpaste, tooth brushes, soap, flannels, towels, and shoes sizes 6 to 9. If you can help please send them direct, and not o us as we have no funds with which to send them. We have sent Christian literature and possibly useful addresses. His department teaches IT Skills, human development, communication skills, and counselling.
for Duke Olson Phiri and his family Jesper and Saidy with his sister Faides,
for Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka C/O TUG-ARGAN BARRACKS, ALPHA COMPANY , POSTAL AGENCY NDOLA , ZAMBIA . A Chaplain with the Zambian army who can recycle Gideon New Testaments.
for Mayamba Geoffrey Kuletela at PO Box 910402 Mongu, who is an ex-Prisoner now working outside and organising a prisoner support organisation with support of the Prison service
SECOND HAND POSTCARDS
####################################
for sale to raise money to keep Mission Aviation Fellowship Aircraft in the air. MAF last year raised over £10,000 this way. They 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. He still needs Good News Bibles for the orphans ..
Mr Joseph S Musonda c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia. He asks for Colgate tooth paste, soap, A4 paper pads, C6 envelopes, Sony ear phones, small Christian magazines, newspapers and books, puffed and salted corn, tea biscuits, If anyone can send any of those, please do so and let me know that you have.
He is still requesting £60 to be sent by Moneygramme to buy for the prison school library stools, chairs, another wooden book case, and a bell for school programmes. We don’t have the money to buy and send what he asks though we will send a bell.
Please pray for Barnaby Linscott ex 1st SWBB beginning training in Oct at Kingdom Faith Bible College at Horsham.
This year we have made a donation to the 25 yearold Christian Television Association who produce DVD programmes for use around the world in English, Arabic, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Italian. We commend their web site www.cta.uk.com HQ are at Avalon House. Lower Strode Road, Clevedon, BS21 6UU
Celebrating CHRISTMAS; The Birth of Christ the King. The Bible Society has brought out a set of Christmas labels produced by a Danish Artist Hanefelt Kristensen to put on evelopes which includes an invitation to their web site address
christmasunwrapped.org.uk so people can access it and listen to the Christmas Story.You can get them free, from that website or by phone on 01793 418222.
Remember 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the AV or KJV Bible. UK needs to re-engage the Bible.
ChurchAds.net Christmas Publicity Campaign this year involves a Baby Scan picture with the message " He's on His way. CHRISTmas starts with CHRIST". Last year with 700 sites they reached potentially 20 million people. This year they are aiming at using 2010 sites reaching 40 million people in the UK. Anyone with a spare £150 could donate to provide this advert for 2 weeks on a bus shelter or a high visibility site in a city centre. They also plan radio ads. Contact them on www.churchads.net
Contact too www.word.org.uk for local outreach to Moslems & other Asians.See the lovely Bi-lingual calendars Word of Life produce in English with Arabic, Bengali. Somali, Turkish, Kurdish, etc or write for newsletter to Word of Life PO Box 14 Oldham OL1 3WW
Language Recordings UK In the past 18 months we have been enabled to supply 5 clockwork Cassette/CD Players with cassettes and CD’s and illustrated posters, for teams willing to reach out to remote places be reaching communities in native dialects through Language Recordings UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY.The 5 we were able to provide were in Angola, India, Kenya, Malawi, and Sierra Leone. We hope to continue to increase these each year..
Interested in improving your Christian impact at work we commend to you TRANSFORM WORK UK Brook House, Ouse Walk, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 3QW, or on-line www.transformworkuk.org
2011 marks 300 YEARS OF BAPTIST WITNESS IN SAFFRON WALDEN 1711 - 2011 which spilled over into the villages and we are preparing an exhibition for Wed Sept 21 to-Fri Sept 23 leading up to Back to Church Sunday and following it with a Church Weekend Oct 1st & 2nd.. I'm also planning for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Four Acres Community in 2012.. Kind regards. JOHN