Post by John on Oct 17, 2012 20:30:44 GMT -5
THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY NEWS
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THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
AUTUMN 2012'
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From :Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK [ 01799 521529 ]
Our object has been “The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the world”
Our outreach is to the villages of North West Essex and contacts in
Angola, ,Cameroon,Ghana, India, Iran,Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,
Nigeria, South Africa, Somali, Ukraine, & Zambia
Web Board sites www.lhpm.proboards.com or www.lthopm.proboards.com
The key to making a difference is people working together
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) grew out of the Saffron Walden Baptist Sunday School and Young People’s Fellowship in the mid 1950’s.
UTTLESFORD OUTREACH 2012
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From 2003 – 2009 supporters of The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry (MCCPF) funded and we had delivered to almost all addresses in Saffron Walden the 12 page tabloid newspaper NEW LIFE NEWS
Since 2009 supporters of The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry (MCCPF) have funded and we have had delivered VIA Gospel Magazine [ produced by a Brethren Church in Canada one edition each year for the past 41 years ] to most of the homes in Stansted Mountfitchet and over 30 villages
With this we offer two phone numbers, a postal address to the Christian Enquiry Agency and their email address, 10 websites and a response form enabling people to obtain a free New Testament and a Free Bible Study Course.
After each visit this year there has been a significant increase in hits to our Websites and over 4 years 300 people have accessed our “Seeking Christians in Saffron Walden” board and over 150 have accessed “How to become a Christian”
This year Ken Bedward has been helping me with this distribution and together we have reached over 1700 homes house to house across Bartlow,Berden, Catmere End, Chrishall, Clavering, Duddenhoe End, Elmdon. Great & Little Sampford, Hadstock, Langley, Littlebury Green, Manuden, Stansted Mountfitchet and Wicken Bonhunt,, and over 1000 homes have been reached at Thaxted including Bardfield End Green and Cutlers Green. A few more outlying hamlets in Thaxted Parish await being done. We have reached 75 new homes in Saffron Walden.
We hope to do several more hamlets and villages this year. Next target areas are Great & Little Easton., Debden Green and Farnham.
If God wills it maybe we could do Dunmow next year.
NKJV Gospels with introductory RBC Daily Bible notes have been left in 2 BT Phone kiosks now used as libraries, in bus shelters, and on village church pulpits. Some of my friends accepted info as to where they could buy Gospels to distribute when on holiday.
OVERSEAS OUTREACH DURING 2012 -
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ZAMBIA
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We support the FINAL MESSAGE TO THE LOST SHEEP CHURCH at Nchelenge in Northern Zambia founded 7 years ago, a congregation of 50 -70 people with 5 Elders one of which acts as Minister Jackson Chanda whose wife Christine helps him. They have 4 children of their own, 3 daughters Chalwe 13, Hildah 4 and Hazel 8 months and a son Jackson Junior who is 8.
We have been supporting with Christian literature and cassettes this evangelistic ministry out of which this church was formed, for about 10 years. The Church operates a Youth Vocational Training Scheme launched in 2011 by a grant of thousands of pounds worth of training equipment sent out by Tools With a Mission at Ipswich which we raised £1000 to pay freight and transport costs. The equipment is used in a network of small enterprise groups with volunteer trainers.''
Our Main Annual Task is to raise £500 a year to educate 10 Aids Orphans adopted some years ago by Jackson Chanda who attend KALWEO PRIMARY SCHOOL [ Headmaster Mr Giberi Chishimba ] paying 2 terms while 2 other former Church members living away pay the other term. Three more people each giving £75, the cost per child per year, would reduce the strain on one giving 4 times that amount. We have enough received or promised, to cover the next 15 months unless the fees rise. This project is called Nchelenge Aids Orphans Education Mission
Jackson Chanda assisted by 8 lay preachers has also evangelised for three years 3 islands on the Lake Mweru, Katofyo Island, Chisenga Island, and Kabeke Island. Each has a growing Church congregation.
The 3 Elders in Charge of the 3 Churches needed Study Bibles [ that is with columns of references, notes, dictionary, and / or concordance, maps. Illustrations. ] If anyone can lay hands on some in any version we will find a way of funding carriage
We have been able to supply 2 so far, If we get ,ore than 3 there are 8 lay preachers we might thus help. They go by airmail and is quite expensive one mailing cost £26.
We have been enabled to provide Large Print Local Language [ Bemba ] Bibles to 58 poorly sighted adult converts plus 72 English Bibles bought in Zambia from a bookshop 100 miles away for which we paid carriage of £13 for people at the 3 mission Churches on the islands. They need another 228 @ £5 each, costing £1140 plus £50 carriage costs. When that can be achieved we don't know, but it is a work in progress and any sum that helps reduce the total would be appreciated.
Ome Njekwa
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prisoner at the Maximum Security Prison P O Box 80915 Kabwe Zambia seeks a fellow Christian who will exchange letters with him and would like packet soups, toothpaste, soap, size 42 or 43 [ 8 or 9] shoes, and large size shirt if anyone can help him, He awaits appeal after 10 years in prison cut off from his family and neighbourhood without any visitors.
Makanda
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aged 30 in the Maximum Security Prison in the 6th year of a 25 year sentence with hard labour for murder. In prison he has become a Christian but he lives some 700 miles from his wife and 2 children living in great poverty and unable to go to school. He never gets a visit from there and seldom hears. We are trying to get him a pair of size 9 shoes.
Nkuba Davies Chola
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Tools With A Mission at Ipswich in Suffolk have a request for training equipment and computers from Nkuba Davies Chola of P O B0X 740169 NCHELENGE, ZAMBIA who is Secretary of the TOGETHER WE SURVIVE GROUP. This is a group of poor citizens suffering from various disabilities for whom there is no benefits net, no work, no education and little care or support from the community. Some have only one leg or arm. Some are quite naturally depressed.
They have no church or meeting place so they meet in a couple of groups outside. They have little or no work and seem just abandoned by the worlds around them
Training equipment could make a big difference to their lives.
Elder Jackson Chanda recommends that they be helped.
Tools With a Mission have a 2½ years backlog of requests So should be able to meet this request in 2014-2015. The stock cannot go until money has been guaranteed. About £800 to us THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY to pay TWAM and about £300 to send by Moneygram for overland haulage.
SOMALIA
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We ask prayer for the Hiran Community Education Project, 68 The Hurst, B13 ODD [ 0121 604 6174 ] They have recently reopened another Library & Reading Room after their previous premises down South were destroyed by Islamists
SOUTH AFRICA
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BREADLINE AFRICA buys up from Shipping Freight Companies old storage containers and cuts out window spaces and makes them into Classrooms. Libraries. Toilets, Soup Kitchens for use in Africa. We helped them last year and hope to do so again. Interested in helping them? Then contact 29 Lower Brook Street. IPSWICH Suffolk, IPA 1AQ , 01473 .259048 Email info@breadlineafrica.org.uk
SOUTH AMERICA
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Ian and Brenda Darke with LATIN LINK [ Former South American Missionary Society ] have been active in Costa Rican for many years creating Sunday School teaching materials and book publishing across that continent. Brenda has had an important caring ministry amongst disabled people and running courses for caring for them. She has put her ideas and courses into a book in Spanish “ UM camino compartido” or A shared path “ or “Walking together” The New Boo was launched in Costa Rica in July, Peru in August and Chile in October. Ian will be serving in Kenya in November
UKRAINE
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Let us continue to pray for Sergie Ivaniuk who after a 3 year silence wrote to say he had been working in the Crimea. He was living in a tent and each evening read the English Bible we sent him years ago. He acquired a Welsh one and wants to learn Welsh. We seek for him a Welsh-English dictionary.
GHANA
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Please continue to pray for
Robbie Amusu
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who we have supported over many years as an evangelist who was taken very ill last year but is much better now. Before taken ill he was able to distribute personally Bibles to a number of top executives in his country. He tells us that he has obtained employment to provide a consultancy for a micro finance firm. He tells us that his brother Dennis graduated from a top IT college in July, & his brother Richard enlisted in the Ghanaian Navy in October.
Evangelist Clifford Owusu
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Nkansa
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pastor of Church of Christ Bawjaise now appears to have in care the Mangoase Christian Mission Church, a congregation of subsistence farm workers to which we supplied Hymnals, an oil fired generator last year,and a bore hole and wheelchair earlier on.
Anthony Aboagye
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of Accra who has been teaching for 3 years in a Junior High School but has been studying at University for a Degree in Marketing has now graduated. He has been helping with youth work at the Weijah Church and as Secretary of the Accra Baptist Youth association. Lately too as Church Secretary at Victory Baptist Church. He also preached and translated the English preaching of others into the local language. He secured a 3 year Visa to the USA to take up a Doctor of Divinity course at the Baptist Seminary of Western California from October. He longs to become Baptist Minister. He is
on a 60% Bursary and needs to find a teaching job to make up the rest. At the end of his course the Ghana Baptist Convention hopes he can return there to be Youth Minister. We have known him since we began helping him when his father died.
Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
is Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in who is in partnership with others operating with UNITE FOR SIGHT, restoring sight in rural areas.
Stephen Aggrey
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has surfaced again after years of being out of touch during which he has been in prison in Gambia and become Gay. Because of this his 2 sisters whom he abandoned disown him. He needs to be reconciled with God, them and the Church. We reconnected via FACEBOOK and I sent him booklets about forgiveness and we were in email contact. He studied with our help electronics at the Maritime Academy and he has a job with a shipping company. He wanted me to invite him to UK by securing him a visitors VISA. I declined. He appreciated the booklet on Forgiveness but appears to be unwilling to give up his homosexual practices. He hopes we will meet in Heaven to which I responded that according to New Testament teaching homosexuals are banned from the Kingdom of God and from Heaven so he would need to repent and give up anal and oral sex. He has not replied further.
People are not born Gay, they become Gay by choice in defiance of God's word and the more they immerse themselves in pornography and unnatural indecent sexual practices the more they become addicted to it until God gives up on them and lets them do as they wish unrestrained.
On the Internet there are millions of references to a scientific experiment that proves some men have a homosexual gene, but the experiment was carried out by only one man who was himself Gay, and therefore prejudiced. His evidence was tried out by several other imminent scientists who all agreed he was wrong.
Every young man passing through puberty may be drawn towards other men, usually young men like himself all in the same boat trying to come to terms with their feelings and physical changes.
Some may be drawn together with great affection, emotion and friendship and there is nothing wrong with that, even to the extent of hugging and kissing.
They may enjoy being in the nude together and basically that is not a problem either. There are many millions of nudists worldwide and a lot of them are Christians, including ministers and deacons. Even a Christian Nudist Fellowship.
However if they then let their physical lust develop unrestrained, their natural sex drive can get out of control. They have to learn to exercise restraint. Alas there are all too many older men willing for the sake of their own lusts to groom and mislead younger people.
Lesbians develop in the same way
as do bi-sexual people.
They are what they are by choice, not by birth or accident but by desire.
Patrick Gyam
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wrote recently. He suffers from severe leprosy. By the time he was found the disease had done severe damage to his body. He has no hands and just stumps instead of fingers, and he has lost both legs to the knee. His wife left him, and he has 3 children who depend upon him and the only way he can get an income is by begging. We have helped him before and at his request we supplied him a Reference Study Bible. He recently asked for £50 as begging was not bringing what it had and his main helper has moved to another town. We could not send £50 but sent £25 and hope to send the rest later.
Ebenezer Cobbina
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who is a teenager cripple looked after by his slightly older sister. We supplied him a wheelchair and funded him on a leather making course so he has a trade. He wrote again feeling lost, lonely and uncared for. We sent him a donation.
INDIA We have begun supporting ECHO OF HIS CALL MINISTRIES founded in 1969 at Chennai committed to reaching millions of people in Bangladesh, India, Nepal. Pakistan and Sri Lanka countries we have helped over earlier years. We have funded some Bible Study Course Books and are planning to help fund an evangelistic magazine in West Bengal
MALAWI & MOZAMBIQUE
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Pastor Enock M Dimba of Christian Resource Ministries PO Box 883, Blantyre, Malawi will still be pleased to receive second hand Daily Bible Study notes from anyone willing to send them direct and Bibles are still needed in the local languages at a cost of £6 each for more Primary School orphans and money for them may be sent payable to Christian Resource Ministries, to Mr Jim Figgis. Christian Resource Ministries, The Bible Shop 40a High Street, Dumferline DG5 4AA.Scotland. They can also accept Co-op Gift Tokens exchanging them for groceries and sending the money saved for Bibles in Malawi.
Christian Resource Ministries has many churches in Africa. We were able recently to supply replacement Chichewa Bibles to pastors in Lower Shire who lost theirs in flooding this year and to one whose home burned down. Also we were able to provide Bibles in Tumbaka to 6 pastors in Northern Malawi. During Aug – Oct, Enock has been touring visiting 150 village churches in remote parts of Malawi and Mozambique, encouraging pastors and congregations at each. and new converts have been made.
NIGERIA
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In March we had sufficient funds to complete a request from the Disciples of God Church at Ibadan Nigeria for 140 more
Bibles, Our contact there Paul has now asked for 350 more for converts from the revival that has broken out there in the wake of
severe persecution by Moslems. I have advised him to try the United Bibles Societies or the Trinitarian Bible Society as he has asked for AV Bibles. The Church there wants to give them out to new converts already waiting in 4 villages, 3 markets, 2 prisons, and for a new church planted in Osun State.
If we did this it will cost another £350 plus £13 Moneygram fee.
I have also suggested he contact the Barnabas Fund and Open Doors Ministry to see whether they could help his Church.
Several young people have emailed their thanks back to us from a cyber café. One asked of AV Bibles for 2 friends.
We have a 1955 C of E Book of Common Prayer with complete Bible including the Apocrypha we can send and we want one more AV Bible.
We responded too to a request
for some elderly people near Benin for 10 large print Bibles and a Christian bookshop in
their town was able to supply them.
Pastor Samuel Imade of Oredomi Community Church Effuron in Delta State
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arrived home from evangelising to find his church building and home a smouldering ruin, one of 22 churches torched by the Satanic Islamists. 23 of his congregation have lost their homes and with them their Bibles and he had lost his and asked for a Study Bible. I have sent him a Thompson Chain Reference Bible given to me last year, and we have been able at £2 a copy to supply the other 23 with replacement Bibles. His congregation of 115 are worshipping beneath a large tree. They rejoiced with singing, dancing and fasting when the Bibles arrived. He asked for another 40 Bibles for new converts and these we have supplied.
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Pastor Celestine Christian
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a convert from the JW's asked for his Bible Life Church in Ibadan for193 Bibles to help the new converts and to evangelise. Following an appeal at Easter at Saffron Walden Baptist Church these have been supplied.
Sister Patricia Chi
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requested 150 Bibles for her Church at Ibadan and these are being supplied. Initially 25 were sent and when the bookseller phoned her she did not believe him. It took 4 phone calls before she would accept it was real.
Evangelist Pastor Terry J Bon of OBBI Christian Fellowship, Plot 48 Aska Road E Ibadan OYO State Nigeria 200001
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witnesses house to house and visits hospitals, schools and hotels, and many lives have been transformed and many have received Christ as Saviour but they all lacked Bibles. He asked us for 210. We supplied these in 2 lots of 140 & 70
We have supplied 26 Bibles to Rev Peter Erhunmwunse for True Vine Assembly a new church in Benin City
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and 120 to Evangelist Ebenezer Ogbegbor for converts from Islam in Lagos.
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WEC Gospel Literature World wide has agreed to send all these regular copies of SOON Gospel Broadsheet, 3 times a year, through which all these people could be registered for Free 4 year Bible Study courses.
We have also passed all these addresses to Gideons International who are doing a Bible Blitz in Nigerian cities early in November as they may be able to help each other.
OPERATION MOBILISATION
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plan to appoint 44 year-old Rev Wayne Field of Australia as International Training Co-ordinator from 2013 co-ordinating training teams across 110 countries. Wayne's parents Arthur and Doreen Field came from Saffron Walden Baptist Church where they were married in 1963. He will be heading up courses and resources to train pastors and Christian leaders around the Majority Christian world, where 75% of Christians are today. Asia, especially India, Myanmar, SE Asia, and China with 130 million Christians [ in 2007 ]and the Americas , etc, and in the little countries too, Wayne needs prayer supporters and regular financial backing as this is an non-salaried post for 3 years at least. Want to encourage him? Email on wayne.field@om.org
AFRINSPIRE and TREE PLANTING.
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When able 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've funded a total in 15 countries of 6965. 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
LANGUAGE RECORDINGS UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY.
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In the past 3 years we have been enabled to supply 6 clockwork Cassette/CD Players with cassettes and CD’s and illustrated posters,for Angola , Cameroon, Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya and Zambia. for teams willing to reach out to remote places by reaching communities in native dialects . These teams 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. We hope to provide another by the end of this year as we did not send one last year and then another each year.
STORT VALLEY GIDEONS needs more Christian professionals to help place New Testaments in schools to year 7 pupils, and Bibles to freshers at Colleges and in waiting rooms, hotel bedrooms and other locations. Their contacts are Gary & Betsy Barnett at 1 Goose Green, Hoddesdon. Herts, EN11 8SP. g.v.barnett@btinternet.com
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.
As from April 2012 we rarely send packets overseas because of the great increase in postal charge so please do not pass to me any more Bible Reading Notes. Our General Fund is £60 in deficit.
IF GOD SHOULD LEAD YOU to donate to any part of our work, cheques should be made payable to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry but if you are an income tax payer, at no extra cost to yourself your gift can be increased in value by 25% if paid through GIFT AID through a Church Account. We are not a registered charity and do not receive sufficient income to be able to seek to be, but if you are registered for Gift Aid with Saffron Walden Baptist Church you can donate to us through them making cheques payable to Saffron Walden Baptist Church and sending to the Treasurer Mr Quentin Dawe, 2 Beeches Close Saffron Walden Essex CB11 4BT, or through your own Church, who can then pay us.
I would appreciate prayer for me for healing. I am daily in much pain,
Due to bad cholesterol at 28 I have had to diet and lose weight and am on 40mg statins The side effects is a lot of muscle pain. In 5 weeks I have lost several kilos and my cholesterol has been halved to 14 but we need to get it much lower.
I have suffered from muscular rheumatism since I was a boy and it just gets worse and typing at the computer just makes it worse.
So daily I have acute back pain, shoulder pain, collar and neck and arm pain between shoulder and elbow. And on pain killers. At least the pain to heel and ankle which was so severe from last Sept to this July has passed away.
We thank the LORD GOD for enabling us to go on reaching and helping more people to discover Him.
We commend the use of GOOD NEWS a 4 page ( A4 ) coloured Gospel leaflet on Glossy paper published by OPERATION O.F.F.E.R, PO Box 29, BELFAST. BT8 7ST. The one sent to us was edition 79. Circulation at present is 107,000 three times a year. They have a Telephone Ministry.
Try it out 028 9079 0179
My grateful thanks to all who help us with gifts and prayer support.
Kind regards JOHN
EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD.
ATTEMPT GREAT THINGS FOR GOD.
ACHIEVE GREAT THINGS WITH GOD.
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THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
AUTUMN 2012'
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From :Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK [ 01799 521529 ]
Our object has been “The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the world”
Our outreach is to the villages of North West Essex and contacts in
Angola, ,Cameroon,Ghana, India, Iran,Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,
Nigeria, South Africa, Somali, Ukraine, & Zambia
Web Board sites www.lhpm.proboards.com or www.lthopm.proboards.com
The key to making a difference is people working together
LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) grew out of the Saffron Walden Baptist Sunday School and Young People’s Fellowship in the mid 1950’s.
UTTLESFORD OUTREACH 2012
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From 2003 – 2009 supporters of The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry (MCCPF) funded and we had delivered to almost all addresses in Saffron Walden the 12 page tabloid newspaper NEW LIFE NEWS
Since 2009 supporters of The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry (MCCPF) have funded and we have had delivered VIA Gospel Magazine [ produced by a Brethren Church in Canada one edition each year for the past 41 years ] to most of the homes in Stansted Mountfitchet and over 30 villages
With this we offer two phone numbers, a postal address to the Christian Enquiry Agency and their email address, 10 websites and a response form enabling people to obtain a free New Testament and a Free Bible Study Course.
After each visit this year there has been a significant increase in hits to our Websites and over 4 years 300 people have accessed our “Seeking Christians in Saffron Walden” board and over 150 have accessed “How to become a Christian”
This year Ken Bedward has been helping me with this distribution and together we have reached over 1700 homes house to house across Bartlow,Berden, Catmere End, Chrishall, Clavering, Duddenhoe End, Elmdon. Great & Little Sampford, Hadstock, Langley, Littlebury Green, Manuden, Stansted Mountfitchet and Wicken Bonhunt,, and over 1000 homes have been reached at Thaxted including Bardfield End Green and Cutlers Green. A few more outlying hamlets in Thaxted Parish await being done. We have reached 75 new homes in Saffron Walden.
We hope to do several more hamlets and villages this year. Next target areas are Great & Little Easton., Debden Green and Farnham.
If God wills it maybe we could do Dunmow next year.
NKJV Gospels with introductory RBC Daily Bible notes have been left in 2 BT Phone kiosks now used as libraries, in bus shelters, and on village church pulpits. Some of my friends accepted info as to where they could buy Gospels to distribute when on holiday.
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ZAMBIA
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We support the FINAL MESSAGE TO THE LOST SHEEP CHURCH at Nchelenge in Northern Zambia founded 7 years ago, a congregation of 50 -70 people with 5 Elders one of which acts as Minister Jackson Chanda whose wife Christine helps him. They have 4 children of their own, 3 daughters Chalwe 13, Hildah 4 and Hazel 8 months and a son Jackson Junior who is 8.
We have been supporting with Christian literature and cassettes this evangelistic ministry out of which this church was formed, for about 10 years. The Church operates a Youth Vocational Training Scheme launched in 2011 by a grant of thousands of pounds worth of training equipment sent out by Tools With a Mission at Ipswich which we raised £1000 to pay freight and transport costs. The equipment is used in a network of small enterprise groups with volunteer trainers.''
Our Main Annual Task is to raise £500 a year to educate 10 Aids Orphans adopted some years ago by Jackson Chanda who attend KALWEO PRIMARY SCHOOL [ Headmaster Mr Giberi Chishimba ] paying 2 terms while 2 other former Church members living away pay the other term. Three more people each giving £75, the cost per child per year, would reduce the strain on one giving 4 times that amount. We have enough received or promised, to cover the next 15 months unless the fees rise. This project is called Nchelenge Aids Orphans Education Mission
Jackson Chanda assisted by 8 lay preachers has also evangelised for three years 3 islands on the Lake Mweru, Katofyo Island, Chisenga Island, and Kabeke Island. Each has a growing Church congregation.
The 3 Elders in Charge of the 3 Churches needed Study Bibles [ that is with columns of references, notes, dictionary, and / or concordance, maps. Illustrations. ] If anyone can lay hands on some in any version we will find a way of funding carriage
We have been able to supply 2 so far, If we get ,ore than 3 there are 8 lay preachers we might thus help. They go by airmail and is quite expensive one mailing cost £26.
We have been enabled to provide Large Print Local Language [ Bemba ] Bibles to 58 poorly sighted adult converts plus 72 English Bibles bought in Zambia from a bookshop 100 miles away for which we paid carriage of £13 for people at the 3 mission Churches on the islands. They need another 228 @ £5 each, costing £1140 plus £50 carriage costs. When that can be achieved we don't know, but it is a work in progress and any sum that helps reduce the total would be appreciated.
Ome Njekwa
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prisoner at the Maximum Security Prison P O Box 80915 Kabwe Zambia seeks a fellow Christian who will exchange letters with him and would like packet soups, toothpaste, soap, size 42 or 43 [ 8 or 9] shoes, and large size shirt if anyone can help him, He awaits appeal after 10 years in prison cut off from his family and neighbourhood without any visitors.
Makanda
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aged 30 in the Maximum Security Prison in the 6th year of a 25 year sentence with hard labour for murder. In prison he has become a Christian but he lives some 700 miles from his wife and 2 children living in great poverty and unable to go to school. He never gets a visit from there and seldom hears. We are trying to get him a pair of size 9 shoes.
Nkuba Davies Chola
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Tools With A Mission at Ipswich in Suffolk have a request for training equipment and computers from Nkuba Davies Chola of P O B0X 740169 NCHELENGE, ZAMBIA who is Secretary of the TOGETHER WE SURVIVE GROUP. This is a group of poor citizens suffering from various disabilities for whom there is no benefits net, no work, no education and little care or support from the community. Some have only one leg or arm. Some are quite naturally depressed.
They have no church or meeting place so they meet in a couple of groups outside. They have little or no work and seem just abandoned by the worlds around them
Training equipment could make a big difference to their lives.
Elder Jackson Chanda recommends that they be helped.
Tools With a Mission have a 2½ years backlog of requests So should be able to meet this request in 2014-2015. The stock cannot go until money has been guaranteed. About £800 to us THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY to pay TWAM and about £300 to send by Moneygram for overland haulage.
SOMALIA
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We ask prayer for the Hiran Community Education Project, 68 The Hurst, B13 ODD [ 0121 604 6174 ] They have recently reopened another Library & Reading Room after their previous premises down South were destroyed by Islamists
SOUTH AFRICA
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BREADLINE AFRICA buys up from Shipping Freight Companies old storage containers and cuts out window spaces and makes them into Classrooms. Libraries. Toilets, Soup Kitchens for use in Africa. We helped them last year and hope to do so again. Interested in helping them? Then contact 29 Lower Brook Street. IPSWICH Suffolk, IPA 1AQ , 01473 .259048 Email info@breadlineafrica.org.uk
SOUTH AMERICA
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Ian and Brenda Darke with LATIN LINK [ Former South American Missionary Society ] have been active in Costa Rican for many years creating Sunday School teaching materials and book publishing across that continent. Brenda has had an important caring ministry amongst disabled people and running courses for caring for them. She has put her ideas and courses into a book in Spanish “ UM camino compartido” or A shared path “ or “Walking together” The New Boo was launched in Costa Rica in July, Peru in August and Chile in October. Ian will be serving in Kenya in November
UKRAINE
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Let us continue to pray for Sergie Ivaniuk who after a 3 year silence wrote to say he had been working in the Crimea. He was living in a tent and each evening read the English Bible we sent him years ago. He acquired a Welsh one and wants to learn Welsh. We seek for him a Welsh-English dictionary.
GHANA
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Please continue to pray for
Robbie Amusu
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who we have supported over many years as an evangelist who was taken very ill last year but is much better now. Before taken ill he was able to distribute personally Bibles to a number of top executives in his country. He tells us that he has obtained employment to provide a consultancy for a micro finance firm. He tells us that his brother Dennis graduated from a top IT college in July, & his brother Richard enlisted in the Ghanaian Navy in October.
Evangelist Clifford Owusu
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Nkansa
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pastor of Church of Christ Bawjaise now appears to have in care the Mangoase Christian Mission Church, a congregation of subsistence farm workers to which we supplied Hymnals, an oil fired generator last year,and a bore hole and wheelchair earlier on.
Anthony Aboagye
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of Accra who has been teaching for 3 years in a Junior High School but has been studying at University for a Degree in Marketing has now graduated. He has been helping with youth work at the Weijah Church and as Secretary of the Accra Baptist Youth association. Lately too as Church Secretary at Victory Baptist Church. He also preached and translated the English preaching of others into the local language. He secured a 3 year Visa to the USA to take up a Doctor of Divinity course at the Baptist Seminary of Western California from October. He longs to become Baptist Minister. He is
on a 60% Bursary and needs to find a teaching job to make up the rest. At the end of his course the Ghana Baptist Convention hopes he can return there to be Youth Minister. We have known him since we began helping him when his father died.
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is Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in who is in partnership with others operating with UNITE FOR SIGHT, restoring sight in rural areas.
Stephen Aggrey
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has surfaced again after years of being out of touch during which he has been in prison in Gambia and become Gay. Because of this his 2 sisters whom he abandoned disown him. He needs to be reconciled with God, them and the Church. We reconnected via FACEBOOK and I sent him booklets about forgiveness and we were in email contact. He studied with our help electronics at the Maritime Academy and he has a job with a shipping company. He wanted me to invite him to UK by securing him a visitors VISA. I declined. He appreciated the booklet on Forgiveness but appears to be unwilling to give up his homosexual practices. He hopes we will meet in Heaven to which I responded that according to New Testament teaching homosexuals are banned from the Kingdom of God and from Heaven so he would need to repent and give up anal and oral sex. He has not replied further.
People are not born Gay, they become Gay by choice in defiance of God's word and the more they immerse themselves in pornography and unnatural indecent sexual practices the more they become addicted to it until God gives up on them and lets them do as they wish unrestrained.
On the Internet there are millions of references to a scientific experiment that proves some men have a homosexual gene, but the experiment was carried out by only one man who was himself Gay, and therefore prejudiced. His evidence was tried out by several other imminent scientists who all agreed he was wrong.
Every young man passing through puberty may be drawn towards other men, usually young men like himself all in the same boat trying to come to terms with their feelings and physical changes.
Some may be drawn together with great affection, emotion and friendship and there is nothing wrong with that, even to the extent of hugging and kissing.
They may enjoy being in the nude together and basically that is not a problem either. There are many millions of nudists worldwide and a lot of them are Christians, including ministers and deacons. Even a Christian Nudist Fellowship.
However if they then let their physical lust develop unrestrained, their natural sex drive can get out of control. They have to learn to exercise restraint. Alas there are all too many older men willing for the sake of their own lusts to groom and mislead younger people.
Lesbians develop in the same way
as do bi-sexual people.
They are what they are by choice, not by birth or accident but by desire.
Patrick Gyam
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wrote recently. He suffers from severe leprosy. By the time he was found the disease had done severe damage to his body. He has no hands and just stumps instead of fingers, and he has lost both legs to the knee. His wife left him, and he has 3 children who depend upon him and the only way he can get an income is by begging. We have helped him before and at his request we supplied him a Reference Study Bible. He recently asked for £50 as begging was not bringing what it had and his main helper has moved to another town. We could not send £50 but sent £25 and hope to send the rest later.
Ebenezer Cobbina
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who is a teenager cripple looked after by his slightly older sister. We supplied him a wheelchair and funded him on a leather making course so he has a trade. He wrote again feeling lost, lonely and uncared for. We sent him a donation.
INDIA We have begun supporting ECHO OF HIS CALL MINISTRIES founded in 1969 at Chennai committed to reaching millions of people in Bangladesh, India, Nepal. Pakistan and Sri Lanka countries we have helped over earlier years. We have funded some Bible Study Course Books and are planning to help fund an evangelistic magazine in West Bengal
MALAWI & MOZAMBIQUE
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Pastor Enock M Dimba of Christian Resource Ministries PO Box 883, Blantyre, Malawi will still be pleased to receive second hand Daily Bible Study notes from anyone willing to send them direct and Bibles are still needed in the local languages at a cost of £6 each for more Primary School orphans and money for them may be sent payable to Christian Resource Ministries, to Mr Jim Figgis. Christian Resource Ministries, The Bible Shop 40a High Street, Dumferline DG5 4AA.Scotland. They can also accept Co-op Gift Tokens exchanging them for groceries and sending the money saved for Bibles in Malawi.
Christian Resource Ministries has many churches in Africa. We were able recently to supply replacement Chichewa Bibles to pastors in Lower Shire who lost theirs in flooding this year and to one whose home burned down. Also we were able to provide Bibles in Tumbaka to 6 pastors in Northern Malawi. During Aug – Oct, Enock has been touring visiting 150 village churches in remote parts of Malawi and Mozambique, encouraging pastors and congregations at each. and new converts have been made.
NIGERIA
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In March we had sufficient funds to complete a request from the Disciples of God Church at Ibadan Nigeria for 140 more
Bibles, Our contact there Paul has now asked for 350 more for converts from the revival that has broken out there in the wake of
severe persecution by Moslems. I have advised him to try the United Bibles Societies or the Trinitarian Bible Society as he has asked for AV Bibles. The Church there wants to give them out to new converts already waiting in 4 villages, 3 markets, 2 prisons, and for a new church planted in Osun State.
If we did this it will cost another £350 plus £13 Moneygram fee.
I have also suggested he contact the Barnabas Fund and Open Doors Ministry to see whether they could help his Church.
Several young people have emailed their thanks back to us from a cyber café. One asked of AV Bibles for 2 friends.
We have a 1955 C of E Book of Common Prayer with complete Bible including the Apocrypha we can send and we want one more AV Bible.
We responded too to a request
for some elderly people near Benin for 10 large print Bibles and a Christian bookshop in
their town was able to supply them.
Pastor Samuel Imade of Oredomi Community Church Effuron in Delta State
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arrived home from evangelising to find his church building and home a smouldering ruin, one of 22 churches torched by the Satanic Islamists. 23 of his congregation have lost their homes and with them their Bibles and he had lost his and asked for a Study Bible. I have sent him a Thompson Chain Reference Bible given to me last year, and we have been able at £2 a copy to supply the other 23 with replacement Bibles. His congregation of 115 are worshipping beneath a large tree. They rejoiced with singing, dancing and fasting when the Bibles arrived. He asked for another 40 Bibles for new converts and these we have supplied.
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Pastor Celestine Christian
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a convert from the JW's asked for his Bible Life Church in Ibadan for193 Bibles to help the new converts and to evangelise. Following an appeal at Easter at Saffron Walden Baptist Church these have been supplied.
Sister Patricia Chi
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requested 150 Bibles for her Church at Ibadan and these are being supplied. Initially 25 were sent and when the bookseller phoned her she did not believe him. It took 4 phone calls before she would accept it was real.
Evangelist Pastor Terry J Bon of OBBI Christian Fellowship, Plot 48 Aska Road E Ibadan OYO State Nigeria 200001
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witnesses house to house and visits hospitals, schools and hotels, and many lives have been transformed and many have received Christ as Saviour but they all lacked Bibles. He asked us for 210. We supplied these in 2 lots of 140 & 70
We have supplied 26 Bibles to Rev Peter Erhunmwunse for True Vine Assembly a new church in Benin City
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and 120 to Evangelist Ebenezer Ogbegbor for converts from Islam in Lagos.
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WEC Gospel Literature World wide has agreed to send all these regular copies of SOON Gospel Broadsheet, 3 times a year, through which all these people could be registered for Free 4 year Bible Study courses.
We have also passed all these addresses to Gideons International who are doing a Bible Blitz in Nigerian cities early in November as they may be able to help each other.
OPERATION MOBILISATION
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plan to appoint 44 year-old Rev Wayne Field of Australia as International Training Co-ordinator from 2013 co-ordinating training teams across 110 countries. Wayne's parents Arthur and Doreen Field came from Saffron Walden Baptist Church where they were married in 1963. He will be heading up courses and resources to train pastors and Christian leaders around the Majority Christian world, where 75% of Christians are today. Asia, especially India, Myanmar, SE Asia, and China with 130 million Christians [ in 2007 ]and the Americas , etc, and in the little countries too, Wayne needs prayer supporters and regular financial backing as this is an non-salaried post for 3 years at least. Want to encourage him? Email on wayne.field@om.org
AFRINSPIRE and TREE PLANTING.
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When able 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've funded a total in 15 countries of 6965. 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
LANGUAGE RECORDINGS UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY.
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In the past 3 years we have been enabled to supply 6 clockwork Cassette/CD Players with cassettes and CD’s and illustrated posters,for Angola , Cameroon, Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya and Zambia. for teams willing to reach out to remote places by reaching communities in native dialects . These teams 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. We hope to provide another by the end of this year as we did not send one last year and then another each year.
STORT VALLEY GIDEONS needs more Christian professionals to help place New Testaments in schools to year 7 pupils, and Bibles to freshers at Colleges and in waiting rooms, hotel bedrooms and other locations. Their contacts are Gary & Betsy Barnett at 1 Goose Green, Hoddesdon. Herts, EN11 8SP. g.v.barnett@btinternet.com
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.
As from April 2012 we rarely send packets overseas because of the great increase in postal charge so please do not pass to me any more Bible Reading Notes. Our General Fund is £60 in deficit.
IF GOD SHOULD LEAD YOU to donate to any part of our work, cheques should be made payable to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry but if you are an income tax payer, at no extra cost to yourself your gift can be increased in value by 25% if paid through GIFT AID through a Church Account. We are not a registered charity and do not receive sufficient income to be able to seek to be, but if you are registered for Gift Aid with Saffron Walden Baptist Church you can donate to us through them making cheques payable to Saffron Walden Baptist Church and sending to the Treasurer Mr Quentin Dawe, 2 Beeches Close Saffron Walden Essex CB11 4BT, or through your own Church, who can then pay us.
I would appreciate prayer for me for healing. I am daily in much pain,
Due to bad cholesterol at 28 I have had to diet and lose weight and am on 40mg statins The side effects is a lot of muscle pain. In 5 weeks I have lost several kilos and my cholesterol has been halved to 14 but we need to get it much lower.
I have suffered from muscular rheumatism since I was a boy and it just gets worse and typing at the computer just makes it worse.
So daily I have acute back pain, shoulder pain, collar and neck and arm pain between shoulder and elbow. And on pain killers. At least the pain to heel and ankle which was so severe from last Sept to this July has passed away.
We thank the LORD GOD for enabling us to go on reaching and helping more people to discover Him.
We commend the use of GOOD NEWS a 4 page ( A4 ) coloured Gospel leaflet on Glossy paper published by OPERATION O.F.F.E.R, PO Box 29, BELFAST. BT8 7ST. The one sent to us was edition 79. Circulation at present is 107,000 three times a year. They have a Telephone Ministry.
Try it out 028 9079 0179
My grateful thanks to all who help us with gifts and prayer support.
Kind regards JOHN
EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD.
ATTEMPT GREAT THINGS FOR GOD.
ACHIEVE GREAT THINGS WITH GOD.