Post by John on Dec 28, 2012 18:22:30 GMT -5
INTRODUCING
[glow=red,2,300]THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY NEWS WINTER [/glow]
JANUARY 2013
The Illustration at the end of this document is of the Community Church at Nchelenge in Northern Zambia that we have been supporting for several years,
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THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
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, Uganda, Ukraine, &.Zambia
THE KEY TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE IS PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER
Web Board sites
www.lhpm.proboards.com or www.lthopm.proboards.com
THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) grew out of the Saffron Walden Baptist Sunday School
and Young People’s Fellowship in Essex, England UK the mid 1950’s.
OUTREACH TO ZAMBIA ///////////////////////////////////////////
Ten years ago we received a request from a young evangelist Jackson Chanda in Northern Zambia for Bibles, Bible study material, second hand Bible Study notes, cassettes and videos for new evangelism, and church planting in the Nchelenge district on the coast facing Lake Mweru on the Zambian/Congo Border. 7 years ago he and his wife Christine established a congregation which has now grown to 60 and he is Elder in Charge with 4 elders to help him, We were asked to supply Good News Bibles and friends at Walden, Ramsgate, Bishop's Stortford and Newport provided 42.
Jackson uses a bike to get around his congregations but much cycling has caused problems with his legs.
He has had to take 2 months out for treatment to them. For this he has to pay the local herbalist £350. There is no National Health Service there and no local hospital. To this he has raised £100 selling a piece of land and he has one piece left he must sell though it is unlikely to raise much more. He is anxious of how to find the other £250 to complete his treatment. Please pray for his complete recovery and that he can raise the money for the treatment. If the LORD healed him he would not need to find the money for treatment.
3 years ago that church began evangelising with missions on 3 islands on the Lake in the swamplands from which
a river flows as a tributary of the Congo River. There are now 3 congregations on these islands in all about 300 people for whom we were invited to supply Bibles as they are all too poor to buy them.
We supplied 58 Large Print at £11 a copy in the Bemba language and 72 large print at £5 a copy in English [ In UK this edition sells at £25 ] These are being used in the 3 churches by dividing the congregations into small groups to share them and study them together.
There is an elder in charge of these 3 churches Donald Kapasa and two assistant elders Webby Musonda and Fred Bangwe, and 8 lay preachers. Another 200 Bibles at £35 would be useful to supply all the church members a copy. We have supplied Study Bibles to each of these 3 church leaders. Jackson and Christine have 4 children of their own but several years ago they adopted 10 Aids Orphans and several of us share the cost of their education [ £750 a year for the 10 until 2014. ]
Two years ago we were asked to help pay the freitage and haulage costs of a shipping a container of training equipment, 2 computers and some typewriters, bicycles and wheel chairs from TOOLS WITH A MISSION in Ipswich to the church at Nchelenge to be used in community groups where local volunteers would teach young people various crafts and trade skills and from the sale of the products they make the children being educated are to be funded with other help to the community. Members of our Congregation contributed £800 to get the equipment there.
PROJECT 2014
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We have now been asked whether we can fund the the freitage and haulage costs of another shipping container of training equipment for the creation in a nearby village of a Club and training scheme for disabled people. Over 100 of them have joined up to a Together We Survive Group, and are visiting the elderly and disabled caring for them as best they can with sparse resources.
Tools With a Mission are willing to send the supplies but not until 2014 due to the backlog of requests they have, but seek support for paying the costs of getting it there which we reckon will be around £1100.
At present our Ministry is in deficit and has been since the October apart from the money to pay the next instalments in April and September for the Orphans education.
We try to provide 2 or 3 times a year, funds permitting, a Prayer News Letter to those known supporters, and put it on the Web site where quite a lot of people read it. Prayer is vitally important.
I , John Maddams act as Administrator and Stephen Brown as Second Signatory for our account at Lloyds TSB, who would take over if I was incapacitated or died.
We wish to express our grateful thanks to everyone who has supported this ministry during the past year.
UTTLESFORD OUTREACH .
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This past year two of us have delivered house to house the Gospel Magazine VIA published in Canada, to over 3,400 homes in Uttlesford. Beginning in dry March in Clavering and closing during wet and windy November in Farnham, Lindsell, Little Bardfield, and finally on a frosty afternoon in December to Bran End Stebbing.
The aim remains to reach seekers, and people who never attend a Church providing them addresses, phone numbers and websites from which they can get help. We deliver relying on the Holy Spirit to minister to those God wants to draw into his Kingdom. Hits to our web sites prove there is a response.
Since 2009 this distribution has reach 12,000 homes, in the towns of Stansted, and Thaxted , and 61 villages and hamlets, leaving yet to do when we can obtain more stock, urban Dunmow and about 30 more villages and hamlets, and more new homes in Walden and Stansted.
PRIOR'S GREEN is a comparatively new large housing estate at TAKELEY where we delivered VIA in 2010 and where Thaxted Baptist Church began a monthly Prayer Meeting that year, now since July has the Rev Kim Lepsley living there, who is Curate of Takeley Parish Church.
Prior's Green Mission now operates at the new Primary School Hall there, with a Prayer Meeting on the 3rd Thursday evening in the Month at 8pm, and an informal two hour service session on the 3rd Sunday each month from 4pm. Monthly on the 2nd Tuesday a Men's Group is meeting at a home on the estate. GRAPEVINE the Church's magazine, is being delivered to all the homes 10 times a year. From this school recently 25 shoe boxes were sent through the Christmas Child project to Eastern Europe.
The Vicar of Takeley and Little Canfield is the Rev Robert Burles, and in the 18 months he has been there several couples from the estate have brought their babies for baptism,
Please pray for this new development. A similar one exists at Flitch Green on the Dunmow / Felsted border, and another
at Stansted, the Forest Hall Estate, where we have taken VIA. Soon we may have our own at Saffron Walden on the East of Shire Hill. All great opportunities for pioneer mission.
GHANA please continue to pray for
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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 asked for a Bible for a young Roman Catholic who is doing Bible Study with him and feels a sense of call to become a pastor. 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 Nkansa
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pastor of Church of Christ Bawjaise which 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.
Ebenezer Cobinna ###
the teenage wheelchair contact we have there sought additional help which we have been enabledto supply
Patrick Guyam ###
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who through leprosy not being diagnosed quickly enough, begs on the street from a wheelchair for funding for his 3 children's education. His wife left them. He has only stumps for fingers and no feet with one leg amputated below the knee. He asked for and we supplied a Study Bible he somehow reads laid on his thighs.
### These request have been taken over by Richard Owusu a Christian businessman at Kumassi
Anthony Aboagye
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at 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 preaches and translates the English preaching of others into the local language.
He has now started a 3 year Doctor of Divinity course at the Baptist Seminary of Western California training for the Ministry but he needs a teaching job there to help funding. He plans to return to Ghana to take up a Youth Pastorate..
Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc
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is Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in partnership with others operating 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. 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 also asked for a Study Bible so we advised him of some bookshops in Accra where he could buy one.
INDIA
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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 ///////////////
Pastor Enock M Dimba
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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 £8 each for 46 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 – Nov, Enock is touring visiting 150 village churches in remote parts of Malawi and Mozambique, encouraging pastors and congregations at each, & showing the Jesus Film, over 700 new converts have resulted.
NIGERIA ///////////////
In March we had sufficient funds to complete a request from the
Disciples of God Church
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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. The Church there wants to give them out to new converts already waiting and to give copies away in 4 villages, 3 markets, 2 prisons, and for a new church planted in Osun State. This would cost another £350 plus £13 Moneygram fee. We have no money available.
So there are 350 converts who each need a Bible and each could reach and bring others to the LORD. Indeed one woman wrote direct to me by email me and we sent two Bibles to her to help 2 other girls. The Bibles are available out there for £1 a copy but many people are unemployed or on very low income and cannot afford to buy even a £1 Bible.
We have no money and indeed are in debt and repaying a loan taken out to service another project So I suggested he wrote to The Bible Society of Nigeria who can draw grants from the United Bible Societies to whom the Bible Society in Britain makes substantial grants, and the latter had said if he approached the Bible Society in his own land they would help him, but they did not.
I suggested he contacted the Open Doors Mission and the Barnabas Trust who work in Nigeria helping converts from Islam, as so too we have done. but they could not help.
Then I suggested to Gideons International who were having a Bible Blitz in Nigerian cities in early November that they contact him and several other contacts I have in Nigerian cities. They did not reply.
The Trinitarian Bibles Society who continually boast the importance of the AV would not help either.
If these big organisations with scores, hundreds or thousands of supporters wont help and we and our small band of supporters have no money left. 350 disciples will have to go without
If anyone reads this news and can spare £350, or less, or more and agree these people ought to have Bibles please contact
Paul Godsend
Light Assembly Church,
A 127 101 OPE,
Eleyele Market Road,
ELEYELE
IBADAN
OYO STATE
NIGERIA
Email
christfellowers@yahoo.co.uk
The Bibles can be obtained for him by sending by Moneygram to
IFEANYI AMBROSE OSUOHA
a Christian Bookshop owner in Ibadan who operates from
Christian Book Supply
X370a ALESINLO OJA
IBADAN
OYO
NIGERIA
email ifeambus@yahoo.ca
Contact both by email first
Paul would like the 350 Bibles before Christmas 2012.
We had another request from 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
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of Oredomi Community Church Effuron in Delta State 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
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of OBBI Christian Fellowship, Plot 48 Aska Road E Ibadan OYO State Nigeria 200001 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 and 120 to Evangelist Ebenezer Ogbegbor for converts from Islam in Lagos.
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.
SOMALIA ////////////////
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
UGANDA
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for Mwenya Uganda meaning Smile Uganda, a NGO agency recently set up to provide a mobile dispensary with dental amd medical clinics. P O Box 9237 Kampala Uganda. Any sum would be appreciated. Even £2
would provide a mosquito net. In the UK contact www.mwenya-uganda.org/
Richard and Sarah Lubale
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of Alpha Childcare & Community Development PO Box 1306 Jinja Uganda which helps the victims of AIDS providing a caring service for victims, hostels and education for Aids orphans, and running Aids Awareness Courses in schools, colleges and factories. We encouraged the founders of this ministry to form an NGO to attract overseas support, and Spurgeon's Child Care, Work Aid, Christian Relief UK and a Dutch charity came to their aid. They also have 2 sons and a daughter to raise.
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. He's been waiting 18 months for an answer.
ZAMBIA //////////////
Lewis Muleba
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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 where as they cannot share disposable ones, 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 to 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,
Duke Olson Phiri
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another prisoner, and his family Jesper and Saidy with his sister Faides,
Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka
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C/O TUG-ARGAN BARRACKS, ALPHA COMPANY , POSTAL AGENCY NDOLA , ZAMBIA . A Chaplain with the Zambian army who can recycle Gideon and other pocket New Testaments if anyone can supply him We recently sent 10.
Mayamba Geoffrey Kuletela
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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
Mr Simon Ngoma
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he leads a group of 12 men, all converted while in prison, and all on long sentences who have already served 10 years, who have formed the “NEVER GIVE UP HOPE” Prayer Group. They asked for a Bible each and inspirational Christian literature, We sent to the Group Leader a new NIV Study Bible with commentary, concordance and dictionary, and one of our supporters sent 12 more Bibles of a variety of versions We have also sent them 12 copies of SOON Gospel Broadsheet which they can request be sent 3 times a year and 6 different copies of OUR DAILY BREAD which they can use and then apply to get it quarterly.
Their names are Simon Ngoma, Zilile Ngoma, Jaulah Ngoma, and Mbalule Ngomba. Smart Simushi, Simushi Simushi and Nyambe Simushi. Zilile Zilile and Simon Zilile, Jaulah Phiri, Emmanuel Ilumga, and Zilile Mbalule. Six 6 more have recently joined.
Mr Joseph S Musonda
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c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia. He still keeps sending us lists of things he wants. Tea bags, dried milk, packets of soup, tooth brush, tooth paste, soap, A4 paper pads, envelopes.
Lazarus Mbola
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of St Andrews United Church of Zambia congregation, another Aids orphan and an ex Boy's Brigade member contacted us some years ago after his father died, and a Boy's Brigade officer took over his care and provided him an allowance to manager a team of young artists and musicians all otherwise unemployed called Creativity through Christ The officer has now died and the allowance has ceased.
Paul Mulenga aged 38 and 6 years into a 20 years sentence and Kimpamba Mwali aged 53 and 6 years into a 18 years sentence,
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at Kamfinda State Prison PO Box 21596 Kitwe who would like someone to write to them as they are lonely Paul has a wife and one child, and Kimpamba has 3 children but their mother has died. All the children are destitute and not in school. Both on good remission having become Christians in prison are ue for release in 2017. They lack healthy food, clothes, shoes, soap, toiletries. And any help would be appreciated.
LANGUAGE RECORDINGS UK, ////////////////////////////////////////////////////
P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY.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.
AFRINSPIRE and TREE PLANTING. 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
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. He still needs Good News Bibles.
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 19th century, and they work amongst Jews in Australia, Bulgaria. France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, the UK and have just begun 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. We supply them our foreign stamps to sell.
ARAB VISION
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produces Christian films for transmission on Arabic TV channels. A UK Support Group has been set up to seek charitable status. Meanwhile gifts may be sent to their UK Treasurer Ian Sutherland, 23 Mill Lane Saffron Walden.CB10 2AS
COMMENDING THAT YOU ACCESS www.btwol.com available in 10 languages.
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.
We thank the LORD GOD for enabling us to go on reaching and helping more people to discover Him.
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.
[glow=red,2,300]THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY NEWS WINTER [/glow]
JANUARY 2013
The Illustration at the end of this document is of the Community Church at Nchelenge in Northern Zambia that we have been supporting for several years,
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THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
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, Uganda, Ukraine, &.Zambia
THE KEY TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE IS PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER
Web Board sites
www.lhpm.proboards.com or www.lthopm.proboards.com
THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) grew out of the Saffron Walden Baptist Sunday School
and Young People’s Fellowship in Essex, England UK the mid 1950’s.
OUTREACH TO ZAMBIA ///////////////////////////////////////////
Ten years ago we received a request from a young evangelist Jackson Chanda in Northern Zambia for Bibles, Bible study material, second hand Bible Study notes, cassettes and videos for new evangelism, and church planting in the Nchelenge district on the coast facing Lake Mweru on the Zambian/Congo Border. 7 years ago he and his wife Christine established a congregation which has now grown to 60 and he is Elder in Charge with 4 elders to help him, We were asked to supply Good News Bibles and friends at Walden, Ramsgate, Bishop's Stortford and Newport provided 42.
Jackson uses a bike to get around his congregations but much cycling has caused problems with his legs.
He has had to take 2 months out for treatment to them. For this he has to pay the local herbalist £350. There is no National Health Service there and no local hospital. To this he has raised £100 selling a piece of land and he has one piece left he must sell though it is unlikely to raise much more. He is anxious of how to find the other £250 to complete his treatment. Please pray for his complete recovery and that he can raise the money for the treatment. If the LORD healed him he would not need to find the money for treatment.
3 years ago that church began evangelising with missions on 3 islands on the Lake in the swamplands from which
a river flows as a tributary of the Congo River. There are now 3 congregations on these islands in all about 300 people for whom we were invited to supply Bibles as they are all too poor to buy them.
We supplied 58 Large Print at £11 a copy in the Bemba language and 72 large print at £5 a copy in English [ In UK this edition sells at £25 ] These are being used in the 3 churches by dividing the congregations into small groups to share them and study them together.
There is an elder in charge of these 3 churches Donald Kapasa and two assistant elders Webby Musonda and Fred Bangwe, and 8 lay preachers. Another 200 Bibles at £35 would be useful to supply all the church members a copy. We have supplied Study Bibles to each of these 3 church leaders. Jackson and Christine have 4 children of their own but several years ago they adopted 10 Aids Orphans and several of us share the cost of their education [ £750 a year for the 10 until 2014. ]
Two years ago we were asked to help pay the freitage and haulage costs of a shipping a container of training equipment, 2 computers and some typewriters, bicycles and wheel chairs from TOOLS WITH A MISSION in Ipswich to the church at Nchelenge to be used in community groups where local volunteers would teach young people various crafts and trade skills and from the sale of the products they make the children being educated are to be funded with other help to the community. Members of our Congregation contributed £800 to get the equipment there.
PROJECT 2014
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We have now been asked whether we can fund the the freitage and haulage costs of another shipping container of training equipment for the creation in a nearby village of a Club and training scheme for disabled people. Over 100 of them have joined up to a Together We Survive Group, and are visiting the elderly and disabled caring for them as best they can with sparse resources.
Tools With a Mission are willing to send the supplies but not until 2014 due to the backlog of requests they have, but seek support for paying the costs of getting it there which we reckon will be around £1100.
At present our Ministry is in deficit and has been since the October apart from the money to pay the next instalments in April and September for the Orphans education.
We try to provide 2 or 3 times a year, funds permitting, a Prayer News Letter to those known supporters, and put it on the Web site where quite a lot of people read it. Prayer is vitally important.
I , John Maddams act as Administrator and Stephen Brown as Second Signatory for our account at Lloyds TSB, who would take over if I was incapacitated or died.
We wish to express our grateful thanks to everyone who has supported this ministry during the past year.
UTTLESFORD OUTREACH .
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This past year two of us have delivered house to house the Gospel Magazine VIA published in Canada, to over 3,400 homes in Uttlesford. Beginning in dry March in Clavering and closing during wet and windy November in Farnham, Lindsell, Little Bardfield, and finally on a frosty afternoon in December to Bran End Stebbing.
The aim remains to reach seekers, and people who never attend a Church providing them addresses, phone numbers and websites from which they can get help. We deliver relying on the Holy Spirit to minister to those God wants to draw into his Kingdom. Hits to our web sites prove there is a response.
Since 2009 this distribution has reach 12,000 homes, in the towns of Stansted, and Thaxted , and 61 villages and hamlets, leaving yet to do when we can obtain more stock, urban Dunmow and about 30 more villages and hamlets, and more new homes in Walden and Stansted.
PRIOR'S GREEN is a comparatively new large housing estate at TAKELEY where we delivered VIA in 2010 and where Thaxted Baptist Church began a monthly Prayer Meeting that year, now since July has the Rev Kim Lepsley living there, who is Curate of Takeley Parish Church.
Prior's Green Mission now operates at the new Primary School Hall there, with a Prayer Meeting on the 3rd Thursday evening in the Month at 8pm, and an informal two hour service session on the 3rd Sunday each month from 4pm. Monthly on the 2nd Tuesday a Men's Group is meeting at a home on the estate. GRAPEVINE the Church's magazine, is being delivered to all the homes 10 times a year. From this school recently 25 shoe boxes were sent through the Christmas Child project to Eastern Europe.
The Vicar of Takeley and Little Canfield is the Rev Robert Burles, and in the 18 months he has been there several couples from the estate have brought their babies for baptism,
Please pray for this new development. A similar one exists at Flitch Green on the Dunmow / Felsted border, and another
at Stansted, the Forest Hall Estate, where we have taken VIA. Soon we may have our own at Saffron Walden on the East of Shire Hill. All great opportunities for pioneer mission.
GHANA please continue to pray for
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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 asked for a Bible for a young Roman Catholic who is doing Bible Study with him and feels a sense of call to become a pastor. 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 Nkansa
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pastor of Church of Christ Bawjaise which 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.
Ebenezer Cobinna ###
the teenage wheelchair contact we have there sought additional help which we have been enabledto supply
Patrick Guyam ###
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who through leprosy not being diagnosed quickly enough, begs on the street from a wheelchair for funding for his 3 children's education. His wife left them. He has only stumps for fingers and no feet with one leg amputated below the knee. He asked for and we supplied a Study Bible he somehow reads laid on his thighs.
### These request have been taken over by Richard Owusu a Christian businessman at Kumassi
Anthony Aboagye
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at 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 preaches and translates the English preaching of others into the local language.
He has now started a 3 year Doctor of Divinity course at the Baptist Seminary of Western California training for the Ministry but he needs a teaching job there to help funding. He plans to return to Ghana to take up a Youth Pastorate..
Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc
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is Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in partnership with others operating 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. 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 also asked for a Study Bible so we advised him of some bookshops in Accra where he could buy one.
INDIA
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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 ///////////////
Pastor Enock M Dimba
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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 £8 each for 46 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 – Nov, Enock is touring visiting 150 village churches in remote parts of Malawi and Mozambique, encouraging pastors and congregations at each, & showing the Jesus Film, over 700 new converts have resulted.
NIGERIA ///////////////
In March we had sufficient funds to complete a request from the
Disciples of God Church
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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. The Church there wants to give them out to new converts already waiting and to give copies away in 4 villages, 3 markets, 2 prisons, and for a new church planted in Osun State. This would cost another £350 plus £13 Moneygram fee. We have no money available.
So there are 350 converts who each need a Bible and each could reach and bring others to the LORD. Indeed one woman wrote direct to me by email me and we sent two Bibles to her to help 2 other girls. The Bibles are available out there for £1 a copy but many people are unemployed or on very low income and cannot afford to buy even a £1 Bible.
We have no money and indeed are in debt and repaying a loan taken out to service another project So I suggested he wrote to The Bible Society of Nigeria who can draw grants from the United Bible Societies to whom the Bible Society in Britain makes substantial grants, and the latter had said if he approached the Bible Society in his own land they would help him, but they did not.
I suggested he contacted the Open Doors Mission and the Barnabas Trust who work in Nigeria helping converts from Islam, as so too we have done. but they could not help.
Then I suggested to Gideons International who were having a Bible Blitz in Nigerian cities in early November that they contact him and several other contacts I have in Nigerian cities. They did not reply.
The Trinitarian Bibles Society who continually boast the importance of the AV would not help either.
If these big organisations with scores, hundreds or thousands of supporters wont help and we and our small band of supporters have no money left. 350 disciples will have to go without
If anyone reads this news and can spare £350, or less, or more and agree these people ought to have Bibles please contact
Paul Godsend
Light Assembly Church,
A 127 101 OPE,
Eleyele Market Road,
ELEYELE
IBADAN
OYO STATE
NIGERIA
christfellowers@yahoo.co.uk
The Bibles can be obtained for him by sending by Moneygram to
IFEANYI AMBROSE OSUOHA
a Christian Bookshop owner in Ibadan who operates from
Christian Book Supply
X370a ALESINLO OJA
IBADAN
OYO
NIGERIA
email ifeambus@yahoo.ca
Contact both by email first
Paul would like the 350 Bibles before Christmas 2012.
We had another request from 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
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of Oredomi Community Church Effuron in Delta State 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
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of OBBI Christian Fellowship, Plot 48 Aska Road E Ibadan OYO State Nigeria 200001 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 and 120 to Evangelist Ebenezer Ogbegbor for converts from Islam in Lagos.
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.
SOMALIA ////////////////
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
UGANDA
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for Mwenya Uganda meaning Smile Uganda, a NGO agency recently set up to provide a mobile dispensary with dental amd medical clinics. P O Box 9237 Kampala Uganda. Any sum would be appreciated. Even £2
would provide a mosquito net. In the UK contact www.mwenya-uganda.org/
Richard and Sarah Lubale
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of Alpha Childcare & Community Development PO Box 1306 Jinja Uganda which helps the victims of AIDS providing a caring service for victims, hostels and education for Aids orphans, and running Aids Awareness Courses in schools, colleges and factories. We encouraged the founders of this ministry to form an NGO to attract overseas support, and Spurgeon's Child Care, Work Aid, Christian Relief UK and a Dutch charity came to their aid. They also have 2 sons and a daughter to raise.
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. He's been waiting 18 months for an answer.
ZAMBIA //////////////
Lewis Muleba
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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 where as they cannot share disposable ones, 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 to 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,
Duke Olson Phiri
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another prisoner, and his family Jesper and Saidy with his sister Faides,
Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka
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C/O TUG-ARGAN BARRACKS, ALPHA COMPANY , POSTAL AGENCY NDOLA , ZAMBIA . A Chaplain with the Zambian army who can recycle Gideon and other pocket New Testaments if anyone can supply him We recently sent 10.
Mayamba Geoffrey Kuletela
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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
Mr Simon Ngoma
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he leads a group of 12 men, all converted while in prison, and all on long sentences who have already served 10 years, who have formed the “NEVER GIVE UP HOPE” Prayer Group. They asked for a Bible each and inspirational Christian literature, We sent to the Group Leader a new NIV Study Bible with commentary, concordance and dictionary, and one of our supporters sent 12 more Bibles of a variety of versions We have also sent them 12 copies of SOON Gospel Broadsheet which they can request be sent 3 times a year and 6 different copies of OUR DAILY BREAD which they can use and then apply to get it quarterly.
Their names are Simon Ngoma, Zilile Ngoma, Jaulah Ngoma, and Mbalule Ngomba. Smart Simushi, Simushi Simushi and Nyambe Simushi. Zilile Zilile and Simon Zilile, Jaulah Phiri, Emmanuel Ilumga, and Zilile Mbalule. Six 6 more have recently joined.
Mr Joseph S Musonda
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c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia. He still keeps sending us lists of things he wants. Tea bags, dried milk, packets of soup, tooth brush, tooth paste, soap, A4 paper pads, envelopes.
Lazarus Mbola
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of St Andrews United Church of Zambia congregation, another Aids orphan and an ex Boy's Brigade member contacted us some years ago after his father died, and a Boy's Brigade officer took over his care and provided him an allowance to manager a team of young artists and musicians all otherwise unemployed called Creativity through Christ The officer has now died and the allowance has ceased.
Paul Mulenga aged 38 and 6 years into a 20 years sentence and Kimpamba Mwali aged 53 and 6 years into a 18 years sentence,
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at Kamfinda State Prison PO Box 21596 Kitwe who would like someone to write to them as they are lonely Paul has a wife and one child, and Kimpamba has 3 children but their mother has died. All the children are destitute and not in school. Both on good remission having become Christians in prison are ue for release in 2017. They lack healthy food, clothes, shoes, soap, toiletries. And any help would be appreciated.
LANGUAGE RECORDINGS UK, ////////////////////////////////////////////////////
P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY.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.
AFRINSPIRE and TREE PLANTING. 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
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. He still needs Good News Bibles.
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 19th century, and they work amongst Jews in Australia, Bulgaria. France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, the UK and have just begun 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. We supply them our foreign stamps to sell.
ARAB VISION
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produces Christian films for transmission on Arabic TV channels. A UK Support Group has been set up to seek charitable status. Meanwhile gifts may be sent to their UK Treasurer Ian Sutherland, 23 Mill Lane Saffron Walden.CB10 2AS
COMMENDING THAT YOU ACCESS www.btwol.com available in 10 languages.
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.
We thank the LORD GOD for enabling us to go on reaching and helping more people to discover Him.
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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