Post by JEM on May 2, 2011 23:57:45 GMT
THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY NEWS
MAY 2011 UPDATE
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THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY [ MCCPF ] Founded 1954.
Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
Email. jem.lhm@btinternet.com Web Board Site via Google.UK. lhpm.proboards.com
Our object has been “The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the World”
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Years ago John Wesley said "It seems that God is limited by our prayer life - that He can do nothing for humanity until someone asks".
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We are coming up to our 57th Birthday on July 1st. and express grateful thanks to all those who have contributed in prayer, money, supplies and resources, this past year and in earlier times. Most cheque donations are paid to me personally and cleared through my account.
Some people wishing to add Gift Aid pay through Saffron Walden Baptist Church and then cheques are paid to specific charities we work through.
Some of our work is with small churches in Ethiopia; Ghana and Zambia that are not registered NGO's or charities so we need to pay them through the banks or Moneygramme or postal orders by registered post.
We now have a Bank Deposit Current Account to encash cheques to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry at Lloyds TSB. .
As we receive news of new needs and maybe recruit new support perhaps we should consider establishing a Committee of Trustees and if the work grows further maybe we should consider applying for registered charity status..
With my kind regards John E Maddams
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Why Jesus came --- to enlighten the people of this world, transform them by the renewing of their minds
And reconcile them with God , His Father.
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As recorded in John‘s Gospel chapter 12 verses 44, and 46-50
,
Jesus said “He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on Him who sent me,
I am come, a light into the world, that whoever believes on me should not abide in darkness.
And if any person hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him, for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
He that rejects me and does not receive my words , has one that judges him: the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting; therefore what ever I speak . Even as the Father said to me, so I speak.
During last year we were able to send help to
China 50 Bibles printed in China for Chinese people Israel to provide some Children’s Bibles
Jamaica for the Patois Recorded New Testament project - 5 million Jamaicans world wide speak Patois
Kenya 12 Bibles to Dandora Church
Madagascar. for poor families,
Malawi, Bibles for 8 orphans
Mexico for helping to provide Scriptures in Chamula for the Tzotzil people of Southern Mexico where Christian converts have faced great persecution
Mongolia, to fund supply of 5 Bibles,
Philippines Bibles through the Bible Society for typhoon victims.
Belorus, for Children's Bible books for commercial libraries.
Egypt. For 5 Bibles.
Please continue to pray for all or any of the following:-
CAMBODIA
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Ruth Elliott and Amanda
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serving with the Daughters of Cambodia, helping to rescue girls from prostitution, caring for, educating and training them. Some are producing hand made goods, to sell at a small shop in the capital to sell them and a Cafe.
ETHIOPIA
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Ayele Haliso's
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pastor has written. The local Church at Awassa are providng volunteer labour for doors, windows, walls but asked us for £656 to add a tin roof. So that is something we pray about and see what God does...
GHANA
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Ebenezer Cobbina
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the disabled orphan teenager age 16 whom we supported on the apprenticeship in leather work and shoe making and assisted to buy a new wheelchair for this year.
Patrick Guyam ,
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a beggar suffering from severe leprosy with 3 children to care for to whom we supplied a Study Bible and are further assisting him..
Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc
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who is Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in partnership with others is operating with a new NGO, UNITE FOR SIGHT, restoring sight in rural areas.
Richard Owuso
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Whom we helped back in the 1990’s has been in touch again. He is a Christian and active in the LORD’s work, married with children and successful in business. Praise the LORD
Robbie Amusu
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has been motor cycling 3 times a month 45 minutes to Bawjaise, a coastal town with several churches, to encourage the mission team there. They held a Mission week at Easter in the Market there with open air ministry and house visiting. Robbie has just been healed from Malaria and been transferred by his Company to the port of Takarodi where he has associated with the Baptist Church, and is seeking rented accommodation.
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Francis Mensah
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who is lay-pastor of the village church of about 80 subsistence farm worker at the village of Mangoase. Francis runs a farm close by the village that supports him and helps the villagers. We have recently provided them a generator, 90 hymnals and books, There was great joy when the lights were turned on. Felix a visiting choir master was available to introduce them to singing They would also appreciate some well illustrated Bible books, and commentaries .If anyone could supply these new or second-hand, please send direct to Pastor Francis Mensah, C/o PO Box BJ45 Bawjaise CR, Ghana.
Anthony Aboagye
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at Accra who continues to teach at a Methodist School & helps youth work at Weijah Church. We sent him a quanity of "WAR CRY" , "Jan-Mar 2011 The WORD for TODAY" and a GG. He is coming to the end of a 3 year advanced teaching course at the Methodist University. He hopes to get a teaching post in Higher Education.
Iraq
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Sandy Russell
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in the Kurdish region co-ordinating translation of the Bible into modern Kurdish, and encouraging the church at Arbil with his wife Kirsten in Kilburn London with their two children where there are a lot of Kurdish people
Malawi
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Pastor Enock M Dimba
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of Christian Resource Ministries PO Box 883, Blantyre, Malawi
Bibles are still needed in the local languages at a cost now of £7.30 each, for pastors of churches and orphans in schools. They needed £60 now to buy 8 bibles to give to 12 year olds going to secondary school this year and have another 46 Juniors to be provided Bibles over the next few years. Money for them may be sent to Mr Jim Figgis. Christian Resource Ministries, The Bible Shop 168 King Street, Castle Douglas. Kirkcudbrightshire DG7 1DA SCOTLAND. He is helping work in Kenya, South Africa and India too.
Pray for 2 Scottish preachers Ron and Ken teaching at 3 Conferences in Malawi and 2 in Mozambique from Apr 21 - May 12.. Mrs Dimba and her catering team expect to serve over 10,000 meals. Enock's Dad who founded this work has latterly been suffering from malaria.
NIGERIA
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Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW)
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of PO Box 99, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 3YF of website www.csw.org.uk request our prayers for Churches in Northern Nigeria particularly in the states of Kaduna, Gombe, Bauchi and Kano. who have suffered deaths, damage, danger & destruction at the hands of Moslem extremists following the legal democratic re-election of the President of the Republic, who is a Christian.
Pastor O Cosmos
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of 07 Olaifa Close, Eleyele Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, whose Faith Baptist Church needed 200 Bibles for the congregation to go out and evangelise. We have supplied these in the AV translation as requested.
Paul Godson
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of A 127 101 OPE, Eleyele Market Road, Eleyele,Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, whose Church, Light Assembly Christian Church needed 162 Bibles for going out and evangelising. So we were able to supply those. .
Jacob Kenneth
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who leads a group of 120 Christian students at the University of Ibadan asked for one each and we have supplied those.We hope to provide more annually for this group All these are using Bibles printed in China and selling in Nigeria at just under £1 each.
NORTH AFRICA
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Also we enable Muslim families across North Africa to be reached through Christian Radio at a cost of £1 per family per year. Their address is HCJB Global Radio, The Media Centre, 131 Grattan Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire. BD1 2HS. [ www.onehousehold.com.uk ]. We also support ARAB VISION which supplies Christian TV Programs to the region.
SOMALIA
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has been in the news a lot last year. Mrs Jean Price one of our regular supporters commends support for the HC Education Project 68 The Hurst . B13 0DD. [ 0121 604 6174 ] a registered charity founded in 1998 supporting students and helping to educate and provide books to children in South Somalia. They have been funding several students through college who are now available to teach Due to an attack on the school and library last July they have had to close down but have moved to a new safer location where they are setting up another Christian school and library. One day they hope to return to the original location and resume and so run 2 Christian schools
THAILAND
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Pete and Liz Maythingy
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working amongst the Karen people whose families originated in Burma
Pete and Liz helped organise a youth camp last year attended by 750 young people and are now helping to provide leadership training for some who made a commitment then. A seminar is taking place in May to help train a team to go out on mission at a new location later in the year. The helped with their denominational Annual Assembly when 1000 more delegates turned up than was expected and the local churches found them all accommodation and food. In all over 3000 attended.,
UGANDA
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Dr Matthew Paul Player
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on a 6 week medical elective to Kiwoko Hospital from April 24th. This is a Christian Hospital founded ii 1989 by Ian and Roberto Clarke from Bangor Presbyterian Church Bangor NI. It is funded 30% by patients and 60% by donors and 10% from the Ugandan Government. In a land where life expectancy is 43 years this hospital is making a huge difference. The hospital has 5 resident doctors and several nurses, and carries out many operations,.
MWENYA UGANDA,
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meaning Smile Uganda) PO Box 9237, Kampala, Uganda a new recently established NGO committed to providing free mobile dentistry and medical care for poor communities, who wish to establish a registered charity in the UK. For every £2 you could provide a mosquito net pack which would protect a poor widow or orphan from contracting debilitating malaria. The main task is to fund volunteer teams of dentists to operate in rural areas. Email contact:-: l_cuddon-large@hotmail.co.uk or via Facebook page www.facebook.com/Mwenya-Uganda or email UK Director Ruth Lambeth rtoothy@hotmail.com
Richard and Sarah Lubale
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Alpha Childcare & Community Development Organisation 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 to schools, colleges, and factories, We encouraged the founders of this ministry to set this NGO up and Spurgeon’s Child Care, Work Aid, Christian Relief UK and a Dutch Charity came to their aid..
AFRINSPIRE
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based at 22 Melvin Way Histon Cambridge CB24 9HY. [ Charity Number 1095001 Phone 01223 233367 email office@afrinspire.org.uk Website www.afrinspire.org.uk ] founded by a Baptist Minister in the UK who visited out there which helps with educational programmes, community centres, supplies of computers, some medicines and training equipment, agricultural development and tree planting. We have through it planted 2045 trees of various kinds They now work in Zambia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan and Tanzania.
Uganda Pray for East African Ministries Trust
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50 Zetland Street Poplar London E14 6RB that runs a school for orphans and a Skills Training Centre at a village 50 miles from Kampala . Charity Number 1038998.
UKRAINE
Sergey Ivaniuk
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whom we have not heard from for 3 years and thought had died. He has been living at Sudak by the Black Sea coast, on the Crimean peninsula working 14 hour days selling souvenirs to the tourists and camping in a tent. Each evening he has been reading the English Bible we sent him. In a second hand clothing shop he found a Welsh Bible and now wants to learn Welsh. Can anyone help provide for him a Welsh Primer Manual and a Welsh Dictionary or even one in Irish, Gaelic or other Celtic language.
ZAMBIA
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Elder Jackson Chanda,
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P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia. He still needs Good News Bibles. He looks after 10 orphans.
Boys Girls
James Chisma 11 Joyce Ngandwe 12
Gift Luckwesa 12 Esther Chaasa 13
Justine Mutuna 19 Rabbeca Mushota 14
John Kuanda 20 Leyab Mwansa 16
John Ngosa 22 Monica Mulenga 17
We have between us paid the first and second terms of 2011 and need £250 to pay the last term and he will need £750 a year for several years until they finish school. We suggested that he formed a co-operative NGO with other orphan carers and volunteer trainers, and he has done this and it is called Nchelenge Aids Orphans Education Mission and some friends here have funded freight costs of £610 for Tools With A Mission to send him equipment to set up a Training Centre. Once established it will train them daily after school in trades that within 2 years can make the centre self supportive from the sale of goods produced. Included in the deal are computers, printers, typewriters, sewing machines, 5 bicycles, repair kits, 3 wheelchairs, and various trade kits and garden implements. They have sent 2 containers to Zambia this year and several last, so these should be going later this year.
Zambia .
We would like also to receive for him £320 specifically to supply 40 local language Bibles in large print for elderly believers on an island on Lake Mweru on the Northern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo which he can arrange to take over by ferry. We supplied from UK 27 Good News Bibles for the younger people there..
You can reach Elder Chanda Jackson by email on
jackson chanda <chandajack@gmail.com>
Francis Mwansa
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of Maximum Security Prison, Death Row Section, PO Box 80915, Kabwe, Zambia. He is 34. married with 2 children and came to death Row in 2007 charged with murder. In prison he became a Christian and is a Roman Catholic who would like someone to exchange letters with.
Musanta G Musesa
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an Angolan, also of the above Maximum Security Prison who needs gloves, socks, support stockings, boxer pants and toiletries, He suffers a lot from leg ulcers.
Kelly B Mambwe
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at a Blind Centre for the Disabled, the grandson of a blind widow we helped years ago, asked for help in getting a job as a crane or forklift driver. He has had only 4 years education. We could not send him money so I commended to him the Salvation Army address and sent a copy of TORCH magazine from Torch Trust for the Blind who have a contact in Zambia.
Levy Hamwanza
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who is at the prison at Kabwe and wants Linen and toiletries. Replied saying why we could not supply and commended to him the Salvation Army contact address.
Mwila Gerard
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whose 2010 and 2011 year’s school fees we paid. We also send SOON paper.
Nkuba Davies Chola,
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a Christian, who is alone, with no family, homeless, ill, and has had our address about 11 years given by a friend who got it from someone else. Having sold his mattress and 2 chairs to pay a herbalist for medicines all he has left is a Bible and a bed but no where to put it, and nothing else. We sent him 11 addresses of people I know in Zambia hoping that one of them might be able to help but none can. He just wanders the streets and from time to time gets temporary lodging. We sent him money to rent a room for 13 weeks to try to get re-established but he had become ill and it all went on hospital fees.
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 , 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.
Duke Olson Phiri and his family Jesper and Saidy with his sister Faides,
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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 New Testaments.
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
Joseph S Musonda
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c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia.
He is in charge of the Educational Centre in the Maximum Security Prison. He teaches science. He has asked for a scientific calculator. Has anyone got a spare one they could send him? We have sent him via a cousin by Moneygramme to buy for the prison school library stools, chairs, and another wooden book case. We have also sent a bell requested for use for changing the school programmes.
Zambia Lazarus Mbola
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of St Andrews Congregation Nchelenge another AIDS Orphan. A Boys Brigade Officer in Zambia paid his college fees and set him up in a job, managing a group of young people from poor homes who have talent as poets and musicians and who perform as Creativity Through Christ at Youth Events. Two months ago the BB Officer died, the job collapsed, the Group is threatened with being closed down . He has asked for £500 so he can get a motor truck to deliver goods for a living and so be able to continue the group.
UNITED KINGDOM
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Barnaby Linscott in ministerial training at Horsham
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MISSION TO UTTLESFORD
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During 2003-2009 we delivered Christian literature to most homes in Saffron Walden , each with information about local church contacts.
During 2009 and 2010 we delivered VIA magazine with details of various Web sites to homes of 19 Uttlesford villages and at several other places in East Anglia including on the coast.
During 2011 this distribution has continued to Ashdon, Broxted, and Hatfield Broad Oak, and to Radwinter and Arkesden where former free churches are now houses. God willing as bus services remain available, we hope to distribute VIA Gospel magazine to several local villages and parts of Dunmow. And possibly to some homes in Bedford and Southend,
Where appropriate we will continue to use OUR DAILY BREAD [ ODB ] publications and the NKJ Gospel of John.. According to hits to our web board site Interest exists.
2011 marks 300 YEARS OF BAPTIST WITNESS IN SAFFRON WALDEN 1711 - 2011
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which spilled over into the villages
We are preparing an exhibition "MISSION CONTINUED" at Saffron Walden Baptist Church
9am - 9pm on Wednesday Sept 21st Thursday Sept 22nd Friday Sept 23rd.
9am - 1pm on Saturday Sept 24th. leading up to the 300 Years Celebration on Back to Church Sunday Sept 25th and the Baptist Church's Church Weekend Oct 1 & 2..
SECOND HAND POSTCARDS
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for sale to raise money to keep Mission Aviation Fellowship Aircraft in the air. MAF last year raised over £10,000 this way. They are still acceptable by Mrs Heather Yule 10 Calverden Road RAMSGATE Kent CT12 6JU.
LANGUAGE RECORDINGS UK
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In the past 18 months we have been enabled to supply 5 clockwork Cassette/CD Players with cassettes and CD’s and illustrated posters, for teams willing to reach out to remote places be reaching communities in native dialects through Language Recordings UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY.The 5 we were able to provide were in Cameroon, Angola, Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia. The latter is based at a rural hospital. We hope to continue to increase these each year..
TRANSFORM WORK UK
#####################Interested in improving your Christian impact at work we commend to you TRANSFORM WORK UK Brook House, Ouse Walk, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE29 3QW, or on-line www.transformworkuk.org
THANK YOU John
BIBLE YEAR 2011
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CELEBRATING THE 400th ANNIVERSARY
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of the first publication of the King James Authorised Version Bible in 1611
In February St Mary's Parish Church Saffron Walden was packed with several hundred Anglican people and a small number of heretics - Quaker, Baptist, Brethren, to hear a lecture by a Cambridge Don about The Impact of the King James Version of the Bible known as the AV, which for all it's archaic language little understood today in Britain, remains the most accurate to the original languages of Hebrew and Greek of all the 350 English versions of the Bible.
Interestingly too there have been over 1000 English translations of the New Testament or of particular books of the Bible. It's language style was old fashioned and out of date before it was even published and it was not popular at the time.
The public preference was the 1560 Geneva Bible, a truly Protestant Reformed Church Study Bible and widely used as a Family Bible by the 20-40 per cent of the population able to read. The GB had chapters, verses, illustrations, maps, commentary, dictionary and notes. Some of the notes were critical of Roman Catholc and Anglican doctrine and clerical practice which led to it being officially banned by King and Archbishop. Which of course only served to encourage it's wider use. The GB passed through 150 editions but was last printed in 1630. It took the AV over 100 years to replace it in popularity and the edition still in use is the 1769 4th Revision in which the punctuation was corrected.
We must never forget that The Roman Catholic Church in 1408 made it a heresy to translate the Bible into English and anyone doing so was subjected to the death penalty and burnt alive. Only the Latin Bible was permitted But English people resent being ordered about by foriegners and rebelled against the Pope and papal laws, which were not of God, but of Satan. That immoral indecent unChristian law was revoked in 1604 in Protestant Britain. From the 2nd Vatican Council in the 20th century, the reformed Roman Cstholic Church also lifted the ban ..
OTHER LOCAL CELEBRATIONS
SATURDAY MAY 21st HANDEL'S MESSIAH using the AV passages will be sung at St Mary's Parish Church
Performance time to be announced Admission Free Retiring Collection for CHRISTIAN AID
MONDAY 20th JUNE to SUNDAY JUNE 26th BIBLE READING MARATHON Genesis - Revelation at St Mary's Parish Church Admission free. Refreshments available. Donations welcomed. All are welcomed to listen, read, or serve refreshments
To take part contact the Parish Office at the Parish Room or email office@stmaryssaffronwalden.org Reading Times are:-
Monday.20th 9am to 7pm Tuesday 21st. 9am to 1pm and 3pm to 7pm. Wednesday 22nd. 10am to 7pm Thursday 23rd. 9am to 7pm
Friday 24th. 9am to Midnight. Saturday 25th midnight to 9am and 10am to midnight. Total approximately 70 hours.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 9th. 6.30pm Service of Choral Evensong celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible at Parish Church
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29th. Stage Production of HANDEL'S MESSIAH by the Merry Opera Company at St Mary's Parish Church with choir, organ and string quartet set in War Torn Europe in 1940. Tickets approx £12. For details - phone Lesley Green 01799 521356
To find out more about events in the surrounding area see:-
www.stmaryssaffronwalden.org www.kingjamesbibletrust.org
www.chelmsford.anglican.org/bibleyear 2011
www.scriptureunion.org.uk www.lib.cam.ac.uk
THINK WHAT YOU PERSONALLY COULD DO
TO CELEBRATE THIS ANNIVERSARY
to share GOD'S WORD, THE BIBLE,
with other people locally or around the world.
MAY 2011 UPDATE
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THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY [ MCCPF ] Founded 1954.
Administrator John E Maddams 35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
Email. jem.lhm@btinternet.com Web Board Site via Google.UK. lhpm.proboards.com
Our object has been “The Advancement of Christ’s Kingdom into all the World”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Years ago John Wesley said "It seems that God is limited by our prayer life - that He can do nothing for humanity until someone asks".
oooooooooooooooooooooo
We are coming up to our 57th Birthday on July 1st. and express grateful thanks to all those who have contributed in prayer, money, supplies and resources, this past year and in earlier times. Most cheque donations are paid to me personally and cleared through my account.
Some people wishing to add Gift Aid pay through Saffron Walden Baptist Church and then cheques are paid to specific charities we work through.
Some of our work is with small churches in Ethiopia; Ghana and Zambia that are not registered NGO's or charities so we need to pay them through the banks or Moneygramme or postal orders by registered post.
We now have a Bank Deposit Current Account to encash cheques to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry at Lloyds TSB. .
As we receive news of new needs and maybe recruit new support perhaps we should consider establishing a Committee of Trustees and if the work grows further maybe we should consider applying for registered charity status..
With my kind regards John E Maddams
.
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Why Jesus came --- to enlighten the people of this world, transform them by the renewing of their minds
And reconcile them with God , His Father.
=============================================================================
As recorded in John‘s Gospel chapter 12 verses 44, and 46-50
,
Jesus said “He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on Him who sent me,
I am come, a light into the world, that whoever believes on me should not abide in darkness.
And if any person hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him, for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
He that rejects me and does not receive my words , has one that judges him: the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting; therefore what ever I speak . Even as the Father said to me, so I speak.
During last year we were able to send help to
China 50 Bibles printed in China for Chinese people Israel to provide some Children’s Bibles
Jamaica for the Patois Recorded New Testament project - 5 million Jamaicans world wide speak Patois
Kenya 12 Bibles to Dandora Church
Madagascar. for poor families,
Malawi, Bibles for 8 orphans
Mexico for helping to provide Scriptures in Chamula for the Tzotzil people of Southern Mexico where Christian converts have faced great persecution
Mongolia, to fund supply of 5 Bibles,
Philippines Bibles through the Bible Society for typhoon victims.
Belorus, for Children's Bible books for commercial libraries.
Egypt. For 5 Bibles.
Please continue to pray for all or any of the following:-
CAMBODIA
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Ruth Elliott and Amanda
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serving with the Daughters of Cambodia, helping to rescue girls from prostitution, caring for, educating and training them. Some are producing hand made goods, to sell at a small shop in the capital to sell them and a Cafe.
ETHIOPIA
XXXXXXXX
Ayele Haliso's
###########
pastor has written. The local Church at Awassa are providng volunteer labour for doors, windows, walls but asked us for £656 to add a tin roof. So that is something we pray about and see what God does...
GHANA
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Ebenezer Cobbina
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the disabled orphan teenager age 16 whom we supported on the apprenticeship in leather work and shoe making and assisted to buy a new wheelchair for this year.
Patrick Guyam ,
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a beggar suffering from severe leprosy with 3 children to care for to whom we supplied a Study Bible and are further assisting him..
Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc
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who is Specialist in Ophthalmology and modern cataract surgery in partnership with others is operating with a new NGO, UNITE FOR SIGHT, restoring sight in rural areas.
Richard Owuso
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Whom we helped back in the 1990’s has been in touch again. He is a Christian and active in the LORD’s work, married with children and successful in business. Praise the LORD
Robbie Amusu
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has been motor cycling 3 times a month 45 minutes to Bawjaise, a coastal town with several churches, to encourage the mission team there. They held a Mission week at Easter in the Market there with open air ministry and house visiting. Robbie has just been healed from Malaria and been transferred by his Company to the port of Takarodi where he has associated with the Baptist Church, and is seeking rented accommodation.
.
Francis Mensah
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who is lay-pastor of the village church of about 80 subsistence farm worker at the village of Mangoase. Francis runs a farm close by the village that supports him and helps the villagers. We have recently provided them a generator, 90 hymnals and books, There was great joy when the lights were turned on. Felix a visiting choir master was available to introduce them to singing They would also appreciate some well illustrated Bible books, and commentaries .If anyone could supply these new or second-hand, please send direct to Pastor Francis Mensah, C/o PO Box BJ45 Bawjaise CR, Ghana.
Anthony Aboagye
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at Accra who continues to teach at a Methodist School & helps youth work at Weijah Church. We sent him a quanity of "WAR CRY" , "Jan-Mar 2011 The WORD for TODAY" and a GG. He is coming to the end of a 3 year advanced teaching course at the Methodist University. He hopes to get a teaching post in Higher Education.
Iraq
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Sandy Russell
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in the Kurdish region co-ordinating translation of the Bible into modern Kurdish, and encouraging the church at Arbil with his wife Kirsten in Kilburn London with their two children where there are a lot of Kurdish people
Malawi
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Pastor Enock M Dimba
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of Christian Resource Ministries PO Box 883, Blantyre, Malawi
Bibles are still needed in the local languages at a cost now of £7.30 each, for pastors of churches and orphans in schools. They needed £60 now to buy 8 bibles to give to 12 year olds going to secondary school this year and have another 46 Juniors to be provided Bibles over the next few years. Money for them may be sent to Mr Jim Figgis. Christian Resource Ministries, The Bible Shop 168 King Street, Castle Douglas. Kirkcudbrightshire DG7 1DA SCOTLAND. He is helping work in Kenya, South Africa and India too.
Pray for 2 Scottish preachers Ron and Ken teaching at 3 Conferences in Malawi and 2 in Mozambique from Apr 21 - May 12.. Mrs Dimba and her catering team expect to serve over 10,000 meals. Enock's Dad who founded this work has latterly been suffering from malaria.
NIGERIA
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Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW)
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of PO Box 99, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 3YF of website www.csw.org.uk request our prayers for Churches in Northern Nigeria particularly in the states of Kaduna, Gombe, Bauchi and Kano. who have suffered deaths, damage, danger & destruction at the hands of Moslem extremists following the legal democratic re-election of the President of the Republic, who is a Christian.
Pastor O Cosmos
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of 07 Olaifa Close, Eleyele Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, whose Faith Baptist Church needed 200 Bibles for the congregation to go out and evangelise. We have supplied these in the AV translation as requested.
Paul Godson
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of A 127 101 OPE, Eleyele Market Road, Eleyele,Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, whose Church, Light Assembly Christian Church needed 162 Bibles for going out and evangelising. So we were able to supply those. .
Jacob Kenneth
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who leads a group of 120 Christian students at the University of Ibadan asked for one each and we have supplied those.We hope to provide more annually for this group All these are using Bibles printed in China and selling in Nigeria at just under £1 each.
NORTH AFRICA
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Also we enable Muslim families across North Africa to be reached through Christian Radio at a cost of £1 per family per year. Their address is HCJB Global Radio, The Media Centre, 131 Grattan Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire. BD1 2HS. [ www.onehousehold.com.uk ]. We also support ARAB VISION which supplies Christian TV Programs to the region.
SOMALIA
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has been in the news a lot last year. Mrs Jean Price one of our regular supporters commends support for the HC Education Project 68 The Hurst . B13 0DD. [ 0121 604 6174 ] a registered charity founded in 1998 supporting students and helping to educate and provide books to children in South Somalia. They have been funding several students through college who are now available to teach Due to an attack on the school and library last July they have had to close down but have moved to a new safer location where they are setting up another Christian school and library. One day they hope to return to the original location and resume and so run 2 Christian schools
THAILAND
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Pete and Liz Maythingy
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working amongst the Karen people whose families originated in Burma
Pete and Liz helped organise a youth camp last year attended by 750 young people and are now helping to provide leadership training for some who made a commitment then. A seminar is taking place in May to help train a team to go out on mission at a new location later in the year. The helped with their denominational Annual Assembly when 1000 more delegates turned up than was expected and the local churches found them all accommodation and food. In all over 3000 attended.,
UGANDA
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Dr Matthew Paul Player
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on a 6 week medical elective to Kiwoko Hospital from April 24th. This is a Christian Hospital founded ii 1989 by Ian and Roberto Clarke from Bangor Presbyterian Church Bangor NI. It is funded 30% by patients and 60% by donors and 10% from the Ugandan Government. In a land where life expectancy is 43 years this hospital is making a huge difference. The hospital has 5 resident doctors and several nurses, and carries out many operations,.
MWENYA UGANDA,
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meaning Smile Uganda) PO Box 9237, Kampala, Uganda a new recently established NGO committed to providing free mobile dentistry and medical care for poor communities, who wish to establish a registered charity in the UK. For every £2 you could provide a mosquito net pack which would protect a poor widow or orphan from contracting debilitating malaria. The main task is to fund volunteer teams of dentists to operate in rural areas. Email contact:-: l_cuddon-large@hotmail.co.uk or via Facebook page www.facebook.com/Mwenya-Uganda or email UK Director Ruth Lambeth rtoothy@hotmail.com
Richard and Sarah Lubale
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Alpha Childcare & Community Development Organisation 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 to schools, colleges, and factories, We encouraged the founders of this ministry to set this NGO up and Spurgeon’s Child Care, Work Aid, Christian Relief UK and a Dutch Charity came to their aid..
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based at 22 Melvin Way Histon Cambridge CB24 9HY. [ Charity Number 1095001 Phone 01223 233367 email office@afrinspire.org.uk Website www.afrinspire.org.uk ] founded by a Baptist Minister in the UK who visited out there which helps with educational programmes, community centres, supplies of computers, some medicines and training equipment, agricultural development and tree planting. We have through it planted 2045 trees of various kinds They now work in Zambia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Sudan and Tanzania.
Uganda Pray for East African Ministries Trust
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50 Zetland Street Poplar London E14 6RB that runs a school for orphans and a Skills Training Centre at a village 50 miles from Kampala . Charity Number 1038998.
UKRAINE
Sergey Ivaniuk
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whom we have not heard from for 3 years and thought had died. He has been living at Sudak by the Black Sea coast, on the Crimean peninsula working 14 hour days selling souvenirs to the tourists and camping in a tent. Each evening he has been reading the English Bible we sent him. In a second hand clothing shop he found a Welsh Bible and now wants to learn Welsh. Can anyone help provide for him a Welsh Primer Manual and a Welsh Dictionary or even one in Irish, Gaelic or other Celtic language.
ZAMBIA
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Elder Jackson Chanda,
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P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia. He still needs Good News Bibles. He looks after 10 orphans.
Boys Girls
James Chisma 11 Joyce Ngandwe 12
Gift Luckwesa 12 Esther Chaasa 13
Justine Mutuna 19 Rabbeca Mushota 14
John Kuanda 20 Leyab Mwansa 16
John Ngosa 22 Monica Mulenga 17
We have between us paid the first and second terms of 2011 and need £250 to pay the last term and he will need £750 a year for several years until they finish school. We suggested that he formed a co-operative NGO with other orphan carers and volunteer trainers, and he has done this and it is called Nchelenge Aids Orphans Education Mission and some friends here have funded freight costs of £610 for Tools With A Mission to send him equipment to set up a Training Centre. Once established it will train them daily after school in trades that within 2 years can make the centre self supportive from the sale of goods produced. Included in the deal are computers, printers, typewriters, sewing machines, 5 bicycles, repair kits, 3 wheelchairs, and various trade kits and garden implements. They have sent 2 containers to Zambia this year and several last, so these should be going later this year.
Zambia .
We would like also to receive for him £320 specifically to supply 40 local language Bibles in large print for elderly believers on an island on Lake Mweru on the Northern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo which he can arrange to take over by ferry. We supplied from UK 27 Good News Bibles for the younger people there..
You can reach Elder Chanda Jackson by email on
jackson chanda <chandajack@gmail.com>
Francis Mwansa
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of Maximum Security Prison, Death Row Section, PO Box 80915, Kabwe, Zambia. He is 34. married with 2 children and came to death Row in 2007 charged with murder. In prison he became a Christian and is a Roman Catholic who would like someone to exchange letters with.
Musanta G Musesa
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an Angolan, also of the above Maximum Security Prison who needs gloves, socks, support stockings, boxer pants and toiletries, He suffers a lot from leg ulcers.
Kelly B Mambwe
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at a Blind Centre for the Disabled, the grandson of a blind widow we helped years ago, asked for help in getting a job as a crane or forklift driver. He has had only 4 years education. We could not send him money so I commended to him the Salvation Army address and sent a copy of TORCH magazine from Torch Trust for the Blind who have a contact in Zambia.
Levy Hamwanza
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who is at the prison at Kabwe and wants Linen and toiletries. Replied saying why we could not supply and commended to him the Salvation Army contact address.
Mwila Gerard
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whose 2010 and 2011 year’s school fees we paid. We also send SOON paper.
Nkuba Davies Chola,
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a Christian, who is alone, with no family, homeless, ill, and has had our address about 11 years given by a friend who got it from someone else. Having sold his mattress and 2 chairs to pay a herbalist for medicines all he has left is a Bible and a bed but no where to put it, and nothing else. We sent him 11 addresses of people I know in Zambia hoping that one of them might be able to help but none can. He just wanders the streets and from time to time gets temporary lodging. We sent him money to rent a room for 13 weeks to try to get re-established but he had become ill and it all went on hospital fees.
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 , 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.
Duke Olson Phiri and his family Jesper and Saidy with his sister Faides,
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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 New Testaments.
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
Joseph S Musonda
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c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia.
He is in charge of the Educational Centre in the Maximum Security Prison. He teaches science. He has asked for a scientific calculator. Has anyone got a spare one they could send him? We have sent him via a cousin by Moneygramme to buy for the prison school library stools, chairs, and another wooden book case. We have also sent a bell requested for use for changing the school programmes.
Zambia Lazarus Mbola
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of St Andrews Congregation Nchelenge another AIDS Orphan. A Boys Brigade Officer in Zambia paid his college fees and set him up in a job, managing a group of young people from poor homes who have talent as poets and musicians and who perform as Creativity Through Christ at Youth Events. Two months ago the BB Officer died, the job collapsed, the Group is threatened with being closed down . He has asked for £500 so he can get a motor truck to deliver goods for a living and so be able to continue the group.
UNITED KINGDOM
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Barnaby Linscott in ministerial training at Horsham
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MISSION TO UTTLESFORD
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During 2003-2009 we delivered Christian literature to most homes in Saffron Walden , each with information about local church contacts.
During 2009 and 2010 we delivered VIA magazine with details of various Web sites to homes of 19 Uttlesford villages and at several other places in East Anglia including on the coast.
During 2011 this distribution has continued to Ashdon, Broxted, and Hatfield Broad Oak, and to Radwinter and Arkesden where former free churches are now houses. God willing as bus services remain available, we hope to distribute VIA Gospel magazine to several local villages and parts of Dunmow. And possibly to some homes in Bedford and Southend,
Where appropriate we will continue to use OUR DAILY BREAD [ ODB ] publications and the NKJ Gospel of John.. According to hits to our web board site Interest exists.
2011 marks 300 YEARS OF BAPTIST WITNESS IN SAFFRON WALDEN 1711 - 2011
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which spilled over into the villages
We are preparing an exhibition "MISSION CONTINUED" at Saffron Walden Baptist Church
9am - 9pm on Wednesday Sept 21st Thursday Sept 22nd Friday Sept 23rd.
9am - 1pm on Saturday Sept 24th. leading up to the 300 Years Celebration on Back to Church Sunday Sept 25th and the Baptist Church's Church Weekend Oct 1 & 2..
SECOND HAND POSTCARDS
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for sale to raise money to keep Mission Aviation Fellowship Aircraft in the air. MAF last year raised over £10,000 this way. They are still acceptable by Mrs Heather Yule 10 Calverden Road RAMSGATE Kent CT12 6JU.
LANGUAGE RECORDINGS UK
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In the past 18 months we have been enabled to supply 5 clockwork Cassette/CD Players with cassettes and CD’s and illustrated posters, for teams willing to reach out to remote places be reaching communities in native dialects through Language Recordings UK, P O Box 197 High Wycombe, Bucks HP1 3YY.The 5 we were able to provide were in Cameroon, Angola, Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia. The latter is based at a rural hospital. We hope to continue to increase these each year..
TRANSFORM WORK UK
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THANK YOU John
BIBLE YEAR 2011
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CELEBRATING THE 400th ANNIVERSARY
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of the first publication of the King James Authorised Version Bible in 1611
In February St Mary's Parish Church Saffron Walden was packed with several hundred Anglican people and a small number of heretics - Quaker, Baptist, Brethren, to hear a lecture by a Cambridge Don about The Impact of the King James Version of the Bible known as the AV, which for all it's archaic language little understood today in Britain, remains the most accurate to the original languages of Hebrew and Greek of all the 350 English versions of the Bible.
Interestingly too there have been over 1000 English translations of the New Testament or of particular books of the Bible. It's language style was old fashioned and out of date before it was even published and it was not popular at the time.
The public preference was the 1560 Geneva Bible, a truly Protestant Reformed Church Study Bible and widely used as a Family Bible by the 20-40 per cent of the population able to read. The GB had chapters, verses, illustrations, maps, commentary, dictionary and notes. Some of the notes were critical of Roman Catholc and Anglican doctrine and clerical practice which led to it being officially banned by King and Archbishop. Which of course only served to encourage it's wider use. The GB passed through 150 editions but was last printed in 1630. It took the AV over 100 years to replace it in popularity and the edition still in use is the 1769 4th Revision in which the punctuation was corrected.
We must never forget that The Roman Catholic Church in 1408 made it a heresy to translate the Bible into English and anyone doing so was subjected to the death penalty and burnt alive. Only the Latin Bible was permitted But English people resent being ordered about by foriegners and rebelled against the Pope and papal laws, which were not of God, but of Satan. That immoral indecent unChristian law was revoked in 1604 in Protestant Britain. From the 2nd Vatican Council in the 20th century, the reformed Roman Cstholic Church also lifted the ban ..
OTHER LOCAL CELEBRATIONS
SATURDAY MAY 21st HANDEL'S MESSIAH using the AV passages will be sung at St Mary's Parish Church
Performance time to be announced Admission Free Retiring Collection for CHRISTIAN AID
MONDAY 20th JUNE to SUNDAY JUNE 26th BIBLE READING MARATHON Genesis - Revelation at St Mary's Parish Church Admission free. Refreshments available. Donations welcomed. All are welcomed to listen, read, or serve refreshments
To take part contact the Parish Office at the Parish Room or email office@stmaryssaffronwalden.org Reading Times are:-
Monday.20th 9am to 7pm Tuesday 21st. 9am to 1pm and 3pm to 7pm. Wednesday 22nd. 10am to 7pm Thursday 23rd. 9am to 7pm
Friday 24th. 9am to Midnight. Saturday 25th midnight to 9am and 10am to midnight. Total approximately 70 hours.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 9th. 6.30pm Service of Choral Evensong celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible at Parish Church
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29th. Stage Production of HANDEL'S MESSIAH by the Merry Opera Company at St Mary's Parish Church with choir, organ and string quartet set in War Torn Europe in 1940. Tickets approx £12. For details - phone Lesley Green 01799 521356
To find out more about events in the surrounding area see:-
www.stmaryssaffronwalden.org www.kingjamesbibletrust.org
www.chelmsford.anglican.org/bibleyear 2011
www.scriptureunion.org.uk www.lib.cam.ac.uk
THINK WHAT YOU PERSONALLY COULD DO
TO CELEBRATE THIS ANNIVERSARY
to share GOD'S WORD, THE BIBLE,
with other people locally or around the world.