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THE LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY NEWS AUGUST 2017
Published by The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry . Founded 1954.
35 Four Acres Saffron Walden Essex CB11 3JD / jem.lhm@btinternet.com / 01799 521529 .
As our year begins on July 1st we have now begun our 64th year the LORD enabling us,to whom all credit is due.
OUR SMALL GRANTS FUND [ SAMFF ] established in 1961 separate from LHPM has since then supplied many grants between £2 and £1000 for students, school children, orphaned teenagers, schools, colleges, training schemes, study courses, church planting projects, in numerous countries
IRAN We recently provided through Elam Ministries 7 of the new Persian Bible for use in Iran, a highly dangerous place for Christians but outside Iran hundreds of thousands ex pat Iranians are living in exile and many have become Christians, and need Bibles in their own language We generally make such a grant each year but did so early because another the donor offered to match everyone else's gifts up to a total of £100,000 We received this reply from Elam Ministries Dear John, Warmest greetings, and thank you so much for your prayers and support.
Ehsan, a 72-year-old man from Tehran, recently visited his son who was living in a country neighbouring Iran. His son brought Ehsan to one of our Persian-speaking churches. After the service Ehsan said, "I came out early this week from Tehran, but I did not know why. Now I know why. God spoke to me in a mighty way today, and I want to give my life to Jesus right now.” We praise the Lord for the way He is using Iranian refugees to reach family and friends still living inside Iran. On behalf of the Elam team, we deeply appreciate your partnership with us.
Yours in His grace, Nick Martin Elam Ministries
SOUTH AFRICA Edna Titus of BREADLINE AFRICA has written thanking us for £20 towards the installation of additional water tanks to collect the expected winter rains. Cape Town has been declared a disaster area with water supplies down to 8% of normal. Dam levels in many parts of the country are down to critical levels .Pray for rain.
EGYPT We are funding 2 children in Summer Camps at £15 each. £15 will fund their week long stay at camp, and their food and a Bible to keep. This is through the Mission Charity STEPHEN'S CHILDREN
GAMBIA All the Aid agencies and charities I approached to see if they could help Pastor Elizabeth solve the problem of how to feed and care for 56 orphans either failed to reply or declined to help. I came to the conclusion that if she was to obtain help it had to be from within Gambia, and I was led to Dembo Camara who was already looking after some orphans and was wanting to establish an orphanage in a compound with a large building and land where more buildings could be added and the rest laid out to grow vegetables, that he inherited from his parents last year. I spent much of one Sunday persuading him to investigate and to meet Papas. To achieve that it was necessary to teach Papas how to use email but finally they did meet and Dembo visited Elizabeth and subsequently he accepted responsibility for the orphans she has been caring for with her brother over the last 7 years. He also thanked us for the £150 we sent but advised us that we were no longer needed and he was in charge. Papas complained that it had not helped him much and he was still starving, but these are early days yet as Dembo has to raise funds to develop the site, and just feeding the children is his first priority. We were used to bring them together. We can do no more but we may pray for the development of his project. Papas had contacted me originally through Facebook. He was the oldest of the orphans, now turned 19, and he worked at night in the early hours cleaning a cyber café and restocking their water supplies and they allowed him to use a computer. Pressed for information I learned that he was not paid for doing this work so I spent some time persuading him to seek and find a paid job, since then I've heard no more from him and he no longer uses his Facebook page, which may be a good sign that he has moved on.
MALAWI Enock Dimba reported in June that his group of pastor evangelists had returned to the Church in Northern Mozambique where last year Muslims stoned them, injuring one evangelist, crippling the vehicle, [ they have since obtained a new stronger 4 by 4 ] and damaged beyond repair the projector which we replaced. During their tour in May/June, 265 responded to the preaching, many were healed, Pastor Kampira on the main river of Malawi has established 25 churches across the river in Mozambique and they gave him a bike so he can get around better. His church needed a canoe to better serve those over the river. We have supplied it . They gave the village headman a Bible. 4 further bikes were given out to pastors. They need 700 more so all their pastors get one. at about £55 a bike. [ We have been enabled this week to supply 7 more ] 2 new overseers were blessed. Most of the pastors from the these new churches being gathered together were given Bibles.[ £5.35 ]
NIGERIA Pastor Musiba of Abundance Ministries expressed gratitude for us supplying in June 100 additional books for their Lighthouse Christian Lending Library. Until the end of June we had supplied 13,411 Bibles since we began this in 2011 and completed all requests, We have now closed down our Free Bibles to Nigeria Project. But we have send some “Our Daily Bread “ notes to 4 pastors in the hope they will reply direct to ODB Ministries to receive a regular supply.
If anyone out there has a spare Bible you could send abroad, Felix Tunde could usefully use it. Contact him here :- Evangelist, Felix Tunde, 7 Kwalamedy Street Vum Village, Plateau State , NIGERIA. If anyone is able to send money direct through a Bank or Moneygram [ for which you would need ID, either a passport, driving licence or ID Card – which I have none of ] you could arrange for him to have English AV Bibles from this bookseller at £2 a copy GATE WAY BIBLE BOOKSHOP, 23 Edoguner Market ,Off Wire Road.,Oredo City. 300001.,Edo State. Nigeria. gatewaybiblebookshop@yahoo.com FELIX'S EMAIL IS :- comingchristministry@g.mail.com
NORTH WEST AFRICA, an area of several countries the population is almost 100% Sunni Muslim using the Soninke language but recently the first copies of booklets of the Bible in Soninke have begun to circulate and the JESUS film in that language has been completed, shown and captivated audiences.
INDIA OUR latest Solar powered CD Player has been sent to Orissa in India loaded with Scriptures in 6 languages. We have received a request for 70 Bible in the local language from another part of India, we are trying to set up an arrangement Echo of His Call Ministries so we can send the money when we have it ,of £150, through CRM to EOHCM
GHANA Anthony Aboagye was 15 when I first encountered him in Ghana. Studying at a school in Accra, his Dad had just died. He was facing expulsion from school just before sitting vital exams and LHPM paid his final term fees and exam fees. He passed with flying colours. At the time we were linked with a tutor of a Training College there who was a member of one of the Baptist Churches there. Anthony needed a College grant to study at University To get it he needed sponsorship from a member of the Civil Service a state employee, but he could not claim until he was actually studying there. So we paid his entry fees and provided his basic equipment, a chair, a mattress, a bucket and various books. He got in. Then we asked the college Lecturer who was a state employee to stand as his sponsor thus Anthony got a grant. Over 3 years inflation wore that grant down and we topped it up Tony became a Junior school teacher, a lay preacher, Church Secretary of Victory Baptist Church Accra, and leader of their Sunday School. He went on to serve as Secretary of the Accra Baptist Churches Youth Association. Later the officers of the Ghana Baptist Convention were prepared to help assist him to study at the Baptist College with the view to becoming a minister and others inside and outside Ghana offered to help but it failed to happen. He went to a Methodist University to study
advance teaching so he could teach in secondary schools, which he later began to do. There was some delay in hearing from him and then about 4 years ago he turned up in California at the SBA Western Theological Training College studying theology and pastoral skills. Earlier this year he graduated and in May was ordained. He is currently working in a small rural church that cannot afford to pay him a full stipend but he is serving there. Soon after he first started at university in Ghana, localised flooding rendered him homeless and we have a newspaper photo somewhere of him only his head visible in the water. But look where the LORD who rescued him has raised him to now.
Robbie and Maria Amusu also live in Ghana, and their eldest child Alice is named after my Mum and Grandma, in recognition of LHPM's help over musumany years that included a Mission at an isolated hamlet of 100 people that then had no Church, no Christians,no fresh water supply, no electricity but we had a hand in changing all that when Robbie led 2 mission teams there and most of the villagers became Christians and we were enabled to supply a generator, a bore hole, hymn-books, a wheelchair,.Christian books. We made a difference and young people from that place have moved on elsewhere.
ZAMBIA Elder Jackson Chawna sent us an email in June to say that he is still ill, living at the farm about 30 km away from Nchelenge where he with his wife Christina pioneered 4 churches to which we supplied several hundred Bibles in English and Bembe that continue to be used, We can pray that he will be healed so that he may resume mobility and engage in further ministry,
Namashoba Kagoba who leads the 20 strong group of Christians on what was formerly Death Row in the Maximum Security Prison at Kabwe has written asking for further toiletries to enable the group to care for elderly prisoners. During June we supplied DAILY STRENGTH booklets in Aramaic for the 15 Ethiopian prisoners in the 60 strong group on Lifers Section
LOCALLY IN ENGLAND Ken, Sue and me have completed delivering VIA magazine to over 7000 homes in Saffron Walden. That leaves certain secure homes for the elderly . 400 New Life News were circulated to local businesses at Easter.
Pray for Dennis at Clacton who I chatted with for 45 minutes recently. An ex- Roman Catholic whose wife became a born again Christian. A successful businessman who sold up 20 years ago and went to make a fortune in South Africa but didn't. He lost his wife and has no children. He is in a private rented flat struggling to pay, faces eviction,.addicted to smoking and alcohol.,lonely. I advised him to contact the local CAB. And gave him a copy of DAILY STRENGTH
Donations for our work may be sent to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry, to me at 35 Four Acres SAFFRON WALDEN, Essex, CB11 3JD . Taxpayers can Gift Aid if cheques are payable to Saffron Walden Baptist Church . Thank you all whether you pray ,give money, or materials, whether you are encouraged to do what you can to spread the kingdom. With my kind regards John E Maddams
Published by The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry . Founded 1954.
35 Four Acres Saffron Walden Essex CB11 3JD / jem.lhm@btinternet.com / 01799 521529 .
As our year begins on July 1st we have now begun our 64th year the LORD enabling us,to whom all credit is due.
OUR SMALL GRANTS FUND [ SAMFF ] established in 1961 separate from LHPM has since then supplied many grants between £2 and £1000 for students, school children, orphaned teenagers, schools, colleges, training schemes, study courses, church planting projects, in numerous countries
IRAN We recently provided through Elam Ministries 7 of the new Persian Bible for use in Iran, a highly dangerous place for Christians but outside Iran hundreds of thousands ex pat Iranians are living in exile and many have become Christians, and need Bibles in their own language We generally make such a grant each year but did so early because another the donor offered to match everyone else's gifts up to a total of £100,000 We received this reply from Elam Ministries Dear John, Warmest greetings, and thank you so much for your prayers and support.
Ehsan, a 72-year-old man from Tehran, recently visited his son who was living in a country neighbouring Iran. His son brought Ehsan to one of our Persian-speaking churches. After the service Ehsan said, "I came out early this week from Tehran, but I did not know why. Now I know why. God spoke to me in a mighty way today, and I want to give my life to Jesus right now.” We praise the Lord for the way He is using Iranian refugees to reach family and friends still living inside Iran. On behalf of the Elam team, we deeply appreciate your partnership with us.
Yours in His grace, Nick Martin Elam Ministries
SOUTH AFRICA Edna Titus of BREADLINE AFRICA has written thanking us for £20 towards the installation of additional water tanks to collect the expected winter rains. Cape Town has been declared a disaster area with water supplies down to 8% of normal. Dam levels in many parts of the country are down to critical levels .Pray for rain.
EGYPT We are funding 2 children in Summer Camps at £15 each. £15 will fund their week long stay at camp, and their food and a Bible to keep. This is through the Mission Charity STEPHEN'S CHILDREN
GAMBIA All the Aid agencies and charities I approached to see if they could help Pastor Elizabeth solve the problem of how to feed and care for 56 orphans either failed to reply or declined to help. I came to the conclusion that if she was to obtain help it had to be from within Gambia, and I was led to Dembo Camara who was already looking after some orphans and was wanting to establish an orphanage in a compound with a large building and land where more buildings could be added and the rest laid out to grow vegetables, that he inherited from his parents last year. I spent much of one Sunday persuading him to investigate and to meet Papas. To achieve that it was necessary to teach Papas how to use email but finally they did meet and Dembo visited Elizabeth and subsequently he accepted responsibility for the orphans she has been caring for with her brother over the last 7 years. He also thanked us for the £150 we sent but advised us that we were no longer needed and he was in charge. Papas complained that it had not helped him much and he was still starving, but these are early days yet as Dembo has to raise funds to develop the site, and just feeding the children is his first priority. We were used to bring them together. We can do no more but we may pray for the development of his project. Papas had contacted me originally through Facebook. He was the oldest of the orphans, now turned 19, and he worked at night in the early hours cleaning a cyber café and restocking their water supplies and they allowed him to use a computer. Pressed for information I learned that he was not paid for doing this work so I spent some time persuading him to seek and find a paid job, since then I've heard no more from him and he no longer uses his Facebook page, which may be a good sign that he has moved on.
MALAWI Enock Dimba reported in June that his group of pastor evangelists had returned to the Church in Northern Mozambique where last year Muslims stoned them, injuring one evangelist, crippling the vehicle, [ they have since obtained a new stronger 4 by 4 ] and damaged beyond repair the projector which we replaced. During their tour in May/June, 265 responded to the preaching, many were healed, Pastor Kampira on the main river of Malawi has established 25 churches across the river in Mozambique and they gave him a bike so he can get around better. His church needed a canoe to better serve those over the river. We have supplied it . They gave the village headman a Bible. 4 further bikes were given out to pastors. They need 700 more so all their pastors get one. at about £55 a bike. [ We have been enabled this week to supply 7 more ] 2 new overseers were blessed. Most of the pastors from the these new churches being gathered together were given Bibles.[ £5.35 ]
NIGERIA Pastor Musiba of Abundance Ministries expressed gratitude for us supplying in June 100 additional books for their Lighthouse Christian Lending Library. Until the end of June we had supplied 13,411 Bibles since we began this in 2011 and completed all requests, We have now closed down our Free Bibles to Nigeria Project. But we have send some “Our Daily Bread “ notes to 4 pastors in the hope they will reply direct to ODB Ministries to receive a regular supply.
If anyone out there has a spare Bible you could send abroad, Felix Tunde could usefully use it. Contact him here :- Evangelist, Felix Tunde, 7 Kwalamedy Street Vum Village, Plateau State , NIGERIA. If anyone is able to send money direct through a Bank or Moneygram [ for which you would need ID, either a passport, driving licence or ID Card – which I have none of ] you could arrange for him to have English AV Bibles from this bookseller at £2 a copy GATE WAY BIBLE BOOKSHOP, 23 Edoguner Market ,Off Wire Road.,Oredo City. 300001.,Edo State. Nigeria. gatewaybiblebookshop@yahoo.com FELIX'S EMAIL IS :- comingchristministry@g.mail.com
NORTH WEST AFRICA, an area of several countries the population is almost 100% Sunni Muslim using the Soninke language but recently the first copies of booklets of the Bible in Soninke have begun to circulate and the JESUS film in that language has been completed, shown and captivated audiences.
INDIA OUR latest Solar powered CD Player has been sent to Orissa in India loaded with Scriptures in 6 languages. We have received a request for 70 Bible in the local language from another part of India, we are trying to set up an arrangement Echo of His Call Ministries so we can send the money when we have it ,of £150, through CRM to EOHCM
GHANA Anthony Aboagye was 15 when I first encountered him in Ghana. Studying at a school in Accra, his Dad had just died. He was facing expulsion from school just before sitting vital exams and LHPM paid his final term fees and exam fees. He passed with flying colours. At the time we were linked with a tutor of a Training College there who was a member of one of the Baptist Churches there. Anthony needed a College grant to study at University To get it he needed sponsorship from a member of the Civil Service a state employee, but he could not claim until he was actually studying there. So we paid his entry fees and provided his basic equipment, a chair, a mattress, a bucket and various books. He got in. Then we asked the college Lecturer who was a state employee to stand as his sponsor thus Anthony got a grant. Over 3 years inflation wore that grant down and we topped it up Tony became a Junior school teacher, a lay preacher, Church Secretary of Victory Baptist Church Accra, and leader of their Sunday School. He went on to serve as Secretary of the Accra Baptist Churches Youth Association. Later the officers of the Ghana Baptist Convention were prepared to help assist him to study at the Baptist College with the view to becoming a minister and others inside and outside Ghana offered to help but it failed to happen. He went to a Methodist University to study
advance teaching so he could teach in secondary schools, which he later began to do. There was some delay in hearing from him and then about 4 years ago he turned up in California at the SBA Western Theological Training College studying theology and pastoral skills. Earlier this year he graduated and in May was ordained. He is currently working in a small rural church that cannot afford to pay him a full stipend but he is serving there. Soon after he first started at university in Ghana, localised flooding rendered him homeless and we have a newspaper photo somewhere of him only his head visible in the water. But look where the LORD who rescued him has raised him to now.
Robbie and Maria Amusu also live in Ghana, and their eldest child Alice is named after my Mum and Grandma, in recognition of LHPM's help over musumany years that included a Mission at an isolated hamlet of 100 people that then had no Church, no Christians,no fresh water supply, no electricity but we had a hand in changing all that when Robbie led 2 mission teams there and most of the villagers became Christians and we were enabled to supply a generator, a bore hole, hymn-books, a wheelchair,.Christian books. We made a difference and young people from that place have moved on elsewhere.
ZAMBIA Elder Jackson Chawna sent us an email in June to say that he is still ill, living at the farm about 30 km away from Nchelenge where he with his wife Christina pioneered 4 churches to which we supplied several hundred Bibles in English and Bembe that continue to be used, We can pray that he will be healed so that he may resume mobility and engage in further ministry,
Namashoba Kagoba who leads the 20 strong group of Christians on what was formerly Death Row in the Maximum Security Prison at Kabwe has written asking for further toiletries to enable the group to care for elderly prisoners. During June we supplied DAILY STRENGTH booklets in Aramaic for the 15 Ethiopian prisoners in the 60 strong group on Lifers Section
LOCALLY IN ENGLAND Ken, Sue and me have completed delivering VIA magazine to over 7000 homes in Saffron Walden. That leaves certain secure homes for the elderly . 400 New Life News were circulated to local businesses at Easter.
Pray for Dennis at Clacton who I chatted with for 45 minutes recently. An ex- Roman Catholic whose wife became a born again Christian. A successful businessman who sold up 20 years ago and went to make a fortune in South Africa but didn't. He lost his wife and has no children. He is in a private rented flat struggling to pay, faces eviction,.addicted to smoking and alcohol.,lonely. I advised him to contact the local CAB. And gave him a copy of DAILY STRENGTH
Donations for our work may be sent to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry, to me at 35 Four Acres SAFFRON WALDEN, Essex, CB11 3JD . Taxpayers can Gift Aid if cheques are payable to Saffron Walden Baptist Church . Thank you all whether you pray ,give money, or materials, whether you are encouraged to do what you can to spread the kingdom. With my kind regards John E Maddams