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LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY PRAYER NEWS MARCH 2018
On Prayer Pastor duty for Street Pastors I read in a book by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams “Christian Discipleship” in which he referred to the importance of our being where Jesus Christ is, which is not necessarily in a church situation. He referred to his boyhood hero , 19th century Missionary Thomas French who served many years in the Persian Gulf when the number of Christians there could be counted on 1 hand and he saw no converts but he was there with Christ who was there too. In all he served 10 years in Persia and India. Today there are hundreds of thousands of Christians in that region and numbers are growing. In fact Thomas French founded 2 schools and a training college and translated the Bible into 7 languages. So laying the foundations on which other people would build.
We may feel failures in that we don't seem to make much progress at bringing people to Jesus and in seeing conversions but in as far as we represent Him in our behaviour and what we say or write, we are with Christ where ever we are. He said “Go, …..and I will be with you to the end of the ages”
LOCALLY CHRISTMAS DISTRIBUTION. We circulated about 150 message cards, 50 Gospel Gem Calendars and 36 Special Our Daily Bread Pamphlets and have received several expressions of appreciation. During the past year we have placed LIGHTHOUSE GOSPELS OF JOHN of the NAV 1984 English translation in places where people may find them in conjunction with the OPEN AIR MISSION [ access their website:- www.oamission.com ] It conveys from within itself the way of salvation in simple terms. Also we've continued to use, as over many years, Scripture Gift Mission Lifewords booklets amongst people with various problems.[ www.lifewords.global ]
VIA MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTION Since 2009 we have been delivering VIA magazine editions once to most homes throughout Uttlesford District and much of South Cambs, North of Walden as far as Trumpington as well as various areas of seaside resorts and inland towns visited in that period. We expect to resume using edition 45 in a few weeks time to newly build homes in Saffron Walden Newport, Rickling, and DV ongoing to the new estates rising in Stansted, Thaxted and Dunmow. Our last visits in 2017 were to certain streets in the older part of Bishop's Stortford.
SOCIAL MEDIA We also put posts on my page of FACEBOOK, on Saffron Walden Blast from the Past, the Saffron Walden Baptist Group page, and on various other threads and blogs.
OUR SMALL GRANTS FUND Since 1961 alongside LHPM [MCCPF] we have operated separately a Small Grants Fund helping other Missions serving particular kinds of people Jews , Muslims, Blind People, Other marginalized groups, etc, such as these listed
TORCH TRUST FOR THE BLIND which we have contributed to annually for over 30 years responding to our latest grant stated that before Christmas they were busy preparing books and a free leaflet The Christmas Tree proclaiming the real meaning of Christmas and a Scripture Text Calendar in Braille and giant print TORCH TRUST provides 3 magazines, and other Christian resources and activities - fellowship groups, courses, and holidays, for blind and partially sighted people worldwide. They have a Braille Christian book library, a Large Print library, a taped books library which is gradually being transferred digitally to discs and enlarged. They operate over 650 fellowship groups and co-operate with Compass Braille in producing Bible translations in many languages and support work in Romania and Malawi. They issue regular prayer letters from Torch House, Torch Way, Market Harborough LE16 9HL See their website www.torchtrust.org
CHRISTIAN WITNESS TO ISRAEL celebrates it's 175th Anniversary this month. We have supported it since 1961. They have missionaries amongst Jews in France, Hungary, Israel Holland, England, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, and the USA where Eugine Tsai from Taiwan has just been appointed their missionary in Chicago and Philip Amos has just been appointed to serve in London. We support their HaGefen Printing organisation in Israel. They report that here in the UK last year 25 Jewish people became Christians including 4 Holocaust survivors and they engaged with some 5000 Jewish people in summer outreaches including many Israelis. They publish monthly PRAYING ALWAYS with prayer requests from around the world. This Summer they plan a large outreach in Paris.[ access their website on www.cwi.org.uk & www.shalom.org.uk Postal address 1 Oasis Park, Stanton Harcourt Road,Eynsham.Witney.OX29 4TP PASTOR TRAINING INTERNATIONAL In earlier times we used to support the Rushworth Literature Enterprize until David Rushworth retired and passed his overseas contacts, some of whom were ours also, to the Literature sending section of PASTOR TRAINING INTERNATIONAL whose work may be seen on www.pastor-training.org and followed on FACEBOOK. Their postal address is 1 Towson Field, East Leake Loughborough Leics, LE12 6RY. They organize pastor training conferences lasting a week, currently in 14 various countries, sending trained ministerial trainers from a pool of 22 from UK and the particular region in pairs. They provide books, and bibles where necessary, to the pastors and set them “homework studies and projects ” for the next 12 months when they have another conference. They do this for 2 years, and now several thousand pastors have had preaching, pastoral and evangelistic training and are much appreciative. Each conference costs about £2,500 to stage, and last year they had 28 in locations that included the Caribbean, Zambia, Ethiopia, Myanmar, India,Thailand. They are exploring possibilities in 5 other countries and when the internal warfare ends, hope to return to South Sudan and Ukraine. To stay at 28 conferences they need £10,000 extra this year and to increase by 6 which they are being asked to do will need an additional £15,000 ECHO ECHO OF HIS CALL MINISTRIES Chennai India Our contribution is funding to provide copies of the NEW LIFE FOR YOU Bible Study Course The courses are presently conducted in Tamil, English and Hindi languages but they wish to start this ministry in other languages such as Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Gujarathi, Marathi, Nepali, Bengali, Assamese and Punjabi. They are receiving hundreds of letters from various parts of the country asking for Bible Courses. We support them through the mission charity CRM in Scotland. FELLOWSHIP OF FAITH FOR MUSLIMS need additional intercessors. They produce a monthly Daily Prayer Leaflet costing £15 a year that concentrates on work among Muslim groups around the world. Much of the material in it is highly confidential and those joining need to have a recommendation of a minister. For further information contact their web site http://www.ffm.org.uk[ FFM. PO Box 6404 Basildon.SS14 OPL ] WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS For some years we have supported this mission who are pioneering new Bible translation in little known languages in remote places. They tell us 1.5 billion people are still awaiting a Bible or any part of it in their language Contact them at The Clare Charity Centre, Wycombe Road, Saunderton. High Wycombe.HP14 4BF. See their website www.wycliffe.org.uk They produce a Quarterly Prayer Daily Diary “WORDS OF LIFE” to intercede for translation projects and teams in many places. TOOLS WITH A MISSION [ TWAM ]whom we helped in 2011 and 2013 with freight and carriage costs for 2 consignments of equipment from Ipswich to Northern Zambia produce a Quarterly Magazine with Daily Prayer Diary Their address is 2 Bailey Close, Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate, Ipswich, IP2 0UD http://www.twam.uk MAF.UK We pray for weekly upon arrival of their News for Prayer bulletin sheet or their monthly diary. We have contributed this year to their new aircraft to serve the Churches in South Sudan. For more details contact MAF-UK Castle House, Castle Hill Avenue Folkestone Kent CT20 2TQ. Access http://www.maf-uk.org TURKIC BELT MINISTRIES. Lighthouse Prayer Ministry have previously helped care work and evangelism in Afghanistan, and supplied Scriptures to people in Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Chechnya, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tatarstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkey [ through Friends of Turkey ] and Iran [ through Elam Ministries ] and now we support the new boy on the block TURKIC BELT MINISTRIES of whom Rev Elnur Jabiyev is Founder and CEO of 22 Lewin Road, Streatham London SW16 6JR access http://www.turicbeltministries.co.uk SERVE THE SUFFERING HUMANITY MINISTRY. In Pakistan. Last year Lighthouse Prayer Ministry was able to help provide Patras Ghani with Bibles in Urdu. He continues to reach many people in his part of Pakistan. He writes " Want to join me in supporting a good cause? I'm raising money for Serve the Suffering Humanity Ministry and your contribution will make an impact, going towards evangelizing prayer group with these children and places such as in Pakistan. Whether you donate £5 or £500, every little bit helps. Thank you for your support and God bless you in Jesus's name! Checkout his website and if you can help please do so. From it learn how to donate www.sshmpakistan.weebly.com If you believe in prayer pray for him and those he reaches. Patras may be located by post or phone or his website PATRAS GHANI of MUBARAKABAD COLONY SHORE - KOT - ROAD TOBA - TEK - SINGH PAKISTAN phone 0092-3016514231 seeks Christian books he could translate into Urdu can any authors or publishers help him? CHRISTIAN RESOURCE MINISTRIES in Malawi During 2017 we were able to supply them with 14 bikes for pastors, a special canoe to ferry in supplies and preachers from Malawi into Northern Mozambique, local language Bibles for pastors, storm damage repairs for the Orphanage, pictures to adorn the wall of the orphanage, a new bulb for the Projector for showing The Jesus Film, & second hand Our Daily Bread. With teachers salaries to fund, secondary school fees and skills courses to pay for the orphans, dormitory equipment, water piping, tanking and pumping , and hundreds more bikes at £50 each, there will always be ways to help Enock Dimba in his care work.
ZAMBIA I have received a letter from Ignatius Mukubesah, claiming to be the new Chair Person of the JESUS IS JESUS IS LORD PRAYER GROUP at the Mukobeko Maximum Correction Centre at Kabwe who tells us that the new Prison Chaplain is Rev Jackson Namuchana Silukan. I have not heard from Ignatius since December 2013 when he was a member of a group of 5 prisoners who each wrote to me at that time, and they are not as far as I know associated with the other 2 groups I have had links with recently at the Maximum Correction Centre at Kabwe. Ignatius claims that the Prayer Group is 650 strong across a set of 3 prisons, male,female and juvenile, of 4580 inmates and that they seek to help with washing clothes and bedding for 380 terminally ill inmates. He requests Bibles, Books, Christian literature and toiletry materials.
KENYA Pray for the Rev Guster Bashaiya and his wife Joyce at the Kaharo Tree Planting and Food Multiplication Project . Recently retired from Ministry they now live at their home there supervising the project.. We through our Annual Tree Planting Scheme contributed to that a few weeks ago through Afrinspire. Since 1991 we have funded the planting of 7678 tree in 18 countries. The 2 largest areas being 2730 in Ethiopia and 2595 in Uganda. In 2015 through BMS we funded some in Peru and in 2016 through the Salvation Army in DR Congo. Those planted over the years include Date palms, Coffee, Mango, Avocado, Passion Fruit, Apple, Olive, other trees to help avoid soil erosion
NIGERIA - BIBLES TO NIGERIA PROJECT 2011 - 2017 We closed this project in June 2017 and have been clearing the backlog of requests since. We recently received about 60 messages from 1 church in Ibadan to which we supplied last year 480 Bibles these letters indicate a widespread joy and appreciation for enabling them to have a Bible. Some of the letters I have replied to with letter of encouragement and a copy of VIA and a copy of Our Daily Bread. In acknowledging. We have this past year been enabled to supply 2,593 Bibles to Nigeria making 14,667 since we began in 2011 This project has now closed.
SPONSOR GOSPELS OF JOHN BRIDGE BUILDERS [ formerly THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE have had requests from various countries from people willing to distribute gospels but who cannot afford to pay for them so sponsors are sought. £14 will sponsor 30 Gospels of John We are sponsoring them in Japan, Ukraine and Russia. Would anyone like to help in this?
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 made payable to Saffron Walden Baptist Church with an accompanying letter asking that Gift Aid be added to this donation and a cheque paid to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry. We here will see to the details of getting that done. If money is donated specifically that is how it is used . We have no paid staff. I work as a volunteer and donate in towards the expenses Thank you all whether you pray ,give money, or materials, as you are encouraged to do what you can do to spread the kingdom. Your prayer for the recipients of any of the material mentioned in this FOCUS will be of great help to them “The effective prayer of a righteous person, such as Christ makes us to be, avails much” With my kind regards John E Maddams
On Prayer Pastor duty for Street Pastors I read in a book by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams “Christian Discipleship” in which he referred to the importance of our being where Jesus Christ is, which is not necessarily in a church situation. He referred to his boyhood hero , 19th century Missionary Thomas French who served many years in the Persian Gulf when the number of Christians there could be counted on 1 hand and he saw no converts but he was there with Christ who was there too. In all he served 10 years in Persia and India. Today there are hundreds of thousands of Christians in that region and numbers are growing. In fact Thomas French founded 2 schools and a training college and translated the Bible into 7 languages. So laying the foundations on which other people would build.
We may feel failures in that we don't seem to make much progress at bringing people to Jesus and in seeing conversions but in as far as we represent Him in our behaviour and what we say or write, we are with Christ where ever we are. He said “Go, …..and I will be with you to the end of the ages”
LOCALLY CHRISTMAS DISTRIBUTION. We circulated about 150 message cards, 50 Gospel Gem Calendars and 36 Special Our Daily Bread Pamphlets and have received several expressions of appreciation. During the past year we have placed LIGHTHOUSE GOSPELS OF JOHN of the NAV 1984 English translation in places where people may find them in conjunction with the OPEN AIR MISSION [ access their website:- www.oamission.com ] It conveys from within itself the way of salvation in simple terms. Also we've continued to use, as over many years, Scripture Gift Mission Lifewords booklets amongst people with various problems.[ www.lifewords.global ]
VIA MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTION Since 2009 we have been delivering VIA magazine editions once to most homes throughout Uttlesford District and much of South Cambs, North of Walden as far as Trumpington as well as various areas of seaside resorts and inland towns visited in that period. We expect to resume using edition 45 in a few weeks time to newly build homes in Saffron Walden Newport, Rickling, and DV ongoing to the new estates rising in Stansted, Thaxted and Dunmow. Our last visits in 2017 were to certain streets in the older part of Bishop's Stortford.
SOCIAL MEDIA We also put posts on my page of FACEBOOK, on Saffron Walden Blast from the Past, the Saffron Walden Baptist Group page, and on various other threads and blogs.
OUR SMALL GRANTS FUND Since 1961 alongside LHPM [MCCPF] we have operated separately a Small Grants Fund helping other Missions serving particular kinds of people Jews , Muslims, Blind People, Other marginalized groups, etc, such as these listed
TORCH TRUST FOR THE BLIND which we have contributed to annually for over 30 years responding to our latest grant stated that before Christmas they were busy preparing books and a free leaflet The Christmas Tree proclaiming the real meaning of Christmas and a Scripture Text Calendar in Braille and giant print TORCH TRUST provides 3 magazines, and other Christian resources and activities - fellowship groups, courses, and holidays, for blind and partially sighted people worldwide. They have a Braille Christian book library, a Large Print library, a taped books library which is gradually being transferred digitally to discs and enlarged. They operate over 650 fellowship groups and co-operate with Compass Braille in producing Bible translations in many languages and support work in Romania and Malawi. They issue regular prayer letters from Torch House, Torch Way, Market Harborough LE16 9HL See their website www.torchtrust.org
CHRISTIAN WITNESS TO ISRAEL celebrates it's 175th Anniversary this month. We have supported it since 1961. They have missionaries amongst Jews in France, Hungary, Israel Holland, England, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, and the USA where Eugine Tsai from Taiwan has just been appointed their missionary in Chicago and Philip Amos has just been appointed to serve in London. We support their HaGefen Printing organisation in Israel. They report that here in the UK last year 25 Jewish people became Christians including 4 Holocaust survivors and they engaged with some 5000 Jewish people in summer outreaches including many Israelis. They publish monthly PRAYING ALWAYS with prayer requests from around the world. This Summer they plan a large outreach in Paris.[ access their website on www.cwi.org.uk & www.shalom.org.uk Postal address 1 Oasis Park, Stanton Harcourt Road,Eynsham.Witney.OX29 4TP PASTOR TRAINING INTERNATIONAL In earlier times we used to support the Rushworth Literature Enterprize until David Rushworth retired and passed his overseas contacts, some of whom were ours also, to the Literature sending section of PASTOR TRAINING INTERNATIONAL whose work may be seen on www.pastor-training.org and followed on FACEBOOK. Their postal address is 1 Towson Field, East Leake Loughborough Leics, LE12 6RY. They organize pastor training conferences lasting a week, currently in 14 various countries, sending trained ministerial trainers from a pool of 22 from UK and the particular region in pairs. They provide books, and bibles where necessary, to the pastors and set them “homework studies and projects ” for the next 12 months when they have another conference. They do this for 2 years, and now several thousand pastors have had preaching, pastoral and evangelistic training and are much appreciative. Each conference costs about £2,500 to stage, and last year they had 28 in locations that included the Caribbean, Zambia, Ethiopia, Myanmar, India,Thailand. They are exploring possibilities in 5 other countries and when the internal warfare ends, hope to return to South Sudan and Ukraine. To stay at 28 conferences they need £10,000 extra this year and to increase by 6 which they are being asked to do will need an additional £15,000 ECHO ECHO OF HIS CALL MINISTRIES Chennai India Our contribution is funding to provide copies of the NEW LIFE FOR YOU Bible Study Course The courses are presently conducted in Tamil, English and Hindi languages but they wish to start this ministry in other languages such as Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Gujarathi, Marathi, Nepali, Bengali, Assamese and Punjabi. They are receiving hundreds of letters from various parts of the country asking for Bible Courses. We support them through the mission charity CRM in Scotland. FELLOWSHIP OF FAITH FOR MUSLIMS need additional intercessors. They produce a monthly Daily Prayer Leaflet costing £15 a year that concentrates on work among Muslim groups around the world. Much of the material in it is highly confidential and those joining need to have a recommendation of a minister. For further information contact their web site http://www.ffm.org.uk[ FFM. PO Box 6404 Basildon.SS14 OPL ] WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS For some years we have supported this mission who are pioneering new Bible translation in little known languages in remote places. They tell us 1.5 billion people are still awaiting a Bible or any part of it in their language Contact them at The Clare Charity Centre, Wycombe Road, Saunderton. High Wycombe.HP14 4BF. See their website www.wycliffe.org.uk They produce a Quarterly Prayer Daily Diary “WORDS OF LIFE” to intercede for translation projects and teams in many places. TOOLS WITH A MISSION [ TWAM ]whom we helped in 2011 and 2013 with freight and carriage costs for 2 consignments of equipment from Ipswich to Northern Zambia produce a Quarterly Magazine with Daily Prayer Diary Their address is 2 Bailey Close, Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate, Ipswich, IP2 0UD http://www.twam.uk MAF.UK We pray for weekly upon arrival of their News for Prayer bulletin sheet or their monthly diary. We have contributed this year to their new aircraft to serve the Churches in South Sudan. For more details contact MAF-UK Castle House, Castle Hill Avenue Folkestone Kent CT20 2TQ. Access http://www.maf-uk.org TURKIC BELT MINISTRIES. Lighthouse Prayer Ministry have previously helped care work and evangelism in Afghanistan, and supplied Scriptures to people in Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Chechnya, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tatarstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkey [ through Friends of Turkey ] and Iran [ through Elam Ministries ] and now we support the new boy on the block TURKIC BELT MINISTRIES of whom Rev Elnur Jabiyev is Founder and CEO of 22 Lewin Road, Streatham London SW16 6JR access http://www.turicbeltministries.co.uk SERVE THE SUFFERING HUMANITY MINISTRY. In Pakistan. Last year Lighthouse Prayer Ministry was able to help provide Patras Ghani with Bibles in Urdu. He continues to reach many people in his part of Pakistan. He writes " Want to join me in supporting a good cause? I'm raising money for Serve the Suffering Humanity Ministry and your contribution will make an impact, going towards evangelizing prayer group with these children and places such as in Pakistan. Whether you donate £5 or £500, every little bit helps. Thank you for your support and God bless you in Jesus's name! Checkout his website and if you can help please do so. From it learn how to donate www.sshmpakistan.weebly.com If you believe in prayer pray for him and those he reaches. Patras may be located by post or phone or his website PATRAS GHANI of MUBARAKABAD COLONY SHORE - KOT - ROAD TOBA - TEK - SINGH PAKISTAN phone 0092-3016514231 seeks Christian books he could translate into Urdu can any authors or publishers help him? CHRISTIAN RESOURCE MINISTRIES in Malawi During 2017 we were able to supply them with 14 bikes for pastors, a special canoe to ferry in supplies and preachers from Malawi into Northern Mozambique, local language Bibles for pastors, storm damage repairs for the Orphanage, pictures to adorn the wall of the orphanage, a new bulb for the Projector for showing The Jesus Film, & second hand Our Daily Bread. With teachers salaries to fund, secondary school fees and skills courses to pay for the orphans, dormitory equipment, water piping, tanking and pumping , and hundreds more bikes at £50 each, there will always be ways to help Enock Dimba in his care work.
ZAMBIA I have received a letter from Ignatius Mukubesah, claiming to be the new Chair Person of the JESUS IS JESUS IS LORD PRAYER GROUP at the Mukobeko Maximum Correction Centre at Kabwe who tells us that the new Prison Chaplain is Rev Jackson Namuchana Silukan. I have not heard from Ignatius since December 2013 when he was a member of a group of 5 prisoners who each wrote to me at that time, and they are not as far as I know associated with the other 2 groups I have had links with recently at the Maximum Correction Centre at Kabwe. Ignatius claims that the Prayer Group is 650 strong across a set of 3 prisons, male,female and juvenile, of 4580 inmates and that they seek to help with washing clothes and bedding for 380 terminally ill inmates. He requests Bibles, Books, Christian literature and toiletry materials.
KENYA Pray for the Rev Guster Bashaiya and his wife Joyce at the Kaharo Tree Planting and Food Multiplication Project . Recently retired from Ministry they now live at their home there supervising the project.. We through our Annual Tree Planting Scheme contributed to that a few weeks ago through Afrinspire. Since 1991 we have funded the planting of 7678 tree in 18 countries. The 2 largest areas being 2730 in Ethiopia and 2595 in Uganda. In 2015 through BMS we funded some in Peru and in 2016 through the Salvation Army in DR Congo. Those planted over the years include Date palms, Coffee, Mango, Avocado, Passion Fruit, Apple, Olive, other trees to help avoid soil erosion
NIGERIA - BIBLES TO NIGERIA PROJECT 2011 - 2017 We closed this project in June 2017 and have been clearing the backlog of requests since. We recently received about 60 messages from 1 church in Ibadan to which we supplied last year 480 Bibles these letters indicate a widespread joy and appreciation for enabling them to have a Bible. Some of the letters I have replied to with letter of encouragement and a copy of VIA and a copy of Our Daily Bread. In acknowledging. We have this past year been enabled to supply 2,593 Bibles to Nigeria making 14,667 since we began in 2011 This project has now closed.
SPONSOR GOSPELS OF JOHN BRIDGE BUILDERS [ formerly THE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE have had requests from various countries from people willing to distribute gospels but who cannot afford to pay for them so sponsors are sought. £14 will sponsor 30 Gospels of John We are sponsoring them in Japan, Ukraine and Russia. Would anyone like to help in this?
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 made payable to Saffron Walden Baptist Church with an accompanying letter asking that Gift Aid be added to this donation and a cheque paid to The Lighthouse Prayer Ministry. We here will see to the details of getting that done. If money is donated specifically that is how it is used . We have no paid staff. I work as a volunteer and donate in towards the expenses Thank you all whether you pray ,give money, or materials, as you are encouraged to do what you can do to spread the kingdom. Your prayer for the recipients of any of the material mentioned in this FOCUS will be of great help to them “The effective prayer of a righteous person, such as Christ makes us to be, avails much” With my kind regards John E Maddams