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LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY NEWS MARCH 2011 UPDATE
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LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
Administrator John E Maddams
35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
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Phone. 01799 521529 Email. jem.lhm@btinternet.com
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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".
During the last year we were able to send help for Bibles
to China 50 Bibles printed in China for Chinese people
to Israel to provide some Children’s Bibles
to Jamaica for the Patois Recorded New Testament project - 5 million Jamaicans world wide speak Patois
to Kenya 12 Bibles to Dandora Church
to Madagascar. for poor families,
to Malawi, Bibles for 8 orphans
to Mexico for helping to provide Scriptures in Chamula for the Tzotzil people of Southern Mexico where Christian converts have faced great persecution
to Mongolia, to fund supply of 5 Bibles,
to Philippines Bibles through the Bible Society for typhoon victims.
to Belorus, for Children's Bible books for commercial libraries.
Please continue to pray for all who have received them
Please continue to pray for any or all of the following:-
CAMBODIA
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Cambodia for Ruth Elliott and Amanda
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 a small shop in the capital to sell them and a Cafe.
GHANA
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Ghana for the disabled orphan teenager Ebenezer Cobbina age 16
Ghana for fellow Christian Patrick Guyam , a beggar suffering from severe leprosy with 3 children to care for to whom we supplied a Study Bible and are further assisting him..
Ghana for Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc , 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.
Ghana for Richard Owuso 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
Ghana for Robbie Amusu who has been working for a busy year for an NGO in Accra, with hardly a moment to live but 3 evenings a week he was ministering to a Prayer Meeting at the back of his house, and motor cycling 3 times a month 45 minutes to Bawjaise, a coastal town with several churches, to encourage the mission team there. They plan a Mission week at Easter in the Market there with open air ministry and house visiting Robbie is presently in the Volta Lake region suffering from malaria. Please pray for his recovery, He is in the Lord's care.
Ghana for Francis Mensah who is lay-pastor of the village church at the village of Mangoase begun 5 years ago from scratch by a students mission team from Winneba University led by Robbie Amusu when 31 people became Christians, and local people set up a thatched roofed wooden shelter for meetings. Francis runs a farm close by the village that supports him and helps the villagers.
The congregation has grown to 80 and heading to 100 by Easter they believe. This year they had planned to build 4 concrete pillars to bear the weight of a metal roof and to help evening Bible study sessions by providing more light than an oil lantern, they needed a generator, and we have paid for most of that.
There was great joy when the lights were turned on. Unable to afford the new roof and concrete pillars they accepted advice to re-enforce the roof with additional new wooden pillars. Gideons International are providing them Bibles.
They asked for 100.hymnals costing £7 each. We have received so far money for 35. Which were delivered on Feb 26 when Felix a visiting choir master was available to introduce them. We have also sent 50 second-hand copies of "PRAISE FOR TODAY"
They would also appreciate some well illustrated Bible books, and commentaries .We have sent some, If anyone could supply these new or secondhand, please send direct to Pastor Francis Mensah, C/o PO Box BJ45 Bawjaise CR, Ghana.
Ghana for Anthony Aboagye at Accra, 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.
IRAQ
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Iraq for Sandy Russell 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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Malawi Bibles are still needed in the local languages at a cost now of £7.50 each, nearly double 2 years ago, for pastors of churches and orphans in schools. They need need £120 now to buy 16 bibles to give to 12 year olds going to secondary school, and they have another 46 Juniors to be provided Bibles over the next few years, and 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.
NIGERIA
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Nigeria for Pastor O Cosmos of 07 Olaifa Close, Eleyele Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, whose Faith Baptist Church needs 200 Bibles for the congregation to go out and evangelise. We have supplied 100 of these so far in the AV translation as requested.
Nigeria for Paul Godson of A 127 101 OPE, Eleyele Market Road, Eleyele,Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, whose Church, Light Assembly Christian Church needs 162 Bibles for going out and evangelising. So far we have supplied 84.
Nigeria for Jacob Kenneth who leads a group of 120 Christian students at the University of Ibadan to whom we have supplied 60 copies with 60 to go later, All these are using Pocket Bibles printed in China and selling in Nigeria at just under £1 each.
This is our way of celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the first publication of the King James Authorised Version Bible in 1611. We have arranged to supply half of what Paul, Jacob and Pastor Cosmos have asked for this year, and the rest DV next year or by Christmas this year.,
We also sent a packet of SOON and VIA to each of these . Paul says that until now they have witnessed on the street giving out tracts and talking about Jesus, but they needed the Bibles to provide the evidence.
NORTH AFRICA
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North Africa 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.
POLAND
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Poland. We sent our last 15 copies of NASZ CODZIENNY CHLEB - OUR DAILY BREAD in Polish, Introductory edition to Major Denise McGarvey at Ul Zakladowa 6/17 ,27-200 Starachowice in Poland for distribution. who replied " I am writing to thank you for the daily reading notes you sent. That was an answer to prayer as for one of our youth cell groups in January I wanted to give the young people Bible Reading notes, but wasn't sure where to get them from in Polish. So thanks both for the gift and for being an answer to prayer.
SOMALIA
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Somalia has been in the news a lot last year. one of our regular supporters commends support for a Cmmunity Education Project 68 The Hurst . B13 0DD. [ 0121 604 6174 ] a registered charity founded in 1998 supporting students at a University and helping to educate and provide books to children .
THAILAND
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Thailand for Pete and Liz Maythingy 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. , They are looking after a BMS Youth Action Team for 6 months - Ross, Sarah, Peter and Hannah working in local schools, and with church youth groups teaching English at the Bible school and helping at the Hope Home
UKRAINE
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Ukraine for Sergey Ivaniuk 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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Zambia for Elder Jackson Chanda, P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia. He looks after 10 orphans and two of our friends sent him £200 at Christmas to help with their education which has lapsed because of lack of funds. He sold some land that raised anothe £65 and from the two amounts he has paid their school fees for one term this year and provided exercise books and pencils.
He needs £500 to pay the other 2 terms, and will need £750 a year for several years until they finish school. We have suggested that he forms a co-operative with other orphan carers & seeks advice & help from Spurgeons Child Care but we are also asking ffor various friends to commit to give £75 a year to share this task. Cheques plese to John E Maddams 35 Four acres Saffron walden Essex CB11 3JD.
Zambia for Francis Mwansa 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.
Zambia for Kelly B Mambwe 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 magzine from Torch Trust for the Blind who have a contact in Zambia.
Zambia for Levy Hamwanza 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.
Zambia for Nkuba Davies Chola, 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-establihed but he had become ill and it all went on hospital fees.
Zambia for Lewis Muleba 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.
Zambia for Duke Olson Phiri and his family Jesper and Saidy with his sister Faides,
Zambia for Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka C/O TUG-ARGAN BARRACKS, ALPHA COMPANY , POSTAL AGENCY NDOLA , ZAMBIA . A Chaplain with the Zambian army who can recycle Gideon New Testaments.
Zambia for Mayamba Geoffrey Kuletela 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
Zambia for Joseph S Musonda c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia.
He asks for Colgate tooth paste, soap, A4 paper pads, C6 envelopes, Sony ear phones, tea biscuits, small Christian magazines, newspapers and books. If anyone can send any of those, please do so and let me know that you have. He is in charge of the Educational Centre in the Maximum Security Prison.
Zambia for Obby Mulanga Kadima a Christian prisoner to whom we sent a songbook
Zambia Lazarus Mbola 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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United Kingdom Every Home Project . 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. God willing and if bus services still remain available, we have begun from March to distribute VIA Gospel magazine to several more local villages
Where appropriate we will continue to use OUR DAILY BREAD [ ODB ] publications and the NKJ Gospel of John..We hope this Easter on Maundy Thursday to introduce the ODB
THE REAL EASTER? leaflet to 200 homes including a Residential Care Home and a Day Centre for the handicapped, with a potential total readership of 750 including about 100 teenagers.
Bridge Builders have issued a special booklet " The Story of Easter" from Luke's Gospel with the way of salvation set out in illustrations with follow-up resources and we are going to use some of those for particular people. Please pray.
SECOND HAND POSTCARDS 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.
ADDRESSES If anyone wants to continue to send Bible Reading Notes abroad you may do so direct by Small Packet Rate surface mail with a white customs sticker on it, obtainable from the Post Office, stating what is in it and the approximate value and marking it as a gift. These can still help and the following could use them.
Pastor Enock M Dimba Christian Resource Ministries PO Box 883, Blantyre, Malawi
Elder Jackson Chanda who administers the "Final Message for the Lost Sheep" Ministry
of P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia also needs to receive receive £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..
Last year we made a donation to the 25 yearold Christian Television Association who produce DVD programmes for use around the world in English, Arabic, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Italian. We commend their web site www.cta.uk.com HQ are at Avalon House. Lower Strode Road, Clevedon, BS21 6UU
Language Recordings UK 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.
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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
2011 marks 300 YEARS OF BAPTIST WITNESS IN SAFFRON WALDEN 1711 - 2011 which spilled over into the villages and we are preparing an exhibition "MISSION CONTINUED for
Wed Sept 21 9am - 9pm
Thurs Sept 22 9am - 9pm
Fri Sept 23 9am - 9pm.
Sat Sept 24 9am - 1pm
leading up to the 300 Years Celebration on Back to Church Sunday Sept 25th and the Baptist Church's Church Weekend Oct 1 & 2.. .
Kind regards. JOHN
"In the 19th century Sunday School Teacher Edward
Kimball at Boston USA visited a young man to make
sure he was a Christian, and led to the Lord, Dwight L
Moody, who founded an evangelistic ministry by which
Wilbur Chapman was converted and became an
evangelist. He recruited to help him Billy Sunday who in
turn launched a nation wide evangelistic ministry that
started an organization in Charlotte, North Carolina,
which organized a 3 week campaign led by Mordecai
Ham at which a 16 yearold Billy Graham was converted
to become the most prominent evangelist of our time"
to which I added " through whom David Cotton became
a Christian and went on to found the Gospel Print
Mission that as a team of volunteers have printed and
dispatched millions of tracts in over 50 languages, and
God enabled Billy Graham to inspire so many other
people to evangelize
"
It should encourage us all that small though what we are able to do may be, the LORD can use it to make bigger things happen down the road.
At the same time mentioned in ENGAGE a missionary from the 1800's wrote "Some men will not plant a tree because it cannot attain it's proper size in their lifetime" meaning that the fruits of mission may take a long time to develop and we should not be too concerned if we see little happening now.
BIBLE YEAR 2011
CELEBRATING THE 400th ANNIVERSARY
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
MARCH 4th - 31st An Exhibtion THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE using old Bibles from 1420 will be presented at Saffron Walden Library during normal library open hours. Admission Free
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.
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LIGHTHOUSE PRAYER MINISTRY (MCCPF) Founded 1954.
Administrator John E Maddams
35 Four Acres. Saffron Walden CB11 3JD UK
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Phone. 01799 521529 Email. jem.lhm@btinternet.com
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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".
During the last year we were able to send help for Bibles
to China 50 Bibles printed in China for Chinese people
to Israel to provide some Children’s Bibles
to Jamaica for the Patois Recorded New Testament project - 5 million Jamaicans world wide speak Patois
to Kenya 12 Bibles to Dandora Church
to Madagascar. for poor families,
to Malawi, Bibles for 8 orphans
to Mexico for helping to provide Scriptures in Chamula for the Tzotzil people of Southern Mexico where Christian converts have faced great persecution
to Mongolia, to fund supply of 5 Bibles,
to Philippines Bibles through the Bible Society for typhoon victims.
to Belorus, for Children's Bible books for commercial libraries.
Please continue to pray for all who have received them
Please continue to pray for any or all of the following:-
CAMBODIA
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Cambodia for Ruth Elliott and Amanda
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 a small shop in the capital to sell them and a Cafe.
GHANA
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Ghana for the disabled orphan teenager Ebenezer Cobbina age 16
Ghana for fellow Christian Patrick Guyam , a beggar suffering from severe leprosy with 3 children to care for to whom we supplied a Study Bible and are further assisting him..
Ghana for Dr Thomas Tontie Baah, MB ChB, B Sc M.Sc , 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.
Ghana for Richard Owuso 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
Ghana for Robbie Amusu who has been working for a busy year for an NGO in Accra, with hardly a moment to live but 3 evenings a week he was ministering to a Prayer Meeting at the back of his house, and motor cycling 3 times a month 45 minutes to Bawjaise, a coastal town with several churches, to encourage the mission team there. They plan a Mission week at Easter in the Market there with open air ministry and house visiting Robbie is presently in the Volta Lake region suffering from malaria. Please pray for his recovery, He is in the Lord's care.
Ghana for Francis Mensah who is lay-pastor of the village church at the village of Mangoase begun 5 years ago from scratch by a students mission team from Winneba University led by Robbie Amusu when 31 people became Christians, and local people set up a thatched roofed wooden shelter for meetings. Francis runs a farm close by the village that supports him and helps the villagers.
The congregation has grown to 80 and heading to 100 by Easter they believe. This year they had planned to build 4 concrete pillars to bear the weight of a metal roof and to help evening Bible study sessions by providing more light than an oil lantern, they needed a generator, and we have paid for most of that.
There was great joy when the lights were turned on. Unable to afford the new roof and concrete pillars they accepted advice to re-enforce the roof with additional new wooden pillars. Gideons International are providing them Bibles.
They asked for 100.hymnals costing £7 each. We have received so far money for 35. Which were delivered on Feb 26 when Felix a visiting choir master was available to introduce them. We have also sent 50 second-hand copies of "PRAISE FOR TODAY"
They would also appreciate some well illustrated Bible books, and commentaries .We have sent some, If anyone could supply these new or secondhand, please send direct to Pastor Francis Mensah, C/o PO Box BJ45 Bawjaise CR, Ghana.
Ghana for Anthony Aboagye at Accra, 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.
IRAQ
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Iraq for Sandy Russell 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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Malawi Bibles are still needed in the local languages at a cost now of £7.50 each, nearly double 2 years ago, for pastors of churches and orphans in schools. They need need £120 now to buy 16 bibles to give to 12 year olds going to secondary school, and they have another 46 Juniors to be provided Bibles over the next few years, and 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.
NIGERIA
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Nigeria for Pastor O Cosmos of 07 Olaifa Close, Eleyele Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, whose Faith Baptist Church needs 200 Bibles for the congregation to go out and evangelise. We have supplied 100 of these so far in the AV translation as requested.
Nigeria for Paul Godson of A 127 101 OPE, Eleyele Market Road, Eleyele,Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, whose Church, Light Assembly Christian Church needs 162 Bibles for going out and evangelising. So far we have supplied 84.
Nigeria for Jacob Kenneth who leads a group of 120 Christian students at the University of Ibadan to whom we have supplied 60 copies with 60 to go later, All these are using Pocket Bibles printed in China and selling in Nigeria at just under £1 each.
This is our way of celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the first publication of the King James Authorised Version Bible in 1611. We have arranged to supply half of what Paul, Jacob and Pastor Cosmos have asked for this year, and the rest DV next year or by Christmas this year.,
We also sent a packet of SOON and VIA to each of these . Paul says that until now they have witnessed on the street giving out tracts and talking about Jesus, but they needed the Bibles to provide the evidence.
NORTH AFRICA
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North Africa 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.
POLAND
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Poland. We sent our last 15 copies of NASZ CODZIENNY CHLEB - OUR DAILY BREAD in Polish, Introductory edition to Major Denise McGarvey at Ul Zakladowa 6/17 ,27-200 Starachowice in Poland for distribution. who replied " I am writing to thank you for the daily reading notes you sent. That was an answer to prayer as for one of our youth cell groups in January I wanted to give the young people Bible Reading notes, but wasn't sure where to get them from in Polish. So thanks both for the gift and for being an answer to prayer.
SOMALIA
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Somalia has been in the news a lot last year. one of our regular supporters commends support for a Cmmunity Education Project 68 The Hurst . B13 0DD. [ 0121 604 6174 ] a registered charity founded in 1998 supporting students at a University and helping to educate and provide books to children .
THAILAND
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Thailand for Pete and Liz Maythingy 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. , They are looking after a BMS Youth Action Team for 6 months - Ross, Sarah, Peter and Hannah working in local schools, and with church youth groups teaching English at the Bible school and helping at the Hope Home
UKRAINE
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Ukraine for Sergey Ivaniuk 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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Zambia for Elder Jackson Chanda, P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia. He looks after 10 orphans and two of our friends sent him £200 at Christmas to help with their education which has lapsed because of lack of funds. He sold some land that raised anothe £65 and from the two amounts he has paid their school fees for one term this year and provided exercise books and pencils.
He needs £500 to pay the other 2 terms, and will need £750 a year for several years until they finish school. We have suggested that he forms a co-operative with other orphan carers & seeks advice & help from Spurgeons Child Care but we are also asking ffor various friends to commit to give £75 a year to share this task. Cheques plese to John E Maddams 35 Four acres Saffron walden Essex CB11 3JD.
Zambia for Francis Mwansa 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.
Zambia for Kelly B Mambwe 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 magzine from Torch Trust for the Blind who have a contact in Zambia.
Zambia for Levy Hamwanza 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.
Zambia for Nkuba Davies Chola, 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-establihed but he had become ill and it all went on hospital fees.
Zambia for Lewis Muleba 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.
Zambia for Duke Olson Phiri and his family Jesper and Saidy with his sister Faides,
Zambia for Pastor Dominic Mulalambuka C/O TUG-ARGAN BARRACKS, ALPHA COMPANY , POSTAL AGENCY NDOLA , ZAMBIA . A Chaplain with the Zambian army who can recycle Gideon New Testaments.
Zambia for Mayamba Geoffrey Kuletela 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
Zambia for Joseph S Musonda c/o Bernard Bohan, Bwacha Parish Church, P O BOX 80613, Kabwe, Zambia.
He asks for Colgate tooth paste, soap, A4 paper pads, C6 envelopes, Sony ear phones, tea biscuits, small Christian magazines, newspapers and books. If anyone can send any of those, please do so and let me know that you have. He is in charge of the Educational Centre in the Maximum Security Prison.
Zambia for Obby Mulanga Kadima a Christian prisoner to whom we sent a songbook
Zambia Lazarus Mbola 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.
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United Kingdom Every Home Project . 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. God willing and if bus services still remain available, we have begun from March to distribute VIA Gospel magazine to several more local villages
Where appropriate we will continue to use OUR DAILY BREAD [ ODB ] publications and the NKJ Gospel of John..We hope this Easter on Maundy Thursday to introduce the ODB
THE REAL EASTER? leaflet to 200 homes including a Residential Care Home and a Day Centre for the handicapped, with a potential total readership of 750 including about 100 teenagers.
Bridge Builders have issued a special booklet " The Story of Easter" from Luke's Gospel with the way of salvation set out in illustrations with follow-up resources and we are going to use some of those for particular people. Please pray.
SECOND HAND POSTCARDS 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.
ADDRESSES If anyone wants to continue to send Bible Reading Notes abroad you may do so direct by Small Packet Rate surface mail with a white customs sticker on it, obtainable from the Post Office, stating what is in it and the approximate value and marking it as a gift. These can still help and the following could use them.
Pastor Enock M Dimba Christian Resource Ministries PO Box 883, Blantyre, Malawi
Elder Jackson Chanda who administers the "Final Message for the Lost Sheep" Ministry
of P O BOX 740009 Nchelenge. Luapula, Zambia also needs to receive receive £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..
Last year we made a donation to the 25 yearold Christian Television Association who produce DVD programmes for use around the world in English, Arabic, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Italian. We commend their web site www.cta.uk.com HQ are at Avalon House. Lower Strode Road, Clevedon, BS21 6UU
Language Recordings UK 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.
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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
2011 marks 300 YEARS OF BAPTIST WITNESS IN SAFFRON WALDEN 1711 - 2011 which spilled over into the villages and we are preparing an exhibition "MISSION CONTINUED for
Wed Sept 21 9am - 9pm
Thurs Sept 22 9am - 9pm
Fri Sept 23 9am - 9pm.
Sat Sept 24 9am - 1pm
leading up to the 300 Years Celebration on Back to Church Sunday Sept 25th and the Baptist Church's Church Weekend Oct 1 & 2.. .
Kind regards. JOHN
"In the 19th century Sunday School Teacher Edward
Kimball at Boston USA visited a young man to make
sure he was a Christian, and led to the Lord, Dwight L
Moody, who founded an evangelistic ministry by which
Wilbur Chapman was converted and became an
evangelist. He recruited to help him Billy Sunday who in
turn launched a nation wide evangelistic ministry that
started an organization in Charlotte, North Carolina,
which organized a 3 week campaign led by Mordecai
Ham at which a 16 yearold Billy Graham was converted
to become the most prominent evangelist of our time"
to which I added " through whom David Cotton became
a Christian and went on to found the Gospel Print
Mission that as a team of volunteers have printed and
dispatched millions of tracts in over 50 languages, and
God enabled Billy Graham to inspire so many other
people to evangelize
"
It should encourage us all that small though what we are able to do may be, the LORD can use it to make bigger things happen down the road.
At the same time mentioned in ENGAGE a missionary from the 1800's wrote "Some men will not plant a tree because it cannot attain it's proper size in their lifetime" meaning that the fruits of mission may take a long time to develop and we should not be too concerned if we see little happening now.
BIBLE YEAR 2011
CELEBRATING THE 400th ANNIVERSARY
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
MARCH 4th - 31st An Exhibtion THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE using old Bibles from 1420 will be presented at Saffron Walden Library during normal library open hours. Admission Free
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.