Letters from Our Fellowship and Readers

FROM OUR MAILBOX

From India, M. Samson Raju writes: Our best wishes and precious greetings. I have pleasure to report that by your prayers I, my family, and our church are well. Many students have completed both the Ransom and the Advanced Bible Correspondence Courses. I am continuing doing the Lord’s work in having Sunday Worship services and conducting street Gospel campaigns by preaching and teaching the Word of God to sinning souls and inviting them to come to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. We are praying for you and your most precious ministry. Pray for us and most of all for the many needy, especially for the widows. (Editor: M. Samson Raju is one of our CMF representatives in India.)

FROM OUR Email:

From Austria, Harald Ofner reports: In the year 2007 our Mission work Bibelstedien-Vereinigung sent out 37 Bibles: 5 English, 1 Romanian, and 1 Arabic. We also printed and distributed 520 tracts. We conducted the Bible Students Basic course with 21 persons over the internet. From that we have 3 persons who have completed 10 lessons. One couple who took the Basic course lives in Northern Germany, near Eldsdorf-Westermuhlen. They distributed our tracts so diligently and are now trying to build up a Bible Student group there. Another person who took the course lives in Vienna and had at the same time begun these studies with his 17 year-old daughter. There were regular telephone calls and letter exchanges between us and he has since given himself to the Lord. Further, he is considering building a Free Bible Student group in Vienna. Naturally, we have given him every possible support. I wish you for the year 2008 the words of Joshua 1:5 (paraphrased) “God is also with you and with us, even as He was with Moses.” Also, we would like to have two issues of “The New Creation” magazine that we so happily read and value.

From India, W.S. Vedha writes: Sweet greetings in the Name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. I receive your magazine with much thanks. The messages are very useful to us. I am using them in presenting sermons to congregations in different places. Our correspondence course is widely in use. Many are reading the lessons with much zeal. One student found out about our Ransom course from an advertisement in which a shopkeeper had wrapped her purchase of peas. She contacted us and joined our courses. Most students are not believers and we need 100 Tamil Bibles. CART of England has sent us a 40 foot container of relief goods this past year. We have the opportunity to present these goods to poor people at Christmas and New Years. Thousands upon thousands of poor people are benefited through CART’s relief efforts every year. They have sent us wheelchairs for the cripple and Aqua boxes to give to those who live in the slums to purify their contaminated water. We constantly pray for CART and CMF organizations. Kindly uphold us in your valuable prayers. Yours in Christ. (Editor: Bro. Vedha is one of our CMF representatives and a CART Consignee in India.)

From Malawi, Africa, John Mphamba writes: I and Victoria and other Malawians were invited by Christians to South Africa. We were taken care of and kept in their homes. We had open-air meetings in Pretoaria, Tembisa. Brits, Johansburg, Cape Town Park, Gemiston, Boksburg, Eastern More, Danswart, Benon and Peterburg. Everywhere an average of 1500 people attended the meetings; 156 received Christ, 70 testified they were healed in the Name of Jesus. We used our own pocket money to pay for the trip as well as fees at the Mazambique border. We had a nice trip and enjoyed the Lord’s work. (Editor: John Mphamba is the CMF representative in Malawi.)

From Liberia, Africa, Jacob Knight writes: I greet you in the blessed name of our Lord Jesus Christ and wish His rich blessings on you. May the Lord bless your undertakings for His Kingdom and His flock. I am sorry for the long silence due to construction work I am undertaking. CART has provided the funds to construct a school. It will consist of eight classrooms, a library, three offices and a large auditorium, which will be used for our fellowship, worship, and other programs. The construction work will be completed by the end of February, 2008. Remaining now are 400 chairs that are needed for our Chapel and school. I will appreciate any help from anyone. A chair costs $10.00. Thank you very much for the greeting card you sent to me. May the Lord always bless you. (Editor: Bro. Jacob is a representive of CART and of CMF in Liberia – if anyone wishes to donate financially towards this need the address is: Jacob Knight, P.O. Box 4888, Monrovia, Liberia, W. Africa.)

From Cameroon, Africa, Sawke T. Ikeo writes: I am indeed grateful for the immense effort that God injected into all of you to build up this ministry and your indefatigable efforts in supply the New Creation magazines. It is appreciated with fervent sincerity and may you and your associates be truly recipients of God’s richest blessings. My Bible study group with whom I discuss the magazine also concur with me and express their hearty gratitude. We have children ages 2-4 in our CM Nursery School. We need song books, story books with biblical pictures, rhyme books, in order to give the children sound and quality education. (Editor: If anyone wishes to send any of these items for these children the address is: Sawke T. Ikeo, BP 138, B.P.138, Meme Div. Kumba, S. W. Prov. Cameroon, W. Africa)

From England, G.G. Tompkins of CART writes: CART extends sincere thanks to the donors who sign themselves “His Servant;” every cent given is being used to send relief supplies to Africa.