February, 2008
Dear
Lamplight Family,
Again
this month we have exciting news to share with you. We are very grateful for everything the Lord is doing in
Lamplight Ministries. We also are
grateful to you for your prayers and for your financial support that enables us
to help many people all around the world.
COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE
BEEN HELPED BY OUR
PUBLICATIONS
We
enjoy sharing these comments with you each month. If you would like to see the effect of your prayers and your
contributions, please visit our website at www.lamplight.net
to see 566 comments from people in 41 different countries who have been helped
by our books and Scripture cards. You
can order our publications from our website or from the post office box or the
800 phone number at the bottom of this page.
THE FIRST
TRANSLATION OF TRUST GOD FOR YOUR
FINANCES IN THAILAND IS RECEIVING A PHENOMENAL RESPONSE. Mary
Sarindhorn of Bangkok, Thailand sent us an email saying, “I summarized your
book, Trust God for Your Finances, into
four pages in Thai and sent this summary as one of my bi-weekly publications in
My Little Prayers. My readers include bishops, priests, nuns,
pastors and lay people – Christians and Buddhists alike. The response was overwhelming. One pastor requested 250 copies of my
summary. With my work load and
activities, I could not spare the time to translate the entire book. My friend who originally gave me the book
agreed to take up the task of translation.
Within two months we printed 750 copies in Thai. This time the pastors distributed them to
members in their churches. The
acceptance of this translation of Trust
God for Your Finances was phenomenal.
As an invited speaker in various places all over Thailand, I often speak
on this book and the contents. We would
like to have more of Mr. Hartman’s books translated into Thai.”
LAMPLIGHT MINISTRIES HAS BEEN
INSTRUMENTAL IN 440,000 PEOPLE IN THE PHILIPPINES RECEIVING JESUS CHRIST AS
THEIR SAVIOR. In preparation for our recent Board of Directors
meeting I asked Jack Malone to give the following summary. Jack said, “Late in 2002 I was introduced to
Jack and Judy Hartman. This meeting was
the beginning of a journey that only God will know the full extent of. What really changed the direction of my life
and ministry was reading your book Exchange
Your Worries for God's Perfect Peace. My
Bible school education did not and could not equip me with the faith I would
need for this ministry in the Philippines.
Now almost five years later with 440,000 people coming forward to pray
the sinner’s prayer, this has been the greatest journey of my life. God directed me to come to the Philippines
with virtually no support. Jack and
Judy started the ball rolling with the first of their monthly contributions to
this ministry. They also are in
continual contact with us by email. The
ministry of Jack and Judy Hartman will far outlast their lives on earth. These people have not been headline news on
CNN, Fox News or TBN, but in heaven they are front page news."
OUR BOOKS HAVE SPREAD THROUGHOUT ZAMBIA AND TO MANY OTHER
COUNTRIES. For our recent Board of Directors meeting I asked
Pastor Jim Koshita to give us the following summary. Jim said, “I have been connected to you and Lamplight Ministries
for fourteen years since 1994. I have
never seen a person or ministry sending so many powerful books free of charge
as you have done. Even though I have
never been to seminary or Bible school, you equipped me. I was a cell group leader. The cell grew and multiplied. I was ordained as a deacon. I have been preaching and teaching since
then from your books which have been distributed in almost every town in
Zambia. Many pastors and church leaders
are using your materials as their Bible school. Thousands of souls have been saved. We have held leadership
seminars on your books in many parts of Zambia. Your books have reached Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Swaziland,
Congo and Mozambique. I am now in China
where I am sharing from your books.
Enclosed are more names of people in China and Malaysia who are
interested in reading your books. Thank
you for everything you have done.”
A PASTOR IN
GHANA, WEST AFRICA IS OVERWHELMED WITH THE REVELATION HE HAS RECEIVED FROM OUR
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION CARDS. Rev. Maxwell Dumme Baba said, “I am very happy to write and say thank you for your
help. I am overwhelmed about the
revelations in your Scripture Meditation Cards. These Scripture cards have helped me so much that I cannot write
enough on this sheet of paper. We have
gone through a five day programme in our church using the Scripture cards. My faith has increased tremendously. I no longer am submitting to my own will and
desires, but I am now submitting to the will of God and it is so fantastic. I wish I could help finance your ministry,
but I am a low income earner. I am
making a promise that today I will go on my knees to ask God to help me to help
your ministry. God bless you, Jack and
Judy Hartman. I ask God to richly bless
your ministry.”
COMMENTS FROM JACK HARTMAN
An update on our next book: I will be 77 years old in July. Most people my age are enjoying
retirement. I cannot and will not
retire from serving God. I am more excited
about our new book than I have ever been about anything I have done because
this new book is the most important thing I have ever done. Judy and I recently gave a detailed report
on this book to our annual Board of Directors meeting. After this presentation one member of our
Board said, “Your excitement and energy about your new book blows me
away.”
This book will contain approximately 95 topics
arranged alphabetically, beginning with topics such as ADVERSITY, AGING, ANGELS
and ANGER. The book is filled with
Scriptural references in all of the topics.
Each of the Scriptural references are preceded by a headline summarizing
the information that follows and then one paragraph that explains the Scripture
reference in simple and easy to understand language.
Even though the topics are arranged alphabetically,
we have taken three of the topics and put them at the beginning of the book ahead of all of the alphabetical
topics. These three topics are HEAVEN,
HELL and ETERNAL SALVATION. Our goal is
to get people's attention at the beginning of this book. Each of the eleven passages of Scripture on
Heaven is preceded by a headline and a one paragraph explanation that will warm
the hearts of anyone who reads this information and the Scripture. Any person who reads these facts about
heaven should be very excited about heaven and the opportunity to live in this
glorious place throughout eternity.
The next topic is HELL. This topic contains nine passages of Scripture. These Scripture
references and the preceding paragraphs are very
disturbing. Why would anyone choose
to suffer eternally in this horrible place where the inhabitants are tormented
forever? The stark contrast between the
scriptural facts on HEAVEN and HELL is overwhelming.
The third topic at the beginning of the book is
titled ETERNAL SALVATION. This topic
contains twenty-three passages of Scripture that clearly show the reader exactly what he or she must do to live
eternally in the glory of heaven. God
has called you to share Jesus Christ
with many people. Some Christians are
hesitant to share Jesus with others because they fear being rejected. You can take advantage of our liberal 50%
discount to give copies of this book to many of your friends and loved ones who
are unbelievers. You can urge these
people to read the pages on Heaven, Hell and Eternal Salvation. You then should pray fervently for God Himself to draw each of these people
to Him for eternal salvation (see John 6:44).
We do not know when this book will be finished. The task is so immense that we can only deal
with it one day at a time. We hope to
have this book in print by late spring or early summer. As usual, we have no money to print the
book. Unlike other Christian publishers
who sell their books, we give away approximately 90% of our books and Scripture
cards and sell approximately 10% of our publications. We are completely dependent upon contributions to publish each of
our books.
We will keep you posted with each passing month of
our progress on this book. We are
currently on Draft #4. The book will
require at least seven drafts and possibly more. A tremendous amount of coordination is required to check out each
passage of Scripture for accuracy and content.
We are using three different versions of the Bible - The King James Version, The NIV Bible and The Amplified Bible. We
will be very excited when you have
your copy of this book. Please pray for
us as we continue to work diligently each day on What Does God Say?.
Please pray
about supporting our ministry financially. You can see from our monthly
newsletters that God is using us to help many people around the world with the
free books and Scripture cards we send to them. We can only distribute our publications based upon your
contributions. We do not have enough
regular monthly contributors, so we often run out of money when our cash flow
is affected because the larger contributions do not come in every month. We are in this position now.
We have trusted God for our finances since I wrote
the book, Trust God for Your Finances,
25 years ago. God has been faithful
every step of the way. Would you please
pray about becoming a monthly contributor to our ministry so that our cash flow
can be leveled out? Please pray and ask
the Lord what He would have you do to help us carry out the assignment He has
given us. Thank you and God bless you.
COMMENTS FROM JUDY HARTMAN
We
recently held our annual Lamplight Ministries Board of Directors meeting. We had a ninety minute telephone conference
with Board members in New Hampshire, North Carolina, Iowa, and Florida. I will hold another phone conference with
one of our Directors from Wisconsin who was out of the country for the entire
month of February. This year’s meeting
remarkably seemed as if we were all In the same room.
We
thank God for each member of our Board.
We are blessed with men who walk closely with God and live their lives
in His wisdom. Jack and I came away
from the meeting feeling so affirmed and encouraged. We have these pillars in our lives who stand with us, pray for
us, and believe in us. We are truly
blessed. We pray God’s special blessing
on each of our Board members, in Jesus’ name.
As
we were preparing for the Board meeting and I was putting together my report on
our prayer Intercessors, I realized that our home fellowship group through our
church that meets in our home once a month is an intercessory prayer group for
Lamplight Ministries. This home group
has been meeting on the second Saturday of each month for the past 21 months.
Each
of these months we have studied and discussed our book, Exchange Your
Worries for God’s Perfect Peace.
Jack selects specific passages of Scripture from the book and we apply
them to our lives in some very meaningful conversations. Sometimes there is so much discussion that we
only go through four or five passages of Scripture in one and a half
hours. We then close our meetings with
a time of prayer followed by a time of fellowship around our dining room
table. We feel blessed to have this
group of people who stand with us as well.
If anyone reading this newsletter would like to attend any of our
monthly meetings, please contact us. We
would be delighted to have you.
As
we spend time in reflection of our blessings, we want to thank you for being
part of our Lamplight family. I
appreciate your notes and calls so much. You are very precious to me. We have an exciting announcement to share
with you. All of the translations of
our books into foreign languages will be scanned on our website. We plan to add a few translations each
month. Anyone who speaks that language
will be able to read the book. We
believe that many lives will be touched for the kingdom of God through this
outreach. God said that there are two
ways to reach people with the gospel.
One way is to go to them.
Another way is to bring them to you.
We are blessed to have this avenue of reaching people with the gospel in
their own language free of charge.
We love you. We thank God
for you.
Blessed to be a blessing,
JACK & JUDY HARTMAN
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