Turn on the Light

Turn on the Light 

Newsletter, March 2014                      

Dear Friends
What impact these first 2 months of the year had on you? Please don't worry about the seemingly "bad things" that happened already, or the things that "could have been better". This year is going to be a blessed year; you just have to turn on the light.

Switching gradually our thoughts from bad to good may involve a lot of prayer and time with Jesus but it's well worth the effort. The book of Psalms it's always a positive influence for good. Many of those prayers in Psalms were actually prophetic prayers of Jesus (Psalm 16, Psalm 22, etc.; Acts 2:29-31; Acts 13:22). Jesus went through a lot of difficulties but He overcame the world (John 16:33) and He is inside of you so the force for good in you is stronger than the force for evil (1st John 4:4).

Prison Ministry

There is a group of prisoners that meet every Friday morning. They are about 30 men. First they sing, share testimonies of answers to prayer and of God's guidance in their lives. Then it's our turn to speak and share what we have for them.

If we count by numbers, what's 30 among 1,000 men? It's the seed of the Gospel and God is not limited by many or by few (1st Samuel 14:6). If we count the success by numbers then Jesus was a failure. The Son of God only manage to get 12 strong followers?! And He almost lost them after His sermon of drinking His blood and eating His flesh (John 6:25-71). That's what we told them last week.

We pledge to go every week to the prison, but since we also have to do outreach on Fridays and selling of our material, which is our main form of income, now we go to the prison every other week.

They have a lot of time in their hands so it's a good opportunity to give them good stuff to read besides the Bible that they already have. We left 5 booklets "Prayer Power" in Portuguese for the Mozambicans and lots of Activated magazines.

If you want to contribute here it is how: We want to give them a course on Bible Basics but the book is kind of expensive, R 100 each. Otherwise there is also small booklets like "Prayer Power", "Overcoming Obstacles", and 5 other titles, for R 20 each and they are quite good.
So, if you can contribute please deposit or do an EFT to:

bank:         ABSA
name:        M F Rodrigues
account:    Savings, 922 414 9758
branch:      632005, Barberton
reference:  PRISON MINISTRY

Have a blessed month ahead. Please understand that we appreciate greatly your love, prayers and support. We just pray that we can also be a blessing to you.
Love and joy,
Carlos and Sara

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