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FFT News - Winter 2010
This is our regular newsletter to keep you up to date with what is happening with Firm Foundation Trust activities and with our Silas Project. It is a great joy to us to have your continuing prayer and financial support for our work in Turkey. Please pray for our heavy publishing load in Istanbul over the next few months: particularly The Watch Maker's Daughter; Can We Trust The Gospels; and Revolutionary Forgiveness.
A Brief Review of 2009
We were blessed with excellent support from a good many trusts in 2009. As a result we were able to publish 8 titles during the year and have the funds to publish a further 12 titles. We were particularly pleased to get out the first of our commentaries, Exodus, in the excellent IVP Bible Speaks Today series. A further 8 commentaries are scheduled for publication in the coming months, providing much needed material for Christian pastors and leaders in Turkey.
We made encouraging progress with our DVD on the reliability of the Gospels, now entitled The Jesus Accounts - Fact of Fiction? A trailer has been published on our special Jesus Accounts website and we are now well into the editing stage. Availability of the final DVD scheduled for the third quarter of 2010.
During the year we initiated a publicity campaign for our Silas Project, and this is starting to bear fruit. We are making available a 15 minute audio visual presentation for showing in churches and small groups. A trailer of this DVD can be viewed online and you may request a copy of the full DVD if it would be useful to you. To continue and expand this vital work of supporting Turkish Christian pastors we are looking for more regular donations. We have set up PayPal arrangements for this purpose on our website. Regular gifts can also be received on our behalf in the USA by CMML.
Local Prayer Points
- For Diyarbakir Church (led by Ahmet) in south-east Turkey near Syria: praise for the book Ahmet wrote named The Life We Wished For - now being printed, for a flow of visitors to the church from our town bookstall; prayer for God to touch their hearts, for brother Chris with cancer of the knee, for several of our youth and a recently baptised brother who are all facing pressure from their families, for a couple facing pregnancy difficulties after being childless for many years.
- For Antioch Church (led by Hamdullah), also in south east Turkey near the Mediterranean Sea: praise for the enlargement of our sanctuary and a good Christmas season, for increasing fruit from Bible Correspondence Course contacts, for a new family that has come to Antioch to help the church; prayer for Christmas visitors to come to faith. for a newly baptised brother, for two families - one where the husband is a believer and one where the wife is the believer, for a new believer not able to attend meetings, for several of our youth coming up to university entrance this year under new and more testing arrangements, for the new helping family to quickly adjust to life in Antioch.
- For Besiktas Church in Istanbul (led by Kaan): praise for the dedicated service of brothers and sisters all through 2009, for the harvest God is sending to the church; prayer for unity, for the conversion of visitors, for the building of good relationships that will lead to evangelisation, for those preparing for baptism, for official recognition of our church building by the state, for our ministry to the poor and needy.
- For the ladies visiting and counselling work of Gul in Izmir, near Ephesus: praise for the completion of her chemotherapy treatment, for a good time with her family at Christmas; prayer for wisdom in her ministry to many newcomers at her church, for her work of sharing Christ over the internet with enquirers, for her adult sons that they may come to faith.
- For the Church of Altintepe in Istanbul (where Fatih is Teaching Elder): praise for a good Christmas season of outreach; prayer for the follow-up of of Christmas visitors and enquirers.
Yours in our King and Saviour,
Roger & Yvonne Malstead
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