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Manna News (USA) for January 2008
Thank you for your prayers and support. To receive a tax receipt please make ALL checks payable to Ocean Drive Presbyterian Church marked for Manna Publications and send to Ocean Drive Presbyterian church, Box 277, North Myrtle Beach SC 29597. Every $ invested moves a Manna Representative closer to being a self-supporting publisher!
BOARD of DIRECTORS - A letter of invitation was sent to nine Manna friends and supporters. Several have already responded. We have prayed much about this and ask you to please continue to pray with us for men and women of God's choosing. We are new at this, so need special prayer to know how to proceed. We have filed for a 501 (C) (3) status with the IRS.
MANIPUR - India - Rev Stephen, Presbyterian Moderator from Manipur, his wife and baby son and their US Representative visited us this fall. The Rev. Stephen lives on the Manipur-Burma border and ministers to people on both sides of the border. He was at the New Wilmington Missions' Conference in Pennsylvania this past summer. A retired Presbyterian pastor who lives here at Sunnyside met him at the conference and graciously offered them accommodation so that they could come and visit us. The Lord has given us a burden for these remote parts of the world where very little Christian literature is available. Rev. Stephen took books home with him to be translated and some seed money to pay translators. Thank you for your part in this.
NIGERIA - Rev. Osinlu is our Manna Representative in southern Nigeria. He hand delivered 500 copies of the Read-and-Color book THE POWERFUL LANTERN in Igala language to a Mission four hours from his home. The response cheered our hearts: The head of a private school program plans to test the coloring books with the older children and take them to village schools as an outreach. A Sunday school teacher used them with his class of forty-four children. Even Muslim children came because of the crayons and the book to color.
WISE MEN SEEK JESUS our new Christmas coloring book went out to about 30 countries in November. Many were translated and printed in time for Christmas. Feedback is still coming in from around the world via e-mail. Charia, a programmer at TWR radio in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, printed 1300 copies. She used the opportunity to share food and books with 450 children and adults on the city dump. The pictures she sent back told the story better than any words can tell it. We can e-mail you a picture if you would like one.
THE CHILAKA BROTHERS IN SOUTH INDIA - Six brothers, all pastor-evangelists in Andhra Pradesh State, have shown great enthusiasm for the few Manna books we had in the Telugu language. They were translated into Telugu several years ago. They took the copies to the printer and had them reprinted. This gave the brothers a quick start. Now they want to translate ALL the New Testament commentaries. They also translated WISE MEN SEEK JESUS and sent us beautiful pictures of children coloring the books - in churches, in schools, with street children, etc.
NEPAL - After receiving a stent and lying on his back for a month under the doctor's orders, Loknath was able to finish THE BOOK OF THE PROPHETS. He completed proofing the Nepali translation and it is off the press. Nepalese people scattered around the world are eagerly awaiting copies. Most of these will have to be hand carried to them. The enemy tried in every way to stop this work. Pray that this book will be a great blessing in Nepal, and to Nepalese congregations around the world.
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