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In Pakistan (above) Alex Sarfraz hands out an Urdu
Shepherd’s Staff during a conference in Lahore. Below, the
Emmanuel Press staff in South Africa reviews ACTS
mail.
praise the Lord for ACTS; when I practiced the lessons
I received, ‘How to Face and Overcome the Power of
Darkness’, God’s power really worked and my children
were healed!
“Once one of my children was almost paralyzed; it
happened many times; we were confused; however
when my wife and I practiced the lessons from ACTS:
to praise and worship God, to drive out the devils, suddenly
a black creature run away and until now the sickness
is gone. Praise the Lord!
“Just recently we also faced a problem that tested
our faith. We thank the Lord for ACTS. At that time we
had no money anymore; and we practiced the lessons
of faith, and God really poured His blessings. Thank
you for your prayers and ministry to us.”
Testimonies such as this, said Eliana, encourage
them and assure them that their work for the Lord “is
never in vain”.
“We cannot visit every pastor individually because
of distance and time, but through ACTS magazines we
can reach distant and remote places and be a blessing to
them,” Robert added.
BRAZIL: “What All Of Them Say” To You
Vander Santos, who oversees the production and
distribution of ATOS, the Portuguese edition of ACTS,
said, “For me, [it] is a great pleasure to participate in
this ministry, because I know that many leaders here in
Brazil have been receiving spiritual food of quality.
I receive a lot of letters of leaders of churches, cells,
biblical schools, distant and poor communities, leaders
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in prisons and more,” he added. “All of them affirm
that World MAP material is a true seminar for them,
that the material has been vastly enriching their ministry,
and they can offer much more with the knowledge
that they have been acquiring with the material of
ACTS and The Shepherd’s Staff. ‘Praise the Lord for
your work and your effort’ is what all of them say.”
PAKISTAN: Tower Of Light
World MAP’s Pakistani office manager Alex
Sarfraz recently shared this message of appreciation
from church leader Younas Zia: “God bless you with
spiritual blessings abundantly. Praise God for every
thing which we receive in the name of Jesus Christ.
Except Gospel, ACTS is the magazine which opens the
eyes spiritually of mankind. I have been benefited by it
greatly. Your organization has really a wonderful purpose
to publishing it in Pakistan. It is like a tower of
light for church leaders specially. It has changed my
life as I have learned many things by reading it.” (Read
more from Brother Alex on page 12.)
SOUTH AFRICA: Vibrant Partnership
Emmanuel Press – in White River, South Africa –
has partnered with World MAP for more than 30 years,
once as a major printing and distribution point but over
the past decade primarily as “a depot” that receives
World MAP mail from African Acts Magazine and
Shepherd’s Staff readers who cannot afford a postage
stamp to mail a letter to the World MAP headquarters
in Burbank, California.
“These requests are often accompanied by testimonies
of great blessing received through the World
MAP publications,” said Margaret Hooker, who pointed
out that church leaders who write to World MAP’s
South Africa address get an added benefit: “We here at
Emmanuel Press, on our part, make contact with all
those who have sent in ACTS and Shepherd’s Staff
requests, by sending them a small set of Gospel tracts,
which often then leads to them becoming tract distributors
and/or people who do our free Bible
Correspondence course.”
EAST AFRICA: Quality Ventures
Elim missionaries Sig and Joy Feser, serving on the
African continent for many years, provide World
MAP’s vital link to East African nations. Sig also provided
the topical concordance material included in The
Shepherd’s Staff.
Joy recalls: “We started with World MAP in 1989
when Marvin Fast [the late president of World MAP
Canada] picked up on the one sentence Sig wrote about
the Topical Concordance he intended to write. That
became part of The Shepherd’s Staff and paved the way
for the Swahili translation of The Shepherd’s Staff and
ACTS Magazine. According to Operation World,
Christianity has grown from 33% to 54% during the
time we have been distributing books and magazines to
church leaders.... They send us wonderful testimonies
of church growth, and of changed lives due to the
teachings. What a privilege to be part of this wonder-