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A Worldwide Celebration...
Here are some comments from our Field Contacts:
Yeah
GOD!...What
an awesome
accomplishment...There are many, many stories...Here's one...Through
the books made available by LATM AIM has spent the last 18 months
conducting monthly discipleship meetings for the pastors from 450
churches AIM has planted throughout Cambodia...The result: these 450
churches have planted an additional 150 in Cambodia...Wow....More
specifically in
November of this year 1,500 copies of the book Good News for
You were
distributed in a Cambodian military camp...One month later 1,007 men
accepted Jesus as their Savior and Lord and were baptized...thanks for
your faithfulness to God...He is using it in amazing ways. --Don
Brewster, co-worker with Moses Samol Seth, Cambodia.
Congratulations! Glory to
the Lord! --Sergei Golovin, Ukraine
Dear Bro. Phil,
Greetings to you from CICM
in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is great
to be partners
with LATM.
We rejoice with you as we have been partners from day one. We
are grateful to God who has allowed us to work together. All
these many books that have been published in India, for the 600
million Hindi speaking people, have been a great blessing to our
churches, leaders, evangelists and Bible colleges. It is
amazing to see how God has blessed the
ministry of LATM. We
rejoice with you as you have reached this goal of publishing one
million books. On behalf of all the coworkers, churches,
young
people and children we thank you for being such wonderful partners
and allowing us to have thousands of books for the extension of His
kingdom.
We are
extremely grateful
to LATM for
our wonderful partnership from the very beginning of the ministry of
LATM. LATM has played a significant role in many areas of the
ministry of Central India
Christian Mission. LATM has played a vital role in the
evangelistic outreach, leadership training, Sunday school programs,
training of the Sunday school leaders, reaching the unreached groups
and providing the needed resources such as books with many
effective sermons to our evangelists. We are
grateful from
the very depth of our hearts to you and Sister Susan along with the
board of LATM. Please extend our heartfelt gratitude to all
the
supporters who have contributed towards the LATM ministry. We
are grateful to them for reaching literally millions of people with
the love and the life changing message of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
We also want to thank Bro. Chris DeWelt for his great example and
willingness to share the burden of our hearts and having a
significant vision for the ministry of LATM. I know that his
father and our great example Bro. Don DeWelt has the same concern and
compassion in his heart. We remember Bro. Don DeWelt with
great
respect and love.
May God
continue to bless
you.
Your coworkers in India,
Ajai
& Indu Lall
I
met Phil Casey at one of the National
Missionary Conventions, sat with him, and presented the need to print
Christian books in Kuki language. Through LATM, many books have been
printed with funds donated by Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. The
last book printed by LATM is the Kuki Christian Church Hymn book
10,000 copies. Let us be thankful to God for using us, some for
planning, some for donations, and many others to carry out the
achievements. I am simply amazed how miracles have happened in our
life time. Together we march on till the return of the Lord Jesus
Christ. --T. Lunkim, Kuki Christian Mission, Imphal, Manipur,
India
The TCM International
Institute, with
ministry headquarters in Indianapolis and Austria, gives God the
glory and praise for the strategic and meaningful work of LATM around
the world. In the case of TCM, God has used LATM to bring
culturally relevant, Christ-centered textbooks to thousands of
deserving Christian leaders, pastors and students in Eastern Europe
and Central Asia. Today TCM is providing graduate level
Christian education to over 760 students in 19 different
countries.
If you have partnered with LATM in this endeavor TCM wants to thank
you too. Your generosity and support of this worthwhile
ministry has touched so many lives for Christ. Thank you LATM
for bringing the books! --Dr. Michael J. Crull,
European
Vice President, TCM International Institute
Congratulations
on the one million!
Praise God! We appreciate the tenacity that God has put in
you
to be faithful in this ministry. It isn't easy publishing
books
in other languages and especially in limited access countries like
you have. Despite the difficulties of quality control,
translation, and hostile governments, you have stuck with it till
something significant has been accomplished, all by the grace of God.
–Alan Bemo, SE Asia
Dear
brother Phil,
I praise God with you on
this
accomplishment. Now to help you reach the next million...
Could you
give me a project
price for a
Preacher's library where you would send, postage included, one copy
of all of your books in Spanish to a preacher in Colombia?
Thanks, that is a project I am considering launching and need a price
to present to the churches. You guys would need to do the
packaging and mailing. God bless, Dale Meade, Colombia
It
is indeed a Praise God moment! It
was inspirational and an encouragement to me to participate in
that first 1993 meeting in San Antonio when you were trying to
promote the writing, translating publication of books in Spanish for
the cause of Christ. I have in my files that first picture of about
25 or so Christians from most of the Spanish world that were involved
in preaching Christ and trying to publish or find books in Spanish.
Fifteen years
later you
have been able
to produce one million books in 49 languages for dozens of
countries. God be praised! Keep up your good work! ¡Gracias
por tu dedicación! Merci Beaucoup! --Jaffet
J.
Perez,
Puerto Rico
I
am thankful for the way God has used
LATM. You sponsored the publication of a very important book for
Turkish Christians, and we are truly grateful for your kindness and
generosity. --Steve Hagerman, US Director, Turkish World
Outreach
Thank
you for the outstanding work that
LATM has been doing over these past years. We in Thailand have also
benefitted from the assistance given by LATM for publishing nearly
two dozen different booklets, commentaries and scriptural helps to
help
strengthen the body of Christ in SE Asia. I am not sure who else
will respond, but as I sit here I am thinking of the works run
through our Thailand literature office, directed by David Morse, with
materials written, or edited, or translated by the following folks:
Jesse Yangmi, Andrew Aledin, Ron Morse, Jerry Thaprom and others,
books which were typed and formatted by various team members and
coworkers on our national staff to make these books print-ready. But
without some substantial assistance from LATM, many of these books
would be languishing on the shelf of "Need to Print" stack.
But now, these books already printed are out and in use. At this
time, we have additional books nearly ready for the printing phase,
and we look for ward to partnering with you in the task of getting
these printed and delivered to those in dire need of these Bible
helps.
May the Lord
bless,
strengthen and
supply every need that you help to meet around the world in many
languages and people groups. Thank you for your commitment to helping
those of us in foreign mission fields to have the means to get the
books that have been prepared printed and into our dear brethren's
hands. And now, may the Lord continue to strengthen your hands in
doing this work in the year ahead of us as well. To all who have
assisted missions work through LATM for the glory of God, we say,
Thank you for your partnership through LATM labors and ministry
efforts. May our Father bless and enable you to continue your support
of LATM in the time ahead.
Serving our
Lord hand in
hand with you,
Ron Morse, Thailand
Dear Phil,
Thank you
very much for
your “One
Million Books Celebration Report”.
I wanted to
be a Christian
publisher
ever since I can remember. But I was the youngest son of a very poor
country preacher living under a godless communist regime at that
time. All Bibles and Christian literature were confiscated and we had
no hope for any change in our lifetime. Nevertheless, some years
later, I started publishing and distributing Christian literature
underground. It was difficult, dangerous and limited.
After
communism collapsed
in 1989 I was
praying for a new opportunity for my publishing ministry. And God
sent you to be my partner. Maybe you remember the statement I made
when you came to Poland together with Chris DeWelt: “I am
determined to do this book with you or without you. But I want you to
be my partner.” Those words were not a very good expression
of my
kindness but surely it was an expression of my deep convictions of my
ministry call.
And we
started a new
chapter in Polish
publishing that day. Working together we have published 18 textbooks
for TCM International Institute study programs; 15 textbooks for the
Correspondence Bible Study teaching program (some of them reprinted a
few times); and 19 very useful textbooks for preachers, Sunday school
teachers and all Christians (some of them reprinted). Some of them
are very big with almost 1000 pages, some of them are very scholarly,
some of them present theological fields never published in the Polish
language before. Great work has been done.
Thank you Phil for your
faithful
partnership. Please pass our Polish gratitude to all LATM donors who
supported us so faithfully. Awareness of so many national publishers
working in so many different countries around the globe with common
purpose in mind and heart is very encouraging for us here in Poland.
Thank you to all of you.
But the most
important is
that we all
are allowed to be partners with Him – for His glory and for
His
Church’s sake. What a privilege and what a hope for the
future!
Yours in His
ministry,
Michal
Weremiejewicz,
Director
Christian Bible Institute
Warsaw, Poland
Twice a year I used to
participate in
book fairs in Saint Petersburg and Kiev. Book fairs are times when
you can “look at the eyes” of our customers and
speak with them
and understand them better. Most of the people who use our books are
either pastors or students of Christian Colleges and Seminaries. This
means that if we print 1000 copies of certain book, 1000 pastors or
teachers will use it and 1000 churches will hear the message of our
books! Principle of multiplication works and sometimes we can
influence more people by literature than by any other ways.
Recently we
found that in
our country
(Russia) the Christian book market is growing not because of
Christians but because of unchurched people. In other words, people
who don’t go to church for some personal or cultural reasons,
are
still interested in information about Bible and Christianity. That is
why today we try to print books that have a high class quality (I am
talking about quality of both text and cover and printing).
One of my unchurched
friends (we are
working on him to become a Christian one day) recently asked me about
our book printing: “Is it a business or are you just a
volunteer?”
My answer was – “Neither one.”
What we do I better
qualify as service. It is serious as much as business, but it is not
going to be self supported unless we have enough Christians to form
the market. And because of it, service will need supporters. After
some years I realized that our major supporter is God. He is the One
who prepares hearts of some people to give, another people to write,
translate and edit, and still other people to distribute and finally
some to buy and use the books. Recently we had a dangerous situation,
when printing cost of one of our books went up because of the
devaluation of the rate of dollar. But then money has been found,
book is going to be printed and people will buy it and read it. All
because God supports the whole circle of printing and distributing.
Isn’t it wonderful to be part of his plan?
Constantine
Nazarov, Russia
Hi,
Phil!
Wow, the millionth
book! This is
wonderful news. And yes, as you said in the Director's Report, there
are many amazing things that have come together.
Blessings,
brother.
David Morse,
Thailand
In
Nehemiah 8 where we see the story of
the book of the law of Moses being read after the rebuilding of the
Jerusalem city wall, the reaction of the people was so meaningful,
even touching: "For all the people were weeping when they heard
the words of the law."
I don't know
if anybody to
whom we have
given books that were able to be printed through funding coming from
LATM has wept to have the books, but I do know that some printings
have gone out to many different provinces of China and been received
with appreciation as concrete help in Bible study. Other printings
have been a priceless tool in communicating and interpreting
accurately truths in the New Testament that have been
misunderstood by so many in China for so long. No doubt God is
pleased.
Pressing
on...
Danny
Thurston, China
Dear Phil,
I
want to thank
you and all who have been supporting the ministry of LATM! God has
used all of you for bringing great Christian books to many
Christian leaders, to people in different Christian ministries, and
even to non-Christians. Praise God, because with your support we have
some great books in our Czech language that would not be otherwise
printed in our country, also due to very small Christian books
"market". May God bless you!
Your
brother in
Christ
Pavel
Coufal
Czech Republic
Dear Phil,
We
rejoice
that LATM has passed the million books milestone. The church
in
Ethiopia has been a beneficiary your ministry in the Amharic
translation of Fee and Stuart's book on Reading the Bible for All
It's Worth. Just recently there has been a side blessing that
was not expected.
When
the
proof copy of the translation (computer draft) was completed I worked
with about two dozen of our evangelists and preachers for a full week
in studying about biblical interpretation. In the process, we
were editing the translator's edition. We were able to make
substantive corrections.
I
have been
invited to return as one of the speakers for a conference that
includes leaders from our churches in two language groups (Oromo and
Gumuz) PLUS other churches in a broad region. The topic
assigned to me grew out of our work on the book--biblical
interpretation. So, Effie and I are planning to be there in
July of this year for the conference and to visit many of the
churches we have had a part in planting and equipping.
By
the way,
the invitation came from Kurt Michler. Kurt is facilitating
the
conference where church leaders from all the areas will recieve a
book set including the one printed by LATM. Another book is
being translated through LATM in partnership with SIM. That
book is The Chronological Life of Christ.
Thanks,
Phil
and LATM. Because of your ministry far more than a million
Christians have been blessed.
Love
in the
Lord,
Ray Giles
Dear Phil!
I have read about millionth
book.
Congratulation!!!
May God bless you in
further steps!
--[Name withheld],
Kazakhstan