We are so pleased to announce that the Lord has laid on our hearts to support a wonderful and Godly couple.  Sam & Krista Marasco are going to the Pacific Islands.  We feel that they are a worthy investment in anyone’s missionary dollars.

They will be able to reach  at least sixteen different countries from were they are going to be.

Please keep them in your prayers as they continue their deputation trail.  If possible have them in to your church to minister to your people.  It will be well worth it.

Please pray that the Lord will continue to give them safety as they travel and that they would reach there support level fast.

Welcome aboard Sam & Krista.

Pastor Payne

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Doug Kalapp Memorial Missions Prayer Team

Sunday, May 23, 2010
Dear Friends:
I wanted to give you an update on what is going on here at LBC with this Doug
Kalapp Memorial Missions Prayer Team ministry. Thank you to Mrs. Kalapp
and Dr. Schaap for allowing us to honour Brother Kalapp’s efforts for missions in
this way.
First of all we are so blessed here to partner with you all. We have seen some
amazing things going on BECAUSE of this ministry. We have been truly blessed by reading your prayer letters of how God is using you in great and mighty ways. We are truly blessed by your emails. Each one has blessed my heart and  our church folks hearts. We are truly blessed by you all in our Faith Promise Missions giving. I want to thank you all. Dr. Schaap thank-you so much for your heart for missions. You are a blessing to me.

Many of you have asked about my young
daughter who God laid on her heart to pray for
missions more. This week I wanted to tell you a
bit more about her. Her name is Hannah-Leah.
Hannah is now six years old. She is saved and
loves the Lord. She loves you all. We just had
Sam and Krista Marasco to our church last
Thursday night. Here is a wonderful picture of
the Marasco’s and Hannah. It blessed Hannah’s heart that Brother Marasco
wanted to know who she was.
Two weeks ago we had the Szabatin Family with us. Our church was truly
blessed by seeing another family starting a work here in our wonderful country of Canada. Keep up the great work.

Our prayer is that each of you all would join us each week in praying for your fellow missionaries.  I heard several missionaries say, “One prayer is worth more than a thousand dollars.”  That was our thought when we started this ministry.  We can’t support a hundred missionaries financially but we can prayerfully.

We want to thank each and every one of you for staying in the fight, going the distance and keeping your eyes on the prize.  Keep it up.

We feel like that, with many of you, we have become friends.  For some of you I have known personally for a long time and for some of you I have been blessed by getting to know you.  You all have touched my life in many different ways.  For that I am extremely thankful.

We love you all.  I am reminded of 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3  “We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;” I want each and everyone of you to know that you are prayed for and loved by each one here at Lighthouse Baptist Church.  If you have any prayer requests, even if you aren’t on the list that week let us know them and I can assure you that they will be prayed for.

Because of Calvary,

Pastor Payne

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Five days to go.  We are looking forward to seeing what God will do threw our guest preachers.  I can’t wait to see my good friend Pastor Parton again.  We are truly blessed to have him with us again this year.  I’m looking forward to hearing all of our preachers that we have coming.

I hope that you will be able to attend.  All of the services will be available on MP3 and regular CD.

Hope to see you here.

Pastor Payne

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Praise the Lord.  One of our missionaries, Sarah Glover is leaving for Papua New Guinea on April 6th.  Here is a excerpt of her latest prayer letter.

At 1:45PM on Tuesday, April 6th, I will board a plane enroute to Papua New Guinea. I’ll go through Dallas, Los Angeles, Brisbane, Port Moresby, and on to Mt. Hagen, arriving there on Thursday, April 8th. I’ll be there a few days, and then head up to the mountains. The Lord has surely done great things for me, whereof I am very glad. No, not glad – ECSTATIC! And thankful. To the Lord foremost, and then to each of you. I am certainly not worthy of all the blessings which He has showered me with up to this point in this journey.

We are truly excited to see what the Lord will do threw this fine young lady.

The missionaries that she is working with also translated their first verse in the native Kamean language.

It is:  

(John 1:12) Jon’o 1:12
“Häi täna qä’i oqänima amä’ä ä’oi qämäuta Ä’o mäqa wianä’änqäti ei. Enga qäna Nkotoe’a ime’a äu’wa temä’uta ti. E, to’oti amä’ä ä’oe’a täkäunta qunu qämtuta.”

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When we were at the Nursing Home last week we met a 99 year old Godly woman.  What a breathe of fresh air to my whole family and Brother Jim.  She was baptized by Dr. T.T. Shields of Jarvis Street Baptist Church many, many years ago.  Brother Shields is one of my heroes of the faith.  WHAT AN AMAZING GOD WE HAVE!  The chapel was packed!

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