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ROADMAP TO HEAVEN NEWSLETTER
2008 IN REVIEW
New Year’s Greetings to all our listeners, supporters and friends! We hope your Christmas celebration was wonderful, and that the peace Christ has brought into your heart will remain through the new year and into eternity!
CDs
In 2008 we received 511 requests from individuals in 40 different countries for Roadmap To Heaven CDs and Gospel materials. Between those individuals and the bulk mailings sent to foreign ministries, the Lord enabled us to send out a total of 2,546 copies of 14 different CDs. Each CD contains 3 or 4 simple Gospel messages and sometimes personal testimonies. About 2,500 tracts (transcripts of our radio programs adapted for print) were also sent out.
Since 2005 thousands of people in 62 different nations have requested our CDs through the form on our website. New countries we heard from this year include Algeria, El Salvador, Eritrea, Liberia, Morocco, Poland, Senegal, and Turkey. The top 3 requesting countries this year were Nigeria, Ghana, and the USA, followed by India, Philippines and Zimbabwe.
OVERSEAS DISTRIBUTORS
This past year we received requests for bulk materials for distribution from ministries in Liberia, India and Nepal. Pray with us that the CDs and tracts will be given into the hands of those they will most benefit.
We once again thank God for our faithful volunteer distributors, Pastor Innocent Ezekiel in Nigeria and Bro. Michael Asuming in Ghana. These men handle for us the many CD requests from within their own countries. Both men face national and personal hardships. As of last summer, Michael is no longer able to distribute for us due to personal losses he has suffered. Please keep these men in your prayers.
WEBSITE: www.roadmaptoheaven.org
In 2008 our website was visited by about 20,000 “unique visitors” from 113 different countries. This year again, China was the 5th most frequently visiting country, above Canada and Great Britain.
Finally all our 15-minute radio programs (which used to air across SE Asia on Trans World Radio), our 30-minute programs, and most of our personal testimonies can be listened to anytime, anywhere on our mp3 audio website, www.roadmaptoheaven.info, by anyone with internet access.
JAIL MINISTRY
After holding weekly Bible Studies for 6 years at Sommerset County Jail in Skowhegan, last March we switched to Kennebec County Jail in Augusta, now traveling 7 miles each way instead of 32. God is opening great doors of ministry at this jail. Several churches are cooperating both on services in the jail and in attempts to set up an aftercare network to mentor releasees who desire to follow Christ. I love the jail studies because those who attend are usually more hungry for God than many who attend churches on the outside. Thank you for your prayers for God’s work in these men and women.
RADIO
We are right now in the process of choosing station(s) on which to begin broadcasting once again. Please pray for God’s plain guidance for us, to aim our radio transmissions toward the locations where they can do the most good.
HEALING
Over the last year and a half our attention has been increasingly drawn to an area of the gospel I have neglected far too long. Between suffering people we’ve known whom doctors have been unable to help, the rising costs of health care and health insurance, and our own aging bodies, Christ’s command to “heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils…” (Mat. 10:8) takes on more urgency. We yet have so much to learn and experience in this realm, but have determined to make a start. Feel free to request our new tracts, “When Will I be Healed?”, and “What Has Jesus Ever Done For You?” A second Healing Scriptures CD will soon be in progress. We hope to upload the tracts and CD files to the website soon.
POWERFUL MUSLIM CONVERT TESTIMONY
Dr. Rockeybell Adatura is a native of Ghana and a missionary to Muslims in that area of Africa. While he was here in November we had the privilege of recording Rockeybell’s testimony. As a young, questioning Muslim, he was led by God’s Spirit into a 4 year, in depth comparison of the Koran and the Bible, which resulted in his conversion. Since the 1980s he has been using the Koran’s own verses to lead Muslims out of the Koran, into the Bible, and to faith in Jesus Christ. He has written numerous books to help both Muslims and Christians who witness to Muslims. We have his testimony available on CD, free to all who request it. Hear Part One of this powerful testimony at Rockeybell Adatura Part 1.
For more information, or to help with his important ministry, email him directly at rockeybelladatura@yahoo.co.uk .
IN CLOSING
We wish to thank the officers of our Board of Directors, Wayne Denny (Secretary) and Doug Gerry (Treasurer), for their willingness to bear their responsibilities year after year. Their prayers, counsel and encouragement are indispensable to the work of this ministry. We want to thank our friends who come to “stamp and stuff” thousands of CDs and prepare them with tracts and inserts for mailing to six continents. To all who helped with financial support in 2008 we owe a debt of gratitude. Your gifts brought Christ’s invitation to thousands of hungry souls last year. Above all, we thank and praise the Lord Jesus Christ for willingly bearing in our place the guilt, pain and anguish of all earth’s sin, sickness and sorrows, to lift these burdens from anyone who simply trusts what he once and for all finished by his death and resurrection. God bless you all in 2009!
With love in Jesus Christ,
Bob and Mary Tetreault
Roadmap To Heaven
Roadmap to Heaven, Inc. * PO Box 4614 * Augusta, ME 04330 * www.roadmaptoheaven.org
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