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  • 30K Back-to-School Ask Me Challenge

    Students are filling the halls of their school campuses, returning from summer break and excited about the possibility of reaching their mission fields with the message of Hope.

  • A Worn Bible

    Diane, a recent graduate of the Native American Bible College (NABC), noticed that a Hispanic gentleman was having a difficult time understanding the lessons being taught at the local church she attended. She decided to invite this man to a Bible Study, in the hopes that some of his questions could be addressed in a smaller group setting.

  • Mighty Works

    So far, the year 2011 has been an incredibly productive and miraculous year for Unsión!

  • Ministering with Storybooks

    Light for the Lost has been a tremendous blessing in Namibia. With LFTL funds, we were able to print illustrated evangelistic storybooks for children.

  • 750 Million Books for Hope

    We have reached 500 million youth and children!

  • Bikes and Bibles

    I recently prayed with a biker from Florida. He repented of his sins, received forgiveness and confessed Jesus as Lord of his life. This man is a member of a nationwide hardcore motorcycle club. He is former military, worked for the mob and spent some time in prison. This is very typical of my mission field.

  • Students Share the Gospel

    Various testimonies from campus missionaries.

  • Thank You for the Tools

    It is difficult for me to do my work without certain tools. I am very blessed that Light for the Lost is dedicated to helping me obtain these tools.

  • Too Scared to Ask

    To our surprise, we learned that Jordan didn't own a Bible!

  • Exploring the Christian faith

    Nurab is an international student from Nepal who currently attends the University of New Orleans. He got involved with Chi Alpha at the beginning of the semester after he attended our annual Beach Bash.

  • Salvation Message and Medicine Pouches

    We have started printing the salvation message on our medicine pouches. This allows our patients to view the Good News several times a day as they take their prescribed medications.

  • Thanks from Italy

    I would like to thank the faithful donors that provide us with LFTL funds. We recently used these funds to print gospel tracts for three evangelistic campaigns that were held in Sicily.

  • Touched Lives

    Below are a few statements by those whose lives were touched by the evangelistic materials, provided by Light for the Lost, that are distributed by Global University.

  • Cookbooks and Fishing Guides

    God continues to provide unique opportunities for us to reach out to Macedonians.

  • FirePack 71:18 Campus Missionary Testimonies

    Testimonies from Campus Missionaries around the country.

  • Least Religious Generation Receives Bibles

    Last week, I met a college student named Caitlin for coffee. I asked her about her spiritual background and she told me that she had been agnostic until this past summer when she had a ‘religious experience'. She said that she was excited to find a religious group on campus.

  • Sudan Saturation Effort

    We have distributed 1,000,000 copies of the Book of Luke over the last few months in 25 northern Arab cities.

  • Thank You from Iceland

    "Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness" (2 Corinthians 9:10, NIV).

  • A New Life

    By the age of fifteen, Magnangon and his friends were robbing people in the mountains of Togo. Though his parents spent a great deal of money on his education, Magnangon did not care about school. He often had the lowest grade in his class and never applied himself to his studies.

  • Missionaries say Thank you and Goodbye

    We have served the Lord as missionaries to Filipinos, both in the Philippines and in the United States, for 55 years, and the time has come for us to retire.

    These 55 years have been the most exciting and rewarding years of our lives!

  • Salvation and Discipleship

    Thank you, Light for the Lost, for providing Intentional Moves: Lessons for Purposeful Discipleship (IM). IM is a four-part discipleship series that can be used to mobilize ordinary people for the work of evangelism and discipleship.

  • Winning Souls

    Thank you, LFTL, for the funds to buy Bibles! Bibles in the Dominican Republic cost a day's wage and many of the converts live in great poverty.

  • Courses for Teen Challenge

    Teen Challenge recently used generously donated LFTL funds to translate another module (course) of Teen Challenge’s Group Studies for New Christians.

  • Operation Worship

    I received a shipment of Operation Worship Bibles at the United States Air Force Officer Training School located at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, where 75% of the USAF's officers receive their commission. The Bibles are used by the trainees/cadets for weekly Bible Studies, personal devotion time in the dorms and weekly worship services at the Chapel.

  • A Chi Alpha Bookmark

    I received the following testimony from one of our students at Nicholls State University.

  • A Message to the Conscience

    The following are testimonies of how LFTL funds have been used to help change the lives of the Spanish speaking population through the program "A Message to the Conscience". This four-minute, completely evangelistic, television and radio program goes out to stations around the world, and is currently broadcast more than 5,400 times every day.

  • A Simple Gift

    While Jordan and his family were visiting his mother in the hospital, the attending nurse gave them a tract.

  • A T-Shirt and a Message of Hope

    It’s barely 9:00 a.m. on a mid-August morning in Wisconsin and already the heat and humidity are oppressive. Despite the weather, hundreds of volunteers — clad in gray t-shirts with the word "HOPE" imprinted in big, white words across their chests.

  • A Word for Maria

    For Maria* life did not come easy. Maria’s husband had long since left her and her children on their own. To support her five children — most still in their teens — Maria worked long hours in a home for the elderly. To make things worse, Maria had recently been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.

  • Ambo Outreach

    Every semester Addis Ababa Bible College in Ethiopia participates in an evangelism outreach. Their recent outreach in the city of Ambo was a great blessing.

  • Baseball and the Gospel

    Every Sunday in Nicaragua, professional baseball players are given the opportunity to hear the gospel. Baseball Chapel is a ministry that takes the gospel to where the baseball player is - the Stadium.

  • Blessings of Bibles

    In the hills of Moldova many people live in villages that seem to be a step back in time. These villagers use simple means for basic necessities. Moldova has over 900 of these villages.

  • Book of Hope – Nigeria

    I missed school the day The Book of Hope was shared. But I saw my roommate with a copy, so I picked it up and read through.

  • Book of Hope – Uganda

    Sheila, 12, grew up with her mother and brother. She didn’t know her father well, but she knew he was a Christian. But her mom was a Muslim. Sheila and her little brother would ask their mother to see their father. She would tell them to be strong, and once in a while they would speak with him on the phone. But he never played a significant part in their lives.

  • Building Students for Christ

    Each year on the first day of classes at the atheistic Free University of Brussels, Students for Christ (SFC) hands out copies of the gospel of John in French (funded by LFTL). One year we gave out over 600 copies, each with an SFC brochure and an invitation to our activities tucked inside. The following Tuesday night a student named Ornella attended our acoustic concert.

  • Campus Missionary

    A message from a campus missionary about the Book of Hope... thanks!!

  • Campus Missionary Report

    Toney was a foster care child that felt rejected, abandoned and abused because of his horrific home life. Toney received the message of Hope through a foster care family and decided to be a campus missionary. Toney started a weekly prayer group around his flagpole at his small middle school.

  • Chi Alpha LSU

    Karen is a junior at Louisiana State University and a student leader for Chi Alpha. She related the following testimony of the partnership between Chi Alpha and Light for the Lost.

  • Chi Alpha MSU

    Last night, two students responded to the gospel invitation to accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord. One student was afraid of getting trapped into the party lifestyle and turned to Jesus for a complete life change. It was powerful.

  • Connections: Rural Compassion

    What are some current projects for Rural Compassion?

  • Experiencing The Power To Change

    Life and death! Heaven or hell! That’s what’s at stake. Everyday 7,000 people die and enter into eternity.

  • Experiencing The Power To Change: Testimonies

    Just a few of the testimonies sent from inmates and their families that illustrate what God has done through "Power To Change". Jason Freen has been told that in the ministry one written letter represents 1,000 people who share the same view.

  • Fire Bibles in Romania

    A special thanks to LFTL and the men of the Wisconsin/Northern Michigan District for enabling us to purchase Bibles and evangelistic literature.

  • First Bible

    Most Christians in America own several Bibles.  As a result, we tend to believe that everyone in America has a Bible.

  • Flip The Script: Offering Real Hope

    It was last year in Sheridan and we really wanted to pump “Flip the Script” (scripture distribution outreach) so we threw a big bash with videos, T-shirts, flyers, etc. It was an awesome night and God showed up. Our ministry consisted of about 50 students and I figured approximately 30 of them would embrace “Flip the Script”, so I only ordered one case of 144 Books of Hope. At the end of the night I had run out of books and had students calling me the next day needing more.

  • From Buddhist to Christian

    Last year a student from China came to Purdue University to further her education and, as a result, her entire life was transformed. Irene came to the United States with no knowledge of the Word of God, but that all changed because of the generosity of Light for the Lost.

  • Fruit That Should Remain

    Before I went into full-time missions, I visited Belize in three consecutive years for about a month at a time. We did and Edward the Elephant outreaches in the schools, followed by personal evangelism in the homes and a crusade in the evening. We saw hundreds of children come to Christ on the school campuses, as well as in the evening services. It was this involvement that confirmed my call to full-time missionary service.

  • Global AIDS Partnership

    Light for the Lost Funds paid for the development, printing and translation of the GAP (Global AIDS Partnership) Modules. The GAP modules educate people on the basics of HIV/AIDS. The Latin America and Caribbean Commission on HIV/AIDS uses these materials extensively during training and teaching sessions for national pastors, church workers, and those working with HIV positive people in their churches throughout the regions of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. In fact, the Caribbean is the second most impacted area of the world with the HIV virus.

  • Global University Testimonies

    LFTL is like a sailing vessel with three masts, the sails are unfurled and all we need the Lord to do is put wind in those sails. Below are just a few in a pile of testimonies on my desk from incarcerated students.

  • God Is Moving

    We received the following testimonies regarding Global University’s discipleship and evangelism materials. Thank you, LFTL, for supplying these books and tracts. God is moving!

  • Good News is to be Shared

    We are very thankful to LFTL for all they do and for making it possible to have quality gospel literature to distribute to many families and individuals in northern Spain where we are planting a church.

  • Have you any Bibles?

    One of our continuing projects is getting Bibles into the hands of new converts. Recent graduates keep asking, "I've got a house church going, seven new converts with no Bibles. Have you any Bibles?"

  • I-35 Minnesota Teen Challenge Protection

    July 31, 2007, the Minneapolis Police Chief and members of the Minneapolis City Council attended the Minnesota Teen Challenge chapel. It was a powerful time that ended in prayer for the city and for God's wisdom on leaders and law enforcement. Hours later the city experienced the greatest catastrophe in Minnesota's history.

  • Igniting Leaders

    Last year I requested Light for the Lost funds to purchase G5 Digisource materials for leaders. In August, I began to offer this resource to youth pastors and youth leaders to assist them in better equipping campus missionaries.

  • In the Line of Duty

    In the line of duty ...a phrase often correlated with the death of a police officer is the title of an evangelistic tract that has been used in the United States and South America with great success.

  • Initial Contact

    LFTL has helped us develop and print 16 different tracts.  This year we printed 240,000 copies. Most of them are distributed in our downtown ministry Kilometer Zero, Madrid.

  • Jewel By The Sea

    While pastoring for many years in the United States, I served as a law enforcement chaplain in various departments. Little did I expect to find the opportunity to serve the law enforcement community in Belize, also known as the "Jewel by the Sea".

  • Jewish Bibles

    Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the New York area do not own New Testaments. This resembles the entire population of Guyana not having ONE New Testament!

  • Letter from Tom – Good Old Summertime

    Good old summertime just seems to put life in fast forward mode. The longer days provide not only more daylight but more activities. More time for games, picnics, fishing and yard work, but too often less time for God. More hours are given to the great outdoors, but fewer moments in personal relationship with the Creator of such. A week-long vacation is often book-ended by two weekends of absence from God’s house.

  • Letter from Tom – This is a Test

    “THIS IS A TEST.” The dreaded words that often interrupted late night television programming just as the plot thickened – the words that tempted you throw something at the screen.

  • LFTL and an Ice Cream Truck

    An ice cream truck that offers more than just a sweet treat!

  • LFTL and House Church Plants

    Recently, I interviewed a leader of a large underground house church movement in a restricted-access country. Of specific interest to me was how they managed to plant so many churches so successfully in such a highly restrictive environment.

  • LFTL Distribution Efforts

    In 2004, we planted and currently pastor Abundant Life, located in an upper-middle class neighborhood along the coastline of Montevideo — identified by church growth experts to be "The Most Unevangelized Area in the Americas".

  • LFTL in Dark Places

    What an enormous joy to open mail from hundreds of incarcerated students and hear the good reports of them discovering the "light" of the world.

  • LFTL: An Effective Missionary Program

    LFTL is one of the most effective missionary programs.  It has provided evangelistic materials for missionaries in approximately 200 countries of the world. LFTL not only ministers to the immediate needs of new believers; it remains in the hands of the new believers to strengthen their faith and to guide them in their new life in Christ.

  • Life Recovery Bibles

    I distribute Life Recovery Bibles provided by LFTL funds to at-risk teens at the state hospital where I serve as a chaplain. Most of the youth at North Texas State Hospital-Vernon Campus either are angry at God or do not believe in God when they arrive at the institution. They cannot believe that someone would care enough about them to donate such a wonderful Bible.

  • Making the Cross Accessible

    In Atlanta, GA, thirty-five hundred people with white canes and guide dogs were gathered for a secular convention where we hosted a booth.

  • Missions Chopper Presented to Illinois Pastor

    Ron Masten, executive pastor of First Assembly of God (McAlester, Oklahoma) presented his “Heroes of the Faith” missions chopper to B.G. Nevitt, pastor of Glad Tidings Assembly of God (Decatur, Illinois) on March 2, 2007, in the parking lot of the Assemblies of God Headquarters in Springfield, Missouri.

  • Native American Mission Field

    We praise the Lord for Light for the Lost and the funds provided to impact our mission field to Native Americans.

  • Network 211

    Network211’s goal is to use 21st century technology to reach 10 million people with the gospel message in the next 10 years. We call this outreach Project 10Million.

  • Now What?

    While deployed at the National Training Center in Ft. Irwin CA, I met a young female soldier who looked especially depressed. I pulled up a milk carton, sat down on it and began to talk. One of the first things out of her mouth was, "I am an atheist and do not believe in God."

  • On the Red Box

    I wish I could properly describe all that LFTL literature does for us.  It is innumerable in its value to us!

  • Pauline Knows Jesus Is In Her Heart

    Pauline is a 17-year-old high school student in Cambodia. When I met her at the end of March she was on a break from school, traveling with our Cambodian and Indonesian teams, giving the Book of Hope to the young people of her nation. She is a vibrant Christian, one of those people that you see stand up in front of a group of children and you know she is showing Christ to them — a shy excitement, joy in her face, she radiates the love of Jesus.

  • Philippines Testimony

    We have just finished helping plant another church. We had 1,215 pray the Sinner's Prayer with us. Our Good News Rally was held in an area called "Dead Man's Village” because so many die there because of drugs and other things. LFTL was there to help win them and disciple them.

  • Police Officers

    Blessings to LFTL!

  • Portuguese Fire Bible

    What a joy is has been for us to be part of the launch and distribution of the Portuguese Fire Bible! In Angola, the church is growing faster than pastors can be trained!

  • Process of Positive Change

    Just a note of sincere thanks for LFTL literature. I use LFTL literature constantly in my ministry. Now I have three teams traveling in the Philippines in full time evangelism and church planting. Without excellent follow-up literature, our success would be very improbable.

  • Ranger Kids and Global Missions

    Ranger Kids is a program available through Royal Rangers that focuses on the interests and characteristics of boys in kindergarten, first grade and second grade.

  • Reaching Afghans for Christ

    Thank you, LFTL, for your support! Radio programming has been an extremely effective way to reach Afghans for Christ. Below are a few comments our station has received

  • Reaching Police Officers in Nicaragua

    LFTL has played an important part in our ongoing outreach to those in government authority in Nicaragua. This October will mark our tenth year of ministry.

  • Reaching Youth in the Dominican Republic

    In March 2007, we hosted an Ambassadors in Mission (AIM) team from Prescott Valley, Arizona. (AIM is the short-term youth missions program of the Assemblies of God.) With the AIM team we ministered in high school assemblies and evening outdoor outreach services focusing on youth.

  • Recovery Bibles

    After years of taking a prescribed narcotic, a young woman reached her limit. She became depressed and suicidal.

  • Sharif Bible Testimonies

    Several "Thank You"s for the Sharif Bible.

  • Succeeding at Faith Promise Commitments!

    I live my life in the arena of faith promise meetings. I absolutely love the atmosphere of faith in those events. Whether it is a banquet setting or a missions convention, being with a group of young people barely in their teens or seniors in their sunset years, the faith promise service is exhilarating and exciting.

  • Testimony of a Family

    Hector was a self-made man, a contractor and a goal setter. He didn’t have time for God, family or church.

  • Thanks to the Oklahoma Men

    Thanks to the generous men from Oklahoma and their faithful giving to LFTL.

  • The Gift of Bibles

    It’s ironic that a country with one of the richest Christmas traditions has lost the purpose that makes these traditions meaningful.

  • The Girl That Was At Youth Convention

    I find it of the utmost challenge to remember what it was like at youth convention. When I was there in Green Bay (attending Youth Convention), I was happy. The only worry I had about God was resolved the first night.

  • Thousands of Children Receiving Their First Bible

    We have distributed more than six thousand Bibles in the last few weeks.

  • To Bring Hope to the One

    OneHope seeks to bring the life-changing news of Christ to each and every child.

  • Tracts in Belgium

    Evangelism tracts are a very important outreach tool in Belgium, where most residents are suspicious of any religious group.  The people are cautious and want to evaluate what they are told carefully before they make any decisions.

  • Unsion Television

    Unsión Television, a Spanish-language television network founded in Cuenca, Ecuador in 2003, is viewed in more than 50 communities and is impacting more than 50,000 Spanish-speaking families a day.

  • With the Lord

    Within one week, the Men's Ministries leadership family has experienced the loss of two dear friends. On March 22, 2008, Peninsular Florida's LFTL Coordinator Joe Livesay went to be with the Lord. In the early hours of March 29, Carlos Ramos, Gulf Latin American District Men's Director, passed away. Carlos and his wife, Gloria, were senior pastors of Templo Getsemani Asambleas de Dios in Fort Worth, TX.

  • Youth Alive and The Seven Project

    Light for the Lost helps fund the distribution various resources for Youth Alive, a student campus ministry strategy, and the Seven Project, a community outreach effort combining school assemblies, city-wide evening events and a student Web society. Because of your faithfulness, LFTL is able to play a vital role in empowering and mobilizing students to reach their friends with the Message of hope.