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SRI LANKAN NEEDS UPDATE - In the aftermath of the tsunami, Lamplighters World Ministries is working to assist the Sri Lankan people as they rebuild their lives.

Great interview with Steve Bycroft by National Public Radio
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JUNE NEWSLETTER

 
 
 

Lamp Lighters World Ministries

June 1, 2008

Dear Fellow Laborer in Christ,

            Each month as we write we are always reminded of things back home in the States and how things change so quickly and how it seems change takes place so slowly here. Everything here is at a slower pace than in the States which sometimes is rather nerve wracking to say the least.
            One of those areas is in the construction business. We seem to be so close to completing our first floor and yet so far from being done and is mostly due to tradesmen not coming on time to do the work necessary. But construction is coming along.
            I wonder sometimes maybe God looks at us and says I thought they would be further along than this by now. How patient our Father is with us to grow into maturity to be the people He wants us to be, to think the way He wants us to think, and act the way He wants us to act.
            We are so grateful to God for you, your faithful prayers for us and financial support. We think of this not only when we write the newsletter but throughout the days our thoughts are of how God supplies all we need through you our supporters. We pray that God will continue to bless you as you labor for him in your part of the vineyard.

                                                In Christ, Steve & Shanthi

     CHURCHES START NEW DISCIPLING PROGRAMS

            A couple of months ago we made some changes to help, we hope to disciple people within our churches to be workers not just members. One of the areas has been with the youth groups. We have made the last Sunday of every month Youth Sunday. The youth are responsible for the entire service. Some were already involved in playing musical instruments but we wanted them to develop even more.

            One of the things we have seen in most churches here is that they remain relatively small, mainly due to the fact that the preacher does it all, and that's not good for lots of reasons.

            To be honest this was kind of scary for our preachers too. There has always been the pastor/lay person mentality here that only the preacher can do these things. But it creates a healthier body when ever part does its work. They are finding that it's easier "to do it all myself", as they actually spend more time teaching and training the young people to lead in the services, but are beginning to see positive things happen by involving the youth!

            Now the young people are not only leading, preaching, Sunday school teaching, but also evangelism, pastoral visiting, hospital visiting and follow up of new contacts. Already we have several who are saying they want to go to Bible College to train to become full time workers! This is what we have hoped and prayed about and now see it coming to pass!

            And this also encourages the adults to be more involved as well. We hear lots of positive comments from the preachers and church members over this program so we are praising God for how He is working in their hearts and lives.

                                       

                                                       

                                  MORE  BAPTISMS

            We had 5 more baptisms this month in Koddai Kallar and rejoice over these new babes in Christ. One was our nephew Shadrach which was a real joy to see and 3 others were from one family a mother and 2 of her daughters.
            She has 2 other daughters one who is member of our church and another who is a member of another church in another village close by. Through their constant witness and encouragement their mother and 2 younger sisters accepted Christ.
            We can see a visible, physical change in the mothers face now that she has accepted Christ. And we continue to pray for the father to accept Christ as well.
            During our staff meetings it is always a joy to hear the words; we're doing baptism classes with some of the new people. We have always done this to make sure that the people understand before baptism that this is the beginning of a new life completely changed from their old life. And most that go through these classes are stronger and more faithful because of these classes.

         SOME OF THE BEST MONEY WE'VE SPENT

            A few months ago you may remember we wrote of the van that we purchased.  This continues to be a great blessing not only to us but to the entire ministry! It serves as taxi after church services many times, an ambulance on occasion, and building materials transport vehicle too. So far even with higher fuel and maintenance costs we are not spending much more than when we hired the three wheel taxi's, vans, and trucks to haul things.
            Soon after we purchased the van we had our name and logo put on it. This has been an unforeseen blessing. Now with Lamp Lighters printed on the side at most check points, which there are more than ever, even if we are stopped they only ask a couple of questions and then let us go. Some of the ones close by don't even bother to stop us anymore. Also we have learned that they are not to inspect the baggage carried in an NGO (non government organization) vehicle. So this speeds things up as well, especially when we travel to Colombo.
            How God uses even some of the small what we think of as insignificant
things, like lettering on the van, as a way to bless us.


 

                    

                                                PRAYER REQUESTS

1.  More faithful workers to join with us and God to raise up more workers within our churches.
2.  Finances to build a new building in Periyaneelavanai and also property and a building in Onthachimadam.
3.  More people to come to Christ

4.  God's continued blessing and protection as things are very unstable politically right now in our area.
5.  Completion of our house so we can better care for the children we keep with us.

                              

                                 SAD DAY FOR US

            This month we received an email from Melanie. In it were words we hoped we would never hear, but she informed us she was resigning as our secretary /office manager. She has been with us in this position from the time we formed Lamp Lighters eight years ago, a lot of work for little pay and has always done an excellent job.
            Whenever we were abroad we really didn't worry about things being done properly and in a timely way. She has always been there for us when things weren't going right and did her best from that end to make sure things went right.
            We will miss her being in this position but know God will continue to use
her in all she does.
              My sister Penny and her husband Ron will be handling things in the office for now. They have taken care of the "personal" things for us and now will do the ministry work too.

    I have been truly blessed working with Steve & Shanthi and all the supporters!  Thank you for the opportunity to get to know some of you in person and others through your mail!  May God Bless each of  you as well as Lamp Lighters!          Melanie.  


 
 
 
MAY NEWSLETTER

 
 
 

Lamp Lighters World Ministries

May 1, 2008

 

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ,

            As I sit and write and count the months we only have 6 months left of
our stay here before we return to the States. It doesn't seem possible that a year and a half have gone by. We had made plans before we came as to what we would like to accomplish during our stay this time but things haven't worked exactly as we had planned. We simply ask for you to continue to remember us in your prayers and pray that we will accomplish all God wants done!
We've gone from very cool and wet to very hot. The heat is normal for
this time of year, but never seen rain like this before. It rained hard again               2 days ago so our humidity is pretty high too.
We do thank God for you and ask for his blessing on you for your faithful support and prayers for us. We pray that God is using you for his glory and honor where you are serving him there as well.

            In Christ, Steve & Shanthi

     THE FIRST TIME EVER IN SRI LANKA

          Each month the youth from our 4 churches get together for a full day program of worship, teaching, fellowship and some fun.  This is coordinated by a young man in our Koddai Kallar church, Niranjan.
         He came to us as a Hindu to help with book work and such after the tsunami and within a few months became a Christian. He truly has a heart for Jesus Christ and has taken the youth program on as his way of serving God, and doing a very good job I might add.                                                                                                            

       In March we helped him with a wiener roast. Now this is nothing new to most of you but they had never seen or heard of anything like this before. We had tried a couple times before but always had to cancel it for one reason or another.
We had hot dogs of course, ours here are slightly different than in the States, potato salad and cole slaw thanks to recipes emailed by my sister Penny. With a few adjustments to the recipes, since some things are just not available here, we got everything pretty tasty, and marshmallows.
There were over 70 youth several new youth along with preachers and wives that came and several who showed up just to see what we were doing so we invited them to join in.
Everyone loved it especially roasting the marshmallows afterwards.   They kept asking for more long after they were all gone. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun too. Before we left that evening they were all asking when we would do it again.
We wanted the kids to have a good time but also a chance for them to reach out to others inviting new kids, which they did as well. Please pray that these new comers will see Jesus Christ lived out in the lives of our youth.

                                                             

RESURRECTION SUNDAY BRINGS NEW PEOPLE

Of course in March we celebrated Easter Sunday just as you did. In all our churches they had good crowds and most had new people who came for that  service.
All four churches have had an increase in attendance through this first quarter by God's grace and blessing. And there have been baptisms in all the churches as well.
One of the reasons for this we believe is that all our preachers set goals for this year in evangelism, discipleship, and challenging people, youth especially, to enter the ministry.
Every church now has more people involved in the labor of ministry than ever before and we are seeing the fruits of that. One preacher is even saying and praying that they on their own want to plant a new church in another village within the next year.   We praise God for the enthusiasm and for the new people who are coming and those who have accepted Christ.
I have always said I didn't want to just be an American preaching in a foreign country but to instill in the hearts of our preachers the need for evangelism and discipling. This is something sorely lacking in most churches in Sri Lanka. By God's grace we are seeing this begin to happen in our churches.

           PRICES CONTINUE TO ESCALATE 

We've mentioned before that our prices have really gone up in the last few months and they continue to rise. This is really taking a bite out of our budget caring for the kids in our home. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining just the facts as they are. We just got an email from our preacher Rennie in Trinidad saying that food and everything else there is much higher as well. From what we hear things are like that in the States too, global inflation I guess. But God is faithful and He will continue to provide all we need.


 

                  NO SHORTAGE OF WORKERS

We've found over the years there is no shortage of workers who want to join with us. We've had several in the last few months in fact. Most times it's a matter of they want a monthly check, sorry to say, or someone who will support what they want to do where they want to do it.
I'm not saying that all are greedy or that they are unwilling to accept instruction or work where we want them to. God has given us co-workers here that are truly a blessing and are working hard for the sake of the Gospel.
One of the requests we frequently make from you is that you will pray for more workers to join with us in ministry here. We ask for God to do this everyday in our prayer time. There is such a need here in our area for churches to be planted and workers who will do the work of an evangelist!
Sometimes as we drive through our area we pray for and discuss villages where there is no church or only one small church for literally thousands of people. We just were in an area like this a few days ago. Hundreds of new homes built after the tsunami, literally thousands of people living in that area and not one church. Oh how we need to take Jesus' instruction seriously, to pray for workers to enter the harvest fields which are ripe and ready.
We think of this quite often even in the villages where we are presently working and even though our churches are growing there are tens of thousands in these villages who have not yet heard of the love of Jesus Christ. Please pray with us for faithful workers!


 

    CONSTRUCTION ON HOUSE CONTINUES                                             

We're can finally see the light at the end of the first tunnel, completion of the downstairs section of our house. It will be so nice to have an actual kitchen again, to be able to move some of the kids back into the house and regain use of our living room which has become food storage/ bedroom/construction material staging area.
It has taken it seems a long time but actually has progressed well in spite of all the rain, pray that God will provide the necessary funds to complete the upstairs portion as well.


 

PRAYER REQUESTS
1. Faithful workers to join with us in our area.
2.Funds to build a new building in Periyaneelavanai.
3.Property and for a church building in Onthachimadam.
4. Completion of our house

5.More people to accept Jesus Christ as Lord

 
 
 
MARCH/APRIL NEWSLETTER

 
 
 

Happy Easter!

Lamp Lighters World Ministries
 Joplin, Missouri

March & April 2008

Dear Fellow Laborer in Christ,

February seems to have slipped past before we even realized it!

Our weather here has been fickle to say the least. We’ve been having usually heavy rain for this time of year and then we’ll have days when it is hotter than usual. Then we’ll have nights when it gets as cool as it usually does during monsoon season and we reduce the fan speed and sometimes sleep without it. Because of all this many people are having lots of trouble with sinuses, colds, fevers, flu etc. We’ve had our share in our household as well.

I had 2 days when I had fever along with violent chills like I’ve never had before. The doctor gave me some antibiotics as he said I had a viral fever. Anyway they seemed to work and after a couple of days I was back to my normal self.

I don’t mean to sound as if I’m complaining as these things happen to everyone everywhere we just had a lot of it all this month.

We do thank you for your faithful prayers and support for us. God is blessing us through you and we pray that he will bless you as well. We pray for you frequently that God will use you where you are to his glory as well.

                                                In Christ,    Steve & Shanthi

 

SITUATION WITH WAR GROWING WORSE

We hope that you will remember when you pray for safety for us and all our workers and families here because of the war going on.

Things have really taken a turn for the worse within the last few months especially. More police and military checkpoints have opened up making travel more difficult and time consuming. All buses now must unload and show identification and the bus and any bags or packages searched.

There have been numerous shootings, bombings etc. from both sides in our area more than I ever have seen and much closer than before as well.

This past Sunday I had just stood up to preach in the Mahiloor church with Shanthi translating when we heard a large explosion not far away. Later we found out it was a suicide bomber headed down the main road about 1 ½ miles from us.

He was carrying a bomb to detonate at the nearby military camp. Before he got there some men of the Karuna group, the split off from the LTTE which are now allied with the government strange I know, they saw him and became suspicious and stopped him. As he could not escape he set off the bomb killing a few of them right in front of a small Hindu temple and close to a government building.

A couple of weeks ago there had been some information given that the Foursquare Gospel church in our village was hiding weapons on their property. The military rolled in one evening with about 100 soldiers. The literally dug up the entire church property and arrested the preacher, his wife, and children. Later they released his wife and children but continued to question him throughout the night. He and the church were NOT involved, but this is just another problem no one is beyond suspicion.

Because of all these things everyone is noticeably on edge. Peace seems further from a possibility than ever before. Please pray for this country and it’s leaders.

                                        

 

FIRST TIME EVER

We celebrated one of our kids birthdays this past week, Sowmia turned 12 years old. We had celebrated her birthday in past years but this year we did it on the correct day!

Up until just a few months ago we never had her birth certificate and no one knew her date of birth. They had always said she and Darshini, her youngest sister, were born on the same day but that turned out to be incorrect. She was thrilled of course as now she didn’t have to “share” her birthday with her sister.

All of the kids are doing well, but to be honest they are a handful, well more like a houseful!

We love them and do all we can to try and help them in their studies. Each goes for special tutoring classes which are necessary here due to the poor quality of the school systems. Most of all we try to instill in them a love for Jesus and it is a joy to hear them singing Christian songs on their own while they are washing dishes or their clothes or whatever.

Vijay the oldest, whom we were having some problems with a few months ago, seems to have turned a corner in his growing up and is much happier than a few months ago.

Please continue to pray for all these kids in our home.

 GOALS SET BY PREACHERS FOR EVANGELISM

Every year we encourage our preachers here to set goals for what they want to see happen in their respective churches.

I was always taught if you aim at nothing you’re sure to hit it.               

We have always told them to set God sized goals, those things they can say God must be involved in it for this to happen.

This year we have finally gotten through to them I guess and we were very happy to hear all their plans during one staff meeting, especially for reaching the lost.

They also set goals in discipling other workers and leaders in their churches.

They have indeed set some high goals and God will have to be in them for it to become a reality. Everyone has hit the ground running and with God’s help and blessing we look forward to seeing many souls brought to Christ this year.

PRAYER REQUESTS                    

1. Peace for this nation and God’s protection for us our family and workers.
2. For more workers to join us in the ministry here.
3. Growth in the churches, God’s blessing on the goals and plans set by our preachers.
4. For God to open the eyes of the spiritually blind to his truth.
5. Funds to complete our house remodel
6. Funds to begin the church building and quarters in Periyaneelavanai

 

 
 
February Newsletter
 
 
 

 

 Dear Fellow Laborer in Christ,

     This month I am reminded of my Grandma Beard for something I heard her say many times, "the hurrier I go the behinder I get". I know it's not correct
English, it was never one of my strong subjects anyway, but that is how we
feel right now I guess. We've had so much happening this month at the end
of each day we wonder where it went!
     This past month we've had 3 young men we had shared Christ with that are
no longer living all leaving wives and families. One committed suicide,
one was shot by the Army here in our village as being part of the LTTE (we
don't know), and one was shot by the police simply by being in the wrong
place at the wrong time, they were trying to shoot someone else who
actually escaped.
      Each one had shared that they wanted to come to church and would start but not right now. How quickly our time here on earth disappears and then we
must stand before God to give an account.
      I'm also reminded of Paul's statement of "redeem the time for the days are
evil". We all have so much to do and so much we need to be doing in
service to our Lord and Savior Jesus but seems we run out of time before
we get it done. We all have our "reasons" but the simple fact is sometimes
we lose sight of eternity and get caught up in the here and now.
     Please pray with us and for us that when we all stand before Him we will
all be able to say, we redeemed the time.
     We do thank you form our hearts for your faithful prayers and support for
this ministry. We continually thank God for you and your love for Him and
His kingdom and sharing with us!

                                                In Christ, Steve & Shanthi

                 HOME REMODEL TAKES A TURN

        
I had mentioned last month that we had begun the remodeling of our house in order to better accommodate the kids in our home and have an adequate kitchen. This has turned into a bigger project than we had planned. Mainly due to the fact we found termites in our ceilings. They had eaten almost every ceiling joist of the   2 bedrooms, dining room and kitchen. They were literally hanging by paper thin pieces of wood and held up by the trim boards. On removing the trim around one   4 x 4 ceiling sheet it fell on my head. Needless to say I saw stars not to mention that it broke the sheet.
        Then we found they had been going through the cement and brick walls to get to the ceiling only recently had we seen any evidence of what was happening but didn't realize it was this bad. In order to get rid of them
we've had to entirely demolish the East half of our house and found the
area of the main nest under the cement floor. So we've had to take extra
measures to try and get rid of them and prevent them from coming up
through the new foundations and walls.
        I guess Murphy's Law has hit us in this project. In addition to this we've had huge downpours which we usually don't have this time of year. This has caused several days of delay for the work to continue. The good part is the water soaking through the floors made most of the termites swarm so hopefully the extra work, materials, and spray will be enough to keep them from coming back.

NEW MEMBERS IN PERIYANEELAVANAI                                               

       This past month there were 7 baptisms in the Periyaneelavanai church one of these was an older gentleman who has been coming to church for several months now. The original contact with him was through a hospital visit.
      Some were new youth that have been coming to church. And there is one more young girl who wants to be baptized.  We are rejoicing to see the new growth in this church and know that God and his angels are rejoicing too!
      Vijay and Ananthy are busy working and making new contacts almost every week. This growth emphasizes the great need we have for a new worship building and preachers quarters in Periyaneelavanai.

   CHURCH WORKER TO MARRY

    
We are happy to announce the upcoming marriage of one of our workers, John.
     Our first contact with John was several years ago when we had gone to Trincomalee for a visit. His mother was a member in our Koddai Kallar congregation. By God's providence we met her at the bus station. She told us she was there because her son was in the hospital.
      He'd had a lot of problems in his life and had decided to drink poison to kill himself. But for God's reasons the poison didn't kill him.
      When we met John he was lying in the hospital bed unable to speak and  barely able to move. But he could understand what we said. We shared with him that God loved him and cared about him and that God had a plan for his life. We prayed with them and left. The doctors didn't expect him to live but God indeed had other plans.
      John did survive and when he was able to leave the hospital immediately began going to church which he had never done before, and soon was baptized.
      He then moved to Koddai Kallar to live with his parents due to physical problems from the poison he drank. He was having frequent seizures and other health problems but his love for Christ and desire to serve him remained steadfast through it all.
       He attended the Gospel for Asia Bible School until it was destroyed in December 2004 by the tsunami, and then spoke with us concerning how he could be helpful in the ministry work.
        Because of his limited ability we wondered how to best use him and finally decided that he could do hospital visitation and prayer. This he began to do with great zeal.
        We have people in 3 of our churches now directly because of John's visiting and sharing Christ with them in the hospital.
        He will marry February 9th to a girl who is also involved in ministry and they will soon after move to Periya Kallar to continue the hospital ministry and assist with the Sunday school program there.

                        

                    PRAYER REQUESTS

1. God's blessing on John and his new wife and the ministry they will be
doing.

2. God's provision of funds for the new building we want to start in
Periyaneelavanai.

3. More faithful workers to enter into the ministry with us in this area.

4. Quick completion of our house remodel despite all the   problems so far.

5. God to be glorified in our ministry here
 

July - December 2007 

Office Expenses                                  $  1,680.00

Payroll:           Personnel                       15,598.00

                        National Evangelist         5,420.00

                        Overseas Projects          6,625.00

                                                        Van Purchase              35,000.00

Total Expenses                                   $64,323.00

Total Support Received                     $51,025.00

 

 
     
 


JANUARY 2007 NEWSLETTER
 

 
 

                                     

                                              January 1, 2008 

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ,

            By the time you receive this newsletter, the new year will have already come, but even so we want to wish all of you a very Happy New Year! We pray that God will
bless and use you even more this year than last.

            Our Christmas season was very busy as I'm sure yours was. We had 7 Christmas programs the week before Christmas and one more today which should finish all of them. Our youth from all 4 churches went caroling on 3 different night's usually arriving back home well after midnight each night 2 of which it was raining the entire time they were out. In spite of this they had a great time and we pray that people will have had seeds planted in their hearts and some watered as well for the Gospel and that the church believers will have been encouraged.

            We're looking forward to how God is going to work in our ministry this new year. We've seen some growth and many changes this past year for which we give God the praise and thanks.

            We always remember you in our prayers and thank God for your faithfulness in prayer and finance for this ministry. He has provided for all our needs through you all year long and we praise Him for what he has done.

                                                               In Christ, Steve & Shanthi

 

                              

PRAYERS AND PLANS  FOR THIS NEXT YEAR

     This is kind of an expanded prayer list with which we usually have in the newsletter. These are some of our concerns and what we would like to do depending upon God to provide everything  necessary.

1. Of course our top concern and priority is to continue in the work ourselves along with our preachers and other workers to establish more churches and see more people accept Christ in our present churches.

2. More faithful workers to reach other villages with the Gospel.

3. We are praying and searching for a single young man who will serve God with us here and be a mate for Nona. In this culture she is somewhat limited by being a single young lady. In spite of this she continues to reach out to adults older than herself with the Gospel along with teaching 2 Sunday schools in Periya Kallar. But it is not easy or safe for her to go out by herself.

4. A lady who can come to help us with the kids in our home and look after them when we return to the States later in the year.

5. Remodeling of our home with more very much needed bedroom and kitchen space along with a garage to keep the van. We've already begun this but it will stretch out awhile as God supplies the finances.

6. A church building and preachers house in Periyaneelavanai where Vijay and Ananthy minister. We have a property already which has an old building which was a bakery on it. We've been using this since the tsunami of 2004 which destroyed our previous building. The building is literally falling down; it is beyond repair and must be replaced. Also in this culture people look for a "church building" both Christian and non Christian alike.

7. A property and church building in Onthachimadam where Asirvatham and Grace minister. We are using a property and have built a temporary building on it but it is too small and the property is not a good location for a church in that people have to walk too far and in monsoon season, which is right now, walk through standing water mid calf deep to get to the building for services.

8. A property in Periya Kallar for future church building and preachers housing.

9. God's direction as far as a children's home. This has always been one of our concerns over the years. The government has just instituted even more regulations which will make it even more difficult for us to operate a home. We've found this out from homes which are currently in operation in our area. Even though there is a great need for homes the government doesn't have finances to build and maintain them but at the same time they don't want church sponsored homes either.

10. Most of all God's leading and direction in everything we want to accomplish that it will be according to his will and that He alone will be glorified through what we do.                                                                                                                                         

                               

                             POWER OF PRAYER

      We have a young lady in our Onthachimadam church whom we baptized a few years ago. She has truly grown strong in her faith and has even begun occasionally leading the worship time on Sunday mornings. She does visiting and witnessing to her family and neighbors and is a real encouragement to the church.

      Her brother in law, Sasi, who was our carpenter for the Koddai Kallar church, had a falling out with his parents, brother and sisters which is a very long story.

       Sasi came to our home one evening and was sharing the things which had been happening to him or not happening is a better description. His story was that his family had a "contract" put on him with the Karuna party, the split off group of the LTTE, but they could never find him when they came looking for him. So when this didn't work they went to a Muslim witch doctor, the only way I know to describe him, to have a charm put on him so that it would kill him or destroy his life.

       The witch doctor finally told the family that he couldn't get any of his charms to work against Sasi. When the family asked why nothing worked he told them it is because of some woman named Thialini is praying for his protection. This is the lady in our church.

       The witch doctor didn't know who she was, had never met her, that she was a relative or anything except her name which he said a demon had told him, that she was a Christian and that her prayers kept all his charms from working.

         I relate this story for a couple of reasons. We are all in a desperate struggle against the forces of evil and Satan and his demons whether we realize it or not. When we pray in faith and truly believe that God will act, He will! And no power of Satan can overcome the power of our God!

 

                                                   

                             REJOICING ANGELS

       One night in our family devotion time I asked the kids which character in the Christmas story besides Jesus they liked most of all, most of them said the angels. We talked about the messages the angels gave to several different people and then shared what makes them rejoice today is when someone gives their life to Jesus.

     We had 5 more people who were baptized in the Nagapuram Mahiloor church during December. One of these was the husband of one of our faithful ladies who had received one of the tsunami houses we built. Throughout most of his life had been a drinker, smoker etc. and even though we had shared Christ with him, he was simply not interested.

       At 76 years of age, it was with great rejoicing of the angels and us; we saw him finally accept Christ and baptized.

 

 

 
     


Lamplighters World Ministries primary goal is to go to countries where the gospel has not been preached, or limited work has been done to establish Churches in those countries.  Founders Steve and Shanthi Bycroft work with the people of Sri Lanka.
 


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