CLC World 2014 issue 4

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Are you struggling to find truly impactful gifts for Christmas?

This year give a ‘LIFE-CHANGING’ gift with CLC!

Make a gift to any of the CLC projects found inside and put the corresponding gift slip into the Christmas cards of your friends and loved ones.

Thank you, God bless you & Happy Christmas!

CLC Lille, France

Together let’s make sure Bibles and other Christian resources are available to those currently in need and for future generations!

Because of your support we are able to impact thousands of lives daily in over 50 countries!

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INTERNA

Antigua & Barbuda Kenya Austria Martinique Bangladesh Mexico Barbados Mozambique Belarus Myanmar Benin Netherlands Bolivia Pakistan Bulgaria Panama Burkina Faso Papua New Guinea Canada Philippines Central Asia (3) Poland Chile Portugal Colombia Romania Cyprus Russia Dominica Sierra Leone Ecuador South Korea France Spain Germany Swaziland Guadaloupe Switzerland Hungary Thailand India Trinidad and Tobago Indonesia United Kingdom Italy United States Côte d’Ivoire Uruguay Japan Venezuela

From all of us at CLC, THANK YOU!

CLC International (UK)

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As another year comes to a close, I pray that we are all able to take some time to reflect on all the blessings and joy 2014 has brought. I hope that whatever challenges you have faced this year, you can clearly see God’s hand of provision and guidance through it. If not yet, then hang in there — He is with you! May you truly feel His presence this Christmas and take the time to share His love with those around you.

In an effort to help share God’s Word throughout the world this Christmas, we hope you will consider giving one of these donated ‘CLC project’ gifts to a friend who also shares your heart for missions!

Thank you, God bless you and we hope you truly have a happy Christmas with your friends and family this year.

Amanda Lutes, CLC World Magazine Editor

This Christmas why not give a life-changing gift?

CLC Portugal’s Project of Love: Bibles for Africa!

With the help of local African ministries and your support, we’ve already been able to give away hundreds of Bibles to those in communities like Luanda, Angola.

Thank you so much!

To learn more about CLC, visit www.clc.org.uk

I’ve Bought You A Life-Changing Gift!

A donation has been made towards CLC Belarus’

Russian Bible Project!

This donation is helping CLC Belarus to publish beautiful Russian Bibles within their country for approximately £5 each. The availability of these affordable Bibles is making a huge impact to outreach ministries within Belarus and Russia.

‘Print on Demand’ needed for CLC Kenya & CLC Philippines Praise Update: Thank God for the donation of a POD (Print on Demand) machine to CLC Myanmar! The equipment arrived in July and an expert travelled to Yangon to set it up and give on-site training to the team. As the name suggests, this machine prints, collates, covers and binds a single book in just a few minutes. Praise the Lord for this wonderful gift and pray for the ministry impact it will have across the nation. Printing on demand lowers both the reliance on imports (if you are a wholesaler) and the investment needed to produce and then store traditional print runs (if you are a publisher).

To learn more about CLC, visit www.clc.org.uk

I’ve Bought You A Life-Changing Gift!

A donation has been made for CLC UK’s Project for

CLC Mozambique!

This donation is helping CLC UK send a shipping container filled with shelving, stock and other goods that are desperately needed by our team in CLC Mozambique. The cost to ship a container to Mozambique is approximately £5000.

This Christmas why not give a life-changing gift?

I’ve Bought You A Life-Changing Gift!

A donation has been made towards CLC Portugal’s

Bibles for Africa Project!

With every donation of £5, CLC Portugal is able to send a Portuguese Bible to someone desperately in need in Africa. Those who have already received these Bibles include pastors, refugees, children and theology students.

More about CLC Belarus’ Russian Bible Project: Did you know that currently there is only one evangelical Christian bookshop in all of Belarus?

The profits from the sale of these Bibles is being split between the cost of publishing more of these Bibles, as well as setting funds aside to open a second bookshop in Belarus as one is desperately needed in the capital of Minsk.

Visit clc.org.uk to learn more about CLC.

I’ve Bought You A Life-Changing Gift!

A donation has been made for CLC Kenya’s & CLC Philippines’:

’Print on Demand’ Project!

Christian books CHANGE lives, but making sure they are available and affordable is always a challenge! ‘Print on Demand’ systems are key to seeing areas challenged by shipping and publishing costs thrive in the future. (These systems generally cost upwards of £12,000.)

Why send a shipping container to CLC Mozambique?

Early this year, our shop in Mozambique was devastated by TERMITES! They ruined the shelving units, office equipment and the stock! As you can imagine, this has greatly impacted the ministry of our team. CLC UK and some amazing supporters have put together a great selection of books, shelving and other necessary goods to get them back up and running smoothly! Your donation we will help us cover the cost of sending this shipping container all the way to Mozambique. Thank you!

For more details about CLC, visit www.clc.org.uk

Thanking God for all He has done in 2014 and looking foward to what the future holds...

Although 2014 started with the sad closure of the CLC Bookshop in Kingston upon Thames due to falling sales and an unsustainable future, things greatly improved at our Stephenson Street branch in Birmingham when the street became an access point for New Street train station. This boost was then followed in August by the joyful opening of the CLC Carrs Lane Bookshop, also in Birmingham. We are very excited and thankful to God for these two city centre shops! Would you pray with us for their growing impact on the city and its surrounding area?

Given that, in general terms, the UK high street is shrinking, can we encourage you, dear reader, to regularly visit (and buy from) your local Christian bookshop — if you still have one — and to encourage others to do so too? It’s not just a much-needed place of ministry, resourcing and fellowship, but also a place of outreach and witness. Our shop teams daily meet people who are searching for God and meaning in their lives, but who do not always feel comfortable going into a church.

Despite the general decline in bookshops here in the UK, we are thrilled to report that our warehouse team won the CRT Distributor of the Year award again this year — that’s three years in a row! (2012 - 2014) They have been doing such a fantastic job supplying bookshops and other ministries that the mission is trusting the Lord for a move to larger premises somewhere in or above the Midlands in 2015. This is quite a challenge and we are still looking for a suitable place! Please pray with us.

As an international mission, we are committed, where possible, to profiling and supporting the needs of Christian literature-related projects around the world.

Thanks to your purchases we are able to do so! A huge thank you also to those whose gifts have been sent in to support of our team members and projects, such a Shop-in-a-Box, Bibles for Africa and for Belarus.

May God richly bless you as we have been blessed by your partnership. These gifts, whether regular or oneoff or for people or projects, help us share Jesus and change lives worldwide. We are where we are today because people like you have generously supported the charity's purposes.

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Legacies: Legacies have made such a big difference to our ministry and global outreach, providing finance for our bigger projects and enabling the start-up of CLC ministries in a ‘new’ country. By including CLC International (UK) in your will, you enable us to continue playing our part in the Great Commission.

We quite understand that you want to remember your family and friends in your will. Yet, by including CLC International (UK) too, your legacy can support and resource mission groups around the world as well as outreaches locally to future generations. Whether large or small, we gratefully commit to using each gift prayerfully and with integrity in full accord with any instructions given. For more information, see page 6.

By the time you read this, I will have taken on other roles in the mission. It really has been a privilege to lead such a great team since late 2008 through some, at times, very difficult situations. Do pray for God’s grace, guidance and empowering for my successor, General Manager Eddie Olliffe, as he seeks to keep the mission on track and oversee things as we transition towards recruiting my replacement, possibly in the second quarter of 2015.

My deepest gratitude for all you do to support mission work around the world – not just through CLC. May this season be full of blessing, promise and opportunity for you in the Lord, whom we serve together in faith and expectancy.

Yours, in His great love, Phil Burnham, National Director, 2008-2014

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Let’s make a difference together this

CHRISTMAS!

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Here are two more life-changing Christmas gifts!

I’ve Bought You A Life-Changing Gift!

A donation has been made to the CLC Ministry or Project in

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CLC countries such as Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cyprus, Dominica, Pakistan, Spain and Swaziland are just a few of our ministries that are currently facing what sometimes seem like ‘overwhelming’ challenges or have projects in need of funds. Your gift makes a significant impact! Thank you!

Why support a CLC UK Missionary?

Have you ever wondered why CLC does not pay all its workers a salary? Well, the short answer is the fewer funds CLC has to pay out for salaries and other overhead costs, the more we can send to international teams who are desperately in need of our support or we can begin a literature ministry in a new country. In fact, did you know that a certain percentage of our annual sales goes towards this purpose as our way of tithing? For this reason, you’ll find many of our team members are either supported as ‘faith-based’ missionaries or are living on a very low income because they believe so strongly in God’s calling for them with CLC. Supporting your local CLC team really can make all the difference to our ministry in your community and around the world!

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Here are two more life-changing Christmas gifts!

CLC members of our teams in LIBERIA and SIERRA LEONE

Please pray for the protection and provision for our ministries of those countries listed previously and especially for our teams in Liberia and Sierra Leone during the devastating EBOLA outbreak! Our team members are all nationals and they continue to be challenged daily to know what the best course of action is for their ministry and families.

Learn more about CLC, visit www.clc.org.uk

I’ve Bought You A Life-Changing Gift!

A donation has been made to support

CLC UK Missionaries!

This donation will be a great encouragement and support to many members of our team!

Thank you for believing in our ministry as much as we do! Learn more at www.clc.org.uk

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Are you involved with your local school? Many churches are actively seeking to build relationships with nearby schools so that the Christian faith is well represented.

Speaking Volumes is a charitable book trust that allows you to do just that! They have set up a scheme that essentially provides a subsidy for you to buy books for your local school or another institution at HALF the retail price! (A typical pack for a primary school will now cost only around £100.)

Viv Whitton, CLC board member from Hull, reported recently: 'A youth worker and a school governor from our church jumped at the idea, and we ended up supplying packs to 3 schools, 2 nurseries and the local prison! Speaking Volumes recommended a collection for each age group which these organisations were very happy to receive. Plus another local trust here in Hull were pleased to donate the funds needed to cover the book/media packs. These resources were then presented at an assembly or other occasion.'

Why not let CLC do all the hard work for you?

We’ll source the Christian resources, liaise with Speaking Volumes, supply the dust jackets, etc., and we will even deliver direct to the school. You can even make your own selection of books from the Speaking Volumes range if you want.

Join with CLC and Speaking Volumes to help support local ministries, build strong relationships in your community, and most importantly greatly impact lives with exceptional Christian resources! It really is a WIN-WIN-WIN situation!

St. John’s School Hull, UK

Do you want your children to read good Christian books? Of course you do.

Visit www.speakingvolumes.org.uk or email your nearest CLC bookshop to learn more!

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