JESUS NEVER FAILS:
TINY BOOKLET IS MAKING A BIG
Jesus never fails. When facing difficulties in life, it’s a message that Christians everywhere need to be reminded of. As he traveled the world as the founder of LHF, meeting Christians young and old, Rev. Robert Rahn came back to this message again and again. Finally, he decided the time had come to write a small booklet or tract that could be shared with anyone needing to hear the Good News. “Friends fail us. Things fail us. Health fails us,” he wrote, “But there is One who never fails us – our Savior, Jesus Christ.” LHF first published the booklet in English in late
Now, a third printing of the little 12-page booklet (40,000 copies) is underway, but just as excitingly, its message of peace and everlasting life as a child of God is being embraced in more than a dozen countries. In South Sudan (pictured at right), LHF has printed and distributed “Jesus Never Fails” in the Zande language. Rev. Peter Anibati Abia, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Sudan, has had experiences that are encouraging him to accelerate its translation
2018, encouraging readers to share with shut-ins, the hospitalized and imprisoned. Those copies soon disappeared, and a second printing was claimed just as quickly.
into other South Sudanese languages. He shared: “Last night as I was sleeping, I got a call from an
Venezuela
only country where, when you come to the bakery, you need ask, ‘Is there bread today?’ because there may not be. “We’ve had no trash pick-up for two years, and many people around us haven’t had running water for two years, either.” Under such difficult circumstances, more than 4 million people mostly skilled and educated people - have fled Venezuela. Man would understand if Rev. Ernst and his wife, Luz Maria, were to f low, but they are committed to staying and serving. “It’s our work; it’s our calling,” explained Rev. Ernst. “Martin Lu refused to leave [Wittenburg] when there was a plague, becaus was called to minister to the people there. What would the peop here do if we left? What hope would they have? Who would min to them? And so we don’t see ourselves leaving.”
A MESSAGE OF HOPE
Above: Families from Epiphany Lutheran Church in La Caramuca, Venezuela display their Bible storybooks, provided by LHF. At right are pictured students from Epiphany’s after-school tutoring program.
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This message of hope - of a heavenly Father who loves His d children and is faithful to them through all earthly troubles and s - is being delivered through LHF books like the Spanish Bible w Small Catechism and children’s Bible storybook, A Child’s Garde of Bible Stories. More than 8,000 books have been sent to the L and they’re being delivered to the LCV’s 19 congregations as cir stances allow. “Facing our challenges, we try to emphasize through preachin and teaching that there’s a hope other than the things of this wo
