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Today, I was googling “Swahili Church” and realised that there are quite a number of swahili congregation in UK and US! Have contacted the few below asking if they require my bookmarks. In London – http://www.stanneslutheranchurch.org/swahili_congregation.htm In USA, Maryland, near D.C. – Sautinjiwa, Cathedral of Joy Let’s see if there is any reply, God willing! I am ushering 2009 with a sense of hope and anticipation! No doubt that worries of recession are at the back of my mind, but going into my 6th year of christian life, somehow I feel that it will be a year of change and therefore, a year to witness how God will work in my life. I designed and printed this business card size calendar to give away. Yellow is the color of hope and this yellow is the Color of the Year. With this verse Psalm 31: 24 ‘Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.’, I will cross into 2009 with hope in a few hours time.
I printed 5000 copies of these calendars. 3,400 given to 2 Shanghai churches, 360 to 2 Singapore churches, 700+ to my colleagues, 240+ to my friends and have 100 left. Anyone who wish to spread hope with this calendar, do contact me. My prayer that people who face changes in 2009 will hold fast to the hope that is in Jesus.
Thanks to my friend who provided this picture and I am so glad that she found my blog by ‘accident’! Need lots of prayer that God will use these bookmarks as a blessing; I only design and print them but do not know who they are meant to bless Swahili bible verse bookmarks are still available! for free! If you read the link to my blog post above, I have printed 1000 of each of the 7 designs; so far, my friend had brought back to Tanzania about 700, I had sent 200 to Terry in Atlanta, US. I have passed about 70 to (African) foreign student ministry in Shanghai, my bible study group and family & friends. Which means that I still have Update on 25th Apr 09, left with 1000! That is, 6000 bookmarks have been sent with God’s blessing! Update on 30th Apr 09, left with 600! Have sent Rhonda 400 for Kenyan trip under Heartsafire Update on 27th Jun 09, left with 90! (in fact, it can be considered as finished distribution of the 1st 7000 bookmarks!) Have sent Sandy 510 for her Burundi trip. I am thankful that God has allowed Terry and Gina to find my site but today, I had the urge to see who is out there who is serving the Swahili-speaking community and let them know about these FREE bookmarks! 1. World Christians 2. Mission Network News 3. Grace Ministries 4. FREE resources online Book Aid – this is a great ministry that collects old books and send to Asia and Africa. Maybe I should contact them to learn how to economize on sending books to missionary friends. As I am coming near to 5 full years in Christ and also close to completing my cover to cover one year bible reading, I am praying and thinking about how I should study the bible in 2009. A thought that came to me is to study the bible with a focus on understanding who God is; this is central to the purpose of this blog (i.e. to bring people closer to God through graphic design in a light-hearted manner e.g. with cartoons) and incidentally, I came across my blog post 3 years ago also emphasizing on staying connected to God. As to how to study (should I have a study plan or not be too regimental about it? Likely the latter will result in many hours recorded as wasted on my white board! (and yes, I do record my hours wasted as a reminder not to waste too much time!!), how to translate what I have studied to a blog entry and whether I will have daily design or cartoon inspiration to do that.., I really DON’T KNOW. Do pray with me on this issue as nothing can be more important than knowing who God is! As I wrote in my introduction, one of my small project is to help set up a library for friends I know who are on missions. My very first batch of 72 books were bought from Singapore, SKS book store, which I think is the biggest Christian store in Singapore. I selected the books based on: 1. Wide Category that included sunday school, easy to read (english) books, biography, sermon outlines, bible study (some tailored for women), thin books pocket sized books, classics by established writers (have purposely not purchased books by contemporary writers as most are geared towards america’s context) 2. Many books with low value and relatively thin and easy to read. The purpose is to diversify risk in case the books are lost and also more suitable than a thick book that takes longer to read and therefore one person may be hanging on to a book for too long. I divided the books into 2 boxes, reason is to diversify the risk of one box not getting sent. Both boxes are by air and registered. I may be sending some books to another friend in India but somehow I think that this way of sending books by air does not seem to be a very cost efficient way. Anyone with advice, please let me know! |
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