LITERATURE4AFRICA ANNUAL REPORT 2020

“I will praise the LORD according to His righteousness and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.” Psalm 7:17 
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Dear Friends, Intercessors and Sponsors.
We greet you in the precious Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
It has been a very fast and full year indeed in spreading the Gospel of Christ through literature distribution and various other ministry opportunities.

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CONTAINERS & BOXED RESOURCES RECEIVED
Between 01 December 2019 and 30 November 2020, Literature4Africa received 5 container shipments. Love Packages sent 4 and World Missionary Press sent one container shipment. Operation Mobilization, Special Projects, sponsored us 1 pallet with 36 boxes, a total of 932 Bibles in Indigenous African Language Bibles. Chapel Library sent 3 boxes, a total of 2 160 Christ Centred Booklets and Tracts from prior Centuries. Trinitarian Bible Society sponsored us with 32 Full Bibles and 66 New Testaments (KJV).

During 2020, Literature4Africa received 93 pallets of resources. (A pallet is roughly one metric tonnes of materials).

STATISTICS
Literature4Africa received 22,930 Bibles; 50,160 Theology and Library (Incl. New books) books; 30,660 Children Sunday School booklets and manuals; 122,400 Tracts; 2,160 Chapel Library booklets; 72,000 Gospel of John and Epistle of Romans booklets; 86,400 Youth/Adult Group Study packs, magazines and devotional booklets, 23,100 Bible Study Books; 42,000 Open Windows, Daily Bread and Upper room Devotionals; 5,640 Other items like Family Cards, Discipleship booklets; 12,722 DVDs and CDs; 2,048,000 World Missionary Press Gospel booklets.

A total of 2,518,172 Scriptural, Evangelistic and Discipleship items was received from our overseas sponsors. We had 13 tonnes of resources left from last year. Having received 93 tonnes during 2020, we had a total of 106 tonnes to work with and we distributed 62 tonnes during this year.
On the 10th of December 2020 we loaded 20 of the remaining 44 tonnes of resources which are currently being transported for Churches in Zambia.
 
MINISTRY & EVENTS
Faith Community Church in Lavender Hill, Cape Town invited me to speak at their Back-to-School Service. What an opportunity it was to distribute books to school children, college and university students as well as teachers and lecturers within that community.

During August, we had our Women’s Day Outreaches where we distributed over 13 493 items (Bibles, NT, Books, Family Cards, Leaflets, WMP’s as well as John & Romans booklets) at various Shopping Centers and Outreach points.

Africa Christian Action’s Life Chain Sunday was held on 4th of October and we distributed 5 720 items (Abortion Tracts & WMP booklets).

Later that same month Read & Write Solutions invited Literature4Africa to have a Literature Resource Table during their Training Seminar and all the trainees, which included many Muslims, could receive free Christian resources.

Frontline has regular Biblical Preaching Workshops throughout the year for Pastors, Teachers and Evangelist; those participants who attended our recent workshop greatly benefit from the Study Bibles and Theology books donated.
 
COURIER & POSTAL SERVICE
Before lockdown, L4A mostly used the postal service for requests / orders received from Churches and Ministries across our provincial borders. These requests include Bibles, Discipleship, Evangelism, Audio Visuals and Teaching resources. Since our provincial borders opened for courier services to operate, most of our cross-province order were transported through couriers. Literature4Africa sent a total of 7 orders through Postal Service and 19 orders through courier services. The biggest order through courier services was the 1 tonne (256 boxes) of WMP Gospel booklets to Jesus in the Workplace International Ministries in Gauteng Province.
 
BULK DISTRIBUTIONS
Somerset Hospital in Cape Town opened the warmer seasons with a Spring Event and they collected a tonne of study, evangelism and devotional materials for staff and patients. Amelia from Bible Arts in George prepared gift packs for a children event and 1 tonne of resources for children were collected. AFM Kingsway in Kwazulu-Natal collected 1 pallet of English and Zulu WMP’s for Outreaches. Reini Coetzee of Revelation Ministries in Eastern Cape collected 2 tonnes of resources for Feeding Schemes and Street Ministry. Every Home for Christ collected half ton WMP’s for distribution in Gauteng Province. Missionary Roy Reddy who is reaching out to Schools and Prisons collected a pallet of resources. Leo Baan, a missionary in Swaziland collected one tonne of materials which included Theology, Bibles, Audio Visuals, Discipleship and Evangelism for Pastors, Bible Schools Students and Evangelists.
 
WITH GRATITUDE
John Henry Jowett, a British preacher of an earlier generation, said this about gratitude: “Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” What did he mean? He meant that gratitude, like a vaccine, can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled, discouraged spirit. Like an antitoxin, gratitude can prevent the effects of the poisons of cynicism, criticalness, and grumbling. Like an antiseptic, a spirit of gratitude can soothe and heal the most troubled spirit. Without a doubt, we could spend much time focusing on the many things that went wrong during the past year, but I want to remind ourselves of the tremendous importance and calling we have as a people of Thankfulness to serve in God’s Kingdom.

Thank you very much for supporting the Work and Witness of Literature4Africa (L4A) at Frontline Fellowship. Your support enables us to continue to provide quality Christian Resources and Love-in-Action for Pastors, Churches, Chaplains, Bible Schools, Missionaries and Evangelists throughout South Africa, as we serve Christians, work for Biblical Reformation and pray for Spiritual Revival amongst God’s children.

Thanks to God for all those who had a hand in preparing, packaging, loading, shipping and financing these vital literature resources.

The pictures and testimonies which follows, attest of your Labours of Love, Care and Service towards the Kingdom of God. As we constantly grow in the knowledge of Christ Jesus, we trust the Lord, that together with you, we may continue our labour’s with peace in our souls, trusting and absolutely committing ourselves and our all to His management. May you be encouraged by the emails from the Literature4Africa mailbag as we share our gratitude for your faithfulness and support.
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Yours for the Fulfilment of the Great Commission.