Philo Trust

Terry and Juanita Baker

Chairman and Trustee – Philo Trust

As a Trust we want to thank and bless all of you who so faithfully give to Philo Trust to support J.John’s ministry. Without your faithful support this ministry could not operate which would mean many people would not hear the Good News of Jesus Christ, and many Christians would not be equipped, resourced and helped in their daily walk with the Lord. Every pound, euro or dollar that is sown into Philo Trust is used wisely and we so appreciate your continued help to resource us so that we can resource others.

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As the rumbling underfoot from aftershocks gives way to the rumbling overhead of thunderstorms, new challenges emerge for a beleaguered Haiti.

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“New York City... a city for Christ.” We pray these words nearly every Sunday at C3 Church Manhattan. This may not be the first thing people think of when they consider New York, a city more often graced with nicknames like ‘Gotham’, ‘the Big Apple’ or ‘the city that never sleeps’. But across this incredible and diverse city, live great people who believe that this city - which serves as headquarters for finance, fashion and media - can also be a city where people experience the great love of Jesus in a whole new way.

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For the past ten years J.John has taught the Ten Commandments in towns and cities across the UK, teaching god’s truths to nearly one million people and seeing the power of god transform, heal and restore people in life-changing ways.

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A funny thing happened at ‘An Evening with J.John and Friends’ in Luton. I was reunited face to face with the man who led me to the Lord. I finished the evening not only listening and thanking God for all that has transpired over 30 years of fruitful service, but also sharing my testimony of how, in February 1985, I was confronted by the claims of the gospel and responded to Jesus as Lord and Saviour.

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Nas and Sheila Shaikh were born into Islamic families and brought up in the Islamic faith. Their testimony of how they followed Jesus is below.

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By Chris Shin

According to World Vision, one of the world’s largest international Christian humanitarian organisations, South Korea is the only nation which has transformed itself from a receiving country to a giving country. Likewise, after the first missionary who arrived in the most unreached land of Korea in 1804, South Korea has transformed itself into a country that sent over 17,000 missionaries worldwide in 2008 alone.

CGNTV was launched by Onnuri Community Church in Seoul, Korea in 2005 to aid the Korean missionaries scattered around the world to deliver the gospel. Since then, God has been pouring out his abundant blessings on CGNTV to be a channel of the Gospel for the people who need the Lord. CGNTV is now operating 5 satellites covering most of the world and providing viewers with wholesome and spiritual programmes in Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese and Thai.

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By Dr Chris Walley

The brilliance and variety of Jesus’ teaching poses a challenge to Christian communicators. Faced with the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount or the Parables, we are forced to say ‘how on earth do we follow that?’ Writers and speakers must steer a course between two perils. The first is to expound Jesus’ lively and compelling words with worthy but wearying commentary: that is unhelpful. The second – the very opposite – is to seek ear-tickling novelty at the expense of truth: that is unhealthy.

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By Eddie Gibbs

Senior Professor
Fuller Theological Seminary
California

Most of us are crippled by our sense of inadequacy when it comes to sharing God’s Good News with our family, neighbours, friends, and the people we encounter in the course of daily life. Our failure to accept the mission that God has entrusted to every member of his church, whether we like it or not, arises from any one of a number of causes.

We may compare our feeble and bumbling efforts with the clear and winsome communication skills of the gifted evangelist. We mistakenly conclude, “If that’s what it takes, then I don’t qualify. Let’s leave it to the experts, rather than make a mess of it ourselves!”

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By Philip Yancey

“The glory of God is a person fully alive,” said the second-century theologian Irenaeus. Sadly, that description does not reflect the image many people have of modern Christians. Rightly or wrongly, they see us rather as restrained, uptight, repressed - people less likely to celebrate vitality than to wag our fingers in disapproval.

“What made you so negative against Christianity?” a friend once asked Friedrich Nietzsche. “I never saw the members of my father’s church enjoying themselves,” he replied. Where did Christians get the reputation as life-squelchers instead of life-enhancers? Jesus himself promised, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”. What keeps us from realizing that abundant life?

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