Christian contextualized missions work
Social Justice
Relief & development work
Documentaries
Theology
Humanitarian efforts
Child Victims/Survivors of War
Orphans
Debt relief
HIV/AIDS Education
Fair Trade for Africa, and other
countries in need.
Media in Missions!
Music
Our favorite band is U2! We credit Bono largely with putting Africa on our radar, and now look what happened! We're making movies about our trips to Uganda!
Movies
Here is a sample of our video work:
World Vision Dominican Republic Sponsorship Video
We also recommend the following movies and documentaries to help raise and encourage your awareness of important issues
& global needs: The Invisible Children
Drawings and War: The Testimony of the Children of Uganda
End of the Spear
Uganda Rising
Hotel Rwanda
Heroes
Jesus Christ and all those who follow his teachings to spread love, and make a substantial difference for all humanity.
Our heroes are also all people who have made sacrifices of their money, time and talent to serve around the world to spread the gospel, relieve suffering, promote justice, eliminate diseases and to work creatively to help others to be able to help themselves. We have had the privilege of seeing some of these people firsthand working hard to make a difference through organizations like
World Vision International.
We work to see people in every tribe, tongue and nation transformed for God's glory. Our mission is to share the gospel by producing effective, compelling media and video tools that people can understand in their own culture and language. Toward that end we are preparing to serve as full-time media missionaries with Create International in Australia and Thailand. Our next step is YWAM CDTS training in Perth, Australia in January 2009.
Many friends have asked how you can help us now. Our support goal is currently at 61% and we need to be fully funded before our departure in December 2008.
You may send gifts and donations for our support to our sending agency Ripe for Harvest and please designate Account #247 in the memo line but please do not include our name on the check. You may then mail the check directly to us (so we can track it more quickly) or directly to:
Ripe for Harvest
2824 N. Power Rd #113282
Mesa AZ 85215-1674
Through our work with Create International we will be better able to continue our goals for Seven Lampstands.
The Seven Lampstands mission is to effectively and creatively promote the gospel of Jesus Christ worldwide in a spirit of love. Our practical goal is to more effectively document and promote Christian missions activities and relief and development work globally as well as generally educate and mobilize people of all walks of life in their efforts to provide support for this work.
If we were doctors we would work to heal:
If we were scientists, we would work to develop medicines:
We are filmmakers, video producers, editors and scriptwriters
and we work to document and promote
the individuals, families and organizations
on the front lines of relief,
for those in need and bondage,
in the dusty trenches of developing nations,
and on the frontiers of the expansion of the gospel
and in that way
bring about change
for justice and liberty
for the betterment of humanity
to the Glory of God our Creator.
Having recently visited Gulu, Uganda, we have developed personal convictions and first hand awareness about the vast needs present in Africa and around the world. Our spiritual convictions have led us to ask "What can we do?" The answer was to come alongside other organizations in order to promote their efforts to a wider audience through video production on the Internet.
Seven Lampstands is an effort to produce effective promotional material. We want to help you tell your stories!
As a prime example of what we do, our new Hope for Uganda documentary (featured above) is ready for viewing in three separate parts (each about 5 minutes) at
www.youtube.com/sevenlampstands
Hope for Uganda is the heartbreaking, true story about the plight of Northern Ugandans recovering from the horrors of their ongoing war. It is our hope that we can make a substantial difference in the lives of Northern Ugandans by raising both awareness and funds for their ongoing needs. This is a really important cause that has broken our hearts and ignites our prayers. If you think the same, spread the word about our documentary so we can spread the word! There are tons of ways to get involved and make a difference today just google Gulu Walk, Grace Akallo or World Vision Uganda! Thanks.
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone who promotes, documents and advocates for Christian missions work and related relief and development work.
We are also searching for ministry organizations that would like to take advantage of our services to create videos of your missions work.
May you embrace God's love that gives birth to you May the innermost dreams of your soul all come true May you fulfill your destiny through the wise use of choice And may all trust in God through the still small voice
God's Dream for You
The most important dream of all is God's dream for you.
It is a sacred plan sealed in your soul that you have the opportunity and the responsibility, through free will, to make come true.
It can become a manifest reality by yielding to God's love, coming into congruency with His will and acting on divine impulse - thus becoming a co-creator in the fulfillment of a God-ordained destiny.
In fulfilling this dream, you become the embodiment of love.
It is not selfishness to fulfill this dream for it does not preclude helping others to fulfill the dream that God has for them. The more we grow in God, the more we live from our soul and the more we give of ourselves to serve the soul of others.
As you make God's dream for you a reality, you will find the peace that abides within and the light of peace will emanate from your soul.
Oh the joy of sweet surrender The Star of Destiny can seem so far away But if we open like the petals of a flower in sunlight We may bask in the glow of its heavenly rays
Let your dream be God's dream for you and may the still small voice within be your inspiration, conscience, teacher and guide.
Thank you for your continued friendship, your very special to me, and so I send a special rose to those that I hold close to my heart. May Yahweh bless you, Love you always, Angel May I say that you do not have to send this back, it is to you to let you know that you are a special friend to me.
Hello! Check out FSTV's new videos. We've uploaded our best documentaries, series and keynotes! .. Cheers, Your Friends at Free Speech TV http://www.freespeech.org
Thank you Seven Lampstands for your friendship in 2008. Wishing you a Great and Happy New Year!
H appy times with friends & family A bundant blessings you so well deserve P rosperity in spirit, soul, & body P lenty of love when you need it the most Y outhful excitement in life’s journey
N ights of wonderful rest & dreams E verything you need & matters in life W isdom to choose lasting priorities
Y ield in abundance of your labor & sacrifices E nergy, health & passion in your endeavors A ngels & God’s grace to watch over you R esilience in facing life's battles & trials
Our next goal/mission is too provide the children at the ADEAC School in Dakar, Senegal with much needed Desks an Chairs. In 2007 we donated 10 computers to this school. The school has over 1,600 students, and they were so very happy to now have a computer lab, which we provided them in 2007 - with the help of so many friends, to help with their education goals.
A3D is looking for sponsors for this next mission, for just $60.00, you can provide for the needs of children in Senegal in under-resourced classrooms. Your tax-deductible donation - while seemingly a small donation in the midst of the need - in the hands of our hosts, can become a miracle for needy children.
With Each $60.00 tax deductible contribution, you will receive a plaque honoring the donation along with a certificate of appreciation from a3d and the School.
For a $1,200 tax deductible donation contribution to purchase 20 desks or a classroom, the donor will have the classroom named in honor of the gift giver or honoree.
Sponsor forms will be on our website soon, or contact us and we will send you a sponsor form.
Please join us as well for this year's A3D "Hope for the Holidays" Fundraiser 12/13/08
If you would like to find out more, please visit us at www. a3dinc. org
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Today I have my follow up year checkup from cancer and even the blood tests shows that My Jesus’ blood….the Blood of God that was shed for our salvation to live in heaven forever, the son of God has brought my blood back to normal.
Praise God!!!! Halleluiah!!!! God be with you, David
Please know that when you are in the midst of the storm, and the waters just seem to keep rising, put all of your faith and trust in the one who walked on it.
Love You Friend, Stay Focused Stay Alert, And Stay Watchful,
This week is my first birthday; you see Our Father in Heaven has given me His mercy. I had cancer a year ago this week. This week shows that God has answered many people’s prayers and cured me. This week shows that I have been a year of being cured and to give thanks to God. Every day His mercies are new and I give thanks everyday for the mercy He has shown me. Even the doctor’s are amazed.
I thank God, a friend is a blessing from God and I am just glad that you are a friend and I hope through our time here on earth that we will become close in the Lord and learn from each other. I know if you are going through tough times with your health or just living, pray to God and share your troubles with other so they will pray for you. I am living proof that prayers do cure all things and God wants to answer your prayers.
Jesus taught and Paul writes:
For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Walking in love makes you honorable and brings out the glory of God in you, for to manifest love is to manifest God, since God is love.
It doesn't matter how unkind and unfriendly some people may get towards you, love them all the same. When you walk in love you'll never fail or stumble in life, for love never fails.
Send love to all your friends, tell them about Jesus and God will bless you as you do so.
ALOHA...HAVE A BLESSED WEEKEND...PRAISE THE LORD & REJOICE & MAY JESUS BLESS YOU & WE LUV-YA...AMEN.
P.S.: Hebrews 2:8-10 (King James Version) 8Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
9But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Philemon 1:25 (King James Version) 25The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
Philemon 1:3 (King James Version) 3Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Titus 3:15 (King James Version) 15All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
Hebrews 4:15-16 (King James Version) 15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 12:14-16 (King James Version) 14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold hi
