LTMP Monthly Newsletter: January 2016 Update

January 2016 Update - Diane and Wayne Mac Leod

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Diane and Wayne Mac Leod
153 Atlantic Street,
Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
CANADA B1V 1Y5

http://ltmp-homepage.blogspot.ca

Dear Friends:
After a few days of reflection, prayer and catching up on things around the house I am now back to work. I have been encouraged with what the Lord has done this past year. Let me take a moment in this update to share with you the goodness of the Lord and His provision.

Foreign Translation and Printing in 2015:

In 2015 the Lord provided for the translation of 7 new books in 5 languages.

Urdu: Matthew, Mark and Luke (volume 2) -- 1,000 copies printed
Urdu: Matthew, Mark and Luke (volume 3) -- 500 initial copies printed
Tamil: Overcoming Temptation -- 1,000 copies printed
Spanish: How Can I Be Sure? -- 1,000 copies printed
Spanish: Known By Our Fruit -- printed as needed
Burmese: The Epistles of Thessalonians and Timothy -- 1,000 copies printed
Hindi: The Epistles of Titus, Philemon and Hebrews -- 1,000 copies printed

We have added these 5,500 books to our distribution in 2015 at a cost of about $2.75 per book or for a total cost of about CAD $15,000.

Free Book Distribution
We also ship packages (usually from 1-4 books in a package) from my office each week in English and Spanish. Diane's parents (Jim and Marion Arnott) come once a week to package up these books and record them in my database. Here is a breakdown of what we did in 2015:

Number of packages shipped in 2015: 535 packages
Cost for postage: $10,107.74
Cost of books shipped: $7,933.19

The Lord provided $18,000 for this distribution from my office here in Sydney Mines in 2015. With an estimated 1,800 people on my list still takes me three years to get books to everyone.

Books Available Online in 2015

In 2015 I have made a serious effort to make as many of my books available online as possible. The Lord has been burdening my heart to seek to reach North America and Europe with these Bible studies and commentaries. Here is what is currently available.

All my books are now available in ebook format on Kindle, Kobo and Smashwords websites
About 75% of my printed books are now available online through Amazon CreateSpace.

With these books now available online I have left all sales to these online sites for the purpose of focusing on the free distribution side of the ministry.

Book Sales 2015
Book sales in 2015 came through two main sources. First, the online sale of ebooks and printed books through Amazon, Kobo and Smashwords. The second source is Korea where Mission World Library has published a complete set of my commentaries in the Korean language. Here is a breakdown of the sales in 2015:

Books Sold in Korea through Mission World Liibrary; 2,553 books
Amazon Physical books: 53 physical books
Amazon Kindle ebooks: 525 ebooks
Kobo ebooks: 29 ebooks
Smashwords ebooks: 91 ebooks

In summary, about 3,000 physical books and about 600 ebooks were sold in 2015. One hundred percent of the funds received from the sale of these books is used for office expenses. This allow for the money received as donations to be used for the distribution and translation ministry.

Distribution 2015 Summary
Let me summarize what the Lord has done in 2015

Provided over $33,000 for the purpose of translating, printing and distributing Bible studies and Bible Commentaries for believers in countries where they would not normally have access to such material.
Enabled the distribution of over 10,000 Bible study books around the world through online sales and the free distribution of faithful translators and distributors in a number of countries.
We have no idea how these 10,000 books have been used but I have received emails from pastors and Bible teachers who have used them to preach and teach in their churches and outreach meetings. This means that the Lord has used these books in tens of thousands of lives in 2015. We can only pray that He would be pleased to bless them for the growth and maturity of His body around the world

Thank You
As I close this update I want to give thanks to the Lord and all who partnered with us in this effort. May the Lord be pleased to use what He has done to bring many closer to Himself.

God bless,

F. Wayne Mac Leod