Announcement For July 17, 2007:

    We have 3 new sites up now-- 153Full.Net, 153Catch.Net, and 153Fishes.Net-- that are dedicated specifically to our tracts outreach in South Asia, in Southeast Asia, and in East Asia! Yes, that's right, I said "Southeast Asia." Hallelujah! By the grace of God, we can now say "Welcome aboard!" to a new co-worker (and to his lovely young wife) in Yangon, Myanmar. Joining the team as a great helper of our Lord Jesus-- Who is the Greatest Fisherman of all time-- is Pastor Martin Lalthangliana, Mission Director for the Gospel Outreach Mission of Yangon, Myanmar! He & his young wife are still newlyweds almost, since they just got married on Feb. 24, 2007.

    Right now he's supervising the translation of our booklet "The Temple Of Miraculous Fire" into Burmese & Mizo & maybe other Myanmar languages. Pastor Lalthangliana's got a B.E. (Engineering) & an M.A. degree already, and he's working toward a Master of Religious Education degree while at the same time he heads a big tracts-publication outreach in Myanmar.

    Martin's father is also a Christian pastor-- he came to Myanmar in 1958 & became the founder of the Gospel Outreach Mission, a tracts-publication ministry in Myanmar. To see the GOM site, click Gospel Outreach Mission of Myanmar.

    We have also added new sites/domains called JesusTracts.org, JesusTracts.net, and JesusTracts.us ! What's very cool about this is that JesusTracts.org is the very first of our sites to ever show up well in the Google Search engine. Right now, if God's Providence holds steady for us on this, you can type in a search for "Jesus tracts" and you should see our new site listed at the #5 spot on page 1 of the results! Hallelujah! Also exciting is the fact that at Google Search right now you can type in "tracts Jesus" and our site WorldwideChristianTracts.net will show up in the #4 spot of page 1, with JesusTracts.org just a little below it, in the #10 spot. Our sites have had a good ranking in Yahoo Search for the last couple of years, but it sure is nice to see one or two of them finally showing up prominently in the Google Search as well! Hallelujah!

    Please help us pray that we continue to get a good ranking in the search engines, so that a lot more people will be able to find, read, print, and utilize our teaching/evangelism tracts. They're free, but to multiply really well... they have to get found by people first.

Announcement For Oct. 17 & Oct 30, 2006:

I believe we have now recruited a translator/publisher for the Nepali language version of two of our tracts, which should be going out to Kathmandu, Nepal, in the next year or so! Praise the Lord Jesus! Hallelujah!

Can't post here the name of our Christian friend(s) in that vicinity, however, because the Maoists try to extort money from anyone whom they think may be getting assistance from foreign Christians.

Please pray for the multiplication of our evangelism tracts and for their effectiveness as we start to prepare the new editions for the nations of Sri Lanka and Nepal. We also need gifts to help pay for all the thousands of free booklets we plan to distribute there. If anyone could be of assistance in this project, the Lord God Almighty and I will be extremely grateful. Plus thousands of people in Sri Lanka and Nepal, because we print up 10,000 copies of a translated booklet each time we do another printing. 10,000 copies of one of our booklets requires only that $500 in U.S. money be sent to India for the printing cost. The translation and distribution work (like the writing work I do) is always done free of charge by Christian volunteers.

This is one of the best deals you will ever see in this world, a great opportunity for someone (besides just me and five friendly donors) to help assist in world evangelism! We would really appreciate any financial assistance that anyone could send us, either through me (c/o my Mount Airy, NC address: Roddy K. Street, Jr., 211 East Lebanon St., Mount Airy, NC, 27030 USA) or through Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha's mailing address in Pollachi, India. That address and info is posted on a page I made for him (under all the pictures) at http://www.worldwidechristiantracts.net/MMGM/Vedha_MMGM.html .

This is a super-cool chance for someone with vision and some financial resources to get in "at the ground-floor level" for building up the worldwide church of Jesus Christ! Be salt and light in the world, not just what Jesus calls a "lazy" servant!

Please be sure to mark any gift you send to Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha and to his Mass Media Gospel Mission as specifically for the printing of Street Tracts by his "R. K. Street Tracts League of India," since he also has a lot of other ministries underway at the same time (orphanage, etc.) and he will need to know exactly how the gift should be used. You can say that in your letter.

Thanks for helping us out any way you can. You'll be helping us and also doing the work of Jesus' Great Commision to Christians. It's actually a command, you know, that we go tell all the world about the good news of Jesus Christ!

Thanks again (in advance) for any help you can give us with this project!

Blessings To You Also,
Ken Street
(currently in Seoul, South Korea)

Announcement For Oct. 10, 2006:

Greetings from Seoul!

It took a while to make the move possible, but we are now in Seoul, South Korea, having arrived here on Oct. 4. I came here wearing my blue "Providence" cap, which I got several years ago as a free gift from the Providence Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC. As it happens, we providentially arrived just in time for the South Korea Thanksgiving Day, which was Thursday, Oct. 5.

On that day and the next, we had a nice time as several of Nan's relatives came to visit and eat food with Nan's sister, in whose home we are staying now.

Completely unaware that we would be arriving at the time of the South Korean Thanksgiving Day, I had brought along with me about 23 copies of a little tract booklet I produced (with Nan's help, since she did the Korean translation for this bilingual -- English & Korean -- message) about 2 and 1/2 years ago. These were the leftover copies, the last ones I had of the original small printing in Williamsburg.

It was titled "Thanksgiving And The Time Of God's Harvest." The material is a modified version of my earliest tract, which I had called "Divine Selection: God's Developmental Program For Earth." It seemed altogether appropriate for the occasion.So I gave each of Nan's relatives a copy of that booklet, which I hope they will use for evangelism purposes, since they are already Christians. The fact that I had this particular booklet in my bag on this date rather surprised me, and seemed quite providential.

On Sunday morning of this Thanksgiving weekend, I went with Nan to one of the morning services in the Full Gospel Church of Yoido. It's the church that Korean pastor Paul Yonggi Cho started many years ago, and it's gotten quite a reputation for having what is just about the world's largest congregation. Last I heard anyway! The last time I visited this particular church was more than 20 years ago! Until now, I haven't been outside the US on any trip in 20 years, since 1986.

While participating in this service, I lifted up the evangelism tracts I've made for India and Africa and Korea, asking God to bless them and to multiply them in large numbers. I also prayed for the ones that we will soon make for Sri Lanka and Nepal, the ones I'm making right now for Korea, and for future translations that will go out (I hope and pray) in Japanese and Chinese.

Please help me pray that God will greatly expand our tracts ministry and provide more funding for it-- especially for the publications in India, where Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha is extremely short of funds. Also please help me pray that my wife and I will BOTH be able to find good jobs as suitable employment while we are staying in Korea. We hope to work here for at least 1 or 2 years, but I will have to be a "tentmaker" in order to accomplish my missionary aspirations. So please pray that I can find quickly a suitable form of employment that will also allow me to do evangelism work without too many restrictions. I think teaching English in a Christian college or seminary might be a good solution.

Please pray that God will provide us with the best possible jobs. I'm counting on His Providence, but I would also appreciate having prayers for us coming forth from as many people as possible! Thanks.

I'll try to write everybody again before long with more info and news.

In His Service,
Ken Street

Announcement For Aug. 15 & Sept. 27, 2006:

By the grace of God, I'm in the process of mailing several packages of our free Africa tract series to the Christian Missionary Training School in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, on the continent of Africa. I'm planning to send Pastor Ezeky Mbah a total of about 160 copies of the paper booklets for our Africa tracts #1, #2, #5, & #6. This is only an English version of the material, of course. I'm sending these to him in several envelopes with only 20 tract booklets in each envelope. But since the booklets are fat booklets with a lot of pages, it still costs me $8.05 (U.S.) in postage just to mail each of the envelopes, even with only 20 booklets in each one. That will make a total of $64.40 in postage just to mail off to Africa all the 8 envelopes I'm planning to send to Onitsha.

This makes 3 cities of Nigeria to which I've now mailed paper copies of our Africa tracts, plus 1 city in Ghana (also in Africa)! More good news is that we now have, I think, 3 volunteers who are making written translations of our tracts into the African languages Tiv, Yoruba, and Akan. God is just awesome all the time! Praise Jesus!

Please pray that God will greatly muliply our evangelism/teaching messages that we've made for Africa and will get them distributed to a lot of people! Pray that there will be lots of new translations into the languages of Africa. We'd like to see African translations done as both written translations like the above-mentioned three, and as "instant" verbal translations by local African evangelists. This is important because there are more than 2,000 tribal languages in the nations of the African continent!

It sure would be a nice blessing if somebody would send us a little aid/gift some time! We need gifts to help cover the cost of postage for mailing tracts to several evangelists in two nations of Africa. We also need to have gift money sent to Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha in India, so that he can print up more of our tracts for India and Sri Lanka! If anyone feels led to send some financial assistance to Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha or myself, it would really be a great blessing. Not only for us, but also for the people of Africa & Sri Lanka!

Announcement For July 26, 2006:

Yesterday we updated our web pages with 2 pictures of the Australian evangelist Rev. David Smethurst that he was nice enough to let us use. One shows him in Australia with Dr. Raymond Wilson, the author of Jenner Of George Street, which can teach you a lot more about the amazing Christian layman Frank Jenner, who carried on an amazingly fruitful ministry of tracts-evangelism and street witnessing in Sydney, Australia. Dave Smethurst is a very dynamic and exciting motivational speaker who can really get Christians fired up with enthusiasm for Christian witnessing. I know his audio message "I Got Off On George Street" helped me enormously, as did his "live" message called "Being On Fire For Jesus." Go to one of our sites and click on the hotlink at the top of the page ("David Smethurst Audio"), and that will take you to the photos of Dave and my comments about 2 great heros of the Christian faith.

Announcement For July 20, 2006:

We are excited to report that we have recently mailed 2 boxes of our Africa tracts #1, #2, #5, and #6 to some Nigerian evangelists in Gboko, Nigeria! We've sent them about 170 copies to get started with. We've also mailed some to a Nigerian evangelist in Ibadan, Nigeria, and some more went out to a Nigerian pastor/evangelist who lives in London, England. We praise God for this expansion of our tracts ministry, with tracts going out to Nigeria now. Please help us pray that God will multiply our little offerings for Africa, as our Lord did with the 5 loaves and a few fish. Please also pray for the safety and protection of all the Nigerian tract-passers.

Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha reports that he is now in the process of printing up and distributing 10,000 copies of our Hindi tract #1, and 10,000 copies of our Tamil tract #5, plus 10,000 copies of our Hindi tract #2. These are being distributed in India now and in the next few weeks. Please help us pray for the effectiveness of these India-customized tracts, and also pray for the safety and protection of all the Christian tract-passers in India.

We've just today (July 20, 2006) added links for 6 new anti-Evolution tracts to many of our websites-- for 17 of the biggest sites anyway. These have to do with the Alternate-Universe Hoax and several famous s-f authors who have supported it. You'll find them under the "Truth For Science-Fiction Followers" section at many of our sites. Please check out this material and let us know what you think about its possible usefulness for your evangelism efforts. We've already written and posted the text for 18 tracts in this series, but if you'd like to have the booklet-printing patterns made up soon... send us a little e-mail note to express your interest! We can use the encouragement!

Announcement For Jan. 11, 2006: 

Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha has reported that the Tamil version of "The Second Birth And The Second Death" (tract #4)is now being distributed in Tamil Nadu state, and the first Telugu translation (for tract #1) is also being distributed in Andhra Pradesh state! The Malayalam version of tract #2 is also being distributed now! In addition to the 3 translators we have for the Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu versions, he now has a Hindi translator working on the first Hindi version, and he is near to recruiting a Kannada translator likewise! Soon we will have the tracts available in 5 languages of India, with the potential of reaching all the literate people among 1/4 billion in South India! Donations to help cover the cost of future printings are still needed!

Announcement For Aug. 15, 2005:

Since the July 14 note below, I've gotten a second donation of $100 for the India tracts ministry from a good-hearted South Korean friend, and one of $50 from one of my closest relatives, but lots more donations are still needed to help finance the India tracts publication work of Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha and his Mass Media Gospel Mission in Tamil Nadu! We've printed over 30,000 copies for 3 Tamil tracts thus far, but we need more donations! Rev. Dr. Vedha is a Baptist, by the way, and the pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church in Tamil Nadu. Any Baptists out there (in the U.S. or elsewhere) who can help us with a contribution to help pay for the publication costs in India? Let us hear from you! A $100 donation can be sent to Rev. Dr. Vedha in India and will pay for the publication of about 2,000 paper tract booklets!

Announcement For July 14, 2005:

Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha wrote us an e-mail on July 12 that tells us a Telugu translation of Tract #1 in the News For South Asia series is now underway, and the work is being done by a translater in Andhra Pradesh. This is very exciting news! He has previously informed us that the Malayalam translation of Tract #1 is already completed and ready for publication. The new e-mail tells us that he has now even found a Hindi translator!!

This news is excellent and very inspirational, since it means the tracts will then have a potential of being read and understood by any literate person among the more than 1 billion people in India!! Praise God with us for this wonderful news and encouragement!!

We need money to help pay for the India-based printings of the booklets in these 5 languages of India, so please help us pray for that too-- and mail donations to us if you can! So far, except for a single donation of $100 from a Korean friend, I've had to finance all the India publications only with the tithe money and offerings that come from my own tiny paychecks! We've printed over 22,000 booklets in India thus far, but we'd like to print at least 10,000 copies for each of the 8 booklets, and to do this in all 5 of the India-language translations. We need financial assistance. Somebody please help!

Announcement For May 12, 2005:

Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha has completed the translation and pattern creation for the Tamil language version of the 2nd tract in Ken Street's "News For South Asia" series, and he will soon be publishing about 11,000 copies of it as paper booklets for the people of the Tamil Nadu state in India! Tract #2 is called "In The Water Of The River Ganges... Will I Be Reborn From The Ashes?"

Tamil Nadu is the state on the eastern side of South India which was hard-hit recently by the tsunami of December 2004, and it has a poplulation of over 56 million people for whom Tamil is the common language! We are immensely grateful to Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha for his translation work, and for all the powerful publishing work of his Mass Media Gospel Mission in Tamil Nadu. Rev. Dr. Vedha is an energetic and multi-talented resident of Tamil Nadu; he is the pastor of a Baptist church who also has many years of experience in journalism and publishing work. He has additional experience as a singer and as a marriage counselor, and he has several effective Christian ministries under his management.

This gentleman of Tamil Nadu is really a powerful light-reflector for many confused people who struggle along through a difficult life in India, and he's in charge of a radiant powerhouse there in his state of Tamil Nadu! The light of Jesus Christ is shining through him, his family, his church, and his translation/publishing ministry... and the Lord God will surely bless and multiply the seeds of evangelism that he is distributing to the people of India. He is doing a great work for God's Harvest. We here in the U.S. also feel greatly blessed by God in the wonderful multiplication of our evangelism tracts through his Mass Media Gospel Mission!

Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha (M.Th., Ph.D., D.D.) is the pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Tamil Nadu and he is currently the General Secretary for the Pollachi Baptist Convention... a very busy fellow.

Dr. Vedha has also completed, already, the translation work for Tract #3 in this Ken Street series, which is called "Do You Aim To Be... Burnt Dust In A Black Sky?" This is a revised and tailored version of an earlier Ken Street tract, which Ken Street has personally altered and modified in such a way as to customize it more specifically for Hindus, Buddhists, and other India residents who are seeking more understanding of Christian belief.

Dr. Vedha has also added a new member to his translation team who will be translating our tracts also into Malayalam, the official language for the state of Kerala, located in the southwestern corner of South India. Kerala has a population of over 29 million people for whom Malayalam is the common language. Kerala has the highest literacy rate in India, with about 70% of the people considered literate, which means a lot of people should be able to read our evangelism material and our teaching tracts!

The history of Kerala's exposure to Christianity is quite fascinating! Reports on the region indicate that a Jewish group arrived there around 500 B.C., and that the first Christian evangelists arrived there before the end of the first century A.D., so Christian missionaries came to India at about the same time the first ones started work in Europe. The Apostle Thomas ("Doubting Thomas") is believed to have traveled to Kerala in 52 A.D. and to have established a Christian church in this region. A group of Syrian Christians is reported to have arrived there in 192 A.D. (coming there via Baghdad, apparently), and these also established an early Christian community.

Announcement For Apr. 5, 2005:

Our tract entitled "The Temple Of Miraculous Fire" has been translated into Tamil by Rev. Dr. W. S. Vedha, and he has already published about 11,500 copies of it in paper booklet form! These are already being distributed in the state of Tamil Nadu, India! Praise God!

Announcement For Nov. 4, 2004:

I'm in the process of preparing another shipment of tracts for southern India now. This is a source of great happiness for me. I hope to be mailing many more printed tracts to India during the next year or two.

And in the grace of God, I will be sending these materials out to a number of other countries also. This will give me a nice opportunity to lift up the name of Jesus, for which I must be extremely thankful.

If you read this and would like some printed evangelistic/teaching tracts mailed to you for distribution in your own country, please write me an e-mail note or send me a postal letter telling me of your request, and I will be happy to mail some to you free of any charge... at no cost to you.

Thanks,

Ken Street    ( mailto:etracts@yahoo.com )
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA