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Phone call 800-531-4075 or 719-260-1213
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At this time PayPal is not available.
The funds are accepted on my behalf and dispersed to me by New Horizons Foundation.
A third party processor operates in the back office transactions.
I supply receipts and justification of expenses to the IRS on my personal income
tax return per below.
I have a Christian CPA advising me and he has prepared my tax returns for 10 years.
The link has been tested but it's new to me. I may or may not be aware of who donated.
If you tell me, I can thank you.
Who am I?
JesusIsLord.org since 1996 and before the Internet existed what I had been doing for
decades has been a
tent-making ministry, although I am retired now. This has meant I've paid all
the costs out of my
income from my job. Many of my contacts were job-related though loosely through
informal associations.
God has provided miraculously while one boss I had taught me to look for the $0
solution which I often have found.
In 2016 an accountant who was inspired by what I do set up a contractor account
where by you can donate 100%
tax deductable funds. I go about my days inspired by the Lord to do things and
then I apply for the funds to
cover expenses, usually past. I do not provide receipts at the time of the
transfer of funds. Rather, I provide
all the receipts to the IRS proving that I used the funds for an educational,
religious or scientific purpose.
Of course, I am an evangelist so I am motivated to use the funds for the biggest
impact to the lost alive on
earth now.
I have been a born-again Christian since April 11, 1968
and
a Spirit-filled believer since
September 7th, 1969.
Since Spetember 7th, 1969 the driving force of my life has been to reach the world for
Christ.
I have a strong presence online, I worked in ministry and technology for much
of my life.
I operate as an independent called person. This means I do what I believe God
tells me to do.
I am my own webmaster.
To keep me from major errors God had me study religion as an undergraduate
(after engineering)
and
I have a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in
South Hamilton, MA, USA, 1976. So I spent 7 years just studying under recognized teachers plus
reading the Bible devotionally daily.
I am a personal evangelist with a pastor's heart and the training a pastor pursues.
I lived in W Berlin 1965-66 as an exchange student and at one time was fluent in German.
I studied Russian
in W Berlin.
I lived in Israel 1985-86 and spoke Hebrew with moderate fluency.
I studied Greek and Hebrew in college and seminary as well as Spanish in high school.
At some point I realized no one can ever learn all languages or alpahbets so I
could move forward with my
vision if anyone could.
I totally believe a person needs a proper introduction to Jesus Christ in
their own heart language
also called their mother tongue.
I aggregate (combine) resources from multiple mission agencies; I do not
produce them myself.
Therefore, I gravitate toward tracts (booklets), films, audio resources,Bibles,
etc., created by experts
(local speakers). I use my web pages to disperse them to be used by others
with easy access.
The Internet is like the Wild West. A once thriving town can become a
ghost town in a short time based on
mining going bust, a train going through another town but not this one,
or drought, etc. My thought is, when
I leave a page, all the links may work. I may come back a short time
later and a ministry has completely
changed their links making all of mine "bad" (404).
I once had software that listed my bad links weekly so
I could fix them quickly. Now I must check each link manually. So finding
a bad link or many bad links
could take months if I had time at all to check. Conservatively, I have
at least 10,000 links.
How I handle it is to provide a HELP page that is updated more often so you can find a
working link. I also provide as
many links as possible for the Bible so if some go bad, there will still
be others that will be good.
Some ministries will host a Bible translation and when someone else also hosts
that language, they
will abandon that language. This means hard-to-find Bibles in some
languages become even harder to find
when my link is abandoned by a ministry.
Unless you have a web team, having a web site is like running
down a rock slide. Everything is moving. You do the best you can.
The good news is World Missionary Press and
Campus Crusade for Christ are reorganizing their resources by language,
which is what the Lord told me to
do early on, one language per page. In 2017 I am having to reorganize
JesusIsLord.org to match how they
are now organizing their resources. This is what I did in my work life
for over 20 years: adjust to changing
technology and combine disparate systems to gradually replace legacy
systems without the customer noticing.
It was a happy day for me when I no longer needed to solder.
"Off the Shelf" resources and "Plug and Play"
are wonderful phrases to me!
I started out programming in binary,
1's and 0's, then mnemonics (3 letter
commands such as MOV for move), then HP Fortan (with binary, octal, hex),
etc.
Programming web pages in
html code is both easy and tricky, especially on a UNIX platform.
I do it so I could be in an extremely
sparsely populated area with the poorest PC and Internet and no
software and I can still update
JesusIsLord.org.
I do it also so someone just starting can easily
reuse my code and start their own
website. JesusIsLord.org started this way. The code was simple
enough for me to adjust it! Welcome to
JesusIsLord.org was created by backspacing! What energized me to
start was Pat Robertson started a TV
station and knew nothing about TV. I knew nothing about the
Internet and never had my own computer but
I started in confidence following his example. And you can follow me!
Last updated: 05/10/2017
The Mountains Tremble
Did you feel the mountains tremble?
Did you hear the oceans
roar?
When the people rose to sing of
Jesus Christ, the risen One.
Did you feel the people tremble?
Did you hear the singers
roar?
When the lost began to sing of
Jesus Christ, the saving one.
And we can see that God You’re moving,
A mighty river through
the nations,
And young and old will turn to Jesus,
Fling wide you heavenly
gates,
Prepare the way of the risen Lord.
Chorus
Open up the doors and let the music play,
Let the
streets resound with singing,
Songs that bring Your hope, songs that bring
Your joy,
Dancers who dance upon injustice.
Did you feel the darkness tremble,
When all the saints join
in one song?
And all the streams flow as one river,
To wash away our
brokenness.
And here we see that God You’re moving,
A time of jubilee is
coming,
When young and old will turn to Jesus, Fling wide You heavenly
gates,
Prepare the way of the risen Lord.
CCLI #1360011 Martin Smith, © 1994 Curious? Music UK