Dear Customers,

After more than 2 months of silence from me, the first order of business is thanks. We sincerely thank you for your support. Last year was a record year and these last two months have been inordinately, hectically, gloriously busy too. It’s not about the sales – all profit gets ploughed back into buying new stock – it’s about the number of books that have gone out to feed souls. I trust that every book that you have read yourself or given away has been of eternal value.

When I sit at home alone, working on my days off, pushing through the summer heat that saps my energy and trying to sort through the myriad of details that constitues this job, I ask myself: “Why am I doing this?”. My situation is not unnique. It’s the same with any job. Why do we do what we do? What is our motivation that pushes us through the busy times, the hard times, the slow times and the everyone’s-on-my-case times?

We all have different skills and different callings, but, if we are in Christ, we have this in common: the desire to please Christ in whatever we do. All our jobs work together for the good of society as a whole, but we who are in Christ are called to a higher purpose. We are to do all things well. Our Saviour gave his all for us. May he enable us to give our all for him, not as a task, but as a privilege to serve.

MegaVoice: MegaVoice provides solar-powered audio bibles in variety of languages. People who cannot read can now hear Scripture in their own language. For more information visit http://www.megavoice.co.za/ or call Johan on 012 993 0614. MegaVoice has an office next to Augustine Bookroom on the property of Constantia Park Baptist Church.

Home Education: This year we have expanded our offerings for home educating parents. Story of the World has always been a very poplular curriculum choice, so we have now added First Language Lessons from the same publishers.

• Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer. Readers 1-4 are R190 each; Activity books (A4 fomat) are R390-R410; Testbooks (A4) are R145 -R160.
• The Orinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading by Wise and Buufington. (A4) – R315
• First language Lesoons by Jessie Wise. All A4 paperbacks. Levels 1 and 2 are R160 each ; Level 3 Instructors – R315; Level 3 Workbook- R230; Level 4 Instructor’s – R315; Level 4 Workbook – R210.

Some other new titles:

• How Many Animals were in the Ark? Understanding the animal kinds by Craig Froman. Hardcover A4 format; 64pp; R190. Related books: Inside Noah’s Ark by Laura Welch. Hardcover A4. 64 pp; R200; Building of the Ark Encounter, book and DVD, shows how the life-size model in Williamstown, Kentucky was built. R215 each.
• 52 Spurgeon Stories for children by Tony Hutter. Paperback; 111pp; R70. Four volumes in this series.
• The Annals of the World by james Ushher. Now available in paperback. 960pp; R530
• World Religions and Cults by Hodge & Patterson. Three volumes cover various topics: Counterfeits of Christianity (vol 1; 424pp); Moralistic, Mythical and Mysticism Religions (vol 2; 492pp); Atheistc and humanistic Religions (vol 3; 336pp). R185 each.

• Devoted to God, Blueprints for sanctification by Sinclair Ferguson. Paperback; 296pp; R85.
• The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit by George Smeaton. Hardcover; 400pp; R165. Other new Banner books: Doctrine of Justification by James Buchanan. hardcover; 520pp; R175. The Mysteries of Christianity by T J Crwaford. Hardcover; 352pp; R165. Back in print from Banner: Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray. Paperback; 200pp; R75.
• Back in print at last: 2000 Years of Christ’s Power by Nick Needham. .Vol 1: The Age of the Early Church Fathers, 1st-6th Centuries; 406pp. Vol 2: The Middle Ages, 7th-15th Centuries; Vol 3: The Renaissance & Reformation, 16th Century; Vol 4: The Age of Religious Conflict, 16th-18th Centuries. All hardcover; R200 each.