No Hope to New Life
An
Amazing Fact:
The Eastman Kodak Company was a giant in the photography industry in the 20th
century. However, when its engineers developed the first digital camera, Kodak
executives ignored it and kept focusing on film. But in failing to embrace the
new tech, the company fell behind—and was forced to file for bankruptcy in
2012.
When
her husband suddenly passed, Gail tried to end her life. But by God’s grace, she
survived—and then He used you to give her a hope-filled future!
It
breaks my heart that so many people out there feel so hopeless that they are thinking
about ending it all. Just last year, 1.6 million attempted suicide in the USA—sadly,
more than 50,000 succeeded.
It’s
no surprise that such despair is on the rise. Many of these troubled hearts are
turning to Google to find answers and meaning in this sin-sick world. Over
99,000 searches are made every second worldwide—that’s 8.5 billion per day.
The
bad news is that Satan has a slew of evil responses waiting for them. Millions
of toxic websites dump garbage into seeking minds, luring people with cheap
promises and glittering lies that lead to death.
The good news is that we can share real hope that
leads to eternal life. We must bring precious Bible messages to the forefront
through truth-filled websites and draw people to lasting solutions found only
in Jesus Christ.
In
fact, God used you to reach Gail on the internet. Your gifts brought her a life-changing
message that led her to search for more truth on amazingfacts.org! Let me tell
you more …
She Was Losing All
Hope
Gail
and her husband were best friends. For 21 years, they did everything together. But
that changed when he died from cancer due to Agent Orange exposure from his
time in Vietnam.
Gail
was devastated. If you’ve ever lost someone close, you know what that’s like. Well,
one day, she took a trip to a small coastal town, a place with many happy
memories with her beloved. “I just wanted to be with my husband,” Gail explains.
That’s when she tried to end her life.
Many
like Gail are struggling right now with crushing despair. Even Bible heroes experienced
it. Elijah was running from Jezebel’s assassins when he “prayed that he
might die, and said, ‘It is enough! Now, Lord,
take my life’” (1 Kings 19:4).
But
God wants to give light to those in darkness. “The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart” (Psalm 34:18).
She Found Truth on a
Cheap Laptop
One
day, Gail was flipping through TV channels when she found an Amazing Facts program.
She was encouraged by what she heard. A glimmer of hope sparked in her heart—except
she disagreed with what I said about the Sabbath.
Gail
shares, “I thought you were wrong, so I took the last of my money and bought a
Bible and a cheap laptop. After discovering that you were speaking the truth, I
looked up the Amazing Facts website and started watching your prophecy seminars.
Then I started your Bible lessons.”
Our
website provided a rich portal of resources that utterly changed Gail’s heart from
hopeless to hope-filled!
I
cannot overemphasize how vital amazingfacts.org is in helping seekers find hope-giving
truth! It is a doorway to thousands of free books, videos, blogs, Bible
studies, and radio programs. But all these resources are possible only
because your loving heart wants to be there for lost souls grasping for any
light they can before total despair robs them of an abundant life!
Ensuring God’s
Message Goes Forth Powerfully
Satan
is robbing people of the knowledge of truth online. But you can handcuff him by
delivering foundational truth instead.
Amazing
Facts’ websites have a tremendous amount of truth-filled content and are a key
entry point for last-day seekers to find and be transformed by the three
angels’ messages. Nearly 8 million people visit our websites each year—that’s
one seeker every 3.5 seconds! Like Gail, some come to explore after seeing
a video on social media or TV; others type their deepest Bible question into
Google and get a carefully placed link to our site—finding a video, book, or Study
Guide at just the right time.
However, it’s been six years since we redesigned our main
website. And,
frankly, it’s starting to show. We’re losing valuable traffic at a time when we
must expand the gospel work. We must act now.
As
seismic changes occur in our society, we must improve the functionality,
technology, and appearance of amazingfacts.org so that it’s easier for
desperate people like Gail to find the resources and topics they are looking
for when they are looking for them—whether it’s the Bible truth about
the Sabbath, the afterlife, prophecy, healthier living, or whatever God is convicting
them to learn about.
That’s why we’ve already begun working with a top-notch
website development company to overhaul amazingfact.org. It will be more than a facelift—it
will revolutionize how we deliver the gospel to billions at this late hour in
Earth’s history. This will cost nearly $400,000, but this investment will last
for years!
We
plan to simplify website navigation; enhance search results by transcribing all
our videos; improve our infrastructure so that Google and other search engines
will recommend our truth-filled resources more prominently; and build a website
that can rapidly translate new, lifesaving messages into many more languages.
The Gospel More
Accessible to More People
Friend,
God is already using your compassionate heart to stream His final message of mercy
across the internet—among many other avenues. You are giving hope to the
brokenhearted like Gail, answers to the confused, and guidance to the lost.
But
we must now take another huge step together to expand this gospel work. By
helping to revolutionize our websites, you will make it possible for millions
of seekers to discover God’s last-day message and have an everlasting
relationship with Christ.
Will
you please join me in advancing Bible truth worldwide online and through every
avenue available? Your compassionate gift this month will help hurting people
like Gail discover life-changing truth every 3 seconds this year. Your gift of
$50 will give over 800 people online Bible studies. A gift of $25 will stream God’s
Word to 352 seekers through our website. And a worldwide-web-sized gift of $100
will make it possible for 1,600 souls to discover lifesaving truth that can
lead them to God’s last-day church.
Saved
from a tragic attempt on her own life, Gail was led through our website to a
local Sabbath-keeping church—where she was baptized. Today, she says, “Now I
know why ending my life didn’t work. God had other plans for me!” Will you help
more despairing souls find a new life in Jesus?
Revolutionizing
the gospel work,
Pastor
Doug Batchelor
President,
Amazing Facts International