Dear Friends,

In a few days we will videotape the 100th program of ZOLA LEVITT LIVE. Since Christmas of 1978 God has sustained this ministry and truly made it into one of the most widely watched Christian television outreaches in this nation. You have sustained it too with your loyalty, your prayers and your gifts.

Thank you for the 100 programs. They certainly mean more to me than anything else I might have done in my life and I can safely say that everyone who worked on them feels the same way. May God grant us another 100 programs together, or better, may God choose to return and start our Kingdom before we can finish them!

The content of the 100th program, by the way, will concern prophecy. It will be the third in our series of seven programs catted “The Bible—the Whole Story”. We have already taped the first two of that series on the Abrahamic Covenant and the Law and they are on their way to you. On the same day as our “100th Birthday” program we will also tape an interview with one of the most interesting and provocative guests we’ve had on ZOLA LEVITT LIVE. Dr. Louis Hamada, an Arab Christian with graduate degrees from Dallas Theological Seminary, will return to the program to discuss the Israel-Lebanon situation in light of Biblical prophecy. I myself can’t wait to hear what Louis has to say; he is informed on the Middle Eastern politics, the Bible, and especially on Lebanon, being Lebanese by birth. I look forward to a challenging and even difficult discussion with my cousin of Ishmael’s line on that program. Dr. Hamada invariably provides a fresh and interesting view of Middle Eastern events and his Biblical integrity is unquestionable.

He will also be my first guest on the new radio version of ZOLA LEVITT LIVE. You may have seen in our last newsletter that we will begin this new outreach on Saturday, April 2 from 8:00 to 10:00 PM Central Time. The local broadcast can be heard on KCBI FM in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex and on various stations throughout the country at the appropriate times (9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time; 6:00 to 8:00 Pacific Time, etc.)

With the radio program comes a new opportunity for all of you. We have several times answered in the newsletter that we just can’t handle all the questions that come to us in the mail, but the radio will serve this purpose wonderfully. Even if you can’t hear the program in your area you can still call the national telephone number toll free, 1-(800)-532-5500 during the last 1½ hour portion of the program (I will be teaching or interviewing a guest during the first half hour each week). I will then answer the phone and hopefully be able to answer your question and a nation-wide audience can participate in the information we bring out together. Please feel free to call.

Be sure to check your last newsletter and see if the program is in fact being broadcast in your area and you can listen to the teaching as well as calling in.

We have a rather difficult office equipment need this month that I’d like to present to you. We are short one typewriter as things stand and we need a speedy and reliable machine for the job. If anyone has an IBM Correcting Selectric III or a comparable typewriter available, please let us know if you’re able to donate it to the ministry. This will speed up our work and serve the Lord’s purposes very specifically. The donation is deductible, of course, and when we consider the years of service gotten from good office machines, they really are a very important ministry gift. Please know that we greatly appreciate the host of things you’ve sent in the past at our request, and of course your responding in that way has preserved our funds for the making of television programs. We did receive a tap on the wrist from one viewer who objected, to our asking for odds and ends of equipment that we use in our work. Please understand that we don’t profit by these things at all. As a matter of fact, in the case of the Beta-VHS videotapes, we literally are providing them to you at no profit whatever to the ministry. This is after all a non-profit organization and we never use your gifts whether in cash or equipment for anything but television and its directly related work. The point of asking you for something like a typewriter is just so we can preserve the gifts we have on hand to minister with. For the cost of a good typewriter we can make a television program which will be viewed by literally millions of people and may well change lives—earthly lives and eternal lives. I’m sure you agree with me that I would rather make that program than buy a typewriter at a store. I’m also very sure that the vast majority of you understand perfectly why we ask for these things.

And that brings me to our most direct appeal—funds for making the programs. I realty can’t complain about the support for ZOLA LEVITT LIVE. I became aware recently that the secular television program MASH had made 250 programs in some 11 years. That figure indicates that that well financed and widely celebrated television effort made new programs at a far slower rate than we do. I don’t know if the direct comparison means so very much, but your chances of seeing a fresh new show on ZLL have always been greater than on MASH or any other secular TV program, I suppose. The making of new programs with us is totally dependent on your support and nothing else. If we could pay for them we would make 52 new programs per year and never show a re-run. As it is, you’re evidently doing better by us than is the secular audience by their programming. You have enabled us to make more television than they can and keep the message fresher than theirs. I know I can count on you for more of the same as we approach the time of the June tour when we undertake to make those expensive location programs in the Middle East.

And a final request for some prayer if you will, for our staff. As the ministry grows the work load gets heavier and the workers, ordinary Christians called to this task with no real training or experience, get understandably tired. Our work days get long and complicated and as we handle more money, more equipment and more complicated tasks we occasionally become overburdened. Intercessory prayer is not a special gift but the calling of every single Christian since we are all priests (I Peter 2:9).

Praise God for all of you and a Happy 100th Birthday!

Your messenger,