Africa Missions
AFRICA MISSIONS One of Our Churches In Lagos, Nigeria, Africa.
SIMPLE CHURCH FELLOWSHIP GOES TO ALL NATIONS & PEOPLES! This Page is specifically designed to visually show you what God Is Doing in the Country of Africa and to allow you to hear from African Pastors themselves of the tremendous works going on in the Churches and Orphanages there. As you read for yourself the accounts they write in their e-mails to us please, pray daily for the furtherance of God's Kingdom Work being done in Africa and ask what you can do to bring the Love of God and the Good News of Jesus to our Brothers and Sisters who are living there. Pastor George Martin is heading up our Missions there, has recently planted a New Church in Nigeria, works and stays in touch with many other Pastors, their Churches and Ophanages on behalf of Simple Church Fellowship, is dedicated and committed to seeing God's Will Being Done in Africa and is attempting to bring All Glory, Honor and Power due to the Holy and Precious Name of Jesus!
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God bless and Love to All,
Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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From: MICHAEL DAUD
Subject: S.O.S COMPASSIONATE HEARTS
EMA MISSIONS KENYA
P.O. BOX 96553-80110
MOMBASA-KENYA
East Africa.
Dear Rev. Mark Tross
Warm greetings in Jesus holy name,Members and staff of Ema missions send you greetings too. Prayer worriors and members of Gospel Revival Church mtongwe have been praying for you,your familly and ministry in the 40 Days prayer mission for church and Gospel ministers around the world i hosted this season after crusades in villages in Eastern provinces. The 40 Days prayers ends on 10th October 2003.
Am sorry to report that a number of children under our care ministry are in danger for luck of food and medication ,infact we have already sadly lost two of them, am very much and deeply touched by this, but what to do ?It has never been our intention to have these young people in our hands, but the Gospel of Jesus is attached with compassion when we preach many come to see and receive from the King of compassion. These children have no relatives and people here are in a such poverty state that they cant help even theselves.People have rediculed us saying we are beggars when we sort support to minister to them,it looks like we are detaining them for death for nobody cares around here and this happens in villages hundreds of miles form town. Am sure if christians really saw the real situations in the field they would act. Now we are sincerely appealing to compassionate hearts out there to HELP, from our experience we can accept any gift from old cloths,old household,shoes and anything that can be given out or sold to meet food expences and others.Rev. Marc kindly pray for us and do something personaly about it, am actually somehow getting ashamed out of this situation but i cant afford to be silent. We would also like to invite you to minister in our February 2004 CRUSADES&SEMINARS-in Mombasa Kenya.If thats possible i can give dates or fix it at your convinience.Please reply earliest.
Thank you,God bless you.
PASTOR MICHAEL UHURU
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From Nigeria, Africa
Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2003
From: POUPO Elie
Subject: Re: All New!
indeed a nice change, and to hear you are settling down for the better;here i could say the trying time is still very much on;not envious but how thrilled would i be the day settlement becomes my lot here too! but impossible to to call it quit, holding to the truth that the ways of our God are past past finding;yet to have some supporters;anyways in my mother tongue, it has been said if there is no water found in a desert for washing one's face, he should try to shed some tears each day for it, and this seems to be what i have been here daily;with my wife and children yet to join me here from lagos nigeria,the situation seems to be getting mixed up ;notwithstanding, thanks for all the prayers and words of comfort from your end; shalom;
poupo
Mark wrote:
I Hope you All like the
New Name and Web Site.
Love to All,
Mark
We Are Now "Simple Church Fellowship"
Please keep us in your daily prayers as we
move forward In God's Will. I have enclosed my latest Message along with
All the links and info regarding our Site, Monthly E-Zine and "Greatest
of All Songs & More," The #1 Best Selling Book at:
http://simplechurchfellowship.weebly.com !
GBY,
<')))>< Mark
Subject: Acts 8:12-16
The Word:
But when they believed the good news (the Gospel) about the kingdom of
God and the name of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, as Philip preached it,
they were baptized, both men and women.
Even Simon himself believed - that is,] he adhered to, trusted in and
relied on the teaching of Philip - and after being baptized devoted
himself constantly to him. And seeing signs and miracles of great power
which were being performed, he was utterly amazed.
Now when the apostles (special messengers) at Jerusalem heard that [the
country of] Samaria had accepted and welcomed the Word of God, they sent
Peter and John to them,
And they came down and prayed for them that the Samaritans might receive
the Holy Spirit;
For he had not yet fallen upon any of them, but they had only been
baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. - Acts 8:12-16
O the Mysteries of God! How have we come so far, learned and experienced
so little? The echoes of, "Repent! For the Kingdom of God Is At Hand!"
Is the Spiritual World, so real that we can actually reach out and touch
it? Taste and See that The Lord Is Good!
Are we going from The Kingdom
of God being among us, to upon us, to within us? It's not an easy road
or task to be poured from vessel to vessel, moved from Glory to Glory,
Grace to Grace and Image to Image until we Come Into The Perfect Man In
Christ Jesus. After The Resurrection, Jesus appeared to His Disciples in
The Upper Room (Each and Every One of us are Called of God to Be
Disciples of Christ), He Breathed on them and said, "Receive The Holy
Spirit" and some 33 days later He told them to wait for The Power of God
to Fall Upon them, so that they could be Witnesses For Him to All
Nations and Peoples!
If you are a Christian, then you are to "Be" Walking In Love (God Is
Love) and Love Believes All Things. Love Conquers All! Do you Believe
The Good News?
Someone once said, "The World has yet to see the man who has totally
submitted his Life to Christ." Certainly there have been Great Men and
Women of Faith, but there ar e some even Today (in All their foolishness)
who wonder if Billy Graham is Saved.
COME ON! Are you or any one else
you know doing anything near or close to what he has attained in his
Lifetime of Service to Christ?
Some of us (I should say, All of us) need a Good swift kick in the
Spiritual buttocks sometimes. Let's WAKE-UP!
How much of The Good News (The Gospel) do you Know (experientially),
read about, write about or best of All, Tell others about? Not only in
words, but in actions and deeds? The Kingdom of God Is Righteousness,
Peace (Shalom) and Joy In The Holy Ghost! Jesus Is The Name Above All
Names and there Is No other Name under Heaven by which We MUST Be Saved!
He Is The Rabbi, Messiah, Son and King of Kings! As Philip Preached It,
they Believed and were baptized, both Men and Women.
HELLO! I Am So Sick and Tired of this "men can do this and women can (or
can't) do that" sort of stuff going on in The (so called) Chu rch Today.
We "Are" One In Him! ONE! Meaning The Same, Equal In Jesus. Now I know
that there will be those reading this who will want to twist and turn
these words of mine.
What I Am really trying to say here is, "We All Are Members Of His Body
and whether you are male or female, find your Place In Him as The Bride
of Christ and Be Faithful to what He has Called you to." As Nike would
put it, "Just Do It!"
As we truly adhere to, trust in and rely on Jesus, The Living Word of
God, sit underneath those who are Anointed to properly Teach The Written
Word of God, are Baptized (dipped) Into Our Father Who Art In Heaven,
His One And Only Begotten Son and The Person Of The Holy Spirit,
submitting our"self" and constantly devoting our"self" to God, we Will
See and Experience Signs and Miracles of Great Power Being Performed In
and Through Our Life In Jesus' Name!
Our God Is Utterly Amazing, so why are we not utterly amazed by Him and
utterly amazing the World around us in which we live? Have you really,
truly accepted and welcomed The Word Of God into your Life? Do you
openly and honestly Believe?
I find it strange (and somewhat funny) how verse fourteen in this
portion of Holy Scripture tells us the apostles (special messengers) at
Jerusalem sent Peter and John to Samaria. Go ahead and just think about
that. History tells us that James, Jesus' Half Brother headed up the
Council of Believers in Jerusalem. Peter didn't lash out and say, "Hey,
Wait One Minute! I Am The Rock, so who are you to tell me where and when
to roll?" John the Beloved, certainly knew the Heartbeat of God better
than any one, for it was he who rested his head upon Jesus' Chest at The
Passover Feast, The Last Supper, the night of their Holy Communion. My
point here is this, without any reservations (and I don't mean for their
journey to Samaria), they both submitted to The Authority o f The Holy
Spirit's Leading and Guiding them. Not to mention their Obedience to
Jesus' Great Commission Unto Them (and us), "Go to Jerusalem, Samaria
and the uttermost parts of the World with The Good News, Baptizing
People In (or Into) The Name of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit." Are
you moving In The Spirit? Is He Living, Moving and Having His Being In
you?
Peter and John came down to Samaria (anywhere you go in the World from
Jerusalem is considered "down" from a Jewish mindset), so that others
could Receive what they Already had.
Love (Real Love) isn't "Real" Love
until you Give It aWay. Surely you know of someone who has heard of
Jesus and who in their own mind Believe He Is Who He Says He Is, but
have never Experienced His Fullness, Wholeness and Blessings In their
Life. There are hundreds of thousands (millions even) of People around
the World Today who have never ever heard of Him and they will go to
their Eternal death ap art from Him if we do not pray for them and go to
them with The Love of God and The Good News of Jesus. Fall down on your
knees and ask God to have His Holy Spirit fall upon the lost, sick and
dying. He Is their only Hope! Maybe Jesus wants you to go, to be His
Hands, His Feet and His Voice?
Ask Him, He'll tell you, lead you and guide you Into His Truth according
to His Word, Will and Way for your Life In Jesus' Name.
God bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Subject: Re: All New!
just back to browse some more after a break;very happy for fast response; thanks for all your concern for me, ministry in africa;shalom.
Poupo Elie
Subject: Pray for growth in Zambia
Zambia)--And, a Grace Ministries[5] missionary team celebrates good
news in Zambia. The team held an evangelistic meeting for students in
mid-June. They went to a town about 150 kilometers from Kabwe and
conducted a specific Gospel campaign, where more than 120 people became
new believers. One of the students led 20 to the Lord in house-to-house
visitation and witnessing in the market.
Please pray for the team as they
enter the discipleship phase with the new Christians.
Subject: June Update
Inside JCMI
Resourcing African Leaders
June, 2003
Vehicle Situation
We are so grateful for all of you who emailed us encouragements, increased your prayer support, and sent in finances specifically to help us with our vehicle situation. God is so faithful. A huge THANK YOU to those who sent in support to help with our vehicle crisis!
Those funds, coupled with the amazing trade-in price we were given on our old Cruiser (no brakes and all!), enabled us to buy a 2000 model pick-up truck.
The truck is great on the dirt road; and because it has a diesel engine, it is extremely economical. Praise God! We also just got our mini-van back out of the service shop; and while there are still some problems with it, we are very glad to finally have it back! We thank God for all of you who strengthened us with your friendship, prayers, and support during this time.
Staff Update
We have recently been blessed by the addition of several missionary staff members. Robbyn Evans, from Ontario, Canada, came on board in May and has committed to serve with us through August, 2005. She is heading up our multi-media department, and will be instrumental in upgrading our newsletters and ministry publications.
Robbyn will also be heading up the Summer Staff program and helping to lead our missions internship.
Tim and Leslie Black, along with their sons James and William, sold their farm, house, and belongings to move here to serve with us. They arrived in early June and have committed to be here for at least three years. Tim and Leslie will be directing twentyfourseven, our one-year missions internship program (January to December, 2004); and will also be very instrumental in our pastors' fellowship and various other parts of the ministry.
We are so blessed to have Robbyn, Tim, and Leslie on board with us; and look forward to seeing what God has in store for us as a staff team!
The JCMI Crew
We have an entire crew of support staff helping us to facilitate the mission teams during these busy months. Drew, Jaclyn, and Rebecca (who have been interning with us since March) have been joined by Nick P., Nick V., Bram, Cassie, and Rose who are here as part of our Summer Staff program. The eight of them are playing a vital and key role in making this summer a success--both for the mission teams and for those who get ministered to. We are also thankful to have our friend Allie back with us. She joined us as Summer Staff in 2001; and came back this summer to give us a hand and help lead the Summer Staff program with Robbyn.
Outreach Teams
Right now, we have approximately 70 young people with us on three teams from Teen Mania Ministries. They have been flooding the villages in Qwa Qwa and Intabazwe with the love of Jesus! The Gospel of Christ is being proclaimed through one-on-one relationship evangelism, and lives are being changed for eternity. We look forward to sharing ministry testimonies with you in the next update.
Prayer Needs
Thank you so much for continuing to uphold us in your prayers. As of late, several of our crew members have been "under the weather", and we know that the enemy would like to hold us back from accomplishing all that God has in store. We've been pressing through and pushing forward, and are trusting the Lord for complete healing in all of our bodies!
Please join us in prayer for:
- Complete healing for those who are sick
- Boosted immune systems, strengthened bodies, and resistance to sickness and disease
- Protection and safety for our crew, property, and teams
- Open hearts, ready to receive the Gospel
- A mighty harvest of souls into God's Kingdom
- Miraculous signs and wonders to follow the preaching of the Word
- Increased monthly support for the ministry
- New vehicles
Dream His dreams ~ Live His love!
Niel & Alece van Rensburg
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For more information on our ministry, please visit our website: www.jcmi.co.za
FIELD CORRESPONDENCE:
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PO Box 965
Harrismith 9880
South Africa
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Subject: may the Continue to bless you pastor.
Dear pastor Mark,
Greetings to you all there in the name of our Lord. Thanks again for your concern toward us here in Abidjan. We did had Night serivce tarry prayers in the church, and I want to say that the did wonderfull things during that friday night went we met to pray. and there is also a woman who had a cild that had a heart porblem for so many years now.but on that night the Lord heal her child. and many were heal also by the Lord. Again our number came to 100 presone that came on the night prayer. so we thanks the Lord for that. Again thanks for the check you have send through the post office and am only waiting for it to arrive here and I receive it from the post office. again thanks for the taching you have just send to me I really like them all. I will go over them to be bless by it.
well may our continue to bless you and your family and the ministry too. your brother in christ,
pastor Danny Royce.
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Subject: Be Bless again!!
Dear pastor Mark,
Greetings to you again in the name of our Lord. Well let me take this time to say thanks to our God and to you also. Again am too sorry for the delay not geting to you too soon, however we carry on fasting and prayers in the church for three days. we will have a alnight prayer in the church on friday night which is the 27 of june 2003. However I will like to konw if the check you send you did send it through the DHL or you postered through the post office way? so please let me which way you send it to me. because I would like to go the DHL office to konw if this is where you send it.
Again may the Lord bless you in every things you are doing. your brother in christ,
pastor Danny Royce.
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Subject: Be Bless again!!
Dear pastor Mark
Greetings again to you in the name of our Lord. Well we did had a very good service on sunday morning on our side her. We had seven presons that get save on that very day thet recevive water baptism by full immerson and also receive the Holy Spirit baptism with the evidence of speaking in tongue. so we thank the Lord for all what he is doing in his church. Did you receive my address that you ask for?
if so praise the God for that. or if you have not receive it at all, her is it again.
COTE D IVOIRE REVIVAL FELLOWSHIP COTED 11 BP 2340 ABIDJAN 11. COTED D IVOIRE WEST AFRICA.
you can send it through my name PASTOR DANNY ROYCE.
well may the Lord continue to bless you.
pastor danny.
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Subject: WILL YOU BE MY PARTNER ?
Dear missions Partner,
Thankyou for your commitment to become a missions and Revival partner with us.This mission is also devoted to igniting a passion for God's presents in the hearts of people all over the World.
We need partners who will help us fulfill this awesome responsibility. I have discovered that when we come together in unity and agreement to accomplish His purpose,He wii give us to fly. I am humbled that you have chosen to join together with us for His Kingdom.
Your Pastor in Africa havent contacted us i was wondering if you could ask him to do that and also if i could get his contact for easy communication. You have planted a seed in us,whenever we read your massages you speak the language of my heart, it apears am receiving impatation and i have began preaching your themes. Kindly do help support this mission am sending my ministry info. by snail post. Thankyou again for having a heart for a missions partner.
In
Pastor michael uhuru
EVANGELISTIC MISSIONARY AGENCY(EMA MISSIONS KENYA)
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Subject: URGENT REQUEST
Dear servant of God,
Greetings in Jesus name,
As we continue serving the Lord we have encountered situations that are defficult to solve but only the application of our Lord's command that we be merciful. In one of our norhtern mission bases lives this child under the care of our mercy ministries. No parents for him he depends on hearts of mercy.
He is currently very sick, our minimal support can not survive him at present.
please help, help, SAVE HIS PRECIOUS LIFE.
This the latest mission S.O.S from the field.
Yours Pastor Michael Uhuru
EMA MISSIONS KENYA
P.O. BOX 96553
MOMBASA-KENYA
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Subject: GOOD DAY
hello brother mark
I have been waiting to hear from you , HOPE ALL IS FINE WITH YOU .WELL AM STILL IN MY CONDITION STILL PRAYING FOR HELP AND DO BELIVE THAT YOU CAN STILL HELP ME NOW MY COUNTRY IS HARD EVEN FOR THE AID HELPER TO VISIT ONLY SOME GOOD MISSIONNARY THAT COMES LIKE ONE FROM ABIJAN THEY COME BRING FOOD AND AID FOR US BUT SINCE FEW DAYS NOW NO ONE HAD COME .BELOVE IN THE LORD MY LIFE AND MOST OTHER HOPE ARE DEPENDING ON YOU FEW SAMMERITAS TO HELP ME AND OTHER HER TO A SAFER PLACE IF YOU SEND ANY TO ME PLEASE LET ME KNOW SO I CAN GIVE THE MAIL AND NAME OF THE PASTORS THAT COME TO HELP US THEY SHALL BRING THEM FOR US .MY FELLOW FELLOWER OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST I BEG YOU TO COME TO OUR ASSITANCE QIUCK .THANKS AND REMAIN BLESS.
MAMY VELLY
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Subject: Greetings & Prayers requests!
Dear Pastor Mark,
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus.
Thank you for the news and information of what the Lord is doing on your side.
Yesterday which was Sunday we had a (father day)which were very great,and also people were happy during that period,we had a fellowship with on another in the Lord. And we had seven(7) persons that got saved; they were baptized by water and also received the baptizing of the Holy Ghost with the Biblical evidence of speaking in tongues.
God is adding into our number those that saved as we meet always worship Him.
This is our prayer requests below,we need the growth of our ministry through the power of our Lord Jesus.
Our vision is to really carring on the work of our Lord Jesus Christ,but they are some materials we need to carry on the work. We are kindly asking your ministry to assist us in some of this materials that we need.Presently,we don't have instruments in our church to praise the Lord with,we are worshiping the Lord with our hands and tamtam that's the African drum.The building where we are worshiping we need to pay every monthly,due to the political problem that into the country we were not able to carry on the services continuely with our member in the church,we weren't able to pay for passed three months.So our land-lady giving us much trouble to pay her money,or esle we leave the place,so we don't want to loss our place of worshiping.We are also puting that into prayer that God hold the heart of that land-lady until we can get her money completed as He said ask and it shall be giving seek and you shell fine, according to (Matt 7:7,Matt 21:21-22). The place of our worship cos t us 200.000 CFA equivalent to usd dollars 300 per month.
Totals is usd$900 that we owned the land-lady presently. We are still continuing in prayer that there will be a way,but your should keep us in prayer that this mountians will be moved by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ.
May the peace of our Lord be with you all in Jesus name.
Extend our greetings to all the saints.
Cote d'Ivoire Revival Fellowship-west Africa
Pastor Danny Royce
address. 11 BP 2340 Abidjan 11
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Subject: YOUR HELP IS NEEDED
GOOD DAY BELOVE IN THY LORD
AM MAMY VELLY FROM LIBERIA WEST AFRICA , AM IN THE MIST OF THE WAR IN MY COUNTRY BE ING KEPT IN THE CHURCH AS OUR REFFUGE CAMP AND WITH SOME OTHER SEEKERS LIKE ME .
SIR I WILL BE GREATFUL IF YOU CAN HELP ME OUT OF HER THE CHURCH WE ARE STAYING IS NOT SAFE FOR US ANY MORE BECAUSE THE AID THAT WE GET IS NO LONGER COMING AND IT IS AT THE SAME PLACE MY ELDER BROTHER WAS TIRED AND SHOT TO DEALTH THE PICTURE IS WITH ME BEING TAKEN BY THE CHURCH ? NOW LOVA TOWN HAS BEEN THE STRONG HOLD OF THE REBBEL AND THAT IS WHY AM RIGHT NOW .
SIR I AM READY TO GIVE YOU ALL INFORMATION YOU NEED FROM ME , AWAIT YOUR NEXT MAIL BYE AND REMAIN BLESS IN THY LORD AMEN.
MAMY
Subject: Prayer request
Dear Brother in Christ:
I and my wife delighted at your site .We are young and energetic pleased to covet your earnest and fervent prayers to reach the unreached .We assure you to back up you through our fervent prayers. I have received an application form to attend 20th. World Pentecostal Conference at Johannasburg , South Africa. My heart longeth after to attend . If the spirit of God speak through you kindly extend your helping hand to meet part of my expenses .
Infact I belong to most neglected and despised community, in all aspects. We are socially economically discriminated by the rest of the society , neverthless we are rich in the Lord .Kindly acknowledge a.s.a.p. May God bless you.
Yours in His (Christ)services ,
G.Ezra.A.K.
Subject: No Deposit - No Return
"The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach" (Rom. 10:8).
Everything we could ever need is waiting for us in the realm of the spirit with our name on it. All we need to do is get it from there to here.
How do we do that? With faith.
Faith is the "currency" we use to transfer God's provision for us from the unseen realm of the spirit to this natural, earthly realm. Or, as Hebrews 11:1 says, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Spiritual currency works the same way as natural currency. If you have an abundance in your natural bank account, you can enjoy plenty of material things. If you have an abundance of faith in your spiritual account, you can enjoy plenty of everything-wealth, health, good relationships, peace, success-because the Bible says God "giveth us richly all things to enjoy" (1 Tim. 6:17).
The problem is, many believers don't have a clue where faith actually comes from, where it's stored or how to get it out when they need it. That's crucial information. In fact, without it, you're spiritually broke. So let's study these a moment:
Where does faith come from? Romans 10:17 says, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."
Where is faith stored? "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart:
that is, the word of faith, which we preach…. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Rom. 10:8,10). Your faith is stored up in your heart-and since your faith (or lack of it) determines your future, the truth is, your future is stored up in your heart as well.
How do you get it out? When you want to make a withdrawal from your faith account, speak the Word of faith. Don't talk the circumstances. Don't "tell it the way it is" (or looks, in other words).
Speak the end result. Say what God says the outcome is going to be. But don't put it in the future. Faith calls things as though they were.
Let me ask you this: How much faith do you have in your heart account right now? Is it enough to handle your current situation? Is it enough to produce victory every day of your life? If not, you'd better start making some big deposits of God's Word. Remember: No deposit-no return.
Speak the Word: The Word of God is near me. It is in my mouth and in my heart. (Rom. 10:8)
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Date: Thu, Apr 17, 2003
Dear Pastor,
I was very happy when i read your letter.
May the Almighty God bless you and your organization abundantly, my brother i am now at your mercies to help my vision towards my call to become a reality. You and your organization, so far as you are in charge of Africa. We Rhema Ministry do not have our permanent place of worship rather, we hire a place, a school premises which is costing us much. Pastor we will be happy if you would assist us by helping us to get our place of worship. It's all financial problems.
Again, God has endowed me with the gift of healing with herbs and plants, and i know if we get some support, we can produce some medicine out to reach the needy at the moment, all my 30 permanent members i'm having accepted God through this herbal and plant medication, I will be happy if i see you personally than writing, with this effect, i am inviting you to Kumasi in Ghana for site seeing and also to see things for yourself. Though we don't have enough money, i know God will help us to host you if only if you are ready to come. I am badly in need of sponsorship.
Hoping to hearing from you soon, accept my warmest regards in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. Yours in Christ,
Pastor Charles Morris Ansah.
My postal address is:
Rhema Evangelistic Healing Ministry
Box # F.N.T 803
Kumasi-Ghana.
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Subject: pics / Ministry details
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003
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Dear servant of God, Mark Tross.
Calvary greetings in Jesus holy name.
Thank you very much for availing me opportunity to join Arms of Love Fellowship group.
Arms of Love Fellowship is a wonderful group. As a new member i have surely made a discovery of how i will always be encouraged and revived in the spirit. I will also introduce many of my friends to my new wonder discovery. I shall also be sending you our ministry details by post soonest possible. Here in southern Kenya coast we serve God among the locals in remote jungles of Pwani. Before I started pastoring and up to now am a director of a local gospel mobilization team called Evangelistic Missionary Agency ( EMA MISSIONS) founded by volunteer christian friends and my former workmates. This unsponsored team has been able to go round many islands in this region with God approving his work with signs. We have been using our limited resources from employment to support this mission. But as the work continued many challenges imaged to a point of discouragement, now we can't do it alone given that out of the six of the team members three of us are now full time ministers. During the last five years two churches are planted under Gospel Revival Centre our parent ministry and I direct the field missionary work. May God bless you greatly for considering partnering this work.
PICTURES:
Above Pst. Michael Uhuru,
Middle:
Pst. Uhuru in a Bible study with one of the needy families in remote inland missions,
Below:
children under mercy ministries given clothes and food, many are orphans due to AIDS and famine related sickneses.
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Subject: Re: Greeting from America!
Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2003
To: Mark Tross
Dear sir,
We are very grateful to recieve your mail.
Our ministry is a new ministry commenced on the 14th of December last year, we are facing some financial problems and how to acquire our own land to put up our temple to make our worship. We will be much grateful if you can come to our aid. We will also be happy if you would like to visit us in Ghana to see things for yourself. We will send to you our pictures later. Accept our warmest greetings.
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Charles Morris Ansah.
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Subject: Urgent reply
Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2003
Dear Pastor Mark,
Greeting to u in the Mighty Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. How are u this day at this Easter Season. we pray that this season will meet u and favour u in Jesus' Name. well, my coming to the states is still at hand, but pastor i want to see first that we set our Missionary in Nigeria up before i can leave. their housing is our concern pastor. i want them to have the housing before i leave. i will personally appeal to the group to help the Missionary in Nigeria. i want to move forward pastor i want to see that this year we plan at least 10 churches in Africa in Jesus' Name. pls keep me post about the donotion for Africa mission pls.
shalom.
Yours in Christ Jesus,
Rev. George Martin
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Date: Thu, Apr 17, 2003
Dear Pastor,
I was very happy when i read your letter.
May the Almighty God bless you and your organization abundantley, my brother, i am now at your mercies lto help my vision towards my call to become a reality. You and your organization, so far as you are in charge of Africa. We Rhema Ministry do not have our permenant place of worship rather, we hire a place, a school premises which is costing us much. Pastor we will be happy if you would assist us by helping us to get our place of worship. It's all financial problems.
Again, God has endowed me with the gift of healing with herbs and plants, and i know if we get some support, we can produce some medicine out to reach the needy at the moment, all my 30 permenant members i'm having accepted God through this herbal and plant medication, I will be happy if i see you personally than writing, with this effect, i am inviting you to Kumasi in Ghana for site seeing and also to see things for yourself. Though we don't have enough money, i know God will help us to host you if only if you are ready to come. I am badly in need of sponsership.
Hoping to hearing from you soon, accept my warmest regards in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. Yours in Christ,
Pastor Charles Morris Ansah.
My postal address is:
Rhema Evangelistic Healing Ministry
Box # F.N.T 803
Kumasi-Ghana.
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Subject: Financial Assistance
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2003
Dear brothers & sisters,
URGENT PLEA FOR HELP
We, the entire member of EFMI, Nigeria Region cordially appeal for financial assistance from EFM members, Staff and donors to enable us incorporate EFMI in Nigeria with the corporate affairs commission to legalize EFMI constitutionally in Nigeria. We have been trying for over seven months now but to no avail due to financial inability of US 2000 dollars.
Everything has been put in place since October 2002 and ready for registration on payment of the fee. Please by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ I implore you all to arise and help us.
Send dollars: (do not convert to Nigeria Currency. It will give us preference and pre-emption at the registration office) through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, TO PASTOR UBONG EKPO, FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA NIGERIA PLC, ONIPAN, LAGOS. NIGERIA.
His PEACE Abides with you. Reply immediately.
Pastor Ubong Ekpo
EFMI
Subject: WE NEED MORE MONEY AND YOU HELP
Date: Mon, Apr 28, 2003
HOLY ROSARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR DISABLE Contact address:
No 7 Erekwerenwa Street
Owerri, Imo State.
Nigeria.
Dear Friends,
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus.
We are bringing to your notice, the deteriorating condition with our motherless babies, disables and less privileged here in our country.
For quite some time now, inflationary rate, have brought untold suffering to our home and our source of finance are dwindling everyday due to the heavy economic hardship in our country.
Right now, we have lost eleven babies (11) since the first quarter of this due to hunger and malnutrition. This is about nine percent 9% of the total number four children. Seventeen (17) babies age 5-11 years are now seriously sick and near death there ages are too tender to allow them die.
Currently, the home cannot provide enough educational materials to enable these children study alongside with parents the medical unit of the home is virtually without nothing all our vans have broken down and standby generator is also bad.
Despite all these we keep on receiving babies almost every week.
Friends, as at now we have estimated the cost of refurbishing this our home to be eight thousand dollars ($8,000.00) but we don't have anything at hand as at now.
We know that things are hard everywhere, but we plead you to help us with the little you can. We know that little drops of waters make a mighty ocean.
Remember God loves a cheerful giver and he will abundantly bless your family and whatever thing you do.
This money will be used to provide our children with educational materials, equip the medical unit, buy food stuff, buy refrigerator for the preservation
of baby foods, repair our broken vans, buy new generators, buy more beds, forms, blankets, wheel chairs, toys, for our children, and clothes.
Our less privileged children must live their feeding; education and health are our priority.
Friends we beg for your financial and material support nothing is too small and nothing is too big. We also plead you to help introduce us to other philanthropic individuals religion organizations, cooperate bodies and other self-help organization that can come to our rescue.
May the Lord help us all. Amen
Yours sincerely, Mrs. Grace Njoku
Rev. Ike Kingsley
(Mother General)
(Priest in charge)
Rev Uche Williams
(Chaplain)
N: B all correspondence to the above address.
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Subject: Thanks for your Word of Encouragement
Date: Thu, May 1, 2003
From: revival.fellowship.ci
Dear Pastor Mark,
Greeting in the Name of our Lord.
How are you coming on with the assembly? I guess you are fine by the Grace of God.
I am fine alone with the brothers and sisters in the assembly.
However, brethren, I am in prayer for your assembly each prayer day, even at home I pray for you all.
I will like to stop here.
Hope to hear from you/ Heb 13:13
Your brother in the Lord, Brother Wellington/ Approved by Pastor Danny
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Subject: Re: NEW FS
Date: Fri, May 2, 2003
Already in Brazzaville Congo, holding a seminar in an Assembly of God Church today the seventh day. From 300 the attendance has gone up to 500. Prophetic Gifts and Manifestations in Today's Church has been the topic treated. Many have indicated their decisions in Christ and healing taken place. Thanks for all your prayers. Shalom,
Dr.Poupo Elie
14 rue equateur talangai
Bp 5212 Brazzaville Congo
Central Africa.
Brothers and Sisters In Jesus,
Enclosed is my latest post to The Arms of Love Fellowship Group and a link, so
that you can access the latest May Edition of Arms of Love Fellowship which has
7 All New Pages this month that I Hope you will enjoy and pass along to
everyone you know and Love. Please, pray for us, All that God is doing
in our midst and ask Him what you can do to bring Unity to The Body of
Christ, Equip the Saints for Service In the Kingdom of God and Fulfill
the Great Commission In Jesus' Name.
God bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
New Covenant Message! What Drives Your Life? Philippians 3:13,
14
Worship:
Awake O Israel
Awake O Israel, put off your slumber
And the Truth shall set you free
For out of Zion, comes your Redeemer
In the year of Jubilee
For in the furnace of much affliction
I have chosen thee behold
And so for iron, I'll give you silver
And for brass I'll give you gold
Thou art my chosen for I have sought thee Thou art graven in my hand
And I will gather all that are scattered They shall come back to their
land
O hallelujah, O hallelujah
Hallelujah, praise the Lord
O hallelujah, O hallelujah
Hallelujah, praise the Lord.
The Word:
I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own
[yet]; but one thing I do - it is my one aspiration:
forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I
press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to
which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward.
- Philippians 3:13, 14
Have you arrived, attained the ideal, already been made perfect? Only In
Jesus can we find The Way! In Him, we "are" seated In Heavenly Places,
attain Spiritual and mor al Resurrection (Jesus said, I Am The
Resurrection and The Life, Life Eternal, Life Everlasting) that lifts us
out from among the dead even while in the body and are made perfect In
The Fathers Eyes. All who do not put their Faith, Hope and Trust In Him
are Spiritually dead. Jesus says to us Today, "Let the dead bury the
dead. Come! Follow Me!"
What is your determined purpose in Life, In God? That you may Know Him!
The Word of God tells us that to know God and His Son, Jesus is to know
and "have" Eternal Life. When you first accept Jesus Christ into your
heart and Life as your personal Lord and Savior then you have only just
begun to live. We are to progressively become more deeply and intimately
acquainted with Him, perceiving, recognizing and understanding the
Wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly. Do you know the
power outflowing from His Resurrection [which It exerts over Believers]
and do you share His suffer ings as to be continually transformed In
Spirit Into His Likeness even to His death? This Is The Hope of Glory!
Christ In You! He who "has" The Son "has" Life! If you do not "have" The
Spirit of God Living and Moving In you, then you do not "have" Life.
God, Our Heavenly Father sent His One and Only Begotten Son, Jesus, The
Good Shepherd into this World to save sinners and find the lost sheep.
All we like sheep have gone astray and wandered around as without a
shepherd, but thanks be to God, He has opened our ears to hear The Voice
of The Spirit and as we obey and follow Him, He leads us to greener
pastures and beside the still waters. Are you actually found and known
as In Him? We have no self-achieved righteousness to call our own, based
on the obedience of The Law's demands - ritualistic uprightness and
supposed right standing with God - by following man made rules and
regulations. Through Faith In Christ, The Anointed One, we p ossess The
Genuine Righteousness, The Truly Right Standing With God, which comes
from God by Saving Faith In Jesus, The Messiah!
Have we captured God or has He captured our hearts and minds In Christ
Jesus? All of our righteousness is as filthy rags! Forget the lies of
the past! Jesus warned us, "Remember Lot's wife!" Don't look back,
because whoever puts their hand to the plow and looks back is not fit
for The Kingdom Of God. Our one aspiration (this is not a cake walk, but
requires discipline, determination and perspiration) should be to press
onward and upward, straining forward toward The Goal (to sin is to miss
the mark) to win The Supreme and Heavenly Prize to which God In Christ
Jesus Is Calling us upward. If God calls you, will you answer? HELLO! Is
there anybody out there? We "have" a High Calling In Christ Jesus! Drop
Everything! Count it All loss, consider it All to be mere rubbish,
garbage, refuse, dregs, in order that you may win, gain Christ, The
Anointed One. O, the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth and
supreme advantage of knowing Him as Lord and Savior!
O, that we might Truly come to Know Him and The Power of His
Resurrection working In and Through Our Life In Christ Jesus! What
should we be straining forward to and pressing on towards? Jesus
commanded us to Go! Go into All the World and Preach The Gospel, The
Good News of God! Our goal should be to reach as many people in All
Nations with the Love of God, bringing the Message of Salvation,
forgiveness of sins and The Promise of Eternal, Everlasting Life In
Jesus' Name. Amen.
God bless and Love to All,
<')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
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Date: Mon, May 12, 2003
From: Pastor Stephen
Subject: Wonderful communication with you.....
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I 'm very happy to communicate with you through your e-mail, I 'm praying, for our friendship to last long, till we meet. Look, there is nothing like Christianity communication in this world. Also don't be surprise anytime you receive my mail, because I always communicate with my entire Christian friend. And I 'm assuring, that as you respond with me, and it shall be well with us in Jesus name. Amen.
Though, I 'm among of your group. I 'm a full member of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Also, I 'm a last born of my parents. Well, it is good to me different in entire family to show the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. Pls, always remember to call Jesus from the bottom of your heart.
I will send you my pic any moment from now. Also try and write me and tell me more about yourself, and your country you 're from?
God bless you.
Evangelist Stephen.
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Subject: A Great Day In The Lord!!.
Dear pastor Mark,
Some greetings to you again in the name of our Lord. Well I believe strongly you are fine in the LOrd today. and all the saint with you there, so plesae pass our greetings to them too. again we had three presons that get save today and receive water baptism abd also receive the Holy Spirit baptism with evidence of speaking in tongue according to Acts 2, 4. Again we had many people that came from other churchs to worship with us this morning in the Lord. And all the saints here extend their greetings to you all.
well just as you said, it would be the best way by sent it through money order by the post office and it would come easy to us here. so please be excepting the check I will send it back to you this very week.
thank again for all the effort you are making for the Lord and us in Africa, so may our Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless you in every things you are doing for him. my question is ?the address you send me first through letter is it I have to use? or the this HCR BoX 1 A 334. LACKAWAXEN, PA 184359717.USA.
please let me konw now which one to use now before I send the check to you.
your brother in christ,
pastor Danny Royce.
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Subject: I receive The but I could not cash it at all here!!
Dear pastor Mark,
Greetings to you again inn the name of our Lord. praise be to the Lord again for making the check reaching us safely here with on problem at all. And again I want to thank you for all the effort you have been making for His kingdom, but I want say to you it is only the Lord who going to bless you.
Unfortunately for us today, I late when to the bank to see if I can cash the check you send to us. but when I arrive there I was told by the manager that they can not cash this check for me. then they told me that when they except such checks in dollars the bank in America can not pay back their money on time or they dont even pay them. so because of this it impossible for us to have the check been cash here in Abidjan. so I will send it back to you in America then you can decied what to do again. However this same bank am in cantact with them, here is the address, BANQUE INTERNATIONAL POUR LE COMMERCE ET L INDUSTREIE DE LA COTE D IVOIRE. 01 BP 1298 ABIDJAN 01. TEL. 225.20201600. FAX. 225.20201700.
TELEX2365123870. HERE IS MY ACCONUT NUMBER WITHE THEM BANQUE 002.
0974606857400110.
ADDERESS ON MY SIDE IS 11 BP 2340 ABIDJAN 11.REVIVAL FELLOWSHIP CHURCH MARCORY RESIDENTIEL EN FACE COURS LA MARTINE DU DESSUS DE LA PHARMACIE P.T.T. HERE IS MY FAX 225. 21261075.IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO ANY TRANSFER TO US HERE YOU CAN DO IT BY THIS WAY. JUST PASTOR DANNY ROYCE. I WILL SEND YOU CHECK AGAIN BY POST OFFICE ON FRIDAY MORNING. your brother in christ;
pastor Danny Royce.
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Subject: July Update
Inside JCMI
Resourcing African Leaders
July, 2003
Outreach Teams
The first group of Teen Mania teams flew back to the States on Saturday. We had a wonderful month of ministry with them while they were here, and we are currently gearing up for the huge wave of young people that will be coming our way next week. This coming Saturday 60 young people will be arriving for a month of ministry. On Tuesday, we have 80 more arriving who will be with us for one week. With over 140 people here at once, our property will be bustling with excitement and energy! And the massive thrust of evangelism and discipleship into Intabazwe and Qwa Qwa will yield much fruit!
Ministry Testimonies
Countless lives have already been impacted by the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ! One of the ministry groups had the opportunity to visit with an old man in Qwa Qwa. He remarked that he knew God and that there was no sin in his life since he lived alone. Unsure of what to say, the group asked if he had ever heard the story of Jesus. He responded, "No, but I have always wanted to hear about Him." So the team told the story of Jesus' life from beginning to end. At the end of the story, the man removed his hat and said, "Look. My hair is grey and I am old, and no one had ever told me that story. Thank you for coming." He realized that there was sin in his life and that Jesus paid the price for his sins.
With the ministry group, he dedicated his life to Christ for the first time.
Below are several more testimonies from the past three weeks of ministry. As you read through them, know that you have played a part in each salvation and healing through your prayers and partnership with us.
"My ministry group visited a lady named Merriam. In the beginning she said she didn't want to talk long because her head hurt so badly. We asked if we could pray for her and I shared the story of how God opened my tear ducts when I was only six months old. I had blocked tear ducts. A week before I was scheduled to have surgery, my parents took me up for prayer at our church and later on I started crying and tears came out! Merriam seemed really touched by that story. We prayed for her and afterwards she said that her head felt a lot better. God is so awesome!" - Kate
"My group had a chance to work with the children. Children's ministry was so awesome! I could tell that they didn't want someone to feel sorry for them, but they wanted someone to be their friend!
God just opened many doors for my group. Through the curiosity of what was going on, with the kids and all the music and energy in the streets, we drew crowds. Not of only children, but of teenagers and adults, too. This allowed us to minister to them; and they soaked it up like a sponge! Praise God! I'd much rather trade my big house and goods for a heart as big as theirs!" - Apryl
"During our ministry in Qwa Qwa, my group ministered at a house where there was a grandmother and three kids. I spent most of the time talking to the nine-year old boy. When I told him that Jesus loved him, his eyes grew wide with wonder and excitement. I continued to tell him about Jesus and what He did for us; and then the boy prayed the sinner's prayer with me. I could see a new joy in his face!" - Nathan
"My ministry group visited this house with four teenage guys. When we told them we were here to share the love of Jesus with them, they automatically had all these questions. In the end, they all ended up praying the sinner's prayer with us. Inside, I was questioning if they were sincere, like if they'd really meant it from their hearts and stuff. Before we left the house, one guy pulled me over and said, 'You don't know the impact you just made on my life.' Right after that, another one of the guys asked, 'Why do you care so much for me? Why did you come all this way for me?' I explained that I love Jesus and He gave me this hope and I want to share it with the world. He said, 'No one has ever done anything like this for me before. Thank you so much.' It was really touching and awesome to know that the decisions they made were totally sincere. " - Jon
Summer Staff
We are so grateful for the support crew that the Lord sent us to help facilitate the summer outreach teams. There are so many details and behind-the-scenes logistics that must be taken care of each day; and our Summer Staff have really helped carry the load in a big way. We thank God for sending them to us!
Several of our Summer Staff are leaving this weekend to return to America. Cassie, Nick, and Bram were a tremendous help during their one-month stay. They worked long and hard to help make this past month of ministry a success! We also have a new helper arriving on Saturday. Carrie will be coming to help with this second month of teams. She, along with Rose, Nick, Drew, Jaclyn, and Rebecca, will be with us through mid-August. They are going to be very instrumental this month in facilitating the many teams we will have.
Cassie shares about her time here with us: "My Summer Staff experience here with JCMI has changed me in ways I didn't even imagine possible. I have discovered that leadership on the mission field is self-sacrifice -- it isn't about me. It is the giving of myself so that others may gain. My time here has allowed me to see the other side of the missions experience -- the behind the scenes effort that makes everything possible. My time as Summer Staff has allowed me to really step back and evaluate how God is changing me and how I can change the world."
Praise Reports & Prayer Needs
Thank you so much for your faithful prayers! We thank God for
- His healing power at work in our bodies
- the salvations and healings we have seen
- giving us the words to say during ministry
- keeping us and our property safe
- incredible ministry times
Please continue to be in prayer for
- openness in people's hearts to receive the Gospel
- safety on the road as we travel to and from ministry each day
- strength and energy for all our staff and interpreters
- wisdom and strategic planning of follow-up
Dream His dreams ~ Live His love!
Niel & Alece van Rensburg
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Dear Pastor Mark,
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus.
Here is the newsletter of June 2003.
I hope read nicely.
Thanks
Your Brother.
Pastor Danny Royce
Dear Pastor & Bretthen
Greeting in the name of our Lord Jesus.
How are you and your family including all the saints.I guess you are all fine by the grace of God.
Here are some good things among the brethen & sisters.
Read nicely.
Your brother in Christ.
Pastor Danny Royce.
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Subject: I have sent the Check Back
Dear Brother Mark,
Greetings to you again in the name f our Lord.
This is just to let you konw that I have already sent the check back to you by posting it to the address me. so please be looking for it I have sent it. Again please pass our greetings to your saint in your assembly. may our Lord continue to bless you as you are working for Him.
Thanks ,
pastor Danny Rouyce.
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Subject: Great i the Lord!!
Dear Brother Mark,
greetings to you again in the name of our Lord. How are you today? I bleieve you are ok in the Lord. well we did had a very good service this morning as we meet to praise his name. And we had some new people that get baptize today and get save. well this is all for now.
pastor Danny Royce.
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Daer brother Mark,
Here are some greetings again to you in the name of our Lord. this is just to update you with good news on sunday service, we had seven presons that get save on sunday, they receive water baptism and also receive the Holy Spirit baptism when they were pray for to receive God s power.
All the saint here extend theirn greetings to you all there. please my greetings to every one in your assembly, your brother in christ,
pastor Danny Royce.
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From: "E. F. Martin"
I think I have resent you my details and i hope you get all the details again.
Radiant Army Missions.
motto:Using the availabe to do the impossible
who we are
we are a non-Governmental,non-Profitable,religous and denominational organisation into a purpose of extending our hands of magnanimity to Destitutes,unbeleivers,lessprivilleged,homeles and the hopeless,sick and the diseased and of the low in heart,
With a VISION as YOUTHS and ABLE BODIED,which consist not of holding future office but in doing some great DEEDS with LITTLE means and the ACCCOMPLISHMENT of VAST purpose from our little private RANK of life and ABILITY.
we are based here in NIGERIA,our mission has in her little way done several non-profitable gestures,we have distributed not less than 300 copies of the holy Bible free since the last 2 years,we have purchased and fed the poor in rural areas wherein we are previlleged to go on missionary works,we intend to do more of this feeding the poor and clothing them but all lies in the level of our resource,we are yet young,there by seek others to be the arm of Aeron and hur to support moses.
In our capacity we have visited not less than 17 states in Nigeria,close to 4 countries in Africa including:Benin repulic,and Togo.
BELIEF.
we believe in God the wonder working God,the only one who can work miracles and the only God who can provide for his children even in the time of lack,one God who is not biased or divided,full of compassion and prompted by love.
PARTNERSHIP
we seek partnership of both christian religions,Governmental and non-governmental,NGO's, who are willing to see that this seed sown will leave to become a tree ,and will have branches to shelter both the wild and the tamed,we seek Godly men and women who would be glad to support our projects advising and encouraging through the biblie visionary and teaching of the way of truth.GOAL
*"The goals of the Missions are:
*Increasing the kingdom of God and making sure that the population of God's kingdom is a priority.
*convicting the sinners to look unto the cross of JESUS and turn to the only saviour.
*Provision of food stuff and other material needs of the poor,especially those in rural areas who have no one to turn to,the Destitutes whose futures has been turned upside down by the devil,who now needs love and rehabilitations.
*Though we seek support from helping hands like you,yet every month we go on helpin the poor and extending our gesture.
*Going on misssionary trips,preaching the gospels in place we've never been,evangelising in any country wherein we are invited to.
1. To pray and promote prayer for missions mobilisers and new, young,
even
old missionaries.
2. To build unity, maintain dialogue, and encourage a spirit of grace
and
biblical balance among all those involved in mission.
3. To encourage, affirm and supply vital information and materials to
mobilisers and visit other missionary stations around the globe.
4. We seek Global partnership and Globalisation of our missions since
the
WORLD Is Global,The WORD must be GLobal,more mission workers added to
existing numbers.
5. To promote financial support and to seek such since we are not
financially bouyant for potential missionaries.
6. To encourage missionaries already on the field or involved in trying
to
re-entry. to globalise the 'word',make known the indivisible and hloy word of God and bringing it close to the unreached in a world of sin and sorrow,we have a desire to conquer,explore and exploit the rural villages,set up centers of the Word(Bible)exposition,prepare and make men and women ready for the kingdom of God.Matt.6:33.Has said "seek you first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,other things shall be added.
we plan to let people understand and see vital reason why they should follow JESUS and morever there are profits attached, which the greatest is HEAVEN.
SUPPORT & FINANCE
IN THE LAST 5 YEARS, WE HAVE RECIEVED ALOT OF SUPPORTS FROM OUR DEAR PASTOR {REV.FRANCIS EMEKACHUKWU}, WHO IS THE GENERAL OVERSEER OF CHRIST CHOSEN GENERATION CHURCH ALSO SO MANY NGO'S WHO LOVES GODS KINGDOM EXPANSION LIKE MRS ENEME HAS SHOWN SUPPORT. ONE OF THEM IS ALSO PASTOR ALAMO IN THE U.S.A.
WE HUMBLY SEEK SUPPORT FROM EVERY GOD FEARING AND LOVING PERSON, TO PROMOTE AND BUILD THIS MISSIONS OUTFIT. A LOT OF THINGS ARE NEEDED, WHILE A LITTLE HAS BEEN REALISED.
NEEDEDS
FINANCE TO CARRY ALOT OF OUR PROJECTS ,
WE PLAN OUR PROGRAMMES RUN THE MISSIONS OUTFIT, AND COMPLETE OUR PROJECT. WE NEED HELP FINANCIALLY, NO AMOUNT IS WITHOUT OUR APPRECIATION.
WE NEED MUSICAL EQUIPMENATS{INSTUMENTS} WHICH WE NEED FOR OUR OPEN AIR CRUSADES, ANY ONE WHO CAN HELP US WITTIN THESE INSTRUMENTS, WE SURELY WILL APPRECIATE ANDTHE ALMIGHTY WILL SURELY REIGN HIS BLESSINGS ON SUCH. THE INSTRUMENATS, INCLUDEDS:
KEYBOARDS, RECHAGEABLE LAMPS, MEGA HORN PHONES, BASS GIUTER, LEAD GUITER,,AMPLIFIERS,, MICROPHONES,,GENERATORS ,, DRUM SETS,,AND EVERY OTHER KNIND OF INSTUMENTS THAT CAN BE USED TO GIVE GOD A MELODIOUS PRAISE AND SOUND.
MORE TO ADD, WE SEEK THOSE WHO CAN HELP US WITH CLOTHES, SHOES,GENERAL WEARS, BOTH USED AND NEW, FOR THE NEEDY, MALE AND FEMALE , OLD AND YOUNG.
IT'S REALY A HEAVY TASK RUNING SUCH NON PROFITABLE MISSIONARY WORK.
WHY YOU MUST HELP.
we once heard the helpless cry!,we felt it,we saw the homeless under the cold with no shelter,the widow rejected and dejected as though ostracised,the poor in the society without care,we decided to "CARRY" other peoples cross,we have since the past (5)five years worked in these fields,even in prison visitations and charity walk,The 'CROSS'is becoming burdensome hence:
"BUT WHY SHOULD YOU SUPPOTR?"
As natural humans,we need to do more to the destitute and the poor lesprivelleged.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
*Do more than hear,listen to their cry!.
*Do more than help,serve their needs.
*Do more than Advise,help them.
*Do more than spend,Invest in them.
*Do more than consider,commit to helping.
*Do more than share,give totally.
*Do more than talk,communicate reality.
*Do more than promise,fulfil helpinh hands.......
PLEASE SEND YOUR COMMENTS
CONTACT:
RADIANT ARMY MISSIONS OFFICE
C/oChrist Chosen GenerationChurch
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Coordinating Director for missions
Iheme Conscience Chizube
In Christ
Regards
Martin
Subject: Project KENYA
Brother Mark,
I have recieved a invitation to attend a interdenominational leaders seminar in Kenya on the 26th of September.
I was wondering if you could help me with this by raising more awareness of the products available (no word on the books yet, but soon) at the store site that I mentioned.
http://simplechurchfellowship.weebly.com
Also, I will be sending out e-mails asking for tithes in not only church matters but so that I can also attend this seminar and even get a church built in that country.
Your help in this matter can help out alot, plus bring the goals of EFS and FS even one step closer to a brighter reality by having our first built church from the ground up in Kenya..
So, if you can get the word out (I will be doing the same)
this will help out alot.
thanks
Rabbi Waylon Angel
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Subject: Great Day In the Lord!!
Dear pastor Mark,
Some greetings to you again in the name of our Lord. Well I want to thank the Lord for making the check reaching you. Again we are just from prayer as we do on every friady night in the church, and many people came to our paryer time to pray to the Lord for their needs and the lord to heal them also from all sockness.
All your African brothers and sisters in the Lord extend their greetings to you. I will also be pary you that Lord will give you save trip to where you are going to.
Thanks your brother Danny Royce.
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Subject: Great Day In the Lord!!
Dear Brother mark.
greetings again to you in great name of our Lord Jesus christ. Again let me say thanks to our Lord. by moving you into a new home in new mexico, really we are happy about this. About just to let you konw that things are not going fine with us. Our landlady has taking a decision that she would close our worshiping hall, if we dont pay her money from now on to monday afternoon she will close the place of our prayer. so am really confuse about the way things are going now.
pastor mark, please try to help us now.
before we will be put to shame by people here. and dot want our menbers to going way now. please send us some thing through the westen union way. so that we will here money this monday morning. I am beging you people to help now.
your pastor Danny Royce.
Subject: CONTACT
CONTACT:
FRANCIS MARTIN EME
RADIANT ARMY MISSIONS OFFICE C/o:
Christ Chosen Generation Church
25, FEMI OSHOBU STREET,
OFF AGODO WATER CO-OPERATION,
BY CELE B/STOP,
LAGOS-STATE.
NIGERIA.
+234-1-8117509
+234-8023197874
YOU CAN AS WELL TELL ME WHEN TO EXPECT LIKE HOW SOON.
LOOKING FORWARD TO A RESPONSE.
MARTIN
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bro mark thank you for message ,i pary that GOD who start this good thing ln your life will finish it .so do not be discourage when ever you face the desert of this life. your life has been a blessing to others even me ,and lbelive my good GOD will bless you back because lt ls writting he that water must water back .l have nothing to give you finacally as ltold you before ,l am a petty trader l carry honey from our village and sell it in the town to get some money for a living ,you know our country is very hard .but my desire is to work for GOD lf i see someone who will take me up .but l promise to put you in my prayer .how about the new church in nigeria? ,hence i am Nigeria ican help in evangelism but i dot not know the place. may the grace of GOD be with you .yours bro in hlm paul
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Subject: Attn: Pator Mark
Dear Pastor Mark,
Greeting to u in the Mighty name of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank u for your email pastor its has been a while now that i hear fromu nor fromsister Juliet. well about the message u forward me,i have write Bro.Paul about the location of the Church in Nigeria,but all the same i am planing another mission trip to nigeria again to do follow up with our Missionary there. i have try many time to contact u but could not i got to know that u move to NM now how is everything now and the New Church plantingh there.hope all is going well with u pastor. well.i will wait to hear fromu again.how is the mission support going.pls keep us in prayer
shalom.
Rev. George Martin
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Subject: Please Pray
Dear friends and partners,
We are exhausted, so this email will be short... A fire broke out on a neighboring farm early this morning (Sunday), and at 4:00 AM we received a call that the fire was coming our direction. From then until midnight, Niel and all our male staff were fighting the fire with the help of neighboring farmers.
In short, the fire eventually covered one of our mountains in its entirety. Five cabins that were on it have completely burned down. We also lost the camping area and its bathroom facilities. The fire was indescribably huge and overtaking, and the damage to the property has been extensive. We won't really be able to see how extensive, though, until morning.
It has been a long and emotional day; but the worst is now over. With a large part of our property still smoldering, we will be doing scheduled checks throughout the night to ensure that the fire stays out.
It is now 1:00 AM on Monday. Niel is doing the first check at 2:00; and then we will be able to finally get some sleep. Our three-day pastors conference starts tomorrow morning at 9:00! Much of the final setup for that -- that should have been taken care of today -- will need to be done early tomorrow morning. We KNOW that this conference will be our best one yet, and we are aware of the enemy's plans to discourage us, hurt us and our ministry, and stop the work the Lord is doing here. We will not let him!
We will stand up and fight!
We praise God for His protection. At times, Niel's and the others' lives were in danger. The men spoke of one main incident where they weren't sure how they would escape the flames -- and the Lord got them out safely. We also thank the Lord for guarding the remainder of the property from the fire. Our restaurant, main lodge complex, and home were kept totally safe. We also praise God for the powerful ministry that has been taking place even while all of this has been going on. While Niel was fighting the fire, Alece was at a church in Qwa Qwa with a visiting pastor from the States who was ministering there. Both the morning and evening services were powerful! There were 16 salvations and numerous healings that took place. We heard so many testimonies of how the Lord worked in people's lives during the services. So in spite of the heart-wrenching situation we are faced with, we glorify God for His hand upon our lives.
We wish we would have been able to send an email sooner; but have not had an opportunity until now. Please pray that the fire would not restart; that we and our staff would quickly get rested; and that we will not lose too many animals. Please pray for the pastors conference taking place Monday through Wednesday -- that people's hearts would be open to receive, that the speakers will share exactly what God wants them to, and that lives would be changed. Please also pray that Niel and I would be strengthened on the inside and that we would be able to soon see God's plan in all of this.
With love and appreciation,
Niel & Alece
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JCMI South Africa
www.jcmi.co.za
Subject: we are preparing
Hello Mark,
I will put you in prayers and as well looking forward to a time when you can be free in respect to our needs,we plan to hold an open air crusade,I do not know if you can help us with some old musical instruments,this s to bust our performance in the areas of music can u??
martin
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Subject: CONTACT
CONTACT:
FRANCIS MARTIN EME
RADIANT ARMY MISSIONS OFFICE C/o:
Christ Chosen Generation Church
25, FEMI OSHOBU STREET,
OFF AGODO WATER CO-OPERATION,
BY CELE B/STOP,
LAGOS-STATE.
NIGERIA.
+234-1-8117509
+234-8023197874
YOU CAN AS WELL TELL ME WHEN TO EXPECT LIKE HOW SOON.
LOOKING FORWARD TO A RESPONSE.
MARTIN
Outreach Teams
The first group of Teen Mania teams flew back to the States on Saturday. We had a wonderful month of ministry with them while they were here, and we are currently gearing up for the huge wave of young people that will be coming our way next week. This coming Saturday 60 young people will be arriving for a month of ministry. On Tuesday, we have 80 more arriving who will be with us for one week. With over 140 people here at once, our property will be bustling with excitement and energy! And the massive thrust of evangelism and discipleship into Intabazwe and Qwa Qwa will yield much fruit!
Ministry Testimonies
Countless lives have already been impacted by the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ! One of the ministry groups had the opportunity to visit with an old man in Qwa Qwa. He remarked that he knew God and that there was no sin in his life since he lived alone. Unsure of what to say, the group asked if he had ever heard the story of Jesus. He responded, "No, but I have always wanted to hear about Him." So the team told the story of Jesus' life from beginning to end. At the end of the story, the man removed his hat and said, "Look. My hair is grey and I am old, and no one had ever told me that story. Thank you for coming." He realized that there was sin in his life and that Jesus paid the price for his sins.
With the ministry group, he dedicated his life to Christ for the first time.
Below are several more testimonies from the past three weeks of ministry. As you read through them, know that you have played a part in each salvation and healing through your prayers and partnership with us.
"My ministry group visited a lady named Merriam. In the beginning she said she didn't want to talk long because her head hurt so badly. We asked if we could pray for her and I shared the story of how God opened my tear ducts when I was only six months old. I had blocked tear ducts. A week before I was scheduled to have surgery, my parents took me up for prayer at our church and later on I started crying and tears came out! Merriam seemed really touched by that story. We prayed for her and afterwards she said that her head felt a lot better. God is so awesome!" - Kate
"My group had a chance to work with the children. Children's ministry was so awesome! I could tell that they didn't want someone to feel sorry for them, but they wanted someone to be their friend!
God just opened many doors for my group. Through the curiosity of what was going on, with the kids and all the music and energy in the streets, we drew crowds. Not of only children, but of teenagers and adults, too. This allowed us to minister to them; and they soaked it up like a sponge! Praise God! I'd much rather trade my big house and goods for a heart as big as theirs!" - Apryl
"During our ministry in Qwa Qwa, my group ministered at a house where there was a grandmother and three kids. I spent most of the time talking to the nine-year old boy. When I told him that Jesus loved him, his eyes grew wide with wonder and excitement. I continued to tell him about Jesus and what He did for us; and then the boy prayed the sinner's prayer with me. I could see a new joy in his face!" - Nathan
"My ministry group visited this house with four teenage guys. When we told them we were here to share the love of Jesus with them, they automatically had all these questions. In the end, they all ended up praying the sinner's prayer with us. Inside, I was questioning if they were sincere, like if they'd really meant it from their hearts and stuff. Before we left the house, one guy pulled me over and said, 'You don't know the impact you just made on my life.' Right after that, another one of the guys asked, 'Why do you care so much for me? Why did you come all this way for me?' I explained that I love Jesus and He gave me this hope and I want to share it with the world. He said, 'No one has ever done anything like this for me before. Thank you so much.' It was really touching and awesome to know that the decisions they made were totally sincere. " - Jon
Summer Staff
We are so grateful for the support crew that the Lord sent us to help facilitate the summer outreach teams. There are so many details and behind-the-scenes logistics that must be taken care of each day; and our Summer Staff have really helped carry the load in a big way. We thank God for sending them to us!
Several of our Summer Staff are leaving this weekend to return to America.
Cassie, Nick, and Bram were a tremendous help during their one-month stay. They worked long and hard to help make this past month of ministry a success! We also have a new helper arriving on Saturday. Carrie will be coming to help with this second month of teams. She, along with Rose, Nick, Drew, Jaclyn, and Rebecca, will be with us through mid-August. They are going to be very instrumental this month in facilitating the many teams we will have.
Cassie shares about her time here with us: "My Summer Staff experience here with JCMI has changed me in ways I didn't even imagine possible. I have discovered that leadership on the mission field is self-sacrifice -- it isn't about me. It is the giving of myself so that others may gain. My time here has allowed me to see the other side of the missions experience -- the behind the scenes effort that makes everything possible. My time as Summer Staff has allowed me to really step back and evaluate how God is changing me and how I can change the world."
Praise Reports & Prayer Needs
Thank you so much for your faithful prayers! We thank God for
- His healing power at work in our bodies
- the salvations and healings we have seen
- giving us the words to say during ministry
- keeping us and our property safe
- incredible ministry times
Please continue to be in prayer for
- openness in people's hearts to receive the Gospel
- safety on the road as we travel to and from ministry each day
- strength and energy for all our staff and interpreters
- wisdom and strategic planning of follow-up
Dream His dreams ~ Live His love!
Niel & Alece van Rensburg
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JCMI
PO Box 965
Harrismith 9880
South Africa
Dear Pastor Mark,
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus.
Here is the newsletter of June 2003.
I hope read nicely.
Thanks
Your Brother.
Pastor Danny Royce
Dear Pastor & Bretthen
Greeting in the name of our Lord Jesus.
How are you and your family including all the saints.I guess you are all fine by the grace of God.
Here are some good things among the brethen & sisters.
Read nicely.
Your brother in Christ.
Pastor Danny Royce.
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Subject: Update from South Africa
Dear Partners ~
Update on the Fire
Thank you so much for the prayers lifted to the Father on our behalf over the past two weeks. We received many encouraging emails as dear friends told us they are standing with us and praying for us -- thank you very much! It is so strengthening to know that we are not alone, but that we have an army of people standing beside us in the fight!
We know many of you are awaiting an update on things since the fire. Even now, two weeks later, small fires continue to ignite amongst the smoldering ash. It is amazing that the fire could burn for so long, which shows just how hot and huge it really was.
The damage to the property, cabins, their contents, and the animals that were killed and lost in the fire comes to a total figure of $164,000. The insurance company will not cover that total amount, and we are still waiting to hear back from them regarding how much we can count on. This financial hit is a hard one; and we trust the Lord to pull us through.
The land that has been so badly burned and destroyed will soon spring forth with the bright green of new life. We know in our hearts that a new phase and thrust of our ministry will also spring forth. We have been discussing building plans with our architect and can already begin to envision an incredible mission base rising up from the ashes! We thank God for the vision He's placed in our hearts.
Being able to see that picture before us of what is yet to come has continually motivated and pushed us forward during this difficult time.
End of Outreach Season
We were very blessed to have a mission team from Kensington Community Church in Michigan with us during the time of the fire. The KCC Team, which consisted mostly of adults, proved to be an amazing asset! Their flexibility and willingness to serve was such a blessing to us. They helped us tremendously by cleaning up the heaps of debris which were all that remained of the burned chalets. Having those 18 extra sets of hands around made the load a lot lighter on our staff, who were already run so ragged from the long hours of fighting the fire. The team was also involved in relationship evangelism in the villages of Qwa Qwa and Intabazwe; and we have seen tremendous fruit from their ministry. It was wonderful to see God work in each of the team members' lives while He worked through them to touch people here in South Africa! We thank God for our Kensington Team, as they not only blessed the nationals but were a strength and encouragement to us as well!
We praise the Lord for the souls that were saved throughout the summer as we infiltrated rural villages with the love of Jesus! We are working now with our group of pastors to ensure that effective follow-up is taking place. We have already heard powerful reports of church growth as the new Believers have flocked to the churches to learn more about their new-found faith!
Women's Luncheon & Church Ministry
We hosted a women's luncheon in Qwa Qwa for 100 Basotho ladies. We served them a beautiful lunch (prepared by women in the church) and had an incredible time of ministry and fellowship. We were so privileged to have Alece's mom, Diane Ronzino, here to share with them. It was deeply rewarding to have her here ministering alongside us. She connected so amazingly with the ladies at the luncheon. They continue to rave about the event and how much "Mother Diane" blessed them!
We were also privileged to have our pastor from New York, Tom Dimino, come minister with us. During the weekend of the fire, Tom ministered at four services at a rural church in Qwa Qwa. The messages were powerful and so many lives were deeply impacted!
Sixteen people gave their lives to the Lord, and numerous people received physical healings during the weekend.
Hand in Hand
Our Vision Conference was awesome! In spite of the fire that was going on and the craziness of how we were feeling, God moved in a mighty way! The teachings were so practical and relevant; and you could visibly see the pastors grabbing hold of God's Word. They were eager to learn and hungry to grow. We are excited to see what God is going to do in Qwa Qwa and Intabazwe as they begin to refine their vision, pass it on to their congregations, and run with it the directives God has given them!
When one of the pastors heard about the fire on the day it broke out, he rented a van and filled it with men from his church. Ten guys came out to the property to help fight the fire. It meant so much to us to see their willingness and desire to help however they could.
The name of our pastors fellowship, Hand in Hand, became a reality that day as these precious people extended their hand back to us! We truly thank God for the incredible ministry that He's blessed us with!
Prayer Needs
We still have many more mountains to cross in wake of the fire. We will be working closely with the insurance company during the upcoming month; and we also have some large decisions to make regarding the property and how/what to rebuild. The ministry pace continues to increase as well, so we are always on the go! One of the largest "weights" we are dealing with is the property loan payments of $3500 per month. With the extra expenses incurred by the fire, we need more support in order to simply pay everything that needs to be paid.
We would appreciate your continued prayers on our behalf for the following needs:
Favor with the insurance company
Wisdom and creative God-dreaming concerning the property and building plans
Strength, energy, and health for us and our staff
Increased monthly financial support as well as large donations to help us retire the property loan quickly
Thank you for standing with us in ministry! We love and appreciate you!
Your hands and feet in Africa,
Niel & Alece van Rensburg
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pastor thank you for your ans. but i want know if you has sent the bible which i ask you for the new convert ,because i have already promise them that their bible is coming .may the grace of our lord jesus be with you amen . yours bro in him paul.
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Chosen Generation Youth Camp
This weekend we hosted a camp for the young people of Qwa Qwa and Intabazwe. With our original target set on 90 people, we ended up bussing in 147 young people on Friday!
Long time ministry friend, Leon DeHaan, flew in from Michigan to minister at the camp. His teachings on the life of David were powerful, inspirational, and challenging. Forty young people gave their lives to the Lord at the first session!
Saturday afternoon was filled with outrageous activities and games, climaxing with a crazy water balloon dodge! All in all, the camp was a success; and we believe we will continue to see fruit in these young people?s lives.
We thank God for the platform He?s given us to impact so many people for His Kingdom!
LaunchPad
This week begins the next semester of our discipleship classes in Qwa Qwa.
This term we will be going through the Experiencing God study with our students. Many of the young people from the camp have expressed an interest and desire to attend, and we are trusting the Lord for a good turnout as we begin the first classes this coming week.
Marriage Enrichment Conference
Our Hand in Hand Marriage Conference for pastors is coming up on October 6-8.
We have several guest ministers coming to share at the event: Steve and Jennifer McMichael of Africa Outreach (Johannesburg, South Africa), Thebe and Nomsa Madigoe of Life & Light Christian Church (Polokwane, South Africa), and Leon DeHaan of Global Youth Ministries (Michigan, USA). We are grateful for these ministries joining hands with us to make this Marriage Conference a success!
Botswana Pastors? Explosion
We are privileged to be a part of a national pastors? conference in Gabarone, the capital city of Botswana.
Close friends and fellow missionaries, Jerry and Jana Lackey of Love Botswana Outreach Mission, are hosting their second annual National Pastors? and Leadership Explosion this week, October 1-4. They have invited Niel to share in the four youth pastor workshop sessions.
We are honored to be involved in this incredible event! We know that the Lord is doing mighty things in Botswana through the ministry of Jerry and Jana, and we are blessed to be a part of it!
USA Trip
We will be leaving for the States on October 31 for ministry and fundraising.
As a result of the fire, we need to largely
increase our monthly financial support.
We will be traveling through Michigan, New York, Ontario, Ohio, Virginia, and Texas. In the next few weeks, we will send out our full itinerary. We would love to see you if we come to your area!
Prayer Needs
Please lift up the following prayer needs:
Many new students to attend the LaunchPad classes
Solid growth in the marriages of the pastors who attend the Marriage Conference
Safety and protection as we travel to and from Botswana
Increased monthly support
We appreciate your partnership!
Niel & Alece van Rensburg
For more information on our ministry, please visit our website: www.jcmi.co.za
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Dear Mark,
Thank you for your interest in our work in Uganda and my CD "Beyond Words".
How did you find out about this? Was it through Andrea Jackson?
Regarding the missions work in Africa, I was invited by a missionary friend living in Uganda about five years ago to speak at the East African Renewal Conference. I had heard of a Jewish tribe in a remote region and was led to try to locate them while I was there and share the good news of Yeshua. With the help of an Anglican pastor, we found these Jews, called the Abayudaya (this tribe was living as Jews by choice since around 1919, and formally converted to Judaism in 2002). I shared about our Messianic synagogue with some members of the Abayudaya community and brought gifts from our congregation, including bibles and other materials about Yeshua. I took a walk around the synagogue property with the Chairman of the community and read the prophetic scripture of Isaiah 53 very briefly, I asked him to let me know of whom he thought the prophet was speaking. He wrote to us a month or so later that he had read the scripture and found the truth -- Yeshua is the saviour of the world, the Messiah of Israel! Since 1999 we have returned to Uganda four times with small teams from our congregation. The Messianic Community of Uganda in that remote region now numbers around 150. Rosh Pina began a Uganda Education Fund just 1-1/2 years ago and now sponsor nearly 100 children in primary and secondary schools. The community is growing in grace and truth and it is a joy to be a part of what God is doing in Uganda. The story is very long....there is much more to tell. If you are interested in knowing more, let me know.
My CD will be ready for distribution in about 5-6 weeks. If you would like to reserve a copy, please write back The cost will be $15.00 plus shipping. I will email you when it is ready and send details of where to send payment.
Blessings to you in Messiah Yeshua,
Rabbi David Finkelstein
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Subject: " THE ANGELS CALLED HIMK Y'SHUA!"
Dear Richard,
In response to the above mentioned email. I have also had such thoughts on the correct Names
1. In the front of my NIV study bible it says "In regard to the divine Name YHWH,
commonly referred to as the tetragrammaton. The translators adopted the
device used in most English versions of rendering the Name "LORD" in capital
letters …." Is this the Mighty One's Name ….."The LORD". The last
time I looked
it was a title. It is well known that His name is YaHWeH. Why do we not, out of
respect, obey and honour Him and call upon His Name? How can he ask us to
call upon his name and not make it known to His people. The footnotes of my
NIV study bible in Genesis 2:4 says " "LORD" (Hebrew YHWH
'Yahweh') is the
personal and covenant name of the Mighty One" How is it that the translators
can use Hebrew words like 'Seraphim and Cheribim' and Hebrew names like
"SATAN" but when it comes to Ha Shem (THE NAME) they had to substitute it
with a title "LORD" which translated from Hebrew is "Baal"?
Should we
continue to call on a title when we are well aware of His True name? Is that giving
the respect and honour that Yahweh is worthy of?
2. Yahshua says in John 17:6 " I have revealed your name to those whom you
gave me, out of the world. They were yours you gave them to me and they
have obeyed your word." And vs 11 and 12 "protect them by the power of
your Name – The name that you gave me ….While I was with them I protected
them and kept them safe by that Name you gave me." We have discovered
what the Father's Name is YHWH – Yahweh. Now we also know that the
Messiah inherited the Name from the Father. What name did he inherit?
Jesus? According to our bibles maybe, but what name did Father Yahweh give
His only Son. In Matthew 1:21 the messenger, Gabriel, appears to Joseph and
declares…. "She shall give birth to a son and you are to give him
the Name
Jesus because he will save his people from their sins" Do you agree the
whole way through scripture from Genesis to Revelation when Gabriel named
a person, the person prophetically fulfilled what it's name represented? The
word "because" was very important. The footnote of my NIV study bible says
that the Name "Jesus" is the Greek form of "Joshua" or in Hebrew "Yahoshua".
Yahoshua means "Yahweh Saves" or "the Salvation of Yahweh" but when we
look up the name in Greek is doesn't mean that at all. We know the word
"save" or "salvation" in Greek is "Soter" so if Yahweh's Son's name means
"Yahweh saves" in Greek it should be "Yahsoter" or "Soteryah" otherwise his
name does not mean what Gabriel said it should. "Shua" in Hebrew is "save"
or "Salvation". The Greek name "jesus" could not have been the Son's name.
The letter "J" only came into existence +- 500 years ago. I can
therefore
come no other conclusion than that "Jesus" was not the name given by
Yahweh to His Son the Messiah therefore I can reject the Greek Name without
conscience because it was not his name in Greek nor was it a form of Joshua"
as the translators suggest because Jesus does not mean "Yahweh Saves" My
Father does not lie nor change His mind. The father of lies has been
exposed. "Jesus" is a name of man.
3. If you were the enemy of our souls wouldn't you hide the truth?
4. In the original KJV of 1611 Luke 4:27 says "And many lepers were in Israel in
the time of Eliseus the prophet, and none of them were cleansed, saving
Naaman the Syrian". Why did the translators call Elisha "ELISEUS"?
His name
was Eli-shua, "the mighty One's salvation". Why Zeus? The translators had
changed the name to be read "The mighty one is Zeus" Now what do the
names Tarsus, Parnasus, Dionysus and Jesus have in common. I will give you
a clue…. "Tarsus" means "sweat of Zeus", Parnasus is a sacred
mountain in
Greece ! Dionysus was the son of Zeus and wait for it the Greek deity of
healing was Ieusus. Is the SUS at the end of the name a hidden form of
"Zeus"? Why would the original translators have done something
as
blasphemous as this? What is more blasphemous, to hold on to the name that
upholds the name of a pagan deity or reject the true Name of the Messiah?
What does the false pagan god Zeus have to do with our salvation? "Salvation
is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men
by which we must be saved." Is it possible that someone has made a big, big,
big mistake? OR Is it that the enemy of our souls knows the power of the true
Name and has deceived us yet again?
KJV of 1611.....
24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
(Copied and pasted from 1611 KJV)
I thank you for hearing this very difficult message.
In Yahshua's name
Peter Lowe
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa
Subject: " THE NAME IS NOT
'JESUS' BUT IT IS Y'SHUA!"
Shalom my brother.
I love the way you write concerning the Jewish Messiah. Is true, He is the JEWISH Messiah, Halleluya. When I think or imagine of His coming, I do see Him as an Ortodox Jew, tzitzi wearing, kipa (I do imagine it will be a large one as a turban, since most semetic people wore that, even till today), tefelin, even peot!, what a suprise it will be to the believers who hold fast to their SUN-day worship roman style worship (I just imagene looking out for his toga).
I do not understand why you keep using jesus here in there, but I want to say KEEP IT UP.
(just a thought, imagine the only name in hebrew that is never change is santa, all other names were change, so I question I asked my self, who do you think change the original names for greek, non-jewish names!)
Shalom Shalom
Subject: " WAITING FOR THE
HARVEST!" By Pastor Dick Kenney
As we approach the 10 Days of Awe just 1 week from tomorrow evening, September 26 at sundown, it makes us realize that Messiah Jesus is coming soon~~~As wonderful as G-d's master plan of salvation as depicted through these remaining days of the gospel dispensation, there is an end to His harvesting of the "precious fruit of the earth" which means human beings who will receive His wonderful gift of eternal life as members of the Spirit filled life of Y'shua ha' Mashiach~~~
The events signified by these coming high holy days of the Jewish world are the great hope of all humanity. The 'last' season is fittingly summarized as the Feast of the Ingathering~The last hope of humanity, including the literally billions of Jews and Gentiles who died in vain without Messiah Jesus, without hope, without a future~~~The numbers that will be resurrected at this time to stand before the Great White Throne judgment will be staggering~~
This harvest season actually includes four different festivals, all of them with a distinct meaning. They are the Feast of the Trumpets, Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement, the Feast days unfold the world will be gripped by devastating warfare {sound familiar?} {Matthew 24:6, 21-22, Revelation 6:4, 9: 1-2}.
But the sounding of the shofars depicts something else too~~~Messiah Jesus' return to earth at the last shofar to save and not destroy, humankind, { Revelation 11:15, 1 Thessalonians 4:16}... If Messiah Jesus did not intervene in human affairs at this point, tyrannical leaders, Hitler, Stalin, Amin, Hussein, Kadafy, Bin Laden and Arafat would destroy the earth and all humanity with it...Listen closely now to each word of the Revelation given to us in chapter 11, verse 18: " The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should reward your servants the prophets and the saints, and those who fear Your name, small and great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth."
Again Messiah Jesus is returning to save and not destroy humanity. The Feast of Trumpets marks the first step G-d takes to ensure this great hope for mankind....The Jewish prophet Daniel shows us that G-d will not allow human governments to rule indefinitely...Messiah Jesus will return to set up a world-ruling kingdom far greater than any human governments..Where?
Jerusalem of course! " And in the days of these kings the G-d of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break into pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever." { Daniel 2:44}.
Lets take a moment and examine the great truths of Scripture relating to these great days that are coming~~~Consider some of the astounding changes that Messiah Jesus will institute on earth as foretold by the Scriptures~~Human beings will rebuild the places devastated by war and neglect { Isaiah 58:12}. Effort, that once went into creating weapons and munitions and our money like the 87 billion dollars George Bush needs to rebuild Iraq, will be channeled into peaceful, productive uses and humanity will no longer learn war {MIcah 4:3}....
You talk about Bible reading and devotion time? People will enjoy private property and feel secure, unthreatened by governments or others who would steal from them {Micah 4:4}. As people learn the advantages of living according to G-d's laws and way of life, peace and knowledge of our Jewish G-d will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea { Isaiah 11:9} The deserts will blossom like a garden of roses { Isaiah 35: 1-2} The hills will appear to melt as fruit trees and vineyards ripen and bend to the ground with fruit~~~The plowman will overcome the reaper, the treader of grapes him who sows seed ( Amos 9:13}.
For 1000 years Messiah Jesus will turn the earth into a worldwide garden of Eden. As the Jewish prophet Ezekiel says: "This land that was desolate has become like the Garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited."
Messiah Jesus' glorious Kingdom will be unprecedented in all of the annals of human history...This 1000 year period in Jerusalem will not end His righteous, peaceful rule, but it will be preparatory to the events signified by the following Biblical festival we call the Last Great Day~~~~
Wow! What a day that is coming for all believers that have put their trust in Y'shua ha' Mashiach! Aren't you glad that you have? And aren't you glad that G-d has provided this Messianic Jews online church to honor this soon coming King each day?? We are so excited and blessed this morning~~ Can we close this incredible message by singing to our King this morning?
" There is a Redeemer, Y'shua, G-d's own Son, Precious Lamb of G-d, Messiah, Holy One.
Thank You, Oh my Father, for giving us Your Son, And leaving Your Spirit till the work on earth is done.
Y'shua, my Redeemer, Name above all Names, Precious lamb of G-d, Messiah, Oh for sinners slain.
When I stand in glory, I will see His face, And there I will serve my King forever In that Holy Place~~~~~"
Jo-ann and I will see you all next year in Jerusalem where we will blow the grandest shofar in all of Zion!
His bondservants, Pastor Dick and Jo-ann
http://www.ourchurch.com/member/m/messianicbelief/
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Subject: [Missions Insider] Nigerian Ministry Offers Baby Dumping Alternative
1. Nigerian Ministry Offers Baby Dumping Alternative
2. Gateways Conference to Feature 60 Indigenous Mission Leaders
3. Pakistan Ministry Provides Scripture
4. Indonesian Children's Home Suffers Fire Damage
5. Testimonies: God Is Real in India
6. Photo of the Week: Chilly Children
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These are the contents of today's Missions Insider Report by Christian Aid
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Note: Missions Insider refrains from mentioning names that could make the subjects targets of anti-Christian activity.
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1. Nigerian Ministry Offers Baby Dumping Alternative
Some people in Nigeria are throwing away unwanted babies, but one Christian ministry is making strides to show Christian alternatives to that cruel practice.
The leader of a Nigerian Christian ministry informed Christian Aid of an August 4 article in the Kano Sun that told of newborns being dumped daily in parts of the community. In some instances rats came and gnawed on parts of the babies while they were still alive. To counter the baby-dumping practice, neighbors and police were urged to watch for women entering the streets in the wee hours of the morning.
Other articles told of child traffickers and robbers. All this stems, the leader told Christian Aid, from illicit sex, unwanted pregnancies and unwanted children from impoverished or broken homes roaming the streets fending for themselves. He said that efforts of government leaders, civic officials and law enforcement officers so far had failed to halt the baby-dumping practice and did not offer positive solutions to the problem.
Therefore his Christian ministry wants to set up a home to reclaim unwanted babies but has so far been unable to do so due to lack of funds. "Satan promotes poverty and sickness that causes all these evils," the leader said. "Only the gospel can break the chains of Satan in these wicked and inhuman acts."
The organization he heads also sponsored a Health and Healing Seminar in July to help address some of the issues. Over 2500 persons attended.
Lectures were given by clergymen and Christian medical professionals on how to avoid HIV/AIDS and other venereal diseases, chronic diarrhea, malaria, typhoid and polio. The conference taught guidelines for simple hygiene and safe pregnancies.
"The ministers concentrated on salvation, which is the number one healing everyone needs," the leader said.
At the end of the conference over 300 ministers spent the last night praying for anyone who wanted individual prayer. At least 200 young women received counsel on the dangers of teenage pregnancy and early marriage, over 150 women got professional counsel on female health problems, and 300 persons accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
The ministry put $2000 into the effort, but still needs $3800 to pay remaining bills. To learn more, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-439 550-BAN on the subject line.
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2. Gateways Conference to Feature Over 60 Indigenous Mission Leaders
The upcoming Gateways International Conference on Indigenous Missions in Niagara Falls October 16-18 will bring together a virtual United Nations of indigenous missions. More than 60 leaders of indigenous missions from 30 countries are scheduled, offering participants the chance of a lifetime to hear from overseas missions at the grassroots level.
Featured plenary speakers will be:
Bishop Silas Owiti, founder-director, Voice of Salvation, and his wife, Winnie, from Kenya
Dr. Bishara Awad, President, Bethlehem Bible College, Palestine
Rev. Setan Aaron Lee, founder-director, Kampuchea for Christ, Cambodia
Rev. Sundar Thapa, founder-leader, Evangelical Christian Fellowship, Nepal
Dr. Slavik Radchuk, international evangelist from Ukraine and Christian Aid director for Russia and ex-Soviet lands
Dr. Freddie Sun and his wife, Dorothy, directors of Christian Aid's China Division
Dr. Bob Finley, Chairman and CEO of Christian Aid, USA
Altogether mission leaders are planning on attending from Albania (1), Armenia (1), Bolivia (1), China (2), Colombia (1), Cuba (2), Haiti (3), India (13), Indonesia (5), Kenya (3), Liberia (1), Malawi (1), Mexico (1), Myanmar (Burma) (2), Nepal (2), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (2), Palestine (2), Paraguay (1), Peru (2), Philippines (4), Russia (1), Senegal (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (4), Vietnam (2), besides the experienced, overseas directors of Christian Aid. All will be leading panel discussions or seminars and will be available for interaction with attendees.
To learn more about this unique missions conference and its list of seminars and overseas leaders, go to
www.christianaid.ca and then click on "seminar speakers" or call 1-800-871-0882.
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3. Pakistan Ministry Provides Scripture
Despite floods and disease, along with spiritual warfare and other difficulties, an indigenous Christian ministry in Pakistan continued to share the gospel in its region.
During the last few months it sold 209 Bibles, 178 New Testaments, and 759 other Scripture portions. This was despite one of the missionaries' being laid low with typhoid and another hospitalized.
One of those who came to request Bibles was a young man from one of the poorest and most primitive areas in Pakistan. "I have never been to that area and never heard anyone reaching these people with the Word of God," the mission leader said.
Scriptures were not available in his mother tongue, so the young man picked up several Bibles as well as other Scripture portions and New Testaments in Urdu, a language common to Muslims.
The young man went away rejoicing that he was able to take the word of God back to his people. He was especially happy that he could obtain more literature once he responsibly distributed what he took.
To learn more about this ministry or to provide support, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-439 470-PEO on the subject line.
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4. Indonesian Children's Home Suffers Fire Damage
Monday, September 21, was a public holiday in Indonesia. The workers of a children's home were gathered at midday for a time of prayer and fasting on the second floor of their center. Suddenly a heavy smoke descended upon them from the floor above. Someone called the fire department and everyone began evacuating. Three fire engines arrived and put out the fire, but not before it destroyed all the belongings and furnishings on the third floor. Thankfully, no one was lost or injured in the fire, but mattresses, bedding, musical instruments, tape recorders, fans and furniture were consumed. In addition, the school books, bags, uniforms, shoes and personal belongings of 100 children were lost. Now the children cannot return to school until they are supplied with new uniforms, shoes, and books.
"The girls are sleeping in any space on the floor like sardines," the director said, "while the boys are staying temporarily in a community building next to the children's home." Most of the children are from rural areas where they have little chance to obtain an education, and some are children who lost mother or father in the jihad terrorism of the last two or three years. The ministry leaders are praying for funds to renovate the damaged third floor and replace the goods that were lost. For more information or to extend help, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-439 750-CCH on the subject line.
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5. Testimonies: God Is Real in India
Many ministries from India write that despite hardship and persecution, God's power and grace are real. Here are some testimonies recently received by Christian Aid.
One man named Ram was quite influential in his area but was known for his opposition to Christianity and troubled the believers a lot. One time he even refused to let a Christian family bury their small child, forcing them to keep the body outside the cemetery for a whole day.
Recently Ram's whole family became sick. His family went to many temples and holy places seeking peace of mind and healing for their bodies, but all was in vain. Finally Ram humbled himself and went to the local village gospel preacher and begged him to pray for him. The preacher presented the gospel and prayed for Ram and his family. The very next week Ram brought his entire family to church and testified before the whole congregation that through prayer to Jesus Christ they received peace of mind and improving health.
The assistant leader of another village was told to go to the village church, stop the worship going on there, and attack the believers. But when he got there, a Christian teacher was sharing his testimony. The village leader was touched by his testimony and decided not to cause trouble. Instead, he asked to know more about the Lord Jesus and invited all the leading families of his village to attend the church meeting.
In another place, a young couple started having physical problems shortly after they accepted Christ. The man endured chest pains and stomach problems for eight months, while his wife was affected with a boil on her leg. Even their only child developed some eye problem.
When the villagers heard about it they said, "You are suffering because you left your village gods and became Christians.
Go to the temple and put a magic band on your wrists. Then you will be cured."
The husband replied, "We will never do that. Our God will never forsake us."
After that the entire family fasted and prayed to the Lord, crying out with tears.
That very day all three were healed. To show their gratitude, they gave everyone in the church a bamboo fan.
Indeed, the hardship and suffering that true believers suffer seem only to drive them more intensely to the Lord. To learn of more such testimonies, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-439 610-FMPB on the subject line.
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6. Photo of the Week: Chilly Children
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"Brrr, it's chilly." That's what these children in the Himalaya region of northern India might be saying. Their parents are mostly illiterate village folk who eke out a subsistence farming the terraced mountainsides or hand crushing rock for road building. Most are too poor to provide school books, uniforms and tuition for their children. So a Christian ministry there gives them a warm meal a day and provides tuition and proper clothes so the children can go to school.
The Christians also share the love of Christ with the children and their parents.
To learn more, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-439 660-NLC on the subject line.
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Dear Mark,
Thanks for your message. I will write you tomorrow.
Your in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
Legal Representative
Christian Community Development - Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
BURUNDI, AFRICA
Website http://www.ccdburundi.org.uk/
I saw your prayer on one of the Messianic Groups I'm in and wanted to
touch base with you. Please, check out our Web Site and prayerfully
consider joining our Group to post as The Lord leads and guides you. We deal with several Churches and
Missions in Africa and around the World.
God Is Faithful and Jesus Never
Fails! Pray for us as we will pray for you.
Ask The Lord to move upon
the hearts and minds of His People to pray and give to His Work, so we
can bring the Love of God and The Good News of Jesus to All Nations and
Peoples. I am going to publish your e-mail on our Africa Missions Page
and post it to our Group, so others can pray for you and All your needs
shall be met by God Himself In Jesus' Holy and Precious Name.
God bless and Love to All in Africa, <')))>< Your Brother and Friend In Him, Mark
ps. If you have any pictures or info on your ministry there, please send
everything to me via e-mail or air mail. GBY!
Mark Tross
4981 Turquoise Drive North East
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Subject: " PRAYER FROM AFRICA FOR LEVI!"
" PRAYER FROM AFRICA FOR LEVI!"
MESSIANIC JEWS CYBERSPACE CHURCH
Dear Yolanda,
Thanks a lot for the message. I am pleased to learn of the miracle that God has done for Levi. We continue to pray for him for his complete healing. Please continue to inform us about his health progress. We are together in prayers.
Thanks.
Your brother in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
Christian Community Development - Burundi P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura BURUNDI, AFRICA
Website http://www.ccdburundi.org.uk/
" Please continue prayer for Levi"
YOLANDA BALLARD
Pastor Dick & Sister Jo-ann.
I pray the Lord\'s blessings fall upon you this day, and I thank you for your service to the body in bringing forth this awesome site! I thank you for all your prayers for Levi and your support. I just found out that there is a home fellowship in Wales that has been praying for Levi for two years and is gathering together a love gift to help with his vitamin supplements. This is an answer to prayer for prosperity for Levi. I asked the Lord for a special gift for Levi for his thirtieth birthday, and the Lord more than abundantly answered also with a check for $100, a refund from the government where I overpaid somewhere over ten years ago! So I know with all the prayers going up, which you have had a big part, the Lord is blessing Levi. And I wait on the Lord for the ultimate blessing of Levi\'s total healing and deliverance.
God\'s timing is always perfect.
May you always prosper and be in health as your soul prospers! You both have been on my heart a lot lately! We are one in Christ!
Yolanda
AT THE FATHER\'S FEET MINISTRY
Yolanda Ballard
Melbourne, FL USA - 10/08/03 at 20:26:34 (EST)
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Subject: Awesome Testimony!!!!
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"I WAS PREPARED TO DIE AS A MARTYR FOR GOD"
One of the heroes of the "Uganda Holocaust" speaks out
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
KAMPALA, UGANDA (ANS) -- Idi Amin - Big Daddy - will go down in history as one of the great mass murderers in the history of Africa. During his eight years of misrule in the 1970s, an estimated 500,000 were killed and some 300,000 of them were Christians.
Amin's killing machine finally came to the world's attention when Archbishop Janani Luwum, the head of the Church of Uganda, was murdered.
During his blood-lust years, Amin would regularly go on Ugandan radio and television and reveal his latest "vision" about which churches would be closed and eventually all religious groups, except the Anglican, Roman Catholics, Orthodox and Muslims, were banned.
One of the believers during that terrible period was a young Christian called Grace D.L. Kityo who was on the staff of the Makerere Full Gospel Church. He was worshiping the Lord in this church on April 12, 1978, when Amin's wild-eyed "State-Research" thugs invaded the church and begun firing indiscriminately at the 600-strong congregation.
"THE CHURCH WAS DESECRATED"
"The Church was desecrated," he said.
"The men all carried machine guns, grenades, and ordered everybody to lie down flat on the ground. The church was packed to the full capacity with children, men and women. There was so much shootings and shouting as well as panic and crying in the church. Some of those in the church were badly hurt and some bled profusely.
"The organ and many other things in the church were shot through many times - over and over, never to be used again.
The confusion was just too great. Many hundreds perhaps thousands of people on the villages all around the church gathered to see and perhaps help the Christians in Makerere. In this confusion many of the Christian also found a way to escape this horrible ordeal and gunfire."
PRAYER, PRAISE AND BULLETS...
Amid the mayhem, hundreds more quickly dropped to their knees between the pews. With upraised arms they began to praise the Lord. The sturdy red brick church was filled with a cacophony of incredible sound-a combination of prayer, praise and bullets.
Idi Amin's State-Research men ordered all the Christians to climb on the various parked lorries. This was a very hard, horrible experience to do, as you may know!
They were taken to the State-Research Bureau headquarters at Nakasero, and there, as gasoline cans and explosives surrounded them, they were mocked and told that as soon as General Mustafa Adrisi, Idi Amin's second-in-command, signed the execution order, they would all be burned alive. Later they were taken to the dungeons to be torture.
"NO ONE EVER CAME OUT ALIVE"
"The all-time dreaded Nakasero State-Research center was the place where no one, once taken in, no one had ever come out alive. Many fine, polished, innocent people often times were murdered in this place. This was also Idi Amin's hideout. People used to be slaughtered like just mere animals. Here in the underground - so dark and gloomy - our brothers and sisters were so greatly tortured for Christ.
"Some of our brothers and sisters were ordered to be totally naked. Some stayed in blood that even their feet began to rot away. Some were ordered to smoke, while others were ordered to play sex with their sisters - which of course they all refused to do. These are simply just some of the many sufferings experienced by God's people in those days in Idi Amin's most horrible, dreaded dungeon-underground headquarters!
"All along in the dungeon-within Nakasero - there was so much prayers and fasting going on. A great number of saints of God were also praying and fasting too within Uganda and other parts of the free world!"
Before they were taken to the dungeons, some dramatic had occurred that saved their lives. They were waiting for Major General Adrisi Mustafa, Amin's second-in-command, was been driven back to Kampala from Jinja to sign their execution order. But he was involved in a head-on car crash and was crippled for life, and so was not able to sign the death warrant.
"I understand that he was rushed either to Cairo, or Libya for treatment and that is when we last heard of Mr. Adrisi," said Dr. Kityo.
"God Almighty arrested the whole situation to the glory of His name alone!
Of course no Christian was burnt and so the was utter confusion as what must be done to the believers. Eventually, after some days-it was decided that those Christians just had to be transferred to the normal prison - the Luzira Prison.
Here in Luzira Prison: the conditions were slightly better than the dreaded Nakasero State-Research Bureau Center.
Here men were separated from the women. Some eats and drinks and other victuals were allowed to be brought in and given to the brethrens in the prison.
Here it was possible to visit all the Christian prisoners until when the time of their release came!
USED THEIR PRISON TIME TO WIN OTHER PRISONERS FOR CHRIST
"However, while in prison the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ was preached and many people came to know Jesus as Savior and Lord! To God be all the glory and honor!
"This most horrific experience did not deter or daunt our faith in strength or spiritual power at all! Our faith grew so much drastically and we grew so strongly in faith. Although, remember, the Christians were out of jail or prison, still the church ban was still in full effect, but we didn't care at all. We were fully risking-preaching and teaching God's Word without fear or favor; we were ready to die for our JESUS!"
You would have thought that Grace would have been deterred by this frightening attack on his brothers and sisters, but like so many of the "Uganda Holocaust" survivors, he was able to continue to be a witness for the Lord.
"I got saved in late 1975, by a great miraculous incident and divine visitation of God Almighty," he said in an interview from his office a Faith Christian Center in Kampala, where he is the senior pastor.
"As a young man I was so much on fire and so very zealous for the Lord and His work."
"TRAUMATIZED, BUT UNDAUNTED"
He said that he was "traumatized, but undaunted" by the attack on the Makerere Full Gospel Church, and he became the pastor of an underground church of an underground church in Lubaga, which is close to Kampala.
"This underground Church was called 'Holiness to the Lord,'" he said. "I was perhaps the youngest pastor in Uganda at that time. I remember in those dark days, among other books I used to share with my congregation was the Holy Bible as well as Dr. Hal Lindsay's book, 'There is a New World Coming!' To us way back then, looked liked like the Rapture of the Church would that very Day! It was prayer, sanctification, and holiness that we lived for God!
"You needed to stand and be counted for God - or you were just playing games with God! In those days of great fear and total dependence of God's providence and protection, you were either for God or not; there was no sitting on the fence lukewarmness.
"As for me, I was prepared to die as a martyr for God! We also used to be brave in those days and come in big meetings during the evenings and night with the then acting head pastor, the Rev. Jotham Mutebi of the Makerere Full Gospel Church, who became our senior pastor.
"We used to meet in very serious all night vigils of prayers, intercessions-and meetings for instructions, but we could not hold back our tears before the Lord and great anticipation, and expectation for the imminent return of the Lord for our Rapture!"
IDI AMIN FLEES THE COUNTRY
Things changed for the good in 1979 when Idi Amin was driven out of the country by Tanzanian troops and freedom came to the land that Winston Churchill once described as "The Pearl of Africa," but had been tarnished by Amin's reign of terror. He first went to live in Libya and now resides in Saudi Arabia.
"When God established a new good stable Uganda Government, God led me, with the good blessing of my mother church and its pastors, to establish my own ministry," said Grace, now Dr. Grace. "Our church is called Faith Christian Centre. I am the head pastor of this church, along my wife Florence, and with other ministers.
"Being a total orphan myself - my father and mother died and some of my brothers were murdered by Amin's men, God uniquely led me to go to the poorest, most destitute part of Kampala City, Mmengo-Kisenyi, and establish there a ministry and church amongst people who have got just overwhelming needs. We are located right in the heart of the ghetto but with a vision of reaching the area, community, city, and a whole nation for our great God.
ORPHANS
"Our church has three Sunday main services totaling probably 300 souls. Our Sunday school children have been blessed by God to minister on nation-wide media, and big events to the glory of Him! Most of these are orphans, needing love, care, and provisions along God's touch of mercy.
"Also I have been able to minister in many meetings within and outside Uganda in crusades, seminars, open-air meetings, radio and television talk shows, schools, hospitals, prisons just to mention but a few."
He went on to say, "Our present-day Church building seats about 100 people but sometimes it is so packed so much that we feel like sardines. We greatly need to purchase land and build a building which seats at least 5,000 or much more in a single sitting-really we would need 10,000-seater!
"Building an orphanage is so much one of our consuming desire and also establishment of both a primary and a secondary school for the good education of our destitute and needy children.
"One of our greatest thrust is to practically reach and help children, the destitute and the elderly. We greatly need, and so very much indeed desire to purchase a big land and immediately begin building a Church along with health centre, schools, orphanage, and self-help projects.
FEEDING THE AIDS ORPHANS
"As you may know that Uganda was invaded with the most terrible AIDS scourge, so many little orphans were the horrible results! We sincerely want to love them, feed them, clothe them, sleep them, school them, and help them wholly.
Recently World Vision helped us with some clothes for only 100 children, though we needed over 500 pieces, and other forms of help!
"We are deeply praying that Almighty God will help us and use us to help His precious people, and the children of Uganda, with the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and also to help them physically and materially, all to the glory of the Lord!
In the year 2000, Dr. Grace was amongst the over 11,000 delegates from 200 countries who went to Billy Graham's Congress on Evangelism in Amsterdam.
"By the great grace of God, I was nominated to a very special Executive Committee, called 'The Church Leaders' Task Group,' which was charged with many duties among others which was to see how all the world church leaders could be very effective in facilitating of the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ before the Lord comes back."
Dr. Grace Kityo can be contacted. The church website can be found at
www.faithccc.com.
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Subject: JESUS APPEARS TO A MOSLEM TEACHER IN MOMBASA
"I shouted and called His name Jesus!
Jesus ! Jesus and i felt His presence all around me that touched and healed my body." said the moslem teacher. Our mission hosted 40 Days and nights of prayer, fasting,teaching and ministry.
During this period which ends on 10 th October 2003 we have received tremendous reports of God at work in different ways in many lives. One of our church member br. Amos Oketch who is a teacher in a known muslim schools which admits muslim refugees from former republic of Somalia was suprised on Wednesday when a workmate mr. Masoud sought to see him privately for a serious talk. Then explained the moslem man that on the night of 1st october 2003 JESUS appeared to him. It first appeared like a dream but he realized latter that it was a real manifstation. A great light appeared in the room of this familyman then Jesus himself appeared and he says it was truly Him because he could identify Him.Then this man terified, shouted at the top of him voice making all his neighbours to wakeup and were suprised on hearing him call the name of Jesus. After this he put on the lights and left them on for fear that Jesus would come back again. Br. Amos told him the Love of God is limitless and that he shoud now accept Jesus as Lord and savoir. Brethrens,this is the appointed time for the church to Make prayer its business until the Lord is lifted up. John 12:32, Jesus says; And i,if i be lifted up from the earth,will draw all men unto me.
This man is in a shock and afraid to decide because of his religion, the school is also Muslim strict. Pray tha he will decide for christ and open a door for the move of God into this community. Pray also for our MISSIONS TO MOSLEM TEAM to get favour and breakthrough in reaching this man and the community.
EVANGELISTIC MISSIONARY AGENCY
P.O. BOX 96553-80110
MOMBASA-KENYA
Michael Uhuru- MISSIONARY PASTOR ______________________________________________
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Subject: Attn:Pastor Mark
Dear Pastor,
Greeting to u in the Mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ. it has been a while now that i hear from u pastor, well we have alot of program at hand here. i want to ask your permission to bring together all our africa mission under one unit. as your africa pastor and head of africa mission i want to have all our africa contact pls so that i can get in touch with all pls.
I am planing another trip to our mission in nigeria and pls i will like to have all contact in nigeria so that i can met in person with them pls this is very urgent.
How is the fund raising going pastor i have not hear any thing from u or sister Juliet for a while now. pls keep me inform .
shalom
Rev. George Martin
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Subject: you are bless in Jesus name
Sir,
It is our pleasure to introduce to you our Ministry "JESUS THE DIVINE SOURCE OF LIFE MINISTRIES INT'L Located at 17, Adigun Street, Johnson B/Stop Ijeshatedo Surulere Lagos Nigeria.
We preach the good news of our Lord Jesus christ according to the word of God in Mark 16: 15 which says "go unto the world and preach the Gospel and Baptize them that believe, Until last Month God directed us to Eastern States of Nigeria for Missionary work which we are already into now. We did not know why God directed us here in Agulu Aniocha L.G.A. Anambra States of Nigeria, until whem we arrived and saw why God directed us here. We have seen that souls are languishing in sin and Idolatory worship, and the people that called themselves Christians are into doctrinal bondage.
Truly, there is a call of harvest as it is written in the Bible Jn 4: 35-36. By the step we have taken, preaching house to house, family liberation and open air evangelism we saw that the souls are yielding to the extent that the people that have submitted to Christ are pleading to us to have a place of worship: In deed, the vast fields of human souls are ripering and are ready for reaping, but our capacity as regard to the materials needed for this souls to be won are lacking, even the so called christian have no Bibles talk more of the unbelieves or sinners. For this, we need Bibles to share to them, Gospel books for their training (In the way of God and establishing their christian lives).
Too, we need evangelical equipment for open air crusade and tracks and Megaphone. By the Grace of God with year surpport on this materials or facilities, the work will be effectively done and the perishing soul will be won to christ. Remember the Bible says in proverb 11: 30. He that winneth soul is wise and Dan: 12:3 says "they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to rightousness as the stars for ever and ever, Be a partaker in winning this souls.
Really, we are not ignorant of the wicked ones who use the name of the Lord in deciptive, Exodus 20: 7 says that, " Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh the name of the Lord in vain. It is left to God to purnish whosoever that uses His name in decieption.
Please let not their wicked act pretvent you from surpporting the work of god, for the work of God is to them that believe in Him.
Beloved in Christ, as the Lord will strenght you to do as the Philippians sent to Paul unto the necessity to the Gospel the Lord will bless you mightly (Philippians 4:16,19. Luke 8:3)
Please from what we have seen in Agulu Village and the surrounding Villages, there is a need to liberate these souls from darkness and brings them to the light of Christ. We do not want the blood of these people to be upon us, for seeing them and leaving them to continue living in darkness, according to the word of God in Acts 20: 26-27 and Ezeekiel 3: 20)
Also, we will want you to extend this letter to Pastors, Evangelist, Missionaries, Preachers of the Gospel and lovers of God's work for in due time the Ministry will need them for a crusade and some programmes which we may organise as the work progresses.
Sir please, this letter need an urgent attention as we plan to hold an open air town crusade come December, 2003.we promise to remenbering you in our dairy prayers as you asist God work
As you honour this letter God will see you through in all your needs in Jesus Name Amen.
Appostle Eze Kings
prophet Mathew.E.O
For: Jesus the divine source of life Ministry Int'l
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Subject: PLEASE ASSIST US
MY BROTHER IN CHRIST,
ATTACHED ARE MY CHURCH BUILDING,PLEASE ASSIST US BY DONATING SOME MONEY OR CLOTHES OR BIBLES AND CHRISTIAN BOOKS.
MAY GOD BE WITH YOU IN JESUS NAME AMEN.
AWAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST,
PASTOR CLEM UDO
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Subject: GOD LOVES A CHEEFUL GIVERS
NO.6 BALE/IJORA ROAD
AJEGUNLE APAPA BADAGRY
LAGOS NIGERIA .
GODS LOVE BIBLE MINISTRY
DEAR IN CHRIST,
MY NAME IS; (PASTOR CLEM UDO) OF GODS LOVE BIBLE MINISTRYIN LAGOS, NIGERIA. YOU MAY BE SURPRISED TO RECEIVE THIS EMAIL BUT PLEASE DO NOT BE ALARMED. YOUR NAME WAS PASSED ON TO US BY A CHRISTIAN CONTACT IN THE NIGERIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND I WAS TOLD THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO HELP US. OUR CHURCH IS TO BE HELPING THE POOR ORPHANED CHILDREN OF NIGERIA .
WE ARE LOOKING FOR GOOD CHRISTIAN PEOPLE WHO WILL ASIST US BY SENDING US CHRISTAN BOOKS, MATERIALS, OR MONEY, TO ENABLE US HELP MANY POOR CHRISTIAN CHILDREN AND MOTHERLESS BABYS IN LAGOS NIGERIA. MANY OF THESE WRETCHED CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE PARENTS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN MUREDERED BY A BAD REGIME IN NIGERIA.
PLEASE HELP THESE PITIFUL CHILDREN BY SENDING SOME HELP FOR US. PLEASE I ALLSO WANT TO BE A DISTRIBUTOR AND A PUBLISHER OF YOUR EVANGELISM CHRISTAN BOOKS, OR BIBLES, AM SOLICITING TO AFFILIATE MY ORGANISATION UNDER YOUR CO-OPEARTION.
PLEASE SEND TO ME THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS REGARDS TO THIS REQUEST. I WILL BE VERY HAPPY IF THIS REQUEST WILL BE GRANTED.
ALLSO IF YOU HAVE ANY OF YOUR CHRISTAN BOOKS OR BIBLE THAT WE CAN SELL IN RETURNS KINDLY LET US KNOW.
AS YOU DO THIS FOR US GOD WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AMEN.
ANTICIPATING YOUR URGENT REPLY SOONEST
YOURS BROTHER IN CHRIST,
(PASTOR CLEM UDO
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Subject: [Missions Insider] Nigerian Ministry Marks 20 Years of Progress
1. Nigerian Ministry Marks 20 Years of Pioneer Progress
2. Russia: Homeless People Converted, Murdered
3. Nepali Believers Encouraged
4. Pakistanis Hunger for God?s Word
5. Photo of the Week: Reaching the Koma
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1. Nigerian Ministry Marks 20 Years of Pioneer Progress
A Nigerian ministry that pioneered outreach to an African tribe that had gone undetected for 100 years celebrates 20 years of effective outreach next week.
In the last half of the nineteenth century the Koma of eastern Nigeria retreated to the top of the Atlantika Mountains, otherwise known as the Koma Hills, purportedly to escape taxes from the colonial Nigerian government. Local tradition holds that when government assessors approached them, they shouted, "Go back!" which sounds like "koma" in the Hausa language. After that the recluse tribe disappeared from the government?s consciousness.
A school teacher from India working for the Nigerian government rediscovered the Koma people in 1980. He reported his find to a local church, and they sent two of their young people, Gabriel Barau and Micah Ismaila, to investigate. At first they tried to share the gospel with the Komas who were bold enough to descend the mountain to the plains. They soon realized, however, if the gospel were to really take root among the Komas, they would have to present the gospel to them on their own turf. So Gabriel and Mica climbed a sheer rock cliff to take the gospel to this primitive and forgotten people.
At first the Koma people, who wore only a loin cloth, feared the Nigerian missionaries might be cannibals and avoided them. But after the missionaries stayed with one Koma family several months, the Koma decided they must be decent people like themselves.
The two missionaries organized the Koma Hills Mission in 1983 and worked together for several years. Barau continued to direct the ministry after Micah left several years later. Today Barau and his co-workers have planted 20 churches among the Koma and has brought them social as well as spiritual salvation.
During the first few years the ministry struggled to send a few dedicated Nigerian missionaries to the tribe. Most of the missionaries had to fend for themselves and spent much time cultivating their gardens and fields to provide food for their families. Christian Aid learned about the work in 1988 and began sending support for the missionaries. That small amount of assistance freed the missionaries to work full time at cross-cultural communication and evangelism. The result was immediate: the Koma began to respond to the message of redemption.
But how disciple a primitive, illiterate people? The answer was a primary school. Since there is no Scripture in the Koma language, the missionaries taught them Hausa and Christian Aid provided Hausa Bibles. Since English is an official language of government, today many also learn English and have been provided hundreds of English New Testaments.
The primary school developed into the Al-Omega Academy, which led to the opening of a secondary school in 2001.
Also, in 1994, the ministry opened a Primary Health Care Center on the Koma field. Barau and his missionaries knew that antidotes were available for most of the snake venom of the region, but without a way to keep it refrigerated, the anti-venom would not keep. Someone donated a refrigerator and Christian Aid supplied the generator to run it. As a result, lives were saved, both spiritually and physically.
As churches were planted, some Koma wanted to become pastors and missionaries, so a Discipleship Training Center and then a Missionary Training Center were opened. Sadly, due to limited facilities, last year only 12 of the 50 qualified candidates could be accepted.
Even so, several Koma missionaries have now been sent out. (See photo of the week.)
The ministry obtained a prime piece of land in an area controlled by Muslims, but recently was told by local officials if it doesn?t begin to develop the land soon, it will be confiscated and used for business purposes. Barau longs to build a full-scale missionary training and operations center there and needs $45,000 to construct the first building.
Just $25,000 will lay the foundation, build the first floor, and preserve the integrity of the land from those who covet it.
Altogether three major buildings are planned: the primary building consisting of a school of missions and offices and separate dormitories for men and women.
Today the ministry fields more than 50 missionaries and has planted 30 churches in the region. In addition to the 20 churches among the Koma tribe, they have additional church plants and outreaches among the Vere, Minda, Kona, Dirim, Jibu and Fulani people groups.
Reflecting the widening sphere of outreach, the original name of the group, Koma Hills Mission, was changed to Christian Outreach Ministry, and then to Missionary Crusaders Ministries in 1990, the name in use today.
The mission?s convention November 17-21 in eastern Nigeria will mark 20 years of pioneer cross-cultural missions progress, a true example of an African ministry taking the gospel to unreached African peoples.
Those wanting to learn more about the ministry or how they can support the work may write insider@christianaid.org and put MI444 550MCM on the subject line.
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2. Russia: Homeless People Converted, Murdered
A ministry in Russia reaching out to the homeless reported eight of them were recently murdered, including several who had trusted in Christ. Three were brutally stabbed with knives.
"It happens every winter," Yuri Degtar, leader of Works of Faith (WF), said.
"Drug addicts beat them for money, for clothing or even to take their place to sleep. The homeless are afraid to sleep even in a doorway."
Addicts demanding money beat one man with a pipe, breaking his arm and his head in three places. He has a bad leg and can hardly walk.
To assist these homeless people, WF operates a daily food tent. Yuri said that about 20 people daily were coming for food. Four of the eight persons killed had been coming to the food tent, and two of them trusted in Christ last summer.
WF conducts Bible studies and new converts attend them with zeal. "They don?t just follow God," Yuri said. "They run!" WF personnel talk and work with each person who comes.
"Ironically, almost all who come have families," Yuri said, ?but their relatives kicked them out of the house because of their drinking problem.?
Some of the homeless worked at garage building during the summer, but now the construction jobs are finished. One man was given a sewing machine and now sews and sells warm mittens. A sister who doesn?t have feet knits and sells warm socks and mittens.
But for many their only meal is that provided by Works of Faith. To learn how you can help support this evangelistic ministry with its outreach of mercy, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI445
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3. Nepali Believers Encouraged
A ministry that sends Bible correspondence course materials all over Nepal reports that thousands of believers were encouraged last month.
The leader, a former Hindu priest, spoke to about 500 believers in the 113-year-old MacFarlane Church in Kalimpong. The city is located in an area of India inhabited by many ethnic Nepalese. The same church experienced a divine visitation in the 1930s that sparked a revival in Himalaya region.*
A two-day retreat were held in a town in central Nepal, and another retreat was held in the western end of the country.
Another missionary with the organization reported satisfactory progress from a church-planting mission in the western end of the country. He told of one witch doctor who had been sick for many days, but recovered after the missionary prayed for him.
The leader reported that many village post offices have been destroyed by Maoist terrorists. In some places, those taking the course have to walk all the way to the district postal headquarters to send and receive mail.
Some gospel workers were forced from their villages by threats of death from the rebels. Now the local believers walk six hours to the next town for discipleship, fellowship and worship once a month.
Most of the country is in fear of the Maoist rebels. Still, amazingly, students continue to send in their course work and local believers are being trained to lead local house churches.
For more information, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI445 702GOC on the subject line.
*Editor John Lindner?s book, "God?s Special Agents," reports on the revival in Kalimpong in the chapter titled "He Danced With Angels." The book is available on request at www.christianaid.org.
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4. Pakistanis Hunger for God?s Word
People are hungry for God?s Word, according to Pakistan missionaries who just completed a 360-mile (600 Km.) road trip inside their country.
The team set out to sell Bibles, New Testaments and other Christian books on its first such road trip since the 9/11 terrorist attack on America. Even though Pakistani Christians have been the target of increased violence since that time, the leader told Christian Aid, "It was amazing there was no opposition or mishap of any kind, even though we passed through some areas where some of the most rigid Muslim seminaries exist."
The team?s vehicle broke down outside of one town, but God turned the incident into a blessing. While two brothers struggled to fix the car, other members of the team walked into the nearby village and sold a Bible, one New Testament and 31 books of Genesis and Proverbs.
Altogether, members of the missionary organization sold a total of 68 Bibles, 90 New Testaments and 452 copies of Genesis/Proverbs during the last month.
"We even had an opportunity to preach to a crowd of 250 to 300 people that included Muslims. Nine people accepted the Lord and committed to follow Christ!" the leader said.
For information on how you can support this small but effective work, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI445 470PEO on the subject line.
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5. Photo of the Week: Reaching the Koma
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A Nigerian missionary stands with Koma tribeswomen in earlier days. The women wore only a cluster of leaves to cover their private parts, and nothing above the waist. Above right, this Koma family are now missionaries to their own people.
Right, Gabriel Barau and his wife, Dorcas. See lead story to read how Gabriel led a pioneer ministry to reach a tribe that was hidden from the government for over 100 years.
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Subject: RE: Israel
Dear Mark,
I am sending all here in this mail. I guess you can read through. Ity is a long one.
Israel
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World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries 84 Tize Street, Kwanobuhle, Uitenhage (Port Elizabeth)
6242. South Africa
"… Declaring the Gospel of the Kingdom, Unveiling the Purposes of God and Reaching the Nations"
Israel Onoriobe is the President/Founder of the World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries, an Apostolic-type ministry with international offices in Benin City, Nigeria, Port Elizabeth, South Africa and Kentucky, United States of America.
World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries (WVCOM) was founded in response to a God given vision for the last days Church and World Harvest.
Cooperating with the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, WVCOM seeks the release and development of our Lord's glorious third day's church.
I have been in the prophetic ministry for about eight years, operating in the revelatory gifts, especially in words of prophecy and prophetic preaching. With the grace of an Apostolic-type ministry and a prophetic unction upon my life. I do travel extensively around the nations ministering the message of the Kingdom and declaring the purposes of God in releasing the body of Christ into a greater maturity and Christ-like stature.
In the last eight years, an Apostolic commission was released upon this works to see a cooperative networking of churches, ministries and Ministers who would give themselves in a greater expression of Apostolic release. Flowing out of this has come a new fresh fire of revelation and revival power. Signs, wonders, and miraculous healings are being preached and demonstrated. A great hunger for the impartation of healing within the body has emerged.
I have seen an unprecedented volume of healings being released during my time of ministry and many has been delivered from demonic strongholds and oppressions.
I have a passion to equip and release the body to a greater realization of the corporate healing and deliverance, which is available to them. WVCOM fully believes a new move of the Spirit is upon our nation that will lead to an unprecedented ingathering, shaping and changing the face of the church.
We have also been involved in setting up leadership training conferences and seminars for church leaders over the years in different nations. This is one of the principle aims of WVCOM: to teach, train and to release new workers as well as ordain new leadership with apostolic commissions. This we believe will be accomplished through establishing of covenant relationships and partnership with other like ministries and leaders across the nations as the Lord divinely bring the links together for His purpose.
WVCOM does not serve as an organization to bring covering for ministries or churches as an affiliate, but we relate in a covenant proclamation for Kingdom advancement for the reformation and restoration of all things.
With these we solely proclaim and declare that WVCOM's mission is to provide a relational network of ministries and churches that are in vital convenant relationships with one another. This comes about through a united vision of equipping, releasing and maturing the church. The core of the vision is to see existing churches strengthened, new churches planted, global missions and evangelism, while training ministry leadership. The purpose is to see the body of Christ come into Her Glory for the fullness of Christ's stature awaiting His appearance.
By a passion to build the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries is seeking those who have heard such a call of the Spirit. We are laboring to enter into functional relationship with those who feel called to bring revival and reformation to the church by every possible means necessary.
This is a Kingdom Vision, the passion is the Love of God and the frequency is apostolic doctrine.
WVCOM mandate for our Apostolic/Prophetic Leadership & Believers Conferences and Seminars
The passion and desire of WVCOM has been to relate with others of similar vision to pull resources to better be able to accomplish the vision of invading lands with the message of the gospel of the Kingdom of God where it has not gone. The purpose for our leadership conferences and seminars across the nations is to help the church come into a full understanding of this. We do not seek to be among the numbers or gather the crowds, but we desire to raise up, train, commission and release apostolic teams in many lands with whom we will co-labor to unveil and declare the purposes of God. This we have done in the past years and leaders has been ordained and released into the ministry to pioneer new work for the Kingdom.
At the moment, we are prayerfully looking into establishing an International Resource Center that will serve as a Kingdom Training Center to bring in nationals from different nations to be imparted and released back to their communities and nations.
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World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries 84 Tize Street, Kwanobuhle, Uitenhage (Port Elizabeth)
6242. South Africa
Invading The Nations – 2003
"Ask of me, and I shall give thee the nations for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession". Psalm 2: 8
God is moving the church into a greater performance of His purposes for the earth. He is declaring and doing new things (Isaiah 42:9). This is a new day and a new season in God and we must understand His plans and strategies through a revelation of heaven's perspective for the church in the now.
Our ministry has a mandate of reaching into 20 nations here in Africa by 2003 ending. This is the commission the Lord gave to me when I was in the Kingdom of Swaziland in May 2002 around 2am as I was in communion with Him.
Botswana, Zambia, Togo, Mauritius, Congo, Namibia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Cameroon, Liberia
We have mapped out strategies and this is an operation we have tagged "Invading the Nations 2003". Our ministry has been reaching out into the nations for the past 6 years and God has moved tremendously, but at this time we are trusting the Lord to make our presence known by taking this ministry into these nations in declaring the purposes of God.
Our Purpose:
1. To declare the message of the Kingdom of God – This is a passion for the lost in reaching and harvesting them for the Kingdom.
2. Unveiling the Purposes and Will of God – Creating an awareness of a cosmic war; bringing the Church into a spiritual insight and understanding of discerning and destroying the works of darkness in bringing in restoration and a harvest for the Kingdom and by so doing establishing a dwelling place for the Lord upon the earth. (Revelation 21: 3).
3. Reaching the Nations – A networking of leaders, churches and ministries for a total invasion of the land and the establishing and advancing of the Kingdom of God for the reformation and restoration of all things.
Our Mission:
In our mission into these nations, we will raise up, train and equip an apostolic team of ministries that will fan the true flame of revival in preparing the church for the harvest. By this we will be running Gospel campaigns, Leadership Seminars and International Conferences in some of the targeted areas which will help accomplish the vision and as well mobilize laborers that will continue to advance the Kingdom message in their nations.
We are trusting the Lord that through our relationship and International Network of Ministries, we will have the privilege and opportunity to bring in matured leaders with integrity and ministry teams from around the world who will be relating with us in covenant fellowship to minister to the leaders that will be participating in our conferences and seminars, as well as the nations at large.
We beseech and call for those who are of a willing heart and feel the Lord is leading them to partner, network and help finance and assist this vision of Invading the Nations – 2003.
Prayer Request:
1. We need financial partners to help finance this mission for the Kingdom of God; for our conferences, travels etc.
2. Right contacts and relationship with ministers and ministries who will be networking with us.
3. Expansion of our network with nationals in these nations and doors of entrance to be open
4. Favor in securing visas and permits into these nations.
5. The direction of the Lord and His will in every seminars and conferences in fulfilling the assignment of advancing and establishing of the Kingdom of God.
6. God's divine protection over the ministry and teams that will be going into these nations for this purpose.
We the World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries believes totally in this with her partners. We are committed to see a realization of this vision in the next few months.
We trust that as you read through this you will join the chariot.
For His Kingdom Alone,
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
Founder/President
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Choice Kingdom Greetings to you from the World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries – South Africa!
Few days ago, I had a strong passion in my spirit to pray, fast and seek the Lord for three (3) days on behalf of our ministry friend's and partners; and also share with them a Word from God and our goal in the upcoming months. I trust you will thoughtfully and prayerfully respond to this.
God is a God of purpose. His purpose has not changed. It is the same from the beginning. His purpose has to do with the heaven and earth (Luke11: 2); and this is to establish His Kingdom through the Church. The Lord desires and He seeks for a generation through which He will accomplish this.
In light of this, we must become men and women of vision who sees beyond the limits and the veil to comprehend the fullness of the purposes of God. We must become a people of excellence and move with the truth. We must understand that the purposes of God is more than the heaven's, that the Father seeks to rule and reign upon the earth also and have everything under his supreme rulership.
Our goal is to promulgate the dominion of His Kingdom and His Kingship as we declare 'Come Lord Jesus'.
In view of the urgency of harvesting souls into God's Kingdom globally in this final segment of human history, we wish to call for your support towards our mission trip to East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Rwanda) beginning from the end of this month of November and our International Leadership Summit coming up in South Africa from 17th – 28th March 2004. We have invited leaders of integrity and men of pure and refreshing spirit from different continent to come minister to us during the Summit.
Before the Summit, we also plan to be in the nations of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the Kingdom of Swaziland; and after the Summit we will be heading back to Asia (Philippines, Singapore, India, Indonesia & Malaysia) and possibly the Middle East (Pakistan).
Our Focus and Purpose:
• To declare the gospel of the Kingdom and unveil the purposes of God.
• To strengthen and establish relationships, the leaders and the Body of Christ.
• To mobilize and encourage leaders who are in relationship with us or wanting to come into fellowship with us, to come participate in our upcoming Leadership Summit in South Africa for sharpening and impartation as we fellowship together, share and strategize for global impact.
Please we earnestly need your prayer covering and financial support towards this mandate. Feel free to support and communicate us as the Lord leads and direct you.
Anon said, 'What will matter to you at the end of life will be the loving relationships you built and your standing in God'. The paths that we tread today as we build relationship together will touch the future lives of many around the world. It is my prayers and desire that this friendship will carry the sweet aroma of pure love and genuine friendship.
Be assured that we are determined to press into the greater dimension of the purposes of God as we labour together, because I believe the Father has connected us together in a covenant relationship.
Yours in His Kingdom,
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries
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Subject: God's work among the Little ones at the refugee camp.
Dear Prayer Partner,
Greetings in Jesus' Name our Lord and Savior!
Thanks a lot for praying for my ministry, my family and the children at refugee camp. It is by your wonderful support of prayers that we are able to continue to ministering to the littles ones at refugee camp.
We continue to evangelise Kids and many get saved. Last Saturday I had a blessed time with the children; I thank God because children were able to be taught about SIN. How sin intered in the world, that sin is breaking God's rules, Sin ruins friendship with God, God accepts those who believe, that the Lord Jesus died to do a swap; finaly God accepts a child it he/she trust Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord for the 35 children who received JESUS CHRIST as their personal Savior.
Please allow me to inform you that I am having problem preparing and sending report for the work in Burundi due to lack of a new computer. My laptop is down since May 2003, we continue to pray for a new one. Even though my computer doesn't work, I thank GOD for the way He helps me to communicate with you by using the Internet café which cost a lot for preparing, sending and receiving messages. It is because of lack of another computer that I am unable to send you the report for my ministry regularly. Please pray that God may help me to get a new computer.
Please continue to pray for us as we go to evangelise children at the refugee camp tomorrow. May the Lord bless you all.
Yours in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
President & Legal Representative
Christian Community Development – Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
BURUNDI, AFRICA
Website http://www.ccdburundi.org.uk/
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The Bible says:
Living Bible, Proverbs 28:27 If you give to the poor, your needs will be supplied! But a curse upon those who close their eyes to poverty.
Living Bible, Luke 6:38 For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give large or small will be used to measure what is given back to you.
Subject: Pray for a family coming to Visit CCD Burundi
Greetings in Jesus' Name our Lord and Savior!
CCD Burundi is pleased to inform you that Benjamin and Katrin from Germany is coming to visit us here in Burundi from December 6, 2003 to February 29, 2004.
This family is coming to help us with work especially with evangelism at refugee camp, medical treatment for the kids, teaching about community development in Churches, and so on.
Please pray for them as the prepare their trip to Burundi, pray that the will have a mercy journey. Actually we don't have a car to use during the stay in Burundi. Our 2 donated vehicles are still in Japan and we are praying for the funds to ship them to Burundi. Now because of these visitors, we have urgent need of a car to use. Please pray for us that we may have money to buy even a used car here in Bujumbura. I have seen one but we need $ 2, 800.00 USD to buy this car.
We also need $ 300.00 USD to pay for the rent of our office for this month of November and $ 250.00 USD for the administration expenses. Please join us in prayer for this prayer requests. We need God's help at this time. May the Lord bless you as you pray for us and help.
Yours in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
President & Legal Representative
Christian Community Development – Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
BURUNDI, AFRICA
Website http://www.ccdburundi.org.uk/
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The Bible says:
Living Bible, Proverbs 28:27 If you give to the poor, your needs will be supplied! But a curse upon those who close their eyes to poverty.
Living Bible, Luke 6:38 For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give large or small will be used to measure what is given back to you.
Subject: FROM GODS LOVES BIBLE MINISTRY
DEAR BROTHERS IN THE LORD,
I RECEIVE YOUR MAIL,AND WISH TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR GOOD INTEREST OVER MINISTRY (GODS LOVES BIBLE MINISTRY).
AS I TOLD YOU IN MY FIRST MAIL THAT OUR MINISTRY IS TO HELP MOTHERLESS BABIES AND ALSO PREACH THE WORD OF GOD.
SO MY BROTHER IN THE LORD,WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU IS TO ASSIST US ANY KIND THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO.
WHAT WE NEED IS:
1,BIBLES
2,CHRISTIAN BOOKS
3,CLOTHES
PLEASE IF YOU CAN DONATES MONEY FOR US,SO THAT WE CAN BE ABLE TO ASSIST THE MOTHERLESS BABIES AND THE EVANGELISE THE WORD OF GOD ALL OVER NIGERIA.
PLEASE I WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY SOONEST.
THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU.
YOURS BROTHER IN THE LORD
PASTOR CLEM UDO.
NB:I WILL ALSO SEND THE BUILDING OF OUR MINISTRY TO YOU FOR YOU TO VIEW IT.
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Subject: GOD LOVES A CHEEFUL GIVERS
NO.6 BALE/IJORA ROAD
AJEGUNLE APAPA BADAGRY
LAGOS NIGERIA .
GODS LOVE BIBLE MINISTRY
DEAR IN CHRIST,
MY NAME IS; (PASTOR CLEM UDO) OF GODS LOVE BIBLE MINISTRYIN LAGOS, NIGERIA. YOU MAY BE SURPRISED TO RECEIVE THIS EMAIL BUT PLEASE DO NOT BE ALARMED. YOUR NAME WAS PASSED ON TO US BY A CHRISTIAN CONTACT IN THE NIGERIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND I WAS TOLD THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO HELP US. OUR CHURCH IS TO BE HELPING THE POOR ORPHANED CHILDREN OF NIGERIA .
WE ARE LOOKING FOR GOOD CHRISTIAN PEOPLE WHO WILL ASIST US BY SENDING US CHRISTAN BOOKS, MATERIALS, OR MONEY, TO ENABLE US HELP MANY POOR CHRISTIAN CHILDREN AND MOTHERLESS BABYS IN LAGOS NIGERIA. MANY OF THESE WRETCHED CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE PARENTS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN MUREDERED BY A BAD REGIME IN NIGERIA.
PLEASE HELP THESE PITIFUL CHILDREN BY SENDING SOME HELP FOR US. PLEASE I ALLSO WANT TO BE A DISTRIBUTOR AND A PUBLISHER OF YOUR EVANGELISM CHRISTAN BOOKS, OR BIBLES, AM SOLICITING TO AFFILIATE MY ORGANISATION UNDER YOUR CO-OPEARTION.
PLEASE SEND TO ME THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS REGARDS TO THIS REQUEST. I WILL BE VERY HAPPY IF THIS REQUEST WILL BE GRANTED.
ALLSO IF YOU HAVE ANY OF YOUR CHRISTAN BOOKS OR BIBLE THAT WE CAN SELL IN RETURNS KINDLY LET US KNOW.
AS YOU DO THIS FOR US GOD WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AMEN.
ANTICIPATING YOUR URGENT REPLY SOONEST
YOURS BROTHER IN CHRIST,
(PASTOR CLEM UDO
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Subject: Please pray for a family coming to Visit CCD Burundi
Dear Praying Friend,
Greetings in Jesus' Name!
This is just to remind you about our coming visitors, I hope you got the same copy of this message. If you didn't get the it please below is a copy for you. Pray for us.
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Dear Prayer Partner,
Greetings in Jesus' Name our Lord and Savior!
CCD Burundi is pleased to inform you that Benjamin and Katrin from Germany is coming to visit us here in Burundi from December 6, 2003 to February 29, 2004.
This family is coming to help us with work especially with evangelism at refugee camp, medical treatment for the kids, teaching about community development in Churches, and so on.
Please pray for them as the prepare their trip to Burundi, pray that the will have a mercy journey. Actually we don't have a car to use during the stay in Burundi. Our 2 donated vehicles are still in Japan and we are praying for the funds to ship them to Burundi. Now because of these visitors, we have urgent need of a car to use. Please pray for us that we may have money to buy even a used car here in Bujumbura. I have seen one but we need $ 2,800.00 USD to buy this car.
We also need $ 550.00 USD to pay for the rent of our office for this month of November and for the administration expenses. Please join us in prayer for this prayer requests. We need God's help at this time. May the Lord bless you as you pray for us and help.
Yours in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
President & Legal Representative
Christian Community Development – Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
BURUNDI, AFRICA
Website http://www.ccdburundi.org.uk/
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The Bible says:
Living Bible, Proverbs 28:27 If you give to the poor, your needs will be supplied! But a curse upon those who close their eyes to poverty.
Living Bible, Luke 6:38 For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give large or small will be used to measure what is given back to you.
Subject: [Missions Insider] Himalaya Mission Celebrates 50 Years of Ministry
1. Himalaya Evangelical Mission Celebrates Founder's 50 Years of Ministry
2. India: Moral Message Shows the Way
3. India: Two Missionaries Attacked
4. Africa: Muslims Come to Christ
5. Photo of the Week: Baptism Among the Rocks
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1. Himalaya Evangelical Mission Celebrates Founder's 50 Years of Ministry
It was 40 years ago November 17 that P.M. Thomas, his young wife, Christy, and their seven-month old son, Santhosh, arrived in Udhampur.
It was the beginning of a long and cold winter for the missionary who had been an effective convention speaker and teacher for 10 years in warm South India.
It was also the beginning of an arduous ministry in Kashmir that eventually saw the establishment of the first evangelical church in that region, elementary schools for children, a missionary training institute and more than a dozen daughter churches planted.
Working out of a one-room mud hut, the Thomases gathered a growing team of co-workers who lived by faith--but the work almost came to a halt in 1971.
Originally given land and a permit to build from the local government, Thomas began constructing a two-story church and mission headquarters. Suddenly local opposition mounted and Thomas was ordered to halt construction and tear down the structure.
In defiance of the stay orders, Thomas covered the structure--then at window level--with a tent and continued to build under cover, one row of brick at a time.
He eventually completed the walls to roof level and was about to cover the first floor with a temporary roof when he was smitten with two heart attacks.
He was taken to the local army hospital, where he had an unusual visitation from Christ and emerged a healed and changed man, an even bolder evangelist, and filled with the Holy Spirit.
While yet in the hospital, he penned a letter to then Prime Minister Indira Ghandi asking if the guarantees of freedom of religion in the federal constitution were still in effect. Shortly after that the chief official of the district told Thomas he would have no more trouble. The deputy officer who so vehemently opposed Thomas was suspended pending investigation on corruption charges and soon died of a heart attack.
After that the ministry flourished. The work was organized as Kashmir Evangelical Fellowship in 1973, and the headquarters building was extended to two floors in 1975.
Scores of missionaries came and went, and at least a dozen left the organization to start their own works. Today their combined efforts have more than 3000 missionaries on the fields of North India and neighboring Himalayan countries.
To be more centrally located to his growing work, Thomas relocated to Gorakhpur in 1996 and renamed the ministry Himalaya Evangelical Mission. Since 1963, missionaries working with KEF/HEM have visited 775,383 houses, contacted 4,020,795 individuals, recorded 165,950 salvation decisions, and baptized 8,263 committed believers. Today HEM has 276 co-workers in 13 Indian states and neighboring countries.
HEM celebrated the 50 years of Thomas's ministry with a convention attended by 500 people November 4-9. The story is one of the chapters in John Lindner's book, "God's Special Agents," available without charge at www.christianaid.org.
A full-length book on Thomas's life and ministry, "The Mountains Shall Sing," also written by John Lindner, was printed in India and is expected to be available in limited quantity in the U.S. in the near future. Those desiring a copy may write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-446 660-HEM-Book on the subject line to receive details.
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2. India: Moral Message Shows the Way
A ministry in northern India has gained a positive response to its presentation of the Christian message as a way of life on a higher plain.
In recent months the ministry has presented a moral message to three public schools, at two open-air meetings on public grounds, and even to a special meeting of the city police (arranged by the Hindu police chief himself). The principal of a 1000-student school even requested a Bible when he was approached about the possibility of presenting the message at his school.
"The meetings were welcomed because they stressed right living--no smoking, no drinking, no drugs," the leader told Christian Aid. "These moral values were presented as being based on the claims of Christ. New life through salvation in Jesus Christ was shared as the way.
"Some tried to disturb the meetings, claiming that conversion to Christianity was the purpose. Generally, however, most people appreciated the moral life message. One purpose, admittedly, was to present Christianity in a favorable light."
Those responding to the message may request a free copy of the Gospel of Luke video and a Bible. Personal follow-up is being planned.
For more information about this strategic ministry or how to help, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-446 660-HIM on the subject line.
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3. India: Two Missionaries Attacked
Two missionaries suffered separate attacks recently. One required hospitalization; the other escaped without injury.
In Karnataka state, a gospel preacher returning by bicycle from a believer's house was attacked by several fanatical young men, who beat him until he was unconscious. The youths then prevented the believers from taking the man to a nearby hospital. The police helped the believers take the injured missionary to a hospital in the next town, but the hospital staff refused to treat him. The believers then drove their fallen hero to a hospital 60 miles (100 km.) away, where he finally was admitted and treated.
Authorities were notified and the culprits were rounded up by the police. However, when mission representatives stopped to file an official report of the incident, another mob gathered and the police told the Christians to leave before the mob burned their jeep.
"Things are getting out of hand and the authorities are unable (and some unwilling) to control the mobs ... led by fanatic Hindu extremists," the mission leader said.
Another mission leader in Tamil Nadu, returning by car from a church meeting said he was surrounded by militant Hindus on motorbikes who kicked his car and cursed him all the way into town.
"God sent His angels and protected His servants," he said.
To learn how to assist ministries under persecution in India, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-446 600-PERS on the subject line.
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4. Africa: Muslims Come to Christ
An indigenous missionary in West Africa reports Muslim Africans are responding to the gospel despite strong persecution from family members.
The missionary told Christian Aid he had made friends with many shopkeepers and teachers. As a result, many of them, including Muslims, were turning to the Lord Jesus Christ--but not without cost.
"It was very hard for the adults who welcomed Jesus to stand up and come to our fellowship without undergoing violence from their Muslim relatives on the way," the missionary said. "Many of the converts have been thrown out of their homes."
The missionary now fears for his life.
"The Muslims hate me so much that they would kill me if they could. But the hand of God is upon me," he said.
The missionary requests prayer that he could continue to minister effectively among Muslims in this West African country. Sorry, names cannot be given.
To learn how you can support this ministry, write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-446 548-CPM on the subject
line.
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5. Photo of the Week: Baptism Among the Rocks
http://www.christianaid.org/pow/pow-4-46.asp
A ministry in northern India leads new believers to a remote stream where they are baptized among the rocks while other believers look on and pray. Baptism used to be a celebratory event, but more and more, due to persecution, it is being conducted without fanfare. To learn more about this ministry write insider@christianaid.org and put MI-446 640-OMM on the subject line.
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Subject: Jhansi from St.Louis Public School
Dear Rev Mark in CHRIST.
Still I am waiting for your kind help for CHRISTMAS. All these poor and Orphan children
and neglected poor Christians need your charity help.
Please send as soon as early
Your sister in CHRIST JESUS
Jhansi
St.Louis Public School
Subject: Israel
Dear Brother Mark,
Choice Kingdom Greetings!
I just wanted to keep in touch to update with with things over here. I just returned from my trip to Ghana and I am presently in Nigeria. I will be here until next week end before moving on. I am very excited with what the Lord is doing.
Please do keep in touch and I look forward to a greater time of fellowship with you.
How do I send the pjhotos you requested to you? By attachment or snail mail?
In His Kingdom,
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
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Subject: Israel,
Dear Brother Mark Tross,
Choice Greetings! I am sending the whole attachment as
a text message in this email. I trust that you will have the time to go through and respond back to us.
We love you and we do appreciate the developing relationship for God's Kingdom.
In His Service,
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries
Resume – Rev. Israel Onoriobe
"… Declaring the Gospel of the Kingdom, Unveiling the
Purposes of God and Reaching the Nations"
Israel Onoriobe is the President/Founder of the World
Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries, an
Apostolic-type
ministry with international offices in Benin City, Nigeria, Port Elizabeth, South Africa and Kentucky, United States of America.
World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries (WVCOM) was founded in response to a God given vision for the last
days Church and World Harvest.
Cooperating with the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, WVCOM seeks the release and development of our Lord's glorious third day's church.
I have been in the prophetic ministry for about eight
years, operating in the revelatory gifts, especially in words of prophecy and prophetic preaching. With the
grace of an Apostolic-type ministry and a prophetic unction upon my life. I do travel extensively around the nations ministering the message of the Kingdom and
declaring the purposes of God in releasing the body of
Christ into a greater maturity and Christ-like stature.
In the last eight years, an Apostolic commission was released upon this works to see a cooperative networking of churches, ministries and Ministers who would give themselves in a greater _expression of Apostolic release.
Flowing out of this has come a new
fresh fire of revelation and revival power.
Signs, wonders, and miraculous healings are being preached and demonstrated. A great hunger for the impartation of healing within the body has emerged.
I have seen an unprecedented volume of healings being
released during my time of ministry and many has been
delivered from demonic strongholds and oppressions.
I have a passion to equip and release the body to a greater realization of the corporate healing and deliverance, which is available to them. WVCOM fully believes a new move of the Spirit is upon our nation that will lead to an unprecedented ingathering, shaping and changing the face of the church.
We have also been involved in setting up leadership training conferences and seminars for church leaders over the years in different nations. This is one of the principle aims of WVCOM: to teach, train and to release new workers as well as ordain new leadership with apostolic commissions. This we believe will be accomplished through establishing of covenant relationships and partnership with other like ministries and leaders across the nations as the Lord
divinely bring the links together for His purpose. WVCOM does not serve as an organization to bring covering for ministries or churches as an affiliate, but we relate in a covenant proclamation for Kingdom advancement for the reformation and restoration of all
things.
With these we solely proclaim and declare that WVCOM's
mission is to provide a relational network of ministries and churches that are in vital convenant relationships with one another. This comes about through a united vision of equipping, releasing and maturing the church. The core of the vision is to see
existing churches strengthened, new churches planted,
global missions and evangelism, while training ministry leadership. The purpose is to see the body of
Christ come into Her Glory for the fullness of Christ's stature awaiting His appearance.
By a passion to build the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries is seeking those who have heard such a call of the Spirit. We are
laboring to enter into functional relationship with those who feel called to bring revival and reformation
to the church by every possible means necessary.
This is a Kingdom Vision, the passion is the Love of God and the frequency is apostolic doctrine.
WVCOM mandate for our Apostolic/Prophetic Leadership
&
Believers Conferences and Seminars
The passion and desire of WVCOM has been to relate with others of similar vision to pull resources to better be able to accomplish the vision of invading lands with the message of the gospel of the Kingdom of
God where it has not gone. The purpose for our leadership conferences and seminars across the nations
is to help the church come into a full understanding of this. We do not seek to be among the numbers or gather the crowds, but we desire to raise up, train, commission and release apostolic teams in many lands with whom we will co-labor to unveil and declare the purposes of God. This we have done in the past years and leaders has been ordained and released into the ministry to pioneer new work for the Kingdom.
At the moment, we are prayerfully looking into establishing an International Resource Center that will serve as a Kingdom Training Center to bring in nationals from different nations to be imparted and released back to their communities and nations.
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Invading The Nations – 2003
"Ask of me, and I shall give thee the nations for your
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for
thy possession". Psalm 2: 8
God is moving the church into a greater performance of
His purposes for the earth. He is declaring and doing
new things (Isaiah 42:9). This is a new day and a new
season in God and we must understand His plans and strategies through a revelation of heaven's perspective for the church in the now.
Our ministry has a mandate of reaching into 20 nations
here in Africa. This is the commission the Lord gave to me when I was in the Kingdom of Swaziland in May 2002 around 2am as I was in communion with Him.
Botswana, Zambia, Togo, Mauritius, Congo, Namibia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea, Malawi,
Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Cameroon, Liberia
We have mapped out strategies and this is an operation
we have tagged "Invading the Nations 2003". Our ministry has been reaching out into the nations for the past 6 years and God has moved tremendously, but at this time we are trusting the Lord to make our presence known by taking this ministry into these nations in declaring the purposes of God.
Our Purpose:
To declare the message of the Kingdom of God – This is
a passion for the lost in reaching and harvesting them
for the Kingdom.
Unveiling the Purposes and Will of God – Creating an awareness of a cosmic war; bringing the Church into a
spiritual insight and understanding of discerning and
destroying the works of darkness in bringing in restoration and a harvest for the Kingdom and by so doing establishing a dwelling place for the Lord upon
the earth. (Revelation 21: 3).
Reaching the Nations – A networking of leaders, churches and ministries for a total invasion of the land and the establishing and advancing of the Kingdom
of God for the reformation and restoration of all things.
Our Mission:
In our mission into these nations, we will raise up, train and equip an apostolic team of ministries that will fan the true flame of revival in preparing the church for the harvest. By this we will be running Gospel campaigns, Leadership Seminars and International Conferences in some of the targeted areas which will help accomplish the vision and as well mobilize laborers that will continue to advance the Kingdom message in their nations.
We are trusting the Lord that through our relationship
and International Network of Ministries, we will have
the privilege and opportunity to bring in matured leaders with integrity and ministry teams from around
the world who will be relating with us in covenant fellowship to minister to the leaders that will be participating in our conferences and seminars, as well
as the nations at large.
We beseech and call for those who are of a willing heart and feel the Lord is leading them to partner, network and help finance and assist this vision of Invading the Nations – 2003.
Prayer Request:
We need financial partners to help finance this mission for the Kingdom of God; for our conferences, travels etc.
Right contacts and relationship with ministers and ministries who will be networking with us. Expansion of our network with nationals in these nations and doors of entrance to be open Favor in securing visas and permits into these nations.
The direction of the Lord and His will in every seminars and conferences in fulfilling the assignment
of advancing and establishing of the Kingdom of God.
God's divine protection over the ministry and teams that will be going into these nations for this purpose.
We the World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries believes totally in this with her partners. We are committed to see a realization of this vision in the next few months.
We trust that as you read through this you will join the chariot.
For His Kingdom Alone,
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
Founder/President
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Partners Note
Choice Kingdom Greetings to you from the World Vision
Crusade Outreach Ministries – South Africa!
Few days ago, I had a strong passion in my spirit to pray, fast and seek the Lord for three (3) days on behalf of our ministry friend's and partners; and also
share with them a Word from God and our goal in the upcoming months. I trust you will thoughtfully and prayerfully respond to this.
God is a God of purpose. His purpose has not changed.
It is the same from the beginning. His purpose has to
do with the heaven and earth (Luke11: 2); and this is
to establish His Kingdom through the Church. The Lord
desires and He seeks for a generation through which He
will accomplish this.
In light of this, we must become men and women of vision who sees beyond the limits and the veil to comprehend the fullness of the purposes of God. We must become a people of excellence and move with the truth. We must understand that the purposes of God is
more than the heaven's, that the Father seeks to rule
and reign upon the earth also and have everything under his supreme rulership.
Our goal is to promulgate
the dominion of His Kingdom and His Kingship as we declare 'Come Lord Jesus'.
In view of the urgency of harvesting souls into God's
Kingdom globally in this final segment of human history, we wish to call for your support towards our
mission trip to East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia,
Tanzania and Rwanda) beginning from the end of this month of November and our International Leadership Summit coming up in South Africa from 17th – 28th March 2004. We have invited leaders of integrity and
men of pure and refreshing spirit from different continent to come minister to us during the Summit.
Before the Summit, we also plan to be in the nations of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the Kingdom of Swaziland; and after the Summit we will be heading back to Asia (Philippines, Singapore, India, Indonesia
& Malaysia) and possibly the Middle East (Pakistan).
Our Focus and Purpose:
· To declare the gospel of the Kingdom and unveil the purposes of God.
· To strengthen and establish relationships, the leaders and the Body of Christ.
· To mobilize and encourage leaders who are
in
relationship with us or wanting to come into fellowship with us, to come participate in our upcoming Leadership Summit in South Africa for sharpening and impartation as we fellowship together,
share and strategize for global impact.
Please we earnestly need your prayer covering and financial support towards this mandate. Feel free to support and communicate us as the Lord leads and direct you.
Anon said, 'What will matter to you at the end of life
will be the loving relationships you built and your standing in God'. The paths that we tread today as we
build relationship together will touch the future lives of many around the world. It is my prayers and desire that this friendship will carry the sweet aroma
of pure love and genuine friendship.
Be assured that we are determined to press into the greater dimension of the purposes of God as we labour
together, because I believe the Father has connected us together in a covenant relationship.
Yours in His Kingdom,
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries
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Subject: Israel,
Dear Brother Mark,
Greetings! In one of my email I did sent the content of the attachment to you copied in as a text message.
Please check that out or I can send it again.
Keep in touch.
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
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Subject: dear
pastor mark i am sorry for late replying please it is because i do not have money to go to e-mail office .but i rejoice with you in your 2nd year in ministry .i pray God will contiuely multipling and bless you in Jesus name.may the grace of GOd be with you amen .yours paul.
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Subject: Jhansi from St.Louis Public School
Dear beloved Rev. Mark in CHRIST.
Greetings to you.
I wrote many emails to you for the CHRISTMAS with little children. Every day we arewaiting for your blessed words and help. Sir, did you sent any help and clothes for the children?
Let me know soon. Other wise please send some money, we will buy here. We have week days time for our CHRISTMAS. Do whatever you like to do. Good God bless you.
Your sister in CHRIST JESUS
Jhansi
Subject: Israel,
Dear Bropther Mark Tross
Greetings! I want to say a Big Thank You as your ministry has been of great encouragement to us is pressing on as we advance the Kingdom of God here amidst great challenges.
We love you and look forward to a greater time in His Kingdom,
Israel Onoriobe
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Subject: Our Mission Work Here In Kenya
Dear Mark'
I hope you are doing fine,I was Happy to receive your mail today,Please below are some of the work we do here,also see the attached photos.
Our name: River of Life Ministries
Who we are:
We are a Christian, non profit making organization, missions-oriented in nature registered in Kenya. We are based in Nyanza Province, Western Kenya. We evangelize and discipline people both in the urban slums and rural poor. We also reach out with love, kindness and mercy to less fortunate members of society mostly children orphaned by HIV-AIDS and widows under cruel grip of acute poverty.
We organize outreach crusades and church leaders seminars. The greatest challenge here is the negative impacts caused by H.I.V/AIDS in terms of human suffering and general economy.
BRIEF OVERVIEW OF RIVER OF LIFE MINSITRIES MISSION WORK IN KENYA
1) Kenya has a population of 30 million. The first HIV/AIDS case was reported in 1984. Since then, 1.5 million Kenyans have died due to the disease.
Right now, 2.5 million people are infected (HIV positive). Every single day the disease is claiming 700 lives! 65% of hospital beds are occupied by people suffering from HIV/AIDS related infections. Kenya has approximately 3 million children orphaned b y the disease.
2) Groups under specially difficult circumstances::
We have two groups that have felt the punch of the disease:-
i) Orphan children:- Most children are total orphans meaning they have no father nor mother. They are different ages, some as young as 1 year old. They try tooth and nail to fend for their daily survival, which hardly come their way.
Due to the pressure of fending for themselves, some have run from homes and found refuge in new homes in the streets of major cities and towns where later, they lead reckless life, sniffing gum, drug and engage in other immoral activities.
(a) Their major needs:- food, clothing, shelter and educational sponsorship; medical care.
ii) Widows: In Kenya, most bread winners are male. Female in most cases are associated with upbringing of children at home. This has impacted negatively as the death of the male, who is the only bread winner is a complete doom to the family livelihood. It is very common here that male persons normally succumb faster to HIV/AIDS as compared to their female spouses. As a result, we have many desperate and helpless widows under tight grip of pulsating poverty. Since their husbands were the sole bread winners, after the demise of their husbands, they have nobody to turn to but face life however cruel it is. They have children to support, feed, educate and clothe. How do they do this? Also because most of them are HIV positive, they need constant medication to treat opportunist infections for them to keep going.
Their major needs:-
i) Revolving Fund to start income generating businesses.
ii) Community medical clinic to cater for their medical needs i.e. where they can get free drugs, counseling and other related services.
iii) Shelter: some are living in grass thatched houses with mud walls that are seriously leaking when it rains.
The part River of Life Ministries has played toward alleviating the suffering:-
(i) We have been able to start home based orphan care programme within this community. Here we identify the orphan, after that we take him to a foster parent who is willing to stay with him or her. So whenever the Lord blesses our ministry with some funds, we buy food, clothing and blankets and we take to him there where he stays. So far, we have been able to donate food, clothes and blankets to a number, though this has been very limited due to lack of funds and donors.
We have been able to get sponsor for 4 orphans who pays for them school fees and has build them a good house
We have also been able to put up new structures for poor widows whose houses had collapsed down. We have shown them love by donating them blankets and clothes and at times, we give them some food in small quantity.
It is our prayer that the Lord will bring forth partners in Ministry that together we can
Accomplish far much than what we are doing now. We do not solicit for funds but
When the gratitude for the word of God (source of true giving) and understanding to
reach the needy motivate one to partner with us, contribute or share, one has the
privilege to do so in accordance to our Lord Jesus commands: ? was hungry and you fed
me, I was naked and you clothed m?Mathew 25: 35 ?40, James 1:27, Gal. 6:9.
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Subject: invitation to kisumu kenya
Hello Mark,
I have received your mail with great joy.Please we would very much love to have you here to bring us the word of the kingdom.I will send you photos of our work here.I dont kow which month will siute your group to come over here but here we have got only two months that are not condusive due to rainfall,that is Aprill and May.The rest of the months are good.Please you choose which month that will favour your group.
Thanks and be blessed of the lord,
pastor john
Subject: Israel,
Dear Brother Mark,
Choice Kingdom greetings to you from Kumasi, Ghana.
Just three days ago I arrived into this nation (Ghana) for ministry meetings and we are pressing on accomplishing the purposes of God over here and I hope to be here until the weekend before heading back for Nigeria and onward to East Africa and then base - South Africa.
Please I want to solicit for your prayers support as we advance the Kingdom of God. Remember, the effectiveness of our impact upon the nations will result from the strenght of our relationship as we fellowship and network together for the advancement of the Kingdom of God upon the nations.
Please note that I sent you some photographs by post from Nigeria and I trust you will get that soon and be able to use it.
In His Kingdom,
Israel Onoriobe
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From: "ROYAL CHAPEL R.A.B.C"
Subject: Letter For Mark Tross
Dear Brother Mark Tross,
Greetings to you from Benin City, Nigeria.
I am Pastor Ikechukwu H. Anumenechi, Senior Pastor of the Royal Ambassadors Bible Church -a.k.a Royal Chapel.
Rev. Israel Onoriobe of the World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries - South Africa gave me your contact detail and did subcribed me on your mailing list to recieved your inspirational articles which I do appreciate.
Please I will appreciate if you woulod keep in touch as we will appreciate developing relationship with you.
Pastor Ikechukwu H. Anumenechi
Subject: I AM BORN AGAIN!!!!
Dear Father in Christ,
May God give you peace, dear brothers and sisters, and love with faith, from God the father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Greetings to you in Jesus name. I pray that your word will inspire your people today, your word will bring challenges, your word will bring prosperity, your word will restore hope where hope seems to have been lost, your word will bring life where death seems to have over-come life, your word will bring healing and deliverance in Jesus Name Amen.
I am a Muslim before now and I thank God for using a Christian Brother called Michael Oke to saved me from eternal destruction. My father in the Lord, Jesus Christ is now my Lord and savior not the Mohammed we were told to believe that cannot wash my sins away.
I pity Muslims because they do not believe in God the son and God the Holy Spirit. And this brother Michael showed me everything from the Bible about God the son {who is Jesus Christ} and God the Holy Spirit.
My name is Godwin Alata and I pray for God to use me to transform my families from the bondage of Islam because such way does not lead one to the kingdom of God since they do not believe in Jesus Christ the son of the Living God.
The problem I have now is Bible and I would be very glad to receive a king James study bible from your church along with some tapes so that I can grow in the word of God day by day.
This is my request and I pray for God to provide for you so that this bible can be sent as soon as possible to me.
Please pray for the salvation of my families and also for me not to depart from the truth the word of God. I thank God for counting you worthy to send me this king James study bible and some of your preaching tapes.
My regard to your family and congregation. Hoping to hear from you.
Yours in Christ,
Godwin Alata.
P.O BOX 686
AKURE
ONDO STATE
NIGERIA
WEST Africa.
Subject: invitation to kisumu kenya
Christians Greetings from Kenya Africa.Im pastor John Atieno of River Of Life Ministries,we are based in Kisumu city and burden to reach the people of Kenya by the saving gospel of Christ both in the rural and urban arears.We also reach out to the children orphaned by HIV-AIDS and widows as Kenya is severely devasted with the scourge.They are in dare need of:food,clothing,medical care and education.
We in one accord invite you to come for mission work on which ever area is of interest to your and suiting to your calling in the year 2004 at a month condisive to you.
Thanks and waiting to your response.
Pastor John Atieno,
Kenya
Subject: Re: Letter For Mark Tross
Dearly beloved, thanks for the mail,
We are praying for you and believe that the lord will usher you into his total plan in 2004 with nothing missing out at all.
How about sending the details and photographs via email/
i will like to hear from you.
Rev. Ikechukwu Anumenechi
Subject: Letter For Mark Tross
Dear Brother Mark Tross,
Greetings to you from Benin City, Nigeria.
I am Pastor Ikechukwu H. Anumenechi, Senior Pastor of the Royal Ambassadors Bible Church -a.k.a Royal Chapel.
Rev. Israel Onoriobe of the World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries - South Africa gave me your contact detail and did subcribed me on your mailing list to recieved your inspirational articles which I do appreciate.
Please I will appreciate if you woulod keep in touch as we will appreciate developing relationship with you.
Pastor Ikechukwu H. Anumenechi
Subject: trip.
From: John Atieno
Hi bro Mark,
Hello from Kenya.Have you been able to have a month in mind that you are likely to come to kenya?let me know.
john
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Dear Brother Mark,
Few people have a heart for the Kingdom and does understand the need and passion to move on with the gospel. We do appreciate you and look forward to any support that can be given to this mission work here in Africa.
We love you and we are praying for you.
Israel Onoriobe
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Subject: Israel,
Dear Mark,
Choice Kingdom Greetings to you from the World Vision
Crusade Outreach Ministries (WVCOM) – Uitenhage,
South
Africa!
The below content of this letter was a response message I sent to one Pastor John S. Hill who wrote to
me and shared the impression of his heart and requested that I update him with present challenges and needs in the ministry so he can join us in prayers. I thought of sending it to you as well so you
could prayerfully consider it as well and if the Lord
impress in your heart to be of support in any way, then you can also respond to that direction.
Please do not consider this letter as a deliberate task on you and your ministry that may hinder the development of our relationship together, because we consider your relationship very unique and precious to
us. For this purpose you may disregard this letter for
the sake of keeping our relationship going and growing.
I value the relationship the Lord has given to us in the ministry, especially those from foreign lands as they are very precious to us and therefore I do not want to burden them in anyway by my personal or our ministry needs and challenges. I strongly believe in the principle and that the grace of God is sufficient
for us and He will provide for the vision as He is the
source.
Over the years the Lord has faithfully provided for us
and carried us through. We do not have any financial ministry support and this has been very challenging for us and has brought some pressure on our faith and
ministry.
Besides the mandate of advancing the Kingdom of God into certain nations here in Africa which the Lord has
given to us and we are committed to, this year the WVCOM is focusing on reaching 8 nations in Asia (China, Singapore, Indonesia , Philippines, Hong Kong,
Malaysia, India and Pakistan) beginning from first week of April. Some of these nations are predominantly
Muslim, Buddhist and Hindus strongholds, but we are seeing a great harvest field there that is ripe for Kingdom harvest. We already have ministry contacts there but we need financial support of about US$4,000
to touch these nations and be able to effectively strengthen our ministry work in these nations to spread out the gospel of the Kingdom with the underground churches and be able to train and raise up
ministry leaders and breakthrough believers that will
begin to influence the land and infiltrate the systems
to see God's Kingdom established there.
This year we will also be running 4 major leadership Conferences in South Africa and other mini-training seminars in about 8 cities, where we plan to equip leaders and believers. During this time, we are expecting leaders from different parts of Africa to gather and we have the challenge of feeding, accommodate and transport these leaders and as well as
be able to effectively mobilize and organize the meetings to give a quality standard. Our first leadership meeting will begin from 17th March 2004 in
Durban, South Africa.
Besides all these, there are other responsibility within the ministry locally and the family aspect that
must be taken care of so we can have an excellent work
and ministry.
The challenge is much and sometimes I feel discouraged
and disappointed when we cannot keep up to the responsibility due to lack of support which we are believing God for.
Presently the pressure is there as
we are now faced with the challenges, but prayers and
intercession becomes our only option.
If only we can have one or two ministries that will understand our vision and passion for the Kingdom of God and be able to stand with us in prayers and also financially support us and sometimes be able to send in matured ministry teams to come encourage us and be
able to serve the purposes of God here in Africa and Asia, we will greatly appreciate this.
I really do appreciate your concern and prayers for us. If there is any way or anything you could do to share with others about our ministry work so they can
be a part of this, we will be grateful. But above all,
know that the relationship that we share with you is more important to us as we have seen a fatherly heart
in you.
With a grateful heart, we want to say thanks you and we look forward to hear from you again soon.
If there is any detail or information you would need us to share with you, please do let us know.
In His Kingdom,
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries 84 Tize Street,
Kwanobuhle, Uitenhage (Port Elizabeth) 6242
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Subject: Update - January 2004
January, 2004
Leading Africa to Thrive!
Our hearts beat with vision and passion as we look ahead at this year. As we host more pastor training events and weekly discipleship classes than ever before, we will be impacting not only the villages of Qwa Qwa and Intabazwe but the whole nation of South Africa. Our vision is to equip the Basotho people to thrive in every aspect of life by teaching them the principles of God?s Word.
Please stop for a moment to seek the Lord and search your heart about the role you are to play in that vision. Will you consider sowing into our ministry on a monthly basis? We only need $3000 more in monthly support to effectively continue equipping the next generation leaders who will be the future businessmen, government leaders, parents, and spiritual leaders of the country.
As you sow into our ministry, your partnership enables us to reach farther and faster, literally shaping the future of the African continent.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Many of you have written to tell us how moved you were by the CD-ROM update we sent out in November. Our heart was to more effectively show you our ministry and the lives that are being changed in South Africa. We were encouraged to hear how impactful it was in making you feel more connected to our ministry. We plan on sending several video-CD updates to you this coming year.
*** If you did not receive the CD-ROM update in the mail, please email us your mailing address and we will send you one right away. We will also add you to our mailing list so that you receive each video newsletter we send!
A vital way you can partner with us is through introducing our ministry to people you know. If you would like additional copies of the CD-ROM update to share with your pastor, family, friends, and other missions-minded individuals, please let us know. We would be glad to send additional copies to you.
And Finally?
Our time in the States is rapidly coming to a close as we will be returning to South Africa on January 24. We have enjoyed the opportunities we had to minister, connect with supporters, create new partnerships, and cast the vision during our time in America.
To all of you who were actively involved in partnering with us throughout 2003 ? by your financial support, prayers, encouragement, and friendship ? we say THANK YOU for teaming with us to reach South Africa for Christ. A principle we see throughout God?s Word is that WHEN WE SOW, THE SEED LEAVES OUR HAND BUT NOT OUR LIVES. Our prayer is that you will continue to reap a mighty harvest in your life from all that you have sown into our ministry.
Your Partners on the Field,
Niel & Alece van Rensburg
To partner with us, tax-deductible donations can be sent to:
WME / PO Box 790 / Benton, KY 42025 / USA
Please clearly mark checks for Account #24
FIELD CORRESPONDENCE:
PO Box 965
Harrismith 9880
South Africa
Subject: EVANGELISM IN BURUNDI, AFRICA
Dear Prayer Partner,
Please receive greetings from CCD Burundi in Jesus Name!
Thank you so much for praying for us, we at CCD Burundi thank God for our visitors from Germany who came to Burundi to evangelize Good News, since they arrived here in Burundi in December 2003; they continue to preach message of salvation in different churches of Bujumbura, every Sunday we go to evangelise to one church and up to now the Living Word of our Lord Jesus Christ has been preached in 5 churches, this coming Sunday they will be preaching to the 6th church. Praise the Lord, for the people who have come to know the Lord and recived Him as their personal Savior, other have been encouraged in the their spiritual life. We praise the Lord for that wonderful help. It is really good to have people who bring Good News to people of Burundi, this is really blessin gs to whole Nation of Burundi. Thanks you for praying for this ministry of evangelism.
Children at refugee camp continue to be evangelised. Every Saturday children are fed spiritual food, together with children we pray that God may provide for their daily needs, the need food, clothing, school fees, educational materials, medices and so on. Praise the Lord for the little ones who received Jesus Christ as their personal Sovior.
Please pray for us; would you please consider to ask God to provide financial support for the work we have, we need funds to meet the urgent needs that we have now in preaching the Living Word of our Lord Jesus Christ. Many people are hungry for the word of God and we need financial help that will help to reach more people here in Burundi. Please ask God for what you can give as help for the work we have now. Any help that you able to give must be something that comes from your heart and we encourage you to do as the Lord leads you to help.
Pray for the money that is needed to pay for the transportation, internet, for our office and living expenses. Thank you for standing with us in prayers at this time of need of help. May the Lord bless you and your family.
Yours in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
President & Legal Representative
Christian Community Development Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
BURUNDI, AFRICA
www.ccdburundi.org.uk
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The Bible says:
Living Bible, Proverbs 28:27 If you give to the poor, your needs will be supplied!
But a curse upon those who close their eyes to poverty.
Living Bible, Luke 6:38 For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give large or small will be used to measure what is given back to you.
Subject: Israel,
Dear Mark,
Choice Kingdom Greetings to you from the World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries (WVCOM) – Uitenhage, South Africa!
The below content of this letter was a response message I sent to one Pastor John S. Hill who wrote to me and shared the impression of his heart and requested that I update him with present challenges and needs in the ministry so he can join us in prayers. I thought of sending it to you as well so you could prayerfully consider it as well and if the Lord impress in your heart to be of support in any way, then you can also respond to that direction.
Please do not consider this letter as a deliberate task on you and your ministry that may hinder the development of our relationship together, because we consider your relationship very unique and precious to us. For this purpose you may disregard this letter for the sake of keeping our relationship going and growing.
I value the relationship the Lord has given to us in the ministry, especially those from foreign lands as they are very precious to us and therefore I do not want to burden them in anyway by my personal or our ministry needs and challenges. I strongly believe in the principle and that the grace of God is sufficient for us and He will provide for the vision as He is the source.
Over the years the Lord has faithfully provided for us and carried us through.
We do not have any financial ministry support and this has been very challenging for us and has brought some pressure on our faith and ministry.
Besides the mandate of advancing the Kingdom of God into certain nations here in Africa which the Lord has given to us and we are committed to, this year the WVCOM is focusing on reaching 8 nations in Asia (China, Singapore, Indonesia , Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and Pakistan) beginning from first week of April. Some of these nations are predominantly Muslim, Buddhist and Hindus strongholds, but we are seeing a great harvest field there that is ripe for Kingdom harvest. We already have ministry contacts there but we need financial support of about US$4,000 to touch these nations and be able to effectively strengthen our ministry work in these nations to spread out the gospel of the Kingdom with the underground churches and be able to train and raise up ministry leaders and breakthrough believers that will begin to influence the land and infiltrate the systems to see God's Kingdom established there.
This year we will also be running 4 major leadership Conferences in South Africa and other mini-training seminars in about 8 cities, where we plan to equip leaders and believers. During this time, we are expecting leaders from different parts of Africa to gather and we have the challenge of feeding, accommodate and transport these leaders and as well as be able to effectively mobilize and organize the meetings to give a quality standard.
Our first leadership meeting will begin from 17th March 2004 in Durban, South Africa.
Besides all these, there are other responsibility within the ministry locally and the family aspect that must be taken care of so we can have an excellent work and ministry.
The challenge is much and sometimes I feel discouraged and disappointed when we cannot keep up to the responsibility due to lack of support which we are believing God for. Presently the pressure is there as we are now faced with the challenges, but prayers and intercession becomes our only option.
If only we can have one or two ministries that will understand our vision and passion for the Kingdom of God and be able to stand with us in prayers and also financially support us and sometimes be able to send in matured ministry teams to come encourage us and be able to serve the purposes of God here in Africa and Asia, we will greatly appreciate this.
I really do appreciate your concern and prayers for us. If there is any way or anything you could do to share with others about our ministry work so they can be a part of this, we will be grateful.
But above all, know that the relationship that we share with you is more important to us as we have seen a fatherly heart in you.
With a grateful heart, we want to say thanks you and we look forward to hear from you again soon.
If there is any detail or information you would need us to share with you, please do let us know.
In His Kingdom,
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries 84 Tize Street,
Kwanobuhle, Uitenhage (Port Elizabeth) 6242
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Subject: Please pray for us
Dear Mark T,
I hope you have read my messsage that I sent you, we are in need of some financial help, have you any possibility to help us? We need money to pay the internet; for the rent of office/ house for this month of January, for the school fees of my son Elijah and so on; please pray and see any way to help us if it is possible for you to do it now. Thanks for your response. May God bless you all there.
Yours in Christ,
Deogyatias NIYONZMA
CCD Burundi
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The Bible says:
Living Bible, Proverbs 28:27 If you give to the poor, your needs will be supplied! But a curse upon those who close their eyes to poverty.
Living Bible, Luke 6:38 For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give large or small will be used to measure what is given back to you.
Subject: MIRACLE AT REFUGEE CAMP
Dear Praying Friend,
Greetings in Jesus Name!
What a blessing to have a miracle from God. I am pleased to take this time to share with you how God answered prayers of the children that I teach God's word at refugee Camp. From last year I have been telling you about the needs of children and you have been praying for the clothing, food, educational materials, school fees, medicines and so on.
Every Saturday when we meet with Children at refugee camp inour Good News Club, children pray for different need that they have include what I have mentione above. We thank God for the way you have been praying for the needs of these children.
It is amazing to see how God answers prayers, last Saturday God used SHEMEZA MUSIC to come to refugee camp to see the children and their parents. SHEMEZA MUSIC is a group of Christian Youth who sing for the Lord here in Burundi. SHEMEZA is a Kirundi word which means PRAISE, "they praise God" because they are Christians and they sing Christian Songs to proclaim Jesus Christ to others. On Christmas Day, the had a Concert and they collected some money which they used to buy food, soap, plastic cups, clothing for children and their parents, all things took more that $ 800 USD.
When children saw these gifts, together with us and their parents, we thanked God for that miracles. We didn't know if God led this group of Christian Singers to bring gifts to children, it was really a miracle for me and for my children. I gave a testimony of it. Praise the Lord, children because they were able to have some food, clothing, soaps for this time; yes things were not enough for the people who are in the camp but we thank God for these things because it was
provision from God and a blessed one.
Thanks a for holding these children in your prayers.
Miracles still continue to happen to children, just on Monday I had a dream at night that there is a box came from outsite of Burundi and I went to the post office to receive it, in the morning I went to check it at the post and the lady who works at the post office when she saw me she said we have some thing for you, then I said let me see, other worker lifted the box and I knew that it was the box I saw at night. So this week a box full of clothing from the USA has already arrived in Bujumbura, I am going to give to the children at regufee camp on this Saturday. May God bless brothers and sisters in the USA who sent this box.
Please pray for other 3 more boxes that are still in the USA to be sent 'Patricia informed me'. So they still need money to post them and to ensure th em and to pay taxes when those boxes will arrive to Burundi.
This is result of your prayers to the needs of our children here in Burundi especially those kids who are at refugee camp.
Please continue to pray for them.
Just to remind you that we still need your prayer in the area of financial suport for the adminstration expenses; please pray that God may provide money to pay for the internet, telephone, transporation, the office rent for this month, for the educational of my son Elijah, living expenses and so on.
Please pray for our Good New Club that I will have with Children at refugee camp. Pray for protection and mercy journey.
Thank you very much for standing with us in prayers at this time of great need of help. Please take time to forward this message to your friends. May the Lord bless you.
Yours in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
President & Legal Representative
Christian Community Development Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
BURUNDI, AFRICA
www.ccdburundi.org.uk
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The Bible says:
Living Bible, Proverbs 28:27 If you give to the poor, your needs will be supplied! But a curse upon those who close their eyes to poverty.
Living Bible, Luke 6:38 For if you give, you will get! Your gift will return to you in full and overflowing measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use to give large or small will be used to measure what is given back to you.
Subject: MUSLIMS ATTACK AND LOCK OUR CHURCH HALL
Greetings in Jesus Holy name,Happy new year 2004. Receive calvary warm greetings and prayers from Gospel Revival Centre-Mtongwe, and members and staff of EMA Missions Kenya.We trust that the Lord has given you yet another year full of opportunities and divine favour,we also bless God for having raised in our generation a man for His glory such as you.Man of God! except that i am one expecting the goodness of God in this land of the living, i wouldnt have even little strength to say a word.
We are messed-up.Our case require instant real help. Mtongwe where we are having a congregation of over 200 members in three years is an islamic township in the south mainland of Mombasa island dominated by an ethinic tribal group called DIGOS who are purely black muslims. These people operate secretly to oppose christianity at all levels.It has taken the might hand of God to plant a church here. We have been meeting in a hired community Hall owned by a political party whose leaders are all muslims and anti-christ. They have always disturbed us but with less damage,this time they attacked us destroyed properties and locked us out leaving the church without a place for worship.The local leaders claim this action to have been commited by ordinary thugs, one brothers was seriously cut in the head. Plse pray for us ,we need guidance. We also need a TENT and open LAND to lease,We ask partners, friends of the Gospel and anybody whose heart can understand our case and have our fellings to please support.It is my prayer that nobody misunderstands us for beggars these are the true experiences one finds when a decision to go missions is takent,even when thousands followed Jesus at one point it was evening and food was NEEDED and provision was needful.If Jesus hadnt been there it would have been chaos.There are needs everyplace the word is spoken lets raise up together in one spirit of christ and minister to the needs of our brethrens .Thank God He always gives so that we can also give.
Am also requesting your advice on what could be done to get a temporary shelter for these people of God.Myself, as a director of Ema missions which planted this church in this township, am expected to find solution and not the parent ministry.
I KNOW GOD IS FAITHFUL, God bless you.
Yours in His perfect Love
PASTOR MICHAEL UHURU
P.O. BOX 96553-80110
MOMBASA.
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Subject: Israel,
Dear Mark Tross,
Choice Kingdom Greetings to you from Africa!
We are doing well over here and strategically pressing on with the purposes of God. We are anxiously looking forward to a fruitful time of fellowship and relationship with you this year to see the Kingdom of God being extended here in Africa. I believe this relationship has been ordained by God and we do submit to His leadership in this regards. Indeed, it is a plus to the ministry.
Your prayers and financial support is welcome.
Regards,
Israel Onoriobe
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Subject: Israel,
Dear Mark,
Choice Kingdom Greetings to you from the World Vision
Crusade Outreach Ministries (WVCOM) – Uitenhage,
South
Africa!
The below content of this letter was a response message I sent to one Pastor John S. Hill who wrote to
me and shared the impression of his heart and requested that I update him with present challenges and needs in the ministry so he can join us in prayers. I thought of sending it to you as well so you
could prayerfully consider it as well and if the Lord
impress in your heart to be of support in any way, then you can also respond to that direction.
Please do not consider this letter as a deliberate task on you and your ministry that may hinder the development of our relationship together, because we consider your relationship very unique and precious to
us. For this purpose you may disregard this letter for
the sake of keeping our relationship going and growing.
I value the relationship the Lord has given to us in the ministry, especially those from foreign lands as they are very precious to us and therefore I do not want to burden them in anyway by my personal or our ministry needs and challenges. I strongly believe in the principle and that the grace of God is sufficient
for us and He will provide for the vision as He is the
source.
Over the years the Lord has faithfully provided for us
and carried us through. We do not have any financial ministry support and this has been very challenging for us and has brought some pressure on our faith and
ministry.
Besides the mandate of advancing the Kingdom of God into certain nations here in Africa which the Lord has
given to us and we are committed to, this year the WVCOM is focusing on reaching 8 nations in Asia (China, Singapore, Indonesia , Philippines, Hong Kong,
Malaysia, India and Pakistan) beginning from first week of April. Some of these nations are predominantly
Muslim, Buddhist and Hindus strongholds, but we are seeing a great harvest field there that is ripe for Kingdom harvest. We already have ministry contacts there but we need financial support of about US$4,000
to touch these nations and be able to effectively strengthen our ministry work in these nations to spread out the gospel of the Kingdom with the underground churches and be able to train and raise up
ministry leaders and breakthrough believers that will
begin to influence the land and infiltrate the systems
to see God's Kingdom established there.
This year we will also be running 4 major leadership Conferences in South Africa and other mini-training seminars in about 8 cities, where we plan to equip leaders and believers. During this time, we are expecting leaders from different parts of Africa to gather and we have the challenge of feeding, accommodate and transport these leaders and as well as
be able to effectively mobilize and organize the meetings to give a quality standard. Our first leadership meeting will begin from 17th March 2004 in
Durban, South Africa.
Besides all these, there are other responsibility within the ministry locally and the family aspect that
must be taken care of so we can have an excellent work
and ministry.
The challenge is much and sometimes I feel discouraged
and disappointed when we cannot keep up to the responsibility due to lack of support which we are believing God for.
Presently the pressure is there as
we are now faced with the challenges, but prayers and
intercession becomes our only option.
If only we can have one or two ministries that will understand our vision and passion for the Kingdom of God and be able to stand with us in prayers and also financially support us and sometimes be able to send in matured ministry teams to come encourage us and be
able to serve the purposes of God here in Africa and Asia, we will greatly appreciate this.
I really do appreciate your concern and prayers for us. If there is any way or anything you could do to share with others about our ministry work so they can
be a part of this, we will be grateful. But above all,
know that the relationship that we share with you is more important to us as we have seen a fatherly heart
in you.
With a grateful heart, we want to say thanks you and we look forward to hear from you again soon.
If there is any detail or information you would need us to share with you, please do let us know.
In His Kingdom,
Rev. Israel Onoriobe
World Vision Crusade Outreach Ministries 84 Tize Street,
Kwanobuhle, Uitenhage (Port Elizabeth) 6242
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Subject: WELCOME TO OUR GOSPEL EXPLOSSION. THIS YEAR.
NAIROBI CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF PASTORS.
C/O NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH OF GOD.
P.O.BOX 15681 MBAGATHI- NAIROBI.
Dear Pastor,
Receive our Calvary greetings in Jesus name. Happy New Year? Yes, it has been another busy week for us hear in Kenya after a new year's commitments with Gospel Campaigns.
The Lord has enabled has to organize very powerful Crusades and Conferences and we take this opportunity to invite you to be our Guest speaker for this coming Easter for a powerful Conferences and Crusades for this coming April 2004.
Please pray about it and inform us about it for we are also praying about it. We have already prayed about it and the Lord has given us a break through. Welcome to Kenya and let us have an explosion for this generation.
Keep it up the good work you are doing for the Lord for it has a great heavenly reward. Please let us know the time the Lord might arrange for you so that we keep you in our prayers.
Be blessed eternally.
Yours in faithful service,
Pastor Richard Matagaro Ogise.
Seniour pastor ,
New Testament Church of God,
Nairobi-Kenya.
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Subject: MOTHER AFRICA MISSIONS
Dear Brothers In christ
shalom.
It is with love that we send to you these calvary greetings and a message of goodwill.
Mother africa Missions (MAMI) is a christian Community based organization in Bungoma district western province of Kenya. our mission is to empower the rural women for entreprise development and ministry for transformational Development.
we have mobilized about 55 women groups in the district in order to network them for this social change in as far as Health, Water and sanitation, agriculture and food production and economic empowerment are concerned.
currently, we are faced with the challenge of widows, orphans and families affected with HIV/AIDS. we wish to reach out to them but our resources are limited.
we wish to Kindly request your organization to visit us and see what we have been able to achieve with the little resources available.
secondly we pray that you may come into partnership with us in this. we would be glad to present to you a comprehensive proposal if allowed.
Please visit our website www.geocities.com/mami_africa
Kindly feel free to reach us through
Mother Africa Missions
P.O bOx 1241
Bungoma
physical adress
mission House( behind Bungoma HIgh school) First floor
bungoma Town
Kind Regards
Lindy Wafula
Executive Director
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Subject: Please pray for our guests, they leave tomorrow for Germany.
Dear Praying Friends,
Greetings in Jesus name!
I am pleased to let you that our guests are leaving tomorrow for Germany, please take time to pray for them so that they will have a mercy journey.
They have been with us for the three months and during this time, Benjamin & Katrin blessed us so much in many ways and people of Burundi who were able to hear them teaching and preaching still need to be fed spiritually by this family.
Our prayer is that God will grant them another time to return to Burundi to serve God with us. You will receive the report of their work soon. It has been blessing to have them to my house, to refugee camp, to schools and to different churches serving God together. We, at CCD Burundi, have appreciated their wonderful support. We pray that God will continue to use them in wonderful ways.
Once again, thank you for praying them.
May God bless you.
Yours in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
President & Legal Representative
Christian Community Development Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
www.ccdburundi.org.uk
Subject: MOTHER AFRICA MISSIONS
Dear Brother mark
shalom
thank you for your kind response. may God bless you for that which you have done.
Please see photos and other information from our website at
www.geocities.com/mami_africa
we are now mobilizing Women in Africa in what we call wailing women of Africa that women may pray for Africa.
we would be glad to be connected to women ministers from who are in your groups to join us in these prayer also for coordination of these prayers in their own countries.
I must say I am grateful to God and to you for the work of the Kingdom that you are doing in Affrica and the world round.
God richly bless you.
Regards
Lindy wafula
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Subject: MOTHER AFRICA MISSIONS
Dear Brothers In christ
shalom.
It is with love that we send to you these calvary greetings and a message of goodwill.
Mother africa Missions (MAMI) is a christian Community
based organization in Bungoma district western province of Kenya. our mission is to empower the rural
women for entreprise development and ministry for transformational Development.
we have mobilized about 55 women groups in the district in order to network them for this social change in as far as Health, Water and sanitation, agriculture and food production and economic empowerment are concerned.
currently, we are faced with the challenge of widows,
orphans and families affected with HIV/AIDS. we wish to reach out to them but our resources are limited.
we wish to Kindly request your organization to visit us and see what we have been able to achieve with the
little resources available.
secondly we pray that you may come into partnership with us in this. we would be glad to present to you a
comprehensive proposal if allowed.
Please visit our website
www.geocities.com/mami_africa
Kindly feel free to reach us through
Mother Africa Missions
P.O bOx 1241
Bungoma
physical adress
mission House( behind Bungoma HIgh school) First floor
bungoma Town
Kind Regards
Lindy Wafula
Executive Director
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Subject: Thanking you......waiting for your help.
Dear Mark in CHRIST
I am very happy to READ these kind words. Thanking you very much for your kind heart to send my assistence to meet my bills within the few weeks.
God bless your ministry, family, your trips in the ministry.
Your sister in CHRIST JESUS
Jhansi
St.Louis Public School
timothy babu wrote:
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE
Be happy to receive your amount from MARK. You can pay the bills very clearly.
You may have PEACE and JOY in the Lord. ....Timothy.
Mark Tross wrote:
$25.5 Million dollars is a lot of money, but too bad that e-mail you
sent me was a hoax. I received a letter from St. Louis School yesterday and Hopefully, you'll receive financial assitance within the next couple of weeks from Arms of Love Fellowship. God bless and Love to ALL in
Africa, <')))>< Mark
Subject: pray for the children
Dear Pr. Mark in CHRIST
Some body sent me this letter , we need help very urgent, but this is very big amount . i do not want this much big amount .
Kindly talk with him and send very small amount ($1050) to St. Louis Public School. They need to pay the bills to that building rent.
god bless you
Timothy S Babu
Dr Paul Martins wrote:
Dear Friend,
Greetings to you this blessed day, I am Dr Paul Martins from West Africa and I am an executive with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
First and Foremost, I apologies using this medium to reach you for a proposition of this magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described herein for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the Nature of this transaction.
Within the NNPC where I work as an executive accountant and With the co-operation of other four top officials, we have in our possession an overdue payment bills totaling twenty five million five hundred united states dollars (USD$25.5Million) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and co-operation o f a foreign company/individual to receive the said funds on our behalf or a reliable foreign company/private account to receive such funds. More so, we are handicapped in these circumstances, as the Nigerian Civil Service Code of Conducts does not allow us to operate offshore accounts hence your total co-operation in this transaction is very important.
This amount (USD$25.5m) represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of my department by a foreign contracting firm based in the USA, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract cost have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount, which we have in principle gotten approval to remit by telegraphic transfer (T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by filling in an application through the Federal Ministry of Finance here in Nigeria for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to you. I have the authority of my partners involved to propose, that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction, your share will be 25% of the total sum, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses.
Most importantly, I want you to know that this project will require some of our time and service but I assure that your stand in this matter will never be overlooked and you will be generously rewarded for your participation.
The business itself is 100% safe on your part, as long as you handle it with professional confidentiality. Also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution
of this transaction. I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me. Endeavor to contact me immediately through the above email address to signify whether you are in or not. Finally, I want you to guarantee me that our share will be honestly kept for us soon after the transfer is made. Once again thank you for taking time out to meditate on this proposition.
Sincerely,
Dr Paul Martins
Executive Director;Accounts
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
Subject: Fwd: I WILL JOIN NOW AGAIN
I have contacted Paul...God's will be done
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Romans 4:7-8
"Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him." <><
http://www.armsoflovefellowship.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/armsoflovefellowship
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From: "CITY OF ZION MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL LAGOS"
Subject: I WILL JOIN NOW AGAIN
Dear Bro June,
Thanks for brotherly love.
I will join the group now again and I will email Brother Paul as you directed me.
Please kindly, render me another help by contacting him again on my behalf to assist my ministry.
Yours in His service,
Pst Uche
>From: June
>To: CITY OF ZION MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL LAGOS
>Subject: RE: leaving Arms of Love Fellowship...from Sister June :-)
>I personally do not have the means to supply you with
>such at this time but there was a post recently in the
>group from one of our members that might be of
>interest to you:
>
>I pray your needs may be met through Paul and also
>pray you will rejoin us here
>
>God bless
>
>June
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>Hello Sister June, Brethren.
>Been a really long time sense I have been in here to
>say anything. Reason being this is accually an
>aulternate in all aspects, some would not agree with
>that but please forgive me. I was led here today by
>my Lord to read this request, the only one which stuck
>out from among hundreds to be discarded. After
>speaking to our Lord about this matter I am prompted
>to attempt to assist you in this minor detail. My
>Lord has blessed me with a number of used computer's
>and equipment which I and some friends in the Lord
>build and re-build working machine's to be distributed
>for His Vine Ministries, we have already deminished
>the most of them, after prayer and discution of
>other's in need we have been able to ship computers
>and equipment as well as matainence programs that
>allow the smallest of old clunker's to run like tops
>amoung the best. Well I am sure I can put together
>one more frm the machines and part I have in the
>dungeon if that need is still unresolved.
May take me
>a bit of time, so we need to keep the situation of
>communication for the Lord's work in prayer.
>Contact me at my home default mail,
>and we can discuss the matter
>further. Of course I will need your contact
>information, street address and all.
Untill then
>Brother, keep your head up, eyes focussed on Him, and
>stepping to His victory.
>
>Love in the Lord
>Paul/Hayman
>Fellowship In Christ
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>--- CITY OF ZION MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL LAGOS
> wrote:
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>Dear Bro. June,
>
>Thanks a lot for your concern.
>
>Infact, I am touched beyond my control to write and
>tell you why I opted out of the group. As a matter of
>fact, I have no personal computer which I will be
>using daily to contribute my quota to the fellow
>brethren. I have not written an article for some
>months ago and feels cheated seeing where I am not
>delivering.
>
>Please kindly, check if you can send to me and my
>ministry a free and fairly used Computer for my
>ministerial works. God will surely replenish your
>purse when this is done through you.
>
>May God bless you for cosidering this request.
>
>Regards,
>
>Pst. Uchenna Okonkwor
>Delivery Address: Block 24 . NUMBER. 13 . ALABA
>INTERNATIONAL , OJO -LAGOS, NIGERIA.
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> >From: June
> >Subject: leaving Arms of Love Fellowship
> >
> >I am so sorry to see you go
> >
> >May God bless you in all you do
> >
> >June
> >
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> >
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> >Romans 4:7-8
> >"Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven,
>whose sins are covered.
> > Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never
>count against him." <><
> >
> >http://www.armsoflovefellowship.com
> >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/armsoflovefellowship
> >
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>Romans 4:7-8
>"Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
> Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him." <><
>
>http://www.armsoflovefellowship.com
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/armsoflovefellowship
>
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Title.
Subject: Letter For Mark Tross
Dear Mark Tross,
Choice Greetings! Thanks for your email to us here in Africa. Our hearts is lifted whenever we hear from you and know that the Kingdom of God is being advance through the Arms of Love Fellowship.
I just arrived back from Cape Town, South Africa and we had an exciting time over there with the gathering of leaders from different nation coming together to strategically plan and pray.
I will be hitting the road again for another Out – Reach to 5 Cities (Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Gaborone, Bulawayo) and 3 nations (Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa) beginning from Sunday 7th March 204. We are going to be running some leadership/evangelistic meetings. It will be a challenging one physically and financially being on the road for that long, but the Lord is faithful.
We are praying for you and we know the Father has a definite time for his purpose for your life and Africa. Leaders will never understand the magnitude of the work demand here until they take a trip down to Africa. We welcome leaders and ministry teams to come over and labour with us
Please keep us in your prayers and do send us support as the Lord provide to help us.
Israel Onoriobe
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Subject: REMAIN BLESSED
Dear Sir,
Greetings in Jesus name.
I am writing to solicit for your kind intervention over the pressing need to us.
As a matter of fact, I am a member of Arms of love fellowship and June helped me to discuss with Paul Mason to send us second handed PC . Paul has set the PC ready for us and the only problem now is the sending.
Sir, please on behalf of brethrens, I plead that you contact Paul Mason now and Sis. June to see how you can be of any useful assistance to me over this issue.
Remain blessed,
Pst. Uchenna Okonkwor.
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP
Attn:MTross,
dear sister in the lord,
I so much appreciate your mail,please pastor I nkow that all things that you asked me.
Please pastor I so much trust and believe in you that you will never disappoint me in this present life.
Awaiting to hear from you soonest.
Thanks and God bless you.
Yours Truly,
pastor Clem
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Subject: PLEASE DEAR BROTHER IN THE LORD PLEASE THINK OVER IT
Attn:MTROSS,
How are you and your family,With hope all is well.
I so much appreciate your mail,I have heard what you said,No problem,but think well when your are praying over it because I am a pastor like you as you think that I am,Am NOT ok,I am a believer like you and man of God like you .Ok
No matter how Devil want to put it into shame into the world butis nota shame in a front of our most High God.As he put Job into the shame even his lovely wife tell him to denied Jesus bue he refused at last he has his victory and recovery his wealth back life again.
Although,there are many corruptions in the world,fake prophets tellings like using God in vain but I am not like the type OK I am choosing servant of God like you .
Although, THINK twice ,I am true servant of God that God use me to deliver people from boundage,barrel concieve,thieves repent and change his life newly back again that Devil want to put me to shame and with God all things are possible.
But dear in the lord Please THINK,THINK AND THINK TWICE BEFORE you say NO but no problem,May be things will be alright tomorrow.
I have made my vow to my God that whether good or bad,or rain or sunshine I will serve my God in truth heart and spirit.Amen.
Regards,
Pastor Clem
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Subject: Pray for Gospel Peace Crusade in Bujumbura - Burundi from April 1- 4/04
Dear Praying Friend,
Greetings again in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
I personaly take this time to thank you for your wonderful support of prayers, Bishop Obadiah is still preaching Gospel here in Bujumbura now in Evangelical Friends Church of Burundi. Today is the 4th day message of salvation being preached in Bujumbura. God has healed many people from different sickness; deaf and others were healed.
Please pray for the next week Gospel Peace Crusade in Kamenge, again this crusade will be run for 4 days. This is an open air crusade where we plan to have many and many people gathered to hear the message of salvation. As we prapere this crusage, we are in great need of $ 3.000 USD to meet the needs related to this crusade especially to rent public sound system, transportation of people from different suburbs of Bujumbura City to come to the place where the crussade will take place, publicity, adminstration and so on.
Please pray for this great need that we have in CCD BURUNDI, we need this money now because the crusade is about to be started and many people have been invited. Please pray for us and stand with us in prayer and finacial support. Please send your donation to us by using WESTERN UNION. You can use our address below. May the Lord bless you as you pray for this harvest work and support.
Yours in the service of the Lord,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
President & Legal Representative
Christian Community Development Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
BURUNDI, AFRICA
www.ccdburundi.org.uk
Subject: [Missions Insider] Wanting Unwanted Children in Ukraine
Missions Insider Report:
1. Ukraine: Wanting Unwanted Children
2. Nigeria: Christians Face the Flames
3. India: Tribespeople Hungry for the Word of God
4. India: Evangelistic Efforts Bear Fruit
5. Kenya: Beds Emptied, Bonds Broken
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6. Photo of the Week: Spiritual Hunger for the Son
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1. Ukraine: Wanting Unwanted Children
The nation of Ukraine suffered severe deprivation while a satellite of the Soviet Union. Collectivized farms were unproductive and government ownership of industry and business caused economic stagnation. Then when that evil empire collapsed the country was left in a state of total desolation. Unemployment soared above 50% and the few who did have jobs earned the equivalent of about 50 cents a day.
The resulting despair caused many thousands to drown their sorrows in alcohol, and most addicts had nothing left for food and housing. With no place to sleep, no food to eat and no clothing to protect them from the cold, hundreds of helpless children became beggars in the streets; or along the roadsides of rural areas.
With financial assistance from Christian Aid, several indigenous evangelical ministries have established homes and orphanages for destitute children in Ukraine. One of them is known as "Father's House." It was started in 1996 by Dr. Roman Korniyko, an obstetrician living in the capital city of Kiev. His stated goal was to minister to the needs of the fatherless, homeless and unwanted children that roamed the streets of the city.
He began by providing food and temporary shelter for some of the children. Soon he became so concerned and involved that he gave up his medical practice in order to devote his full time to providing a home for homeless children.
He struggled along for two years and then was visited in 1998 by Slavik Radchuk, field director for Christian Aid in Ukraine. Slavik chose Father's House as one of the ministries to receive financial help from Christian Aid, and soon a large building had been purchased which could house more than 50 children.
In addition to food and clothing, the children receive schooling and Bible instruction from Christian teachers who gently lead each child to personal faith in Christ. They also receive practical instruction in useful trades such as carpentry, masonry, auto mechanics, sewing and secretarial skills. All the while the home provides them with a family atmosphere bathed in Christian love.
Since Christian Aid began to help in 1998, Father's House has experienced great "tent enlargement." The vision has grown to include other cities in the Ukraine and utilizes many methods of outreach. The ministry has caught the attention of the government, winning awards and serving as a positive example to the general public. By late 2002, branch homes had been opened in seven other cities with government licenses for a total of 25 homes.
Today, Father's House has branched out to include actual homes, called "new families," with parents, brothers and sisters, for the former homeless children.
With these families the children learn what normal home life is like and the way children should be loved and reared.
Recently "a new family was created" in the home of Radik and Galya. They had long dreamed of having a "big and friendly family." When the opportunity was presented by Father's House to do just that, their friends told them that they were crazy to even consider it.
But today they happily and lovingly parent several foster children together with their own two natural children. When the street children first moved in, they expected that their new parents' baby would be "naughty and ... cry a lot." They were astonished to find that the baby was very happy and content. Other things about the baby were new and strange to them. Why did the baby need a daily bath when he didn't do anything? Why speak nicely to the baby when he did not understand what was said? When the family spoke of going to visit friends, questions were asked as to what was a visit? And what were friends? Why is it necessary to take cake and flowers? Was visiting friends like a wedding? As each day went by, the children learned new things. The day soon arrived when the foster children began to call Radik "Daddy" and also began helping to care for the baby. Parents and children both enjoy their growing relationships.
Along with "new families," the formerly homeless children now have the chance to celebrate holidays such as Christmas and to attend concerts and plays. They also learn about ministering to those less fortunate and even how to evangelize through "Children for Children," a ministry developed specifically to reach other street children through drama and song.
In addition to taking care of the children they have taken in, Father's House continues to reach out to local needy children by providing lunches and food boxes for sick people. Currently, plans are underway for two new branches in the Crimea. The one at Shtormove is 70% completed and an outreach at Kerch has started with food programs and medical assistance. Other goals include a training center in which to share the vision and to better prepare local pastors to reach out to abandoned and homeless children.
Seminars have already been held at Father's House to better equip workers who come for training from all over the Ukraine.
Not only does the Father's House ministry impact children's lives, but those of adults as well. Recently, when four street children believed in Jesus, five observing adults also claimed Him as their Savior.
If you would like to participate financially in this ministry, please contact Christian Aid using gift code 368-FAH.
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2. Nigeria: Christians Face the Flames
Churches were burned and at least 48 believers were killed in Nigeria by a heavily-armed force of suspected Islamic militants. According to press reports the atrocities were committed by approximately 400 heavily armed Muslims who shouted "Allah Akhbar" (God is Great). They wore red and black uniforms and moved with military precision.
Some reports state that the raid was a reprisal for a previous attack on a Muslim village in which ten Muslims were killed.
Others say that it was undertaken by the local Fulanis to protest thefts of their cattle. Some even claim the involvement of insurgents from neighboring countries.
At least one report states that the murders occurred during early morning prayers, which suggests that the Christians fled to their churches for refuge when the insurgents swooped in on the town, firing automatic weapons.
Some sources say that the victims were axed to death with machetes while other Nigerian sources state the insurgents opened fire inside the church. What all agree on is that 48 Christians died.
One civil servant, who credits his survival to God's grace, reported that "many ... ran into churches ... thinking they would be safe there. Unfortunately, that was where the real bloodbath occurred. These attackers killed almost everybody there, including women and children. No church was left standing in the town. All were burnt down. It was a horrifying sight to see people being killed like that, but what was more pathetic was to hear children crying and their mothers pleading for mercy which was never granted. It's a day I won't forget in my life."
Please pray for our brothers and sisters in Nigeria who live under frequent persecution from militant zealots. You can help native ministries who do effective Christian ministry in these areas by contacting Christian Aid and using gift code 550-WMN.
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3. India: Tribespeople Hungry for the Word of God
A recent trip by native Indian missionaries to the Andaman Islands resulted in several unreached tribes hearing the Word and numerous professions of faith.
During a four-day gospel meeting in this remote island region of India, attendance grew to 2000 with some 300 professing faith in Christ for the first time. Two bedridden women were cured and several deaf and dumb people were healed of their afflictions. As these and other deliverances occurred, many Muslims and Hindus who attended came forward to accept Jesus as their Savior.
At another meeting held in a marketplace, over 90% of the attendees were non-Christians. Several individuals who watched from a distance noted that many in attendance rushed to the missionaries when miraculous healings occurred. One man who could not move his hand or leg was delivered and healed by prayer and some 60 souls were saved.
Contact with the tribal members ranged from large meetings to individual interactions. During the month-long crusade, some 500 people professed faith in Christ.
Those who wish to assist in the work of this and other ministries like it should contact Christian Aid using gift code 600-WMN.
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4. India: Evangelistic Efforts Bear Fruit
Gospel teams are professing Christ openly in many parts of India today, and tens of thousands are turning to Christ.
Native missionaries recently saturated a town with the gospel in a week-long series of open air meetings. One was held at 6:00 every evening in a population center which has about 100,000 inhabitants. Average attendance at every meeting was about 1000. The gospel was preached, and by week's end some 200 new souls had been led to Christ.
This crusade was combined with numerous evangelistic activities, with student teams handing out printed Scriptures in some 80 surrounding villages. As follow up was done by local missionaries, new churches were planted in several places.
Pray that efforts such as these will advance the cause of Christ among Hindus and Muslims all over India. Those who wish to contribute to evangelistic efforts in India should contact Christian Aid, using gift code 600-MSF.
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5. Kenya: Beds Emptied, Bonds Broken
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The Word of Christ is emptying beds and breaking bonds in Kitale, Kenya.
Recently native missionaries visited a general hospital to share the gospel with the sick and injured. One mentally disturbed woman became violent and bit the missionary who was preparing to pray for her, but after prayer she became calm and was freed from demonic control. At least 25 other patients also experienced Christ's healing touch and were discharged after the team's visit.
In prisons also the Lord continued to work. When a missionary addressed 4000 inmates, only five initially came forward for prayer. But after demons were cast out of one man, numerous others advanced and were saved. God was also present in the prison chapel, where four soldiers and two matrons accepted Jesus as their Lord after the gospel was preached.
Bibles and tracts have been requested by the new believers. Each Bible costs $10, so please pray that these needs will be met. For those who wish to help evangelistic efforts in Kenya, contact Christian Aid using gift code 572-KET.
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6. Photo of the Week: Spiritual Hunger for the Son
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There is such hunger for the Word of God in this area of Kenya that the people are not all able to gather in the shelter of the brush tent constructed for this crusade.
Some find relief from the intense heat in the shade of umbrellas, and rejoice at the opportunity to know God better.
Gifts to provide for crusades such as this can be sent to Christian Aid and should be coded 572-KET.
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Missions Insider is a free weekly email report from Christian Aid Mission, your link to the world of indigenous missions.
We seek to establish a witness for our Lord in every tribe and nation (Matthew 24:14) by supporting highly effective native missionary ministries based in poorer countries overseas, or where believers are persecuted. Christian Aid has contact with more than 6000 indigenous ministries that have a total of 300,000 missionaries on the field or ready to go when support is available.
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Subject: PLEASE DEAR BROTHER IN THE LORD PLEASE THINK OVER IT
Attn:MTROSS,
How are you and your family,With hope all is well.
I so much appreciate your mail,I have heard what you said,No problem,but think well when your are praying over it because I am a pastor like you as you think that I am,Am NOT ok,I am a believer like you and man of God like you .Ok
No matter how Devil want to put it into shame into the world butis nota shame in a front of our most High God.As he put Job into the shame even his lovely wife tell him to denied Jesus bue he refused at last he has his victory and recovery his wealth back life again.
Although,there are many corruptions in the world,fake prophets tellings like using God in vain but I am not like the type OK I am choosing servant of God like you .
Although, THINK twice ,I am true servant of God that God use me to deliver people from boundage,barrel concieve,thieves repent and change his life newly back again that Devil want to put me to shame and with God all things are possible.
But dear in the lord Please THINK,THINK AND THINK TWICE BEFORE you say NO but no problem,May be things will be alright tomorrow.
I have made my vow to my God that whether good or bad,or rain or sunshine I will serve my God in truth heart and spirit.Amen.
Regards,
Pastor Clem
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Subject: Praise the Lord for the miracles and miracles...
Dear Praying Friend,
Thank you for your wonderful support of prayers, preaching went well in Victory Mission Church here in Burundi. Bishop Obadiah preached the Gospel for 4 days, praise the Lord for the miracles and miracles that happened on Sunday evening service. One boys who couldn't hear God healed him and he hears very well; ladies who had problem of stomachace were healed; sorcerers were healed and all demons were cast from them; ( these sorcerers were the ones who go to the world of evil spirities), now they are fine. There are many other people who were healed from different sicknesses. Praise for stand with us in prayers.
Please continue to pray for the evangelism in Bujumbura Burundi, this week Bishop Obadiah is preaching for 4 days again in Evangelical Friends Church, this church is located in suburb called Kamenge where we plan to have open air Gospel Peace Crusade from April 1 to 4, 2004. This week is a time to prepare hearts of people of that suburb so that they may come to hear message of salvation in Evangelical Friends Church and meet God's hand there.
Please take time to pray for Bishop Obadiah as he asks the Lord the right message for people of Kamenge. Pray for many people to come to know the Lord and for the healing hand of God to touch those who are suffering so that the will be healed.
Please allow me to share with you few prayer requests, pray for funds that we need for this harvest work of evangelism in Burundi. Please feel free to contibute whatever you may have. You can send any gift by Western Union to our address in Burundi.
We also have a problem of sound system, tansportation and so on. Please pray that GOD may provide sound system that we need to be able to preach the Gospel in the coming Gospel Peace Crusade. Pray a vehicle that is needed for this work.
We would like to send them to you so you see people who have been healed but we don't have funds to use. Pictures have been takes and we will send you pictures as soon God provides any financial help to meet the needs. Film will be developped and printed them out for you.
Please continue to stand with us in prayer and support as the Lord leads you.
Please forward this messages to your friends so that they pray for us. We are together in this work. May the Lord bless you.
Yours in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
President & Legal Representative
Christian Community Development Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
BURUNDI, AFRICA
www.ccdburundi.org.uk
Subject: GOSPEL PEACE CRUSADE IN BUJUMBURA BURUNDI FROM 1 - 4 APRIL 2004.
GOSPEL PEACE CRUSADE IN BUJUMBURA BURUNDI FROM 1 - 4 APRIL 2004.
Dear Praying Friend,
Greetings in Jesus name!
I am pleased to let you know that Bishop Obadiah who was refugee in Kigoma Tanzania came to visit us and CCD BURUNDI has prepared where this man of God will be preaching for 4 days in Victory Mission Church here in Bujumbura. He starts to preach today until Sunday. He will also preach in other churches later.
In the beginning of April we plan to run an open air of Gospel Peace crusade in Bujumbura from 1- 4 April 20004 in a locality where many people were killed during an ongoing war of over 10 years.
The ongoing war has destroyed many things here in Burundi and many souls have been traumatised and bring hatred in hearts of people from different ethnic group. This crusade will gather first 8 churches that Benjamin & Katrin preached Gospel in last 3 months visit to Burundi and all people are invited to attend the crusade. We hope that the message of peace that is going to be preached Bishop Obadiah in this locality called Kamenge will unite many people.
Please pray for needed financial means for this crusade, we need $ 3, 000 USD for it. Please ask the Lord what you can contribute for this harvest work. Please pray for many souls to know the Lord.
Thanks you for your prayers and help.
May the Lord bless you all.
May Peace Prevail on Earth!
Yours in Christ,
Deogratias NIYONZIMA
President & Legal Representative
Christian Community Development Burundi
P.O.Box 6972 Bujumbura
Subject: [Missions Insider] Effective Outreach Developments in the Philippines
Missions Insider Report:
1. Philippines: Effective Outreach Developments
2. Nigeria: Who is King of the Jujus?
3. India: Devadasis Become Maid-Servants of Christ
4. Haiti: In the Midst of War Christ Love Continues
5. Argentina: Mission Seeing Results Despite Opposition
6. Photo of the Week: Happy Children
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1. Philippines: Effective Outreach Developments
Reports from indigenous ministry leaders in the Philippines reveal God's provisions for effective outreach to Muslims on the island of Mindanao in the heart of the Islamic area in that country.
A new student resource center has been opened at a university, which offers English, math, and computer courses along with other services. A ministry leader there reports that "God sovereignly moved to provide the location for the facility and enabled its opening. In addition, He has faithfully met the $6000 monthly rent."
Team members at the facility devoted to the purposes for the center initially invested their own resources and borrowed money to purchase six new computers for the center. Then God moved on the hearts of others with the financial resources and the computers were paid for in full.
More important than offering practical services to students, the student resource center meets the spiritual needs of the students by providing a venue to show the Jesus film to those to whom the gospel has been shared. Currently, the center has 18 volunteer students and teachers who give their time and talents to show God's love. Please pray for continued provision of the monthly rent, a TV and DVD (the ones currently being used are borrowed), more volunteers, and that God will draw people to the center, and provide opportunities to share the gospel.
In one area, Christian organizations partnered together and opened a mobile clinic, meeting local needs. The mobile clinic will service the needs of a large group of people who would otherwise be unable to receive medical attention without extensive travel and great expense. While preparations are made for the clinic to open, other efforts are taking place. Two regional medical outreaches have been made. Area children, who are not in school or who need help with their education, are receiving tutoring. A pharmacy has opened in a village to provide basic medication at reasonable costs to the local people, and a well has been dug so that the local people have access to clean drinking water. Their former source of water was polluted.
The best part about such outreaches is that the local communities understand that the people who are providing these services to them love Jesus and desire to share that love through community development.
Please pray for more qualified volunteers to assist in tutoring, wisdom to build viable relationships among the local people, provision for completion of the medical clinic and all other needs, more medical volunteers (doctors, nurses, dentists, and others), safety for all those involved and in the communities themselves, and that God would continue to bless this Christian partnership with peace and unity.
A third method of community outreach that effectively spreads the good news of Jesus Christ to Muslim women is that of a mothers class. Mothers are taught how to raise children in a healthy manner, which is incorporated with a feeding program. Due to some opposition in the community, the classroom format is being changed to one-on-one contacts, which enable missionaries to continue praying for individual needs, to share the gospel, and to supply some practical needs. These helps have included micro financing, enabling a family to earn money for self-support, and meeting the educational needs of high school students. The most effective method used by missionaries to share their faith and trust in God is to join with supplicants and lift up needs in prayer.
Then God can answer the people's needs personally, drawing them into relation with Him.
Please pray that God will continue to bless and protect this outreach to Muslims and to draw many onto Himself through His love and faithfulness to His people. Effective indigenous ministries in the Philippines may be supported by contacting Christian Aid and using gift code 801-MSF.
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2. Nigeria: Who is King of the Jujus?
Many Africans are animists, which means they worship spirits. They believe spirits live in animals, trees, rocks, buildings, and other places. Some animist leaders are magicians who are able to demonstrate supernatural powers attributed to evil spirits. They call this juju.
But native missionaries are actively demonstrating that the Holy Spirit of God is more powerful than the spirits in which juju followers believe. One town of about 3,000 souls recently saw several Juju priests openly denounce their spirits and embrace Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Their central hall, formerly used for juju worship, has been dedicated to Christ and now serves as a church building.
Some 625 community residents joined in praise and worship there recently.
Local Nigerian missionaries have been asked to set up a living church in the community and 16 workers are now engaged in daily evangelization. They move from house to house, counseling residents and answering their questions, teaching scripture, and leading individuals and entire families to God.
House-care fellowships are being formed and a town, which was formerly known for its pagan practices, is now an outpost of Christ's kingdom.
Those who wish to assist in the efforts of Nigerian missionaries to spread the Word of Christ to this and similar communities should contact Christian Aid using gift code 550-WMN.
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3. India: Devadasis Become Maid-Servants of Christ
Work by local missionaries is bringing the light of Jesus Christ to temple prostitutes and their families in several states of India.
Devadasis, is a Hindi term attributed to women who serve as "maid servants" of one of the Hindu gods. They usually begin their profession as temple dancers, but very often become prostitutes because of the money they can receive from patrons.
Several government programs instituted to stamp out this practice failed due to lack of motivation and proper follow-up.
No measures were put in place to provide alternative employment of the ex-prostitutes.
Local Christian ministries, however, have helped fill this gap. Native missionaries question prostitutes at yearly temple festivals, and initially the women pretend to be enjoying what they do. When further questioned, however, they cry and express their hopelessness and despair.
Aware that earning a livelihood needs to be addressed, the Indian missionaries provide monthly food and medical support for the women who abandon their sordid life. Several ministries purchase sewing machines in order to teach former devadasis how to stitch clothing and thus earn a living.
At the same time they are taught the gospel of Christ and his power to transform the lives of those who believe.
As a result many former prostitutes are now radiant Christians. Where possible, these women are also being prepared for Christian marriage, and children of the former prostitutes are being instructed and cared for by Christian teachers.
Much remains to be done because thousands of temple prostitutes are still enslaved by this practice. But through the efforts of gospel workers, "maid-servants of god" are becoming the maid-servants of Christ. Those who wish to help with this type of ministry in India may contact Christian Aid and use gift code 600-MSF.
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4. Haiti: In the Midst of War Christ's Love Continues
While recent news reports from Haiti have focused on the revolt against President Aristide's government, it is important to remember that Christian missionaries continue to quietly evangelize and improve the conditions of the poorest of the poor on this island.
Local Christian missionaries report that churches are growing and that amidst the fighting and protest, Bible schools continue to meet. Even though some mission team evangelizations have had to be temporarily cancelled, small victories are being won. Previously, students have depended on their Bible teachers for answers. Now they are willing to join in class discussion and debate issues of faith.
Where doubters may see only chaos and strife, God is planting a new foundation for the faithful.
Pray for peace and freedom in Haiti.
Those who wish to help with the further evangelization of the Haitian people may send gifts to Christian Aid, using gift code 120-WMN.
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5. Argentina: Mission Seeing Results Despite Opposition
Argentine missionaries are making inroads for Christ, soul by soul.
Evangelizing in Roman Catholic Argentina can sometimes be a daunting matter; many reject the gospel and one native missionary has been threatened with a shotgun.
At the same time, Christ has used native missions to carry His good news to more receptive individuals in local communities. The results are encouraging. One parent reported that her child had stopped hanging out with undesirable friends, improved his grades, and now reads his Bible daily. Another gave permission for her son to attend a church retreat "because he has changed tremendously since joining the church."
These results have been achieved through a combination of approaches. In addition to trying to establish new churches, the missionaries have worked with heterogeneous groups allowing them to reach pre-teens, teenagers, young adults, and women at the same time through retreats and camps. Cell meetings, involving the mentoring of six or seven new believers, have also proved an effective tool for fellowship, healing, and transformation.
Support for native missionaries working in Argentina can be sent to Christian Aid.
Please use gift code 280-WMN.
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6. Photo of the Week: Happy Children
http://www.christianaid.org/pow/pow-5-10.asp
These happy children, most of whom are from Muslim families, are singing songs of praise to Jesus while on an outing to the beach. They benefit from a program that helps them to go to school, while guiding them in their spiritual development. Their changed lives open the door for the witness of the gospel to their family and friends.
Gifts to help this effective ministry can be made by using gift code 801-JJS.
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Missions Insider is a free weekly email report from Christian Aid Mission, your link to the world of indigenous missions.
We seek to establish a witness for our Lord in every tribe and nation (Matthew 24:14) by supporting highly effective native missionary ministries based in poorer countries overseas, or where believers are persecuted. Christian Aid has contact with more than 6000 indigenous ministries that have a total of 300,000 missionaries on the field or ready to go when support is available.
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Subject: Thanking you......waiting for your help.
Dear Pastor MARK in CHRIST.
Holy greetings to you.
I ashamed to tall you all my problems. Our God is testing my faith.
I unable to paid my bills about SCHOOL BUILDING RENT,POWER BILL, AND WATER.
The house owner stricly says "vacate the house" I request few days. Kindly pray for our children ministry and women.
Daily 7 times I and our children are praying for your help. Our hope is to reach your help today or tomorrow.May God bless you. Our prays goes before you and comfort your jourany for the ministry.
Your sister in Christ Jesus.
Jhansi.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/armsoflovefellowship/
Subject: Shalom
Dear Brother Mark
shalom and life to you.
I thank God for yet another oppotunity to write to you believing that you are well in the LORD. I am fine too. saved and serving the LORD Jesus Christ here in Kenya.
servant of God, i wrote to you a few weeks ago in an email referenced MOTHER AFRICA MISSIONS and shared the challenges that we are facing in our mission house.
You requested for photograghs and a write up for the children and the widows and i refered you to our website
www.geocities.com/mami_africa
i hope you got time to see what we are doing in the mission house. The reason why i am writing to you is to kindly request if you would help us pay our mission house rent which is becoming a great challenge unto us. The House is 3 bedroomed and holds the offices of the ministry and residence for the ministers.Also temporal residence for the children and widows who are displaced.
They stay at the mission house awaiting to be reunited with their families or to be gotten for other residence.
Within the mission house we wish to build prayer cells for prayer and fasting for the women and the community so that they can get a place to pray and fast without much disubance.
we hope to build at least 10 prayer cells ant a cost of 5000 Kenya shillings each to a total cost of 50000 Kenya shillings
the mission house rent is 100 usdollars per month.
the women have pledged to get the bed and the bedding for the prayer and fasting centre as their contribution.
The prayer centre would charge at least Ksh 30 per person per day in order to raise administrative costs.
we therefore Kindly request you to help us raise at least Ksh 420,000
about 6000 us Dollars for this project which we intend to establish for the purposes of training women in prayer and interssession and impacting the lives of people around the mission house with prayer
God Bless you
regards
prophetess Lindy wafula
Daughters of Zion Ministry
Subject: very urgent brother
Attn:Mtross,
Dear brother in the lord,
How are you and your family dealings,which is very important to me I hope you are fine.I thank God for your families.
I so much appreciate your mail,Please and please I still your help and whatever be the case please you let me know.
I am waiting to hear your response soonest.Have you got my picture.
My best best regards to your and your families.
Truly Yours,
Pastor clem
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Dear Brethern
Dear Brethern,
Calvary greeting in thy name of our LORD JESUS CHRIST.
I know this mail will come to you as a surprise,But you dont need to worry because it a direction from God.Let me start it up by introducing myself. I am miss Evelyn Agenido, A Nigerian, I am 25yrs old, the only child of late Pa G.N Agenido, the founder of AGEN-OPHANAGE HOME in Benin City, here in Nigeria. Since the death of my late father in march 2003 the up-keeping of this OPHANAGE HOME has being my sole responsibility. And ever since I and the ministry were I fellowship have been trying to make sure the good vision of my Father did not die so we decied to search for an asistance. Taking care of this OPHANAGE HOME have not been easy for me because of the children. The home are much, they are 21 in numbers. I am now using this means to APPEAL to GODLY MINISTRY like your to help support this OPHANAGE HOME. The average cost for the up-keeping of this HOME cost is about $1.250 Dollers monthly wish is not easy to come nby in Nigeria. I will be very pleased if you can relate th is message to members of your Ministry. we are seriously in Need, we need at least three thousand (3000) persons that will contribute 1 Doller ($1) each to enable us pay their School fees& Feeding and other needable things.
Dear Beloved, this dose not mean that the 3000 person must be from your Ministry but the little you are able to collect will be appreciated. donation of fairly used clothes & shoes to the children in the HOME will also be appreciated. Thanks & God Bless, we will be waiting for your reply
Best regards
Miss Evelyn Agenido
NB Contact..(missevelyn@eml.cc) where i shall send u more detail and photograh of the Ophanage Children.
Subject: Please do something for me Iam worried to hear from you OK
Attn:MTross,
I so much appreciate your mail so far,dear brother in the lord,Please try as possible to assist me in anything that comes out of your heart,is not by forcing OK, but REMEMBER that God is in control of every accept of our life.
Please,My dear in the lord,I use Almighty God to beg you to assist me in this situation.Please Do some thing for because I am truly man of God like you,and My God whom I am serveing will fail you and your family in jesus name Amen.Anything tha comes out of your heart and mine,No one is too small.
Awaiting to hear from you again soonest.
Thanks and God bless you.
Truly,
Pastor Clem
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Subject: PLEASE DEAR BROTHER IN THE LORD PLEASE THINK OVER IT
Attn:MTROSS,
How are you and your family,With hope all is well.
I so much appreciate your mail,I have heard what you said,No problem,but think well when your are praying over it because I am a pastor like you as you think that I am,Am NOT ok,I am a believer like you and man of God like you .Ok
No matter how Devil want to put it into shame into the world butis nota shame in a front of our most High God.As he put Job into the shame even his lovely wife tell him to denied Jesus bue he refused at last he has his victory and recovery his wealth back life again.
Although,there are many corruptions in the world,fake prophets tellings like using God in vain but I am not like the type OK I am choosing servant of God like you .
Although, THINK twice ,I am true servant of God that God use me to deliver people from boundage,barrel concieve,thieves repent and change his life newly back again that Devil want to put me to shame and with God all things are possible.
But dear in the lord Please THINK,THINK AND THINK TWICE BEFORE you say NO but no problem,May be things will be alright tomorrow.
I have made my vow to my God that whether good or bad,or rain or sunshine I will serve my God in truth heart and spirit.Amen.
Regards,
Pastor Clem
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Subject: Re: [simplechurchfellowship] New request from Nigeria Reply to:
simplechurchfellowship@yahoogroups.com
Greetings fellow Brethren,
In regards to the attached mails that was posted here requesting for financial support to meet the expenses of an Orphanage home in Benin City, Nigeria. I find it to be false and a scam as far as my knowlegde is concern.
i am a Nigerian, and ofcourse I live and grew up in Benin City and my family are still there till date. There is no such Orphanage Home i that City with that name this is responsible for any feeding program or schollarship that worths US$1.250 per month is come to a total of N162,500 9nigerian Currency).
I therefore request that any of you feeling for these folks and wanting to send your money down there should check this out.
Blessings upon those who are wise.
Dear Brethern,
Calvary greeting in thy name of our LORD JESUS CHRIST.
I know this mail will come to you as a surprise,But you dont need to worry because it a direction from God.Let me start it up by introducing
myself. I am miss Evelyn Agenido, A Nigerian, I am 25yrs old, the only
child of late Pa G.N Agenido, the founder of AGEN-OPHANAGE HOME in Benin
City, here in Nigeria. Since the death of my late father in march 2003
the up-keeping of this OPHANAGE HOME has being my sole responsibility.
And ever since I and the ministry were I fellowship have been trying to
make sure the good vision of my Father did not die so we decied to search for an asistance. Taking care of this OPHANAGE HOME have not been
easy for me because of the children. The home are much, they are 21 in
numbers. I am now using this means to APPEAL to GODLY MINISTRY like your
to help support this OPHANAGE HOME.
The average cost for the up- keeping
of this HOME cost is about $1.250 Dollers monthly wish is not easy to come nby in Nigeria. I will be very pleased if you can relate th is message to members of your Ministry. we are seriously in Need, we need at least three thousand (3000) persons that will contribute 1 Doller
($1) each to enable us pay their School fees& Feeding and other needable things.
Dear Beloved, this dose not mean that the 3000 person must be from your Ministry but the little you are able to collect will be appreciated.
donation of fairly used clothes & shoes to the children in the HOME will also be appreciated.
Thanks & God Bless, we will be waiting for your reply Best regards
Miss Evelyn Agenido
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Subject:
[PDA-RIN] Sudan - Assessment Team
Situation Report
Sudan * CAT Team
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) has provided $4,000 to help facilitate the Action by Churches Together Coordination Assessment Team (ACT CAT) being deployed to western Sudan.
This team is being sent at the request of the Sudan Council of Churches (SCC) in light of the situation in Darfur, Sudan.
These teams assist local members in coordinating and communicating the situation and needs related to the disaster. When necessary, teams help in establishing appropriate program plans and budgets, field presence, and/or assist the locally based implementing members with relevant offers of technical expertise or other assistance.
The Darfur team will include a member from DanChurchAid who will be writing feature articles, as well as providing photographs to illustrate the findings of team and the work in the region. The Team members are in the process of obtaining visas to Sudan and undertaking other related preparations for the deployment.
We'll keep you informed of the progress of the mission.
Information on PDA's response to this Sudan crisis can be found on the PDA website at:
http://www.pcusa.org/pda/response/africa/sudan/sudan-0404.htm.
Subject:
WE NEED YOUR HELP.
Dear Sir/Ma
We are using this medium to introduce to you childs care organisation nigeria,west africa.this is a certified non-govermental,non-profitable organisation which was formed in the year 2000 to cater for for people who are displaced,orphaned,etc resulting from war,ethnic clashes,natural disasters etc.
We are currently seeking funds for the re-building of our head quaters in delta state,which was robbed and burnt down by warring millitant youths leaving our staff and patients at the mercy of the government who provide little or no help.
An estimation of $5000 has been made by our fund raising commitee to cover our total cost.we are here by appealing to your organisation to look into our plight. Thanks
Mr Nancy Adewale.
Financial secretary
Fund raising commitee
Subject:
WELCOME TO OUR GOSPEL EXPLOSSION. THIS YEAR.
Dear Pasdtor Mark Tross,
Greetings in Jesus name. The Lord has beeen so wonderfil to us and we therefore rejoice for his mighty care.
I have not heard from you for long as you promised to send us some financial aid .
Please pastor assist us for our FLAMES OF FIRE FAMILY FELLOWSHIP a MINISTRY HELPING THE DESTITUTES HERE IN NAIROBI REALLY NEEDS HELP AS FOLLOWS :
finances, A CAR TO CARRY OTHERS TO MISSIONS, A N EXTENSION BUILDING BUDGETED FOR USD 10000.00
pLEASE RESPOND AND SUPPORT US WHERE YOU CAN.
Tell me when to come and visit you so that we can arrenge for the African missions.
Be blessed.
Pastor Richard,
Nairobi KENYA.
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Subject: WELCOME TO OUR GOSPEL EXPLOSSION. THIS
YEAR.
NAIROBI CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF PASTORS.
C/O NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH OF GOD.
P.O.BOX 15681 MBAGATHI- NAIROBI.
Dear Pastor,
Receive our Calvary greetings in Jesus name. Happy New
Year? Yes, it has been another busy week for us hear in Kenya after a new year's commitments with Gospel Campaigns.
The Lord has enabled has to organize very powerful Crusades and Conferences and we take this opportunity
to invite you to be our Guest speaker for this coming
Easter for a powerful Conferences and Crusades for this coming April 2004.
Please pray about it and inform us about it for we are
also praying about it. We have already prayed about it
and the Lord has given us a break through. Welcome to
Kenya and let us have an explosion for this generation.
Keep it up the good work you are doing for the Lord for it has a great heavenly reward. Please let us know
the time the Lord might arrange for you so that we keep you in our prayers.
Be blessed eternally.
Yours in faithful service,
Pastor Richard Matagaro Ogise.
Seniour pastor ,
New Testament Church of God,
Nairobi-Kenya.
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Subject:
Evangelistic missionary Agency-Msa-Kenya
Dear servant of God ,
We send you warm Halelujah greetings in Jesus the Lord our savior. We at EMA missions are fine in the Lord carrying on the mantle and invading cities and villages with the powerful Gospel of our God. How are you doing in that part of the world ? How about your family, church and missions accross the world ?
We trust that the Lord has always been very faithful to you as well. Sorry,it has taken me long time to write again , however i have always been blessed through your massages that am encouraged and spiritually stronger after many problems we had in the begining of the year. I have conducted three big crusades and seminars in Mombasa south between march and June 2004 with many people giving their lives to Christ and many others healed and delivered from powers of darkness,Glory be to God. We are having July this year as our month of Evangelism and with my team we are preaching around our town MTONGWE, village after village all around five Villages. This week we are in the fourth village called PAWA which is dominated my back muslims we need your prayer support to break the dark cloud of religion of Islam. I have gone out only once visiting our bases upcountry and i can report progress in the field except there is no food in our land. Our president has send out an apeal to the nations for HELP there is food shortage in the country due to failed seasonal rains. Somebody remember your brethrens in Africa who can not afford just one meal aday while others can eat three times in a single day- this is the chalenge facing men/women of faith in our day.Am also glad to report that we have found land for Ksh 100,000/=to put up a church after muslims chased us from their rented hall we have paid 15,000/= bal 85,000/- and we are believing God to raise it through donations from friends and well wishers by Sept. 04. We are asking our friends and partners to support this work of God to provide us a place of worship instead of being out in the open grounds,apart from money we need 100 pcs of iron sheets to put up a temporary structure or a tent we cant do it alone kindly send any support. Dear friend,there are those who ask for money out of the belief that money is in America but we are not like that we believe in a God who demands a fruit from every gift He puts in our hands so we believe that Godfearing gifted people can always be moved when needs arise. I believe this is the best time you send back the money order we returned, it will help us a great deal. Thankyou for being such an understanding partner and encourager of saints and i hope we are not becoming a bother in the minitry. May our goog God strenthen you in the ministry spiritually and phisically.
Note.Gospel revival centre is the parent ministry of EMA missions Africa
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Subject: Leave back to Ghana
Dear Family and Friends
Greetings in Jesus Name!
We are traveling back to Ghana today, 27th Sept. It has been a lot of fun seeing many of you at the various churches around the nation. Please continue to pray for us and the ministry.
Jenean Mayer will be joining the team as a nanny, please pray for her as she experiences Africa for the first time. The last message on "sonship" can be found on the website:
www.revivaltothenations.org
We continue to press forward to touch lives and change Nations! Andy & Gunilla
Subject: Back Home in Ghana
Dear Family & Friends
We are back home in Ghana after 4 months in America. We are all so glad to be home and amoungst the team once again. The Ministry has been doing great since we have been away. The TV program is on and reaching the Nations, we are getting much feeback that many are blessed and encouraged by the show.
Last Saturday during the Radio show, a girl called Joanna called, stating that she was away from the Lord and had got involved with a man that had lead her to a spiritist. She came to church on Sunday and we had the privilage of leading her to the Lord, it was amazing to see the God work in her heart and set her free.
Thanks again for all the your support and prayer, we continue on touching lives and changing nations.
Andy & Gunillla
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TheAfricanBeat-Oct/Nov2004
Thank you for praying for the visit of Deborah Meroff. The HIV/AIDS research trip went very well (7,000kms and 5 countries). Please pray for OM as they take the information that was gained and pray about how the Lord would have us be involved.
ZIMBABWE
We request urgent prayer for Zimbabwe at this time.
*Brian and Vanessa Warden and Joseph Makam, who have recently joined the team, have had their work permits refused. They are in the process of appealing.
The government is putting a new law through parliament this month (October).
This law will affect all NGO's and FBO's (Faith Based Organisations). It will require a re-registration of their work and government oversight of ministry.
It would specifically affect OM in the following ways:
1. Financially: Receiving money from overseas would be difficult.
2. All AID work would have to be done through a government agency. Eg. Our work in the Tonga Valley would be overseen by a local health worker, whose philosophy and goals may differ significantly from ours.
3. Churches would not be able to work together on joint projects. As an interdenominational ministry this would seriously limit our work.
These problems may have the potential to close the work. Please pray!
Other news from the team in Banket:
For the past 2 months they have been very busy setting up the office, having meetings with the staff, taking sick children to hospital, visiting orphans etc!
Please pray for Amanda: 8 yrs- she has full blown AIDS, although she is not in the terminal stage yet she needs lots of care and PRAYER! Her mother is a prostitute and is currently very ill.
Vanessa plans to visit her soon. Please pray for wisdom, she has suffered lots of rejection from family and friends. We cannot do anything to cure the disease but we can make sure she knows where she will spend eternity.
SOUTH AFRICA
Thank you for praying for the Partnership Days. Life Direction Seminars and Bill Drake's visit.
Upcoming events to pray for over the next two months are:
*Peter Conlan's visit. Peter works with OM Ships and is visiting Pretoria, Durban, Tzaneen and Cape Town (8 - 18 October). He will be speaking at Parnership Breakfasts and fund raising for LOGOS HOPE.
*WENSA National Missions Leaders Consultation (November). About 60 South African missions leaders are meeting to discuss what has happened over the past years and plan ahead. OM is hosting the consultation.
*OM South Africa Council Meetings (end of October). This is when the OM RSA team comes together to discuss what is happening in the ministry and strategise.
Jan den Ouden (NL) will be in South Africa and have a couple of days of discussing missions mobilising with the team (1-2 Nov).
HIV/AIDS OM South Africa is partnering with various ministries and is strategising and discussing our role in the pandemic. Please pray that we would know how the Lord would have us be involved.
ANGOLA
*Land for the office block: The Lord once again amazed us by the way He works.
Rosa ,the Angolan guy who is handling all the documentation became aware that the documentation we were busy with was to hire and not to buy. Praise the Lord for the wisdom and the discernment He gave Rosa. We were very near the end of getting the documentation finalized.
Please pray that the process will not drag unnecessary and that we will manage to get the extra documentation done speedily.
*Our work permits: They are now at the Minister of Foreign affair's office, they need to finalize them. We just found out that the associate director of the Minister of Justice, who was helpings us, is not working there anymore. Please pray that the Lord will provide someone special again, who is not interested in bribery.
*Menongue: The authorities there want us to start an orphanage. Wessel informed them that we cannot help with an orphanage now, but we are thinking of setting up a feeding scheme for the many orphans they have. We believe we should be involved in Menongue, but in God's timing. Please pray for lots of discernment and wisdom.
HIV/AIDS: Kim Illman, from Canada, was here for one month helping us to lay the foundations for our AIDS ministry. She shared in several places and it was an eye opener to see how uninformed Angolans are. Perhaps the most upsetting thing was to discover that the Christian Angolans have the same message as the rest. Namely: the solution for Aids is to use a condom -it's safe! Please pray for wisdom as to how to continue with this ministry.
*The Bible Correspondence courses, The Bible School, and the children's ministry are going well.
NAMIBIA
In September we helped to organise a West-Coast Ecumenical Mission Week at Walvis Bay. 18 local congregations and 10 mission organizations attended. About 25 people experience a calling to missions. We spent time with these people in prayer and gave them some guidance as to different options.
One of the couples who attended is praying about joining OM Angola.
The biggest challenge facing OM Namibia is the formation and scheduling of outreaches for 2005 (in Namibia).
Please pray with us for:
* The Namibians who are preparing to go for mission's training or to a specific mission field.
* The Transformation process in Namibia.
* Upcoming elections (November).
Praise God for:
* Wilfred de Bruin's (Netherlands) one year work permit.
* The increase in numbers of missionaries going from Namibia to the rest of the world.
* Training: Giving a firm foundation of God's Word, in leadership and youth work (this takes place in several places).
MOZAMBIQUE
Unfortunately the OM Mocuba email is down, so we don't have any fresh news at the moment.
Thank you for praying for the above and praising God for the answers we have received.
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*SURELY-OUR GREAT GOD IS TRULY AWESOME!/GREETINGS AND LOVE TO YOU FROM KAMPALA,UGANDA~!*
Dearly treasured, precious and beloved Servant of God in Christ Jesus-our incomparable Saviour,
This is a humble, small note from your brother in Christ ~ Rev. Dr. Grace D L. Kityo at Kampala, Uganda, East Africa – WWW.FAITHCCC.COM . You may not know me physically but I am a fellow believer and Servant of the Most High God.
All our love and prayers are with you, your ministry and yours in Christ Jesus this very day!
It is our prayer that this Sunday you will experience a greatly awesome, wonderful presence of the Holy Spirit's anointing and His power upon your life, Church and your ministry; just like never before!
At this point in time, our ministry and Church ~ we are experiencing an incredible revival in our Church and God's Name is truly being lifted up in our Ministry just here in Kampala, Uganda.
People are getting saved, Moslems are getting converted to Jesus,(now we do have about 10 former Moslems-Islam),terrible, powerful demons are being cast out, witch doctor – with all his family saved, delivered, all his witchcraft and fetishes burnt in a great Crusade publicly, and the joining our Church. Nationwide, Government Television and Radio Stations, including nation-wide Newspapers covering the Crusade and other events in their main News items! Jesus Film shown regularly and viewed by several hundreds nightly and also conversions are the result of this! At least 60 Adult people registered conversions and very many, big and small children! Preaching in the biggest national Prison and we saw hundreds gathering to hear the precious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. More than 10 souls [of the hardened criminals] publicly came forward to accept Jesus Christ in a very moving, tear-dropping, lifetime experience!!!! God's Church is power-packed and God is having His way in peoples lives here ~ spiritually and in all other spheres of life!
This Harvest and Revival was sparkled off by the twelve-day visit to our Church by a very wonderful, humble but highly anointed Servant of the Living God – Rev. Pastor Christine Wiech from Nebraska, USA! May God – the Most High, bless and reward her mightily!!!
Our present issue is the "God problem" – we do have so many people but the building is extremely small for our 3 services on any given Sunday.
Please do pray for us that God's grace may help us to sustain this revival and Harvest. Please very kindly lift us in all prayer that God Almighty may enable us to acquire land and build the 5,000 -member Church complex facility, a School, a Medical Centre, and an Orphanage & to get transportation-vehicle, among other much needed Godly and noble purposes.
There are so many needs here but our God is still on His Mighty Throne and well able to help His work.
I am writing to you with all humility, under a very heavy anointing, deepest appreciation and greatly moved by the awesome power and glory of God, and all the honour, praise and glory is given back to God and to Him alone! To God is the Glory!
May God continue to deeply bless you and all His best - cross your pathways THIS DAY, for His Name and Glory in Jesus' own precious Name~Amen and Amen!!!*
DR.GRACE D.L.KITYO ~ HEAD PASTOR AND C.E.O.
FAITH CHRISTIAN CENTRE NETWORK OF CHURCHES & MINISTRIES INT'L.
P.O.BOX 9530,KAMPALA,UGANDA,EAST AFRICA.
FAX:+256-41-543542,+256-41-345597/541577
Pse kindly visit our website at:
WWW.FAITHCCC.COM
Pse don't miss out on this wonderful,incredible story at:
+ www.AssistNews.net/stories/s03030064.htm +
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"*As we stay very close to the precious Lord Jesus Christ ~ and touching the Nations and God's precious Children ~ Together : For His glory,honour and praise alone;in Uganda,YOUR NATION and throughout the whole entire World!*".
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Subject: News Update for Prayer
Dear Friends
It was our hope that by now we would have been able to give you some news about our next recording. However, we have not been able to come to an agreement with Springboard Communications, our production and marketting Co. This is a matter of prayer for all involved. As well, we have been forced into a position of having to withdraw the program from TV3. This has been a really difficult time for us and would really appreciate your prayers. We have been misled and need the wisdom of God to move forward. We are now faced with a serious financial demand that has been put on us, which we did not expect.
Be Blessed
Andy & Gunilla
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" FROM KENYA, EAST AFRICA WITH LOVE...."
MJCC
Dear Beloved in Christ
I encourage you that Abiding in Jesus isn't something that comes automatically to any believer. It's a lifestyle that involves discipline and effort. We have to choose to give ourselves to our union with Him, to give Him first place where our attention is concerned. If we want to grow spiritually, if we want to walk in power and in fellowship with the Lord, we'll have to spend the time it takes to know Him.
That's not something we can do for a while and then forget about either. We must continue in it every day. For the moment we stop moving closer to Jesus, we always start drifting away. You see, here in this natural world you're surrounded by ungodliness. You live in a body that is totally natural. Unless you purposely counter that with daily prayer and time in the Word, your body and your mind will simply give in to the pressures around you and go the way of the world.
Right now, make a decision to give yourself to the things of God. Focus your attention on the Lord. Surround yourself with His Word. Listen to preaching and teaching tapes while you're getting dressed, driving to work, preparing dinner, working on your car, exercising, cleaning house and when you go to bed.
Listen to the Word of God anytime, anywhere! "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without me ye can do nothing." (John
15:5)
Abide in Him today. Scripture Study:
John 15:1-11
I do pastor Revival Gospel Church, Nakuru, and take care of the other church fellowships that we have planted as well as direct the affairs of the Revival Ministries. We have quite a number of fellowships and ministries working together. We are about 90 regular embers here in Nakuru congregation. My main duty in the Ministry is to oversee the ministry and Church activities and to initiate the visionary projects in my Apostolic Missionary calling. I preach, teach the word, and evangelize, missions, planting/establishment of churches in the other regions. We seek more to minister in the power of the Holy Spirit in God's will.
My prayer is that you get more of God's favour and sufficient grace in all you do and plan to have. Will love to meet you personaly one day either here or there.
The best way is to get the date set and then pray about it, as you know finances are involved with travel then, save for a given period of time that way you will be able to get here and minister in anevangelistic crusade, seminar or conference.
We need a bicycle for evangelism travels in the villages
Pastor Vincent Barasa Maina
Revival Gospel Church
P.O. Box 15818 Nakuru
(20100) Kenya, East Africa.
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TheAfricanBeat-Dec04-Jan05
ANGOLA
FROM OM ANGOLA TEAM MEMBER SANG JONG LEE
I first met John in front of the Luanda airforce where he was selling soft drinks.
I bought a drink and we started to chat.
John discovered that I can speak English and he was also able to speak a little bit.
I invited him to visit me, but I didn't really think he would come, much to my surprise he turned up the following week - it was an awesome blessing to help him with his English and to start a friendship with him. On the 15th of November, another amazing thing happened when John gave his heart to the Lord. Not am I teaching him English, but I am also able to disciple him. Please pray with us that John's faith will be strengthened as he is walking on this new, exciting road with God.
BLESSINGS TO THE CHILDREN
On the 25th of November, we had the privilege of giving Christmas presents to more than 40 children who are part of our children's club. One of our helpers, Elaine Mitchell, challenged her congregation to donate toys and educational material to the Samba children and it was amazing to see how overwhelming the response. We praise God for this awesome blessing of allowing us to share in this way. We also would like to thank Elaine for her commitment towards our work in perservering with us for the glory of God!
TOUCHED BY GOD THROUGH A SERVANT VALUED BY GOD - MELONY STAMBOUL
For the past few months I feel that I have made no progress whatsoever with friendships. Well, what do you know, when I, (we) think God is asleep He's orchastrating the perfect timing for His glory and purpose. One day, I decided to go and sit outside to keep Yah-Yah company while she is selling things. I started inviting her to visit me and was awaiting the day. There was a bit of a language barrier. I promised I would start teaching English, as I felt that was a way in which I could serve her and eventually share my life-story with her. She is familiar with this wonderful God of mine.
The next great thing that happened was that she walked into our home to look for me. Now that was a pleasant surprise and only knowing that this was the awesome work of the Holy Spirit.
Often we think it's how much or what we do and this was an amazing prove of just being sitting and chatting about God's goodness and life in its simple form. She is now visiting more frequently and I am blessed tremendously. The prayer of my heart now is that the Holy Spirit would prompt her to attend a church service with me. Not my will but your will be done. Be glorified Father!
Please Pray:
*For more workers. We are planning to start with the construction of houses, an orphanage and agricultural project in the Southern part of Angola, Menongue, from the end of January 2005. Pray that God will open up all the doors for our work in there and that He will provide all our needs.
Some answers to prayer and praise points
*Praise the Lord for the provision of our work permits that allow us to be in Angola for one more year.
*Praise God for a successful year in Luanda, for His constant protection, love and commitment towards us, for His provision during this year and for the immense spiritual growth that we as OM team experienced in our walk with God.
To God be all the glory, praise and honour!
ZIMBABWE
Praise the Lord!
Brian and Vanessa Warden and Joseph Makam have had their work permits renewed!
The Tonga tribe are open to the word and they are eager to learn, but spiritually blind and bound by ancestral worship and witchcraft. They live under constant fear that they are not appeasing them, beer drinking and ceremonial activities is common. Much of their valuable food supplies goes into the brewing of the beer, most of the men are in a drunken state.
The stronghold of the apostolic sect (mainly Zionist) linked with water spirits make it difficult for people to become committed Christians. Many know about Jesus but there is no on-going discipleship; many fall back into their traditional beliefs. There is immense spiritual and physical poverty.
The Lord has a sense of humor, he directed us to a blind man and when we asked if he knew Jesus he answered "I have never seen him, so I do not know him", when his wife asked him to close his eyes and to pray he said 'How can I close my eyes when I am blind"
An old lady said she could not accept Jesus because she was a smoker (Tonga calabash, normally smoke marajuana) the team explained to her about salvation.
After a few days of visiting here she gave here life to Jesus and then broke here calabash, pray she will remain strong she was also directed to a good church.
The church is very weak; most of them mix occult and traditional beliefs with a bit of OT testament law. The leaders are weak, very few have had training and have a very poor knowledge of the Bible, people are easily misled. There is much division in the church, with gossip, jealousy, control and manipulation many other problems.
There is so much work to be done, much seed has been sown but the harvesters are few.
Needs: - Leadership training
On going discipleship see a solid foundation laid.
Children's workers
Follow up is important but not possible at this time.
Building in the Tonga valley:
12 people from the USA did a wonderful job. They worked hard for 2 weeks, completing one building and up to the roof level on the other. Vicky is very excited to have a decent store room and office to work from. Her poor caravan was getting a bit crowded!
SOUTH AFRICA
February 2005 training:
Those joining OM in February are busy getting their support teams together and making final arrangements. Please pray that their churches would be really supportive of them. Pray also for safety in travel, especially for those coming from overseas.
The trainees who have just completed their training are getting ready to head to the field. Pray that the Lord would lead and guide them and bless their desire to serve him. Many still need additional financial support.
OM Southern Africa Area Retreat
All of the OMers in Southern Africa will meet from 5-9 of January 2005 for a time of fellowship, teaching and seeking the Lord together.
No news from NAMIBIA or MOZAMBIQUE
Thank you for praying for the above and praising God for the answers we have received.
Subject: Prayer needed for staff
Date: Sun, Feb 6, 2005
Dear Family and Friends
We trust you are all well. I arrived in America Friday afternoon. Today I start the first of a number of meetings in Azusa California, before traveling to Georgia. Please pray for Jenean our Nanny as well as Caleb our administrator in Ghana both are not feeling that well.
Over the last few weeks we have all been aware of the increased Spiritual warfare, we are very aware of the new things God is putting before us and there has come a challenge in the spirit world.
Please pray for the my whole family back home in Ghana while I'm in America were I'll be until the 22nd Feb
Blessings
Andy
www.revivaltotthenations.org
Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2005
Subject: SUPPORT THIS MINISTRY WITH BIBLES FOR OUTREACHES.
Dear Faithful Servant of God,
Greetings to you in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. My name is Evangelist Ayodele Aboloye, the founder of Save the Lost Ministry inc located here in Edo State, Nigeria. This Ministry was founded in the Year 2000 and I have passion for the Lost Souls because the harvest is truly plentious but the labourers are few. By the grace of God, I am married and blessed with four children and I thank God that my children are saved and worshipping God in truth and Spirit.
Our Travail with Christ (Mk 16:19,20; Is 53:11; Ps 126:5,6; Ro 9:1-5; 10:1; 1 Thess 2:9)."Travail" includes the toil, tears, labour and weariness which are involved in bringing others to a personal knowledge of Christ. There is a great price to pay in the work of soulwinning.It is very clear that our responsibility is to evangelize people for Christ. Lost sinners must be brought to the place of repentance toward God and faith in Christ.(Matthew 28:18-20; Mk 16:14-18; Acts 2:38-37)
Furthermore, our objective (ultimately) is to make the converts like Christ. To achieve this goal on every convert, we must have the concern of a father (I Cor 4:15), the travail of a mother (Gal 4:19), the sacrifice of a lover (2 Cor 12:15), the gentleness of a nurse (1 Thess 2:7-9), the endurance of a soldier (2 Tim 2:3,4) and jealousy of a friend! (2 Cor 11:2).
Save the Lost Ministry Inc has a target for Converts (Matthew 28:19,20; Mk 16:16; Eph 4:11-16; Col 1:21-29)
When Jesus Christ sent forth His Apostles to evangelize the world, He did not commission them merely to preach but really to find the lost (Lk 15:4-7), bear much fruit (Jn 15:8,16), and fill the gospel net with fish (Lk 5:4,6,10). We cannot fulfill our task if we do not keep this target or goal before us.The Lord Jesus Christ is our supreme Example in the work of soulwinning (Lk 19:10; 1 Tim 1:15). The motive behind everything He did (healing the sick, feeding the crowds, preaching the gospel, etc) was to prepare hearts for the experience of salvation, to bring men into right relationship to God.
In an atmosphere of hatred, antagonism and hostility, He won multitudes to God (Matt 12:10-21).Save the Lost Ministry inc evangelizes the goodnews of our Lord Jesus Christ to inmates in the prison, dying patients in the Hospitals and remote villages. I give God all the glory that lost souls are been converted weekly into God's glorious kingdom through the outreaches of this minist ry and more has to been done because souls are dying daily without hearing the saving power of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
There is a great need for Bibles for our many new converts who are unable to purchase one because of their financial status and I am happy to tell you that we can make a difference together for God's Kingdom. We have about fifty four new converts who are deperately need of God's word the Holy Bible and I would be glad if your church can help this ministry with these Bibles which are going to be freely distributed to our new converts in the prisons and remote villages.
I would love to work with your church in expanding God's message here in my country because our mission and vision is to see that lost souls are converted thereby depopulating the kingdom of Satan.Kindly send us 12 giant print Bibles for our aged members in the church who are finding it difficult to read small character Bible.
Thanks and May the Grace of God be with you all. I look forward to hearing from you via my personal e-mail address above on how your church can help us with these materials to expand God's Work.
Yours in the missionary field,
Evangelist Ayodele Aboloye.
Founder, Save The Lost Ministry Inc.
P.O BOX 8116
BENIN CITY
EDO STATE
NIGERIA.
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Date: Thu, Feb 10, 2005
ANGOLA
Praise the Lord, the team were given a left hand drive vehicle to import into Angola, it is just what they were looking for. The Van der Merwe's are presently in Cape Town getting the vehicle ready for the drive to Angola.
Please Pray:
*On the Road: In early March the team will leave to drive from Cape Town to Menongue (S. Angola). The trip will take about a week. Pray for safe travel and for the preperation of the vehicle.
*Menongue: When they arrive there they will spend about 3 months setting up a base and ministry centre (consisiting of houses, an orphanage and agricultural project). Whilst they are building the team will live in tents.
*Workers: Joao Delgado has joined the team. He will drive with the van der Merwe's from Cape Town and be based in Menongue. Joao is already fluent in Portuguese.
Mel's time in Angola has come to an end and she is back in South Africa. Pray for direction and for the door to open for her to return if that is God's plan for her.
ZIMBABWE
*Leadership: Mike van Vuuren is resuming his leadership position in Zimbabwe. Vicky Graham will again be associate field leader, and Cathy, who for the past year has been an invaluable help, is moving to another OM field.
*Burglary: While the team were in South Africa for the OM retreat some thieves broke into the flat in Banket. They stole clothing, food, toiletries, all the baby clothing and baby toiletries. Joseph had a suitcase stolen which contained his original accounting certificates. "At first we were upset, but soon realised that after having our work permits approved the enemy had to retaliate in some way to show his disappointment. We will continue to give praise to God and trust Him to return what the enemy has stolen!"
*Mumvuri Project: Many children have been orphaned and now have to face the world on their own, most of these orphans are HIV+ and need medical attention. Those attending school need uniforms, school fees and books. We need to see the Lord provide for all of the above and ask you to commit these needs to the Lord in prayer.
*Nixon & Juliet: Nixon and Juliet are orphans being cared for by their grandparents (who work at the OM base).
Annie, their grandmother, has advanced cervical cancer, doctors have said they can do nothing more for her. The Wardens have taken responsibilty to see that Nixon (14yrs) and Juliet (9yrs) continue with their education. They continue to live with their grandparents (at the OM base in Banket) and try to maintain as much of a family life as possible.
Elections: Please pray for peaceful elections at the end of March. Things are beginning to get very tense in the run up.
SOUTH AFRICA
New training Team: Of the 81 new trainees, only 25 of them are South African! Which means that 70% will be foreigners (from 18 countries). The countries represented are (followed by the number of people from that country):
1. Austria (1)
2. Australia (1)
3. Brazil (1)
4. Canada (1)
5. Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
6. Faroe Islands (2)
7. Finland (1)
8. Germany (10)
9. Ireland (2)
10. Mozambique (1)
11. Namibia (2)
12. Netherlands (9)
13. South Africa (25)
14. South Korea (12)
15. Sweden (1)
16. Switzerland (1)
17. United Kingdom (2)
18. United States of America (7)
19. Zimbabwe (1)
The training base is in desperate need of upgrading. Plans have been made. Pray for the money to come in to transfer them into reality! This is a massive undertaking.
Theft: One of the Training Team's bakkies (pick-up truck) was recently stolen. This leaves a real problem when it comes to transporting such a big team.
ILM 2006: In 2006 OM South Africa is going to host OM's International Leaders Meetings. Pray for the securing of a great venue at a good price.
NAMIBIA
Romans 1:16 says "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek". These words keep on challenging Japie van
Vuuren, OM Namibia field leader.
So much so that since last year he and another co-worker started conducting Bible Schools using New Tribes Missions material that helps people to read chronologically through the Bible.
Schools have so far been conducted in Tsumeb, Otavi, Outjo, Walvisbay and Okahandja. Opportunities to conduct more Bible schools keep pouring in.
We experience that God is using these Bible teaching to:
* encourage Christian leaders who have grown tired, to take hold of God's Word once again as the only true Gospel.
* enable every believer to use the Word of God as the foundation for daily living.
One elderly man, who had for many years been involved in ministry, exclaimed his delight "that people are still preaching the Gospel of grace". Others say that they realise how little they know about the Bible and that they would like to grow in their knowledge of the Word of God.
May the dream of a Bible school in every town or community in Namibia become true so that this desert-land and may its beautiful people may be saturated with the Word of Life.
Some prayer requests and praise points
Thank God with us for all the opportunities to conduct the Bible school training. Please keep praying for all those coming up in the month of February in Windhoek, on a farm outside Okahandja and at Youth for Christ Training centre.
Please pray for all our team members, as we are visiting and seeking God's face to meet up with different missionaries serving in and from Namibia, as well as keeping up with some other speaking engagements.
No news from MOZAMBIQUE
Thank you for praying for the above and praising God for the answers we have received.
Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2005
Subject: DOCTRINE OF MY MINISTRY.
GOD'S INFALLIBLE WORD TEACHES, AND WE BELIEVE:
1. That the Holy Bible, consisting of 39 books of the Old Testament and 27 books of the New Testament, is the inspired Word of God. We take the Bible as final authority in all matters concerning Christian conduct and work. II Timothy 3:16,17; Proverbs 30:5,6; Revelation 22:18,19.
2. That the Godhead consists of three separate, distinct and recognizable personalities and qualities, perfectly united in one. The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are different Persons in the Godhead, not merely three names for one Person. Matthew 3:16,17; II Corinthians13:14; Matthew 28:19,20.
3. The virgin birth of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. The crucifixion, death, burial and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-25; Romans 1:4; I Corinthians 15:3,4.
4. The total depravity, sinfulness and guilt of all men since the Fall, rendering them subject to God's wrath and condemnation. Psalm 51:5; Job 14:4; Romans 3:23; 5:12-17; Mark 7:21-23; Ephesians 2:1.
5. That Repentance is a complete turning away from all sin and its deceitful pleasures, and that it is required of every sinner before he can truly and effectively believe in Jesus with saving faith. Proverb 28:13; Isaiah 55:7; Ezekiel 18:21-23; Mark 1:15; Luke 24:46,47; Acts 2:38; 3:19,21; II Corinthians 7:10; Hebrew 6:1-3.
6. That Restitution is making amends for wrongs done against our fellowmen, restoring stolen things to their rightful owners, paying debts, giving back where one has defrauded, making confessions to the offended and apologising to those slandered, so as to have a conscience void of offence toward God and man. Genesis 20:1-8,14-18; Exodus 22:1-7; Leviticus 6:1-17; Numbers 5:6-8; 11 Samuel 12:1-6; Proverbs 6:31; Ezekiel 33:14-16; Matthew 5:23,24; Luke 19:8,9; Acts 23:1-5; 24:16; James 4:17-5:6.
7. That Justification (or Regeneration) is the act of God's grace whereby one receives forgiveness and remission of sins, and is counted righteous before God, through faith in the atoning blood of Jesus, standing before God as though he had never sinned. Psalm 32:1,2; Isaiah 1:18; Micah 7:29; John 3:3-8; Acts 13:38,39; Romans 3:24-30; 4:6-16; 5:1,2; II Corinthians 5:17-21; Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8,9; Titus 3:5; I Peter 1:23.
8. That Water Baptism is essential to our obedience after reconciliation with God.
Water Baptism is one immersion (not three), "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost", as Jesus commanded. Matthew 28:19; 3:13-17; Mark 16:15; Acts 2:38,39; 19:1-6; Romans 6:4,5.
9. That the Lord's Supper was constituted by Jesus Christ so that all believers (all members of the family of God) might partake thereof regularly to "show the Lord's death till He come." The emblems used are "unleavened bread" and the juice of the "fruit of the vine". Anyone who eats and drinks unworthily brings "damnation", punishment and chastisement upon himself. Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 22:17-20; I Corinthians 11:23-30.
10. That Entire Sanctification is a definite act of God's grace, subsequent to the New Birth, by which the believer's heart is purified and made holy. It cannot be attained progressively by works, struggle or suppression, but it is obtained by faith in the sanctifying blood of Jesus Christ.
Holiness of life and purity of heart are central to Christian living. Luke 1:74,75; John 17:15-17; I Thessalonians 4:3,7,8; 5:22-24; Ephesians 5:25-27; Hebrew 2:11; 10:10,14; 13:11; Titus 2:11-14; I John 1:7; Hebrew 12:14; I Peter 1:14-16.
11. That the Baptism in the Holy Ghost is the enduement with power from on High upon the sanctified believer. It is the "promise of the Father" and when one receives this "gift of the Holy Ghost", it is accompanied by the initial evidence of speaking a language unlearned previously, referred to as speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. Matthew 3:11; Acts 1:8; Luke 3:16; 24:49; John 1:20-33; 7:37-39; 14:16,17,26; 15:26; 16:12-15; Acts 1:5-8; Mark 16:17; Acts 2:1-18; 10:44-46; 19:1-6.
We do not teach or instruct people on how to speak in tongues: the Holy Spirit gives the utterance. We also stress the necessity of Purity before Power.
12. That Redemption from the curse of the law, Healing of sickness and disease as well as continued Health are provided for all people through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 7:15; Psalm 103:1-5; Proverbs 4:20-22; Isaiah 53:4,5; Matthew 8:16,17; I Peter 2:24; Mark 16:15-18; Luke 13:16; John 15:12-14; 10:10; Acts 10:38; James 5:14-16; I John 3:8; III John 2; Galatians 3:13,14.
13. That Personal Evangelism is a God-given and God-ordained ministry for every believer. Jesus commanded, and God requires every believer to be a compassionate and faithful soulwinner, bringing others to Christ. Matthew 28:19,20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:46-49; John 17:18; Acts 1:8; 8:1-4; Psalm 126:5,6; Proverbs 11:30; Daniel 12:3; Ezekiel 13:17-21.
14. That Marriage is binding for life.
Monogamy is the uniform teaching of the Bible. Polygamy is contrary to the New Testament dispensation. No one has a right to divorce and remarry while the first companion lives. When a person becomes converted, necessary restitution, on this line, must be done without delay, if he has married wrongly. Genesis 2:24; Deuteronomy 7:1-4; Joshua 23:11-13; II Corinthians 6:14-18; Proverbs 31:10-31; Malachi 2:14,15; Romans 7:2,3; Ephesians 5:31-33; Matthew 5:31,32; 19:3-9; Mark 10:2-12; Luke 16:18; John 4:15-19; Genesis 20:3,7.
15. That the Rapture (commonly referred to as the first phase of stage of the SECOND COMING OF CHRIST) is the catching away from the earth of all living saints and all who died in the Lord. The Rapture will take place before the Great Tribulation, and it can happen any time from now. "In the twinkling of an eye", without a moment's warning, "the trumpet shall sound" "...and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord." John 14:1-3; Luke 21:34-36; I Corinthians 15:51-58; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; 5:4-9; II Thessalonians 2:5-7; Philippians 3:11,20,21; I John 3:1-3.
16. That the Resurrection of the dead is taught in the Bible as clearly as the immortality of the soul. Every individual who has ever lived will be resurrected, some to honour and glory, and others to everlasting shame and contempt. Job 19:25-27; Psalm 71:20; Isaiah 26:19; Daniel 12:2; John 5:28,29; I Corinthians 15:12-57; I Thessalonians 4:13-16; Hebrews 6:1,2; Philippians 3:8-11; Revelation 20:4,6,12,13.
17. That the Great Tribulation will occur after the rapture, and will be a time of terrible suffering on earth. It is also referred to as the time of Jacob's Trouble. Matthew 24:21,22,29; Revelation 9:16; Mark 13:19; II Thessalonians 2:3-12; Revelation 13. During this time, the Antichrist will take possession of this world for a reign of terror. He will not be a system or organization, but a person — a supernatural, diabolical being, in the form of a man who will blaspheme and proclaim himself to be God. Daniel 6:23-35; II Thessalonians 2:7-12; Revelation 13:1-10. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb will take place above while the Tribulation continues on earth. Revelation 19:1-10.
18. That the Second Coming of Christ will just be as literal as His going away, and He is coming to execute judgement upon the ungodly. He will also, then, set up His kingdom and reign on this present earth for a thousand years. Zechariah 14:3,4; Matthew 25:31-46; 26:64; Mark 13:24-37; II Thessalonians 1:7-10; 2:8; Jude 14,15.
19. That Christ's Millennial Reign is the 1,000 years' literal reign of Jesus on earth, which will be ushered in by the coming of Jesus back to earth with ten thousands of His saints. At this time He will judge the nations that dwell upon the face of the earth. Jude 14,15; II Thessalonians 1:7-10. During this time the devil will be bound. Revelation 20:2,3.
It will be a reign of peace and blessing. Isaiah 11:6-9; 65:25; Hosea 2:18; Zechariah 14:9-20; 2:2-4.
20. That the Great White Throne Judgment is when God finally judges all (the living and the dead, small and great) who have ever lived on the face of the earth, according to their works. This is after the Millennium. At this time the final Judgement known as the Great White Throne Judgment, will be held. All those from all ages, who have not yet been judged (believers' judgement, as sinners', was accomplished by Christ on the Cross — John 5:24; 3:17-19) will stand before God at this time. The devil and his angels are judged at this time also, and sent to the lake of fire for ever. Daniel 12:2,3; Matthew 10:15; 11:21-24; 12:41,42; John 5:28,29; Romans 2:15,16; 14:12; II Peter 2:9; Jude 6; I Corinthians 6:1-4; Acts 10:42; Revelation 20:11-15.
21. That the New Heaven and the New Earth "wherein dwelleth righteousness" will be made by God and the redeemed shall dwell with God for ever. This present earth which has been polluted by sin will pass away after the Great White Throne Judgment. Psalm 102:25,26; Isaiah 51:6; 65:17; Matthew 5:18; 24:35; II Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 21:1. No unclean thing shall be there. We shall know each other, our knowledge having been perfected. There will be no more curse upon anything. There will be no more night: the glory of the Lord will be the light thereof. Isaiah 66:22; II Peter 3:12,13; I Corinthians 13:12; I John 3:2,3; Revelation 21:1-7; 22:1-5.
22. That Hell-fire is a place of everlasting punishment where sinners (all who do not have their names in the book of life) will suffer torments for ever and ever. It was prepared for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41), but God has decreed that the wicked and those who forget Him and reject Christ, will also be cast there, because of their sin and neglect of His salvation. Psalm 9:17; Matthew 25:46; Luke 12:4,5; 16:19-31; Matthew 5:22,30; Mark 9:43-47; Revelation 14:10,11; 20:10,12-15.
Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2005
Subject: THANKS FOR WRITING ME.
DEAR BROTHER IN THE LORD,
GREETINGS TO YOU IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THANKS FOR CONTACTING ME AND I AM HAPPY TO HEAR FROM YOU THAT YOU WILL TRY TO PROVIDE THE BIBLES THIS MINISTRY.
MEANWHILE, I HAVE SENT YOU THE PICTURES AND DOCTRINE OF MY MINISTRY.
I WISH YOU HAPPY VIEWING AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR MINISTRY.
YOURS IN CHRIST,
EVANGELIST AYODELE ABOLOYE
P.O BOX 8116
BENIN CITY
EDO STATE
NIGERIA
WEST AFRICA.
Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2005
Subject:
February Field Report
Discipling Believers, Equipping Leaders, and Strengthening the Church
February 2005
Our New Website Has Launched!
"The old has gone and the new has come".
OK, so maybe this isn't what Paul had in mind, but it sums up our feelings pretty well. Our new website is packed with tons of information, so please use it to learn more about the ministry, how you can get involved with us and also stay up-to-date with stories from the field.
Visit the new www.thriveafrica.org
Leadership Summit Kicks Off in 10 Local High Schools
This month was the launch of our Leadership Summit School Outreach. We minister to ninth grade students in ten public schools on a weekly basis â€" having a direct impact on a total of 1350 students each week! Our curriculum is focused on helping the students find hope in Jesus Christ by discovering their purpose and destiny. We also teach basic life skills, abstinence, and AIDS awareness. We are blown away by this incredible opportunity the Lord has given us to impact young lives.
Church Leadership Explosion - Pastors Conference
Our first Hand in Hand pastors conference of the new year was February 7-9 on the topic of Church Leadership & Administration. We shared Biblical truths about training effective leaders and releasing them into ministry as well as practical tools to help with the logistics of church administration. Twenty-seven pastors and their leaders attended the conference; here is some of their feedback:
"I have been blessed through not only this conference but by all the conferences I have attended with you since 2003!"
"I am very much blessed by the precious truths that have been taught from the Word of God. This conference helped me understand things that I always wanted to know about."
"I am very blessed to have been in this conference. It helped me to see and understand how God feels about me as His servant."
Ron Gelaude from The River Community Church (Michigan) and Derick Slabbert from Wellspring Ministries (Piet Retief, South Africa) were guest speakers at the conference. They were a blessing not only to our pastors, but to us as well!
Weekly Discipleship Classes
The third week of January was the kick off for LaunchPad. These discipleship classes are held in four different villages each week. 85 young people attend faithfully, some walking over two hours each way in order to learn from God’s Word!
This term’s classes have been filled with much enthusiasm from our students as we dig deep into the Word of God. It is exciting to see these young people grab hold of God’s truths and apply them into their lives!
A Blessing of Refreshment
A partner church, Kensington Community Church in Michigan, hosted a conference on our facility for their missionary partners. It was a wonderful time of refreshing for us as we participated in this retreat.
We were also blessed to meet Kensington’s other partner missionaries. Now we have a great network in place to help each other’s ministries and further God’s Kingdom here in Africa! We are so grateful for all the Kensington team did to bless us and our ministry.
Thank you Kensington family!
Beautiful Children of Limakatso
Our ministry to the handicapped children at Limakatso Disabled Center continues through the end of this year. We employ a Basotho teacher who teaches full-time at the Center with the help of Angela (missionary staff) and our interns. This year there are 27 students at Limakatso, all of whom were very excited to see us when the Center opened up again after Christmas break. We look forward to spending this year with the students, challenging them to accomplish more academically, socially, and spiritually than they even think they are capable of.
We thank the Lord for the privilege of being involved in these precious young lives!
Upcoming EventsMarch 12
Men’s Luncheon
Special one-day event held at a local church in Qwa Qwa, open for all men to attend.
March 28-30
Men’s Camp
Three day conference for pastors and leaders focused on challenging men to rise up as Godly leaders in their homes, churches, and communities.
March 11-24
Outreach Trip
Our second annual outreach trip to serve other ministries in the Cape Province of South Africa.
(We need to raise $2500 to cover the expenses of this outreach trip. Please prayerfully consider assisting financially in this area.)
InternshipsOutreach Staff Program
This 2 month internship
(June to August) is targeted at young people with prior missions experience who desire to go to the next level and see the other side of mission team hosting.
Learn More >
24/7 Mission Immersion
This 1 year internship
(January to December) is designed for young adults who are pursuing a long-term career in missions work or are interested in serving the Lord overseas for a year.
Learn More >
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Subject: The end of poverty
Date:
Sun, Mar 13, 2005
The End of Poverty
In a world of plenty, 1 billion people are so poor, their
lives are in danger. How to change that for good
By JEFFREY D. SACHS
Posted Sunday, March 6, 2005
It is still midmorning in Malawi when we arrive at a small village, Nthandire, about an hour outside of Lilongwe, the capital.
We have come over dirt roads, passing women and children walking barefoot with water jugs, wood for fuel, and other bundles. The midmorning temperature is sweltering. In this subsistence maize-growing region of a poor, landlocked country in southern Africa, families cling to life on an unforgiving terrain. This year has been a lot more difficult than usual because the rains have failed. The crops are withering in the fields that we pass.
If the village were filled with able-bodied men, who could have built rainwater-collecting units on rooftops and in the fields, the situation would not be so dire. But as we arrive in the village, we see no able-bodied young men at all.
In fact, older women and dozens of children greet us, but there is not a young man or woman in sight.
Where, we ask, are the workers? Out in the fields? The aid worker who has led us to the village shakes his head sadly and says no. Nearly all are dead. The village has been devastated by AIDS.
The presence of death in Nthandire has been overwhelming in recent years. The grandmothers whom we meet are guardians for their orphaned grandchildren. The margin of survival is extraordinarily narrow; sometimes it closes entirely. One woman we meet in front of her mud hut has 15 orphaned grandchildren. Her small farm plot, a little more than an acre in all, would be too small to feed her family even if the rains had been plentiful. The soil nutrients have been depleted so significantly in this part of Malawi that crop yields reach only about a half-ton per acre, about one-third of normal. This year, because of the drought, she will get almost nothing. She reaches into her apron and pulls out a handful of semi-rotten, bug-infested millet, which will be the basis for the gruel she will prepare for the meal that evening. It will be the one meal the children have that day.
I ask her about the health of the children. She points to a child of about 4 and says that the girl contracted malaria the week before.
The woman had carried her grandchild on her back for the six miles to the local hospital. When they got there, there was no quinine, the antimalarial medicine, available that day. With the child in high fever, the two were sent home and told to return the next day. In a small miracle, when they returned after another six-mile trek, the quinine had come in, and the child responded to treatment and survived. It was a close call though. More than 1 million African children, and perhaps as many as 3 million, succumb to malaria each year.
As we proceed through the village, I stoop down to ask one of the young girls her name and age. She looks about 7 or 8 but is actually 12, stunted from years of undernutrition. When I ask her what her dreams are for her own life, she says that she wants to be a teacher and that she is prepared to study and work hard to achieve that. I know that her chances of surviving to go on to secondary school and a teachers college are slim under the circumstances.
The plight of Malawi has been rightly described by Carol Bellamy, head of UNICEF, as the perfect storm of human deprivation, one that brings together climatic disaster, impoverishment, the AIDS pandemic and the long-standing burdens of malaria, schistosomiasis and other diseases. In the face of this horrific maelstrom, the world community has so far displayed a fair bit of hand-wringing and even some high-minded rhetoric, but precious little action. It is no good to lecture the dying that they should have done better with their lot in life. Rather it is our task to help them onto the ladder of development, to give them at least a foothold on the bottom rung, from which they can then proceed to climb on their own.
This is a story about ending poverty in our time. It is not a forecast. I am not predicting what will happen, only explaining what can happen. Currently, more than 8 million people around the world die each year because they are too poor to stay alive. Every morning our newspapers could report, "More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty." How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment.
Sadly, such stories rarely get written.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has launched a war on terrorism, but it has neglected the deeper causes of global instability. The nearly $500 billion that the U.S. will spend this year on the military will never buy lasting peace if the U.S. continues to spend only one-thirtieth of that, around $16 billion, to address the plight of the poorest of the poor, whose societies are destabilized by extreme poverty. The $16 billion represents 0.15% of U.S. income, just 15(cent) on every $100 of our national income. The share devoted to helping the poor has declined for decades and is a tiny fraction of what the U.S. has repeatedly promised, and failed, to give.
Yet our generation, in the U.S. and abroad, can choose to end extreme poverty by the year 2025. To do it, we need to adopt a new method, which I call "clinical economics," to underscore the similarities between good development economics and good clinical medicine. In the past quarter-century, the development economics imposed by rich countries on the poorest countries has been too much like medicine in the 18th century, when doctors used leeches to draw blood from their patients, often killing them in the process. Development economics needs an overhaul in order to be much more like modern medicine, a profession of rigor, insight and practicality. The sources of poverty are multidimensional. So are the solutions. In my view, clean water, productive soils and a functioning health-care system are just as relevant to development as foreign exchange rates. The task of ending extreme poverty is a collective one—for you as well as for me. The end of poverty will require a global network of cooperation among people who have never met and who do not necessarily trust one another.
One part of the puzzle is relatively easy. Most people in the world, with a little bit of prodding, would accept the fact that schools, clinics, roads, electricity, ports, soil nutrients, clean water and sanitation are the basic necessities not only for a life of dignity and health but also to make an economy work. They would also accept the fact that the poor may need help to meet their basic needs. But they might be skeptical that the world could pull off any effective way to give that help. If the poor are poor because they are lazy or their governments are corrupt, how could global cooperation help?
Fortunately, these common beliefs are misconceptions—only a small part of the explanation of why the poor are poor. In all corners of the world, the poor face structural challenges that keep them from getting even their first foot on the ladder of development. Most societies with the right ingredients—good harbors, close contacts with the rich world, favorable climates, adequate energy sources and freedom from epidemic disease—have escaped extreme poverty. The world's remaining challenge is not mainly to overcome laziness and corruption, but rather to take on the solvable problems of geographic isolation, disease and natural hazards, and to do so with new arrangements of political responsibility that can get the job done.
We need plans, systems, mutual accountability and financing mechanisms. But even before we have all of that apparatus in place—what I call the economic plumbing—we must first understand more concretely what such a strategy means to the people who can be helped.
Nearly half the 6 billion people in the world are poor. As a matter of definition, there are three degrees of poverty:
extreme (or absolute) poverty, moderate poverty and relative poverty. Extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as getting by on an income of less than $1 a day, means that households cannot meet basic needs for survival. They are chronically hungry, unable to get health care, lack safe drinking water and sanitation, cannot afford education for their children and perhaps lack rudimentary shelter—a roof to keep rain out of the hut—and basic articles of clothing, like shoes. We can describe extreme poverty as "the poverty that kills." Unlike moderate or relative poverty, extreme poverty now exists only in developing countries. Moderate poverty, defined as living on $1 to $2 a day, refers to conditions in which basic needs are met, but just barely. Being in relative poverty, defined by a household income level below a given proportion of the national average, means lacking things that the middle class now takes for granted.
The total number of people living in extreme poverty, the World Bank estimates, is 1.1 billion, down from 1.5 billion in 1981. While that is progress, much of the one-sixth of humanity in extreme poverty suffers the ravages of AIDS, drought, isolation and civil wars, and is thereby trapped in a vicious cycle of deprivation and death.
Moreover, while the economic boom in East Asia has helped reduce the proportion of the extreme poor in that region from 58% in 1981 to 15% in 2001, and in South Asia from 52% to 31%, the situation is deeply entrenched in Africa, where almost half of the continent's population lives in extreme poverty—a proportion that has actually grown worse over the past two decades as the rest of the world has grown more prosperous.
A few centuries ago, vast divides in wealth and poverty around the world did not exist. Just about everybody was poor, with the exception of a very small minority of rulers and large landowners.
Life was as difficult in much of Europe as it was in India or China.
Your great-great-grandparents were, with very few exceptions, poor and living on a farm. The onset of the Industrial Revolution, supported by a rise in agricultural productivity, unleashed an explosive period of modern economic growth. Both population and per-capita income came unstuck, rising at rates never before imagined. The global population rose more than sixfold in just two centuries, while the world's average per-capita income rose even faster, increasing around ninefold between 1820 and 2000. In today's rich countries, the economic growth was even more astounding. The U.S. per-capita income increased almost 25-fold during this period.
In beholding that success, many people embrace faulty social theories of those differences. When a society is economically dominant, it is easy for its members to assume that such dominance reflects a deeper superiority—whether religious, racial, genetic, ethnic, cultural or institutional—rather than an accident of timing or geography.
Such theories justified brutal forms of exploitation of the poor during colonial rule, and they persist even today among those who lack an understanding of what happened and is still happening in the Third World. In fact, the failure of the Third World to grow as rapidly as the First World is the result of a complex mix of factors, some geographical, some historical and some political. Imperial rule often left the conquered regions bereft of education, health care, indigenous political leadership and adequate physical infrastructure.
Often, newly independent countries in the post-World War II period made disastrous political choices, such as socialist economic models or a drive for self-sufficiency behind inefficient trade barriers.
But perhaps most pertinent today, many regions that got left furthest behind have faced special obstacles and hardships: diseases such as malaria, drought-prone climates in locations not suitable for irrigation, extreme isolation in mountains and landlocked regions, an absence of energy resources such as coal, gas and oil, and other liabilities that have kept these areas outside of the mainstream of global economic growth.
Countries ranging from Bolivia to Malawi to Afghanistan face challenges almost unknown in the rich world, challenges that are at first harrowing to contemplate, but on second thought encouraging in the sense that they also lend themselves to practical solutions.
In the past quarter-century, when poor countries have pleaded with the rich world for help, they have been sent to the world money doctor, the International Monetary Fund. For a quarter-century, and changing only very recently, the main IMF prescription has been budgetary belt-tightening for patients much too poor to own belts.
IMF-led austerity has frequently resulted in riots, coups and the collapse of public services. Finally, however, that approach is beginning to change.
It has taken me 20 years to understand what good development economics should be, and I am still learning. In my role as director of the U.N. Millennium Project, which has the goal of helping to cut the world's extreme poverty in half by 2015, I spent several eye-opening days with colleagues last July in a group of eight Kenyan villages known as the Sauri sublocation in the Siaya district of Nyanza province. We visited farms, clinics, hospitals and schools. We found a region beset by hunger, AIDS and malaria. The situation is grim, but salvageable.
More than 200 members of the community came to meet with us one afternoon. Hungry, thin and ill, they stayed for 31/2 hours, speaking with dignity, eloquence and clarity about their predicament. They are impoverished, but they are capable and resourceful. Though struggling to survive, they are not dispirited but are determined to improve their situation. They know well how they could get back to high ground.
The meeting took place on the grounds of a school called the Bar Sauri Primary School, where headmistress Anne Marcelline Omolo shepherds hundreds of schoolchildren through primary education and the travails of daily life.
Despite disease, orphanhood and hunger, all 33 of last year's eighth-grade class passed the Kenyan national secondary-school exams. On a Sunday last July, we saw why. On their "day off" from school, this year's class of eighth-graders sat at their desks from 6:30 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Preparing months in advance for this year's national examinations in November. Unfortunately, many who will pass the exams will be unable to take a position in a secondary school because of lack of money for tuition, uniforms and supplies. Nonetheless, to boost the fortitude of the eighth-graders during the critical examination year, the community provides them with a midday meal, cooked with wood and water the students bring from home. Alas, the community is currently unable to provide midday meals for the younger children, who must fend for themselves.
When our village meeting got under way, I canvassed the group and got very perceptive accounts of the grim situation.
Only two of the 200 farmers at the meeting reported using fertilizer at present. Around 25% are using improved fallows with nitrogen-fixing trees, a scientific farming approach developed and introduced into Sauri by the World Agroforestry Center. With this novel technique, villagers grow trees that naturally return nitrogen to the soil by converting it from the atmosphere, thus dramatically improving yields. The new method could be used throughout the village if more money were available for planting the trees alongside their maize crops.
The rest of the community is farming on tiny plots, sometimes no more than one-quarter of an acre, with soils that are so depleted of nutrients and organic matter that even if the rains are good, the households still go hungry. If the rains fail, the households face the risk of death from severe undernutrition. Stunting, meaning low height for one's age, is widespread, a sign of pervasive and chronic undernutrition of the children.
The real shocker came with my follow-up question. How many farmers had used fertilizers in the past? Every hand in the room went up. Farmer after farmer described how the price of fertilizer was now out of reach, and how their current impoverishment left them unable to purchase what they had used in the past.
As the afternoon unfolded, the gravity of the community's predicament became more apparent. I asked how many households were home to one or more orphaned children left behind by the AIDS pandemic. Virtually every hand in the room shot up. I asked how many households were receiving remittances from family members living in Nairobi and other cities. The response was that the only things coming back from the cities were coffins and orphans, not remittances.
I asked how many households had somebody currently suffering from malaria. Around three-fourths of the hands shot up. How many use antimalarial bed nets? Two out of 200 hands went up. How many knew about bed nets? All hands. And how many would like to use bed nets? All hands remained up. The problem, many of the women explained, is that they cannot afford the bed nets, which sell for a few dollars per net, and are too expensive even when partially subsidized by international donor agencies.
A few years back, Sauri's residents cooked with locally collected wood, but the decline in the number of trees has left the area bereft of sufficient fuel. Villagers said that they now buy pieces of fuel wood in Yala or Muhanda, a bundle of seven sticks costing around 30(cent). Not only are seven sticks barely enough to cook one meal, but for a lack of 30(cent), many villagers had in fact reverted to cooking with cow dung or to eating uncooked meals.
The dying village's isolation is stunning. There are no cars or trucks owned or used within Sauri, and only a handful of villagers said they had ridden in any kind of motorized transport during the past year. Around half of the individuals at the meeting said that they had never made a phone call in their entire lives.
This village could be rescued, but not by itself. Survival depends on addressing a series of specific challenges, all of which can be met with known, proven, reliable and appropriate technologies and interventions. (Thanks to a grant from the Lenfest Foundation in the U.S., the Earth Institute at Columbia University will put some novel ideas to work in Sauri.)
Sauri's villages, and impoverished villages like them all over the world, can be set on a path of development at a cost that is tiny for the world but too high for the villages themselves and for the Kenyan government on its own. African safari guides speak of the Big Five animals to watch for on the savannah.
The world should speak of the Big Five development interventions that would spell the difference between life and death for the savannah's people. Sauri's Big Five are:
Boosting agriculture
With fertilizers, cover crops, irrigation and improved seeds, Sauri's farmers could triple their food yields and quickly end chronic hunger. Grain could be protected in locally made storage bins using leaves from the improved fallow species tephrosia, which has insecticide properties.
Improving basic health
A village clinic with one doctor and nurse for the 5,000 residents would provide free antimalarial bed nets, effective antimalarial medicines and treatments for HIV/ AIDS opportunistic infections.
Investing in education
Meals for all the children at the primary school could improve the health of the kids, the quality of education and the attendance at school. Expanded vocational training for the students could teach them the skills of modern farming, computer literacy, basic infrastructure maintenance and carpentry. The village is ready and eager to be empowered by increased information and technical knowledge.
Bringing power
Electricity could be made available to the villages either via a power line or an off-grid diesel generator. The electricity would power lights and perhaps a computer for the school; pumps for safe well water; power for milling grain, refrigeration and other needs. The villagers emphasized that the students would like to study after sunset but cannot do so without electric lighting.
Providing clean water and sanitation
With enough water points and latrines for the safety of the entire village, women and children would save countless hours of toil each day fetching water. The water could be provided through a combination of protected springs, rainwater harvesting and other basic technologies.
The irony is that the cost of these services for Sauri's 5,000 residents would be very low. My Earth Institute colleagues and I estimated that the combined cost of these improvements, even including the cost of treatment for AIDS, would total only $70 per person per year, or around $350,000 for all of Sauri. The benefits would be astounding. Sooner rather than later, these investments would repay themselves not only in lives saved, children educated and communities preserved, but also in direct commercial returns to the villages and the chance for self-sustaining economic growth. The international donor community should be thinking round-the-clock of one question:
How can the Big Five interventions be done on a larger scale in rural areas similar to Sauri? With a population of some 33 million people, of whom two-thirds are in rural areas, Kenya would need annual investments on the order of $1.5 billion for its Sauris, with donors filling most of that financing gap, since the national government is already stretched beyond its means. Instead, donor support for investment in rural Kenya is perhaps $100 million, or a mere one-fifteenth of what is needed. And Kenya's debt service to the rich world is several hundred million dollars per year.
Kenya's budget is still being drained by the international community, not bolstered by it. This is all the more remarkable since Kenya is a new and fragile democracy that should be receiving considerable help.
The outside world has pat answers concerning extremely impoverished countries, especially those in Africa.
Everything comes back, again and again, to corruption and misrule. Western officials argue that Africa simply needs to behave itself better, to allow market forces to operate without interference by corrupt rulers. Yet the critics of African governance have it wrong. Politics simply can't explain Africa's prolonged economic crisis. The claim that Africa's corruption is the basic source of the problem does not withstand serious scrutiny. During the past decade I witnessed how relatively well-governed countries in Africa, such as Ghana, Malawi, Mali and Senegal, failed to prosper, whereas societies in Asia perceived to have extensive corruption, such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan, enjoyed rapid economic growth.
What is the explanation? Every situation of extreme poverty around the world contains some of its own unique causes, which need to be diagnosed just as a doctor would a patient. For example, Africa is burdened with malaria like no other part of the world, simply because it is unlucky in providing the perfect conditions for that disease: high temperatures, plenty of breeding sites and particular species of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes that prefer to bite humans rather than cattle.
Another myth is that the developed world already gives plenty of aid to the world's poor. Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill expressed a common frustration when he remarked about aid for Africa: "We've spent trillions of dollars on these problems and we have damn near nothing to show for it." O'Neill was no foe of foreign aid.
Indeed, he wanted to fix the system so that more U.S. aid could be justified. But he was wrong to believe that vast flows of aid to Africa had been squandered.
President Bush said in a press conference in April 2004 that as "the greatest power on the face of the earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom. We have an obligation to feed the hungry." Yet how does the U.S. fulfill its obligation? U.S. aid to farmers in poor countries to help them grow more food runs at around $200 million per year, far less than $1 per person per year for the hundreds of millions of people living in subsistence farm households.
From the world as a whole, the amount of aid per African per year is really very small, just $30 per sub-Saharan African in 2002. Of that modest amount, almost $5 was actually for consultants from the donor countries, more than $3 was for emergency aid, about $4 went for servicing Africa's debts and $5 was for debt-relief operations. The rest, about $12, went to Africa. Since the "money down the drain" argument is heard most frequently in the U.S., it's worth looking at the same calculations for U.S. aid alone. In 2002, the U.S. gave $3 per sub-Saharan African. Taking out the parts for U.S. consultants and technical cooperation, food and other emergency aid, administrative costs and debt relief, the aid per African came to the grand total of perhaps 6(cent).
The U.S. has promised repeatedly over the decades, as a signatory to global agreements like the Monterrey Consensus of 2002, to give a much larger proportion of its annual output, specifically up to 0.7% of GNP, to official development assistance. The U.S.'s failure to follow through has no political fallout domestically, of course, because not one in a million U.S. citizens even knows of statements like the Monterrey Consensus. But we should not underestimate the salience that it has abroad. Spin as we might in the U.S. about our generosity, the poor countries are fully aware of what we are not doing.
The costs of action are a tiny fraction of the costs of inaction. And yet we must carry out these tasks in a context of global inertia, proclivities to war and prejudice, and understandable skepticism around the world that this time can be different from the past. Here are nine steps to the goal:
Commit to the task.
Oxfam and many other leaders in civil society have embraced the goal of Making Poverty History. The world as a whole needs now to embrace the goal.
Adopt a plan of action.
The U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals, approved by all of the world's governments at the start of the millennium, are the down payment on ending poverty. The MDGS set out specific targets for cutting poverty, hunger, disease and environmental degradation by 2015 and thereby laid the foundation for eliminating extreme poverty by 2025. The rich and poor countries have solemnly agreed to work toward fulfilling the MDGS. The key is to follow through.
Raise the voice of the poor.
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. did not wait for the rich and powerful to come to their rescue. They asserted their call to justice and made their stand in the face of official arrogance and neglect. It is time for the democracies in the poor world—Brazil, India, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and dozens of others—to join together to issue the call to action.
Redeem the U.S. role in the world.
The richest and most powerful country, long the leader and inspiration in democratic ideals, is barely participating in global efforts to end poverty and protect the environment, thus undermining its own security. It's time to honor the commitment to give 0.7% of our national income to these crucial goals.
Rescue the IMF and World Bank.
They have the experience and technical sophistication to play an important role.
They have the internal motivation of a highly professional staff. Yet they have been used like debt-collection agencies for the big creditor countries. It's time to restore their role in helping all 182 of their member countries, not just the rich ones, in the pursuit of enlightened globalization.
Strengthen the U.N.
It is no use blaming the U.N. for the missteps of recent years. Why are U.N. agencies less operational than they should be? Not because of "U.N. bureaucracy," though that exists, but because the powerful countries fear ceding more authority. Yet U.N. specialized agencies have a core role to play in the ending of poverty. It is time to empower the likes of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (who), the Food and Agricultural Organization (fao), and many others to do the job—on the ground, country by country.
Harness global science.
New technology has led directly to improved standards of living, yet science tends to follow market forces as well as to lead them. It is not surprising that the rich get richer in a continuing cycle of growth while the poorest are often left behind. A special effort should be made by the powerhouses of world science to address the unmet challenges of the poor.
Promote sustainable development.
Ending extreme poverty can relieve many of the pressures on the environment.
When impoverished households are more productive on their farms, for example, they face less pressure to cut down neighboring forests in search of new farmland. Still, even as extreme poverty ends, we must not fuel prosperity with a lack of concern for industrial pollution and the unchecked burning of fossil fuels.
Make a personal commitment.
It all comes back to us. Individuals, working in unison, form and shape societies.
The final myth I will debunk here is that politicians are punished by their constituents for supporting actions to help the poor. There is plenty of experience to show that the broad public will accept such measures, especially if they see that the rich within their own societies are asked to meet their fair share of the burden. Great social forces are the mere accumulation of individual actions. Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope, and that we worked together to heal the world.
Copyright (copyright)2005 Jeffrey Sachs.
Adapted from The End of Poverty, to be published this month in the U.S. by Penguin
The Road to Recovery
Though outside aid and assistance are vital, Africa must find its own path from poverty to prosperity
By SIMON ROBINSON
Posted Sunday, March 6, 2005; 14.09 GMT
It's a smooth ride from the Rwandan capital of Kigali to the border shared with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Heading west on an immaculate stretch of tarmac, the road winds through hills covered by quilts of carefully tended fields. Where it has ruptured, workers are busy digging in preparation for patching.
The only delay comes from uniformed police officers who check driving licenses and safety regulations. Once across the border into Congo, though, it's an altogether bumpier ride. Deep potholes ravage the tires. There are still police at the roadside, but these officers demand bribes for safe passage. To where? Goma, the first stop along the route, is desolate. A 2002 volcanic eruption and almost a decade of civil war have laid waste the town; endemic corruption has siphoned off crucial funds for reconstruction. Goma is one reason why rich countries are wary of giving more aid to Africa. And the problems that plague this border town — natural disasters, dire poverty, corrupt and brutal leaders — afflict the continent as a whole. Money alone can't banish these scourges. After recent meetings at which the failures of development policy, and possible new approaches, were discussed — the Commission for Africa two weeks ago, the G-7 Finance Ministers' meeting in February — donors were asking why they should now forgive more debt and stump up more cash. Can African governments be trusted to spend wisely? Or are outside nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) a better investment?
Some say that Africa can't — or won't — turn itself around. Yet back at the start of the road to Goma lies a powerful counterargument. Ten years ago, Rwanda was torn apart by a genocide in which 800,000 people died. Now, though still terribly scarred, the country is recovering. The government has tackled corruption and brought order to the countryside. In Kigali, business is booming. Rwanda's own efforts are bolstered by assistance from foreign governments and aid agencies. Its citizens have cause for hope — and so, too, say African leaders, does the rest of the continent. Africa's horror stories mask real progress. Three years ago, the continent's 54 countries launched the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), an umbrella organization that hopes to attract investment by bolstering good governance. NEPAD differs from ambitious past initiatives, say its fans, because it was created in Africa, is headed up by Africa's most influential leaders — Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo, Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki — and because it is matching words with deeds.
Under a system of "peer review" introduced by NEPAD last year, African countries now must submit their democratic credentials to a panel of African experts. Supporters hope the scheme will lead to a kind of good-governance rating system that investors and donors can use as a guide for where they should put their money.
Critics say the system is voluntary, and therefore useless in countries like Zimbabwe, where despotic regimes are in power. But Senegal's Wade insists that despite the limits to NEPAD's efforts, this time Africa is getting it right. "In the past, we used to come up with thousands and thousands of pages with drawings and coefficients and formulae telling us how to fix Africa," Wade told Time. "The concept of NEPAD is simple: if you improve the way you govern, you'll be rewarded."
Senegal, along with other maturing democracies such as Ghana and Mozambique, shows how effective this approach can be. While these nations remain poor, they hold regular and fair elections, are improving basic services and have begun to knock their economies into shape. As a result, they've enjoyed partial debt relief and now receive a lot more aid directly into their national budgets, which means governments can set out long-term strategies and avoid the boom-and-bust cycle of money tied to specific projects. "Where a democracy is mature enough, it's better to give money straight to the government and then help strengthen civil society," says Emily Larbi Jones, an economist in Ghana's Ministry of Trade and Industry. "That way, local people can hold their leaders accountable."
Unfortunately, extra money doesn't always make for better governance.
Analysts worry that countries that receive too much of their national budgets from foreign donors become answerable to outsiders rather than voters and are more open to corruption.
"It's human nature that when you have a huge gravy train of money, you have more people hopping aboard," says Ross Herbert, head of the NEPAD and Governance Project at the South African Institute of International Affairs. Even in Senegal, President Wade says he will insist on joint Senegal–donor oversight of all new aid money. "One never knows," he says. "If there is ever corruption or bad management, we will share the mistake."
Kenyans know all about those kinds of "mistakes." When Mwai Kibaki won Kenya's presidency in late 2002, he announced a war on corruption and enlisted veteran anticorruption campaigner John Githongo to lead a new graft-busting unit. Last month, Githongo threw in the towel, saying his job had become impossible. Corruption, say foreign diplomats in Kenya, has cost the country more than $1 billion over the past three years. "We are talking about massive looting," British High Commissioner to Kenya Edward Clay commented. Germany and the U.S. have suspended their anticorruption aid programs to the country.
When governments can't be trusted, donors can still channel money through international aid groups and NGOs. But charitable intervention holds perils, too.
Aid groups don't always spend wisely, and even the best organizations can inflict unintended damage — distorting local economies, driving up real-estate prices and luring talented locals from government or private-sector jobs.
Sustainable economic growth, on the other hand, can produce amazing results, which is why some campaigners now focus on creating a fair trading environment. When it comes to the international market, African countries find themselves on a playing field that's still far from level. Even with much cheaper labor costs, African cotton farmers, for instance, can't compete against the heavily subsidized cotton grown in the U.S. — though a World Trade Organization ruling last week that found U.S. cotton subsidies illegal offers new hope. But some entrepreneurs are succeeding despite the obstacles — and with the help of new technology. In Uganda and Tanzania, for example, farmers now use mobile phones to follow the international coffee price, cutting out middlemen and timing sales to make bigger profits.
Business alone can't rebuild the entire continent, though. It will take political will — from Africans and outsiders — to do that, as the nurses in the Qoaling clinic on the outskirts of Maseru, Lesotho's capital, know. Assistant nurse Mpolokeng Ramohlabi flicks a syringe, squeezes up a fold of skin on the leg of two-month-old Pontso, and plunges the needle in. She and a colleague will vaccinate more than 100 children over the next few hours, safeguarding them against measles, polio, diphtheria and tetanus. Ramohlabi's salary comes from the government, but the vaccines are supplied by Japan, the clinic was built with Dutch money, and training for Ramohlabi and other clinic staff is paid for by the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF. "Here in Lesotho," she says, "the patients are many but the nurses are few." It will take more nurses like Ramohlabi and more help from outside to heal all of Africa's ills.
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Deo Valente Mission - Pretoria - South Africa
Community Development and Missionary Administration.
Also in partnership with the Wolmer Community Project;
Registered as a Non-Profit-Organisation, Reg. No: 005-199.
Website:
www.sachurchnet.co.za/missioncare
Do nothing to these men, but let them be:
for if
this teaching or this work is of men, it will come
to nothing: But if it is of God, you will not be
able to overcome them, and you are in danger of
fighting against God. Act's 5:38-39
Subject: Urgent Prayer Request
Deo Valente Mission
2 April 2005
Urgent Prayer Request.
Dear Friends
Please storm heaven with us and pray for our April 2005 budget expenses. We urgently need God to supply for this ministry, thiefs break into our offices and we need to replace some items very urgently.Our expenses for the April 2005 budget are $4453. It is only a miracle from God that can supply the shortfall of $3500. We know the devil won't stop the projects and God will provide. Please stay in prayer with us and also take this request to your church prayer meetings.
Thank you very much for interceding with us.
God bless every faithful prayer warrior.
Johan & Esther Lourens
· Or sent a bank cheque by post to:
Deo Valente Mission, P.O.Box 1466, Brits, 0250 South Africa.
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Deo Valente Mission - Pretoria - South Africa
Community Development and Missionary Administration.
Also in partnership with the Wolmer Community Project;
Registered as a Non-Profit-Organisation, Reg. No: 005-199.
Website:
www.sachurchnet.co.za/missioncare
Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if
this teaching or this work is of men, it will come
to nothing: But if it is of God, you will not be
able to overcome them, and you are in danger of
fighting against God. Act's 5:38-39
Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2005
Subject: DETAILS OF OUR PROGRAMME
Dear Beloved Mark Tross,
Thank you very much for demanding details of our programmes, "SEARCHING FOR LOST AND CARING FOR THE SAVED NIGERIA 2005".
DETAILS: THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL YEARLY PROGRAMMES.
1. YOU ARE NEEDED AS ONE OF THE GUEST SPEAKERS
2. THE PROGRAMMES ARE ORGANIZED IN 13 STATES OF NIGERIA. FROM 1ST OF MAY - 30TH OF MAY 2005
3. YOU ARE TO CHOOSE WHEN YOU WILL ARRIVE NIGERIA AND HOW MANY STATES YOU FEEL LED TO SPEAK IN THE PROGRAMMES.
4. WE HAVE ORGANIZED: MINISTERS CONFERENCE, CITY WIDE CRUSADES, WORKSHOPS (WITH GIFTS TO THE NEEDY, LIKE FOODS, CLOTHS, BIBLES ETC). AND WOMEN IN MINISTRY SEMINARS.
5. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR COMFORTABLE ACCOMODIATIONS THROUGHOUT YOUR STAY IN NIGERIA.
6. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR TYPE OF FOOD THROUGHOUT YOUR STAY IN NIGERIA (AT LEAST TWO MEALS A DAY)
7. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL YOUR TRIPS WITHIN NIGERIA THROUGHOUT YOUR STAY.
8. YOU WOULD MEET NOT LESS THAN 2000 MINSITERS TO SPEAK TO IN OUR CONFERENCES.
9. YOU WOULD SPEAK TO NOT LESS THAN 10,000 UNSAVED SOULS IN OUR CRUSADES.
10. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME OF THIS PROGRAMME.
11. IF YOU ARE PLEASED AND LED AFTER THE PROGRAMMES YOU CAN ALSO ESTABLISH YOUR MINISTRY WITH US IN NIGERIA.
12. WE HAVE NOT LESS THAN 500 MINISTERS AS ORGANIZERS OF "SEARCHING FOR THE LOST AND CARING FOR THE SAVED"
13. YOU ARE THE FIRST THAT HAS RESPONDED BY DEMANDING FOR DETAILS OF THE ABOVE PROGRAMME.
14. INCASE YOU ACCEPT OUR INVITATION, WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING WITH YOU SO THAT WE COULD MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR SUCH NUMBER
15. BISHOP ROB KEE, BISHOP CHARLIE CHANCELLOR AND REV. ROBERT KEE WERE IN THE PROGRAMME LAST YEAR, 2004. AND IT WAS WONDERFUL AS THEY SPENT 35 DAYS IN NIGERIA
16. WE WOULD LIKE TO JOIN YOUR WORLD WIDE CHRISTIAN E-FELLOWHIP GROUP TODAY.
THANKS YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU AS WE EXPECT YOUR SOONEST MAIL.
BISHOP EBERECHRIS EDMUND.
NIGERIA INCHARGE
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Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2005
Greetings
I offer gratitudes to God. I am very much encouraged today. I and my wife are doing well. There is a testimony of a wonderful work of serving the Lord our God in this region. Just back home from Busia Mission in Western Kenya. We have bee doing evangelism and church planting in those villeges in western Kenya. Then in June I will be teaming up with Pastor Barongerwa Daniel in Kigali, Rwanda, Central Africa, for the Crusade and Church planting. We are trusting God that we will be able also to minister to the orphans of genocide the villeges their in Gisenyi district with pastor Garveis Habimana and Celestine Namenye.
Pray with us and we are with you in prayer too. I need now ANY STUDY BIBLE I would like to ACQUIRE ONE: eg.
NIV study Bible, Scofield Reference Bible, Thompson Chain Reference, or Thomas Nelson reference Bible....Just Any . Also -USED CHRISTIAN MATERIAL FOR OUR CHURCH LIBRARY, evangelism tools, BIBLES FOR THE NEW CONVERTS AND THOSE WHO NEED THEM MOST. Pray about it and and share with somebody.
Honestly, WE DEPENT ON DONATIONS AND HANDOUTS FOR SURVIVAL AND RUNNING OF MINISTRY. Also I make a living by doing all kinds of odd jobs and casual jobs to support family, and myself. I have been praying about what we can do to reach more souls with the message of hope and peace and salvation and the Lord has laid on my heart that we have been too cautious. We believe God for miracles and provision, take risks of faith and commit ourselves to outreach projects, that are, admittedly, beyond our natural ability to afford. I want to wish you and your ministry a peaceful, blessed and happy time. Thanks very much for all you are doing for God and for his people.
May the Lord bless you and hear all your prayers. you will be kept in touch as we do missions. I wold like to have more fruitful fellowship with you. Too, I would like to know your testimony more.
Please, Get in touch through the address below You can visit our website to know us more. I pray God will see you through everything.God bless you in all you do.
It really doesn't matter what it takes or how much it costs. No matter what the Lord has to do in your life to produce His character, His personality, His authority and makeup in you, any price you wind up paying is cheap in the final analysis.We are praying for you too Scripture of the day, Please read:
Philippians 2:1-9 The mind of Christ Jesus.
You can get more info about us on the website below.-- Pastor Vincent Barasa Maina
Revival Gospel Church Ministries
P.O. Box 15818 Nakuru
(20100 Kenya, East Africa
Email: rmichurch@hotmail.com
www.revivalgospel.com
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Subject:
Spring of Life Ministry April Email update
Date: Mon, May 9, 2005
SPRING OF LIFE MINISTRY AFRICA
BELATED GREETINGS!
Belated but happy greetings in Jesus' name from Greg and Sandy in Canada!
We have been enjoying the warm hospitality of so many of our friends, and the tasty food! And what a wonderful time we have had with all our grandchildren! It has been two years since we last saw them, and they have grown so much!
INCREASE AND RELEASE!
In December of 2004, the Lord spoke to us and revealed the 2005 would be a year of increase in the harvest of souls, and it would be a year of release of the funds needed for the harvest! When God speaks, the choice to believe Him usually involves our faith, or action!
GETTING INTO ACTION!
December is the month that the National Leaders of SOLMA gather to vision cast and set the goals for the next year. The goal of 5,500 souls was set this past Dec/04, based on the fact that God had been doubling the number of souls in our ministry for the past 3 years. 5,500 souls is a worthy goal but there was a stirring in my heart, a feeling of excitement and anticipation, and a growing expectation for the coming harvest!
NO PROBLEM!
I shared my growing excitement with Pastor Nathan, the National Overseer of Uganda, (and my best friend!) and we agreed and prayed for 10,000 souls for the year! We further agreed that there would be 1,000 souls in January, and another 1,000 souls in February! 'How?' asked Pastor Nathan. I told him it was not his problem, it was not my problem, it was God's problem! And God has no problems! So we can just declare it as done in Jesus' name!
WHEN YOU HAVE A SPIRITUAL VISION, AND YOU MAKE A DECISION AND PUBLIC CONFESSION, EXPECT SUPERNATURAL PROVISION!
By faith we made the decision to increase our crusade/seminars (c/s) from one week each month to two weeks a month in different locations. Funding one c/s a month had been a real tug-of-war, and now we were embarking on funding two a month! The following two months were truly miraculous as God took over, providing all the funding necessary. Not only that, but 1,881 people received Jesus as their Savoir! In the next two months that total has now risen to 2,973 salvations, over 200 more than all last year!
SUPERNATURAL STRATEGIES EMERGE!
STRATEGY #1 - For two or more years SOLMA has been praying and believing for a crusade tent, enabling us to avoid the hot sun and wet rain. Most importantly, it will attract hundreds of more people to our c/s. To appreciate and understand this particular dynamic (the addition of a tent), you would have to attend one of our 'deep in the jungle' crusade/seminars. The crusade begins about 6:00 pm with singing and dancing, then there are a few testimonies and at about 7:00 pm the salvation message is given. By 7:00 to 7:30, it is now dusk, with men and women returning to the village from the fields, and they are attracted to the noise and music.
Children are running everywhere, goats and chickens mix with the crowd, vendors are setting up for the evening meals, and the only thing lacking to complete the carnival atmosphere would be a ferris wheel and popcorn machine!
And a tent! WE NOW HAVE A TENT!!
While here in Canada, another missionary couple sat us down and wrote a cheque for a crusade tent! In Canada, it would probably hold about 200 people, but in Uganda, it will hold about 600 or more! A God given strategy to attract more to hear the gospel and receive Jesus!
STRATEGY #2 - 9 months ago, at the National Executive Meeting, the District Overseers wanted to elect a District youth leader as a representative from each District from the individual churches. This was a good idea, since 60% of Uganda is 16 years of age and under. I wondered, Lord, what will we do with all these newly elected Youth Leaders? In March/05, God brought His strategy to us! The 'Book of Hope' child and youth evangelism program came to Uganda, and 31 of our youth and district leaders have been trained to take this program to the nation. And thousands upon thousands will be ushered into the Kingdom of God as a result of this additional strategy, praise God!
STRATEGY #3 - Financial release! This trip home to North America, the Lord spoke to us to focus on fund raising for Ministry, since all our personal needs are so wonderfully taken care of by our Home Church in North Vancouver, BC. We have been focusing on two main needs.
1) We need 5 - $300 a month commitments from Churches or individuals, 2) and we need 12 - $100 a month commitments as well. for out National Workers (Missionaries). In just 3 weeks of being in North America, 2 of the $300 and 1 of the $100 needs have been filled! And we still have 7 weeks to raise the balance! Our God is more than able to meet every need!
REJOICE WITH US! ISAIAH 9:3
There is joy at the time of harvest! All the times of personal sacrifice, hard work and tears culminate in joy for the harvest - and what joy we will share as co-laborers! As we team together - some going, some sending, some planting, some watering and all praying - but all rejoicing as we are bringing in the 'sheaves'!
It's all about Jesus, it's all about exalting Him and lifting Him up, and as we do, we fulfill Jesus' prayer to our Heavenly Father. 'May Your Kingdom come, and Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.' God's will is that none should perish. God's Kingdom is established in the hearts and lives of men and women.
Thought for the month - same as last month! Many ministries have proven what they can do with next to nothing, but wouldn't it be wonderful to see what they could do with enough!
Our love and prayers to each one, you are needed,
Greg and Sandy Lemky in Africa - LOOKING FOR SOULS!!
IT IS THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED!
There is a story to the effect that a Society in South Africa wrote to David Livingstone: 'Have you found a good road to where you are? If so, we want to know how to send other men to join you.' Livingstone replied, 'If you have men who will come only if there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all!' The work of the Kingdom needs such men and women today!
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Mark and the Arms of Love Fellowship Team
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