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Andy & Val Simcock, UK in Chaing Rai, Thailand
say the children's home should be finished very soon now. God has
really blessed us through one couple sponsoring the water well and a
church is paying to install the kitchen and boy's bedroom. Facebook
Paslisa Lusala says I'm making Christmas dresses for the orphans that we take care of in my church. Akhim says I am in Cambodia working with young people, friendship and English lessons. E-mail Tito who wants to support a church or Bible School in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
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8th December, 2010
One friend said to another,
"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to
them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
His friend replied, "Pardon, what did you say?"
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Stephen Dai Zawng says I lead a church and do Bible training in Myanmar. Totoavy says I'm the pastor of 10 small churches in Madagascar. Amalia Antunez says I teach 12 to 14 year old's in Sunday School in Uruguay.
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7th December, 2010
Justice Hayford says it is so sad that preachers on Ghana
FM radio talk about social gospel or prosperity. May the Lord have
mercy on these preachers, transform them and use them to really preach
God's word that changes lives.
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Liliana
says our church just did its 1st mission trip taking out food and
clothes. Nicolas D Ndap says I am talking to people about Christ in
Ungwa-Musa, Nigeria and assisting orphans. Solomon Raju, India says I am a retired School Principal now taking God's word to people.
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Jules Wazeng, Lubumbashi, RD Congo says we have 41 graduates from our DCI free School of Mission who
will take their faith, open new churches, help the poor and train new
leaders. New courses start here and in Likasi, Kambove, Kakanda, and
Kolwezi.
Best selling author and government advisor Jim Wallis says my favourite theologian and hero is Robin Hood,
I like the way he robbed the rich and gave the money to the poor, but
then to be honest any gospel that is not good news to poor people is
not the gospel of Jesus Christ. Website
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Anna Robinson, Bath, UK says I'm just back from Turkey, many
Middle East people came to our Conference so thirsty to dwell in
God’s presence whilst living busy and stressful lives.
Les Norman, the editor says we urgently need some immediate volunteer help with translation from English to French to keep the French page up to date. Contact me if you would like to join us.
3rd December, 2010
Sarwar Masih, Pakistan
says I am very much thankful to readers for the gift of £500 to help
pay the medical bills of our injured women and children after the
beatings last week. See the December 1st report.
DCI partner Pastor Sarwar Masih, Lahore, Pakistan says that
last week a mob armed with heavy
weapons entered the worship service and beat the entire
congregation, seriously injuring escaping women and children, then
using a
bulldozer and a heavy crane they demolished the whole church
building and destroyed Bibles, musical instruments, the sound system,
everything. We called the police but they did not come or investigate,
and will not protect us from ongoing death threats.
Local government officials show no concern. The land and
building is legally ours and there was no
warning. Our lives are in danger,
please pray for us and pass on our need for legal assistance
and help.
Les
Norman, the editor and founder of DCI says the West is
sending millions of pounds of aid to Pakistan and there
is no way that this latest injustice and indifference should
go without protest. It may even be that our taxes are paying
the wages of the Police to do nothing. Can we do anything to help ? You
can pray, you can tell your press, radio and
TV, you can help to pay £870 owed by poor people for
medical attention and you can protest to your government's
Foreign Ministry and to the Pakistan High Commission in your
capital city as we have.
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Bobby
Hitt, USA
says this attack really tears my soul, we are praying and I
am
imploring others to feel the same painful stab of fear for those poor
people that I feel. May God Almighty blow back this unleashed
evil.
YM, Indonesia
says what sad news but here we have endured the same hatred from
people, Christians and Chinese are always targets when there is
chaos, it is so difficult to do what Jesus says and love your enemy.
Ranledis, Cuba says this is so sad, we are praying for these brave people who are suffering for their faith.
Antonio, Philippines
says this should not happen in the dot com age, embarrassing
for the free world to be content in our own neat corners
while people suffer like this. We will pray unceasingly for them.
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Liliana says I go to a prayer group that prays every day for Venezuela and the world. Issa Yonli says I am opening churches in Niger, like your free materials. Fernando says my bread shop gives away bread to new believers who need it.
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Antonio Manaytay, Ipil, Philippines says our
hearts bleed for
the Badjaos Sea Gypsies in our town who are reduced to begging for food
because they were forced off the seas because of wars and piracy. We
may do a Christmas Party with the Poor for
these destitute people.
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Jim, USA
says I didn't know that Christians cared about poverty, Iraq, Afghanistan
or the environment, nice to find you. Maria,
Peru
says our ladies are saving money to give Christmas
baskets of food and chocolates to the poor.
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26th November, 2010
Paul says we have started the DCI
School of Mission in Beijing, China,
students are determined to go out of China but for now are ready to go
to Shanghai and Guangzhou to set up branch Schools.
Dave Sinclair says I am taking the freeChalmers
Center class on
Community Development, it's very good. Gaston Oviedo says we are
planting our third church in Spain.
Click
for more on disabled Afghan
man jailed since May for his Christian faith facing fear of
execution, but Asia Bibi in Pakistan
facing death for her faith (11 November) is released by President
after international and media pressure, more
here.
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Click to see the car that flies
made by Steve Saint, inventor, pilot and missionary.
Felly says our new prayer group is growing in Luanda, Angola,
next are Sunday meetings. DW, USA a
completely delivered recovering
addict says for all like me to seek God and He will free you.
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23rd November, 2010
Marion Male, NCTC in Fiji
says for years I have seen so many beautiful children not going to
school so we started a new primary school and it is going so well, God
is doing great things.
Nisy says Boricuas en Acción Social Puerto Rico trains
and equips mission teams. Sergio, Monterrey, Mexico says we
started church four years ago and plan four more. John, Colombia says I
lead a church, am a doctor, my wife teaches English, we want
to serve the nations.
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22nd November, 2010
THE
LEADER'S
REFLECTION
Zechariah
4 talks about not despising a day of small things, that's because the
seed of greatness is contained in small beginnings.
DISCUSS
It costs a fortune to go to the famous Fuller
Seminary in the USA but click
here to have their full School of Psychology Member
Care Symposium for free
with complete video, audio and written materials.
Supermarket chain Tesco in the UK
buys a Methodist Church that declined
down to nothing and no-one and turns it into a shop selling everything
that John Wesley preached against.
If the Lord God came to England and started
expounding his beliefs, you
know what the English would say? They'd say, "Oh, come off it!"
Prof.
George Steiner, Cambridge quoted by Jeremy Paxman.
Juan, REMARChile says we
have homes for homeless and people with drug
or alcohol problems. Jose Nota, Brazil
says our Training School has 3
centres and 30 students. Hamilton
Tovar, Venezuela
says every Monday we pray for God's Kingdom to come
through world mission.
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19th November, 2010
Twenty goats for orphans in
Lira, Uganda
have been sponsored
by 13 year old Hannah in Nottingham, UK who makes key
rings for sale at 50p each. One £20 goat gives a young boy or
girl a great start
in life, soon they have money for school, medicine and later marriage.
Well done Hannah.
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Luz Mary says I live in a tough part of Bógota Colombia, give
all my time to our church's work. Similor Luc says we have 5 churches
and do education, leaders training and mission in Haiti.
Cleomar, Brazil
says I am sad to see so many church leaders spending
funds on religious tourism to Israel while millions wait to hear the
gospel.
Tell us what
you are doing or contact the writers Do you need someone to talk to? Click
to e-mail Sharon from DCI England. Sharon has a Masters in
Counselling
and
Psychology, she is a committed Christian and personally very familiar
with
suffering. You can talk to Sharon as a trustworthy
friend and she will reply to you, in English.
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18th November, 2010
Congratulations to Bunches,
a UK Christian business and supporters of mission for many years, on
having a visit from HRH
The Duke of Kent to recognise their God-given success.
Karyn Brownlee
says the teaching in many churches these days is a 'feel-good'
message that merely entertains and motivates but rarely educates, are
we hearing anything better than is heard in Rotary Clubs or
mosques? Read more in English or use Google
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Johnny Auguste, Haiti
says my 21 orphans children are very well thanks to God who is
protecting us against the cholera. Our grateful thanks to everyone who
has e-mailed to say they will pray for Haiti and for us.
George
Purkweri, Uganda
says one young prostitute with a child that we took in and
trained
in tailoring is now married to a school teacher and they
are happy. Most of other girls who were sponsored by
readers
of this page are now settled, some with their own sewing business and
no longer in prostitution.
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THE
LEADER'S REFLECTION
Vocation
does not come a voice out there calling me to be something I am not, it
comes from a voice inside calling me to be the person I was born to be to
fulfill God's purpose for me. Thomas Merton
Anna Robinson, Bath, UK says I am going
to the Middle East
to help lead
a regional conference for people planting churches, please pray for me,
the journeys and the conference, I am 30 weeks pregnant.
This Christian lady faces death for
blasphemy after using 'unclean hands' to bring water. It's time for Pakistan to stop
this medieval mob
rule and injustice. Full story here or enter page URL
into Google
Translator.
Miner Jose Henriquez told thousands at a
festival in Santiago, Chile
that 22 of the 33 trapped miners turned to Christ whilst waiting to be
rescued. Full story in English
or Spanish
Charles Johnson says when we took
food, clothes, nets and medicine to
Bokay Town, Liberia
we had to avoid a stampede which could have led to
the death of starving children and elderly people who are dying daily
due to starvation, cholera and malaria which I also caught. Click for photos
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Congratulations to Paul Dsane,
the new Assistant
Superintendent of AoG Ghana.
Paul was briefly a DCI student
in the 90's. DCI Partner since 1984 Philippe Ouedroago is
now the Vice President of AoG Burkina Faso with
some
400,000 members.
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Click
here to see a forthcoming Wikipedia article
on our work, researched and written independently of ourselves as part
of academic studies requested by the prestigious Fuller
Seminary in the USA.
DCI
has never been a fund-raising organisation nor do we make appeals, send
out magazines or ask for offerings, rather we are a gathering point for
people who feel called to giving for the benefit of the last, the lost
and the least of the world. As Pastor Oswald Smith famously said in the
1930's, "If you can't go yourself, then for God's sake, send someone
else."
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Les
Norman 61, is a journalist, writer, speaker and
a manager for the
DCI Fund, focussing on the lost, the last and the least of the world.
Since 1977 he has been following the call of Christ. He is married to
Pilar with three grown up children. Contact me or invite me