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20th August, 2008

Cameroon

TEN NEW SCHOOLS OF MISSION: CAMEROON


Our partner in Yaounde - Cameroon, Dr. Andre Talla says that this September he will open five new Schools of Mission in Garoua, Douala, Yaoundé, Bertoua and in Ebolowa with a total of 125 new students. This will be followed in October by five more Schools in five more states. This is very exciting news from West Africa.



praying

PRAYER, PILLS AND PATIENCE: MID-EAST


One of our partners in the Middle East who we cannot name is quite poorly and finding it unusually hard to recover. We want to say to you that we will not stop praying and getting people to pray for you, until the rough paths become smooth again and your life is once again a highway for the Lord. Some things only ever find an answer in prayer. Never underestimate the depth of spiritual opposition to you personally because not only are you a believer in a land of intense opposition to the gospel but your giving is also allowing others to believe for the first time in distant parts of the world that no-one else cares about. 



18th August, 2008

Gareth

THAI HILLTRIBE SCHOOL ASKS FOR CONTACTS IN LAOS


From his home and work in the Hilltribe Bible School near Chiang Mai, Thailand, Gareth Lavell writes trying to help refugees from the Burma cyclone. He is also working with a local youth prison service, a church and he teaches English and the Bible in a Korean church and school as well. He is asking for help for a poor but well organised hilltribe orphanage. Gareth tells us that one refugee from Burma has just decided to trust Jesus as did 110 young prisoners two weeks ago. His Bible School students want to go to Laos for 2 to 4 weeks next year and would like people in Laos to get in touch please.






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From October M and Madame Villa from La Maison de Jerusalem are in France, starting from Toulouse and would like to meet churches and house fellowships.


In the unreached area of Cayma, Arequipa - Peru, Javier Antonio is working with young people seven days a week and has a plan to take the gospel to every home in the village.


Journalist Andreas Klamm tells us that the John Baptist Mission website in Togo has the latest news about the 5,000 people left homeless by severe floods.


Fernando in Cartagena-Spain says that an astonishing 50,000 people a year turn to living in the streets of Spain. His Good Samaritan website shows us how to do something.



15th August 2008

Rolando

ANDES COLD TO AMAZON HEAT: PERU


Our partner Rolando Canazas is just back in Huancayo - Peru after a long trip with a team of young people to meet unreached peoples in the Peruvian Andes where poor villagers can lose their lives overnight in the low temperatures. They held a first thanksgiving and worship service in Ninyana - Junin where military and civilian authorities and the local believers all got together to enjoy a day's festivities and to pray for the region. Rolando's trip is to Iquitos to open DCI School of Missions in the Amazon area. Right now he is hosting our niece from Spain, Deborah and her friend Sarah, who have come to Peru to meet him and to visit projects for abused women and children on behalf of a Spanish mission.



Daniel

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: SOUTH INDIA


Our good friend and partner of many years Pastor Daniel of Mercy Homes would like to invite you his International Pastors Conference in Trichur, Kerala next February 16 to 19th. The nearest airport is Cochin and Daniel will provide all your local transport, food and accommodation. It's just $50 if you are coming from a developing world country. This will be a big event, many will decide to follow Jesus and leaders will be blessed. We would love to go.



13th August 2008

sheep milking

SHEEP THAT MILK THE SHEPHERD: UGANDA


When our partner in Uganda George Purkweri fell very sick we tried to find out why that was but we were definitely not prepared for the answer. George explained about long distance travel on bad roads to get to train leaders and monitor their projects and then having to eat bad food because that is all the people. He had been sleeping in hovels with swarming mosquitoes and then when his wife Jane came down with gangrene, the very same disease that killed her mother, the shock caused a total breakdown.  Happily God has now healed both Jane and George. George said that finding helpers is difficult because the educated people are reluctant to serve with such poor congregations, then he came out with this classic phrase: that his churches are truly so poor that instead of the shepherd milking the sheep, it is the sheep that milk the shepherd.






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Street children who riskfalling into child labour in Bolivia are being rescued Ministerio Nino Feliz. Jorge Baquero in Santa Cruz de la Sierra will tell you more.


Young people from the Baptist Church in Gody Cruz - Argentina have paid their own way to India to take medical treatment to villages with a YWAM mission. Others went to Honduras to meet and pray for the President. We are grateful to Ruben Besada, 50, of Movil Mision Latinos for this great news.


ECM BookSarwar Masih of Lahore - Pakistan has printed 500 books by our honorary senior pastor E.C.Maddison, 85, and distributed them in five cities among pastors, evangelists and believers who are all very grateful for the gift. Read the book free by clicking here.



11th August 2008

Lilongwe Graduation

FIRST GRADUATION IN LILONGWE: MALAWI


Our partner Moses Aringo from Malawi tell us that the Lilongwe School of Mission has its first graduation on August 16th with a visit from Paul Lee from Nairobi, the founder of our partner EAPTC network in Africa which has 36 Schools of Mission in four nations. The Lilongwe School has a Bank for the Poor and a new carpentry workshop being built to make money for the work.



8th August 2008

Lizzie at 20

EMINENT SPECIALIST GAVE ONE CHANCE IN A MILLION


Today our daughter Lizzie leaves behind her teenage years and celebrates being 20 years old. It was only yesterday that she was so excited to be a teenager, and only the day before it seems, that I was rushing Pilar into the City Hospital to give birth to what Dr. Liu the eminent Chinese specialist called a miracle baby. You see, there was only one chance in a million according to Dr Liu that Pilar could ever conceive. This was in the early days of test-tube conceptions and all the other brilliant things they do to get life started, but we had said a polite no thank you. Now this perplexed Dr Liu because he knew how much Pilar wanted a baby so we gently explained our trust in a miracle working God and we gave him a New Testament.  It took a while longer and an ocean of tears each month but the day finally came when our doctor hurriedly sent Pilar back to Dr. Liu, who was genuinely delighted to confirm that our prayer was answered. Pilar's spent 27 hours in labour and in this time Dr.Liu told all his nursing staff about the miracle baby. One Irish midwife asked what he meant by this and when she heard the story she decided to return to the faith of her childhood and came to church with us later on. So today we celebrate the day with thanks to God, a family meal and a new Ipod for the young lady for who is now the Project Development secretary for DCI Trust.
 




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DCI TRUST SPONSORS NEW UNREACHED PEOPLES MISSION


The DCI Trust may be able to help any church or team with a coherent strategy to reach an unreached peoples group and remove it from the Joshua Project list by planting a church there. You can write to us through the link in the left-hand column
Les and Pilar 


 

Coconuts

STARTING BUSINESS FOR MISSION: NIGERIA


Our partner Daniel in Nigeria asked if we would help him to start Business for Mission to provide local income to support his church planting team. We said yes because Daniel has proven his honesty in previous projects with us. Business for Mission is not for everyone so Daniel needs to look for three things. First that his team of pioneers are men and women of faith; secondly that they embrace the self-support vision and they really know what they are doing with the business they want to start; and finally that they are men and women who have been tested and proven to be honest, willing to work in team and be accountable. We are very excited to see what happens next.






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Camille from God's Harvesters in Lubumbashi, DR Congo says to e-mail them and they will pray for you and your work wherever you are in the world.


Click here to download free a very unique audiovisual presentation in Spanish for AIDS prevention from El Dorado International, with our thanks to Ricardo Carlin for telling us about it.


Marcos Dantas who is 26, from Sao Paulo - Brazil would like people in mission anywhere in the world to e-mail him and he will write back. 


Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got, so make the most of it.  Art Buchwald.




6th August, 2008

wading

FLOODS HIT CEMENT AND RUIN BUSINESS


In Liberia, three of our Banking for the Poor clients had just started a cement business and their first stocks were piled up ready for sale.  Then a huge storm brought 3 days of water up to waist height so you can imagine what happened to the bags of cement. We have suspended their loan payments for at least a year and replaced the bank's lost capital so others on the waiting list will not miss out.  We hope they will be able to salvage something and start again.



vatican

NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE A POPE !


My friend came to have a talk about going overseas and if he could do that with us. I am very excited to start the conversation and the prayer, not least because my heart feels for this very gifted musician, worship leader who is well trained in the Bible and a graduate with honours in the "School of Life." Sadly he finds very few opportunities these days, the reason being that he has 55 years of wisdom and maturity. I am sure that churches should not send men and women like this to the back benches. To be honest I am quietly hoping that his church's loss will be our gain or even better another country's gain.



4th August, 2008

Weeping

TICKETS THAT BRINGS TEARS TO YOUR EYES


People are e-mailing to ask if we know anywhere that can still find cheap air fares now that many long-distance flights have gone up by $500 or more. Fares in Europe have also risen by 25% with more increases on the way but try looking in Opodo, then compare prices on E-Dreams and Expedia, then try the airlines own websites as some carriers are losing passengers fast and offer the public those very low fares that only agents could access in the past. 






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Click here to see some wonderful photos of how the word of God is being taken to the indigenous people groups on the banks of the Amazon. We can thank Miguel Zabala Quijada, 57, of Caracas-Venezuela for showing us this work.


Santo Caraballo, 35, tells us that he moved from the Dominican Republic to Belize to teach the word of God to new believers and to leaders in a Bible School there. Here's his website.


Young People for Christ, Pamplona - Spain have an International Congress, August 14-17 with worship, word and workshops on praise and the Holy Spirit.


If you think you are too small to be effective
you have never been in the dark with a mosquito. (Anon)



1st August, 2008

Kigali5

HOPE STILL EMERGING FROM HORROR: RWANDA


From Kigali in the very heart of Africa Pastor Mwabmari Damien wanted to remind us of what happened in Rwanda a few years ago, as if anyone can ever forget the horrors we saw. He asked if he might to use the free School of Mission lessons because he believes that God's word will change many hearts that are waiting for Christ to come with healing. We are very happy to help.



Listening

OVERHEARD IN A QUIET PLACE



I am learning again today that faith walks hand in hand with works. Faith also walks with patience and best of all faith walks hand in hand with love.

I'm impressed with Abraham, the way he knew to send his servant off to get a bride from among his own people. There's no record of God telling him to do this, yet somehow he knew God well enough to know this was what He wanted. Dear Lord, we also want to know You, and take your heart's desire as our heart's desire.



30th July, 2008

beggar

ONE DAY THE BEGGAR DIED: EDITORIAL


One of our partners in a poor country was very upset a couple of weeks ago. He is a good man and on this occasion he had spent a lot of his wages from his job to put on a free DCI teaching seminar for leaders and pastors but curiously instead of gratitude he had men lining up to ask him to pay them a few dollars a month and for this he could put his name or ours over their churches. Some would not even take no for an answer and he didn't know what to say. Sadly the same problem comes the way of these pages quite often, and if you click on this page you can read some of things we say in reply, for right or for wrong.



nigel briggs

HOW LONG, HOW LONG ?


These haunting poetic lyrics caught our heart last Sunday. They are from Psalm 13, a song by our friend, worship leader Nigel Briggs. You can hear two samples of the music here and here.

When there's sorrow in my heart
Where do I go?
When I wrestle with my thoughts
How long do I have to wait?
When the darkness comes around me
And there's nowhere left to hide
Hear my cry

How long, how long . .
For your mercy and your kingdom to come?
How long, how long to wait?

When the laughter and the joy
Is stripped away
And the silence in my heart
Is like a heavy weight
When I'm running through the darkness
And my eyes can't see your light
Hear my cry, hear my cry

How long, how long . .
For your mercy and your kingdom to come?
How long, how long to wait?
I still rejoice in your salvation
And trust in your unfailing love




28th July 2008




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This week we have launched our first pages in the language of Belarus. This is a European nation where evangelicals are frequently persecuted, churches and homes are burned, people find themselves in prison.
Read the Open Doors factfile


Hilary Brown in the UK is our link with Sisters Inc in Cape Town, South Africa which is a wonderful care home run by ladies for abused women and their children, and for pregnant teenage girls. Over £3200 has been sent out through DCI in the past few weeks.


Anna Robinson in the UK would love to tell you all about a Children's Home in Zimbabwe that she has visited and represents, A very lovely work in the extremely difficult conditions of Zimbabwe today, backed by DCI.
 

Lucy and James also from the UK moving to Pattaya, Thailand next month. Lucy has a keen interest in helping the many sex-trafficking and AIDS victims, and will be investigating if a DCI Banking for the Poor project might help orphans and keep some young people out of prostitution in this notorious city.





FREE HIGH QUALITY WORSHIP CD

Chris and Jennie Orange are well known Icthus worship leaders in London, UK and they do a lot of work serving the poor in Thailand.  If you are in Europe or the States they will give you a copy of their latest worship CD, just click here.



25th July 2008



LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE HAVE A BABY: KENYA

The July 7th story of the young already abandoned mother in Kenya who was shockingly gang-raped in the recent political violence touched everyone's heart. She serves with our School of Mission partners in Nairobi and in the unwanted pregnancy that followed the attack somehow she found the grace in unspeakable emotional suffering to keep the baby. We heard about this young lady when serious complications set in and her life was at risk. The hospital had sent her home because neither she nor our partners had the funds to pay for treatment. Kind people stepped in instantly and yesterday we heard that an urgent Ceasarean section had taken place to deliver a premature baby girl, who is well, and so is her mother. We will keep an eye on what happens next.
Les and Pilar, the editors in the UK





101 BRAZILIANS HEAD FOR BEIJING

David from Horizons in Brazil is taking a huge team of 101 people to the Beijing Olympics to pray,to share the love of Jesus with the visitors and to take help to the recent earthquake disaster area. He says that a lot of miracles have happened to provide the funding and the visas but already a couple of key people have come down with serious illnesses. David has a good article here.



23rd July 2008



ARMED ROBBERS, RAPE AND NOW FLOODS: LIBERIA

Yesterday our friend John Duco in Paynesville told us how on top of 15 nights of continual robbery and rape by armed gangs that had terrorised his family and his Paynesville neighbourhood, non-stop heavy rain had now brought devastating floods which put hundreds of homes with all their possessions and food under water for over 23 hours. His church and School of Mission are doing all they can to help people including their own poor members while the armed gangs took full advantage of the chaos to go on a looting rampage. If you wish to help the relief operation please use the Paypal link on the left and we will do the rest.





LIFE EMERGES AFTER FIVE MILLION DEATHS: CONGO

The leader of another new School of Mission some way out from Kinshasa in DR Congo, Kikavuanga Dede, wrote in today to say that he has 65 students, all full of vision to open new churches for the many spiritually and materially impoverished people in this country where, can you believe it, over 5 million have lost their lives to war, famine and disease in the last decade. He said thank you for making it so easy to download all the free lessons.




21st July 2008



SIXTY SEVEN PEOPLE DECIDE FOR JESUS: CONGO


Thirty year two students visited every home in villages 35kms away and took gifts to the poor. With God's help sixty-seven people decided to follow Jesus and we did our best to take them to local churches. Our graduation is in October. Thanks for the books you sent, after 6 months in the post they arrived.
Wazeng Jules, DR Congo Mission School, Lubumbashi.
amcjulesw @ yahoo.fr





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Take tasty African recipes free or send a gift to educate African children.
Alois and Eva from Spain, Hand of Hope, Austin - USA
http://www.handhope.org

Are any Brazillian missions people in prison anywhere and where in the world are our people doing mission ?
José Roberto Alodio Silva, 53, Moreno - Brasil
ralodio@oi.com.br

New - transmitting life, hope and good gospel music.
Radio Paz 101.2 FM Cartagena-Spain.
http://www.radiopaz-cce.com



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