The Worldwide Christmas Party
for the Poor 2007 . .
The Party happened this year in the Peruvian Amazon, Uganda,
Liberia, Indonesia, India, Malawi, Brazil and Cameroon. Click on the country names to read the organizers report. Click here to see the photos: Page 1 and Page 2 Over 3000
disabled people, AIDS victims, street kids, homeless people,
beggars, widows and orphans enjoyed a day they will never forget,
eating, drinking and being served by smiling believers, and after an explanation of
the reason for Christmas they went home with a gift to commemorate
God's greatest and best gift of all, to them and to everyone, Jesus
- Saviour, Healer, Provider and Giver of Hope.
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News for our partners and supporters Please click here for:This Week
You will not read
many true stories like this one . . In Uganda, with the 19 year
violence now over, our partner George got on his moped, drove 91 kms
to a camp where some rebel soldiers are rounded up and for two days
shared Christ with men who have behaved much worse than cannibals.
He says, God raised up 80 adults and 36 children who decided for
Christ and yesterday we had them all in a new Church for the Poor
there." The very next weekend Gerohe found himself preaching the
same gospel of forgiveness next to the mass grave of 310 people who
lost their lives in a recent massacre carried out by the same rebel
soldiers that George had been preaching forgiveness to the weekend
about 90 kilometres away. Thirty survivors of the massacre decided
to follow Jesus and another crowd said Yes after George showed the
Jesus film at night. Reported by
Les and Pilar, DCI Support – UK
God
completely heales bed-ridden woman . . . Last week we organized two day
meetings in two cities and many received Jesus as their Saviour,
many were healed and many delivered from evil spirits. One woman was
brought who was lying on the bed for last six months and could not
move. She could not even eat and drink by herself but God touched
her and she started to walk and was completely healed. Through these
meetings we reached more than 6000 people. Our four DCI Schools of
Mission are going very well, the students are learning more and more
about God's kingdom and preparing themselves for God's work. In
January we are going to open a 5th School of Mission 110 miles away.
Pastor Eric Madison's book has been printed for the second time and
we gave 200 copies as a tithe to poor village pastors as gift. Pastor S.M,
Lahore - Pakistan Get your free copy of
Pastor Eric's book
here
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you like to see some of our photos? Click here
for Schools of Mission around the world Click here
for Banking for the Poor projects Click here
for projects to help orphans and the poor Click here
to see some of the people in the DCI family Les
and Pilar
Please help us
with prayer every day . . These people are very important
to their families and to us. Cathy has been really very unwell following
radiotherapy. Fred, Erik, James
and Betty, 84, all in the UK are awaiting
hospital treatment. Silvia in Brazil has just had a serious operation. DCI Support UK
Mentally ill
Somari wandered in forests . . She could eat nothing and just
like the demon possessed man in the Bible she hardly wore any
clothes. One day our missionary pastor saw her in the streets and
asked her family to bring her to the church. He explained to them
how Jesus healed a similar case in the Bible. They cried out to
Jesus and the pastor cast the demon out of her and she was free. Pastor Daniel,
Kerala - India
http://www.mercyhomes.org
Our School of
Mission
in Ghana launches today In December we have our second
Liberia graduation in Monrovia, and we will open a third school in
N'Zerekore, Guinea. Next year we are preparing to go to Mauritania
and Morocco. John Duco,
with DCI in Liberia pastorduco2002 @
yahoo.co.uk
The twelve “mistakes” of Western churches and
agencies Eminent scholar and missions
statesman Ralph Winter describes twelve mistakes that the world of
missions is forever making and repeating. A brilliant, well-studied
and very controversial article. See what you think, see what you
think, don't miss this. Sent in By Dr.
Andre Talla, Yaounde - Cameroon
Ask him about sponsored Masters and Ph.D degrees for Africans. revtalla @ yahoo.com
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Called to follow Jesus and a nomadic tribe . . On the border between Chad and
Cameroon one School of Mission student and his wife from Yaoundé
started following the nomadic Fulani who are an unreached people
group, 14 months ago. I am with him now. By the way every province
in Cameroon now has a School of Mission with young men and women who
will go after the unreached peoples until they have planted a church
among them. Rev. Andre
Talla, Yaounde - Cameroon revtalla @ yahoo.com
These lessons
have won
many souls in Congo . . . Three new churches have been
planted in different areas of Lumbashi and Kawama in the Congo. We
gave diplomas to 106 students who will go to open other schools,
evangelize and plant churches. We plan to open 10 more training
centres. Pastor Jules
Wazeng, Congo amcjulesw @ yahoo.fr
For a Special
Day . .
A poem in Spanish for a wedding day David y Jessica
Hoy es un día muy especial
donde dos almas se enlazan
en un compromiso de amor
donde se dice que si con los labios
pero se sella con el corazón
teniendo un mismo sentir
diciendo ante todos cuanto os amáis
que estáis dispuestos a ser fiel en tiempo difícil.
Aquí con estos anillos
selláis un pacto de amor
diciéndole al mundo que le amas,
que la amas
que estáis dispuestos a seguir
cuando el sol no brilla
cuando se enfría el alma
aprendiendo a echar leña al fuego del amor
cuando veis que se apaga.
En este día tan especial
nos queréis decir que le amas,
que la ama.
Christian
Poetry in Spanish by Pilar Remón
300 poems free to download
here
Rags to riches in Uganda . . There is a lot about our DCI
Goat Bank that I want you to know. It is like a miracle, almost all
our goats are either giving births to twins of three kids at a time.
Some goats have multiplied so much that their orphan owners have
exchanged eight of them for cows and having a cow which is true
wealth here, and can now marry wives. Loro Village has some
wonderful testimonies. We have more that 135 goats now in the hands
of orphans. George
Purkweri, DCI Banking for the Poor, Lira - Uganda DCI Bank for the
Poor
§ A goat costs just £8 or
$16. We thank everyone who without being asked sent in funds to buy
Christmas goats for orphans, over $2000 came in. Wow ! We will be
buying the goats any time now as prices start to fall after Christmas. Les and Pilar
New start-ups and approved projects to report
. . Pastor Malachie, Ivory Coast
has a School of Mission and is approved for a new Banking for the
Poor project. Pastor Biak in Myanmar is approved to open a School of
Mission in a very difficult political situation. Rolando in Peru, a
former military chaplain is approved to work with us on projects
amongst Unreached Peoples in the Amazon where he is right now for
Christmas. Pastor Jules, DR Congo has a School of Mission and is
approved to look at projects. DCI Support,
UK
All they asked
was that . . we should continue to remember
the poor,
the very thing I was eager to do. Paul, in
Galatians 2
We gave money to
two refugee beggars! They began selling charcoal and
have now left begging and they are now in the Church and busy with
their business. They are paying their loan promptly and people are
so happy because they can now rent a house and feed themselves
through their own work. George
Purkweri, DCI Banking for the Poor, Lira - Uganda DCI Bank for the
Poor
Family was the way to commit suicide . . .
Six years ago George with his wife and three children were on
their way to commit family suicide as they were in great debt and
had no way to come out of this. Kerala is India's suicide capital
for the same reasons. Some one invited him to a cottage prayer
meeting where the Lord touched him and gave him hope. For a month
afterwards his family had only cattle feed to eat but George started
a prayer meeting for the people who suffer. Today that fellowship is
126 people with outreach in 4 more villages. This year we have had
46 baptisms in this village, all from a heathen background. Pastor Daniel,
Kerala - India
http://www.mercyhomes.org
Remar ALWAYS needs people for missions We have missions
bases in 56 nations worldwide caring for 36,000 people all of whom are
housed, clothed and fed well free of charge, and have employment and
free rehabilitation. Volunteers welcome, all accommoation and meals are
provided. http://www.remar.org
migueldiez @ remar.org
Are you team
building? You will do well to put your
team members through this test to see who can work with who, and who
cannot! Click here for
Myers-Briggs. We were a little cyncial
till we took the test and saw an artist's portrait of our lives
appearing and all our strengths and weaknesses being explained to
us. Les and Pilar,
DCI Support – UK
We teach English
in the shortest time possible at the cheapest cost Especially for missions people
and their supporters. Vera Helena
Montanine, 57, Maringá - Brazil
http://www.clinguisticocristao.com.br
vmontanine @ yahoo.com.br
Children and
young people with learning difficulties I would like hear about your
experiences with children and young people with autism, Downs
Syndrome, Cerebal Palsy and similar problems. Pr. Marcia
Nascimento, 36, Recife - Brasil marciadown @ bol.com.br
Get your theology
degree by distance learning SEBICAR will get you through by
home study of God's Word in one year. Lic.
Teodoberto Romero Saavedra, 52, Iquitos - Loreto
El Seminario de Estudios Biblicos Casiodoro de Reina, t8romero @ hotmail.com
Can you send me
information on missions in Bosnia? Jacqueline Maximiliana de Souza, 25,
Ribeirão Das Neves - Brasil jack.maximilian @
hotmail.com
We will support
your ministry by making web pages Just for the cost of whatever
offering you can send. Humberto Velarde, 52, Buenos Aires -
Argentina
http://www.myworks.50g.com
hvelardeh @ hotmail.com
This year 506
prisoners in 5 prisons decide to follow Jesus We give them Bible courses to
help them. We want to expand into other countries and welcome
contact from like-minded people. Pasteur
Michael, Friends of the Prisoners, Dabou - Ivory Coast pasteurmichel2006 @
yahoo.fr
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