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1st February, 2009

Children queue for food in Zimbabwe
SUN-UP TO SUNDOWN FAST ON SUNDAY

FOR ZIMBABWE MILLIONS FACING STARVATION.

See this urgent video message from Kumi Naido in South Africa.



31st January, 2009

Taxis in Lima Peru
WHY ONE TAXI DRIVER GOES
WHERE EVEN  ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD


Our taxi driver friend in Lima, Peru is Juan, who regularly visits the poor in a distant village, and after midnight takes food, coffee and prayer to people in the darkest streets of Lima. Some say that this is crazy but Juan says that Jesus has done even more crazy things for him like saving him from certain death at least 20 times over the years, and then he tells the story of how after prayer God healed him of hernia and prostate problems without surgery or pills, which he had no money for anyway. Juan says he goes where no-one else goes because the people he finds there have never heard that Christ died for them so they can know God's forgiveness and love. Catch a Lima taxi and if the driver is singing to God instead of cursing the traffic - that must be Juan.




30th January, 2009




THE WORLD'S NOTICE BOARD


We have found lots of free audio Bibles, Christian and Classic audio books and mp3 worship songs for you to enjoy at Audio Treasure

Registration is open for 3rd session of the Lubumbashi School of Mission in DR Congo, in four centres. Contact Pastor Jules Wazeng to enrol. 

For $20 you can sponsor all the travel, food, accommodation and notebook for one of one hundred pastors to come to a much needed conference amongst all the intense persecution in Orissa, India.  In Berahampur, February 10-13. Contact Pastor Missal



 

29th January, 2009

Kuwaiti street cleaner
FOR EVERYONE WHO THOUGHT

THEY COULD NOTHING IN KUWAIT

The oil wealth may be visible in Kuwait but people like the street cleaners are so poor they don't get to see any of it. Winter temperatures get down to 3ºC and street people shiver. This is where Operation Hope steps in. Started in 2005 by an American lady this mercy mission is now run by many local people who collect coats, gloves and long underwear and then drive around the city looking to bless the poor workers they find.




28th January, 2009




THE WORLD'S NOTICE BOARD


Doctor Luis Paz in Arecibo, Puerto Rico combines medicine with a Bible teaching and healing ministry. You are welcome to get in touch or visit Luis's excellent website 

In Moquegua, Peru Anamaria Velasquez who is 49, is looking for help to open a shelter for the many young abandoned pregnant girls to give them a better way forward than abortion or adoption.

If people in your church are losing their jobs, overtime or bonuses and the recession is beginning to bite, this article in English will be very helpful to you. 




27th January, 2009

Women waving goodbye
IF YOU CAN'T GO YOURSELF

THEN FOR GOD'S SAKE SEND SOMEONE ELSE

Oswald Smith's famous words from 50 years ago still echo down the ages as today we welcomed news and photos of a new church just opening in voodoo and poverty stricken Haiti, the work of Johnny Auguste's DCI School of Mission there, and Felly from Togo has sent us photos of a second free School of Mission that he has just opened in Kinshasa, Congo. You can see photos of both by clicking here.  Many of us in DCI have never been able to travel far, or stay for very long, so we are continually grateful for this God-given way for us to share our faith, train new leaders and to open churches that bless the poor by sending and equipping others who are better gifted than we are to do the job.




26th January, 2009

A man with empty pockets
IN A RECESSION WE NEED
THE SHELTER OF THE MOST HIGH


In a recession a thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but the promises of Psalm 91 are for the man or the woman who dwells in the shelter of the Most High. It will not come near you and even if it does in verse 14 there is a promise of rescue and an answer to prayer for the man or woman who loves the Lord.  Like our friend and supporter Rocío in Peru who has been blessed with a promotion and a pay rise.  Like our partner John in Liberia who lost his job and with 65% unemployment the outlook for his family of 11 at home, mainly adopted orphans, was bleak.  After prayer he was given some land, his church stepped in and we are helping him with seeds and tools.  If anything happens to you don't worry, don't be frightened by the TV news and don't be alone, tell people who will pray with you. Earn all you can, don't buy things you don't need, save all you can and go God's way of giving all you can, avoiding debt like the plague and trusting God instead to receive what you need, when you need it. For those who have cast their bread upon the waters in the past according to Ecclesiastes 11, 1-2, by giving to seven and even eight, don't be surprised if this year it all comes back to you after many days away as promised with God's interest on top, because He is faithful.



25th January, 2009

Ivory Coast

IVORY COAST EMERGES FROM WAR CRISIS

Our School of Mission and Banking for the Poor partner, Mah Malachie in remote Danane - Ivory Coast where life got really bad says that things are starting to return to normal. Many people who suffered the worst of the war have turned to the Lord and even ex-fighters are thirsty for God's word.  He says thank you to all the DCI family who upheld his people in their prayers and to tell you that they never once lacked food like so many others because Christ helped them miraculously day by day. Here are Mah's photos of the first graduation ceremony and his newly opened second free School of Mission in Abidjan, the capital.



24th January, 2009

talking

ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds and six pence, result happiness.  Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six pence, result misery. So said Mr Micawber in Charles Dickens classic book, David Copperfield, and he is still right, isn't he ?




23rd January, 2009




THE WORLD'S NOTICE BOARD

The Preparation of the African Missionary is a unique free 11 lesson course written for us by the Nairobi - Kenya EAPTC School of Mission. 

If you are an immigrant or a young person in Portugal Redner de Souza Teixeira of Comunidade Parelela in Faro can arrange free professional advice for you.

From Venezuela, Miguel Zabala, 58, invites you to his pages which have many beautiful photos of his work with the peoples on the Orinoco and other rivers.


22nd January, 2009

Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe

THOUSANDS DEAD IN MUGABE'S ZIMBABWE


One of Zimbabwe's senior church leaders whose name we dare not publish for his own safety has written to tell us that there is far more happening than is ever reported on our TV news.  He reports that only the banks are open, schools and hospitals are closed and police no longer attend a crime. Pastors are harassed and badly abused for speaking the truth and thousands have already lost their lives to widespread cholera, starvation and lack of medicine. He asks us to pray for Zimbabwe believing that God will yet come to the rescue. Another Christian man FH has e-mailed from Harare to urge believers all over the world to play their part because only prayer will release the desperately needed changes. We cannot tell you his address but you can write to both men through our office




21st January, 2009

Cuba Ranledis & María

CUBA PASTORS EXCHANGE OWN HOME
FOR
UNDEVELOPED LAND TO WELCOME NEW PEOPLE


Last year we met Ranledis and Maria from Camaguey in Cuba.  We followed them through severe hurricanes and helped them to start a free School of Mission and to hold a first-ever Christmas Party for the Poor for hundreds of needy people. Faced with problem of accommodating everyone who wants to follow Christ Ranledis and Maria jumped at an offer to exchange their own home for some undeveloped land out of town.  Click here to see all the photos. There is a challenge ahead but see all the children and older people already enjoying themselves, worshipping, eating and being blessed. We expect that before long this land will become a base for training leaders and a model to bless all of Cuba.




20th January, 2009

Wedding in Orissa

BEAUTY IN THE MIDDLE OF MISERY: ORISSA

Last year there was a never-ending flood of bad news from Orissa in India and not a lot has changed, but in it all our friend Pastor AM has married his beautiful bride M in a lovely Indian ceremony that you can see here. We can't tell you their names because of the violence in Orissa but together they will be serving the persecuted churches, training new leaders and visiting the refugee camps.




19th January, 2009

Children refugees in Orissa

LONG LINES OF REFUGEE CHILDREN: ORISSA

Our partner in South India, Pastor Daniel has taken time to tell us about the children from Christian families that he has seen in the Orissa refugee camps. Each one has lost everything and they stay in the camps because they are too frightened to go home. Daniel has many Mercy Homes for abandoned children and he is asking for our help to take some of these children in. 




17th January, 2009

80 Faiths TV Advert

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FAITHS

Catch it if you can. In some parts of the world you can click here to see this brilliant BBC TV series on your PC. Go to Episodes. Watch Anglican vicar Peter Owen Jones travel the world for a year to investigate 80 different faiths. Not to be missed. The BBC also has a web page that explains the major religions of the world.





16th January, 2009

Pastor Ana, Honduras
WHO SHALL WE CHOOSE TO BELIEVE ?

THE PRESS OR THE PROPHET ?

Our friend and online pastor in Honduras is Pastor Ana Avilez who also has a very sensitive and well respected prophetic side to her ministry. Occasionally Ana sends us a very timely word, often without knowing what is happening on this side of the world. This week, quite unexpectedly Ana e-mailed to say she felt she had received a scripture for us from the Lord, from Leviticus 26, 9-13:

Young man reading Bible"I will look on you with favour and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. You will still be eating last years harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. I will put my dwelling place among you and will not abhor you. I will walk among you and be your God and you will be my people. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high."

Then Pastor Ana added this prophetic word, which we welcome and would now like to pass on you, so that by faith and patience you too may inherit the promises.

Lady looking upwards"I am the God who gives increase, I am the God who multiplies. Do not look with your natural eyes at what is going on around but walk in my supernatural promises for I have promised to bless those who favour my just cause. I shall take care of my plantation. You shall see the harvest I am about to cause. Trust me with all of your heart and your soul shall praise me for all the things that shall happen and for all the protection I have commanded on behalf of your people.  Go onwards, no matter what you see or hear, trust in my promises, believe with all your heart and do not pay close attention to all the tribulation that the world shall suffer. I am with you and I shall surely care for those who love and care for the souls of the poor and the least in the world. Your offspring shall inherit what you have done and shall do in my holy name. Open heavens are upon you. I shall open unto you my good treasure to give rain on your land in my season and to bless all the work of your hands. You shall lend unto many nations and you shall not borrow." May it be so for all who believe.




15th January, 2009

George Verwer with globe

ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY: CHILE

 
It was 50 years ago that George Verwer opened Operation Mobilisation, a ministry that today has over 4000 people serving in 106 nations and on board the Doulos and Logos ships. George is a world famous author, visionary and passionate communicator, the kind of man you wish would live forever. For one day only, the 11th of February at 12 midday, George is in Valparaiso-Chile and if you live anywhere near, you need to be there: Iglesia AdD, Blanco 1180. Our editor in Chile, Silvia de Yáñez will tell you more. Tel. 32.2492671. Don't miss this one opportunity. There are lots of free things on George's website.




14th January, 2009
Pakistan Graduation

BEAUTIFUL GRADUATION IN PAKISTAN

Our partner in Pakistan, Pastor Sarwar Masih has sent us a beautiful set of photos from the graduation ceremony of the Kasur and Sultan K DCI based Schools of Mission, two of six similar training centres that Sarwar has opened in the north of Pakistan. Click here to see the display. On 10th January 22 men and women received their certificates in an atmosphere of prayer and worship followed by a great celebration, and all will now follow their calling.




13th January, 2009

New born baby in Burkina Faso
SPANISH MEDICAL TEAM LEAVE TRAIL OF
HEALING AND HAPPINESS IN BURKINA FASO

Doctor Angel and his nurse-wife Abigail, their two daughters Keila and Loida along with an EMSI medical team of 52 men and women from teens to 60 year old's are home in Barcelona, Spain after 10 incredible days in Burkina Faso, West Africa where they shared the gospel with over 5000 people and welcomed 300 of them as new followers of Jesus. With the help of 110 local volunteers they removed 50 cataracts from blind eyes, fitted 20 deaf children with hi-tech hearing aids gave free medical care, and midwifery to 300 poor people every day. They even visited an indescribably bad prison, and spoke frequently on the TV and radio, sharing their faith and professional expertise. If you read Spanish here is the full story and photos, video will soon follow. The DCI Trust has been been proud to support this mission and will do so again in the future.



12th January, 2009




THE WORLD'S NOTICE BOARD

Take this free Leadership Training Manual in Evangelism, Preaching and Church Leadership as downloaded by 22,000 churches in Asia, Africa, The Pacific, Eastern Europe and Israel. Highly recommended.

Wise people will make SMART GOALS in 2009 that are Specific, Measurable, Agreed upon, Realistic and Time-based. Read the full explanation here - free.

Our highly esteemed partner is Pakistan, Pastor Sarwar Masih is holding a convention for some of his DCI based Schools of Mission this week and will open another new free School of Mission in Kasur, one of Pakistan's oldest cities.  We wish Sarwar and all his students God's very best for 2009.




9th January, 2009

Uganda Xmas

HUNDREDS CELEBRATE IN LIRA - UGANDA

Our first Christmas Parties with the Poor began in Lira in the war years and made the national press right away. This year the guest of honour and after lunch speaker was a severely disabled man who lives on a home-made trolley, and whose faith in God moved the whole gathering. You can meet him by clicking here, but you might be shocked. Since these celebrations first started and changed the image of the church, over 30 new churches for the poor have opened under the leadership of our friend George Purkweri.




8th January, 2009

Minsk - Belarus

BELARUS GIVES RARE PERMISSION TO EXPLAIN CHRISTMAS

There are a lot of things that believers cannot do in Belarus, which is Europe's last dictatorship and often the source of bad news about churches, believers and pastors. Amazingly our partners there who we cannot name for their own safety, received official permission to explain and celebrate Christmas in four children's homes. They received a tremendous welcome from hundreds of very excited young people as you can see by clicking here. We support believers by a special Belarus language edition of these pages.



7th January, 2009

Amazon Party with the Poor

ORGANISER PAYS HIGH PRICE FOR FIRST EVER
PARTY WITH THE POOR IN IQUITOS AMAZON

Click here to see and join in with the first ever Christmas Party with the Poor near Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon when hundreds of people who struggle to survive each day could not believe that the welcome, the food, the service with a smile and the music, drama and the prayer for them was for real, but it was. Our colleague Rolando Camazas then went on to San Lorenzo, normally 48 hours away on the river to open a second free School of Mission. He went to pray for a family who were desperately ill with dengue fever but was bitten himself and caught dengue.  After prayer and with some help Rolando has made it back home but remains very unwell with high fever, pain and nausea. 



6th January, 2009

New Year Party in West Africa
HIDDEN LADIES AND CHILDREN
FIND HOPE AND FAITH IN NEW YEAR PARTY

In a remote part of West Africa where Christians are a tiny minority and where it is not popular to be a believer, lives Pastor Matilda with her eight children, five of whom belonged to her assistant who was murdered a while ago. Matilda could not do a Christmas Party with the Poor but last Sunday she quietly welcomed 60 people. After lots of talking seven ladies who live very hidden lives decided to risk following Jesus, and everyone enjoyed good food and took home gifts of oil and soap.



5th January, 2009

Nepal - December 2008

CHRISTMAS IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNT EVEREST

Not far from Mount Everest our partner in
Nepal, Pastor Prem spent his Christmas taking a party to celebrate God's gift of Jesus to 300 poor people in Nawalparasi. All the 100 street children who came received a gift of warm clothes and later the celebration continued down the road in Chitwan with something very special for widows and later on, prisoners. Prem said afterwards that they could feel the glory of God as they made Christmas special for the poor of Nepal. Click here to see the photos, then press Slideshow.




4th January, 2009

Abimielekh with Papua tribe

NEW YEAR, NEW SERIOUSNESS GRIPS HAITI


Over in
Haiti which is the western world's most destitute nation, our partner Johnny Auguste faces the new year gripped with some serious determination. For a start he plans to purchase some land for a DCI Centre but he is not asking for $1 towards it. Johnny quoted St. Paul to me saying that no-one knows a man like the spirit in him, and then said "then it must also be true that no one knows a country like the people who live there and they are the best people to change the nation." Johnny recalled that last year he helped them, and helped them and helped them but very little changed. Now with plans for one centre in Camp Perin and 13 more like it something must change.




3rd January, 2009

Abimielekh with Papua tribe

MAN OF THE MONTH: JANUARY 2009

This month we welcome and honour Abimelekh from Papua. At 50 he is an age when men start to fondly think about retiring, but not this man. For many years he's been a pastor to the Aboy tribe in Bintang mountains and he is always going deeper into the huge jungle to reach more people. Many say that it is time to stop because he is getting old but Abimelekh replies that he will stop when Christ stops and comes back. Till then if every tribe is to have people standing before God's throne as Revelation says, "someone has to go or it can never happen.”



2nd January, 2009

talking

ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER

Why is listening is so difficult ? I'll tell you why. It's because you move away from being the centre of attention and you inviting someone else into that space. When someone listens to us with real concentration and expresses sincere care for our struggles and our pains, we feel that something very deep is happening to us. Slowly our fears melt away, our tensions dissolve and anxieties retreat. Listening is so simple to do and it's a gift with tremendous healing power that we can offer to others.  Edited from the book "Compassion."



Cuba Party with the Poor

LAUGHTER AND TEARS AT
CUBA'S FIRST PARTY WITH THE POOR

Our friends and organisers in Camaguey - Cuba, Ranledis and María were very excited hours after the event and told how poor people wept openly at the party.  Many children came to a first celebration and then in a second event the guests of honour were the widows, the elderly, orphans, the town alcoholics and AIDS victims who no-one wants around, in fact everyone they could find who had nothing to celebrate, 590 people altogether. The believers served them with a welcoming smile, hugged them, wept with them and in the end everyone had a day that they will never forget. Click here to see more and press Slideshow.




31st December, 2008

Peru - Lima

INNOCENCE AND DARKNESS ON LIMA'S STREETS

Our friend Juan the taxi driver in Lima - Peru spent his Christmas with people at the two extremes of life. First of all Juan and his family put on a party with music and gifts in the forgotten village of Picapiedras to the delight of many poor children and their mothers. Click on the image and press Slideshow to see more. And then in the middle of the winter night Juan risked his life by going into one of Lima's darkest corners to visit a group of gay men. He takes them food, coffee, hope and prayer every so often. One young man, Ivan, dressed as a woman and selling himself to maintain his family, parents and brothers asked Juan to pray for him and Juan told me that right there on the street corner he prayed with Ivan in the power of the name of Jesus and gave him hope of forgiveness and change.




29th December, 2008

Indonesia

TWICE AS MANY GUESTS AS EXPECTED
AT INDONESIA PARTY WITH THE POOR

To spend his Christmas with the poor our partner in Banten, Indonesia Pastor Yoppi invited drunkards, prostitutes, people practicing occultism for money and many weak, sick people and jobless adults. He expected maybe 250 people but on the day 244 adults and 203 children turned up and renjoyed a party that was full of joy, dance, drama, singing and then tears as people saw how meaningless their lives had become without God and asked for His forgiveness. As Yoppi says for those that met Jesus there was no greater Christmas gift. Click on the photo and press Slideshow to see more.




28th December, 2008

Mathhew Parris at CIA Dinner
AS AN ATHEIST

I TRULY BELIEVE AFRICA NEEDS GOD

The distinguished correspondent of London newspaper The Times, Matthew Parris believes that missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa's biggest problem which he defines as the crushing passivity of the people's mindset. In his own words Parris also confesses that his recent visit to Malawi, "refreshed another belief: one I've been trying to banish all my life, but an observation I've been unable to avoid since my African childhood. It confounds my ideological beliefs, stubbornly refuses to fit my world view, and has embarrassed my growing belief that there is no God. Now as a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa." You must read this remarkable article, just click here.  Thanks to F. John for alerting us to this literary gem.




27th December, 2008

Pakistan Christmas

THE HAPPIEST  DAY OF MY LIFE: PAKISTAN

That's what Pastor Sarwar, our partner in Lahore - Pakistan said after holding a Christmas Party with the Poor. Click on the image and press Slideshow to see the event. Sarwar told them the Christmas story and then three different singers led in worship which had everyone clapping and dancing. Everyone ate till they could eat no more and later all 300 widows, orphans, elderly people and poor children received gifts of warm winter clothes. They said that nobody had ever given them gifts before but this Christmas every one went home with beautiful clothes. Two hundred and thirty five men and women also decided to follow Jesus forever and received God's own beautiful gift of salvation.

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