30th June 2008

WORLD NOTICE BOARD
With thanks to Chuy Barraza Herrera, 62, Mexico for the translation


Write to me please if you have a call to missions in Russia.
Freddy Wells, 44,  - Bolivia
freddywells @ hotmail.com


Who is God, one page in 50 languages, ideal for Muslim, Hindu and Sikh freinds.
James and Hamsa Sasse, India
sjimham @ wmconnect.com


Can we pray for you, write and tell us, my church and I will be happy to help.
Pastor Miguel Ceballos, Pasto, Colombia.
miguelceballos94 @ latinmail.com

 
I am 23, studying industrial engineering and looking for a company in Japan to work for so I can help with mission in Japan.
Fernando, 23, Tijuana, México
fervif @ gmail.com





NO QUITTING IN PERSECUTION BLACKSPOT: INDIA

It was blessing to provide all the travel fares, food, accommodation, training, pens and notebooks. I travelled by bus from Bhubaneswar, 405 kms away. We slept all together and ate from leaf plates sitting on the ground. Most of these pastors  recently lost all things, many churches are still broken and not rebuilt.
Pastor APM, Orissa - India
prajmad @ yahoo.com



27th June 2008




NEW SCHOOL OF MISSION OPENS: ZAMBIA

We have two classes one in town 3 days a week, the other is 100 kms away in a place where 95% of the people do not know Jesus with a 7 day class once a month. Last Sunday 18 people there received Christ. These semi-literate people have their lessons on flip charts. For 15 years I have been working amongst the least and the lost but my work was not organised and so I had no real direction and impact but with your materials and guidance I will achieve God's intended purpose for people to be saved.
Sibalwa Muntanga, Zambia
sibalwamuntanga @ yahoo.com





HELP ME START A SCHOOL OF MISSION: CUBA

Can another School give me supervision and advice about the materials, diplomas and how to relate internationally, please.
Fernando Collazo, 44, La Habana - Cuba
leyes_fer @ hotmail.com

§ Fernando, you will find years of collected advice and answers here.
From Les Norman, with DCI in the UK.



AN ANCIENT AFRICAN PROVERB
All alone I have seen such wonderful things,
and not one of them was true.




25th June 2008

CHURCH WHERE POOR FEEL AT HOME: UGANDA

I have nine churches for the poor in north Uganda with 380 born-again beggars, street children, lame, deaf, orphans and widows. I love this kind of congregation more than any that I have pastored. These people are real when it come to worshiping God, sincere in their hearts and kind to one another.  We teach them to know and love God more, we teach their minds to think positively and we teach their hands to work. 
George Purkweri, with DCI in Lira, Uganda
purgeorge2000 @ yahoo.com





AFRICAN KIDS V FAMOUS SPANISH TEAMS

Spanish mission Remar International, DCI partners since 1984, have won the International Solidarity Prize for promoting and sponsoring a soccer competition between street children across several African nations. Many of the children are orphans being cared for long-term in Remar centres. The prize included flying an African childrens team to Spain and playing famous Spanish teams.
Remar International website

23rd June 2008

CAN YOU HELP ME ?
CAN I HELP YOU ?

I am looking for a chance to help with mission in Germany, long-term. I have done short term mission in the USA, England and Germany.
Marisa Mariane Markwart, 34, Buenos Aires - Argentina
marianemark @ gmail.com


Can you help me with advice on going on mission to Muslim countries. I'm married, 3 children, a professional salesman now in my last year in Bible School. I have been a pastor before.
Gerardo Favio Rivas Menjivar, 37, San Salvador - El Salvador
gerardorivas1971 @ hotmail.com


We are doing the Alpha Course free for anyone in this locality.
Pastor Rodolfo Escudier, 46, La Plata - Argentina
Website
familiaescudier @ yahgoo.com.ar


Who can tell me about the needs of women and children in the Punjab please ?
Stella Maris Retamar, 50, Buenos Aires - Argentina
smretamar03 @ hotmail.com


How can I best help poor children and mothers who have been abandoned by their husbands ?
Augusto Becerra Cassiano, 39, Chiclayo - Peru
augustoabc7 @ hotmail.com


I want to do a missions trip and bring back videos to help raise funds. Ideas and invitations welcome. I have overseas experience.
Rafael Diaz, 30, Holyoke - USA
ministrodefuego202 @ yahoo.com




20th June 2008



UNITED NATIONS GUESTS AT NEW BANK OPENING


The opening of the Bank for the Poor took place with both United Nations and Government senior representatives present. The beneficiaries have started their businesses and the first repayments are already collected. The School of Mission is going well with 20 students including pastors. Some of them travel 30 miles to attend the training. It's very exiting. We are grateful to DCI Trust family in England, God bless you.
Mah Malachi, with DCI in Danane, Ivory Coast.
Information on Banking for the Poor
mah_malachie @ yahoo.fr





FOURTEEN YEARS OF THE BEST OF AMERICA: FREE


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Click here to go to the index



18th June 2008

DYNAMITE AND DIGGING: INDIA

Thank you for providing seven wells for our Mercy Homes children and for the village people who live nearby. At Nedupuzha, Kozhuvalloor, Neyyattinkara, Agathiyoor and Kalladikode we got a lot of water, at Dharapurom the diggers have to wait to get electricity first to dig the well, but at Malom the well is still dry even after 30 metres of digging  and dynamite. People are a little bit disappointed and now the rains have started we can't dig any more till the summer.
Pastor Daniel, DCI Partner in India.
http://www.mercyhomes.org
kizhakkevila @ gmail.com




MEN BACK FROM BRINK OF DEATH: INDIA

We spent a couple of weeks in a Mumbai HIV clinic and meeting lots of patients from really difficult conditions in the slums. Some of them literally came from the brink of death for having the right treatment. They are now healthy and able to work and support their familes. We are now in Kerala getting Compassion Care started amongst Pastor Daniel's 95 Mercy Homes (photo) with approx 10 children in each, all needing basic medical care and check ups. Thanks to funding from DCI we have been able to buy medical equipment for malaria tests, basic blood tests, eye test charts, bandages and dressing, height and weight recorders, ear torches and all our initial medicines, worming tablets and Vit A for all the children, scabies treatment, antibiotics, malaria treatment and paracetamol.
Doctors Mary and Cat, Cochin - India
compassioncare @ googlemail.com

§ Our pleasure Cat and Mary, just keep doing what Jesus did - being anointed by God, and going around doing good and healing all the oppressed (Acts 10.38) and you will find that God is with you too.
Les and Pilar.

16th June 2008




 ZIMBABWE REFUGEES ATTACKED: CAPE TOWN 

People will know that in South Africa there have been terrible xenophobic attacks on refugees many of whom have fled from Zimbabwe. These attacks have reached as far as Cape Town and the level of the violence which is being experienced is unprecedented. Please pray for our friends in Cape Town as they seek to respond and to provide shelter and provision for the people who need support. May God break through in peoples lives.
Hilary Brown, with DCI, Nottingham UK.
hilaryb100 @ yahoo.com

§ See Christianity Today about how some churches are responding.





 GREAT AWAKENING NEEDED: TOGO

Leo in Argentina asked about Togo. Our people are still very attached to voodoo even some of the Chrisitian believers but they are very receptive to the gospel. We lag behind because our campaigns are usually based on meetings in Nigeria where miracles are important or in Ghana where they like prophecies but these things are not so impressive in Togo. In the North the main obstacle is the muslim religion but generally beyond Lomé the capital the people are unreached and we need a massive revival.
Pastor Felly Nsungu, School of Mission in Togo.
fejo2002 @ yahoo.com



2nd June 2008




FREE DOCTORS AND SURGERY: BURKINA FASO

Our next medical-mission to Burkina Faso is 27 December to 6 January.  We will work in hospitals and give free medical and surgical treatment in the villages and prisons.  After the last visit one prison where most prisoners and guards are Muslims is now open to the Gospel. This is what we call integral mission, medicine for spirit, soul and  body.  Contact us if there is somebody in your community that might want to be part of our team.
Dr. Angel Olmo, EMSI Mision. Barcelona – Spain
See our You Tube video
angel_olmo_romero @ hotmail.com





BLIND REFUGEES SLEPT LIKE ANIMALS: LIBERIA

Through DCI we heard about 87 blind refugee families in Liberia who were sleeping like animals in the dust because they did not have any beds. We sent a gift to buy quality foam pieces and textiles to make mattresses. The manufacturing was done by local men and women from a Monrovia church all free of charge and the 87 beds were delivered in April 2007.
See a page of photos

27th May 2008

THE LAKELAND FLORIDA OUTPOURING

We have had some enthusiastic reports (as usual) and a lot of critical reports (as usual) but click here for what is by far is the most balanced and sensible report from the editor of the respected US magazine Charisma. Well worth reading and taking on board. Have you actually been to Lakeland, not just watched the positive hype or read the Internet negativity? Tell us what you think.
Les and Pilar



2nd June 2008


NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN SIGHTS: HAITI

When we went to plant a new church in Tiburon we found what we thought no-one ever sees any more. In this place many of the children and even 16 year olds were absolutely naked, they had no clothes and no shoes, no school, no clinic, no church, nothing. We had to go away again and think what we could do. The sights still torment me. In the last quarter we have seen 250 new believers in Fonds des Negres and Cayes. And we have done two church growth conferences. Nine prayer groups have come pout of the School of Mission.
Johnny Auguste, socio de DCI en Haiti
miesht @ gmail.com



WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE WITH STREET PEOPLE: PERU

Our experience with the street people has in one way been a wonderful experience to serve people that expect nothing from others. Everyone has answered in the same way when we asked them: Do you know who has sent you this?  Everyone answered, "Jesus".  They receive God’s Word with attention and some of them begin to cry.  Many of them are Christians that have lost their way and now they decide to come back to the Lord.  One of them will work full time now to serve God.  From all of them we receive respect, because they know we come in the name of Jesus.
Juan Ballesteros, DCI Partner in Lima, Peru



ANGRY CROWN BURNED OUR BIBLES: INDIA

As we were distributing New Testaments some people standing nearby turned into an irate mob and forced us to pack up the NTs and leave immediately. As we were packing up the crowd manhandled us and set to fire some of the NT's but we praise God that none of us are hurt badly. We could only distribute about 390 NTs but God-willing next Sunday again we are planning to launch a massive distribution NTs to students in Bhubaneswar.
Name withdrawn for security reasons, Orissa - India



UK DOCTORS RETURN TO INDIA LONG-TERM

Throughout the trip we were seeking God as to where and what He was calling us to do next in India. There are lots of poor children being well looked after by organisations with love, education and Christian upbringing, but there is a lack of health care provision for them. There are hospitals in India which should cater for the poor and provide free vaccinations, drugs and inpatient care, but in many cases this does not happen. Lack of health education in all areas of society, especially regarding HIV, and diseases that are preventable by good public health. God showed us two populations of approximately 1000 children in each, one in Kerala and one in Orissa who need healthcare, a means of access to healthcare and health education. Our hope is to initiate a mobile community paediatric health work, training up local health workers and providing good links for the poor to be able to access the treatment they are entitled to.
Doctors Cat and Mary, with DCI partner Pastor Daniel in India
compassioncare @ googlemail.com



CALLED BY GOD TO BE IN BUSINESS FOR MISSION

To be a businessman and a believer is a call of God like any other. It is sad that the many churches only recognize the in-church callings, but the fact is that there are also many men and women who are called and equipped by God to show His righteousness and love in the business world.  You have pulled the trigger that releases an explosion of God's prosperity, I mean the trigger of giving to mission and the poor and now you can count on the faithfulness of God towards you. Lean on the gifts of the Spirit that has Jesus given you and ask the Lord to give you a lot of common sense for all your daily business operations, and I think you can expect to see some great things happening.
Les Norman
Answering an e-mail in Spanish with a gift for the poor



DO YOU BLESS BLESS PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT BELIEVERS ?

Is it true that you bless people who are not believers ? The churches where I am do not do that, but if you do how can I do the same?

§ Yes, it’s true, people all over the DCI network bless the community and it is one of the best and most rewarding things we do to show the love of God, no questions asked. See this page for example



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LAST YEAR IT WAS TOUGH THIS YEAR WORSE: ZIMBABWE

Last November in Zimbabwe life was tough, there was no fuel, no jobs, sky-rocketing inflation, no food in the shops and no medical supplies. Since then the economy has continued to decline to the state where it is barely functioning. Some sources quote the inflation rate as high as 100,000%. Prices increase daily, and even if one had the money the shops are empty. Add to this the fact that the rains have not been good and the Maize harvest has suffered. Our orphanage was very nearly self-sufficient due to the excellent farming they do, but the lack of rains has caused real difficulty. They also have new arrivals at the Home, as young as two. Zimbabwe is in the news right now over the use of violence as the ruling power tries through any means possible to remain in power when it seems clear the people have voted for change. Whist the people in Zimbabwe appear to be in a desperate situation they manage somehow to remain upbeat and hopeful although some are beginning to starve. I know they will appreciate your support more than words could say, so thank you.
Anna Robinson, DCI partner in Nottingham - UK
Caring for an orphanage in Zimbabwe.
annablambert @ yahoo.co.uk

THREE NEW DCI BANKS FOR THE POOR: UGANDA

This month we have finished the distribution of goats to the new Banking for the Poor goat banks and we have opened up three other banks to loan starter packages of mushroom seeds, chickens and pigs. The vision is to empower local villagers especially the widows and orphans, first spiritually by feeding their hearts, then mentally by feeding their heads and thirdly by feeding the physically by giving their hands work to do. I encourage them to move forward to worship the one true God and forget about the devil worship which has brought 20 years of turmoil, suffering and pains to them and to all Uganda. People receive the message with gladness and much excitement.  They have now made up their minds to worship Jesus alone not the other evil spirits that their ancestors used to worship. We even have relatives of Kony with us, he is the rebel leader who believes and he is being lead by the powers of darkness. One elder of the local council said ‘Acholi land needs cleansing and it is the work of the Church to bring this revival to us. Thanks for bringing Jesus to us’.
George Purkweri, DCI partner in Lira - Uganda
purgeorge2000 @ yahoo.com

§ When it comes to Banking for the Poor we do a variety of things, whatever seems best in the differing economic and educational circumstances that we find in the developing world.  Sometimes we loan money at either no interest or very low interest, sometimes it is better to loan goats, chickens, cows, pigs or seeds. In all cases the first loan is repaid from earnings whether in money or in animals or goods, and whatever comes in is then loaned immediately to the next person on the waiting list, usually always a widow or orphan. We have seen some spectacular turnarounds over the years and people who could only receive and subsist somehow, are now givers and contributors to society with strong, healthy and educated children.
Les Norman
Answering a question about Banking for the Poor

WE NEED MORE EDITORS AND TRANSLATORS . .

For our Arabic, Chinese, Italian and Russian pages. The job is translate the English language page and help us to handle enquiries that come in your own language. This is a part-time job for volunteers, there is no salary but we do know how to look after our own people. References will be required.
Please write in English to Les Norman, the editor