1st September, 2009

Lizzie Norman, 21 year old daughter of the DCI founders Les and Pilar Norman has made it to the top of 6000 meter high Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania on a sponsored fund-raising climb to raise money for Tanzanian children. Here are some of her SMS messages en route:

1. Driving though bumpy African outback to Tanzania in a bus that is at least 100 years old. 18/8

2. At mountain gates in the middle of the jungle. Already slightly cold. 20/8

3. Eating lunch in a cloud at 7,000 feet. It's very steep. 20/8

4. Climbing again. Had 2 hours sleep, pressure difference causes insomnia. 21/8

5. Made it to the summit at sunrise after 8.5 hours climbing in the dark at - 20 degrees C. Hardest 24 hours of my life. Sobbed when I reached the top. 25/8

6. 4 hour walk down to camp, an hour for rest then 5 hour walk down to the next camp, 16 hour day walking in horrendous conditions. No energy but am unbelievably happy to have made it. Giving up was very appealing. 26/8

Photos will come in September.
Photos from a previous USA mission.





31st August, 2009

Les Norman, the editor, says a big thank you to everyone behind the surprise 60th birthday party. It must be a sign of age that for the first time ever I had no idea what had been planned and walked right into the trap. It was an unforgettable occasion, thank you.




29th August, 2009

Isn't it curious that The Times and all the British press and TV could not stop telling the story of just 24 children attending a first-ever non-faith summer camp run by atheists but only The Independent reported that down the same road a Christian celebration attracted well over 10,000 people each week for three weeks.





28th August, 2009
 
Film maker Victor Braun in Israel invites you to distribute or show his new film about the faith of Beethoven called Finita la Commedia, see and hear the superb You Tube trailer. Don't miss this.




27th August, 2009


Brigada News says that Mission Teach can show you where the teaching jobs are in 100 international Christian schools.




26th August, 2009

Moses Aringo in Malawi is back from Zambia after buying 20 goats sponsored the DCI Fund to open two new Goat Banks for the Poor on each side of the border, and visiting the free Schools of Mission there. More photos.




25th August, 2009

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24th August, 2009









WHY CAN'T I FIND A DCI OFFICE,
CHURCH OR SCHOOL IN MY COUNTRY ?

Les Norman says as far as I know the name of DCI does not appear over any door, church, training school or network anywhere in the world, not even here in the UK because it has always been our way to get under and get behind good men and women who have found their way to us after prayer. Our modus operandi is that like Jesus the people we support must increase and we must decrease, and then one day we disappear altogether. So what we are looking for is the one man or woman of impeccable integrity who loves God, loves the lost and poor of his nation, and who will live the Bible and be the hands and feet of Jesus to his people. We will be his friend, and he may form his own team under his own name as George has done in Uganda with Onwards and from zero very few years ago he now reaches thousands of poor men and women and war and AIDS victims. Similarly Paul in Kenya now has 40 EAPTC Schools of Mission and 108 new churches, Philippe in Burkina has 7000 poor children in 72 AEAD schools, and so on like this across many nations. We began in 1985 but hopefully you still won't find the name DCI or our names anywhere except on this page and in their prayers.






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22nd August, 2009

21st August, 2009

Rosie Cotton in the UK was diagnosed with breast cancer and then with spine cancer and now it is all gone. How did this happen ? Read Rosie's amazing story here. We know Rosie, and it's all true.

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20th August, 2009

Lizzie Norman from DCI Nottingham, England today begins to climb 6000 meters up Mt Kilimanjaro with a Leeds Uni team to raise money for Tanzania children. Follow Lizzie on Twitter for daily updates.

              Where does she get her ideas from ?



Chilangwa Simusokwe in Chilanga, Zambia has started a DCI free School of Mission with 15 students which makes four Schools now open across Zambia.





19th August, 2009

For everyone with a heart to help the world's many orphans we have heard that World Orphans may be able to help you.



Five first-class training manuals - incredibly 100% free. Each offers 26 hours of guided instruction in church planting and the practical principles and priorities to run a successful new church. In English.
Overview  Download  Leader's Manual




18th August, 2009

Daniel Varghese from Kerala, India is in Peru to visit six new Mercy Homes like the 91 in India that take in abandoned children. Mercy Homes are now in Ecuador and Mexico as well, as the vision from India spreads.



If they say that the betting is a million to one against you receiving the help you need from God then read this short story by Les Norman, the editor, and you will see that you and the One can be the majority.

17th August, 2009

ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER

14th August, 2009

Almas Hameed is one of three survivors after his innocent Christian family of six was burned to death in Gojra, Pakistan in mass violence following false rumours that a Koran had been torn at a Christian wedding. Click here for the full BBC story.


Charles Johnson in Liberia is taking clothes, food and God's love to a remote area after days of heavy rain destroyed homes, washed away crops, contaminated drinking water and washed away new born babies. Many thousands all over Liberia are hungry and without clothes to wear.




13th August, 2009

Jean-Francois in France says that when he was 17 a faulty life-jacket filled with water and pulled him down into death. Click here to read what Jean-Francois saw and heard and find out why he now has no fear as he fights a life threatening illness.

Les Norman, the editor, and his daughter Lizzie say thank you for all the e-mails, calls and birthday cards. Les is 60 and Lizzie 21, born on 8/8/88, a one in a million miracle baby, according to one eminent gynecologist. Read the story here

George Purkweri from Lira, Uganda has now bought the 20 new sewing machines sponsored by readers to give a career to young girls who were forced by poverty into prostitution during the recent war years. Click here for more photos

12th August, 2009


Swine Flu
Click here or here to understand what it is and what to do

Michael Singini of Mbuzi Mzumala, Malawi has sent photos of stage one of the building for the Clinic that is being sponsored by members of the DCI Fund to end the gruelling seven hour walk to the nearest medical centre which often has no medicines to offer. See 16 May news. Click here for more photos.

11th August, 2009

Mah Malachi from Danane, Ivory Coast says they have had a wonderful spiritual awakening in the new churches which were started by the DCI School of Mission. People were baptized in the Holy Spirit, two ladies decided to serve full time and people went home full of joy determined to take God's love to other villages.



10th August, 2009

A Minsk, Belarus church may be closed and the pastor was fined after KGB secret police reported a foreign visitor speaking at a worship service. Visitors to Belarus churches bring state hostility to local believers who welcome them. Full story at Forum 18 News

OUR BOOK OF THE YEAR IS
WHAT IS THE WHAT

This is the story of a boy who was separated from his family in Sudan's brutal civil war; who trekked for months across Africa's punishing wilderness with thousands of other lost children; who survived aerial bombing and attacks by militias, crocodiles and lions; who ate whatever he could find or nothing at all; who spent ten years in a refugee camp before being taken to America where he was beaten and robbed. His name is Valentino Achak Deng. To discover the cruelty of Africa and the beautiful innocence of her suffering peoples join President Obama and read this truly compelling story.
Les Norman, the editor.

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8th August, 2009

Adedeji Akande in Togo says that last month they took hope, prayer, food and clothing to orphans, hospital patients and widows and saw many miracles take place in the hospital. Eighty people decided to follow Jesus and new believers were baptised. Click to see the photos.



7th August, 2009

George Purkweri in Lira, Uganda says that about 15 of the 30 girls that he has taken off the streets to teach them a sewing trade have begun to love God, worship and be changed by God's word.



Margarita Mainovskaya in Krasnoyarsk, Russia is looking for Argentine pastors Oscar Osvaldo Calcena and Juan Carlos Perreira who worked in Siberia 15 years ago. Can anyone help Margarita ?





6th August, 2009

ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER

What do you mean that you don't know if God sees that you love Him? Listen, you show your love to God who you can't see by helping his people who you can see, and by continuing to help them. That's Hebrews 6.10 and God could not make it any more simple than that, could he?



5th August, 2009

THE WORD FOR TODAY
FREE COPY

This book of daily readings is so good that we send a copy to all our leaders and colleagues around the world. Click to get your free copy here in English and here in Spanish. The DCI Fund supports the Word for Today for the Spanish world. 



4th August, 2009

Charles Johnson in Liberia has done ten film shows in the former warlord base of Caldwell. After the final showing a hefty rebel commander came in tears and asked, "Me, too, can I have hope in Jesus after all the atrocities I committed in our civil war?" Charles answered, "Yes indeed, you will have hope for now and hereafter as I pray for you." In the same week another 1,500 men and women also decided to find hope for themselves in Jesus.

3rd August, 2009

Pasteur Junior Regis in Montreal, Canada has opened a School of Mission in French that meets Tuesday evenings at 11870, Boulevard Rivière Des Prairies, telephone 514-494-2728.



2nd August, 2009

Saroj Kumar Hial in Orissa, India has 21 students in his free School of Mission who will go to children in slums and villages who often die for lack of food, medicine and a home. Saroj needs specialist materials for training in children's work, can you help ?




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28th July, 2009
 

WHEN THE DARK NIGHT
TURNED GOLDEN

And then it happened. If I had been asleep I was now wide awake, my eyes like saucers, the hair on the back of my neck standing on end, for I could hear a distant swishing noise as if a wind were coming. It was getting louder, coming nearer and through the narrow windows I could see the dark night turning golden with an unnatural incandescence that grew brighter by the moment. "Fall, glory of God," the pianist shouted. Amen they all replied as the swishing noise reached the door and the golden light streamed into the room.  Click here to read what happened next . .







THE HENRI NOUWEN MOMENT
IS THIS THE MEANING OF LIFE ?


I believe deeply that our few years on this earth are part of a much larger event that stretches out far beyond the boundaries of our birth and death. I think of my life as a mission into time, a mission that is very exhilarating and even exciting despite my fears, mostly because the One who sent me on the mission is waiting for me to come home and tell the story of what I have learned.

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OUR PHOTOS ?

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Click for Schools of Mission around the world
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Click to see some of the people in the DCI family
Click to see our School of Mission lessons in many languages

Who are we ?

Click here to see our Vision and Values statement.
Click here to see an illustration of what we do, more or less.
Click here to see our statement of faith

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.



HOW YOU CAN HELP US
How to join us?
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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 is a writer, guest speaker, and the editor of these pages that call attention to the lost, the last and the least of the world and the work of DCI people and projects for the poor. Since 1977 he has been following the call of Christ. He is married to Pilar and they have three children.

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