30-31st October, 2010
The Weekend

Johnny Auguste, Haiti says thank you for buying a gas cooker and gas for the home of my 21 earthquake orphans. Click to see the children.

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Yoppi Margianto, Indonesia says we're surrounded by sadness and fear, large flood in the east, tsunami in the west, volcanic eruptions, and floods all around. Hundreds have died in Mentawai most of them are poor Christians I think.

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Gondo, Ivory Coast says Africa needs the word of God to change our mentality, you are poor when you think you are. Pasilisa says I am taking our orphans to see Lake Naivash in Kenya. Norma, Mexico says we want to contact a Mali church because we want to come there.

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29th October, 2010

Ranledis Perez, Camaguey, Cuba says we just baptized an amazing 42 new believers, everyone was crying and said that God had changed their lives. Click to see the celebration, our children, elderly and the fantastic baseball team.

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Fernando says we watch over six home cells for our church in Mexico. Mbita says we have opened a School of Mission in Ouaga, Burkina Faso. Song, South Korea says I'm in missions in Zanzibar, Tanzania.


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28th October, 2010
 
Chris Wright at Lausanne III World Congress, Cape Town, 4000 leaders from 197 nations, says the greatest hindrance to world mission is God's own people and calls for church leaders to abandon idolatry of power, pride, popularity and wealth, and return to humble, simple faith in Christ.  Click for all Congress videos, reports, notes.

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Les Norman, the editor says click DCI Christmas Party with the Poor because it is almost time for us to plan our 2010 Party and this Christmas it might be at your place.


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Angel Olmo, EMSI Mision, Spain says click this You Tube Video to plan the kind of Christmas that you always wanted.

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27th October, 2010
 
John Ling, Myanmar says click here for the free DCI School of Discipleship in Chin language as used by us. Click for English version.

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The prestigious Wall Street Journal says Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world, followed by Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq. Click for full list. The worse they are, the more we need to go there with the gospel that changes society forever, one person at a time.

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26th October, 2010
 
Martin Cooke, Nottingham, UK says 80% of visually impaired people are in developing countries. Click for free tools and utilities to help Visually Impaired and Dyslexic learners for example DSpeech turns text into speech.

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Pastor Daniel, Cochin, India says for 5 weeks church is overflowing and we had to buy more chairs, we also planted 10 more village churches. Ademar, Brazil says I am studying the DCI free teaching. Javier, from Mexico in Georgia USA says I am starting ministry in a flea market. 

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25th October, 2010
 
What to Noah, Job, Daniel and an eminent Spanish surgeon have in common ? Click  The Inside DCI Blog to read the short answer.

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Javier says I pastor 15 people in Barcelona, Spain. Noumbissi says I have opened a training centre in Cameroon with the free DCI School of Mission lessons. Samuel Silva says I am in Bolivia on my first mission to help a church with social action.

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23rd-24th October, 2010
The Weekend
 


Charles Johnson, Liberia says I came back with malaria after taking medicine, clothes, mosquito nets and rice to the poor people in the floods and had to go straight into hospital for a week. More photos will come soon.

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Johnny Auguste, with DCI in Haiti says because a Bible here is the price of gold even our School of Mission teachers and graduates do not have one. The price is $25 each for the cheapest, can you help us or can you tell me where to find French or Creole Bibles at a better price?

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Mamang, Central Africa Rep says our first DCI School of Mission graduated 28 students, we start again on 20 October. Yolande says I am writing my M.Th dissertation in Ghana. Hilarión says I organize a network of holiday Bible Schools for children in Huancavelica, Peru.

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22nd October, 2010 

We now have Pastor Eric Maddison's timeless classic free book You Can Find God's Best in Burmese, also in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Urdu, Russian, Chin, French and Serbian.

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Jorge Nóbrega says we reach out to drug traffickers in Duque de Caxias, Brazil. Katherine says I live in Vermont, USA at school. Idavid says I am writing poetry for my radio program in Neuquen, Argentina. Ibungu says I go to the Muslim peoples of Ivory Coast.

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21st October, 2010
 
Philippe Ouedraogo, AEAD Burkina Faso, with DCI since 1984, says the first 67 leaders came for training at our new centre in Ouagadougou which has two buildings for orphans and vulnerable children, four classrooms, a chapel, a conference hall and an adult school with ten bedrooms.

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Damera says I want to open a centre for orphans, widows and training in India. Misael Lopez, Guatemala says our church welcomes people in mission and we have done work in 10 nations. Shey Aloysius Sah says I want to change young lives through my school in Cameroon.

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20th October, 2010
 
THE LEADER'S REFLECTION

Christians give about 1% of their money to Christian causes, 95% of this 1% is spent by the churches on themselves, less than 1% of the 1% is used to reach the unreached lost, last and the least of the world served by just 2 to 4% of cross-cultural workers. Source

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Rubens and Nuira, Bristol UK from Brazil like Smith Wigglesworth's classic sermons online and Brian Doerksen video singing Refiner's Fire

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Do you need someone to talk to? Click to e-mail Sharon from DCI England. Sharon has a Masters in Counselling and Psychology, she is a committed Christian and personally very familiar with suffering. You can talk to Sharon as a trustworthy friend and she will reply to you, in English.

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19th October, 2010
 
Johnny Auguste, Haiti says we have started a 3rd DCI School of Mission this month, in St Jean, because 25 people from there walked for over three hours to ask for the free lessons.


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What was extraordinary in England in 1978 and needed a circus tent happens every Sunday now, read the Inside DCI Blog.

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Dabongou Dimanche says I am studying God's word in Burkina Faso. Albert says click Africa Youth Ministries to see our Kenya sport program.

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18th October, 2010
 
George Purkweri, Lira, Uganda says almost every week we welcome enough new people to start another church like the latest Church for the Poor in Oyam and in two weeks we will open another church.


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Luciene, Brazil says we are seeing drugs victims, prostitutes and poor people following Jesus. Chilangwa says we have the School of Leadership for church leaders in Kafue and Chilanga, Zambia. Fernando, Brazil says click for free Bibles in Portuguese, Spanish, English and for blind people.

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16th-17th October, 2010
The Weekend
 


Emilienne, from our team of French translators and Michel have been married in Gabon, a thousand congratulations to you both.

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Les Norman, the editor says we send the excellent UCB Word for Today book of daily readings to all our leaders, editors and translators, it is that good. See and request your free copy in English or Spanish.



Samuel Silva says we work against illness and poverty in Bolivia and teach God's ways. Jose Manuel says come to the 1st International Christian Cinema Festival, 29-30 October, Acapulco, Mexico. Gustavo, Argentina says if you are in missions in France please e-mail me 

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15th October, 2010
 
John Ling says Myanmar has a plague of rats because just three times a century the bamboo trees flower providing food for rats who multiply and then destroy all the crops.

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Moses Aringo, Malawi Schools of Mission says I have just heard that DCI comes from one small office in the UK from where you affect many peoples lives in the whole world, it's amazing, I am jealous and I would like to be the same.

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Les Norman says yes, the story is true and to save money we also live in the same small office, it has been this way for over 25 years, but Moses, don't you be the same, believe God we want you to do better than us.


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14th October, 2010

THE LEADER'S REFLECTION

In times of bad news it is better to eat of the promises of God that hang as fruit from the tree of life than to be always harvesting the latest information from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which has no healing properties.

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Fabien says I am training to go to the Pygmies in CAR. IPM Church Vilhena, Brasil wants to send people into mission in Bolivia. Samuel says I have a church for 8 deaf people in Bobo Diolasso, Burkina Faso.


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13th October, 2010
 
Dave and Heidi Skipper, Japan say we have planned two Christmas Concerts with classical, jazz, gospel and electronic music plus our testimony and vision. We have started language lessons and will do some of the talking in Japanese.

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If your PC or laptop has begun to work very slowly click to read how to fix it, in English.

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Mauricio says I just arrived in the USA, looking for work but never forgetting to pray for missions. Simon Kurgat says I take clothes, food and shelter to orphans in Kenya.


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12th October, 2010
 
Rolando Canazas, Peru says I am going to Iquitos with some DCI School of Mission graduates to visit the Napo Quechua unreached people group who know little if anything about God's love for them.


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Gnangoran in Mali says many female prisoners here have decided to follow Christ in last 2 years. Ananias says we have been doing mission in the interior of Portugal since 2002. Alejandra Castillo says we are looking to help someone who is doing mission in the 10/40 Window.

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11th October, 2010
 
Pastor Czk says we have 19 churches and many mission fields all over Myanmar, we can't have people from overseas here, we can't go abroad so we badly need training for pastors, the DCI School of Mission would be a blessing.

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The Himba in Namibia wear animal skins, cover themselves in red ochre, bathe in smoke not water and live off of the land. They believe in Mukuru, holy fire, witch doctors and ancestors, and are definitely not familiar with Jesus.  From Forgotten Peoples

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9th-10th October, 2010
The Weekend
 
Felly Nsungu, Angola says we are here to open a new church in Luanda after planting two churches in my home Togo and another in DR Congo.

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Sarwar, Pakistan says this month we planted another church in Lahore City, we have now opened 20 new churches in four years.

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Michael Adjei, Shiloh Mission College, Ghana says we graduate our first 15 students on December 4, the DCI School of Mission is part of our curriculum.


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8th October, 2010
 
Andy and Val Simcock, Thailand say the boys home in Chiang Rai will be finished by end November, click to see photos of our trip to a remote church in Burma and the floods on our doorstep here.

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Diego Martin likes the idea of doing business as mission. Dr.Mrs Raju says I work with child development in India. Dieudonné, Burkina Faso says I am working in sport with YWAM in Mali. Antonella, Paraguay says I want to contact people in missions in Italy.

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7th October, 2010
Matthieu Nshimimana, Burundi says this is our free School of Mission and church in Ngozi. Click to see photos. Les Norman, the DCI founder says we are proud to have you with us, Matthieu.

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Bobby Hitt, Texas, USA says click to watch Gianna Jessen tell her story of surviving an abortion 8 weeks from birth at the hands of a man who has aborted over a million babies, and who says this is his passion.


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6th October, 2010
 
Moses Aringo, Malawi says our DCI School of Mission graduated students from Lilongwe, Zambia and Mzuzu and many more registered to start studying free, and we visited a daughter church in Mchinji. See all the photos.

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Issa Yonli says I am opening new village churches in Niger and giving out your free course. Consuelo Bascuñan says for 15 years I get to speak in the Temuco, Chile prison every Friday. Cesar Cortez says I am going for mission training in Tijuana, Mexico.

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5th October, 2010

THE LEADERS
REFLECTION

It is said by those who understand the changes that come with age that in your twenties you are learning your trade, in your thirties you are go-getting, in your forties you defend all threats to your achievements, in your fifties you mentor your successor whilst in your sixties and onwards your role is to guard the vision.
 

Find out what the vision is that we are guarding so jealously and then write yours. Click for English Spanish or Portuguese

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When it is time for coffee, let Max Mclean read the Bible to you for five minutes, in English.

Click here to choose your chapter. 





4th October, 2010
 
Johnny Auguste, Haiti says thanks to everyone who provided a fresh water supply, pipe and a tap for my 21 orphan children. The DCI School of Mission in Port Salut started with 11 students, others couldn't get in because of the tropical storm, in two weeks we will start the next School of Mission in Carpentier.

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E-mail Vicente Lopez Ortiz, Veracruz-Mexico to send food, cookers, pans, lamps, clothes for people from 250 destroyed churches and thousands of others who have lost everything in Hurricane Karl.


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2nd-3rd October, 2010
The Weekend

Andy and Luisa Hatherly, UK say Moses from DCI Malawi took us to Mzuzu to visit his Banking for the Poor projects, great to see the impact that the loans have made in people's lives. Click for photos.

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Click Revival Ministries Australia for free teaching manuals on prayer, evangelism, revival, bible and preacher training in English and Nepali.

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DCI is about to sponsor a sewing skills workshop to train vulnerable young girls in Danane, Ivory Coast, for Mah Malachi. As a final security check, if anyone thinks we should not do this, please e-mail Les Norman.


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1st October, 2010
 
Ranledis Perez, Camaguey, Cuba says we have a spiritual awakening, people are handing in their idols, and sorcerers, prostitutes, lesbians and young offenders are coming to church many are in their first love for Jesus wanting to worship all day, every day. We have the free DCI School of Mission and soon Alpha for them in Spanish.

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Marcelo says we are seeing may people decide to follow Jesus in Gravatai, Brazil. Santina says we want to built a centre with classrooms and care centre in Peru. Jose Michel says every 15 days we take food for body and soul to 150 homeless people in Ensenada, Mexico.

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The DCI Vision and Values page has been updated.
The Banking for the Poor page has been greatly revised.
DCI has You Tube videos in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French.

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE
OUR READER'S PHOTOS ?

Click to see our Picassa Albums from around the world.
Choose one and then click Slideshow to see the display.

Who are we ?

We look for people.
We train and equip them.
They train others.
The 'others' open new training schools,
churches, serve the poor and create funds.

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.



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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 61, is a journalist, writer, speaker and a manager for the DCI Fund, focussing on the lost, the last and the least of the world. Since 1977 he has been following the call of Christ. He is married to Pilar with three grown up children.
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