31st October, 2009
Join 4000 leaders from 200 nations and 1000’s more online at the 3rd Lausanne World Congress, Cape Town, 16-25 October 2010 to discuss the future of the Church and world missions, other world faiths, poverty, HIV/AIDS, and persecution. Sign up here to join in online, free in six languages, or e-mail
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Operation World is in Spanish at long last, for the best spiritual information on every country in the world. Click any country links like Russia to see.
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30th October, 2009
John Duco, Liberia
says we have 65 abandoned children at our school, we have made
uniforms for them but they need sponsors for a daily hot meal before
they return to the slums.
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29th October, 2009
Henri Nouwen
said that when we are not afraid to confess our own poverty, we will be
able to be with other people in theirs. The Christ who lives in our own
poverty recognizes the Christ who lives in other people's. Just as we
are inclined to ignore our own poverty, we are inclined to ignore
others. We prefer not to see people who are destitute, we do not like
to look at people who are deformed or disabled, we avoid talking about
people's pains and sorrows, we stay away from brokenness, helplessness,
and neediness. By this avoidance we can lose touch with the people
through whom God is manifested to us. But when we have discovered God
in our own poverty, we will lose our fear of the poor and go to them to
meet God. See part one on October 2nd.
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28th October, 2009
Muzamai Muzamai, Livingstone, Zambia
says my wife and I are church planting, can you see how you might work
with us in training, missions and helping the many with AIDS and the
orphans.
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Silvana Mara, Pousso Alegre, Brazil says she is planning to give secular and Christian education to 20 local children at risk, 4 to 6 years old. We are also doing another Christmas Party for the Poor.
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27th October, 2009
Yoppi Margianto, Indonesia
says that our FRUIT and GO vision has seen twelve people join our
church in one week. Family, Revelation, Urgency, Intimacy and
Togetherness. FRUIT is our one year small group program using the
School of Mission materials with one leader and four disciples in each
group. The goal for each group is to multiply into five groups because
every member will GO to invite one new person every month to join the
group or church, so we could see up to 1,500 members in just one year.
Write me for more information.
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26th October, 2009
Nestor Monyehi, Ivory Coast says I am a street singer for Jesus trying to save lives, I'm on lesson 26 in the free School of Mission
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David Wilkerson, New York, USA
has a letter from a mother who says, “My daughter is 16, loves the
Lord, and is a joy to be around but she is in extreme pain 24
hours a day. I lost my son in 1997 due to the same pain." In the face
of everything, amid a relentless shaking of body and soul, this mother
and her daughter have put their hope in God’s Word to them. And He has
given them peace.
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24th October, 2009
Ajmad Aj, Orissa, India held a pastors school in Gunpur and gave bicycles to these men who lost everything in the last persecution.
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Oscar M. Lofwa, Zambia is doing pastoral missions in Francistown, Botswana, just registered a church, all help welcome.
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23rd October, 2009
Rini Margianto, Indonesia says to click to see what happens to
people's homes when an earthquake hits, and what we did to help the
survivors. Write and I will tell you more.
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Tukesiga George, Kigali, Rwanda says we would like to
start a School of Ministry using your superb training materials.
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22nd October, 2009
Horacio Oviedo, Albacete, Spain is offering a
former hotel with 22 bedrooms as an ideal leaders training school if anyone is interested.
Hassan, Kerala, India says he was brought up in a Muslim home, I am now a pastor reaching out to my former people.
José Antonio Faienza, Argentina, says his church has a 19th Missions
Conference on 14/15 November, Santa Fe, people out in
Uzbekistan, Chaco and Hong Kong.
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21st October, 2009
Charles
Johnson, Liberia
says before the war Monrovia had very few churches but revival came in
the war and now almost every family has fellowship
morning
and evening, revival is on-going, people put all their faith
in
God for healing, protection, provision or they perish.
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Comment: John Duco, Monrovia, Liberia
For
the very first time 162 people came to church, 95% adults, my
vision is to plant 700 churches in West Africa and beyond.
Comment
from C.T.Studd, 1860-1931
Some wish to live within the sound of chapel bell; I wish to
run a rescue mission within a yard of hell.
20th October, 2009
George
Purkweri, Uganda says Heaven's Rehearsal, Canada
which is a mega-event of 202 nations coming to one place to worship
Jesus have amazingly chosen desolate, forgotten, war damaged Gulu, Northern Uganda for their next
gathering in late 2010.
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Marion Male, Fiji says most children here are
made to pray and bow to statues of gods but NCTC
Labasa is opening a primary school, God is
doing awesome stuff, like our last village meeting
had 1000 people.
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19th October, 2009
Daniel Kizhakkevila, Kerala, India says to see his photos of two
of his 97 Mercy
Homes for poor children, of 20 national missionaries
receiving free bicycles and lanterns, of widows
receiving free sheep
that provide income and of five of his lepers receiving
artificial legs,
help to provide more of everything is welcome.
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We need a cheap tractor for a
plantation that funds a clinic in Malawi, see 14/10, can buy in Africa or
maybe we can fund shipping a donated
tractor to Malawi. Please e-mail Les
Norman, the editor.
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17th October, 2009
Yoppi Margianto, Indonesia
says another earthquake came today, smaller at 6.5 but caused great
panic in high-rise buildings, may be a warning before expected big one
comes, may God protect us.
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Anthony
Cobus from South Africa is visiting the Middle East, has a
heart for the people here, is in missions and asks for info on
unreached Arabic world.
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Comment by Les Norman, the editor
The experts in the
Middle East are Frontiers, CNN has the latest
about the growth of Islam and Carl
Medearis has years of experience living in the Middle East
and can advise you.
Ezequiel Guzman, Cd. Madero, Mexico says that the people in his
church are about to finish the DCI
School of Mission and now have a
better understanding of leadership and missions.
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16th October, 2009
Juan
Ballesteros, Peru
who visits Picapiedras weekly has been given a building for school,
church and community, needs cleaning, some glass, paint, blackboards
and chairs but our prayer is answered!
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Karen
Hawkins, USA says Bible
Pathway with pages in 12 languages intends to send 5,000,000
Bibles around the globe for the last, the lost and the least.
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15th October, 2009
Mike Frith at Oscar, one of the world's best
places for mission info has a list of jobs in Christian work
worldwide.
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Free on-line seminars from The Chalmers Center based on the
book, When Helping Hurts, it's for people working with the poor.
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14th October, 2009
Michael
Singini, wants you to see the progress on building
the Malawi Clinic in Mbuzi Mzumala, the one that will end
a 7 hours walk to the
nearest doctor.
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Mah Malachi, Ivory Coast
wants you to see three new shops from our
Banking for the Poor
scheme in this desperately poor inland area of Danane.
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13th October, 2009
Click to see the shops, ducks, chickens and fish
in Indonesia each one a Business
for Mission that will make money to bless
the poor and
tell them about Jesus.
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Les
Norman, the editor is looking for
volunteer translators to start Chinese, Korean, Japanese,
Arabic and
Russian editions of these pages, and an assistant web page-maker.
Please e-mail me in English.
12th October, 2009
David
Ngwa says his DCI School
of Mission in Buea, Cameroon is
now open [website] and I am giving
out course CD's in English and French in the Ministers Forum.
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Comment by Sahr Bockarie: 12/9/09
This School of Mission has
very big momentum in east Sierra Leone, it is going out of
our hands
what shall we do?
10th
October, 2009
Where are the best and worst places to live in
the world ? Norway, Australia and Iceland win but Niger, Afghanistan
and Sierra Leone are the worst. See
your country here
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Ana
Avilez, Honduras, our lady on-line
pastor says her car slid on a mountain road, turned
over six times leaving her and daughter Claudia injured but alive.
Please pray.
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9th October, 2009
Johnny
Auguste, Haiti has opened a new Business
for Mission for his School
of Mission students who take a phone
around the
streets to sell calls. More photos
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Guehi Marcel, Ivory Coast says his free Abidjan DCI
School
of Mission is open with everyone enjoying the first term.
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Pastor John Piper has
excellent, well studied teaching here in an amazing 23 languages
including
lots of Spanish and Portuguese.
8th October, 2009
Free Book, 25 chapters on Missionary Care, Counting the Cost
Rolando
Canazas, Peru is thinking about doing two
DCI style Christmas Parties for the Poor,
one for street kids and another for the Huambisa native people in the
Amazon.
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7th October, 2009
Carlos Cuellar, 56, Guatemala has experience and wants
to help with mission in Spain or Argentina.
Lidia Cabrera, Argentina says that every single
night our church is praying for every person, church and project on
this page.
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Les
Norman says Ecclesiastes is a picture of the
unsettled believer but Solomon also wrote the following book of Song
of Songs which is a picture of the believer who is satisfied
and settled in God's love. But which did he write
first? Read more
Yoppi Margianto, Indonesia
says the Scale 7.5 earthquakes caused
1000 deaths with many more lost under
thousands of destroyed houses. We cannot contact the believers, my
sister-in-law who lives there gave birth to a 4 kgs boy in it all,
another quake, maybe scale 8 is feared. Tsunamis and
earthquakes, is this judgment or the signs of the last days ?
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Rini, Pariaman, Indonesia: 9/10
So
very few volunteers are here, people need much more than we have. So
sad to see parents who lost all their children, or a little girl who
doesn't have anyone, all of a sudden all were gone and nothing and
no-one left but herself.
Les Norman, the editor
Lots
of comments coming from South America saying 'judgment and repent' yet
Indonesia has had revival for maybe 25 years, nowhere in the world has
seen more Muslims turning to Christ, some paying with their
lives.
Sadly Christians also lost their lives in Sumatra and nearby Samoa, 97%
Christian, was hit by a tsunami on the same day with 170 people losing
their lives.
Ramiro,
Argentina
I was mistaken, I didn't know about the move of God in Indonesia, what
good news that is.
Padang,
Indonesia: 7/10
Prices here rising to the sky, gasoline is 4 times higher than normal.
Name
withdrawn for security reasons, Indonesia: 6/10
Our relief convoy will get through to Jambi, Padang City and Pariaman
with blankets, medicine and food today but the resistence to Christians
is harsh here and prison is a threat if we speak about Jesus as has
happened to some pastors. We are here with great risk. Padang is like
Jeremiah 48:41, the stronghold of Moab, like Banda Aceh where the
tsunami hit. We need your prayers.
Anon,
Indonesia: 5/10
Sad that people here are always wrong in interpreting the disasters.
Some clerics even shout louder for this country to enact Sharia Law as
soon as possible to stop the catastrophes but it seems to me that they
are more like warnings from God to point us back to Him and His word in
the Bible.
6th October, 2009
Ajmad Aj in Orissa, India says to e-mail for more
information on conferences and training
in Gunpur, Berahampur and Bhubaneswar.
Sushil Kumar Nayak, India offers DCI
Training Courses in Bhubaneshwar to start state wide movement
in Orissa
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5th
October, 2009
Viviana in Santa Rosa, Argentina
says to see No Frontiers web page for 30/31
October missions conference.
Juan Alonso, Ancud, Chile
says that God is doing amazing things on the Isle of Chiloe in his 10
year old growing church.
German Hernandez, Bogota, Colombia needs blankets, beds,
sheets for people he is taking in off the streets to show them God's
love.
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3rd October, 2009
Mah Malachie, Ivory Coast says I was worried
about our School of Mission but studying Who
God Calls showed me God's plan is to break our strength so I
took courage. After 3 days prayer and fasting I will open another
school in Man on October 12, students will write notes not buy
photocopies. All our new churches will pray for us.
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2nd October, 2009
Henri Nouwen says, "How can we embrace poverty when
everyone around us wants to be rich? Poverty has many forms so we have
to ask, "What is my poverty?" Is it lack of money, lack of emotional
stability, lack of a loving partner, lack of security, lack of safety,
lack of self-confidence? Each human being has a place of poverty and
that's the place where God wants to dwell! "How blessed are the poor,"
Jesus says which means that our blessing is hidden in our
poverty which we are so inclined to cover up and ignore that
we often miss the opportunity to discover God, who dwells in it.
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1st October, 2009
Dr.
Angel Olmo of EMSI, Spain says to click here for photos, videos of
the Burkina Faso flood catastrophe and
the story in Spanish. Click BBC photos for English
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Charles Johnson, Liberia says 5000 Liberian church
leaders came to a seminar to prepare the Osborn
Festival of Faith and Miracles to be held in Monrovia and
Buchanan in November 2010.
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
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DCI Trust, serving 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
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