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1st December, 2010

DESTRUCTION AND DEATH THREATS IN PAKISTAN

DCI partner Pastor Sarwar Masih, Lahore, Pakistan says that last week a mob armed with heavy weapons entered the worship service and beat the entire congregation, seriously injuring escaping women and children, then using a bulldozer and a heavy crane they demolished the whole church building and destroyed Bibles, musical instruments, the sound system, everything. We called the police but they did not come or investigate, and will not protect us from ongoing death threats. Local government officials show no concern. The land and building is legally ours and there was no warning. Our lives are in danger, please pray for us and pass on our need for legal assistance and help.

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Les Norman, the editor and founder of DCI says the West is sending millions of pounds of aid to Pakistan and there is no way that this latest injustice and indifference should go without protest.  It may even be that our taxes are paying the wages of the Police to do nothing. Can we do anything to help ? You can pray, you can tell your press, radio and TV, you can help to pay £870 owed by poor people for medical attention and you can protest to your government's Foreign Affairs Dept. and to the Pakistan High Commission in your capital city.

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Bobby Hitt, USA says this attack really tears my soul, we are praying  and I am imploring others to feel the same painful stab of fear for those poor people that I feel. May God Almighty blow back this unleashed evil.


YM, Indonesia says what sad news but here we have endured the same hatred from people, Christians and Chinese are always targets when there is chaos, it is so difficult to do what Jesus says and love your enemy.


Ranledis, Cuba says this is so sad, we are praying for these brave people who are suffering for their faith.


Antonio, Philippines says this should not happen in the dot com age, embarrassing for the free world to be content in our own neat corners while people suffer like this. We will pray unceasingly for them.

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30th December, 2010
 


THE LEADER'S
REFLECTION

The price of leadership is the responsibility to stay positive whether you feel like it, or not.  
Winston Churchill,
from UCB November 27

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Liliana says I go to a prayer group that prays every day for Venezuela and the world. Issa Yonli says I am opening churches in Niger, like your free materials. Fernando says my bread shop gives away bread to new believers who need it.

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27-28 November, 2010
The Weekend


Mbog Baya says this is what the road looks like from Cameroon to Nigeria, on the way to a Conference. More photos

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Antonio Manaytay, Ipil, Philippines says our hearts bleed for the Badjaos Sea Gypsies in our town who are reduced to begging for food because they were forced off the seas because of wars and piracy. We may do a Christmas Party with the Poor for these destitute people.

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Jim, USA says I didn't know that Christians cared about poverty, Iraq, Afghanistan or the environment, nice to find you. Maria, Peru says our ladies are saving money to give Christmas baskets of food and chocolates to the poor.

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26th November, 2010
 

Paul says we have started the DCI School of Mission in Beijing, China, students are determined to go out of China but for now are ready to go to Shanghai and Guangzhou to set up branch Schools.

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Catherine of Siena said, “If you are what you should be, then you will set the world on fire.”

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Dave Sinclair says I am taking the free Chalmers Center class on Community Development, it's very good. Gaston Oviedo says we are planting our third church in Spain.


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25th November, 2010


Daniel Kizhakkevila, India says I held a conference for 80 leaders in Nepal, visited 5 villages there, had 22 baptisms, opened a Mercy Home for 7 orphans, and plan to send 10 Nepalese to  unreached peoples in the hills. Click for photos

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Click for more on disabled Afghan man jailed since May for his Christian faith facing fear of execution, but Asia Bibi in Pakistan  facing death for her faith (11 November) is released by President after international and media pressure, more here.

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24th November, 2010
 

Les Norman, the editor says with a million hits on these pages every month click here to find out who is my favourite reader.

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Click to see the car that flies made by Steve Saint, inventor, pilot and missionary. Felly says our new prayer group is growing in Luanda, Angola, next are Sunday meetings. DW, USA a completely delivered recovering addict says for all like me to seek God and He will free you.

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23rd November, 2010
 

Marion Male, NCTC in Fiji says for years I have seen so many beautiful children not going to school so we started a new primary school and it is going so well, God is doing great things.


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Nisy says Boricuas en Acción Social Puerto Rico trains and equips mission teams. Sergio, Monterrey, Mexico says we started church four years ago and plan four more. John, Colombia says I lead a church, am a doctor, my wife teaches English, we want to serve the nations.

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22nd November, 2010
 


THE LEADER'S
REFLECTION


Zechariah 4 talks about not despising a day of small things, that's because the seed of greatness is contained in small beginnings.

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It costs a fortune to go to the famous Fuller Seminary in the USA but click here to have their full School of Psychology Member Care Symposium for free with complete video, audio and written materials.

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20-21 November, 2010
The Weekend


Click for a moving eye-witness report of taking food and dry clothes to men, women and children in Liberia who had not eaten for days. Click here to see what Charles Johnson saw and did, and caught malaria by doing it.

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Supermarket chain Tesco in the UK buys a Methodist Church that declined down to nothing and no-one and turns it into a shop selling everything that John Wesley preached against.

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If the Lord God came to England and started expounding his beliefs, you know what the English would say? They'd say, "Oh, come off it!"
Prof. George Steiner, Cambridge quoted by Jeremy Paxman.

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Juan, REMAR Chile says we have homes for homeless and people with drug or alcohol problems. Jose Nota, Brazil says our Training School has 3 centres and 30 students. Hamilton Tovar, Venezuela says every Monday we pray for God's Kingdom to come through world mission.

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19th November, 2010
 

Twenty goats for orphans in Lira, Uganda have been sponsored by 13 year old Hannah in Nottingham, UK who makes key rings for sale at 50p each. One £20 goat gives a young boy or girl a great start in life, soon they have money for school, medicine and later marriage. Well done Hannah.

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Luz Mary says I live in a tough part of Bógota Colombia, give all my time to our church's work. Similor Luc says we have 5 churches and do education, leaders training and mission in Haiti. Cleomar, Brazil says I am sad to see so many church leaders spending funds on religious tourism to Israel while millions wait to hear the gospel.

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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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18th November, 2010
 

Congratulations to
Bunches, a UK Christian business and supporters of mission for many years, on having a visit from HRH The Duke of Kent to recognise their God-given success.

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CONTROVERSY !

Karyn Brownlee says the teaching in many churches these days is a 'feel-good' message that merely entertains and motivates but rarely educates, are we hearing anything better than is heard in Rotary Clubs or mosques?  Read more in English or use Google Translate

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17th November, 2010
 

Johnny Auguste, Haiti says my 21 orphans children are very well thanks to God who is protecting us against the cholera. Our grateful thanks to everyone who has e-mailed to say they will pray for Haiti and for us.


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Doyle Head says we taught your free training material in General Santos City, Philippines. Tito Robert, Buenos Aires, Argentina says we are training 400 people for mission, free online here.  Jairo Rolando Mendoza, Seville, Spain has a brilliant and very complete missions web site here

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16th November, 2010
 

George Purkweri, Uganda says one young prostitute with a child that we took in and trained in tailoring is now married to a school teacher and they are happy. Most of other girls who were sponsored by readers of this page are now settled, some with their own sewing business and no longer in prostitution.

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THE LEADER'S REFLECTION


Vocation does not come a voice out there calling me to be something I am not, it comes from a voice inside calling me to be the person I was born to be to fulfill God's purpose for me. Thomas Merton

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15th November, 2010

Rolando Canazas, Amazonas-Peru says this new pequepeque sponsored by readers of this page will be transport for us and the gospel by day, a water bus for the Schools of Mission in the jungle, an ambulance for sick villagers, a welcome sight for the poor and hungry and finally our shelter by night. Read the full story in the DCI Blog.

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ONE FRIEND SAYS TO ANOTHER
   
You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.
W.H.Auden


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13-14th November, 2010
The Weekend


Matthieu
in Burundi has two free DCI Schools of Mission and lots of mission, click to see his photos.

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Keith Smith, Burkina Faso says the opening of the new Wakkil Alla School in Gorom-Gorom went really well. Photos  

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Yves Ayité Gaba, Togo is giving Certificates to our School of Mission, November 20. André Costa is starting a School of Mission in Fortaleza, Brazil. Luck Levy is taking the gospel to rural Ivory Coast villages. Juan García is going from Chile to Malaysia and Myanmar next July.

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12th November 2010
 


Today Anthony opened his Aman Foundation School 
for 30 brick maker's children in a Pakistan slum near Faisalabad. Click for photos.

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Anna Robinson, Bath, UK says I am going to the Middle East to help lead a regional conference for people planting churches, please pray for me, the journeys and the conference, I am 30 weeks pregnant.


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11th November, 2010
 

This Christian lady faces death for blasphemy after using 'unclean hands' to bring water. It's time for Pakistan to stop this medieval mob rule and injustice. Full story here or enter page URL into Google Translator.


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Miner Jose Henriquez told thousands at a festival in Santiago, Chile that 22 of the 33 trapped miners turned to Christ whilst waiting to be rescued. Full story in English or Spanish 

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Click to see the Spanish National TV program of Ángel, Abigail and EMSI Mission showing free medical care and surgery for 1000's of poor people in Burkina Faso.

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10th November, 2010


Charles Johnson says when we took food, clothes, nets and medicine to Bokay Town, Liberia we had to avoid a stampede which could have led to the death of starving children and elderly people who are dying daily due to starvation, cholera and malaria which I also caught.  Click for photos

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Congratulations to Paul Dsane, the new Assistant Superintendent of AoG Ghana. Paul was briefly a DCI student in the 90's. DCI Partner since 1984 Philippe Ouedroago is now the Vice President of AoG Burkina Faso with some 400,000 members.

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9th November, 2010
 

Tony and Maria in West Side Story sang their hopes, "There's a place for us, somewhere a place for us, peace and quiet and open air, wait for us - somewhere."  If this is you then don't miss this week's DCI Minute.



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Les Norman, the editor says for all the people who spend hours sending e-mails asking for money usually with no replies at all, this page will help you and so will The DCI Money Forum.


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8th November, 2010
 

One friend says to another, "I think more people decide to follow Jesus by seeing kindness from real Christians than by all the preaching in the world." And the other replied, "Yes, and I think more people are driven away from Jesus by the hardness of so-called Christians than by all the doubts in the world."

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Kunle says Christ has provided a way for believers to prosper and that is for us to prosper as our soul prospers. Dilubanza says I have  missions projects in Angola. Brian says I am opening a School of Mission in Peru.


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6th-7th November, 2010
The Weekend
 

Johnny Auguste says we have 120 students in seven free Haiti Schools of Mission, we are working to start cells, prayer groups and churches. Thousands living in tents are facing Hurricane Thomas this weekend. 


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Sarwar Masih, Pakistan says our new church in Bhobhtian now has 260 people, they are very poor and make bricks like the Israelites did as slaves in Egypt. Around 160 children wander the streets or make bricks, do you know any agency or NGO who can help open a school for them?

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5th October, 2010
 

Yoppi Margianto, Indonesia says our team is doing well in the Yogyakarta camps, the Regent asked them to stay longer, situation really unsafe as volcano is erupting, killing people with poison clouds. People have donated many things but team needs gasoline and funds to do more.

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Moses Aringo, Malawi says 27 more students came to join the DCI School of Mission in Mzuzu after hearing about the quality teaching that is free.

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4th November, 2010
 


Anthony in Pakistan says on Saturday we distributed relief for people in the floods and Sunday we attended to 100's of people with malaria, cholera, skin disease and children with diarrhoea.

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Duda Lisboa, Brazil  is looking for ministries and missions in Europe and the USA. Conference speaker Ricardo Moronta, Venezuela  will visit your church in Central America. Deborah in Jackson, USA says I am involved in mission at my church, I want to learn more.

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3rd November, 2010
 

Miguel Diez, Remar Spain says we just returned from Angola, now in Jerusalem for our 3rd Prophetic Conference, then we go to Ivory Coast, Ghana and Burkina Faso where, and this is all your fault, the work is growing enormously. I never forget going to Africa with Les Norman in 1985 and all the experiences we had, some horrible, some very beautiful, all kept me awake for months weeping in bed at night.

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Silvia in Valparaíso, Chile says 12 students received Diplomas after finishing the DCI School of Mission, all were ladies, why do men leave when they realize what God asks them to do and to be for Him?


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2nd November, 2010

Yoppi Margianto
,
 Indonesia says today our team goes to Yogyakarta to help the volcanic eruption victims with blankets, milk, food and films. Photos

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The voice on the telephone was annoyed, "Come and collect your wife, she is anesthetized on the operating table but the surgeon has gone home and he is not coming back!" For what happened next click 'And Sarah Laughed Too' in the DCI Minute, that's all the time you will need.

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The DCI Vision and Values page has been updated.
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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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