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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.
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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you think about this
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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you think
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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you are doing or contact the writers
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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you are doing
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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you are doing or contact the writers
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.
Dave Sinclair says I am taking the freeChalmers
Center class on
Community Development, it's very good. Gaston Oviedo says we are
planting our third church in Spain.
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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you think about this
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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you are doing or contact the writers
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.
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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you are doing or contact the writers
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.
DISCUSS
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.
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.
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.
Juan, REMARChile 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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you are doing or contact the writers
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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you are doing
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.
Tell us what
you are doing or contact the writers 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.
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
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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.
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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you are doing
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
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.
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.
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
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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you are doing
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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you are doing
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.
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."
Tell us what
you think about this
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.
Johnny Auguste says we have 120
students in seven free HaitiSchools of Mission, we are working
to start cells, prayer groups and churches. Thousands living in tents
are facing Hurricane Thomas this
weekend.
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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you are doing
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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you are doing
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.
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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you are doing
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.
Tell us what
you are doing or contact the writers
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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you are doing
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?
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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you think about this
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.
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. Contact me or invite me