YouTube - Azusa Pacific University: Life on Film-Nick
By Bryon | November 20, 2008
This is one Shepherd’s Staff Mission Facilitators board members. Nick has an incredible gift of encouragement.
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What I Did On My Winter Vacation: We Built a Fence
By admin | November 16, 2008
My friend Tina sent me this video of a dude at her church that’s sounds like he had the best vacation ever. Why was it his best? Because he didn’t take a vacation for himself, he gave his vacation away.
He was paid back by God more than he ever expected. Watch this video and see how to become a better, more productive disciple.
Watch. Learn. Be blessed.
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Going on a short term mission trip?
By Bryon | November 12, 2008
Questions to ponder:
- How will short-term missions impact your life one year from now? …three years from now?
- Are you joining with God in praying for the nations to know Jesus–and raising up laborers for the Harvest field (Matthew 9:38)?
- How will your short-term trip impact your life TODAY? HERE? NOW?
- Are you going back for 1-2 years?
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Clean water changed everything for them. | LWI News Center
By Bryon | November 12, 2008
SIERRA LEONE – Number 3 Gassama Street, Calaba Town
Not long ago, many of the young men gathered around this well were child soldiers, kidnapped and traumatized by the rebels in Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil war. Now, they’re a part of the Nehemiah Boys Home, and they formed a team to help install hand pumps throughout the surrounding communities so that people can experience the gift of clean water. The young men were very excited; this was the first pump installation they performed as a team! Clean water changed everything for them.
Calaba Town is a large community, and over 50 people were affected by cholera last year alone. The Ministry of Health confirmed that this area had one of the highest levels of cholera in 2007. Because the area was so hard-hit, we are going to install several strategically placed hand pumps throughout the community. Even though many of their wells are routinely chlorinated, the litter, trash, and other waste that runs down during the rainy season can easily contaminate an open well.
Despite the torrential rains, we were able to seal the well and install the new pump with no trouble. The daughter of the well’s caretaker was overjoyed, saying, “It feels very good to get a hand pump! Tenke, tenke, tenke!”
Clean water changed everything for them. | LWI News Center
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India’s Dalits - omusa.org
By Bryon | November 10, 2008
What if—from the day you were born until the day you died—everyone around you despised and rejected you?
- Imagine hearing your entire life, “You’re worthless. You’re lower than animals.”
- In India, up to 300 million men, women and children don’t need to imagine. This is their reality.
- They’re outcasts…untouchables…Dalits (dah-leets).
For more than 3000 years, Indian society has viewed Dalits as worthless and disposable. They’ve been forced to perform the most degrading jobs. They’re denied access to decent education, food, healthcare and economic opportunity. From birth until death, these untouchables struggle to survive in hellish conditions.
But change is sweeping through parts of India. An outpouring of the Holy Spirit is transforming lives and infusing hope in communities of abject poverty.
After centuries in bondage, Dalit people are finding acceptance with God and realizing their worth and feeling hope for their future for the first time. Church-planting teams can’t keep up with the need. And after serving in India for 43 years, Operation Mobilization is helping train nationals to be pastors and establish new churches all across India.
Give to help the Dalits.
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OneApp Looking for Trial Churches | Mission Leader
By Bryon | November 8, 2008
by Mark Morris on November 8, 2008
OneApp.net is a new online resource for local and global ministry. For a full description see Preview of OneApp.
A number of Great Commission applications are coming together for the kingdom in one place and the developers are looking for a few missional churches who are willing to use these powerful tools and help make it even better for the churches that follow.
Churches who are selected for the beta program will benefit by expanding/extending their volunteer mobilization efforts and enhancing how their people are equipped for local and global missions. Online training offers your church members an opportunity to learn before leaving, keeping their time in the field focused on their project objectives as much as possible. Mission management tools are a blessing to mission staff and and team leaders who manage multiple local and global volunteer teams annually.
The OneApp development team is also looking for international partners to add to the growing field-enhanced database on global ministries.
If you think your church might be in a position to commit time and energy into being one of the first to utilize this powerful tool, please complete the following online survey.
To remain informed about OnApp’s development, register your email at OneApp.net.
For more information contact the development team by email at idea@eFurther.com
OneApp is powered by eFurther.com, an independent not-for-profit software platform designed to get the job done.
OneApp Looking for Trial Churches | Mission Leader
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My Friend was attacked
By Bryon | November 6, 2008
The following message and video is from friends of mine I used to work with in Africa. Take a look and pray about how you might help this ministry.
Pray for my friend David Ogwang who was robbed on Nov. 5th. in the refugee camp we lived in called Kiryandongo, Uganda. They tried to kill him with an axe. Please help us relocated David and the orphans to Sudan. We need $9000 to do it. Log on to hiskids.com and make a tax deductible gift…big or small. Thank you, Joe.
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Box of Love campaign ministers to inner city families
By admin | November 5, 2008
USA (MNN) ― Here’s Life Inner City is gaining opportunities to minister through the "Box of Love" campaign. By providing a full Thanksgiving meal to needy inner-city families, believers gain an open door to share the hope of Christ. God’s love is transforming many lives and families through this ministry.
Partnering churches determine the neediest families in their neighborhood and distribute boxes accordingly. A full Thanksgiving meal comes in the box, including a 12-lb turkey, ham or chicken, potatoes, stuffing, vegetables and cranberry sauce. Other food items such as fruit and desserts are also included, and the meals usually last several days.
Many have come to know God through this ministry. A complete New Testament and Christian literature are distributed with the boxes, and many attend their local church after receiving a "Box of Love."
Married to a drug dealer, a woman named Rani had begged for money from distant relatives in order to provide food for herself and her daughter. After receiving a box, Rani accepted Jesus as her Savior and now attends church regularly with her daughter.
Less than $150 provides boxes for four families. Campus Crusade for Christ and Here’s Life hope to reach more than 10,325 families this year. If you’d like to help reach this goal, please click here and use the code LOVE08.
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Samaritan’s Purse | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Emergency Relief | Crisis in the Congo
By admin | November 4, 2008
Fierce battles between the Congolese Armed Forces and rebel troops commanded by Laurent Nkunda are adding new fuel to a 10-year struggle that has claimed more than five million lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, creating a crisis for people seeking food, clean water, and medical aid.
Samaritan’s Purse flew a DC-3 cargo plane packed with food, medical supplies, blankets, and emergency shelter materials into the city of Goma today. A four-man emergency response team is networking with local officials, church leaders, and medical personnel to help rush aid to the neediest victims.
A second shipment of supplies from Samaritan’s Purse is scheduled to arrive in Goma on Friday, with additional flights and personnel to follow next week.
The growing conflict has displaced more than 1 million people in the North Kivu province and driven thousands across borders into Uganda and Rwanda. As many as 50,000 people have sought refuge in and around Goma.
An 800-man UN peacekeeping force is holding the Goma airport. Rebel troops are poised on the outskirts of the city while tense international negotiations are underway.
Nkunda sent a message to the United Nations, offering to allow “humanitarian organizations access to those in need who are behind our lines.”
Samaritan’s Purse will concentrate its current efforts in Goma.
In a separate operation in mid October, Samaritan’s Purse sent two planeloads of blankets and cooking utensils to refugees in Dungu, a town about 400 miles north of Goma, near the border of Sudan.
That region is under attack from a rebel force from Uganda called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA was established in 1987 by Joseph Kony to overthrow the government of Uganda.
LRA troops regularly invade towns and villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, and Uganda, killing civilians and plundering their homes.
The LRA attacked Dungu soon after Samaritan’s Purse delivered aid to the town, putting plans for any future airlifts in the region on hold.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
PRAY:
Please pray for the people affected by the fighting. Pray that our relief supplies will reach those most in need of aid, and for safety for our teams as they work. Please pray for peace for this war-torn land.
GIVE:
To support our work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, please visit our donation page.
Samaritan’s Purse | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Emergency Relief | Crisis in the Congo
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Missions Mandate » Blog Archive » Fighting in Congo
By Bryon | November 3, 2008
Fighting in Congo
Fighting in CongoNovember 3, 2008 – 3:21 pm
Below are several articles following the ongoing conflict in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Please pray for our fellow Congolese brothers and sisters in Christ and foreign missionaries who are enduring these troubling times.
Articles:
Pictures:
- Photos of Refugee Camps in Congo
Missions Mandate » Blog Archive » Fighting in Congo
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