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Thursday, December 30, 2010

AFRICA REPORT - Poured Out For Africa with Pastor Don Schwarz












Philippians 2: 17 "Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all."

New Year’s Greetings In King Jesus’ Name!

I am so thankful to begin this New Year with a great report from our anointed ministry partner Pastor Habimana in the DR Congo! I was just with him during my trip to Rwanda and my what a glorious time we had there! I have just received this report and share it with you for the glory of the LORD! I am not going to edit his English so as to maintain the authentic flavor of the message. May we see Kingdom fruit from our lives in 2011!

John 15:16 "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."

Dear Partners,
Greetings from Dr Congo. It is with pleasure that I would like to share with you the goodness of our almighty God. We started our training on 27th December which ended this afternoon. 23 evangelists attended our seminar. It was joy to be with them during these three days learning how to win souls to our master Jesus Christ using F A I T H as tools. It was new to them where there were curious and followed us attentively. The new strategy of witnessing people was very well appreciated. Testimonies from evangelists.

Evangelist David said: Thanks to our teachers; they give us the best tools to win souls to Jesus. Our churches were not growing because we didn’t have strategy for evangelism.

Evangelist Emmanuel said: We thank so much God because we were trained for the ministry and we have now tools (bibles)

Evangelist Muhasha said, God bless you for equipping us with the strategy of evangelism.etc..Under rains our students went for practice and won 30 new believers who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior while 8 persons joined the church. There were backslide. But we faced problem of transport for instructors and for students. This has been a big issues to those who attend our training coming far from the organized centre.I will send to you the calendar of our training of the coming year 2011, so that you may have time to pray for it.There is a good news which I need to share with you, on the Christmas day, in the whole Union of Baptist churches we baptized 751 new believers. Please join us to thank God for the harvest.

Continue praying for the ministry, and we appreciate so much your prayers and financial support.

May God bless you richly.

Sincerely,
Pastor Athanase Habimana
To learn more about Poured Out For Africa check out the blog and website: pouredoutforafrica.blogspot.com and www.pouredoutforafrica.com
Have a fruitful New Year!

Pastor Don Schwarz

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Kenya December 2010-HIV Orphan Healing!





Africa Report - Poured Out For Africa

Philippians 2: 17 Yea, and if I be offered (poured out) upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

There is much I will share about my recent trip to Rwanda and Kenya later, but in this report I will exclusively give glory to our Savior Jesus for His healing hand of mercy upon two orphans in Kenya.

Our team was on our way to an orphan facility we support in a rural village in Kenya. There are 108 orphans in this place. During our drive, one of our companions, who is a powerful pastor, church planter, disciple maker, orphan caregiver, and recording artist was giving us counsel about many things in Kenya. He spoke of a 25,000 persons gospel event he had preached recently. There a man was carried in on a stretcher and walked out upon hearing a word from the Lord given from this pastor. I then told our brother that I desired to see more power from the Lord in my ministry and asked him for prayer. Little did I know how quickly this prayer would be answered.

We arrived that day and HIV testing was being conducted on all of the orphans. I was later told that some would expect that out of 108 orphans in Kenya up to half would be found HIV positive. Things were going so well and none of the children were testing positive until the end.

At this critical point we were informed that, as I understood it, one child had tested positive. One of the deacons from our church and I began to pray fervently for healing, forgiveness, mercy, and full restoration for this precious little soul! Then they tested the child a second time and the test was negative, and then a third and the test was NEGATIVE-NO HIV!

There is more, and this deals with the scoffers who would attribute this to a faulty first test. Due to privacy and discrimination regarding HIV in Africa we were not informed anything about this child and I wanted a little information for this report. So I contacted the administrator of the facility to ask if he could at least tell me if it was a boy or girl that was healed. He then told me through a strong Swahili English accent “Pastor Don, you must have misunderstood, it was a boy and a girl that were healed. There were two that had tested HIV positive before you prayed and two were healed!” And to demonstrate that it was not faulty testing he told me this: “The same testing was used the next day on the staff and three of them tested positive for the first, second, and third test. Pastor Don, we have seen a miracle!”

Oh give glory to our Savior Jesus, as He answered our prayer and showed us His mighty power by healing these precious children from the “incurable” disease HIV! He truly has healed all our diseases and forgiven all our sins!
To see pictures of the orphans in Kenya or get more information about this ministry you can go to our blog and website: www.pouredoutforafrica.blogspot.com or www.pouredoutforafrica.com

All the glory to Jesus!

Pastor Don Schwarz
Missions Pastor Poured Out For Africa
pofa@earthlink.net
832-878-0756

Friday, December 3, 2010

Africa Report - Poured Out For Africa





Philippians 2
Yea, and if I be offered (poured out) upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
Please pray for me as I am in Africa being poured out for the faith of those whom the Lord loves in Africa! What a great privilege to serve our Savior Jesus amongst a people so open to the gospel and so needy for the Savior! I will be in Rwanda and Kenya December 4-19 preaching the gospel, making disciples, and ministering to orphans and widows---Hallelujah!

I will be working in Rwanda with Pastor Muhoza Lewi and our Congolese partner Pastor Athanase Habimana will come from neighboring DR Congo to greet me and pray for the work. Below is the latest update from Pastor Habimana who is an end times dynamo for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ---glory to His name!

These updates are from 10 new churches planted this year.
Don.
Greetings ffrom Goma: After being ok last week I organised a seminar of evangelists for three days from 25th up 27th: I was teaching them about FAITH and its explanation; How to witness; and practice: The 10 local churches of Hekima sent their evangelists and Hekima provided food and transportation:

It was very interesting as they knew how to do evangelism using the Key Question: In your opinion what takes a person to go to heaven?
F A I T H
F- Forgiveness
A- Available
I- Impossible
T- Turn
H- Heaven

At the end of the training 36 participants witnessed 78 persons; and everyone back home saying that they are ready to plant new churches: Thank you for your prayers and finacial contribution: All of them received bibles as the tools for the ministry:

You sent to me money for bibles, I distributed them to these evangelists who are qualified for the harvest:

Funds for orphans; I bought blankets as the Chrismas gift: You will receive photo next time

Sincerely
Habimana Athanase

To see more pictures and learn more about this Kingdom work in Africa come to our new, and still under some construction, website—www.pouredoutforafrica.com.

Also, you can see more of the most recent pictures from Pastor Habimana at pouredoutforafrica.blogspot.com
Lord willing I will have an exciting report when I return from Africa!

In The Service Of The King,
Don Schwarz
Poured Out For Africa
Executive Director