Dear Fellow Followers of Jesus,
Greetings in His glorious name! Lord willing this month will be so very exciting and fruitful. We are going to Rwanda and the DR Congo April 24-May 6. This letter will explain some of our mission---please pray for us and those to whom we will minister. There are six of us on the team.
Our mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, build up those in the body of Messiah Jesus, and bless orphans and widows. I also have some information for those who are supporting, or interested in supporting, our orphan project.
Soon after we arrive in Kigali, Rwanda we will go to the genocide museum so our team members can see the horror that this little country experienced in 1994. Next we will go to Goma and then Bukavu in the DR Congo. Our ministry partners in the Congo have such a big job and have so little in the way of physical means. Yet, they have the Creator of the Universe who sends His mighty Spirit to these precious hungry souls.
The DR Congo is still recovering from years of their own horror which left 5,000,000 dead in the wake of it. The number of people who have open hearts to the Savior is a great blessing for those who love people like our Savior commanded! The number of orphans and widows who have lived through unimaginable suffering that need the comfort of the people of God is humbling, and may I say---we need your prayers!
When we return to Kigali, before returning to Texas, we will work amongst the churches in Rwanda, and will be in the streets with the gospel winning precious souls to their Savior Jesus! Lord willing, then we will see them baptized in rivers and brought into the congregations for discipleship.
Our final day will be spent working with orphans. This will include meeting with the government officials who are working with Pastor Lewi and our ministry to donate possibly 100 acres of land! You see, we want to see our Father in heaven establish an orphan village that will ultimately be home to 250 orphans!
Psalm 68:5: A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
This village will not just feed and clothe these children of God. There is a vision the Lord has given me that goes way beyond the traditional orphanage. We want to train these children to be all our Father in heaven has created them to be! Our vision is to equip them as followers of Jesus, and then: farming, livestock, crops, classical Christian education including the arts, literature, and science.
Lord willing, they will be equipped to then lead as they leave upon completion of their time in this godly family village environment in areas of church growth, government, business, military, etc. We want to change a country and then a continent for Jesus Christ!!! I have two questions:
1) Is our Savior Jesus not big enough?
2) Will you join us in prayerful partnership?
May our Lord Yeshua (Jesus) bless you and keep you!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Missions 2010
Dear Followers of Jesus,
We are well into2010---do you have a vision and plan for this year? Are you going to be preparing for the coming of our King Jesus? Are you walking by grace? If you look at your Bible in the New Covenant book of Titus we are told in chapter two that the grace of God teaches us to look for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ!
Is that your heart for 2010? I can guarantee you of something---it certainly is His!
…For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”Luke 19:10
Psalm 68: 5 A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
Matthew 28:18-20: 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Oh friends, did you know that American Christians spend more money on dog food, make up, sports, and many other temporal things than they do on missions, orphans and widows, and other important eternal Kingdom matters. Do not forget that in the next life it is what was invested into the eternal that will last!
Pray about coming with us on mission, or praying for our work, or giving toward the Kingdom work. We are going to Rwanda and the DR Congo in April and there are four people going with us who still need prayer and financial help. The trip is April 24-May 6---will you pray about your part in the work?
Also, please pray for the Rwanda Gospel Village project. We have submitted our plans to the government and are awaiting approval for the amount of land we have asked. They have told us they will give us land and are determining how much. We have asked for 100 acres.
Many months ago the Spirit of the Lord told me that a university would come alongside to help. Just a few weeks ago the Professor of the Architecture Dept of Washington State University came to Houston and met with myself and a man on our board of directors and told us they will help with our project!
They want to help with architecture, vocational training, farming and livestock! Our dear brother in Christ, Scott Jones who introduced us to WSU, will head this part of the project and is one of those in need of funds for this trip. All of these relationships are being established by our great Abba in Heaven!
Please pray, pray, pray for these precious orphans to have this village established for the glory of our Savior Jesus Christ! I will have another Rwanda/DR Congo trip update in our April letter.
Praise our Savior Jesus!
Don
We are well into2010---do you have a vision and plan for this year? Are you going to be preparing for the coming of our King Jesus? Are you walking by grace? If you look at your Bible in the New Covenant book of Titus we are told in chapter two that the grace of God teaches us to look for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ!
Is that your heart for 2010? I can guarantee you of something---it certainly is His!
…For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”Luke 19:10
Psalm 68: 5 A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
Matthew 28:18-20: 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Oh friends, did you know that American Christians spend more money on dog food, make up, sports, and many other temporal things than they do on missions, orphans and widows, and other important eternal Kingdom matters. Do not forget that in the next life it is what was invested into the eternal that will last!
Pray about coming with us on mission, or praying for our work, or giving toward the Kingdom work. We are going to Rwanda and the DR Congo in April and there are four people going with us who still need prayer and financial help. The trip is April 24-May 6---will you pray about your part in the work?
Also, please pray for the Rwanda Gospel Village project. We have submitted our plans to the government and are awaiting approval for the amount of land we have asked. They have told us they will give us land and are determining how much. We have asked for 100 acres.
Many months ago the Spirit of the Lord told me that a university would come alongside to help. Just a few weeks ago the Professor of the Architecture Dept of Washington State University came to Houston and met with myself and a man on our board of directors and told us they will help with our project!
They want to help with architecture, vocational training, farming and livestock! Our dear brother in Christ, Scott Jones who introduced us to WSU, will head this part of the project and is one of those in need of funds for this trip. All of these relationships are being established by our great Abba in Heaven!
Please pray, pray, pray for these precious orphans to have this village established for the glory of our Savior Jesus Christ! I will have another Rwanda/DR Congo trip update in our April letter.
Praise our Savior Jesus!
Don
Monday, February 1, 2010
Ghana Mission Trip 2010
Hello Dear Followers of Jesus Our Savior,
Our Ghana trip was absolutely incredible! In this report I will describe some of it and also share some news on the Rwanda Orphan Facility. Be sure of this---our Redeemer Jesus lives and those who follow Him will not be ashamed, disappointed, or fearful of the future!
When we arrived in Ghana we prepared for a day in Accra the Capitol. I went to a church service there that was so full of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit that I got a good Jesus jolt before going up to the Northern and more Muslim part of the country.
In the North we based out of a Baptist hospital compound that gives incredible medical care to the poor, sick, and suffering in this poverty stricken area. It provides the only medical care of its kind within one hundred miles! This hospital and the American doctors that give of themselves to serve there are truly godly and amazing.
Seeing thousands of patients a week, they not only give of themselves, but they also share the Savior Jesus with the many including Muslims that come for help. I preached at the hospital one morning as they rang the bell to notify all present waiting on care that the devotions were about to begin.
Thankfully, the Lord gave me something in common with many at the hospital that day. You see, the night before, I began to get sick with a bug I picked up there. By the middle of the night I was spending most of my time in the bathroom praying at the toilet. So when I went to preach at the hospital in the morning I was sick too! This gave me a good starting off point to tell the people that not only were many of us sick that morning, but that the world is sick with sin.
Well, you should have seen the harvest! About 50 people prayed to receive Jesus as Savior and Lord. Here is the best part---many who publicly prayed to receive Jesus were Muslims, some in full religious garb--- hat, tunic and all! We saw more Muslims publicly pray to receive Jesus on this trip than ever before in this ministry! There is a wonderful and authentic Chaplaincy Department there who begins discipleship with these precious souls.
After I led a Pastor’s conference for one day we went to a Muslim village where one of the Pastors, who was formerly a Muslim, had planted a church. We preached the gospel in the street and saw about the same number as those at the hospital pray to receive Jesus. Again, some were in Muslim clothing. Folks this is huge---these precious souls will go back home and be told to leave or suffer other types of persecution. This is a move of the Holy Spirit and I am asking you to please pray for these precious ones!
There is much more the Lord did, but to get the whole thing you need to come with us to Africa! I am going to post pictures and video on my blog and website soon. So keep an eye on both the website and the blog.
The Rwanda orphan facility is moving along well. This week I sent our ministry plans to our Rwandan Ministry Partner who will look them over and then submit them to the Rwandan Government for approval. They have told us they are ready to issue licenses and permits for the land. More people are interested to look at this project for support. Please continue to pray and I will keep you posted.
Our Ghana trip was absolutely incredible! In this report I will describe some of it and also share some news on the Rwanda Orphan Facility. Be sure of this---our Redeemer Jesus lives and those who follow Him will not be ashamed, disappointed, or fearful of the future!
When we arrived in Ghana we prepared for a day in Accra the Capitol. I went to a church service there that was so full of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit that I got a good Jesus jolt before going up to the Northern and more Muslim part of the country.
In the North we based out of a Baptist hospital compound that gives incredible medical care to the poor, sick, and suffering in this poverty stricken area. It provides the only medical care of its kind within one hundred miles! This hospital and the American doctors that give of themselves to serve there are truly godly and amazing.
Seeing thousands of patients a week, they not only give of themselves, but they also share the Savior Jesus with the many including Muslims that come for help. I preached at the hospital one morning as they rang the bell to notify all present waiting on care that the devotions were about to begin.
Thankfully, the Lord gave me something in common with many at the hospital that day. You see, the night before, I began to get sick with a bug I picked up there. By the middle of the night I was spending most of my time in the bathroom praying at the toilet. So when I went to preach at the hospital in the morning I was sick too! This gave me a good starting off point to tell the people that not only were many of us sick that morning, but that the world is sick with sin.
Well, you should have seen the harvest! About 50 people prayed to receive Jesus as Savior and Lord. Here is the best part---many who publicly prayed to receive Jesus were Muslims, some in full religious garb--- hat, tunic and all! We saw more Muslims publicly pray to receive Jesus on this trip than ever before in this ministry! There is a wonderful and authentic Chaplaincy Department there who begins discipleship with these precious souls.
After I led a Pastor’s conference for one day we went to a Muslim village where one of the Pastors, who was formerly a Muslim, had planted a church. We preached the gospel in the street and saw about the same number as those at the hospital pray to receive Jesus. Again, some were in Muslim clothing. Folks this is huge---these precious souls will go back home and be told to leave or suffer other types of persecution. This is a move of the Holy Spirit and I am asking you to please pray for these precious ones!
There is much more the Lord did, but to get the whole thing you need to come with us to Africa! I am going to post pictures and video on my blog and website soon. So keep an eye on both the website and the blog.
The Rwanda orphan facility is moving along well. This week I sent our ministry plans to our Rwandan Ministry Partner who will look them over and then submit them to the Rwandan Government for approval. They have told us they are ready to issue licenses and permits for the land. More people are interested to look at this project for support. Please continue to pray and I will keep you posted.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
W. Africa Report
I recently returned from a mission trip to a small country in W Africa called Burkina Faso. This trip also included a very strategic twelve hour layover in Dakkar, Senegal. Our small three person team left November 12 and returned November 21.
There we saw many demonstrations of the powerful grace of God through His only begotten Son---our resurrected Savior Jesus Christ! This grace in which we stand delivered believers, saved Muslims, and left many planted and watered seeds for our Father to give the increase in the future.
Most would see a twelve hour layover in a third world Muslim country as a liability not an asset. But the Lord opened a great Kingdom door for us in Senegal and we saw great things in just a few short hours! Our travel agent has a relative who is a teacher at, what we found out later, is the premier boarding school for children of missionaries who are commissioned in difficult countries in Africa.
Very quickly the Lord positioned us to minister to some of the administrators at the school. They had trauma from past experiences, some going back to childhood. Our generation is one of hurt people with broken hearts who have been then oppressed and taken captive by the devil. Also, in the 95% Muslim and witchcraft populated Senegal many of the people attempt to place powerful curses on the believers. So we quickly began to minister the word of life as found in 2 Timothy 2:24-26.2 Timothy 2: 24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
The power of our Abba’s grace was so being demonstrated that we were taken from one person to the next to pray, share the powerful words of grace we were given, and to actually see our Savior rebuke demons off of the lives of people! By the time we left we had seen brothers and sisters set free and edified and many children at the school heard a message of urgency to seek the Lord Jesus with their whole heart! And this was just the layover to go to Burkina Faso!
We knew that when we arrived--there would be spiritual warfare, but the Lord reminded us in Senegal that He is able! We met our Kingdom contact Ouattara Balagassina (Lassina). He is a man of God who works with one of the world’s largest Bible translators and is one of the two hundred out of the forty thousand believers from the Dogossee people in Burkina Faso. The Dogossee are our primary work in Burkina Faso because so few are saved. We work in an equipping capacity with about sixty out of the two hundred who are saved.
We went to them to encourage, equip, and challenge them to go to their people with the gospel. One of the pastors told us that we were angels sent by our Lord Jesus to tell them to WAKE UP as Jesus the King is coming soon! We saw an openness amongst the Muslims that was amazing and many were saved. There is another issue we have been dealing with that is becoming more prevalent as a tool of the devil in many Muslim countries.
In many Muslim countries the Bible translators have compromised as they have translated the name of Jehovah as allah. They do this because they say there is no other name for God in their languages. The Lord has shown me many Biblical reasons this is an abomination and must be stopped. Three years ago I began praying that the Lord would introduce me to a Bible translator in Africa so I could discuss this with them. We were also trying to determine what people group to engage there.
At this time the Holy Spirit used a missionary to introduce me to Lassina who is from one of the people groups we were considering and is also a Bible translator! Glory to God, he repented of calling Jehovah by the name of allah and has submitted my teachings of why this is against God’s ways to one of the world’s largest Bible translators! They are considering changing this practice so please pray!
Oh please see believer in Jesus---the time is now for us to shine brightly and do great exploits for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ!!!
Daniel 12:3: 3 Those who are wise shall shine
Like the brightness of the firmament,
And those who turn many to righteousness
Like the stars forever and ever.
Daniel 11: 32 Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.
This concludes the W Africa Mission Report 09
Monday, November 16, 2009
A small team of us are leaving for Burkina Faso in West Africa November 12-22. There we will take the gospel to the Dogossee people. For newcomers to our newsletter, this is a group that is classified by missionaries as “unreached” as only one hundred out of forty thousand believe in Jesus. Our ministry partner there is one of those one hundred.
Incredibly, he has a master’s degree in linguistics and has created a written language for these precious souls. The Lord has gifted him to translate books of the Bible into this language and he is teaching the Dogossee people how to read this language. He does this by teaching them the Bible books he has translated into the language that the Lord used him to create! Please pray for many of the Dogossee to be saved while we are in Burkina Faso.
Then on January 9-19 we will go to Ghana with the gospel. We are going to visit a missionary hospital there. I will share more about it in my next letter. Also, we will be leading a pastor conference on evangelism and a dear lady from our team is going to lead a ladies’ conference. We will be going door to door with the gospel and having an outdoor evening gospel service---please pray!!!
It is so very wonderful---all of the one hundred twenty orphans at the orphanage in Kenya are sponsored with monthly supporters! Plans are in full swing for the Rwanda orphan village. The Lord raised up an architect who is already working on the drawings. I was waiting in the Nairobi, Kenya airport and the Lord introduced me to a young man who was there working with a ministry making drawings for an orphanage. He was blessed by our vision and has begun working on the drawings for the Rwanda orphans!
A Christian businessman has already agreed to sponsor the water well for our project and to talk with other businessmen who may want to help. Lord willing, I will have the plans drawn up for the orphan project to submit to the government in the next two weeks. Please pray for the government to give the 100 acres we are requesting for the project.
Listen folks, there is not much time left to do this kind of Kingdom work before the King returns. Please pray about partnering with us so we can accomplish the vision of making disciples and blessing orphans and widows.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Rwanda/DR Congo African Partner
The Democratic Republic Of Congo was the first African country the Lord put on my “radar screen.” I knew nothing about it until the beginning of this decade. The Lord showed me the horror and tragedy of the highest casualty war since WW2. The Lord raised up a ministry partner for us who is a Congolese Tutsi man who left for Rwanda in 1994 to minister life to the survivors of the Rwandan Genocide. This human tragedy, that took 1,000,000 lives in 100 days, spawned the horrible civil wars in Burundi and the DR Congo that have taken over 5,000,000 lives. Today Pastor Muhoza Lewi and our ministry, Poured Out For Africa, work together for the cause of Jesus Christ serving Rwanda, the DR Congo, and open doors in the form of standing invitations await our future work in Burundi and Tanzania! Pastor Lewi has planted twenty four churches, ministers to hundreds of orphans and has introduced us to working relationships with literally thousands of churches in Rwanda and the DR Congo! You can see the DR Congo Soccer Stadium Gospel Event on our website on the video page: There we preached to 30,000 people and saw approximately 1,500 pray to receive Jesus as Lord! We also have seen the 450 pastors, who supported this effort, plant nine new churches from the event! We are currently working on one special project, which I will discuss soon, and have others waiting in His wings!
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