Comment from Les Norman, the editor No-one
knows the Burkina Faso Sahel better than Keith and and his wife Lynne because they
live there with the Fulani people. I have never forgotten my stay in Keith's home.
Simpore
Justin, Burkina Faso says I am the only Christian in
my village and people give me a bad time, the cry of my heart is for
God to send a missionary here.
A DCI partner in Pakistan,
name removed for his own safety, says terrorism is everywhere and no
school, hospital, bank, hotel or public place is safe. You don't
know if you
will come home or not.
Comment by Silvia de Yáñez, Chile I encourage people everywhere in the world to work
with DCI, it is a great blessing to serve the Lord in this way, for me
it is a privilege.
Ramiro, Argentina
says I serve in a forgotten and terribly poor area to bring children to
know the love of Jesus because to win one child is to win a whole life
for the Lord.
Udeme Eyeni, Nigeria says the DCI evangelism lessons
are bringing a fire of revival to the students here who have such
wonderful free lectures. This is the latest new church that I have
just planted.
Andrew Murray 1828 - 1917 said that you should feel the Lord's presence not only when in prayer but when in your factory as well. Add
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31st October, 2009
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John Duco, Liberia
says we have 65 abandoned children at our school, we have made
uniforms for them but they need sponsors for a daily hot meal before
they return to the slums.
Henri Nouwen
said that when we are not afraid to confess our own poverty, we will be
able to be with other people in theirs. The Christ who lives in our own
poverty recognizes the Christ who lives in other people's. Just as we
are inclined to ignore our own poverty, we are inclined to ignore
others. We prefer not to see people who are destitute, we do not like
to look at people who are deformed or disabled, we avoid talking about
people's pains and sorrows, we stay away from brokenness, helplessness,
and neediness. By this avoidance we can lose touch with the people
through whom God is manifested to us. But when we have discovered God
in our own poverty, we will lose our fear of the poor and go to them to
meet God. See part one on October 2nd. Add
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28th October, 2009
Muzamai Muzamai, Livingstone, Zambia
says my wife and I are church planting, can you see how you might work
with us in training, missions and helping the many with AIDS and the
orphans.
Tell
us what you are doing
Yoppi Margianto, Indonesia
says that our FRUIT and GO vision has seen twelve people join our
church in one week. Family, Revelation, Urgency, Intimacy and
Togetherness. FRUIT is our one year small group program using the
School of Mission materials with one leader and four disciples in each
group. The goal for each group is to multiply into five groups because
every member will GO to invite one new person every month to join the
group or church, so we could see up to 1,500 members in just one year.
Write me for more information.
Tell
us what you are doing
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE
OUR READER'S PHOTOS ?
Click to
see our Picassa Albums from around the
world. Choose
one and then click Slideshow to see the display.
David Wilkerson, New York, USA
has a letter from a mother who says, “My daughter is 16, loves the
Lord, and is a joy to be around but she is in extreme pain 24
hours a day. I lost my son in 1997 due to the same pain." In the face
of everything, amid a relentless shaking of body and soul, this mother
and her daughter have put their hope in God’s Word to them. And He has
given them peace. Add
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Leaders of
the DCI Schools of Mission or training
centres linked to us should see this
page to apply for sponsorship to go to unreached or
unresponsive peoples and to start new projects of church planting,
training and blessing the poor.
Charles
Johnson, Liberia
says before the war Monrovia had very few churches but revival came in
the war and now almost every family has fellowship
morning
and evening, revival is on-going, people put all their faith
in
God for healing, protection, provision or they perish.
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Comment:John Duco, Monrovia, Liberia For
the very first time 162 people came to church, 95% adults, my
vision is to plant 700 churches in West Africa and beyond.
Comment
from C.T.Studd, 1860-1931
Some wish to live within the sound of chapel bell; I wish to
run a rescue mission within a yard of hell.
Marion Male, Fiji says most children here are
made to pray and bow to statues of gods but NCTC
Labasa is opening a primary school, God is
doing awesome stuff, like our last village meeting
had 1000 people.
Daniel Kizhakkevila, Kerala, India says to see his photos of two
of his 97 Mercy
Homes for poor children, of 20 national missionaries
receiving free bicycles and lanterns, of widows
receiving free sheep
that provide income and of five of his lepers receiving
artificial legs,
help to provide more of everything is welcome.
Tell
us what you are doing
We need a cheap tractor for a
plantation that funds a clinic in Malawi, see 14/10, can buy in Africa or
maybe we can fund shipping a donated
tractor to Malawi. Please e-mail Les
Norman, the editor.
Yoppi Margianto, Indonesia
says another earthquake came today, smaller at 6.5 but caused great
panic in high-rise buildings, may be a warning before expected big one
comes, may God protect us.
Anthony
Cobus from South Africa is visiting the Middle East, has a
heart for the people here, is in missions and asks for info on
unreached Arabic world.
Comment by Les Norman, the editor The experts in the
Middle East are Frontiers, CNN has the latest
about the growth of Islam and Carl
Medearis has years of experience living in the Middle East
and can advise you.
Ezequiel Guzman, Cd. Madero, Mexico says that the people in his
church are about to finish the DCI
School of Mission and now have a
better understanding of leadership and missions.
Juan
Ballesteros, Peru
who visits Picapiedras weekly has been given a building for school,
church and community, needs cleaning, some glass, paint, blackboards
and chairs but our prayer is answered!
Les
Norman, the editor is looking for
volunteer translators to start Chinese, Korean, Japanese,
Arabic and
Russian editions of these pages, and an assistant web page-maker.
Please e-mail me in English.
Comment by Sahr Bockarie: 12/9/09
This School of Mission has
very big momentum in east Sierra Leone, it is going out of
our hands
what shall we do?
10th
October, 2009
Where are the best and worst places to live in
the world ? Norway, Australia and Iceland win but Niger, Afghanistan
and Sierra Leone are the worst. See
your country here
Ana
Avilez, Honduras, our lady on-line
pastor says her car slid on a mountain road, turned
over six times leaving her and daughter Claudia injured but alive.
Please pray.
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 is a journalist, writer and a fund manager with the
DCI Trust, serving 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
and they have three grown up children.
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Where are the best and worst places to live in
the world ? Norway, Australia and Iceland win but Niger, Afghanistan
and Sierra Leone are the worst. 
