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Dumagat Education Program latest… Meet one of the key people in Kingfisher Family (Page 5)

Free resources available (Page 7)

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FEEDBACK FROM THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

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2017 Kingfisher Leaders Conference (Page 8)

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Dumagat Education Program This program, which was launched in February 2017 aims to enable children of the Dumagat tribe in the Philippines to attend school. Although lessons are provided, food, clothing and materials are not, which makes it very difficult for children from poorer backgrounds to get the education the they need and deserve.

Through the generous donations of sponsors from Kingfisher church, 36 children are able to get that education, some at the schoolhouse in Bulak, which is their home village at the top of the mountain, and some in the more formal setting of Sibug Elementary school, in the town of Sibug at the bottom of the mountain.

Earlier this year, the children and their families attending Sibug Elementary were faced with an uncertain future, as they were evicted from their rented accommodation and could not find anywhere else to stay. We are pleased to say that the DEP, together with Pastor Noel Delfin (our National Director in the Philippines) has found a solution to this. Pastor Noel’s church, Lord’s Light Christian Fellowship, has a plot of land that they have made available for the Dumagat families to move onto and erect temporary shelters. With money raised via the DEP, we are able to pay for a kitchen and toilets to be built in order to make everything sanitary.

Work has commenced on this project and the families will be able to move in soon, with the children able to continue their education at the elementary school.

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DAY OF PRAYER 23:06:2017

On 23rd June 2017, churches from seven different countries around the world prayed for each other, for each others’ countries and for the world. God heard and wonderful things have begun to happen.

We are receiving reports from around the world of God answering prayer.

In India: 15 new believers were added to Kingfisher church in Delhi 50 people became Christians in Shajhanpur God opened a door into the Eunuch community in Uttar Pradesh and many gave their lives to the Lord There has been an increase in persecution - yesterday a woman from our church in Harridwar was raped for becoming a Christian. Although this has been reported to the police, there is a sharp rise in the number of attacks on Christians and churches in the country.

In the Philippines: Praise God, great awakening something happened in our church here in the Philippines, our place is getting small because of the people coming to God, we have now 4 services every sundays and requested bible studies around the town. The leaders graduated in training are now doing great job for the expansion of ministry in different places a breakthrough in sickness and financial needs of the members blessed by God, oh yeah what a great power from above happened, the people are rejoicing accepting Jesus in their heart, members fallen are now now returning to Jesus.... Praise God for the unity of believers praying to make a change In Malawi: I would like to thank God for the answered prayers as the result of your everyday prayers as well as the International day of prayers. Indeed God is doing extra-ordinary things on us, the Kingfisher Church in Malawi as well as in Mozambique.

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KINGFISHER MALAWI CHURCH, Our Church in Dedza Malawi is growing tremendously and is planting branches. Reports of many miracles and wonders are coming every time and people are freed from different oppressions and diseases. Many new places are being reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ and many people are coming to Jesus, and this is the same everywhere at our Churches in Malawi. The other thing is that God has also blessed us with a land at Goliath Market, near the President home, which we want to build the Kingfisher Leadership Training Centre (Bible School). This has been our need, and thank God that He has answered our prayers.

MOZAMBIQUE, Like Malawi, the Kingfisher Mozambique Church is also growing very tremendously, Recently three new branches have been opened in the different areas as part of answered prayers. God is also raising many new leaders which we are training and sending them to open Churches and preach the gospel.

Praise God for these answers to prayer!

In Macau We went with our day in prayer by making it in our prayer meeting, we have answered prayers on our prayer list and some of the people that we have been praying for I was able to meet when I went to the Phils last 2 weeks ago. We just finished last July 2 our 5th Anniversary and by God's grace all was blessed by the event and many are encouraged by the message. Thank you for your prayers pastor, and I have also like to report that your materials is now being distributed in other churches here.

Are you involved yet as a prayer warrior for a country in the International family? Why not join our ‘Adopt A Country’ scheme? Two new countries are about to be added - Macau and Spain.

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Meeting key people in the International Family There are thousands of amazing people involved in Kingfisher International Family, but this is an opportunity to meet some of the key leaders. In this issue we meet Noel Defin, the National Director of Kingfisher in the Philippines.

Pastor Noel Delfin is the Pastor of Lord’s Light Christian Fellowship, in Rio Chico, in the Philippines. In 2017, Pastor Noel was commissioned to the role of National Director for the Philippines. He has a particular gift of evangelism and has a passion to build the local church. The Lord’s Light Christian Fellowship is based in Rio Chico and is growing rapidly, He has a particular focus on reaching the Dumagat tribe and makes regular outreach trips up the mountain to Bulak. He has recently donated a piece of land just opposite his church for the Dumagat families whose children attend Sibug Elementary school to live on.

Pastor Noel has a Masters degree in Theology, has been friends with Norlie Bulacan since their days at General Tinto National High School and is married to Rose.

For more of a flavour of the Philippines and to hear from Pastor Noel, please visit our website: kingfisher.org.uk and go to our International page.

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Great breakthroughs and great battles So much is happening around the International Family at the moment - churches being planted in India and Mozambique, the Dumagat Education Program advancing in the Philippines, land for a new Training Centre being obtained in Malawi, courses being launched in Macau. But as the evangelist Smith Wigglesworth once said, “Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”

Throughout the Family, this is being seen to be true.

In India, there is a sharp increase in persecution of Christians, with churches being burned down, a case of a young female member of a Kingfisher church being raped, pastors being arrested… all whilst the BJP, the ruling party, turns a blind eye.

It is crucial that we hold each other up in prayer through these great battles and believe for the great breakthroughs that the Lord is promising.

It is also important that, because we are all one body, we do all that we can to help each other physically. Hence, Kingfisher in the UK is launching its 2017 Harvest Appeal focussing on the plight of thousands in Mozambique, who are caught in a malaria epidemic and who are also crying out for bibles for the many churches that just don’t have access to the written Word of God.

2017 Harvest Appeal Mosquito Nets and Bibles for Mozambique

Please pray for the success of this Appeal and that many lives will be saved as a result, as well as many being fed by the Word of God.

“I command you - be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

(Joshua 1:9, NLT)

In Macau, the island has been hit by devastating typhoons in recent weeks, leaving many houses ruined and without power. Our Christian brothers and sisters are struggling to regroup and are braced for further bad weather In Mozambique, there is widespread Malaria, with thousands being struck by this deadly disease.

That, added to the ongoing civil war means that life is very hard for everyone, and Kingfisher churches face enormous challenges.

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Resources available Kingfisher offers many audio and visual resources to equip the Body of Christ. For a more extensive list, just visit the ‘sermons’ page on our website (www.kingfisher.org.uk). Here are two recent series of talks, available to download for free, both in audio and video format.

Looking at the book of Genesis with fresh eyes, this series asks the questions: Did God really create the universe?

Did he really do it all in six days?

Did people really live to be hundreds of years old?

Is Jesus mentioned in the story of Creation?

On just one occasion in the Bible, God invites us to put him to the test: Malachi 3:10. The context of this verse in the area of tithing, and we are invited to test God by giving the first 10 per cent back to him and seeing if he will not “pour out a blessing so great that you will not have enough room to take it in.” Is this true? Does it really work? What is this Biblical principle of ‘tithing’?

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2017 LEADERS’ CONFERENCE Kingfisher Church, Tredworth, UK.

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With the theme of ‘Your Kingdom Come’, this powerful day conference will be focussing on developing God’s Kingdom story in our lives, on seeing Kingdom power released in our lives, on together becoming Kingdom people, and in the light of that, we will be discovering together a major Kingdom initiative that He is seeking to release in our church.

This is a day to experience the power and presence of His Kingdom, to be refreshed, empowered and encouraged.

Running from 10am - 4pm, each live talk will also be streamed live onto YouTube (which you can find by searching YouTube for ‘Kingfisher church’).

The live talks will be at: 10:25am (BST) ‘Kingdom Story’ 11.15am (BST): ‘Kingdom Power’ 2.15pm (BST): ‘Kingdom People’ 2.50pm (BST): ‘Kingdom Strategy’ These talks will also be put on our website for future viewing.

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