Nations Issue 2 2015

A PUBLICATION OF WORLD OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL

ISSUE 2, 2015

OUR 2020 VISION STORIES IN STAMPS ARE TEENAGERS THE CHURCH OF TOMORROW?

LESS TEACHING, MORE LEARNING GOD’S PROMISES ARE YEA AND AMEN!

A TRIBUTE TO PATRICIA GREEN

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GOD’S PROMISES ARE YEA AND AMEN! JOHN ELLIOTT SHARES ON GOD’S PROMISES SYMBOLISED BY THE RAINBOW.

5 -6. A TRIBUTE TO PATRICIA GREEN JOHN ELLIOTT REFLECTS ON THE LEGACY LEFT BY PATRICIA GREEN.

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WHAT’S SO DIFFERENT? BRUCE HILLS OUTLINES THE REASONS WHY WOI LEADERSHIP SEMINARS ARE SO EFFECTIVE.

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ARE TEENAGERS THE CHURCH OF TOMORROW? BE CHALLENGED TO RETHINK THE IMPACT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY.

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LESS TEACHING, MORE LEARNING JO AND JENNY GRAHAM SHARE THE TECHNIQUES THAT GUIDE NEW BELIEVERS TO BECOME MATURE DISCIPLES.

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OUR 2020 VISION THE VISION WORLD OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL HAS TO REACH MORE LEAST REACHED PEOPLE GROUPS BY THE YEAR 2020.

OUR MISSION

World Outreach International is a multiracial fellowship of Christians and ministries that exists to impact Least Reached Peoples with the Good News of Jesus Christ through: • Raising Leaders • Evangelism and Church Planting • All Nations Mobilisation • Children’s Ministry • Humanitarian Aid

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God’s Promises Are Yea and Amen!

I HAVE BEEN greatly encouraged of late when reviewing from my journal records some of the ‘words and promises’ the Lord has spoken to my wife and me over the years. Many have come to pass, while others are still to happen. Those still before us make us aware that our race is not yet over.

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Many years back, when we started out on our mission journey of faith, choosing to sell everything and move to Asia with two small babies in our arms was an act of obedience to His words and promises to our hearts. We drew great strength and encouragement from the book of Joshua, in particular chapter one, where he too was starting out in his new leadership role.

Not only did God choose Joshua (1:1) – as He has chosen you and me – He also assured him that he was not alone (v 5), and commanded him to be strong and courageous (v 6), to be obedient (v 7), to daily read and meditate on the Word (v 8) and not to be afraid (v 9).

A great platform to build on for one’s service to the Lord.

Towards the end of Joshua’s life, he looks back and declares, “Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed” (23:14). Wow! The Lord’s integrity and character can be trusted!

When driving recently, we saw a bright and beautiful rainbow appear in the sky just as the rain was easing. As it began to fade, it was suddenly replaced by an even brighter and bigger second rainbow. We know that the Lord told

Noah in Genesis 9:11-18 that He promised never to send a flood to destroy the earth again, and as a sign of His promise would send a rainbow to remind him (and us) of His promise.

I hope that you, like us, are encouraged to look back and see what the Lord has done, and are yet even more excited about His words and promises that are still to come to pass. For World Outreach International, the word of the Lord resonated in our hearts last year when it was declared that the ministry was coming into a season of accelerated growth, that a harvest would happen not only in fields where we are already working, but also in fields we have not yet sown in.

These words and others the Holy Spirit has spoken to our hearts have inspired my WOI colleagues and me to make plans accordingly, so as to facilitate what the Lord said He would do. Just as importantly, His words and promises to us have influenced our prayer life as well, as we declare and claim these yet to be realised promises, in order for His kingdom to expand even further.

decisions have been made to see His purposes come to fruition through WOI. More than twelve years later, we can look back and see the Lord was good to His word, with tens of thousands of unreached people having since invited Jesus Christ into their hearts and lives.

Let us not be distracted by all the anarchy, religious strife, political inaptness and economic uncertainty that prevails in the world today. Rather, let’s look back at the Lord’s faithfulness, and then declare and hold onto the words and promises He has spoken to our hearts that remain yet unfulfilled.

For just as the rainbow reminds us that God has kept His promise not to flood the earth again, He can also be trusted to fulfil His promises we hold dear to our hearts.

John Elliott International Director

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Back in 2003 at a gathering of WOI leaders in South Africa, the Holy Spirit spoke that the organisation’s future major focus was to be ‘Impacting least reached (ethnic) people groups with the Gospel of Jesus Christ’. With that word pulsating in our hearts ever since,

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J O B S K I L L S F O R YO U N G P E O P L E Nathan and Sawsen Bassaly, EGYPT • Ministry Leaders, involved in teaching and training church leaders. world-outreach.com/people/nathan-sawsan-bassaly WE ARE STARTING a new venture to help give job skills to the younger generation of Egyptians. Our vision is to see young people working in jobs and even starting up their own businesses.

After the political revolution in 2011, there was a serious economic crisis in Egypt. We faced many issues like a 25 percent unemployment rate and many students graduating school with no computer skills, secondary language skills or craft. On top of that, our population continues to grow quickly.

We feel led to help with this increasing

need.

We plan to train in the areas of hair dressing, hair cutting, shaving, fixing air conditioners and repairing mobile phones, computers and other electronics. Our plan is to also provide courses that teach computer skills and secondary languages, while at the same time taking every opportunity to share and represent Jesus.

New training centre

Please pray for the success of our training centre and for God to establish this new ministry.

GROWING UP Kanchana Karaya, THAILAND • Ministry Team Member involved in evangelism and discipleship among Thai children. world-outreach.com/people/kanchana-karaya IT’S SO ENCOURAGING to see the children we started working with many years ago growing up and still following Jesus. They are boldly sharing their faith with their families and their friends at school. You would love to see

them leading us in worship during our Sunday morning services. Four of these wonderful young people will soon be baptised in water at our youth camp, and we pray that they will impact this nation as they serve the Lord.

Young people leading worship

YO U N G P E O P L E A R E F I N D I N G J E S U S Elisa Diaz, THAILAND • Ministry Leader involved in evangelism and church planting. world-outreach.com/people/elisa-diaz PAEW IS A YOUNG woman with an inoperable brain tumour. When she accepted Christ as Saviour, the tumour stopped growing! As she placed her faith in the Lord, her life began to change. While Paew was waiting in the

pool to be baptised, she heard the Lord say, “Are you ready to walk your life in obedience?” Her response was, “Yes, I am ready!” Please pray for Paew as she walks with Jesus.

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BREAKING THROUGH Rahab Ministries, THAILAND • Ministry involved in evangelism and discipleship of girls in the red-light industry in Bangkok. world-outreach.com/our-projects/evangelism-church-planting/rahab-ministries-thailand WE THANK THE LORD as He continues to give us opportunities to reach out to the girls in the bars. Our relationships with them continue to grow. We celebrate as two Mamasangs accepted Christ! This is a huge breakthrough as Mama-sangs are the women in charge of all the girls in the bar. They basically control the girls and tell them what they can and cannot do.

We praise the Lord for the salvation of the two Mama-sangs! We are now

allowed easy access to the bars and are able to freely invite the girls to Rahab Parties.

The Rahab team last Christmas

We see God moving in Patpong. His grace and love are changing lives in the midst of all the evil around us. We want to acknowledge the prayers and support of all those from around the world. Thank you for being a part of Rahab Ministries and this wonderful journey we are on.

P U T T I N G D O W N R O OT S A N D S P R O U T I N G Malcolm and Sandy Potter, THAILAND • Ministry Leaders involved in training and caring for tribal children. world-outreach.com/people/malcolm-sandy-potter WE HAVE ENJOYED seeing the development of four of the older boys at Baan Faa Mai – Gaw, Danai, Joe and Sumet, who are all very responsible young lads. Gaw and Danai have shown initiative and enthusiasm in tending to the garden area after school – irrigating, composting and encouraging growth of the fruit trees and vegetables.

All four are also among our keenest conversational English learners. English hasn’t been easy for them, but they have persevered and are starting to reap the benefits of not giving up.

They have also grown in faith. None of them knew much about God when they arrived at BFM but, like the plants they look after, have been putting down roots in God’s Word and sprouting.

Gaw loves to read his Bible, ever since receiving one.

They will be great role models for new students coming to stay at BFM on 10 May, as the four boys begin their final year of high school. We look forward to their continuing growth as leaders who are faithful and joyful in serving others.

Joe, Gaw and Sumet (from left to right)

HOUSE OF HOPE Prasert Panyamankong, THAILAND • Ministry Team Member involved in evangelism and discipleship among Thai children.

GOD IS AT WORK at the House of Hope in Tungsonghong! We are beginning to see transformation in individuals and families that is touching the whole community. Thirty-threeyear-old “Why” has been coming to our Sunday meetings since she came back to the Lord in 2012. She has been faithfully praying that her family

would also decide to follow Christ. Last year, her Mom gave her life to Jesus.

Last month our whole church went to her hometown in Hua Hin to help her remove all the idols and break the spiritual bondage off her house and the surrounding property. What a great day of victory and rejoicing!

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A Tribute To

Patricia Green

An unassuming woman who accomplished great things for God ON 19 MARCH, our World Outreach International colleague and friend Patricia Green passed away at the age of 77. She had travelled from her base in Germany to New Zealand last October to attend a conference, visit some partnering churches and friends and take a break, with the plan to return to Europe in January. Unfortunately Patricia began experiencing pain and great discomfort toward the end of 2014, and subsequent medical tests revealed she had terminal cancer. She was told she had a few weeks to live.

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The eulogies and tributes shared at her funeral confirmed again and again that Patricia was a unique and very special woman of God. She was born in Wellington, NZ, and her father died when she was seven. In her late teens, she moved north to the city of Hamilton, and took a job with a mobile bus library, which provided service to rural communities. In 1969 she attended Faith Bible College in NZ, and then returned to Hamilton where she and a friend established Landmark, a refuge for homeless girls. In 1986, after her mother passed away, Patricia went back to university to complete her studies.

When hearing a missionary speak in a local church about huge poverty issues

Patricia’s Celebration Service

in South East Asia, Patricia’s heart was greatly stirred and challenged. Single, passionate for Jesus and with a burden for the underprivileged, Patricia left NZ and moved to Thailand at the age of 47.

After a couple of years of working and ministering in various Bangkok slums, Patricia was burdened to help rescue young girls and women who had been sold by their parents or trafficked into prostitution and the sex industry. In 1988 Rahab Ministries was founded in Patpong, Bangkok.

In 2006, after leaving the Rahab Ministries team in the hands of good leadership oversight, Patricia relocated to Berlin, Germany, where she founded a similar ministry called Alabaster Jar. The effects of Patricia’s ministry reach far beyond the bases in Bangkok and Berlin. Most years her schedule included invitations to speak in both secular and Christian forums on behalf of women at risk. Her experience, wisdom and knowledge were much sought after in both developing and first world nations.

Some likened Patricia and the ministry of her respective teams in Bangkok and Berlin to those who ‘minister on the doorstep of hell.’ It is an ugly, dark and spiritually oppressive world, where Patricia and team members faced great opposition, discouragement, threats and disappointments. Yet the success of seeing one person one week, then another a week or two later, and so on, seek refuge and help, and in turn surrender their lives to Christ, caused the positives to far outweigh any negatives.

Literally hundreds of girls and women have been rescued from the sex industry, have heard and received the Gospel message, and are now followers of Jesus Christ.

Patricia’s legacy carries on! Her newly published book, Roses in the Red Light, will no doubt inspire people to pray, and even get involved in such ministry. Her training manuals will continue to offer wonderful insights and understanding in how to make an eternal difference in the face of great odds. We in WOI will do all we can to help keep the candle that Patricia lit burning, so many more abused and enslaved girls and women can be rescued from the clutches of darkness and bondage.

John Elliott International Director

To read more about the legacy Patricia left purchase Roses in the Red Light by visiting world-outreach.com

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Patricia just before leaving for Thailand, 1987

With Joy, one of the first girls who was able to leave the bars

Rahab Staff praying with Bar Girls

Receiving Hope for Europe award from Romjke Fountain. Budapest 2011

Alabastar Jar. Christmas Outreach 2011

Alabaster Jar - Outreach Oranienburgerstrasse Berlin, 2007 Patricia with bar girls in Pattaya

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GOD HELPS STUDENT BE STUDIOUS Kevin and Jeh Sie Chan, THAILAND • Ministry Leaders involved in evangelism and discipleship among Thai students. world-outreach.com/people/kevin-jeh-sie-chan

Jai on the left

JAI IS A CHRISTIAN university student working part-time at BORED? Café.

She was initially feeling stressed juggling work and studies. She says, “I am not studious, and I was afraid that I could not do well in my studies. However, God always helped me and I was able to turn up for work at the cafe. In fact, my grades improved after I started working at BORED? I was surprised

when the university offered me a scholarship this term even though I did not have sufficient course credits to meet the requirement. I thank God for blessing me in this way. I am also very happy that my friends and lecturers have started coming to BORED? often.

I pray that they will come to know Jesus one day.”

LIVES CHANGED IN THAI SCHOOLS Valerie Bateup, THAILAND • Ministry Leader of the Good News Team that evangelises and disciples children. world-outreach.com/people/val-bateup SURACHARD FIRST HEARD about Jesus when the Good News Team went to his school. He said he couldn’t believe anyone really loved him, but wanted it so much. He began the Team’s correspondence Bible lessons.

Now, fifteen years later, Surachard teaches in youth outreaches. He wrote, “I use your Bible lessons to teach, but I always emphasise how much Jesus loves us all. Most kids have never felt loved.

I’m always excited to see their lives changed when they turn to Jesus.”

Our Team goes to as many of these Buddhist schools as we can, but know we don’t go alone. We are aware of many going with us through your prayers. And this year we’re seeing more answers. We just reached 2,800 children in ten schools in northeast Thailand. All week we saw a greater response than ever before. One teacher likened our message to preparing children’s hearts and planting good seeds. Many of these Buddhist teachers asked, “Please come back

A child joins the correspondence club

regularly”. Thanks for your part in this through your prayers. Please pray for more Team members, so we can take advantage of opportunities like these.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS! Daniel and Genevieve Nihill, THAILAND • Ministry Team Members involved in evangelism and church planting. world-outreach.com/people/danielgenevieve-nihill WE ARE EXCITED to announce that we have recently opened our café and ministry centre. This project is a key strategy for our church plant in Chankasem, Bangkok. We have opened the café and ministry centre next to our local university and God has truly blessed us and paved the way for this endeavour. We have been able to open on a very small budget and have been blessed with wonderful staff and the help of generous Christian tradesmen who have helped us tremendously in the setting up.

Since opening we have had our Sunday church meetings in the café. We have also started free conversational English classes and in the near future we will start a mid-week worship service, connect groups and outreach nights.

We believe that this café and ministry centre will give us the opportunity to build natural relationships and credibility within the community and provide opportunities to share the Gospel.

New cafe and ministry centre

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HOW SHOULD I DO IT? No Pum, MYANMAR • Ministry Leader heading up an evangelism and church planting ministry. world-outreach.com/people/no-pum GOD HAS SHOWN me clearly what I am to do. He told me to evangelise, make disciples, train and equip the younger generation, and to church plant.

I have learned that I am not to ask God, “What should I do”, because God has already told me what to do. Rather,

God has taught me to pray, “How should I do it”. So, as I was meditating and praying about how to do His ministry, God spoke to me.

He said, “Look among those who are already serving in the harvest field, for such are hard workers and worthy of more training investment.”

As I work to help raise leaders, I appoint only those who are active in the work of the Lord. God’s call creates passion, and passion produces attitudes of servanthood, attributes that are vitally important for new believers to see.

NEW SEASON Rama and Sinta Jones, SOUTH EAST ASIA • Ministry Leaders involved in training and cross-cultural communication. world-outreach.com/people/rama-sinta-jones ONE OF OUR INTERNS went out with a local worker for a walk on the beach and for language practice.

They met a lady with a swollen leg.

They prayed for her. As they prayed, another woman stood nearby listening.

When they were done, she invited them all back to her village, and she took them around the village so that they could pray for many others. Four

days in a row she invited them, and four days in a row, they went back.

Each day, people received prayer and heard about Jesus. They continue to be welcome there, and plan to return, believing that the Lord will use that fishing village to fish for many men.

During a WOI church planting training, this same worker and another intern

went out one afternoon and met a woman whom they shared the Gospel with. She repented. The following day they returned to baptise her in the ocean. The waves were very rough so they prayed and the sea calmed. They baptised her and have continued to follow up daily with her. She is now sharing with her husband, who is open.

BIG NEWS! Jan-William and Marlinda Tamminga, INDONESIA • Ministry Leaders who are involved in overseeing 180 children at the New Hope Ministries hostel in West Kalimantan. world-outreach.com/people/jan-willem-marlinde-tamminga WE ARE FULL OF celebration and thanksgiving. We see God’s goodness in our leaders’ and children’s lives!

For years we have been praying for a good, Christian husband for Apri.

During Bible school Apri met Adit, a wonderful Christian man. We are very excited to announce their marriage.

God brought the two of them together and they are such a great blessing to those around them!

We also celebrate because seventeen of our children are graduating from High School this year. Most children in West Kalimantan start working when they are only fifteen or sixteen and never finish school. We are very proud of them. Four of these graduates have decided to stay on at New Hope Ministries. We know God will do great things through each and every one of them.

Apri

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What’s So Different?

Bruce Hills, AUSTRALIA • International Leadership Development Director. world-outreach.com/people/bruce-hills ONE OF THE THINGS we consistently hear at the end of the seminars we run is: ‘We attend lots of seminars, but these are completely different. They’re relevant to our context, practical in their nature and doable.’

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This leads to the question: What are we, in WOI, doing that makes our seminars so effective? I’ve had to reflect on this to understand the answer myself. Here are some of my conclusions.

Firstly, we always seek to work with a key partner on the ground. We do not do our own thing. We always partner with a key leader in the nation. We serve what is already happening. In this way, the seminar is ‘owned’ and the material can be followed up, contextualised and retaught by the partner.

Secondly, we don’t have a onesize-fits-all approach to the seminars. We go and listen to the leaders’ needs first, then tailor the topics and speakers accordingly. We’ve found it takes at least one visit before we really get an understanding of the unique leadership needs of the culture and context.

Thirdly, the speakers we use are all practitioners. They are all active in pastoral ministry or have extensive experience. This means they know what they’re taking about and can relate to pastors because of common experiences.

Fourthly, the material is framed to be as practical as possible. We endeavour to boil the content down to the basic, biblical principle, and not irrelevant western methodology.

We often have discussion sessions where the pastors / leaders discuss among themselves how the material can be applied in their context.

Fifthly, wherever possible, we draw the examples and anecdotes from things familiar to their culture and context, not just the western world.

This, too, has been highly effective in communication.

Sixthly, we always get the outlines and PowerPoints translated into the local language (e.g. Arabic, French, Portuguese). This helps with communication, but also gives the leaders something to take with them as a resource.

Finally, we make time for the Holy Spirit to minister to their lives. We consistently witness great moves of the Holy Spirit as we pray for and minister to the pastors and leaders.

Our goal is to build and bless.

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Kevin and Jeh Sie Chan • THAILAND

We are looking at introducing life simulation type games to Thailand. These games are targeted at young people with the intention of provoking questions about the meaning of life. Please pray for God to bring together the initial batch of facilitators and attendees for this exciting new outreach venture.

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John and Mary Elliott • SINGAPORE

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Tomba Khoisnam • INDIA

The Holy Spirit spoke to us about the year ahead, saying that not only would WOI ministries see an increased harvest in nations where we are already sowing, but that He would also open doors for harvesting in nations we have not yet sown in. Pray with us that the Lord of the harvest will not only clearly make a way, but also raise up the necessary resources of manpower and finances. Pray too for divine protection to be on WOI personnel.

Donna Elliott • JAPAN

Language school is a great mission field too! Praise God for Rima from Indonesia, who has recently invited Jesus into her heart! Please also pray that the Lord will help me in this window of opportunity, to shine His light to the other students representing many nations in my Japanese language school.

Ben and Rachel Brooks • S-E ASIA

Please pray for our trip to the States this June-July. Pray the Lord will open new doors for us to share what God is doing in Asia and for more partners to join us in reaching Least Reached Peoples. Pray for a restful and meaningful time with our families as we connect with them.Thank you for your faithful prayers.

John and Nok P • THAILAND

Statistically, twelve people in Thailand commit suicide every day. Through our evangelism and church planting ministry, we are mobilising new believers to pray that people who are contemplating ending their lives will get to hear the Good News, and come to know Jesus as the Way, the Truth and the Life. Pray with us as we call on the Lord to lead Christians to those who have no hope. Pray that Jesus will be the centre of every Thai life and family.

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Thank you for supporting our partners in prayer!

Mun Heng and Cecilia Au Yong • MALAYSIA

We thank the Lord for good key national partners in three strategic countries who have been called with a vision to engage in reaching LRPs in their respective nations.

Please pray for Dil (Nepal), Hemanta (India) and Maqbool (Pakistan) as they run with the vision that God has given them. Pray also for us as we look at raising the support needed for their ministry, so that His mission will be fulfilled.

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Please pray for a church planters’ upskilling programme in Manipur province in late June. Approximately fifty church planters will be attending. Please pray that they will be refreshed spiritually and also be sharpened in their skills for ministering to nonbelievers.

Danny and Ruby Bayasen • BURKINA FASO

Please keep us, our family and coworkers in much prayer as we travel out to share the Gospel with Least Reached People groups throughout the country.

Pray with us that we will be clearly led of the Lord to those whose hearts He has prepared to hear and receive His Word. Pray too that signs and wonders will follow the sharing of the Word of God.

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Wanna Jaiou (Doi), Good News Team • THAILAND

The Good News team will establish a training course this year for young Thai people who want to help Thai children know Jesus. Please pray for our team as they teach and convey vision to them.

We pray that after this training, they can bring their skills to their churches. May God call many of these trainees into children’s ministry.

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Janvier and Claudine Yokoinele • IVORY COAST

The owner of the property we rent for the A.C.E. School in Abidjan wants to sell, and has offered us a special below-market price.

We have until the end of June to pay. The problem is, we don’t have the funds! For the past eight years, the Lord has provided for this ground-breaking school in West Africa. Pray with us that His will be done concerning the future of the school and the property.

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Malcolm and Linda Bayliss • S-E ASIA

Please pray for us as we continue to serve and resource WOI personnel in Asia and Australia with oversight, training and coaching.

Pray for the guidance and anointing of the Holy Spirit as we encourage and relate to these who faithfully serve God, that we would be both a blessing and assistance to them. Pray for our safety as we travel.

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Peter and Bev van der Westhuyzen • GENERATION MINISTRIES

Praise God for recent developments: India – Outreach centre building to Hindu refugees is being extended. Myanmar – Work begun on new hostel kitchen. Peter’s good health lately and improvements in Bev’s health.

Pray for next three months (twelve training events in India/Cambodia/Vietnam). Pray for ten outreach events planned in Vietnam and Myanmar. Cambodia – for wisdom on how to proceed with new partners there.

Carl and Gail Musch • AUSTRALIA

After 26 years in this field, we are now seeing Australian Aboriginal groups we work with rapidly growing from 12-50 believers to 80-300. We need God’s grace, resources and wisdom to train a different kind of leadership to retain growth and disciple such numbers of new believers.

Please pray with us.

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Paul and Sue Fosse • MOZAMBIQUE

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Allen and Charlotte Teal

Sam and Carol Soukotta • INDONESIA

The governor of Jakarta, Basuki Purnama, is a born again Christian who is committed to wiping out corruption, but is being opposed by political corruptors in Jakarta.

The Indonesian people are standing with him. Indonesian churches are backing him up with prayer. Pray that God will give him wisdom and understanding in how deal with this situation.

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Nathan and Sawsan Bassaly • EGYPT

This July/August, a school of ministry will train fifty 18-25 year olds from many different churches. We pray that they will return home and influence their peers and others. Please pray for God’s presence to be powerful among us, and that these young people will have a multiplying effect on others when they return to their churches.

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We’ve just been in Thailand getting to know the students in the Nations course, which was followed by the Child Safety Seminar and the WOI Global Conference.

It was good to have people assist us in member care over this time. We’d appreciate ongoing prayer as we develop a team to work with us in the different regions. Finding the right people with caring hearts and a good listening ear is key to success in this area.

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Angela Stephens • KENYA

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Joseph and Amie Dayamba • BURKINA FASO

Max and Dorothy Chismon • PHILIPPINES

Please pray for our conference to be held 21-24 September in Chiang Mai,Thailand. It will launch our Simply Mobilising movement.

This movement has grown out of the Kairos course movement and reflects the journey God has been taking us on over the past 21 years.

We thank the Lord for 26 years in Mozambique and that our two sons have been blessed with opportunities to study in the USA: Baden in Mission Aviation, and Kyle in Digital Media & Theatre. Please pray God opens a way for us to visit Kyle (soon to turn 21), whom we have not seen for two years.

Pray for Isaac, Felix and the men in my Firestarters group, who are stepping out in boldness to share their faith with others. Pray that they grow in the prophetic and words of knowledge as they pray healing for people and do power evangelism. Pray for their protection, for souls and for the miraculous.

Please pray for the Evangelism Crusade this July among the Fulani, the Gourmanthe and other ethnic groups. Also pray for a mission mobilisation camp for 300 young people this August. We also ask that you pray God’s protection and good health be on us and our family as we minister here in West Africa.

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Kanchana Karaya • THAILAND

Please pray that God will strengthen and encourage our Kairos team as we mobilise the Thai church for mission. Our goal is to send 35 Thai missionaries to do evangelism and church planting among Least Reached People groups in our region. Please also pray for the Kairos courses that are regularly running, that Thai believers will be equipped and empowered to answer God’s call to mission.

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Rod and Lynley Talbot • SOUTH AFRICA

Please continue to pray for us in our expanded role as Regional Directors for Africa and the Middle East. Pray for favour and wisdom as we network and meet with new contacts, discussing how WOI can make a difference in assisting them in these new regions.

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Roger and Vivienne Latham • AUSTRALIA

Please pray for the completion of the God’s Dreaming art project, a tool for indigenous teams to reach out to others in Australia.

Also pray for the completion of work on the camp we are developing for a variety of events and workshops, and for our need of administration help. Thank you.

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Stephanie Herron • MOZAMBIQUE

Please pray for our second-year students who are going on their first missions trip to Northern Mozambique. It is a big challenge for them to step outside their comfort zone and reach out to people outside their own tribe, language and culture. Pray for open doors, wisdom, safety and the Spirit’s guidance.

Duncan and Lindie Ross • S-E ASIA

Kairos is taking on new avenues this year.

We are using new God-breathed strategies in our ministries and believe this will lead to a larger harvest. We trust for greater wisdom, anointing and guidance on this journey forward.

Chris and Nadine Brittain • KENYA

Praise the Lord for some Kenyan Kairos Head Facilitators who are hearing the call to full-time mission mobilisation! Pray that they will obey the Lord and hear from Him how to develop effective strategies to raise support in a context where there is little or no precedent for this.

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David and Peniel Elliott • S-E ASIA

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Vijaya Chowdhuri • BANGLADESH

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Alastair and Rachel • S-E ASIA

We are encouraged with the different opportunities before us to train and disciple today’s younger generation of new believers in different nations. Pray with us for a bold and fearless army of disciples to be raised up, who will go and take this life-transforming message to their peers. Pray for favour as we apply for visas that will allow us to enter some Gospel ‘closed’ nations.

I would appreciate prayer for my health.

Recently I was hospitalised in Bangkok while doctors did a series of tests. Pray also for the ministry of CDC, that we know the Lord’s leading regarding future direction, and do keep the present student body and teachers in prayer as we go into the second half of the year. Pray too for nationwide Holy Spirit visitation.

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We have both settled in Asia well! Alastair has made a great start in his counselling studies, and Rachel is well underway managing WOI Communications. Please pray as we seek the Lord on creative ways to communicate the need to reach the Least Reached. Pray that a team of volunteers be developed to aid this task.

Jan-Willem and Marlinde Tamminga • INDONESIA

Our family will shortly be relocating back to Holland for an indefinite season. It will be difficult to leave the children and ministry team at New Hope Ministries in West Kalimantan, who have been a huge part of our lives. Please keep us in prayer, especially for wisdom to knowing the Lord’s leading as we re-establish the family and our lives back ‘home’.

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Owen and Glynis Willows • S-E ASIA

We experienced some challenging times in the first few months of 2015, and thank the Lord for His protection and provision. Such experiences reinforced the ongoing need for faithful prayer partners and intercessors as we move into the second half of the year. Please keep us in prayer along with the ongoing training of church planters in Cambodia.

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STORIES IN STAMPS Peniel Elliott, SOUTH EAST ASIA • Peniel, along with husband, David are based in South East Asia and conduct discipleship and church planting training in various Asian nations. world-outreach.com/people/david-elliott AN INDIAN PASSPORT is not an easy passport to travel with. The dramas that come with it are aplenty.

Despite all that, both my passports are filled with stamps I’ve accumulated over the last several months of travelling.

But these are more than just stamps – they are stories! They represent the lives of people we’ve had the privilege to meet.

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me to the border with her six month old in their small green car.

And in Cambodia: A family with three little kids, who just sold everything so they could move there to work with the neglected and vulnerable.

And in Indonesia, the interns who helped orientate us around a new island and culture: The homesick 21 year old who loved being there with all his heart. The couple trying to learn the language while helping their kids through culture shock and overcoming the trauma of having their house robbed.

From Thailand: A kiwi couple who speak fluent Thai invest in a generation of Thai young people. Another couple, dearly missing their children, serve in a In the midst of the small village. Still a third couple raise admiration I felt, I two little girls in a couldn’t help but foreign land while running a café hear this question: ministry to impact local university Why?! students.

To Laos: A young couple expect their first baby while faithfully teaching primary school students. The mother of eight who drove

And don’t forget the young couple, who just moved from the city to a remote, small village to live amongst a Least Reached People

group, where their American English/ OZ English/Indonesian speaking two year old keeps running out into the village, where he gets sweet treats from the locals. Meanwhile his parents are trying to build a gate and make a safe home for him and his baby brother!

I was amazed and inspired by every single one of these lives we came across. As different as they were, they all had one thing in common. They have all left their homes, their language, their culture, and their safe and comfortable lives to be where they are now. And in the midst of the admiration I felt, I couldn’t help but hear this question: Why?!

I don’t think I’d do justice answering that question. But watching them love the people they are there for, seeing their passion and dedication in the midst of the seemingly endless challenges and knowing the fruit and value of their presence there, I’d say, why not? And that’s a question you can ask yourself today.

Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!” “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age .... along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Mark 10:28-31

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NO MORE DARKNESS Manikhombi Khundongbam, INDIA • Ministry Leader.

THOIBI MADE A LIVING by practicing witchcraft. People came to her for help to drive out evil spirits. But despite her abilities, her own son suffered from severe nightmares, and she was unable to help him. Eventually, her son came

to know Jesus and after being water baptised, was completely set free from the nightmares. Seeing her son’s deliverance caused Thoibi to want to follow Christ as well, so she repented and was baptised!

Thoibi being baptised >>

CHILDREN’S CLUB MIRACLES Menuo Keditsu, INDIA • Ministry Leader involved in discipling children for Jesus Christ. world-outreach.com/people/menuo-keditsu GENERATION MINISTRIES began a Children’s Club last year in an impoverished community of Bengali and Bihari families of other faiths. Since then, 27 of the children have committed to believe and follow Jesus. In spite of families relocating and some kids hindered from attending, six months later, twenty of them are still with us.

In March of this year, thirteen other children also prayed to do the same.

<< Bengali children come to know Jesus

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GOD IS MY HELP Vijaya Chowdhuri, BANGLADESH â&#x20AC;˘ Ministry Leader who with her late husband Biswanath are founders of Christian Discipleship Centre. world-outreach.com/people/vijaya-chowdhuri AFTER HEARING THE Gospel, Abdul became interested in the life of Christ.

Joseph gave Abdul the New Testament and Abdul read all four of the Gospels, not once, but twice! Convicted by the Word, Abdul believed in Jesus for the

Abdul

forgiveness of his sin and even took water baptism! He then went out and began sharing about Jesus to others in his village. Within no time at all, ten more people had received Jesus as their Saviour and were baptised.

Abdul was hungry for more knowledge of Jesus and took the opportunity to attend Bible school for six months.

After finishing his courses, he went back to his village to share. However, local religious leaders turned on him and stirred up the whole village against him. They came running at him to beat him. Miraculously, local authorities intervened. Despite the persecution,

Abdul shares the gospel with those around him

Abdul stood before a crowd of 5,000.

With great courage and boldness, Abdul shared his testimony. Please pray for Abdul as he courageously follows Christ and shares the Gospel with all those around him.

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Are Teenagers The Church of Tomorrow?

SOUTH ASIA • Anonymous Ministry leaders involved in children’s evangelism and discipleship.

“JOSIAH WAS eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years … He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or the left.” – 2 Kings 22:1-2

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Have you ever heard people say, “Teenagers are the church of tomorrow”? This trendy statement isn’t exactly true. The truth is, God is at work, depositing His Spirit in young people all over the world. He

God is at work, depositing His Spirit in young people all over the world. He doesn’t deposit a “Junior” Holy Spirit in them, but the same Holy Spirit adults receive.

doesn’t deposit a “Junior” Holy Spirit in them, but the same Holy Spirit adults receive. The truth is, teenagers are the church of today. Their lives are being miraculously transformed and their testimonies are powerful and effective!

World Outreach International recognise the need to reach the young people amongst Least Reached People groups. They are privileged to be hosting Adolescent Camps for their young people. Unafraid of teens and their, at times, quirky behaviours, They have taken up the call to “Train up a child in the way he should go” (Proverbs 22:6).

where they are.

In 1 Timothy 4:12 the Apostle Paul encourages Timothy to not let anyone look down on him because he is young, but to set an example in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity. While we often read this as if it is purely an encouragement to the young person, it is also an encouragement to those of us who are older. We are not to look down on our young people, but see them as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to the Lord. How important it is to validate them, disciple them and commission them into ministry!

Recognising the unique place the teenagers are in, both physically and emotionally, allows them to have open doors to effectively communicate the Gospel. During their camps, they cover topics such as leading a moral life, purity, healthy relationships with parents, HIV/ AIDS, staying safe and love and lust.

Going “Cross-cultural with age,” The camps use games, worship and group discussions to meet the young, people

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THE BEGINNINGS Jo and Jenny Graham, JAPAN • Ministry Leaders involved in helping make disciples of new believers. world-outreach.com/people/jo-and-jenny-graham SINCE RELOCATING back to Japan from Mozambique, we have prayed into starting a bilingual, multi-cultural family of faith. Now, we are mentoring a wonderful team of young people, including Donna Elliott (formerly based in Singapore) and Jumpei Saeki (who has been part of our lives since he

was six) and have launched One Way Osaka. The Lord has particularly blown on children and their families and we are very encouraged to see several people come to the Lord. We sense the beginnings of long-awaited harvest in Japan.

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Kokoro, Michiru and Hippo

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Jo and Jenny Graham, JAPAN • Ministry Leaders involved in helping make disciples of new believers. world-outreach.com/people/jo-and-jenny-graham A WONDERFUL PRAYER movement is spreading among Japanese young people. The Lord has awakened them to the unreached. One of the most influential young leaders has just gone to Myanmar long-term with his family to disciple a Least Reached People group there.

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A new generation of Japanese excited for Jesus!

Both he and other leaders are very clear that the special place that God has prepared for them is Shulam, the Turkic belt in Central Asia. Watch this space!

God is raising up a new generation of “made in Japan” missionaries!

We have just been to Shulam with a prayer team of young Japanese pastors.

What a joy to pray and worship with them in the midst of such darkness and oppression, believing that as we praise the Lord, we are piercing the heavens and preparing the way for Him to come with love and salvation. Our onthe-ground team reports their friend coming to Christ and sharing her new faith with friends and family. Open the heavens in Shulam, Lord!

YOU HONG AND LILY CHEAH You Hong, who has an Engineering degree, ran his own engineering consulting practice for many years You Hong and Lily Cheah

in Malaysia and later in Australia.Together,You Hong and Lily planted a church among the Ibans in Sarawak in 1985. Moving from there, they spent four years as missionaries with Jesus Family in Osaka, Japan. Later, they started a ministry to seniors in Melbourne. About five years ago, they felt the call of God to return to Japan when the Lord showed them a vision of a mustard seed from Mark 4:31-32. In January 2014, You Hong and Lily went to Osaka to begin a church planting ministry. You Hong and Lily Cheah have two daughters, who are studying in universities in Australia.

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Less Teaching, More Learning Jo and Jenny Graham, JAPAN • Ministry Leaders involved in training church planters.

YESTERDAY, I LISTENED to a genuinely profound and helpful eightyminute teaching message. But I’m afraid that, in a week’s time, very little will be left in the hearts and minds of the hungry young Japanese people who also listened to it. This isn’t a reflection on the excellent content! But what about the teaching method? I need to reflect on how much “teaching” I do and how little learning takes place when I “teach”.

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When a friend shows interest in the Gospel, most people say, “Come to church”. Even after ten or twenty years in church, being taught, they are not confident to share the Gospel themselves and lead that friend to Christ. When a new believer comes to Christ and asks about baptism or receiving the Holy Spirit, they call the pastor or enrol them in a follow-class.

Can we identify and focus on a When their friend is sick, they call few? Jesus taught the crowds but someone “mature” to pray for them. discipled just a few.

Most people are not confident enough to explain those truths or pray Can we make themselves, nor sure our to disciple a new Can we identify and teaching content believer. In spite of focus on a few? Jesus is simple, doable all our teaching! and maddeningly I may crisscross the earth teaching but am I really making disciples?

taught the crowds but discipled just a few.

So what does discipling look like? A few suggestions to get us started: Discipling does not take place in a superficial relationship or a classroom setting but when we share our lives in an ongoing context. Over meals, on trips, sharing ministry, praying and playing together. Can we build that into our lives more?

repetitive? Till our friends really do it.

Can I work harder on two-way communication? I learn from my student as we explore faith and obedience together. Impossible in most of our teaching settings!

Let’s aim obsessively to develop a chain reaction, where our students quickly disciples others. When we verify that they’re obeying what we have shared and passing it on to the next generation of followers, we can rejoice that we have taught effectively.

I believe strongly in what I have just written, that it’s what Jesus modelled and told us to do – but I still do so much more “teaching” than discipling. I wonder why!

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A LIFE TRANSFORMED Colin and Jenny Ayling, Maziotela Ministries MOZAMBIQUE Ministry leaders of a holistic ministry. world-outreach.com/people/colin-jenny-ayling ESPERANCA WAS A healthy nineteen year old, who joyfully walked fifteen kilometres each day to school. Then suddenly she became paralysed and couldn’t speak. Doctors said she would never walk again, but Esperanca refused to give up and determinedly started walking again using two sticks. But then she had another attack.

Her dreams were shattered when she couldn’t continue school, so her parents brought her to Maziotela Ministries.

For more than two years, many faithful prayer partners have been praying for Esperanca. Through this time Esperanca

has really grown in her faith and learnt to hear clearly from God. She always tries to serve others, despite her own weakness.

Today Esperanca is healed and is an amazing young lady who truly shines, knowing that her very life is a miracle. Many more lives are now being touched as Esperanca devotedly serves with us: Laurinda was bitten by a snake and left to die, but Esperanca cared for her and is now discipling her. Louisa was dying of AIDS and her family wouldn’t even wash her wounds, but Esperanca walked eleven hours to

Esperanca

find water to bathe her. Esperanca’s life is such a testimony, speaking loudly of God’s power to save others as He has saved her!

N E V E R S AY N E V E R Grant and Riana Franke, MOZAMBIQUE • Ministry Leaders involved in evangelism and church planting. world-outreach.com/people/grant-riana-franke

Grant sharing on radio

TO EVANGELISE THE Nahara is daunting! They are 500,000 strong with only five missionary couples reaching out to them. There are no churches or Bibles. They live in remote coastal areas with only the sea and bush paths to access them.

Some say the Nahara are only good to fish, practice witchcraft and steal and that they will never be Christians because they are already Muslim.

However, we know differently. A timely, financial donation made possible the purchase of an hour of radio broadcast time each week. We are now broadcasting anointed material across 300 km of Nahara coastline!

We also experienced breakthrough with Muslim fishermen who met with us after their salat prayers. The men were open to hear the creation story. Due to their Arabic background, they are interested in discussions and deeply enjoy spiritual debate. Their only condition for us was that we come back the next day to discuss further.

We see yet another miracle: people who are apparently closed to the Gospel are suddenly quite open!

A CURE FOR ALLERGIES Myriam Wahr, MOZAMBIQUE • Ministry Leader involved in holistic work to the rural poor. world-outreach.com/product/wahr-myriam MY NAME IS Esther and I come from Germany. I am staying at the Myriam Wahr House in Mossuril. When I arrived, I could see the ceiling in the house was covered in mold. I am very allergic to mold. I knew I wouldn’t be able to stay long if I did not receive a miracle, so I prayed. Miraculously God answered my prayer, and I have no allergies at all! We serve a wonderful God. Floods have devasted the area >>

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WELCOME MIRIAM! Peter and Caroline Ojiambo, KENYA Ministry Leaders working among Nubi People involved in evangelism and training.

FOUR YEARS AGO when we started our ministry, Miriam was among the first to hear the Gospel. However she went away and we never heard from her until recently. Miriam returned to our adult literacy project and shared with us how

Isa (Messiah) had appeared to her and told her to come back and join the adult literacy programme. Now Miriam joins very early in the mornings to read the Bible and grow in Jesus.

Miriam

I N T H E M I D S T O F G R E AT S U F F E R I N G Eugene and Tina Wessels, MOZAMBIQUE • Ministry leaders involved in evangelism and church planting. world-outreach.com/people/eugene-tina-wessels WE HAVE EXPERIENCED both wonderful high points and extreme low points as the local Mocambique suffer hunger, disease (mostly cholera) and unnatural deaths. The high points

A mother grieves

come from an incredible sense of belonging to the greater Body of Christ. Complete strangers from around the world have reached out to help a people struggling to come to terms with an environmental nightmare that seems to have no end. Food Aid has come pouring into the country in much the same way as the rains poured down upon it. The Church of Jesus has risen to the challenge.

Widows and orphans are being cared for, the Gospel is going out, people are coming to salvation, and in the midst of chaos and suffering there is a fresh new hope emerging. We are looking

Hope restored

forward with expectancy. We are believing for great change as the church continues to impact those who are in great need.

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MARY-PAT ROSS New Zealand is my home. I was married there and have a 23-year-old son there. However, I was raised in Oregon until I

went to Africa, got on a yacht, and ended up in NZ. Later in life I gained qualifications as a preschool/primary teacher. At this time I also became born again. How did I know God was leading me to missions in Africa, specifically Mozambique? By giving up everything I wanted and asking Him what He wanted. When I knew, then doors opened. As a first-year full mission partner, I am focusing on the language and plan to be involved in preschool training and literacy projects in rural villages, serving with Paul and Sue Fosse.

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PRISONERS IN THEIR OWN HOME Danny and Ruby Bayasan, BURKINA FASO • Ministry Leaders equipping church leaders and members. world-outreach.com/people/danny-ruby-bayasen ANNIE AND LINA are on fire for Jesus.

Their family began to persecute them soon after they were baptised. They were not allowed to attend church or any meetings. When people from church visited them in their home, the family would curse them. Annie and Lina were treated like prisoners in their own home.

We began to pray for Annie and Lina.

During one of the prayer meetings, the Holy Spirit reminded us of the story of Peter when he was in prison and the angel of the Lord rescued him. We prayed that both Annie and Lina would be rescued just as Peter was. After a month had passed, Annie came by the church with her brother. With tears

of joy she shared how her unsaved brother was supporting her. That same night he gave his life to Jesus. When Annie and her brother arrived home, their mother met them at the door. She too had visited a local church and given her life to the Lord. Hallelujah!

AFRICA, AFRICA, AFRICA Bruce Hills, AFRICA • International Leadership Development Director. world-outreach.com/people/bruce-hills

Bruce leading a seminar in Burkina Faso

THIS FIRST QUARTER of 2015 has been filled with Africa. In January, through clear guidance, I made an exploratory trip to South Sudan. The Lord connected us with a group of 400 pastors working in a remote province bordering Sudan’s Darfur region. A great door of opportunity has opened.

In February, I visited Burkina Faso where we concluded our seminars to more than a hundred pastors who work with WOI missionaries. One

pastor said, ‘In Burkina we have lots of gold mines, but this seminar has been a real gold mine’. In March, I spoke at a seminar in Ethiopia for a new contact we have there who works with church planters among the difficult, largely unreached groups on Ethiopia’s southern and western borders. Many pastors commented on how they attend many seminars, but this one was different because it was relevant, applicable and practical.

FEARPROOF, a book authored by Bruce Hills is available for purchase. Visit Bruce’s webpage to find out where you can buy the book: world-outreach.com/people/bruce-hills It may come as a surprise, but the most common command God gave people in Scripture was: ‘Do not fear.’ Why? God knows our human nature and its propensity to fear. FEARPROOF will help you discover: + How to unmask, identify and define fear so we can deal with it + How to limit the damage that fear seeks to do to us + How to reject fear in our life + How to no longer live with debilitating fear + How to confront and face fear with tenacity and determination.

HAVE YOU MADE A WILL? Making a will is the only way you can be sure that your wishes will be followed after you die. Having a will also makes your loved ones’ time of grief simpler. If you don’t leave a will, part or all of your estate may go to people whom you never intended to benefit, or even to the government!

Including a gift to the ministry of World Outreach International in your will is a special and personal way to continue making a difference in the world after your life on earth has passed.

For further information, please contact the World Outreach International office nearest to you.

2020 VISION OUR MISSION

OUR VISION

World Outreach International exists to impact the Least Reached People (LRP) groups with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Substantially increase the number of new LRPs impacted by World Outreach International whilst increasing the effective engagement in current LRPs.

THE GOAL By 2020 World Outreach International will have 55 new LRPs at least minimally engaged ...

55 new LRPs

240 new personnel

• 28 in Africa and the Middle East • 27 in Asia, Pacific and Europe

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140 of the majority world 100 of the minority world 140 under age 40 100 over age 40

WHAT CAN I DO? If God is calling you to play a part in this goal to reach Least Reached People groups consider going on The Ekballo Challenge or joining an Alpha Mission Team. Find out how you can get involved by visiting world-outreach.com/2020-vision or scan the QR Code

The Ekballō Challenge The Ekball ō Challenge is a prayer and vision-catching visit to a Least Reached People group. Your team will be guided by a seasoned missionary, who will take you on a challenging journey to see and experience things that tourists won’t. You will get a taste of what it’s like to be a frontier missionary.

Learn more at world-outreach.com/ekballo

Alpha Mission Teams

An Alpha Mission Team is a practical two-year missionary training programme for single people and families. These small teams of missionaries go and live amongst people who have never heard the Gospel. The objective of each team is starting what will eventually become a Church Planting Movement.

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Nepal Earthquake Relief Appeal

The Road To Recovery Will Be Long And Arduous

Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless.

In one valley in the capital Kathmandu, surviving residents of 61,000 damaged buildings have had to sleep elsewhere. They now live under tarpaulins in parks and open fields. Survivors describe the aftermath with phrases such as utter devastation, unimaginable chaos and total despair.

Funds are urgently needed now to

buy basic humanitarian items such as clean drinking water, tarpaulin, tents, rice, noodles, sugar, salt, cooking utensils, bedding, clothing and medical supplies. As resources allow, building materials will also be required on this long and arduous road of recovery.

Will you help? Your partnership will allow

urgently needed supplies to be given out to surviving families, and in turn give them a sense of hope and encouragement for the future.You can help make a big difference!

World Outreach International has been actively involved with the Nepali people (both in Nepal and North East India) for more than fifteen years, both in cities and in the rural areas among Least Reached People groups. Today, in partnership with other relief groups, WOI teams are working to provide practical relief on both fronts. But the challenge is great, as the needs are huge.

Donations can be made to: World Outreach International and designated “Nepal Earthquake Relief,” then forwarded to your nearest WOI Country Office (listed on pg 2).

Donations can also be made at www.world-outreach.com

Image ‘Earthquake Aftermath’ courtesy of Gabrielle Jens on Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The effects of the powerful earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April are still being felt. More than 10,000 lives were lost and twice that many injured.

Homes and livelihoods of tens of thousands have been destroyed.