1. Baptism: 24 souls
2. Total invitation responses, many awaiting permission
for baptism: 72 souls
3. Speaking engagements
Speaker at Purok Riverside, Digos
City, Thanksgiving Celebration.
Speaker at Salaysay, Christmas
Presentation
Speaker at Sallab Christian
Re-union
Speaker at Midsayap Grand
Re-union
Speaker at Comunal Thanksgiving and
Christmas Party
Speaker at Sonlon National High
School, Religious Concert
Speaker at Tukuran Church Christmas
and Thanksgiving Program
Speaker at Kalilangan, Christmas
Presentation
Special one on one Bible Study
with Mr. Lerios about the importance of Lordʼs
Supper.
5. Special Prayers
Prayer for Beatriz Palomo new
home.
Prayer for proposed house of prayer
at Malalag
Prayer for Eddie Morqueda land
reform case
Prayer for Ceferino Conching,
Joseph Peludin, Domingo Matik-aging, Elisha Pangisban cancer
victims
Special prayer for Eldeponso
Salutan at Digos Doctorsʼ Hospital
6. Services Rendered
Special Funeral
Thanksgiving service for Eddie and
Ilyn Moequeda in Liliongan Carmen
7. Special Programs
Attended
The Alocelja Clan grand
re-union
Christmas Fellowship ay Aroma Beach
Resort
8. Evangelistic Conducted --
Two
evangelistic rally at different places
9.
Christmas Presentations
Panabo City
Jail
General Santos City Reformation
Center
General Female
Dormitory
10. Reading Materials Distributed --
24 box
of large print bibles
11. Gifts and Snacks Distributed
100 packs
juice
103 pcs.
Sandwiches
50 sliced
cakes
1 pack
candies
2 loaf banana
cake
100 pcs. Used
clothes
216 packs
noodles
20 fresh
pineapple fruits
55 p-cs. Banana
cue
100 pcs. Used
clothes
1 sack
rice
1 dozen arm
printed t-shirts
5 pcs.
Poster
3 pcs.
Calendar
3 pcs.
Painting
9 pcs.
Ceramics
3 native
artifacts
Jay Mark Alocelja,
Information Secretary -- Ernesto
Alocelja, ARM Team
Leader
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ARTICLE 4
ARM Russian
Report
Glory to Christ, my beloved
brother! This is my brief report for December
2008.
1. IMMERSIONS. On the Christmas day
25.12.2008 we immersed a middle-age businesswoman. She is a niece of the
chairman of one of the Jewish congregations in Krasnodar. Her husband is in
prison, being convicted for a 20 years term. One of our chaplaincy ministers has
been preaching to this woman for some years.
2. PRISONS. This month the DOM ARM
ministers had 14 visits to different prisons and camps and 8 meetings with the
relatives and representatives of the arrested people. I visited one man, who had
spent in a prison more, than 10 years, and thricely had run from different camps
during this period. I also twice met the father of a young man, arrested by the
anti-drug police. This man is sure that the case of his son has been falsified;
thus, he organized some pickets in front of the Territorial Directorate of the
anti-drug police. For this activity he was administratively arrested for
some hours himself.
The DOM ARM supported the campaign of
protests against the murder of the convicted Oleg Soldatenko by the camp guards
in Surgut town of Tyumen area (Western Siberia) on 17.12.2008.
3. MOSLEMS. On 21.12.2008 the Volga
Tatars (Bulgars) National Assembly ("Milli Mejlis") – the unrecognized by
Russian Government public body – declared the national independence of the Tatar
State. Their Mejlis had a session in a town of Naberezhniye Chelny (2,500 km
North – North-East from Krasnodar). This session also established the "Milli
Nazarat" (the national Tatar Government in exile) with Wil Mirzayanov ahead (in
1992 this Tatar scientist was arrested by the Russian authorities, as a "spy";
he was released in 1994; in 1996 he emigrated to the USA). In connection with
this Tatar event the Russian Government suggested to the Parliament to issue a
law to qualify any separatist public activity to be a high treason. This
development shows clearly the importance of our work with the repressed Moslem
groups, including different Tatar ones.
Happy New Year!
In Jesus our hope! Sincerely, DOM ARM (www.ARM.org) chaplain,
prof., etc. Nicholas E. Alyoshin
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ARM Mexican Report
Dear and precious brethren in our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
God is faithful, cares and protects
us always. This has been our experience in the ministry. I’ve known the cases of
three Christian families who one of its members have been kidnapped and
tortured. This has happened in 2009 only. These families have paid big amounts
of Money to get their relatives back. I praise God for His protecting hand over
my family and me. He has maintained us serving Him in this
ministry!
Now, let me share with you a brief
report of our ministry in 2008:
We
are teaching the Word of God in 98 jails, where we have 16,822 inmates studying.
Due to the real rehabilitation process the Word of God has caused, 326 inmates
were put free for their good behavior.
A
great result from our Bible Lessons inside jails is that the Director from the
Military Prison 1 donated us a piece of property inside this jail to build a
chapel. This is the first time this happens. Can you imagine a small church
building inside a jail! Praise God for this! Our students in this jail started
the building process right away! It is sad that we are not allowed to take
pictures to send you. I am so encouraged by this, as I can see God’s wonderful
and powerful hand in all happening inside this jail! Our God does work in
marvelous ways!
During 2008 we:
Registered 32,145 new students in
our Bible Correspondence Courses,
Distributed and handed out 78,600 Bible
tracts,
Broadcasted 104 hours of God’s Word on radio,
Sent 3,128 Bibles to
people who did not have one yet,
Reached 15 universities, both public and
private education, with our Bible lessons,
Saw 1,196 of our students graduate
from the first series (10) of Bible lessons,
Had 397 students graduate from
our advanced (36 lessons) courses,
Counseled 876 people who needed spiritual
and psychological help, plus served our fellow pastors and ministers with
different problems they were facing.
Planted 7 new Churches,
Sent, through
the snail mail, around 3,600 packages with our lessons, which represented a cost
of $3,240.00 dollars in postage a month.
During the last quarter of 2008, our
work load increased a lot. Besides, I had to treat three young people suffering
from schizophrenia. All these activities were a great burden on all of us
working at the office. I treated many ministers and gave counseling to pastors
and church leaders. I preached at the dedication of two new Church buildings. I
visited areas with flooded situations and helped distribute goods. Plus all
this, we had many activities in the Church due to the end of the year. So, I got
very sick during the last week in December. I felt so weak, no matter the
medicine and vitamins in my treatment. But, I recovered just fine after
all!
The good news to start the year was
that the two men suffering from schizophrenia were completely healed. True
feeding on the Word of God changes people and produces healing. This was the
case of these two men. They are in between 20 and 26 years old. I attacked the
problem by asking their close relatives and some of our advanced students to
pray for them. Reading the Word, fasting and praying did the work. All these
people who helped in this regard received, from me, the Bible texts to read in
their daily devotionals and fasting and prayers.
Please help me pray, fervently, for
the following:
That God provides the needed
resources to continue ministering to others through this ministry (postage
expenses, Xerox machine, printing of our lessons and courses, Bibles, paper, a
suitable place for our office, and so on).
A mile from our office, a group of
our Bible Students started meeting in a loaned gym. However, they grew up to 300
people and need a bigger place, plus the gym owner is asking them to leave his
facilities. Please pray for a place where they can meet. Our idea is to see if
we could buy a bigger place for them and for our office. Please help me pray for
this need!
Pray for wisdom for me. Due to the
93 churches we have planted in our ministry, I need to take decisions in this
regard (appoint church leaders, train church leaders, solve problems among the
brethren, and so on). I need God’s guidance in His huge Field!
Pray for some churches in the States
of Hidalgo, Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero. They are going through persecution.
Some of the hardships our brethren are facing are that, when they become
Christians, they cannot keep their properties, their children cannot get an
education, they are pressure to contribute with money for the town pagan
festivities, their meeting places and churches are destroyed, and so
on.
I am so grateful to you for your
contribution and ministering through us in Mexico. The Kingdom of God is indeed
growing fast nowadays!
We love you in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior!
-- Alfredo José Aparicio
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Want an ARM multimedia presentation in your
church?
As Development Director, I'm visiting a lot of churches in the
Midwest! We have a number of PowerPoint presentations and visual
sermons -- one just right for your group -- that will inform, encourage,
and promote evangelism. If you would like an ARM presentation for your whole
church-- or a group within it-- please inquire by reply or call 573-729-6355. We
are now scheduling 2009. Thanks again for all your prayers, support, and
encouragement! -- Rod
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ARTICLE 7
ARM Korean Report
Loving greetings to you in Jesus precious
name. I pray God for you get still amazing grace on 2009.
I deeply appreciate your pray and support
last year. I could perform ministries for prisons, reformatories, the released
and family of prisoners owing to you. These days, Korea comes to a crisis for
some reasons. There is on the increase to ask our help and support on account of
adversity in Korea. This ministry doesn't interest by anyone. But Our Lord has
helped us to do missionary works for prisoners in spite of decrease in mission
money!
As you know, we usually visit 9 prisons and
2 reformatories 15 times a month. We preach to them, support the bibles and
books about the religion, counsel and help training discipleship.
Christmas Gift for Prisoners
2008
The Center of Sharing Gifts of Love
(Angel's Tree) is sending Christmas presents to the prisoners and their families
of 7 prisons and Juvenile prisons. The gifts consist of the underwear, gloves,
socks, groceries and cash, especially they are sending to the senior, sick,
handicapped and long-term prisoners. They are reaching out to almost 2,000
people.
The Baptism and Communion at Daejeon
Prison, 2008.
The Christian Department of Daejeon Prison
(Chair: Sang Ho Kim) had the worship for Baptism and Communion with the grace of
God on December 4, 2008. The worship consisted of 3 parts: The first part was
the sermon of SangHo Kim, the second part was the Baptism for the 24 prisoners
who had studied for the education of Baptism. Finally the third part was the
Communion with everybody.
The Christmas Worship at the Kongju
Prison
The Kongju Prison had the Christmas Worship
on December 22, 2008. The Kongju Prison had the discipleship class for 12 years
and has made 15 groups of church systems through the prisoners. The worship
consisted of the sermon of SangHo Kim and it was followed by the performance of
the JungIn Lee Christian Contemporary Dance Team. They shared the joy of the
Christmas and had a wonderful time with the fellowship and the gifts.
The Medical Operation for the Foreign
Prisoner Supported
One of the Chinese prisoners has been sick
and had got an operation at the Gunyang Hospital of Daejeon City. He had been
hospitalized for 6 days and recovered. SangHo Kim has been good fellowship with
him since 4 years ago and he accepted Jesus Christ. He has been working hard and
got several technical licenses.
The Schedule of
December:
1 (Mon) : Mt. Bomoon Over Night
Prayer Meeting
3 (Wed): Daejeon Oriental Hospital
Mission
4 (Thus) : Baptism of the Daejeon
Prisoners (24 prisoner)
8 (Mon) : The Operation of the Chinese
prisoner at the Gunyang Hospital
9 (Tue) : The 25th Concert at the
Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul
12(Fri) : Kongju Prison Leadership
Class of the Disciple Education
15(Mon) : Daejeon Prison Counseling Program
for the Foreign e Prisoners
16(Tue) : Daejeon Prison Meeting for the
Newly Baptized Prisoners
18(Thur): Sending Mission News Paper
(3,500)
19(Fri) : Daejeon Prison Leadership Class
of the Disciple Education
22(Mon) : Kongju Prison Christmas
Worship
23(Tue) : Chungju, Chungju Female Prison
Counseling Program
24(Wed) : Deajeon Oriental Hospital :
Distribute of Christmas Gifts
26(Fri) : Help for the families of the
prisoners
28(Sun): Feast for the Poor Neighbor
May God bless You. Sincerely
Yours, Sangho Kim -- Stump Brothers
Mission
Want to help?
To contact ARM about aiding in the funding of supplies and resources,
please email rodfar@arm.org, call
1-573-729-6355, or write to 3127 Hwy K, Salem, MO 65560.
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ARTICLE 8
The Mailbag
Rod,
Thanks again for your updates...love to hear how the Lord is working out in
the field...He is so good and using His people in His name...God bless all his
missionaries...we continue to pray for you all daily...God Bless you and
yours. --- Illinois
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ARTICLE 9
Contact Info
Rod Farthing, ARM
National Development Director rodfar@arm.org
3127 Hwy K, Salem, MO 65560 573-729-6355
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