Rod: I praise God for ARM's wonderful world wide
ministry. God is winning in so many places and you folks are at the
front of the battle. God Bless You. H P
Rod, Thanks for the update----go Rapha House! --
56 girls is great. What service they are doing! my check is going out
today. Again thanks for all you do too. Will share the info
with the high schoolers on Sun. In Christ, KC
During the first week of September, the ARM Philippines sponsored and
conducted an art exhibit and poster making contest as team participation
to the celebration of Digos City Anniversary. The Team
was worried because of 3 successive typhoons that hit Philippines for the
whole month of September -- destroying billions of properties and causing
the loss of many lives and homes.
We are very much blessed here in the island
of Mindanao -- especially Digos City as the official residence of the ARM
Team. These typhoons did not visit us, only slight windstorms.
But a severe epidemic of Flu and
Dengue fever struck us for almost a month. My whole family circle and team
families are now in recovery. After 3 weeks of suffering from this
severe epidemic the team and families, together with the volunteers and
friends, gathered in a beach resort to offer our sincere praises and
thanksgiving for the Lord in saving our lives from this very severe epidemic.
And at the same time we celebrated my 54th Birthday and Re-union Program
at Baby Italiano, Beach resort, Aplaya, Digos City.
The Maa City Jail was closed from religious
activities because of Jail break but will re-open again on September 26,
2006. Our regular feeding program continued at BJMP-Digos
city especially for the minors. This month the new congregation at Barangay
Barayong was opened. It is a very productive agriculture area and
is known as the Rice Granary of Davao del Sur Province.
The team continue a Gospel Presentation at Amas
Provincial Jail and follow-up Bible study for 43 Prisoners accepted
Christ. This month the team distributed the following items to
inmates, volunteers, Preachers, and local Churches.
1. 12 bars laundry soap
2. 20 pcs. ukay-ukay
3. 100 pcs. leaflets and tracts
4. 6 packs of sermon outlines
5. Framed Certificates
6. 6 packs anti-Diabetes tablets
7. 14 packs anti-TB vitamins
8. 24 pcs. anti-TB syrup
9. 3 pcs. pack bags
10. 10 volumes large print Bibles
"To God Be the
Glory" Ernesto O. Alocelja, Director--ARM
Philippines Philippians 4: 13, 19
Dear
brethren in Christ Jesus,
As the rains have been plenty and abundant
during September, our ministry has been favored with great results as
well.
Baptisms took place in different countries, as follows.
Argentina (5), Brazil (3), Bolivia (2), Chile
(4), Colombia (6), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (9), Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador
(3), El Salvador (3), Spain (2), Guatemala (5), Haiti (2), Honduras (3), The
Virgin Islands (1), Jamaica (2), Mexico (18), Nicaragua (1), Panama (1),
Paraguay (1), Peru (6), Puerto Rico (4), Uruguay (3), and Venezuela
(8). We had a total of 96 baptisms,
people who found freedom in Christ. Most of Latin American
countries celebrate their Independence during September, and it is amazing
that the Lord blessed us with this great harvest during this same
month.
The registered students are the amount of 3,540, and I am
encouraged to see that most of them are high school and college
students. The left political parties are renewing their
strength in Latin America. Their main target, as always,
are young people. These college and high school students
are getting 21 hours of Marx and Lenin doctrines, plus time in
action. However, these new Bible students are a great
encouragement to us in our ministry.
We had 47 students graduate from our basic courses.
18 graduated from our advanced lessons. These
graduations took place in September alone. These people did
not know anything concerning the Bible when they started studying our
lessons. Then, with our third lesson, we send them a Bible,
if they do not have one. At their graduation, they have
read the Bible at least twice. When they make a decision
for the Lord, they have read the Bible at least once. We
know these students have a solid foundation in the Bible, as our lessons deal
with the basics of Christianity.
Let me share with you a letter written by one of our
students. "I
live in a tiny village called Xoloco. One day, I went to buy groceries
to Teziutlán. There, I was handed a track entitled "Why Were You
Born?" One of your staff gave it to me. Since I had many things to
do, I put it in my backpack. Once back home, I forgot the tract
completely. I went to do my daily activities as usual and I did not
remember it. But, one day, the judicial police stopped me as they
thought I had killed a person. They tortured me to confess. I did
confess due to the much torturing, but I was not even in town when the
assassination took place. I was working in a different town. I
have been in jail for a year now. Even, my family and relatives forgot
me. Since my wife did not have the money to pay a lawyer, I will stay in
jail until my sentence is over. Your tract has been my company and my
guidance. I am looking for God now. Here in jail, in Teziutlán, I
found another prisoner who is in touch with you. We are good friends
now, and I can borrow his Bible to read. This is the Bible you sent
him. If possible, please send me one Bible. I promise to read it
every day. Another favor, please visit me when you can. Please
pray for me. I have no one else to communicate with..."
Yours, Arturo Girón Montesinos, Teziutlán, State of
Puebla.
Please help us pray for the most urgent needs we are facing in
our ministry, which are the following.
* We need 3,000 pocket Bibles to send people living far from
communications and because there are no available Bibles in those remote
places of Mexico.
* We need to print 18,000 of our Basic and Advanced Course
lessons.
* We need a bigger office (space), where we can teach our
students who come to our office on a daily basis. Also, we
need a suitable training room, where to train our church
leaders.
With a grateful heart in the Lord Jesus Christ, Alfredo José
Aparicio
Glory to Christ, my beloved bro!
This is my report for September 2006.
1.IMMERSIONS. Two men were immersed
in Moscow prison during my visit there on 17 - 21.09.2006.
2.PRISONS. On 04.09.2006 a mutiny
took place in one of Moscow prisons: 15 people were taken as hostages; some
people were wounded during the storm of the prison. After the mutiny I was
invited by the relatives of the arrested men, kept in that prison. I visited
Moscow and that prison on 17 - 21.09.2006. In September I also visited the
convicts in four different penal institutions in Krasnodar Territory.
3.MOSLEMS. We continued the phone
Spiritual talks with bro Rakhimov (Tashkent, Usbekistan). I had some talks and
meetings with the Ahiska Turks elders in Krasnodar Territory (Isrofil, e.a.).
On 03.09.06 I was informed by Hasan Gurji-ogly (the elder of the Kurdish
Kurmanch tribe and my co-chairman in the committee for freedom of conscience),
that his elder brother had been murdered. On 24.09.06 Murat KUDAEV was
murdered (shot dead). He was the chief of the Administration of the
Krasnoguardeiskiy district of Adygeya Republic, The ethnic Adyg, one of the
possible candidates to be the new Adygeya President. Kudaev was one of the
supporters of my caucasological research. In 1995 he received his Ph.D. in
Agriculture (plant breeding) under my official supervision. The name of his
dissertation was "Productivity and seed qualities of rice in dependence
of times and methods of nitrogen fertilizers using at the meadow and
meadow-swampy soils of the Adygeya Republic".
4.MISSION TRIPS. Some
brethren from Krasnodar Territory took part on 05 - 10.09.2006 in the
International Conference on the violation of the rights of ethnic and
Religious minorities in Eastern Europe. It took place in Varna, Bolgaria and
was sponsored by some British Universities. The brethren presented there
numerous audio and video testimonies, including some interviews and speeches
of mine.
5.MEDITATIONS. From 1999 till 2006
the so called "Open World" programme (paid by the USA Congress Library
visits of Russian citizens to USA to be acquainted with the different public
activity spheres) has organized the visits of 150 persons from Krasnodar
Territory to USA. On 12.09.06 some of them organized a meeting to establish a
kind of an alliance to improve the USA-Russia relations. I was invited there
and prayed, as the ARM chaplain, for the success of this event. Only seven
graduates of 150, living in Krasnodar Territory, came; the other 143 were
afraid to do this. Remember the Gospel: Were there not ten cleansed? but
where are the nine?"(Lk., 17:17).
6.DIVINE ACTION. The
icon-worshippers of Russia continue to bring the idolatrous relics for
worshipping to "improve the situation in the state". Thus, on 02.09.2006
they brought to Moscow the so called left palm of Mary Magdalene". During
September it was to be worshipped in 13 cities of Russia. The result is
following: the crush of 180 meter bridge in Ekaterinburg-city centre on
04.09.06; the mutiny with murders in Kondopoga town - North from Petersburg -
on 02 - 03.09.06; a terrible automobile catastrophe with 75 cars crashed near
Krasnodar on 10.09.06; the explosion of the water station in Krasnogorsk of
Moscow area on 16.09,06 - 200 000 people were without water for a week; a fire
at the atomic submarine, named Saint Daniel - Prince of Moscow", on
07.09.06; etc., etc. The idolatry, indeed, is the abomination to the
Lord thy God"! (Dt., 7:25).
7.STUDENT WING. On 19 - 20.09.06 our
Student Wing took part in the huge action to Evangelize the students of the
first courses, who had entered the Krasnodar Universities: 1200 invitations
were spread among them to take part in different Christian programmes. On
30.09.06 our Student Wing organized the so called International Dinner"
(the Evangelization dinner according to the Campus Crusade for Christ
methodology).
8.PUBLIC ACTIVITY. On 26.09.06 I
took part in the conference to discuss the ombudsmen practices in Russia; on
28.09.06 - in the conference on the problems of charity institutions. On
09.09.06 I spoke at the Krasnodar Territory conference of the Union of
Right Forces" political party with the suggestions to correct the project of
the new party Programme. That new one was adopted by the party Congress in
Moscow on 18.09.06. The new programme contains the paragraph, demanding to
stop the by force introduction of the lessons of icon-worshipping in Russian
state schools and to stop the attempts to make the icon-worshipping orthodoxy
the state religion in Russia.
9.REPRESSIONS. The Krasnodar branch of
the Memorial" society is working now to produce the computer discs
collection with names of the people, killed on political and religious basis
during Stalin era in Krasnodar Territory. Memorial" has produced the
first disc (with 26 000 of names) and gave me it at my
disposal.
10. SUPPORT. I received a parcel from Joe
Garman with 24 wonderful booklets of ARM. It is a big Spiritual support,
indeed! The August support through Max Goins system of We-Go" missions
coalition was received OK. I also received the parcel from DOM ARM Moscow
branch (my sister Nathaly Koff, e.a.) with the donations from the
American Chamber of Commerce" in Moscow (T-shirts, caps, books, etc.). We
received also the e-mails of support from Rod Farthing and Bill Wadell (ARM,
USA), Jason Shaver (USA), Andrew Novoselov (France), pastor Gottfried Spieth
(Germany).
In Jesus our hope! Sincerely,
DOM ARM chaplain, Nicholas E. Alyoshin
