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Branch Ministry Reports from Around the Globe
October 2007 Update
In His Service,
Rod Farthing, National Development Director
This month Brother Joe Garman and Brother Don Todd came to visit us in Thailand. They brought with them lots of God's blessing. The girls were particularly happy because everyone received gifts and toys from them. The Daughters of Ruth Home has many new things, such as sports equipment, benches, guitars and a stereo.
Lots of our girls have decided to have faith in Jesus Christ and eleven were baptized. We went to announce the Gospel in several of prisons and there were many prisoners who were baptized: 1) In the Prison for women in Chiang Mai, 23 persons were baptized; 2) In Phayao Prison, 2 were baptized; 3) In Fang Prison, 27 were baptized.
And in the Juvenile Centers in Chiang Mai, eleven young people made the Good Confession. May God guide each of these people life as He wish always.
Report From Alfredo José Aparicio
Dear brethren in Christ,
I am so pleased and happy to
greet you once more. I know God is guiding us in the ministry and you in
your personal lives as well.
I had plans to write you before, but new things never stopped happening in the ministry and I did not find the time until today. For example, on October 1, I got up at 5:40 to pray. Then, I got dressed and had breakfast. I was leaving home at 6:30, but a neighbor came to visit. He was so concerned for his life. He is a lawyer, and that very day he was facing many difficult cases in Court. He took a case from drug dealers. First, he did not know these people were drug dealers. However, his life was in danger if he did not win the case. He was offered a lot of money in order to make things fall in favor of these people. I shared with him about our Mighty Lord and we prayed together.
Riding the bus to my office in
Mexico City, that same morning, I counseled a couple. They had a baby girl
with them, but they were fighting so much and the baby was crying. So, I
approached them and offered them some advice. They accepted the Lord in
the bus, and will meet with the brethren in one Church located in Mexico
City. The traffic was so terrible in Mexico City, and I needed to be in my
office, that I took the electric train instead of my normal
transportation. As soon as I got to my office, there was a tall heavy man
waiting for me. He is a pastor and needed counseling and Bible Teaching to
share with his congregation. As I was finishing talking to him, a phone
call came in. It was brother Domingo Solís, from Los Reyes, State of
Michoacán. He came to the Lord's feet through our ministry. I counseled
him on how to treat epilepsy, which his son suffers from. All my day was
so hectic. But, I went back home at 5:00 pm, as I needed to prepare in
order to start and evangelism campaign the next day, at Satélite Christian
Church in Cuernavaca. But, when I was getting ready to eat dinner, at
10:30 pm, I got a call from a young man from the Church, Kirano Gutiérrez
(20). He had a very strong pain, and my wife and I took him to the Red
Cross, where he was treated. With out having dinner, I went to bed at 1:00
am.
However, this is nothing
compared to the harvest in the ministry. During September, we had 39
baptisms. Most of these new born are young people in their early 20s.
Also, 237 people graduated from our basic lessons, and 68 people graduated
from all of our more than 50 Bible lessons. During this month, we had
2,114 new students register in our basic courses. Also, we have the
privilege to share with you that we have planted two new congregations in
Cuba. These are located in the Province of Holguín, Mayarí and
Banes.
We started sharing our Bible
courses in the jails located in Navojoa, state of Sonora, Minatitlán in
Veracruz, Villahermosa in Tabasco, and in Zacatlán state of Puebla. We
have 718 new inmates studying the Bible. It is encouraging to see that 12
of our inmates studying the Bible showed a good behavior and they were
released and are now living at home and with their families, enjoying the
Christian life.
In Mexico, we celebrate our Independence from Spain on September 16. It was so encouraging to celebrate our Independence by planting another congregation. This one is located in our own office. Our members come from the Bible Correspondence Courses. People and families in our area, where our office is located, need the Lord so much, as they are poor, drug dealers, drug addicts, and so on. The Lord is working in their lives now. We are gathering with people who are hard, harsh, and difficult to win for the Lord. God is able to work in their hearts!
Please continue praying for us, and the ministry.
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Ours plans are to have a Christian camp on the third week of January 2008 in the mountains in Cuba. The name of the place is Sagua-Baracoa, east of Cuba. We will gather there with our Bible Correspondence Students and members of the five Churches we have there. The Churches are Granma, Guantánamo, Holguín, Las Tunas, and Santiago de Cuba. Please help us meet our needed budget for this camp. We need $3,100.00 This place is very strategic to have this camp. The money we need will be used for transportation and for the camp itself.
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We need a bigger place for our office.
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We need a bigger copier machine.
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We need more people on staff. They would be doing counseling, visiting, writing, revising our lessons, and so on.
I am so grateful to you for all of your help,
Yours in Christ Jesus, Alfredo José
Aparicio
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DaySpring Christian Greeting Card Report
536,050 DaySpring greeting cards were sent to prisons in July/August 2007.
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Report From Dr. Nicholas E. Alyoshin
This is my brief report for September 2007.
1. IMMERSIONS. On 30.09.2007 I immersed Mr. Alexander SHAMPAROV. This took place in the centre of Krasnodar, in Kuban river, at 17 hours. That day was the local city holyday - "The Day of Krasnodar" (214 years of its foundation), and crowds of the walking people were our witnesses. Shamparov is the leader of the human rights organization; he is actively working in courts to return the property of the people, whose predecessors were repressed by Stalin and whose property was confiscated by the political police. Shamparov was an active Slavonic pagan. I have been preaching Christ to him for two last years. And the Holy Spirit has converted this heathen wolf into the Christian lamb, indeed. Alleluia! Here is picture we took:
2. PRISONS. On 16.09. - 23.09.2007 a mutiny took place in the famous prison "The Crosses" (in Russian "Kresty") in Saint-Petersburg. In the same time 6 convicts run away from the prison camp near Eisk (250 km NE from Krasnodar; a port on the Azov Sea coast). Different incidents took place in the same period in dozens of Russian prisons and camps, because the underground leaders of the convicts tried to influence the process of the formation of the new Russian Government (prime-minister Zubkov was appointed by Putin instead of Fradkov; new prime-minister was thinking over the personal content of his Government). On 22.09.2007 I met with one of the leaders of the movement of Grigoriy Grabovoy (Grabovoy declared himself to be a new "prophet"; since April 2006 he has been kept in prison in Moscow). Those people have established "the Commitee to liberate Grigoriy Grabovoy" (without official registration, nearly undergroundly). They want me to consult them in different spiritual questions and the Religious Freedoms sphere.
3. MOSLEMS. On 15.09.2007 and on 16.09.2007 I had the meetings with the leaders of the "International Commitee on the problems of the Meskhetian Turks (Ahiska)". This commitee was created in USA by the Ahiska elder Sarwar Tedorov (he left Russia in 2006; when he lived in Krasnodar Territory, he named me "brother") in contact with Steve Swerdlow (the US State Department consultant) and Michael A. Arcuri (the Member of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States; Washington, DC 20515-3224, 327 Cannon House Office Building; 202-225-3665; fax 202-225-1891). In Russia it must work as the public movement without official registration. I am supporting the leaders of this movement spiritually (including the spreading of the New Testaments in Turkish among them).
My good friend Hasan Gurji-ogly (the hereditary sheih of the Kurdish tribe of the Curmanjes in Krasnodar Territory) has been appointed the deputy mufti of the Moslems of the Adyg Republic and Krasnodar Territory - the Coordinator of the Moslems of Krasnodar Territory. Thus, we have received the possibility to touch "the heart" of the Moslem movement in Krasnodar Territory and Adyg Republic. On 29.09.2007 I had a meeting with Hasan to discuss the possibility for him to take part in the humanitarian actions in prisons and prison camps.
In Jesus our hope!
Report From Ernesto Alocelja
1. Inmates baptized ----------------- 13
2. Outreach Baptism ---------------- 1
II. Accepted Christ:
1. Outreached --------------------------- 1
2. Amas Provincial Jail ------------------23
3. Kidapawan Reformation Center ----- 10
III. Special Services Conducted;
1. Funeral Service for Salvador Rivera, Active Supporter of Jail Ministries in Central Mindanao.
2. Maternity Service for Lilibeth Geverola active supporter of Jail Ministries in Region XI.
3. Special Prayers for Cotabato Provincial Jail Detention Prisoners.
IV. Feeding Program
1. Amas Provincial Jail
2. Kidapawan Reformation Center
3. Davao City Jail
4. Digos City District Jail
V. On September 15, 2007/ 1pm; some of the team attended and help the mangrooves planting sponsored by Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic resources spearheaded by Advocacy for Mindanao Foundation as the Environmental Peace Promotion
VI. On Sept. 30 the team attended the joint meeting held at Tacul Church of Christ to discuss the plan for the coming Crusade for Christ and discipleship Seminar in Barangay Barayong which was finally scheduled on November 30 - December 2, 2007.
VII. Gifts distributed to the inmates:
1. 1 reading Glass, home made perfume
2. 1 blanket, 1 polo barong, 1 polo shirt, 1 maong pant
3. 52 sliced laundry soap, 4 sachet toothpaste
4. 12 pcs. ukay-ukay, 10 pcs. used clothes
5. 2 pcs. notebooks, half dozen ballpen
6. 5 assorted item
7. 150 pcs. banana cake
Rod Farthing, ARM National Development Director rodfar@arm.org
Rt. 5 Box 159, Salem, MO 65560 -- Home 573-729-6355
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