My thanks to all of you who are sending Christian resource materials to the Pastors and Church Leaders in Mukinge, Zambia. I know that every magazine, book and Bible will be greatly appreciated and read studied by many. {for more information, visit http.://www.nppn.org and click on Global Network ... Zambia}
 

MINISTRY DOORS ARE OPENING

 

God is opening ministry doors for the network to network with many more Pastors within this nation and outside this nation (ZAMBIA). The seed of the vision of seeing our communities transformed by God’s power as a result of Pastors praying through for their cities , and them, getting involved in all the affairs of their city is been planted with no or less opposition in most of the places I have been to the past weeks and months. And for this we give God the glory.

In the month of May we had two major prayer events.

 

1. PRAYER RALLY

 

On the 1st May 2003 we had our city prayer rally in one of our towns on the copper belt province . Even though the attendance was low but we had one of the powerful rallies . We started this day by going to different sites for prayers and prophetic actions. We felt the Lord wanted us to pray on site with insight.
Straight after that we went to the football ground where many others were gathered in readiness of the rally. It was during this rally that we had an opportunity to repent as a church and the nation as a whole . The Lord led us to repent of the following :
THE CHURCH
a. How the church has failed to fulfill her role in a nation that is covenanted to God.
b. The lack of Godly leadership/ Spiritual Fathering and Mentoring.
c. The pride and competition in church leadership.
d. Lack of unity and truth in Church leadership.
e. Love of money and self in church leadership.
f. Idolatry, Witchcraft and Rebellion in Church leadership.
g. Disobedience and Compromise in Church leadership.
h. Sexual Sins in Church leadership.
i. Lack of Prophetic Voice in the nation.
j. On behalf of the government , corruption/Misuse of national/natural resources, lack of fear of God, lack of integrity and evil covenants.

    It was after a time of repentance that we went into a time of calling forth of our city and national redemptive gifts. We did spend a good time praying in God,s purposes for our city and nation.
    It is also during this time of prayer that we did pray for Godly men and women to be part of our present government ( God fearing men and women).
Our day was closed with praying for the whole of Africa .

 

GOOD NEWS PRAYER ANSWERED   
 

Just after a month our present president appointed his vice , a born again  preacher of the word of God and God fearing.
 

4th –9th MAY 2003 We had a ladies / Pastors’ wives conference and I was one of the main speakers. I was speaking on prayer and spiritual warfare/deliverance .We had over 20 Pastors wives and over 700 women coming together for this conference. The Lord moved in such a way that we saw people been set free spiritually, emotionally , mentally and physically.
It was during this time that we went to pray for one of the schools. This is a Girls Boarding School which had most of its students involved in Satanism, indiscipline and a lot of fornication .  

God did a miracle at this school after we went round to pray for it with Pastors wives. It was during the same week that some of the students came to us to testify of how for the first time in 5 years they were able to have peaceful nights at the school without any disturbs from witches and nightmares . This was not so in the past.
    As I write this article I have been informed that the whole school has changed , there is now discipline at the school. The school girls that were used to sleeping out at the weekends are no longer doing so. There is just  God’s order that has covered the whole school, with teachers teaching while there is a national teachers strike . This is a miracle . This is what prayer can do.     
 

SOUTH AFRICA

 

We have just finished a one week leaders conference in South Africa. We had over 100 leaders come together from within South Africa and outside South Africa. I was one of the speakers and I was  speaking on CITY ELDERS/FATHERS . I taught on their Role, Function and Position/Place . With this I also taught on CITY GATES.
 

Out of this conference God has opened many other doors for the network to network and establish pastors prayer groups in many different townships throughout South Africa. This is a big breakthrough for the network.

I believe that God is looking for CITY ELDERS that will identify themselves with their cities, that will see their cities from God’s view, that will fall in love with their cities and are ready to die for it. God is looking for CITY ELDERS that are prepared to hear God’s voice for their city and give direction as the Lord leads. These are leaders that are ready to carry divine messages to the kings of their cities and towns/communities. These are leaders that are ready to spread themselves over areas (town/cities) of death until life comes back. God is looking for CITY ELDERS that are ready to confront false works in their cities and leaders that are ready to do the cleansing of their cities like in the book of 2kings 23.

I also believe that God is raising CITY ELDERS with  FATHER’S HEART that think generational and are ready to father their cities not just their local churches.
 

PRAYER NEEDS/REQUESTS
 

a. Pray for our July through August 2003 first module school of prayer and our rural area bible training program (mobile bible school)
b. URGENT!!!! COMPUTER : We are in need of one or two computers for our network. At the moment we are operating without any.
c. URGENT!!!! MINISTRY VEHICLE: We are in need of our own ministry vehicle to enable us travel to many places without difficulties.

As you pray for us here, we ask you to be open to the Holy Spirit and feel free to get in touch with us in anyway you feel led by the Holy Spirit to partner with us .

GOD BLESS YOU.
APOSTLE AARON MWALE
aaronmwale@zamtel.zm ;  nppnafrica@yahoo.com 
Tel: 260-2-510003
Cell: 26096 946471

BOX 90902, LUANSHYA. ZAMBIA
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>From: Mission America Coalition <Members@missionamerica.org>

According to ReligionJournal.com, nearly 450 Korean Southern Baptists made commitments to overseas missions service May 10-11. They were among more than a thousand people attending meetings at Berendo Street Baptist Church in Los Angeles, the Baptist Press reported. The denomination's International Missions Board conducted the meeting.

 Asian-American missionaries often fit in where white Americans don't. Asian-Americans "have some of the best access to the '10/40 window,'" the region from Northwest Africa to Southeast Asia where people have little access to the gospel, said Sund Park, Pastor of Berendo Street.

The Los Angeles conference was one of four being held among the 750 Korean-speaking Southern Baptist churches across the United States. Two of the meetings were held in northern California and Dallas, and more than 300 Korean-Americans committed to overseas missions service.

"Koreans also are very, very low-maintenance," said Dan Moon, coordinator of Asian-American church-planting with the North American Mission Board. "They are committed, and they want to go whatever the cost."
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>From: Marc van der Woude <mvdwoude@xs4all.nl>

I finished my prayer cycling pilgrimage from Egmond to Echternach. These two places in the Netherlands and Luxemburg are linked by the ministry of the Anglo-Celtic apostle Willibrord who brought the gospel to our lands in the 7th century. I put a little report and some pictures online at http://marcsmessages.blogspot.com/#pilgrimage.
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>http://www.religionjournal.com/printerfriendly.asp?id=238
 

Islamic Sudan Gives Openings to Christianity
As a U.S. pastor develops a relationship with Sudan's president, the events are increasing hope among Sudanese Christians.

Amid a warming of relations between the United States and Sudan, the Islamic government of the African country continues to make extraordinary openings for Christianity.
On May 18, Sudanese national satellite television broadcast a documentary film, "Footsteps of Peace," about Christian-Muslim friendship. Because of its explicit Christian content, "everyone who saw it (in advance) said it would be a miracle if it ever aired," said Gary Kusunoki, pastor of Calvary Chapel-Santa Margarita, Calif., and the film's producer.
Last week, Sudanese President Omar Hassan Bashir agreed to broadcast additional Christian programs, and asked for Kusunoki's input on their content. Bashir also has guaranteed the showing of the Campus Crusade for Christ "Jesus" film on national television in the next few weeks, Kusunoki said. It originally was scheduled to be broadcast May 25 (see religionjournal.com 05/25/03).
Sudanese television is seen throughout the Middle East, reaching millions of Muslims in countries that are officially closed to the gospel.
 

On May 21, a Sudanese court freed Samuel Dobai Amum, an Episcopal pastor, from Soba Prison, near Khartoum. Amum had been imprisoned since April 7 for refusing to tear down his church's building and surrender the land to a Muslim political official, who the court ruled was its rightful owner.
Amum constructed the church on the outskirts of Khartoum before the land was surveyed, and had occupied it since 1987. He is among the 4 million southern Sudanese who have fled to the North to escape decades of civil war and famine. According to Compass Direct, unclaimed land on the outskirts of Khartoum has evolved from camps of displaced squatters into registered plots allotted by the government to individual owners. Land where a mosque has been established is considered community property, which is not the case with Christian churches.
The court offered Amum the option of paying 7 million dinars ($3,700) to secure the building and land in the name of the church, but he did not have the money. He was to have remained in prison indefinitely. Bashir granted Kusunoki permission to visit Soba Prison, where he met with Amum. The Sudanese pastor was freed the next day, after Kusunoki and his ministry team added their personal donations to money already raised by Amum's church, satisfying the court's requirement.
In another development, plans are under way for an American soccer team composed of Christians to play against Sudan's national team in two large stadiums in Sudan Oct. 9-11. The Christian players will be allowed to give their faith testimonies during halftime, Kusunoki told religionjournal.com. The matches are expected to air on national Sudanese television and radio.
Kusunoki heads the aid group Safe Harbor International Relief, which brings emergency food and water to Sudan and educates pastors. Christian proselytizing is illegal in Sudan, but Bashir granted Kusunoki permission to evangelize the people Safe Harbor helps ñ after Kusunoki insisted that the group was going to anyway.
Other humanitarian and relief agencies working in southern Sudan also have reported an improvement in Khartoum's attitude toward humanitarian efforts since peace negotiations began, according to CNSNews.com.
Other than the political forces at work that are warming the relationship between the United States and Sudan, Kusunoki said he doesn't know why he has gained such favor with Bashir. "The only thing I can say is, it's the Lord. The Lord has just opened the doors." He and Bashir have held hours-long "very animated" discussions and debates about Christianity and Islam, and about the role of religion in government. Kusunoki also spoke with several of Khartoum's Islamic leaders during a visit last November.
Sudan's leaders have misconceptions about Americans and Christianity, including the impression that the United States is controlled by a Christian government, Kusunoki said.
Kusunoki is not naive about the Khartoum regime's record of brutality. Sudan's civil war ñ between the Christian and animist South and the Islamic North ñ cost a staggering 2 million lives, and the country gained the reputation as "the world's most violent abuser of the right to freedom of religion and belief," according to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Kusunoki has seen sites of massacres and has watched government helicopter gunships attack civilians, he said. He has testified before the U.S. Congress about atrocities in Sudan.
Kusunoki said he believes that Sudanese Islamic leaders, whose "hearts are darkened" because they lack a relationship with Jesus Christ, are "capable of anything."
In the 1990s, Sudan portrayed itself as a champion of worldwide militant Islam and was branded by the United States as a sponsor of terrorism and a haven for radicals, including Osama bin Laden. In 1998, after al-Qaida terrorists bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the United States bombed a chemical factory in Khartoum, claiming it was being used to manufacture chemical weapons and was linked to bin Laden. Sudan denied the claims.
Sudan is on the U.S. list of nations that sponsor terrorism, a designation that carries economic sanctions. Also listed are Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Syria.
However, after Sept. 11, 2001, Sudan, which had been a possible U.S. target after Afghanistan, gave signs of cooperating with the West. Last October, the government and the rebels signed an interim peace treaty, and U.S.-backed negotiations aimed at ending the conflict are taking place in Kenya. The process has been hindered by sporadic fighting, which has been blamed on both sides. A report last month by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom detailed violations to the treaty, including attacks on civilian targets.
Sudan's actions toward Kusunoki are part of a larger "show of good faith" intended to help push the peace process forward, said Ken Tamplin, the musician who did the soundtrack for "Footsteps of Peace."
Kusunoki, who is Asian-American, also has family ties to Sudan, since he and his wife adopted two of their five daughters from the East African country. One of the girls, a 9-month-old orphan, weighed 6 pounds and was so ill that she was not expected to live to the end of the day. The other had been shot in the leg while fleeing soldiers who had just "shot down her entire family in cold blood in front of her," he said. The girl was taken to a hospital in Kenya, where orthopedists found that the 4 inches of bone that had been shot away had grown back, an occurrence the doctors described as miraculous. Both girls are doing well in the United States.
The openings for Christianity are "things that have never happened before in the history of Sudan," Kusunoki said. The airing of "Footsteps of Peace" has caused a groundswell of hope among Christians in northern Sudan. "They thought American Christians forgot about them. We haven't forgotten." Christians from the South who have fled to the North constitute 15 percent of the population of Khartoum.
Kusunoki said he will continue pursuing opportunities in Sudan. "The main thing for me is that God gets the glory," he said. "Our only qualification is that we're fools, and that God uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise."    
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>From: Usprayercenter@cs.com

Robert, our son, and I have just returned from India where we had some amazing experiences! At a conference where they hoped for 200, there were 450! It was the first of its kind in this area. We were told that 300 of them were saved during the conference. Those 300 were counseled by pastors during an all day discipleship session. Of them, it was concluded that 155 were ready to be baptized. Of them, 60 were baptized on Sunday afternoon in a pond in the city. We also preached the gospel in a jungle village where there are 62 baptized believers in the past five months, the first there in history! We had seven more ladies born again last Sunday night in that village as we shared the gospel. Robert was awesome with his worship leading, teaching, ministries of healing, and compassion. After we left we received the following email from Dr. Tom Johnson, (Indian-American who lives in Houston) our partner:

"Dear Eddie and Robert,
This is to let you know that you left Kharapur at the right time. Police came in search for you at the Hotel Park. You were ahead of them by few hours. Otherwise, the so called authorities would have unnecessarily harassed you. I really thank God for His protection. It seems that a secret police officer attended our Sunday service. Some of the evangelists were questioned. Pastor Chackravorty had many calls from the authorities. The whole community including Hindu extremists came to know about our activities. Please pray for the protection of Pastor C. and his family. “

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Also, our new book Spiritual Housecleaning is really selling well. Apparently, the best start of any book we've ever released. Amazon.com lists books by their sales numbers. Last week we saw it go from number 2,000,000+ to number 331 in two weeks! It's still hovering in the low thousands! We are amazed. There are some truly challenging teachings in this book, not the least of which is on the crucifix (the Catholic cross with the dead body of Jesus on it). It is raising many questions, for which we are delighted. But we are also sensing a personal/family spiritual assault as a result.

We certainly thank God daily for your faithfulness to pray for us and our family. We are having many wonderful victories in our own individual lives and the relationships within our family. For that we are truly grateful. Please continue to pray God's protection and provision over us.

Thank you so very much. Alice sends her love!
Blessings!  Eddie Smith, US Prayer Center
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>From: <paulosekv@eth.net>

Dear Rev.Phil Miglioratti,

 Greetings to you from India in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you so much for your prayer and love. WE LOVE YOU AND PRAYING FOR YOU. How are you? How is your family? How is your ministry? Kindly say hello to your family and other members of your church. May the Lord bless you and provide you good health. How is your prayer group? God will give you strength to lead His people. May the Lord bless you and use you more in coming days. Now I am having 21 days fasting prayer. I need to see Gods direction in our ministry, God’s presence in our ministry and Gods protection as we serve Him. We have lot of needs for the ministry I need to see God is providing our needs. I need to see the old age home and street children ministry to come to pass. When you are coming to India you are welcome our house and ministry. Remember you have Navajeevan Dhara family in India praying for you daily.

By the grace of God we all are fine and doing well. My family and team brothers give their regards to you. Our music team had very good time in prison ministry. We visited more than 74 prisons. Our music team will be visiting Maharashtra villages in coming four months. We like to produce few more cassettes in coming days. We started the village ministry, as you know it is growing. Now we have seven-village prayer group. In July we are going to have four more workers for the villages, they are from Maharashtra. Coming days we are having many meetings in villages.  We see many village people are coming to worship service we need to take few more workers to the villages we need your prayer. Now the rain started going to villages is hard so we like to keep two workers in villages so they will be able to do more ministries around the villages. We ask you, your family, your prayer group and your church to prayer for us. Kindly pray for our up coming meetings. September 2nd to 4th pastors meetings, 6th to 8th ladies meetings, 9th children meetings and 11th youth meetings. All this meetings are in Aurangabad. Let us win India for Christ. September 20th I am going to Nigeria and Kenya for twenty days meetings. End of October and November I will be visiting U S A. If you can arrange any kinds of meetings for me then let me know. I will be able to give you the date soon. I am a missionary in North India since twenty-two years. May the Lord help us to meet together with His plan and in His time. Kindly write and share about you so we can pray together.

I can do all things through Christ which strengthneth me.  Philippians : 4.19

Yours in Christ,Rev. Paul Varghese,
NAVAJEEVAN DHARA, 59, FAISAL MANSION, SANTHIPURA, NADANVAN ROAD, AURANGABD, 431002, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA.     Email: - paulosekv@eth.net    
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>From: Friday Fax <FridayFax@bufton.net>

    Three youths committed suicide by jumping from the 78 meter high Göltzschtalbrücke  at the end of August 2001, starting a sad series of suicides in eastern Germany's Vogtland region. More and more people jumped, in a form of 'suicide tourism'. The bridge became known as 'Death Bridge', according to the Bild newspaper. In August 2002, local Christians started praying against this obviously demonic trend. They prayed nonstop for five months that the bridge would no longer be a place where people sought death. "The Christians also prayed for the Police and border guards performing their difficult jobs, and that God would position angels to prevent people jumping... Between May and September 2002, sixteen people wanted to put an end to their life by jumping from the bridge - but were unable! Many of them said 'I had made up my mind to jump, but for some reason, I couldn't do it!' In August 2002, another two people jumped, probably Satanists, but the local Christians were not discouraged. More people joined for prayer on the bridge than in the churches," report Thomas and Uta Hascher from Reichenbach's Jesus Church.
    Source: Josua Bote (Joshua News) missionswerkjosua@t-online.de

To subscribe, send a message with the subject subscribe English to fridayfax@bufton.net.
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>From: Marc van der Woude <MarcvanderWoude@XC.Org>

Helene Bos of Holland-based ministry Serving the Nations, published a global strategic prayer focus for children in which she describes a number of satan's strategies for killing and harming children at an early age. This prophetic research article can be retrieved by sending an e-mail to lyris@xc.org with only this command in the body of your mail:
    get joel-news-international bos-children-of-the-world

Source: Serving the Nations
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>From: "ANS Story" <ANS_Story@sheperd.com>

A prayer event held on Saturday June 28 drew hundreds of people to pray for the oppressed people of North Korea.

Some 300 people went to the event held in Westminster Chapel, London, England, and were encouraged to pray in an opening address by Joel Edwards, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance UK.

CSW initiated the week of prayer in partnership with Release International, Open Doors UK, Jubilee Campaign and Asialink. The Hanbeet Korean Choir performed songs and several Korean Church leaders and Christians led  prayers.

People were encouraged to pray in small groups, to put prayer stickers on a map of North Korea, to write prayers against specific violations of religious freedom and even to spend a short time in a tiny cage remembering more than 100,000 people held in prison camps inside North Korea. Video clips, a CD-Rom and music led by Dave Bilbrough all supported the prayer focus.

Gerald Coates, Team Leader of Pioneer Trust, Julie Anderson, Roger Forster and Eddie Lyle, Executive Director of Release International all led prayers for the persecuted Church in North Korea.

Resources such as a video, CD-Rom and the CSW North Korea country report were available for people to take away and use for future prayer meetings and people were encouraged to sign a petition to the UN High Commission for Human Rights calling for an end to the widespread human rights abuses in North Korea. There were also stands staffed by representatives from Release International, Open Doors and Jubilee Campaign.

Similar events were held in Glasgow, Swansea, Lisburn, Sutton Coldfield, Richmond in Surrey, Raynes Park in London, Birmingham and Bawtry. Prayer meetings focusing on North Korea were also held in Seoul, Zurich and Los Angeles.

Churches across the UK were encouraged to remember the people of North Korea in their prayers during the week.

Mervyn Thomas, Chief Executive of CSW, said: "It was really encouraging to see so many people committed to praying for North Korea. It was also a privilege to work in partnership with other agencies and with the South Korean churches in the UK. We have faith that God will hear our united prayers and that we will see release for the suffering and oppressed people of North Korea."

For more information or pictures of the event, please contact Richard Chilvers, Communications Manager, by email at richard.chilvers@csw.org.uk  or visit www.csw.org.uk 

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>From: matthew offiah <mattsalvaoffiah1@yahoo.com>

thanks for your kind reply .belived ministery  is going on well . our next programme will be in accra by his grace s
Dear brother phil,
                      Greetings in jesus name eptember 2003 .
     
POSSESSIONS CONFRENCE
youth leadership training campaing confrence held at redeemed christain churh of God Broadway house igbala songo otta ogun state Nigeria on the 25th to 26th april 2003.
 
RESPONDING TO THE GRATE NEED OF THE HOUR.
An ideal took in our burden were for the young people mostly for christain youth to be encourage in there faith , stirred to the deeper commitment , in there work with God , it was encourage to see young people and older ones profiting from the same ministery .
    The key message was delivered by Mrs Elizebith .N. AJANYA youth / programme officer of the bible society of Nigeria .Bros Tobi Ebore 2002 Executive vice president junior chamber international .in additional there was semminar on a variety of topics, focusing on skills development , leadership style responsibility and accountabilty .discousion on developing christain leaders at work/ministery , understanding the process to settle goals that works in life vs business with Elder David Opasanya Director Managing business for christ , was held and communique presented .also trans visional leadership discussion and sugestion in developing christain youth leaders getting young people involved in mission by representative of professor Mike Jacob , Global mission Reach organaisation psator Mrs Sarah Sawonuga , who supposed addressed the youth on values and H.I.V but due to some tight scheldle the topic was postponed to the next programme .
   partispant were pleased with the conffrence and the overall , and feed back was possitive to the Glory of God .
  We trust the lord will used such conffrencec to help belivevers grow as leaders with characters , vission fairness , honesty of heart ,intengrety faithful stewwardship and true accountantbility.
     MATTHEW OFFIAH
     cordinator.
  
COMING EVENT CHRISTAIN LEADERSHIP SUMMIT ACCRA -GHANA SEPTEMBER 2003.
 
details will be sent to you soon till i here from you .
 
BLESSINGS, MATTHEW.
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