Posts Tagged ‘Church planting’

FIRST TO READ: FIRST TO BELIEVE

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Lisa shows her new readers Scripture portions

Lisa shows her new readers Scripture portions

Literacy Graduates

“He did it! I’m privileged to be a vessel God used, but He gets the glory!” Lisa Kappeler praised. Yes, God is at work among the Uriai.

The village was abuzz with excitement and anticipation. Seven months of diligent teaching, amidst interruptions, arguments and jesting, cumulated in 20 grinning students who stood proudly to receive their literacy certificates. They are the first in their line of descendents to read their own language!

Impulsively hugged by the shyest student, praised in public by the village leader, Lisa (more…)

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“AWAYO” The Video That Silenced 700 Students

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

“Amazing! In a group of 700 college students, you could hear a pin drop.

We showed “AWAYO” at our Reality Conference and you could have heard a pin drop. I asked a student last night what she thought of your video and that was her response. You didn’t hear anyone talking for a full five minutes afterwards. Your video shook them with the reality of the lost people of the world. Our speaker who spoke right after your video was at a loss for words. All he could say was “Wow!”

Bob Walz
The Navigators

In the remote corners of the world, people groups have existed for generations.
They live in fear of the spirits.
They die without hope.
This is Awayo’s story.

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A Rooster’s Last Crow: Sophie Mueller

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Sophie Teaching LadiesHave you ever thought about the spiritual battles that missionaries face when ministering in primitive locations to tribal people groups?   Or, even the threat of physical harm?

Spiritual battles and physical harm were no strangers to itinerant missionary Sophie Mueller in the 1950’s as she traveled from village to village nestled along the banks of the tributaries in the upper Amazon River basin.  Sophie would arrive in a village and tell the people that she was sent from the God of Creation to teach them the way to heaven.  Some listened but many were skeptical.

One such man thought, ‘Well, if Sophie really was sent here by God, then she will not die if I feed her poison.’  Wanting to make sure his ‘test’ was certain to be ‘supernatural’ he put enough poison into her food to kill 5 men!     (more…)

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Would a Believer Really Do That?

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Carolyn Crockett holds the Moi baby.A Moi man — a believer — tried to kill his infant daughter. He decided she was a result of his wife’s adultery, even though there’s no evidence his wife committed adultery. And in the Mois’ traditional ways, that makes it OK to kill the girl.
You may be stunned. Perhaps you’re thinking, “How could a believer do that?”
I wasn’t stunned by that. And not just because I’ve been to that Moi village and met that man. You really shouldn’t be stunned either.
All around us, people who profess the name of Christ do things that Scripture says are wrong, simply because our culture says they’re OK. Yeah, those other people are really messing up, aren’t they? You and I never do anything like that, right?
But I was stunned by what happened later, and I shouldn’t have been.  (more…)

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