The Community Garden

Cherlyn, Cherlyn, whose loam is merry land, how does Discoveryʼs garden grow?

Close your eyes and imagine... Our property on 144th... 15 (8 ft. x 8 ft.) garden plots... 3 (4ft. x 4 ft.) plots. Each plot tended by a Discovery family growing spring, summer and fall vegetables - peas, onions, carrots, tomatoes, beans, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, broccoli, zucchini and more. Two big community plots, 10ft. x 60ft., sprouting food for anyone in the community needing fresh veggies but finding it unaffordable.

Cherlyn Morin is a southern Illinois farm girl who grew up with gardening.

I couldn't stand store tomatoes. Iʼm in heaven when Iʼm in a garden.

Cherlyn went to CSU graduating with a marketing degree. She and Eric were looking for a church when they received a Discovery mailer eight years ago and began attending.

I grew up in a Church of God and did what you do in a church family. I decided to follow Jesus Christ when I was 12. It became personal then, but it was easier because of my family influences. When Eric died, it was more difficult. I had to choose to follow Christ.

How does the Community Garden work?

There are eighteen plots for family gardening. Seventeen of them are reserved. We charge a fee ($40 for the larger, $25 for the smaller plots) which goes for fencing, developing paths and amendments for the community plots. We ask each family to contribute 10% of their produce to the Food Bank. Families are responsible to plant and care for their own gardens. Along with other volunteers, they care for the two large community plots. We give the produce from the community gardens to food banks.

What about the person who has no gardening experience but would like to help?

Weʼll show you what to do. Itʼs not hard to learn. Weʼll teach you to plant, weed, cultivate and water. Weʼll show you the difference between a vegetable and a weed.

Where do we get the water?

A wonderful neighbor, Denise OʼConnor, has graciously allowed us to use her water. There is no sprinkler system. Our people stand with a hose and water the veggies.

When does this start?

May 23 is planting day. Beginning at 2:00 p.m. weʼll put out the vegetables and finish by sharing a tailgate meal. Kids are welcome. They can work too. Harvest begins last of July and goes through October. That's the fun stuff.

"We want to hear the faith stories of first generation Christians."

The Romanian communist government was no match for Adiel Brasov’s mother who found it impossible to feed her 11 children. She knew that bureaucracies give in to power – unyielding persistence – and they eventually granted the family permission to immigrate to California.

Laura was born in Baltimore Maryland and moved with her parents and one sister to Southern California when her father began teaching at USC.

Romania and Southern Cal. How did you two meet?

We were both freshmen at USC and active in Campus Crusade for Christ. We didn’t start dating until we were seniors.

When did you decide to follow Jesus Christ?

Adiel: I was six. We worshipped in an evangelical church in Romania. On a family trip to another church, I heard the invitation to trust Jesus as meant especially for me. I gave my life to Christ that Sunday, July 1977. It absorbed me entirely.

Laura: I grew up in a very conservative Lutheran church. I made a commitment to Jesus when I was 14. I had no clue what this meant for daily living.

Significance of college years?

Adiel: I studied under Dallas Willard who was a great influence in my life. Campus Crusade was the right environment to help me mature.

Laura: Campus Crusade was an atmosphere of faith for my early adult years. When we started dating, we decided to go on a mission trip with CCC. I went to Lithuania and Adiel went to Albania.

Adiel: That’s where I met Ylli and Nikki Doci. I became Ylli’s mentor and we’ve continued a life-long friendship. Ylli is the National Director for Campus Crusade for Christ in Albania.

Life got tough soon after college. What happened?

Laura: We were married in ‘95 and moved to St. Louis in ‘96 so Adiel could teach at the University and pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy.

Adiel: I became disenchanted with university politics and decided that teaching at a university was not my calling.

Laura: I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2001. Four surgeries and two rounds of radiation launched us on a two-year emotional/spiritual roller coaster. It was hard to have hope.

Adiel: We came to Denver for mountain encouragement.

What refreshes your spirit?

Laura: Godly people pouring themselves into me, relational ministry, Bible studies, transparent people who share what God is teaching them. Oh, yes, trials.

Adiel: Reading, time alone (I’m reflective), the mountains, breaking the spell of business, good conversation with lots of laughter.

You are leading 31 adults and children on a two-week mission trip to Albania. Describe your hopes.

Adiel: I want the people to get connected with Ylli, Nikki and their work there. I still think I can influence people in Albania. We’d like to influence political and business domains for the Kingdom of God. I pray that Albanians will influence other nations in the same way.

Laura: We want our children to experience mission trips.

Adiel: We want to hear the faith stories of first generation Christians

"Learning how to be good stewards of what God gave us."

Ben and Nathalie Klopfenstein agreed to eliminate their credit card debt before their wedding, but still brought thousands of dollars in student loan debt into their marriage. Ben works in IT for an accounting firm and is a full time student. Nathalie is a biologist for a biotech company. They enrolled in the 13-week Financial Peace University course designed by Dave Ramsey. In the 12 months since entering the program they have eliminated all of Nathalie’s student loans.

What surprised them about the FPU program? “The power of compound interest,” says Ben. “The cash envelope system and the process for eliminating debt,” observed Nathalie.

How are they better off for getting involved in a formal financial program?

“Financial management is now the strongest part of our marriage. Sticking to a budget has made us a team. The security of having an emergency fund is both a game changer and an attitude changer. We paid off college loans much quicker.”

It’s been a tough year for many families. What do you say to families who believe they are too “broke” to have anything to manage?

Ben: “Most people have some kind of resources. When we manage a little bit well, it usually brings more and that can turn the tide. The principles Dave Ramsey teaches will help people in crisis. It takes being willing to give something up to get something better.”

So why are they going through the program a second time?

“We wanted a refresher. It also gave us a chance to help facilitate. This is a matter of learning how to be good stewards of what God gave us”

Ben and Nathalie will be attending the Financial Peace University Simulcast on March 13 from 1-6 at the Aspen Creek School 5500 Aspen Creek Drive, hosted by the Discovery Christian Church. The cost is $10. Information: discovery-church.org or 303-885-2781.

Adiel & Laura Brasov

The Romanian communist government was no match for Adiel Brasov’s mother who found it impossible to feed her 11 children. She knew that bureaucracies give in to power – unyielding persistence – and they eventually granted the family permission to immigrate to California.

Laura was born in Baltimore Maryland and moved with her parents and one sister to Southern California when her father began teaching at USC.

Romania and Southern Cal. How did you two meet?

We were both freshmen at USC and active in Campus Crusade for Christ. We didn’t start dating until we were seniors.

When did you decide to follow Jesus Christ?

Adiel: I was six. We worshipped in an evangelical church in Romania. On a family trip to another church, I heard the invitation to trust Jesus as meant especially for me. I gave my life to Christ that Sunday, July 1977. It absorbed me entirely.

Laura: I grew up in a very conservative Lutheran church. I made a commitment to Jesus when I was 14. I had no clue what this meant for daily living.

Significance of college years?

Adiel: I studied under Dallas Willard who was a great influence in my life. Campus Crusade was the right environment to help me mature.

Laura: Campus Crusade was an atmosphere of faith for my early adult years. When we started dating, we decided to go on a mission trip with CCC. I went to Lithuania and Adiel went to Albania.

Adiel: That’s where I met Ylli and Nikki Doci. I became Ylli’s mentor and we’ve continued a life-long friendship. Ylli is the National Director for Campus Crusade for Christ in Albania.

Life got tough soon after college. What happened?

Laura: We were married in ‘95 and moved to St. Louis in ‘96 so Adiel could teach at the University and pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy.

Adiel: I became disenchanted with university politics and decided that teaching at a university was not my calling.

Laura: I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2001. Four surgeries and two rounds of radiation launched us on a two-year emotional/spiritual roller coaster. It was hard to have hope.

Adiel: We came to Denver for mountain encouragement.

What refreshes your spirit?

Laura: Godly people pouring themselves into me, relational ministry, Bible studies, transparent people who share what God is teaching them. Oh, yes, trials.

Adiel: Reading, time alone (I’m reflective), the mountains, breaking the spell of business, good conversation with lots of laughter.

You are leading 31 adults and children on a two-week mission trip to Albania. Describe your hopes.

Adiel: I want the people to get connected with Ylli, Nikki and their work there. I still think I can influence people in Albania. We’d like to influence political and business domains for the Kingdom of God. I pray that Albanians will influence other nations in the same way.

Laura: We want our children to experience mission trips.

Adiel: We want to hear the faith stories of first generation Christians

“By the grace of God, I am what I am”

Chris & Beth Cuilla

They met when Beth hired Chris to work in a men’s clothing store while he was attending Northern Illinois University. They later married and moved to Colorado when Chris, a software engineer got a job offer. Katlyn and Erika complete their family.

When did you decide to follow Jesus Christ?

Chris: During my college years, I rebelled against my conservative Lutheran background. Our move to Denver introduced me to Tom, a Christian co-worker. Over time he coached/mentored me to begin a spiritual walk. Meanwhile Katlyn was asking questions about church. We started attending Riverside Baptist Church.

Beth: I was skeptical and thought Chris was going off the deep end. My grandparents had a strong faith and I had warm memories of them even as a toddler. But my father was anti-church and my family had a bad experience with judgmental attitudes, so we didn’t attend church. When Chris was starting his spiritual journey, we saw the late Reggie White, NFL Defensive End, speak of playing while injured. He said, “I’ve prayed about it and God said it would be fine.” Chris said, “Maybe there is something to this God stuff.”

Chris: I committed my life to Christ in a restaurant.”

Beth: I could sense the Holy Spirit’s presence that night. I committed my life to Jesus the following Sunday. We were both baptized soon after.

What brought you to Discovery Church?

Beth: A yellow mailer with a classic Cadillac on it convinced us Discovery must be a different sort of Church.

What is appealing about the church?

Both: It vibes authenticity and sincerity. It is centered on the person of Jesus Christ. They have respect for everyone’s distinct experience/journey to a relationship with God.

What’s difficult in the Christian life?

Beth: Everything! Rearing children to have a life and faith of their own.

Chris: Developing ways to serve God as a software engineer.

How do you keep yourselves refreshed?

Chris: Writing new software. When I’m creative, maybe I’m participating with God in the creative process.

Beth: I’m refreshed when I enjoy my marriage.

What advice would you offer to new Christians?

Chris: Continue to get close to people for mutual support. Be yourself. You are wired in a special way.

Beth: We must teach our children to look at themselves as a marvel. They are unique and must respect differences in others.

What is your favorite Scripture?

Chris: Proverbs 3:5,6 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart….”

Beth: 1 Corinthians 15:10 – “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.”

"Lovin' People"

Jakob and Robbin Brown

What’s the goofiest thing you did in the past year?

Jakob: “I met Robbin, got engaged, married all in less than a year.”

Robbin: “That’s not goofy.”

Jakob: “It’s not goofy, just fast for me.”

Meet Jakob and Robbin Brown. Jake is the Middle School Ministry Director at Discovery Church. They are in their first year of marriage and wise beyond their years. Jakob grew up in Thornton in a family of four. He attended CSU and will be finishing at Metro State. Robbin grew up in Englewood and Thornton in a family of five. She attended Nyack College in New York and finished at Metro State.

When did you decide to follow Jesus Christ?

Jakob: “No one in my immediate family is Christian. A mentoring couple who was part of a STARS program influenced me. One Sunday they took me to Flatirons Community Church. I gave my life to Christ three days later.”

Robbin: “I grew up in a Christian home. My father was the lead Pastor of the Northern Hills Christian Church. I thought the Bible made some sense and I wanted to follow Christ. I was baptized at age nine. We went on an inner city mission trip to New York when I was 12. I rededicated my life and have been on mission trips most summers since that time.”

Jakob’s role at Discovery is part time.

Tell us about your other Job, Jake.

“I work at GOALS, a non-profit organization helping high-risk kids from generally low-income families get through the teen years as healthy adults. We use incentives to help train students to mentor other students.”

Robbin, where do you work?

“I’m a Ministry Advancement Administrator for Dare to Share Ministries. We train students during weekend retreats to share their faith.”

What is your vision for Middle School kids?

Jakob: “Three things:

Ø We want to mentor them. One-on-one mentoring changed my life. Kids need stable adult influence in addition to their parents.

Ø We want to challenge them to think about their faith. Examine what they believe.

Ø We want to challenge them to develop the way they express their faith.

Where do you see yourself in ten years?

Jakob: “I want to do full-time youth ministry in a local church.”

Robbin: “I’d love to work with the whole family unit including kids.”

How do you keep yourselves refreshed?

Robbin: “I love movies and I love being with friends.”

Jakob: “Watching sports with friends. Hanging out with friends. Talking online with friends. I like to read. John Eldridge’s book The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We Only Dreamed Of fascinates me.”

Holy desire: Our ancient passion for God. Lovin’ people.

I want to help people be the best they can be in God's eyes.

Scott Sullivan is no stranger to Colorado or to churches. Born in Loveland and reared in Colorado Springs, he grew up in Methodist and Nazarene churches. He is the second of four children.

When did you decide follow Jesus Christ?

I was in Jr. High and my friend Troy attended a church with a youth group that was more active than mine. I started going with him and they talked often of Jesus Christ and salvation. It was through his influence that I chose to follow Jesus. It was a social decision at first, but deepened the more I attended, studied and was mentored. It led to my choice of Olivet Nazarene College in Illinois.

Did you graduate there?

Oh no, I came home and then went to Southwest Baptist University in Missouri hoping to get into their physical therapy program. However, I always loved music, especially composing. So, I moved to Nashville hoping to break into the music scene. I wrote for some groups and did some demos. I got homesick and decided to come back to Colorado. I really felt as if God was telling me to stay in Nashville. It's the only time I consciously made a life choice that conflicted with God's direction for me. So I returned to what was easy – the restaurant business. I started leading worship services at Pathways Church in Denver.

How did you meet Angie?

Pathways Church. She walked into one of our young adult worship services one night and I was immediately attracted. We dated, were engaged in six months and married seven months after that.

Scott, you've been through a 10-year ordeal of terminal liver disease that culminated in a liver transplant last summer. You and Angie knew the risks when you married. Tell us about that journey.

I don't think God gave me liver disease. I think he used it to make us stronger. When you are newly in love, some things go over your head. They are not an immediate concern. It's when the doctor says, “We need to get you a liver, you could die any day,” that things change. You hug your children and your wife tighter. You treasure friendships, family and real relationships. Other things you spent your life collecting start to fade. It changed our focus which led to our next step.

You are a recent addition to the Discovery staff with intern responsibilities in Music and Discipleship. Describe your call to ministry.

Angie and I developed a formal life plan, determining where God has been developing my gifts. I love to develop experiences that can draw other people to Christ. Whether in music, speaking or men's ministry, I want to help people be the best they can be in God's eyes.

Let's Party!

Jack Paul has been working in the hospitality industry for years. He is the General Manager of Doubletree Denver North Hotel and understands the needs of his guests. Our impending move to the Arabian Horse Center will offer a whole new environment in which to welcome and serve people.

What will happen when I walk in the front door of the Center?

The Arabian Horse Center gives us a new opportunity to design the interior for welcome, worship and classes. Along with this we plan to alter the way we greet guests by making it warmer. This can be done with colors and general design of the areas we use. We'd like our greeters to meet our guests and escort them to worship, even sitting with them if it is appropriate. Wouldn't it be great to have kids escort kids to Kid's Quest? It is the personal attention that has been the mark of people who love.

Explain the “10-Minute Party.”

The goal is to help our guests make a lasting connection with people at Discovery. Guests will join our volunteers representing different demographic groups (20-somethings, families, empty-nesters) in an adjacent room for 10 minutes after our worship service where they will have, music, home-made snacks (cookies, rolls) and -- “party.” We will meet guests, find out about them and answer questions about our church and her programs. It will be an opportunity to hear their needs and offer direction or assistance. These are conversations that can develop into friendships. We plan for our hosts to distribute information cards with their own name and phone number. It is a focused effort to start something lasting with people. They will have a person or a face as a friend. Discovery is more than a church – it is a community.

"We were looking for a church that takes transformation seriously."

Transformed. Global.

After a summer at the South Pole during college, Greg Loring was assigned to work in Denver. Worshipping at Littleton Bible Chapel he met Renae, a UNC graduate and school teacher who was going to Ecuador to teach in a mission school. They first dated on Memorial Day. She left for South America on July 18^th. They were married on July 19^th the following year.

When did you become a Christ follower?

Greg: As a high school freshman I went with my parents to an Amway motivational weekend seminar. Inspired by a former Baptist minister on Sunday I made a commitment during an altar call. The first person I told was my Dad.

Renae: I made a commitment to Christ when I was 5. My Christian parents nurtured me. I struggled with my faith in high school and during my freshman year in college.

God delayed my longstanding prayer for a mentor until my sophomore year. Then many women came into my life to encourage and help me define what faith means. They confirmed my gift for women’s work and suggested I learn about mentoring. I eventually was put in charge of the women’s mentoring program at Grace Chapel. It was as if God had provided mentors for my life and was now saying, “You do it.”

What brought you to Discovery Church?

Greg: The drive to our old church from Thornton was long and our children needed a fresh program.

Renae: We were taking classes in Spiritual Formation at Denver Seminary and met Tim Daly who invited us.

What do you like about Discovery?

Renae: The children’s program really met our kid’s needs.

Greg: Our life group is important. We share a commitment to live life together with them.

Renae: We love watching God do amazing things in people’s lives. We love Steve and Lisa.

How has your faith fleshed out in service at Discovery?

Renae: The children’s department and women’s ministry have been important.

Greg: I’ve helped usher. We’ve hosted Life Groups.

You supervise the Global Partners program. Tell me about it.

Renae: Dan Reich helped get it going. We select an advocate for each of our global partners. They bring the heart and life of the mission field to Discovery and convey the heart and life of our church to our global partner. It’s important because this is the heartbeat of God for all nations.

Greg: We’d love to involve families – our children’s ministry – in this. We’d like to do family mission trips.

We were looking for a church that takes transformation seriously. We’ve got to be different – growing in character and connection to Christ. We learned that we are “transformed together” through community. That’s Discovery Church.

Prayers for Discovery Church and Our Global Partners

Discovery Church Prayers

1. That God will continue to burden us with people who are: outsiders, deeply broken, unchurched, and that God would use us to be His hands and feet to these people.

2. For our location plans; that God would lead and provide as we move to Arabian and then to our land. Part of this is prayer for wisdom about selling some land to fund our building plans.

3. Prayers for the people in our church in need of healing, comfort and peace.

4. Prayer for our leadership team and staff - that we would listen to God, have the courage to follow God's direction

5. Prayer that God would use our community with each other in study of His word and service to shape our hearts and grow our faith.

From Ylli and Nikki Docci in Albania

1. Praise God for the 103 Albanian staff that serve with us. Pray for unity and healthy relationships among us all.

2. Pray for each of the teams as they plan this month for their respective ministries for the '09-'10 school year (grade schools start Sept 15. University starts 0ctober 1st).

3. Pray for godly marriages among our staff that will shine the light of Christ to Albania.

4. Pray for the staff wives who will be going through the book The New Dare to Discipline. Pray for application of what we learn (there are 40 children among our staff, all under the age of 11).

5. Pray for our family - wisdom for Ylli as he leads this growing ministry, that we will minister out of our love relationship for God, that God will protect us and our children. Pray for His peace to reign in our hearts and in our home.

6. Pray for preparation for the Josh McDowell outreaches Oct. 21-25. Pray that many students, parents and politicians will come to Christ as a result of Josh's week here!

Praise God for wonderful people like you who partner with us financially and prayerfully.

Aaron Carmichael in China

1. Motivation for language acquisition

2. Divine gifting for the ability to learn Chinese

3. Staying connected to his old students/relationships built in previous years

4. Continued partnership with other Christian teams and Chinese Christian leader (house churches, college ministries, etc.)

a. to be able to be an encouragement to these people

b. to be a resource to them

c. to be a support to them

5. Transition from being on a 24/7 Christian team to a potentially more isolating "independent" missionary .

Dan and Christie Reich in Paraguay

For their family:

Encouragement and prayers for continuing to do both Paraguayan school and home school, though it is more and more overwhelming for Christie. The last two weeks were weeks of exams (even elementary schoolers have to take EXAMS, these tests where they have to study what they copied into their little notebooks and be ready to reproduce it. The hardest tests have been (not surprisingly) Guarani, but others were challenging too. Some days instead of home school, Christie helped the boys study their Paraguayan school stuff. We so like being part of the school and this year Christie is the parent council Treasurer... the school year will be winding down in a couple of months, ending end of November or so.

Praises....

1. For believers who are trying to win their families.

2. For numerical growth in Bible studies and on Sundays.

3. For good health.

4. For the boys doing great in both schools.

Prayer requests...

1. Complete restoration for a 20-something single girl Christian who got pregnant and then had an abortion... in her admitting her failure she is struggling to feel forgiven. We are sticking with her and we think she is sincere in her repentance but unable to accept herself and believe that God will accept her.

2. For believers to not only learn God's word and put it into practice, but to be so impacted by Jesus that they teach others what they are learning as well. Pray they would be like Ezra: (Ezra 7:10) ...Ezra had determined to study and obey the law of the Lord and to teach those laws and regulations to the people of Israel.

3. For us to hear from God what is most important for each day, to be able to plan ahead while remaining flexible to the Holy Spirit. That even though we as missionaries are doing many things, that the way we do them and the way we structure church ministries will make them "batons" that can be passed to different believers and effectively carried by them... so that when we leave for another home assignment in 2 years, they truly will be carrying the batons and we will leave a ministry that functions and keeps growing without us. For true conversion, not just superficial acquiescence to a different religion but a heartfelt, grateful faith that is aware of personal sin, repentant, joyfully receptive of salvation as a free gift, and totally committed to living out what Christ teaches.

The 10/10 Project

(Denver based non-profit addresses systemic global poverty by creating awareness, initiating action, and ultimately encouraging participants to become activists on behalf of the global poor.)

Praises

Michael Nyangi was the victim of a carjacking. He is safe and unscathed, though you can see from his email that is a major blessing from God:

It was on Tuesday 11th at 7pm when I arrived at my place of stay in Ayany at the parking yard. Immediately I switched off the engine of my car, then a group of 3 armed men came pointing me with the gun. They forced me to re-start the engine of the car for them and they sped off with me sitting at the back seat. My face was covered and I never new what was taking place. The watchman managed to escape, he informed the police and at 10pm the police manage to track the car. One funny thing is that the police opened live bullet not knowing that I was inside.

The thugs run away leaving me as a victim. I thank God because I was not hit by the spraying bullet, though the car was seriously damaged and two innocent people were also hit by the spraying bullet. One of them died after two days. None of the thugs were arrested, all escaped unhurt. I went to the hospital for first aid and I proceeded for an x-ray the following day. I was hit by splashing wind screen on the face and the head. I thanks God for having saved my life I'm doing well now and continuing with the work of breaking the cycle of poverty. The story is very sad indeed and I find it difficult to explain how I came out safe.

Pray for a Computer lab for Candlelight

We have a very important fundraising campaign ending on September 18th for a computer lab at Candlelight school. It is important for several reasons.

• First off, it will provide primary school students with essential computer skills that will empower their educational and vocational future. For each of the 307 kids, this will be their first time using a computer or the internet! How exciting
• Secondly, this is our pilot project on Global Giving, which is an online marketplace for projects like ours. If we reach $4000 from 50 donors we get a permanent spot. This would be a major blessing for us. It would give us access to whole new circles of donors for our future projects. We are a bit behind on meeting that goal, only 25% of the way there. So if you could bring up this need for prayer and consideration, visit http://globalgiving.com/3695 to find out more and support the project.

Fred and Alice in Kenya

Much greetings from us here in Kenya. We are all doing fine as we continue spreading the Gospel and minister to the children God has entrusted on our care. I had gone for a prayer and fasting about a month ago and felt a great challenge from God. My prayer was based on the prayer of Jabez 1 Chronicles 4:10, 'Jabez cried out to the God of Israel: “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request.

Before going to pray I felt I had so many things and wanted to relinquish some of them but as I was praying I found asking God for more opportunities for service and His kingdom.

Recently I went to the police cells and some of the prisoners asked for prayers. When they were released they went talking about the way they saw Christ face by face. Since then I decided to embark on preaching every week from Wednesday to Saturday night.

I started by preaching in Matopeni and the following week we went to Njiru and have been interchanging just like that and surely we have seen God moving. I did not think I could do well preaching in crusades but God has given me the grace for that work. The only challenge I am facing is to have good public address system so I cannot strain when preaching and to have to voice reach out to many. Pray with us that we shall get good instruments to use. I mainly need four good and strong speakers, a bigger amplifier, a mixer and 4 microphones to help me do the work effectively.

I have also seen God bringing more people our way to be ministered to. I recall a pastor that had once attended my teaching in one of the pastors conference that I was teaching came to invite me visit his church. When we went to this church we found out that all members remove their shoes as they entered the church. John looked at me and asked "Dad, should we also remove our shoes? I told him we were not to remove our shoes so in the whole church it was our family that had shoes on.

It was a tough situation and I wondered what I was to preach in this church, during the worship time God gave me a word to preach about our calling. I started from the time God created Adam, to Abraham's calling, Moses and to when Jesus called the disciples. I talked on how God told Moses to remove the shoes because he was approaching a holy place. I tried to inform them that the shoes Moses was wearing was the sin he had committed and he could not approach a Holy God with sins in his heart.

This again has given me a burden of reaching out to teach pastors with the true gospel. I am so happy that the bishop of the church came with his pastor and has requested I organize training for his pastor. I pray that I become an instrument of change to these pastors so they can stand with the truth in their churches. Pray that we can bring transformation in such churches as we reach out to them.

We admitted an new student in the safe house called Ruth whom we need you pray for. Ruth has come from a very difficult background since her child hood. Her parents passed on when she was still young and from then she has been moving from one guardian to another. Always she says things have been happening when she is with these guardians, maybe death or loose of job and is forced to be taken elsewhere. The last person she was staying with (her brother) passed on two months ago leaving her with no where to go. In the family she says now are left with one more sibling. She has been blaming herself thinking she has a curse. As God has brought her our way we would like her to see God's love on her life.

Everline is another girl we would like you pray for, she last her mother while still young and the father married again. The step mother was not so loving to her, unfortunately the father whom she loved so much passed on early this year. When the father died she wanted to commit suicide and someone brought her to us. She still has not forgotten about her father, we encourage her to know God loves her and has better plans for her.

Pray also for the meetings you will be having when you come over in November, we do pray that you will touch many lives.

Thank you for the invitation to stay at your home when I come. I will be happy to do so, you can arrange with Adam because I believe he will be in charge of that.

Sing to the LORD, praise his name;
proclaim his salvation day after day.

Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous deeds among all peoples. (psalm 96:2-3)

Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in^[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Mathew 28:16-20)

Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.

Sing to him, sing praise to him;
tell of all his wonderful acts.

Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Look to the LORD and his strength;
seek his face always.

Remember the wonders he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced, (psalm 105:1-5)