Romans 12:9-21

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Romans 12:9-21

Romans 12:9-21

1 Corinthians 14

1 Corinthians 14

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dear family and friends,

i am using a german computer loaned to me from an iranian camper…very different keyboard…

one muslin lady repented last night. she had been witnessed to by several people here at the camp and before camp. she lives in a refugee camp. slava bogu.

i have had great conversations with 3 out of the 5 church planters so far who are here and have brought some of their people. ron and mary mariani will stay for 2 more weeks working with these men in their areas. pray about that…street evangelism and visiting refugee camps.

everything is going well. wed and fri we have our normal schedule and thursday we will have an excursion to a local castle.

thank you for prayers. many are considering the truth of the gospel.

do not know how to use the caps of this computer.

love to all,

jim

Praise the Lord, Praise His Holy Name, Praise the Lord

Amen

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What the Bible says about the Gift of Tongues

Good Morning Praying Team,

I noticed this message from Jim as I was about to go to bed and thought you should have it as soon as possible. By the time most of us get up on Friday morning the final event in Petrozavodsk will be underway or finish. Thank and praise God for the “divine appointments” provided and the people who showed interest. Please pray immediately for the Lord to guide and bless the team in their last interactions with the people they met, loved, played with, taught sports and shared the gospel with. Pray that we will leave open hearts for the continued ministry of the new church planter when he arrives.

DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS,

THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAITHFUL PRAYER SUPPORT. WE FEEL IT AND WE NEED IT. HOPEFULLY THE WEATHER WILL GET COOLER ON FRIDAY. THIS IS THE HOTEST weather IN DECADES HERE.

DURING THE CHILDREN’S MIN THIS MORNING, I WITNESSED TO 4 MORE PEOPLE. THEY WERE KIND ENOUGH THE LISTEN BUT NO COMMITTMENTS.I USUALLY SPEND 30-40 MIN WITH EACH PERSON GETTING TO KNOW THEM AND THEN WAITING FOR THE RIGHT MOMENT TO TRANSITION TO THE GOSPEL.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: ERINA – 74 GRANDMA, NASTYA – YOUNG MOTHER WHO DOESN’T KNOW IF THERE IS A GOD, LENA – YOUNG MOTHER, NINA – GRANDMA, INFLUENCED BY THE SALVATION ARMY 15 YRS AGO…NO ASSURANCE OF SALVATION.

TOMORROW IS OUR LAST DAY. WE WILL DO CHILDREN’S MIN IN MORNING AND HAVE A BBQ NEAR THE RIVER CLOSE TO OUR HOUSE FOR THOSE WE HAVE TALKED TO THIS WEEK. PRAY ABOUT THIS.

I HAVE SPENT LOTS OF TIME WITH JULIAN, THE CHURCH PLANTER WHO IS LEAVING PETRO. HE NEEDS HEALING AND ENCOURAGEMENT. I LOVE HIM ALOT! PRAY THAT GOD WOULD LEAD HIM TO A MINISTRY MORE FITTING FOR HIS GIFTS.

THIS IS MY LAST REPORT FROM PETRO. THE TEAM OF 17 HAS BEEN JUST GREAT. EVERYONE HAS WORKED HARD!

SAT. Penelope AND I FLY TO PRAGUE AND PAUL AND DUSTIN FLY TO LONDON, OVERNIGHT THERE AND GET HOME ON SUNDAY NIGHT…THEN TO HUME LAKE TO BE WITH OUR ABF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

YOUR PRAYERS HAVE REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE. PLEASE CONTINUE!!!

LOVE YOU ALL,

JIM

I’ll keep you posted as more travel related news arrives.

IHS

Peter

Good Morning Team,

Another good ministry day in Petro:

DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS,

DURING THE KIDS PROGRAM THIS MORNING, I SHARED THE GOSPEL WITH THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE – Valera (55-man), Nadya (37 mother of 2…not married), Lydia – grandma, Luba – mother of nadya. I clearly shared the gospel with them several times and gave each one a tract. Nadya asked for my email address and I gave her my card. Please Pray hard!!! that the seed of the gospel will take root.

Three young peope we met last year from here have decided to go to the Extreme youth camp next week with 5 of our Americans and Sasha’s church (St. Petersburg). Penelope and I will be in Prague for this camp. One boy who Sasha Kurmaev led to Christ in Pskov last week will also attend. I realize you cannot remember all of the Sashas and others that we work with. But, God does. Your simple prayers make this ministry effective. Thank you!!!

Love to all,

Jim

Jim requests special prayer for his eyesight. I has been extremely difficult for him to see in the mornings. By early afternoon his sight is a bit better. Jim has teaching scheduled for morning times at the Czech camp next week. Please pray for improvement now for this important ministry and that Jim’s scheduled cornea transplant, 26 Aug or 2 Sep, will actually take place successfully this time.

Have a blessed day, IHS

Peter

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John 15:16

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Includes:
Tine and Jane Hardeman to be at Grace, Sunday, July 18 – R. Brannon
I just finished my 25th year of Camp – G. Perkins
Where does your Faith Promise Giving go to? – M. Lacaze

There is much opportunity for prayer in the next 3-4 weeks. A detailed itinerary of travel and ministry is attached for your use.

A quick travel summary follows for your convenience:

14-17 July – The team headed for Pskov departs tomorrow for rendezvous in St. Petersburg, and then on to Pskov.

24-25 July – The group from Phoenix travels and rendezvous in St. Petersburg with the other Petrozavodsk team members.*

30 -31 July – Others travel from various locations to Prague and rendezvous there with the rest of the Czech team.*

08-10 August – The remaining team members travel home.

* Some will be traveling home during these travel periods as well.

Please pray for safe and on-time travel for each of those involved in this important kingdom building activity.

Some of you will remember my team communication service from Jim & Barbara’s last trip. I will continue to provide news and needs updates over the entire span of this outreach effort. If you have any messages you would like to send back to the teams, or additional prayer insights, please send them to me and I will pass them on to Jim and the team members.

The Teams are very grateful for your continual prayer support and thank God for each of you as important members of the team itself. May God richly bless you for your time with Him on their behalf.

In His Service (IHS)

Peter

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It is now about midnight and we have tucked our missionary team in bed and finished the Lira “Jesus Festival” with multitudes who came to Christ tonight … maybe 250 people. Jose Zayas, our evangelist, asked me to give the invitation tonight at the festival. We had another “Fresh Catch” tonight and a great celebration that has lasted into the night until now … and must be still going on in Heaven.

After the crusade, I prayed with Joseph who was captured by the LRA rebels several years ago and forced to kill as a child soldier. Now he is a student at the Uganda Tech University where we held the crusade here in Lira. Joseph is now part of the “Lord’s Righteous Army” by faith in Jesus. Edmond and Maxwell responded to the invitation tonight and then came for prayer because they were being tormented by evil spirits. The truth set them free tonight!

Our team expanded to about 50 with the Ugandan Good News Soccer Club who played an exhibition soccer match each day this week in the afternoon at the stadium where we held the festival-crusade. They won every match except one, and drew a very large crowd each day who also stayed for the “Jesus Festival” each night. Then another small missionary team of American teenagers also joined our team here in Lira, and so I trained them in evangelism and we’ve been fishing all over Lira with much fruit. Pray now for the churches we are working with here in Lira to carefully follow up each new believer for fruit that remains.

Today was a very unique day for me. Bishop Tom and Martin insisted that I come with them for an important meeting with all the “Faith Community” and religious leaders from the Northern Uganda region, who just happened to be convening in Lira today, Saturday, July 3rd for the purpose of discovering how the “Faith Community” can impact government in the peace process. They are really fearing that their will be violence in 2011 during their National and local elections. The M.P.’s (Members of Parliment) came from Kampala to meet with the “Who’s Who” of religious leaders in Northern Uganda about 100 in all.

At first, I thought it would simply be a lot of “British Parlimentary Protocol” … introductions … pomp and ceremony … which it was at first. But then they began to share the struggles of a corrupt government and violent elections and their desire for a free and fair elections and democracy. The whole day was broadcast live on radio. The chairman asked me to share from an American perspective as an international participant. I asked the Lord for wisdom, and gave them a speech about “Democracy & Religious Freedom In America.”

The M.P.’s and religious leaders (including the Catholic Arch Bishop, Anglican Priests, and even the Muslim Imam) wanted to know more about how the “Faith Community” influences the government in America. So, I gave them some ideas about having “Voter Registration” in the churches, publishing incumbant voting records, interviewing candidates on all moral issues and then educating the people as well as holding the politicians accountable by publishing the results in the newspapers, churches, and by radio.

The whole experience turned out to be one of those “God Things.” Here they are struggling with freedom and democracy and the role of church and state … just like America did 234 years ago tomorrow ~ July 4, 1776. I felt like a “Time Traveler” sent to them from the future to help them shape the democratic process in North Uganda. It was humbling, took all day and included three “Official Tea Times.” There were lots of introductions of “Lords & Ladies” … and Bishops and Your Worshipfulness … but in the end … some stiking resolutions were agreed upon, recorded, and sent to the Ugandan Parliment for ratification by this newly formed “Uganda Inter-Religious Coalition.”

In the meantime, our missionary team has been going around destroying the works of darkness, robbing hell, and declaring His Glory in the schools, prisions, hospitals, and marketplace of Lira. Slowly by slowly, soul by soul, God is changing Uganda one person at a time and bringing healing and hope in Jesus Name! I told the religious gathering and government leaders, that at the end of the day, the real power is not in the political process as important as this is, but in the blood of the cross. I also took the opportunity to apologize on behalf of the American Church and Faith Community for America’s unglodly intervention in government by financially propping up puppet leaders who have not represented the best interests of Uganda and also for our Presidents and Vice Presidents wicked counsel to Uganda regarding Abortion and Homosexuality issues.

Their response to these apologies was surprise and tears. They said to me later, “You have touched our heart. We have never heard anyone speak this way, but we are living with the reality of what American money and influences have done to our country. In Uganda we are now a land of beggars and thieves because of the NGO’s, subsidies, and handouts. We do not need a hand out, we need a hand up to determine our own destinies.”

So, it was quite a historic day here in North Uganda just one day before our “American Birthday” back home ~ July 4th. The timing couldn’t have been better. In some small way, God used me to participate in the manifest destiny of this Nothern Uganda region known as the “Nazereth of the North” where they have suffered so much and been marginalized by the rest of the country in the South. I was able to relate to their North ~ South scism in Uganda and told them about our struggles between North and South during the Civil war.

Can anything good come out of Nazereth? Oh yes! It has and it will again by the grace and mercies of the Lord when God’s people who are called by His Name, humble themselves and pray, and turn from their wicked ways … then God will hear from Heaven … and will heal this land … through His one and only Son ~ Jesus Christ of Nazereth.

Now, Randy, Aggrey, and myself will teach a week in the “School of Theology” (Biblical Counseling, Marriage & Family, and Advanced Homiletics) and then conduct the Commencement and of the first graduating class of 2010 at Africa Hope Bible Institute next Saturday, July 10th. Pray for the students to find their school fees in order to graduate next Saturday. It looks like their will be 14-15 graduates. We started on September 7, 2009 with 17 students.

Africa Renewal Ministries in Kampala, have asked me and Randy if we would extend our mission to conduct a “Pastors Conference” in Ruknjiri, Uganda near the Congo/Rwanda border on our way out of the country next week. We are praying about this as their has been Congolese Rebel activity in this area recently. Please pray about this plan with us. It would not change our flight home at this point, but would be a stretch in many ways and invlove some rather intense traveling conditions and timing.

So, once again, thanks for sending “Africa Hope!” No one but God could have planned this day or this mission. I am glad to be walking with God in the works preordained and created for me to walk in before one of them came to be ~ Ephesians 2:10. Thank you for walking with me in these pathways of peace.

Your Missionary In Africa,

Gil ~ II Chronicles 7:14

Matthew 28:18-20

1 Corinthians 1:30, 31

PRAISE THE LORD!
Now our team is in Lira, Uganda ready to launch another “Jesus Festival” here with the Lira Pastors Fellowship whom I have worked with for the past 3 years. Pray for a great impact for the Kingdom and another “Harvest of Souls.” They have never used sports to reach people for Christ, but they are open to this idea now because they heard what just happened in Soroti.
Today is Tuesday, June 29th, at 10Pm in Lira, Uganda. (We are 10 hours ahead of the West Coast USA). Today, I preached the Gospel in a womens’ prison and a men’s prison. 34 women came to Christ including several Muslims, and 74 men repented and trusted the Lord when we dropped the “Gospel Bomb” (The Big Evangecube) in the middle of the prison yard!
My young evangelist friend, Aggrey Juma, traveled all the way from Kenya to join our team. Together we have experienced the presence and power of the Lord of the Harvest on this first day of outreach in Lira. Please pray for our team to stay strong and healthy. We have recently been attacked with fevers and sore throats on the team. Pray for a strong team, good health for the team and a “Harvest of Souls.” Together with your help in prayer and the blessed Holy Spirit … we are OVERCOMERS together with Jesus Christ! Our young team of missionaries are full of the joy of the Lord after an incredible harvest of souls.

Thanks for praying and sending “Africa Hope!” To God be the Glory in Jesus Name!

Your Partner In The Gospel ~ Africa,

Gil ~ II Corinthians 2:14

Psalm 33

Psalm 127:1 – 2

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1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13

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1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 12

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2 Chronicles 20

TRANSFORMED
Not the same anymore!
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In Romans 12:2 the Apostle Paul says, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” “Conformed” would refer to someone who inaccurately reflects on the outside who they claim to be on the inside. Last year at Camp we talked about the fact that, as Christians, we are BRANDED. It means that we no longer belong to ourselves but are marked by the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The people that Paul was writing to were struggling with this so he told them to be “TRANSFORMED.” The English word “metamorphosis” comes from the Greek word for transformed and refers to someone that accurately reflects in an outward manner what is going on inwardly in their heart.
As Christians, we need to stop being conformed to the beliefs and values of the present age in which we live and be transformed to the beliefs and values of one that is a genuine follower of Jesus Christ. So what does that look like on a daily basis in terms of reading God’s Word, praying, giving, serving, spending time alone with Him, etc.?
We hope to answer this question at this year’s Summer Camp where our theme will be: Transformed – not the same anymore! We want to get to the bottom of what it means to reflect Christ in our outward behavior on a daily basis with our theme:

Dates: June 14th – 18th, 2010
Cost: $245 (Bring $$$ for food on the way up & back)
Time: 10am @ Grace on the 14th; Returning: 2:30pm the 18th
Speaker: Mike DeVito – San Diego, CA
Worship: The X-Bryans
Hosts: Pastor Greg and Jared King

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Includes:
For this I have Jesus – R. Brannon
Transformed – not the same anymore – G. Perkins
Mission News – M. Lacaze

Romans 12:3-8

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We will be hosting the “Love Revolution” concert featuring Natalie Grant, Britt Nicole and Phil Stacey.

Event will be hosted by Celebration Radio.

Follow this link for more information – http://www.celebrationradio.com/pages/page.asp?page_id=29899

For a printable poster with all info follow this link – http://www.celebrationradio.com/pages/page.asp?page_id=105440

Grace Community Staff