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Swaziland has the highest HIV infection rate in the world. In a nation where the UN projects annihilation of the adult population in the next 10 years, where over 70% live on less than one dollar a day, and 9 out of 10 children will not live to the age of 35 due to HIV and AIDS, Teen Challenge Swaziland is at the cutting edge. Ministering to physical and spiritual needs, they see miracles every day. Thank you for being a part of the miracles as you pray. |
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God is impacting lives and communities as living evidence of Kingdom transformation. Supernaturally, in the face of unemployment and poverty God is raising up one of the largest Teen Challenge ministries in the world. In a nation the size of New Jersey, there are 950,000 people. (When Cathy and I first visited the population was over 1.2 million). In the face of the storm they refuse to give up on their nation. Homes, centers, church plants and outreaches cover the Swazi landscape as evidence of their continuing vision.
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The power of God at work in the lives of these Teen Challenge students and children is truly miraculous in the face of the tragedy and death that surrounds them. The hope of the gospel is the key to the future. |
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MIRACLE IN LAVUMISA - SEND THE RAIN LORD
In this season, when that river should be overflowing its banks, it is a dangerous time for the children. The counsel of the witch doctors frequently results in infants coming up missing. You joined us to pray for spiritual breakthrough and rain. Mariah took this picture of the parched bed of the Lavumisa River as Pastor Sabella walks the river bed and calls us to pray for an end of the drought. |
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| Thank you for interceding along with us! As you mixed your faith with Kevin and Helen Ward along with ICBC leaders,God showed himself mighty! The pictures below tell it all as the rains came in 48 hours! What a testimony. May these rains be a prelude to the outpouring of revival for Lavumisa |
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Teen Challenge, through their ICBC (In Community By Community) Program, is sending graduate teams and community nursing to minister with prayer, heath care, feeding and practical evangelism based outreach to impact the most impoverished rural communities of Swaziland. |
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They are seeing tremendous results as they reach to those most in need, The level of poverty, coupled with disease and the instability of the society have placed incredible obstacles in the lives of the Swazi people. Articles in the Observer and Swazi News detail the plight of Rural families who have no food to mix with their ARV's and they are forced to eat cow dung to stay on their meds.
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3 UNSHAKABLE TRUTHS
God loves you too much to abandon you.
God is too wise be mistaken.
God is too powerful to fail!
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Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?" Jer 32:27
God is too powerful to fail. Let's tackle truth # 3. Until we step out on the impossible, we have not begun to tap the resources of God. |
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A highlight of this trip was that Cathy and I got to travel with Mariah from Brooklyn to Teen Challenge who was such a blessing and ministered so powerfully with us. Pictured right, she joins us with Kevin Ward, the Executive Director and pioneer of Challenge Ministries Swaziland. |
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There is no challenge that you will face where God cannot sustain you. Don't lose sight that the promise is not the treasure, it is the One who promised! The enemy's primary goal is to somehow convince us the key is human strength. (click to continue) |
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PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE WITH WINNIPEG TC MANITOBA CANADA FOR NEXT WEEK
Pray for us as we will join an emerging choir ministry from Teen Challenge Central Canada. We have been invited by Steve Paulson, a dear friend who we served with in London, Ontario in the early 90s to partner with their new Choir. Terry Theissen is pioneering the team and we look forward to coming alongside him in the training and outreach of this Teen Challenge choir team. We will minister in church services, banquets, street outreach, and prison over the next three weeks. We appreciate your prayers. Our vision is not just for the outreach that we will do during this tour, but to help to build the team for continuing ministry as we return to the global field.
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6) Victory Church Winchester |
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9) 6:20 ORF
1:00 PM |
10) Graduation
Banquet |
11) Lighthouse
Mission |
12) Winnipeg
Remand Prison |
Winnipeg C A N A D A |
13)Sydney AM
Brandon PM |
14) Winkler
Banquet |
15) TC Chapel |
16) Dryden ON Banquet |
Travel tu Thunder Bay |
18)Thunder bay
Banquet |
Travel 8 hrs |
20) Emmanuel
Church |
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22) CHAPEL
Naperville, IL |
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THANKSGIVING |
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