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HOME FROM PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico Ministry Face of Need
Shooting up PUERTO RICO: Busy days, crowded altars at night and opportunities for the Kingdom were the order of the day for our trip to Puerto Rico. Along with Pastor Mark and Wanda Burgund of Calvary Church in Naperville, we joined Dr. Rodney Hart and Miguel Canan to lay the groundwork with Angel Roque and the Teen Challenge Puerto Rico team for their July Missions trip to Bayamon. Logistics during the day, Spiritual Impact in the evening, with water baptism and street outreach on Saturday we saw men, once lost with needles in their arms and necks, experience the reality of the power of the Gospel. Click for powerful new video,
Dr Hart On the street with Angel Roque, the program director of Puerto Rico Teen Challenge & Ramon, we encountered people in desperate need and saw God touch hearts and lives, We prayed and offered hope to men and women in a hopeless place. When Angel saw Raule (right) "shooting up," he immediately began to minister to him He is coming to the TC program. Shooting Up
Joint 2 MEN SHOOTING UP Angel Roque Prays
WATER BAPTISM
Baptism Lives once dominated by drugs, needles, and bondage, become glorious testimonies of the changing power of the Lord Jesus Christ at TC. Campus Pastor Colon led the baptism and Pastor Mark joined us for 25 celebrations as students went into the waters of baptism and rose to newness of Life. Baptism
Baptism Campus Pastor Johny Colon PastorMark Baptises
VIDEO LINK TC Church Missions team opportunities abound around the world. Click for the video(Right) to see the plan for Calvary Church Naperville. Currently, pray for Wayne Soemo and a team from Mid America Teen Challenge who are ministering at Nigeria Teen Challenge with David Omih. We are working with Gerald Mahan, who will visit Dominican Republic in July and another team who will visit Koy Chhim in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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3 AMAZING THINGS
ABOUT PRAYER

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. Mark 11:24

I say to you, if any two of you agree on earth about anything that they ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. Matt18:19

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1) God hears us when we pray.
Last week we dealt with God's promise that he hears us when we pray.

2) God Answers Our Prayers
You may not feel like you have much clout anywhere else, but when you pray, God is prepared to move. Most believe God hears. The question is, when He hears, will He act. More than that, it is not that we doubt that God is able to answer? We know He answers prayer, the question is will He answer my prayer. I know God can heal, but will He heal me?

In the name of Jesus, we have access to our heavenly Fathre. The assurance of faith is that the Father is teaching us that even in our desperate need, He is still there. Do not stop praying.

He’s calling us to surrender our lives to Him in prayer, asking that His will be done in our lives. The Father, who hears our prayers .Jesus, answers us by giving us all that He has promised in His time and with everything He knows we need.

When we work, we work, but when we pray, God works! Scripture attaches breathtaking power to prayer.
"When two of you get together on anything, and make a prayer of it, My Father in Heaven goes into action"
Matt 18:19
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Does any other promise offer such results?
Did God call us to preach without ceasing?
Or have committee meetings without ceasing?
No, but He did call us to "pray without ceasing."
3) Why is prayer so often our last resort?
WE WILL CONCLUDE WITH POINT 3 NEXT WEEK

MIRACLE IN TC VAN
Destroyed VAN
BAYAMON: In the early hours last Wed this 2005 Teen Challenge, Econoline van went over a cliff with 11 passengers inside on PR-167, in the Oyola sector in Bayamon. After the van struck a concrete pole it veered off the road over a 300 foot embankment. The van flipped several times coming to a rest between 2 trees only 120 feet down. Miraculously, there were no fatalities and injuries were relatively minor.
Catyh VAN

Local news called it a modern day miracle. We were amazed and rejoiced as Cathy and I looked over the van. One student, Rubin, who suffered internal injuries shared, "I was flying out of the van as it was rolling ... I was halfway out when someone grabbed me by the legs and pulled me back in!" No students grabbed him. He believes it was a truly miracle from God.

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Calendar 2012-13

2013
INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULE

March 17-23
Asia Pacific Conference
Seoul, South Korea

April 17-22
Europe Teen Challenge Conference
Prague, Czech Republic

May 8-20
Ministry in India
Lucknow/Bombay/Pune

July 15-24
Construction/Evangelism
w/Calvary Church Naperville

Bayamon, Puerto Rico

Oct 28-Nov 7
Construction/Evangelism
w/Calvary Church Naperville

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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2013
STATESIDE SCHEDULE
Current services, how about YOU?

HAVE YOU ASKED YOUR PASTOR ABOUT HOSTING US?
We would love to come to sing, minister a relevant word, and share what God
is doing around the world. Can you help us? Call us at 757 728-0347.

June 16, 2013
Calvary Temple of Philadelpia Philadelphia, PA 11am

June 23, 2013
CrossWalk Community Church
3 Campuses-Williamsburg, VA

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Please pray with us as we seek guidance to choose wisely with many pending invitations for 2013. We want to be where the Lord wants us, doing the work Global Teen Challenge needs to be done.

PARTNER PRAYER FOCUS

 

 

 

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MARCH

1) Please pray for the preparations as we prepare to go to Seoul, South Korea with Jim and Kathie Lowans in 2 weeks. Leaders from a dozen Asia Pacific Nations from Australia to China will meet for fellowship, prayer and ministry in the word. A teaching team headlined by Greg Fischer will engage the realities of ministry in the Pacific Rim with the TC ministry paradigm.

2) Please pray for the power of the Holy Spirit to move in Teen Challenge around the world. Our heart is that this 19 days for prayer was not an end, but a fresh beginning for all of us as we remember that this work was born in prayer, bathed in prayer and will prosper only in prayer.

3) Please pray for God's special blessing and protection on Wayne Soemo and the mission team that is traveling to Nigeria from Mid-America Teen Challenge.

4) NAIROBI KENYA: Please continue to pray for John and Anne Martin and Kenya Teen Challenge as they brace for Kenya's first national vote since devastating violence broke out after the nation's 2007 presidential election.

The disputed 2007 presidential election sparked off ethnic fighting that killed more than 1,000 people, injured staff and homes and observers warn there is an unacceptably high risk of repeat violence around Kenya's March 4 vote. Chaotic primary votes and outbreaks of deadly violence have done little to instill confidence that peace will prevail. May TC be an agent of reconciliation and experience protection in the center of God's will.

G T C PRAYER LIST

1. Our 50+ Staff Training Seminars Worldwide scheduled for this year that God
would equip our leaders to meet the need. Our 2013 three month Staff Training
Schools in Brazil, Mexico & Russia.

2. Translators in all major languages for TC Resources, Curriculum
& Outreach Materials. There are 400 languages spoken by 1 million people or
more in the world.

3. Collaborative Relationships with other ministries like Equip, Lead Like Jesus,
La Red, Living Free, MAPS Construction & Global University.

4. Innovative Ministry Models for Teen Challenge Ministries Worldwide.
5. New Systems for Equipping, Strengthening and Refreshing Teen Challenge
Leaders around the World.

6. A Teen Challenge Presence in the 300+ cities in the world with a population of more than one million people.

7. More Teen Challenge Missionaries to put hope within reach of every addict.
8. Computer Technicians to empower Internet-based outreach and
information flow.

9. Regional Conferences in Europe, Asia, Africa, N. America & Latin America.

10. Additional Teen Challenge bed space for victims of human trafficking.

11. Continue to pray for outreaches to start Teen Challenge in Egypt, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Fiji,
Guam, Indonesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran,
Belize, Columbia, Bermuda, Nicaragua, Malta, Bulgaria, Greece, Sri Lanka,
Turkey, Armenia, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Cuba, the Azores, Laos PDR,
Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), & Guyana.
12. Teen Challenge connections for the 20 remaining Provinces in N. Asia (Teen Challenge is established in 3 of the 23 Provinces there).
13. Teen Challenge connections for 74 New Countries
~~~~~ List of countries still needing a Teen Challenge ~~~~~~~

Let's pray for the global advance of the gospel. Pray for workers for the Harvest ...Teen Challenge Centers in 94 countries need staff and we currently have invitations to start Teen Challenge in over 30 nations. They are crying out for help. They need the power of God to meet a pressing social need... but we know it has a SPIRITUAL ROOT.
We offer SPIRITUAL RESOURCES to meet the need.
MATTHEW 9: 37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. 38 Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

We are not salaried by Global Teen Challenge. Your partnership provides the resources we need to keep our unfunded international commitments.

Because you give, we can go. We can answer their invitations to come because you invite us to come to your church. CLICK here to help

If you believe in our ministry, help us start 2013 wheels up for miracles. Sow seed to launch us to the front lines.
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