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In May 2010, Pr. Makonga Mubila, our main Maranatha pastor in Bukavu, Dem. Rep. Congo, visited the church on Idjwe Island.  They have bought a plot of land there and are building a small church, although it still badly needs to have the roof completed.  An outreach event brought seventeen more people to accept salvation through Jesus Christ.  Please keep the church in your prayers, as they face many struggles there, and pray for the new converts to grow in their faith and to mature spiritually.

This is from the Wikipedia page for Idjwi:

Idjwi is an island in Lake Kivu, belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At 40 km in length and with an area of 285 km², it is the second largest inland island in Africa, and the tenth largest in the world. Idjwi is roughly equidistant between the DRC and Rwanda, with 10 to 15 kilometres separating its western shore from the DRC mainland and a similar distance between its eastern shore and the coastline of Rwanda . . . In 1996 the island was estimated to have a population of 112,000 DRC citizens and 46,000 Rwandan refugees . . . Malnutrition is common, especially among children, which is not surprising, given that almost all of the population is dependent on subsistence agriculture.

These are from a pastor who corresponds with us regularly and uses the teachings we send in his church.  He recently did a “vacation Bible school,” a special time of training and outreach for local children during a break from school.

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Here is a photo from one of our main contacts in Ivory Coast, the pastor who currently does most of the French translations for this website.  This was an evangelistic event there in April.

Here are recent photos from our main contact in ZIMBABWE, Africa.  He is also the pastor who has been translating our lessons into Chishona (Shona).

Zimbabwe Sunday School class

Pastor & his wife

Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan

These are from a church in Pakistan, near Lahore, with whom we are in regular contact.  Here is an excerpt from his letter:

“I hope that you are quite fine and doing your ministry well by the grace of our Lord. We are all are fine and ministry is going very well. I am very glad to tell you that Lord is working through me to save His people. Five days before we had evening church meeting. This service was to prayer for people who are suffering from problems like diseses and any other. A new family came to our church from far away. They had many problems, Their daughter was devil possesed and they told me many things from that they were suffering. They were 9 people of family. My wife and I prayed for the solution of their problems. Daughter was got compeletly healing at the same time. Praise the Lord Jesus.  They were glad and grateful to God. They said to me that they will surely attend our sunday church service. They came to church today(sunday) with their more relatives. God guided me to give the message to congregation about ressurection,baptism and accepting Jesus as savior. When I finnished the sermon, 5 women and 3 men of family accepted Jesus as thier savior. They said to me that they never been heard this kind of message before. They asked me when It is possible to baptized them. I said that It is possible today…”

Here are two of the photos from the pastor in GAMBIA, AFRICA who is in regular contact with us and uses our teachings there.  He has been to some of our conferences in Africa in the past.  This is a new church being planted and they need our prayers.

Pr Dan Oluwagbade Ogunwale, in Ibadan, Nigeria, recently organized a small seminar there for pastors and a few members to explain more of Maranatha’s doctrines, like asking God to speak through the Word and the urgent need to be active in outreach and evenaglism.  Here are some photos.

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Our friends in the Philippines are receiving our teachings and shared these photos of what the Lord is doing there (Pr Edgardo Grande, Mindanao Island)…please pray for the Lord to bless their efforts there!  The photos are from two separate occasions recently.

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Here we summarize seven points that we have found most important for having the Holy Spirit work more freely – and more powerfully – in our midst. These are the seven concepts we most want to share with others, the points that we believe will make the most difference in your church or group.

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