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All We Need Are Bicycles
0We had driven 555 kms of bad road last week — and felt like Paul the Apostle after one of his narrow escapes from the mobs. But that was nothing. The Zambian Church-Planters and evangelists we met cover roughly the same distance on bicycle, four times a 
year, to reach their neighbours!
The war is over in Angola, landmines largely removed — the land has great openness, and huge need, for the gospel. Our fledgling group of pastors and evangelists, with the most meagre resources, have planted 19 churches over the past five years, biking into Angola!
“All we need are bicycles,” they say. “Oh, and maybe some tents.” They get caught in frequent downpours in this high country, one time tucking into a little shelter that “kept our tops dry, but our feet were sticking outside!”
After its decades of suffering, war-torn Angola has myriads of orphans and amputees. One way of making a difference now is supporting one of the most impressive and committed little mission bands that we have ever met, the Mwinilunga Missions Committee of the PAOZ.
The Genorosity of a Church
0Report from Guatemala.
Praise God for the generous donation from a church in Carlyle, Saskatchewan—with it, we will be able to provide much-needed water filters to 70 schools where drinking water is dirty and contaminated.
Please pray for God’s peace and comfort upon families who lost loved ones in a recent drunk driving accident in the community. The car struck a small store/house in front of the school and six people were killed, including three children, the principal of the school, a young teacher, and one other woman. Mynor has gone with a Christian counselor to comfort the families, who are deeply devastated.
Please pray that God will cause something good to come out of this awful tragedy. – Mynor & Heidi Olivares, GUATEMALA
Making An Impact: Building Missions For Tomorrow
0For a number of years, God has been putting on the heart of global workers Peter and Sandra McIntosh the need and desire to mentor and pour into the lives of young people in a cross-cultural setting, giving experiences of mission work, providing opportunity to see what it could be like to be in full-time overseas mission work.
After having multiple interns come to minister alongside Sandra in Bangkok, Thailand, the McIntosh’s are finally seeing the dream of a missions school come to fruition.
Starting in September 2012, Impact School of Missions (ISM) began courses to “train, equip and mobilize students to be atmosphere changers.” The experience promises each student “will learn the practice of missions, become a servant leader, experience the presence of God and learn to hear the voice and the leadership of the Holy Spirit. After your 4 weeks of training you will then be partnered with a ministry in Southeast Asia that best matches your passion, education and skill set,” working alongside PAOC global workers and other partnering ministries.
As the McIntosh’s have itinerated, spreading the word about ISM, people are following God’s lead to give every day and God can be praised for how He is providing for the initial costs to run this new school. How might you be able to partner with the McIntosh’s and the global workers of Southeast Asia to see this training school start well, and provide fertile ground for the missionaries of tomorrow?
