Our evangelism pastor's wife is planning to join me in the prayer walk in Laos early December. Do pray that we will have the Lord's guidance and blessing in carrying it out in accord with His will.
Edith (and Dick)

CRUEL PERSECUTION ESCALATING IN LAOS
Christians in Communist-ruled Laos report escalating persecution with hundreds of families experiencing horrendous tribulation. Christianity is labelled a ‘foreign religion' there and embracing it is akin to sedition.
The authorities violently intimidate Christians to sign papers renouncing their faith and when that fails they expel them from their homes and villages. When that fails they arrest and torture them. So Pastor Sompong Supatto (32) and Boot and Khamvan Chanthaleuxay (both 18) have been handcuffed and in stocks since 3 August for refusing to renounce their faith.
Pastor Supatto faces a life sentence and the teenagers, whose health is in a very bad way, will only be bailed if they renounce their faith. Interference from Hanoi, Vietnam, is possibly contributing to the persecution.
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LAOS: VILLAGE TO EXPEL 55 CHRISTIANS
Community decides to resolve ‘problem' of families refusing to recant faith.
The chief of Boukham village in Savannakhet province, Laos, on Friday (Sept. 19) called a special community meeting to resolve the "problem" of eight resident Christian families who have refused to give up their faith. The meeting concluded with plans to expel all 55 Christians from the village.
Although all adult members of a village are usually invited to such meetings, on this occasion the Christians were deliberately excluded, according to rights group Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom (HRWLRF).
Pastor Sompong Supatto, 32, and two other believers from the village, Boot Chanthaleuxay, 18, and Khamvan Chanthaleuxay, also 18, remain in detention in the nearby Ad-Sapangthong district police detention cell.
HRWLRF earlier reported that police have held the men in handcuffs and wooden foot stocks since their arrest on Aug. 3, causing numbness and infection in their legs and feet due to lack of blood circulation.
Authorities have said they will release the three only if they renounce their faith.
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INDIA: PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY
Huge armed Hindu mobs continue to rage against Christians in several states, assaulting and murdering them and torching their homes and churches. Since violence erupted on 23 August, at least 57 people have been killed, more than 18,000 injured and over 4,300 houses, 150 churches and 13 Christian schools and colleges destroyed.
Two Christian women have been gang-raped and some 50,000 people are now homeless. On 29 September three relief camps in Orissa sheltering displaced Christians were rocked by bombs. The camps are heavily guarded and there were no casualties but terror has increased substantially.
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INDIA: CHRISTIAN COUPLE KILLED, HOUSES TORCHED IN ORISSA
Displaced Christians survive bomb blasts as violence continues in Kandhamal district.
A Christian couple was found murdered, a woman killed, numerous houses and churches burned and low-intensity bombs exploded at relief camps in the past week in Orissa state's Kandhamal district, where Hindu extremist violence began more than a month ago.
On Sunday (Sept. 28), police found the body of Priyatamma Digal, an auxiliary nurse and midwife, in a river. On Monday, the body of her husband, Meghanath, was recovered. According to The Times of India newspaper, the Christian couple was killed last Thursday (Sept. 25).
This morning, September 30, attacks by unidentified armed groups in the villages of Rudangia, Telingia and Gadaguda in Kandhamal resulted in more than 100 houses burned and the death of Ramani Nayak of Rudangia village, reported The Hindu. Her religious affiliation was not known at press time.
Eight people were seriously injured in the attacks, according to reports, and about 20 people received minor injuries. Bomb blasts yesterday rocked three Kandhamal relief camps in the Nuagaon area, Mahasinghi village and Baliguda town, reported the Press Trust of India (PTI).
No casualties were reported, but the explosions left residents of the relief camps fearing for their lives. "Since they have been successful in exploding bombs near the heavily guarded relief camp, there is no guarantee that the explosions will not take place in other camps," one refugee told correspondents.

Resting in Him,
 
Larry and Allison

“LOVE WINS.”

Thank you for your prayers and e-mails. All of your e-mails are a blessing to me, they make me feel very loved! Sorry I have not gotten back to you yet. I have had trouble getting online consistently.

I arrived in Rwanda safely and am starting to get settled. Kigali is beautiful, it has hills in every direction. Right now it is the dry season so it is quite dusty. I walk to the office which is about 20 minutes form where I live. The two aftercare staff that I am in charge of are wonderful and have much better English than I expected. I am busy getting to know the program and trying to figure out the best aftercare approach.

Prayer Points:

My emotions:
It has been difficult, especially with Ben (my one year old Godson) passing away the day before I left the US. It has been hard to be away from Fenny and Hans (Ben's parents in India) and my family at this time. Genocide Learning about the genocide is horrific and a lot to process. I went to the genocide memorial and have heard quite a few stories about my co-workers experiences during the genocide. Please pray for healing in Rwanda it is a broken country with a lot of broken and hurting people. I hope and pray that God will use me in bringing healing to this land.
Community: It has been a little lonely this first bit. However, I can see that God is building a community for me here. I had a wonderful time at Bible Study Sunday night. We prayed for Rwanda and I was very blessed and encouraged through it.

Spiritual Warfare:
Please for my protection and that I will be vigilant in warfare. In India the spiritual forced were so evident. Here everything looks good on the surface and it is not as obvious but people still practice witchcraft. Pray that I will be faithful and not distracted from God in anyway. Pray that I have good prayer times and keep my heart open to God.

Hans and Fenny: Thank you to everyone who has expressed sympathy and is praying for Fenny and Hans. Please continue to pray for them. I can not imagine their pain.

Thank you for your prayers, love and support!
Please keep me updated on how you are and let me know how I can pray for you.
Love,
Melissa

"Love never fails."

As you know, our son, David teaches English in China at a university. This summer he decided to move to another city and easily got a job with a university in Baotou, the hometown of his girlfriend, Alex. They have both moved there now and Alex is having difficulty, as a new university graduate, in finding a job. That's a prayer item, but the one I'm writing about today is for David's visa. Each year his university has been able to get his visa for him. But this year, because of the Olympics and the possible problems China desperately wants to avoid, they are trying to get as many foreigners out of the country as possible -- so he has been told he cannot get a visa to teach there until after mid October when the rules go back to the normal ones. He's making some attempts, with some help from people there, to get either an extension on his current visa or a tourist visa. His current visa expires July 30, so time is very short. If he indeed has to leave and not come back till after mid October, where does he go and how does he find work for that short time? The university apparently wants him to come when the visa is available. You can see it's a real difficulty for David right now.

Would you pray with us for: 1) a miracle -- a visa allowing him to stay or,
2) clear direction where to go (exactly where -- probably in the US) to wait it out and get a new visa
and 3) peace of heart for both him and Alex, his girl friend.
and 4) a job for Alex

Thanks very much for supporting our dear ones in prayer at this time. Sometime next week I will let you know what God has done.

In His grip,

Edith and Dick

PS. My friend Linda has had one more surgery and praise God, she is much better and is to be going back to Indonesia this Monday!

We pray and hope all is well with you all. We apologize for the delay in sending out our newsletter to you. We have finally setup our newsletter as an html so you can simply click on it and it will get you to our Pipeline site where you can read articles, see pictures and even watch our Pipeline video. We have little features also such as a poll we are taking right now to find out what people are thinking and with each article you can even send a comment. The best thing about this is we will not overload your email capacity by sending it the old way such as a pdf file or word file which fills up email capacity to the max many times. In this edition of our Pipeline we have an article in network news from Honduras with Jim and Julie, a testimony of what God is doing to bring the vision of Cities of Refuge to fruition and how the Lord is ministering and reconciling couples. We also wrote an article on our focus for this next five years and that is building up the training center that would equip leaders from Latin America and around the globe to start Cities of Refuge to impact their nations. In our next issue we will have guest contributors and articles from Colombia, Peru and Florida. Thank you so much for your prayers and support. We love you and remember you in our prayers.

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Wedding Preparations

Allison and I are daily growing in joyful anticipation for our wedding day (June 21st). Allison is in Minnesota planning and preparing for this big celebration of God's love who has brought us together. Please ask the Father for his provision and direction in making our wedding a reflection of the glorious wedding of the Lamb (See the book of Revelation 19:7). Pray also for our time apart, as I continue in Honduras until the end of May, that we will draw close to God and grow in Love for each other.

Minnesota Junior High Team

In early April a team of twenty-five students and teachers joined us for a week to learn about Jesus by serving with us among the poor. They helped paint the elementry school in La Muralla and paint a second coat on the Orphan's house. They did yard work with Don Victor and participated in classes at IER. Serving each other around the Las Mangas campus by washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms and emptying the compost bucket was part of participatory learning about Jesus as well. Through many such activities and our evening discussion times each one of us were challenged and inspired by a glimpse of Jesus. Pray for each of these young people to let what they learned about Jesus guard their hearts and direct their steps for the rest of their lives.

Nicaragua Trip

From April 28th through May 1st Jonathan Zoba (a current volunteer at Las Mangas) and I traveled to Nicaragua to visit and glean ideas from a 22-year old educational demonstration farm called Rancho Ebenezer (RE). The brothers at RE have developed and excellent system of raising enough small livestock and vegetables to sustain a typical latino subsistance farm family, and all this on just 1.125 acres! We admired various new fourage plants, learned better techniques for raising rabbits, goats and chickens, and saw how beneficial raising earthworms for organic fertilizer and even animal feed can be. They also taught us how to weave our own chain-link type fencing material. Upon our return to Honduras we brought some stow-away passengers - 10 African Red earth worms, some forage cuttings and seeds. These species will be helpful components in our back yard gardening and on Finca Shalom. During our trip Jonathan and I recalled various of history's violent conflicts involving Honduras, Nicaragua and the United States. After our fruitful exchange of ideas, resources and faith at Rancho Ebenezer, and as we brought back the gifts of seeds, either in the form of plants, worms or ideas from Nicaragua to plant in Honduras by United States citezens, I believe that those at Rancho Ebenezer and ourselves opened another pathway to peace, to shalom in the Americas. Thank you for your part in making this possible.

Praise the Lord for:

1. His goodness in bringing Allison and I together in his love

2. The participation in and learning of God's love by the Junior High Team

3. The fruitful trip to Rancho Ebenezer, Nicaragua

Pray to the Lord for:

1. Allison and I to be full to overflowing in God's love as we prepare for our wedding and marraige

2. Wisdom and strength as get ready to leave by tying up loose ends and turning things over to Jonathan Zoba and Doña Maria for our wedding and seven month sabbatical in the US

3. God to speak to the Discipleship Group as this month we wrap things up for the year.

4. Eric, Carla, Levi, Lilian and Yensi, all Discipleship Group members in their first year of University

To know, love and glorify God,

Larry

"Love never fails."

I actually had something on my heart to share, at least for this email. My pregnancy with Barr was the hardest of the three. It was HOT - last months of pregnancy during summer in the desert and no air conditioner is not the most fun a girl can have. My emotions were running higher than high and I was angry quite often. I was angry, frustrated, sad - you name it, I felt it, except for much joy. .

It was at this time that I also had a hard time with my older boys (I am sure they were just reacting to my emotions), especially the oldest. He was often teasing his brother and I was very frustrated with him. It seemed that every morning I woke up already frustrated and waiting to see what he would do to his younger brother. Then one morning, I walked out of the room and Netanel, who rises with the sun, ran to me and jumped up to hug me. I saw the light shining in his beautiful eyes and his smile covered his face. I fell in love with him again. After all, he is amazing even if he sometimes teases his little brother.
That evening I went to a women's meeting. Another woman shared about how she dreaded going home after work because she knew she would walk into a messy house and problems with her children. The leader of the meeting said she should ask God to help her see her children as new each day, not holding against them what was yesterday. As soon as I heard that, I thought of my precious Netanel and how I fell in love with him again that morning. Instantly, I remembered one translation of a scripture - "His mercies are new every morning." It should also be the same with us - for our children, our spouse, neighbor or boss. We need to see them new each day, sometimes even every hour.

Thank God that his mercies are new every morning for us! Are your mercies new every morning?

By the way, I was really concerned about the baby when I was going through that hard time. I felt so sorry for him and wondered what would be with him since babies feel everything that the mother is going through. Well, though I was miserable, Abba had him surrounded with love and joy. Barr is the happiest baby I have EVER seen in my life. It is amazing. Even if he is crying from pain, like from a burp, he still stops to smile at us. In Hebrew the word for MERCY is Rahamim and the word for womb is Rehem, they are from the same root word. The womb is the mercy room for our little babies.

Blessings on this Shabbat and Happy Freedom Day (Passover),
Melanie Shalom

For some time now, I have been promising to update you all on the progress of our vision in the desert. We have some new friends so I will take a little time to do a little repeat of the vision before sharing where we are today.

**Some time ago, I started to send this email out with pictures but it was too big. Most didn't receive and for those of you who did, I am sorry for the weight of the email! This one is without pics and we hope to some time soon get a web page going or at least post some pics on the web for you to see the blessings in the desert.

About four years ago, the Lord "planted" a vision in our heart for the Negev desert - to be a part of the desert blooming, as prophesied in Isaiah. After much opposition because of our faith, we were finally accepted into a new settlement called Beer Milcah. This was a year ago in October. We are apart of the founding settlers living on a large, beautiful sand dune on the border of Egypt. We are only 18 families now (around 40 children). The settlement is secular but we are now 3 families of believers! And there are another 3 families of believers in settlements close by. As being a part of the settlement, the government has granted us 20 acres each to do an agricultural project.

Eretz Yah
Eretz Yah means "God's Land" and this is the name that we have chosen for our project. The land that God has blessed us with is dedicated to Him and for His purposes - to cause the desert to bloom, physically and spiritually. The first aspect of the Eretz Yah is to eventually be a self-supporting farm. The second phase of Eretz Yah is to build a worship center and desert style tourist bungalows. There are many Israeli tourists who travel to our area (over 3000 during Passover holidays alone). We want to serve them with the Love of the Lord and be a witness to His goodness. We also believe that more and more from the nations will come to the desert to worship the God of Israel and to learn more of the roots of our faith.

We also want to provide a place for believers who want to give more of themselves and not just their money to support Israel. We hear from so many that they want to come and serve, to dig their hands into the soil and to toil with us here in the land. And we want to provide a place for them to do just that. With the combination of work and worship, we pray that it will be a life changing experience for those who come. Education will be a fundamental part of Eretz Yah, not only for those who seek to know more about the Hebrew roots but we also will build a system for watering and harvest from Biblical times to modern for school children and others to learn and interact. That means stepping on grapes for wine (clean feet only!) and an ancient olive press. We have already spoken to the head of the Jewish Agency in our area and when we have things running he will bring about 15-20 percent of the school children who come on school tours to Eretz Yah. We will have the opportunity to touch the hearts of thousands of children

Causing the Desert to Bloom
Our vision includes an olive orchard and a vineyard to make olive oil and wine for commercial use and an herb and vegetable garden close to the worship center. The vineyard is on hold at the moment as we don't have the funds to start it at this time however, we have started planting the olive orchard, which is called Valerie's Orchard. Valerie is a Holocaust survivor who has impacted our lives in a great way. She is not only a survivor but an over-comer, showering others with the love of God. She is also an artist and uses the olive tree to depict her life and the holocaust. Valerie's Orchard is not only in honor of our dear friend but all those who survived the holocaust and a memorial to those who perished. A friend of ours was so impacted by her love that he made a mini movie about her, soon to be on DVD. You can check it out at www.valeries-orchard.com.

Dreamality
This is a term that Ronen coined as we saw our dreams becoming reality. In the spring we received a donation (thank you Whole Loaf!) to buy the water pipes and system to be able to start the project. The Lord, through an Israeli organization, sent us 30 volunteers to help start the first round of planting for Valerie's Orchard. The amazing thing is that half of the volunteers were Israeli students and the other half were German Christian students. The first to plant olive trees in the orchard that honors Holocaust survivors were Israeli and Germans together! Until they came, they had no idea that this was what they were coming for. Our Abba orchestrated the whole thing. It was such a beautiful time.

The Next Step
~ We have started the olive tree orchard but still have room to plant more and more and we are preparing a greenhouse for new trees that can be planted in October.
~ We soon purchase the herbs that will also be stored in the greenhouse until they can be planted. We will focus on hebs used for healing and for teas, like lemon grass for example.
~ We still need to purchase grape vines for the vineyard and in the future we want to have our own winery for the wine production.

~We have started building the first meeting and eating room and plan to build the first three tourist bungalow, hopefully this summer.

~We need a small trailer home to use for volunteers and also a generator since there is no electricity on the project land yet and the government has said there won't be for at least three years. Once that is build, we can start to focus on the worship center and more bungalows.
Each step is a step of faith, as we came to the desert with nothing. We have seen Abba move in such beautiful ways to bring the vision to pass. It has been a faith building experience and the praises go to Yah for His goodness.

A Mitzvah

In Hebrew, a mitzvah is a commandment and also a good deed, which the Lord commands us to do. As we were studying the Word about planting and farming we came across this scripture in Leviticus:
"But in the fourth year (after planting) all its fruit shall be holy, a praise to the Lord. And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase: I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:23- 25
Our farm will be run according to the ways the Lord has shown us. Although the trees will bear fruit in the first years, we will wait until the fifth year to harvest for ourselves to make olive oil to sell. This is another reason for the tourist bungalows, they will a way of support for the farm until it will provide for itself.

It is also a mitzvah to plant a tree when you come to Israel. "And when you have come into the land, and have planted all manner of trees..." Leviticus 19:23 So, when you come, you may certainly join us at Eretz Yah and plant your own tree. For those of you who can not come at this time, we will be happy to plant one for you or in honor of someone you love. Details on that in the next email!

For tax deductible donations to Eretz Yah, you may send a check to:

Grace for Grace Ministries
1251 Fox Tree Trail
Apopka, FL 32712-3030

Edith

Thanks so much for standing with us. We are so thankful for the Lord's hand in all aspects of ministry here.

Edith and Dick

Here in Singapore, Good Friday is a national holiday, so we had a very good turn out for our Good Friday services. Then on Resurrection Sunday we saw another very good turn out and the music in both services was very special. The offeratory of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" by piano, violyn and a traditional Chinese stringed instrument with a contralto 'voice' was stunningly inspiring. The Lord is Risen--He is risen indeed!!

May His resurrection life fill you with hope, joy and strength!

Dick and Edith

God Bless,
Vania

"Love never fails."

Please pray
· For the revelation of God's grace and mercy to penetrate believers and bring understanding of holiness and the need for unity, repentance, humbleness and fear of the Lord. Come against confusion, fear, disunity and diversions or accusations from satan.
· For protection, guidance, wisdom, courage, boldness and discernment to flow among church leaders. Pray for their faith to grow, and for God to strengthen relationships among them through the love of Christ in and between churches.
· That the Word of God would spread mightily across Romania through the Church, parachurch organizations every resource God sanctions and provides, that many turn to the Lord.
· For the youth and for religion-in-schools to continue. Pray God's protection and guidance over them bring revival, and that they would be a radical generation for Christ and do mighty works for Him.
· That materialistic Western ways would not influence the Church of Romania. Come against materialism and exhaustive activities that steal the time and energy of Christians from their service to Jesus Christ and serving His people.
· That the assault of occult, violence, hopeless and depression over Romania that leads people to commit foolish acts (i.e. suicide, violence, family abandonment) would stop and through Jesus Christ, salvation, peace, hope and a future become theirs (Jeremiah 29:11)
· For the leaders (President, government, parliament) - peace and stability. Pray for their reconciliation and against confusion and any tendency toward returning to communism. Pray against spirits of disunity, manipulation and control among them.
· For economical stability in Romania and its protection against intruders, epidemics or natural disasters. "Especially pray for protection of our children, peace and protection at borders and inside our land."
Also pray for the thousands of orphans in Romania. Pray that adoptions into loving Christian families will increase and the scriptures obeyed regarding these little ones. May the Holy Spirit breath life into the many orphanages that have heartbreaking situations.
Thank you for taking the time to lift them up to the Lord.

First let me pause to wish you each a very happy and blessed new year 2008! May you see the Lord move mightily in answer to your prayers and may you become more and more the person He wants you to be, and may Jesus Christ be glorified in your life.

I don't know whether the persecution of Christians in the state of Orissa, India has reached your newspapers or not--but it is indeed a fact and our brothers and sisters in that area are asking for prayer and for protection from the government authorities and police. I saw in the Singapore paper today, an article in which the federal government promised to ensure the rights of all Indian citizens, including the Christian minority. I can only pray it is more than empty words. A friend of ours in India wrote : " 300 houses burned to the ground and over 40 Christians are feared killed in Barakuma a Christian village in Palvana District (this was reported by a pastor living in the area)... They are asking for prayer and protection from the government authorities and police." Let's pray that indeed the authorities both federal and local and state will do what is right and protect these Christian villagers from the militant Hindu group that is perpetrating these atrocities. Pray for courage and a spirit of forgiveness for the Christians so that they may glorify the Lord in what they do and not perpetuate violence by retaliating.

I'd also like to ask you to pray with us for an Indonesian 48 year old lady who has cancer. Here's the story. On Christmas eve I (Edith) got a phone call from Pat, a friend in our church here in Singapore. She was at the hospital near our home with her son who had a serious surgery. She saw a lady in the waiting area, all alone and looking sad and decided to sit by her and see if she could comfort her in any way. She found she could only communicate a little with her because she only spoke Indonesian and Pat understands very little of that language. But she did understand that this lady's sister is very sick and wants to be ministered to. Pat remembered that I speak Indonesian and called me. So on Christmas afternoon Dick and I went to the hospital room of the sister, whose name is Djiastuti, taking elements for communion. We found out that Djiastuti has a very dangerous cancer in one breast and had just had a tumor removed from her back. The doctor in Jakarta had told the sister, Lilik, that there was no hope. Lilik and her other siblings did not want to just give up. Djiastuti has worked hard to help her younger siblings get education and they love her very much. She is Catholic, while the two younger sisters with her here in Singapore are evangelical Christians. Lilik had been praying the Lord to send her some encouragement when my friend Pat sat down by her. In fact the Lord has been sending her encouragement along the way, answering various prayers. Clearly the Lord is showing His love to this family.

I don't know whether Djiastuti is saved or not and I don't know whether or not it's God's plan to do as He did for Hezakiah and give her more years to live here. I only know that Lilik and Sari are calling on the Lord and asking for their sister's life and her salvation. Will you please join us as we join them in this prayer? Also, please pray for me to have the Lord's Words and wisdom to share with Lilik and Sari as I visit them each day I can. Also pray that the Lord will supply the finances they need for Djiastuti's treatment. (It is not common for Indonesians to have health care insurance.) One brother owns two houses and is thinking to sell one of them to help pay the bill. Her treatment is to be 6 chemo treatments and 10 radiation treatments and then a mastectomy, as far as I understand. It will take all their resources and then some, for they are not wealthy. Please pray also, that if indeed the Lord does not plan to heal her, that the doctors will see and advise wisely so that this family's resources are not wasted.

Thanks for helping others through your prayers.

Edith and Dick

Blessings,

Pastor Rodrigo

www.mtifoundation.com/cagayan

www.mtifoundation.com/cordova

Things here are doing alright. I want to thank the VERY many of you who are lifting all of us up in your prayers, and this facility! We recently had 25 people who were baptized in the portable baptismal tank, in the gym. That Sunday was a very powerful day, with guests and a large inmate-robed choir punching through the ceiling with their voices of praise! It was an awesome and VERY unique experience that not many prisons/prisoners can say they have seen in this MDOC(Mich.Dept.of Corr.)! God was glorified and souls were minstered to. My family is doing well. Your prayers are keeping them safe and strengthened to press forward. Mom and Dad are doing alright, and are doing so many things around Decatur and even in Texas, soon. Mr. and Mrs. Hamner were able to come for a visit, this month and it was such a refreshment, as with all visits. Then, a couple of days ago, my best friend, growing up, came to visit along with her Mother-in-Law (Claire "Hamner" Whiteman and Mrs. Joan Whiteman). Those visits are life-saving, as they breathe life back into my bones, from this desert of a place. I want to thank their families and all of you, for being a part of allowing those experiences to continue to provide hope, encouragement and nourishment to my life. God is good, isn't HE?!!!
One thing that I shared with Claire and Joan was the way that our Church has grown, here, AND the one day a week Bible study that I teach on Friday night has expanded to include every morning (Mon.-Sat.) from 8am-10amEST. Please keep all of the men in prayer, that attend that, as well as all of the men who fellowship in order to get any information that can help them with resources for their life, Spiritual walk and families when they get out (I am in a housing unit where most of the men come in for 60 days and then go home from here).
Please visit the prayer request section of the Website (randyvanlandingham.com). Each of those prayers ARE heard and answered, in some form or fashion, by God. HE is moving greatly. If you have answers to report to the glory of our Lord, please share them. Please know that YOU are being prayed for, as well.
Here are some unique and interesting sites on the Web that you might want to
check out:
-www.worldontheweb.com (Christian "take" on current National and International
news)
-www.Bible2Music.com (free Bible memory verses put to music and easy
memorization)
-www.ChessCafe.com (the National chess club site with LOTS of perks)
-www.biblesfortroops.com (check out a ministry that is SOOO vital)
My latest locations and informational areas:
The Website:
-www.randyvanlandingham.com
An Email gateway:
-randy@randyvanlandingham.com
(remembering that I have NO computer access, so, these are mailed to me after
several weeks of lapse, sometimes)
My Address: (prefered connection)

Randall A. VanLandingham Jr. #405124 Mound Correctional Facility 17601 Mound Road Detroit, MI 48212
Each of you are cherished and deeply planted in my heart. Thank you for what you mean to me and our family. Along with the listed prayer requests, I would like to encourage some super talented youth, teens and young adults who are crossing the divide, soon, to take their place in the adult world. These are family and friends that we all have seen in some form or way, in all our communities' youth. Particular artists, sports heroes, and business entrepreneurs: April, Bobby, Juan Jr., Callie, Luke, Nathan, Alexis, Raquel, Erin, Matthew, Matthew, David, Daniel, Randy III, Heather, Bailey, Allison, Sydney, and tons more youth who are coming up under them to take their places in being talented Christian leaders of our future, too! We sometimes avoid making anything big about our talents that our young people offer to our lives, but, they are critical and OUR FUTURE! Take time, this week, to thank our Christian young people in your churches and homes, for what all they put of themselves INTO our lives, as faithful followers of our Lord. They are our Future CHURCH and community leaders! Help to guide them and be the mentors that God is directing you to be! As the UNholiday gets closer (halloween), lets keep our youth focused on their potential to be the angels, in our lives, that are under YOUR wing to be the STRONG SAINTS of tomorrow.
Have a SUPER week and write when you can. I always enjoy hearing from each of you. I appreciate, sooooo much, your cards, emails, letters and messages of encouragement, fellowship and friendship! God bless you FULLY!
In HIS Love, forever and into Eternity!
Randy

Latrines Project

In October we held a meeting in La Muralla to discuss with the people the possibility of building latrines at each home. It was disapointing when only a few of the families were represented at the meeting, and when the people clearly stated that they are not interested in composting latrines like I had hoped. But it was good to hear what they really wanted rather than beginning a project that they would not be motivated to accomplish. The people expressed that they definitely want to build latrines but just want the bucket flush kind. So the next step is for the people to commit to the project by sending me a list of the heads of house holds who will do their part in seeing the latrines project through to the end. Please pray for the people to be unified and confident in the goodness of this project so that we all will join together to accomplish this project and find God's kingdom and justice through it.

Physical Health

I was sick a lot during whole month of October. I suffered the consecuences of intestinal parasites, spent several days in bed with and a week recovering from a fever of 101.4, and had a cold for a couple of weeks. But the most significant sickness that I contracted was a tropical parasite called leishmaniasis. This parasite is injected into the blood stream by a sand fly and then as it multiplies just under the skin one or more sores develop and grow. The parasite in advanced stages can infect the mucous membranes of one's nose, ears or lips, can infect one's liver and eventually, usually after a number of years cause death. A sore developed on my arm in early October and lab tests confirmed it to be leishmaniasis. But after two weeks of its appearance the sore disappeared. Many people have been praying about this sickness and we hope that I have been healed. Because of the seriousness of the disease I am going to Tegucigalpa (on my way to the Living Water mission project in Choluteca, to get further blood work done to find out whether or not the parasite still infects my blood. Please pray for conclusive results of this test and/or the faith and confidence that I am healed. If the parasite still infects my blood, the only treatment consists in 40 injections over 20 days of a strong chemical that makes one very sick and causes weight loss. You all know that I can not afford much weight loss. So please pray for strength if God sees fit that I go through this treatment.

Living Water Project

On November 9th, seven of the Discipleship Group youth, Joel, Allison and I will be joining Gustavo Lepe, Jay Substad and a team from Minnesota for a water project in the community of Mata Palo. We will travel winding mountainous roads for seven hours to Tegucigalpa by truck where we join Gustavo and the rest of the team. On the 11th, after another 4 hours of driving we will arrive in Mata Palo, where for a week we will live with and work along side of the people to install a gravity fed water system so that each home can have one faucet to draw water from. We will hold educational programs for the kids and evening meetings for the whole community. Throughout the week we pray that God's love and the good news of the kingdom would be proclaimed loud and clear through our actions, attitudes and words. Please pray to that end.

IER Graduation

The second graduating class of Instituto El Rey will be graduating on November 17th. Lilian Lopez, the student who has been living with us on campus and whom I have written about in previous letters, is not only a member of this class, but is most likely the valor dictorian. We will be celebrating with her on her big day, and holding a special dinner in her honor for her and her special guests. Please pray that Lilian would open her heart more to the Father's tender love for her and that Allison and I would be reflections of that love through the celebration of this mile stone in her life.

Thank you once again for your joining me in living out the glory of Christ here in Honduras through your prayers, words of encouragement and financial support. It is a privilege for me to be here in his name as we join together in loving service to Christ Jesus. Thank you for your part.


Praise the Lord for:

1. his tender love and kindness to me
2. The opportunity to express the good news of Jesus in the Mata Palo community water project and the La Muralla latrines project
3. the graduatin IER students and God's grace to Lilian Lopez in graduating as valor dictorian

Pray to the Lord for:

1. me to continue walking in God's Holy Spirit through joys and hardships
2. the good news to be expressed through the Mata Palo water project and people to turn to Jesus
3. the Discipleship Group youth to grow in faith and love through the Mata Palo mission trip
4. the leishmaniasis to be healed, conclusive results from blood tests and/or strength during treatment
5. Lilian to see God's grace in her graduating with honors and to open her heart more to him

with gratitude,

Larry

"Love never fails."

Gordy and I are fine and our weather has been wonderful. We meet with a group of seniors on Fridays and are seeking to be good witnesses. The evening before we went to Montreal, we were robbed. Even though we were in our apartment we couldn't see the door and someone came in and out in a flash, took Gord's wallet, cash that was on the dresser and my rings. He had to be a pro to be so slick. We thank our Lord that we didn't confront him, we just thought it was one of the seniors who mistook our door for theirs. It does happen. Anyway, it was just things and all we have belongs to Him and we had more important matters on our minds. We remember you all in our prayers each day. Do share this letter with the dear folks there. We have heard from Roberta Thompson a couple times and she is making adjustments to her new situation.

Well dear ones in the Lord, Maybe I won't be so slow writing the next time. We love you all.

Gordy and Bernice

I just got off the phone with Heidi, who asked me to send out a quick update
to our family of friends. We thank God for each of you who have so covered
us in love, support and intercession. We have felt that we could stand on
your prayers. Heidi flew out to join Rolland a week ago. Rolland received
one week of intensive prayer along with solid and sound medical attention.
His heart has calmed, he has begun to regain the weight he lost, gaining
strength and is feeling much better. In our time of deepest need, God has
really given him a breakthrough.

However, the doctors are insisting Rolland take a three-month sabbatical or
furlough in the US. Therefore, Heidi and Rolland will be in the US for the
next three weeks. Rolland will rest in the US for Nov through Jan 2008.
Heidi will also take the month of December completely off from ministry
after our Holy Given Iris International School of Missions Graduation. The
Bakers will be together laboring to "enter rest" as Heidi wrote in our last
update. Therefore, Heidi will not be speaking more during this time as her
focus and priority is Rolland.

Both Bakers express intense appreciation and thanksgiving for the depth and
breadth of love and care. Certainly we do not feel alone in times of trials.
Perhaps the greatest redemption of attacks like these is Jesus' love shining
so brilliantly and beautifully through the lives of our family of friends.
We see Him in each other and thank our God daily for you. We request prayer
also for the transition in administration as Rolland takes a time of rest.
We pray for the fullness of rest and restoration. The best is always yet
ahead in Him.

"Onward we go" as Rolland often says.

Dear Sister Joan,

I'm so glad with my wife Judy that I was able to visit
your church with my wife Judy. It was 1974 0r after
that Jamie Buckingham laid hands on me at church of
Wire Alley Gonzales where I also became a pastor in
later years.
Many years also I became recepient of those messages
in audio tapes which increased me into soooo much
blessings Spiritually.
I thank God for the ministry of Jamie Buckingham and
the TABERNACLE CHURCH which brought us into greater
anointing to greater ministry not only in the
Philippines but to Nations like United States of
America.
PLEASE keep us in your prayer and we do likewise for
God's glory.
May God Bless You More Abundantly.

Blessings,

Rodrigo and Judy Limpot
Cebu City, Philippines