Harvest Now

Summer 2013

Greetings Friends!  Summer on Manitoulin Island is wonderful as testified by the doubling of our population from about 10,000 to 20,000.  Never heard of Manitoulin Island?  It is the largest fresh water island in...

Follow the Money

Friends.  Some time ago in another context I stated "Western Christianity spends more money on conferences about mission than actually doing mission" and of course that statement was challenged as it should be....

She is Worth Protecting

She is Worth Protecting by Harvey Carey, youth pastor Salem Baptist Church

“We are not predators, we are protectors.” —Jonathan Welton

A strip club opened near my church in Chicago that was illegally allowing in minors. So I...

Reaching the Unreached!

Hello Friends, A short google search about evangelism among unreached people groups will yield several different variations of the reality that  only 10% of mission effort is directed towards unreached people groups and only...

The Naked God

God the Father  sacrificed God the Son for a relationship with you.  There are no "right" ways to pray.  There are no steps to follow.  There are no spiritual techniques to employ.  There are no...

Trafficking Statistics

Friends, The numbers below are from Moldova.  We do not have statistics from Tajikistan but it is also a source country for trafficked women and girls since many are desperately poor and abandoned by parents or husbands who...

The Show Must Go On

Hello Friends, One very cold Sunday morning in northern Canada a couple of contractor friends headed off to a job site for a few hours.  They planned to meet their families at church at 11:00.  Job completed, they...

December 2012

Friends & Partners, We have much to be thankful for this past year.  A home for women at risk became a reality in Tajikistan.  So far as we know this is the only home for women in that nation of seven million...

The Dungans

Friends, Dungan is the Turkic name for the  Chinese Muslims who live in Kyrgyzstan & Kazakhstan.  They are the descendants of Muslim Persian and Central Asian traders  who worked the Silk Road and married...

It all keeps happening!

Dear Partners, Our friends  in Kazakhstan have a community in an old sauna/bath house in a high crime area of their city.  They are reporting new baptisms there.  Maria in Osh, Kyrgyzstan shares that an...

3 Questions about Giving

Friends, 3 Questions about Giving:

1/ Even a casual reading of  I Corinthians 8 & 9 reveals that the purpose of the giving was  "ministering to the saints" (not salaries or a building program) so that...

From Sergey in Tajikistan

Friends the letter below (with minor editing)  is just in from Tajikistan We are grateful for our friends and partners in Central Asia and grateful for those of you  who help us help them.  Also  some of you...

Tajikistan- Challenges & Opportunities!

Friends, It was a joy to be in Tajikistan again and see the love of God in action.  There are now two simple "Houses of Peace" for men.  Both feature bee hives & honey making but one also has a small...

Visions & Dreams Testify of Jesus

Hello Friends, the following is a testimony from a Muslim.  For the whole testimony you can go to the link below....

Simple Multiplies

Hello Friends, in 2009 Fernando and Leen Pauwels  lived in Uganda for three months with their two preschool children.  Their home was a tent near an orphanage where they shared life with 30 teen aged boys.  Every...