+ 5 - 5 | § ¶Prayers for India Christians and Tom' and his team!!!
Please pray for Tom Stamman and his team and their orphanages and work in India as they are under attack, and actually their churches are getting burned and people in India are getting killed...as far as I know the team is still safe at this point and they are returning September 2nd...but pray for them and the pastors/kids in India!!!
here are some letters...
Dear co-laborers, I am sending this letter from Pastor Mali onto you for prayer and help. Our Home of Mercy was broken into and everything was burned inside . The children ran and hid. Some that were close to their home were sent home. I don't yet know about the other children. We have pastors and other workers in hiding . More homes and churches have been destroyed. We know of one nun that was burned alive and her orphanage destroyed. It seems impossible for us to understand real persecution. May God help us to pray more fervently for India and for our own country who continues to slide down the tube, away from God and His teachings in the Bible. I stumble around in ignorance! Norm should be arriving in India right now. Keep your prayers going strong for him and his team of six. In the Arms of Jesus,Karen
Hi Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
I know you are prayer warriors and God honor that ministry greatly.My request is to pray for Tom and his crew of four (Norm, Paul, Isaac and Amber)who are in India right now ministering and visiting our orphanages. The Ministry we partnership with in India Mercy Smiles has been attack by the Indus partisans few orphanages where burn and people were killed. Our orphanages are safe so far but we don’t know what can happened later. I attached a letter from Karen who is the founder of Mercy Smiles Ministries in India and the report for the pastor and director for the orphanages in India Please read and keep them in your prayers. Thank you very much for been obedient to his call. God Bless you,Teresa StammanImpact Ministries International
+ 4 - 6 | § ¶September Newsletter 2008
September—time to think about Christmas in Ukraine!
My friends, one of the most successful and fruitful things this ministry does in Ukraine is provide gifts, skits, games, and preaching of the Gospel to Orphans in Ukraine during December and January. We have enjoyed this part of reaching out to Ukraine as much as anything accomplished there.
This Christmas is no different, except we are in the USA as we raise funds for this project. In May, I spoke with Pastors and leaders at orphanages while there, and they are all prepared for continuing these programs.
Many of you have given in the past, just fill out the card to the right and write your donation “to help kids in Ukraine”. All those gifts will go directly to these 4-5 different programs at orphanages we have set up!
The future of Ukraine…
As you might have heard in the news, Russia invaded Georgia (pro-western ex-USSR country) in the month of August, during the Olympics.
Prime Minister Putin has shown his cards again and again, but Western Europe, for the most part, chooses to ignore them. He wants to control politics and the world through oil, and Georgia has a VERY strategic pipe line, that gives former USSR nations a little ability to gain wealth without “serving Russia”. Putin has said if Ukraine joins NATO, then he will fight and take over Ukraine! Those are some very serious words, as Ukraine’s government (and pipe lines) are the last remain defense if Georgia falls for Russia to control over 1/3rd of the oil for Western Europe. Germany already says it backs Russia because it doesn’t want to lose oil, even if Russia is a dictatorship that destroys the lives of many.
Foreigners and Missionaries are being kicked out of Russia and getting a VISA there is increasingly difficult. NOW IS THE TIME, to INCREASE, not decrease our efforts to HELP UKRIANE and former USSR nations with the Gospel and support. We want to go back and make a difference, especially if the DOORS are CLOSING! Pray and Give, the time is NOW...Help us HELP THE HURTING...
Current prayers!
Ukraine...pray for all the people to see the TRUE JESUS and turn to HIM!
The CHRISTMAS GIFT program this year, for donations, organization, and success.
Pray for the COUNTRY OF GEORGIA, for healing of the people, the end to Russian’s aggression, and for Ukraine and Georgia to get into NATO as soon as possible.
Keep Praying for AMERICA—and our elected officials that need Christ and wisdom to lead us in the right path, and for all the upcoming elections.
Pray for finances to get back to the mission field! Pray for the setting up of an “Impact Ministries International of Ukraine”, the process can be quite hard (and expensive) but it will aid in missionary work there! Pray for the preaching and reaching out to people in the US OF A!
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING!!!
The pictures below: My friend Jeremy Wallace, Director of Canby Bible School in Oregon, who I visited in August, a house that I and my brother/father have been remodeling, as I work in construction 4-5 days a week, and then, pictures of orphanages projects in 2007...which we want to raise more funds for this year and send it over, if possible, go ourselves and help complete them!
