Tony Poole, Author at Dunamis International Ministry of Evangelism

November 2019 Newsletter

December 1, 2019September 6, 2022 by Tony PooleNo Comments

We brought out the table and chairs we had in storage so we can have Thanksgiving in the mission center tomorrow. We had to wait for the weekend because it is not a holiday here. So Sunday is better to celebrate on because the workers are gone, the kids are out of school and friends we have coming have an easier time scheduling it in too. Things are not quite finished, so Krystel and I will still have to cook at Felicity’s house but we can carry it over and eat in the new dining room. We found this table two years ago at a garage sale. It has two extra leaves so we can extend it for times like this!

Happy Thanksgiving to our family and friends!

This has been an eventful month. We are so near completion of the construction of our new Dunamis Mission Center here in Manila, Philippines! We are giving you a little preview of what the center is looking like at this time. It’s beautiful and will represent Dunamis and the Kingdom of God well.

When we have seminars here at the center, the pastors will come to a place that is not only beautiful but welcoming in every way. Just as the old center was so wonderful to welcome God’s soldiers for a 3 day seminar, we will soon be able to begin training pastors here and equip them with the latest weaponry to do battle for men’s souls.

It gives them a sense of respect and honor that the Lord would provide them with such an experience and give them the tools they need to make their churches grow exponentially through one on one evangelism by their members.

The front entrance is looking awesome. It won’t be long before we can move our vehicles off the street and will be able to park in the garage.

We have always considered the Mission Center as theirs. When they come here, they are coming to a refuge for God’s soldiers to be loved and encouraged and receive the best training for waging war against the kingdom of darkness that we can give. These pastors come from very modest environments and when they arrive, they are treated with the respect you’d give your heroes of the faith. These wonderful men and women of God deserve the best that the Kingdom of God can give. We give them 3 days in a beautiful mission center where they are in the spot light of God. It’s our goal to make sure they know they are special and give them what they need. I’ve always said that if you teach a fisherman to fish effectively, that he can go home and never be hungry again. We believe the most important thing that can be taught to our leaders in our churches worldwide is how to fish for men’s souls. Do I hear an Amen? Train them to do the Great Commission from Jesus in Matthew 28:19 – Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Pastors come for boot camp at Dunamis International School of Evangelism! For the 3 day training which includes stay in and food, all the training materials and the incredible training for 100 Pesos (that’s just two U.S. dollars!) In answer to your next question, yes it’s non-profit! Ha-Ha! I told you we give them the training from the Lord! Guys, we can’t charge more, because the very Pastors that need it the most can’t afford it. That’s also why we do mobile missions all over the Islands because we have to take it to a lot of them. They can’t afford to travel to here in Manila from their Islands even when it’s free. But when they are trained they go back and start building their churches. They build the kingdom by winning their neighborhoods and cities to the Lord and at the same time they can come out of poverty and feed their families because their churches can start taking care of them financially so they don’t have to work multiple jobs and can focus on God’s work in the church.

The staircase is finally in, all the way to the rooftop! We still have to paint the rails and stain and finish the wood, but the wielder’s job is complete.

We have some debt at the end of construction. We owe now about $47,000 dollars. That represents payments of about $1,400 per month for 3 years. But we have no other debt! God is our provider but we really can’t afford any debt against our income. Please pray about helping us become debt-free again. We are non-profit so that means that there is no income except what our partners generously give to insure that we are able to do the seminars monthly. Calli and I are on Social Security and have a small rental income from 2 houses in the US. We use it all to do this ministry, so debt is not an option. Most of you know we had a large portion of our building fund embezzled this year by a long-time employee. Enough on that, but if you have any further questions about that, email us at tcp1976@aol.com. Personally, we turned that over to God and He can take care of it, we have other fish to fry, Amen? Or I guess I should say, fish to catch. Fishing for the souls of men and training our wonderful pastors!

We are moving up on Christmas and New Year’s. Please consider helping us clear this debt with some of your yearend gifts.

We love you all very much and miss you so much,

Tony, Calli, Krystel, Levi, and Wyatt and all our precious Dunamis staff

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Wow, what a find!

Krystel and I stopped at another garage sale this morning. We found these 26 chairs for the school. They are practically brand new. I think the people had a catering business for a short while. But anyway, we were able to get these for less than half of the price that they sell for here.

When Tony came to look at them, he also found this desk for $20 for the school office. We certainly were not looking to spend anything at this time but knew it was going to be needed this next year for the school. So if anyone would like to provide the $150 for the chairs and $20 for the desk we would be so blessed! They are even gray, so they will look great up under the cover on the rooftop. Looks like they were just made for us, haha!

“Win the Philippines! Win the World!”
Let’s do it together!

October 2019 Newsletter

October 28, 2019 by Tony PooleNo Comments

Construction Continues Despite Obstacles

We are coming closer to the end of the construction of the new Dunamis International Mission Center here in Manila. Since the fire on February 17th, 2016 we have been in many calamities trying to build the center back. It took 14 months to get the insurance settlement so we could begin the construction. We can’t tell you in words how difficult getting your claim settled was here in the Philippines. The insurance company did everything possible to cut the amount that we had the property insured for. They lied to us from the very beginning sitting in their main office here. We were sitting there in clothes that had been given to us, they started by telling us that we were covered for things that later on they denied. Folks, when you have gone through such a tragedy and are in a state of pure vulnerability you believe that people would have the compassion to tell you the truth. Their lies started unfolding on us later. We were blessed by the Lord covering us all the way, or they would have robbed us of almost everything. When we finally settled with them they had swindled us out of approximately 27% of the claim. After 14 months of stress to get the claim, we had the task of finding a builder and drawing the plans then get a permit that took about 6 months and a lot of money to obtain. We spent about 5 months demolishing the old structure which was an ordeal itself because the old structure was massive and had to be knocked down by manpower and jackhammers. We had done most of the demolishing while we were negotiating the claim.

Seminars continue also!

In the meantime, we stepped up our seminars to average about 3 a month while all this was going on. We tripled the number of seminars that we did by switching to mobile seminars instead of in house seminars like we had done before. Mobile seminars now allowed us to reach more pastors and affect more churches with perpetual waves of evangelism that was created from the seminars. We were rising out of the ashes and impacting thousands of lives through our seminars and at the same time working on the building of the new center. So you could say that the new center is baptized with 10’s of thousands of souls being saved while the new center began rising out of the ashes of the old one! Hallelujah! I don’t have a clue how we have gotten all this done when our hearts were completely torn out by the loss of our precious daughter Felicity, but we all know that God’s Grace is sufficient. It’s not about our strength, but completely about His strength and love for each of us and all those that are affected by this awesome ministry. God is good all the time, He will never let us down, He will always be there for us, and only in Him is there victory and fulfillment!

We are still one or two months from completion of the building, we’ve had to borrow money ($50,000) to finish and it’s not enough, we are still about $20,000 short. I’m sorry we can’t really get the numbers closer than that because everyday something else comes up. We have about 16 to 20 laborers including, electricians, masonry guys, painters, tilers, window installers, air conditioning installers, and laborers. Most working 6 days a week. We are coming to a close on several different levels so we will quickly be coming down to mostly painters hopefully after about another 2 weeks. I want you to know that it’s not like in the states, the wages are much less. Yet after almost 21 months of construction, even the cheaper wages are hard to come up with. The well is running dry. After losing a lot of money to former 14-year employee embezzlement, we have sold the school van, Calli’s personal car, and 2 of our motorcycles, and other assorted assets to keep the project going. We have a F150 Ministry pickup that I can sell, but I’ve been holding off hoping we wouldn’t have to sell it also. It’s a mint condition 1997, 46,000 miles truck; it’s very helpful to the ministry, so I hope that we can raise enough money that it doesn’t have to go.

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Above: the back service area looking a little more complete. Below: Last month this wall was just a ditch and the new parking area was just dirt. Things are coming along!

God is good! He is our Provider!

Guys we have been in ministry in the Philippines going on 22 years, since 1997. We have lived here in Manila 17 years of that. God takes care of us! In 2006, the Lord told me not to go back to the US and itinerate any more. Itinerate means to go to local churches back in the US and hold meetings and raise support. He said to me, “I’m going to show you my ways instead of your own.” So, since that time we quit going back to the states every year to raise support, and just stayed on the firing lines of the battle for men’s souls and trusted the Lord with bringing in what we need. He has taken care of us since 2006 without us coming back to the US for 3 months every year and interrupting our ministry with a 3-month gap every year. I can tell you it was like riding a wild roller coaster to do that. When God told me to stay home and that He would take care of it, it was such a relief. He has done that very thing. We do miss seeing y’all and our family, but we will have plenty of time in Heaven to catch up. Amen?
We do need some help and we are sorry to even have to ask you, but it’s getting harder every day to get to the finish line of this construction. It tears my heart to even have to share this. We know, everyone has problems, but we do know that when you give, the Lord says it will be given you. So we pray that the following scripture will enlighten your heart and bring you much joy with the opportunity to give. It’s like buying war bonds in World War II except better because you are sowing into the Battle for Men’s Souls. We are waging battle for millions of souls being brought to the Kingdom of God by these Pastors and churches.

Luke 6:38 – Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.

With this statement from the Lord we know that this is an opportunity to be blessed sowing seed into the Kingdom of God and we pray that your return would manifest in financial prosperity and spiritual prosperity from sowing into souls!

Love you all,
Tony and Calli

Our newest grandson has arrived!

Join us in welcoming our newest family addition! Wyatt Callen Anthony Bordi was born on October 8th. He and mama Krystel are doing wonderful. Proud daddy Levi is doing great too, especially now that everyone is home from the hospital. Tony and I are so blessed to have them here. If any of you that know and love them would like to bless baby Wyatt with a shower gift, just make a notation on your gift and we will get it to them.

Please pray we get finished with this building soon so we can move in. The construction is so exhausting with all the overseeing and running after supplies etc. We so want to get our focus back to just the school and ministry of Dunamis. Well…of course there will always be plenty of Gram’s focus on these grand kids around here. The Lord has really blessed us to be able to have Felicity’s two and now little Wyatt around.

September 2019 Newsletter

September 25, 2019 by Tony PooleNo Comments

So so so close to the finish line!

Calli, Felicity, and I moved here to Manila in March 2003, and have had a wonderful ministry here all that time. We actually started ministry here in October 1997, 22 years ago. We had bought the mission center and totally remodeled beginning in July 2008. On February 17th 2016, our mission center caught fire and was completed destroyed. We lost everything we had in the center including all our family heirlooms, pictures, and clothing, all but our night clothes on our backs, in less than an hour. Worse than that, we lost our daughter Felicity, a 32 year old mother of two! That nearly killed all of us!

The fire is still consuming our lives. Every day we spend not in our home and mission center is a day that is stolen or consumed by the fire. Every day reminds us, now we are so close to the finish line! Sometimes it’s like I’m trying to get through the day to be one day closer to the finish of the building. We haven’t been able to leave for 3 years now to go back and see our family and friends in the US. When it’s done, it will be like taking the chains off of us. Amen?
It took 14 months to get an insurance claim from the insurance company here and we had to fight for every penny. That was horrible on top of everything else we were going through emotionally. During those 14 months we had to demolish what was left of our beautiful mission center. Calli and I were both committed to not let this knock this special ministry to the ground and we rose out of the ashes of that fire and tragedy to fight even harder than ever before. Instead of slowing down the ministry we increased the number of seminars by going mobile and taking it to the pastors all over the Islands. In the mean time we continued to ready everything to rebuild on the land we owned. We started the actual construction, getting the site ready even before we got the permits. Trouble is it took so much effort to obtain the permits we finally started building and hired a contractor October 2, 2017. Already weary and putting one foot in front of the other it’s been another 2 years of construction and we are nearly finished. This year in March we had a trusted 15 year employee embezzle over $67,000 of our building fund leaving only $20,000 to finish. We were blessed that everything was paid for, so we sold the school van, and Calli’s personal car for about $50,000 plus two nearly new motorcycles for $2,000. We have a F150 Ford 4 wheel drive ¾ ton truck that is our work horse for the ministry that we still have that we can sell for $10,000 or so, but we have been using that vehicle during the construction. I will sell it to finish if we need to.

The best we can tell, it’s going to take from here about $28,000. We are currently down to less than a $1,000 in our accounts. We will be broke before the week is out. Even if I sell the truck it will take time. So, here’s the good news, God has always provided, the provision comes from His Kingdom. You are all part of that Kingdom, so we are just letting you know that we are hurting for help at this time and we are very tired of the hurt. Don’t take us wrong we will not stop, we will not fail. We are committed to God’s vision of winning the world to the Lord one soul at a time. The Dunamis alumni is more than 30,000 soul winners and trainers, a formidable army that will kick the devil’s butt long after we are both (as Calli’s sister used to put it) on the other side of the grass! We love you and ask that you seek God about some help for us. Armies need provisions to fight the battle; we need partners to continue to wage this war. We are tired but when the burdens are lifted, we soar with eagles seeking the lost. Currently the Alumni of Dunamis wins 10’s of thousands monthly, probably more than a million per year. We just need to keep rolling and taking territory from the enemy, never stopping, Amen?

Love you all, Tony and Calli

PS- We haven’t been home to see our grandchildren in over 3 years now and haven’t even met our great grandson except through pictures on Facebook. We are stranded here, tied to this construction until the center is finished. We are home sick for some hugs from y’all and them. Please keep us in your prayers. If you can’t help look for someone else to help!

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There are 3 lots with tall 10ft. Walls that are being renovated! Still much work left.

Front Gate for garage being put together then painted, huge work, all reused wrought iron (from old mission center) and new pipe!

Front doors and all the stone both around the entry and walk ways. Garage and driveway close to being finished.

All 156 cabinet doors and closet doors and drawer facings were just delivered. Now they are being hung throughout the center, and then will be taken down and painted!

Left photo: Rear wall between our house and the extra lot being installed (starting with digging the foundation) plus extra driveway for parking! That wall is 53 ft long and will be 9 ft tall. Parking area, 35ft. long 14 ft wide. This is important for classes and people coming from all over to attend classes.
Right photo: flights of stairs with rails and spindles and all the trim etc. needing finishing.

Utility Area and bath in rear yard, including space for pressure tank, generator, and pump for water cistern. Finishing tile, painting, roof flashing etc. Plus installation of the pressure tank and generator and the electrical box for the generator switch (we still have these from the original garage that was spared from the fire).
Additional work to be done is refurbishing all the perimeter walls from the inside and finishing the front. That will be 2 to 3 weeks of labor plus more paint. Still have some leaks on the 3rd level that we are trying to get fixed. To make a long story less long we still have 6 weeks to 2 months of work to be finished. This place will be a real testament to the Lord when it is finished. Guys it will be a permanent presence here in the Philippines which is the heart of Asia. We can launch our training seminars to all parts of Asia from here. This is God’s carrier for launching strikes. We need ammo and missiles, to destroy the work of the enemy worldwide! The devil has us underestimated! Greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world! Praise God!

Create in me a clean heart!

Over the last months we have loaded countless trash trucks with the debris and garbage from the build site and had it hauled away. Just as we have had to haul out all that trash and keep the site clean to see the mission center soon to be completed, so we must throw off and allow to be hauled off all the garbage in our spirit so we can be made complete in the Lord! (He who has begun a good work in you will complete it…) Phil. 1:6.

Lord, we shed off all doubt and unbelief, all worry. You, oh Lord, supply all our need according to Your riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Phil 4:19) … where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. (Matt. 6:20) Praise the Lord!! Jesus, keep our build site (our hearts) clean before You! “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10) Transform us from glory to glory! (2 Cor. 3:18) – Calli Poole

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In Philippines, deposit directly in BPI account:
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Account Name: Dunamis International School of Missions to Asia
Account No. : 1761-0035-81