Wishing you all, a very
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We would like to extend a belated Merry Christmas to all of you, and let you know that we were thinking of you during our Christmas celebration here in the Philippines. We celebrated Christmas eve at Erick and Christine’s house next door in typical Philippine tradition. We had a lot of families over for a big food celebration at midnight here, it was fun and the food was awesome. Christmas Eve is like New Year’s Eve in the states to some, in that they gather together and eat big meals late at night. The next day we had barbeque ribs, deviled eggs, oven-roasted veggies, cherry icebox pie, and orange cranberry muffins for our Christmas day meal. Erick and the family came over to our house for that. Wish you could have been here. By the way, we had a big turkey for Thanksgiving this year, but guys we miss getting to come back and see you all this year. This year has had its toll on us with me in the hospital at the first of the year, and a horrific car accident in March, the thing is, we are still here and kicking the devil’s butt with our seminars and we can give the Lord Praise for taking care of us so well during such times. All of us have had our share of calamity with the world trying to come apart at the seams but the Lord has our back and front, Amen! When our trust is in Jesus, the enemy cannot prevail. Let’s all give the Lord a Praise offering right now together. Happy Happy Birthday Jesus, we love you and give you all the Praise and all the Glory! Amen!
Both the first and the last!
Batch 2214 Dec 15-17, 2022 In-house training
The first in-house training since the pandemic and the last training for the year was filled with Christmas spirit. Fully grasping and embracing that the reason for the season is Christ alone. There were 403 new souls won to the Lord representing each of their 403 families. Wow, what a way to greatly bless these families with the best Christmas gift, the gift of Salvation from Jesus Himself, and what a way to impact the eleven churches represented in this class with these new powerful, fearless, and unstoppable soul-winners.
During graduation, ambivalent emotion is at its height. The graduates were happy and grateful, all be it somewhat remorseful and yet renewed in their commitment to the Lord’s mandate in The Great Commission. Pastora Corazon was in tears as she testified that the Lord spoke to her from Day 1 of the training for being way, way behind in soul-winning, and pledged to redeem the time by leading souls to the Lord. Pastor Arnel was ignited, while Pastor Andre was deeply moved and challenged by the story of Cora,( the forgotten person) and was even touched that he was not only taught the tool but even showed and demonstrated to him how to use the tool in the practicum field. Sis Annie, a real estate woman turned Missionary found rest and refreshed during the seminar while during practicums the Lord directed her to the new souls that were struggling in life and/or sickness. Sis Mayble Lyn, a former Navy officer in Presidential Yacht who resigned to do full-time ministry is now on board the Yacht of Our Lord in doing the Harvest of souls has found the tool so simple, easy yet powerful. Each one of them received God’s powerful reminder of His mandate and was excited to start cascading this message to their own church members.
Merry Christmas!
I would like to take this opportunity to greet the partners of Dunamis International with a very merry Christmas and at the same time send you on behalf of thousands of trained pastors and leaders our heartfelt gratitude for all your continued support that enables us to bring hope and bring Jesus into every household. Truly, you are all God-sent and you all deserve to have the joy that Christmas brings not only during this season but every moment of your life. May the hope, happiness, and all the blessings you bring through us through sharing Jesus be multiplied to you a hundredfold in Jesus’ Name, Amen. Let us all be found faithful as we all occupy until He comes.
Til Next year -2023, we pray for more and more breakthroughs in the vineyard of The Lord!
Ptra. Remy Mordeno
Pandemic Impact on Evangelism Outreach Critical!
I would like to invite you to partner with us in taking these seminars to the Islands, Pastors are waiting even now for us to bring the seminar to their region or Island. It takes money to take the staff and go sometimes by land, sometimes by sea, sometimes by plane and do the seminars on other Islands. The Pastors are mostly financially unable to come to Manila where we have our mission center, so we have to take it to them through our Mobile Seminar Program. We can do things a lot cheaper here than it would take in the states or even other countries. Even with the reduced cost of travel, it’s still costly enough that we are limited on the number of seminars we can do only by the amount of money that comes in through our partner receipts. To be honest with you the pandemic took a toll on our partners. We lost a few partners from death and some of their circumstances changed and they were unable to continue with the support they were giving or they had to reduce their support. Pre-pandemic we were doing an average of about 3 seminars per month. Many were on other Islands and we had to fly to get to them. Now, 2 seminars would be a stretch for us each month, and mostly where we can drive to the venues. So, I’m asking you to help us on a monthly support to get our income up to where we can average 3 a month again. Realistically, we need to increase our monthly partner income by $1,800. to accomplish this. Seminars cost between $700 and $1,100. The more expensive the travel cost is the primary difference. I can only schedule what we can budget. So, for us to be able to fly to these distant Islands, we have to generate some new partners so we can continue to reach out to the pastors all over the Islands. I can do 2 seminars per month but only on this Island and our in-house seminars where the pastors come here to our mission center to train. Each of these seminars where we go to other Islands has a huge impact. Each seminar will usually mean 1,000 + souls and all the churches that are impacted will set up reaper clubs and start harvesting souls every month thus their churches start growing and they plant many churches through the evangelism program they set up. When you sow into the Kingdom by perpetuating the spreading of the gospel it is like a snowball effect, it keeps growing and growing the Kingdom of God. There is only one thing you can take with you to heaven and that is the souls of men. So, please do what you can and it will be multiplied back to you in every way of your life. You will prosper as your soul prospers. Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for a friend. When you give money to save men’s souls you are laying down your life for people you don’t know but someday when you’re in heaven they will be coming to you and thanking you because you invested in their salvation, Hallelujah! God Bless you for your help and sacrifice!
We love you Tony, Calli, and the Dunamis Staff.