I woke up this morning from a dream of the world ablaze. Flames spread across the entire globe. The Lord quickly reminded me of a prophetic word that was spoken over Tony, Felicity & I, more than ten years ago as we were preparing to leave Amarillo and move to Manila. We were at River Road Fellowship in Amarillo, where a group of people had come together to pray over us and send us out. I believe it was our dear friend Debbie Hiltbrunner that spoke of seeing fires ignite all over the Philippines as we went. She saw those fires spread from Island to Island and said they began leaping across the ocean spreading to other nations and even reaching back to the US.
In these last ten years in the Philippines, we have witnessed the Lord setting fires of evangelism in each class as we train pastors and leaders in Stealth Evangelism. We are doing our best to go out to other Islands spreading that fire. Please pray for us as we prepare to take it to other nations. We need God’s guidance, grace, timing, and provision!
I read the following article on GodVine.com recently, and wanted to share it with you. I looked on line and found out the cross, which is located in Colorado, has deteriorated over the years, but below is a picture of it on a post card from the early twentieth century.
Hope it touches your heart as it did mine.
God bless. Love you all, Calli
The Image of the Cross
(reprinted from an email from www.GodVine.com)
Nestled deep in the Rocky Mountains of North America stands a rugged peak. For nine months each year it lies robed in snow, indistinguishable from a dozen others surrounding it.
But as summer arrives and the air warms, the mountain slowly sheds its blanket of white, revealing a massive emblem. High above the neighboring valleys, an 1100 foot vertical gouge bisects a 400 foot horizontal groove, forming an almost perfect image of the cross of Christ. This sight is so impressive that famous American artist Thomas Moran visited the mountain to paint it in 1875. The peak is aptly named “The Mountain of the Holy Cross.”
In winter, only an expert could single out this particular peak from those around it. But in summer, any child could look at these mountains and easily choose “the one with the cross on it.” The only real difference in this mountain and the all the others is the enormous image etched into its face.
We spend much of our lives creating a thick layer of “achievements.” We climb the career ladder, push our kids to excel, move to a better neighborhood, pursue another degree, all in the hope that we will somehow become more popular, wealthy, powerful, or influential. Like a thick blanket of snow our conquests and achievements cover us, deposited one tiny flake at a time until we are totally obscured. For many of us, self- esteem and self-worth come from what we have accomplished or how much we can buy or who we know.
Yet one day we will awaken to a new reality, an endless day in which all our values will be turned upside down. All that we have done, said, created, bought, and built will be brushed away, melted like snow under the gaze of our eternal Father. Deep within each one of us He will seek the one thing, the only thing He truly cares about: the imprint of the cross, the mark of His Son.
Nothing else matters to Him. And on that day, nothing else will matter to you. Do you possess the one thing that really matters?
…..And I would like to add: Have you made sure that the people around you every day possess the one thing that really matters? Cause that really matters too!!!!
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What a victory!
Jimmy Andal, Youth Leader, Mamatid Int’l. Mission for Christ, Cabuyao, Laguna
“I was excited when we were invited to this training but my excitement was short lived because I found out that I will share the gospel to strangers and that made me very scared. So on the first practicum, I really was scared and intimidated and was not able to witness at all. However, thru the loving admonition of the staff, I had recovered my confidence and the thought that what is at stake here is eternal damnation for the souls that can be lost forever, I composed myself and through the infilling of the Holy Spirit I was able to share the word of God and win souls to the Lord. What a victory! I want to give all the glory to Jesus and I want to thank Pastor Tony and the staff of Dunamis for their dedication in their field of ministry.”
Personal Note about Jimmy from Pastor Tony: Jimmy came back from the first practicum so defeated. We took him aside and talked with him and I assigned a monitor to go with him. The next day he started witnessing and came back from 0 to fourth place in the winning of souls for the class! Jimmy just returned from Afghanistan where he was a security officer and he’s a big guy with bigger heart!
What an experience!
Pastor Ed Roman, Associate Pastor, Jesus the Light of the World Church, Quezon City
“I learned to share the word of God to strangers in just a short while…in fact 5 to 7 minutes only and you got people saved. What an experience! … I will witness to people all my life.”
Philippine National Police SPO4 Abner Esparagoza, Church Leader, Jesus Christ the Light of the World
Church, Quezon City
“Stealth Evangelism is a great help to the expansion of the God’s kingdom here on earth! God bless you!”
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Stealth Evangelism Made my burden light!
Pastora Norma Manuel, Missionary / Pastor, Hosanna World ministries, Inc. Cabuyao, Laguna
“On January 19th, the Lord instructed me to prepare my 2 year calendar of activities. The second week of each month is dedicated to evangelism and church planting in 6 provinces. My assignment is to train workers and young pastors. Stealth Evangelism made my burden light. My passion is winning souls and to plant churches will be more exciting and productive because of these 3 days and 3 nights of training. It is so basic and simple and less threatening, so that even new converts can learn it quickly. And for the mature pastors and missionaries, it could be a life changing experience…”
“In my case, my faith has increased due to the new converts brought to the kingdom in 3 days. My perspective on personal evangelism has drastically changed. Stealth Evangelism will be our regular church program from this day on. As a leader of our church organization, I will endorse this program to our denominational organization, Christ to the Philippines, and many other para church organizations, to quicken the end time harvest.”
You make it possible!
These are just a few of the testimonies from January’s last class. Remember your faithful giving each month keeps this training available for the local pastors here in and around Manila and also makes it possible for us to reach out to those on the other Islands who cannot afford to travel to Manila for the seminars here.
Many times we think that unless we are able to give great amounts that it doesn’t make a difference. You know, if you gave P50, P100, P500,P1,000, or P5,000 per month you would help us take the training all over the Philippines which would greatly increase the growth of every church where we train their leadership, and it will help insure that we can continue this awesome work for years to come. Please consider starting this month to partner with us monthly.
God has put us in a very cost efficient place and we are proud that we’re able to continue this work, but right now we are in the red monthly. The recession has hurt every ministry we know including ours. If we can get our monthly support up to where we are no longer in the red, we will be in the green and green means go, Amen? “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15. Remember “Win the Philippines! Win the World”!
We love you all, Tony and Calli Poole
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