October 2012 Newsletter

October 2012 Newsletter

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Stealth Evangelism via Web Cam!

Tony just trained a group over our web cam, right from our living room. They are in the Houston, Texas area where Tony and I will be early next month teaching a Stealth Evangelism Seminar. We needed some monitors to help us with the class when we get there, so we stayed up last night and worked with some great people. We are looking forward to meeting them and working with them in person soon!

 

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Krystel Poole

Left: Krystel & Gracie enjoying some time outside. Right: Krystel witnessing to a group of children on the street while on one of the practicums during the Stealth Evangelism class she was taking part in.

A change in my life!

Our daughter Krystel Poole moved to Manila to join us at Dunamis. She along with her best pal Gracie arrived in July this year. She just recently completed the Stealth Evangelism training and the following is her testimony of the impact it has had on her life.

In this last week, I was part of class #59 in the Dunamis International School of Missions. We learned how to reach out to people and get them born again. It was awesome. I witnessed to many people. This is something I never thought I could do. For those that know me, you know how shy I can be. Growing up, I was always the loner and stayed away from crowds. I don’t talk much. At one time, to get me to talk to people I don’t know, would have been almost impossible. God has been doing wonders for me in getting me out of the shyness. At first, I was terrified to walk up to someone and start talking with them. However, God did a wonderful work. He showed me that getting out of my comfort zone was not scary at all. During the 4 practicums, with the Lords help, I was able to lead 72 people to the Lord. This is such an awesome and easy tool to learn and use. This will definitely make a huge impact and change in my life. I can’t wait to see what else God has in store for me. – Krystel Poole

 

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Tony and Calli

The Sword of the Lord!

Today there are over 7 Billion people on the earth, of which there may be as many as 800 million born again Christians. That means that 9 out 10 people that you see on the earth are lost and destined for hell. As our Creator and Father this grieves our Lord’s heart. He’s given us weapons of warfare through men and woman of God all over the earth to wage war on the enemy for men’s souls.

One such weapon is the Stealth Evangelism Program that empowers pastors and leaders to not only win souls effectively, but gives them the program to multiply themselves through training their members with the same weapon and strategies to implement in their churches that will cause perpetual growth. Over the years we have discovered that the only difference between a sower and reaper is the sickle that you put in their hands. If the sickle is light, easy to use, and very sharp then anyone can take it and harvest the crop. So, when you go into the field and hand your sowers this easy to use sickle they can easily turn around and start harvesting. Young and old, strong and weak, educated and uneducated, rich and poor, bold and shy, no one is exempted. They can all do it.

The sickle we are talking about is the Sword of the Lord! When God gives you His sword to do battle, it still is up to you to wield the Sword and battle for men’s souls. Whether it be for one soul or nations of souls God is looking for the Remnant to wield His sword. Throughout the Word of God we see God using the Remnant to bring Glory to Himself. One such story is Gideon conquering the Midianite army of 120,000 men. Gideon came to God expecting Him to give him a larger army to defeat the enemy, but instead God had him send home the faint at heart and those that were halfhearted. All that was left of Gideon’s original 30,000 men were 300. With this Remnant God conquered the Midianites and He got the Glory, Amen?

Looking for the Remnant

Today, God is still looking for the Remnant to wage battle with. Those men and women who will lay down their lives for others in the quest to reach this lost world. We are in the mist of the battle over here and everywhere we go. We are building God’s army as fast as we can with what we have.

I want to be frank with all of you and tell you that we need more monthly support to keep the heat of the battle white hot on the kingdom of darkness. Satan wants to keep us underfunded so we can’t go to the Islands that we need to, and equip the pastors to wage war for men’s souls. It’s been prophesied over and over that the Philippines will be the launching pad for missions to the entire world. When we win the Philippines to the Lord we will have an army that can touch every nation of the world including the Middle East. Right now there are approximately 1 million Filipino’s in Saudi Arabia doing contract labor. Imagine if they were all born again. They would be living epistles right under the nose of Islam. Islam is putting its army right under our nose in the US.

We need to get serious about the reaching of every nation with the gospel. That is the only solution to our political and terroristic unrest. Get them saved and God will change them, Amen? We need your help desperately so we can extend to more battlefronts. God prophesied over us years ago that the Fire of Evangelism would jump from Island to Island until the Philippines was consumed. Please join us with your support to reach this world with the gospel.

Calli and I live on our social security, we don’t use the money for us, we need it for the thousands of pastors that we need to train which will ultimately mean millions of souls, Amen? Sometimes people think that they can’t give enough to make it count. But everything works together to make a big difference. If everyone could do something, whether it be just P100 or P500 or P1,000 a month or more, all of you together could make a big difference. Let’s kick the devil’s butt together this year and reach untold numbers of souls. Thank you for all you’ve done & let’s keep on keeping on.

Love you all, Tony and Calli

 

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In U.S. Send your tax deductable contribution to:

Revival Fire Ministries International

P.O. Box 30487

Amarillo, TX 79120

In Philippines, deposit directly in BPI account:

Bank : Bank of the Philippine Island

Account Name: Dunamis International School of Missions

Account No. : 1761-0035-81

 

 

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Batch #60 at Dunamis

I’m sorry to say that most of the pictures of our last two classes were lost from a computer accident in the office! But I couldn’t keep from including these selections from their testimonies. They were all such a blessing. Sorry there are no pictures to go with them. The following pastor attended the last class and brought several youth leaders from sister congregations around Manila and even beyond. – Calli

Ptr. Andy Barcel – Sr. Pastor, Psalms 23 Church Int’l. Ministry (Love Sector) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

“My training here changed my perception in life… I felt that my love and passion for lost souls has been increased and my desire to reach out to them was intensified. I am so thankful that I was able to take this training even at my ripe age. This training gave me more confidence and skills now to witness more effectively.”


Ethel Gallano – Missionary, Psalms 23 Church Int’l. Ministry, General Trias, Cavite

“Learning the method of Stealth Evangelism made me overcome my fear of man, now I can witness to the lost and win them for Christ. It brings joy to my heart!”
Josan Nuñez – Youth Leader, Psalms 23 Church Int’l. Ministry, General Trias, Cavite
“I overcame the fear and shyness and I was amazed that I shared the words of God. The training was enjoyable because we applied immediately what we had learned and when we witnessed, many souls were saved! Now, confidence in myself was built and I have the boldness to share the words of God!”
Roy Espejo – Youth Leader, Psalms 23 Church In’tl. Ministry, Palayan, Nueva Ecija
“I learned how to mingle with people… which is very uncommon because I am scared to approach people. Then I noticed that when I go to people to witness, I am not shy anymore. I can evangelize to anybody without fear or shyness, I became bold sharing the gospel, and that is because I learned the method of “Stealth Evangelism!”


Michael Banda – Youth Leader, Psalms 23 Church Int’l Ministry, Tarlac

“My shyness was gone because the Stealth Evangelism is easy to share. Personally, I noticed a change in my life because approaching people, to talk and share the word of God to them is the hardest thing I could ever do. But not in this training….I was taught how to approach people without offending them and they listened to me and got born again! The feeling is really different. I thank God for that.”
Darriel Soriano – Youth Leader, Psalms 23 church Int’l Ministry, Palayan, Nueva Ecija
“The learning impacted my life…rigid, but sure and effective. It helps me build my confidence of talking to people and sharing the ‘357 Magnum’. My attitude towards witnessing changed, because now after the Stealth training, I am winning souls for Christ!”
Joe Maiwat – Youth leader, Psalms 23 Church Int’l. Ministry, General Trias, Cavite

“It made an impact to my life… things in my life changed….fear of rejection and shyness was overcome, sharing effectively the word of God and self-confidence were built. I also learned how to be patient, and love for the lost was ignited in my heart.

 

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Boni Valendez

Man lost his wife and

three children in flood

This is Boni Valendez, pictured above. He lost his wife and three children in the flood last December in Iligan City, Mindanao. He was breaking into tears while describing to me the event that took their lives. My heart was breaking for him!! He had left the house to go and see what was happening and find out what to do, but when he tried to return the flood was already under way in his village. The water was so deep even the roofs were not safe. They found dead bodies strewn in the trees the next few days. He never saw his family again. They were all washed out to sea.

I remember watching all the news about it and could see in the pictures where it hit devastatingly as they described the ferocity of the flood, but only standing there where it happened can bring you a real picture of the event. I pointed at a location on the river and asked him if that was where there used to be a village with hundreds of people and he said yes. I remembered where the site was from the newspaper photos. Most all of the villagers died that night the same as his family.

We walked around the village where the houses had been flooded and it was just heart wrenching. In the very place where we were standing, there used to be a nice church that was completely washed away and most of it’s members were lost the same night. Whole families were gone. I could barely hold back tears as we were talking, just seeing the devastation. This is ten months later and there is still a tent village with thousands of people displaced with nowhere to go. There were approximately 5,000 residents killed in the flood that night with little to no warning. Most died from drowning and some from being crushed by logs. This is where we took a team for mobile training this last month.

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Dunamis staff & students at the Tent City

Pictured above: Dunamis staff members, Pastora Sonia San Pedro (left) and Pastora Elaine Pizana (right) took a group of pastors and leaders from Iligan City where we were holding the seminar and did a soul winning practicum in the tent city that was set up as a shelter for those displaced by the flood. Hundreds were born again. Pastor Stephen Villaester from All Nations Christian Church, who was our host for the training, has a continuing ministry there.

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Above: Pastora Rose Tayrus from Jesus for All Ministry witnessing one on one
to each of these youth as they await their turn! Take a number!

Free Gos-pill!

Just take a number and wait your turn!

One of our students Pastora Rose Tayrus, Iligan City had a free “Gos-Pill” line going here in this picture above, left. Like going to the drug store and just taking a number and waiting your turn. We told the students to practice evangelism doing one on one at a time and she took it serious! Here they are lined up waiting for her to share the gospel to each of them individually. All five of these youth were born again. They just waited for their turn to be saved! Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get Americans to do this. Wow!

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Boylen Batinigas

“No more tomorrow

It’s going to be today – NOW!”

Boylen Batinigas from Bible Community Church

“Before the seminar started I was expecting that this would be only a little improved method compared to the traditional methods of evangelism I had known. But I was wrong – as the lecture had finished I said to myself ‘Great formula! Great method!’ I could feel the joy and excitement build. My confidence is higher, I conquered my fear, the fear of rejection. Every ticking of the clock is important to those lost souls awaiting to be saved…time is important to six billion souls needing salvation. No more tomorrow – it’s going to be today – NOW!” (Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 2Cor 6:2b)

The time is now!

Hearing these testimonies from Pastora Rose and brother Boylen I just got a picture of all the lost souls in the world out there waiting to be saved. They may not think that is what they are doing, but in the spirit that is the only thing any of us are really here for – to come to know our Lord, love and worship Him and do His will. Like the young people sitting on that table, waiting in line for their turn to receive the Lord in their hearts, the lost of this world are truly just “awaiting to be saved” like brother Boylen said. They are waiting on us to come share this glorious Good News! (Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! John 4:35b) It’s time for us to get up and get into the fields all around us and get to harvesting! The time is now!

— Calli

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Account Name: Dunamis International School of Missions

Account No. : 1761-0035-81

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Above: Pastora Santa was a very aggressive soul winner and she actually prayed a prayer of salvation with all three of these Muslim ladies. When you’re living all together in a tent city and you all have the same things in common like losing your loved ones and homes, things just get down to a simple reality check don’t they? Most of us can’t imagine losing everything including our families. Personally, I don’t think I could survive losing my family. These Muslim ladies were very open to hear the gospel, isn’t that a blessing? Sometimes tragedy will open the doors of our heart to hear the truth. Amen?

My mouth wouldn’t stop!

Pastora Santa Bacalso – Sr. Pastor, Mount Moriah International Global Ministries, Cagayan de Oro City (pictured below left)

“I came from Cagayan de Oro City which is about two hours drive to Iligan City. Before I came, during my devotion time, I always had the feeling of emptiness, as if something is lacking in my life and ministry. So when I was invited by my niece, Pastora Elaine, to attend the Stealth Evangelism seminar, I was expecting that this will be the answer to this emptiness…After the lecture on Stealth Evangelism, I was very happy… I knew that this is what I was looking for. For the longest time, I have longed to evangelize my neighborhood.

Stealth Evangelism so impacted my life that during practicum where we do our one-on-one witnessing I did not feel any tiredness and my mouth wouldn’t stop telling all the people that I encountered about the gospel and they got born again! Ministering to the people in Iligan, both the muslims and Catholics alike brought joy to my heart and how I wished I could stay another day to witness more. My heart was changed especially when I realized that there are forgotten people in my life. Now for sure, my everyday life will be busy witnessing to my friends and loved ones, leading them to the Lord.

Now, after taking Stealth evangelism, I have the courage to witness. I have passion for souls and the burden for lost loved ones is lifted because I can now share salvation with them in a friendly manner without any offence to them. I thank God because He led me to attend to this seminar which brought an end to the emptiness I felt in my heart about winning souls for the Lord. I am sure when I get back to my church, there will be a great revival in our city as we teach Stealth Evangelism to our members. Hallelujah! I am so very excited!

My prayer is that the ministry of Dunamis will continue and Pastor Tony and his staff will have the funds to go to other places to teach Stealth Evangelism and that those that take this course will be encouraged to support this ministry like I intend on doing!”

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Above: Sister Eva shares the gospel with lady in the tent city, leading her to the Lord.

I came expecting!

Eva Turla from Baptist Conference Church in Iligan City

I came expecting to learn a new method of evangelism. I had read the invitation to come, along with the testimonies of Pastors who had attended before. I felt excited and wanted to learn how they could evangelize and win so many souls to the Lord. I was blessed by this method and am now more passionate to share the Good News with other people…I desire to multiply myself. To teach others to evangelize, obey and respond to the Great Commission!

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Tony Poole

Dunamis takes

Stealth Evangelism to

Iligan City, Mindanao – Sept. 6-8

We flew down to Mindanao Island to take the Stealth Evangelism Program to the pastors there in Iligan City. The training went well and the pastors were blessed learning the technique and all the strategies we have developed to assist pastors in building their churches and expanding the kingdom of God.

We are so blessed to have the opportunity to take this program to churches on other Islands simply because they don’t have the money to fly up to Manila and take the class at our mission center. If we could afford to fly them in to Manila it would be great, but that really is not feasible and most of these pastors are at border line to full blown poverty. Their dedication to the Lord is absolutely admirable and our hearts go out to each of them. We just Praise the Lord for the awesome opportunity to put the weapons of warfare in the hands of these great men and women of God.

We are on the frontline of warfare for the souls of men here in the 10/40 Window which is the most densely populated part of the world with more than 4 Billion people, 9/10 of them are lost folks. You can be of help in getting this strategic training in the hands of pastors like these every month by committing what you can to make sure it happens. Calli and I have committed all we have to this, all our own income including my social security each month, but we need more and this is wonderful ground to sow seed into. These men and women of God don’t have much but the things they learn in our school helps them grow numerically, which means more members, more finances and more workers for the building of the Kingdom. Please help us make this happen. We need more monthly support so we can do more mobile missions like the this one in Iligan City. Thanks for all you’ve done and all that you’re going to do partners.

We love you,

Tony and Calli Poole

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In U.S. Send your tax deductable contribution to:

Revival Fire Ministries International

P.O. Box 30487

Amarillo, TX 79120

In Philippines, deposit directly in BPI account:

Bank : Bank of the Philippine Island

Account Name: Dunamis International School of Missions

Account No. : 1761-0035-81

August 2012 Newsletter

August 2012 Newsletter

60 – 70% of Manila Flooded!

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“Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day!” We know this is not what you are praying for in the US where you have been gripped with drought conditions for some time now. But this has been our cry for almost two weeks now. We have had over 12 days of rain during which 70+ people have died from drowning, electrocution and mud slides. Torrential monsoon rains have flooded more than half of Manila. We are all safe and dry on high ground here at Dunamis, but our hearts go out to all those being affected by the storms. Several hundred thousand are displaced and almost everyone has been affected in some way.

The city has been at a standstill with more than half of Manila underwater. Power was turned off in some parts of the city as a precautionary measure with the waters seeping into electrical facilities. Schools and offices were shut down as key roadways were submerged by waters that in some areas reached over head level. Many people had to retreat to their roofs to await rescue or huddle in crowded evacuation shelters. The head of the Philippines’ disaster agency said, “It’s like a water world!”

Some of our former students, pastors in Bataan have been affected but have yet to be able to return to their homes and churches to see the extent of the damage. We expect to hear from many others who have been hard hit. We are asking for anything you can spare so we can help them and their members with food and necessities in the coming days as the water recedes and they work at clean-up and disinfecting their surroundings. We count it a blessing from the Lord that our Mission Center is out of the flood zones, we wake up every day with the reality that there are so many people that are now homeless because of the floods. We cannot just sit here and do nothing.

We are dedicating this newsletter to the flood victims all over Manila and the surrounding cities that have been affected by this enormous monsoon. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life time which is quite a while if you know what I mean. There are so many pastors and their families that have been wiped out by the flood. We can’t possibly help them all, but I do believe that all of us can do something to help. It is heart wrenching hearing their stories of dismay and calamity that we can’t even imagine. Most Americans have some sort of insurance for such things. These pastors don’t have money to purchase insurance; most of them are below the poverty level on income and can’t afford the monthly payments for it. So they are stuck with losing everything they have in the world and trying to pick up the pieces and continue on. These pastors live in very humble dwellings that most of you couldn’t imagine living in, yet they survive and preach the word of God throughout their lives. They need help! Will you please pray earnestly about sending something to help them? And please pray that the rains will stop and give them a reprieve, it is pouring down again now as I am writing this.

We are attaching many photo’s just to give you and idea of the seriousness of this situation. Manila is one of the most densely populated cities in the world and it is prone to calamity. This is an opportunity to help the men and women of God who are faithfully serving the Lord here in this city and country. We are praying for the Lord to guide us to those He would have us help. Praise God for this wonderful opportunity. Let’s lay some of our lives down for our brothers and sisters, Amen?

You can go on line to our website and give using your credit card or send your gifts marked “Monsoon Victims” to our U.S. address: Revival Fire Ministries, PO Box 30487, Amarillo, TX 79120, all donations are tax deductible, just make out your check to Revival Fire Ministries International or RFMI.

Again, thank you so much for listening to the Lord,

Tony and Calli Poole

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In U.S. Send your tax deductable contribution to:

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In Philippines, deposit directly in BPI account:

Bank : Bank of the Philippine Island

Account Name: Dunamis International School of Missions

Account No. : 1761-0035-81

 

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Batch 57 July 10-13

Batch 57 July 10-13, Seated on second row from left Pstra. Sonia,
Ptr. Tony, Ptr. Steve, and Pstra Elaine

Next Class will be Aug. 21-24

We have 21 pastors signed up for the next class beginning on the 21st of August. Last month we trained 35 pastors before the monsoon hit. The two previous classes, batches 57 and 58, won more than 1,600 people to the Lord. We have a lot of good testimonies from them and will share some of them in our next newsletter.

Pastora Sonia and Pastora Elaine (pictured above) will be accompanying Ptr.Tony to Mindanao Island on September 5th -9th for a mobile training seminar for 30 pastors in Iligan City. It’s right on the border of Muslim territory, so be lifting them up in prayer. Bishop Stephen Villaester, pastor of All Nations Christian Church, Intl. is hosting the Stealth Evangelism Training. They are extremely excited about having Dunamis come and help ignite a fire of evangelism in their churches in Iligan. Bishop Stephen and his church are a part of the Anglican Church. Praise the Lord! We feel so privileged to bring this fire of evangelism to the Anglican churches here in the Philippines.

We really need your support to do these mobile seminars. We have so many opportunities, we could do a mobile seminar every month to different Islands, lighting fires from Island to Island, please pray about being God’s financial instrument in helping us help these pastors all over the Philippines bring salvation to so many thousands of people.

We love you! Tony, Calli and the staff at Dunamis