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Left to right: Contractor-Ivy, Calli with the permit, Tony, and Paolo-structural engineer!
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Glory to God!
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| YEEEHAAA! Praise The Lord!!! After 27 months waiting and wading through the miles of red tape, we finally have our building permit in hand! Construction has officially begun on the new mission center. It’s hard to believe it has been over two years since the fire. We never imagined as we were running out of the house that morning that it would be so long before we could return to live here.
Upon excavating the former foundation that we were planning on building the new center on, it’s to our disappointment that we found that we can’t use the old columns nor the tie beams for the old structure. They were just too damaged from the fire and demolition of the old structure. This means that we are looking at an additional $10,000to $15,000 (which I wouldn’t bank on the lower amount). Lots of demolition and unknown but definitely a financial set back. We are telling all of you about this in case you’d like to invest some seed into the foundations of a soul winning machine we call Dunamis International Mission Center here in Manila. It is a war machine for the Lord in the Battle for Men’s Souls. You can take this eternal opportunity by sowing into the very foundations of the new Center. We hope to have the new columns and tie beams poured in the next two weeks so HELP!!!!! God is our provider. Amen?!! |
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Excavating the old columns and tie beams. Engineer Paolo giving instructions!
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Building begins! Dunamis Mission Center beginning to rise out of the ashes!
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7,000 Rebar will go into the new center- Lot’s of excavation going on!
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Building with concrete and cinder blocks is a lot different than we are used to in the states.
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Tony teaching in Oslob in Cebu City
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May Seminars have been awesome! |
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| If you knew your family or loved ones were having to sleep on the couches of friends…or in stairwells…or even in the street, you would do anything to alleviate their situations and bring comfort to their lives. If you knew people were drowning and you know in your heart that you are able to save them and bring them to a safe place, I am sure you would take action to help them. Well, that is what Dunamis International School of Missions actually did in the month of May. Trainings were held in places isolated and remote from the city, which we can call “uttermost part of the earth.” Where churches are dead and just in the paradigm of maintaining their churches…places where one on one evangelism is yet to be restored and has taken a back seat and was considerably omitted in the lives of the believers.
This May, God led us to places where there is an urgent need to fan the flames of soul winning. Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental Visayas Island, Oslob in Cebu City, Visayas Island, Pangyan, Glan in Sarangani Province Mindanao were our harvest fields and more than 2,000 souls won to the Lord and over 100 pastors and leaders were trained to be fearless and powerful Gospel ambassadors. Their paradigm shift is very evident and they committed to a lifetime of winning souls to the Lord. A 62 year old pastor in Sarangani Province admitted having a first time experience in one on one soul winning and cannot contain the joy she had in doing so. Another pastor in Oslob Cebu praised God for an answered prayer as she had been trying to win souls for a year but those people whom she had been teaching for a year would not pray the sinner prayer. But lo and behold in 5 minutes using the 357 magnum technique these same people finally accepted the Lord Jesus. The hard work, sweat, and blood we poured into these seminars really paid off! We can proudly say by God’s grace that our students became addicted to soul winning. In the coming months we will be facing massive expenses as we have numerous requests to conduct Stealth Evangelism Seminars in different parts of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. I believe God will touch the hearts of people whose heartbeats are one with Jesus finding the lost souls. There is not much time left and there is no option BUT to fulfill the mandate of the Lord as expressed in Matthew 28:18-19 and as they take part in our mission thru their support, they can be assured of God’s promise in Matthew 28:20 that He will be with us till the end of the ages. Now is the time and it is really urgent for we do not know when Jesus comes. Glory to God! Note from Pastor Tony: Please begin monthly support in any amount to help bring these seminars to churches all over the Philippines. These seminars bring hope to pastors that are worn out trying to keep the doors of their churches open and unable to bring the harvest in because of the lack of knowledge of evangelism which would make their church grow in membership thus having more members, they would have more finances, and more workers in the ministry. You can make a difference in the lives of so many pastors and the lives of so many people who are saved monthly through the ministries of these churches. Join us now with whatever you can. Remember you eat an elephant only one bite at a time! So your gift will count for souls every month. We love you all,
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| “Win the Philippines! Win the World!” Let’s do it together! |
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