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Ralph & Annie Dryden
Thailand
God
is so good to us and we are seeing God continue to move greatly as we
go
into 2010. We are still seeing souls saved and miracles happening
within
the church. Our worship seems to increase in the anointing and presence
of God every week. Just this last Sunday we had 4 people give their
lives to Jesus.
This
month Dr. Ron
Hammonds, Pastor Robert Benlien, Pastor Kenneth Woolf, Cynthia Miller
and Kim Faulkner will teach a KE
Resources Pastors and Leaders Conference February
19th-21th.
Annie and I are continuing to
help Calvary International and teaching in their
bible schools. We
are presently teaching in two schools in the Khon Kaen area. One at
Ban Phet and the other one at Chum Phae. Between the two schools there
are close to 60 students.
In
March we will be helping with a new school close to Burma
where there will be about 25 students
This
fall we have scheduled a missions trip with the bible school
students. We are also planning a missions conference in the
Philippines.
We
thank all of you in advance for your prayers. You can see updated pictures on
our blog at: www.ralphdryden.com
and on our Facebook page.
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Cowboy COTR &
Rock'in R Trailrides
Pastor Kenny & Traci Miller
Wow! That was the word
that escaped my lips as I drove into the parking area Saturday
in Kirbyville for our Rock'in R Riders trailride. There were
horses and horse trailers everywhere.
My first thought was that somebody else
must also be having a trail ride that same day.
But, no... once again, God was just
proving to me that if I would be faithful in the small things, He would
take care of the rest. He is always faithful and is always
looking for someone to bless.
We started out doing arena events and still do those, but a few wanted
to start having trail rides. I typically don't like trail rides because
of the previous ones that I had been on. As always, God has His own way
of doing things and I agreed to start organizing a monthly
ride. I must say that it wasn't with as much enthusiasm as I could have
had and we hadn't hardly gotten on the trail good when someone rode up
alongside of me and said
"Hey Pastor, Can we talk?" That's when the light came on. God, through
his faithfullness and infinite wisdom, had a plan. Imagine
that! Starting on that ride and on every ride since, God has
given me the oppurtunity to minister one on one to someone in need.
God will do the same for you. If you open your heart and your mind, God
will use you to meet someone's needs. I have realized that God
cares more about those that are lost and hurting than He does about our
imperfections. There's a world out there that's lost and
dying, living the hell of this life and we might be the only Jesus that
they ever see.
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Truth
for Today
As Pastors
and Missionaries, many questions arise during experiences in ministry.
This month,
Pastor Kenneth Woolf shares insight on "knowing the will of God", "keys
for
exit strategy", and "knowing your calling."
In addition, we invite you to prayerfully consider financially
supporting Pastor Woolf and his family as they
answer the call of God on their life to plant a church in Pueblo West,
Colorado.
Contributions by mail may be sent to:
KE Resources
P.O. Box 20719
Beaumont, TX 77720
Please designate "Pueblo West Church Plant" on the offering check.
Truth for
Today Links for Video and Audio:
Hi/Broadband version of the video: Here
(or click on the "Click to Play" picture above)
Lo/dialup version version of the video: Here
Listen to the audio stream only: Here
Download the MP3 audio: Here
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Quicktime Users: Here
For all previous Truth for Today Video and Audio, go to the Truth for
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Haiti Update
Church on the Rock
Port Au Prince
Dr.
Jay Threadgill
Church on the Rock and Morning Star Academy in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti suffered great loss in lives and buildings due to
the devastating earthquake in January.
Since the earthquake, Jay and his team and numbers
of workers and medical teams have been tirelessly feeding 10,000 people
per day, treating hundreds in an on site medical clinic, conducting
funerals and burying the dead, restarting their church services, and
laboring to secure enough food, medical supplies and fuel to get them through.
The clinic is operating 12 hour days, seeing in excess of 200 patients
per day, and recently had its 4th baby born in the clinic!
 Morning
prayer is in full swing with over a
thousand gathering. Church services have swelled to over 3,000 in just
three weeks since restarting services.
Currently while still in "survival" mode, they are busy preparing for
the next stage of "recovery."
 Recovery
includes the clean up and preparation for the third phase whilch will
be rebuilding.
At present the church site is being prepared for the laying of a
concrete foundation which will initially serve as the floor for the
large tent church that will be erected very soon. Later, it will become
the floor for the permanent steel building.
 A ship has been
donated to bring supplies specifically for COTR, and a warehouse in
Melbourne, Florida is being used to stage the pallets.
Full time classes for Morning Star Academy will resume again on March
1st.
 Join us as we
work, pray and give over the "long haul" or the marathon of recovery
for months to come.
You can donate online through the Golden Triangle COTR Beaumont, TX web
site at:
http://www.cotr.com/giveonline.htm
and keep up to date with updates posted at www.fomrelief.com
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 Pastor Tej Rokka
SARA COTR Churches,
Training Center and Childrens Home
Nepal
We are all doing fine,
but currently we have an electricity problem! It is hard to find enough
time when we do have power to be able to work on the computer and send
updates!
Here's a report on recent events:
This week we baptized 4 people. We have also started
bible study on Thursdays each week. We have 20 people
attending now! In addition we have started 2 new cell groups in the
Kathmandu valley area that will become new churches in the future, and
we have also started 5 prayer groups.
 Right now we are gearing
up for the beginning of the 6 month Pastoral and Leadership training in March.
The SARA Childrens Home kids are all doing great,
currently on winter vacation from school. We had a great Christmas
celebration. We had special meals and cakes for them all.
 Our new orphanage is building
progressing well. We target to
complete it by the end of March. I thank all the sponsors
of SARA Childrens Home for all their support in 2009 and I pray that
God may enable them to continue.
In the church we have formed
a
choir team.
SARA Church On the Rock is growing fast! I have appointed 21
leaders to carry the vision of expanding His Kingdom by making
disciples and multiplying churches. We are also
continuing translation work of Daily Devotionals into Nepali.
Special thanks to all who
gave to the Childrens Home and the other projects through the Golden
Triangle COTR Christmas Missions Catalog. We have received the funds. I am still looking for
good buffaloes for the pastors and as soon as we get them, I will send
you some pictures.
 In this picture you can
see our children distributing drinking water. Many people have little
or no drinking water, so we are making an effort to minister in this
simple way.
Praise God! Today I passed my driving
test and I obtained my Driver's License.
 We recently were able to
purchase a used van for our ministries. It is now being very helpful to
carry sick children to the Doctor, hauling goods, going to meetings,
visiting village
churches and so much more!
I am happy to serve God as He has called me to be in His plan. Please
continue to pray for me, my family and all the ministry, and especially
for the Childrens Home and the upcoming training. Please pray for
Nepal. We need political stability. Thank you!
Pastor Tej Rokka
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 Johanis
Ciandy
Indonesia
At
the end of 2009, the Lord has opened many doors for us to start the
Merauke Community
Center! We
started seeing doors
open in November when a Non Profit Organization in Jayapura called YATEPAT
offered tosponsor
us by opening a branch of their organization in Merauke.This will allow us to start the
ministry immediately, and lower the expenses of starting our own Non
Profit
Organization here in Indonesia.
 After
almost a year of looking, we found a place to rent for the Center which
is right on the main
road of the city in a PERFECT location.
 The price is also less than we
were
expecting, so we feel very blessed. Over the past month, we have been
renovating, and our next step is to outfit the center with furniture
such as
desks, chairs, sofas, as well as computers, a ping pong table
and other items we need to start the Center.
 TEAM missions just did a video
and magazine article about the Merauke Community Center and distributed
it to their 25,000 supporters all over the world.
To check out the video and magazine article, go to www.teamworld.org and look for "Horizons
Magazine" with the Papua article.
We
are planning to reach out to the Community of Merauke with English and computer courses, a
childrens' library, a youth cafe and recreational activities.
In
the future, we will teach musical instruments, conduct Community Health
Evangelism outreaches, and hold other seminars like HIV/AIDS education.
In
December, by using my savings, I had a chance to go to Jakarta and
get a medical check-up, visit family, research ESL and computer
programs for the Center and met with several others about the ministry.
We are looking to build more networks for this ministry within
Indonesia.
During
my medical check up, the doctor said with regard to my arm which was
broken 2 years ago, the bone did not recover
very well, so the doctor suggested not to remove the metal pin at all
because
it is supporting the bone. Please pray for my health.
Thank
you so much to everyone who participated in funding the projects that I
submitted in the GTCOTR Christmas Missions gift catalog!
 Here's a picture of the
motorcycle! I am looking forward to
reporting on how these funds will impact our community!
Thanks
for your continued prayer, support and encouragement. I pray that the
Lord will
bless you with a great blessing and anoint your mission and ministry.
AMEN!
IN
JESUS ALONE WE TRUST!
JOHANIS
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