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connection to missions worldwide Bimonthly Newsletter 7.5 | September 2013
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*LIGHT, also known as the Lay Institute for Global Health Training, works with churches and conferences worldwide.
Medical missionary students in Kenya participate in LIGHT health training. in the process of building five OneDay Church frames, which were sent from Kibidula Farm Institute, an OCI ministry in Tanzania. In order to prevent termite damage, the walls will be constructed with bricks rather than local materials such as dirt and wood. Please remember LIGHT’s Kenyan project in your prayers. There are currently 10 students taking the medical missionary training course. The team hopes that God will continue to use these trained lay people to share His love with more people like Francis.
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rancis had not expected to question his beliefs. However, as he poured cement flooring, new ideas raced through his mind. Francis Nyabuto came to the LIGHT* project in Kenya to do some maintenance work. But it was not his first encounter with Seventh-day Adventists. His wife, Nyaboke, was formerly an Adventist but converted to Catholicism when they married. While at the ministry, Francis began asking doctrinal questions about baptism, prayer, and the Sabbath. The team members studied the Bible with him, helping him find the answers he was seeking. After some study, Francis accepted Jesus as his personal Savior and concluded that the Sabbath is the true day of worship. He attended church with the ministry team and expressed a desire for his family to attend as well. The team continues to study the Bible with Francis and prays that he and his family will be baptized. LIGHT has conducted medical missionary training courses in Kenya since 2001. Recently God provided a piece of land for a permanent medical missionary school. The ministry is
Your gift toward $6,000 will help LIGHT purchase construction materials for its medical missionary training center in Kenya. lightingtheworld.org
Promising Possibilities by Ansis Roderts
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y dream has always been to open a lifestyle center in my country; education made it possible. I studied physical therapy at the Latvian Academy of Sport Education. Now I am the only physical therapist in a rural area of Latvia. This August my family and I opened a lifestyle center in our home. I also teach adult remedial gymnastics classes and volunteer with the local church’s Pathfinder Club. As a father of five children, I wouldn’t have been able to obtain a degree without the help of the Educational Assistance Program.
EAP Needs Your Help The Educational Assistance Program (EAP) provides loans to serviceminded students who want to learn skills that they can apply in the mission field. Upon finishing their education, graduates have two options: 1. They can repay the loan, putting the money back into the fund. 2. They can volunteer or work in an OCI ministry for one to four years, depending on the loan, and it will be forgiven in full.
ministry needs Harbert Hills Academy, USA
Funds: $10,000 Purchase computers for use in digital photography class harberthills.org
Health Education Resources, USA
Funds: $200/set Sponsor health expo banners in one of the five major languages in India HealthExpoBanners.com
Instituto Quebrada Leon, Bolivia Funds: $7,000 Buy materials to build a bakery institutoqleon.org
Kibidula Farm Institute, Tanzania Funds: $7/Bible Purchase a Bible for new church members kibidula.org
Ansis Roderts (above) is able to pursue health ministry because of the financial help he received through the Education Assistance Program.
VIDA Internacional, Honduras
Funds: $3,000 Buy materials needed to construct staff housing vida-internacional.org
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