Dear CMK Family,

What God has done at the Wells, where the villages have all gathered to hear the Gospel, have us in awe! This is a clear and urgent time in history. It is just as the prophet Isaiah said...

“The time is coming to gather all nations and languages, and they will come and see My glory.”

— Isaiah 66:18b

When we gather together as many nations, tribes, and tongues with one purpose: to Love and Honor God, God's glory is on display!  

What an awesome thing to witness God bringing us all together around His provision at these water wells.  The entire community shows up to celebrate and praise God together and we share the Word of God and the beautiful truth of the Gospel of Jesus.  His love is on display in such a tangible and undeniable way.  At the well celebrations, hundreds gave their lives to Christ and were baptized publicly in the baptistry we construct at each site!  Seeing their faces come up out of that water, new creations in CHRIST, is a miracle that always leaves us in awe.   One woman was blind and received her sight!  A visiting pastor who was there with us from Hammond recounted the miracle!   Another elderly woman was sick and oppressed by a demon and was healed at the same moment the demon was cast out by the power of Jesus' name.  Several others were ministered to as they came out of the waters of baptism and the demons fled.  Many came forward to receive prayer after the Celebration and we know God is continuing to move.

This elderly man above walked four hours through the mountains to reach the village we were preaching and baptizing in. He was so happy to be baptized!!

This year in Kenya...

• 304  people were Baptized at the Community Well Celebrations!

• 3,800+  students gave their lives to Jesus in our School Outreaches

• Four entire schools received new shoes for every child

• Thousands of school children received school supplies

• Miracles of healing were witnessed and demons were cast out

• 75 widows and teen mothers received goats and/or food

• From these new projects alone, tens of thousands of people are receiving clean water for the first time!

• Three amazing church mission teams joined us on outreach and many college students came and served with us for the summer

We're so incredibly thankful for everyone who heeded God's call to Go!  These missions are by no means easy.  They are life changing but they are also full of hardship.  We have to give a huge shout out to three young missionaries who stayed with us serving tirelessly the whole season in Kenya this year.  We know their sacrifice is treasured by God-- Scout Mounger, Jon Ross Welch and Legend Dicharry stayed the whole time with Joel and persevered through many long days of scouting, driving teams, and reaching the least.  I (Joye) and our young missionaries Astair, Boston, Story, Ivy, and Soul were there from April to June.  Four more college aged missionaries came to serve until the close of the season:  Ben Coombs, Dio Varela, Dariyen Naranjo, and Nick Maranto.  These guys are incredible servants of God and we're so thankful for their commitment to Him!  Three of them were also baptized this year at the Maasai Well Celebration!  

Another amazing missionary family came to serve with us this year as well:  Erik and Megan Mwenda.  They helped lead and plan outreaches as well as organized the shoe ministry which was a HUGE success this year thanks to their tireless work!  We are so grateful for them!!

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

— Jesus in Luke 4:18-19

Jesus made it very clear what the anointing of the Spirit of the Lord is for.  The ministry of the Holy Spirit as Jesus quotes it is for number 1: the preaching of the good news specifically to the poor, number 2: the proclamation of freedom for the captives, number 3: the recovery of sight to the blind, number 4: to set free the oppressed, and number 5: to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.

This is what we allow the Holy Spirit to anoint us for!  This is the purpose of the Spirit of God coming upon us and it's how we recognize and submit to the work of the Holy Spirit.  Where the Gospel is reaching the poor, the Holy Spirit is there.  Where the blind see and the captives and oppressed are set free, the Holy Spirit is there.  Let's go to the poor then.  Let's go to the oppressed and the blind and those sitting in captivity.  

Let us keep going, knowing this is why we have the Holy Spirit!

That is exactly what everyone who has served and supported, prayed and given this year has done--allowed the Holy Spirt to move through them.  Thank you for being led by the Holy Spirit!  We're eternally grateful for every one of you!  

Every team that came and served brought the presence of God with them. They filled the atmosphere with worship and prayer and laid down lives. It was a blessing to partner with Pathway Church, Livingstones Church, and Bethany Church. Phil and Donna, Joel's mom and dad. led a team again this year and we always look forward to the anointed worship that fills the remote hills of Kenya when they’re here!

We're thankful as well for the local outreach team we partner with every year. Pastor Benson and his outreach team is always a blessing. Pastor Amos and his youth as well. Damaris is leading five women's bible study groups now! I (Joye) enjoyed meeting with them and getting to teach bible studies as well as ministering at local churches. We're thankful for all the work of Simon, our driller, and Mayor and Lily, our construction and village planners as well as Ally who worked as mechanic and Pam who came to keep our home team fed when I was away.  For all the photos Astair captures every year and for the ones Jon Ross captured as well. We are so grateful for every one!

  Every single person makes a difference.  The Holy Spirit makes us one.

Prayer Points:  

• For all the new believers in Kenya

• For those who came and served to be refreshed

• For the gospel to be proclaimed to the poor, the blind, and the captives

• For resources for more wells for those in deepest need

• Joel and I will be traveling to several countries before the end of the year--Turkey, Iraq, and Pakistan.  Joel will be in Paraguay at one point.  Keep us in your prayers as we will keep you in our prayers as well

Until Jesus Returns!

Joel and Joye Dicharry and our Family

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 Dear CMK Family,

Thank you for another incredible, unimaginable year so far!! And it’s not over yet!!  All that God has done would fill pages and pages!  We couldn’t have dreamed up all He's done this year!!  And the people He’s done it through!  

“The LORD has demonstrated His holy power before the eyes of all nations. All the ends of the earth will see the victory of our God.” Isaiah 52:10 AMP

ALL the ENDS of the EARTH WILL SEE that Power and Victory belong to our God!  He won’t lead us to dead ends UNLESS He plans to provide a highway in the wilderness.  He won’t  lead us to the desert UNLESS He plans to provide water from a rock.  He is never without a plan!  He is never without the victory!  If you’re facing the desert or a dead end, know that God has the victory planned for all the world to see!  The bigger the crisis, the bigger the victory!

Reaching the world with the gospel has never felt so daunting, with 3.2 million that have NEVER HEARD the gospel even once still waiting on the life saving message we hold.  BUT with the need so great, God’s power is on display in even greater ways!  We are finding the darkest places to be blazing the brightest with MIRACLES of LOVE. 

In Nepal especially we have seen this (more about that below).  We didn't have the funds to help all the needs we saw there, but we went anyway knowing God had to have a plan and He wanted us to continue to walk by faith, go by faith, give by faith!  And of course, God is showing up because He has everything we need.  He's never short on resources!  God isn't slow to answer, He's as fast as His people are to obey.

WHAT GOD HAS DONE THIS YEAR!

• TWO VILLAGES of UNREACHED TRIBES heard the Gospel for the FIRST TIME and Accepted Christ in Tanzania and South Sudan

• 1,017 people baptized publicly in a commitment to follow Christ (4,000+ students also prayed to accept Christ through school outreaches)

• 26 Villages now have Clean Water Well Systems– Over 150,000 can access free clean water

• Over 2,000 Bibles given to new believers, 200 audio bibles delivered to an unreached tribe for the first time in history

• Ongoing Outreaches with The Jesus Film + Bibles to remote tribes, seeing more salvations on every outreach

• Short term missions teams were strategic in reaching communities for Christ

• Karen and Jeff Gross were pioneers and persevered against all odds to train up masons and supervise drilling projects this year!

• God sent us to Mexico, Paraguay and Nepal opening new doors for ministry!

GOD’S SURPRISE– Mexico, Paraguay, and Nepal

God has been opening doors for ministry around the world.  He surprised us by leading us to Mexico (where a well is committed to), Paraguay, and Nepal!  Justin Kelley of Renewed Ministries traveled to Paraguay with Joel and is helping build an orphanage with our friend John Duot in South Sudan.  Joel and I just returned from Nepal in October.  This trip wasn’t even on our radar until August of this year!  God set it in motion and clearly told us to go.  At first, we didn’t even know anyone there!  Then God connected us with a national church there that had been praying for us to come and drill wells for their suffering churches (this was unknown to us at first!).  In fact, a couple weeks before we were scheduled to arrive in Nepal, there were landslides and flooding that devastated many of the communities.  We visited some of the areas, prayed and held those who were devastated by loss and some of you sent relief funds.  We saw God move mightily in POWER in Nepal and the churches we visited were all born out of miracles! 

 In Nepal, it’s illegal to evangelize and Christians are arrested and jailed if caught sharing about Jesus.  In order to reach their neighbors, they must move in LOVE and pray for healings and deliverance.  Many people get healed and delivered when the Christians pray for them and that is how their churches are growing!  400 churches have been planted by the ministry we are partnering with there.  Bringing water to the suffering communities will be a mighty testament of God’s love and we all began to pray fervently for this!  While we were still there, a friend of mine contacted me and told me the amount she and her husband wanted to give for a well.  It was the exact amount Joel had just calculated after meeting with a local driller!  Now, only a couple weeks later, FIVE WELLS have been sponsored!  Each well costs an estimate of 5K-10K.  Revival is spreading in Nepal– even in the midst of persecution, the Nepali Christians risk it all to serve Jesus!  The ministry of Pastor K B Basel and his wife Pastor Sushila is a beautiful picture of the first church in Acts!  They have even rescued an estimate of 9,000 girls from sex trafficking!  They’re in need of a safe house for the girls that can’t be returned to a family.  This is on our miracle prayer list!

GOD'S POWER TO SAVE-- TANZANIA

This year we saw many of our years of prayers for the UNREACHED TRIBES answered!  God put the unreached tribe of the Hadzabe in Tanzania on our hearts back in 2019 and we have been praying and planning on how to reach them ever since.  Our missionary Nickson Mzigaba is from Tanzania and he put his heart into this mission.  Joel broke his foot in two places while on outreach to the Maasai with a visiting short term missions team, but he went forward with the outreach to the Hadzabe in spite of it!  Nickson arranged for the difficult process of drilling in such a remote area and Joel went there once to supervise before the well was complete. Joel and I, our kids, Pastor Benson, our fellow missionary Aaron Domengeaux, and our Pastors Deven and Kathy Pedeaux from the U.S. made the journey into the bush for the celebration.  Deven and Kathy brought the solar audio bibles from the U.S. with the Hadzabe language translated for the FIRST TIME in history!  We also brought bibles for the Datoga, Mubulu, and Masaai tribes. 

There were miracle SALVATIONS at the Celebration!!  Many locals told us the Hadzabe were resistant to the gospel and would refuse to go in the water to be baptized, due to their superstitions.  But God had a plan!  Joel had been visiting with the Hadzabe, and they told him they had never seen anyone bring such love–in the form of water, one of their greatest needs–and they asked him to tell them about his God!!!  They were eager to hear about God!  Even during the sharing of the Gospel through interpreters at the Celebration, several Hadzabe men sat on the steps of the baptismal–eager to go in and be baptized!  We had explained it all to them and they were READY!  Twelve of the Hadzabe, and eight Datoga and Mbulu put their faith in Jesus and were baptized!  One of the local chiefs declared “We have seen the Gospel with Evidence!”

GOD’S POWER TO SAVE– SOUTH SUDAN

One of the hardest trips we made this year was with John Duot Duong into the remote interior of war-torn South Sudan. John Duot knew of a village of the Toposa tribe that was unreached and in dire need of water. Our land cruiser had to be winched through rivers and mountains by Joel and the team of Nickson, John Duot, Simon, and Ali. They passed up the drill rig and the drillers weren’t sure they could make it the rest of the way. When Joel arrived at the village, he began to share about our God and how we know He is real because He answers our prayers. At that exact moment, the drilling rig pulled into the village and Joel and all the villagers fell to their knees praising God. After such an incredible answer to prayer, the entire village chose to put their trust in Jesus!! Joel and the team barely made it out of South Sudan alive as they were ambushed at the border. John Duot has since brought audio bibles to the Toposa and they have been able to hear the word of God for the VERY FIRST TIME since they do not read or write in this village.

GOD’S LOVE & MIGHT– KENYA

God continues to pour out His Love on Kenya! Kenya still has some of the most extensive needs for clean water. It’s also very expensive and hard to drill here. The gratitude and the response of the many villages that receive the gift of clean water is hard to express in words. Many of you have come to see it for yourself! Pastor Benson and the prayer team of Kilaatu Baptist Church have helped us on every outreach in Kenya! They have served and loved these communities so well! Karen and Jeff Gross moved to Kenya late last year to begin to spearhead drilling projects. Their spiritual tenacity and perseverance accomplished so much for the Kingdom of God! They lived in Kenya for eight months building up the local churches there and drilling a record number of wells along with spiritually contending for these villages. They trained up masons and organized committees, met with village chiefs, exhorted and taught the local churches, saw miracles of healing and deliverance and that’s only part of it! What they have sown into many hearts and many lives will be reaped for ages. Jeff is a recent cancer survivor and is now battling an aggressive bacterial infection that requires around the clock IV meds. Please keep this mighty couple in your prayers! What they have accomplished for the Kingdom is untold!

The response to the Gospel has been incredible in Kenya!   997 were baptized this year at the well celebrations! There are healings and deliverance at these celebrations and the Holy Spirit has moved powerfully.

We had a wonderful family, the Preston's, who came to serve with their children, along with their teen daughter, Presley, who gave of her summer to serve.  Another amazing teen missionary, Mallorie Richardson, stayed for a month and walked countless miles through villages spreading the gospel!  What a gift they were!  They were absolutely instrumental in helping us organize and lead missions teams and outreaches!  We are so grateful for them. 

We had some wonderful short term missions teams come and serve this year! They were able to reach so many more people than we could on our own. Lives are changed forever because of them! One team from Bethany Church bought shoes for an entire school and washed hundreds of children's feet. It was a beautiful and moving picture of Jesus' love in action. God moved through the willingness of many to give up their time and money to serve God's purposes in the nations. Next year, we will have more opportunities to come and serve! God wants to use your feet to bring His good news! (Isaiah 52:7)

GOD’S NOT FINISHED YET!

This year isn’t over yet and God still has more up His sleeve! 

God isn’t slow to answer, He’s as fast as his people are to obey.

“God has rolled up his sleeves. All the nations can see his holy, muscled arm. Everyone, from one end of the earth to the other, sees him at work, doing his salvation work.” Isaiah 52:10 MSG

God is rolling up His sleeves and He's ready to open doors for YOU. He's just waiting for us to be ready to walk obediently through them to partner with Him in HIS SALVATION WORK.
The more doors we walk through in faith, the more God keeps opening!

Thank you to everyone who has given and prayed and has come and served!

We Love You!

May God’s Face Shine on You,

The Dicharry’s 
Joel and Joye and the Magnificent Seven

Join us in taking the Gospel to the World!

Today nearly 70 volunteers from the local church came to make 3,000 bricks for Rhoda’s house!!! 

What an amazing experience! It’s been an unforgettable, emotional day for us all. The kids jumped right in there to help! The women were cooking for all the volunteers who were packing clay into bricks. It was a lot of slippery, muddy, back bending work in the hot sun but everyone had a smile on their face and plenty of laughter going around (most of it at us 😂). Rhoda hugged and kissed us and I could just feel her joy. This is a day we won’t soon forget!

We are so thankful for Reverend Benson and Kilaatu Baptist for organizing the volunteers! We are so grateful for everyone who came! This is what community is all about!

This is what THE CHURCH OF JESUS is all about!

There are some moments that stand so clearly in your mind you know without a doubt God is illuminating them....

There are some moments that stand so clearly in your mind you know without a doubt God is illuminating them....
Even while the moment is unfolding, it seems the people around you become outlined in light and you see them in a sharp clarity of focus. That’s how it felt on the side of the mountain yesterday, seated in a circle with the family we brought fresh produce to. 

We had climbed down a mountain footpath in our van packed with vegetables, being guided by our friends and pastors Reverend Benson and Amos. Benson introduced us to the matron of the family and told us a little of her story. Rhoda raised seven children and her husband passed away several years ago. Three of her grown children are mentally handicapped and still rely on her for all of their care. Rhoda stood, kindly smiling, gently nodding her head. Her eyes were wet and she tried to surreptitiously wipe them. Her daughter in law spoke to us of the many prayers they have prayed for Rhoda’s three disabled sons, knowing God has a wonderful purpose for their lives. 

They have prayed for years for a house to be built for them to live in. Our hearts were burdened for this family that has so little yet cares so much for one another. We sensed God’s presence there with us, His heart guiding us—here—to this moment. 

We wanted to help this family and we invited you to come alongside us to build a much needed home, a much needed refuge for them. And in ONE DAY you GAVE a home for Rhoda! One dear woman in the states gave the entire amount! And several more people have given to this family’s needs as well! Rhoda could no longer hide her tears as we prayed for her and her sons and her family and gave them provisions. These are children God dearly, dearly loves and their prayers are heard in heaven and move His heart mightily. It is one of the greatest privileges on earth to be used in some small way as God’s answers to prayers His children pray! Rhoda and her sons will no longer be sleeping in the dirt thanks to your compassionate help!

Rhoda’s tears turned to praise after we left and her loud cries were heard all around as she told others God has remembered her. 

Being able to go into villages and homes and bring them much needed food to alleviate their hunger has been just one of the blessings of remaining here during Covid-19.

We had to make a choice back in March on whether or not we would remain in Kenya even though the airport may be closed indefinitely and even though we were facing a lot of unknowns. We prayed and felt peace that God wanted us to stay. We are seeing so many reasons now that have confirmed to us why He kept us here. Words fail to describe the feeling of bringing someone their first meal in weeks, of praying for the sick during a time when so many are full of fear. Our kids jumped right in every time and have personally distributed the food. They have brought smiles and laughter and joy. It’s been beautiful and absolutely God breathed. We are so thankful for all who have given to place food in stomachs that have gone without and who have faced bleak uncertainty. Your giving is LIFE giving! God uses it ALL! We put together a little video of one of the village food distributions we did to show you how much you are impacting entire communities!