M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S !

CMK Newsletter | December | 2022

Dear CMK Family,

The FIRST WELL IN NEPAL is OVERFLOWING!! Just a week before Christmas! What a GIFT OF JOY from God! We hope you feel God pouring His JOYand LOVE and FAITH that exudes from this photo into your hearts this Christmas!

AND THERE’S MORE GOOD NEWS!

God has provided for the FIRST WELL PROJECT IN HONDURAS to begin!

Friends, you’ve blessed the heart of the Father by the way you give! By the way you live. By the way you LOVE. By the way you simply believe Him.

LET FAITH BE OUR GIFT TO GOD THIS CHRISTMAS

Joel just returned from Honduras with a Surge director, James Purciful, a week ago and they met with pastors that are ready to plant a church and mission at every well site we do in Honduras. We didn’t even know exactly how that trip was going to be funded. Usually God will provide the funds in just enough time to buy the tickets. This time He provided unexpectedly at the end of the trip through one of his faithful servants! Isn’t it true that faith is a journey we have to take one unseen step at a time? Faith pleases God, so of course He will help us develop our faith!

If you’re facing a lot of unknowns, know that nothing is unknown to God.

Joel and I stood in this exact spot in Nepal with Pastor KB and Pastor Sushila two months ago and prayed for God to intervene on behalf of this community. We arrived on the scene where there was much devastation with nothing in our hands or in our accounts. But we kept taking steps by faith, walking by faith, simply following His Spirit.

Faith is simply this: we don’t need to know how God will come through, we just need to KNOW HE WILL.

WHEN LESS = MORE MIRACLES

We knew God was leading us here and with every site we visited our hearts broke further. When God breaks our hearts and empties our hands until all that’s left is faith in Him, we have learned that He’s setting us up for a miracle. He’s clearing the way for Him to get all the glory. We just open our hands and let whatever small thing we have left go wherever God wants it to go and then we watch a miracle unfold.

This is the story of Christmas…saying yes to God and knowing we can’t possibly give Him anything except our scared and often whispered “yes, Lord.” Just as Mary said, “I am the Lord’s servant. May your word to me be fulfilled.” (Luke 1:38). She didn’t give God a list of why she wasn’t the right one for this role. She didn’t make excuses or ask God how she would provide for a baby when she was only a poor, unmarried teenager. She simply gave God her yes. She trusted God to do what was best.

Use me, Lord. I don’t have anything to give or bring to you except my rights to myself. So come invade my life, come grow inside me even if it’s uncomfortable and different than I expected. Even if I lose everything, if I gain you I will be content.

We can give everything because Jesus is the only thing this world needs.

Mary didn’t have a plan. She wasn’t prepared. Even Joseph was helpless to provide a safe place for Jesus’ birth. But because they said “yes”, nothing could stop God from coming.

JESUS IS COMING, LET’S MAKE HIM ROOM IN US!

We are praying for your hearts to be filled with the incredible love of God! He’s given us his greatest treasure in Jesus! He’s given us EVERYTHING!

“For God has proved his love by giving us his greatest treasure, the gift of his Son. And since God freely offered him up as the sacrifice for us all, he certainly won’t withhold from us anything else he has to give.” (Romans 8:32)

Merry Christmas to all!

Love,

Joel and Joye

& The Incredible Seven

“I AM BORN AGAIN!” a man pumped his arms towards heaven as he came up baptized in the water of new life!

In this particular community, to be baptized meant he would face persecution by religious leaders. This community had been warned that they would be excommunicated if they were baptized. This man bravely stepped forward to make a public testament of his faith in Jesus and be baptized. He told us, “men of God must be brave.” Fifty more people were baptized in this village following after him and a woman was delivered from a violent spirit. Many in her village had been afraid of her and were amazed to see her be baptized and receive ministry.

327 people have been baptized and have made commitments to Christ since April!

We’ve had FOUR community Celebration Services at completed well sites and the WONDERFUL presence of the Holy Spirit has been with us.

At every celebration, we preach the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ alone and many respond in repentance and faith.  We explain that Jesus said you must be born again.  We invite those who accept Christ to be baptized as a symbol of their new life. Everyone who is baptized receives a Bible thanks to the churches and individuals who give!!!

The Name of Jesus breaks EVERY chain!

We’ve seen many people delivered from the bondage of demons by the authority of Jesus.

At Kamuu, a woman confirmed deaf in one ear came forward for prayer and received deliverance and healing!

She came to us afterwards with her pastor to tell us she was completely healed and could hear!

Nothing is too difficult for God! Jesus saves, heals, and delivers!

Jesus is the SAME yesterday, today, and forever!

In Jesus’ own words He gives us this command with His promises:

..."Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.””

—Jesus in Mark 16:15-18

Jesus makes us a promise in these verses! “…these signs WILL ACCOMPANY THOSE WHO BELIEVE…”

Our team has been praying and fasting and seeking God for healing and deliverance for the many, many sick and afflicted we meet at every celebration service. Our hearts have been crying out to see freedom for the captives physically as well as spiritually. The lines for prayer for healing and deliverance are long and we are committed to pray for everyone who asks. As I was reading this verse in Mark, I realized it was not only a command of Jesus, but it contained a PROMISE from HIM! And this promise was not only for the first disciples, but Jesus states it was for “those who BELIEVE”.

Those who BELIEVE in the power and authority of Jesus will see these signs and wonders as Jesus accompanies them!

Jesus is FAITHFUL AND TRUE! He CANNOT Lie. Every word He speaks is Truth.

If Jesus tells us this will happen for “those who believe” then it is up to us to BELIEVE.

“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.”

— 1 Chronicles 29:11