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!
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