March | 2023

“Catching the wave of God’s global outpouring”

Dear Friends,

Can you hear it? It’s the sound of a global awakening.

Pursue the Presence of God!  

These are exciting times--the earth is quaking with the sounds of revival and awakening.  The hungry are crying out for God and He is sending His presence in wave after wave.  We are experiencing the power of God's spirit moving mightily all across the globe--from where our feet have landed in Honduras, all the way to Nepal, to Tanzania, to Pakistan, to Kenya and here in the States.  His presence is our passion!   We can't do anything apart from the Lord.  We can only fulfill the purposes in His heart with His Presence.  The indwelling presence and the outpouring presence of the Lord is our pursuit.  

Friends, we are praying that even as you read this simple newsletter, you will experience the presence of God fanning into flame the gifts of His Spirit within you FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS. 

“Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before. The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.”

Joel 2:23-24, 28

N E P A L

Our friend Pam Englade and her niece just arrived back home in the states after spending over a week in Nepal for Commission Mankind's FIRST community well celebration there.  Pastors KB and Sushila Basel oversaw the construction of the well site as a wonderful tool to further the gospel in a country where evangelism is illegal.  This will be a testament to God's goodness for generations to come.  Three more wells have been sponsored for Nepal out of the 13 listed villages requesting water.  We are overjoyed about the spiritual hunger and revival that is occurring there!  Pam and her niece also explored the potential for a safe house to be built in the strategic location near the border of India and Nepal. This would provide refuge for the thousands of victims of sex trafficking that are being rescued through the ministry of the local church there (11,000 rescued since 2011!).

PRAYER POINT:  That God will add to those being saved at every well site and bless the wonderful ministry of Pastors KB and Sushila. That God will provide a SAFE HOUSE for victims of sex trafficking in Nepal

H O N D U R A S

God sent us on a very specific mission in Honduras.  A video was sent to Joel on his first trip to Honduras with James Pursifull of a young girl struggling to carry water, but her location was unknown at the time.  God led Joel to return to Honduras to find this village.  Justin Kelley travelled with him on this second trip and God led them to the exact village of this girl!  We discovered her name is Virginia.  We were overcome with God's love for this young girl and were able to pray for Virginia and bless her.  Virginia's community as well as one other village we felt God leading us to drill in are both very remote and the people have been drinking from a polluted ditch.  Seekers Point church will be partnering with the local church in Honduras to host a community celebration and evangelistic outreach at these well sites in late summer of this year.  If you would like to get involved, here's the link for that trip: Seekers Point Missions

PRAYER POINT:  That the well for Virginia's village will be fully funded, it's already half way there!  That many will be saved, healed, and delivered at these well sites and teams will walk in favor.  

P A K I S T A N

Pakistan wasn't even on our radar this year.  But in prayer one day we mentioned God was putting the Middle East on our hearts.  A couple weeks later, Joel was asked to go to Pakistan.  We asked God to confirm if Joel was to go or not.  We needed to know His presence would go before us.  We had no money for a ticket or for a well there.  But God said go and so we said yes.  Within 10 minutes of me (Joye) telling Joel he had to go to Pakistan, he received a text message saying his ticket was paid for.  With several more confirmations, Joel and Justin Kelley from Renewed Ministries left for Pakistan.  While there, they encountered many dangerous and desperate situations.  At one point, Joel wasn't sure how he could fulfill what God sent him to do--it looked impossible.  But God turned the impossible around and what had looked like a dead end became a miracle beginning.  On top of a trash pile, in the middle of a tent camp, the first Pakistan well was completed while Joel and Justin were there!  Justin and Renewed Ministries committed to four wells and Commission Mankind committed to four.  Eight wells will be drilled as anchor points for the Gospel in this muslim nation.  We know with certainty we will be returning with teams to Pakistan to partner with local Pastor Parvis.  

PRAYER POINTS:  Pray that the Gospel will penetrate the darkness and that people will encounter Christ at the well sites.  Pray for the local Pastor Parvis and his ministry starting christian schools to reach a generation for Jesus.

E A S T A F R I C A

East Africa continues to hold a special focus for our ministry. God is leading our family to return to Kenya to the Machakos hills. East Africa still remains one of the hardest and most expensive places to drill and the need for clean water is staggering. We are believing God for more wells for Africa! Right now we have one well funded for Kenya and one promised for Tanzania. We walk by faith and not by sight and know God has more planned than we could ask or imagine! We have missions teams coming to serve with us at the numerous well sites we have established in Kenya and we are praying for the continued outpouring of God’s Spirit in Kenya. Revival is in the land!

God’s heart for the UNREACHED continues to be our prayer focus and an important part of our vision of CMK. We can’t complete the Great Commission without going where none have heard the Gospel.

Even now, as you read this, Nickson and Ali are headed out on a 3 day journey to the southern part of Tanzania where the Safwa tribe is located. This is a least reached tribe and we will be establishing contact with them in order to drill a well a local church prayerfully committed to sponsoring there! This will be an anchor point for us to share the Gospel. Please pray Nickson and Ali will find the man of peace to connect us to this tribe and will locate a trustworthy driller. God is reaching them!

PRAYER POINTS: Our family’s safety and protection while traveling and ministering. That we will be led by the Lord’s presence. God will bring Provision for more wells and more ministry. That His Spirit will pour out and revive the land! That the Safwa tribe will hear and understand the Gospel and many will be saved, healed and delivered.

Thank you, family of Christ. For being His body and caring for His heart.

We love you and pray you will experience the wonderful presence of God everywhere you go and in all you do!

Till All Have Heard,

Joel, Joye, and the seven from heaven

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

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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!

“The real God brings real help. He’s sent us to bring you water and tell you about His love.” Joel shared with the Hadzabe through our interpreter Ole when they led the drilling rig into the bush of Tanzania.

This week has been monumental!!! Just one week after Joel’s surgery on his broken leg, and he led the team to Tanzania. While there, Joel discovered that not just the Unreached Hadzabe, but also the Datoga and Iraquw will be able to benefit from this well! These THREE tribes have been on God’s heart and He put the Hadzabe on our hearts back in 2019. The Hadzabe are the last of the Hunter-Gatherers and they speak in a clicking tongue. Amazingly, their language was finally translated in 2019! An incredible family purchased solar audio bibles for this tribe to FINALLY hear the LOVE AND SALVATION OF JESUS in their OWN LANGUAGE! We will also be bringing the Datogo and Iraquw tribes bibles in their languages and showing them the Jesus Film at our Celebration the end of this month!!

Joel was able to share the Gospel with these tribes through an interpreter! He met Ole, a Maasai, back in 2019 and Ole accepted Christ. God told Joel Ole would be key in reaching the Hadzabe. For three years, we have prayed and planned to reach this tribe and God has led every step! When they reached the well site, Ole recognized two of the tribesman. One of them knew bits and pieces of Swahili and Ole was able to translate for Joel in a way the tribe could understand!

They asked Joel what he was bringing them because tourists drive out to take pictures with them several times a day and the guides pay them in weed and alcohol. Joel told him he was bringing them the love of God and God cares about their needs. He took out his first aid kit and began to treat their sores and infections. This was key in their acceptance of him and their trust. They told Joel that they worship the god of the sun and believe he sleeps at night. Joel was able to share with them that the One True God made the day and the night and never sleeps. Ole was so gifted at sharing God’s message with this tribe. When they got to the part about God bringing them water to prove His love for them, they got sooo excited!

That evening, Joel started a bonfire to feed the tribes and they all gathered around the fire to dance and sing and celebrate water and honor Joel for coming to them. The Hadzabe chief stood up and said, “You have brought us your God and we want to know your God.”

God has done more than we could ever ask or imagine!!!! We can’t wait to return in a couple weeks and continue to share the Good News!

The Hadzabe, Datoga, and Iraquw all finally have CLEAN WATER!! Only God could do this!!!

“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

We woke up this morning to some incredible rejoicing and awesome videos sent by our team in Kenya!

What an awesome way to start World Water Day! Well #11 of this year (19 in all) is gushing from the ground!

The theme of World Water Day 2022 is “Groundwater, making the invisible visible” and this couldn’t be more true. These wells are springing up in a dry land, in impossible circumstances and against all odds and they are making the invisible love and provision of God visible to all!

Did you know that 2 billion people live without access to clean water?

Since 2020, Commission Mankind has been partnering with God to answer prayers for clean water across the globe! Today, over 150,000 people have access to clean water through our Community Well Systems. Generations are being given hope and a future.

A prayer from Ivy, age 7, “Jesus, give us more wells. Because you are love and living water. We want to give all your love away. We want to give all your water away because you are living water.”

Spread the word today on how you can help be an answer to prayers people pray on World Water Day.

We are so grateful for you.  We earnestly pray this year the blessings and goodness of God will overtake you!  If this past year has left you feeling weary and worn and unsure of what the new year will hold, we want you to know God has prepared this year ahead for you.

"That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him." 1 Corinthians 2:9

For those who love Him, God goes before them and prepares the way ahead. Nothing we may face this year is a surprise to God! God is prepared to deliver you, to comfort you, to release His wisdom and faith to you, to walk beside you and strengthen you. He is prepared to show up in creative ways and stun your eyes and surprise your ears, to completely overwhelm your mind with His goodness.

And what unlocks our ability to experience what God has prepared for us? Only ONE thing. Without this ONE THING, we'll fail to notice it.

That one thing is LOVE... Love for God. Just as the scripture says: "'...for those who love him." That's all and that's EVERYTHING. If we can focus this year on One Thing--let it be Loving God. As we learn to love Him more, we become aware of how much He loves us...and "perfect love casts out fear" (1 John 4:18).

Talking about what God has prepared....

The FIRST TWO WELLS of 2022
have been Drilled!!

Bringing in 2022 with the FIRST WELL!

God has a FLOW and it's like a river that never stops. All we have to do is go ALL IN with Him!

Missionaries Karen and Jeff Gross have been overseeing the well drilling projects and spending countless hours scouting for new well sites with Travoter Muathe and our driller Simon Mutiso, as well as dedicating the church plants Reverend Benson Kisinga has been led by God to plant at every well site.

This amazing team has inspired us all! Karen and Jeff have pushed through many health issues. Jeff is still recovering from chemo and a knee replacement surgery and Karen had a hip injury. God told them they would be "healed as they go". And so they went! Jeff now walks without a cane and his memory is improving every day. Praise God for their testimony of faith and for their perseverance and love!

You can follow them on facebook (@Karen Blankenship Gross) and sow into them personally at their sending church’s website: www.godshappy.com

16 of the 60 Wells have already beenCommitted to!!

PARTNER IN PRAYER WITH US:

• For God's Will to be done and the Son to be glorified!

• Many to receive salvation and be baptized

• Provision & protection for missionaries

• 2 more vehicles for transportation of mission teams

• Provision for 60 wells and the favor of God on each village well site

• Pastor Benson to have every resource he needs for church plants

• 30,000 Bibles

Thank You for your love and support!

This year, we will be amazed at the hand of God in our nations, in our families, in our lives. For if we look for Him, we will find Him!

"Look at the nations and watch--and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." Habakkuk 1:5

LOVE & BLESSINGS IN CHRIST,

Joel & Joye Dicharry
And All the Kids

A Devotion

{for when you’re overwhelmed} 

When You’re Overwhelmed….Overwhelm Your Problems With God.

When needs get overwhelming, it’s tempting to check out.

I’m guilty of it. When the whole world starts spinning too fast and furious and everyone you love is going through one crisis after another, it’s easy to want to hide from it all. When your health starts to decline from the stress of life and you can’t find a haven of peace from the storms, it’s all too easy to slowly start to shut down; to pretend the problems aren’t there, hoping the needs will go away somehow by themselves if we ignore them long enough. Hurricane Ida ripped through the South though, and taught us some storms can’t be ignored and needs shouldn’t be faced alone.

Jesus was constantly surrounded by needs and crises, death and dire interruptions and He understood something very important: in order to meet the needs, He had to spend time with His Father in prayer. Luke 5:16 tells us:

“Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed”.

The world was clamoring for His attention and even though He knew His time was short, He withdrew from it all “and prayed”.

He didn’t withdraw and immerse himself in facebook, a shopping spree, or a night with friends. Not that those things are wrong, but those things are powerless to prepare us for the problems we face. Jesus intentionally went to “lonely places” or in some versions it says “the wilderness”, in other chapters He went up to the mountains and He went there specifically to pray. This was the source of His power and His peace. He knew the frailty of human ears and the distractions of life that keep us from perceiving what the Father is doing.

Jesus understood how overwhelming life can get. Crowds of hurting people pressed in on Him everywhere He went. Fully God and fully man, He had to carve out a time and place to pray.

When problems threaten to knock us over, we need to start doing some knocking of our own.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8

Overwhelm the needs with an overflow of God!

God is never overwhelmed. He has more than enough peace for the situation you are in. God has more than enough provision, more than enough wisdom, and more than enough grace for your every need.  Ask, seek, knock. 

Get overwhelmed by God’s greatness and everything else will look small in comparison.

Commission Mankind News:

👉🏽 Our missionary Michael Perez is finally back in the States! If you see him, bless him! We’re so thankful for Michael’s surrendered life and his tireless work for the Kingdom of God!

👉🏽 Our family was back in the states for only a couple weeks when Hurricane Ida hit and left a tree in our rented home. We had to vacate the house the next morning (after one very long night). Joel and I and all the kids are staying with my parents on their ranch in Nebraska for the time being. We are praying big prayers for a door to open to allow us back into Louisiana and into a home soon. 

👉🏽 We want to introduce you to our newest full time missionaries Jeff and Karen Gross from Colorado!

Karen served with us in Kenya over the summer and her and her husband Jeff decided to dedicate a full year of their lives to the mission work in Kenya! Jeff and Karen are native of Louisiana but have been living in Colorado since 2002. They have known our family for years and have even served other mission organizations from the Stateside.

They have three children and seven grandchildren! It isn’t an easy decision they’ve made to uproot themselves from their beautiful family, but they are inspiring us all that God is never through dreaming for us! Every generation is being commissioned by God to fulfill His Great Commission. We know God will use these two mightily!

Please keep Karen and Jeff in your prayers as they will be moving to Kenya in late November and will begin to scout for potential well sites and work in gospel outreach alongside our ministry partners there.  They are taking the vision God has given CMK and running with it! 

You can follow them on facebook (@Karen Blankenship Gross) and sow into them personally at their sending church’s website:  www.godshappy.com . 

Or you can send support to their church address: Mountain High Chapel, c/o Jeff and Karen Gross, 8444 US Hwy 285, Morrison, CO 80465

Looking Ahead at What’s Coming:

We’re Looking Forward with God’s VISION and MULTIPLICATION

The GOAL God’s given us is 60 WELLS IN 2022!

I’ll be honest, when I first heard the number 60 from Joel, I was a bit skeptical. I remember asking God to confirm that number for me. It sounded impossible! And even though God has been stretching my faith by doing many impossible things already—I needed some more assurance. The very minute I asked God to give me confirmation, He led me straight to a verse in Mark 4:20!

“But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

We are simply soil carrying God’s seeds. We hear God’s word, accept it, and then the fruit comes.

Faith comes before Fruit!

And the fruit that comes is more than we could ever have imagined!

60 TIMES AS MUCH.

Would you commit to praying and believing in faith for this vision of 60 wells with us?

This means there can potentially be well over 60,000 people presented with the Gospel and given a chance to be baptized next year! 

This will change generations for eternity!

Thank YOU for partnering in the Great Commission with us!

If you or your church would like to sponsor a well, please consider sending a team to minister at the well site! It’s a miraculous and life changing experience and we will have dates available for missions teams next spring and summer!

Love In Christ,

Joel and Joye Dicharry and Family