Under His Grace Jaime Servat, Climbing For Christ’s missionary to Peru, reports on the work being done in his home country in July 2014. Here is his edited report: Jaime Servat, right, sharing Christ in the village of Mascho during Mission: Peru 2014. This is my mission report during that days which were under patience and healing to some believers, so Praise Him! When I first arrived in Chalhua, I was received by Alisson and her grandmother, Teresa. We prayed together and I gave them some gifts. Then I was in the church building to see the progress of the work and talk a...
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Helping to baptize We kicked off a “Helping Hands” e-appeal in June with Pakistan, where our brother and ministry partner, Evangelist Haseeb, stands strong through the storm of persecution to deliver the Good News. Haseeb had asked for $500 to hold a baptism event for many new believers, and additional funds for the purchase of Bibles in the Urdu language to give to these and other believers who do not have the Word. Mission accomplished! Three Climbing For Christ members responded and more than $600 in support was sent. Haseeb reports: Haseeb teaching about baptism. (Photos...
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Do arrests mark beginning of persecution? The arrest of about 40 leaders and members of a church in northeastern Kathmandu during a baptism event on Friday, June 13 has prompted a call for prayer for Christians in Nepal. “Please pray for us and Nepal because persecution has begun,” one Nepali Climbing For Christ member and ministry partner emailed the day after the arrests. Reportedly, Hindu government leaders pressured local police to make the arrest. They were charged with forcibly converting Hindus. Another Nepali C4C member and ministry partner reported local church...
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Filled with awareness in the Rwenzori Mountains Pastor Rich praying for the people in the Rwenzoris. “For as the waters fill the sea, the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the LORD.” – Habakkuk 2:14 (NLT) Pastor Rich Friday of Hope Mission International and Climbing For Christ in Kasese, Uganda reported that 16 people surrendered their lives to Jesus during a June 11-13 crusade in the nearby Rwenzori Mountains. “The Gospel mission went well,” Pastor Rich said. “People came in huge numbers. They came to hear the Word of God ...
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By Gary Fallesen President, Climbing For  Christ Looking back at the mission to Haiti, which began when the Lord led us to a village in the Chaine de la Selle mountains in the summer of 2005, “our big work is the people God used us to bring from death to life,” Climbing For Christ missionary Miguel Rubén Guante said this week. There have been the physical healings: Gilbert, a young boy whose leg was broken and turned to life-threatening gangrene in 2007 in a place where there was no medical care (Gentilhomme) until he was found by Miguel. He was rescued, his...
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 Pray on! Rwenzori Mountains crusade We appealed to members and supporters in April for help for our workers and the response was praise-worthy. Needs were provided for, including a pledge of US$600 for Pastor Rich Friday to cover the cost of doing the next crusade in Uganda. That next crusade began on Wednesday, June 11 in the Rwenzori Mountains. We give thanks to those who answer our asks. We ask now that you read Pastor Rich’s request (sent on Tuesday, June 10), feel the way the Spirit is filling him with joy and excitement to serve and share Christ’s love, and pray for t...
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Shedding light on the horrors of Nigeria The news of the latest atrocity committed by the Nigerian terrorist organization Boko Haram reminded us of Climbing For Christ family members who have been kidnapped and forced to marry into another religion. It was heartbreakingly painful. Boko Haram has built a despicable reputation by murdering, burning churches, and now kidnapping schoolgirls. On April 14, this group of fanatics attacked a secondary school in the northeastern state of Borno and abducted nearly 300 girls. “The mood of Nigerians over the abduction of innocent female stu...
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By Gary Fallesen Founding president, Climbing For Christ  Catherine. (Photo by Duncan Nyozani) Catherine Gwembere is 8 years old and in grade 2 in Singano village in southern Malawi. Her father died of HIV/AIDS in 2007, when she was only 1. “She cannot remember her dad and has never tasted fatherly love in her life,” said Pastor Duncan Nyozani of Searchlight Ministries. “Being the last child it was really a tough situation,” Duncan added. “Her mum is also HIV positive. She (Catherine) is in a desperate situation. It is a battle for her to live, eat, d...
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Building the church in Humla By Gary Fallesen Founding President, Climbing For Christ Parker Harris is using his peak-bagging powers for good. The Climbing For Christ member from Houston, Texas has – for the second time in three years – turned his climb of Denali into a fundraising event. “Let’s build a church together” was the subject line on the email Parker sent to family and friends before heading for Alaska to attempt North America’s tallest mountain.   Land to the left of the trees is the proposed location for the first church in Humla. ...
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By Gary Fallesen Founding President, Climbing For Christ I know the power of the encouragement that is delivered by us being sent to walk alongside our brothers and sisters in their own nations. The blessing they receive from us GO-ing is priceless. Never mind the eternal value placed on those who receive HIM through our being sent. Megh Gurung, Gary Fallesen, Tej Rokka and Dave Stoessel trekking in Langtang on Mission: Nepal 2012. (Photo by Brandy Everts) Pastor Tej Rokka told me when we were trekking together in Nepal a few years ago that he is immeasurably bolder when we are with him...
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Save Pakistan lives, loves in face of persecution By Gary Fallesen Founding President, Climbing For Christ Evangelist Haseeb and his family have moved again with a little help from Climbing For Christ. Haseeb and those involved with our ministry partner Save Pakistan have endured months of persecution and hardship. Their story has been a painful one and yet, through it all, they have known the Source of their strength. “…persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4:12). Haseeb is used by God to bring a sick woman to Him. Two weeks...
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The harvest work goes on Story by Gary Fallesen Founding president, Climbing For Christ Reporting and photos by Jaime Jesus Servat Missionary to Peru, Climbing For Christ (May 5, 2014) Our annual Evangelic Expedition to Peru is coming soon. But before Climbing For Christ’s short-term team arrives, missionary Jaime Servat continues to serve the Lord. The mission to Peru is not a two-week experience; it is ongoing – every day of the year. When asked how having a C4C team visiting his country to labor alongside him would encourage this mission, Jaime said: “I pray ...
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Celebrating Easter with those who are not Fatherless   Save Pakistan, our persecuted ministry partner, celebrated the joy of Resurrection Sunday by doing as Jesus instructed: reaching out to the least of those in their own community. That would be the “marginalized Christians” living in Save Pakistan’s Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. “We had an Easter celebration with 90 orphans to encourage them that the Lord always loves them and He is extending His helping hands for them in different ways in their lives,” said Evangelist Haseeb, a C4C member and the foun...
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By Gary Fallesen Climbing For Christ Rochester, NY-area Board members (left to right) Elaine Fallesen, Kevin Kimble, Mary Lindsay, Stan Phillips, David Smith and  Gary Fallesen gather with  family and friends to celebrate C4C's 10th birthday Easter Sunday evening. (Photo by Hayley Fallesen) I wrote in “A View: The next 10 years” on the back of the current special 10th anniversary issue of The Climbing Way magazine: I could not have predicted where we are currently on the timeline “in the beginning,” no more than I can tell you what the next decade will h...
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Saintela well and heading home After undergoing surgery on March 25th to have an obstructive tumor in her mouth removed, Saintela returned to the hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic for a follow up visit. Once there, doctors checked on her surgical site and gave her the results of the biopsy from the tumor. Saintela outside the hospital.  “Praise the Lord,” C4C’s missionary to Haiti, Miguel Rubén Guante wrote, “the result of the biopsy is good. She has not bad cancer.” We praise the Lord with Miguel and Saintela for this wonderful news...
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Saintela undergoes surgery to remove tumor Saintela before surgery. “Saintela is well from the surgeon,” wrote C4C’s missionary to Haiti, Miguel Rubén Guante. Saintela Toussaint underwent the two hour surgery Tuesday morning in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to remove an obstructive oral tumor from the roof of her mouth. We give all praise and thanks to God for this successful surgery, which required three weeks of testing and waiting. The long treatment also was expensive. Before the surgery on Tuesday, expenses had reached more than US$3,400, while Clim...
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A medical emergency with a name Saintela Toussaint was a woman from a small village near Malasi who came to a Mission: Haiti 2012 medical clinic to be examined by Dr. Steve Quakenbush of Cańon City, CO, USA. She had a small tumor in her mouth. We had seen growths like this before. In 2011, we were introduced to Carmen, who had a tumor the size of a grapefruit growing out of her mouth, making eating impossible. We evacuated Carmen to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where the obstructive oral tumor was removed and her life saved. Not wanting to see a repeat of Carmen’s story we made n...
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Church in Mare Pitre ‘growing strong’ Missionary to Haiti Miguel Rubén Guante taught a special seminary in Mare Pitre on Saturday, Feb. 15. Seventeen people attended. The subject: “Who is God?” Each month, Miguel is teaching a “local” seminary to the young churches in Jimani, Dominican Republic, and Mare Pitre, on the first and third weekends, as well as our main monthly seminary for pastors and church leaders from many villages who meet in Thoman on the fourth weekend. Seminary, above, and worship, below, at the church at Mare Pitre. (Photos by M...
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Overcoming in the Koma Hills A village in the Koma Hills in northeastern Nigeria. (Photo by Gary Fallesen) Pastor Chris Joseph arrived in Yola at 10:05 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4. This is significant because Yola is the capital of Adamawa, one of four states in northeastern Nigeria under a state of emergency because of the terrorist group Boko Haram. A curfew is imposed from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. “For this reason, drivers have to speed up so as to arrive before 11 p.m.,” said Chris, a Climbing For Christ member with a ministry in the Christian south. We sent Chris back to the Koma Hi...
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The church at Malasi after worship on Feb. 9. (Photo by Miguel Rubén Guante) Sunday in Malasi There were 120 people in worship at the Monte Pou Kris church at Malasi on Sunday, Feb. 9. At the same time, 73 believers were worshiping at the church at Jimani, DR, and 41 at the young church at Mare Pitre, Haiti. There was no report from Gentilhomme. Climbing For Christ's missionary to Haiti, Miguel Rubén Guante, visited Malasi and met with leaders to discuss the fourth anniversary celebration of the Malasi church in March. Miguel took one of the church leaders, who was suffering f...
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