Church completed in Kathmandu Kindly rejoice with us for what our Almighty God the Father has given us as special gift: a sanctuary to worship Him in spirit and truth. We are the body of Christ, Son of the Living God. He answered our prayer and gave us this beautiful church sanctuary to meet with Jesus and have wonderful fellowship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. You can look at this house of God and inner sanctuary, where saints are gladly worshiping God. On behalf of my family and believers of SARA (Savior Alone Reaches Asians), I would like to thank God and Cli...
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A pastor serving in the Monte Pou Kris (Climbing For Christ) church was afraid to preach from the pulpit for two-thirds of the year in 2013. He had been told a curse had been placed on him and if he went to the pulpit to speak he would die. When C4C missionary Miguel Rubén Guante learned about this we made plans for him to go and speak to the pastor and the church. “The role of the church through its leaders is defend the faith in Christ Jesus,” Miguel stated. As a result of this occurrence, spiritual coordinator Jordan Rowley prepared a January seminary teaching called, &l...
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CHRISTmas in Kathmandu The main Savior Alone Reaches Asians (SARA) church in Kathmandu, Nepal met to worship in their new building for the first time on Christmas Day. About 150 people attended. “It was great because several new people came and three of them accepted Christ in their life for the first time,” said Pastor Tej Rokka, the founder of SARA and a long-time Climbing For Christ member. Pastor Tej welcomes us to the new SARA church in Kathmandu. “I was so excited because for the first time in SARA church history we were having a CHRISTmas celebration in our o...
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New Year’s resolution in Uganda Pastor Rich preaching, while a woman from another church in his hometown of Kasese, Uganda serves as his translator. Pastor Rich Friday of Hope Mission International Ministries finished 2013 on his latest crusade into the Rwenzori Mountains in western Uganda. “I was invited to preach just a day after finishing my 40 days of prayer and fasting,” Pastor Rich said. “The Lord led me to go into a deeper prayer and fasting seeking His Face to strongly empower me getting ready for the great Gospel mission. “I will complete this year 2...
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CHRISTmas delivery of God’s precious Word Climbing For Christ was blessed to provide funding for the purchase of 70 Urdu-language Bibles for distribution on CHRISTmas by partner ministry Save Pakistan. “Many believers in Pakistan long to be able to read God’s Word daily, to learn and grow by its instruction and encouragement,” said Save Pakistan founder Haseeb Masih (in photo), who delivered Bibles in a program in the city of Sangla Hill in the Punjab Province. “Access to Bibles, however, is out of reach for most people, most often due to crippling poverty. U...
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A lake safari for the orphans In the weeks leading up to CHRISTmas, Pastor Duncan Nyozani of Searchlight Ministries informed us that the orphans in his care – who are sponsored by Project 1:27 – had requested a trip to the lake for the CHRISTmas and New Year’s holidays. “Every one of them says something about the lake almost every day,” he said. “It seems they have strongly agreed to force us to do this for them.” We were not forced, but moved to give this “lake safari” as an additional CHRISTmas gift. On CHRISTmas day, the childr...
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CHRISTmas in Malawi The sponsors of the Project 1:27 orphans in Malawi sent financial gifts and messages of love for the 17 children at Pastor Duncan Nyozani's Far & Wide Children's Home. “The kids are very much excited to have special food and gifts,” Pastor Duncan said on CHRISTmas. “They are very thankful.” Girls and boys showing off their new clothes. A CHRISTmas meal fit for a new-born King. Happy CHRISTmas from Malawi! Pastor Duncan also will be taking the children on holiday. They will have an opportunity to go on safari to a nearby lake for...
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Grieving the loss of Nigerian missionary’s son By Gary Fallesen Climbing For Christ president The third anniversary of the Lives Aglow church pastored by Climbing For Christ member Chris Joseph in Port Harcourt, Nigeria was celebrated Dec. 13-15. It was a wonderful success. One week later, Pastor Chris and his family grieved the loss of their youngest child. Emmanuel Paul Joseph died on his first birthday of a fever and bronchial pneumonia. “We loved him, but God love him most,” Chris said. The Joseph family with baby Emmanuel inset. Chris hurriedly finished chu...
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Seed for sowing By Gary Fallesen Climbing For Christ Heavy rains descended on southern Malawi in late November, marking the start of the planting season. The morning after the rain, Pastor Duncan Nyozani emailed: “People will be busy planting their seeds, but it seems most of the people have no seeds to plant due to hunger. And many were expecting to have rains in December, so please pray that we may get seeds and fertilizer for our farmlands.” Duncan, a Climbing For Christ member since February 2009 and the founder of Searchlight Ministries in the Migowi area, said he needed ...
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New believers celebrate in Mare Pitre Meet our new sister and brothers in Christ: Onie Jean, Meridroine Merissaint and Bocicot Wilson (photographed above, left to right). Haitian missionary Miguel Rubén Guante said “those three people repented (because of) the work of Christ in the life of Solina.” Solina, who died on Nov. 29, was the elderly woman counted among the first in the village of Mare Pitre to come to Christ. Worship in Mare Pitre was full of joy, Miguel said. “People wanted to pass the night glorifying the name of God.” A boy named Contis Sezer ...
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Building the church at Kathmandu The main church for Savior Alone Reaches Asians (SARA) and future home to Climbing For Christ in Nepal continues to go up in Kathmandu. “We are thankful to God, C4C and givers so far,” Pastor Tej Rokka, founder of SARA (in photo above), said Tuesday, Dec. 10. “But work has not yet finished; it is still underway. We still need 15,000 US dollars to complete this church. We have not stopped working and bringing materials on credit, and labors are paid half so far, because our challenge is to complete it by Dec. 25 and have CHRISTmas c...
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Indonesian humanitarian mission to the Philippines By Budi Yuwono C4C Indonesia (Editor’s Note: Budi Yuwono’s home church of Abbalove in Jakarta, Indonesia partnered with DoctorSHARE, also known as the Physician Care Foundation, for a humanitarian relief mission to the Philippines. Budi participated in this mission. Here is his report:) Dr. Lie Darmawan, the founder of DoctorSHARE, led a humanitarian mission to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The mission was composed of 16 people – 14 doctors from DoctorSHARE and two volunteers from Abbalove. The team w...
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Responding to the typhoon's devastation By Francis Daytec (Editor’s note: Francis Daytec has been a Climbing For Christ member since March 2008. He is a medical missionary living with his wife Leah and their young children on the island of Mindoro, Philippines. He served with C4C Philippines on Mission: Philippines 2013 in June in Tacadang. The Daytecs endured Typhoon Haiyan and Francis responded to the relief effort that devastated provinces south and east of where they live. He sent this report to supporters and friends of his Living Grace Ministry on Dec. 4, 2013. We were blessed to...
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Winning souls and ministering to believers Silvana Pizarro, who joined Climbing For Christ, was moved by God to come from her home in the Lima area to know more about His vineyard in Chalhua and beyond. We recognize that the harvest is ripe and the workers or few, so we rejoice in the willingness of this sister to serve in the Cordillera Blanca Range. Silvana was a blessing to many – believers and those who came to the Lord – according to Jaime Servat, Climbing For Christ’s missionary to Peru. “Just when we entered the house of Alisson and her grandmother Teresa, they...
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Life and death in Mare Pitre By Gary Fallesen Climbing For Christ A week before CHRISTmas last year, Miguel Rubén Guante bought a pair of sandals for an old woman in Mare Pitre, Haiti. She was in need. Only a few months earlier, Miguel had visited Mare Pitre for the first time to evangelize the area. The woman who would receive the sandals – named Solina – was part of the first group of people there to receive Jesus. Jesus told us whatever we do or don’t do for a child, an old woman, or any of our fellow man who is hungry, thirsty or naked, we do or don’t do...
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Inside me A personal reflection on Typhoon Haiyan’s aftermath By Ace Concordia C4C Philippines coordinator On Nov. 7, 2013, when typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines, I was in Manila with my family. There was rain and moderately strong winds. We had braced for the worse since I saw the Doppler image of the immense size of the storm. The frantic warnings from news programs on TV claimed it would be the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall on record. This caused businesses and offices to slow down and people to rush home early. But the day passed and became somewhat a...
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Building a foundation with Christ as the cornerstone Land was located more than a year ago and prayers lifted that it would be the future site of the church at Kathmandu. For months those prayers were specifically directed at the ongoing work to get approval from city government to build. Finally in November, construction began on a central house of worship for our Nepal ministry partner SARA (Savior Alone Reaches Asians). Pastor Tej prays for the work on the church at Kathmandu. Pastor Tej, the founder of SARA ministries and a Climbing For Christ member since 2009, has wa...
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God's dream for the church at Chalhua “On Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 3 a.m., I woke up after I had a special dream so strong that I was praying for it,” said Jaime Servat, Climbing For Christ’s missionary to Peru. “I saw a check – it was pink-colored paper – in English written to C4C an amount of US$1,500. I could not see the bank seal and name. It really was burning my heart and I said, ‘Oh, Lord, if this is Your will then do it because here we need Your offering to complete Your prayer house.’ So praise God! “The next morning I was che...
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Domingo DePene with his wife, Magnolia, far right. Also in the photo is Carmen (second from left), a Haitian woman C4C rescued and helped medically. Domingo and Magnolia assisted. (Photo by Miguel Rubén Guante) Magnolia DePene, the wife of C4C Dominican Republic officer Domingo DePene, died on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 after a battle with cancer. She was 58. Domingo has helped Climbing For Christ for many years in Hispaniola, the Caribbean island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti. C4C Dominican Republic was incorporated in May 2009. Domingo was named secretary of the o...
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Protesting violence against Christians in Pakistan Save Pakistan, which was founded by a Climbing For Christ member, joined a series of nationwide rallies protesting violence against Christians in Pakistan. Evangelist Haseeb said hundreds participated in the peaceful protest in Faisalabad on Sept. 24. The group took to the streets to condemn a church bombing in northwestern Pakistan that killed more than 80 people and injured countless others on Sept. 22. “We have recorded our protest to the media and ask the government of Pakistan to provide security to our Christian community ...
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