Upcoming East Africa Conferences in 2010 and 2011

While we were doing our last conferences in Kenya in February and March of this year God gave us a new strategy for future work East Africa. Kenya and Uganda are in the midst of a revival of training. Where ever one goes there is a hunger for revelatory and expository teaching, learning how to minister, training in worship, and a huge desire to receive ministry and prophetical words. Because of this the Lord has told us to go twice a year and do training conferences in those countries.

For a number of years we have been going to individual churches, many of them in the remote parts of Maasai land and the rural conclaves of these countries.

Traveling by car is very expensive in East Africa due to the price of gasoline and the frequent repairs that cars always need ,due to bad roads.

Kitengela, is the town where our family lived for almost two years while in Kenya. Its 45 minutes away from Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi. Kitengela it is one the fastest growing cities in East Africa and is close to Maasai land where a big modern day revival is taking place. It is connected to Mombasa on the Indian Ocean, Tanzania to its south, it is close to Nairobi which in turn is connected to Western Kenya and Uganda. Kitengela, is the locale which God has selected for our next conference. Instead of traveling all over Kenya and wasting precious time and money, we will set up a tent of about 400 and have pastors from all over Kenya attend. The provisional date of this next conference will be from Monday September 20^th through Sunday September 26^th We will be taking a team which will teach expositionally, train on worship, probably do some workshops, and will minister in the power of God. There is a wonderful hotel in Kitengela ran by Christian pastors called the Masai Discovery ( shown on the photo). The trip itself will be comfortable in that the team will fly in, take a 45 minute ride to Kitengela, lodge and minister there for week and then fly home.

In February 2011 we have an invitation to do similar training in Uganda where there is another revival brewing. I will update you more as the time gets a bit closer. This is what he Lord appears to be doing now. God bless.

Our Special Africa Needs

  
                                         
 We began an “Adult Reading School” in Kenya when we saw many adult Christians who could not read. Today, there are 12 that are eligible for government certificates due to their reading skills which will get them jobs.    
$ 840.00/ $70.00/ person

Apostle Jeremy Gichuru of Quality Discipleship Churches in Kampala, Uganda needs 90 chairs for his main church. Gichuru has been fasting sitting on chairs at his churches until God answers his need. Gichuru sits on a small wooden stool. The cost of each chair is $10.00.

Total cost $ 900.00 COMPLETED

Pastor Elias Onduas Ouma has four children which our ministry has been putting through school for a number of years. Part of his school fees were due at the beginning of April. His oldest child Kennedy was sent home due to the fees not paid.

Total cost: $550.00 COMPLETED

Pastor Elias Onduas Ouma, though he leads over 40 churches in Kenya, lives in a hut. The thatched roof on his hut has rotted away and rain comes in. He really needs a new roof that will cost him about $3,000.00. A temporary roof will cost him $1200.00.

Total cost $1200.00.COMPLETED

You can donate to any one of these needs, in any amount that you want to, through our secure “Pay Pal” button found our web site. You can also write out a check. The instructions for giving are on our web site. Thank you so much!

Jose and Mary Alvarez

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The Believer is God's Trophy and His Crowned Achievement.

Eph 2:6 and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

8 for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift,

9 not of works, that no one may boast;

10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

Eph 2:6-10 are an amazing set of scriptures . I think that we have not had the full revelation of what Paul; was has been trying to tell us.

V6 We have been raised up with Christ when He was raised up. That is a given. All that has happened to Christ has happened to us. This is what separates the Christian for everybody else on the planet

Our current position now, and here on earth, is one of sitting on the very throne which Christ sits in.

If we have the revelation that we sit on the very throne which Christ's is sitting on, then we operate in exactly the same authority and power which He reigns with...right now!

The fullness of this can only be realized,however, when we live existentially or experientially in places which are found in the realms of God's kingdom. As Christians we will sadly spend most of our earthly lives living by the realities of earthly places and earthly things. We must press in by faith to become transcendental people with transcendental thinking that can enter into the transcendental places of God's kingdom and access His invisible and transcendental things. This is the definition of a renewed minds. We must ask God to transom us until it becomes the norm to live out heavenly places and access heavenly things and unnatural and uncomfortable to live out of earthly places.

Its obvious that the more that our experiences are within places which comprise the kingdom of heaven, the more that we will be our experience to access the hours, times and seasons of that kingdom which God continually desires to reveals to us.

God's heart is always one of kindness. The riches which God reveals to us in heavenly places are designated to fulfill specific functions of his kindness. Every object which God has placed in His kingdom and which He reveals to us is used by Him to demonstrate His kindness to us and more so His kindness THROUGH us to hurting and lost humanity.

I suspect that what Paul was intending to say in verses 9 and 10 is different to what we thought he meant.

Everything from verse 6-10 is connected. Paul always connected his thoughts in his writings.

Yes, the transcendental riches of His grace made up as functions of His kindness have saved us..but I also see him saying so much more than that.

The transcendental riches of His grace, all which demonstrate different aspects of God's incredible kindness to humanity, have been all poured or funneled into the believer. This pouring into us of all of God's incredible riches of kindness have created, molded, and completed the believer into something that God had in mind.

Think of molten, fiery, red hot steel, being poured into a metal cast iron mold, and creating an object once it cools down. Lets take for example, the frame of a car.

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

This is exactly what Paul is saying in Eph 2:10.

The word “workmanship” is the Greek word “poiema.” This rare word, a noun, only appears twice in the NT.

As the fiery hot molten steel poured into a metal cast mold produced the frame of a car, all of the transcendental riches of God's kindness, power, and glory have BEEN POURED into the believer. The believer now is the workmanship, masterpiece, God's crowned achievement, the trophy, the completed product of all of God's blessings to humanity. You see, we must learn to minister to people as THE COMPLETED masterpiece of God's power, Gods healing, Gods finances, God's riches to humanity. We simply exhibit, demonstrate and release by faith.

This is why its not out works. It is an undeserved gift of God. We learn to minister boldly, confidently and with total authority realizing that all of the completed masterpieces, centerpieces and achievements of God's power, healing and riches for mankind lie deposited us finished and perfected. The more faith and the more revelation that we have, the greater will be the release of what is already in us.

You think about that today!