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Malaria? Pregnancy? Early Labour?
Picture for a moment ladies: you're pregnant and driving through southern-central Africa. What happens to your mind when you see a poster like this one (posted left)? ... Does fear grip you? Do thoughts start racing through your mind, "What happens if I get malaria while I'm pregnant?" or "What happens if my child gets malaria after she's born?" Fear tried to consume me in my first pregnancy with Elly. Everyday I would wake up and say, "Lord I trust that I will not get malaria during this pregnancy." I...read more
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2011 Roundup
Thanks to YOU, our faithful friends, followers, supporters, missionaries and alumni, 2011 was another record-breaking year here at Overland Missions! This year we're expecting more growth and invite you to take part, click here to find out more. ...read more
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Recruiting for the Dream!
Over the past month I have had the privilege to travel and speak at various colleges and churches about our work in remote and neglected areas around the world. I find myself explaining and re-explaining the same principles to many different people. How the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few…how Jesus would go out of His way to find the one lost sheep out of the 100…how it is such a God-given privilege to travel down some of the most remote paths on earth to speak to only...read more
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1 John 1:9
1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (NKJV) The book of 1 John was written to counteract the beginnings of what evolved into Gnosticism. These teachers believed and taught that Jesus Christ was not the Messiah because God could not be contained in a human body. They taught that flesh was inherently evil and therefore the true Messiah could not have had a physical body. They also propagated that spirit was inherently...read more
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Those who hunger and thirst will be filled!
On our recent trip into the bush, we were greeted upon arrival with singing and dancing. The villagers had built us a make-shift yard complete with kitchen area from branches and grass, using bark as rope tying it all together. There were even mens/womens toilets and bathing rooms made of grass! What an honor and blessing to us all that this was already done for us. During the days we would go minister throughout the villages hut-to-hut and in the evenings and nights we would have big meetings with the...read more
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The Greatest Miracle
It was early in the morning and the river was as still as glass as Pastor Edivaldo, Jessica and I walked up the mud stairs into Valle do Kenia, the village we'd be ministering in. Valle do Kenia is the village where one of our pastors was born. His name is Pastor Leo. He grew up in Valle do Kenia, and his mother still lives there. Pastor Edivaldo had been ministering there for 14 years, and remembers when Pastor Leo gave his life to Christ at the age of 10....read more
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There is JOY in Heaven Today!
We are saddened to announce that we have 'lost', for a short season, one of our own. Joy Bausum went to be with the Lord this Monday while serving in Malaysia under International Pentecostal Holiness Church. Joy graduated from Overland Mission's first AMT (Advanced Missions Training) class in 2007 and went on to serve with us for till January of 2009. She continued her missionary travels all over the continent of Asia first with friends before joining IPHC. All in pursuit of her passion for making Christ's name known in...read more
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God’s Wild Provision
As I move into my seventh year of ministry, it’s fun to gaze in retrospect and see all that God has accomplished through my efforts to serve Him and His efforts to reveal Himself to remote people around the world. I was reminded this month of a story that happened in the Brazilian Amazon several years ago as I was leading an expedition among the Indians. I was preaching in an Indian village late one afternoon after our team had lost a long soccer game against the villagers. As I...read more
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Come and distribute health with us to neglected Villages
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December Newsletter
Dear Friends and Family, The last time I was in the jungles of Southeast Angola was 21 years ago. I wasn't there on vacation or for ministry; I had been drafted into the South African military. I was fighting for the rebel UNITA forces against the invading MPLA forces. I remember it like it was yesterday. The innocent civilians had been trapped in a perpetual war zone, as a cease-fire was not reached until 2002. A long, dusty road connects the city of Lubango to the towns of Menongue and...read more
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