Dynamic Churches International

Global Update April/May 2017
Urgent Prayer Needed!

Matthew 28:18-20 (NIV) Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Make Disciples Who Make Disciples Who Make….)

The Great Commission will not be accomplished in your community when everyone
has heard the gospel, but when the gospel has so changed the lives of those who receive Christ that your community is transformed through them! Isaiah 54:2-3 “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your Stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left…”

Prayer Warriors, God is growing the ministry and we need your prayers for our Representative (we trained) and the great opportunities they have serving God and equip His people. Please pray for them.

Hans and Elly Timmermans Canadians serving in Northern Malawi, East Africa: They Report: “The time is quickly approaching when Hans and I will return to Malawi. We are grateful to once again spend 3 weeks with our Team: John, George and Andrew and their families. They are doing a great job! We are so blessed to be a part of this ministry. Our friend, Mike Eckert, will be coming with us. Our goal is to encourage the Team and help in setting the direction for the future of the ministry. The plan is to visit several areas where leaders have been trained and where coaches have caught the vision and are doing what John, George and Andrew are doing – expanding the discipleship and leadership training within their own areas. That’s how the work multiplies, and that’s why we are now seeing the ministry areas running into each other…. the north of Malawi has many leaders trained and many, many life groups functioning with well-trained leaders and apprentices.

There are 1.5 million people in the northern Tumbuka speaking area of Malawi. Over 15,000 Discipleship booklets and New Testaments have been distributed by the DCI Team (and are used for discipling) in this area. That means that one in every 100 people has been reached with the gospel and being discipled. God has changed the lives of these disciples and they are seeing God change the lives of their disciples. By God’s grace DCI IS making a difference!” Their work is now spreading to South Malawi and over the border into Zambia.

Simeon Oyugi Nairobi, Kenya: Simeon and his team of 47 DCI trained leaders continue to equip hundreds of Pastors in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Because of their success in seeing many churches making disciples who are establishing Discovery Groups with the people in their neighbourhood, Simeon is now getting many requests from prominent Church leaders in countries all over Africa. Let me list the ones I am aware of: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burundi and Congo. These are in addition to Malawi where Hans and Elly Timmermans serve and Ethiopia where Mekibibi Atela and Tesfa Chutta are working.

Simeon shares; “In Tanzania the Pentecostal Evangelical Fellowship of Africa (PEFA) has called me to go and train their 150 Pastors and Leaders in the Eastern Part of Tanzania and I told them to wait a bit until I have recovered and I will let them know the dates. (Simeon is recovering from heart problems) The Group of Pastors and Bishops who left Kenya for Tanzania have just came back, having planted a church and won 120 souls to the kingdom of God and they established 46 Discovery Groups before moving on to Dodoma which is the Capital City of Tanzania. In total the number of countries in Africa is 15 that are now active or ready for DCI by end of 2017. We are praying that God will provide finances for travel, accommodation and printing! God could use you to be an answer to our prayers!

Simeon and his team have several DCI Training sessions coming up in April, May and June. His goal is to establish 700 Discovery Groups. God graciously and unexpectedly provided the finances through a friend to print 5,000 books for these training sessions that will expand the DCI training into these countries. What God can do, no man can do and to God be all the Glory in Jesus mighty Name. When God’s time is right, you cannot stop His work! We seek to following His lead by Training Trainers to equip the pastors and church leaders to make disciples and establish New Discovery Groups. This is our model for Discipleship. Jesus said to “Go and make disciples”.

Paul and Priskila Paksoal in Indonesia: They have served with us in the past, but due to their position as President and Head of the Women’s ministry with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Indonesia they have not been able to be as active until now. Priskila is in Kalimantan, Indonesia training 3 Churches there. One of the pastors plans to be our DCI Representative for Kalimantan. Please pray for them as they restart the DCI ministry in Indonesia.

Clair Ziolkowski – Canadian working in Zambia: On April 3rd Clair will be heading to the airport to start his 30-day mission trip to Zambia! This trip will be the most ambitious thus far and the schedule will be very demanding. Clair will be speaking at a Pastor’s conference and will also be distributing the container contents (below) during the first 1½ weeks. Al Stovall, from Saskatoon, will be joining Clair for the last 2 weeks of the mission to assist with setting up 12 new churches & doing DCI discipleship training, in a 100 x 100-kilometre square region of Zambia that currently does not have any Evangelical churches and has had very little exposure to the Gospel.
The ministry plan is as follows:
April 3: Leave for Zambia, arriving April 5
April 5 – 8: Distribute container items in the Chongwe area
April 9: Preaching in Chongwe
April 10 – 13: Preaching/speaking at Pastor’s conference in Kitwe
April 14: Pick up Al in Lusaka, buy groceries, drive 8 hours to Sinda.
April 15 – 30: Crusades, discipleship training & baptisms
May 1: Leave for home

This church planting endeavour has been in the works for almost 2 years – Bible school students have been trained and are ready to step in and pastor these church plants. They have just been ordained in March. Evening crusades are being planned, showing the Jesus film, and presenting the Gospel to all that attend.
DCI Discipleship training is also planned, as well as baptisms, for those receiving Christ as their personal Saviour.

This mission has been the most challenging to date – from customs clearing, to the container being damaged & repaired, to health issues arising, to tight time schedules.
We ask for your prayers for the following:

1. Travel safety for Clair and Al as they travel long hours to and from Zambia. Also pray for the whole team in Zambia, including Pastor Luke, Pastor Iwell & Wilson. Luke & Iwell are the Pastors that are heading up this church plant mission.
2. Health and strength for Clair, Al & Pastor Luke. Clair is doing well after a summer of health issues (early stage breast cancer and an impacted kidney stone). Pastor Luke is currently having some health issues, as he keeps a very demanding schedule. He Pastors his church and run a Bible School out of the church.
3. For the crusades – that many local people will come to know the Lord as their personal Saviour.
4. For the new Pastors, as they prepare to shepherd the new believers in their spiritual growth.
5. For the new churches, that they will grow and support the pastors that God has put in place.
6. For the orphanages – Faith’s orphanage, Life Song orphanage and Father’s House, as Clair delivers over 4,000 pillow case dresses and dehydrated soup mix to the children in need.
7. For the people who will receive Bibles and devotional material & food – that the Lord will use these to further his Kingdom.
8. That the container will arrive in the area on time and that there is zero to minimal damage to the contents of the container. Also, that the container will be in satisfactory condition to be used for a school room, as planned.
9. That funds will continue to be received to assist with the purchase of cement to build the church buildings ($200/Church) and provide pastors with bicycles ($200 x 12 Pastors) for their transportation.
10.That God will use this mission to further His Kingdom, according to His will and that His name be glorified in Zambia!

Thank you for your generous gifts of support. We are indeed humbled and blessed by your support of this ministry.
In this container, we were able to include:
– 25 skids/over 19,000 lbs of dry soup mix (about 1 MILLION meals)
– thousands of new and used Bibles
– over 800 new study Bibles, thousands of devotionals & commentaries.
– over 4,000 BEAUTIFUL hand sewn pillow case dresses, along with underwear for the orphaned girls, over 400 pairs of shoes (Crocs and lightweight shoes) and lots of fabric for orphans to use in their sewing/trade skill classes.
– Sunday School material, CD’s and DVD’s of sermons
– 400 solar messengers from Charles Stanley, 65 sermons and the reading of the New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs.
– medical supplies and solar panels and rechargeable batteries.
-office furniture – 2 desks, 2 chairs and 2 filing cabinets at the request of the Pastors, to assist with their ministry work.
– a 4’ x 8’ utility trailer to use for distributing the material and food.
The items in this container came from all over Saskatchewan and Alberta, and resources were brought in from Michigan and Florida. Much of this material was freely donated and valued well over $200,000!
The container has now left Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, on its way to Lusaka/Chongwe, Zambia – we are praying that it arrives by the time Clair gets to Lusaka.
We covet your prayers. Your support makes it possible to do these mission trips – equipping pastors, holding crusades, planting churches and supplying resources to new Christians and those who have no Christian literature or Bibles and also providing food for those in great need.
Clair’s budget for this 30-day Mission:
Clair’s airfare, lodging and meals – $7,000 (*Note – Al Stovall is covering his own airfare, lodging and meals)
Fuel for distribution and travel – $1,000
Meals & lodging for the Zambian Nationals helping with the church plants – $2,000
Total budget – $10,000
Funds received over the above needs above will be used to purchase cement to build brick and mortar Church buildings in the 12 villages where we plan to plant Churches. Each Church costs $200 for cement. Also, bicycles for the 12 Pastors @ $200 each and a PA System and Projector with Screen, $1300.
Clair is raising the finances for this trip, but if you would like to help he would be very grateful.

Thank you for your prayers and financial support! Through you God is expanding His Kingdom. We together with you are a team and we very much need each other to accomplish the great work God has given us to do!
Donations can be sent to the address below or via credit card through Canada Helps in Canada at: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/dynamic-churches-international/
or Network for Good in the U.S. at: https://www.networkforgood.org/donation

May God bless you all!
Your Brother and Sister in Christ,
Al and Mary Middleton

Download a PDF copy of the update with photos here:
DCI_April-May_2017_Middleton_Report

Dear Friends,

The time is quickly approaching when Hans and I will board the plane in Toronto on Saturday to take us to Malawi. We are grateful to once again go and meet our Team: John, George and Andrew.  We are so blessed to be a part of this ministry.
We will spend 3 weeks with these wonderful men and their families.  They are doing a great job! Our friend, Mike Eckert, from our home church (LIFE Church, Stratford), will be coming with us. Our goal this time is simply to encourage the Team and help in setting the direction for the future of the ministry.

The plan is to visit several areas where leaders have been trained: especially areas where we have coaches who have caught the vision and basically are doing what John, George and Andrew are doing – expanding the discipleship and leadership training within their own areas.   That’s how the work multiplies, and that’s why we are now seeing the ministry areas running into each other….the north of Malawi has many leaders trained and many, many life groups functioning with well-trained leaders and apprentices.

There are 1.5 million people in the northern Tumbuka speaking area of Malawi.  Over 15,000 Discipleship booklets and New Testaments have been distributed by the DCI Team (and therefore, used for discipling) in this area.  That means that  one in every 100 people has been reached and discipled.  DCI IS making a difference!

We will come home with lots of stories and reports the end of April.  Some of them we hope to share with you at our Malawi Appreciation Dinner. Update to the dinner:  change of date – Saturday June 10, 5:30 at Bethel Pentecostal Church.  (In our previous newsletter, we said June 11.) Come and enjoy a dinner with us in celebration of God’s greatness.  Patti Hill will be our guest for music again.  You may remember her from 3 years ago.  Everyone loved her, and we appreciate her willingness to come again. Formal invitations will come soon but please mark your calendars.

I am attaching a report that we received from our Team recently.  I hope these reports are as encouraging to you as they are to us. Malawi 3/2017 newsletter

For those not yet partnering with us, please consider becoming a partner. The ministry is growing and needs you. Praise God for His abundant blessings! Thank you so much for your support in prayer and in finances.

With love,

Hans and Elly Timmermans

Paul says in Ephesians 1:15 to 23:

15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

With all that God is doing in DCI we should not be surprised that Satan is attacking us and our team of faithful Staff and Trainers. Below watch for signs of the enemy’s attack (in red) and how God overcame! (in blue)

Prayer Warriors An email from one faithful friend and prayer warrior: (The real force behind our ministry!)

“I pray for you 3 hours a day and never miss. I do this because GOD has asked me to do it and I consider it a very important request. GOD has told me He appreciates you. GOD says “you are going to get those (needed) funds but there is a significant war going on with the dark forces”.

GOD says “you need to pray protection over yourselves and your organization” as the dark forces will be after you. GOD, BLESS YOU”.

Ron and Bev Nelson Alberta Directors Report on their ongoing Ministry in Haiti: Ron has experienced health problems since December. His health is improving now, but we need to be praying for him and for his wife Bev.
God has provided $3,000 CDN for Bibles in Haiti so far. Praise God! The need is still great as there is a revival going on there and Bibles in Creole are in short supply. Can you help? Pray for Jean Claude (at right) who Ron works with in Haiti.

Hans and Elly Timmermans Canadians serving in Malawi, East Africa: They Report:

“The team of 4 national leaders have gone to each specific area 3 times for 4- 5 days at a time over 5-6 months, teaching the leaders about the Explosive Growth principles…teaching them how to do one-to-one discipleship, the principles of multiplying Life Groups, and training leaders to reproduce themselves. We have heard so many testimonies from those who have been trained about how the lessons have been well received and immediately put into practice. We can count – from the multiplication charts alone that there are 251 Life Groups and 275 well trained leaders. The verse in John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” is proving to be true. Neighboring villages are asking, “Why are you different? We want what you have!” Unfortunately, we can’t track all the groups, but we know that there are many more! Each Life Group has an apprentice and a host/hostess. We know there are well over 400 Life Groups, of between 10 and 40 members each, functioning in Northern Malawi – reaching out to their neighbors and family members; discipling those who have come to Christ for salvation. Each leader who has been trained is actively training others who will do the same.”

Simeon Oyugi Nairobi, Kenya:

Praise God we are registered in Africa as Love Africa International Foundation! This will be part of DCI. “We are having strange famine covering 70-80% of Kenya, both animals and people are dying in big numbers. Water is drying up and the dam supplying Nairobi is drying as well and we have a serious shortage of water supply. After prayer and fasting, my wife went down with strong fever, but God’s hand is upon her. Also we (DCI) were able to help with school fees and rent!

“I Simeon was attacked by 2 thugs at gun point who robbed me of my belongings,
documents, money and phone. God protected me and they spared my life though it almost ended up in kidnapping which could have been very tragic. God blocked their minds from asking me the bank card pin number because if they had that, they could have taken all the school fees because they are still at the Bank as the lecturers at university are still on strike and the fees are not due yet. If the guns which were pointed to my head and heart were triggered, you may not have heard from me or seen me again and that could have been very unfortunate for DCI in Africa and my family, but God is great, His angels were all around me and the Blood of Jesus covered me through all this horrible time.
I need more and more of your prayers! I will keep on going, and if I die, I will die serving Jesus, multiplying Disciples and Training more leaders in Africa to the glory of God the father. God, bless you. Simeon.

Simeon now has 6 nations asking him to train them to do what he is doing in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania!

Jing Estrella Philippines: Shares;

“Greeting from rainy Davao! All of Mindanao is under heavy rain for almost a week. Neighbouring provinces of Davao City are severely flooded and roads are not passable. Many are stranded on the road due to landslides or floods and have suffered starvation, and some have died of drowning. We covet your prayers.”

“At present, I’m training 13 pastors and church leaders, representing 10 local churches, who are interested to start Discovery Groups in their community. We meet every 3rd Thursday of the month for 3 hours for sharing their experiences, mentoring, monitoring, evaluation, training and prayer. We call this monthly group meeting a Pastors’ Discovery Group Network Meeting. In the first 2 meetings we did orientation of the Discovery Group and experiencing an actual Discovery Group session. This session they will submit the names of their Start-up Discovery Group, a minimum of 5, who will soon connect to the community and start their own Discovery Group(s). There is a potential of 11 Start-up Discovery Groups with 50 individuals who will reach out to their surrounding communities and hopefully soon beyond their communities. Pray that the Holy Spirit will continue to empower these leaders. Your brother in Christ,” Jing L. Estrella

Clair Ziolkowski – Canadian working in Zambia: Clair was in Airdrie to visit his family over Christmas, and so he spent a couple of hours with us. He is planning to go back to Zambia in April. He has accumulated a container full of books and Bibles, dried foods, clothing etc. Clair is having DCI books printed in Zambia and is setting up DCI training workshops with Pastors and will be equipping a team of national leaders to be able to continue the DCI training after he returns to Canada.
Ramananda- North Central India reports:

“I am very excited to let you know that within seven months our 10 church planters have reached out to 1821 non Christian/Hindu families with gospel tracts and literature. We also did One-to- One Dynamic Basic with 672 individuals, and praise the Lord, out of them 89 young men and women accepting Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. They are under the good care of our church planters who have established nine house fellowships/small churches of 10 to 15 believers in different fields.
In October 2016, I was invited to witness Christ among the orthodox Hindu Meiteis in the state of Assam for six days. The first night was so horrible with so many drunkards. They were even trying to hit me and stone me for preaching gospel. They destroyed the first night program. I was indeed shocked, and worrying about how to continue.
My prayer was, Lord you have brought me here for your own purpose not mine, so even if it cost me my life please let your purpose be fulfilled and your kingdom be expanded. Jesus I am ready to do anything for your glory and no matter what happens I will preach.
The next day God took me to a different village. I know I gave my word to Jesus, but still there was war within me. My flesh and Satan told me not to witness, he gave me fear as I recalled the last night’s situation. But my heart was so willing to witness even if it costs my life, and the Spirit of God was touching and moving me saying “Son I brought you here and I am with you now, do not be afraid” soon after I heard the voice of God, it was wonderful, all fear was gone! I stood up and witnessed fearlessly. What a great joy it was to see the great and mighty works of our almighty God! There were still many drunkards but they couldn’t speak anything against me. Hallelujah! As I was asking anyone who was willing to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior to come forward for confessional prayer, it was so marvelous and incredible, I couldn’t believe that altogether 350 men, women and children came with tears and confessed their sins and accepted Jesus that night! Thus all throughout the week, in the midst of much opposition, disturbances and inconveniences, we saw God’s mighty hand, mighty acts and loving care by bringing many souls into His own kingdom in and through our lives and ministries there.
The evangelists/church planters are actively and faithfully serving God, but these days I am really struggling for their monthly supports. Anyway God has been so faithful thus far, and I pray and strongly believe that He will still be faithful even in the coming days as we serve only HIM. Our three days fasting prayer each month gives us strength.”

Thank you for your prayers and financial support! Through you God is expanding His Kingdom. We together with you are a team and we very much need each other to accomplish the great work God has given us to do!
Donations can be sent to the address below or through Canada Helps in Canada or Network for Good in the U.S. (both online).
May God bless you all!
Your Brother and Sister in Christ,
Al and Mary Middleton

A PDF document of this letter with photos is here: February-2017-middleton-report

Dear Friends & Ministry Partners,

What difference would it have made if Jesus had never left Heaven and come to our world? Let me share an example from Chikwina, a village in Northern Malawi, Africa; passed on by Hans and Elly Timmermans. It will give you an insight into how some people live without Christ:

“Witchcraft has been the main source of mysterious deaths in Chikwina. Witches target those who are well to do and educated, who build a good house with iron sheet roofs and educate their children; the witches are not happy because they don’t have good houses and educated children so they try to kill these “rich” people …. and they and even their children die mysteriously. People are afraid to prosper and live in poverty!
PRAISE; By the grace of God many people in this area are accepting Christ into their lives and they are giving thanks to the DCI Team for the Bible truths that are changing and transforming their lives and they have found freedom because they  have discovered who they are in Christ, and the power of Christ in their lives … They now know that the Bible says no weapon forged against us shall prosper. This makes them courageous and they don’t fear anything  because  they  know  that  the  one  who is in us (Christ) is more powerful than the one who is in the world   (Satan).”

Individual lives and even whole communities are being transformed by the “good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!” You, our Partners,  are making a huge difference! God has opened up several new countries to us, but we are not able to send our DCI Trainers to equip the National Leaders who are inviting us, because we do not have sufficient funds!

We need $12,000 by the end of  2016! We also have many opportunities to develop new countries next year. Would you please consider increasing your donations each month and/or making a one-time Year-end  donation? If you are not investing in this strategic ministry would you prayerfully consider doing so? Together we can do more!

Donations can be sent to the address below or through Canada Helps (Canada) or Network for Good (U.S).  Both are online.

Merry Christmas and God bless you in 2017!

Your Brother and Sister in Christ,
Al and Mary Middleton

Dynamic Churches International
164 Stonegate Close Airdrie, AB T4B 2V2
Phone/Fax: (403) 912-4438
E-mail: dcimiddleton@shaw.ca

PDF edition of this letter: Christmas-year-end-challenge-2016

This PowerPoint video was recently prepared by Hans and Elly Timmermans for the Canadian Gideons banquet. Here is the online video.

For a PDF copy of this newsletter with photos, please click here:
November-2016-Middleton-report

Dear Friends & Ministry Partners,

John 12:24 (NIVUK) says; “Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”

Spontaneous Disciple Making is all about growing Christians up to maturity so they are living like Jesus, finding fertile soil (people who are interested in learning about God) and planting seeds (by sharing the gospel with them).

God is doing so many wonderful things that it is difficult to select only a few to share with you.

Ron and Bev Nelson Alberta Directors Report on their Ministry Trip to Haiti:

Our translator Jean Claude Esther has continued to conduct DCI training workshops since we left Haiti. There is much excitement at each workshop. They are reaching out and many people have received Christ as their Saviour, including the two men on the right who were gang members from the slums of Jacmel. They plan to change the city and surrounding area. The great need is for Bibles to follow-up all these new believers. 72 of the 87 Pastors we trained did not have a Bible in their own (Creole) language. We hope to provide Bibles for them. Could you help?
Creole Full Bibles Diglot Creole/French New Testaments
Quantity Cost per unit Total CDN Cost per unit Total CDN
500 13.23 $6612.50 2.21 $1105.00
1000 13.23 $13225.00 2.21 $2210.00
5000 11.73 $58650.00 2.21 $11050.00

Hans and Elly Timmermans Canadians serving in Malawi, East Africa: They Report:

“After attending the DCI training, Pastor Smarton Manda started discipling and training leaders at the Nkhata Bay prison. He said that 49 prisoners have come to the Lord and they are being discipled. Some prisoners wanted to worship with his church. By the love of God, the authorities who are in charge of the prison have said that they will be escorting these people for Sunday Services at church.

Hans and Elly share that they have equipped a team of 4 National leaders who started 1 Group in Karonga area. This group became 7 Groups, that reproduced to 27 and according to a recent report they are now at 90 groups (90 X 10+ = 900+ people) – and they are still reproducing!

Simeon Oyugi Nairobi, Kenya:

“Greetings in the precious Name of Jesus Christ and to God be all the glory. The Team which arrived in Kitale on the 13th, just returned today with a good report of Souls harvested to the Kingdom. On their arrival in Kitale, they conducted a training workshop in a church with 28 Pastors and leaders. They equipped them to go door to door and people began to receive Jesus and in 3 days they had 13 people receiving Jesus Christ. The following week, 5 of the 13 who received Jesus Christ began calling their friends who opened their homes for the Gospel and when the Kitale people saw what was happening, they called it Networking Evangelism. The whole game changed! Now they saw that every home needed Jesus!
Sadly, they were interrupted as cattle rustlers attacked the near by village and so they had to find a safe place. The attack was very serious and a number of people have been killed and some people ran away from their homes for lack of security.
The good news is that by the time the team came back, they left 55 New Discovery Groups in the community. In total 68 people received Jesus. The team was also welcomed and asked to share the Gospel during funerals and in this situation they could not tell how many people got saved because it was a large crowd and they all lifted their hands needing prayer.”
News just in; “Pastor Robert has just returned from the coastal region of Kenya and files the following report; ‘We had 20 leaders from Mombasa, and 72 leaders from Kilifi County and hundreds of people giving their Lives to the Lord, but they could only account for 270 as the county is ravaged by famine now and people are feeding on Leaves of any tree or plant. Every night people were receiving Jesus and disappearing in search of food. But DCI gave hope to the hopeless and if we could help provide nutritious food for them, there would be an even greater time to harvest thousands of Souls to the Kingdom of God. Because any gathering attracts people in search of hope which only Jesus can give and any humanitarian support would lead to a great miracle harvest of Souls.
In this location many Muslims received Jesus to give them hope for their lives.’
Pastor Robert told me (Simeon) this morning that the New Discovery Groups established was 127, one of the biggest number ever to be recorded in the year 2016.”
Simeon says; “Pastor Robert mentioned to me, that when he closed the training and announced he was going back to Nairobi the people were not ready to let him go, because he had given them hope, hunger, thirst and a passion for God. He told me how he saw them harvesting wild leaves to cook for him because he was a visitor which he ate together with them.
You can Google for yourself and see what is going on in Kilifi with this strange famine – dying vegetation, killing animals, birds and people. God have mercy on this desperate situation.Link: http://kenyanewsagency.go.ke/en/famine-looms-as-crops-fail-in- kilifi-county/
DCI is moving in areas that even Government official would not dare go to unless under organized security.
We thank God for DCI.
– Simeon.”

Jing Estrella Philippines: Shares;

“The training in Bukidnon went well. Sixty two people attended representing 9 churches. The training focused mostly on One-to-One Discipleship particularly on the Basics and Discipling because this is what they were requesting. They set a goal of finishing cross-training each other until the whole membership of their churches has completed the Dynamic Basics before the end of 2016.
I also presented to them the Discovery Group Process and some leaders expressed the desire to have further follow-up meetings about this strategy.
Please pray for permanent, stable peace and order in Davao City and the entire Mindanao province.
On September 2, 2016, at around 10:00 PM, Davao City was bombed. 16 people were confirmed dead and more than 60 were critically injured. The Abu Sayaff group claimed responsibility. Pray that God will frustrate their plans of spreading terrorism to other provinces of Mindanao.

Clair Ziolkowski – Canadian working in Zambia:

Clair had an amazing trip to Zambia last summer and was scheduled for surgery when he returned. That went well, but then he had several other health problems that kept him in the hospital for several weeks.
He reports on the trip; “I believe that the work that has been started in Zambia, will continue to grow and flourish under God’s servants that he has in place in Zambia. Thank you for your prayers and support, for me and the ministry, as we continue to provide the Bibles, devotionals, food and dresses to those in need in Zambia. The Pastors have expressed their love and gratefulness for the ministry we had there. The Good News that has been shared and preached to thousands of people, has given them hope for eternity in Heaven for so many lives and encouraged the Pastors to continue in their ministries to boldly share the Good News of Jesus Christ to their people.”

Clair plans to return to Zambia in April next year. He has been trained to be able to equip the Pastors in our DCI strategy, and he has materials being printed there so that he can conduct DCI workshops for Pastors. He also will develop a team of national leaders there to be able to carry on and expand disciple-making throughout Zambia.
Thank you for your prayers and financial support! Through you God is expanding His Kingdom. We together with you are a team and we very much need each other to accomplish the great work God has given us to do!

Donations can be sent to the DCI address, or through Canada Helps in Canada or Network for Good in the U.S. (both online).
May God bless you all!

Your Brother and Sister in Christ,
Al and Mary Middleton

Dear friends,

Want to have more reasons to praise the Lord? Here’s some more testimonies from our team in Malawi. We received these yesterday – following their second trip to Nkhata Bay for 3 more days of teaching and training of leaders.

The testimonies from:

· Gracious Sichali, “these teachings are good, and from these teachings of DCI I have managed to open up some other church branches, many people are accepting Christ and they are being discipled and placed in various life groups.”
· Major Godfrey Chagwa (Salvation Army Church), “I have learnt a lot from DCI teachings, one to one disciple making is one of the ways of developing leaders. As I continue discipling people through one to one it becomes very easy for me to identify leaders and their capacities. And very soon we expect to open another church branch out of the DCI teachings, even the LG multiplication is still taking place, which really tells us that soon our community will be covered up with the gospel, and we thank God for His mercies.”
· Pastor Smarton Manda (Calvary Family Church), “one to one discipling has helped a lot, for more people have discovered what eternal life means, and many are accepting Christ in their lives. My church is growing in numbers and in faith. I have also started the prison ministry where a lot of prisoners are getting saved through one to one discipleship, and last week 49 prisoners accepted Christ.”

Please continue to pray for our team. They returned home early from this trip because of sickness. Perhaps caused by food, we don’t know….but we do know that without your prayers, this work would not move forward as it is. Satan does not like what is happening – his territory is being won over by Jesus Christ. Here’s another small excerpt from their report:

“The percentage of psychiatric people is very high, and it is heard that many are chamba (Indian hemp) smokers and some are bewitched, and it is also believed that if one has been bewitched like that, then the one who has done that shall be having a big catch of fish in the lake, they also believe that the more he moves from one place to another it means the catch of fish grows….”

We have many reasons to be thankful. You are one of them. Thanks for your interest. Praise the Lord with us!

Hans and Elly Timmermans

Oct. 17, 2016
http://www.dynamicchurches.org

from Ron and Bev Nelson

Friends and Ministry Partners,
2 Timothy 2:1-2: “You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. ² And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. ” (NIV)

When we went to Haiti, we discussed going in March 2017 when it would be cooler. Gods plan was to go in August 2016. Yes it was very hot and humid. However as you will see in this newsletter, Gods timing quickly became very obvious…

Continue reading…

by Al and Mary Middleton

A PDF copy with photos is here: August 2016 Middleton Report.

Dear Friends & Ministry Partners,

Genesis 9:7

“… be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.” God’s plan has always been that we Reproduce both Physically and Spiritually! At 74 years old I am not quite as active physically, but I am more fruitful that ever through the national leaders we have equipped!

Spontaneous Disciple Making strategy based on reaching into our communities!

This strategy is based on 1)Praying for God to lead you to people, 2)Doing deeds of kindness in the community (being visibly Christian), 3)Finding people who are open to the gospel, 4)Begin a Discovery Group with them and their family and/or friends, 5)Baptize those who receive Jesus Christ, 6)Establish each new Christian using Dynamic Basic, 7)Recruit and Develop new leaders using Dynamic Discipling, 8)Expand the present Church ministry or Plant New Churches and 9)Continue to Mentor the Discovery Group Leaders and/or Church Planters.

Ron and Bev Nelson Alberta Directors Report on their Ministry Trip to Haiti:

“The temperature was hot and humid, but the pastors just kept coming and coming. We expected 40, but 50 showed up, then 60, then 70 and we ended up with 87 who completed the training! The Pastors are eager to be equipped and take Haiti for Jesus! Churches in Haiti vary from 12 to 500 people in size and have a Kingdom focus. Haiti is very poor. There are pastors there who do not even have a Bible in their own language – Creole. We visited an orphanage and observed an incredible prayer and praise time. They are on fire!! We experienced a tropical storm one day that blew out the back wall of the chapel where we were meeting, but the pastors kept doing the One-to-One. That shows me how important this training is to them!”

Hans and Elly Timmermans Canadians serving in Malawi, East Africa.

Doing Deeds of Kindness in the Community: LIFE MAIZE MILL

They Report: “Two weeks ago there was a funeral in the community and the family of the person who died was very poor, so we offered to mill their maize for free so they could feed all the people who came to attend the funeral as one way Life Maize Mill can be a help to this family and the community. We want to maintain a good testimony since all people know that the Mill belongs to a Christian group.

Amazingly the chief made a very strong statement of how the Life Maize Mill is helping the community. He was addressing hundreds of people that came to the funeral – some came from a far distance. They all went back home hearing the good deeds the Life Maize Mill does in this community and this has been a story going around the whole area!”

Simeon Oyugi our Rep. in Nairobi, Kenya

Finding People who are open to the Gospel – Sharing the Gospel – Following-up by Equipping them with Dynamic Basics and Discovery Groups

Simeon is able to draw many Pastors together for training. Also, he recently was invited by the University of Nairobi to return and train more students in our DCI ministry. I just got the following report from him.

Simeon shares; “They have seven different Schools and I conducted training in four blocks, The School of Engineering, School of Medicine and Mathematics, School of Arts and Business, and the School of Education which comprised a total of 370 students trained in DCI.

What happened at the university was beautiful to behold. After three days of training, we had 15 students who gave their lives to the Lord and it was these 15 who later went and brought their friends from different student residences, which is similar to the story of the Samaritan woman in John 4 and by Friday we had 130 giving their lives to the Lord. Therefore they requested that we have two more days for the training of these students. I only supervised as the trained students started training these 130 students. So in total DCI trained 500 students. The 130 students are causing a revival! After only a few days they have brought to the Lord 12 more new believers and they are training them. They are beginning Discovery Groups in different residences and to God be all the glory. If this passion continues, then you will be getting more reports from this university.” Simeon also shared: “Students whom I trained two years ago in the same University recently went to Kakuma the world’s largest Refugee Camp and did a DCI training Workshop with over 100 Pastors representing over 90 Churches within the Refugee Camp. They had 93 people give their Lives to the Lord.

Begin Discovery Groups: The Student Trainers helped these Pastors organize and plan Discovery Groups in the homes of the newly born again believers and by the time they left, they had already identified 45 new settlements of their friends who are not born again, and who were more than willing to have them in their families. I also heard from Kakuma Refugee Camp, that the pastors and leaders are going from Tent to

Tent and many are coming to the Lord and are being trained in Dynamic Basics One-to-One and Discovery Groups.”

Just in today (Aug. 23) from Simeon: “We have just returned from Isibania (Aug.17–21), at the Border of Kenya and Tanzania. We are tired, but the trip was beyond my expectations! We have never done a training of this kind. We had organized a DCI Training Workshop for about 250 Pastors and Church leaders from the 11 Churches that invited us. What we did not expect was that they literally brought all their members including children because the schools were closed and so they could not leave them at home. Thank God I had gone there with a team of 15 trainers and so three of my team ministered to the children. In Total we trained 730 adults and the 280 school going children ages 5 -13 years. We had 40 adults (including one Pastor) and 280 children who gave their lives to Jesus! They really enjoyed the One-to-One Dynamic Basics. Before we left, they had confirmed 27 Discovery Groups and established a 9 member Pastor’s Life Group.

Believe me, I was moved into tears when I saw children crying and shedding tears because they needed Jesus dearly into their hearts. It was amazing and awesome to see God bring in a new Generation into His Kingdom and great will be the height of His Glory in this area. May God bless you for your prayers.”

Jing Estrella Philippines, Shares:

“We appreciate it so much to know that you continuously pray for us. About the DCI ministry, there is no let up for this. So far (in the last few months) 600 pastors and leaders are exposed to our Discovery Group Process and Strategy. Next week I’ll be in Bukidnon Province to conduct another Workshop (Aug 18-19, 2016) with 70 to 80 pastors and leaders. My plan is to choose 10 to 20 pastors who will commit to start and develop the Discovery Group Ministry in their churches and church planting target areas. We plan to start a Pastors Life Group in October 2016.”

Ramananda in Imphal, Manipur, N. E. India reports:

“I am very happy to let you know that the one month discipleship training program has been completed successfully. All 10 of the church planters are very young and energetic and we pray God’s mighty hand upon them and that He will be with them as they have gone out for three months practical work in their own respective fields. We also thank God that we saw so many changes in the lives of these church planters as they were together with us for the whole month.

Please continue to pray for these ten young workers of the Gospel.”

“One more thing, I have been praying and planning to have two small DCI Leadership Training Workshops – one August 15 – 16 (now complete) and another in October 10 – 11, 2016.” God has graciously provided the finances through some of you!

Peter and Moala Kashung the Leadership Training Centre (LTC)
in India and Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Their team of DCI Trainers have planted thousands of churches and they continue to equip and send out many church planters/evangelists.

DCI Reinforcement Training: Moala shares; “We had a wonderful time together with all of our LTC extended Centre Associate Directors and Country Coordinators. We have a new overall DCI Ministry Supervisor – his name is Harish Chandra Binayak. He has just completed a Master of Divinity Degree from the All Nations Theological Seminary, Siligui, India. Also, Mr. Dilip Singh from Bangladesh, whom we have equipped well in our Bible College for the last 3 years graduated in April. We gave him an additional 3 months of training in DCI Strategy, office management with bookkeeping and reporting systems etc. We officially anointed him for his ministry back in Bangladesh.”

John Mathuraja – South India and Sri Lanka:

Because of the encouraging results from his last workshops in Sri Lanka, John has been invited to return to Sri Lanka to equip more pastors to develop their churches as disciple-making churches. Thank you to those of you who provided the funds to make this trip possible!

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Thank you for your prayers and financial support! Through you God is expanding His Kingdom. We together with you are a team and we very much need each other to accomplish the great work God has given us to do!

Donations can be sent to the address below or through Canada Helps or Network for Good in the U.S. (both online).

May God bless you all!

Your Brother and Sister in Christ,

Al and Mary Middleton

CHIKWINA SECOND LEADERS’ TRAINING

August 29-September 2, 2016

We had a successful trip to Chikwina. We left on Monday, our official travelling day, and we travelled safely and arrived safely at Chikwina.  We were welcomed at the house of Pastor Andrew Banda of Assemblies of God church who accommodated us last time.  Andrew and his wife welcomed us with joy and they were happy to have us as their visitors. We were given a room to sleep and we used our camping mattresses and our sleeping bags. In the same evening pastor Governor Chunda, the coach, came to welcome us in the same house of Andrew Banda. We had a very good interaction, hearing stories of Chikwina area.

The following day the trainings started well and the leaders were happy for the trainings. During Lunch breaks and during sessions we got so many comments on how the work is growing.

Andrew Banda;  said, more people are accepting Christ through these teachings and are being encouraged, and more are so appreciative for the gifts of the booklets as well as the NT Bibles.   (The photo to the right is pastor Andrew Banda and his family.)

Dyson kamanga; said, I belong to New Apostolic Church where usually we are not encouraged to have a Bible, and most of the time they do discourage us to attend trainings like these. For example, after they heard that I attended the first DCI trainings last time, they called me in a tough  meeting for elders where I was asked so many questions, but I stood at the truth that I know about DCI ,that it is there to teach about salvation and discipling people and it is not a church.

I added by saying that, the way I have been taught, what will happen is that I will be teaching people and bring them into this church. They understood, though not satisfied .But after some days as I was discipling people through one to one discipleship, it happened that 4 people accepted Christ and I placed them into the life group, but they had no church, so as I was discipling them I encouraged them to be coming to my church. Now I went again to the elders to confirm my words that the people whom I am teaching will be coming with me into the church, and now their mentality has changed.  For this I believe that many people in my church will know the truth about the Lord Jesus, and now they are appreciating what God is doing.

Governor Chunda; said that the work is growing and many people are coming to Christ.  One very interesting thing is that in our village we have a group of people gathering as a village bank group where people meet every week for their savings.  I shared with them about DCI teachings and they welcomed it.  Now the discipleship is in progress so far. People are accepting Christ and many are happy upon discovering that they are new creations in Christ and they are having a good understanding of their faith.

Chikwina:  At this place more people are involved much in immorality, witchcraft and polygamy, and more of them are illiterate so they do live a typical local life hence practicing witchcraft.  Usually they do target to kill one another by  witchcraft. The one who has gone far with education, and sometimes even the one who has gone far with business become targets. And in the past years, they could even target the one who builds a big house especially when you have used iron sheets for the roof. They had a mentality of seeing anyone going above them financially but all of them should be at the same level of having small houses with grass thatched roofs. But nowadays by the help of different NGOs most of the people are somehow developed and many are able to build houses with iron sheets. And now the leaders we are training they are so encouraged that through DCI teachings the area will continue to develop as well as having love towards each other; hence no killings by witchcraft.

Because it is a place with a good availability of water from the Chikwina hills, people from this place found it as an advantage for growing Indian hemp, (chamba) in a local term, and they could cultivate in a large quantity.  It was for commercial trade and it was an illegal business. After the police discovered them they were sent to jail. And now some are still growing in a small quantity but usually in a hiding places like in a very tip of mountains where they only visit their farms once a week. It is very far, and even when the police reach the farms, it is at their own risk.

The leaders from this place are so appreciative of the trainings we do.  They do believe that their community is going to benefit a lot, for they have already started seeing the fruits of the teachings from the people of this community For example, pastor Andrew Banda is discipling Zabron Nkhata, who at first was a chamba grower and smoker but he was born again through the DCI approach of one to one disciple making.

The leaders from this place do expect that their community will soon be transformed for the power of the gospel is at work in this area. And they added by saying that they know for sure that the lord is using them to change things in their community.

This is how we travelled to Chikwina for our second leaders’ trainings.

Andrew

submitted by Hans and Elly Timmermans:

Hi Friends,

It is so exciting to receive the reports from our team in Northern Malawi.  The work of the Discipleship and Leadership training which they do in the remote northern villages is bearing fruit!  Many are coming to Christ and many are learning for the first time what it means to be a “Christian”.

The letter above was received from Andrew (one of our team members).  Other than a few simple grammar corrections, it is as is was received.

I think that you will be very encouraged to read it.  We receive reports and stories like this one every 2 weeks.  I wish we could pass them all along, but I know that your time is limited.  We appreciate your partnership – your interest in this work; and thank you for your prayers and/or financial support.

We thank God for you!