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WHAT AN INCREDIBLE EVENING!

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It is always so fun to have a front row seat to GOD’s moving through HIS Spirits movements and last week’s  Dinner was no exception and one our BEST one ever!!!  Thanks again Team Bezko Eric’s cooking, Tera’s hosting and Ziva’s greeting.  Here are some of the amazing GOD Winks, so many collaborations and next step follow ups from the connections.

  • Jeff Fryer with www.fryerbasketballacademy.com Jeff’s basketball academy is being used to help young teens with development of their leadership skills through the sport and they are local and in the Philippians.  Please also be lifting up Jeff’s Dad Steve as he is in the throws with blood cancer.
  • My bride Gina one of the founders of the coalition www.kc4k.org spoke of her life being completely transformed by serving at a Royal Family kids camp over 10 years ago.  Www.rfk.org and now in this new season God is calling her to be one of the leaders with www.findingfreedomint.org and helping other find their own freedom as she continues to find hers.  Their main focus is a training program that supports those that are serving and restoring  those that have been sexually exploited and/or trafficked.  We are so proud of her!!!
  • Stacy Syrocki with oak Valley College www.oakvalley.edu spoke of how their ministry is transforming lives of at risk youth for generational IMPACT by providing free education!!!  Stacy has a calling and has been serving the people in Uganda for many years.  The Ministries’ Celebration Gala is September 9th please see site for details.
  • Jo Jo Anderson recently married to Todd shared with us her passion for serving GOD’s people as a Deacon at St. Andrews church as well as many others ministries.  Her recent Kingdom Assignment is serving her local community and neighbors right where they are and their needs.  So cool and what a model for all of us!!!
  • Next to her is Todd whom she is the best halve to.  Who’s focus and passion is to come along side men and help create a GOD’s man to stabilize his family then in turn stabilize and serve their church and community.  The main ministry he is involved with is our own very well known Kingdom changer Kenny Luck www.everymanministries.com
  • Erik Davidson with Su Refugio www.surefugio.org their focus is restoration of sexually trafficked children mostly orphaned and to feed communities in Peru. Argentina, and Paraguay both Christ’s love and message of Hope and their daily nutritional needs.  They have a vision trip coming up November 9th-17th a life changing opportunity for sure please reach out to Erik as spots are filling up fast.
  • Our dear friend Grant Van Cleve blessed us with his presence and time which is precious as he is only in OC briefly and in Albania, where is family has said YES to GOD’s callings over the past few decades and now he and his brides grown up children our serving in communities around the world.  What generation IMPACT this entire family is making by just saying YES to GOD’s continued callings.
  • Rolf Fisher has a market place business in the financial investment space www.forthline.com Forth line FX.  Rolf is a true Steward of GOD!! He is a Hiker and does this to keep his mind off his chronic he has been living with for years.  This is a ministry as he leads hikes all over California and is sharing GOD’s love and redemption to all of his followers.  He also servers are Men and Women that our serving our country living at camp Pendleton which is a ministry started at his church Mariners.  A busy GOD’s man for sure.
  • Pastor Eric Heard, where do I start, how about first he was one of the leaders at Mariners where he as been one of the lead pastors, that kicked of the camp Pendleton ministry.  Wow how about that for timing and Rolf and Eric’s first meeting 10 feet from each other!!!  Eric has been a pastor for over 50 years and came to Christ during the Greg Lawrie Jesus Revolution period and is very good friends with Greg as well as most high-level ones in the USA.  He ha sled a pre marriage ministry than Gina and I got headed on the right track with (mostly me) LOL and transformed the lives of thousands of men in the Mariners Men’s ministry programs he has led.  GOD has, is and will be utilizing this amazing man to touch and transform 100’s of thousands of lives for generational IMPACT for years to come.  PTL for Eric saying YES and continuing to do so, but PTL even more for HIS wife and her patience over the last 43 years. LOL
  • Next we have our friends in town form Dallas which our part of Holy Smokes Ministry.  Rawd Jones and yes that is not a spelling error LOL and John Bowen,  John has many passions that our Lord is utilizing him for but one of his main ones is Life Savers Foundation.  Rawd has and leads a ministry RPLNISH www.rplnish.org .  what a blessing our Texan friends were!!!
  • Founder of Finding Freedom mentioned earlier with Gina, Tera Bezko spoke of how the ministry trains the trainers to help all involved find their own freedom.  The team is heading to Nairobi Kenya next week to partner with a ministry and coalition member By Grace Trust www.bygracetrust.org and might be meeting with one of our newest members  www.christshope.orgwhich is near by in Nairobi.  So cool and what a true Angel from above Tera is to all she blesses being around.
  • My friend Jim Duggan (not my only friend here tonight so any others no offense please) lol.  Jim is a board member on the coalition and so committed he came by even after surgery last we to remove his Prostate as he heals from prostate cancer. WOW  Jim Runs an Royal Family Kids camp which he squeezed in between surgery and setting up global partners for Dynamic Church Planting International www.dcpi.org one of the coalition most active teammates with several of our members utilizing their Church Plant training materials.  What a ripple effect for HIS Kingdom!!!  What a warrior our dear friend and GOD’s man is.
  • Ember NGUR was a first timer and wow was her presence felt, such peace and calm and intention purpose for HIS Kingdom she has been serving at risk youth globally and is currently a director with Care Portal www.careportal.org a technology Hub that is customizable to bridge at risk families with the local church and keep kids in their homes while giving the body a platform to use their time talent and treasures.  Welcome Ember you having a standing invite what a blessing your are!!!
  • Bob and Susan Karcher are truly living out the Half-time life model Bob Bufford meant by his book he wrote several years ago.  Bob is not only a life-coach utilizing the hale-time program, he is a GOD’s man of GOD’s men.  One of the highlights of the evening was when we got to Susan and she humbly said I don’t have a ministry I just go and do what GOD calls me to.  Seriously that’s not a ministry? LOL It is one we all need to serve on.  Nice work Susan and Bob what a Power couple for HIS Kingdom.
  • Next we have Jay Quinn and his wife Sabrina, they have a ministry just keeping up with their kids and grans kids pouring GOD’s love and modeling it in them.  It was too funny when Jay said he was in his second half and after going through The Masters Program years ago he is stilling looking to bring his market place capital raising to HIS Kingdom.  He also has a huge calling to serve in helping create or come along side young teen men’s mentoring programs.  Where GOD’s men step up and model GODLY behaviors and habits as gap fillers for such a much needed group.  Well if your looking for help in your second half just look to your right where Bob and Susan Karcher were sitting.  LOVE how the spirit works!!!  Similar to Susan Sabrina had no ministry just using her GOD giving talents of worship and encouraging and inspiring those around to literally get out of their seats.  She also is involved with several ministries in OC and in Pheonix where she runs s Real Estate Group.
  • Mr.Bez ok where do we start lets just say he loves GOD his WIFE and cooking and LOVING people do I need say more?

In Closing our FATHER is so so great!!! Giving us HIS Son JESUS to cover our sins past, present, and future. (hopefully not too much) lol, HIS Spirit that lives in us always there for us when and if we choose to be quidded in the Who, What, When, and Where.  Below a link to a few pics from the amazing evening, thanks again HOLY SPIRIT

https://photos.app.goo.gl/6UnM25XrVK597oBo8

Much love and blessings Kingdom Coalition leadership team

Let us not forge to Pause, Praise, and PRAY

Playground Projects

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Kids rush playground

Here is an update on our 2 playground buildout projects in Baja Mexico.  Recently a team of us from Kingdom Coalition for Kids, Kids Around the World, Baja Christian Ministries, Northeast of the Well, and Corazon de Vida.  All website links are below for reference.  What a beautiful grouping of GOD’s men coming together and we also had a few local Fathers of the children that go to Bosco School.  A reminder this is a school serving many children living in local Children’s homes In TJ, that is growing to over 100 kids served.  GOD’s presence was with us all for all three days/nights Friday the 28th of July through Sunday the 30th.  So many GOD Winks but some of the best ones were, many of the local kids and students helping with the buildout as well as some of the older kids cleaning up the grounds that had lots of overgrown weeds.  These kids are taking ownership and having pride in their new playground and play areas.  So awesome!!!  During the dedication/pizza party for all, the JOY and LOVE on everyone’s faces were just magical.  Please see in pics below.  As the spirit led in the ribbon cutting and dedication Prayer over the playground GOD’s presence was so felt, the words that came out are summarized in this playground is GOD’s ( Jesus) translation was needed and George did a great job.  When ever you and your friends play on this playground GOD will be smiling with you and loves you very much.  As the kids began to play on THEIR new playground it was clear this is a vessel for GOD’s work and transformations for many years to come and thousands of HIS children to play on.

Please see pictures below that tell a bit of the story from our first built, our second is coming up soon the 25th-27th of August.  We want to THANK you all for your Prayers and Support, as stated below the playgrounds still have not been fully financed yet so there is still an opportunity to come along side and be part of these special programs for decades to come.  The giving link is in the paragraph just below the pictures.

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We invite you to help us purchase and build out 2 Playgrounds one for a School in Tijuana where several children from the local children’s homes attend, and a Children’s home in Ensenada Mexico.  Both of these will be built out this summer.  The one in Tijuana was a huge success as shared above.  The Ensenada one will be the last weekend of August, Friday August 25th through Sunday the 27th.  Here is the link to support as we have not yet raised the funds to purchase the playgrounds yet.  We appreciate your prayerful consideration in coming along side us for these amazing kids that will be using these playgrounds for decades to come.  Here is the support link.  https://give.kidsaroundtheworld.com/kc4k  

Please Pray for the logistics and safety of team during build outs and the right teams would be in place, the most important piece that we ALL get to share in is PRAYER.  We also have on-going monthly mission trips to come and meet with the homes and school children.  Please contact us if you have any questions and/or interested in setting one up or joining an upcoming scheduled one.  We have 3 Children’s Ministries all coming together to collaborated on this project, please see below links and learn of all 4 as they are all being used by GOD for amazing Kingdom IMPACT.  www.kc4k.og Kingdom Coalition For Kids, www.corazondevida.org Corazon De Vida, Baja Christian Ministry www.bajachristian.org , Northeast of The Well www.northeastofthewell.org and www.kidsaroundtheworld.org Kids Around the World. 

The Large Playground at the Tajuana School “Bosco” will be a huge blessing for children that come from many of the surrounding Homes and local community for many years to come and most of their entire schooling.  The Large playground being built just south of Ensenada will serve all of the Children growing up in the “Buena Vista” Childrens home.  Both location have very small play areas.  

With much Love Gina and Dan, thanks so much for your PRAYERS and support 

Friends at Giving it Back to Kids

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Friends,

This month’s God Wink comes to us from our friends at Giving it Back to Kids.



Today’s journal is about Lanh Essa’s story. Lanh Essa has been living in our homes in Cambodia for 11 years. 
 
My name is Lanh Essa, and I am 21 years old. It is my dream to become a teacher. I am the eldest sister in a poor family of five. As a young child, I lived in a small village where my parents were farmers. My village didn’t provide an opportunity to receive education, so I was sent to my aunt’s house when I was six years old.



Living with my aunt was a complicated time and was really tough for me. I was beaten by my aunt almost every day. I had to do a lot of housework before going to school, and I was ridiculed by classmates because I am a Christian.



During this time, I did not receive any care. My mistakes weren’t corrected in a healthy andloving way. I was beaten every time I made a mistake. I cried every night and told God, “I really miss my parents,” “I feel so isolated,” and asked, “Why was I separated from my parents?” Day by day, I tried to tell myself that I needed to be patient and finish my schooling. When I saw my parents, I wanted to tell them how I felt inside – how much pain and suffering I was in – but I couldn’t, and I didn’t know why. I found it hard to talk and was afraid to be who I was.



One day, my mom brought me back home. My parents were in a bad argument, and they were separated for a period of time. My parents had heard about GIBTK’s homes through a pastor who came to my village, and they decided to send me there. It was hard for me to be away from them again. I hated the feeling of being separated from my family, but I respected my parents’ decision and I understood that they wanted me to have a better future.




Living in a GIBTK home was very different from living with my aunt. I was well-treated and had so many opportunities to study English and have access to technology. My mental health improved through GIBTK’s emotional health program, and I learned that I could work through what I have been through in the past. Those emotional health lessons have helped me reframe my painful past into something that has made me strong and beautiful. 





(Essa talking to housemothers)I have made so many breakthroughs while living in GIBTK’s homes. I believe that everyone is born for a reason, and living in GIBTK’s homes, I found that reason. No matter how life treats me, I still stand boldly. I will use my experiences to help and encourage other people who are struggling, I want them to know that they have value and purpose. 





(Essa teaching the girls English)God has guided me to the better place that I am now in. I am on my way to achieving my dream, doing my best every day to achieve my goal. I am so very thankful to GIBTK for helping me through my past. I would not be here today without GIBTK.
 
With Love
Lanh Essa
Giving it Back to Kids
www.gibtk.org

Dean and Winnie Peters in Managua Nicaragua

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Friends,

For our first God wink of the year we hear from our friends, Dean and Winnie Peters in Managua Nicaragua.


   

Life and death is in the power of the tongue…. God

God spoke, and it was….As a man thinketh in his heart so is he…….  What is in our heart comes out of his mouth…   I could  fill this whole thread about the importance and power of what Born again Christians say.

So, my beautiful wife, Winnie Peters and I have been continuously preaching the precious gospel of Jesus Christ to this particular group precious children for 10 years non stop (Christianity is a lifestyle, not an event).   

These little guys have a life so hard and strenuous that it would make a muscle man from Venice Beach roll on the floor and cry like a little girl,   

Our preaching doesn’t really seem to have the effect I wish it had.   Today Sofia wore a princess dress.  Winnie and I both call Sofia (probably through the Holy Spirit) Princesa.   The kids were already mocking her because she came ‘overdressed’ for the occasion.

When we called her princesa, the mocking turn into angry cat calls and insults.   Sofia seems to have gotten saved recently.  All the kids say the sinners prayer with us.  Sometimes it sticks, sometimes it doesn’t,  I believe it stuck with Sofi.

Our message suddenly turned from ‘how to resist sin’ to why Sofi was a princesa…..  easy answer because her daddy is the King of Kings.   The Who mood changed among all the kids, when they realized that they could be a prince or princess once they accepted the King of Kings into their hearts.

Another case of where God taught us all something that isn’t specifically mentioned in the Bible, but demonstrates what the Bible is about.  Praise His Holy Name!

Until next month. Many blessings,

Kingdom Coalition for Kids Leadership Team.

Kingdom Collaborations in South Africa

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Mission and Values

The leaders of the Kingdom Coalition for Kids (KC4K) network are inspirational collaborators that are transforming lives, families, and communities.

Neville and Gail Fannin of Jackson Ridge in South Africa are wonderful examples of these collaborative new friends. Neville and Gail are lifelong children’s ministry advocates, and longtime campground directors for the International Assemblies of God (IAG) in South Africa. They are founding leaders at KC4K and wonderful collaborators intent on globally empowering others to lead children and young adults to Christ. KC4K leadership activity also involves consistent prayer together across 10,000 miles and more than 9 time zones. Besides, we personally share a common ministry interest of directing Royal Family Kids Camps (KC4K partner “For the Children”) and share an interest in international rugby.

Jackson Ridge and the South Africa IAG hosted a DCPI training event at the end of 2022 that was mandatory for all their district and national team members. In the spirit of collaboration, 3 of the 7 African DCPI volunteer trainers were continental leaders for the Church of the Nazarene denomination. As a part of the event, the group trained 36 new trainers for the South African IAG to start a new church planting movement that will include a focus on empowering young leaders to plant micro churches focused on serving children in new communities.  

In addition to their advocacy and leadership in impacting South Africa IAG’s approach to church planting, they inspired four more African, KC4K partners to augment their cultures using DCPI. Consequently, Glorious Harvest (Ghana), Jesus Youth Zone (Zambia), and By Grace, African International University and African Enterprise (Kenya) combined with South Africa IAG to train approximately 400 church planting leaders, over 4 widespread countries, during 2022. Based on DCPI’s best research, these alone will result in over 1,000 new churches and 40,000 active Christians being discipled at the end of 5years from now.  But even more importantly, all these events are the inauguration for new movements of church planting by existing local ministries 

Jim Duggan

Dynamic Church Planting International 

Partnership Ambassador

January 2023

Dynamic Church Planting International; & Jackson Ridge

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The Cross in the mountains

I’ve experienced changing roles for work and other activities a lot. Since it generally involved sales

positions, it required developing new relationships, and thus, friendships. It’s been wonderful to experience this as I joined Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI) in 2020 after 40 years in the corporate and lay ministry worlds.

Specifically, the leaders of the Kingdom Coalition for Kids (KC4K) network are inspirational collaborators that are transforming lives, families, and communities.

Neville and Gail Fannin of Jackson Ridge in South Africa are wonderful examples of these collaborative new friends. Neville and Gail are lifelong children’s ministry advocates, and longtime campground directors for the International Assemblies of God (IAG) in South Africa. They are founding leaders at KC4K and wonderful collaborators intent on globally empowering others to lead children and young adults to Christ. KC4K leadership activity also involves consistent prayer together across 10,000 miles and more than 9 time zones. Besides, we personally share a common ministry interest of directing Royal Family Kids Camps (KC4K partner “For the Children”) and share an interest in international rugby.

Jackson Ridge and the South Africa IAG hosted a DCPI training event at the end of 2022 that was mandatory for all their district and national team members. In the spirit of collaboration, 3 of the 7 African DCPI volunteer trainers were continental leaders for the Church of the Nazarene denomination. As a part of the event, the group trained 36 new trainers for the South African IAG to start a new church planting movement that will include a focus on empowering young leaders to plant micro churches focused on serving children in new communities.  

In addition to their advocacy and leadership in impacting South Africa IAG’s approach to church planting, they inspired four more African, KC4K partners to augment their cultures using DCPI. Consequently, Glorious Harvest (Ghana), Jesus Youth Zone (Zambia), and By Grace, African International University and African Enterprise (Kenya) combined with South Africa IAG to train approximately 400 church planting leaders, over 4 widespread countries, during 2022. Based on DCPI’s best research, these alone will result in over 1,000 new churches and 40,000 active Christians being discipled at the end of 5years from now.  But even more importantly, all these events are the inauguration for new movements of church planting by existing local ministries 

Jim Duggan

Dynamic Church Planting International 

Partnership Ambassador

January 2023 

Baja GOD Winks

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Dear Friends

Wow was GOD providing stories for encouragement and inspiration to all of us and HIS timing as always was perfect and incredible.  Here are the 7 biggest GOD winks from the trip, in them we find how we can engage and collaborate by working together for greater KINGDOM IMPACT.  I want to first thank our dear friend and father to most of theses beautiful kids and over a 1000 over the years, he has been the father they needed and never had for several of them.  His stories our incredible of how GOD has and continues to use HIM by just showing up for GOD’s kids.  He is a director at www.corazondevida.org a team that gets to raise money to supply life sustainable needs and education and trade programs.  Several of our teammates have resources and relationships to support our efforts www.katw.org which provides playground equipment and feeding programs, and helps churches and teams with their mission teams.  Another teammate is our team at www.faithquestmissions.org , we also used tracs from www.ptl.org both hard copies and app downloads in Spanish.  Our friends at www.augaviva.com have a camp facility to support camp opportunities for all of the kids.  We as one team get to come together to pour CHRIST into these amazing kids and many others by our LOVE Gods WORD and most of all our collaborating.  The kids and homes need toothbrushes and paste so any dentists intro would be great, we also need s cal churches to step into the easy button mission trips by a short trip 3-4 hours south of the border. All of the kids need new school uniforms and shoes now that school is back open.  Please reach out to support or make intros!!!  Here are the 7 winks in order and the link to photos which are in reverse order.  We were blessed to provide pizza parties for all the kids.

  • Our first home was called casa de los Angelitos sp? With one of GOD’s servants Mary Lou, they have 35kids living there and they all were just a treat to meet all happy and so outgoing, got to tour the grounds and it was very neat and kept up as you will see in the pics so much LOVE in the home.
  • Our next stop was to visit casa Uriel which is run by Daniel and his wife very clean and so well run by the team, again the kids are so loving and outgoing and they has a real treat for George a surprise presentation and songs to thank him so cool!!! And well deserved.  Seemed like this home had around 45 kids
  • Next we visited one of our partner feeding and education program www.orphansfirst.org where Deanna and here team led by Alex and his wife Miriam.  They are feeding and educating around 60 kids from the nearby neighborhood and have a teeth cleaning station.  Again so much LOVE shown by the team and kids, Deanna and team have a beautiful supplemental education program where the kids are fed and taught with a Jesus theme especially with the bible story murals on the walls so cool.  The program serves 3 days a week.
  • After we went to dinner with 2 of the best examples of GOD,s transformational model and how these kids move from broken homes and models to stable homes and Godly modeling so now they go back to the programs that changed them and pour into kids.  Emanuel and Obed are adults now and have awesome jobs, George and I were also joined by Jim Taylor who is one of the co-founders of Corazon de Vida.  What an inspiration to witness Gods Love and Grace in these young men’s lives.
  • Early the next morning our Lord woke us up with one of HIS awesome sunrises, we went to Rancho de los ninos where we were greeted by Brett and his team at www.achildshope.org on a mission trip working on several projects.  Kids were in school so not many around but the ones we met with shared the same LOVE as all of the others.  The home director George who grew up in the home gave us a tour, his story will be a future GODWink story for sure.  We went to breakfast with George and learned he and his dad knew one of our team members Jason with www.augaviva.com we had a call to discuss the70 kids going to camp WOW.
  • Next we spent time with Steve and Mary Ellis who went down with George on a trip to one of the homes several years ago and fell in love with two of the little girls and took them as there own and have legal guardianship one is a sophomore and college and the other has graduated.  What a GOD Wink they shared with us and what servants they both are in HIS Kingdom.
  • We ended the trip by a visit at casa Esperanza back in TJ where we start on Tuesday.  We met with Martin the director and got a tour of the very large piece of land the home is on, wow so much potential.  A need for a playground(s) for sure and lots of projects for mission trips.  They have 35 kids and can have up to 70. We got to meet several of the kids as they were back from school.  We got to be part of a prayer over the meal they had, brought me to tears and lots of goose bumps.

Please see below link for pics and don’t forget they are in reverse order.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q3YQjCiPffseYh5T8

Thanks again for your covering in PRAYER and so much love, don’t miss the FUN.  So many ways to set in!!!

Recap of Thursday evenings Kingdom Coalition for Kids Dinner

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Sunset at Dan Streits house

Lets us first of all give a HUGE shout out to our incredible host Eric Bezko and his bride Tera founder of www.findingfreedomint.org what a awesome Hospitality given to us which is like breathing to him, he is such a great example for all of living out his GOD given gifting.  THANKS “E”  Love you Brother!!!  Almost forgot about our awesome greeter Zeva wish everyone was that happy to see me.

This is a lot to digest but please take 5 minutes to be inspired and blessed by our HOLY SPIRIT’s powerful PRESENCE.  As we all settled in to digest eric’s fantastic meal and some great Wine and beverages, to learn how GOD is moving in all of our lives and the communities we all get to serve.  Ashleigh with Camp Agape www.campagapecalifornia.org share with us how the camp completely changed her life and now she is a leader and heading us a teen mentoring program with past campers pouring into current ones, WOW.  Her friend Sharon who also serves at the camp shared how she is working with her team to set up life skills programs for teens, and is also working with www.fosterthecity.org .  then we had Hannah the best half of Jon share how she is using her gifting in the fashion world to serve the Kingdom, so cool.  Jon and his team have over the years created many Kingdom software programs that have had huge Impact, one of the examples is creating an app for all to use that have a phone to use the Pocket testament League Gospel of John available in most languages to complement the hard copy both can be private labeled which was a huge hit for our ministry leaders.  We will be working to set this up for all of our members to private label to get out to the communities they serve.  www.ptl.org   Larry and Tina shared how Royal Family Kids had impacted their lives and the lives of some many children around the globe, with over 250 churches having summer camps and several of the camps have churches coming together to serve GOD’s kids.  www.rfk.org Larry was so moved and ready to partner with our next friend Jeramy who is leading Standing Stone Ministry who is partnering with pastors to pour into pastors and their families, so needed and Larry immediately wanted to make intros to the churches with int eh RFK network as well as his own pastor.  Allen with West Shield Adolescent Services shared how he and his teams have rescued thousands of kids over the years and he has a pod cast were he interviews guests in the Kingdom serving and how GOD is using them and their teams to change lives, if you would like to be a guest speaker please let us know and we will introduce you to Allen.  We then were blessed to hear how GOD is using Brandon and his team with Bread and Beat music.  www.breadandbeatmusic.comwere he and his team are going where the latest generations are by using creative arts to share GOD’s Word.  WOW lets take a quick break to digest, are you kidding me there is more.  Andre’ and his lovely bride Teresa shared how GOD is getting HIS kids housing which is so badly needed.  Please go to www.unitycare.org and then we had a very special blessing when Teresa follow then Holy Spirit’s prompting to sing us a very inspiring song what a gift her voice is.  Zeva was so impressed she ran out to see what was going on so cool!!!  Then we had Jon and his best half Liz share how camp Agape has forever changed their lives and how blessed they have been to have a front row seat  of our LORD’s transformation of many thousands. Website link is above at the start of the sharing by Ashleigh and Sharon.  Eric with Children of the Nations www.cotni.org with his teammate Cheryl blessed us with so many stories of how GOD is moving around the world.  Marvin having just sat and took all of this in was breathless and had trouble talking about how our Father transformed his life to transform others.  His ministry is perfectly named Transformational.  Grant our next inspirer shared how GOD has been using his entire family to serve the communities in Albania for several years, a model for us all.  Lastly we got to hear from our dear friend Tom with Heart for Lebanon www.heartforlebanon.organd how our LORD is creating miraculous movement with in Muslim communities that are truly inspiring and heart changing “no pun intended” LOL.  Please see their website for many of these awesome stories of GOD’s movements in Lebanon.

What an evening to be blessed by, and we hope this has inspired and encouraged you to engage in GOD’s KINGDOM and get your own front row seat.  Our LORD is one the move and don’t miss out on the FUN!!!  Attached are 7 pics from Tera and Eric’s patio, what a view.  We have attached the story of the “ONE” which is the WHY we all get the do what GOD has created us to do.

Until the next dinner on Tuesday the 27th of Nov at 5:30, please mark your calendars a reminder will be sent out closer to the date.

Much LOVE and Blessings Kingdom Coalition team

COALITIONS ARE A BLESSING FROM GOD

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Group photo of coalition members

Click here to view photos of our Father’s winks from aboveFriends,

Happy new year! We start off the year with news from our friends at Jackson’s Ridge.COALITIONS ARE A BLESSING FROM GOD

If you ever want to start a church anywhere in Africa, you can be guaranteed that on your very first Sunday, your tent/hall/venue will be filled with children.  

Over the years, we have watched, time and time again, children being ignored and sent outside so that “adults” can have church. One of our favourite true stories is of an old time pastor in our movement who obeyed God and started a church in his area. On the first week the tent was filled with children and so it continued week after week, with only a few adults turning up. The Pastor fasted and prayed and said to God, “You told me to start a church, but all we get is children.” God spoke very clearly into his heart and said “The children are the church.”

This past November, through the KC4K coalition we had the honour and privilege of hosting a church planting seminar, through Dynamic Church Planting International for many of the Senior Pastors of our movement. It was a wonderful opportunity to share the importance of children with them, as they were challenged to break through the barriers of “small thinking” and structure their ministries to be evangelistically minded and work towards planting a church with children in mind, at every opportunity.

Without KC4K, we would never have know about Jim Duggan and DCPI. Belonging to KC4K has connected us with so many like minded people who support each other in prayer, who pursue relationship with you and encourage you at every turn. Our ministry has been revived and changed through this coalition.  

Thank you Dan for your obedience to Jesus.  It is through this that many of us have been on the receiving end of all the benefits of unity and fellowship. May I encourage you to spend the time to connect with KC4K….your ministry will be changed forever! 
Until next month.

Much love and blessings,

Kingdom Coalition for Kids Leadership Team.Click here to listen to Kingdom Coalition for Kids’ Theme song

Impact Story

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Friends,

Our God wink for this month comes to us from our friends at Care for Children.


Impact Story

We recently caught up with one of the social workers that Care for Children has trained in Southeast Thailand. She told us about a very special foster family that she visited.



“Mrs Mon is a retired teacher and is currently fostering two young brothers, Tong who is 10, and Ti who is 9. As their case worker I can see such a change in the boys since they have been with their foster family. They used to be children who couldn’t speak up for themselves, were scared of strangers and never dared to question anyone or let anyone know their needs. But the love and care the boys have received from Mrs Mon is evident, and they are now confident, speak well, and take responsibility with their schoolwork.“Talking to Mrs Mon about her future and raising the children, she told me: ‘If the boys’ birth family are not able to take them back, I’m here for them and happy to be their long- term family. My goal is to give them every opportunity while they are part of my family.’“When I visit her, she loves to pull out her phone and show me photos of the boys and what they have been doing. She also recounts the mischief they have been up to, but she tells it with a laugh and a smile. I’m drawn to this dear woman and her love for these boys.”It’s true, love in action is attractive, and often a blessing to be around! We wish Mrs Mon all the very best as she gives up her home and her time to care for vulnerable children in her community.

Russell Brown
russell@careforchildren.com
www.careforchildren.com
Until next month.

Much love and blessings,

Kingdom Coalition for Kids Leadership Team.