A family arrived in a village close to the Nagaland border. This family became Christians several years ago while Papa Joe was preaching in Robert Vaiphei village. They were Born again and Spirit filled. This family was originally from Napal and before becoming Christians were strong Hindus opposing the gospel and Christian teaching. But after listening to the message of God the whole family came to Christ. The mother of the family was a diabetic and a very sick patient. When Papa Joe prayed for her she was totally healed. As the family shifted to this new village near the Nagaland border they shared their testimony with the villagers and many gave their lives to Christ. They have learned to pray for the sick and our Lord honors them by healing people. This family has become a great example for the whole area as they preach and bring people to Christ in their new area. The four men that came to our office to tell this story had come to find out where our office was and discover more about the work of Papa Joe.
The harvest is great but the workers are few. River of Life is reaping a great harvest in Manipur North East India come join us.

18th of August 2007 in the village of Harouthel an open air evangelistic meeting was held and attended by several hundred people. As the word of God was preached many Hindi people were touched by the gospel message. Others were healed as they came forward to give their lives to Christ.
Friday the 24th of August another open air meeting was help in Yairipok. Again several hundred people attended this meetings of which most heard the word of God for the first time.
Wednesday the 29th of August a whole night prayer meeting was held at our Diplomatic centre where we prayed and fasted for the State of Manipur.
Three visitors came to our office from the South of Manipur with a story about a family and their children. The Father was seriously ill and after seven month of pain and suffering came to Imphal with his children for treatment. Being extremely poor they could not take him to the doctor or treatment. The family came from a remote village and could not speak the Manipury language. Stranded they stayed with a distant relative in an area called the games village. Minthang and I happen to be there praying for some families. When this family heard we were there they decided to bring their father also for prayer. Sone after having prayed for them they left. During the night the man had a dream, in the dream he saw an angel talking to him. The angel told him, "you have come to Imphal at the right time to meet the man of God. From now on you will receive your healing for the one who prayed for you is my annointed one, now receive this anointing from God with the oil of joy.
When the Father woke up he was perfectly healed. The family returned to their village praising God. The news of this healing spread all over the area and 35 people received Jesus Christ as this family is preaching God's word.

River of Life Pastor Mark Zimbiri just returned from Mozambique where 43 pastors and leaders attended a meeting from the 13th to 16th of August. Mozabique had civil war from 1975 to 1992. Since that time the gradual process of rebuilding lives and families has been a slow. In many places the occult religions are blinding the people to the trues of Jesus Christ. It is now free to worship and our hope is that many un-reached tribes will be reached for Jesus Christ through our work.

Mark said, "I used this time to speak to the leaders to attend the River of Life conference in Malawi from November 27th to 2 December 2007. There seemed to be a great hunger for the leaders to attend the conference.

In Malawi is a village called Migowi close to the Mozambique border. This is where Mark lives and has a church. Our plans for this area is to build an orphanage on land we can purchase from tribal chiefs. The cost of this land is $8000 US but up to now we have not been able to settle this payment. I keep trusting our Lord to provide for this land, it is a faith journey. On the 19th of August the chiefs called a meeting to ask us if we still wanted to buy the land. We told the chiefs that it was at the appointed time God would release the funds and then we would purchase the land. In the mean time we informed them to keep using the land for their crops. They all asked if we could give a deposit of $2000US.

Prayer point for Malawi are:

1 Land purchase

2 Financial increase for Pastor Marks family.

3 $700US for the conference arrangments.

4 Monthly rental for our office $35.

Please pray, and if you can our brothers and sisters in Africa do not hesitate to call us.

Expanding and creating new frontiers bring challenges that always surpass know areas in ministry. A team comprising of four adventurous brothers left Imphal the capital of Manipur to go to Gawahati in the State of Assam. Their purpose, to reach all the North Eastern States with the gospel. The neighboring country to these Indian States is Bhutan. Bhutan is a small country with a population of 2,327,849 ruled by a king. The King is the most powerful and is the final authority in the land. Buddhism is the religion in this region.

The team stayed in Gawahati for four days reaching out to un-reached people and Christian church leaders. About one hundred people listened as we shared the gospel. We felt it was time to split into two groups to reach un-reached areas with the gospel in these Northern States. One team left for Arunchal Pradesh while the other team left for rural areas of Assam.

During the weeks of this ministry journey, the second team visited 18 remote villages and preached to about 500 people, out of these 74 received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.
The first team returned after 10 days from Arunachal Pradesh, they had visited 14 villages and spoke to over 700 people out of which 102 people gave their lives to Jesus.

Excited and together again the whole team left for Northern Assam. Here we visited 8 very large villages Minthang shared, where over one thousand people had the opportunity to listen to God's words. There was much opposition from gangs of youth who beat up our young evangelists. Threatening words were a constant but in spite of all this we kept preaching and sharing the word of God boldly. The result was that other villagers asked us to come to their village as well, and about 100 people gave their lives to Christ.

After three days we decided to split up again to cover more areas. Two hundred miles North of Gawahati we had some Christian friends and with their help we were able to reach many un-reached tribal people with the gospel. These people live in extreme primitive conditions. Each day 50 to 80 people came to listen to the word of God. During this time we discovered a Christian family from Mizoram, who are doing missionary work amongst these people. This couple was extremely happy and thankful to see us as we helped then in their ministry. Together we worked to bring people to Christ each day.

There is a small medical centre which is the only clinic for this whole area hundreds of miles around were people come for help. In this clinic we were able to set up a room for ministry to the sick. Each day we prayed for people and ministered the word of God. As people heard the word of God and were healed more people came as the word went out. For many it was the first time to hear about the good news of the gospel. During this time out of 130 people we ministered to 98 gave their lives to Christ.

It has become evident that we need to send a missionary to this remote outpost. A young couple has volunteered to go there, we need to find support for them. Altogether during this outreach 400 people were saved.

It is not easy to minister in these remote areas, we have willing families from our bible college to go a live amongst these primitive people but they need your help. If God stirs you to be part in this frontier mission field do not hesitate to call us.

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