Pure Water for U’Kambeni

Early in 2008 the Lord spoke to us from Isaiah 43:18-20 “…for I am going to do a Brand New Thing.” We had no idea what He was talking about. He went on to say, “ He would create rivers in the desert…yes springs in the desert, so that my people, my chosen ones, can be refreshed.” “A New Thing” was in a remote desert region in Tanzania.

June of 2009 we paid $200.00 for a surface water well to be hand dug. Little did we know that this well, though not potable, would furnish the cleanest water in the region and sustain the people thru the next year of drought and famine.

November 2009 we returned and began work on a deep water well and storage tank. Both were completed by the last week of December. As the tank cured for the next couple of months the finances continued to come in to finance the solar power and pump. When the final bill arrived we had all the money to pay it. Water was now flowing to the people of the village.

The last parts of the project to be finished were the de-fluoridation system and the water fetching point. The entire filtering system was installed inside the base of the water tank saving us the cost of a second building to house it. Pictures arrived this week showing the completion of the project. (see pictures page soon)

For the first time ever, the region of M’Takooja Village has pure, clean water. There will be no more birth defects, no more sickness from contaminated water, no more teeth destroyed from too much fluoride. The people of this region will no longer have to walk 15 miles and pay for clean water. Young girls will no longer have to search for muddy puddles to gather water for their families. God has done “A New Thing” in this place.

“Don’t send them away, you feed them…”

This spring we were at a conference seeking direction from the Lord. We got it. He wrote on the wall using power point. Matthew 14:16 “Don’t send them away, you feed them.” Jesus commanded His disciples to meet the immediate needs of the people they were ministering to. We have been amazed to watch over $10,000.00 pass thru our hands in the last 11 months for maize. Domenic always shares the gospel before food is handed out. Many have given their hearts to the Lord while their physical needs were being met. Usually 200 families come for food, they each receive about 25 kilo of maize. But this time 300 families showed up. God multiplied the food and everyone received 25 kilo for their family. This will last them for about 2 weeks.

The rains came, the desert bloomed, but the rain has gone again. Barren land has reappeared. Since crops were lost last season there was nothing to plant this season. There will be no harvest in the region this year. The affects of the drought remain.

A Surprise!

Domenic had told us he had a surprise for us. We couldn’t even begin to guess what it was. When the water started flowing from the tank he began working with the village people and they planted a garden. You will notice the Maasai fence around it. They have already started harvesting produce for the school and village.

Gen 26:12 “Then Isaac sowed in the land and received in the same year an hundred fold.” The Maasai are standing in faith that God will bless them. This is the verse they sent us along with the pictures

“Go and Make Disciples”

In one short year our students completed a two year course of study. Aug 21st the first 25 students of Calvary Connection School of Ministry will graduate. Over half of them don’t even read and write, but God has made the way for them to be trained up and made ready to serve Him. The Maasai are out doing the work of the gospel in ways we could have never done it. Twenty five new students are now filling their chairs in the classroom. Here are some of their testimonies just the way they wrote them:

I was a church Elder before joining ISOM, I have gone through the curriculum and more life is not the same again, I have discovered that I am an Evangelist and for the few days i have been out of school I have been to many evangelistic crusades preaching the word of God and many has come to the lord, I didn’t believe in miracles before but after going through our materials I came across ateaching that was teaching us how to heal the sick and to do miracles, that changed my mind set I went out praying for the sick and I have seen God healing in my ministry, Thank God for ISOM, and thank God for our teacher Dominic for his patience with us, now am enjoying the ministry and am so blessed to have joined the school. Matayo Kankai

I was nobody in the body of Christ, I was just a church member but after I joined ISOM, I have discovered that I was born with a reason that I have to fulfill before entering into the other life, upon finishing the school God has led me to help my teacher who has been struggling teaching us and teaching our nursery school children (grade school), the class has 100 children who we are teaching and I am sure this is the ministry God has called me to do. am very happy teaching this children who had no future were it not for our teacher after seeing how our children are struggling without a school and started this school. Now my life has a meaning and a purpose and I thank ISOM for the curriculum. Luka Laizer.

I was a pastor for five years before joining ISOM, I didn’t know how to read the bible because I was not privileged to go to any school, the ministry was very hard preaching messages that I heard people preaching, until I was very dry, before quitting ISOM started in our village and I joined the school, through the school I have learned how to read and write now I make my own teachings and I preach from the bible, my church has increased tremendously, I thank Harry and Cathy for starting this school for the Masaais who are marginalized and forgotten, may the lord bless you.

Yohana Mibuko.

My name is Chriss Palagyo, I came to Isom when I was very frustrated and ready to give up in ministry, I was going through a wilderness that had made me feel I can not be able to minister any more, I had a church that was not growing at all, for ten years with not more than eight members, we use to worship in a very small rented room, one day the government told me to move from there and built a church else where, I had no money to buy a church plot or to build a church hall, this added to my frustration and I told my wife this is the right time to quit the ministry and join another church as followers but not ministers any more.

Before the Sunday that we were to make the announcement that the church is no more I meet with a friend who invited me and my wife to a seminar where Harry and Cathy were ministering. We were there for the whole week listening to the wonderful and inspiring teachings from the men of God. But the last day was my day when Cathy taught about how to make the bread. I came to learn that am in the process and if I try to escape I will not become anything in my life, I was so challenged and after eating the bread I decided to go back to the ministry and Join the school that this men of God were starting in this region, from when I joined the school my spiritual life changed completely, my ministry has now changed and with the help of our teacher through counseling God has turned my ministry and now my church has increased we are more than 40 and God has given us a plot to built a church and we are building a 200 setters hall, and before December the building will be complete. I want to thank God who connected me with this school and my dear teacher who through his experience has really built us in the ministry, for now am not ashamed to minister and am back again in the ministry. May all the glory be to God, Amen. Chriss Palagyo

Summer 2010

¨ Water Project is completed & paid for

¨ Trees are growing quickly

¨ Garden is producing for the school and people

¨ The 1st students have completed their studies

¨ A 2nd class of 25 have begun their studies

Harry and Kathy’s Schedule

¨ Leaving for Tanzania July 25th

¨ Teaching in the school for three weeks

¨ Aug 18th Young’s arrive

¨ Aug 21st Graduation.

¨ Orientation for Young’s

¨ Scouting trips to Uganda and Kenya for new schools

¨ Vacation time for McMichael’s in North Africa

¨ Return home Oct 25th

Prayer Needs

¨ Finances for trips to Uganda and Kenya, possible conference in NW Uganda

¨ Smooth transition for Young’s as they prepare to leave and as they arrive

¨ Grant proposals to come back favorably

¨ Funding for a fence

¨ Funding to build the Community Building in the near future

¨ A second vehicle

¨ The home office computer will hold out until we get back

God’s View on the Project

Isaiah 43:18-20 “…it is nothing compared to what I am going to do! ‘For I am going to do a brand new thing.’ See I have already begun! Don’t you see it? I will make a road through the wilderness of the world for my people to go home and create rivers for them in the desert! The wild animals in the field will thank me, and the jackals and ostriches too, for giving them water in the wilderness, yes, springs in the desert, so that my people, my chosen ones, can be refreshed.”

We have come to the time when our monthly support needs to increase. Your one time gifts have completed the important projects necessary to establish the Bible Training College in Tanzania, but we need regular monthly donations to maintain them. We would like to ask you to consider supporting CCMI with a regular monthly gift. Together we are making a difference in Tanzania.

CCMI is a registered Non Profit Organization in East Africa. In the United States, we maintain our tax exempt status under the 501(c)(3) of New Song Community Church, Portland, OR. We manage all of our finances with the oversight from the board of directors of Calvary Connection Ministries International.