Fall 2010 Dinners: San Jose, Los Angeles and Colorado Springs.
These are fund-raising dinners to benefit IMI’s General Ministry Fund. To reserve a ticket today, email our office at: imidesk@gmail.com. See you soon!
Continue reading...October, 14 2008
EGYPT – It’s cold in January near the Nile. It’s a damp cold that goes right down to your bones. Even so, most of the windows were wide open and a steady breeze blew through them in the room that 35 Egyptian women gathered together in. We all layered on extra clothes and carried on - the E
gyptian women in the room were wonderfully warm with smiles and hugs and a blessing to be with.
Kris S. from Wyoming and I were there to speak to the women in this one day conference. What a joy to see their faces as we sang together, prayed together and studied Scripture together. They were hungry for the teaching of the Word of God and also for the fellowship.
One woman in the back of the room, a heavy set woman with a large dark shawl over her head, nodded furiously when I spoke about how the Lord understands how difficult lonliness is. How He has given us Hebrews 13:5 – and He will NEVER leave or forsake us. Another group of about 15 young women gave us a clear picture that many young people are seeking for a relationship in the Lord and that the Church of our Lord is growing in Egypt.
Kris brought a beaded bracelet project which was a huge hit - proving once again that we all enjoy fun times (especially when beads spill on the floor) and that language isn’t a barrier when hearts are united in God’s wonderful love. - Dee A. Cook, Director of “Beautiful International Women’s Ministry,” an IMI Ministry.
Continue reading...October, 14 2008
The sides of the volcano rise up through the level of clouds until the top breaks out as if piercing through a barrier to the open sky. The green lush hillsides are covered in bamboo and teak trees. Ridgelines run down hills past fields of tea plants, stalks heavy with plump ears of corn, verdant rice paddies, yards with livestock in village after village fill the senses until the land reaches the sea.
This is the land sitting upon the Ring of Fire, and there is a power that burns far hotter than the lava which causes the smoke to rise on the tops of these mountains almost 9000 feet into the air. From these shores come prayers from broken hearts for the people of this land. Believers labor in prayer and reach out to their neighbors; Hindus, Muslim, followers of Confucius, traditionalists, conservatives, and people following nothing at all who make up this beautiful land.
IMI is helping to provide scholoraships and book sfor children of lower income families. Each child sponsorship is $25 per month. Currently there are 25 children needing sponsors.
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June, 27 2010