Howdy CPD Family,
Crazy Days! Big News! God has called my family onward!!
Please check out my video to get the skinny on my upcoming move out of the CPD. I love you guys lots and will miss you!! Give me a jingle if ya wanna....
To the ends of the earth,
Tim
I'm super excited to be sharing with you this update from my friend Catie who serves in Cambodia! Be encouraged - God is doing great things through our Alliance workers all around the world. Happy reading...
Tim
God is Preparing My Ministry
Last year we started dreaming up me partnering with the national C&MA church (KEC) to help them start a media ministry. We envisioned monthly videos on the work of the church. We envisioned a team of people I would train from all the regions to shoot and edit videos. We envisioned monthly testimonies from believers on ways they've seen God transform their lives and call them to Himself. We envisioned training materials to be shared through social media platforms in ways that would reach the national church and as a form of witness and evangelism to those who do not yet know the gospel.
Many of you are wondering how our International Workers (IWs) are doing and how Alliance Missions efforts are being affected by COVID-19. Below are some questions that have been answered by Tim Crouch, VP for Alliance Missions.
Also, I know times are tough right now financially in many ways, but let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest of righteousness – if we do not give up!!
Let’s do our best to keep Alliance Missions on our priority lists at some level! I believe God will multiply our efforts greatly!! Please enjoy the read below…
WOW, so excited to be giving you this latest update about our Guarajio Initiative in Mexico. As you know, we have been partnering with Alliance Mexico to engage this unreached people group.
Please read the update below from Tomas Bencomo, President of Alliance Mexico, and celebrate the miracles God is performing both physically and spiritually. How wonderful to be ON MISSION with Him as He is touching the hearts of this unreached tribe!
And please keep our Alliance Mexico team in your prayers!!
To the ends of the earth,
Tim Agnello
Over the summer, I was so excited to send you an update about one of our Alliance ministries in an Asian country that must be kept unnamed at this point. Here is yet another story from this same ministry. God is growing our efforts there and I hope you enjoy this latest update!
When a song is super good, it's always worth re-singing, and I have been fired-up afresh by President John Stumbo's latest video blog.
I'm not sure how many of our family members in the CPD actually get his video blog, so I'm sending it out for all of our CPD family to enjoy. As you already know, my heart beats for the folks around planet earth that have little or no access to the Gospel. I know this is the heartbeat of the Alliance as well.
So please join me in re-singing the song of bringing the name of Jesus to those who have never heard. It's both a pleasure and a privilege to be teamed with you for the glory of God and the reaching of the nations!
Tim Agnello
It’s so exciting to see when an influential leader has an “Ah-ha moment”! As we, the CPD, become more and more aware of the opportunities around the world to bring Gospel access to people who have never heard the name Jesus, my prayer is that we would engage these opportunities head-on with enthusiasm and generosity. I hope you enjoy another “eye-opening” update from our recent Vision Trip to Mexicali. Happy reading….
To the ends of the earth,
Tim Agnello
Recently, Brentwood Neighborhood Church, Trinity Alliance Church, and Price Chapel went on a Vision Trip to Mexicali. The story is from Sergio Gonzalez of Brentwood Neighborhood Church:
Hello! I wanted to share with you our experience at the Mexicali Base. We were a group of 12 people that came from churches in Redding, Utah, and of course, right here in Brentwood, CA.
We all met at the airport in San Diego and after a quick lunch got into our rental vans and headed to Mexicali. As we drove past city after city heading further inland, the landscape went from luscious green rolling hills to high and dry mountain range full of boulders that transitioned to a flat low-lying desert terrain. Once we arrived in Mexicali, we then proceeded to drive to the outskirts of town where the Base is located.
The Mexicali Base is all about building relationships with ministries that will partner with the local churches. Our approach is not to have a ministry come with a “Look what I can do” enabling approach, but rather a “Look what WE can do“ team-building relationship.
Buddhist monks chanting in the temple in front of a Buddha statue
Our ministry efforts are growing and God is giving us favor in this very difficult, restricted, predominantly Buddhist and Animistic country! Our Alliance workers, in partnership with indigenous leaders, are rescuing girls from human trafficking and exploitation and have made safe houses for them with full counseling, care and presenting the Gospel. Many are coming to Christ!!
We have also created a beauty shop business where they are trained to have meaningful jobs that keeps them off the streets and into a good Christian environment. We also started a jewelry business where they make jewelry to sell to tourists, locals and some jewelry is even being shipped and sold overseas – God is blessing us richly!!
We have some exciting news!
There is a new initiative started within the Alliance family called RAIN, which stands for Refugees and Immigrants Network. The Central Pacific District, especially Raed Awabdeh and our Arabic Ministry in Sacramento, is a front runner in getting this off the ground nationally!
RAIN has launched with a new website and will be kicking off with a planning meeting at General Council the end of this month. Please go to www.rainalliance.org to find out more!
We have some great new work going on with unreached people groups, unreached villages, and remote areas. Alliance News shared this update from Syna Lao, an Alliance international worker serving in Cambodia a few months back about God's work happening in Anlong Veng province.
It's been so exciting to see several of our CPD churches visit this specific location in the field. Our district has a strong connection with this new ministry and we didn't want you to miss these amazing reports. I will be traveling to Cambodia soon, so check out my prayer request at the bottom of the page.
Church attendance has doubled and even tripled as healings and miracles occur regularly in Cambodian villages.
God is doing something amazing at Srae Nouy Alliance* church! Located in Anlong Veng province, one of Cambodia’s spiritually dark areas, the congregation continues to see miraculous healings and people being set free from evil spirits.
