My name is Julie Rose, and I’m contacting you on behalf of my parents, Steve and Carol Rose. They are volunteer missionaries serving in Cameroon, Africa. They are operating an elementary school- Lassin Adventist School. (lassin.blogspot.com) They heard of the opportunity from Gary Roberts, while my dad spent 3 months with Gary in Chad last winter.

My parents would like to request volunteer teachers for their school.

Thank you for you help!

Blessings,
Julie Rose

Check out our new website: http://boliviamissions.org/site/bolivia_industrial_school/

Check our our new webiste: http://boliviamissions.org/site/familia_feliz/

Gilbert and Melissa Sissons

Bethany Medical Missionary College

Guyana, South America

May 14, 2009

MISSION TRIP TO MASHABO VILLAGE

A continual breeze sways the palm trees and jungle foliage as the white sand gradually descends into the warm lake of Mashabo village.  Our college was granted permission to build a mission outpost in this tranquil area on a small point near the middle of the lake.  Not only is the beauty spectacular, but it is strategically positioned.  Our missionaries can now reach the widest variety of people in the shortest amount of time.  On March 20, 2009, Pastor James Shires (father of Liz and Alexis Shires who are staff at BMMC) lead a group of 20 persons from Lewiston SDA Church in Idaho to construct our first mission outpost.  Although the group was only here for a mere five working days, a large amount of work was completed.  The building is 20’x 24’ and has been designed to have two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a small living room.  The group was able to install the floor, erect the interior and exterior walls and start on the roof.  In addition, they were able to construct a water tower which has the capacity to hold 2000 gallons of rain water.  But the group had many other talents besides construction.  Dr. Scott Gardner, a general surgeon, held daily medical clinics in the village.  He treated over 100 people during his stay.  Many of the group members did daily visitations and assisted in the Primay school with children’s programs.  Nightly meetings were also in session that focused on the life of Christ and the wonderful plan of salvation.  The mission trip was a huge success, and the village is very pleased!  We plan on this being the template for many future mission outposts that are critical for the housing of medical missionaries working on the front lines promoting church growth and development.

FIELD SCHOOL 2009

As Pastor Shires and his group departed, we had about two weeks to prepare for Pastor Andrew Farrel, (Ministerial Secretary, Caribbean Union), and his team to arrive for the third annual field school at BMMC.  His group members included: Pastor Carlyle Bayne (Personal Ministries Director, Inter-American Division), Pastor Philip Bowman (Stewardship Director, Guyana Conference), Pastor Richard James (Personal Ministries Director, Guyana Conference), and Pastor Alexander Isaacs (ADRA Director-Guyana Conference).  The overall emphasis of the eight day seminar was to prepare and challenge mission and church leaders to go and finish the work of spreading the gospel.  The topics were diverse, well planned, and very informative.  We learned how to preserve church membership, stewardship principles, how to reach souls and missing members, as well as community development.  In addition to our students, several locals from Bethany and Mashabo were able to attend the meetings, making a total attendance of about 30 individuals.  We praise God that our global leaders are so interested and willing to invest their time and talent into our students and local area.  We look forward to many more field schools at BMMC!

STUDENT FEATURE

Vilissa Gordon (pictured below) is a 19 year old from the Berbice River.  She is a graduate from Kimbia Mission Academy (our GAMAS secondary school on the Berbice River).  She has been an outstanding student and has developed a deep desire to faithfully serve our Lord.  Her post graduation plans are to either do pioneer work in a new village as a medical missionary or to get more hydrotherapy and massage experience in a sanitarium in Venezuela.

Kimberly Flemming (pictured right) is an 18 year old female from a village named Malali, on the Demerara River.  She has grown tremendously during the last nine months.  Her post graduate plans are to join Sabrine Bourne (one of our second year graduates) as a medical missionary in the village of Black Water.  Sabrine has been engaged regularly in 14 bible studies and local church planting and is looking forward to the help of another committed medical missionary.

In Christ’s service,

Gilbert and Melissa Sissons

sissons4@gmail.com

Tax deductible donations can be made payable to:

Gospel Ministries International

P.O. Box 506

Collegedale, TN 37315

*Please include a separate note indicating “Sissons/Bethany Project” to insure we receive the needed funds.

Familia Feliz is in urgent need of two Spanish-speaking teachers:
1 – A teacher for 7th and 8th grades.
2 – A math and science teacher for 9th grade.
Contact Christina Dawang christinadawang@gmail.com

Our present needs for specific volunteers are as follows:

Primary teachers (4-6): must speak Spanish and able to commit 1 year minimum.

Houseparents (3): preferably married couples who speak Spanish and able to commit 1 year minimum.

Mechanic (1): volunteer who has knowledge in auto mechanics and general repairs.

Electrician (1) : volunteer who has knowledge in setting up electrical systems.

Cook (2): volunteers with knowledge in vegetarian cooking

Agriculturists (2)

Nurse (1)

Constructors (4)

Nutritionist (1)

Contact: Christina Dawang at christinadawang@gmail.com
or Melissa Harding at musician822001@yahoo.com

Dear Friends and Family,

I regret that it has been so long since I’ve been in touch. The last couple of newsletters were sent out by my mother when my parents and little sister visited here in May and June. My life has not been boring since then by any means. Actually, I’ve maintained that one of the things I like about Bolivia is the fact that I’m never bored.

One of the non-boring parts came with dreaded realization that I’d been scammed by my lawyer and judge in Rurrenabaque, and although, according to my knowledge, Graciana, my now almost two year old little girl was officially mine in July of last year, the adoption was actually invalid. With Charlie’s adoption ready to be processed, I realized I would have to do it in Santa Cruz. I’ve now been in Santa Cruz since mid June, working on what seems an ever lengthening process, but happy with the knowledge that it’s being done right this time.

In July, God opened the way, including an about to expire airlines voucher, for me to visit home for a few weeks. It was hard to leave my kids, but Sara did a 110% job of holding down the fort for me. It had been nearly two years since my last visit home, and landing at the small Grande Prairie airport, the sweet scent of hay fields hit me. I’d forgotten how good, clean, and fresh Canada smells! Meeting my newest sister in-law and my newest nephew was exciting, but not to be out weighed by renewing the bonds with my siblings and other sister in law, and of course, a lot of other extended family. My ticket for comong back got messed up, and I ended up being able to attend ASI in Florida. continue

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I am forwarding you a brief summary of what we would like to have added to the GMI web page. It entails additional updated information about the Joseph Bates School and where we are in the whole start up process. If there is any information which needs to be added or omitted please let us know otherwise we would like for it published on the web as soon as humanely possible.

Best Regards,
Lidia and Mar-Lee

The Joseph Bates School is in its initial stages. Headed by Lidia Baez Candelario, former Academic Sub Director as missionary volunteer at the Richard Gates Industrial School in Bolivia, she has endeavored to start an Industrial school in Villa Alta Gracia Dominican Republic, a poor, small rural community outside of Santo Domingo.
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The time has come when those who choose the Lord for their present and future portion must trust in Him alone. Everyone professing godliness must have an experience of his own. 1T p 262

It is God’s goal for each one of us to have a personal experience in trusting Him. In trusting in Him alone. It goes against human nature to trust God for our daily needs. We prefer to trust in our work, in our parents, our retirement funds or social security. And yet the time is coming and I believe is at the door when all those things will be removed from us. If at that time we are unaccustomed to standing steady on the promises of God, how shall we stand?

It is one of our goals to teach this form of trust in God to our students. This last week God gave us the perfect opportunity to share this experience with the students. We had come to the end of the month, an especially tight month financially. We had tried to use the money frugally, we had made and sold 12,000 bricks, and still found ourselves one week from the beginning of the next month with only $7 left over. That left us a bit shy of the $575 that we spend weekly on food alone (to feed all 85 people on campus), and doesn’t come anywhere near paying for diesel and maintenance on the truck and generator or cement for the continued construction of the new classrooms. continue

Thanks to Michael and Karina Kunz for the update

Since August 06 till today (31/8/08)
$35,873.63 in Donations
69,010 DVDs & CDs bought

Media News.
1. Today we have connected all 8 lights on the stage. We will still be fine tuning them as we practice. Thanks to Dave and Terry for helping.

2. Julie Cutler has now four printers running, so she can print DVDs at twice the rate.

3. We are currently getting one of the cameras fixed. It is only a minor connection problem with the computer that I wanted to get fixed under warranty.

4. With getting the camera fixed, I will be looking at software so I can video mix live video of cooking demonstrations etc on a computer. This will enable us to more easily video off site programs.

5. We have restarted the “Second Coming” Series on Monday nights with Sam (won’t happen when board meetings on).
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