Hello Everyone,
I have just added a blog to my web page. You may see it by going to my web site and clicking on the words "CHECK OUT MY BLOG". Or you may go directly to it by clicking on this link http://joemercerblog.blogspot.com/
I intend to post all updates there including this one. The purpose for this is so that people who become interested in SAC can go there and see the latest updates.You may read my updates there, as well. The picture you see when the page first comes up was shot by Abigail Causey as I was getting on the bus in Huaraz, Peru, to take the children shopping in December of '09.
The March-April trip continues to make much progress. I have a total of 16 people going. That is the largest group I've had on the Amazon in some time. This is amazing because I never dreamed that I would have over five or six on such a long trip. But, as you know, God can do things that you and I can't do. The main group will be on Lake Tipishca for 2 1/2 weeks. As we are leaving Rev Eddie Burge will be beginning the School of Christ International teaching for the new leaders in the seven villages on the lake.
God has so marvelously provided for this trip. I am amazed. We will have about $3,500.00 dollars worth of filters with us to be distributed to the people in conjunction with the hygiene program. It is difficult for me to comprehend what God is doing here. When we are finished with Lake Tipishca there will be an autonomies Christian community there that can live out their lives with the knowledge that one day they will be in Heaven with Jesus Christ for all eternity. They will be capable of passing this on to their children, as well. The eternal soul is the most important thing, of course, but we will also leave them with wonderfully improved health because of the hygiene program. This truly is an awsome time for SAC.
Just about everything is set as I write this. I have 5 going from Louisiana. They are bringing almost all of the food that we will take, along with about 20 water filters. I will be distributing the other items that we will carry with us to the rest of the group early next week.
On thursday Judy and I will fly to Corpus Christi, TX, to be with Dan Waite's church there. I am really looking forward to this. I first met Dan in Key West and then he moved to Michigan and I found him again there and then he moved to Texas and I found him again. He just can't get away from me. HA!
This week end I will be at the Pine Hill Church of God with Pastor David Beatty. This is the church where Judy and I were married. That was a long, long time ago.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
SAC UPDATE
Hello Everyone,
Just a few lines to tell you about the trip that is upcoming. We now have 14 people going. This is actually more than I asked the Lord for. God has brought in people from all directions. I have four people going from Louisiana. This is a result of the actions of one person; Shirley Davis. She made a difference. You can too! After one of her trips to Peru with me she put an article along with a picture in the local paper and through that made contact with the Kovacs, Bobby & Roxie. These two have have made great contributions to SAC. They have participated in the dramas, the well drilling, and anything else I ask them to do. Roxie is teaching the hygiene program. She is a retired school teacher and is very good at anything she does. But they have introduced others to this ministry. Two of the people on this trip are going because of them. I might also mention that the Kovacs have been responsible for a lot of money coming in for this trip.
The trip continues to evolve. If you will look at the two attached files you will see a GoogleEarth shot of Lake Tipishca. Just across the river is the town of Contamana. In "Tipischa 2" you will see a larger view of Contamana. The word "Airport" is written in red letters just above the little runway where we fly in and out of sometimes by small plane. I have four people from Pastor Causey's church in Knoxville, TN, including the pastor, coming in on the 30th of March to this little airport.
Lake Tipishca is where we will be spending 2 1/2 weeks to minister to the seven villages on that lake. I am very excited about this. For the first two weeks we will go village to village teaching, preaching, doing hygiene, giving water filters, building latrines, showing videos, giving away Bibles, etc. The last three days we will have a campmeeting at one of the villages and invite all those who know Jesus and anyone else who wants to come. We are expecting 500 or more. I will provide food for them and they will sleep wherever they choose under their little mosquito nets. We are expecting a great revival during that time. Please pray for this campmeeting.
Rev. Eddie Burge will be joining us the last couple of days. Eddie is an experienced missionary who specializes in "School of Christ International". He has done hundreds of these classes, I suppose. This is the program pioneered by the late B.H. Clendenen. It consists of prayer, fasting and teaching for 12-14 hours a day. Eddie will convene this school across the river in Contamana. The leadership that God raises up in each village will be invited to this school. As a bonus, the other pastors in the area will also be invited. I have built a total of 4 churches in this area; one of them is in Contamana. We will have the school in that building. At the end of this school which will last for 15 days, the leaders from the lake will have sufficient knowledge to go back to their villages and lead their people in their Christian walk. They will be able to do this unassisted by outside help.
What we are doing here is planting an autonomous Christian community in the jungle. I expect them to be able to survive on their own and to also spread the Word of God to others. This will be a pattern of things to come. If this venture is successful, and I have every reason to believe it will be, this will serve as a model for future ministry in these remote areas. These people are so deep in the jungle and it is both logistically and financially impossible to have outsiders come in to supervise. They must be given the tools to live for Jesus on their own.
Following this trip it is my intention to go further down the river and repeat what we have done here... i.e., find 6 or 8 villages in close proximity to each other and work there long enough to bind them together with the Words of Jesus so they form a Christian community to nurture one another in the love Jesus. They must be taught to do it without outside help. In this area there will never be outside help on a regular basis.
May God bless you as we labor together for Him who called us to this marvelous light.
Bro Joe
Just a few lines to tell you about the trip that is upcoming. We now have 14 people going. This is actually more than I asked the Lord for. God has brought in people from all directions. I have four people going from Louisiana. This is a result of the actions of one person; Shirley Davis. She made a difference. You can too! After one of her trips to Peru with me she put an article along with a picture in the local paper and through that made contact with the Kovacs, Bobby & Roxie. These two have have made great contributions to SAC. They have participated in the dramas, the well drilling, and anything else I ask them to do. Roxie is teaching the hygiene program. She is a retired school teacher and is very good at anything she does. But they have introduced others to this ministry. Two of the people on this trip are going because of them. I might also mention that the Kovacs have been responsible for a lot of money coming in for this trip.
The trip continues to evolve. If you will look at the two attached files you will see a GoogleEarth shot of Lake Tipishca. Just across the river is the town of Contamana. In "Tipischa 2" you will see a larger view of Contamana. The word "Airport" is written in red letters just above the little runway where we fly in and out of sometimes by small plane. I have four people from Pastor Causey's church in Knoxville, TN, including the pastor, coming in on the 30th of March to this little airport.
Lake Tipishca is where we will be spending 2 1/2 weeks to minister to the seven villages on that lake. I am very excited about this. For the first two weeks we will go village to village teaching, preaching, doing hygiene, giving water filters, building latrines, showing videos, giving away Bibles, etc. The last three days we will have a campmeeting at one of the villages and invite all those who know Jesus and anyone else who wants to come. We are expecting 500 or more. I will provide food for them and they will sleep wherever they choose under their little mosquito nets. We are expecting a great revival during that time. Please pray for this campmeeting.
Rev. Eddie Burge will be joining us the last couple of days. Eddie is an experienced missionary who specializes in "School of Christ International". He has done hundreds of these classes, I suppose. This is the program pioneered by the late B.H. Clendenen. It consists of prayer, fasting and teaching for 12-14 hours a day. Eddie will convene this school across the river in Contamana. The leadership that God raises up in each village will be invited to this school. As a bonus, the other pastors in the area will also be invited. I have built a total of 4 churches in this area; one of them is in Contamana. We will have the school in that building. At the end of this school which will last for 15 days, the leaders from the lake will have sufficient knowledge to go back to their villages and lead their people in their Christian walk. They will be able to do this unassisted by outside help.
What we are doing here is planting an autonomous Christian community in the jungle. I expect them to be able to survive on their own and to also spread the Word of God to others. This will be a pattern of things to come. If this venture is successful, and I have every reason to believe it will be, this will serve as a model for future ministry in these remote areas. These people are so deep in the jungle and it is both logistically and financially impossible to have outsiders come in to supervise. They must be given the tools to live for Jesus on their own.
Following this trip it is my intention to go further down the river and repeat what we have done here... i.e., find 6 or 8 villages in close proximity to each other and work there long enough to bind them together with the Words of Jesus so they form a Christian community to nurture one another in the love Jesus. They must be taught to do it without outside help. In this area there will never be outside help on a regular basis.
May God bless you as we labor together for Him who called us to this marvelous light.
Bro Joe
Something New
Hello Everyone,
I am opening a new blog site as a communications tool so that anyone can read my updates. Updates will be posted here. It will take me a few days to get the hang of this thing. Be patient.
Bro Joe
I am opening a new blog site as a communications tool so that anyone can read my updates. Updates will be posted here. It will take me a few days to get the hang of this thing. Be patient.
Bro Joe
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