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Anna Grace Oltersdorf
1 commentsAnna Grace, one month old, 5 lbs-12 oz a birth.
With Grandma Marcia, Grandpa Phil, smiling, and with Mom :)
We are the happiest parents around, so blessed by this beautiful little girl. Thank you all for your love, thoughts, and prayers!!
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The House of Prayer
0 commentsDear Friends and Family:
We hope this letter finds you doing well as we approach the end of the year. We are excited to share our latest news with you. We have started the “No Boundaries International House of Prayer,” and welcome you to be a part of this growing ministry through your prayer and support.
" There was also a prophet, Anna…She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them (Jesus, Mary, and Joseph) at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all…(Luke 2:36-38)
Anna, the name of our unborn daughter
In September the Lord spoke the name ‘Anna’ to my heart for our little girl. “She’s born into a house of prayer, her name is Anna” That same week, while visiting with my pastor, he exclaimed while praying. “there is something very significant about the birth of this little girl and your ministry!”. He couldn't put his finger on it but Brittany and I have since understood more clearly.
The first 2 ½ years of our marriage were spent in Sierra Leone. After returning in December of 2009 the one thing we knew is that we are not done with Africa. The previous 2 ½ years was just a beginning, it was a training time. We were not done pursuing God and His love for the poor of the world.
Since then God has been putting the pieces together. The Bible says that the Father ‘prunes’ us, the branches, so that we will grow back bigger. This period of time, back in the USA, seems to be just that, a time of pruning. As a result we are about to have a bigger family with Brittany due to give birth to our first in January, we have joined with a big family of people with our same heart, and we have a bigger clarity about what God has for us to do and how we are to do it.
‘She is born in a house of prayer, her name is Anna’
God has been using the upcoming birth of our little girl to show the path He has for us. She is going to be born into a ‘house of prayer’. We moved to Oklahoma City to join with a group of missionaries we had met in Sierra Leone. They asked us to come join their team and lead this new part of their organization. The No Boundaries International House of Prayer was born.
Right in the center of our office space is the worship room we call the ‘house of prayer’ where we come into the presence of God and hear His heart for the nations. Jesus told the disciples to ‘pray that the Lord of the harvest would send out laborers’. This is ‘Anna’ style missionary work.
The house of prayer serves local churches by aiding people in many congregations and denominations in growing in their relationship with God as well as praying directly for the church as a whole in Oklahoma City. The house of prayer is central to our work as a missions organization as a place for missionaries to ‘debrief’ coming off the field and also to be sent out into it. We believe nothing worthwhile in this type of work happens outside of prayer. This is what we believe dependence on God looks like, focused time in prayer and worship concerning our work in the nations.
Fruitfulness from an increase of prayer in missions work
We spent our first three months in Africa at a school for missionaries run by Heidi Baker. She has worked for around 20 years in Mozambique. The school taught us all kinds of things but we went away with the message that “…all fruitfulness (positive impact) comes from intimacy (relationship with God).” Our experience has shown that to be true, we have nothing to offer these other cultures unless the love of God himself flows through us. Money doesn’t fix things, the solution isn’t to impose our ‘western culture’ on them. The solution is to know and pour out the love of God on people because it is that that gives them the courage, freedom, and strength to live the way they were created to. Heidi and Rolland Baker and the thousands of kids that they care for, the schools they have started, the people that have been healed and changed into followers of Jesus, all of what they have seen has come through simple desperation for God to make a way, for Him to show up and do what only He can do. Giving God his place missions puts prayer and worship in the center of it. That is what dependence on God looks like and that is how His power and love come into impossible circumstances, through people who are dependent on Him rather than dependent on themselves.
‘Anna’ was a missionary
God gave us a fitting name for our daughter, the woman who centered her life on ministering to God and had the insight from Him to see who Jesus was and proclaimed that good news with the world around her, she ‘spoke about the child to all…’
Around the first of the year we are going to be ordained as ministers by No Boundaries International, Brittany and I will move into our first apartment together, and little Anna will be born. We believe it is also marks the start of our transition out of part time jobs on the side and into full time ministry.
In order to make that transition we are looking for people who believe in what we are doing and would like to partner with us financially. Would you consider supporting us in this work on a monthly basis? Your donations are tax-deductible. Our goal is $1,500 - $2,000 per month for living and ministry expenses. We are honored to know you and we love you thank you for taking interest in our lives and our calling.
Love
Isaac, Brittany, and Anna
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If you would like to support us, you can send it by mail to:
No Boundaries International
c/o Isaac & Brittany Oltersdorf
49 E. 15th St, Edmond, OK 73013
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Happy Thanksgiving from Isaac and Brittany
1 commentsLast night after having dinner, Brittany was driving one of the handful of girls she has been mentoring home. This one ‘Jenny’ has been in a dark place, depressed and often alone. “I’ve never felt God the way you talk about it” she explained. “Well let’s ask Him to show you!” responded Brittany. They sat outside of Jenny’s house and prayed “Wow” exclaimed Jenny. “Did you feel anything?” Brittany asked, “Yea it feels cool, it’s like all the worry and fear is just leaving, it feels like light!”
The Bible says that we love God because He loved us first. Whether in high school or business, Sierra Leone or America, people’s hearts long to know the Love of God. To see it, to feel it, to experience the embrace of a Heavenly Father.
That embrace has led us around the world, for love, there is an unending quest in our hearts to know and make known the love of Jesus.
In a trip recently to a border town in Mexico across from Del Rio Texas. There had been over 70 murders up to that point this year; the store that we had used to buy candy had been blown up by a car bomb. All the aid that had been there through churches and other NGO’s had left because of the increase of violence. Our team went and prayed, for hours each day, before doing anything else.
One day after praying and worshiping in the Mexican church, our team went out to give candy to kids. They were met by one of the leaders of the Mexican Mafia in that area. He began to just pour out his story. He had been a soldier serving in Iraq with the Mexican army and was now a part of the Mafia. He showed off his scars. “Do you think God would forgive me for all the bad things I’ve done?” He asked suddenly.
God really is the answer, the hearts of hardened criminals and children alike ask, “Am I loved?” “Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down His life for his friends” He showed us first, Jesus laid His life down an act that screamed “Yes, you are loved” and it still echoes down through the ages, freeing the hearts of men and women from loneliness, accusation, addiction, shame, and pride.
We are working with friends now; God has brought us into a family of people here in Oklahoma City with the same heart as us. We are together ‘Going to the nations, in community, spreading the love of God, from a foundation of prayer and worship’. Brittany and I couldn’t be happier and little Anna, our ‘soon-to-be-born’ is going to be brought into a great big loving family.
We love you all thank you for loving us so well!
You mean the world to us.
Isaac, Brittany, and Anna
No Boundaries International
49 15th Street
Edmond, Ok
73013 C/O ‘Isaac and Brittany’
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Lots Developing in OKC!
0 commentsFirst I want to thank all of you who have decided to partner with our work here by giving financially, we were very blessed by the response from our last email when we asked for support.
There has been a lot of wonderful things going on here in Oklahoma City. Brittany and I are doing really well and so is Baby Oltersdorf. We had a checkup on Monday and (this is an ultrasound picture).
I (Isaac) am working at Sam's club. They gave me a perfect schedule for me to still be heavily involved with 'No-Boundaries International'
They gave me hours I needed and I didn't even have to ask. A few days after we had arrived here in OKC I walked into Sams and said to Brit, 'I'm gonna work here'. They were my first application and immediately after our trip to Kansas City I called them and got an interview.
People are taking care of us so well here, we have had the use of a car for now and a place to live. We are planning for the coming of the baby in January!
I want to write later and tell all of you about the work we've started doing, its really fun and really exciting but I just wanted to give a quick update for now.
We love you all so much
Isaac and Brittany
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We need your help.
0 commentsDear Friends and Family
This is a letter asking if some of you might consider supporting us during this 2010 in our work with the missions agency No-Boundaries International.
As many of you have heard Brittany and I moved out here to Oklahoma City to be a part of expanding the No-Boundaries International operation. I am now in charge of the programming and direction of a house of prayer as well as writing and implementing an internship for missions work based in prayer/intimacy with God. Brittany is helping run our programs for children in some of the schools in the inner city this summer.
Our heart is that we will go to the nations and equip others to do the same, with a heart full of the love of God, fully equipped to meet practical needs with cross-cultural sensitivity, and to spread the message of God’s love in Jesus Christ rooted in a life of prayer and the Word.
We believe that there are no boundaries to Gods work in the nations of the earth and God has positioned us to build a training center so that He might be known, and His love felt, to the ends of the earth.
Would you support us? It is only possible for us to work part time to support ourselves and we need some help from you. We are asking for some of you to consider supporting us monthly and help us establish ourselves here (and wait for little baby 'O') :)
If you would like to help you can do so by going to www.nbint.org. All donations are tax deductible. If you would like to support us monthly please e-mail Sandy Orchard at sorchard2000@yahoo.com and tell her that you would like to support Isaac and Brittany monthly and she will help you to set that up.
Thank you for loving us and investing in His work through our lives
Love
Isaac and Brittany
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Oklahoma City
1 commentsIts been awesome being here in Oklahoma City. Our friends here, the 'No Boundaries International' team have welcomed us in with a lot of love. We are joining them now and feel so blessed to be able to work with such an amazing group of people.
God has put us all together and its amazing to see the differnet peices of the body He has assembled, such a funny crew. We spent the last three days at Lake Chickasha Jet Skiing, praying, and planning for the rest of the summer.
No Boundaries International is a missions organization that does work in multiple countries. We met them in Sierra Leone but they also work extensivly in Haiti and Mexico and we are looking forward to the next frontier which is the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo).
Our next step however, is not to any of those nations. We feel called by God to start a house of prayer as the center of all we are doing. For the purpose that everything we do will be from the place of humbling ourselves before the Father, seeking His heart, seeking His plans, letting Him prepare us and empower us to spread His love to the nations.
An analogy that I saw when we came here is that of Oklahoma City itself. It is a city that was built around oil. The oil became the fuel for the growth of the city. The same is true with prayer, Jesus said that just as fathers here on Earth know how to give good gifts to thier children so our Father will give the Holy Spirit to everyone who asks. The Spirit of God is our 'oil' the fuel that powers all we do, gives direction, love and understanding. Prayer is the drill or pump, it is the 'asking' of our Father for greater breakthrough of what is in heaven to come to the sick, poor, and dying on this earth.
So we are setting ourselves up for somthing greater than what 'men' can accomplish alone. We are organizing ourselves to put what is important to God first and we know that He will give us what we need to fulfill the rest of what He has put in our hearts.
NEWS FLASH -- NEWS FLASH -- NEWS FLASH
Brittany and I are expecting, we found out we are are about 7 weeks pregnant!!!! We are so excited to share the news with all of you!!!!
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Oklahoma City
3 commentsThe last six months have been awesome. God has opened so many doors. I (Isaac) have healed emotionally and physically. And He has done so much in our hearts. Family has been the richest part, so much catching up - so much love. We've met and grown with so many wonderful people here in Denver and Fort Collins. It has been some of the richest times of friendship Ive ever known.
We've been working perfect jobs for the transition, my job at a grocery store was awesome, I was totally favored in the position I was given and the pay I got. Brittany worked with children, as a nanny for a 3 and 1 year old, as well as volunteering at a day shelter for women and the boys and girls club. Its been amazing, a real testimony to the faithfulness of God to us...He has led us so well.
We are off to Oklahoma City, the plan is to start a house of prayer and to do inner city children's ministry, and to establish ourselves with a team of people known as NBI (No Boundaries International). We've grown very close with the founders who worked alongside with us in Sierra Leone. They took multiple trips to Sierra Leone while we were there and provided vision and funding for much of the work we did.
We know this is the next step, and that's as much as we know, we have such a promise in our hearts about the move despite the unknowns. There is so much grace to make this step, we've felt the hand of God all over it since we said yes. (even our plane tickets, 40 dollars)
Be praying for us, God has plans for us while we are there and is directing our steps to the next place He wants to send us in Africa.
You are all such a blessing and we love you so much!
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A new piece of the quilt
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A friend of ours recently prayed for Brittany and I. While she was praying she said she saw a picture in her minds eye and felt it was from the Lord. It was a quilt, one piece being completed, another just beginning, the entire quilt was scattered with hearts, the lives of people we have helped to love.
We know all of you reading this are being challenged just like we are by the current devastation in Haiti. Our hearts are opened when we see the orphaned, the injured, the mourning, the hungry and the thirsty. It makes us ask, 'but what can I do?' That question right now is leading people to do more than they thought they could. Many are giving their hard earned money. Some are dropping everything to go and help. There will be many who leave their lives as they are now and join the people of Haiti in rebuilding their country.
Why? Because of the love awakened in us all realizing that these people are no different than you, than me. Their lives are so important, so precious, so worth everything.
This 'stretching of the heart' is what has most impacted us during the last 2 and 1/2 years in Sierra Leone. We have lived with Pastor Andrew and his BIG family, we have ate and been hungry, laughed and cried, we have learned to give of ourselves in ways we never thought we could, spurred on by love. Sierra Leone has been a training ground for us, and a very good one. God used Pastor Andrew and his family as our teachers. They patiently lived with us, taught us, fed us, and loved us. They are our S.Leonian family.
Our plan has been to spend through 2010 in Sierra Leone helping with Iris Ministries there. We have always felt, along with Pastor Andrew, that God has another nation in mind for us in the future.
We are transitioning sooner than we originally thought. As we have prayed and sought the Lord we know that the time is now for this new 'piece of the quilt'.
We plan to spend this 2010 in Colorado. Brittany is going to study theology in an on-line school as well as volunteer at a Denver organization for single mothers. I am going to get my health back and work. We are also going to set up our own 501c(3) because our vision for the future is going that provision.
We need your prayers, that we would know the will of God, that our hearts would be able to give what He has put inside of them in the place that He has purposed for us.
We love you all. We want to thank you for believing in us, supporting us, praying for us. You have cared for us and stood behind us in our pursuit to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength and love our neighbor as ourselves.
If you are currently giving to us, thank you. We won't be needing it during this season. If you want to continue to give to Iris ministries go to www.irismin.com .
If you need help unsubscribing from paypal please email a reply and we will help you!
We will keep you all posted as we are setting our sights on our next assignment in Africa.
We love you all
Isaac and Brittany Oltersdorf
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Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
We want to write you and tell you all how grateful we are for you this Christmas season.
Our hearts are warm with love here in Colorado with our friends and family.
We had a wonderful second year in Sierra Leone. As many of you know we have been living and working with a Sierra Leonian family, (pastor Andrew and his wife, their 8 children, and many others in the ministry and his family in the surrounding compound). We are missing all of them as we spend the Christmas season here.
Some highlights from the last year:
We are taking 3 months back in the US now to rest and reconnect. We hope we can see and reconnect with you all while we are here!
Thank you to all of you who have supported us in so many ways this year.
We love all of you and hope you have a Merry Christmas! 
Love
Brittany and Isaac
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Thoughts on missions
0 commentsA new missionary movement
Missions has been founded on some false prepositions and ideas.
Mainly how do we face conditions and ways of doing things in a helpful way.
We have seen the colonizing type of missionary making small western worlds in Africa. Putting Africans in subjection to white culture as the answer to development. Meaning development must look western to be development. Obviously from the outside this is very ethnocentric but unfortunately the attitude still exists I think mainly because of the great difference in development between the first and third worlds giving westerners an aura of superiority and at the same time giving those in a third world an inferiority complex.
The second type is the aid based type of missions.
A very biblical need driven way of spreading the gospel. This type of missions is done all over the world providing food and other necessities to millions who need it. Many however do not even preach the gospel or disciple which is to be our real goal. We show Jesus' love in practical ways and then open up ways for them to know Him more.
One of the problems with this type of missions is that it creates dependency. An aid dependent culture has developed in many third world countries and it is very destructive and unhelpful in the long run. Organizations like the WFP and the UN are looking at ways to build sustainable ways of helping third world nations and this is very good.
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The kind of missions that I think is coming and that needs to come is not new. I heard about it first from the story of the Moravians who sold themselves into slavery to be missionaries the West Indies. To become a slave, a servant of all.
Most missions now is far from that, people are brought in to enforce western protocol and help 'advise' or oversee.
I believe that although this is good in the short term it has such a aura of colonial master, creates dependency, and also sets up something that isn't culturally sustainable.
Many of these nations are in fact very behind in development. Leadership styles have not evolved in understanding like in the west. Many nationals don't know how to handle money well or plan well. Lack of education and experience makes giving power to nationals seem foolish. The truth of the matter is that we are called to disciple nations, where they are at. We cannot make up for the fact that they have not learned something by doing it for them. We are to empower nationals to do what is in their heart for their nation, not force them to do what is in our heart for them. This takes patience and most importantly love.
If you are going to get married my job as the wedding planner isn't to tell you how your wedding should look, how big it should be, where it should be, how the ceremony should be carried out. That needs to come from the heart of the bride and groom. Or it will not feel like their wedding. Although as a wedding planner I have seen the most spectacular weddings in the most beautiful places with the most creative ceremonies. That experience is only good if you as the couple ask for my direction. If I force you to try and do something you don't want to I will either succeed and you will resent me or fail and and you will feel like I am judging the ideas that you want to institute in your wedding. Like I am judging your heart. This could make you feel untrusting of me and my heart towards you or else insecure about your own way of doing things and desires.
My job as a wedding planner is to ask the right questions and advise and help according to the desires of your heart. Its true that we in the west have for the most part, more experience, education, resources and opportunity. Those need to be used rightly. Our job like the wedding planner is to dig out the desires and vision of the hearts of the people and then to help them to flesh those things out. Their heart brought into reality in part by some who lay down their lives for them, to serve them.
This is a very good analogy of missions, its heart and its usual pitfalls. What if your wedding planner made you feel incompetent, came it and forced you to have the kind of wedding that he/she envisioned for you? The better kind of missions is being a wedding planner, empowering and preparing the bride of Christ for her Bridegroom!
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From Brit
0 commentsHi friends and family
We are coming home in two months and are very excited to
see all of you. Things here are going very well.
Pastor Andrew left yesterday for a trip to Mozambique.
He will be gone for 3 weeks and then a few days after he
gets back he will be heading to america for a month.
This is his first time going and he is planning on going
to California, Oklahoma, and Texas. We are all very
excited for him and for this opportunity. It is very
hard for a Sierra Leonan to get a Visa into the states
and even Pastor Andrew has tried 2 other times and was
denied. But this time he was able to get a 3 year Visa.
We all believe that this is going to be a very fruitful
and powerful trip both for Pastor Andrew but also for
the ministry. And Andrew will be able to experience his
first Thanksgiving which we have told him ALL about. (: It will be different not having Pastor Andrew around but
we really believe that God wants to use this time to
strengthen all of us and learn to trust Him in places
where we have trusted in man. We are planning on using
this time to practice and learn the different things God
has placed on all of our hearts to do. A lot of people
are learning to play instruments (guitar, keyboard, and
drums) others are pursuing evangelism, street preaching,
prison ministry, and even hip-hop dance. God has put so
much inside of each one of us and it has been so fun
seeing it start to come out. As for Isaac and I we are doing really well. I am
getting really excited about my work with the children.
It seems like everyday I wake up and I have more love
for the kids and more passion to see them come alive. I
have started two different children's programs and am
just trying to follow the Lord's leading in how to do
them. It has been so fun and challenging. In this
culture there is a lack of play with children. So, we
try to play and just have fun with the kids. We play
tag and duck duck goose and the kids LOVE it. The other
week we had a big game of duck duck goose and tons of
people from the whole community came out and were
watching. I really believe that we are brining light
into these different areas. I also feel like the Lord
is saying that He wants to use the kids even now. We
are teaching them to evangelize and pray for people. I
feel like it is just the beginning and I'm so excited to
see where this goes. Isaac has been recovering from this sickness and is
doing better everyday.
We love you all and can't wait to see you. Two months! Love Brit and Isaac
P.S. If you guys have any ideas, impressions, or just
love we love hearing from you!
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Growing
0 commentsJesus said that the kingdom of God is like a farmer who plants seeds, somehow between planting and harvest time they grow and he harvests them. He cannot sit down and see them actually growing but they do slowly and surely. That is the miracle we are experienceing here, its different from my 'fastfood' mentality but Im learning to like it more. Things here have changed immensly in two years. And what has developed is so beautiful and solid, so of the Lord. I couldnt tell you though when it became what it did, it grew just like that farmer's seeds while I sat indoors on rainy days praying.
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David’s key
0 commentsWe go to a local clinic every week and pray for the sick there. Brittany and I don't always go but this last week I felt that I needed to. I came late as Brittany and I had something to attend to, when we arrived the team had already prayed for all the sick. I thought 'maybe God wanted me here just to spend time with the team.' And I was satisfied with that conclusion. But as we were about to leave one of the nurses protested us going without praying for them. God impressed on my heart that someone had an eye problem and a hand problem. One of the nurses was dealing with both of things, we prayed for her and her hand and eyes were restored. This woman had the keys to all the medicine in the hospital but she needed the keys only God could provide. Revelation 3 talks about Jesus having the Key of David and the doors He shuts no one can open the doors He opens no one can shut. With Jesus impossible things can open up!
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Other
1 commentsHunger is really bad. After a bit of time here I have started to believe that God cries over the hungry. When I see hungry people now I just feel the childlike desperation that hunger produces. Hunger brings anyone to a place of brokeness. I believe the fathers heart is to heal the broken hearted (Isaiah 61) And I believe that food is a big part of that. I think food looks a lot like love here. I think giving food to hungry people is really high on the priorities of God's heart and I pray that in my life it becomes a higher priority as well. There are ones, people around all of us everyday who are hungry in one way or the other. I pray for grace for us all that we can be the handsand feet of Jesus to love and feed those around us one by one.
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Healing the ground
0 commentsChris is an agriculture expert from California. God brought him to us, to this nation. Chris came last week with 2 suitcases full of seeds and plants, enough our 10 acres of land. We believe that Chris is an answer to the prayers of all those in Sierra Leone who have been seeking God for this nation. In Deuteronomy 28 the Bible speaks of the blessings of a nation who turns to God. Vs. 11 says, "The Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground…"
Where hunger in normal, this scripture is good news. Our farming project has been going on for over a year now. One of the street boys named Junior who came to us last year is now the caretaker and as a turns out an expert in raising pigs. He has helped two pigs become 13 with another one pregnant. There are also 20 chickens and 5 goats. Junior calls the land the 'promised land'. It is a beautiful thing to see small amounts of restoration here. Only God knows how to heal this land and we look to him constantly, we are completely dependent on Him; our own plans and strength don't seem to work. Please be praying for the agriculture and farming project and also for the street boys. We believe that Junior is a first fruits of God using them to be the main conduit of blessing to this nation.
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New Beginnings
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Happy Easter
1 commentsHello friends and family! I hope you are all doing well. I (Brittany) wanted to share a little bit of what has been going on in Sierra Leone.
This is one of the most powerful, pivotal experiences that I have had since I have been here. So many things have come together for me in my heart and I wanted to share it with you all.
We love you all so much and are so grateful for your love and support. Thank you!
Love Brittany and Isaac
Happy Easter!!
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Restoring Africa
1 commentsToday is a busy day, Andrew is working excitedly on his new desk. Its an African creation that is unlike anything Ive ever seen, so beautiful. Brittany has been washing our clothes and I have been tying up loose administrative ends. This is our first day back in the old routine after two weeks of hosting 10 guests from Bill Johnson's church in CA, Visiting the President, the parliament, building relationships with some of the most influential people in Sierra Leone, and seeing a multitude of miracles mostly physical but some circumstantial. At the beginning of the year we really were feeling like God was going to do a lot. Andrew was saying 'we will do less and see more' encouraging us to just focus on God. So far we are far from disappointed. Here are some things that have happened.1. Miracles -- We went to the hospital with the team from California. One man due for spine surgery was later released as he no longer needed it. One young man, Unisa, who had fallen from a tree and had been paralyzed from the waist down for three years is now moving his legs, they are growing in strength and he now wants to be a pastor to his village in eastern S. Leone! We saw a multitude of other healings, bad vision perfected, arms and legs strengthened and lengthened, back pain removed, malaria healed. I learned a lot from the team from California to expect that God is good and He wants to heal all the time! Its a blessing here where people often don't have any other way to help themselves. 2. Pastor Andrew and the team from CA visited with the president and His wife. They were able to pray with them and be a real encouragement in the midst of a hard time. 3. We went to a session of Parliament and afterward met with and prayed with the speaker of the house and the other party leaders. 4. The team from CA had contacts with some of the more influential families in Sierra Leone. They are wonderful, Godly people and from that the ministry has gained access to three plots of land, one of which pastor Andrew's wife has been praying for for over 3 years.5.We started two new churches, Andrew now meets in town and holds a service every Sunday on the street. While doing business a businessman gave us a property to use across the street from a club where teenage prostitution is rampid. We have also begun to meet there. 6. The business Ive embarked on is going well. I am trying to raise funds through it for both the work in the provinces and also to raise money to send a container here. So far we have profited over 2000 dollars for the work. Watching Andrew make his new desk there is a sense of what we are here for. We want to help Africans rebuild Africa out of their African hearts. What would Africa look like without war, poverty, and corruption? For this reason God has allowed us to influence with His love and power this country from the President, to a crippled boy from a small village. All is related to helping give Africa their heritage, their glory. Isaiah 49, Rev 21:26 We are honored to be a part of this work. It is worth our lives, to give Him glory. There are so many other things big and small that God has done. We have seen a lot of people give their lives to Jesus, we have grown closer as a team, and God has grown us all individually so much. This is just my perspective, Brittany will have to give her own account soon too!We love you all so much, thank you for your prayers and supportLove Isaac and Brittany
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Business as usual
2 commentsThe airwaves in Sierra Leone on will be filled on Tuesday Nights with the sound Pastor Andrew's worship! People in Africa, (take our word for it) listen to the radio all night, and LOUD. Its just a thing here I dont know why.
But that will be a good thing as Pastor Andrew begins to broadcast his program on Tuesday nights. I have never met a musician like Pastor Andrew, He claims that the Holy Spirit taught him how to not only play the guitar but also how to make his first one (ive seen the pictures, its huge)!
When he told us his vision to broadcast I knew that it was from the Lord. We have been praying for a way to do it as it costs about 630 dollars for 3 months of airtime/1day per week.
Well we found a way. Ive begun to do some small buisness here selling those little memory sticks and a few other things. In one month the profit was 600 dollars.
I came home from a long day in town and handed Andrew the money. I was so happy that my work had produced enough to open up this door! Andrew was really happy too it was a really special moment.
One man who I met in town is going to give us property to use to open two new churches. (Property is very expensive in Freetown) Everywhere I go when Im doing buisness I keep meeting people that I know God has wanted me to meet. I get to share the gospel often and I really like it.
Brittany too is doing really well, expect to hear her side of the story soon.
There is so much else going on but I wanted to let you all know about this new development.
Be praying for wisdom and direction.
Love you all
Isaac
by running



