Dear Outreacher: 

Merry Christmas – with JESUS,

 The reason for the season. -- My how blessed we are—the recipients of God’s inestimable gift—Immanuel, God with us!!!

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            As we celebrate JESUS birth and life facing a new and challenging year 2010, we are very encouraged--some new countries are now in progress with the CDP GLOBAL NETWORK, as well as new “blood” for two of our largest countries. In particular, we see terrific signs that point to major breakthroughs in many countries, especially in India and Nigeria.

 ·        Those of us that are deeply involved with the Cassette Discipleship Program’s (CDP Global Network) have just lately confirmed and accepted our tasks for Finishing Well.

·   Indeed, the national leaders are now expected to complete their tasks, reaching out with multiplying numbers of Village Evangelists (VEs) to their own ignored and forgotten villagers in the next few years--even as we are ever seeking ways to get added equipments to them.

·        Actually, this all further confirms our feelings that our remaining time to Finish Well may be limited. Of course, only our Father-God knows the time remaining—the Holy Spirit will illumine us at the appropriate time as needed.

·        As such, we have been led to set the end of 2010 AD as a best estimate when our major involvement in the CDP process could end.  This ‘probably’ is not true, but does appear constrained within the general tone of related field situations. This is further compounded by the very negative impotent posture of our own government’s handling of serious aggressive Islamic forces within our country as well as overseas.

 ·         Note that any added time we may have will be considered a plus as to our being able to further assist the nationals in their press to reach all their own villagers that so desperately need to hear about Jesus! 

 ·        On a very positive note, we see remarkable strides being made where literally millions of precious souls are being impacted and coming to Christ--being discipled on a regular basis, week by week, as the VEs are living and ministering  right in their villages.

 ·        You can rejoice with all of the VEs, the country leaders and all that have cared and shared to help make the CDP GLOBAL NETWORK grow—realizing that one day at Jesus feet we will all have the great blessing of seeing Jesus welcome literally millions of those  precious ones into their new home with Him.

 ·        Yes, -- what a great day that will be!!!

INDIA

·       Dr. C. D. Jebasingh, you will recall, was the driving force for initiating the CDP activities in India—he and their GIFTS (now The Galileans) group developed the ministry there, maturing the process from 1985 through 2001.

 ·       Indeed, while CDP was solely in India, the Lord brought the Internet and WEB capabilities to us, leading us to develop the WEBSITE: me-intl.org as a plenum of “How to do CDP”.

 ·       The CDP process flourished there, growing to reach out to major parts of the southern states of India—also, laying the groundwork for expanding northward.

 ·       Then, with the need to expand to cover the whole of the territories started, temporary funding problems seemed insurmountable, which at the time caused a general ‘slow down’.

 ·       As the CDP process spread to Africa, and the Lord led the whole program to become fully VOLUNTEER (no salaries to be paid at any level—ours and theirs) it was a difficult transition, but one that is now well established and operative.

 ·       We are seeing India activities in three areas: Southern, Northern and Eastern. Generally speaking the Southern states comprise about 400 million villagers; the Northern states similarly about 400 million villagers, with the Eastern state of Bengali having about 80 million villagers.

 ·       There now appears to be a new breath of Great Commission concern within India—one which we trust the Lord is leading to provide significant support both in programmatic overhead as  well as the general leadership and training needs.

 ·       Pray that our Lord of the Harvest will provide abundantly to meet their needs for equipment and general programmatic overhead—allowing all to hear, believe and receive their Savior!

Nigeria

 ·        The CDP process started in Nigeria in 2003 under the leadership of Evangelist Paul Mba, and has been largely focused on one state, it having about 450 VEs ministering.

 ·        In October 2009, our brother Mba alerted us that one of Nigeria’s senior ministers was coming to the states (actually in NY) and hoped we could contact him. His name: Rev. Friday C. Matthew Ogbuji. He had previously been brother Mba’s pastor as well. 

 ·        Receiving his call, we concluded that we must talk, so invited him to come to visit us here for a week. He accepted and arrived here on November 13^th returning to NY on November 20^th. And then to Nigeria the following Tuesday.

·        Rev. Ogbuji had been a close friend of our CDP leader there for over 30 years, had observed from the sideline, appreciated what CDP was accomplishing, but as he said, never ‘crossed the line’ to be a part of the CDP process.

 ·        It was very interesting to watch, as we shared, to see him switch from observer to a very firm participant and planner to reach the other 35 states of Nigeria via the CDP GLOBAL NETWORK, with our WEBSITE and the Internet providing key communications.

 ·        Brother Ogbuji’s background and present positions in Nigeria include several national leadership roles where he had supervised some 300 pastors and churches for seven years and now is on the decision boards of both the National Board of the Assemblies of God Church and the National Mission Board.

 ·        He is most excited to establish leadership for the CDP process in each of the remaining states of Nigeria—having contacts which he feels will both provide leadership as well as get the local Nigerian churches involved as part of their growing Great Commission responsibility!

 ·        Where Nigeria is our third largest country population center (behind only China and India), we are excited to see how the Lord has gone ahead of us and prepared his servant to do what we thought was impossible. It is truly exciting to see such strong national leadership there.

 ·        Remember to PRAY for Rev. Friday Ogbuji as he seeks to work closely with Evangelist Paul Mba in reaching out to the remaining states of Nigeria.

To FINISH WELL and STRONG

             Remember to Pray for these two key areas (theirs and ours) of this End-Time Harvest, that they and we might all be faithful to see the CDP GLOBAL NETWORK accomplish all that our Father-God desires:

 1.        For VE growth: That all the Nationals will regularly multiply their outreach via on-the-job growth periods to allow the CDP GLOBAL NETORK grow as needed in all related areas.

 2.        For Equipment Enabling: That we in the USA will be faithful to provide the equipment and support needed to augment timely National growth—just as He desires to provide it, to best facilitate both the training mission as well as meeting the outreach challenges of both literacy and distances.

 Remember:   We have over 15,000 VEs now needing players and bikes.

*       Audio Players cost $50.00 each and provides up to six times the outreach via meeting the literacy challenges.

                *       Bicycles cost $100.00 each and provide up to 12  times the outreach via meeting the distance challenges.

What We Believe

 1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible Word of God.  2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in his sinless life, in His miracles, in his vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. 4. We believe that for the salvation of lost sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.  5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit  by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life.  6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation. 7. We believe in the spiritual unity of  believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.  8. We believe that the church comprises all true believers and that the mission of the church, with Christ as its head, is to communicate the Gospel of Christ to all the world. 

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