Rosa and His Friend

Mike and team had a very successful trip to India and Nepal!  Thank you so much to those of you who helped to cover this trip with your prayers.  The "prayers of the saints" were definitely felt!  Overall, over 21,000 heard the gospel and out of this about 8,000 responded with decisions to follow Christ!  Nearly 1,700 were treated medically, 5,500 school children were ministered to, and 14,000 attended the two festival days!  Additionally, there were other outreaches, churches preached within and pastors who receiving training and encouragement.   It was a very exciting time for those on the team!
In India, Mike and team caught a clear vision of ministry there and ANM will be taking a team back to Northern India in November, 2012. More on that to come!
The photo gives a glimpse of the many hands acknowledging hearts opened to Jesus.
Stories from Mike are coming in the next several days!!

India/Nepal trip wrapping up

Mike and his team members are now on their way home after a very successful time in both India and Nepal. Mike is most anxious to get home and share of the amazing ways God showed up on this trip!! The time in India definitely kindled a desire to go back and minister to the unreached people in Northern India, near the border of Nepal. It is a very dark place spiritually and these people have never heard of Jesus! The team built a good relationship with the young pastor there and Mike looks forward to working together with him. We will have more to share soon! The time in the Bhutanese refugee camps was amazing as well. Thousands of refugees decided to put their trust in Jesus and many miracles happened! Mike's comment was that it was like those in the book of Acts. Communication has been sparse so please check back next week for details of the trip!!

Only 2 more weeks until India and Nepal!!

Only 2 more weeks until Mike and team leave for ministry in India and Nepal! They will start the trip in Northern India with a dynamic,young evangelist and church planter that Mike met one year ago in Cape Town, South Africa at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism. They will strategize for the first three days to see how they can partner together in ministering to the unreached people in Northern India. Mike is hoping a thriving, multi-year partnership will result from this time together. Then it is off to the Bhutanese refugee camps in Southeastern Nepal. They will team up with the Reid Saunders Association from Salem, Oregon and KidStand from Dallas, Texas. There will be 5 days of treating the refugees in a medical clinic as well as 5 days of school and community outreaches. Additionally, there will be very engaging children's ministry events happening throughout the week. The week will conclude with a large pastor's conference and 2 evangelistic festival days over the weekend. Mike Parker will speak at one festival outreach and Reid Saunders will speak at the other outreach. Both of these men have a heart and passion to reach the lost and will powerfully bring the good news of Jesus Christ to this dark and lost area of the world. Would you please be in prayer for safety and protection for these teams, for individual gifts and talents to be poured out in full, for ready hearts and for a great harvest! God is good!

Planning for Nepal!

In just one short month from now I and a small team will be heading to Nepal to join forces with two other ministries to share the love of Jesus Christ to Bhutanese refugees living in Southeastern Nepal. Our ministry team will consist of a medical team, a kid's ministry, and two evangelism ministries.
Situated between the emerging superpowers of India and China, the isolated Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, hailed by some as ‘the last Shangri-La’, has generated one of the highest numbers of refugees in the world in proportion to its population.
Since 1991 over one sixth of Bhutan's people have sought asylum in Nepal, India and other countries around the world. Sadly, it is estimated that 12,000 girls are abducted and taken from Nepal into India every year as part of the sex slave industry.
Our team departs November 3rd and will return November 16th. It is our intent to minister to these Hindu Bhutanese refugees over the next few years with evangelism, medical teams, pastor training (for the few small churches), and other physical aid. It is also our hope that we will partner with other ministries that focus on human trafficking.
We still need to raise nearly $5,000 for this ministry trip! Would you please pray that God would be stirring the hearts of people who would partner with us financially? The return on this kind of investment is truly immeasurable!

Mike

Recent Sermon from Joshua 5 & 6

Mike preached at Sisters Community Church again on June 5th. For this sermon Mike sensed a prompting to preach a reminder from church history about how God is moving even when it seems very dark to us. There is a much larger story that God is writing even when we can’t yet see it. It’s like creating a tapestry with all the individual threads being woven together to create a design of great beauty in the end. He referred to Joshua 5 & 6 to illustrate how we need to obey God’s leading even when it doesn’t make sense to us in the beginning. He can accomplish great things out of this obedience. Click here to listen to this sermon!

Healing and Psalm 84

Mike recently preached at his home church of Sisters Community Church in Sisters, Oregon. This church is going through a significant transition with a launching of two separate churches. The pastor, leadership, and full elder board has been sensing for some time now a clear call to plant a new type of church in Central Oregon. The pastor recently resigned in order to pursue this new calling. As a result, Mike was asked to help the first few Sundays in the transition by providing messages to a dividing and hurting body. (Clearly, anytime something of this magnitude happens within a church, there will be mixed emotions on the part of the congregation.) Mike had a strong sense that the first sermon should point eyes up and be briefer and simple, yet not simplistic. As a result he preached from Psalm 84. Many of the congregation shared with him afterwards that it was just what they needed to hear at this time. We would like to give you the opportunity to listen as well. Just click here to hear Mike’s sermon from Psalm 84.