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"Is My Life Worth It?" tells the story of nineteen-year old David's close brush with death, when the car he was riding in skid off a pier, plummeting into the freezing sea on a cold December night. Partial Ex-com? Does that get your mind ticking? If so, don't miss out. Catch these articles in FZ #045, coming to your boxpronto. You wouldn't want to skip this edition, 'cuz there's something in there for you. Interested in upcoming Free Zine features? Stay tuned, the stories are on their way. ISSUE 91 _ JULY 1, 2000 _ CM/FM Grapevine The ^ ] What happens around us is largely outside our control, but the way we choose to react to it is inside our control. Between June 13-15, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung traveled to Pyongyang, North Korea and held a historic summit meeting with the North's leader, Kim Jong Il. This land- mark meeting marked the first time since the end of World War II in 1945, that the top leaders on the divided peninsula had met face-to-face. That alone was considered by Korea- watchers to have been a victory to help reduce tensions on what is called "the last Cold War frontier in the world." The summit meeting is generally considered the fruit of South Korean president's two and a half-year sun- shine policy, based on the fable that the warm sun successfully caused a man to take off his coat instead of the cold, harsh wind. The three-day visit was full of surprises, the greatest be- ing the personality of the North Ko- rean leader. Characterized for decades as a reclusive and imbalanced despot, in front of the media cameras the Northern leader came across as re- spectful of the elder Kim, confident and quite able to make self-depreca- tory jokes about himself. Virtually the entire South Korean nation held their breath when their president stepped out from his airplane upon arrival in Pyongyang, unsure of how he would be received. To everyone's amaze- ment, the northern leader had come to the airport and greeted his south- ern counterpart warmly. The summit resulted in a five-point joint communiqué in which both sides vowed to solve differences peacefully through dialogue instead of through military means, to allow separated families (up to 10 million people af- fected) to meet their relatives from the respective sides, and to encourage eco- nomic development. Although there's a general sense of relief in South Korea, a strong awareness that many difficulties re- main on the road to eventual reunifi- cation is widespread. However, with a direct dialogue finally underway after 55 years of mutual suspicion and dis- trust, the majority of Koreans are hope- ful that their 5,000 year old nation will finally be reunited, howbeit slowly. Over 1,000 foreign correspondents gathered in Seoul in a downtown press center to cover the Korean Summit. The Lord provided me (Tim) with a press card for the three day period which gave me many opportunities to talk with influential journalists, (Inter- national Herald Tribune, The Guard- ian, The Observer, The Economist, Chosun News USA, the Heritage Foun- dation, et al) about human rights con- ditions of North Korean refugees in China and other conditions that will have to be addressed if the needs of all Koreans will be justly addressed in this new window of opportunity for reunification. Please join us in prayer for this frag- ile, yet hopeful development. In prayer for South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, we received the Beatitude, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." INTERNATIONAL NEWS DEVELOPMENT: Inter-Korean Summit BY TIM, SEOUL, KOREA New book summary on MO site The Pandita Ramabai Story in Her Own Words BY THE RAMABAI MUKTI MISSION Earthquakes in Iceland—urgent prayer request BY THADDEUS, SARAH AND TEAM, ICELAND You may have read or seen in the news that Iceland suffered an earthquake registering 6.6 on the Richter scale on June 17. It was fol- lowed last night by a second quake of the same magnitude. This quake was closer to the capital and did much more damage. Sarah's brother saw his farm lifted over one meter into the air and then it slammed back down, and much of it was destroyed. Experts have warned that more earthquakes can be expected, closer to the capital. They are ex- pected to be at least the same mag- nitude and, if they occur, they will cause much damage and possibly loss of life. We would like to ask if you could pray against any further quakes and against any loss of life. We feel we've barely begun our work! We'd like to ask if you could also keep our little team in your prayers, not only for our protection but also our being able to help those in need. Many thanks!

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Between June 13-15, South KoreanPresident Kim Dae Jung traveled toPyongyang, North Korea and held ahistoric summit meeting with theNorth's leader, Kim Jong Il. This land-mark meeting marked the first timesince the end of World War II in 1945,that the top leaders on the dividedpeninsula had met face-to-face. Thatalone was considered by Korea-watchers to have been a victory to helpreduce tensions on what is called "thelast Cold War frontier in the world."

The summit meeting is generallyconsidered the fruit of South Koreanpresident's two and a half-year sun-shine policy, based on the fable thatthe warm sun successfully caused aman to take off his coat instead of thecold, harsh wind. The three-day visitwas full of surprises, the greatest be-ing the personality of the North Ko-rean leader. Characterized for decadesas a reclusive and imbalanced despot,in front of the media cameras theNorthern leader came across as re-spectful of the elder Kim, confidentand quite able to make self-depreca-tory jokes about himself. Virtually theentire South Korean nation held theirbreath when their president steppedout from his airplane upon arrival inPyongyang, unsure of how he wouldbe received. To everyone's amaze-ment, the northern leader had cometo the airport and greeted his south-ern counterpart warmly.

The summit resulted in a five-pointjoint communiqué in which both sidesvowed to solve differences peacefully

through dialogue instead of throughmilitary means, to allow separatedfamilies (up to 10 million people af-fected) to meet their relatives from therespective sides, and to encourage eco-nomic development.

Although there's a general senseof relief in South Korea, a strongawareness that many difficulties re-main on the road to eventual reunifi-cation is widespread. However, with adirect dialogue finally underway after55 years of mutual suspicion and dis-trust, the majority of Koreans are hope-ful that their 5,000 year old nation willfinally be reunited, howbeit slowly.

Over 1,000 foreign correspondentsgathered in Seoul in a downtown presscenter to cover the Korean Summit.The Lord provided me (Tim) with apress card for the three day periodwhich gave me many opportunities totalk with influential journalists, (Inter-national Herald Tribune, The Guard-ian, The Observer, The Economist,Chosun News USA, the Heritage Foun-dation, et al) about human rights con-ditions of North Korean refugees inChina and other conditions that willhave to be addressed if the needs ofall Koreans will be justly addressed inthis new window of opportunity forreunification.

Please join us in prayer for this frag-ile, yet hopeful development. In prayerfor South Korean President Kim DaeJung, we received the Beatitude,"Blessed are the peacemakers, for theyshall be called the children of God."

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You may have read or seen inthe news that Iceland suffered anearthquake registering 6.6 on theRichter scale on June 17. It was fol-lowed last night by a second quakeof the same magnitude. This quakewas closer to the capital and didmuch more damage. Sarah'sbrother saw his farm lifted over onemeter into the air and then itslammed back down, and much ofit was destroyed.

Experts have warned that moreearthquakes can be expected,closer to the capital. They are ex-pected to be at least the same mag-nitude and, if they occur, they willcause much damage and possiblyloss of life.

We would like to ask if youcould pray against any furtherquakes and against any loss of life.We feel we've barely begun ourwork! We'd like to ask if you couldalso keep our little team in yourprayers, not only for our protectionbut also our being able to helpthose in need. Many thanks!

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���������Chaves, Portugal, we wereapproached by a youngwoman who did a brief five-minute interview with usabout our work and goals.It was aired on RadioChaves and turned out to bevery favorable, reaching150,000.

Michael, Peace, Jo and Com-fort, Gambia: Gambia TVaired a favorable segment onus during prime time havingto do with our humanitarianhelp during the recent riotshere, reaching 50,000. The

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have already seen the new col-ored Feed My Lambs series havebeen thrilled with this beautifulset, both for your children andas a GP tool. God bless the dearones who put this together! TheGP set is made up of Books 1-7,plus the GP FML Checklist ofBooks 1-7, and the Award poster.Book 8 (which contains verseson Endtime and Warning; Per-secution, David our Shepherd,and Chastening) is DFO. Youare of course free to share thiswith those you feel led to, but itis not part of the GP set. There isalso a separate DFO checklistwhich contains all verses fromBooks 1-8.

If you are looking at thepubs available on the CVCPubs CD, you will come acrossthe color Feed My Lambs book-lets. Due to an error in the fi-nal preparation of the CD, thisis not the final GP version ofthe Feed My Lambs series. It isthe previously uncorrected 8-book set, which includes book8 which is DFO. This CD set isfine for the Family, but a num-ber of changes were made toprepare it for the GP printing.For your reference, followingare the main changes that weremade for the GP version:

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books.

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Since our last meetings in March where we emphasized getting deeper withthe sheep and even winning new disciples, three Taiwanese nationals have joined!That’s a major victory, as the last person to join in Taiwan before this was overfive years ago. One of the new disciples is a man, which is another major victoryas this is the first Taiwanese male ever to join the Family! (There are currently twoCM Chinese brothers but they are both from Hong Kong, and there is one brotherwho is actually from Taiwan but his family moved to Japan when he was a childand that’s where he joined so he’s more Japanese than Taiwanese.) So what ev-erybody thought couldn’t be done has happened! PTL! We’re hoping more willfollow and we’ll have a disciple-winning revolution here!

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Enoch, Peace, Philip and An-gela, Bosnia: The nationalnewspaper Oslobodjena dida very positive article on ourrecent visit to a school forhandicapped children inSarajevo (we did two showsthere). It mentioned someother projects “The Family”volunteers and our nationalteam “Hearts Full of Smiles”have been doing in the area.Circulation is 500,000.

Ready, Dulci and Clara,Spain: While ballooning ina commercial center in

Gambia Daily News and theWest Coast Radio also cov-ered the same topic, reach-ing 22,000.

Ricky, Martin, Nina,Sebastian and Esther, Tan-zania: ITV, the national TVin Tanzania, came to ourschool’s puppet show andshowed us singing anddancing and doing ourshow that is based on Trea-sure Attic shows. The showwas very favorable and theyaired it twice, reaching3,000,000.

On our trip to different cities in Brazil, it was inspiring to see the effect the Word hasbeen having in the Homes and in people’s personal lives. The overall spirit in the Homesis very different from just six months ago, and many of the pre-Shakeup problems arehardly issues anymore. There have been some beautiful turnarounds and we’ve metyoung people who are truly new creatures and you hardly recognize them. You nolonger feel that strong worldly, defiant spirit. Things are definitely much better. It’s not tosay that there are not problems or areas that need improvement, but we’re on a differentplaying ground than we were before.

It has stood out to me everywhere I go how the Lord is doing heavy things in people’spersonal lives and bringing them to a point of decision. The “Era of Action” promised itwould be a year of changes and challenges for everyone, and this is being fulfilled. Youcan see the Spirit moving powerfully, and people are getting the point that things cannotcontinue as they were. It’s refreshing to see many taking up the challenge and acceptingthe new things the Lord is bringing into their lives or asking of them.

In our recent visitation of nine Homes, we didn’t have to reclassify anyone, andthere was only one serious situation that warranted strict discipline. The Homes seemedto be at a different stage of the Shakeup, and what they needed was a challenge toevaluate their goals and ministries and see how they could do more for the Lord, gettheir young people out and really win their cities for Jesus. A lot of the challenge con-cerned how to witness more.

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One of the biggest things that Y2K accomplished was the upgrading of computer systems and networks on a globalscale. Countries around the world were massively solicited by U.S.-based computer companies, who promised to gettheir military defense departments, power grids, and scores of government ministries Y2K compliant and ready. This ofcourse made a lot of money for the big computer guys, as their fees were in the 100s of millions of dollars, but in theprocess, outdated computer systems in country after country were newly upgraded with compatible hardware, compat-ible programs, etc. Put 2 + 2 together and that’s got to have something to do with “Racing for the Mark.”

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It’s funny the tiniest things the Lordcan use sometimes to bring a notewor-thy point home. I found myself in themiddle of such a moment just theother day, when I was in the middle ofa smallish supermarket, pushing mytwo kids through the aisles.

Lauren was sitting in the front seatof the shopping cart, and Kimby wasperched in the back, amusing herselfby looking at some books I’d borrowedfrom one of the shelves. By and byKimby collected a small feather duster,which she dubbed her pom-pom andbegan waving around delightedly.

As we walked along I was talkingwith Gwyn about whatever it is that SGAgirls talk about when they have amoment’s peace from their all-con-suming children. Our conversationwas interrupted, however, when weturned our shocked attention back tothe scene at hand: Kimby was stand-ing up behind Lauren’s seat, forcefullybuffing her sister on the head with theduster, saying all the while, “I’m sorry!I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

And this is where the moment hap-pened. Caught up in the zeal of momen-tum, I sprang swiftly into action. I com-forted Lauren, then swung around todeal with my mischievous little three-year-old. First I snatched the dusteraway and exiled it to a nearby shelf. Andthen I stopped. My natural inclinationwould have been to give Kimby a repri-manding swat on the hand and stiff cor-rection to treat her sister with a great dealmore love and consideration. But thenour circumstances and surroundingssuddenly kicked in: We were in a publicplace, and insofar as corporal punish-ment is concerned, any number of po-tential onlookers could easily have asmany opinions of what is right andwrong. Generally, while out I like totread as lightly as possible, just to be onthe safe side.

And so, robbed of my natural-re-action crutch, I found myself prayingquickly about an alternative. “Kimby,”I said, “that was a very unloving thingto do, to bash your sister on the headand make her cry. Now you won’t beable to play with that duster any more.I want you to fold your hands and sitstill, right here, until I tell you.” I sather down in the back of the cart as de-scribed, and we continued through theaisles. After a few minutes she asked ifshe could be released, so I told her topray and ask Jesus to help her be amuch better sample and caretaker to

her baby sister, which she enthusiasti-cally did. And life went on.

That was the end of our episode,but I stopped and thought about itlater. Actually, I kind of liked theparenting that my surroundings forcedme into. I guess it’s so easy sometimesto just default to our natural reaction,take the old road, the easy road: There’sa problem? A quick smack willstraighten it out. When sometimes, ifwe stop and pray—whether by con-straint or by personal desire—there’sanother road entirely, and it’s often gota lot more prayer, love and explana-tions baked in, along with the requi-site correction. Thank the Lord for Hisdefining circumstances!

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Last month we had a thrilling City coun-cil centered around the three latestGNs on “The Era of Action.” We prayedand heard from the Lord about whatsteps we should take to put these GNsinto effect. Here are the things the Lordshowed us, and we’re already seeingthe tremendous fruit of putting theWord into action:

1 Do more things together as an areato promote unity.

2 Have monthly meetings that last afew days, where the young people

can get together for classes, inspira-tions, fun get-out and activities. Thesewill be held by the VSs, for a differentage group each month (JETTs throughSGAs). We’ve already held two of theseget-togethers. Each young person whocomes to the meeting brings a certainamount of funds to make the meet-ings possible. We hope to expand thisinto seminars for our young people,i.e: an inspirational meeting, childcaremeeting, or workshop on a specifictheme such as art, Endtime, follow-up,etc.

3 Make the Word come alive—espe-cially to our younger generation. It

is important that they see us followthrough on this principle and that wetranslate “action” into their language.The two most important ingredients tomake this a successful venture aregood shepherding and consistency.

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Recently we were invited to attend the February 20th anniversary of a localFilipino fellowship. At the luncheon, we were able to introduce them to

the Activated books and other tools.They invited me to talk to their congregation and said they wanted to

order the Activated books (especially Bible Basics and Keys to Happier Living)for all their elders to study at their weekly Bible studies. Since then, much oftheir congregation have ordered various Activated books and other Familytools (videos and tapes) for themselves and their families and friends. Manyrave about the books and other tools as very feeding and giving the spark offaith they need in their lives.

4 Start doing smaller activities on aweekly basis. Homes can take up

the torch to pray and hear from theLord about activities they’d like to dofor a certain age group. We then makea calendar with a slot for each weekand fill in the slots of what Homes willbe providing what activities, and forwhat ages. Some ideas are witnessingoutings, participating in a Home’s fol-low-up meeting or Bible class, a shortfaith-trip, a picnic with games, an out-ing to a bowling alley, trip to a specialplayground for the younger ones, etc.The Lord said to not only make it “funand full of action,” but to also makeHim the center of it with a short butpowerful Word-class or inspiration,time of loving and praising Him. If wehave these other weekly activities(hosted by a different Home eachweek), then the area parties won’t bethe only fun activity that our youngpeople look forward to. These are al-ready rolling!

5The Lord emphasized that weneeded to form a group of bell-

wethers and create positive peer-pres-sure. Some of the different youngpeople we’ve had helping us to makethis vision a reality so far have beenJonathan, Chloe, Ivan, Santi, Ruthie,Maria and Michael.

6 At each City Council (or at least ev-ery two months), make it a point to

touch base on the progress we aremaking in the above-mentionedpoints and seek the Lord.

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We just finished holding a three-day meeting with the junior teens.

We had beautiful classes about the “Eraof Action” and fun times together. We alsohad prayer for the Holy Spirit and thegift of prophecy, and the Lord poured outabundantly on the spot and gave beau-tiful, thrilling prophecies through all thejunior teens. Everyone was so excitedafter this, so we started gypsy dancingand got really free in the spirit.

One night we had a loving Jesus in-spiration. Everyone took some time be-fore the meeting to write out their ownpraise kiss to the Lord, and they were allso beautiful. Some of them sharedprophecies the Lord and Dad had given.It was heavy! The Lord also worked itout for all of us to eat lunch at a very nicerestaurant. The owners have beenfriends for a while and are “hooked” onthe Word, prayer, and hearing from theLord in prophecy.

We discussed how since we were goingto a nice restaurant, they would need todress nicely and the girls could wear simplejewelry. We asked if anyone had shiny nailpolish on, if they could take it off, and onlywear one pair of earrings, etc. The girls worenice “light” make-up. It helped them real-ize that the “look” they thought was cool isreally not high class at all, and that lookingjunked out with cheap jewelry and brightnail polish is not acceptable in such niceplaces. Everyone gladly cleaned up.Through this we touched on having a mis-sionary appearance. It was a living sampleand the Lord couldn’t have set it up better.

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Looking back I think we must’ve beennuts—or at least slightly crazy. Maybe it wasjust crazy faith. Whatever it was, the fact thatwe were able to pioneer this work was noth-ing less than a miracle. When we first de-cided to branch off and pioneer, we had noth-ing—no money, no team, very little homesupport—and we were already living in Af-rica in a Home with no money to spare andlittle means of raising it locally. But we prayedabout it, and the Lord showed us to go, so wefigured the “how would it be possible?” partwas His business.

We’d done our research beforehandand we probably knew more about thiscountry than anyone else who’d neverbeen here before, so we figured we under-stood the situation and knew that we wereup for a real challenge. Boy, we had no idea.

The general plan was for part of ourteam to fly to Cameroon and meet theHome there, stay with them for a coupleweeks, and from there make our way overland (or sea or air) to Equatorial Guinea.And so it was that we found ourselvesboarding a flight for Cameroon on the lastday of February 1999.

Landing in Yaounde was one landingwe’ll never forget. Coming down from theclouds you see nothing but miles andmiles of semi-rain forest with small vil-lages peeking out here and there. Prettysoon we were practically skimming thetreetops, and still no sign of civilization.Just when we thought the landing gear wasgoing to start collecting foliage, the firstsign of tarmac appeared. The planetouched down and everyone broke out ina loud round of applause. We heaved asigh of relief.

And then it hit: the humidity, the heat,and the smell that can only come from abuilding surviving year after year throughrainy season after rainy season. What asurge! Passing through customs and im-migrations with the jostling, confusionand coercion left no doubt: We were defi-nitely back in Africa.

Soon after our arrival in Cameroon, wepaid a visit to the American embassy. Wehad a few details to take care of and fig-ured that while we were there, they’d be agreat source of information on the sur-rounding countries—particularly Equato-rial Guinea. We started out talking with the

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A YEAR IN AFRICA

BY LAUREN, FOR THE TEAM IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA

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assistant vice-consul, who buzzed the news around that wewere heading towards Equatorial Guinea. Within seconds thevice-consul had joined the conversation; as if that wasn’tenough, another gentleman who we assume was either theconsul (or counterpart) was there to lend a hand.

They treated us like little children who had obliviouslywandered into a minefield, and did their best to dissuade usfrom going. “Are you sure you know what you’re doing?” “Yourealize it’s not easy to get there.” “Once you get there, thereare no accommodations.” “We have no representation inEquatorial Guinea, so if you run into trouble there isn’t muchwe can do for you.” On and on it went, and when all they gotback from us were smiles and nods, they gave up and left usto our own devices. The one valuable piece of informationthat we did pick up is that elections were taking place in onlya few days, so we decided to wait those out in Cameroon. Weknew from previous experience that election times are not ahighlight of life in Africa.

Getting around from place to place in Africa is never easy,but getting to Equatorial Guinea was even trickier. We foundthat the only safe way to get there was to fly (although thatwas still questionable). Our main destination, the island ofBioko, was only a short distance off the coast of Cameroon—

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someone’s house. We were also on the huntfor accommodations. The rooms the taxi manbrought us to were not that expensive, so wehad decided to leave our bags there and spendsome time trying to find out if there was any-thing “better” available. There wasn’t.

In Malabo, there is no running water at anytime during the day aside from 6:30 to 7:30A.M. unless you have a water tank and a pump(and generator to run it). This means that ifyou want water, you have to make sure to fillbuckets early in the morning. A few parts oftown have electricity most of the time, but foreveryone else it’s only on between 7:30 P.M. and7:30 A.M., generally speaking. There are of coursea lot of nights when there’s no electricity either.

Imagine yourself staying in a room at base-ment level with no windows, no breeze, nolight, six-inch hairy spiders, three-inch cock-roaches, and a whole island full of mosqui-toes to keep you company. The bathroom is apitch black four-walled cement structure witha six-foot ceiling height, a hole for a toilet, abucket for a shower and a candle for light.

We had arrived in Malabo at 8 in the morn-ing and were very thankful for that because itgave us the whole day to explore the city andget our bearings. We soon realized we didn’tneed “bearings,” as the whole city could beexplored in a couple of hours. By the end ofthe morning we had discovered three things:

1) It was going to take a miracle to find ahouse because there are no “housing agen-cies” in the city nor houses for rent.

2) Even if we could find another hotel room,we would never be able to afford it, and withsuch a high demand for rooms, nobody wasgoing to donate it.

3) We needed some Heavenly intervention,and quick.

Of course the Lord heard and answered,and to this day we are still reaping the ben-efits of our first “miracle in Malabo.” It wouldtake another three pages to tell, but in sum-mary, we moved out of the tunnel and the Lordgave us a place to stay until the day He pro-vided us a perfect house for what we needed.

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Renate at one of the village schools, discussingupcoming improvements with the village mayor and

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a 15-minute flight or four-hour boat ride. But the onlyboats that ply the route are small wooden cargo boats—loaded to the gunwales with beer or other cargo—thatdepart on no particular schedule. We opted to fly.

This was our first experience flying an African airlinewithin Africa. Till this time, all of our travels within Africahave been by land or sea. We never realized how muchexcitement we’d been missing. It’s a 10-15 minute flight toMalabo from Douala, and you can easily see the main-land from here if it’s a clear day. But the checking in andboarding procedure takes nearly two hours.

All of the ticketing is done by hand. While checking inwe waited patiently in line watching ladies unpack veg-etables from their check-in luggage (also full of other stuffthat left a gooey trace all over the floor), all the whilehaggling over weight allowance, yelling and complain-ing bitterly in their local tongue.

Walking through the terminal to our plane, we discov-ered why three-inch thick glass was invented and is usedin most standard airports, and why people who workaround or on airplanes at the airport always have bigcirclely-type things on their ears. Douala’s airport is openso that the breeze can pass through. It’s nice for ventila-tion in the scalding heat, but with jet engines revved upless than 100 feet away it leaves you longing for earplugs.

We had no idea of what to expect of the airport inMalabo (capital of Equatorial Guinea), but the gutted andburned out air-wrecks that lined the runway were a bit ofa surprise. The “terminal” is basically a two-room struc-ture: one small room for departures and one for arrivals.Luggage is piled on carts and pushed to and from theairplanes by foot power. It is stacked behind iron bars(sort of like a cage) and the passengers wait eagerly onone side of it, watching each bag come in until they spottheir own. Then it’s simply a matter of yelling loud enoughover the din to catch someone’s attention so that they canbring the bag to you, check it against your ticket stub andshove it through small openings designed for the purpose.

So there we were, strange people in a strange countryof which we had only book and Internet knowledge(thankfully at least one of us was fluent in the local lan-guage, and the other two had a pretty good grasp).

The taxi man who brought us the four-mile trip intotown did his best to help us find a place to stay, and wequickly learned what the embassy guys meant when theymeant by no accommodation. We realized that provision-ing a hotel room was out of the question and it was goingto be a miracle if we found someone who would evenrent one to us. After trying a number of “hostels,” the taximan told us that he had a friend who was opening up asmall hostel and that maybe there would be room.

By nothing less than a miracle, we found the only tworooms being rented out in the entire city. We know for afact that they were the only two rooms because arrivingon the same plane as us was a French businessman whowas supposed to catch a connecting flight to Bata (main-land Equatorial Guinea). In typical African custom, theflight was canceled and he was stranded. We bumped intohim at least five or six times throughout the day while hewas visiting every little room-providing location that ex-isted in the city. Finally he ended up having to stay in

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(Excerpts from our logs:) In these parts, if youwant to receive any correspondence from theoutside world, you must have a P.O. box becausethere is no such thing as street address mail de-livery. (This could be because there are no realstreet addresses. Our street address goes some-thing like, “Independence Street, behind thebakery, in the courtyard, the house on the left.”Try telling that to the postman. But that iswhat’s legally on our rent contract. Our P.O. boxcontract has been shortened to “Miguel’shouse.”—He’s our landlord.) In this city (thecapital and the largest city in the country) thereis one post office, with less than 1,000 P.O. boxes.

We’ve developed a habit of running to thepost office every Monday and Wednesday topeer inside a little metal box, and we’re not theonly ones in the city who do this. Practically allthe other people who are lucky enough to havelittle metal boxes also do the same thing. Thereason is that this country is so small that thereare only two possible days of the week whenmail will arrive. There are only two interna-tional flights, and the whole city knows exactlywhen they come in. (When picking someoneup at the airport, you don’t bother with flightinformation. You just find out what airline theyare coming in on and you automatically knowexactly where and what time to pick them up.)

Another thing that is kind of unique aboutthis country is the length of the phone numbers.Our entire phone number, including countrycode and city code is shorter than a local num-ber in Europe. (Speaking of phones, we’ve beenvery impressed with the phone system. Weapplied for and received a phone in two weeks,and it could’ve even taken less time if it weren’tfor the fact that someone lost our contract.)

In this country there are so few phones thateach phone number only has 4 digits. Thisleaves the phone company a maximum of 9,999numbers to give out in a city of 45,000. But wait,that’s not all. All numbers beginning with “5”are reserved for mobile phones, so technically,in this city there are a possible 9,000 phonenumbers. We feel quite confident in stating thefact that there are probably less than half thatmany numbers in service. This country alsohas no “phone book”—but you don’t reallyneed one. With numbers that short and so fewof them, you can memorize the numbers ofeveryone you know, and still have neurons leftover for finding your way to the post office.

On the island there is no local industry toproduce the needs of the population, whichmeans everything (except tropical fruits andvegetables) has to be imported. Shopping forfood (or anything else) here is therefore an-other topic that deserves discussion. Here thereare basically three places you go to buy foodthat is recognizable as “food.” There is no suchthing as a “one stop” grocery center.

Firstly, we have “supermarkets,” of whichthere are two in the city. Each is about the size

of a large bedroom (one a little bigger than the other insize, but not in variety). Secondly, there is a special fro-zen foods company that sells pre-packaged and frozenmeat. This store is much smaller. Lastly, there is the all toofamous “central market” where we get fruits and veg-etables (and just about anything else the country’s neigh-bors decide to import or smuggle into the country).

The frozen foods company is pretty straightforward.They sell frozen meat, and sometimes a less expensiveversion of cheese than you will find in the “supermar-kets.” Supplies are limited; you take what you can find,but at least the meat is dead when you buy it; you knowit is not rat or monkey meat and the smells don’t leaveyou running for cover like those in the central marketdo. (Interestingly enough, the sellers at the local marketoften get their meat from this store and then break itdown into smaller portions for reselling. Many peoplehere can only afford to buy small amounts at a time. Itemssuch as noodles can be bought by the handful, spices bythe teaspoon, garlic by the clove, rice by half a cup, etc.)

The central market is a seething mass of humanitycluttered with little stands and tables, and sometimes“booths” built out of wood. The items you find rangefrom enormous buckets (an everyday necessity in a coun-try without running water), to pots and pans, clothing,shoes, and—yes, assorted fruits, vegetables, meats, grains,and a whole host of things we’d better not tell you about.

Another part of the food factor is that we don’t haverefrigeration. Here things like washing machines, re-frigerators, TVs, etc., are considered luxuries. So whenyou buy one, not only do you have to pay the burden-some price of the shipping costs to get it here, there isalso a 50% luxury tax. So atthe moment, in this hot andhumid country, refrigerationis out of the question for us.(We do cheat, though. Wehave ONE air-conditioner inour house, which is almoststrong enough to cool oneroom. Thankfully we don’tpay for electricity or wecouldn’t afford to run it. Wedon’t know why, but when thebuilders installed it, they putit about floor level instead of up by the ceiling where itbelongs. It comes in quite handy. We just stick perish-ables in front of it and as long as the electricity stays on, it

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A YEAR

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works pretty well.) Note: The Lord in Hiswonderful foresight gave us a house inthe area of town that gets “24 hour” elec-tricity.—It’s not constant and we have dailycuts, but it’s better than 12-hour electric-ity with daily cuts.

The tap water in Malabo is lethal.Even the locals don’t drink it. Most expa-triates here buy their drinking water. Butsince that’s a little out of our budget, wedo what most of the locals do: hike downto the nearby “spring” to fetch our own.It’s not as bad as it sounds. It’s not likehauling water from a well or anything. Ba-sically we don’t see the spring, just pipescoming out of a wall that are constantlyrunning and never shut off. It’s a routinewe have to deal with once or twice a week.

Life hasn’t changed a whole lot sincethe above was first written—although wedo have a refrigerator and the electricitysituation has improved so that now, mostof the city has light 24 hours a day. Thereis still no running water for most of theday and our drinking water is still hauledin from the spring. We don’t get harassedanymore like we used to because every-one knows us, and the post office peopleknow us so well that when we get pack-ages they bring them to our door as a spe-cial favor. Now not a day goes by wherewe don’t bump into someone (or“someones”) we know while walkingthrough town, and in typical Malabo fash-ion “bumping into” means inquiringabout friends, family, health and well-be-ing. There is no point being on a tightschedule or in a hurry because thingsdon’t work that way here.

Unlike most countries we’ve lived in, thisplace has no orphanages, no old folks’homes, no handicapped centers and nostreet children’s centers. Generally speak-ing, the schools don’t have electricity, therearen’t enough desks for students, and thechalkboards are nothing but pieces of ply-

wood painted over with paint now worn so thin the writing isbarely visible. School supplies such as paper, pens and chalkare hard to come by, and poorer students have none at all. It’snot even worth mentioning the state of the hospital.

Life in these parts moves very slowly, and everything wewant to do also moves very slowly. Our CTP projects in thevillages are no exception. But they do make a difference. Andit’s a good thing too, because this is the only reason we areallowed to stay in the country. It’s not possible to live herewithout being “attached” to some organization, and the orga-nizations are closely watched to make sure they are seriousin their goals—which, thankfully we are. And we seem to haveturned a few heads in the process.

There are very few foreigners in this country, and the onesthat are here are mainly older males, involved in the oil in-dustry. There are probably 10-15 young foreigners betweenthe ages of 18 and 28, and we are 5 of them. The governmentministries we work under are impressed to find young peopleso serious about helping their country.

Living in a country this remote definitely has its highs andlows. The “doing without” can sometimes get really frustrat-ing. Especially when it’s something very needed and it justdoesn’t exist, or when the few items that can be found are soexpensive they are unaffordable. (Provisioning hasn’t workedyet, as so few people have anything “to spare.”) Sometimes itfeels like the joke, “If there’s anything you need, let us knowand we’ll tell you how to do without it!” was written for thiscountry. But the sense of fulfillment is tremendous and weknow that the eternal rewards are great.

David at the local carpentry shop building school desks for 100 children.

Sharonand

Angie atthe localhospital.

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[Slow but sure, fruits offollow-up]

The Izmir Home, Turkey: Our team has been in this city for four years. We have learned a lot by the trial

and error in our pioneer situation. Tak-ing quiet time, using and believingprophecy, and loving Him, keeps usplodding on.

Quite a few of the people we haveministered to fell in love with the Spiritand with Dad’s writings, but when thetime came to commit themselves more,our sweet sheep realized that therewould be no turning back. The traditionsand customs of the land hold the peoplecaptive and they would feel almost astraitors if they were to drop everythingto follow Him. Their family would feelhumiliated in many cases, should theydare to leave the beaten paths. The ori-ental mentality of saving face is preva-lent here. People are free to think as theywill, but putting their thoughts into ac-tion is another story.

We realize more and more howmuch the Lord and His teams of spirithelpers are kept busy trying to getthrough, first of all to us, and then to theones He is intending to gather into Hisfold. We marvel at His longsuffering andpatience, not taking “no” for an answer,and how in spite of many setbacks, Hekeeps calling.

Mahel and his wife Fira* (in their late 30s) were met a month af- ter the earthquakes struck

here nine months ago. They are prov-ince officials, and have been actively in-volved with the care of the victims. Asweet and deep friendship developedbetween us. They fed us, invited us tostay at their house whenever we wouldgo to the camps, and asked us to comeand visit them again and again. (*Edi-tor: Aliases used throughout this article.)

We had to tread softly and carefully,but by and by, the famous questionswere asked as to the secret of the peaceand trust we seem to have within us. Itstill seems so out-of-this-world to themthat we are not laying up treasures thatmoth and rust can corrupt, but that wetrust He knows our needs and sees tothem day by day. It is even more aston-ishing for them to hear our SGA and teendaughters tell them the secret of ourfaith. How can we, by having developedthe habit of spending regular qualitytime with God, be so sure that every-

thing will be well with us? We know it isa miracle every day, and they start see-ing it too.

On our last visit, we had the chanceto minister to Fira, who invited herguard and her housekeeper to hear theprecious truths as well. The Lord indi-cated that we could tell her that He spoketo us in a special message about her,and how she could avail herself of thesame line of communication, comfortand guidance, if she chose to. She prom-ised to try.

Even though she and her husbandare well off, they think of the poor andshare their wealth. They carry heavy re-sponsibilities and the Lord took themdown the path of breakings so that theycould understand the poor, the helplessand the downtrodden. Please pray thatwe can introduce them to the One whomeans everything to us.

Mr. Somnel is a dear man we met two months ago. We were re- ferred to him through another

friend. He is a psychiatrist, well versedin many spiritual topics, and an icono-clast of sorts. At our first meeting wewere able to share a lot with him and hetalked openly about his life, travels andsearch. He ran away and left the countrywhen he was a young man (he is now40). He lived for six years in India, andby a turn of events was able to re-enterthe country.

He seems to be very well known inhis department, and has counseledmany important people. Titles and hon-ors did not go to his head, and the Lordpreserved in him a very humble soul.Coming from a simple background andhaving been acquainted with nature inhis childhood, he finds it necessary togo and retreat each year in the midst ofGod’s creation. Being a psychiatrist is abig responsibility; he holds people’slives in his hands, so to speak, as hispatients confide in him. He sees nearly100 people each day, not countinglengthy phone calls where people askhim counsel about everything. Apartfrom his stressful professional life, hedoes not have a very happy marriageand suffers from insomnia.

He came to visit us in our Homefor the first time, and felt at ease andpeaceful. He told us that here, he couldfind rest and sleep peacefully. He wasextremely interested to hear moreabout our life and our encounters withthe Lord. We shared our personal tes-

timonies with him and some of themiracles we have witnessed throughthe years. He told us that once he wentto live in a cave for six months in orderto strengthen his connection with God.As we were sitting with him, we wereled to tell him that we spend regulartimes with Him too. At that he replied,“I can definitely see that you get yourorders and instructions from the Al-mighty. I feel that each of you has afirm and solid connection with Him.”

It was an encouragement to hearsuch a reaction, as we do not feel verywell ahead in our conversing with theLord yet. We are a Home of a fewpeople and each of us is an averageFamily member, but when the anoint-ing falls, the Lord takes control and getsall the credit.

Another comment he made thatday was that he had found with us ev-erything he had been looking for allhis life. We could feel how muchstrength and inspiration he was draw-ing from the short hour he spent with(the Lord in) us. When we brought himto his car, he asked if we could oftenspend time with each other. His sheephear His voice!

Inman and wife Ranya (in theirmid-thirties) have been our neigh-bors for the past four years. We

have talked a lot with them as they arevery interested in spiritual matters.

They told us recently about one oftheir friends, Shira, with whom theyused to get together to receive mes-sages. One day as they were “channel-ing” together, both their friend Shiraand Ranya herself saw the same visionthat depicted that Shira was called outand chosen to be a priest to protectand defend the Bible and was giventhe name of one of the saints. (In otherdreams and visions he had alreadyseen himself as some kind of priest.)Mind you, this man is a Muslim.

Later Shira went to a nearby holyplace, that is said to be where the Vir-gin Mary came with John the Belovedto spend her last years on Earth. Thereis a chapel and a Catholic priest at-tends the visitors there.

When Shira arrived, the priestcame up to him and said: “I have beenwaiting for you for a long time. Whydid you come so late?” And he calledhim by the Biblical name that he hadbeen given in the vision. Amazing con-nections!

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[Family education got her in]Joy (of Paul), Australia: Joyanne(Kannika) of John and Promise, re-turned from India. She wanted to goFM as she was worried about her edu-cation, having listened to some ex-member teens. She wanted to do herHSC (High School Certificate) andthen go on to University.

After visiting with some counselorsat the school, they wanted more infor-mation from her. She gathered her quali-fications and they were very impressed.She has her CLE marks listed in her CLEtranscript, a lot of which are Familycourses (Word, etc.), her CAT scores,along with a St. John’s Senior Certificatein First Aid and her work with the poor inboth India and Thailand. They said thatshe qualified to go straight into Univer-sity. This is pretty good going as here inNew South Wales your HSC (High SchoolCertificate) is highly regarded. Not onlyis she now doing her Bachelor of Sciencein Nursing but the counselors even sug-gested Medicine for her.

This is a good testimony for Fam-ily education and also a good reminderto keep records as the System looksfor them.

[Credentials anddocumentation perks]Andy, PACRO: One main area in whichFamily education outshines theSystem’s by far is in the area of com-munication and relationships. Mamabrings this out in “The Benefits of theFamily” (GN 777:81).

“Communication and relationshipskills. As I’m sure you’ve discovered inyour witnessing, you young people inparticular are miles ahead of your Sys-tem peers when it comes to communi-cation skills, being able to relate to peopleand understand them, etc. Some of themost sought-after skills by many employ-ers in the System are being able to relatewell to others and communicate well.There’s hardly anywhere you can getbetter training for that than in the Family,because of our communal lifestyle andour outreach ministries. Not only do wehave all the good training and advice inthe Word, but we get to practice and learnand grow in this area on a daily basis inour interaction with each other in ourHomes, and in our witnessing.”

I can testify of this because my sonleft the Family in pursuit of more Sys-tem education and he is presently

�����studying Computer Science at University.He studied well while in the Family, so hehad some good documentation when heleft, which helped him a lot.

He had to work at a part-time job forincome so he started at a fast-food chaindelivering fried chicken. Within a fewmonths he was promoted to overseeingall the staff employed there because ofhis abilities in communications and goodrelationships with everyone. One worker,a 21-year-old, said to him, “I can’t believeyou’re only 18! You seem so much moremature than 18.”

Conversely, for those who don’t botherwith the CVC or working on studying, ofwhich there are a growing number in theFamily now, things are more difficult. I helpthe PACRO FED to print and send out cer-tificates. I feel a little sad for some of ouryoung people who don’t have a vision towork on the CVC and then down the linewe receive requests for certificates or docu-mentation, but they haven’t pressed in orkept good records, so it becomes frustrat-ing for them later as they try to gather theircredentials, etc., for an unforeseen need.It’s so much easier to issue certificates tothose who are now pressing in and takingadvantage of the program, and these folksbenefit from it later.

[Culture-oriented respect]FGA national, Japan: I would like to en-courage our young people to address usof the older generation with more respectand politeness. It may not be so neces-sary in other countries, but in Japan,young people are taught to address theirelders very respectfully. I know Mamasays it’s not necessary for the YAs andSGAs to call all the adults “uncle andauntie” any longer. I’m not saying thisshould be done. I just thought it wouldbe a good sample, if in cultures like ours,the young people could add “san” at theend of an FGA’s name. For example:“Kenji-san” or “Maria-san.” It sounds veryloving and respectful to us FGAs and is agood sample to the people around us.

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We’re moving forward, thoughnever as fast as we want to.Usually the Lord’s timetable isnot as rigid as ours, and Hisschedule usually leaves greaterleeway than ours does. We wantto get everything done in amuch shorter time than the Lordexpects us to. We try to cram alot in and get more done, whenactually it’s not the Lord that’spushing us, because He gives usa longer time to do things. Weget rushed and flurried andunder pressure just thinkingabout all the things we have todo, when the Lord has a longertimeline and gives us moreleeway than we do ourselves.

That’s another reason whyit’s so important to ask the Lordabout your daily schedule andhow He wants you to organizeand juggle your time. You maybe racing to get somethingdone when the Lord knows thatit can wait a little longer;conversely, you might beneglecting or overlookingsomething that is very impor-tant. But if you’re faithful to askthe Lord, He’ll clarify yourpriorities, and you can beassured that you’re staying onHis perfecttime-table.

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(Dad:) Frequency is an interesting, in-triguing, well-made movie. It’s fun enter-tainment, thought provoking, and has agood storyline. I don’t want to tell you toomuch about it, because that will spoil thesuspense of not knowing what’s going tohappen next—which is half the enjoyment.

This movie brings out the significanceof every little thing in our lives, every littledecision we make, and the repercussionsof such decisions and actions. It can be agood springboard to discuss or think aboutthe importance of hearing from the Lordabout everything, and how the Lord canhelp us to get things right, make wise deci-sions, and keep in step with Him.

The Omega Code(Jesus:) The world is so interested in the

Endtime. They want to find out what’s go-ing to happen. This movie is fairly doctri-nally straight in the events it speaks of, butthe way it portrays how it actually happensisn’t so right on. At least it gets people think-ing about the Endtime and it glorifies MyWord and the ultimate victory in the End.

The Bachelor(Dad:) This movie is good, clean fun.

Of course, the guy doesn’t have the great-est attitudes about life and love at the start,but it’s a realistic, yet humorous portrayalof the uncertainty and insecurity thatyoung men often feel about commitmentto relationships, and it takes time and ex-perience to work through that and growup. As for the rest, well, I don’t want to giveit away but there are a lot of sweet mo-ments, fun moments, and on the overallit’s relaxing and enjoyable.

The Sound and the Silence(Dad:) This is a good movie, and very

educational. It’s wonderful how they canbring history to life like that, and it’s cer-tainly much easier to remember than justreading it from a book. It would be goodto pow-wow this for younger audiences.It’s not something you can just put in thevideo machine and leave them to watchbecause it is a little long and would ben-efit the kids best if it were explained wellby someone who has even done a littlestudying up on the subject. Make a classout of it! It would make an excellent class,watched over a period of time even. Prayand ask the Lord for the best way to use itfor your children or in your Home. Evenadults will find it educational, and inter-esting to watch. It’s a good true story ofsomeone who was a real go-getter, and isinspiring in many ways.

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(Note from WS: The movie Gladiator (starring RusselCrowe) was seen by a WS preview team and affected peoplein different ways. The movie contains a lot of violence andgore, representative of what was taking place in Rome atthat point in history. Some were disturbed by this, otherswere not. Many of the viewers were simply disappointed inthe film, and after hearing so much media hype about it,did not find it worth their time. Others enjoyed it. We havechosen to neither rate this movie nor put it on the non-recommended list, but to instead include the following ex-planation and caution from the Lord, and ask that if you areconsidering viewing this movie, you read this message, andthen pray and hear from the Lord as to whether it’s healthyfor you or your Home, or not.)

(Jesus:) It is not the simple fact that this movie con-tains violence that disturbs Me, or that would disturbmost of you. What grieves My soul is the fact that theviolence portrayed in this movie is not that of battle,nor out of what some would call “necessity”—such asthe soldiers in Braveheart who were fighting for theirfreedom—but it is killing and torture purely for sport,and for the thrill of letting blood. This was the spiritthat prevailed in the ancient days of Rome and, sadly,this is a spirit that is growing among the hearts of meneven now.

Why is this movie a box office hit? Was it because ofits superb acting? Was it because of the passion it stirred?Was it because of the honorable moral values it por-trayed? No. While this movie does have a bit of each ofthese things, and there is some good to be found in it,the reason that millions the world over have gone tosee it has been because of their desire and hunger tosee the violence depicted in it. It is a sad example of theway the world has degenerated and the way Satan haspolluted the hearts and minds of man. He is preparingthem, warming them up for the day when they willwant to see such violence not only on the big screendepicted by actors and digitally enhanced cinematog-raphy, but by real live people.

Ancient Rome was a bloody and wicked land. Inlarge part this movie is simply historical, portrayingthe climate of the Empire at the time, and without see-ing how twisted the minds of some were, you couldnot appreciate the drama of the story. Yet the Enemy isusing this graphic portrayal of the days of Rome tosubtly create a bloodlust among today’s youth. Theygo to watch something like this and because the storyis exciting and gripping and the hero attractive, theyget more and more calloused to the gory sights andsounds of death.

I would not say that you, My children, must notwatch this movie, as other than the repulsive conceptof violence for sport, there is nothing inherently wrongor evil with the story that is portrayed. If you pray, youwill be able to choose the good and eschew the evil. Itis an example of dedication and loyalty, and of doingwhat is right amidst evil men. It leaves out any men-tion of Me and My children, which is a sad and evenunhistorical omission, because it is known that therewere many of My witnesses throughout Rome, andeven within its arena. There are, however, some godlyattitudes and values portrayed, and the message is oneof both exposing the evil and honoring the right.

Many will not find this film on the overall verymoving or significant, though some may be inspiredby the good within it. Be prayerful, though, if you seethis film, asking Me to keep your heart and spirit. It isbetter that you are disgusted by the violence so thatyou do not develop a desire for it as many in the worldhave.

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