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Each Christmas Season, NewLife Industries chooses a ministry or ministries to receive a percentage of the proceeds from sales during the months of October, November, and December. This year, we have chosen two small ministries, one local and the other international, that serve Jesus Christ and the Kingdom in similar, yet different, ways. We hope you will take the time to learn more about them.

Berea Health Ministry Rural Health Clinic
132 Mini Mall Drive • Berea, KY 40403 • 859-986-0485
BereaHealthMinistry.com

Based upon Matthew 25:35-36, Berea Health Ministry Rural Health Clinic (BHMRHC) is a non-profit primary health clinic. The focus of BHMRHC is to provide medical care to the uninsured and underserved residents of a nine county area in rural Kentucky. Services provided are primary health care, health education, wellness promotion, screening, dietary assistance, prescription assistance programs and social and pastoral counseling services. Also provided are hygiene kits, Bibles, and help locating housing, food, resources for utilities, etc. No patient is ever turned away due to inability to pay.

Ministry is the most important aspect of Berea Health Ministry Rural Health Clinic. Daily devotion with staff and patients is held every morning in the waiting room before the clinic opens. Staff, volunteers, and pastors are always available to pray with patients at their request. The mission of BHMRHC is to operate a Christian ministry to improve the physical and mental health of rural Kentuckians.

GO International
503 Wilder Reynolds Road • Wilmore, KY 40390 • 859-858-3171
GoInternational.org

Go International is a Christian mission organization that works in 15 different countries around the world to help plant churches where there are none and share the gospel with people who don’t know Jesus. Where churches have already been established, GO International trains pastors and Christian workers so that they can reach their villages for Christ. In many countries, children need the most help, so they focus on the feeding and care of children living in extreme poverty. They also try to help poor families out of poverty by providing goats, chickens, or even water buffalo that they can raise into their own herd to provide food and income. While serving in the name of Jesus, people are invited to accept Him as savior. In 2010, GO International will take more than 20 mission work teams from all over the US to serve in India, Africa, Russia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and many other places for God-sized adventure!

Linda Harmon, a volunteer for Little Lambs ministry, distributed home-made mittens to excited children at a Ukraine orphanage, wearing a Ukrainian Aaron Mission shirt.

What do cows, embryo transfer, artificial insemination, nutrition and church planting have to do with each other? Not sure I know but we are about to find out!

I would deeply appreciate your prayers in behalf of Glenn Crumpler and myself as we embark on a very interesting journey July 9-17 in Lima, Peru. Students from around the country and Peruvian experts in cattle development will meet with our team of cattle technicians for five days of classes and learn how to increase cattle production in poor areas of Peru.

Glenn, who has served as President of Cattle for Christ since its inception eight years ago, has dreamed of a time when cattlemen could be used to help fulfill the Great Commission. Through the years Glenn has used the foundation to help plant churches around the world, provide pastoral and children conferences and assist numerous children feeding programs in various countries.

Glenn has received donations of embryos to be shipped to Peru, and now the goal is to help introduce students and people in the cattle industry to effective embryo transfer and teach artificial insemination as a means of increasing cattle production.

I will be leading devotions and evening services, introducing Jesus Christ to all participants and hopefully see the Holy Spirit inspire them to follow Christ. We will also have Wilkinson Grandez with us, a church planter with over thirty years of experience who will help us follow up on possible opportunities to help plant churches from the areas where students live.

Pray for a spiritual outpouring upon all of us and for God to develop a Spirit of unity among all the participants. Pray for increased cattle production of meat and milk as the foundation seeks to reach out to subsistence farmers as well.

Thanks so much for “standing in the gap” for us, without you and your prayers we won’t go far, but I thank God in behalf of you and your walk with Him. He is good all the time! All the time He is good!

– From Larry Cochran of Go International, used with permission.

Some months ago, we reported to you about the abduction of a young girl from the Loka Senior Secondary School in Southern Sudan. On June 3rd, we received the following update from Tom Zurowski, Director of Global Response Network:

Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has been responsible for tens of thousands of child abductions. His child soldiers rape, mutilate, and kill countless innocent people each year (some estimate that he is responsible for upward of 1,000 deaths per month). Kony ranks second on the international Criminal Court’s “Most Wanted” list, next to Omar Hassan Al-Bashir of Sudan. His troops travel between Uganda, Congo, and southern Sudan. Recently the LRA has ramped up their efforts with the hopes of strengthening their forces. The Ugandan government has been aggressively pursuing Kony and his soldiers and have been successful at stamping out many of them.

Last year, Kony’s men abducted one of the girls from The Loka Senior Secondary School (a GRN project in southern Sudan). Her name is Mercy (Name changed to protect her identity). We have not heard from Mercy since she was taken. Many of you have prayed for Mercy and I want to thank you for that.

On my last trip to Sudan, while interviewing another girl (Grace) who had been abducted by the LRA, we found out what happened to Mercy. We were told that she is now one of Joseph Kony’s personal wives (he has 42). Grace explained that she travels with Kony personally and that he likes her very much. We were also informed that he will keep her close until she produces a child for him. It is unknown how many times Mercy has been raped by Joseph Kony and how long he will keep her if she doesn’t bear a child for him.

I would like to ask you to please join me today in praying for Mercy. It is with a broken heart that I write this post, but I know that prayer has a way of changing things that we cannot. Grace told us that Mercy prays under her breath for God to help her escape. Let’s pray that her prayers will be answered soon.