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My name is Rebekah Hall and I am 19 years old. Right now I am serving as a missionary at Christ for the Nations along with studying. Honestly my first two days in Amazons I didn’t like it at all. I felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there and I really just wanted to go home; however, after those two days, the Lord completely wrecked my heart. I was serving most of the time in the village of Zaragoza and I fell in love with the people there. We did many activities with the kids, youth, women, and men, but we also made a priority of doing house visits. The house visits were one of my favorite parts because we actually went to where the people were and talked and prayed with them in their normal habitat instead of having them come to us.  There’s one word we really like to use with missions and it’s “flexibility.” We went with a detailed plan of activities and when we arrived we changed just about everything to adapt to the people we were ministering to and their needs. It’s...

Good News!!!    Praise God!  After a great trip in July led by Cara, one of our graduates led a trip with a team from the US to the same communities.  We are nurturing the relationships in a couple of communities to promote long lasting change.  The goal is to plant a church in one of the communities (where the students had prayed for the witchdoctor) and in the other community, help the church make a significant impact on the community. Other great news!!!   We have been praying for scholarship money for some Ticuna Indigenous people to study at the CPN Bible school and we just received a donation for two students.  A couple will be coming in January.  Their names are Margaret and Carlos.  Margaret had applied to the school 4 years ago but was not able to study.  Now she is married and will be able to study with her husband to be prepared to be pastors.  We are really encouraged to have pastoral candidates.  Not only will...

Praying With Witch Doctor The CPN Amazon Team had the opportunity to share with a witch doctor.  We had the honor to be able to pitch our mosquito nets in the chief’s home at the community called San Francisco, a community with no church.  As the team was finishing up eating dinner and getting ready to do a public time of worship and prayer at the indigenous community’s soccer field, a girl from the team expressed having nausea and weakness and fell to the ground.  Right away, the team's doctor ran next to her and started checking her vitals.  She began motioning towards her throat and trying to say “I can’t breath, something is chocking me”.  The doctor said there was nothing blocking her airway.  The entire team stood up in prayer, fighting an unseen battle.  As the attack seemed to lesson, the chief peered into the room we were in because of all the commotion we were making.  He gave his explanation for what was happening by sayi...

AMAZONS 2015 After months of preparation,  the 29 team members flew down to Leticia, Colombia to begin their 10 day trip.  The team went to two communities, an indigenous community, Zaragoza, that has received mission teams in the past, but unfortunately did not receive the correct God-following example and a smaller community, San Francisco,  that currently no church where the team began the process of researching the place, culture, history, and economics to eventually develop  a church there.     If we could sum up the trip in one phrase it would be, “WE WERE GOD’S ANSWERS TO PRAYERS”     Two out of the many stories we could tell are moments that challenged us as a team.   The first happened the first day arriving to Zaragoza, the leaders Cara and Michele sat down with the present pastor of the community to discuss the work the team would do.  Being so deep in the jungle,  there was no way to commu...