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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...

Students beautifying the street girls A Night With The King The Christ for the Nation's students have shown how they go above and beyond just a simple project.  Every year Christ for the Nations offers a practical class on dreaming, writing down the vision, sharing the vision, and executing it.  For the past year, the students have felt a burning desire to help the “unlovable” and “undesirable” to society: the homeless and sex-workers.  With the desire to show God’s love to the broken world, they designed an event called “A Night with the King”.  The idea was simple but glorious.  They wanted to have a space to fix up sex-workers hair, make-up, nails, and new clothes and prepare them for a nice meal and a special word shared.  After dreaming this idea, one thing after another began to work out.  The rooftop of a girl’s foundation was offered, and then a catering company offered 60 banquet dinners, a large quantity of girls offered their beauty p...

Leo Grisales, Christ for the Nations graduate who is dedicated to a ministry of multiplication. There are two things that have marked my life says Leo, “ there was my life before and after I accepted Christ as my Savior and there was my life before and after I studied at Christ for the Nations Colombia”.  Leo has a degree in Systems Engineering and had planned to study at Christ for the Nations to solidify his walk with God as he worked as a Systems Engineer.  During his time at the institute, he received several prophesies saying he would be going to the nations.  It was a foreign thought to him but after his first missions trip, he knew he was called full time to the nations to raise up workers for the kingdom of God. Leo graduated from Christ for the Nations Colombia 4 years ago.  Since then, he founded JUMP ministry, he has traveled to 8 nations, ministered to over 20,000 people, has formed ministry teams in four nations, written a book, built ...

The Trust that brings God’s Glory           Denise, one of our students at Christ for the Nations, understands  what it means to fully trust God, being at the brink of life or death.   Denise is one of 21 children in her family, from a small community five hours Northwest of Medellin, Colombia.  To the left is her picture with her brother Joaquin who ministers with her to the Embera Chami tribe in Colombia. In her community, education is not a necessity.  Most people have not gone to school and do not see the importance of it. At 10 years of age, she decided that she wanted to go to school and learn, but she had to work at this tender age in order to pay for her studies, which she did. After learning, she later taught her younger brothers and sisters how to read and write. Raised in a small, traditional, Christian Church in the community, the pastors did not believe in formal education.  They believed in learning to hear God ...