"Arise, shine, for your light
has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you"
(Is. 60:1)
REVIVALPOST
from TAHITI
Edualdo,
Aline, Kori,
Erika, Silvio
& Benji
Cicero
French Polynesia (South Pacific)
French Polynesia (South Pacific)
Dear friends and partners,
From the beginning of 2012 we heard the word that this year was going to be a stretching year for our faith. The following quotes from a sermon that Bill Johnson preached in 2012 brings a lot of hope and actually stirs our faith for more of Him!!
"All
growth is rewarded with pruning that insures
fruitfulness for the next season"
PROCESS: Cross -
Resurrection - Cross - Resurrection - Cross - Resurrection -
Cross - Resurrection.... Weeping in the night ... Joy in the morning - it's the way it works folks!! It is actually accelerated NOW...
"Our Reference
Point is the Cross!!!"
There has to be a place of brokenness.
We cannot afford to forget -- we don't want vines with just
leaves ... and no fruit!! Life is supposed to be the reward
for loss...
For the joy
set before Him, He endured the Cross.
Strength is perfected in weakness... We might be one Cross away from victory!! ...
We don't want reward by striving or self promotion!!!
"When you
embrace the Cross, you guarantee fruitfulness for the
next season"!!!
Never has our life been processed so drastically ... We want to EMBRACE THE CROSS!!!
GIVING UP THE LEASE OF THE CENTER
Since the last week of June 2012, Aline and I felt very strongly we needed to give up the Transformation Center facility we have in downtown Papeete. We have a great sense of peace about this decision. We did try other options like opening the use of the facility to other groups that might have wanted to help relieve the financial burden and we also thought that with our daughter's plan to use the Center for her Zumba classes, it could have helped to cover the cost of rental (+ other costs such as utilities, rental charges, insurance,...). Unfortunately, even with Erika's potential sublease of the Center, it wouldn't have covered for the amount that we need to put out every month for the Center.
We also communicated this financial challenge in the beginning of 2012 to local believers who know the Center and what was organized there since 2011. We wanted to make them aware of the needs and see how the challenge could be met locally. Apart from a handful of people that have kept up a monthly commitment for Vision of the Harvest's needs, we have not seen much consistency in the support that has been declining over weeks and months. However, we have lately been astounded with totally unexpected donations locally and from overseas that have allowed us to catch up significantly with late rents due for the Center. Also, on August 2nd, we organized the sales of 270 baked chickens and raised close to $ 2,000 US dollars. Other support raising events are planned for September.
The response of the owner has been amazing!! He offered to help with the advertising on public newspapers and contacting real estate agencies so that the word gets out about the facility being now open for rental. However, we are bound to the current lease that mentions a 6-month notice until somebody takes over the facility. We are thus asking you to pray that it will be taken over ASAP and that we will be released from our current lease. We still have the Upper Room (much smaller) but still a good location we can use until we find another facility more affordable and suitable to our needs.
THE THURNERS' KAIROS TIME
We would like to take this opportunity to salute the amazing contribution of our ministry friends and coaches Earl & Jana Thurner who have made it possible for us to have extraordinary breakthroughs thanks to their initial committment (in Feb/March 2011) to rent the current facility of the Transformation Center along with the vision of the School of Transformation and the ensuing move of the Holy Spirit that we enjoyed up to this time. They have been giving sacrificially to see to it that the Center could be launched and covered for especially during the first year of its operation. They have also shared a much clearer vision of God's Reformation in the Body of Christ in order to facilitate revival which God wants for our nation. Earl & Jana are presently more involved in some nations of Latin America especially in Honduras where they have been invited to take part to a project (One Day One Nation) which aims to see the transformation of the entire nation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGiarLEieCE&feature=share and http://vimeo.com/44062510). They do have a heart for French Polynesia and we will be working with them as to their future involvement into a wider scale impact over our nation.
Since April 2012 we now live in Papeete, the capital city. It has been a blessing in many ways:
- We have less driving needs;
- It is 10 mns walk from downtown, the beautiful Paofai Gardens Park, the banks, the post office, etc.;
- We can exercise easily by climbing the mountain accross from our house;
- The house is more comfortable: the kitchen is 3 times larger than the one we had, the veranda is huge (as big as the house itself) with more hosting potential and there is more natural light to the house.
The move was necessary and we are happy we did it.
KIDS ARE ON THE GO...
1. Kori just came back from Cambodia and has been staying in South-East Asia since November 2011 where she went around from the Philippines to Malaysia via Singapore and then on to Vietnam to end up in Cambodia. There she got a 6-month contract working for a French firm. She is scheduled to fly back to France (Toulouse) in September in order to complete her final year of Political Science studies.
2. Erika was in Hawaii where she completed a 6-8 weeks internship with Wet-n-Wild in Oahu as part of her requirement with her schooling in Tahiti with an "International Trade" major. She took advantage of this time there for more Zumba training. She is now back with many plans, ideas, dreams and much stamina to move on...
3. Silvio is now attending his 4th quarter at the "Los Angeles Music Academy" (LAMA) in Pasadena, California. He is really excited to perfect his musical talent and hopes to complete his "Guitar" major studies by the end of March 2013
Benji is still with us and will be attending his last year of vocational high school with a computer science focus.
THE
WINDS OF CHANGE ARE BLOWING...
On Sunday, July 29th, 2012 during a
church service in Papeete, I had a vision after I was
just asking the Lord what He was doing in the spiritual
realms so that I would get a better grasp of what we are
going through here in Tahiti... and here is what I
experienced. I went up in the spirit and saw powerful
winds blowing so STRONGLY that I could see trees bending
almost to the ground due to the pressure of the winds.
There was a tremendous light in that scene and I asked
the Lord what those winds were. I heard they were the
"WINDS OF CHANGE" that are blowing over the nations that
will be causing major changes and which will cause
powerful waves/currents of God's Spirit to be moving
into the nations to bring the transformation that is
needed. I also received that those winds were aimed at
frustrating the plans/plots of the nations (cf Ps.
2:1-6).
Then I heard two words, "BRACE YOURSELVES" because the power of those winds and waves is such that things will be quite hard or shaky in the natural and that we need to really focus our attention to Heaven so that we don't get carried away by discouragement, fear, or depression... Those winds are in fact not supposed to crush the believers but rather to allow them to prepare and strengthen the Body for the Great Harvest coming upon the earth. I believe that to some extent these winds are indeed already blowing ... Let's get ready!!!!
STATING OUR VISION
You will find it on our blog: www.visionoftheharvest.com (Page: "Our Vision")
ALINE - We may leave the Center but the vision is alive and well. As I was climbing up the mountain in front of our house praying and praising God, a thought came so strong and it was "The center is only a means, the vision has not lost a wrinkle". Oh my! I was so encouraged and when I came home I shared with Edualdo how God had talked to me so clearly.
Looking unto JESUS, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross. (Hebrews 12:2)
Then I heard two words, "BRACE YOURSELVES" because the power of those winds and waves is such that things will be quite hard or shaky in the natural and that we need to really focus our attention to Heaven so that we don't get carried away by discouragement, fear, or depression... Those winds are in fact not supposed to crush the believers but rather to allow them to prepare and strengthen the Body for the Great Harvest coming upon the earth. I believe that to some extent these winds are indeed already blowing ... Let's get ready!!!!
STATING OUR VISION
You will find it on our blog: www.visionoftheharvest.com (Page: "Our Vision")
ALINE - We may leave the Center but the vision is alive and well. As I was climbing up the mountain in front of our house praying and praising God, a thought came so strong and it was "The center is only a means, the vision has not lost a wrinkle". Oh my! I was so encouraged and when I came home I shared with Edualdo how God had talked to me so clearly.
-
continued hunger and a seeking of
His face in our personal lives;
- ongoing spiritual and physical health;
- an increasingly focused vision toward the fulfilment of God's will for our role in the nation of French Polynesia;
- protection and provision over our lives as a family;
- the needed financial breakthroughs for the cost of ministering in French Polynesia;
- the strategies that are needed to bring impact and transformation in the land;
- for God to bring those ministries that are strategically needed to bless our nation.
- ongoing spiritual and physical health;
- an increasingly focused vision toward the fulfilment of God's will for our role in the nation of French Polynesia;
- protection and provision over our lives as a family;
- the needed financial breakthroughs for the cost of ministering in French Polynesia;
- the strategies that are needed to bring impact and transformation in the land;
- for God to bring those ministries that are strategically needed to bless our nation.
Looking unto JESUS, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross. (Hebrews 12:2)
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