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Sender. JLBunch@compuserve.com
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 07:01:32 -0500
What a lovely name! Myson Corie and his Brazilian wife Suzi still live in
Cuiaba and work with the our (Christ's) church there. They are expecting
and the little one that will be showing her face in March is also blessed
with that same beautiful name.
students are in a very key position to evangelize other leaders from many
nations, however they can only accomplish this task ifthey are rootede in
a local church and have the love and backing of, at least, a portion of the
folk from that church.
We see our work in Swansea as a model for the UK and we see ourselves
turning over this work to local folk and moving into another university
city in the next couple of years. We believe that the functioning model In
Swansea will help to accelerate the future implantation of similar works in
other places. There are already a number of ministries that target
students functioning with varying degrees of success in the UK, however,
very little is being done, in most universitycities, to reach, integrate,
disciple and return overseas folk as effetive leaders, to bless and speed
the growt of Christ's church in their nations.
Iput Mission Services on our e-mailing list and am including copies of the
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Po
8/29/98
Summer, 1998
Dear Friends of Bunches to the Nations:
helped produce the revival climate of today, where 7,000 new believers come
to Christ and 70 new churches are planted every day. 50% of Brazil's
population are expected to be "bom again" by the end of next year! Brazil
is now the second largest sender of missionaries in the world! Praise God!
It is also important that we spend time with our church in Cuiaba and
it's area leadership. We need to visit other churches in several parts of
Brazil, to encourage them and to look for further ways of cooperating in
this global ministry. Let's face it, we just love to help "fan the flames"!
We are also looking forward to having some time with Corey, his lovely
Brazilian wife Suzi, and especially to invest in our Brazilian son,
Jonathan.
Early in July, Corey called at Sam and surprised us with the "good
news" of Suzi's pregnancy and the "bad news", that his brother was dealing
with a drug problem and was voluntarily seeking treatment.
We now have word from Uberlandia, that Jonathan is "stili" in SER
Excerpt follows:
Dear Jonathan: "We love you and want more than anything that 'the real
Jonathan' will surface completely, as the 'real' brilliance and sparkle of
a diamond is only revealed when it is struck over and over again by the
skilled hand of the 'lapidador* (cutter). The growth process is never
without a bit of pain. None of us like being uncomfortable, yet growth
only occurs when we are s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d!
We believe that God is going to give you the strength and perseverance,
'stick-to-it-ivity' to tough this one out, through the whole nine months,
and come out the other side, a complete person in everyway, one who merits
honor and respect. We know that you already have 'God's Prophetic Word'
upon your life, and that He will be faithful to provide everything you need
to help you make the right choices and come through the pressures of the
moment. We know that He is able to help you 'do all things'!
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Mom and Iare really proud of you and your decision to go to Uberlandia and
become a part of SER."
We heard of Jonathan's going into the nine month SER program and
Suzi's pregnancy at the same time. Corey and Suzi plan to give us a
Brazilian grandchild! The two babies should be ready for delivery in the
spring (their Autumn)! Along with a healthy grandbaby, we expect to see a
spirit-filled child of God emerging from SER, to become a powerful
instrument in the hand of His Lord! Praise Him for new birth!
overseas "Prayer Warriors", will have their chance to "really" touch the
heart of God! AMEN! [Bythe way, be praying about the continuation of
dynamic Bible study groups like Vivian House. 100% Ofthe students who
have formed that group will leave before the end of the year. Pray they
can pass the baton and that several other groups will be formed]
We were grateful to have Hmar Shankuma, who has come, with his wife
Rene and four children from NE India (we took them for a walk to "three
cliffs" and the children had never been on a beach! Wow! They loved it!),
where revival is going on, to serve God and churches in South Wales, share
a bit about the vision that has brought him here. Ten of us, mostly
overseas students, road to the fellowship-prayer meeting in Shankuma's
mini-van! PTL! Welsh, English, Portuguese speaker, Caleb Price, who, with
his West Indian (Barbados) wife Eve, has returned to spiritual service of
the King of Kings, in Wales, also challenged the group with the
ramifications of God's call on their lives.
their families want to be a part of, what God is doing here between the
churches and the overseas student community. Amen!
Pray for our friend Prince, from Ghana. He was hospitalized with an
erratic heart and they were going to have to install a pacemaker. We have
been praying for healing and he has been released under observation. We
believe for his complete healing. This man really loves the Lord and shares
his faith with everyone! Lord willing, he will testily tomorrow at
Parklands!
"Dear jim and sandy: yes Anna told me she really enjoy and feel that you
and sandy have a good care of us and of britain (want to come far away just
to mission, she said) [come all this way as missionaries]
anyway, Iknow that Bihai people already invite her to their place six
month ago., and she said Bihai did well too. But yesterday was briliant
she said. So we must keep on maintain the good thing like this happened,
and to make you not too busy we can (maybe, sorry Ijust propose) circle
[rotate] the location of event among some wales [Welsh] people (I mean
people/couple/family from here) such as Dr Aird or some familyffom your
church or Pastor Stanley church ???
So briliant 11, thank you very much jim-sandy II
Wilham"
You can see that Wilham is enthusiastic to see this ministry spread
out among the churches. We praise the Lord that this is happeningi Please
pray for the Christians in his strife-torn country of hdonesial We pray
that Wilham and others like him, will return home to be used of God, for
the blessing of their nations.
If you have a friend with e-mail possibilities, give them our CompuServe
address from the letterhead and have them drop us a note, asking for a
"free" subscription to the "Bunches to the Nations - Brazil and Beyond",
prayer-netll
In His Fabulous, Forever, Forgiving Love,
Jim\OAo/Sandy
10/14/98
"The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and
forevermore." Psalms 121:6 NRSV
Into another house. The Lord also provided for some very qualitytime
with Jonathan in Uberlandia, which involved a 32 hour round-trip by bus
from Culaba. Thank you for your prayers on behalf of his recuperation and
regeneration. He's still "hanging in there" and we trust that the Lord is
lifting him up and will greatly use his life.
While in Brazil, we believe that many of the contacts we made have helped
produce another level of vision for overseas outreach by the Brazilian
church. We look forward to seeing more graduate students from Brazilian
churches and universities, coming along to join us in the battle for the
hearts of those who will lead the nations.
One finishing overseas student said that he couldn't believe he was leaving
Swansea, just when so many, previously impenetrable doors were opening to
Internationals, for productive Christian service. We praise the Lord that
those arriving will be able to find immediate involvement and release to be
God's instruments, to bring the lightof Christ to the nation's leaders
gathered in this place.
We also had 30 of us (several brand new contacts, both Christians & "not
yets") at our place last weekend and have an open invitationfor all
interested overseas students to come along this Saturday.
On Tuesday afternoons we've been meeting in the university chapel for
prayer with several overseas students. A number of them
are just new on campus and they are all beautiful Christians. We are
excited to get them rooted in local churches and mobilized to evangelize
their colleagues from the nations!
We invite your prayers for the ISCN, Church Reps "Prayer & Share" meeting
scheduled at our home on Monday evening, the 19th. The ISCN is also
sponsoring intemational student prayer & Bible studies on the university
campus. A local church wrote in their monthly publication: "The
Intemational Student Christian Network, started by Jim & Sandy Bunch,
provides a forum for prayer and fellowship as more and more people are
getting involved with overseas students. As a church we have an input into
ISCN and this provides a means of encouragement and support as we continue
to see the intemational dimension to God's work in Swansea."
Jim\OAo/Sandy