missionary updates

ASA (missions) NEWSLETTER

© 2007 Jo DiStefano Kapus March 30, 2007

SUNDAY'S GUESTS John and Sharon Harvey, of ASELSI Ministries in Guatemala, will be the guests on America's Silent Ambassadors this Sunday, April 1, at 2 p.m., on station WIBG, 1020AM radio dial. At the time the program was recorded, the Harveys were winding up their visit to this area, having been conference guests at Greentree Church's World Missions Conference, March 11-18. They have served 15 years as missionaries in Central America.

An ordained minister, who did his Master's work at the Nazarene Theological Seminary, John heads the educational branches of ASELSI (Association for "Equipping the Saints International"). It provides quality Bible education to leaders and pastors of rural communities at its permanent Bible training center and in extension centers in more remote areas in Central America.

Sharon, who is the sister of Harvey Hawn, co-founder of Gospel Outbound, Inc., grew up and attended school in Pleasantville, NJ. After high school, she earned her RN at the West Jersey Hospital School of Nursing in Camden, NJ. She runs the free Father's Heart Clinic/pharmacy at the ASELSI compound (as well as free pharmacy/clinics in remote villages), serving thousands of people annually, who would not otherwise be able to receive care and medicine. The clinic provides examinations, pre- and post-natal care, eye clinics, health education, a pharmacy stocked by donations from the states, the Milk Program, and most recently, physical therapy for the physically challenged. Too, the Word of God is lovingly shared at all times.

Remember, if you live outside the broadcast area, you can listen simultaneously online at www.wibg.com

PRAISE THE LORD! Dorothy Marketto, founder of Omie's Home for Children, (named for her mother, Oma), now has a website: www.omieshomeforchildren.com Some of the web is still under construction, but there is enough information there that will touch your heart. It all started in a rural suburb of Secunderabad, a city in southern India in the state of Andhra Pradesh when Rev. Mani R. Nadava found 10 children living on the streets of a village where he and a team were evangelizing and digging a water bore well. He contacted Dottie, a short-term missionary to India, and asked if she could help. Dottie, who lives in Vineland, NJ, brought the need to her family and friends and the rest is history. Omie's Home for Children in Secunderabad, India, is now "home for 26 children in need of God's love and care." PRAISE!

Yvonne Parr and her husband Les are missionaries in Rwanda under the umbrella of Elim Fellowship International Ministries, Lima, NY. Yesterday I received a very special e-mail from Yvonne, who wrote: "Today marks a special day for us. A landmark day since it has been one year today we disembarked off the plane and began our new life in Rwanda in which we now call home...." Yvonne will be here on furlough later this Spring. Please pray that she will be able to be on ASA at that time.

Also, please pray that Bible college student Tiffany Mills, who went on a short-term mission trip to the Dominican Republic during her spring break this year, will also be able to be on ASA soon. PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS SAINTS!