Saipan, Myanmar, Pakistan

August 18, 2015

Dear Friends,

The needs are great all over the world.  But our God is greater.  Join with ORH as we explore the depth of God’s goodness and supply. 

Please read the communications below.  All those represented in this email are willing to give the gospel to as many as they can reach. 

David Sum – Myanmar Floods

Dr. Ron White has sent us this communication that he received from Dr. David Sum in Myanmar.  Dr. Sum has worked with Ron White for many years.  He has assisted in other relief work in Myanmar.  Pray that ORH will be able to conduct a medical clinic for Dr. Sum in Myanmar.  Please read the communication from Dr. Sum in Myanmar.

“Dear Dr. White, I attached our children picture.  We are doing relief work, Our people are in dangerous situation please pray with us. We could help them little only.  David”

Operation Renewed Hope has sent $3000.00 to Ron White to send to Dr. Sum for the continued need and work.  It is the desire of ORH to send at least $5000.00 to help there.

Faith International Partners – Myanmar Floods

ORH just received this communication from this group working with nationals in Myanmar.  They are in great need.  I spoke with the director by phone.  He assures me that not enough is available for the help of the people.

 

“Dear Jan,  My friend Pastor Steve Rebert of Emmanuel Ind. Bapt. Ch. of Winchester, VA sent me your info in regards to the devastating floods in Myanmar, etc. I work with indigenous missionaries in Myanmar, India, Thailand and Vietnam through our ministry Faith International Partners….Our National Director for Myanmar is "John" Buai Cung and he indeed lives in Kalaymyo, the capitol of Chin State which has suffered the greatest from the flooding. Any support you could supply to him and his people would be GREATLY APPRECIATED….Your Co-Laborer in Christ,  Benjamin R. Bounds, Founder/Director, Faith International Partners”

Operation Renewed Hope will send $2000.00 at this time to help these good brothers as they minister to the people.

Saipan

ORH will send $3000.00 to start our help for these believers in Christ.  Dr. Wei comes highly praised and recommended for his work.  Saipan is devastated and so are the people.  ORH cannot beg enough for your compassion on these suffering people.

“Dear Jan:  Thank you so much.  Please send the funds to the followings:

Christian Way Missions International

P. O. Box 500087 CK

Saipan, MP 96950, USA

We will have our accountant to make sure to have him send you details for the funds to be used for the Typhoon rebuild.  We are grateful more than words can express.  We desire our people and students to be able to get recovery from their damaged home and community.  Thank you so much for all your great help.  Please share our gratitude to all your coworkers.  Thank you so much.  Gratefully in Christ,  Christian Wei”

Pakistan

The floods in Pakistan have been very bad this year.  Please read the communication from Sam Stricklin below.  Sam started MAP which forms partnerships with believers in Middle Eastern countries.  We just received this communication from him.

“(Pray) For Pastor Ashar Ayub and his family’s bad living conditions from recent flooding. His house is built with mud and bricks. His house suffered a lot of damage because of the recent heavy rains. The roof at his house leaked at different places causing the water to come inside his rooms. Heavy rain caused the streets to flood. The water from the street also came into Pastor Ashar’s house. His wife and children had to sleep with the dirty water around them for two days until the water level in the streets went down.  ($300 is needed to repair his house.) For Pastor Arif’s 5 month old son, David, who is going through serious medical issues that might need surgery.  For Pastor Seral Javed’s wife, as she goes through hernia surgery.  Dear Jan,  I heard back from Silas Ayub in Pakistan. The costs are as follows:  1. $150 - Pastor Arif's son;  2. $100 - Pastor  Seral's wife. Thanks. Sam”

ORH is sending $800.00 at this time to help with these needs.  We hope that this will help the pastor rebuild and with the costs of medical care for the others mentioned.

If you wish to donate by debit or credit card, please go to www.operationrenewedhope.org and choose “Network for Good.  Please designate your gift for “International Relief.”

If you wish to donate by check, please send the check to Operation Renewed Hope, P.O. Box 43242, Fayetteville, NC  28309.  Please designate your check for “International Relief.”

God bless,

Jan Milton

Operation Renewed Hope

1017 Sage Green Ct

Raleigh, NC 27610

910-987-5072

orhus@aol.com

www.operationrenewedhope.org

Uganda and Philippines - Great blessings

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Dear Friends,

God is so good.

In May of 2015, ORH conducted medical clinics in Uganda with missionary Keith Stensaas.

The clinics were held each day at the Equator in Uganda.  They were a blessing and many believed in Christ as evangelist Tom Farrell preached each day.  We were able to help many who were physically sick.  In fact, one of our doctors, a surgeon, was able to help several with growths that needed removal.

The pastor who sponsored the clinics at the Equator wrote us of the good blessings from the clinic.  Please read his message and rejoice with ORH.

“Hello, Pastor Milton! My name is Jacob Kafero from Equator Baptist Church In Uganda, we thank God so much for the work you did at our village! so far we have 15 new Christians joined our church from the medical missions and we continue to make the follow up more will come! continue to pray for us and we need you again please here at Uganda Equator! May God bless you!!!”

 

Please pray for this good brother as he continues to do the work of the Lord in Uganda.  Please download the PDF to see the work of Pastor Jacob.  ORH will be sending $200.00 to our brother for his work, and $100.00 each month for the next 12 months to help this deserving brother.

Philippine Clinic

The last week of October in 2015 ORH is conducting a clinic in the Philippines.  We have 3 doctors, 1 dentist, and several nurses and non-medical people participating.

In order to do this clinic, we need 2 more doctors, 1 more dentist, 1 optometrist, and 3 nurses.  Also we need 5 more non-medical people.  If you can go please contact us as soon as possible.

We will be working with Dan and Edna Cadavos on Mindanao.  They worked hard in the typhoon relief work.  Now, we are going to help their church for all the great work they have done.

God bless,

Jan Milton

Operation Renewed Hope

1017 Sage Green Ct

Raleigh, NC 27610

910-987-5072

orhus@aol.com

www.operationrenewedhope.org

Saipan Typhoon

Wednesday August 12, 2015

Dear Friends,

Thank you for reading our updates.  Dr. Christian Wei in Saipan has answered and returned our questionnaire concerning his needs.  Please read his answers and consider helping him.

Please download the attachment for direct information from Dr. Wei.

 

“Dear Jan,  Thank you so much for your help.

What is your ministry name?

Christian Bible Church/Christian Way Missions

Who are your sponsors/mission board/Church affiliations?

Mission Board: Christian Way Missions

What are the locations in Saipan that you wish to help?

We need to have the Gualo Rai in Saipan. This is the place for most of our people and students.

What are your present financial capabilities?

We are in need of help to get the repair done. The financial support is needed.  We have international school and college under our church ministry.  So we have only the budget to support their education needs and without the budget to get all the restoration done.  We need to get generators to supply power so that we will be able to have the lights to start our schools.  We also need to have drinking water and water to provide our people’s needs. There are many victims who are lost their homes.

Can you buy items in your area to help the victims?

Yes, we can buy food, water and needy items for the victims.

What is basic needs of these people?

They need food and water, lodging, power (diesel fuel for the generators).

If you had $5000.00 please give me a budget as to how you would use it?

1.     We need to buy generators to supply power for the dorm for the students ($1500 for 2)

2.     We need to get fuel for the generators for daily use before the power company supply power to us. ($50 per day) $50 x 21 days =$1050

3.     We need to buy drinking water to provide our students and people. ($2.00 per bottle x 30 per day=$60 per day)  $60 x 21 days =$1260

Total: for estimate 21 days for Saipan to get back to normal: $5310.00

Are you willing to give the gospel to every person that you help?

Yes, we are willing to share with Jesus Christ our Savior.  We will be happy to do so.  Thank you so much for your help.

In Christ,  Christian Wei”

There is never a day that good believers are not in need.  We must not ignore their calls of help.

If you would like to donate by credit or debit care, please go to www.operationrenewedhope.org and choose “Network for Good.”  Please designate your donation for “International Relief.”

If you wish to donate by check, please send it to Operation Renewed Hope, P.O. Box 43242, Fayetteville, NC 28309.  Please designate your donation for “International Relief.”

ORH is committing an initial $3000.00 to help Dr. Wei and his ministry in Saipan.  Pray ORH will have the funds to help.

God bless,

Jan Milton

Operation Renewed Hope

1017 Sage Green Ct

Raleigh, NC 27610

910-987-5072

orhus@aol.com

www.operationrenewedhope.org

Flooding in Myanmar

Flooding in Myanmar

Monday, August 10, 2015

Dear Friends,

Brother Ron White, missionary of at least 40 years, recommended Dr. David M. Sum and his ministry in Myanmar (Burma) to help in the Myanmar disaster.  Please read this, and pray for these wonderful Christians who fight the battle for Christ.  I hope you will be encouraged to know that across the globe there are believers standing for Christ and good works.

“Dear Brother Jan Milton,   Thank you very much for your encouraging email.  As the need is so great we can't wait anything. We tried our best with what we had and went for relief work and just came back. Our team started from Rangoon at11:00pm and arrived the place at 9:00AM in the morning and helped and came back and arrived back Rangoon at 3:00am in the morning. Why we did like this because there is no place to sleep for us so we did like that.  Right now their life is the most important so foodstuff is the most needful.  Thank you,”

I asked Dr. Sum to answer questions.  The following are a portion of the answers he returned.

“Please answer the following questions:

What are the locations in Myanmar that you wish to  help?  Chin State is my native state, so I wanted to help them but it is only possible to send them money only.  But near Yangon where I am living there are lots of flood victims-homeless families. Our team just came back from the other side of Prome where no one reached them. I attached some snap shots. Due to my back and legs problem I did not go with them but my assistant was leading them and the truck that ORH bought for us was used for the relief work. Thank you again for this useful truck that you bought for the Lord's ministries. So, we will help Delta area and other also as we are now surrounded by flood victims.

What are your present financial capabilities? right now we have spent all we had. By the  grace of God some of our neighbors have donated such as water, noddles and some type of food and we have given already to the flood victims. As their situation is in danger we cannot wait.

Can you buy items in your area to help the victims? Yes, we can buy everything in Yangon.

What is basic needs of these people? Food and water is the basic need, they need everything because their houses have been under water. But right now for their living is the most needful and important.

Are you willing to give the gospel to every person you help? It is very difficult to share with them by this moment but we left gospel tract with them. We are praying to reach them in the near future.  Thank you, David”

If you would like to donate by credit or debit card, please go to www.operationrenewedhope.org and choose “Network for Good.”  Please designate your gift for “International Relief.”

If you would like to give by check, please send the check to Operation Renewed Hope, P.O. Box 43242, Fayetteville, NC 28309.  Please designate your gift for “International Relief.”

Pray that ORH will have the funds to help.  We are committing $3000.00 at this time.  This money will be sent through missionary Ron White.   Ron has a Bible College in Myanmar with Dr. Sum.  We are sure that he will appropriately handle the funds sent.  Please download the PDF to see the work in progress.

God bless,

Jan Milton

Operation Renewed Hope

1017 Sage Green Ct

Raleigh, NC 27610

910-987-5072

orhus@aol.com

www.operationrenewedhope.org

Peru Follow-up Manu Region

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Dear Friends,

Operation Renewed Hope conducted an evangelistic medical clinic in Patria / Pillcopata region of the Manu jungle area of Peru 2 years ago.  In the 4 days of clinic, 1385 patients were treated and many came to Christ.  Since that clinic, Operation Renewed Hope has been sending money to missionary Buddy Fitzgerald to help finance the follow-up work in the Patria / Pillcopata region through Alex and Flor Herrera.  Alex and Flor conducted the evangelism during the clinic.

Buddy sent ORH their most recent report about the continued work to follow-up the clinic.  Please, read this understanding that they only speak Spanish. 

“May repo

Dear brothers. Greetings from Pillcopata-Peru; and that the grace of God and the love of our Lord be with each of you. I am pleased to address you through this letter, to inform them (you) how God is glorified in this region of Peru. First we want to thank you for your prayers, because they help and encourage us to continue working in God's work and also help us to grow as a family. This month dear brothers has been a month of many tests for both my family and brothers; but thank God my wife is much better in her pregnancy, of course that has limited him (her) to perform some activities for the benefit of the church, we also had the crash of the daughter of our brothers Ruben and Elizabeth; which the child of 1 year and 6 months his face burned, and now she is recovering. We are also going through a case of restoration, as a brother has committed a public sin, and we are trying to arrange his life brother and his relationship with God; dear brothers so ask your prayers; the brother's name is John.

Report of Activity

Services – 5; Children’s Meetings – 5; Brochures (tracts) Distributed – 92; Evangelized with Gospel – 29; Home Worship – 4 services; Brothers Advised – 10; Brothers Visited – 21; People Advised – 6; Converted – 1

Dear brothers, despite all the evidence of this month, the church of God goes ahead; and this makes us also understand that the enemy is not happy with what God is doing in this region. Dear brothers once again ask your prayers for God to provide me with good wisdom to lead my family and brothers.

With all this I say goodbye dear brothers, thanking you for your prayers and financial support, which is a blessing to this ministry. Sincerely missionary family Herrera.”

Please pray for Alex and Flor.  They are in a difficult jungle world.  There are many people in the region without spiritual help through a Bible-believing church.  Alex and Flor are working hard holding services and building a work.

If you would like to help with their support of $300.00 per month, ORH would be grateful.  We send the follow-up money strictly by faith the it will be available.

If you wish to give by debit or credit card, please go to www.operationrenewedhope.org and choose “Network for Good.”  Designate the funds for “Clinic Follow-up Ministries.”

If you wish to give by check, please send the check to Operation Renewed Hope, P.O. Box 43242, Fayetteville, NC 28309.  Designate the funds for “Clinic Follow-up Ministries.”

God bless,

Jan Milton

Operation Renewed Hope

1017 Sage Green Ct

Raleigh, NC 27610

910-987-5072

orhus@aol.com

www.operationrenewedhope.org

Nepal Update and Peru Medical Team

Friday, July 17, 2015

Dear Friends,

Please read the most recent information from the work of Pastor Athem and churches in India in Nepal.  ORH hopes this is a blessing as you read of the good work.

“Dear Uncle Jan & ORH, 13/07/2015  Jai Mashi from India and Nepal.

 

     This is a short report/update about the works done in Nepal for the recent earthquake victims. This updates are mainly the latest works which we called it PLAN =C & D. A lot have been done yet there are still lots to be done.

     We just came back from Kathmandu on 11th July. Due to rain we could not go to the villages where we sent the materials for 75 houses. So far we were able to provide relief aids to 450 household and the following items have been distributed: such as, rice, cooking utensils, roofing iron sheets, blankets, medical aids, etc.

     The three main areas of our works, where we are building three churches are: Nepane Sanusirubari village of Dolakha District, Keilashwore village in Dholakha District and a village in Dhanding. At the time of earthquake, there were presence of 5/6 Christian houses in each of these villages but after we brought the aids, the villagers (Hindus) are now started coming to church and we now have some problems which I called it good problems. The good problems are, there was not enough rooms/place for the people to sit and listen to the preaching of the Gospel by the local Christians. The Hindu people gave lands to local Christians to construct a house for worship. Therefore, we decided to construct a church building with iron bars and steel roofing in the areas where the Hindu leaders had donated for construction of church. The church building constructions are going on in three areas mentioned above. The building/houses are 25 feet wide and 30 feet length. We could not finish the construction last weekend and we have given the local leaders the responsibilities of overseeing the constructions and to complete in next two weeks which will be in first week of August 2015. If possible please send someone to dedicate these houses to be used for worship.

     Thank you very much for your supports in prayers and finance. Uncle Jim is coordinating with the ministry called Bearing Precious Seed to send Gospel tracts and Gospel of John & Romans in next six weeks. We will be sending them to Nepal particularly too those earthquake victims and villages. So far about 20 people have come to the Lord in Nepane village. We hope and pray that the Lord will allow us to see hundreds and thousands of souls to be saved in those villages.   In His Service,   Pastor Athem K. Chothe   Siliguri, India”

Pray for these good works.  We are thankful for the fruit and the response of the people.  Pastor Athem has been faithful to help the villages, and God is working through these great efforts.

Pray about the rains.  They are serious when trying to build and get people out of the weather conditions.

We have more work on-going and will attempt to inform you soon of two church’s VBS programs working to help with the Nepalese children in the earthquake.

Please pray for our Peru Medical Team leaving on Saturday, July 18, to work with Buddy and Loren Fitzgerald in the Puerto Maldonado area of Peru.

God bless,

Jan Milton

Operation Renewed Hope

1017 Sage Green Ct

Raleigh, NC 27610

910-987-5072

orhus@aol.com

www.operationrenewedhope.org

2015 Teen Medical Boot Camp

Monday, July 6, 2015

Dear Friends,

2015 Medical Boot Camp a Success

In an effort to recruit youth for medical missions, Operation Renewed Hope conducts boot camps for young people 14 to 19 years of age.  Because our youth are in such a soft and idle condition most of the time, it is necessary to inject hardness into their lives through these boot camps. 

We are so thankful that Kings Mills Baptist Church in Kings Mills, OH was willing to let their teens experience the boot camp atmosphere in preparation for the teens going to the jungle of Peru outside the town of Puerto Maldonado.  The clinic will be July 18, 2015.   Missionary Buddy Fitzgerald with his wife Loren will be hosts for this evangelistic effort.

The boot camp was held on a property which was designed for testing physical strength and development leaders, Kings Domain, just outside of Cincinnati, OH.  The camp activities offer many building opportunities for the teens.  All boot camp challenges are for building the teens spiritually, physically, and in respect for those they will help in the coming medical clinic.

Activities include camp site preparation, establishing latrines, establishing cook site fires, fire building, Dutch-oven cooking, Meals Ready to Eat preparation, and wilderness exposure to toughen the mind of the young person.  The young person is introduced to skills necessary to feed, provide sanitation, and provide housing in a difficult situation, as others have to do each day around the world.

As part of the daily schedule, physical problems are presented creating mental, spiritual, and physical challenges requiring critical thinking development.  Survival course challenges present the teen with the need to develop stamina, courage, and unity of spirit with others. Daily physical training demonstrates to the teen that he is strong and capable of achieving what is thought to be very hard as he yields to Christ.

Medical training includes Red Cross certification for first aid and CPR; Dental training for assisting a dentist; basic stitching, and Optometry training to assist the optometrist.  The teen will prepare and serve alongside medical professionals in the medical clinic.

Safety is always a deep concern for teens traveling with our medical teams.  Each day the living culture of those in difficult parts of the world are presented along with plans to relieve the safety issues arising from such life requirements.

Always, the most important development comes through spiritual training.  There is a constant message of “Your life is not yours, but it is Christ living in you.”  As the week progresses and the challenges mount this message becomes real in the hearts of the teens.  The closing “Dog Tag Presentation” service overwhelmingly requires the young person to say, “I live, yet not I, it is Christ that lives in me.”  Literally, I am dead to self and alive in Christ.

The week is full; the benefits are manifold; and the end result is an experience in some part of the world giving the gospel through a medical clinic in which the youth participate.

Churches are welcome to discuss a boot camp for their teens.

God Bless,

Jan Milton

Operation Renewed Hope

1017 Sage Green Ct

Raleigh, NC 27610

910-987-5072

orhus@aol.com

www.operationrenewedhope.org