SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS: Many of those who have joined ranks with us in this ministry were one time guerilla fighters; who had fought in the three decade long separatist war against the Sri Lankan state, but now have renounced violence, and a...
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Mulliyavalli is largely a farming settlement in the Mullaitivu district, situated on the north-eastern coast of Sri Lanka. The village was an LTTE-controlled area, with a large military base in the district, and was the theatre of many fier...
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"WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, PRAYER WORKS WONDERS". As the sun began to set, and darkness descended on this serene little village, those who had gathered to hear the Gospel of Peace preached to them worked their way towards the front eager to be p...
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GOD HAS COMMANDED US TO GO WHERE NO MAN HAS EVER GONE BEFORE. Nedunkerni is a war ravaged region in the Vanni district. Nestled deep in this township, surrounded by paddy fields is the village of Rambaikulam. Many who have made this their h...
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"CALL UNTO ME AND I WILL ANSWER YOU AND SHOW YOU GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT," - The Lord Jesus Christ. The township of Palai in the Killinochchi district is a non-descript little village in the north of Sri Lanka. I...
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"THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT: THEY THAT DWELL IN THE LAND OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM HAS THE LIGHT SHINED." - The Bible. After our meetings at Moonkil-Aaru we proceeded further up north to the township ...
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“Moonkil Aaru” (Bamboo River) – is a village that flanks a newly carpeted highway, and is located halfway between Mullaiteevu and Paranthan. This region had been at the epic-center of the three decade long war between the LTTE and the Sri L...
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JESUS SAID "THERE'S GREAT REJOICING IN HEAVEN OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS; FORSAKES A GODLESS LIFE AND THE FLEETING PLEASURES OF SIN, AND DECIDES TO FOLLOW HIM AND LIVES A GODLY LIFE." Last Sunday heaven rejoiced as five of God's children c...
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"PURE RELIGION AND UNDEFILED BEFORE GOD AND THE FATHER IS THIS; TO VISIT THE FATHERLESS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR AFFLICTION, AND TO KEEP ONESELF UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD." (James 1:27.) FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD, SO FAITH WITHOU...
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On hearing the message of Hope and Reconciliation; of healing and deliverance through the Lord Jesus Christ, people of all faiths flocked around to be prayed over. If you have faith- the size of a mustard seed- God will do wonders for you! ...
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Travelling across some of the most inhospitable terrains we ventured deep into the rural hinterlands of Mullaiteevu, and arrived in the village of Navatkahdu; a beautiful village where it seemed as though time had stood still! The village o...
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These weapons captured by the Sri Lankan forces and put on display at the "War Museum" at Puthukudiyiruppu in the Mullaitheevu district, send chills up your spine. These weapons sit in muted silence as a testament to an inglorious era in ou...
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PRAYER CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS! IT CAN HEAL THE SICK AND MEND THE BROKEN HEARTED!!! Here we are praying for the hurting, the sick and the broken in heart in JEYAPURAM - a nondescript little village nestled well off the beaten track, in a parched...
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Herds of wild elephants roam freely in Jeyapuram, a nondescript little village nestled well off the beaten track, in a parched and dry region in the Killinochchi district, which is home to about 45 families who have returned to their war-ra...
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Giving away Christmas gifts to some of the poor folk we had invited from the surrounding villages to spend Christmas with us. On Jesus' birthday everybody gets a gift. But the greatest gift ever was God's gift of His son Jesus Christ to the...
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The new school term is about to begin and children from poor homes lack the means to purchase their school books. So during the Christmas season its our custom to give school stationary to needy children! Its all part of our Christmas tradi...
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King David sang and danced to express his joy that the Ark of the Covenant had returned to Jerusalem. So do these children from Good Samaritans' Church, sing and dance that Jesus the King their Lord and Saviour has come to dwell among them ...
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"Joy to the world the Lord is come" - Children Singing lustily in celebration of our Saviour's birth, at our Christmas pageant! (Dec. 2015).
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"FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY, IN THE CITY OF DAVID, A SAVIOUR WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD!"...Our children sing, dance and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. (Dec. 2015).
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Celebrating the birth of "THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS" - the soon coming king the Lord Jesus Christ! on Christmas day at Good Samaritans' Church, Mylampavelly, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka!!!( 25th December 2015).
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"PREACH THE WORD; BE INSTANT IN SEASON, OUT OF SEASON;" - 2 Tim. 4:2. "...FOR NECESSITY IS LAID UPON ME; YEA, WOE IS UNTO ME, IF I PREACH NOT THE GOSPEL!" -1Cor. 9:16. A three-day, well attended "GOSPEL RALLY" was held at our Church complex...
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Ebenezer Thevaraj, his wife Melanie and their three dashing and musically gifted young children had the audience in rapture with their spell-binding performance at our "Sword of the Lord" Gospel Musical held in the city of Batticaloa just a...
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'TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO: AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT." - Proverbs 22:6. "REMEMBER NOW YOUR CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF YOUR YOUTH,.." - Eccl. 12:1. Youth from different parts of the island participated in our...
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“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord has annointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclain liberty to the captives, and the openoing of the prison to them that ar...
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AS WE CELEBRATE OUR TENTH YEAR AT OUR NEW COMPLEX, RECONSTRUCTED AFTER THE TSUNAMI DEVASTATION, I TOOK A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE THANKFUL FOR ALL WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE FOR US SINCE THAT UNFORGETTABLE AND EPOCH-MAKING DAY IN OUR LIVES. THESE ...
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"I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor; and for their cause I worked." Job 29:15 & 16. AS I LOOK BACK WITH GRATITUDE, AND GIVE THANKS TO GOD FOR FORTY YEARS IN CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, I CANNOT HELP BUT ...
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"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God....For after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching ...
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"And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpants; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the ...
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A WEEK OF MEETINGS WERE HELD, COMFORTING THE WAR-RAVAGED IDPs, IN THE REGIONS OF JAFFNA, VAVUNIYA AND MANNAR. THE GOSPEL OF HOPE AND NEW LIFE, THROUGH A NEW BEGINNING IN CHRIST JESUS, WAS PROCLAIMED TO THE POOR IN THE VILLAGES OF UDUPPIDDY,...
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" The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." - Isaiah 35:1. THE ONCE WAR-BEDEVILLED VAVUNIYA HAS MADE VAST STRIDES TOWARDS RE-SETTLMENT, REHABILITATION AND RECONSTRUC...
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"GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE." - The Lord Jesus Christ. Proclaiming the Good News in the villages of Mylampavelly and Vakarai. Mylampavelly is in the rural out-skirts of Batticaloa, struggling to break out ...
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"...YES VERILY, THEIR SOUND WENT INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS UNTO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD." Romans 10:18. A three day Gospel rally was held in the city of Batticaloa in which Pop-artists who at one time were household names in the loc...
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"Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the opressed go free,.....Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your ho...
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"They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance".- Lord Jesus Christ. A SPECIAL GOSPEL MEETING WAS CONDUCTED AT OUR MYLAMPAVELLY CHURCH FOR THE IDPs FRO...
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IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF SRI LANKA, COVERED BY MONTANE GRASSLAND AND CLOUD FOREST, CLOSE TO THE FAMED "WORLD'S END", AMIDST HALF A DOZEN TEA ESTATES LIVE SOME OF THE POOREST OF THIS LAND. TO REACH THIS PLATEAU LOCATED AT AN ALTITUDE OF 1...
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FROM THE CITY OF VAVUNIYA, TRAVELLING 13KM ON HARDLY MOTORABLE DIRT ROADS WE REACHED KATTKULAM; A POST WAR OUT-POST SET UP IN THE DISTRICT OF VAVUNIYA WHERE IDP FAMILIES HAVE BEEN RE-SETTLED; SANS WATER, ELECTRICITY OR BASIC SANITATION. WE ...
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WE HAD YET ANOTHER "GOSPEL BLITZ" IN THE HILL COUNTRY IN THE VILLAGE OF KAHAWATTE. THE LORD IS POURING OUT HIS GRACE ON TEA PLANTATION WORKERS WHO ARE COMING TO THE LORD IN NUMBERS! TURNING AWAY FROM THEIR DUMB IDOLS, CASTING ASIDE SUPERSTI...
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THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED IN THE VILLAGE OF PERRIYAKALLARU; A COASTAL VILLAGE SOUTH OF BATTICALOA, WHICH TOOK THE FULL BRUNT OF THE TSUNAMI'S FURY, AND IS LIMPING BACK TO NORMALCY. OUR MINISTRY IS GEARED TO ADDRESSING THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERI...
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"...Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." - Romans 10:18. Ministering in word, song and prayer to a community of Gypsies living well off the beaten track in a village called kaanchiran...
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WE IN SRI LANKA, ARE HAVING A RESPITE AFTER DECADES OF CONFLICT AND LAWLESSNESS. BUT WE, A POVERTY-STRICKEN NATION, WILL NEVER HAVE A RESPITE FROM CARING FOR THE POOR OR THE DESTITUTE. THIS YEAR WE MARK TWENTY YEARS IN 'CHILD CARE MINISTRY'...
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THIS YEAR (2015) WE REACHED A MILESTONE IN 'CHILDREN'S MINISTRY'. WE HAVE IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD, AND ALL THROUGH THE WAR YEARS PROVIDED CARE AND SHELTER TO ORPAHANED AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN, SPANNING A PERIOD OF ALMOST TWENTY YEARS! WE SHELT...
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THE LATEST WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT (WHR) HAS RANKED SRI LANKA 132nd AMONG 158 COUNTRIES. SWITZERLAND IS THE HAPPIEST NATION IN THE WORLD FOLLOWED BY ICELAND AND DENMARK IN SECOND AND THIRD PLACES. I LIVED AND WORKED IN SWITZERLAND FOR OVER T...
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"And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart....'- deut.8:2. MY GOOD FRIEND, PASTOR JACK CRANS, A MIGHTY MAN OF GOD ...
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"And that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent the day is at hand: let us therfore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on ...
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THE RECENT GUN FIGHTS BETWEEN MOTOR-BIKE GANGS THAT LEFT SEVERAL DEAD, AND HUNDREDS MORE IN POLICE CUSTODY, SENT SHOCK WAVES THROUGH THE PEACE LOVING COMMUNITY OF WACO, TEXAS. THE YOUNG AND THE IMPRESSIONABLE ARE DRAWN TO THESE GANGS LIKE M...
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Here I am at the UNITED METHODIST CHURCH in Gaithersburg, Maryland; Preaching the Whole Truth, the Gospel Truth and nothing but The TRUTH. I lived and served the Lord in Gaithersburg for almost ten years when I moved there from Switzerland ...
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WITNESSING TO THE TRUTH TO A GATHERING OF LAWYERS, WEALTHY BUSINESSMEN, MOVIE PRODUCERS, BUDDING FILM STARS AND SPORTS PERSONALITIES IN BEAUTIFUL SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA. SOME OFFICERS FROM THE SAN PEDRO POLICE DEPARTMENT TOO SHOWED UP TO HEA...
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During my last preaching stint in the USA, among other churches in many states, I was also invited by Pastor Wayne Pratt of New life Ministries in the state of Maryland. Since then Pastor Wayne's Church has grown by leaps and bounds; Pastor...
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SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF MY MINISTRY IN SACRAMENTO, LOS ANGELES AND MENLO PARK WHEN I WAS INVITED OVER THERE BY THE MAYOR OF CALIFORNIA.
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THERE IS NO PLACE ON EARTH YOU CAN GO WHERE GOD IS NOT! SO GO FOR JESUS, GO BOLDLY, GO FEARLESSLY WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE!! BE NOT AFRAID OF TOMORROW, BECAUSE YOUR GOD IS ALREADY THERE!!! GOD BLESS YOU! (Tsunami 2004).
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PROCLAIMING LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES IN THE VILLAGE OF WELLAVELLY IN THE AMPARA DISTRICT. THE ENTIRE REGION IS UNDER THE SPELL OF WITCH-DOCTORS AND SORCERERS.THESE WIZARDS HOLD SWAY OVER PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT. I WENT ON...
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