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FEB 2010 We made it to Zimbabwe! Just really quick to you all as internet is really limited! We made it to Bulawayo...we are looking at a house/base ..it's really beautiful nice and has furniture and everything included..Is more than we want right now, and are asking for massive favor as we talk to them and negotiate an offer today. It may be for the first few months, but we really need a place. And has everything we need, would be a real kiss from PAPA...for this season.
An awesome man and minister that has a ministry based in Bulawayo has been hosting us in his house and flat! WHAT A HUGE BLESSING! JUST FINISHED ministering at his Bible School in city centre...please pray for us!
We also need a vehicle Truck or Van & they are definitely more expensive here...Health is much better and Angels really brought us in..HE is so Faithful!
love to you all!!! thx. for praying please keep on!!!
brian, pamela & kids
January 2010
Just two days leading up to Christmas, I was able to re-connect with the Dugmores and another married couple from the UK, Andy and Anna. When I met up with them, a large portion of our supplies were already purchased and packed into the back of the truck and the trailer. So much so, I could barely fit my two bags in the trunk! We began our trip down to Rusape.
Christmas Eve was largely relegated to finishing up collecting supplies and having a brief planning meeting with the church leaders of PAC (Pentecostal Apostolic Church of God), the ministry we have been partnering to feed and support the orphans in Rusape. We managed to get a large tent structure for the event (in case of rain) and then went to the marketplace to pick up vegetables, chicken, and other assorted items. It seems we were all set for the party!
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We arrived at the farm for the Christmas party at 9 in the morning. We began to set up all the equipment for the Jesus film, the tent, and began preparations for the food. Once we had everything prepared, the people came flooding in. By 11, we had started the Christmas service for the community, but our focus for this day was still on the kids. The service started with worship and concluded with a nativity play (which conscripted the help of the many children) and a message on the meaning of Christmas to follow-up on the play. It was a fruitful time of worship and learning together how Jesus was born that we may have life!
Following the message, we were now ready for the Christmas meal. What originally started as a planned meal for 250 people grew to feeding as many as 400 mouths! Luckily, we had enough for everyone to eat and everyone was satisfied. The tricky part, however, was grilling chicken for that many people! We ended up getting a wire mesh stand to grill all the chicken. Further challenges arose when it took nearly 2 hours for the coals to burn down to grill the chicken. Needless to say, the guys on the team had plenty of fun and cheered with glee after throwing petrol on the coals and seeing it ignite a ball of fire around the grill. It's amazing how in every culture, all men are fascinated and tickled pink by the exploits of fire!
With tummies full and faces smiling, we kicked off the next part of the program. We began playing all sorts of games with the kids. We began by playing a dodgeball-like game, only the kids were running and the team were throwing balls at the kids. The balls were soft, so I had an outlet for some of my pent up competitive spirit. No kids were injured. We also played greenlight/redlight, and held a waterballoon toss with four different teams. The kids had a blast playing and seeing people get soaked! We finished up our time playing pass the parcel and everyone was handed sweets during the game.
The evening wrapped up with a viewing of the Jesus Film for children. Here, the children got to hear a clear gospel presentation in their native tongue (shona). I estimate there were as many as 100 kids who received Jesus as Lord and Savior for the first time! Praise the Lord! We were then able to pray for the children and finished by passing out gifts. However, by this time, there were many more children than we had originally planned for. What was originally 110 kids grew to about 260 children! We passed out the original 110 gifts as planned, but also passed out glow sticks and book marks, biscuits and sweets. Incredibly, we had EXACTLY the number of gifts we needed. One more child would have meant one sad kid walking home empty handed. Thank God he provides all things for his children! Thank you everyone for all your support and prayers. The Christmas party was a great success, and would not have been possible without all of your support!
Richest Blessings,
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Edison Lee
GenerationWon-Iris Zimbabwe
Hello, connection here is not great and is slow. So I will make this
update quick.
If you didn't hear from Pamela Kariba was great! It is up by Zambia,
and we are very interested in a base in that area because it is near a
lot of unreached people's in the bush. We also are interested in
helping stop the prostitution that is going on in these areas and it
is rampant in this area. We had major favor from the Mayor too! We
sawaver 100 saved, many healed and delivered...also saw 4 elephants
right by the house we were preaching at..and the church plants we were
helping there, gave testimony of over 20 new convert members attending
Sunday!
We finished in Harare, had a meeting as we are trying to sort out some
issues within the team we have been working w/ there. Looked at a
possible house to move into there, and left yesterday to Bulawayo. We
will meet up w/ some of our Mozambican team in Mutare after we finish
here in the bush.
So we are headed to a farms project w/ orphans & widows today ...and
then into the Bush near Gwanda to preach campaigns for 4 nights
salvation, healing, training!!! Gotta go I net running out will
report soon. also fasting for Zim internationally 15-16 August please
join us!
Brian
Zimbabwe Trip July-August 2009
After and before time in Ireland, N Ireland, Wales, England, S. Africa, Qatar, & Zambia)…..OUR TRIP went from Pretoria S. AFRICA to ZIMBABWE -Beitbridge Harare to Kariba to Borrowdale to Bulawayo to Bush, to Gwanda to Shage (bush) to Que Que to Mutare (here we hardly slept for 50 hrs.) to Rusape back to Mutare to Beitbridge.end ZIMBABWE .back to Pretoria to Nelspurit (so good to see our friends Surprise & Tryphina!) to Kruger (almost caught by an elephant) back to Joburg & out!
We had a lot of warfare up front…including a rough trip into Zimbabwe and landing. At our meetings we were very pleased at the attendance, even several international attendees! We have a lot more clarity about the direction of the ministry and the things we will operate in as GenWon-Iris soley, and the partnerships we will have in large campaigns and orphan/widow programmes we will have.
After our time in Harare, we battled some sickness and went on to Kariba. This is a region with an amazing lake that looks like you are at an ocean! The opportunities to reach the lost (many you can only travel to on the water) are amazing! There are also many orphans & 75% of the women in this area have been or are involved in prostitution due to lack of jobs and resources. Microenterprising is also an amazing option we are looking into. The mayor of the city GOD connected us with and we are very excited to see what GOD will do there! Our team brought many to the LORD, a church we helped plant and establish had many new converts/members. Gave over a ton of food away and saw healings take place as well!
Next we went down to Bulawayo and Gweru where we led a campaign for unreached w/ friend and member of our international trust Pastor Kimberly Dube. We met another Pastor Marilyn Sibanda for a day on the way and saw amazing fruit and potential with her workoimg with several farms of orphans and widows. At the campaigns over a hundred were saved and we baptized near 80 after hiking several km into the African bush! That was awesome!!! Healing, deliverance and two new churches are also a result! Even one of Pastor Dube's elder family members gave up the occult after lifelong bondage! It was wonderful.
We then went on to speak at a national conference in Kwe Kwe with some more of our international trust members. It was a real blessing to encourage and challenge this large gathering and see many encouraged and healed as well. We then went with them to their home Mutare in the east of the country. This brought back maemories as the first place I ever went in Zim. Here we got to connect more with Peter Samunetsi and his wife Grace, and David Geshure in Rusape nearby. Here we fed more orphans and saw over 100 saved and over 100 healed as well! WOW! The Alpha Course church HTB -London met us there and got to see great fruit we hope to work together in the future to bring massive change to this nation! We are planning on our first main base moving from Harare to Mutare upon our Janurary arrival!
We also were blessed by PAPA GOD to meet some key people toward our getting established there as far as land property etc. The immediate team that went with me was awesome! and we were so blessed to have Mozambicans and other Zimbabweans with us from USA, Ireland & S. Africa.
It was a battle, and was great to see this victory for GOD! Please pray for our team on the ground, now awaiting our arrival! For us finishing paperwork, and gearing up for Pamela & I to bring the kids there in a few months to stay for several to really establish with a team! There is so much fruit in this nation w/ no money of it's own (ISAIAH 55) and more orphans per capita than anywhere on the planet! (ISAIAH 58) Please pray the LORD of the Harvest would send the right ones to our team! (ISAIAH 61)!
Thanks for your prayers and support! Most of you will receive more information from our friends now or in the near future about how you can be more involved at the LORD's prompting. We need a miracle to get the provision and everything ready to go. Thank GOD we serve the miracle worker!
Sincerely In CHRIST,
Brian, Pamela, Bryson, Bethany, Bailey, & Benjo
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We hope all is well with you! We have had an amazing Spring as many of you all saw in our mini report in late April! In may our ministry celebrated 2 year anniversary!!! Really cool !!!
It truly has been a time of GOD giving us the keys to the doors of the future harvest. We have enjoyed some great things in L.A. as the Semester wound down and we saw so many close to us graduate at USC…
It really was an amazing semester as we began the Univ. House of Prayer @ USC! In the picture above Brian and Edison Lee (middle) and Ethan Su. Edison is going to Zimbabwe with our ministry for 6 months to a year this July!!! We are very excited and also here is a paragraph Ethan (who interned with genWON for his last semester) wrote about a miracle that took place at USC. You can see more of the same on You Tube. Type in "Finger of GOD @ USC Part 1 and 2.
It really was an amazing semester for us! We were so blessed. We also had a great time with visits from friends from around the world, saw Heidi and our new good friend from Sudan Iris, Michelle Perry visited UHOP. Then we had our first Walk A Mile event for Zimbabwe at USC on May 2!
So the May 2nd walk went really well! It was a small step toward many more that need to be taken. After us ministering at UCLA Campus Church this past Sunday, and Brian at Luke 18 California Prayer summit there as well , we also have a lot of interest in several large California campuses doing 2 mile barefoot walks of their own. So GOD has brought a wind to what just began as a USC-UCLA challenge! This is very exciting as we still have a ways to go to reach our goal of $20,000 USD to send the 20 tons of food $200,000 of medical supplies, and many shoes. As you already know our Zimbabwe team has spread to about 10 locations and we have an office in City Centre Harare. We have also had a couple of teams related to Iris go in to bring aid to the devastated masses of Zimbabwe! We are so thankful for that!
Brian will be leading a team into Zimbabwe in latter part of July. He is going on a 10 day ministry preaching trip through the UK & Ireland leaving July 10th focused on Intimacy and the Prayer movement bringing forth Prophetic Evangelism to WIN the Lost!…as well as our efforts in Zimbabwe. Our wonderful Claire Hollywell is helping so much with that. Please pray for the trip as we try to bring the effort of GenerationWON-Iris Zimbabwe together and look into how our family can spend a lot more time in Zimbabwe to see the vision come to pass! Also please pray for provisions, and if you would pray about sowing into the trip!!! Thanks so much!
Above: Pamela in England w/ lovely Claire Holywell :: Pamela in Stockholm, SWEDEN w/ new Christian convert PTL! Axel and Spiritual Daughter and new USC Grad Eurri Choi
Pamela had and amazing trip to England and Sweden in late May. It was a faith trip and the sure call of the Father that took me to England and Sweden. In England, there were so many surprises with Claire and Eurri. The bonds of friendship and joy were strengthened and deepened. And to see Mama Heidi and hear her words of encouragement were like a thousand waterfalls breaking all the dams in my heart. Sweden was a beautiful challenge to love without partiality. Eurri and I were supposed to go to Ireland and meet with loved ones, but God extended our trip to Sweden where we made friends new and poured ourselves out as love offering ins prayer meetings, home fellowships, one on one and with children in a Jesus Party. Sweden is indeed the Valley of Dry Bones waiting for the four winds to blow upon her and set her ablaze. Thank you for praying for me and making it possible for me to go.
Brian is now preparing to speak in the UK for ten days before heading to Zimbabwe for some key and strategic meetings. Please pray for both these trips!
For a Generation to know the LOVE of GOD!
Brian & Pamela Jourden & family
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Thank you to all who participated in our walk-a-thon to raise money for Zimbabwe. We are pleased to announce there are now five more planned for the fall! Watch this space!
WALK-A-THON
WHAT: a two mile barefoot walk to raise $10,000 to send 20 tons of food and $200,000 worth of medical supplies to the orphans widows and aids victims of Zimbabwe by July 2009. We are also receiving shoe donations to ship to Zimbabwe! The person that raises the most money will recieve a very special gift form USC Athletics. The top two will be part of a think tank retreat with the top two from UCLA's walk-a-thon.
February 16th 2009 was the 2nd international day of prayer & fasting for the beautiful nation of Zimbabwe.
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