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MercyWorks Team Returns from Japan
On Friday, October 16, a seven-member team made up of MercyWorks staff and volunteers returned from a life-changing missions trip to Japan. Led by MercyWorks founder Debbie Lascelles, the team distributed Japanese Ear Bibles, prayed with and comforted tsunami survivors, cleared away debris and rubble, encouraged weary church workers and spent much time conducting prayer [...]
Continue reading...Japan Needs our Prayers
13. September 2011
A MercyWorks team is leaving for Japan on October 6. This team will distribute Japanese Ear Bibles, while also assisting with rebuilding efforts and grief counseling. Many hundreds of people remain homeless since the earthquake and tsunami of March 11th, 2011 that killed 15,690 and left 4,753 “missing”. Even now the cleanup of debris from [...]
Continue reading...NOW is Japan’s Hour
17. March 2011
We have been in contact with co-workers in Japan on the ground working overtime to help meet the staggering needs from this staggering natural disaster. MercyWorks has been praying about any way God would have us reach out to Japan during this dark hour. Today it is virtually unthinkable in our politically correct world to [...]
Continue reading...A Dream Comes True in Sri Lanka
5. January 2011
Ten years ago, a young man named Pastor Yogesh started a church with only a bag of clothes. He sacrificed many things to launch this ministry and faced many persecutions and death threats from Buddhist factions and after the December 2004 tsunami destroyed his home and church building. All that was left was his heart [...]
Continue reading...MercyWorks to Give More Micro Enterprise Loans
22. July 2010
As we just celebrated Independence Day here in the USA, MercyWorks is helping people in Asia as well as in our own hemisphere to know God and to help care for their own families. At the end of last year, a MercyWorks team visited a Micro Enterprise Development project in Pattaya, Thailand, called “Itsera” (the [...]
Continue reading...Taking A “Step Ahead”
6. January 2010
Our first stop on Thursday was visiting Step Ahead Bangkok, a micro-enterprise development ministry headed by YWAMers John and Kimberly Quinley, American missionaries who have lived in Thailand for the past 25 years. The fruit from their many endeavors is evident in changed lives throughout the country. Our goal for the first day was visiting [...]
Continue reading...Jesus Loves the Little Children
6. December 2009
After seeing the work of Step Ahead Bangkok and Step Ahead Pattaya, we then drove to observe YWAM’s SLUM ministries. This is perhaps one of the simplest and purest ministry concepts I have ever seen in 30 years of full-time missions work. I suggested to the team they use the letters in SLUM to stand [...]
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24. October 2011
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