Missions

Doug Dennis Ministry

September Newsletter 2011

Dear friend,

Greetings from Venezuela!  Lately my wife and I have been busy preaching (I usually average preaching around 7 to 9 times a week) and we’ve been preparing for the trip that we will be taking in a couple weeks to minister in Brazil.

A few days ago I sent my Indian leaders on a trip to the mountain Indian tribes. For this trip I made 5 groups and they will be preaching at more than 40 Indian tribes and also at isolated huts. Each group will be staying about 3 weeks preaching in the different Indian tribes. I will be looking forward to hear what God did and is doing at the mountain tribes. It really amazes me to hear about the miracles that God does at the Indian tribes, and it's incredible when I go to the Indian tribes to see all the new believers and the transformation in their lives.

There was a testimony about an Indian who wasn't a Christian and he had hitched a ride from someone who had a motorcycle. They got into a wreck and the driver was killed and the Indian was badly hurt in his lower back. The doctors said that he couldn't recover from what he had. When he was back at his tribe, he told his wife, "The Christians who preach here say that God heals, so we should ask them to pray for me. If I am healed then I will become a Christian." So they called the Christians to pray for him and that night he was healed. He since has become a Christian because he believed the gospel message because of his healing. When he went back to the doctor to have the checkup, the doctor was amazed that he was healed.

A church bought me 2 new mules, therefore I sent one of the Indian teams to minister to some new tribes in Colombia that we haven't yet visited. I also sent them to some isolated huts in faraway places off the beaten Indian paths in Colombia where only a family or two live together. They probably have never heard the gospel. When I refer to the "isolated places" where a family or 2 live together I am not talking about tribes. At the tribes, of course, there are many families living together which makes up the tribe, but there are families who live off by themselves who don't go to the tribes nor go into town. They live on their land without any outside contact. Therefore I have had it on my heart for a very long time to visit those people and preach the gospel there also. We have been preaching to these families for a long time here in Venezuela, but, there are many "isolated huts" in Colombia also. Therefore, because I now have 2 more mules, we can go to more places to preach. Jesus said "this gospel must be preached to all and then the end will come." I shared a testimony a while ago about an Indian chief in the farthest away mountain Indian tribe. He told us that he had a dream where he saw the end. In this dream he heard a voice who he said was "Maishpore" (which means God) who said, "That is why the gospel is being preached here now, because you are living in the end times." I believe that testimony and we are trying to do our part in the last day's harvest. So even though we will be in Brazil preaching, I still have my Indian leaders preaching here in Venezuela and Columbia also.

Well thank you for all your prayers and support. It makes all of our work here possible. God bless you.

Doug and Veronica