Family Fun Night '09 in Hopi

The traditional village of Walpi on First Mesa

We are once again planning to have a Family Fun Night on the Hopi Reservation on Wednesday, July 8. We will depart Monday morning, July 6 early and return Friday evening, July 10.

This event has been a tremendous success in the past as we saw between 2,000 and 3,000 people attend each event.

The purpose of Family Fun Night is simple: to bring Hopi people from all three Mesas and all the villages together and to have a night of family fun. Because the tribe has experienced a very difficult season this will be a welcome treat. We also plan to have several of the Tribal departments such as health, drug & alcohol counseling, etc. assist us and to display their information.

This is a costly endeavor and we will need financial assistance. But, we’ve always seen God’s provision for these things! The event will consist of:

* Carnival type rides for the kids including a giant jumper, slide, obstacle course and dunk tank

* Hot dogs, water, cotton candy

* Face painting, balloon animals and magic show

* Bingo for the adults

* Concert with a Hopi band and Lyle Claw, a Christian Navajo friend who plays the Native Flute and shares on Drug prevention

* And a genuine, awesome fire works show!

If you want to see a preview of the very first Family Fun Night go to our Hopi website at www.hopi.org and click on the video at the bottom of the Home Page.

You can also click this link www.hopi.org/video.htm

Contact us at info@hopi.org for more information.

Kiva, Loaning to the Working Poor

Lifting people out of poverty through www.Kiva.org

Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through loans for the sake of alleviating global poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help fund small businesses run by low-income entrepreneurs in developing countries around the world, empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.

Loans made on Kiva.org are 0% interest loans and have a historical repayment rate of 96%. You can make loans to an entrepreneur of your choice from a range of countries using PayPal (with no fees). Make a small loan, make a big difference!

Jane and I currently have lended to 8 entepreneurs. You can see our lender page at www.kiva.org/lender/jack4063. Consider being a part of the RestoringTouch team at www.kiva.org/team/restoring_touch. Simply follow these steps:

1. Go to www.kiva.org/ and click "Community"
2. Enter "RestorationTouch" (no space between Restoring & Touch) next to "Search for a lending team" and click "Search"
3. Click “Join Team”
4. Log in or create your Kiva account

God bless you!

Jack Lankhorst

A New Ministry to Native Americans

"Changing Lives Around the World"

Photo from left to right: Jack Lankhorst (Pastor, Christian Life Center, Riverside, CA), Lyle Claw, Bry Claw, Carl Garitson (Pastor, Solid Rock, Sedona, AZ).

Lyle Claw, a Navajo Christian from Window Rock, AZ, whom I've know for many years, recently asked me to be a member of the board on his organization, "Changing Lives Around the World" (CLAW, Inc.). Lyle's ministry was previously called "Life After Death Epics" (Life after meth). Below is a portion from his site...

"Life After Death Epics is a contact point for Meth Prevention based on founder, Lyle Claw's life after death experience with Meth. It is dedicated to educating individuals and communities with the raw truths of substance abuse. After dying (and being resuscitated) from a Meth overdose, Lyle knows first hand of the threats this drug and others posses and the truth of what he saw during his death. 'This drug has the ability to wipe out a generation of our children and is changing them into zombies, this needs to be stopped and the full truth exposed!'"

Lyle and his brother, Bry, minister not only on reservations in the continental U.S. but in Alaska as well. In Alaska, their trips have taken them from Anchorage to Barrow and the other North Shore villages above the Arctic Circle.

Thank you for praying for this ministry, for Lyle and his family and for Bry and his family.

Pastor Jack Lankhorst

Cambodia Missions 2008

Christian Life Center sponsored a missions team to Cambodia September 11 through September 25. A very special thanks to everyone who went and made this trip possible: Joe Uribe (Team Leader), Mike Weaver, Paula Soholt, JR Tesso, Stephen Udeh, Collette Gaskin, Jason Brannon, Andrew & Jacquie Ferguson, Josh Martin, Katherine Rogers, Alexandra Calderon and Ron Strong.

From Foursquare Children of Promise: [We] would like to thank Christian Life Center, Wind of the Spirit Worship Center, Lake Elsinore Foursquare Church, and Banning Foursquare Church for your partnership in serving and reaching Cambodia for Christ. Thank you for all the generous gifts you gave to the Cambodian church and for all your encouragement. These churches gave bicycles, mosquito nets, bed mats, pillows, uniforms, shoes, a motorcycle, and many other gifts to the church in Cambodia.

Click here to see the photographs.


Check out these sites:

• Bak Roteh Orphan Home (Sponsored by Christian Life Center)
• Foursquare Children of Promise
• Warm Blankets
• Cambodian orphan homes
• Stop Human Trafficking!

Cuenca, Ecuador

Call To The Nations (Michael & Jennifer England) is a ministry dedicated to reaching the unreached people groups of the world. Currently we are based in Riverside, CA but we are in the process of preparing to move to the city of Cuenca in Ecuador. Cuenca is located in the Andes Mountains about 200 miles south of the capital city of Quito. It is approximately 8,300 feet above sea level and is the third largest city in Ecuador with a population of about 400,000.

We are currently raising money to obtain a resident visa which will allow us to stay permanently as well as the monthly support needed to live. We are in the process of becoming Foursquare Missionaries through Foursquare Missions International (FMI). There are a few steps we need to take to complete our missionary training before we can become officially appointed. Being Missionaries with FMI will help us connect with Foursquare Ecuador and make our transition to Ecuador more smooth. FMI will also help us stay connected with the US church and provide a greater spiritual covering and more prayer support.

Once we finished all of the necessary steps and moved to Ecuador, we plan to start a church under the covering of Foursquare Ecuador as we continue to pursue our vision of raising up pastors and sending them out to start churches and reach the numerous unreached people groups in South America. Thanks for praying for us!

Visit their website

Click here to know more about Cuenca, Ecuador.

Hopi Summer Trip '08

Monday, June 31 to Saturday, July 5, 2008

A very special thanks to our team (photo) , including Bianca from New Jersey, Steve Almquist from Flagstaff and Lyle Claw from Window Rock.

Activities included an event in the village of Hotevilla on Third Mesa, work on Janet & Maya's traditional Hopi rock house and a 4th of July event with the village of Polacca on First Mesa with Ivan Sidney (former Hopi Chairman) and his band, the Hopi Clansmen.

The men of CLC are planning a trip back to Hopi in October to continue working on Maya's house. We'll give more details later.

CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOGRAPHS

Visit our website at www.hopi.org

Rice Mill in Cambodia

After visiting Cambodia for the first time few years ago, Jane and I felt the need to assist Ted & Sou and the Orphan Ministry in Cambodia with the purchase of land and a rice mill. Because of the generous giving of members of our church, Christian Life Center in Riverside, CA, that dream has now become reality and daily feeds rice to thousands of orphans. To God be the Glory!

CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOGRAPHS

Pastors Jack & Jane

Randy & Cheryl Bear

Randy & Cheryl Bear Barnetson pastor the First Nations Church, serving Los Angeles and all of Southern California. The main gathering is on Sunday evening with dinner at 6:00 pm and the Indigenous Worship Service at 7:00 pm.

They meet in the Florence Avenue Foursquare Church facility at 11457 Florence Avenue, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670. Call 562-942-0738 or 562-215-3124 for more information. Visit their website at www.cherylbear.com/attend.html

Cheryl Bear received several awards at the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards. You can see the line-up at this link: Peoples Choice. If you are interested in purchasing CDs you can email her at cheryl@cherylbear.com.

The Philippines

Alex and Marissa Coriel

We are called to the abused and abandoned street children of the Philippines and we've moved to the Philippines to live as full time, self supported missionaries. We are volunteering with an already established children’s home called Arms of Love.

Isaiah 61 is our mission statement. We want God to use us to "bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives". We want to be used by God to "Bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness in stead of mourning, and a garment of praise in stead of a spirit of despair."

Alex has a gift for filming and editing video. He wants to use this gift to make the huge need for missions and the support of missionaries known to the church in America and around the world. He hopes to someday document different needs and produce short films to make these needs known.

Thank you for praying for us!

Alex and Marissa Coriel

Click here to go to their website

Cambodia Missions Team

A team from Christian Life Center and Lake Elsinore Foursquare went to Cambodia Saturday, September 8 through Friday, September 21.

The team members were Joe Uribe, Mike Weaver, Dr. Rod & Paula Soholt, Juanita Ayala, Jason Brannon, Andrew Ferguson, Josh Martin, Jordan Garcia and Jessica Hundley. Although they did encounter some sickness, they were an incredible blessing to several orphan homes.

CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOGRAPHS

Foursquare Children of Promise in Cambodia, A Report From Ted Olbrich

"Christian Life Center, the Riverside CA Foursquare Church, which was instrumental in building our rice mill, and provides for the sponsorship of the Bak Roteh home in Pursat Province, as well as partial support for other homes and school uniforms, came on a good-will tour with members from Lake Elsinore Foursquare Church, CA, which sponsors the Bar Kan home in Pursat Province. They left a string of homes blessed with new uniforms, and numerous improvement projects, including a new fence at Prek Bey."