KINGFISHER INTERNATIONAL FAMILY NEWS
NOVEMBER 2018
ISSUE 6
A new Senior Pastor is commissioned Around 18 years ago, a church planting initiative was launched along the southern coast of Spain by Leslie and Chris Thomas. Over the following 18 years, Leslie fulfilled the role of Senior Pastor of this group of churches called Fellowship of the King, until, following a call from the Lord, he and Chris played down that baton and relocated to Belfast, Northern Ireland to start a new ministry there. Since that time, the Senior Leadership team of FTK have been seeking the Lord for a new Senior Pastor and on November 4th, Tim Slegg was commissioned to take on that role. Tim, along with his wife, Mary, were set aside for ministry in a powerful and moving service held at Nerja. Iain Anderson and Peter Hornlein (members of the senior leadership team) and James laid hands on them and anointed Tim for this role of Senior Pastor. The congregation formally welcomed him and undertook to pray for him in this role and for Mary too, to encourage them and to move forward together into all that the Lord has prepared in this new season. Tim and Mary live in Grenada and have a passion for evangelism, not only in Spain, but in North Africa too. Tim is also passionate about discipleship and encouraging pastors and leaders. This looks set to be an exciting new era for Fellowship of the King.
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Dumagat Education Program update
News from Africa
Resources available
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Dumagat Education Program update The first of the five living quarters being built for the children attending the school in Sibug is finished! The home is now ready for Eyyan, Monica and Eyyans parents to move in and the rest of the quarters are well on the way to being completed. The amazing news is that Dumagat’s are growing in faith in Jesus due to the support they have received from the DEP to build their houses at the bottom of the mountain. The donations that the DEP sponsors give each month are changing, and saving, lives!
Mike and Anna Leal, a Filipino couple from the UK who are DEP sponsors, visited the Dumagats at the end of September. They took out flip flops, snacks, clothes and blankets for the people in the mountains. The Dumagat people chose their flip flops, clothes and snacks, were served a meal and listened to Pastor Noel share about Jesus.
Far right: Mike and Anna Leal
The mission house that Norlie and Rowena are helping to fund in Rio Chico is almost complete, despite having to stop building work during last months typhoon. Look out for photos of the completed building soon! 2
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News from Africa Our National Director in Malawi, Charles Mithowa, writes:
expanding this mission of Kingfisher network churches. I will be resting for few days and doing other business these remaining two weeks before I will be planing again to leave for Rwanda to encourage the believers again and build a strong network. My plan is to bring the leaders of Rwanda, and Zimbabwe to Malawi in December to be under training for one week. Pray also for our brothers in Kenya. After Rwanda, I will be traveling to Kenya for opening a new door for Kingfisher ministries! I am communicating with my friend pastor in Kenya and he is inviting me to visit his country and conducting a training!! I'm trusting the Lord Jesus Christ for doing this mission! I haven't got anything, but things are happening with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ only!!!
Greetings from Malawi! Now I'm just arriving back from my journey coming back from Zimbabwe! I went last week Friday, I arrived there on Saturday, and I started the same day teaching and training this small group into the Kingfisher ministry. We started making disciples, the training from kingfisher resources and have finished with the material of My Confession. Coming into agreement with the truth. You can see from the photo (below) all of us are coming up together confessing and repeating our sins of unbelief and doing things with our own mind, but from now onwards we have learned to speak out the truth of who we are, how God sees us and what God promises us.
Also I am very happy to tell you that as I shared you in our international day of prayers, that I bought a land for building a Kingfisher leadership training centre, now, at present we have started bringing more bricks for preparing to start building a training center. We also need more prayers so that God will provide us with more money from selling our harvests we are getting through growing corps for selling in our farms so that God will give us favor and enabling us to complete this project! We need your more prayers !!! Students are doing their studies this year under the teachings and trainings of Kingfisher international family leadership trainings, and classes are conducted weekly!!! May the Lord bless you richly. Charles.
The Zimbabwean have welcomed the teaching and the training has transformed this small group to be become a might army of God! Thank you for your prayers! The Lord has helped me with all the necessaries for this trip. I sold some of the bags of Maize, plus my wife Regina supported me from the selling of her tomatoes from her garden. This is so wonderful and we are happy for running and
We are hoping to gather the leaders from Zimbawe, Rwanda and Kenya together in Malawi in April 2019 for a regional conference at which James will speak. This is a massive undertaking with cross-boarder travel being so difficult in Africa, so please be praying for this! Charles conducting a meeting in Zimbabwe
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Resources Are you making use of the resources that we produce? The two books below are available to buy on our website (www.kingfisher.org.uk) and the two booklets at the bottom of the page are free to download.
High Impact Christians
The God of Promise There are literally thousands of promises made in the Bible. Every single promise that God makes is backed up by a particular guarantee: the honour of His name (Psalm 138:2)
What does the world expect of Christians today? Very little would probably be the honest answer. This book challenges us to expect more - to set our sights on becoming High Impact Christians, just as were the believers in the early church - those ordinary people who were impacted by an extraordinary encounter with Jesus Christ and who, as a result, turned the world upside-down.
Kingfisher International Family stands as testimony to the truth that, when God makes a promise, He keeps it. The amazing growth and development of this Family of churches and ministries that stretches around the world is based on the outworking of a series of promises made to us by God. Are you on that adventure with the God of Promise yet?
This book highlights some strategic ways of becoming a High Impact Christian in a low expectation world.
I Am Who I Am God has many names in the Bible, and each on reveals an aspect of His character that will bless us and strengthen us. This resource takes 40 of those names, explains what each one means and how it can significantly bless us in our lives.
What does a loving Heavenly Father want to say to the child that He loves? This booklet takes us on a forty day journey: Learning to listen to the God who speaks; choosing to feed on what will build us up; growing in endurance; become a life- long learner; growing in trust; taking the risk. 4