NEW BUILDING PROJECT

At the begining of last year (2007), our ministry have secured a new piece of land and currently we have begun with our new building project on this land. Please click on to the titled "HTL BUILDING PROJECT" on our link to get you more information regarding this projects that we are currently undertaking. This project is our immediate need. If you can't get through just log on to www. htlbp.blogspot.com

GOD ACTS ON BEHALF OF THOSE THAT WAIT FOR HIM

DRAUBUTA village is the place that caught the whole nations attention when 9 youth uprooted their 13, 864 marijuana plants. During the htl process way back in June of 2004, the whole community where really desperate for God to come and visit them. And you know what? He came like a dove with healing and blessings underneath its two wings. Six months after the htl process, a road was constructed to their community for the very first time after years of walking on foot for five hours to get to the main road to catch transport to town or their desired destination (refer to "Gods Promises are Yes" story below). There were blessings in homes as their young people begin to flock into church as never before and they would pray together every night during the week at different locations. The different church denomination in the community have a heart for Unity and they would meet together every last Sunday of every month to have a combine service. Just recently a logging company own by a foreigner is in the process of logging their forests and he is committed to do maitenance on their road and also for the community to be employed - the males to work in the forest logging. And he has also committed to build a primary school for the 3 communities, they are Navitilevu, Nakoro, Draubuta. Currently the school children from these 3 communities boards at the school where they are attending right now since it is really far from their home. They come home during weekends. But now they are about to have a school of their own which is just a walking distance away. This community is also declared drug free until today...
What is happening here? It is God responding with His goodness and mercy to the desperate cry of His children.
Currently we have 2 members of our healing the land team in this community to continue working with churches and the community.

NAKORO CHURCH A MIRACLE

THE EARTH IS THE LORD!

In June of this year (2008), our ministry paid a visit to the Navosa highlands (this is the district where 9 youths uprooted their marijuana plants and gave their lives to the Lord). We visited the three villages of Navitilevu, Nakoro and Draubuta. As we came to the village of Nakoro we were taken by surprise by something new that we saw in this village. For the last 4 years since we facilitated the htl process there wasn't any proper church building in this community. We had the htl process in a typical bamboo makeshift. But now, right in the middle of the village stands a big concrete church building, which was fully funded by a church organization from South Korea. After meeting the people and hearing how this came about - all they said it is a miracle which they still can't figure out with their mind. We were told that in 2007 out of the blue, one day a truck full of Koreans all the way from Korea came to their community, met the people and said that God told them to come to Fiji to the highlands to build a place of worship. They told the communty that they will fully fund the church building as God had told them. The total cost of the building was $50,000-00FJD. The community was lost of words as they hear this great news from Koreans. Two months later the building of the church started, and in May of this year (2008), the church building were officially opened and the same organization from Korea were guests at this historic occassions. Along with this guests also came some doctors to do free medical treatment to villagers. The Koreans have also committed themselves to be in partnership with this community for the long haul and they have also committed themselves to pay a visit annually and to engage in other new projects. Yes the earth belongs to God - If only we come to covenant relationship with Him and walk in that covenant - HE IS WELL ABLE TO DO ANYTHING THAT WE JUST CAN'T FIGURE OUT WITH OUR MINDS....
Why did Nakoro got this proper treatment? It is because Gods eyes and ears is upon that place to hear their prayer because they have lived 2Chronicles 7:14 and when that happens, vs 15 is a must....

Community Development

In the begining of this year, theHTL ministry began launching out into our community development programme. After the htl process has been done in communities we than shift into looking at developing them physically. We believe in the wholistic development of a person, so it is not only developing them spiritually. Physical and mental is also important because than you are reaching out the whole person. So our communty development programme is headed by Mr Chuck MacCay a missionary from Australia. The ministry is also blessed by Dr. Ms Ana Spink who is a doctor by profession from Australia now works with the ministry as the Health Development Officer. This year we began with our community development in few communities. One of the strategy we use is called "Appropriate Technology" whereby we aware the community to use whatever they have available to develop themselves, e.g. they don't have to buy timber from the hardware store in town to built their houses with, if they have trees on their land - so all they need is to log their timbers e.t.c.
We also teach them to undertake projects in terms of Needs rather than Wants. If they were to priorities between road upgrading and drinking water - we help them to priorities drinking water. We also have taught the communities that they have to contribute towards community development if it was to succeed. They have to own the vision and it's not an outsider coming in to do development because when he/she leaves definately the project will not succeed. So they have to come up with what development needs to be done in their community and they have to contribute financially or any kind towards that and we(htl ministry) will guide them and also help them in whatever way but the community must be at the drivers seat.
This year we were able to built mudoven in few places. This mudovens were specially built in the interior of the nation. The ones that we have built have been a blessing to these communities because they are now baking bread in the bush and selling them to their community and the surrounding ones. It is generating funds into these communities, so it is no longer the spiritual but the physical has being developed.
Community development head Mr Chuck MacCay has also facilitated micro-finance training to these communities. Dr. Ana Spink has also facilitated some health awareness programme with a few communities. We are looking at engaging all the communities with our community development concept next year.

Pictured above is one of the mudoven made by our community development officers and every material used is provided by the community.

Brethren Churches Interested!

Last week (9th-10th October, 2008) the htl ministry was invited by the Brethren Leadership Council to faciliate a htl training with the Bretheren elders and pastors conference at the Coral Coast in Deuba. This is their annual conference where all Brethren elders and pastors all over Fiji would attend. Rev Vuniani Nakauyaca spoke at this gathering, and we praise the Lord for the doors He has opened to the ministry. The Brethren leaders were very interested in all the sessions and nearly all of them had an opportunity to hear the message for the first time. As soon as the sessions were over they would grab a hold of Rev Vuniani and us the supporting team and ask questions and they would also identify with the things that were taught to them. At this gathering, doors to htl process began opening as churches and different communites represented were serious in having the htl process come to them. They were even amazed by some of the stories of what would happen in a community after the htl process. Again some of them were exposed to these stories for the first time and they have taken the goods news with them to whereever they came from. Well for this training Rev Vuniani and us the supporting team are very excited of what God is going to do in the next few months. Yes indeed He has fed the Brethren church with the five fish and two loaves of bread that we brought them.......

Pictured above are the Brethren Church leaders at the htl seminar.
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