HEALING THE LAND FIRE SPREADS TO THE NORTH

The Healing the Land Team that travelled to Northern Canada in 2006. This pctured is taken in Rankin Inlet.

In July of 2006, a 11 member Healing the Land Team from Fiji including Rev Vuniani Nakauyaca were invited by the several communities in Nunavut (Northern Canada) to facilitate Healing the Land Process. The HTL Ministry partnered with the Canada Awakening Ministries in this mission trip to the North. We facilitated a 3day process in Rankin Inlet whereby the people of the land sought the Lord with a heart of humility and repentance was high on the agenda. People were repenting on behalf of the sins on the land - that is the sin of their forefathers and also different tribes reconciling with one another. There was also a time whereby the white brothers and sisters from the Canada Awakening Ministry led by Roger Armbruster took center stage and humbly confess to the people teh sins of the white people group who called the early Whalers, who not only came to do whaling but also use the females of the community during that time as sex slaves. So God was moving in the hearts of the people during these 3 days and literally was healing them from their hurts and pains. The HTL team than cleanse and speak blessing to the land. On the 4th day 15,000 carriboue roam back the land after 6 years of absence and their was also stories of black barries growing where they never grew and in bigger sizes, something which is totally rare to the community of Rankin Inlet. Also came back was the Whales and in large quantity after years of absence from the community.

On the same day the manifestation of God blessings began pouring on the land the HTL Team left for Pangnirtung where they faciliatated another HTL process. It was a week long process, but God did something very speacial with this community. There were lot of repentance, reconciliation with one another. But the most touching moment was when the 2 different denomination in this community reconciled for the first time and have vowed to work together and be the one church in the community. It was pretty much the issues or social ills that were occuring in Rankin Inlet was also occuring in Pangnirtung. So the people took their rightful palce and repentanted to God for the sins of the land because they now see for the first time that it was becuase of their sins the land has been cursed by God and the only way to lift that curse is for people who are called by Hi s name to stand in the gap and confess the sins of the land and also to covenant the land and people to God. This actually happened towards the climax of the HTL process whereby the Mayor of the community together with the church leaders and the whole community renewed their covenant with Lord. As this was taking place a rainbow hovered the meeting place at night. It was God confirming that he will never again curse the land as a sign to Noah during his days but now it was a sign to this community during their days.

After the HTL process news begin to broke out in communities that something new is happening there. God begin to bless the sea with its creatures and aslo the some young people begin to give up on drugs and have decided to follow the Lord. It was aslo reported that carriboue are back and black berries of today outnumbers the produce of yester years, flowers begin to grow where they don't used to. People are also healed and are begining to attend church. This move of God has led us into sending two of our missionary to work with the community in sustaining what has been accomplished so far. Below is an update we received from one of the member of the community:

Hi Savenacayour welcome for my little part. Semisi used my computer to send the pic's to u and came from my photo library told him to send them through direct from the pic library and it worked so he wont have to do all the hastle copy to his email anyways they have been teaching what they've been taught about the healing of the land ministry and the people here have responded with a very good out pouring of prayer and humbleling in our Lord's presence. we have seen slowly the blesings of animal's coming abundantly now the bird's called ptarmigan's are coming here even around our community and rabbit's and fox's so we have been getting ready for our first travel to Povinituk, Quebec Canada outside Nunavut we have been praying for that community and our own. and for that we know we well go through trial's and i'm already feeling the hardship our opposition is giving to my family and my self so keep praying for us as we ought to lay our life for our friend's.

your brother in Christ Andrew Qappik

Pangnirtung.

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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