God is faithful!!!

By God's grace we have purchased all but 7 tickets for the LIGHT AFRICA 2011 project and need only $10,000 more to make our goal.  Please join us to make this trip possible.

LIGHT Africa 2011

Dear Friends,

Please join us in prayer for the upcoming trip to Africa.  We have 11 teams poised and ready to go.  The local hosts have over 500 participants registered for the 1 month courses.  We plan to train over 3500 people using the New Beginnings DVD's.  But, we have a dilemma - we are $35,000 short of the amount needed to purchase our plane tickets.  Please visit www.lightingtheworld.org/africa.html for more information about this endeavor.

Safely in Guatemala and Belize

Thank you very much for your prayers for our mission teams going to Guatemala and Belize. Four LIGHT schools began today with 115 people signed up - and more will likely join.

For more information about these specific project please be sure to check the Guatemala and Belize blogs by clicking on the flag on the project page at www.lightingtheworld.org to keep up to date with what is happening there. You can also see what happening at other projects by clicking on their flags.

Thank you all very much for your prayers and support!

Visit us in Atlanta

Please stop by and visit our booth at the General Conference in
Atlanta. We are at booth 215 and would love talking with you. God is
doing great things!

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Rodney Bowes
Mobile

Let there be light

Most of the windows are now installed. Let the light shine!

Roof is on!

The Lord sent help just in time to get roof on before heavy
thunderstorms hit the area.

Praise. The Lord

By God's grace and extra help we got ALL the trusses up... Praise the
Lord!!!

Walls are up

Today we got all the walls up and then... The trusses came early -
surprise!!! We scrambled to get the area prepared and God helped us.
Here is a picture of one of the first trusses going up.

Plywood is down

Last Friday we got the flooring down.

Floor joists are up

After serious rain this past weekend we are making progress!

Concrete floor is almost finished!

Just a few more yards and the basement floor will be done!

Progress on the office

We are making slow but steady progress. On Monday we were blessed to
have two experienced builders help us for a while! Keep us in your
prayers - 12 inch blocks are heavy!

First row!

James is pictured laying the first row of block - it's coming together.
Please keep us in your prayers.

Mixing the mortar

Here is Paul mixing the mortar - a very critical job.

Sunny day!

Praise the Lord for a beautiful sunny day to start laying block. The
crew pictured below is receiving counsel from Doug, an experienced
builder.

Block arrives on rainy day

The block arrived yesterday during a strong rainstorm... it's in
God's hands!

New Office

Today we poured the footing for the new LIGHT office in Wildwood, GA.

We are moving forward in faith and are planning to start laying the block tomorrow!

Below is a slide show of the site:



Keep us in your prayers! If you would like to help us in any way with this project we would appreciate it.

Update from the Philippines

With God's leading, the LIGHT (Lay institute for Global Health Training) school is running the third batch of 6months training course in Nueva Era, Ilocos Norte. Opened last January 11, 2010, it is already on it's 8th week of school activities and work education-filled with spirit-inspired messages and Christ's object lessons.

Work Education as a part of curriculum, is done 4 times a week(Mon-Thurs) morning from 8am- 11:30am, is a Bible based principle. 2 Thes. 3:10 says.....that if any would not work, neither should he eat. As a self-supporting institution, the students help in developing facilities, huts, garden and in other ministries.

Sign of the Times says, "When useful labor is combined with sudy...much more benefit is derived from work performed in the open air than from indoor exercise."

Each morning, 3groups in their working outfit will be assigned into diferent areas: 1 group in the kitchen ubder the supervision of Alma Zarate ad Shey Garcia; 1 in agriculture and in ground cleaning under Rey Daguplo.

As the sudents learn to cook, bake, plant and to handle bolo with diferent uses, they are also learning character development, so we Praise the Lord for bringing us into the School of Christ.

Allan Faina,
Better Way Foundation, Philippines

LLBN Christian Connections Interview

Rodney and Julie were on LLBN this past Tuesday for a 15 minute interview about what God is doing around the world.

You can view the program at http://www.llbn.tv/English_TV.html or the satellite channel at the following times...

Thursday at 3:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time - PST)
Friday at 8:00 am (PST)
Sabbath at 5:30 pm (PST)

Be strong in the LORD and in the power of HIS might!

Rodney Bowes,
Field Director

Expanded Downloads Section

Hello friends,

Please check out our expanded "downloads" section at www.lightingtheworld.org.

Have a wonderful day!

Rodney Bowes
Field Director

Changed lives in Honduras

Students are already changing their diets and contemplating the next moves in their lives.

One young student was not even attending church, attended nearly all the classes, and
at the close of the classes has decided to dedicate her life to the Lord, and is continuing her
ministry training at IBC which started February 8, 2010.

For the Health Expo, the Lord provided us the best inside location at the most upscale mall in Tegucigalpa for no charge with free advertisement in the local newspaper! The expo ran from 11am
until 7pm continuously , servicing approx. 400 people. The Asst. Marketing director for the mall asked for more health expos and even asked when we could be back to do another expo, or health seminars.

Michael Teti,
LIGHT volunteer

Special Course for World Vision in Honduras

None of the participants of this course are Seventh-Day Adventist, however this group was one that showed great, longterm interest. The participants of this course were so interested in the course that they decided to go to the other class (SDA) whenever they missed a day or in order to hear more about what was being presented in the classwork.

Dr. Irma Servellon, the director of the World Vision ADP, decided it would be great to hold a LIGHT course after hearing about the course content. Even though she is evangelical she decided she would like to receive the whole curriculum –not only the health section. After taking the course Dr. Irma (who had previously said would never again enter an Adventist church) specially thanked the teachers and let them know that in her 34 years in an evangelical church she had never heard anything that had impressed her as much as what was taught during the course. Dr. Irma is the aunt of Gabriela Chicas who helped organize the course. Gabriela has been working with VIDA for the past seven months in the Marketing and Public Relations Department, and has applied for the entrance in the 6 month CHE program – July class.

It was the participants’ initiative to request that VIDA organize a vegetarian cooking class in order to put into practice all the knowledge obtained from the health classes. They all signed up for a class that has yet to be scheduled and organized.

The knowledge obtained by these participants is now being considered how to best introduce to the other 200 World Vision volunteers who work directly with people in very needy areas in Tegucigalpa.

Maria Dolores Ramirez, a psychologist who participated in the course, requested more information on courtship in order to prepare a conference she will hold for a network of evangelical pastors. It is important to point out that the Christian Association class was not taught because of a lack of time; however she went over the material herself.

Michael Teti,
LIGHT Volunteer

Divine Appointments

Yesterday we had the opportunity to give several massages to different leaders in the South Asia Division, and also the South African Division President Pr. Paul Ratsara. The way the Lord led us to the right place was amazing. We were asked by Dr. Enoch to deliver some charcoal to a Conference official's wife. When we arrived at the hotel we noticed the banner that said South Asia Division Administration meeting with the main speaker being Pastor Ratsara. While looking for the room we ran into many of the Union Preisdents and had encouraging, supporting talks with them. When we finally found the wife of the conference official we came to know that she was Pastor Ratsara's wife. They invited us into their room and we had a nice conversation.

We left the room but we realized we had missed an opportunity to share more about the Medical Missionary work. But praise the Lord, Shawn forgot his waterbottle in the room. We went back and got the waterbottle and asked the Pastor if he wanted a massage. He said yes and we treated him quite nicely after the evening devotion. We were invited to join the the evening meal and join in the evening devotion. After which we began giving massages to several division Presidents. We eventually asked for time to present the LIGHT program to the group of Presidents and they gave us 15 mintues. It is beyond our feeble conceptions how the Lord works these situations out. Today we gave a brief presentation and passed out the LIGHT brocheres to the leaders. Generally there was a good reception,and we have received many invites to train the lay people in different parts of India.

Joshua Subhash,
India Field Coordinator

Shawn Craig,
volunteer

LLBN Interview

By God's grace I will be having an interview at Loma Linda Broadcasting Network next Tuesday, February 16, at 5:30 p.m. Please pray that the swelling from my bone graft surgery (tomorrow at 7:45 a.m) will have subsided by then.

Update from Nepal

Things are going well here in Nepal, and so far we have a crowd of about 30 or more individuals that came out last night. So keep us in prayer! Blessings!

Lisa Puffer
LIGHT Team Leader

Miracles in India

I just returned from India on Friday and am absolutely amazed as I reflect upon what the LORD did in just one month. Here is a summary of the things that I saw (there was much more behind the scenes I'm sure!):

8 one month trainings involving

• 27 volunteers
• approximately 225 participants

Health Expo's throughout the country impacting over 1600 people

Visit and support from the parliment

Many requests to do more schools!

by Rodney Bowes, Field Director