40 days prayer/fasting

BAJA BLESSINGS

YOSHIMI MARCH/APRIL 2010 UPDATE

FROM CHILDREN’S BREAKFAST MINISTRY…..TO MEN’S VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER…..TO HOME MINISTRY

One of the most exciting IDT developments began months ago when IDT began helping a men’s Halfway House serve breakfast to children in the Triqui Village every Saturday. As word spread of the 100-200 hungry children being fed both physically (breakfast) and spiritually (Bible study), local business’s also got involved financially helping purchase the food. As the weeks turned into months and the numbers grew, moms and dads began coming also. They, too, desired spiritual feeding as well as physical, so more Bible studies began forming. One of our missionary men (a professional carpenter) began teaching these men how to make simple furniture. One man, Angel, cried the first time he made a little table. A life ruined by drugs for so many years had turned into giving of himself through feeding children, sharing his testimony at Bible studies and now creating something beautiful with his hands. As the weeks wore on these men came up with the idea of going house to house asking the people what furniture needs they had (some had only cardboard for beds and buckets for chairs). This has become such a wonderful ministry tool as they build for the families, make friendships and pray and share the Lord with these humble people. The groups that come to do house builds have also begun hiring these men to build all of the furniture for the house builds. We see such great opportunities in the furthering of God’s Kingdom with this tool. Just as these broken lives were healed by God’s mercy, they now walk the streets with hands and hearts outstretched sharing His mercy. “He who is forgiven much, loves much”.

MERCY…In studying the life of David, the Lord brought to light a virtue in David’s life that was not evident in the life of his predecessor King Saul. That was the virtue of mercy. Over and over David showed mercy. He was merciful to Saul twice, to Nabal, to Absalom, to Mephibosheth, to Shimei and many others. Our Lord said mercy would be shown to those who show mercy and when David fell the Lord was merciful to him. We learn from David’s life that mercy is like insurance. We make small payments of mercy so that when we get ourselves into trouble we might reap big dividends. We’re covered. Every day God gives us opportunities to pay into our insurance policy by acts of mercy. I’m not referring to acts of kindness. God does call us to this also, but acts of mercy, or forgiveness, extending undeserved, unsolicited acts of mercy. Whether at home, on the road or at work, God watches to see if we’re paying our ‘insurance premium’.

At our house we have a swallow that has recently built a nest under the eave over our front door. The only problem with that is whenever it enters his nest, he has a bowel movement on the front of our house. Kath wanted me to knock down the nest but I told her I’m leaving it and that I would clean up after it. I daily want to be reminded of my need to extend mercy to others, knowing soon I’ll stand before our Lord and give an account. May God have mercy on us all.

Steve and Kathy Yoshimi

IDT Baja

The Voice

December, 2009 1st Edition

Christmas Blessings

Over the past three years I.D.T. has put on their annual Christmas Carnival for the local Schools in Zarahembla and we were able to bless children from three communities as well. This is a great time in that our missionary Children can reach out to others. The kids entered and received a shoebox and a bag of candy that contained free tickets to play games and win prizes. There was the ever popular cake walk, arm wrestling, ring toss, ball toss and fishing for prizes. They ate, drank and were merry, free coffee and punch was provided. Every box went out with the word of God inside. Many of Zarahembla were blessed that would normally not step onto our Grounds. We would like to thank Church of the lighted cross in Southern California for stepping out and blessing the less fortunate.

Love in a shoebox

Love in a shoebox was a great success, and the name of Jesus was preached without words. We would like to thank all of the churches who participated this year, and to those who were unable to we can’t wait to work with you next year.. We received over 2600 boxes filled with goodies. I wish you all could have been here to see the faces of the children who received them. Several of the Missionaries held special outreaches in their ministries and Churches, preaching the gospel and blessing the children. Piñatas were seen flying and candy falling. We are so blessed to be able to be the feet that deliver these gifts from those who have been the hands that put them together. They were distributed, not only through our missionaries here at IDT but also the pastor's we have relationship with throughout the year. Thank you so much to those who have helped support this effort and pray for us here. We would ask that this wouldn’t only start in October, but that we would all pray now for the boxes for next year.

From all of us at IDT we would like to wish you a Blessed new year in Jesus. May the Lord bless you richly this year. Julie Tate, Shoebox coordinator, 2009

December, 2009 1st Edition

Meet the Missionaries

Meet the Harding Family; they are Rich, Judy, and Grace. They hail from the great state of Idaho. We are

very happy to have this family serving with us. Judy is involved in many things but it is evident that this sister has a strong gifting in the helps ministry, If there is a need you’ll find Judy there. She is ministering in campos and helping feed close to 90 children as a way to evangelize, she is also teaching the piano. Their daughter Grace is in High school, studying and is frequently found helping mom help others. Rich Harding is involved with a Men’s halfway house. He has built an incredible shop to teach the men to build furniture and as a trade they have to donate two days a week, building furniture to be given away just like the houses. Rich says this will be just one more way to say The Harding’s are a great addition to the IDT family and we are blessed to have them here with us.

The Pastors Pen

I was reading in Revelation 21 this morning, "Now I saw a NEW Heaven and a NEW earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, NEW Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband" In verse 5, John continues "Then He who sat on the Throne said "Behold, I make all things NEW" What drew my attention was the word NEW. In the Greek as well as the Hebrew language, the word NEW denotes not only new or recent in time, but newness in QUALITY OR FRESHNESS. This freshness is the work of one Person, Jesus Christ. Because of His cleansing blood we are now NEW CREATIONS. (2nd Cor. 5:17) God gives us a NEW sunrise every morning to remind us He is a God of NEW beginnings who makes all things NEW, FRESH AND CLEAN. Every morning His mercies are NEW. (Lam 3:22,23) We begin every day with a clean slate. As I start this NEW year I rejoice that it is He who makes all things NEW not me. Over and over, mistake after mistake, I return to the God of NEW beginnings and He receives me into His loving arms. We are above all people truly blessed.

Pastor Steve Yoshimi

If you would like to partner with us in one of the ministries you have seen, in prayer, physically or financially contact Stan Schultz mission_

opportunities@idtmissions.org

In one of our Tuesday morning prayer times there was a word that the Lord wanted to give us ( our IDT family) a gift…..the gift of mourning. (mourning #3997 lament, bewail ) “ the utterance of grief in different degrees of intensity. In some verses it applies to what goes in the depth of one’s heart but does not outwardly manifest itself, but in other verses it refers to a grief, a mourning that is one that manifests itself externally,” taken from Synonyms of the New Testament by Richard C. Trench. One example of the external mourning is Matt 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. The promise to those that mourn is that they will be( comforted #3870 to receive, consolation, encouragement, comfort, strengthening.) I believe this also can refer to James 5:16”Confess your trespasses, to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” When we resist this mourning and this confession/transparency we end up walking in darkness and not walking in the light (!John 1:6,7). Walking in darkness in any way, not only affects our fellowship with Him, but also with one another.

“The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. The Spirit of God apprehends me and I am obliged to get alone with God and fight the battle out before Him Until this is done, I lose every time. The battle may take one minute or a year, that will depend on me, not on God, but it must be wrestled out alone before God.

Belief is not an intellectual act; belief is a moral act whereby I deliberately commit myself. If there is one standard in the New Testament revealed by the light of God and you do not come up to it, and do not feel inclined to come up to it, that is the beginning of backsliding, because it means your conscience does not answer to the truth. You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth. That moment marks you for going on as a more true disciple of Jesus Christ or for going back as a deserter.” Quotes from Oswald Chambers “My Utmost for His Highest” (John 12:35, 1John 1:7)

Heb 12:1,2 “Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us (following words in parenthesis are the word definitions in Greek)

( lay aside # 659, to put off or aside or away from one self)

( every weight #3591 encumbrance, whatever is prominent)and the

(sin #266 miss the mark, wander from the path of uprightness, violation of God’s law)which doth so easily

(besets # 2139 entangles, skillfully surrounding that which prevents or retards running)us and let us

( run #5143 exert one’s self, strive hard, spend one’s strength in performing)with

(patience #5281 endurance, steadfastness, consistency, not to be swerved from my deliberate purpose, sustaining perseverance)

( the race #73 the place of contest, the arena or stadium, any struggle or contest)

(set before us #4295 to be placed before the eyes, to lie in sight )

(Looking #872 to turn my eyes away from other things and fix them on something else) unto Jesus, the

(author #747 one that takes the lead in anything, an example, pioneer) and

( finisher #5051 perfector, one who has in His own person raised faith to its perfection and so set before us the highest example of faith) who for the

(joy #5479 gladness, the cause or occasion of joy, of persons who are one’s joy “I was the joy that was set before Him”) that was

(set before #4295 to be placed before the eyes, to lie in sight) Him

(endured #5278 remained, did not recede or flee, persevere under misfortune, hold fast, bear bravely and calmly)

the cross , despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Take some time and journal the above Scriptures (Matt 5:4, James 5:16, John 12:35, 1John 1:6,7, Heb 12:1,2) and ask the Holy Spirit for His conviction on where you might need to “mourn”)

YOSHIMI OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2009 UPDATE

BAJA BLESSINGS

Hola from sunny baja!

STEVE AND KATHY (ABOVE PICTURE WAS A DREAM OUR FRIEND HAD WHEN I WAS IN SURGERY) “IN THE ARMS OF JESUS”

they have been listening to by Lloyd. We pray it will be a time of fun, fellowship and learning how to get the most out of God's Word.

Our Christmas shoebox program is beginning to receive presents from the U.S. and Canada for our local children. Please pray that there will be enough for each child to receive a present this year. With the hard economic times donations of presents are down but God can multiply presents as easily as loaves and fishes.

Summer is over and fall has arrived. It's quieter than years past with fewer groups visiting us. There's been more time for reflection, resetting priorities and planning for the future. This year has brought many changes. I had 2 surgeries in the last year. A double bypass and cancer surgery. God has been faithful and thus far the tests show that I am on the mend.

In April I accepted the senior pastor position for Living Waters Fellowship (our missionary

fellowship). I also have the responsibility of our Mexican and Indian pastors. They are such gentle, humble men in need of much prayer and spiritual support. In a couple of weeks our friend and teacher Dan Finfrock will be returning to teach the 2nd level Inductive Bible Study seminar to these pastors and our missionaries.’ The pastors had been receiving Pastors Lloyd’s teaching CD’s and this seminar will teach them how to study and prepare sermons like the ones

HEAL ROSA ( A TUMOR NOT A BABY) ROSA’S HOUSEBUILD DEDICATION

PRAYING FOR ROSA

Some of our ministries

I wanted to give a brief description of some of the ministries that we are

involved with so that you can be praying. As every other mission field we have many many ministries, and very few laborers. Many of our missionaries are involved with 2 or more of the following. We also provide opportunities for the groups that come down to participate in these ministries also.

Good Samaritan Seniors Home When: Any day Where: Downtown Vicente Guerrero

Who: Seniors with health care needs and no families able to provide for them Why do outreach: To provide companionship and God’s love, to become aware of what needs could be met from home – prayer, donations of clothing, etc

Senior Center/Luis When: Any day Where: Jaramillo(about 30 min north) Who: Disabled men Why to do outreach: To provide companionship and God’s love, to become aware of what needs could be met from home-prayer, donations of clothing, etc.

Zarahembla Reachout

Where: Various Zarahembla locations Who: Area residents – neighbors of IDT

Why do outreach: To assist in establishing relationships in the largely Mormon community of Zarahembla, to share the love of Christ with them through our friendships with both children and adults.

Joel - Nueva Vida Men’s Rehab Centre: when: Arrangements to be made through IDT Outreach Co-ordinators.

Where: El Pabellon, about 45 minutes south of IDT Why do outreach: To meet with the men undergoing rehab for drug and alcohol addictions, to encourage them and to hear their testimonies around a camp fire. Many of these men have gone on to Bible School and graduated and have become pastors.

– Casa del Sembrador Men’s Rehab Centre: When: Any evening except Wednesday or Sunday Where: Trece de Mayo (a village on the hill behind IDT) Who: Men in rehab/treatment for drug and alcohol addiction Why do outreach: to assist the residents of this rehab center to reach out into their community, especially to youth at risk for drug and alcohol abuse, to provide a meal and a worship time or Jesus film and testimony time where the residents share their stories with the youth.

single women and their children in home outreach – up to 200 women and children attend each day, varying by what work is available to the mothers and the older children.

IDT Children’s Ministry (La Paloma): When: Any day and time with prior arrangement

Where: Manzano’s home property in Zarahembla, just down the street from IDT Karen Wind,(Alex and Gumaro) Stan and Charmy Unger (in town) Bill and Peggy Sopher (Maria)

Who: Orphaned, abandoned, abused or troubled children from all over the Baja

Fishing VillageMinistry: When: Tuesday mornings 9:00 – 1:00pm Where: Community of La Chorrerra (45 minutes south) Who: the fishers and their wives (often just the wives when the men are working). Why do outreach: to encourage and support this community which often lives at a subsistence level depending on shellfish stocks for food and income (when plentiful enough to sell). Take a simple meal to share with them and join them in worship in their

– Campos and Home Outreach/School: When: Campos - Tuesday 3pm - 7pm and Thursday 3pm - 6pm, Home Outreach - Wednesday, Friday and Saturday mornings 10am - 12 or later Where: Campos - Farm Men & women’s prayer-6:30 labor camps near Vicente Guerrero (Tuesday is about an hour away, Thursday is 15 minutes from IDT); Home Outreach – Elia’s home in Zapata Who: Farm laborers and their families in campos; primarily

Church Outreach, A.L.M:

When: Monday evening,

pm.

Wednesday evening church service-6:30 pm.

Sunday Morning church service-10:30am.

Where: Colonia Aldolfo Lopez Mateo, Open air

When- early evenings Who- Youth groups in San Quintin Valley Why do outreach? Share the gospel and to encourage the youth in the church What king of outreach- Sports, Music, Evangelistic Dance and/or Drama What needs- Prayer, Instruments, projector for movies, movies, funds for food

Halfway House for young men (Cesear) When – every Sat morning to help serve breakfast

Who- the teenagers that live in Triqui, (many have gotten out of rehab and are trying to stay clean

Why do outreach? After breakfast there is a Bible Study and fellowship

Also a few of our missionary men are beginning to teach these young men a trade (carpentry)

What needs- tools, money for breakfast and building materials

- La Huerta Day Care

When: Any morning until 1:30 p.m with advance notice please Where: Las Missiones (Dome) Who: children of farm workers

Why do outreach? To assist with the care, protection, and spiritual as well as physical needs of the children of Triqui working parents. For each child and their family to come to know the love of Jesus. To encourage and assist parents to enroll their children in public school by the provision of school uniforms, shoes, and various school supplies. Ruth- Ann is also the Patient Coordinator for Prosthethic Clinics conducted several times

a year by certified prosthetics and orthothodics specialist, Michael Beck of Stockton, CA who provides prosthetic legs, braces, or AFO's to impoverished people.

Angel Baeza - Mobility Angels: When: Every day of the week with prior arrangement with him by e-mail at mobilityangels@yahoo.com or by phone at 646-619-819-9371 or through IDT outreach coordinators.

Where: San Vicente, a town about one and a quarter hours north of Vicente Guerrero. Who: Disabled

Why do outreach: To meet with physically disabled orphans who are learning job skills, to interact with them and encourage their sense of self- worth; to encourage Angel (disabled himself) as he works toward establishing a ministry to provide long-term employment for these children; to financially assist Angel in his ministry by buying his jewelry and carvings as you are able to do so.

LOCAL PASTORS: There are about forty churches active in the San Quintin valley and IDT supports the pastors’ efforts to evangelize their communities and to establish their congregations and relationships within their communities.

While not members of IDT or volunteered at by IDT staff at this time, these ministries are close to our hearts and IDT supports them wherever and however possible – with street outreaches, prayer, encouragement, “rice and beans” ministry, emergency funds, purchasing and building

tables, pews, tables for their churches etc. and encourages build teams to get to know the pastor in their build community and perhaps participate in an outreach with them – dinner and a movie or concert is a popular outreach as is VBS with the children.(approximate cost of outreach $250.00) Tracts always needed

PRAYER REQUESTS:

We have been sensing quite a burden to pray for our youth here in the Baja and also our missionary youth. Please join with us as we seek the Lord’s heart for this young generation.

Also:

1. Wisdom in leading this small band of missionaries

2. Continual prioritizing. 3. Inductive Bible Study

Seminar 4. Christmas Shoebox Program

Many short and long-term laborers needed. Anyone interested in volunteering please contact us at:

kathy@idtmissions.org

syoshimi@idtmissions.org

see website:

www.idtmissions.org