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Greetings Prayer Warrior!

We have just confirmed our invitation with Simon Martins to be in India again this summer to teach and train another class full of missionaries!

Please help send us as your representatives to the body of Christ and to the unreached in India!

Training Indian Missionaries is one of the best long term strategies for reaching that great nation.

Because of you we were able to bless and help train Sagar. The pictures below are of him and the ministry that he is now involved with in Maharastra, India. You helped send him!

Super Blessings to You!

In Jesus,

Jon and Julianna
Worldwide Awakening Missionary Trainers

P.S. We are designating the $761.00 raised for our cancelled January trip towards this one. Now we are just believing God for the rest!

P.P.S. We might be able to get our ticket prices on sale if we buy them sooner rather than at the last minute. Wouldn’t it be nice to see that funding goal drop lower?

You Helped Send Him!

 

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Distributing Food

 

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The Future of India

 

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Women and Children in Maharastra

 

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Children in Maharastra

 

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Greetings Prayer Warrior!

I just saw this great site with some pictures of Jaipur, India. I do not know the people (Jacob Murphy and others) that took the pictures and I do not know if they are Christians (I think probably not), but if you want to see some great pictures that will give you a feel for the people and the place click on any of these pictures:

Rickshaw Ride

Women at Work

A Jaipur Alley

We were unable to go in January as planned, but we just received the official new dates in a few months! So if you made a donation towards our January trip that money will be forwarded directly to this next one.

We would appreciate your prayers as we pray and plan and raise the rest of the funds!

Worldview Discussion Night

If you have not been to one of our Worldview Discussion Nights and you want to learn more about the foundations of Christian Thinking and how to apply the Gospel to Everything reply to this email and let me know that you want to come! They are in Sycamore (sorry to the rest of the world) and we schedule them one at a time based on who is interested.

Let me know if you are interested in being a part!

God Bless Your Socks Off!

In Jesus,

Jon (and Julianna)
Worldwide Awakening Ministries

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Greetings Prayer Warrior!

First of all I’d like to welcome several new subscribers to the Worldwide Awakening Update.  Welcome!  I hope you are blessed by Good News!

I want to share briefly about two year end “special needs.”

1. I (Jon) am supposed to be in India in January to help teach in the DTS (Discipleship Training School) in Jaipur.  They are counting on me coming.  Julianna is not going on this trip.  We are believing God for $3,800.00 for India.  These Missionary World Changers in Training are worth your investment!
2. We are in the process of the final step to gaining recognition by the IRS as a Tax Exempt organization.  (Don’t worry, it is retroactive to when we started).  We legally qualify but there is one final administrative step.  We still owe $100.00 to the pros who are doing the work for us and the IRS wants $850.00.  We are believing God to have that money and send in the papers before the end of the year or immediately at the beginning of January!

	The IRS wants $850.00!

Would you be willing to make a Year End Donation of $60, $100, $300, $600, or whatever amount God puts in your heart?  I know a lot of people like to do their giving at the end of the year and I hope you will consider India and Worldwide Awakening Ministries in your planning!

Write your check out to Worldwide Awakening Ministries and mail it to 3230 Sycamore Road #139, DeKalb, IL, 60115-9621.  If it is postmarked by December 31st it will receive a 2011 receipt.  Or you can click on the “Donate” button below for online giving options.

Prayer Requests

• Our co-workers in Jaipur (The Martins family) and the entire missionary campus are in a real financial fire.  They have had to give up one of the floors in the building they are in.  Please pray for provision for them!
• Pray for the final completion of the 501(c)(3) process for Worldwide Awakening Ministries
• Pray for Jon’s trip to India in 2011
• Pray for an effective Kingdom expanding 2011

God Bless Your Socks Off!

In Jesus,
Jon (and Julianna)
Worldwide Awakening Ministries

P.S.  Send me a quick email to let me know if you are sending a donation!  It helps with planning.  :-)

P.P.S.  If you are wondering about the picture in the header of this email – these are some students from our recent class at their graduation!

The Legendary “Sin Skit” (I think)

Outreach Testimonies from Leah – DTS reporter from Northeast India:

• In Guwahati:
  • A punjabi lady was healed of her numbness on her body from head to toe (right side)
  • An aunt named Ajau was completely healed from her gall bladder stone problem [Medical report verifies this!]
  • A lady was healed from her illness (inexplicable lethargy and weakness)
  • Another lady doesn’t have to undergo kidney transplant as doctors feared

• In Ajmer:
  • 3 people got a new connection with God

• In Nagaland:
  • In Kohima several youth accepted Christ
  • One teacher in Jalukie was a hindu but wants to accept Christ
  • In a drug rehab centre in Jalukie several men accepted Christ (they were desperate for God in their lives)

Believing God to Return!

When I was in Missions training over the years one of the things that I learned was how important it is to raise up the local people to reach the lost and lead the church and the mission effort in their own nation!

This is what we have been doing each time we go to India – training yound people who are becoming the next generation of missionaries and leaders.

We are invited to return in January.  At this point, that would take a financial miracle!  (Then again, it seems we should be getting used to miracles by now!)  :-)

Will you send us on our way to train another class with a year end donation?  We are believing God for some $300 donations, some $1000+ donations and anything God puts in the hearts of our team to send!

Please make your donation today, or if you intend to help us get to India again but can’t send it today please reply to this email and let us know your plan.

Be Blessed This Christmas Season!

In Jesus,

Jon (and Julianna)

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Year End Donations:   I know that some like to end the year with a special donation to the ministries that are on their heart.  Would you make a donation to get us back to India in January to train another class of World Changers?  We have only just launched our – January 2012 fundraiser so we haven’t raised any of our goal as of yet.  Be the first one right now!  :-)

We actually urgently need several hundred dollars to renew Jon’s passport and have his ten year visa moved to the new passport.  All before we go!

We are also believing God for some money in the “general fund” for things like finishing our IRS filing (a $900 cost).

In some years the donations that come in about right now are the one’s that keep us going.  Thanks for your consideration!

A Testimony from Digum – one of our students from Northeast India:

I am a Christian by birth, but I have many doubt in my mind about God whether He is there or not, until I came … to DTS.

This whole week [Character and Nature of God Week] has been very fun in learning about God. I leaned many new things about God’s Character and Nature which I never know.

Jon’s teaching not only helped me to learn about God, but it teaches me to how we should worship and seek God in every ways in our life.

Digum and his team have just returned from their evangelism outreach and they are currently back in Jaipur for their “debriefing.”

Thanks for helping us train and send Digum!  Pray for him as he decides on the next steps of his missionary journey.

Worldview Transformation Discussion Night

So you are with a team on the Amazon river trying to help a certain people group deal with a recent flood.  It is a poor and neglected people group – the other Brazilians mistreat them.  The local “village elders” are skeptical of your desire to help because they blame the suffering on the fact that some have turned to this “new” God – Jesus – as a result of a missionary from southern Brazil.  What strategies do you and your team use to reach and help this group of people?

We opened our evening with a discussion about this scenario and then moved into a teaching time where I (Jon) shared about the several key themes of the whole Bible and why Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy make up the foundational basis of God’s Worldview teaching.

And the snacks were good.

Don’t you wish you were there?

If you live in the Northern Illinois area we are holding our next “Worldview Transformation Night” on Monday Evening of the 28th of November.  If you are not already “in the loop” and you wish to be a part please reply to this email and let me know!

Thank you for believing in what God can do through Worldwide Awakening!

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Year End Donations:   I know that some like to end the year with a special donation to the ministries that are on their heart.  Would you make a donation to get us back to India in January to train another class of World Changers?  We have only just launched our – January 2012 fundraiser so we haven’t raised any of our goal as of yet.  Be the first one right now!  :-)

We actually urgently need several hundred dollars to renew Jon’s passport and have his ten year visa moved to the new passport.  All before we go!

We are also believing God for some money in the “general fund” for things like finishing our IRS filing (a $900 cost).

In some years the donations that come in about right now are the one’s that keep us going.  Thanks for your consideration!

In Jesus,

Jon (and Julianna)

Greetings Prayer Warrior!

You sent us to India to train a class of missionary candidates.  They are now finishing up the evangelism outreach portion of their training!

Here are a few things I have heard from them:

• Spiritual Warfare and Healings in Guwahati in Northeast India
• Ministering to orphans and cleaning the orphanage bathrooms in Delhi
• People getting saved!  (I really like this one!)  I am still waiting for the details
• Protection from falling trees
• Putting on a media seminar in Dimapur in Northeast India

Wait a minute Jon, did you say FALLING TREES?

Yep.  When they first arrived in the Northeast they had problems with a flat tire and were barely missed by a falling tree that easily could have killed or injured somebody!

I think somebody was praying.  :-)

We're working on our January trip budget right now.  We're planning on going back to teach another class!  We will need several thousand dollars to go, and we will need some of that right away because my passport needs renewing and then the 10 year visa has to get moved to the new visa!  (Bureaucracy!)

If you have a heart to reach and mobilize Indian missionaries feel free to make a donation.  :-)

Worldview Night

For those of you who are local to Northern Illinois we are hosting a "Worldview Night!"

When:  Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 7:00pm
What:  Foundational Teachings by Jon, Discussion Time, Fun, Snacks, and Strategizing for the Future
Where:  Sycamore, Illinois  (Reply to this email for details if you are interested)

Thank you for helping us turn the world upside down!

In Jesus,

Jon (and Julianna)
Worldwide Awakening Ministries

A Fun DTS

Greetings Prayer Warrior!

Posted on Facebook by one of our students (named John):

• Top Ten Teachings of Jon Davis:

1. Nature and Character of God
2. God is Triune
3. Jesus should receive the reward of His suffering
4. God is active in human history
5. Man is made in GOD's image
6. Man is created to rule and steward [spelling corrected] the earth
7. Christianity influenced many religions and people (Gandhi)
8. Ideas have consequences
9. Changing external doesn't help (poverty,Crime etc.) change in internal (Heart towards God) would bring a change in external.
10. World-view (Animism, Theism, Naturalism)

I don't know about you, but I find THAT very encouraging! 

The students gave great feedback this trip.  I think they really got it.

Thanks for sending us!

In Jesus,

Jon (and Julianna)
Worldwide Awakening Ministries

P.S.  We're home safe and sound now.  We've been invited to go back in a few months.  (We have also been invited to go back even sooner!  Other pending invitations:  Thailand and Sierra Leone.)

P.P.S.  Please scroll down if you would like to read an update on the fundraiser for this trip.  If you don't like fundraisers, stop reading now! 

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God has spoken to me many times in the past several years about "enough and more than enough."  We have yet to see that manifested in our earthly reality for this India journey.

I'm still holding on to God for the release!

So…  God got us to India and back and we are very grateful for all of the people that gave to Him and thus blessed us and our work.  But in the end, our fundraiser came up $1,650.00 short of the goal.  It seems that the flow dried up as soon as we actually got to India.

We did not make a donation to the YWAM base for housing (to be used for an A/C unit that would bless all of the speakers and perhaps some other guests who come through) so that reduced our cost by $500.00.  Please pray that the gap would be filled in.  We need to get our 501(c)(3) process complete and other things.  Coming up short for this trip means that money needed for other things was used on this trip.

We would very much appreciate your prayers.  I personally believe that there is a strong element of spiritual warfare involved.  Our enemy would say "you can go preach around the world but God won't take care of things back home!"

In Jesus name I defy our enemy on this.

Father, I cry out to You for what you promised:  Enough and More Than Enough!

In Jesus,

Jon

Who is God and What is He Like?

Hi Prayer Warrior!

The Circle of Truth

It’s time to stop believing lies about who God is!

That was the message Friday morning as we made application on a week of teaching on The Character and Nature of God.

In a large circle on the floor were taped many pieces of paper – each with a lie about God or a truth about God.  Each student picked up a piece of paper representing an area where he had a difficult time believing the Goodness of the Character of God.

He (or she) then confessed that they had believed a lie and then stepped into “the Circle of Truth” and proclaimed the truth about God.  There was a paper in the center of the room for each to record for themselves what God was speaking to them at that moment.

It is fun to see another class learn that they exist to Know, Love, and Worship God; and it is moving to see them opening their eyes to Who God Really Is!

Wait a minute Jon, are you saying that you are IN India right now?

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Yep!

It happened so fast that I didn’t even have time to send out a proper email update!  Hopefully you got my quick notice! 

We would appreciate your prayers for health, power, and effectiveness as we continue to teach and train with this class of Indian young people!

We stepped out in faith even though we are still believing God for another $1,650.00.  We would appreciate you standing with us in prayer that this would all come in!  God has been speaking me to me for several years about “enough and more than enough.”  We are still warring to see that manifest in our ministry and lives!

For a refresher on what it is all about please visit www.discipleindia.com.

It’s been hot here, but not as hot as in June when we are usually here!  Instead of 110+ degrees it is more like 90 degrees, and it does “cool” down at night a bit (but not much).  The wonderful Airconditioner Unit that used to take care of us in the heat met an untimely demise when it fell out of a three story window!  (Before our arrival).

Rain cools things down, so pray for rain!  (Spiritually and physically!)

One of the best parts is reuniting with friends and partners-in-the-work here at YWAM Create India!

We appreciate our partners back in the U.S.A (and around the world) as well!

God Bless Your Socks Off!

In Jesus,

Jon (and Julianna)
Worldwide Awakening Ministries

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Good Morning Prayer Warrior!  (Unless of course you check your email in the afternoon or evening!  )

Thanks for tracking with us as we prepare to head out for India!  We don't have all the funds yet but believe that God has led us to start packing and preparing to leave quickly.  This reminds me of our summer 2009 adventure!

We have passed the time to buy our airplane tickets for the "two weeks advance" price, so pray for an amazing miraculous last minute airfare!

We now know a few of our students' names so that you can start praying for India's future missionaries by name!

• Anino
• Udangshree
• Ratan
• Ratna
• John

There are more pending.  Pray that all the right people would be in that classroom with us!

Help pray in those final donations to get us in the air as well! 

If you still need a refresher on what it is all about please visit www.discipleindia.com.

Your missionaries are ready and packing!

God Bless Your Socks Off!

In Jesus,

Jon (and Julianna)
Worldwide Awakening Ministries

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Greetings Prayer Warrior!

Here's a quick update on our ongoing India Trip 2011 fundraiser:

So far we have raised $2,950.00 towards this trip!  We need to buy our airplane tickets in the next few days in order to get the "two weeks advance" airfare.

We are believing God to have the remaining amount ($2,750.00) pledged in the next few days!  If we have enough pledges we will go ahead and buy the tickets, even if it takes a few weeks to actually collect the pledges.

So if you want to make a donation but you cannot do it today please email me and tell me what you want to do and when so we will know if we can move forward!

Of course if you can actually make your donation today that is great as well. 

If you still need a refresher on what it is all about please visit www.discipleindia.com.

Thanks again to those who have already given and thanks for all the prayers!

God Bless Your Socks Off!

In Jesus,

Jon (and Julianna)
Worldwide Awakening Ministries

P.S.  We just sent out an old fashioned postal mail newsletter.  If you don't get those and you want them then let me know!  Sometimes they have stories that are not included in the email updates.