Thursday, July 23, 2009
The God of Missions is the Great God!
By Apostle Success Kanayo Uchime
Kingdom Missions Outreach International Inc.
I and my family left for Asia and precisely Philippines for our missionary assignment in 2008, and without any close relation here in the Philippines and without any secular job doing, still God has been very faithful to us. He has never allowed us to be overwhelmed by what the devil is doing, but has always been with us once at a time.
Isn't that so great! That we have a God who never fails His people is truly amazing, especially those who’re committed to His service. He has continually filled our mouth with joy and we never lacked anything good, just to say the least.
The Lord Has used so many people to be a blessing to my family here in our mission field of the Philippines in the Southeast Asia. We've been doing our evangelism and other missionary work here without much hassle, just because of His faithfulness to us.
We’ve had so many testimonies here in the Philippines to His glory and the good Lord will continue to strengthen us as we move from one barangay (village) to the other. He has never disappointed us and will NEVER do that just for His name’s sake. The Lord even used us to start an organization here - Kingdom Missions Outreach International Inc. and through it, we've been able to touch several lives here in the Philippines. And to learn more, please visit our website: www.kmointer.webs.com
Even just recently God opened another door for ministry for us, by reminding us of the need for us to reach out to the Badjao people. These are a people who’ve been neglected and abandoned for no fault of theirs. To learn more on how the Lord is using us to reach these people please click this link below: http://sites.google.com/site/badjaomissionaryteam/
He’ll never allow the wolves in this part of Asia to consume us, though He has sent us as sheep among them, but still they CAN NEVER touch one hair of our head!
The Lord has kept opening doors upon doors of favor for us here, so please help us thank Him for all His faithfulness and loving kindness towards us. All that we owe Him is more dedication to the calling He has for us, we’ll NEVER fail our God in Jesus name. Amen!
We encourage you to give towards our mission work in the Philippines and to donate online all you do is to click on this link: www.kmointer.webs.com/giveyourdonation.htm
Success Kanayo Uchime
Kingdom Missions Outreach International Inc. (KMOINTER)
GSM +639089857499, +63 9283901971, +639324712532
Websites: www.kmointer.webs.com or www.seamist.org/uchime
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
REACHING THE BADJAO PEOPLE IN THE PHILIPPINES
REACHING THE BADJAO PEOPLE IN THE PHILIPPINES
By: Success Kanayo Uchime
Kingdom Missions Outreach International Inc.
The Lord Jesus Christ is really doing great things in our ministry here in the Philippines. He has opened our eyes to to see the great need amongst the neglected people of Badjao.
The Badjao people are daily crying out, "Come over and help us," hence the mission needs among the people are enormous just to say the lest. And we had no other option than to respond to this divine vision, having been fully convinced that the Lord wants us to be there.
In actual fact our work started there way back in 2007, when I came here in the Philippines for a kind of survey to "spy the land," and know what the Lord would want me do!
Then, I worked among the Badjao leaving in the Barangay Lo-oc, just at the foot of the Lapulapu bridge, in Mandaue city. Then coming back in 2008 with my whole family (my wife and four kids), the Lord started to remind me of my unfinished assignment among the Badjao.
Then flowing with that anointing, I've to start-off again by setting up what's today known and called, the Badjao Missionary Team (BMT), a ministry under Kingdom Missions Outreach International Inc., and the Lord is using the Team mightily to affect the lives of these forgotten people - the Badjao peoples group!
The question that's often asked is, where is the Badjao village or home land? To this we simply say that the Badjao village is in the southern Philippines, on a little stretch of beach on Sarangani Bay, which is just a few miles south of General Santos.
The Badjao are among the displaced people in the Philippines as a result of wars and the death of their traditional fishing culture. There homelands has been taken away from them and their culture is gradally slipping away.
Badjao means "man of the seas" and by tradition, the people are sea nomads, traveling by boat from one island to the other in search of fishing harvest.
Traditionally, they're a seafaring people originating from the Samal Tribe on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines and it needs to be observed that very few people outside of Badjao speak their tribal language.
They spend most, even all of their time on their boats, thus they're often referred to as Sea Gypsies, which is however a loose description given to many unrelated ethnic groups. For example the Badjao isn't related to the Mogen People or the Sea Gypsies of Surin Island, Thailand.
The Badjao people are mainly Moslem, the main religion in Mindanao and their families earn their living almost exclusively from fishing, diving for pearls and harvesting sea products. Some Badjao families have 10-12 children, thereby making poverty inevitable for them.
When the Badjao came to Mindanao's southern coast several centuries ago they built bamboo and nipa huts about three meters above the water level stretching to the sea and these high structures were meant to prevent them during high tides and also for safety against strangers.
The Badjao's long journey for safer environment started in the1970s, at the time when the Moro secessionist’s war was raging. They thereby headed north reaching Manila Bay in the 1990s and a group of Badjao built a village along the shore, this time not with bamboos and nipa again but with wood scraps, rice sacks and cartons.
They are regarded as war refugees; this is so because over the past several years, they've been caught in several crossfire’s between the Muslim separatists and the Christian-backed government in Manila. Economically, they've been victims of over fishing by other groups that are using everything from dynamite to high-tech fishing trawlers.
At present the Badjao have reached as far north of Manila and even beyond and many have become land dwellers, making their living by begging for arms in major cities like Manila, Cebu and many others.
For more information about the Badjao, you can visit the Badjao Missionary Team website by clicking on this link below: http://sites.google.com/site/badjaomissionaryteam/
And to support this our project, you can do so by donating online now by clicking on this link: www.kmointer.webs.com/giveyourdonation.htm
May God bless you as you respond to our clarion call for support!
Yours In Missions,
Apostle Success Kanayo Uchime
Kingdom Missions Outreach International Inc.
+63 9089857499, +63 9283901971, +63 9324712532
www.kmointer.webs.com or www.seamist.org/uchime