March 2010

Dear friends and partners,

It’s hard to imagine that Calli, Felicity, and I moved to the Philippines as missionaries 7 years ago on March 5th. We are now in our 8th year here. I-eee! Fun thing is we will be here the rest of our lives, Amen?! We started coming to the Philippines on mission trips in Oct. 1997.  In June of 1997 we had a prophetic word given over us at Community Church in Hereford. This was two months after I acknowledged God’s call on my life. The word was given by Dr. James Maloney from Christ for the Nations. This is what the Lord spoke through him, “Exceeding great armies will be raised up under your ministry, they will be the Living Epistle known and read of Me, and they will be your ministry.” Quite honestly, we did not have a clue what God was saying at the time, but it sounded great. We had no aspirations to have a school anywhere on anything. Little did we know that God was going to put me at the helm of a “West Point” in the Kingdom of God. We train in the weapons of warfare. It’s about mobilizing the armies of God all over the world by activating the body of Christ in one on one evangelism. It’s our job to train the pastors how to train their people in an extremely easy to use effective soul winning technique and motivate them to make soul winning a way of life. That is a mouth full isn’t it? Kind of a big order for 3 little Texans isn’t it? We didn’t know when we got here what He was going to do with us. He’d only given us a glimpse at that time. And from time to time He gave us another glimpse, and another, and another. But in March of 2003 we started Dunamis International School of Missions in Manila along with several Filipino pastors. During the last 7 years we have trained in excess of 5,000 people. Many of which were pastors and leaders in churches. We have traveled all over the Islands teaching on evangelism and bringing the move of the Holy Spirit where ever we’ve gone. We’ve been through many Typhoons, floods, and other natural calamities and have never been affected or lost anything to them. God’s hand has been upon us the whole way.

 

Left: Tony, Calli & Felicity 2003. Right: Felicity, Erick, Miles, Calli & Tony 2010.

What is really amazing today is that the training we are doing is causing perpetual multiplication, because our students are taking what they’ve been trained in and going back to their churches and training their people to be soldiers in God’s army. When I say soldiers, that’s exactly what I mean. Everyday believers are joining in the actual battle for men’s souls on a daily basis. No longer can they stand by in good conscious and watch the world go to hell without lifting a finger. Pastors are truly astounded at the results they are getting and their churches are really growing for the first time in years. God told me, that the 50 man church is coming to an end. The end time harvest will be such a catch that they will have to give fish away, because their nets will be so full that they are going to break if they don’t give some fish away to their fellow pastors. What a wonderful change that will be. Peter had to give fish to his partners to prevent his nets from breaking and his boat from sinking. Well, pastors will have such a catch they will have to do the same, Amen?

I hope you can catch a glimpse yourself of what God is doing here. We need more monthly support, and the Lord has not yet released us to go back to the US to raise money. We need more partners my friends. If you’re not giving on a monthly basis, please consider what we are doing, and know that you and your family can make a difference in the spiritual condition of this planet. You can make a monthly pledge using the attached form with this newsletter or go to our website, www.dunamisinternational.org under donation for online giving. If you would like to receive your newsletter by email, please send your email address to TCP1976@aol.com with a note requesting it.

We are developing a Stealth Evangelism Video Training Program that can be taken to every nation. Please pray about helping with this. We give everything free to the pastors. We do not charge them for their training or their three days stay with us, their food, or training materials. That gets expensive to shoulder. Each week or two we have a class of 24 pastors that come here to train. We will continue with absolute diligence till the Lord comes, or we go home to be with Him, Amen?  It’s been almost four years since the Lord basically told me to stay at home instead of going back to the US itinerating in churches. He said, “I’ll show you My ways instead of your own.” And we are here to tell you He is faithful! Since that time He has always met our needs every month. After 7 years of ministry, we have approximately $10,000.00 in debt that needs to be paid and we owe on our new mission center. The mission center is about 70% paid for so God is doing amazing things. We are praying right now and ask you to pray with us in agreement that the debts will be paid in full this year and we will have a permanent presence in the Philippines that will go on, even after Calli and I are gone (which we hope is a long time yet, Amen?!) We owe approximately $248,000 (just a fraction of its value) on the mission center, which includes the school, office, 5 large bedrooms for our trainees, and missionaries that come from all over the world, and an apartment for Calli and me. You can view pictures of the mission center on our web site at www.dunamisinternational.org .

From the time we arrived here, God has orchestrated strategic relationships for us, so that we could accomplish His goals and reach the lost through networking and equipping pastors, leaders, churches, and denominations with powerful soul winning weapons, so this nation can be won and then develop the strategies to send the people of the Philippines to the far corners of the earth as tent maker missionaries. We believe that in the next few months we will be bringing the Stealth Evangelism Program to the US to help churches win our precious nation to the Lord, so help us God. We believe that through an evangelism thrust by the body of Christ that America can be One Nation Under God Again! Please pray with all your heart that God will set us all on fire for the lost like never before!

Thank you so much for being our friends and partners, and undergirding us with your prayers and support. God bless you.

Love,

Tony & Calli Poole

 

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