Thursday, November 29, 2012

MICRONESIA 2012 - Kolonia Outreach

Kolonia, Pohnpei
Thursday, November 29, 2012
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Kolonia Outreach
Plenty of people came out to our Every Home for Christ outreach in Kolonia tonight. We had songs, dances, a skit and a powerful message. Many responded by praying to receive Jesus. C'mon! Please pray for us as we are doing a huge outreach in Pohnrakied Village among the Polynesian Kapingamarangi people this Saturday. We are expecting great things. Thanks so much!
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Christian Young


MICRONESIA 2012 - Unusual Miracles: Sakau into Water

Madolenihmw, Pohnpei
Tuesday, November 29, 2012
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Unusual Miracles: Sakau into Water
The Lord is working unusual miracles through the lives of His sons and daughters in these last days here in Micronesia. You've got to hear this recent story:
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We have been seeking Jesus for a heavenly strategy of how to reach the majority of the Pohnpeian population that holds titles and feasts and drinks SAKAU EN POHNPEI or kava, which is a narcotic drink. The drinking of SAKAU EN POHNPEI is conn
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Indigenous Pohnpeian carrying a Sakau plant to a feast
Sakau plants are collected from those who hold titles at feasts
The Sakau en Pohnpei root is then pounded in rhythm with stones
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[It is the opinion of some that] this aspect of the Pohnpeian culture is holding the indigenous people here in spiritual bondage. Attempts to bring Kingdom culture have been met with intense resistance. We have believed that there will need to be a major sign from God on this island for the indigenous Pohnpeians to forsake these demonic practices and embrace Jesus Christ.
 
Water is added to the pounded Sakau root and then squeezed through hibiscus fiber
A chemical reaction takes place and the Sakau is squeezed into a coconut shell
The cups of Sakau en Pohnpei are then offered in order to those present at the feast
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So last week, myself and a few friends began to pray that every SAKAU EN POHNPEI plant on the island would be supernaturally altered to no longer be narcotic, and would be like water when the people drink it. This would most certainly be a sign from God that He loves the Pohnpeian people so much and does not want them to engage in demonic practices.
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This morning, I was brought word from where a funeral had taken place on Sunday. They said this, "We don't understand what is happening. All of the SAKAU EN POHNPEI that we pounded did not make us drunk, but made us sick, and was just like drinking water. We must be in the last days. God must be trying to speak to us." This comes only days after we began to cry out for this miracle to take place in Pohnpei! Hopefully we can use this miracle as a springboard to give a prophetic message from the heart of God to the people of Pohnpei. We are praying for public repentance of the entire population, and an authentic inner transformation that brings revival to this island.
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And this is just one of the hundreds of islands here in the Pacific that our Papa God has on His radar! Bring it, Lord! Revival in the islands!
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Christian Young

Thursday, November 15, 2012

MICRONESIA 2012 - Emptying the Hospital

Kolonia, Pohnpei
Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Emptying the Hospital
I have been teaching twice a week at the Every Home for Christ MDMI missions school in Pohnlangas, Madolenihmw on the subject of the Holy Spirit since September. This week we studied the gifts of the Spirit. On Tuesday after the teaching we had a time of impartation where the students, with open hands and open hearts cried out for an outpouring of the gifts of the Spirit from our good Daddy who loves to give gifts to His kids.
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Today we took a spiritual gift inventory together and the students got to see more confirmation of the spiritual gifts they have. Then this evening we decided to take all of the students to the Pohnpei State Hospital to put into practice all that we've been learning in Pohnlangas. We all had the faith that as we entered the hospital and prayed for the sick, the hospital would be emptied as every person would be supernaturally healed.
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Faith moves mountains. And we are sure that it was because of this faith that literally every person that we prayed for WAS healed, and literally felt the Holy Spirit at work in their bodies as we prayed for them. Every person expressed that they felt better...and most of them PAIN FREE. The hospital patients were all so thankful that we came to pray for them and to show them the love of Jesus. I haven't heard all of the testimonies as we split up into five different groups to cover every part of the hospital...but one of the men that we prayed for had a bad liver and was suffering with extreme pain in his abdomen. As we prayed for him we believe that the Lord performed a CREATIVE MIRACLE and gave him a new liver. The old man broke down in tears as the pain completely left his body. We went on to lead both him and his son int oa personal, hand-holding relationship with Jesus Christ. I was in tears as well as both of these men experienced new life in Christ. The students faith was increased and we are believing that the Pohnpei State Hospital will be empty tomorrow morning as every person received prayer and supernatural healing in the name of Jesus. I am sure that we will be making more trips to the hospital in the future. What are the doctors and the nurses going to do for work if there are no more patients?
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Christian Young



Wednesday, November 7, 2012

MICRONESIA 2012 - Iris Micronesia Base #1

Madolenihmw, Pohnpei
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
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Iris Micronesia Base #1
We officially have our first Iris Micronesia base located in Pohnlangas, Madolenihmw where we are partnering with Every Home for Christ. Our next step is to build enough facilites to begin our Missionary Training Center where we will be equipping and sending indigenous and international missionaries to the unreached people groups and to the darkest places of the world. All existing structures are numbered, as well as where we will need to build more men's and women's dorms and family housing as well as a House of Prayer. We are giving an open invitation to church groups and ministries that would like to sponsor a construction project by funding the construction of these facilities or coming to Micronesia on a missions trip to help us build them. We need to build five more family houses, three more mens dorms, two more women's dorms, three communal kitchen and dining facilites and three restroom facilites. Incoming indigenous and international students, as well as Iris short-term and long-term missionaries will live in these facilities. Each facility will cost between $15,000 and $20,000 to build
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Christian Young






1- Church/Calssroom                                                                    2-Office


3- Men's Dorm                                                        4- Guest House


5- Family Housing                                                          6- Women's Dorm #1


7- Women's Dorm #2                                                                   8- Dining Room


8- Kitchen                                                                     9- Car Port


11- Men's Latrine                                                         12- Farming Land


14- Pig Pen                                                       15- Fresh Water Well


16- Women's Latrine                                                   17- Women's Laundry


19- Sunday School Building                                             20- Church Restrooms


24- Land for Men's Dorms                                       25- Land for Family Housing


26- Land for Women's Dorm                                         EHC/Iris Micronesia Land

Friday, November 2, 2012

GUAM 2012 - Breaking Generational Curses and Taotaomona

Hagatna, Guam
Friday, November 2, 2012
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Breaking Generational Curses
The other day a friend asked me what I enjoyed most about my time in Guam. I told her that I enjoyed the friendships that I've made and especially ministering to the clients at Oasis Empowerment Center who are coming out of addictions. For the last two weeks I've been able to teach some classes to these beautiful, yet broken women. Last week I taught on "living in the dash," the symbol on a gravestone between our date of birth and date of death. We talked about what people would write about us on our gravestones and then I had them write out their dreams, which addictions would only hinder us from living out. This week I started teaching on perceptions and identity; how we see ourselves, how others see us and how God sees us. Then I had them start to make their family trees to the best of their knowledge, especially identifying where in their family history there were patterns of addiction, abuse, divorce and other generational curses.
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Another worker took my class yesterday because I was sick, but today we prayed with all of the clients and specifically broke each one of these curses from their generation all the way through their parents, grandparents, great grandparents and further down their family line. It was an amazing time where these women received even more freedom. One of them said that their heart was racing as she started to pray. Another said that she felt heat through her whole body. All of them said that they felt a burden lift. We all have choices to make in life. Many times we have predispostions to patterns of sin because we have been handed down these patterns from our family. God said in Exodus 34:6 that He is "visiting iniquity of fathers on the sons and on the sons of sons, to the third and to the fourth generation." I believe that a key to recovery from addictions is breaking off generational curses from our lives. Another major curse that we broke off with the clients was Taotaomona, which is indigenous Chamorro spiritism. So many Chamorro people here in Guam practice Taotaomona without even thinking about it. I borrowed the following artice about Taotaomona from the internet so that you could see the darkness we are fighting against here in Guam...
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Taotaomona
The taotaomonas (people before recorded time) are the ghostly apparitions of the ancient people of Guahan. The indigeneous people of Guahan have occupied the islands during the Early Prelatte Phase (prior to 1485 BC to 500 BC), the Intermediate Prelatte Phase (500 BC to AD1), the Transitional Period (AD 1 to AD500-1000) and the Latte Period (AD 1000 to AD 1521) [reference pg 48 Tiempon I Manmofo'na by Scott Russell]. The Spanish-Chamoru War between 1671 and July 1695 resulted in the deaths of thousands native inhabitants (a great percentage due to European pathogens). Included in the collateral deaths were the manmakahnas (ancient medicine healers later dubbed suruhanos and suruhanas by the Spanish)whose spiritual leadership had been replaced by the Spanish clergy. Many of today's ancient Latte Stone sites were once villages burned and destroyed by the Spanish soldiers during that war. The Chamorus believe that roaming and inhabiting the jungles and caves of the Marianas are ancestral spirits with unresolved but determined purpose. Historian Benigno Palomo writes, "While it is often said that the ancient Chamorro had no organized priesthood, no temples and no defined religious creed, therefore, no rituals, according to Padre San Vitores 1669, the Chamorros venerated the spirits of their ancestors, called aniti. The aniti were sacred and powerful spirits who could help them. When angered, however, they could do harm. As a result, the spirits and relics of the dead, especially of one's ancestors, were feared and respected. The chamorros had rituals which were not completely revealed to the Spanish."
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Guam's indigenous Chamorus believe that the twilight before sunrise and the twilight at sunset are the periods when the spirits begin to stir and move through the land at night. The taotaomona commonly assumes the form of a male physically large and robust. Other metaphysical forms taken may be white lady aparitions accompanied by scents of flowers or lemon, large men or 'small children called duendes hiding under mushrooms'. Some of the taotaomonas are described as headless and having deformed bodies. The Spanish era traditional depiction is that they were giants but monstrously ugly. This ancient concept of ghost is incongruous "to Christian beliefs and referred to as pagan ghostly forest-men" [pg 89, The Chamorro]. The modern contemporary view however is that the taotaomona are living ancestral spirits. Mavis Warner Van Peenan, "Chamorro Legends on the Island of Guam 1945" wrote, "Could that ugliness be the self-deprecation that the Chamorro felt was required of him under conquest?" If a person gathers plants in a jungle, they must ask permission "gue'la yan gue'lo, kao sina yu' manule' tinanoum-mu ya yanggen matto hao gi tano'-hu fanule' ha sin mamaisen" in Chamorro. Mavis Warner Van Peenan writes, "The Taotaomona, being a strong man himself, disliked anyone weak. Therefore, a Chamorro talking to him, must disguise his present weakness, and talk loudly and boastfully. Thus his Taotaomona would be proud of him and never frighten him when he was walking along some dark night."

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The taotaomonas of Guahan are said to roam the jungles and are present around the ancient latte ruins, large basalt and coral boulders and caves, as well as amongst the thick dense hanging roots of the Banyan Trees. If you enter the jungles and disturb the taotaomonas, they may pinch you, leaving red marks or swellings on your body, or they may cause illnesses which are difficult to diagnose by conventional doctors.. The only treatment for this sickness is to visit a suruhana (Chamorro female traditional healer) or a suruhano (Chamorro male traditional healer). You may be given herbs or a massage as treatment but almost always you will be instructed to revisit the site where the illness began and ask forgiveness from the "guelotas and guelatas" or ancient grandparents for disturbing a burial site. The mindset of the Chamoru Culture is rooted on respect which is extended to those who have passed on beyond the world of the living. Those who enter the jungle, cave or an unexpected clearing under a large rooted tree without exhibiting proper respect will fall ill.

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When Chamorus exhibit strength bordering on the unnatural, the indigenous perspective assumes that that person actually believes he is empowered by and draws potency from the spiritual realm. The psychology of the supernatural is concomitant with physical strength. In "Guam and its People" by Laura Thompson 1947 Pg 176, "An interesting development in this regard is the concept of taotaomona partners. A few modern natives are believed to have such partners (called ga'chong) who give them physically enhanced strength. These men are recognized by the unusual feats of strength they are able to perform. According to one informant: "Some old people say that they have the power of taotaomona in them because their ancestors had taotaomona as partners. Such a partner can help you when you are alone but not in the presence of another person ... When the man dies his taotaomona partner tries to become attached to another member of the family and in this way causes illness in the family." The concept of taotaomona partners is a variation on the guardian spirit cult which has frequently been found in rapidly changing marginal cultures. It is one means by which individuals attempt to gain strength from their old culture and recapture its values in order to cope with the baffling problems presented by their changing environment ..." (thompson) Thompson states that the term maligna meaning "evil spirit" is taken from the Spanish. The Chamorus pronounce this as maknganiti designating a malignant being. Further note that the Spanish (Jun 15 1668-1898) designate the words "aniti or soul" as well as taotaomona (people before time) as evil spirits. The Indigenous Chamorus however refer to them as ancestors. Compiled by: Rudolph Villaverde
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Christian Young