Baptism

Here in Timor Leste thousands of young people make secret rituals and vows of entrance in which they promise to be faithful until death to a certain group. Some say that these rituals involves the sacrifice of animals, blood shed and even drink of blood. The one who is doing the vow suffer a bit. Why are they willing to submit to such a thing?
In the christian baptism, the believer makes a public commitment, not a secret one, to be faithful not to a certain group, but to Christ. There is no sacrifice, no blood shed, no suffering, because Christ, his new Lord already took on Him all the suffering on the cross.

Some of our latest activities

Pictures of some of our latest activities.

Children Evangelism in Dili.

Visiting and establishing the new leader of the house-church of Luca, Viqueque 

Baptism of 5 new believers in Baucau

Consecration of new workers as the work grows.

Believers of the church of Baucau 

Outreach activity of the new department of  the church of Dili (teenagers)

Teenagers of the church of Dili

Traveling to Maliana, a stop for lunch

Baptism of two new believers in Maliana

Church of Maliana

My son and some children of the church of Maliana

Coming back from the visit to Maliana, a stop for a picture

Graduation of the students of our Pre-school in Dili

Building the pastor's residence in Maliana

Thanks to "One Hope"

We would like to thank One Hope for providing us material and training for children evangelism through pastor Eliel. It's a practical and ease-of-use material which will surely be very useful in the ministry of children evangelism in this country. Our churches all around the country will make use of this material after receiving a short training. Thank you very much and may God bless One Hope more and more in its ministry.

8th Anniversarry of the church of Same

Congretulations to the church of Same, for its 8th Anniversary, celebrated in on 6th of September. This is a truly victorious church. God bless pastor Alwan and Apolonia, who are the leaders of this church.

Consecration of the house-church of Leurema

Leurema is a remote village on the top of a hill in the District of Liquiça. Due to the conditions of the roads, it's difficult and dangerous to get this village. But God helped us to build there a house-church. On Saturday September 5th we had a wonderful spiritual party to consecrate the house to the Lord. The chief village attended the service along with many other people from the community. Praise the Lord that the Good News is reaching isolated areas of this country, where sometimes the people are forgotten by the Government, but not by God.

In this last picture we can see in the background the highest peak of Timor Leste, Ramelau Mount.

Farewell to Pastor Nilton and Family

One more missionary family is leaving East Timor in the process of transition to the national leadership. Pastor Nilton spent twelve years of a fruitful work here in this country. Some of his spiritual children are now pastors and evangelists. As a coordinator pastor, he oversaw three pastors and four churches in the East part of the country. May God reward him and his family for all the work done. A Timorese pastor, Julio Cuca, replaced him as the pastor of the church of Baucau and the coordinator pastor of the East area. Praise the Lord that He is raising national leadership. May the nationals do a greater and more impacting work than the missionaries, let it be the prayers of us all.

  

VII National Youth Congress

Between 14 and 16 of August, about 280 youth from all the 13 Districts of Timor Leste gathered in the Visão Cristã church in Baucau for the VII National Youth Congress, an annual event whose goal is to strength the faith of christian youth of Timor Leste. This time we focused on the theme "We are the generation that will be taken to heaven". More than ten youth accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.