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During our STRONGERMAN 2024 Leadership Conference in the Philippines last month, we were able to conduct our RHEMA BIBLE TRAINING COLLEGE commencement exercises for the 2023 graduating class.
As partners with the MKMI ministry, it’s important for you to know that it’s your support that enables us to carry on and run this school month after month. We’ve been encouraging people to step up to help us with student sponsorship, and we thank those of you who have done so.
We still need sponsors and supporters, so please consider helping us with this wonderful endeavor. When we first started promoting student sponsorship, we intended to find sponsors for each particular student in our school. We’ve since adjusted that plan, based upon the overall needs of the school itself.
As it presently stands, sponsorship enables us to take care of general school expenses monthly, whereby all the students can benefit from your Bible school sponsorship.
After our promotion of the school in the STRONGERMAN conference, we were able to receive a number of new students for this current trimester of study. We’ll share more about that in upcoming COLD WATER newsletters.
Thank you sponsors – one and all! We love you, and are so very grateful for your help. Enjoy these photos from our RBTC 2023 Commencement exercises.
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I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 1 Corinthians 3:7-8 | |
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Evangelism and outreach is always a team game, and when it comes to the MKMI ministry - you’re on the team! We want to thank all of you who so generously give of your time and resources to help us with the ongoing expenses we incur monthly to keep our ministry and Bible school running.
You may never meet all of our pastors, leaders, graduates, students and staff members in this life, but you will someday when it really counts – in heaven. May the Lord God richly bless you and reward you abundantly for that!
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If you haven’t had the chance to review our ministry activity in January in the Philippines, please do so! You’ll be blessed! We took hundreds of photos and recorded lots of video footage of this STRONGERMAN 2024 January conference and RBTC graduation.
You can view them on the Mike Keyes Ministries International Facebook page. When you go there, click “like” to follow and be updated with future posts. We look forward to sharing lots of good news moving forward in 2024. As cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a far country. Proverbs 25:25
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Overall Ministry:
Financial Support: Agree with us for a steady level of support that continues to increase. We’re feeding on God’s faithfulness (Psalms 37:3).
As our COLD WATER newsletters indicate, we’re busy about the Father’s business, reaching, teaching and training brothers, sisters, pastors and leaders worldwide, especially in the Philippines.
Your support enables us to go out into all the world, sharing the good news of the gospel wherever the Lord leads.
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In the Philippines:
International travel: Our next scheduled trip to the Philippines will be in the summer of 2024. We are standing in faith for the money to pay for the air tickets for those trips. Please help us if you can with these funds we need for travel.
Expect more details about this in upcoming COLD WATER newsletters.
Compound construction: In addition to the cost of airfare, several of our compound buildings are literally falling apart and need to be repaired. Our house, built in 1988, was constructed mostly with wood, and now needs immediate attention.
During our time there in January, because of the heavy rainstorms common at this time of year, we were constantly waking up to puddles of water on our bed, our pillows – and on us! We have put tarps over the roof in an attempt to stop the water from coming in, but it’s not working.
Plus, inside the house, the wooden floors, walls and ceilings are rotten, and termite infested. Many of our electrical outlets are burned out due to the water leaking into the wires and sockets.
Fixing all of this won’t be cheap, but it has to be done. Please help us if you can.
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Ethel and I want you to know how important you are to the on-going work of MKMI in the Philippines, and around the world. We begin 2024 with great faith in our God, believing He will meet all of our needs, in Jesus’ Name.
On top of the major projects mentioned in the PRAYER PRIORITIES segment, we believe God for His consistent supply day-by-day. Staff salaries must be paid monthly. We have insurance to pay for our buildings and vehicles. There is wear-and-tear on plumbing, lights and electrical fixtures. Paint and caulking is needed for existing buildings.
We must have 24-hour security provided for the compound. And of course, we have the inter-island travel expenses to go to our churches and crusade venues.
Since 1980, I have gone wherever God leads me, and now our staff, students, graduates and churches reproduce that same effort in the Philippines and around the world.
Your prayers and financial support enables us to do all of this. Once again, we say: THANK YOU!
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The cost of educating our students falls mainly upon the MKMI ministry. The students are charged tuition, but the actual budget for housing, feeding and educating them is much more than their tuition can cover. That’s why sponsorship has become so vital. If you would like to sponsor one or more of our current or future students, the total cost to underwrite one of them is $95 monthly, or $855 annually (for nine months of study – vacation time excluded). This covers everything we need to provide for them. And remember, your gifts are always tax-deductible.
We’re believing God will provide sponsors for 35 students. If this is something you feel led to help us with, be sure to designate “Sponsor a Student” from the drop down menu when clicking the link below for online contributions. We will provide sponsors with individual names and photos of all the students their support is enabling us to train.
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FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM – UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Please take note of the dates for our upcoming live streams:
Dates: March 7th and 21st.
Time: 7:30pm Arizona time, which is 10:30am Philippine time, the next day.
Dates and times are always subject to change, per the leading of the Lord. Streaming schedules are also posted on the MKMI Facebook Page, under “Events”.
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Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed – in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52
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Jesus is coming soon! I know we’ve been hearing this for years and years, but now, with all the worldwide signs pointing to the end of this age, we know His return could happen any day now.
The point to make with you is this: be sure you’re ready to go! Live your life as if He’s coming today, and if not today, then tomorrow! And if not tomorrow, then the next day, and the next day after that. Until He does! Be ready to go at a moment’s notice, but be prepared to live a sanctified life for the rest of your life, should He choose to delay His coming.
We believe the Rapture takes place at the beginning of the Tribulation. Some others disagree with the timing of this event, but we believe the scriptures are clear on this. No matter when it does happen, be rapture ready.
All through the New Testament, the Bible warns us not to be caught unprepared to depart this world. The phrase “in the twinkling of an eye” means this event happens in a moment of time so short it can’t be any shorter!
So therefore, be ready and stay ready! No more sin or compromise permitted or allowed. Be lean and clean for Jesus!
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