http://www.createinternational.com The latest news from Create International. Create International is a trans-national ministry of Youth With A Mission International (http://www.ywam.org). en © Copyright 2006, Create International Fri, 16 May 2008 09:23:26 GMT eSteve's fingers Fri, 16 May 2008 09:23:26 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 16 May 2008 09:23:26 GMT [h1]Twenty Years of Fruitfulness[/h1] [h3](1988-2008)[/h3]
[img id=219 sub=May 2008 /img]How is it even possible to adequately express God's faithfulness toward us as a Create International family over these first twenty years of ministry. In January as we were seeking God as a team, he impressed upon us that this year would be "a year of new beginnings". Little did we know how true that word would be for all of our lives and work--starting with us as the leaders. God began speaking to us about a potential move in 2007 after our Create International Staff Gathering in Thailand. At that time God gave us a clear prophetic word about his desire to multiply Create International and to accelerate that growth. [img id=220 sub=Moving to Thailand! /img] We understood that it would take "radical sacrificial obedience" from all of us to see the explosive growth and fruit that God wanted to bring to and through us. Carol and I felt that as the leaders of Create International we needed to be willing to step out in obedience and re-position ourselves for greater fruitfulness. God confirmed this step of obedience through many other leaders and some prophetic words: "You are pioneers, and I'm not through with you yet". God led us to Australia to pioneer and multiply the ministry. Yet now after 14 years of settling in Australia, (and getting citizenship)--he is telling us to move on to new "apostolic initiatives". The Lord has blessed our Create International Centre in Australia with good equipment, a great staff team, and wonderful Godly leadership. God's grace and comfort has been poured out on us for this season of transition, and we are ready to follow him to the ends of the Earth!

When we look over these first twenty years of Create International's ministry, we give God all of the glory for the amazing fruit both in the lives of our staff and in the fruit of their hands: Producing and distributing evangelistic and advocacy videos for nearly forty (40) of the world largest and least reached people groups, pioneering the production and use of new culturally contextual arts and media tools for evangelism never before seen in the history of modern missions, seeing tens of thousands of unreached peoples finding Jesus through these tools,[img id=221 sub=Emerge Team /img] learning how to start fellowships that are appropriate in their culture and multiplying media missionaries globally and the list goes on and on..."by all possible means, that some may be saved" (1 Cor. 9:22)

Through our four Create International operating locations, we continue to follow the voice of the Lord to develop and produce innovative new media tools to effectively reach those who have never heard of Jesus. Plans are underway for us to start a Global Communications and Resource Centre in Chiang Mai, Thailand as well as another centre in the Middle East...and this is still only the beginning!

[h2]The Banjara[/h2]
The Banjara are an Unreached People Group of about 40 million who have recently seen significant response to the gospel. The growth of the church among the Banjaras is due in large part to the work of Banjara evangelists using media tools like the Jesus Film and Create International's film, "Transformations". [img id=222 sub=Amazing Testimonies /img]Calvin and Carol traveled to Hyderabad, India to attend the 21st "Jathra" gathering of the Banjara people. They were invited to participate in this celebration to mark the fifth year since Create International produced an evangelistic film in the Banjara language and culture. It was so wonderful to meet some of the actors in the film, who told us that they are "proudly" using the film all throughout the area to share the gospel. It was exciting to actually be in the midst of nearly 12,000 who had gathered to watch this film. At the conclusion of the three days of ministry, the Banjara leaders dedicated a newly built Banjara Bible School building in Calvin and Carol's name. What an honor to play our part in many Banjara coming to know and worship Jesus forever and ever.

[h2]Indigitech[/h2]
Indigitech.net, our evangelistic resource distribution website, continues to improve and expand. More than four thousands evangelistic resources have been added along with a new "graphical" interface. Visitors to this website are now able to select the region of the world they are targeting and then zoom in on the country and people group of their choice, accessing the evangelistic tools available in those languages. [img id=225 sub=Covered Language Blocks /img]Another addition is our "Mega Language Block Map" which demonstrates the coverage of all of Create International's evangelistic and contextual fellowship films. Each language area is hot-linked to where our visitors can freely download these resources. Create International is partnering with major initiatives such as the "Call2All" in providing these free resources and film downloads to serve the worldwide Body of Christ.

[h2]Bengali Field Project[/h2]
[img id=224 sub=On-field Team /img]In February, Calvin, Carol, Jason and Myra flew over to India to partner with our Create International India staff, students and YWAM field workers to help produce numerous media tools for the 80 million Bengali Hindus. Long discussions ensued about the use of contextually appropriate symbols and terms...but in the end wonderful partnerships were strengthened and tools produced which will help the Bengalis come to follow Jesus ...in the Bengali way. A wonderful celebration party with actors and crew filled with worship, dance and testimony capped the successful film shoot in NE India.

[h3]Myra sends a testimony:[/h3]
"There's no greater privilege than to have the Lord of all sharing His heart to me -- and to be part of making His dream come true in every people group in the world. Before I went to India, God put on my heart the scripture in Isaiah 62:1 "...I will not keep silent till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch " as a prayer and promise for the 80 million Bengali Hindus. That's really the reason why we went to India to join our Create India team with these film productions.

[img id=223 sub=On-field /img]My journey to India started in Kolkata (or Calcutta). The next day, together with another Create India staff, we headed up to Siliguri by bus to meet with the rest of the Create International India team. Our time in Siliguri was very busy. We had quite a lot of long days on the set. However, through it all, God was so faithful to us. We were blessed with amazing Bengali actors, translators, etc. We had all the locations that we needed. I'm so thankful that I was part of this film production that potentially will impact millions of Bengali peoples. I also felt so privileged to hear first hand, all the amazing things that the Lord's been doing among this people and to work amongst dedicated missionaries on the field.

[quote name=Mother Terasa /]It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.
It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.[/quote]Being among the people of India was quite an eye opening and heart breaking experience. Walking around the streets in Kolkata, you cannot pass any street corner without seeing children begging for money and food. Seeing all of this, so many questions came to my mind...Can a few rupees (small change) really help them? Were they begging because there's nothing else that they can do? Were they being sincere and desperate? Giving them money would probably solve their temporary problem, but what about in the long term? What about their soul? What about eternity? What would Jesus do? Then I remembered what Mother Teresa once said:
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.
It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

One night, 4 of us went to have dinner at some food stall on the street of Kolkata. Suddenly, an old beggar woman came to me. Before I gave anything to her, I just looked into her eyes and asked her if she'd like me to get her some food as well. She was just pointing to her back, as if she had a back problem. So with a few Hindi words that I knew, I offered to pray for her, and she said yes. So I prayed for her, and after that her countenance was instantly changed. She looked at me with teary eyes and I gave her a hug. Before she left, we gave her a chicken roll. I don't know whether God healed her or not, but one thing I do know, God taught me a precious lesson that night. Giving a few rupees and food might solve their temporary problems. But what these people really need is a sense of being loved and valued. If we ask God to teach us how to love and if we allow Him to fill our heart with His love, then we can learn to love the unlovable and perhaps we can even change their lives forever."

[h2]In-house[/h2]
[ul][li]Major distribution of our Farsi language evangelistic film, contextual fellowship and other media tools both to key contacts inside Iran as well as strategic places around the world. We are getting great reports that all these resources are being well received and multiplied! [/li]

[li]Mentoring leaders and "passing the baton" as Calvin and Carol move to Thailand to start a Global Communication and Resource Centre for Create International and help with training and pioneering of our new School of Frontier Media in Chiang Mai starting June 29 through December 11th. [/li]

[li]Upgrading all of our evangelistic websites. Please let your Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu friends know about these sites to learn more about the Good News![/li]

[li]Producing contextual resource DVDs and guides, collecting case studies, writing discipleship booklets, gathering more contextual resource tools and equipping short and long term teams for effective cross-cultural outreach worldwide.[/li]

[li]Distributing our Thai Contextual Fellowship and Thai evangelistic music videos throughout Thailand, in partnership with a National Evangelistic Campaign.[/li]

[li]Producing an evangelistic film, mobilization and music video for the 30 million Sundanese together with our current School of Frontier Media students in Perth.[/li]

[li]Writing relevant scripts and preparing for media projects for a major group in the Middle East. It has been in the news again lately![/li]

[li]The Create Emerge team has moved to Eastern Australia to continue their "Voices Tour" through Australia, New Zealand, and PNG. Coming soon ENGAGE: Media2Go 2 DVD Mission mobilization kit. Check out our web store for more info.[/li][/ul]

[h2]Prayer Points[/h2]
[ul][li]For continued favor and receptivity to our Iranian resources worldwide.[/li]
[li]For God's grace, wisdom and strength for Calvin and Carol in all the transitions, moving and upcoming around the world travels June 20-Dec.16th[/li]
[li]For wisdom and protection as we prepare for our Middle East projects and scout out the area for a potential Create centre in the region. [/li]
[li]For creativity and skill to finish up media productions for Bengali Hindus of India, Sundanese of Indonesia as well as a multitude of other video productions to equip the Church for the work of service[/li]
[li]For God's pleasure at the work of our hands to bring glory to His Name. Thank you for 20 years of faithfulness! [/li][/ul]
http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=42 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:54:32 GMT [h2]In This Issue[/h2]
• Directors report from the Create International conference in Thailand.
• Report from the recent Mongolian Trekking adventure.
• An update on 'What's New" at Create International.
• Info on the progress of our recent Thai projects
• and much much more...

[h2]Take your inheritance...fight for it together[/h2]
Words alone can't express God's faithfulness toward us as a Create International family during our recent ministry trip to Thailand and Indonesia.[img id=203 sub=November '07 /img] It all started with our Create International staff gathering in Chiang Mai, Thailand where 30 staff from our three different centres came together to seek God and spend time getting to know each other better. It was an amazing time of bonding and spiritual refreshment. God met us in a very special way and gave us a renewed sense of his excitement for the future of Create International. Several very encouraging and challenging themes came through our times of prayer and worship together. The theme of our conference, taken from Joshua 1: 6–18 , was "Take your inheritance, fight for it together". As we sought the Lord together he began to challenge all of us to be willing to do whatever he asked of us to assist one another to gain their inheritance in God and in ministry. It was a powerful time of God calling us all to a greater level of holiness and commitment to radical sacrificial obedience.

As we went on to other YWAM conferences also held in Chiang Mai, we were amazed that God had spoken the same word to the top leadership of YWAM at the same time we were having our gathering! They confirmed and emphasized the Word of the Lord, "You don't get your inheritance of all the nations by being passive, we need to arise and call forth the armies of the Lord to do spiritual battle. There is going to be a time of dramatic acceleration (10 times the present numbers)— a Gideon's army is arising. Plan for a great harvest of souls. We must be willing to pay the price and step out in humility and holiness. We need to align ourselves with God and accept pruning in order to bear more fruit. The armies of the Lord will move forward-standing together in unity and humility.

[img id=204 sub=Create International Staff /img]The three phases that the Lord is taking us into are similar to what the Children of Israel faced after they had crossed the Jordan river (Joshua 5). 1. Preparation and Consecration, 2. Implementation (Radical sacrificial obedience) and 3. Supernatural intervention of God. This is when God will do what only He can do— miraculous growth and fruit in the lives of people who are touched by our ministry. For the Children of Israel it was the walls of Jericho that came tumbling down! For Create International it may be the pulling down of spiritual strongholds that have held the unreached peoples of the world in bondage for millennia. It may be the rapid multiplication of workers producing powerfully anointed cutting edge media and art tools that communicate the gospel effectively to hundreds of millions of souls who have never heard of Jesus, even once! It may be hundreds of thousands of missionaries using the evangelistic tools which we have produced to enhance their personal witness as they cross into cultures and languages not familiar to them, and seeing phenomenal response to the love of Christ. God wants to give us all these dreams and more! He challenges us all: are we ready and willing to do ALL God requires of us to take the promised land?

-Calvin and Carol

[h2]Mongolian Trekker[/h2]
by Andrew Watson
"There are a number of stories about opportunities the team had to share the Gospel however the highlight for me was on day 3 of the trek. A small team of us went to another valley and after trekking for about six kilometers we came upon a family. Our translator told us that we were the first foreigners this family had ever seen. As
honoured guests along with the customary sour cheese, milk drink, vodka and passing around of a snuff bottle we were presented with freshly cooked innards complete with liver, lungs, heart, intestines, stomach and dried blood.

[img id=205 sub=Trekking Mongolia /img] After an amazing time of hanging out and "feasting" with this family, It seemed an appropriate time to suggest to the team that we try sharing an evangelistic story book that had been produced by our Create staff. It was designed using Tibetan Buddhist symbols colours and designs which Mongolians can easily identify with.
We had also brought along an MP3 player with an audio track that had been translated into Mongolian which followed the Gospel story depicted in the book. One of the Mongolians on our team sat by the head of the house and with an ear piece each they spent the next 40 minutes flipping through the book. The Mongolian man was captivated. He hardly took his eyes off the book the entire time. It turns out the he couldn't read or write so having the an audio visual presentation of the Gospel was a powerful way to communicate with him. After finishing with the presentation a natural discussion took place between our translator and our new friend which lead into a time of prayer. The rest of the family also wanted to look at the new booklet.

On reflection it was amazing to see all the pieces of the puzzle come together. A team from four nations trekking into a remote region getting along side, encouraging and equipping local Mongolians and reaching those who have very limited access to
the Gospel. As we left the Ger (Mongolian house) there were family photos taken, team members playing with kids and lengthy good byes. It seemed that neither our new friends or our team wanted to let this special moment end." This contextualized art-book was used to share the gospel with this Mongolian family
as well as hundreds across Nepal and into China. You can obtain these booklets for your outreach teams along with downloadable MP3 languages at our store under "Tibetan storybooks": www.createinternational.com/store

[h2]What's New[/h2]
INDIGITECH.NET
Create International's ministry website focused on resourcing Christians around the world with tons of evangelistic tools. Aiming to enhance one's personal witness as well to provide effective crosscultural tools in multiple languages, this website tool box is rocking the planet. The website contains more than 800 external links to resources and informative articles for helping you be as effective as possible in your witness to people of other cultures and languages. We now have links to audio, video, and literature tools for evangelism and mission mobilization for all of YWAM's Adopted Unreached People groups, all in a searchable database. One of our dreams has just come true. We have just completed a new section of FREELY downloadable evangelistic films for more than 30 of the largest and least reached people groups! These are films which Create International has produced over the past twenty years and are now FREE for the worldwide Body of Christ to download! They are available in both Apple and PC compatible formats which are playable on any desktop, laptop, or portable media player.

VIRAL EVANGELISM
Also, we are uploading all of our evangelistic films onto YouTube, God-Tube and Google Video. We are tagging each of these videos with words related to their specific language group so that people searching on the Internet will immediately find and watch these films in their native language. These services are free to upload and use so it costs us little to maintain, monitor and stream. Everyone can help "spread the word" by copying and pasting a bit of code into their websites or blogs and the films will appear there and play.

NEW RESOURCES ON LINE:
Check out some of our cool new DVD resources on our Create store: http://www.createinternational.com/store "How wonderful when the believers come together in unity—for there the Lord commands the blessing." (Psalm 133) Amidst the humidity, long days and language challenges—God did indeed bless us with completing our first contextual gathering presentation for those from a Buddhist background. Indigenous instruments, dance, symbols and appropriate word choices all came together for a lively presentation that will reach millions of Thais. Wonderful Thai believers helped us to appropriately contextualize this presentation for their people. Two indigenous music videos were also produced in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand that will serve to bring many Thais to see the beauty of God in his creation and to see Thais who love and follow Prajow (the Creator God.) yet love their Thai culture. We are so excited to see these presentations bless the 70 million Thais worldwide. Thai friends here in Perth are helping us with the final editing and are excited to use it in their ministry as well!
1. Contextualization in Action
over ten practitioners among Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist groups share breakthroughs and case studies in using contextual principles that are faithful to scripture yet relevant to culture in their cross-cultural ministries.
2. Contextual Gathering Showreel
Six examples of home group gatherings among Hindi, Kurds, Turks, Indonesian, Urdu, and now Thai. Subtitled in English, this is a great tool for showing Believers who might worship in different cultural styles but are all united in their love for God.

ALGERIAN EVANGELISTIC FILM
Reaches to the skies literally, as our missionary partners have just revealed to us that our newly released film is beaming over North Africa via satellite. The majority of Algerians receive their TV programs by way of small satellite dishes high on top of their apartment buildings. So this means that our gospel film in the Algerian language is now reaching into the homes of most Algerians. Pray for open hearts and ears!

[h2]Thai Project Update[/h2]
"How wonderful when the believers come together in unity—for there the Lord commands the blessing." (Psalm 133)
Amidst the humidity, long days and language challenges—God did indeed bless us with completing our first contextual gathering presentation for those from a Buddhist background. Indigenous instruments, dance, symbols and appropriate word choices all came together for a lively presentation that will reach millions of Thais. Wonderful Thai believers helped us to appropriately contextualize this presentation for their people. Two indigenous music videos were also produced in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, Thailand that will serve to bring many Thais to see the beauty of God in his creation and to see Thais who love and follow Prajow (the Creator God.) yet love their Thai culture. We are so excited to see these presentations bless the 70 million Thais worldwide. Thai friends here in Perth are helping us with the final editing and are excited to use it in their ministry as well!

[h2]What Our 'Creators' Are Doing Now[/h2]
• Field testing our evangelistic film, story book, contextual fellowship and advocacy presentation for the Farsi speaking Iranian Muslims. Upon final editing, these resources will be duplicated and distributed all across the world to reach communities of Iranians.
• Putting together a DVD and "user friendly" package called EQUIP, to train short and long term teams in using effective evangelistic resources and devises such as Ipods, laptops and mobile phones for cross-cultural ministry. This year, YWAM Perth is sending evangelism teams to 97 nations and our Create team has been involved in training and resourcing hundreds of staff and students in effective evangelism.
• Editing productions to mobilize and inspire workers for reaching peoples of Jakarta, Indonesia as well as numerous evangelistic films and short testimonials to equip hundreds of teams for the Love Jakarta 2008 project.
• Upgrading and maintaining our Create International website, Indigitech site as
well as our evangelistic and discipleship websites to serve workers around the
world with resources.
• Producing discipleship booklets to go together with our evangelistic and church planting videos.
• Editing the Thai contextual gathering and two indigenous Thai music videos for
evangelism and discipleship ministry across Thailand.
• Producing new mobilization tools and sending out a Create International team on a mission mobilization tour throughout Australia http://www.voicestouronline.com

[h2]Points For Prayer[/h2]
Please pray with us:
1. For the effective distribution and final touches on our Iranian resources.
2. For God's provision on all aspects of Create International- India's projects among the Bengali Hindus.
3. For more students to come to our upcoming School of Frontier Media training in Perth and Thailand.
4. For effectively equipping teamswith cross-cultural resources.
5. For God's continued guidance, wisdom and anointing for Create International leaders and staff. http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=41 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:50:34 GMT
In this Issue:
[ul][li]Exciting projects reaching out to
peoples in the Buddhist world
[li]New contextual resource training
materials, websites & podcasts
[li]Upcoming gatherings & tours[/ul]
[h2]Pioneering Media for Thailand[/h2]
Across the nation of Thailand there are 36,000 Buddhist temples and over 300,000 Buddhist monks. [img id=199 sub=News! /img] Thailand is the most Buddhist country in the world. And although 93% of the population claim Buddhism as their religion and the cultural implications of Buddhism run deep in the heart of the Thais, most Thais are nominal in practice. Thai Buddhism is a mix of Hindu, animistic and Chinese religions. Although there has been mission work there for over 250 years, the response of the Thai people has been very slow. About 0.5% of the Thais follow Christ and the majority of these are tribal peoples in the north. Ethnic Thai and particularly urban Thai are very unreached. Approximately 1,250 missionaries and 3,186 full time Thai Christian workers are reaching out to 63 million Thais. There is only about one Christian worker for every 15,000 people.
Thailand is ready for a fresh move of God's spirit. Millions need to turn from darkness to the light of Christ. Models of discipleship and evangelism need to be developed that are culturally relevant to the Thai people as well as faithful to Scripture. "We want people to be able to see our worship and know, "Those people are worshipping God, I could worship God like that!" (Thai Christian).
In mid September our Create team will commence filming the first contextual home fellowship training video for Thais- especially for those from a Buddhist background. Our team will also produce several evangelistic Thai music videos to share the gospel message through the Thai's own arts and music. We have some wonderful Thai friends who will be assisting, acting and advising us with all these projects. Several years ago, we worked with them on a film project for the Isaan people group that has been used extensively. The Thailand National Plan for Evangelism has a goal of planting a church in each of the 800 districts of Thailand by the year 2010! With plans in place for widespread distribution, a number of churches and agencies are excited about the potential of our new productions to both effectively evangelise as well as help disciple Thai to multiply home cell fellowships/churches across the nation.

[h2]Upcoming Create International Gathering:[/h2]
"Creators" (Create staff) from Perth, Thailand and India will rendevous at our second "Create International Staff Gathering" in Chiang Mai, Thailand. At our first Create gathering in 2003 just nine staff were able to come. This time we will have more than thirty attending. We are expecting the Lord to speak to us again and guide us into the future together. At our first gathering in Hyderabad, India we commissioned our India centre. Now we gather to dedicate our new Create centre in Chiang Mai. Please pray for this very significant event (Aug 26-31) and that the Word of God would speak powerfully to each one. Our theme is from Joshua 1:5-16 "Take your inheritance, Fight for it together !"

[h2]YWAM Conferences in Chiang Mai, Thailand[/h2]
The Create staff will also join other YWAMers for an Asia Pacific
gathering followed by a University of the Nations conference. Our
Create team will be showcasing a number of our audio visual presentations, leading seminars and networking with many staff and leaders from around the world. We will also be distributing our latest cross cultural evangelism training DVD to key outreach and training leaders.
Video conferencing technology will link staff participants in Thailand,
Korea, Taiwan and India.

[h2]Ministry Update[/h2]
[ul][li]Post-production on an evangelistic film, story book, contextual fellowship and an advocacy presentation and websites for the Farsi speaking Iranians.
[li]Distributing our resources worldwide. In South Asia, the recently
produced "Tibetan Bible Storybook" and our High Caste Hindus
evangelistic film and contextual fellowship videos are being used
extensively by many workers. Several nation wide Indian Television
stations are broadcasting our Hindi film.
[li]Upgrading and maintaining our evangelistic and discipleship websites reaching out to Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus worldwide.
[li]Producing contextual resources DVDs and guides, collecting case
studies, writing discipleship booklets, gathering more contextual
resource tools for unreached peoples. Check out our updated site :
http://www.indigitech.net
[li]Distributing our video profile, evangelistic and church planting films for Algerians living in North Africa and Europe.
[li]Finalizing our contextualisation and cross-cultural evangelism training videos for churches and mission agencies.
[li]Long hours in production and preparation for our "Voices" mobilisation team's tour throughout Australia and New Zealand[/ul]
[h2]Points for Prayer[/h2]
[ol=1][li]For wisdom and the needed resources to complete all our
Iranian projects. Soon all these projects will be field tested before worldwide distribution.
[li]For God to give us His Words and move powerfully among us
at our Create International Gathering August 27–31st.
[li]For anointing and God's provision (right actors, location, helpers) on our upcoming media projects to reach and disciple Thais. Sept. 5–24th
[li]For creativity and insight as we produce and gather evangelistic
resources for a major outreach to Jakarta, Indonesia in 2008
[li]For our Voices Tour Team: God's protection, guidance and
anointed challenges to the Body of Christ.[/ol]
[file id=10/]Download the Full E-Newsletter Here[/file] http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=40 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:44:07 GMT [img id=189 sub=Create Brochure /img]NEW Free Downloadable Brochures
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God Bless http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=39 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:25:43 GMT [i][h3]- From the International Director's Desks -[/h3][/i] Beginning a Journey in One of the Most Significant Unreached Lands

Central Asia has the lowest percentage of believers of any region in the world with only 0.037% of the population being evangelical believers. But there is also good news in Central Asia. [img id=177 sub=Carol and Calvin at the largest mosque in Ankara, Turkey (April 2007) /img]Church Planting Movements, still in their infant stages, are beginning to emerge among many people groups in the region. The concerted effort of the whole church in prioritizing resources and implementing mission partnership is needed. Our Create International staff teamed up with a number of agencies and churches to embark on important projects to reach out to a number of major unreached peoples of the Central Asia/Middle East region. Our projects were not without incredible challenges and sobering moments. While our team were filming in Central Turkey, three Christian workers were martyred in a town in Eastern Turkey. Tensions arose between secular and Islamic parties. We were in the midst of a spiritual battle for the souls of men.

Beginning in 2006, the Lord made it clear to us that He would lead us "in new and unfamiliar ways, " as well as challenging us to go "full steam ahead." In 2007 the Lord spoke to us about "Completion, Greater Harvest, and Going Deeper in Him". The plan continues to unfold month by month as we follow Him...to the ends of the earth... with some extra help!

[i][h2]"The harvest is ripe...but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field." Matt. 9:37,38[/h2]

[img id=178 sub=Missionary Presence Map /img] [b]The red colour marks the least amount of missionaries (per million residents)
Where should we be sending more workers?[/b][/i]
The task is daunting--most of the peoples that still need to be reached are in volatile, isolated or "hard to reach" places. Yet the task IS possible if we rally the whole Body of Christ in strategic partnerships. Over the years Create International has attempted to write grants and solicit large donations to help in producing and distributing more media resources, but most of these attempts haven't born fruit. While sharing at a conference in Malaysia, Carol met a director of a Christian foundation and was encouraged to submit an extensive proposal of Create International's ministry, vision and plan for growth. A lengthy process ensued: seeking the Lord for guidance--what exactly are we raising funds for and how will we measure effectiveness? A "Harvest Media Plan" was born and the scripture John 4: 34, "My food", said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work." has became the rhema word to us . However, God was doing more than simply helping us to write about the ministry; He was showing us the new level of commitment to completion of the task that He had given us as a ministry. It wasn't enough to simply produce evangelistic media tools and give them to the missionaries to use. We were to take a more proactive role in making sure that our resources were being properly utilized and distributed. This gave us faith to believe the Lord for greater things than we had seen in the past. The Lord continued to take us through this process for several weeks until we finished the "Harvest Media Plan" proposal and sent it off with all of the required supporting documents. A few weeks later we checked our email while en route to Thailand to prepare for our next project, and we received this response from the foundation leaders, "I am very pleased to inform you that the Board of Directors has unanimously approved a grant to Create International. Your proposal was very well done; and more importantly, your Kingdom Building work makes us feel honored to serve with you." Carol and I were overwhelmed and so excited. We felt so honoured that God would trust us with this large gift and that he has even greater things for Create International's ministry in the future.
http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=38 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:11:24 GMT [ul][li]Post-production on an evangelistic film, story book, contextual fellowship and an advocacy presentation for the Farsi speaking Iranian Muslims[/li]
[li] Distributing our resources including the recently produced "Tibetan Bible Storybook" and our High Caste Hindus evangelistic film and contextual fellowship videos across India, including nation wide Television stations[/li]
[li]Upgrading and maintaining our evangelistic and discipleship websites[/li]
[li]Producing discipleship booklets to go together with our evangelistic and church planting videos[/li]
[li]Distributing our video profile, evangelistic and church planting films for the peoples of Algeria[/li]
[li]Finalizing our contextualisation training videos for churches and mission agencies[/li]
[li]Research and scripting to produce our first ever contextual church planting video for Buddhist background believers[/li]
[li]Producing new mobilization tools and sending out a Create International team on a mission mobilization tour throughout Australia[/li]
[/ul]
[h2]Points for Thanks and Prayer[/h2]
[ul][li]For continued financial provision for Create International as we present further grant proposals for production and distribution projects among the world's most unreached peoples[/li]
[li]For God's insight to produce dynamic productions to reach out to speakers of Farsi, Thai, and other foreign language films in the works[/li]
[li]That God will give our staff His anointing and skill as we upgrade and improve our evangelistic and discipleship websites[/li]
[li]Pray for God's wisdom to be given to Calvin and Carol as they attend key conferences and network with other missionaries and mission agencies. That effective partnerships would be developed to reach the lost[/li]
[li]For God's wisdom and provision as we establish our team in Thailand, and strengthen our team in India. Praise God for their recent provision of needed equipment[/li]
[li]That the India team would have God's anointing to finish the editing of their first evangelistic film, for the Assamese Muslims. Also, please pray for wisdom and provision as they look toward the purchase of a Create centre in Jaipur, North India. Check out their website for more information [url=http://www.createindia.net _blank/]click here[/url][/li][/ul] http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=37 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:07:45 GMT [h2]New Testimonies of Fruitfulness[/h2]
[b]Contextual House Church Training Video[/b]
[i]Several years ago the Lord challenged us to begin producing a new type of video that we call our "contextual home fellowship" training video. We were asked by some of our missionary friends to assist them in their efforts to start in-culture house churches for believers from a Muslim background. The response to these video has been nothing short of dramatic. We realized that God was up to something when the local actors, themselves believers from Muslim backgrounds, who helped us in the filming process told us that these films would be very effective for evangelism. Later we came to understand just what he was trying to tell us, as we began to hear testimony after testimony of Muslims giving their hearts to Christ after view these videos. It seems that one of the greatest hindrances for Muslims to come to Christ is their preconceived ideas about the nature and practice of Christians. When they could see that there were Followers of Jesus that looked like and worshipped like them it sparked faith in the hearts that they too could be a part of this new family. A family of those who love and follow the teachings of Jesus (Isa in Arabic) and who remain "fully submitted to God" (which is the call of all Muslims). God knew that this type of presentation was just what many Muslims were waiting to see and hear. Now we have produced these contextual worship videos for Indonesians, Algerians, Kurds, Turks, Urdus, Iranians and more. We have produced one recently for those from a Hindu background and soon one in Thailand for those from a Buddhist background.[/i]
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Testimony from North India[/b]
[i]"Yes, we're using the same Create International teaching VCD on contextual worship. We used to just plant one fellowship every week. But now, every day we go to a different house and tell them to invite their friends and family to come in and we're starting a new Jamat (contextual house church) every day in our area." This exciting report was told to me while showing Create's VCD on a recent trip to India. National church planting leaders have seen a tremendous breakthrough among the Urdu speaking Muslims of India. Reports indicate they have recently baptized 750 new believers and around 7,000 are waiting to receive baptism. They have started 180 Jamats (contextual house churches) in one area and 120 in another area, which already had 2,000 baptized believers. It was an incredible story to hear of real breakthrough among the peoples of Northern India. (Report from Paul Eshleman, "Finishing the Task" Strategy leader)[/i]
To read more testimonies on our website [url=testimonies /]click here[/url] http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=36 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:04:13 GMT Expanding into the Podcasting World - [img id=171 sub=CalCast, Create International Podcast /img]Please Subscribe to our Podcasts!Create International is now taking full advantage of the new podcasting phenomenon available over the Internet. We have lots of vision for this new technology, which is basically audio and video over the Internet that can be easily downloaded to your personal computer or MP3 music player. If you want to subscribe to either or both of our podcasts with iTunes or Juice, (both will work on either a PC or a Mac) simply download your podcatcher program and then double click on the hotlink RSS feeds below.
[img id=152 sub=God Network News logo /img]In addition to our "Create International - YWAM Podcast" we also have "GNN (God Network News)" which is currently running a special series on contextualisation. Once you subscribe to our podcasts you will be automatically notified whenever there is a new episode uploaded to the podcast.
Visit our podcast home pages by clicking on the podcast you desire at, [url=http://createit.podomatic.com/ _blank/]CalCast[/url] or [url=http://godnews.podomatic.com/ _blank/]GNN [/url] http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=35 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:00:50 GMT [i]"Thank you for sending me a beautiful leather bound copy of the Kitab Suci Injil. I enjoy reading it and I value it as a special gift. I just want to say that all of you are an inspiration and a true witness of Isa al-Masih ( Jesus) to the Muslim Ummah and beyond. Currently, I have a study group. The VCD "Followers of Isa" is an excellent VCD and has taught me how to form my own "Followers of Isa" meet-up group with family and friends in my local area. Without Ummah al-Masih witness to me personally, such blessings would have never been possible. In Isa's Love, --R. Yusuf Abdul " , A Follower of Isa in New York State

"I greet you in the name of ISA ALMASIH. I like very much to spread the word of ALLAH to the people of my area which has the biggest percentage Muslims. I started a small congregation of about fifty believers and among them are former Muslims who are still need more materials in order to grow in faith. Brother, I need a video projector and the tapes as you know most African people do not know how to read. These videos can help me to teach them about ISA and if I can get loud speaker then I can preach to the people on a public crusades, I welcome those materials in the name of ISA ALMASIH." --Abudul (Uganda)[/i]

[h2]Update on Recently Completed Projects[/h2]

*India, High caste Hindus: These films for this often overlooked group of people have a potential audience of 700 million people. Over the years, the vast majority of mission work has focused on rural village people groups, missing the influential yet hard to reach high castes. In partnership with a number of agencies and national workers we completed a plethora of tools including: a 50 minute Evangelistic Film (shot in Delhi and Varanasi), a contextual gathering film, website and photo image bank, and evangelistic Hindi website. The workers are all enthusiastically distributing and duplicating thousands of copies!
* Algeria, Algerian Arabs: Our Algerian Film projects reach out to the Kabyle Berbers, Algerian Arabs and Shawiya peoples (30 million people). Several of our teams focused on Algeria this year - the second largest nation in Africa with less than 10 foreign missionaries. One of our teams was able to get into Algeria to film and conduct interviews for a week. The other team was denied visas, so God led them to film Algerians in France, and to finance flights for the Algerian participants to travel to Malta, so we could complete the projects there. Our team was also able to train nationals in media production. Two video profiles, an evangelistic film and a contextual gathering film in Algerian Arabic, along with websites and photo CDs to mobilize prayer and inspire on-field participation are all now completed.
* Egypt, Egyptian Arabs: One team branched into a new video form this year: evangelistic music videos! We created an Arabic evangelistic music video to impact the youth in Egypt, along with an upbeat video encouraging youth to reach out to the Arab World. Our teams also produced training films to help youth reach the Arab world.
* Tibet, Tibetans: Our artist spent over 1,200 hours in research, painting and drawing to produce a 40 page contextualized booklet for reaching out to the 10 million Tibetan people. We are currently distributing this recently produced evangelistic storybook among the tribes in mountainous regions of Tibet. Nomads all over the Tibetan plateau have seen the book and heard the accompanying audio with excitement and great interest.
* Global Purpose (Spanish language edition) will help mobilize the 90 million Hispanics across the Latin world to World Evangelization. The soundtrack as well as all visuals were carefully customized for this audience with a huge potential for effective missionary involvement.

Check out our store for obtaining any of these as well as other resources for mobilization or outreach for your church or school! [url=store /]click here[/url] http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=34 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:49:29 GMT [h2]gets it own Website[/h2][img id=186 sub=www.createthailand.com /img]Throughout the website you will learn more about the vision and resources of Create Thailand. The office is now up and running! The Foundation also helped with some set up costs and audio visual equipment and software for equipping the centre. Our team has been involved in language learning, networking and resourcing many Asian missionaries. Plans are underway to start a third location for the School of Frontier Media at this centre by July 2008. It will have a special emphasis on the use of arts for evangelism and mobilization. (Perth, Australia and Jaipur, India are the other two locations currently running the School of Frontier Media.) http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=33 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:43:29 GMT [h2] Media Resources to Reach Iranians[/h2][img id=185 sub=Students @ Work /img]
Over 100 million people understand/speak Farsi; about 40 million live in Iran, and the remaining speakers live in Turkey, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan as well as pockets of communities in Europe and the USA.
Our Create team was able to produce a wealth of resources including evangelistic films, various evangelistic and Bible storying artwork, music videos, as well as prayer documentaries and contextual home gatherings. Our next e-newsletter will share more exciting testimonies and resources now being created. Our crew of staff and students, all working together to produce these media tools. http://www.createinternational.com/index.php?site=news&news=32 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:40:36 GMT [img id=187 sub=Calvin & Friends /img]A ten-year plan to evangelize/disciple 10 major unreached people groups through "Transformation Media Packets". Each of the 10 people groups will be equipped with relevant gospel presentations in their heart language and other tailor-made discipleship resources. Strategic and widespread distribution will be enhanced through mass [img id=180 sub=Filming Music Video /img]distribution campaigns using short-term teams and other field partners. Resources will be purposefully reproduced and distributed to spread the gospel message and begin planting indigenous Bible based churches. Unreached people will be reached; new converts will be discipled and trained. National believers will be assisted to establish "Harvest Media Centers," i.e, small production studios which will train and equip them to develop further indigenous resources aiding the continued transformation of their own societies.As a result of the "Create Harvest Media Plan", we want to see indigenous churches established and disciples cultivated in each group, so that the gospel can multiply and spread to every member of these unreached peoples as well as surrounding unreached peoples.
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