Blessings for Ghana and Rwanda

We are happy to say that today we mailed the package of Christmas presents to the children with the Believer's Ministry in Ghana. Here is a picture of some of the presents being sent: http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/ocean/Photos.html (Click on small picture to see larger picture.) Also today, Silvana's rebate check came and she is sending it all to Brother Joseph in Ghana by ikobo for the remainder of their rent, so they can have their electricity turned on. Electricity for Christmas and presents for the children. All for the King's Feast for Jesus!

We also mailed a package of 4000 pictures of Jesus to Brother Jean in Rwanda, and one of the two packages of presents for the children in Rwanda to Jean's wife Beathy. We will mail the second package later this week or early next week. We still have some presents that we want to purchase. We are asking Jesus for another $100 to buy some small presents at a local dollar store. Thank you to everyone who has participated in putting the packages together and has helped with paying for postage and gifts.

I was at the computer writing to Brother Joseph and waiting for Therese to call me telling me that she had made the deposit at the bank when the following letter came into our inbox from Joseph:

Greetings sister Char & all, Thanks so much for your last email. We continue in prayers everyday that the rebate check will arrive at your address soon! The landlord will be traveling early next month, and will not be back till January. We wish that we will have the money in hand as soon as possible, so that he can now help get the electricity for us before he travel. It is great joy to hear about the gifts for our children, they will be surprised to receive the gifts when it gets here. Already, we have planned how to make the feast this time, and possibly, we will try to take some pictures to be send to you after the Christmas. The shop that sells second-hands clothing and other shops are a bit far from our home. It takes about one hour and 30 minutes to get to the town and the internet cafe. It is quite difficult moving about with our bicycle, we pray that the Father will sometime bless us with a motor scooter. We will find out and let you know the prices of motor scooter, bicycle, and the current cost of children's shoes. Our farm is progressing, and it will not be too long when we will start harvesting some crops. The vegetables seeds you sent are growing very well!As usual, extend our greetings, love and thanks to your families and to the brethren there. We look forward to hear from you soon. Your brother, Joseph & the brethren here

So, we have sent the money for electricity, and the presents to Joseph and we are asking the Father for provision for a motor scooter for them. As the Father said, this year will be the year of expansion for OJP and you can see that He is laying the groundwork for it now, both in Rwanda and in Ghana. We want to get a vinyl banner for Pastor Jean to put up in the new house (that will have electricity) that we are praying to get in Kigali. It will have the OJP logo, but will say OPERATION: JESUS PICTURES in Rwanda. He and Beathy can have the banner on the wall and people will see it when they come to his house to watch THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, or to receive a free picture of Jesus.

I will be posting more pictures of the gifts sent to Ghana and of the luminarias.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Here are the farolitas (luminarias) that we put out by our front patio for Christmas. This is a traditon in the southwest USA, and particularly in New Mexico. The Father told us to put these farolitas ("little lanterns") up on Thanksgiving Day, so we did. Some say that the farolitas light the way for the Christ Child and some say that they light the way to the Christmas Service. It is like the King's Feast on Christmas Day: a feast for the King, a feast from the King.

Here is a powerful video to honor Jesus for Christmas:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1447776397

EXPANSION

11-08-06

The other day the Father reminded me that He had shown the prophet Silvana for the people in the Believer's Ministry to move from where they were in Ghana. She said by the Holy Spirit that demons were opposing them were they were and that they should move somewhere else. We told Joseph about it and asked him to ask the Father about it. Joseph and the people went to the Father and He showed them that it was from Him that they move and He showed them the farm. After He said that they should move, He provided the money to do so. Since then He is providing the money to pay the balance of the two year rent money, so the landlord will turn on the elctricity at the farm, and He has provided the money for their Christmas feast, something they have not had for several years becasue of hard circumstances. Also, one of the women among them needed maternity money for her unborn child. Jesus provided. The Father commented to me that Joseph trusted Him when Silvana saw from Him what they should do, and that since then He has blessed them. The Father said, "My will came first from OJP in America and then they trusted and acted. They trusted Me and believed Me and blessing has come because of it."

Jean in Rwanda trusted Him too, and now the Father has provided for him and is blessing him also. The Father's will is to expand what He is doing in the world. We trust Him and look to Him also for OJP.

11-10-06

"They can't throw Me out of office", said the Father to Silvana. She asked the angels what they would do about the recent elections. What did they think and what would they do? They answered her. They said, "We look ahead". They see what is coming from the Father and they do not despair. They are a good example for us.

The Father has been speaking of us going out in the RV. He called the RV, "a portable church". He wants to go outside the walls of the church, outside the walls of our own places, to reach out to the world. Wherever the church who loves Him, who hears Him, who obeys Him, goes, He goes too. He goes to lead, He goes to set up opportunities to reach out with Jesus.

11-17-06

It is so such a blessing to work together in OJP for the Father! Our service to Him, and His blood to cover us and to provide for all the world. Serious times lie ahead, but He will lead us and empower us to reach out to others. The Father's mind is full of ideas of how He can reach out to the world through us, and through all who are looking to Him, who can be led by His Spirit. What lies ahead for OJP is expansion.

We have been given the opportunity to give out free pictures to needy people who come to get a free turkey offered by a church in Albuquerque. The reason we got this wonderful opportunity is because Silvana saw a commercial on a local TV channel about their great turkey giveaway, and the Father said to call the church and talk to the pastor about giving pictures of Jesus to the people who came to get the free turkeys. The Pastor had seen the Shroud of Turin personally and he welcomed us to give out the free pictures.

So, last night, Therese and I, Nikki and Antonio, and Jordan and Neeko met together at the Sandia Church to give out free pictures of Jesus to the people who came for the turkey. First the people listened to a short message and then they went through a line in the parking lot, where we stood and offered the pictures to all. Everyone wanted them, and most took more to give out to friend and family. Even some of the church people took pictures of Jesus. One assistant pastor there had received several pictures from us one time when we met in a restaurant and he said he had given them all out. One women wanted to pass them out to homeless people on the street so we gave her extra pictures. We gave away every large picture, every medium pictures and every DVD of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST that we had with us. Therese is planning to laminate today so we have more of the larger pictures. We cannot tell you what a blessing the pictures from Mary, Dana, Felicia, and Emily were at this time! We handed out a few thousand pictures last night and we are going back on Mon, Tues, and Wed nights to give out more. We will be stringing pictures every Mon, Tues, and Wed morning!

At the second service that night (they have 2 per night) they asked Therese and I to participate in the counseling, which is to take the information of people who raised their hands and prayed the sinner's prayer, and to talk to them and pray with them, while Nikki and Antonio waited outside to give the people pictures of Jesus as they come out. Being in the service gave us the opportunity to pray with different people! Thank you, Father! I saw Him moving among the people, from pew to pew, looking at them, loving them, and desiring to bring them to know Him. Jesus was present to heal and help. One woman came stumbling out of the service (we were in the back) saying, "I just got out of the hospital today and I don't feel well". She went to kneel down at a chair in the foyer and laid her head down on the chair, since there was no place else to rest. Jordan came and knelt beside her and prayed for her along with his mother, Therese. We met another woman named Teresa who was grieving because of her autistic 14 year old daughter and 25 year old son with HIV and a husband who is depressed because of the circumstances. Also, her mother in Mexico is supporting her brothers who have deep physical problems. We laid hands on Teresa to pray for her (and gave her Jesus' picture!) and I saw Jesus listening, ready to act, so I told her and Therese told her what she saw from Jesus. Jordan and I laid hands on her and prayed for her children and for everything she was bringing to Jesus, that burdened her heart so deeply. Join us in lifting her (and her family) to the Father. He loves them so deeply and how glad He is that she brought this grief and troubles to Him. He is going to act on her behalf.

Thank you, Father, for your leading, for giving us a chance to reach out to the needy with Jesus' pictures!. We were able to give pictures to thousands of people and tell them, "talk to Jesus and He will talk to you" just as we tell everyone, and we also got to pray with some of them. I laid hands on a baby with an oxygen tube in its nose. We took the address of seven people who requested more pictures (or a larger picture, or THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST). One woman whispered to ask if we could send pictures to her daughter in prison. She was so glad when I told her that we often send them to prisons. People labor under shame. While praying for the woman inside the church, she whispered to me with anguish about her son, "he has HIV". There is suffering in the world and the Father understands the source, but His heart is always to help. As I prayed for the man with HIV, I said to the Father, "For this woman's son, for the sake of Your Son". Pray for us as we go back on Mon, Tues, and Wed night to give out more pictures.

God bless all of you, dear Brothers and Sisters. Remember how the Holy Spirit showed an example of strong grass, growing deep and united in their roots under the ground. This prophecy is being fulfilled. We feel so supported by all of you. We know you trust and hear Jesus and you are praying with us for the events on earth and for the people of the world, and for the will of the Father and many of you have joined us to help to meet the needs financially of the service of OJP to Jesus.

Reminder of audio post

Silvana posted earlier, "Closer than close". What a beautiful post. The Father has been showing His plans to heal us, to move across all mankind. What she saw in the Spirit reminded me of something I was saying in the audio post called, "Rwanda". That post is not only about what the Holy Spirit showed about Rwanda but also about mankind in general and the love of the Father for us. We encourage you to listen to it, if you have not yet done so. (To listen, scroll down and look for the blue frame on the right, then click on line titled, "Rwanda", which is episode #3.)

Question from Matthew, answer from Char

Hi, I came across your website Operation Jesus Pictures and am intrigued by it. Is the message you preach real, what denomination of Christianity is it. I read some of Silvana’s blog articles and this thing about God going to Mecca and stooping over the black stone and writing on it appears strange to me. As a Christian I know and believe that Jesus is God – true God and true Man. Aren’t we supposed to respect all religions, although we know the TRUTH. Are you postulating a religious cult?

I will appreciate an answer, if you can.

Thank you and God bless.

Mathew


Dear Matthew,

Thanks for your letter. Yes, our message absolutely is real. We preach that you can know Jesus for yourself; that just as Abraham and Moses and Adam and Job and Paul and so many others talked to the Father and heard from Him, so can you. Jesus opened the door by His sacrifice for our sin, so that we can return to our Creator, who loves us so. This is the gospel that is real and is true.

Why do you find it strange that God would say something to Allah and to the people in Mecca? Remember in the Old Testament, how the Ark of the Covenant was put in the temple of Dagon and the statue of Dagon fell over the first night and then they put it up again and it fell down again and the hands and the head broke off. Dagon was the god that they worshipped in that country. Was it politically incorrect of the true God (who was present in the Ark of the Covenant) to cause the false god's hands and head to break off? Allah is Satan, just as Dagon was Satan. He is a real being and the Father knows him well because the Father created him. The people in Mecca are deceived because they believe Allah to be God. It is the Father who brought this message to Mecca, not Silvana. She only saw what the Holy Spirit showed to her about it.

The reason the Father showed this message is because the time of the enemy is coming to an end. There is fierce warfare occurring in the Spirit and in the natural realm and it is going to greatly increase. This all leads to the return of Jesus, so we rejoice, even as we grieve over the pain and suffering that will come to many.

I encourage you, Matthew, to ask Jesus about this. Talk to Him, seek Him, and wait on Him. Keep talking to Him about everything, until you begin to hear His voice more and more clearly. You need to know the truth about these very serious topics on the earth today, and what better place to get the truth than from Jesus, who is the truth. And as He speaks to you, you can develop a relationship with the best Being in existence: our Friend and our God, Jesus.

I am not sure what you mean by postulating a cult. I am neither calling Islam a cult, nor Christianity a cult. A cult does not comes into it at all. Those who think that Allah is God are mistaken, for he is not. The real God loves, while Allah leads towards hatred and destruction. Jesus will show you the truth if you ask Him.

I hope that this answered some of the questions that you have. I am glad to hear that you are reading at the blog sites. Continue to ask Jesus about everything that you read there so you can see what the Holy Spirit is showing. As you talk to Him about these events, the Father promises to answer, and then to continue to speak to you, about that which is happening in your life and in the lives of the people around you.

God bless you, Matthew. Thanks again for writing. Do you have some of the free pictures of Jesus that we pass out? We would be happy to send some to you, wherever you live in the world.

In Jesus, our Friend and soon coming Bridegroom,
Char Tierney

17 year anniversary

Today is the 17 year anniversary of the forty day fast to which the Father called us in 1989. The Father's prophet, Silvana Lupetti, and I, fasted for forty days and then the prophecies in BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION (God's Warning To The Church and God's Word to the Remnant) were given shortly after. The Holy Spirit was moving so powerfully in the earth at that time. The Berlin wall came down the day before the fast started and in just a few months seven nations left the communist bloc. This fast was the starting point for OPERATION: JESUS PICTURES.

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I saw a countdown from the Father the other day. First I saw 8,9,9, then 10,9,8,7,6. The Holy Spirit woke me up the day after the election to show these numbers to me and to call them "a countdown". This is the first portion of the countdown and then the 5,4,3,2,1 will resume at a time of His choosing.

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I was standing against the enemy, who wants to use the election results and the events in the world to bring widespread death. This will call for patient endurance from all of us and a constant connection to the Father. All day I kept seeing Satan's murderous insistence on death, and more death. Why is he so full of violence and murder? I saw the Father looking at the enemy as this question was being asked. He took the enemy by the throat and lifted him in the air and shook him. Something fell out of the clothing on the enemy. It looked like an old fashioned camera, like a black box camera. It fell to the ground with a clunking sound. I don't know what this signifies. In the evening I was sitting at my desk, weary from the day's wrestling over the enemy's nature, and I put my head down at my desk. The Father came and laid His hand gently on my back. I could feel His sympathy. He was glad that I cared.

I thought of what the Father showed about the demons in America who have encouraged women to be liberal, to be immoral, and I said, "I guess this means these demons will be come against". "Yes", said the Father.

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The Father said something to Silvana today. "They can't throw Me out of office". To me, this election feels like that. To reject the war on evil, is to reject the Father. It reminds me of the time that the Israelis wanted a king. Though they had the Father to lead them, and prophets that He sent, yet they told the prophet Samuel that they wanted to have a king. Samuel was deeply grieved about it, but the Father told him, "It is not you that they have rejected, but Me". And this seems the same to me. But, the Father is in control and He is absolutely right. They cannot throw Him out, they cannot stop Him as he continues to prepare the world for the return of Jesus.

America is greater than one election

11-8-06 

 We had really strong feelings after the election, naturally enough, since the implied retreat in the war on terror. I was walking outside today and the Father said to me, "America is greater than one election". 

I was so glad to hear His comment and feel His smiling, loving, presence. There will be serious consequences, but He is still on the throne, as Silvana commented by the Holy Spirit while we were in a yahoo conference with Pastor Jean and Felicia, Therese, and Nikki, later in the day. She also spoke of seeing high places crumbled into dust.  We also laid out some needs for Rwanda and for Brother Joseph in Ghana. 

Report from Brother Joseph in Ghana

Today we received a lovely letter from our brother Joseph in Ghana. He tells a little more detail about their situation on the farm, and also lays out some needs they have. We received donations today from Robert and Catherine, and from Dana, so we are going to send the money that Joseph and his brethren need to their ikobo account. It was great timing to receive these offerings of help to OJP! When we received the gifts in the mail we rejoiced and said, "We can make a payment to the printer!" but then we opened our email and saw the greater needs of those in Ghana. Please pray for our provision to make a payment to the printer. The Father said He will provide so we konw we can trust Him to do that very thing.

Dear sister Char & Silvana and everyone,

We greet you all in the great name of Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you very much for your email. We are glad to fellowship together in the Christmas day! To make our feast more similar and real with yours and with that of our brethren at Rwanda, we will also be eating rice, macaroni, desserts made from fruit and soda to drink! In addition to this, we will also prepare our children's favorite snack, i.e. fried ripe plantain chips! Yes a gift of $100 will be sufficient for this feast - thanks in advance for enabling us to make a Christmas feast which we have missed for several years due to hardship and difficult situations!

We all live in the same house as a small Christian community of 6 families and 8 singles. There are total of 15 adults, and 13 children. The house consist 5 rooms, kitchen, and a living room. The living room is now serving as a bedroom for two families, the kitchen too is also serving as a bedroom now. We constructed a small structure with mud & wood at the backyard which now serve as the kitchen!Our hearts are filled with joy for the good news about the monthly gift that you planned to bless us with! We pray that Jesus will make the approval process to be very smooth! When we also start receiving the gift, we will set aside some portion for the spread of gospel here in Ghana.

Though the building we are living is being wired, it had not been connected to the mains power supply. We are still in darkness, and the building being a bit isolated from others, makes our feelings of the darkness to be more intense! The landlord have told us that when once we pay the remaining renting balance of $280, that he will use part of it to subscribe for electric power new service supply for us. There are several things that we need to do with electricity, especially for the lightings, playing the "hooked of Phonics" audio tapes for the children to learn, etc. We are presently using locally made lamp that uses kerosene, but it is not good for the eyes nor for reading. There are also little renovations that the landlord will only be capable to do when he received the remaining balance. Please, pray with us and ask Jesus to provide for this as soon as possible!

From next week, we will start to transplant the seedlings to the garden. We will keep you updated as it goes. There is a great sign that our crops will flourish here! Since our crops are yet to mature, we still need much food supply and other basic needs. About $150 will sustain us for some weeks, before we will be able to get some little incomes from the vegetables that we have raised in the farm here. Since yesterday, we had very little to live on, please, ask Jesus to provide for our food today and for the coming days. The family of Assiongbo who also lives here with us needs your prayers as sister Mensah Assiongbo, the wife of Kennedy Assiongbo is expecting a baby in couple of months. Sister Mensah needs pre-natal medical checkups, she have not yet been able to register with a "child delivery home" here, which cost is equivalent of $25. When she registered, she will receive checkups, advice, care, etc, till she got delivered. Please, pray for the needs of this family and for God's protection of the mother and the expecting baby!

Now may the One Who is able to keep us from falling and is able to supply all our needs far more abundantly that we can possibly imagine, may He guide, correct, keep and uphold us as we continue to put our trust in Him! Extend our greetings, love and thanks to your families and to the rest of the brethren there at Operation Jesus Pictures. We look forward to hearing from you.

Your brother, Joseph & the brethren here

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We have the wonderful news to report that our sister in Jesus, Nikki, and her husband have bought the house across the street from us! So now we have three houses together for OJP where we are serving Jesus together. It was a miracle that they were able to get the house. The Father worked it out with perfect timing.

The Father was talking about how hard it is to stand against the liar who opposes us as he moves with evil intent all over the earth. The Father said that what it takes is commitment. As the enemy moves to try and get us to stop our loving obedience to Jesus, he pressures us in every way. Our commitment to Jesus, our commitment to the truth, gives us the strength to stand.