A Safe Place for Girls in Uganda
LOVING ORPHANS – in UGANDA:
Here’s an exciting mission update from the progress of our new girls dorm at Guma Na Yesu (Keep With Jesus) Children’s Center in Uganda, East Africa.
Learn more about the vision . . . <<<
- New Mattresses!!!
- Pillows for the Girls!
- More Mattresses!
- Excited for God’s Provision!
- Unloading the Blessings!!!
- A Glimpse of the New Girls Dorm!
- Construction Progress!
- Sturdy Bunk Beds!
- Bunk Beds Arriving!!!
Learn to do good; Seek justice, reprove the ruthless,
defend the orphan, plead for the widow. (Isaiah 1:17, NASB)
Learn about one of our teenage girls:
Meet Ronitah — Click here < < <
We’re so thankful for God’s provision for a safe place for 150 teenage girls and appreciate everyone who has given and prayed for this huge need. GOD IS GREAT!!!
Please continue to keep this orphan ministry in your prayers.
Learn more about:
Guma Na Yesu Children’s Center in Uganda
Secondary School at Guma Na Yesu
Loving Orphans with Harvest Ministry
Orphan Statistics
What God’s Word Says about Loving Orphans
Ann’s Speaking Links & References
Ann is a “Qualified Speaker” through the Christian Women’s Speaker Directory. She is also represented as an author by Literary Agents, David & Renée Sanford.
- Ann’s Speaker Page at Christian Women’s Speakers Directory
- Ann’s Homeschool Speaker and Conference Listing
- Ann’s OCEANetwork Speaker Listing (Oregon Christian Home Education Association)
- Ann’s bio – expanded version
- Ann’s Mission-Minded Books & Resources
- Upcoming & Recent Speaking Events
References:
“Ann Dunagan is the most effective and gifted children’s teacher and motivator that I have come across in my lifetime . . . Let her teacher you — listen to her — she knows how and is now sharing it with others.” — DORIS GENE STEWART, forty years of experience as a missionary to Brazil and founder of an orphanage
“I have known Jon and Ann Dunagan since 1987, and have had the privilege of being their friend, pastor, and fellow worker in the kingdom. . . Jon and Ann are people of integrity, and I have confidence that God will continue to use them greatly in this generation.” — PASTOR NELS CHURCH, director of REAP International and missionary to the Philippines
“I used this curriculum [referring to Teaching With God’s Heart for the World by Ann Dunagan] with my kids a few years back and it was definitely life-changing! I have used many unit study curriculum over the 9 years I have been homeschooling, but I have to say this one was the absolute best!” — ERICA BURGAN, Homeschooling Mother
“The Mission-Minded Family, by Ann Dunagan, is an excellent thought-provoking resource to assist Christian families . . . By establishing this balance between our personal lives and our outreach to others we can enjoy a productive mission while launching a new generation into the same missionary lifestyle. By honoring God’s wisdom, our families can effectively raise our own children for the Lord, and simultaneously, reach our world with the good news of Jesus Christ.” — GREGG AND SONO HARRIS, Homeschooling pioneers and parents of seven children including Joshua Harris (author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye) and Alex and Brett Harris (authors of Do Hard Things)
“Ann Dunagan is an amazing woman of character and capability. In character, she serves her family of seven children with all the kindnesses that a mother should have and her husband with loving, willing obedience. In capability, she homeschools her children, teaches children, writes curriculum, worships like an angel, and makes herself available where needed. She lives her life with an enthusiasm for the Lord, and for others, without exception.” — PASTOR FRITZ STRANZ, Senior Pastor of Covenant Christian Hood River (the Dunagan’s pastor)
You’re Going OVER!!! (You’re not going under!)
BE ENCOURAGED as Jon Dunagan shares from Luke 8:22-25 about Jesus calming the fierce storm and the fears of His disciples (concluding on Part II with a time of prayer).
As you listen, receive the word of the Lord to YOU today: “YOU’RE GOING OVER, you’re not going under. PEACE BE STILL.”
Audio #1
Listen to the first part of Jon’s message: “You’re Going Over, You’re Not Going Under!”
Audio #2
Listen to the second part of Jon’s message: “You’re Going Over, You’re Not Going Under!” concluding with a time of prayer.
May God bless and encourage you from His word, in Jesus’ Name.
Dysfunctional and Functional Families
God has a purpose for your family to function together, with SYNERGY — working together as a family and working together with Him.
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Dysfunctional and
Functional FamiliesSeries: Kingdom-Focused Families
Session Leader: Ann Dunagan
Time: 10 minutesDescription: Is your family dysfunctional? Or, functioning a little “off-kilter”? God has a purpose for your family to function together, with SYNERGY — working together as a family and with Him.
Dysfunctional
and Functional FamiliesListen to this session Online or On-the-go! To begin, click the AUDIO button (below)
and follow along through the “SlideShare” PowerPoints (above). For convenience, you can Download the mp3 and the Notes.
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MISSION to LWAKHAKHA!
August 2009 – Harvest Ministry conducted a city-wide missions outreach in LWAKHAHA, Uganda. This Uganda/Kenya border town has been rampant with prostitution and AIDS. People there have been desperately in need of Jesus. Jon Dunagan preached and ministered together with all of Harvest Ministry’s African N.E.T.S. ministers.
PLEASE PRAY!
Please be interceding with us for God’s Holy Spirit to be moving and stirring in the hearts of the people in Lwakhakha. We’re believing for many people to come face-to-face with the reality of God, and to be moved to repentance from their sin. May God be glorified in all that we do.
Specific prayer needs:
- Pray for the local pastors and Christian leaders as they are preparing for the outreach
- Pray for God’s provision for Jon’s airfare & traveling expenses to Uganda
- Pray for effective outreach advertising (flyers, word of mouth, and promotion)
- Pray for effective advance work (led by N.E.T.S. minister, Paul Kintu – coordinating prayer, ushers, follow-up – and Geoffry – coordinating local music and worship)
- Pray for safe transportation of the ministry equipment and team to Lwakhakha
- Pray for provision for food and lodging for the whole team throughout the outreach
- Pray for support and wisdom for the technician team, as they take care of details
Jon Dunagan will also be ministering at Harvest Ministry’s orphanage, and they look forward to the time together with our wonderful extended “family” on the island. Please be praying with us for this entire mission outreach, for all of these people, and for these needs!
ORPHAN NEWS: God’s Provision for WATER!!!
An Urgent Need for Water . . .
We are thrilled to share an exciting report of God’s provision!
Recently, Harvest Ministry had an urgent need for a large water tank at Guma Na Yesu Children’s Center. The cost for this orphan need was nearly $3,000 (above and beyond Harvest Ministry’s monthly orphanage commitment). This was a heavy burden on our hearts and a matter for specific prayer.
When we were recently in Uganda, we (Jon & Ann) saw this need for water in person,
but the situation had become much more desperate . . .
There are 143 million orphans in the world today. Why should you CARE?
’cause it’s PURE!
We all know that it’s physically healthy to drink a lot of pure fresh water. Well, how much of God’s PURE and undefiled religion are we getting into our spiritual system on a regular basis?
The connection to the city water was too undependable and was often completely shut off. The workers were needing to haul plastic buckets (“jerry cans”) of water from a very dirty nearby stream that was covered with scum. It was horrible.
An urgent email just last week (on February 8th) highlighted this need once again. It was a real need . . . and very important. But beyond our capability.
And so WE PRAYED to our very REAL GOD!!!
Keep it Pure!
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (James 5:12)
God’s Provision . . .
A few hours after receiving this email about the urgent need for water, Ann spoke at a local Christian school about world missions, orphans, and George Muller (a famous missionary from the 1800s who cared for thousands of orphans in Bristol, England). Together, the students and teachers agreed together in prayer for God to meet this need.
There was an excitement among the kids (and a faith in our hearts) that God would meet this need, just like He provided bread and milk for George Muller so long ago.
The very next day, we received a phone call from a lady who we had never met (she had read a mission article online and came to see Harvest Ministry’s website). On the phone, this woman shared how she and her husband felt in prayer that God was directing them to give a specific missions gift — of $6,000!!! — for Harvest Ministry’s urgent orphan needs!!!
WooHoo!!! The need was answered, with more than enough!
We were (and are) absolutely thrilled for this specific and abundant answer to prayer.
As with all designated missions donations (given directly to Harvest Ministry), 100% of this gift will be used overseas for the needs of these orphan children. For this need, $3,000 will be designated for the need for water for the orphans, and $3,000 to complete the construction of 10 greatly needed teacher’s rooms at Guma Na Yesu Children’s Center.
To God be the GLORY!!!!
We’re so thankful for God’s provision and for the obedience and trust of this family (who we’ve never met). We’re so thankful for the hard work of all the teachers and leaders at Guma Na Yesu Children’s Center. We’re so thankful for the prayers of the kids and teenagers at the Christian school . . . and for everyone who has been faithfully praying for Harvest Ministry’s orphan needs.
May God bless you all!!!
Click here to see more exciting pictures of the praise report!!!
Let’s drink more.
Let’s keep it pure.
Costa Rica: Exciting Mission Team Update!
Right now, Josh & Anna Dunagan, directors of Gospel Projects International, are leading a mission team to Costa Rica, Central America, from our family’s home church, Covenant Hood River, in Oregon. The team is meeting up with missionaries at a Youth With a Mission base and throughout the outreach, they will be ministering San Jose and Orosi.
Newest Update from the Team:
Mission Report from Costa Rica:
We are all doing great and we have been having some wonderful times of ministry.
Yesterday we ministered at a home for underaged motherers and their children (some of the mothers were only 14 years old) and today we visited an orphanage for disabled and abandoned children. Also, at night the women have been downtown in San Jose ministering to the prostitutes.
All is well and our team is challenged by the needs we see. Tomorrow we will be going to the small village of Orosi to begin our Bible distribution project. Thanks for your prayers and support. We look forward to sharing a good report of what God is doing when we get home next week.
Left: “Here’s a photo of one of our outreaches. It was so great. We have been amazed with what GOD is doing the first two days. It seems like we have been here for a week already. We go tonight to bless the ladies [prostitutes] on the streets. How wonderful and peaceful this YWAM base is. We feel so priviledged that we were sent. Thank you to everyone.” –CAROL, first international mission trip
Here’s the Overall Vision:
JOSH DUNAGAN:
We are taking a team of nine people from our church in Hood River, Oregon, to Costa Rica on July 26th. The main reason we are going on this outreach is to help with a large Bible distribution project that has a goal of distributing a Bible to every home in Costa Rica. Specifically, we will distribute Bibles in the small town of Orosi. We also plan to serve on street ministry teams (ministering to the prostitutes and homeless in the capital city of San Jose) and help with children’s outreach programs. This is exciting for us because it’s the first group mission trip that we are leading together.
Keep the team in your prayers . . .
Please remember to keep us (and the rest of the team) in your prayers while we are on this mission outreach. The nine team members are of all ages, and include Josh & Anna Dunagan, Shannon, Tia, Mallory, Mark Dunagan, Gabi, Carol, and Anna B.
M.A.P.S. for Kids – FREE VBS Curriculum
Looking for a mission-minded summer outreach idea . . . for your family, teenagers, home group, or children’s church? How about planning a backyard or neighborhood Vacation Bible School to share the Gospel and God’s heart for the world?
M.A.P.S. for KIDS!!!
As a special gift from Harvest Ministry, we would like to provide you with this FREE Vacation Bible School Curriculum: Missions Adventure Preparation School!
This Bible-based kid-tested curriculum includes complete day-by-day instruction outlines. Throughout the week-long adventure, your kids will “travel” around the world (to Africa, Asia, Europe, India, and Latin America) on their own “M.A.P.S. for KIDS International Airlines” — through “Customs” with their own personal “Missionary Passports” (the program even has printable passport and visas!).
Best of all, your kids will learn to draw closer to God, to obey His awesome Word, and to follow Jesus all throughout their lives . . . to do whatever God says to do, to give whatever God says to give, and to go wherever God says to GO!
Click here to download the FREE 106-page curriculum
M.A.P.S. for KIDS!!!
A 5-Day Mission-Minded V.B.S. Curriculum
Each day includes . . .
- A different international theme
- A Bible memory verse and a mission-minded focus
- An easy object lesson
- A missionary monologue skit
- An easy craft idea
- An international mission-minded snack idea
- A fun outdoor missionary adventure
- Day-by-day instructions for six ministry training workshops to equip children in mission skills (such as puppetry, drama, music, or the EvangeCube).
- A concluding M.A.P.S. for KIDS Program
- Plus much more!
Be blessed! Have fun! (And if possible, let us know how it went!!!)
If you use this M.A.P.S. for KIDS curriculum, or any part of it, we would sure enjoy hearing how your program went. Let us know how you used the curriculum, where you live, and how many children were involved. Feel free to add positive feedback from anyone who was involved . . . or any helpful ideas. Our heart is to encourage and challenge children’s ministers, teachers, and parents to equip the next generation for world missions.
It’s easy to do, very effective, and best of all, it’s FREE!!!
Come take a look!
Here are a few highlight photos:
Making international crafts
For ASIA-DAY: Painted Oriental Lanterns and Fans
Learning to use chopsticks
The International Food Cafe
Outdoor Adventures: Setting up a “MISSIONS CAMP”
(Completed “CAMP” – (Notice the Bibles on the chairs!!!)
H.M.F.I. News: Serving Churches
An important outreach of Harvest Ministry is SERVING CHURCHES (primarily remote village churches), through a mission called “H.M.F.I. – Harvest Ministry Fellowship International.”
This past year, we have confirmed hundreds of national minister applications and we are excited about the potential of this vision.
Our second annual East Africa HMFI conference will be held in Mbarara, Uganda, with an expected attendance of approximately 1000 ministers (including HMFI delegates from Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Congo, and Kenya).
Read more about H.M.F.I. . . . here. < < -----
HMFI pastors meeting in East Africa
(with HMFI delegates from Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Congo)
An encouraging note from East Africa:
Beloved Friends Jon and Ann,Receive these words of encouragement.
Deep in my spirit, I feel for sure that this is the right time
of the new vision of H.M.I.F. I have believed and known that he is God who spoke to you. Through this vision, you are going to touch many lives and cause revival which will remain in history. Because the pastors in villages are lacking motivation and there is no one who has ever thought about them. People run to cities and neglect the villages and yet the pastors in villages work for God with one heart. Therefore, take heart and go on.The God who spoke to you is caring, He will fulfill the vision and provide what is enough for it. Because God can not TAKE you where his GRACE can not keep you.
Yours in God’s service,
Evangelist JOSEPH BALUKU
Evangelist Joseph Baluku and a remote village congregation
– Uganda, East Africa
H.M.F.I. Update from India:
Photos of some of our newest H.M.F.I. Members
–S.E. IndiaRead more about H.M.F.I. . . . here. < < -----
Where in the World . . . is Peru & Bolivia?
What a fun way to learn about the world!
Right now, our oldest son is traveling all over the world on a global adventure. As a mission-minded homeschooling family, we love to learn about different nations and cultures, and we love to pray for people who need Jesus. Every few weeks, as we get news about this trip, we’re using it as a way for our kids to learn about WORLD MISSIONS (along with world geography and worldviews). There are so many exciting things to see and to do . . .
Mission-Minded Teaching Ideas:
Available here at Harvest Ministry, we have a complete one-year unit study homeschooling curriculum, all based on world missions and God’s Great Commission, called Teaching With God’s Heart for the World. If you follow the whole program (which can be used over one year, or two years, or even as individual week-long units) you and your children will take a whirl-wind tour of international geography and world history.
FREE Unit Study!
South America Unit Study – Week 12
in Teaching With God’s Heart for the World
(Just CLICK to download!!!)
In some places, the curriculum is a little outdated and some of the recommended resources are no longer available, but don’t worry about those little details! And don’t ever think that you have to do “everything”!!! Just glean from the teaching ideas and have fun. The lesson plans are now available for FREE and the craft projects, recipes, ancient history, and Bible lessons are just as applicable as ever. Come take a look!
Puno, Peru
Following the Adventure . . .
Peru . . .
A festival in Puno, Peru
Decorating the streets with flower petals
By the end of the day, the decorations were intense
Beautiful celebrations and dancing
Mission-Minded Teaching . . .
– – – > Learn about PERU on the World Map Project
– – – > Learn about Unreached People Groups in PERU
– – – > Pray for PERU with Operation World
– – – > Explore PERU on the World AtlasRemote “Uru” People – on floating islands (Peru)
The whole island is made out of reeds which float on the lake
The Uru people – in their native dress (they sang for the group)
Another floating village (there are about 40 of these islands)
Bolivia . . .
Looking over the city of La Paz, Bolivia
“Gotta love that La Paz Power System!”
Mission-Minded Teaching . . .
– – – > Learn about Unreached People Groups in BOLIVIA
– – – > Pray for BOLIVIA with Operation World
– – – > Explore BOLIVIA on the World Atlas
From a witch’s market: dried llama fetuses
HERE HE IS! (It’s Patrick . . . riding a horse in Bolivia, in the freezing rain!)
Chile . . .
Iquique, Chile
Learn more about South America:
FREE Unit Study!
South America Unit Study – Week 12
in Teaching With God’s Heart for the World
(Just CLICK to download!)
Try a FREE online quiz from lizardpoint.com:
Countries of SOUTH AMERICA
Capitals of SOUTH AMERICA
Fun Craft Idea: Make a Mission-Minded PASSPORT
and keep track of “where you’ve been” (in your learning and prayer)!The travel map (so far!):
So . . . where will he go next?
Have fun, learn about world missions, and follow the adventure!!
