Message from Jeremie Manirakiza - ONE House of Transformation for Burundi.
Hello everyone !
These are the new members of the Dream House.
They visited me today so that we may plan together about their entry in Dream House.
This is Jackson Mandela, John Ndabarushimana and Hyacinthe Vyizigiro.
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DREAM HOUSE - Uma casa de moradia para jovens universitários em Burundi
Amado pai Dr. Josimar Salum
Amado pai Dr. Paul Taylor
Isto é para lhe endereçar nosso mais profundo agradecimento pelo que você fez por nós desde que o conhecemos. Não fomos capazes de subir as escadas que poderiam levar ao nosso destino. Desesperadamente, não poderíamos ser capazes de pensar sobre nosso futuro. Nossos pensamentos foram cegados por tradições e culturas que nos prendiam a falsas crenças. Mas desde que você entrou em nossas vidas, pudemos acreditar que podemos seguir em frente para nos tornarmos grandes pessoas. Você criou em nós um Espírito muito poderoso e positivo de acreditar no impossível. Vocês são os anjos enviados por Deus para serem a solução para nós. Como prometemos desde antes, nunca dormiremos até que tenhamos os frutos das sementes que você plantou em nós.
Esta noite, ficamos cheios de alegria por encontrar o Pr. Jeremie Manirakiza, que tem sido um servo muito fiel de Deus. Ficamos felizes em compartilhar o jantar com ele. Agradecemos a mensagem que você enviou por intermédio dele. Também ficamos felizes em saber que você continuará apoiando a Dream House - a Casa dos Sonhos. Como primogênitos da casa dos sonhos, agradecemos a vocês esse apoio que começou conosco desde 2017. Em nosso nome, como Deus, continua nos permitindo realizar nossos sonhos, desejamos ser os contribuintes da casa dos sonhos. Para nós, preferimos que a casa dos sonhos se transforme num grande e forte projeto até que não seja apenas uma casa de aluguel, mas sim uma casa construída em lote aqui em Bujumbura que irá acolher um certo número de alunos que não podem alugar casas.
Prometemos que seremos testemunhas para testemunhar como vocês trouxeram mudanças em nossas vidas. Que o Senhor o abençoe pelo poderoso trabalho que você fez por nós.
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Jérémie Ntirandekura
Saidi Ntakirutimana
Reverien Bukuru
Felicien Ndikumana
Jean Ndabarushimana
Herman Bitangimana
GREAT DAY FOR MANY STUDENTS IN BURUNDI #JSalum
Today, Sunday, October 31, 2021 ONE had a special day in Bubanza, Burundi.
We have graduated our first literacy students. It was a very interesting day for our students and for some authorities in Bubanza.
A friend of Gerard Ninziza who heard about this project accepted to give a Bible for each student because now they are able to read it.
Praise Jesus !
Jeremie Manirakiza
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There is a revival growing up in the schools in Burundi as we have prayed and dreamed about some years ago.
Burundi, Africa
October 28, 2021
Jackson Mandela sent this message about one of the Bible Groups that he, Gérard Ninziza and others are leading in the country:
“Shalom, sir!
Today we have been teaching the same Bible Group about the Gospel of the Kingdom to show the students how they can be right with the Kingdom in their school and in other areas.
After I distributed to them books (Choose Life) which can help them to manage their life with Jesus!”
Josimar Salum
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GOOD NEWS FROM LEBANON
Thank you for keeping Lebanon in your prayers.
Our Father is moving nightly in this nation.
Joseph Mattera led a pastors’ conference today in Beirut. It was a great conference! As a result they are going to work with the Supreme Evangelical Counsel to do regional conferences that will include a large percentage of the evangelical pastors for another teaching series on the Kingdom.
10/28/2021
Josimar Salum
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The disciples of Jesus from the Kurdish people
Dr Josimar Salum
Last Friday (September 17, 2021) here in Beirut I had a powerful experience.
About 23 years ago, my friend Pastor David Botelho, líder of Horizon Mission in Brazil, shared with me about the Kurds and the Druses, two peoples who at that time we were not aware of any disciple of Jesus among them.
Since then I have always prayed for these people.
In 2011 when I was in Egypt, two Syrian pastors witnessed the conversion of at least 300 Kurds who saw Jesus in person, without anyone preaching to them.
I've never been with any of them. And all pastors from our team were selected to preach in different churches. I don’t think that in my case was a coincidence.
Last Friday at the dinner we hosted for pastors in Lebanon my Lebanese best friend Raffoul Najem came to introduce the pastor I would be with on Sunday morning to preach at the church he leads.
To my surprise he was a Kurdish pastor.
I started to cry because I heard Jesus saying: They are also the fruit of your prayers! Great is the name of the Lord Jesus ! Look how wonderful! Men, women, whole families, young people ! Jesus ! Jesus !
And today I preached this morning for a whole community of Kurds, disciples of Jesus.
“I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father. Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. Psalms 2:7-8 NIV
To Jesus be all the glory!
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ONE DISCIPLES.
The Lord will be King of all the Earth. On that day, there will be ONE Lord and His Name will be ONE. Zechariah 14:9
Beloved sons and daughters;
My original commitment with Burundi was for four years. That is what the Lord inspired me to commit myself. It has now been more than six years that I have been serving this nation.
My commitment with Dr Paul Taylor was to help him to launch and sustain this “business” of transforming Burundi, not his ministry.
Dr. Taylor has provided most of the money wired directly to Burundi. I have also helped to provide a lot of money to this cause not just raising funds but spending my own resources. We have done this according to our own limits.
Furthermore, there have been hundreds of hours of dedication taken from my business in the US for this cause. Working late hours was part of this exhaustive commitment due to the time zone. This represents thousands of dollars taken from my business during the last years. And I am blessed and happy to have done that.
To have chosen Jeremie Manirakiza to lead ONE was one of our best decisions. I am really blessed to see what we are seeing nowadays. I am satisfied. What we are observing, I mean, all that has been accomplished is amazing.
And I will never forget my beloved sons and daughters of Burundi.
Moreover, we want to let people know the following and hope you can share this with others: from now you will have to PRIORITIZE investments so that ONE (you all) become sustainable. In other words, you shall have to provide for yourselves and the business of ONE. I am starting a transition phase that will allow you and the others to accomplish this: be self sustainable.
I am aware of the culture, the difficulties and limitations of the country. However I am also aware of the wealth of this nation and its capacity to overcome any poverty mentality. There are thousands of people who do well in the nation and prosper there amazingly.
I have shared about this a few years ago, and some of you didn’t understand it at the time. Many Burundians have a mindset of starting NGOS to help the country and they count on grants for these NGOS to maintain them. But an NGO is not a SUSTAINABLE source of income. It doesn’t PRODUCE wealth, only brings wealth from other NATIONS to be spent. When the resources stop, the “ministry” stops. This kind of ministry mentality is one of the biggest hindrances for sustainability and true prosperity. Unless these NGOs begin to invest in businesses that will generate wealth. We have done this in a small scale, but encouraged to know that this is the right way to go.
I also care to mention that I DO NOT LIKE the word “ministry” for what we do.
Look at these verses:
“But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.” Matthew 22:5 NKJV
“And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”” Luke 2:49 NKJV
Jesus didn’t say ‘my Fathers’s ministry’, but my Father’s business.
“So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.’” Luke 19:13 NKJV
“Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business;” Acts 6:3 NKJV
“That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,” I Thessalonians 4:11 NKJV
What Dr Taylor was saying in some of his messages is that “he is trying to prepare you for that day.” The say the grants will stop. That does not mean the day that our resources will end, but the day that you, all of you, ONE, will be self sustainable.
Look at what has happened: All the funds we send are spent with needs, not the BUSINESS. You treat the funds as BREAD — and all that is sent is eaten and not transformed into SEEDS - part of it is not invested.
If all the money collected in the churches and NGOs in Burundi were considered SEEDS and not bread, can you imagine what this nation would become?
The time for change is now. We are happy and blessed with all of you, but the time has come to sustain a more mature relationship for your own good.
Sincerely and with love, in Him, the ONE.
Dr Josimar Salum
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Hello everyone !
Yesterday, September 11th 2021 Gerard Ninziza visited our Literacy School of Transformation in Bubanza, Burundi to do the last test of evaluation.
We have already done the tests of evaluation in all of our Literacy classes in Karusi and Bubanza.
Now we are preparing ourselves for graduation possibly at the end of October and the beginning of November.
We are going to give certificates to 74 students in Karusi and 17 students in Bubanza.
Thank you
Jeremie Manirakiza
ONE House of Transformation for Burundi
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