My fiancee’s dress sizes are shoulder to foot “Height”: 57” (not her, but dress height), Bust: 34”, Waist: 27”, Hip: 36”, Ugandan English “Caber” is outside of shoulder-shoulder: 16”.  They are all in inches straight from metric Africa. We were given one for the wedding to my deceased Rwandan wife in 2008. Now we (a different we) need another that we can alter. Call/text my cell 574 295 9696 or reply to ship to my address at the bottom of this.

Below is a great report from Tanzania about 32 mostly new churches, deliverances & healings! (Edited for readability with Dave’s approval)

GREG

We thank God for His love, and the blessing that He is doing and working through us. We are happy that God is multiplying disciples here. As He takes us step by step, we are growing. By now we have grown from 7 House churches in Dar es salaam to 30 more in other cities in the country After long bus trips from east to west we planted 10 house churches in Mwanza, the town located at lake Victoria in the west of the country. We also planted 5 house churches in Singida the town located close to Arusha. Our  37  house churches are growing fast.

Here is the testimony of our brother AMANI, from our house church in Singida. “People are amazed to realize how the small church can make true family in Christ more than the traditional churches. I feel loved and belonging to the church more now than in the big church I used to attend, cause in small churches I can ask questions. We are free to meet the deacons, and almost everybody is a minister. We sing songs together, and we pray for each other.”

Also, we thank God many people are healed, demons are cast out and people are set free from many kind of oppressions during our Jesus film crusades. Hallelujah! Jesus Films have been a wonderful ministry to win & touch people’s lives. Jesus Film ministry is helping us to rapidly plant and grow House churches and many are receiving healing from Jesus.

During a Jesus Film crusade there was a woman who had a fibrous tumor. We laid on hands and prayed for her. Then the demon manifested. After she vomited she could not feel any pain in her stomach. We told her to go to the doctor for medical checkup. The doctor verified that she had no tumor. She is free! The Lord set her free! Halleluiah! She told us the stomach pain from the tumor was gone! This happened during Jesus Film crusades in villages. Many people attended the crusades. We thank GOD that through Jesus Film crusades the house churches near Singida have multiplied from 5 to 15 now . I want to go back to help train new leaders and plant more house churches. They are in the rural area. It takes an 18 hour bus ride from Dar. It is a rough road, from the city of Singida to the rural area.

Your Tanzania New Wave Ministry partner, David

David has persisted in being faithful to use the Jesus Film DVDs I sent, the DVD projector sent after a big donation, & the speakers he bought with another big US donation. He has had very occasional success selling computers for me for profit, but has never had enough for ministry trips without great sacrifice. But he wants to make disciples for Jesus & he managed to go with what he has & occasional small help from me. He is a good pastor of leaders (he always encourages me) & he is committed to bringing the Kingdom of God to people who have not heard or seen what Jesus can do for them.

He needs four types of donations. I only remember one $100 donation that I got this year (not counting my own gifts).

1. $150 round trip fares to return to train leaders & help them plant more churches.
2. $100 for training materials
3. $350 to print a book he wrote (about choosing a marriage partner) that people want to buy (he has orders) to support his travels.
4. Monthly support for his family & ministry travels. He has looked for jobs & buyers for computers, but his most fruitful efforts have been preaching the gospel, teaching, & traveling for Jesus. I suggest $30-$50/mo, but if you have online banking like most people your bank can send any amount every month at no cost to you in time or postage. I make several donations from just $7-15/mo to other ministries using repeating online bill payments.

Summary of miraculous blessings (#3 is the best amazing answer to prayer):

1. After over 3.5 years of marriage with no birth-control, my ministry leader-wife died in the final stage of AIDs (she told no one) 11 days after our first daughter was born in the 8^th month, because Provi was unconscious that day. I got my 3^rd HIV test 9 mos. after exposure, late Oct. I tested negative I’m & stronger than ever! My first two tests were before the 90 day risk period had ended. The Christian health staff lady confirmed my baby Ashkey’s passed test, by observation that she was way too healthy to be an HIV positive baby! She was treated to stop HIV transmission, successfully & tested in Rwanda at 7 wks of age.
2. I felt I should buy a mini-van for my work & future family travels across America, to cut my fuel costs, for family seating, etc. I also wanted to get it converted to compressed natural gas CNG, for reliable fuel (in a crazy national & world future). Always praying, I used Craig’s List to seek a shopper/mechanic for that project & fixing my old 93 E150 (full-size van). Dave, who called me the next day, had converted several vehicles to CNG & told me the best mini-van to buy. He used his own tools & truck to take a Kholer generator out of my old used motor-home to take home the same day to convert to home natural gas on his spare time to give me back-up power for my house (& well pump) and found the exact van he told me about the next day.   Now improved from 31,000 miles & two power side doors, & a bargain at $3,100! I had plenty of money until the day before when I paid a big advertising bill of $3,500. Then he found another almost identical van 5 years newer (2000-2005) with less than 10,000 miles for the same price! His 2^nd day of work he spent $900 of his own money to secure the van for me to buy later! In addition to that, I already told him I’d sell him two old travel trailers (both trashed more or less by raccoons) for $900. He decided to just take the titles of my old trailers, that I haven’t even had time to look at, so I didn’t need to pay him back the $900!  In addition to that, he bought a $49 part, for my van & I returned the same part for $125 after shipping & replaced my whole power brake booster & master, shifter cable, ignition cylinder, & horn all for lower prices than I could find parts! All for a low hourly wage for a man who was a Ford dealer mechanic for over 20 years!
3. The best story:  When I called my Uganda fiancée, Racheal, she said, “I have a great testimony!”  She said her real father, Sylvester, which I have talked to on the phone once, called his many living children together to hear his story He is 78 yrs old.  She told me he had been a womanizer, drinker, & smoker & didn’t even want to give 1 bunch of bananas from his plantation to his own children. Racheal, the most zealous or committed Christian in the family, had been praying for him for years! They all wondered what he had to say. He started by telling them how the family had been divided & some of his problems. Then he told them he had a dream Sat. night. In the dream he was given spectacles. When he put them on he saw the light! He also said that he heard a preacher preaching the gospel of Jesus, & the preacher said to him, “Why don’t you give your life to Jesus, so he can carry your burdens?” At the family meeting, after he told his story, Racheal said, “Do you want to give your life to Jesus?” He said, “Yes” & she led him in prayer to follow Jesus. Then he surprised everyone, because at all the previous customary family wedding introduction meetings, he had not even come, though they were in his house!  When he spoke they said, “Is this our father?” He said, “I want to give 1 million shillings ($380) for Rachael & Greg’s introduction meeting expenses” like food for the family.  Afterwards, some of her brothers & sisters humbly shared with her that they had received the Gospel, but had fallen away & were feeling drawn back now & asked her for prayer. Racheal realized that God was using our future wedding to bring her family back together. She is the 10^th of Sylvester’s children, but the oldest of 10 of her mother whose first four are by her father. The older ones had two other mothers.  With her father’s contribution and testimony & her stepfather’s payment of the Christian wedding expenses, I think we will have a great celebration, at much lower than normal Ugandan marriage costs to me!

My recent blessings & thoughts of wisdom:

• God provided me with divine timing to visit my ailing mother with Ashkey on a Saturday night when no one was there. I told her my deceased wife, Provi, was told by God “Her (my mom) time is short. When Provi said, “What will happen to her?” God said, “I love her so much because she was afraid to do anything I didn’t like. I’m going to take her before the time of trouble comes to America.” I thanked Mom for her investment in me & told her I loved her so much & “If I don’t see you here, we will see you in heaven.” I felt I had said good-bye. The next day my father called that she had died. But God allowed me to be in the USA & to thank her & tell her what God had said before she died! I had a good time with my family and wept to see the very evangelical favorite songs she loved, like “The Old Rugged Cross” & “I Love to Tell the Story”. The church was very liberal but she knew salvation came through the work of Jesus, not our own works.
• My business had done well since the recession & is still improving. Lately I seem to have great favor every which way I turn with customers, suppliers, & workers! Why I think this has happened:
• I tell all, especially my customers, the whole truth & am kind by telling them how to prevent future service calls & do their own repairs. “Don’t let kindness & truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 So you will find favor & good understanding in the sight of God & man.” Prov 3:3-4. Many tell me I give faster service without “after hours” rates than others that they call. Be kind, honest, friendly & helpful in your work!
• I advertise “Making Jesus disciples in 5 or 6 African Countries” in all my ads (see attachéd phone directory ad) & also, “Serving God by serving man”. There are many believers in the USA who will deliberately choose or trust a forthright Jesus person. I am often told, “I called you because you are a Christian.”  I don’t spoil this by surprising them with high hourly rates. My rates are high but they know before-hand the cost of diagnosis, or the repair or installation. I asked a medical doctor to pay $200 more than he agreed, because of a surprise expense. He said, “I’m short, but come back in 2 wks.” He remembered & wrote the check without me asking when I came back to install a missing part! Of course my customers know that I’m a single father, too, because I take Ashkey with me. Don’t hide your “kingdom” motivation for your work!
• My workers, main suppliers, & customers nearly all hear about my Jesus work and testimonies. In my experience, there are a high percentage of branch/outlet managers who openly or secretly support real Christian work. Two of the managers of my main supplier love my news emails & forward them to other people! They also go out of their way to help me with prices, returns, etc. My workers treat me very honestly & with respect, also.  Share testimonies boldly!
• I take Ashkey everywhere I go. Even rather pagan men, usually respect a good father and want to help me watch her, or carry things for me, etc. There are some people who just can’t believe a single dad can take care of a baby, & called child protective services, but they know me now (I’ve had 2 crazy women & a man call a total of 7 times) & Mary just rolls her eyes & says, “I have a another crazy call.” No one fusses about my charges when I come with a babyJ. Consider starting your own business or adopting babies or somethingJ.
• Besides a growing business, I now have 3 room renters bringing enough income to pay my home expenses & some improvement costs. I also have Christian community in my own home! “The righteous increases wealth little-by-little..” Prov ?  Failure, in finances, marriage, or morality, does not take away true wealth. True wealth is, “Reproofs for discipline are the way of life.” Prov 6:23. I have sought first His kingdom (His rule in my life) & His righteousness, embraced the reproofs of failures, fearlessly take chances (workers, advertising ventures, romance, & marriage) & am rich in knowledge & wisdom for what doesn’t work & what does. Best of all, I have chosen to die daily, that I may know His resurrection power!  By sacrificing comfort to take care of my spirit & body & to do what is right, if it is within my power, I have seen the resurrection of my business, my desire for ministry, my desire for a good marriage (going on the 2^nd good one) my desire to raise children as a good father, & my desire to be strong & youthful into my 80s+.  Righteousness is a gift received by faith. If you humble yourself after failures or attacks of the enemy, you will build wealth little-by-little & “The hand of the diligent will prosper.” Prov 10:4.
• The Kingdom of Heaven & earthly politics:
• Citizens of the Kingdom of heaven should not be negative in view about the things that are happening in the world or expecting things to only get worse. Nor should we think that we can have no positive influence in government. Should I have thought that I was crazy to want to help lead over 100 churches, when I was leading none? We have thousands now!  Should you or I think that we couldn’t get elected to office & do great good, because we have no connections? World & government problems are opportunities for the kingdom of God.  Failure is the springboard of success. Abraham Lincoln failed 17 times in a row in business & elections before he became a great president! You may say you don’t want to get involved in politics. I didn’t want to start my heating & cooling business 24 yrs ago, because I knew it would be difficult (It was) but felt God wanted me to & am glad I did, so I have freedom to travel, take my baby, & talk about Jesus everywhere I go! 17 men were elected over incumbents in Oklahoma in one election. All of them said, they were Christians and, “I ran for office because the Lord told me to.” Did you know, in the bible 17 is the number that represents the deliverance of the elect? They now have a booming economy in Oklahoma City, & the most restrictive state abortion laws in most of the nation. Then, I had another unreasonable idea to run for political office for Kingdom purposes! So this is what I did:  After searching, I joined “Tea Party of Michiana Action Coalition” & went to the first meeting last week. It just happened that at the last minute a candidate for Indiana Governor (chief of our executive branch in the American states) came to speak at the meeting.

The meeting was very interesting, very informative & Ash was unusually quiet for the first part. I had prayed for divine connections, as I don’t even know how you run for an office. I talked to a few afterward, but nothing significant.  Being nearly the last to leave after packing Ashkey, it just so happened that while I stood at the door of my van, which was alone in the parking lot, the candidate for governor stopped his diesel Hummer right behind my van of all places! Almost everyone else had left. I walked to the driver’s window, saw him looking at his I-pad, I think, & knocked. When his power window went down, I didn’t know what to say (unusual for me) & said what came out). In our short conversation I said, “Do you pray?”/Yes”, then “Do you have people praying for you?” Yes, he said. I shared an idea for cutting welfare cost, reducing crime, mental problems, lowering health care costs & improving health, all in one (Don’t allow food stamps to be used for sweetened products, etc). He gave me his card & surprised me saying, “Shoot me an email. I’d like to sit down & talk with you when I come up here, again.”  (I’m near the northern border)). Who am I that a candidate for governor (I think he is fairly likely to win) would want to talk to me? The answer is, that as I pray for guidance, I am often in the right place at the right time for the goals He has put inside of me to accomplish. & I have the spirit of Wisdom living inside of me, along with my fleshly cabbage-head moments:). The gospel of the Kingdom is not just the gospel of salvation. We are called to make disciples of nations. It is time for the church to take the Kingdom to all the mountains, of influence. Business, arts, government, education, media…  The kingdom is for those who believe in the goodness of God & His work. Bondage is for those who disbelieve. “But for the cowardly, unbelieving,…there part will be in the lake of fire…” Rev 21:8. His Kingdom will break in pieces all other kingdoms Dan 2:44-45 & “…the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.” Dan 2:35. If you know history it was the Kingdom of God that made the USA so unique, free, and prosperous. Just as God restored Israel, despite her unfaithfulness, so he will chasten the USA, but bring her to her purpose. Don’t be afraid to take your mountain in business, government, education, etc. Don’t believe nothing but destruction is ahead for the USA. Because God is patient & loving, expect severe chastening.

Other comments:

1.   Don’t vote for government hand-outs. Either Marx or Engles said, “the purpose of socialism is not to redistribute wealth. It is to destroy the family.” It has succeeded in Europe & Russia and destroyed individual freedoms like worship. There is little marriage, high abortion, & a birth rate too low to sustain the current societies. The USA is not far behind. Putin told our president, “Don’t you know that socialism doesn’t work?”

2.   Vote with your pocket-book. Don’t pay for worldly services like secular cable TV, & buy healthy food, especially more expensive organic food. Don’t support those who “own” the FDA by paying for refined & GMO foods and drugs because you are sick from poor diet.  Give to good organizations that tell the truth!  If you can afford it I can help you get a car converted to natural gas that you can fill up for under $1/gal with your own fill station if you have natural gas in your home. Did you know that cell phones that use CDMA, like some use Verizon, or Boost & Virgin use Sprint, produce 1/28^th as much health dangerous radiation as GMS/GPRS phones (ATT) & you can pay as low as $35/mo unlimited on Boost if you pay every month. Mine has gone from $50/mo to nearly $40, so far. Besides, you can get texts from me in Africa for free on Boost. Boost is healthy & cheap, like eating a lot of organic beans from a food co-op & spice from GFS stores. They do have fast internet included if you get a Boost Android based phone.

3.   This is based on Christian economists who know the facts & accurate prophetic voices. Be prepared for an economic & banking melt-down and the chaos that comes with it. Have a supply of food & water & be ready to help others when the government can’t.  God has blessed me with 20+ 5 gallon plastic pails & the money to store dry beans, grains, spices, & have a back-up generator (for my own well) & a good start on a natural gas fuel van & a home fill station. I think natural gas is less likely to be interrupted than most other supplies and available if the banks are closed. I could be wrong, but obey God & be prepared.

4.   Don’t give up on marriage. It’s the foundation of civilization. My last try was a charm (wonderful til she died) & I think my next marriage will be even closer to heaven. Not that I advise losing a marriage. That wasn’t my idea. “Men & Marriage” by George Gilder is worth reading & highlighting several times as were “Wealth & Poverty” & “The Israel Test”.

5.   Having children when you are old is very fun, if you are in good shape!

Great sources & why:

1. www.MorningStarTV.com–Much great teaching & worship that is very balanced in my opinion & most of it is free.  Prophetic Perspectives is free and available new & old archives.
2.  “The 5,000 Year Leap” Truth about the Christian Foundation of the USA.

Prayer needs:

1. Travel back to Africa at the right time for God purposes & my desire for a university teaching job, or a business in Africa, to support life in Africa.
2. Wisdom for the right person & all the details to handle my growing business when I travel out of the USA. Pray that I’ll get the things done needed before I leave.

Accomplishments despite great busyness:

Hallelujah!  Thank you for listening to my news & joys!

Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…

                        or

He Who Weeps with Love & Joy, for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ

    (Known in the past as Greg Cunningham)

Mail & donations to:

New Wave Ministry

29731 C. Rd. 28

Elkhart, IN  46517,  USA

www.newwaveministry.com–with a Great slide show & credit card donation buttons

(+ )1-574- 295 9696 Greg’s Cell phone & Cunningham Air & Heat (working in IN, MI, & even ALL USA)

(+) 1-877-679-0011 Free from US phones for African visitors or if your free long-distance won’t work

Three New Waves:

Ø  Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus

Ø  Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King

Ø  Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility

This is my/our testimony, but I also attached & recommend “The Weightiest Matter” MorningstarMinistries.org Prophetic Bulletin.  It’s one of many great free bulletins & this one relates to the whole reason for romance & marriage.  The writings by Rick Joyner have radically impacted my life along with Watchmen Nee & “Reise Howells Intercessor” by Norman Grubb & audio teaching by Mike Bickle of www.ihop.org.

Our 2007-Provi’s promotion to heaven marriage:

This is a great testimony of how “…eye has not seen & ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.” 2 Cor. 2:9 & Luke 18:29-30 “…there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of who will not receive many times as much at this time & in the age to come eternal life.”

Although I suffered most of the time for 30 years, since I was married at the age of 19 to a wife who was angry with me most of the time, because she couldn’t succeed at changing the source of her fears (my family leadership, provision & some mistakes, of course) & who, 13 years later, after she had experienced a dramatic deliverance, which came partially through my fasting for her, told me she was backslidden when I married her.  After her deliverance we had a few  wonderful months (at least I thought so) but she seemed to get even worse for the last five years, often saying, “I wish I could kill you.” and choosing to sleep alone for the last three years.  She is happily remarried and likely, greatly improved by now with many admirable qualities, which I have many times spoken well of.

God answered my prayer & accomplished my written goals to find a good wife in a 3^rd-world country & to help me lead hundreds of churches, though I had no Christian leadership position when I wrote those goals in the spring of 04.

Providence, called Provi, who I called Du (short for Dusabe) & I, had a fabulous relationship, after I arrived Oct 10, 07 & married her the 14^th.

I wrote a long list of qualities I desired in a wife, like radical for Jesus, loving to pray, not afraid of men, a hard worker, intelligent, & disciplined.  I saw these qualities, by phone & email, & by the testimony of my partners, after we really started communicating about 8 weeks after I met her.  But she was beyond my list of requests, as my partners told me she was so zealous, nearly always passionately affectionate, & amazingly humble & teachable, although I understand her personality well, since we are both independent, functioning like 3^rd- born children of the same sex, intelligent, & often opinionated, because of our natural gifts.  I never dreamed I would find a wife of her age who would love me so much & who is willing to change rapidly to please me.

She begged me to tell her if she “made a mistake” so she could change.  There wasn’t anything significant that I didn’t like, so after some pondering, I told her, although it wasn’t a big issue, I would prefer that she not drink soda-pop (which is common even among the very poor) because it’s not good for you at all & is a waste of money you can use for the kingdom of God.  She said, “Drinking soda is finished.”  Although I have seen her drink it when given it, she told me she has stopped drinking soda-pop.

 I’m still increasing my physical strength.  I’ve also challenged her & all of you as well to avoid things made with sugar or white flour, since most common western diseases are caused by refined foods with those ingredients.  You can get a great supplement, “Healthy Advantage” at www.DrDavidWilliams.com.

I encouraged my wife & all of you that we must be like children to enter the kingdom of God, & children are open to new ideas, quick to change & learn, & happy when they don’t have much of anything, as long as they are loved.  She & I didn’t have much financially, & we had to work hard & even sell our prized possessions (like the computer I sent her) to earn some income, but we had so much love for each other & so much by our Father & Bridegroom, Jesus. We were like happy children, always learning & eager to please our Father, one-another, & our bridegroom, Jesus.

Although I knew she was devoted first to Jesus, she treated me like Him & said, “You are my life.”  “You are my schedule.” “I have no schedule of my own.” & I know that I must be first devoted to Jesus, but by loving & sacrificing for her, I was loving Him, as He said, “Whatever you have done to the least of these, my brethren, you have done it to me.”

I was quite amazed by the perfection of our relationship in areas I never dreamed to expect.  Of course, I know that there’s times when it seems the honeymoon is over & you find something you don’t like, but except for illness our earthly honeymoon never ended.

 We still had a honeymoon for 41 months and grew strong in our relationship through various shared trials, including our longest separation for 7 months before my only 2010 trip.  We survived, together a rolled-bus accident 24, April, 09, and she made it through another illness with 6 weeks of head-aches with no known natural cause later that year.  When she found out she was pregnant September 2010 she was so happy she cried. Neither of us knew that she would still not have her US visa after I applied Dec. of 07.  But our marriage was solid as a rock, after the normal challenges of early marriage passed.

Provi died 11 days after our daughter was born Feb 13, and though I have missed her, I have mostly rejoiced for the wonderful time we had together and the healthy daughter that is unusually happy (for a baby) who I enjoy so much, even as a single father back in the USA.  I don’t regret my decision in 1969 at the age of 11 to do whatever the Creator wanted me to do, even if it cost me my life.

I have died & been raised from the dead in my vision of church leadership, & family, with more to come in both, & am expecting to be raised from the dead in my vision to transfer the wealth of this world into the work of the kingdom of God.

I am thankful for the wonderful romance I had with Provi. God has already prepared a fiancee to be my wife and partner and a life-long mother to Ashkey, who is eagerly, but patiently awaiting my arrival to marry in 2012. Just as God gave me unreasonable favor with her parents to marry Provi with no dowry in 2007, Racheal’s father happily agreed to no dowry, and her step-father and mother are paying all the Christian wedding expenses, which is not customary in Africa. In addition to that, shortly after I heard that news, her historically immoral, smoking, drinking, stingy father, after giving up the first three sinful habits, just had a dream where he said, “I was given spectacles. When I put them on, I saw the light!” Then he said he saw a man preaching the gospel of Jesus, who said to him, “Why don’t you give your life to Jesus so He can carry your burden.”  After that my fiancée, Racheal, said, “Daddy, do you want to receive Jesus, now?” He said, “Yes!” Then she just recently (Oct, 2011) led him to Jesus.  After that he surprised his children, because he wouldn’t even attend their wedding introduction meetings (Uganda tradition for marriage-all dressed up) which were in his home as head of the family, but he said, “I’m going to give 1 million shillings ($380) to the wedding expenses of Racheal and Greg.  Her brother & sisters have confessed to back-sliding and asked her for prayer. Racheal said, “God is bringing my family back together & to the Lord through our wedding!” After praying with a brother, he called the next day & said, “Praise the Lord!”  Our (Ashkey & I) ticket & her fiancée visa application are all paid for, but I am waiting for God’s timing to travel. I think our wedding will be a great testimony & full of testimonies, soon!

 Death just means more resurrection!

 Be encouraged if your vision is a dead seed in the ground.  Your prison means you are on the right track like Joseph, David, Moses, & Jesus Himself.  Death is not pleasant, but it is required for resurrection.

Rejoice with me & I hope you will follow my example of total commitment, endurance, self-discipline, & passionate love for Jesus, who deserves all our affection & sacrifice.

Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…

                        or

He Who Weeps with Love & Joy,  for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ

    (Known in the past as) Greg Cunningham

 Mail & donations to:

New Wave Ministry

29731 C. Rd. 28

Elkhart, IN  46517,  USA                                   

www.newwaveministry.com

(+) 1 574 295 9696, Greg’s cell phone & Cunningham Air & Heat (working in IN, MI, USA)

(+) 1 877 679-0011 Free from US phones for African visitors or if your cell won’t work

Three New Waves:

Ø     Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus

Ø     Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King

Ø     Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility

Great sources & why:

1. www.gbtv.com–If you sign up for GBTV Plus, you get a 14 day free trial, at $9.95/mo, with a lot of great material, documentaries, and a university that teaches with real professors, the Christian history of the   USA!  But it’s down, because of their rapid start-up, but I have found so many great videos, including 5 episodes of the diary of Anne Franke.  You may not like all that Glen Beck says, but his work should be respected & supported, because he is telling the truth & he credits the leading of God for all the good things that have happened, not to mention his experience of the “atonement” from Jesus Christ. Though he is a Morman, I’ve never heard him espouse Morman doctrine, but he tells the truth!
2. www.MorningStarTV.com–Much great teaching & worship that is very balanced in my opinion & most of it is free.  Prophetic Perspectives is free and available new & old archives.
3. Books by George Gilder (Try www.Amazon.com). “Men & Marriage” which is “Sexual Suicide” revised is eye-opening on the destruction of western cultures, “Wealth & Poverty” explains the secret of wealth & poverty with raw facts, “The Israel Test” about the test of nations, pass or fail. I have felt that every one of his books I’ve read should be required reading in Universities, because he just tells the truth, which supports Christianity, but from a secular approach.  I think I’ll read more that I found at Amazon by him.
4. “The 5,000 Year Leap” Truth about the Christian Foundation of the USA.

US life & God has provided a fiancée & future mother for Ashkey & the money from less than 3 months of hard work to pay for my flexible date, extra luggage ticket for Ashkey & I to travel round-trip any time in the next year! The ticket is paid for, while I catch up on details before I travel to Uganda to get married & whatever else God leads.

I met Racheal early May, as the chief cook & oldest daughter (of 10 siblings) of our last host on an 8 day trip in Western Uganda.  Her English is good, but more importantly she always prays for the Lord’s will, not our desire, & she quotes scripture to me on the phone & even more by text messages, and she knows how to work! I had a wonderful marriage to Provi, who died 11 days after Ashkey was born, Feb 13/24, and because God has given me such a heavenly viewpoint, I didn’t feel lonely or anxious to marry again.  But despite my many strengths, I am a bit unbalanced (I’m not at all sensitive) and expect to be more fruitful in His kingdom as a married man.  I also think, that the best thing you can do for your children (my greatest personal emotional desire is to raise children as a good father without opposition in my family) is to show your children that your love for God, produces parents who love each other and show it.  I suppose the Lord knows that when Ashkey, starts eating more than drinking the good organic formula, I found, and crawling, it will also help me run my business or teach, if I have a helping wife.

Although, I was swamped & blessed by God leading me to travel home on the first day of a bumper summer crop in my heating and cooling business, & behind on many important things, & recently lost my wife and had to be father & mother to my now 7+ month old baby, I feel enriched in relationships, which are much more important than things, blessed in increasing knowledge, as well as increasing physical strength, growing in faith, and the ability to hear God’s voice.  I have had really sweet relationships with my customers (having a baby with you helpsJ) and just today, I felt God impress me to stop my usual plan to listen to good web-stream teaching on my computer & call my fiancée while I bathed Ashkey. She told me that she had just turned on her phone, after it was solar power charged & boy did we have a great conversation! I am so grateful to God that I hear His voice in all kinds of things and happy that He uses these things to confirm & strengthen my relationship with my new life-long partner.

Racheal now has internet in her phone, thanks to the miracle that my identical twin (except skin) from Kenya somehow got it working when several people, including managers, from the wireless company could not get it working in her phone!  They both had a wonderful visit when he brought great books from other ministries to my new leader of, now 316 house churches & 5 traditional churches in Uganda. She surprised and blessed me when she told me that she was learning from the teaching email, I just sent, that was lessons from my life brought to the surface by hearing God recently. She also shared with me how she was learning from my book on the Song of Solomon that I emailed to her and my transparent emails about my troubles, feelings, and confident expectations. Reply if you want me to send my email teachings or my book on the Song of Solomon. I can’t send all my emails—I only have one fiancée, & don’t expect to have any more for at least 50-100 yearsJ.

Attached are not only great photos of Ashkey 4-6.7 mos., but there are some great short videos of her kicking, bathing, & me sliding down my home-made quick fire-escape from our   new upstairs deck (11 ft. above the ground).

Lessons from my busy USA time 1 June-now:

1. If you give your life to do God’s will (as I did 42 years ago) he will lead you to be in the right place at the right time & provide for what He leads you to do!  I arrived at the perfect time for my skills & established business to make money. The day I began work (1 June) the temperature was 97 F & humid! For locals that will make them find money to repair their overloaded air-conditioners (which is ½ of my business) & to install them (often with new furnaces for winter heat). The man who ran my business when I was gone had no training or experience in Air-conditioning, so I trained him & worked with him until nearly 11:00 almost every night for 2 weeks. Immediately I had enough money to buy any materials, tools or van repairs that I needed!
2. For that first busy and very hot 18 days, his wife, and occasionally my best Christian renter, Lisa, watched Ashkey & she did not leave our house for 18 days, until I took her to see my parents!  That helped, because my van needed repairs, & there was no room for a baby in Chuck’s pick-up truck that we rode in for ½ of that time.
3. I started taking her to work with me, most of the time, which was good, because Chuck & his wife moved away due to his (can’t take the heat) health issue, but I got the hang of taking everything she needed & balancing her bottle in her portable car-seat/carrier/rocker, so she could eat while I worked. More than once, I changed her diaper on her small blanket outside while I was working on the outside part of an Air-Conditioner.
4. When Chuck was still available to work, we had a break in hot weather just when I went to a 5 day Apostolic Innovation conference, and camped with my baby, sleeping in my big van at a conference center 90 minutes from my home. God blessed me with an African conference visitor who gave me more money for my daughter to use as I pleased (I saved it for her ticket with me back to Africa) than I have gotten from Americans in the last year! I enjoyed the conference, despite my extremely busy work schedule.  It worked out that I was able to help Chuck with a service call on my way back from the conference!
5. Everywhere we go I am treated well & often admired for taking care of Ashkey & her being, as they say, “She is a very happy baby!”  She honestly never cries, unless she has a messy diaper, is very hungry, or very tired.
6. I had already started a “Seminar in World History 1500-2000”, when we were working night & day, but my professor gave me extension on two assignments & even allowed me to finish a third assignment 1 day after the course ended & gave me perfect scores on the last 3-4 of them! The course was why I sent no news-letters, but I enjoyed what I learned & I think gave some real food for thought to my good professor about the strength of the Judeo-Christian ethic in the victor nations in times of war in Europe & Asia, plus World Wars.
7. I was able to keep my disciplines of morning reading of good Christian and secular books, listening to good web-stream teaching, while I exercise, bathe & cook, and memorizing The Song of Solomon in Swahili, while I sprint & walk 3 miles (4.8 km) in around 30 minutes. I’m reading 2 of the 3 best secular books I’ve ever read (strongly supporting Christian wisdom & ethics) so I’m really gaining in self-education, and attending a $10/mo university of the Christian history of the United States (Beck University) by web-stream while I eat, etc.  So, despite the business of earning money I need to travel back to Arica, teach, & support another wife & more children (my desire & God’s will) God has blessed me with the resources (good internet) and discipline (learning while I eat & exercise) to support the gift of teaching that God has given me and actually getting stronger & more flexible (needed to serve God & raise children in my 2^nd 50 yearsJ!
8. I also have maintained a sweet relationship with at least 6 Africans, by calling them from my unlimited cell phone while I drive & texting from my computer, etc. Right now, when I wrote this part, my best renter, Lisa, was talking to Ashkey after cooking carrots & feeding her while I sat & typed.  We don’t talk as much as many of my African friends do, but it’s nice to get a hug after a good conversation with a motherly Christian lady, even though I’m old enough to be a grandpa.
9. We do have about 318 house churches in Uganda (18 when I arrived in May) & dozens in Kenya, but my main Kenya partner & I are too busy to discuss the details.

Prayer needs:

1. Travel back to Africa at the right time for God purposes & my desire for a university teaching job, or a business in Africa, to support life in Africa.
2. Wisdom for the right person & all the details to handle my growing business when I travel out of the USA. Pray that I’ll get the things done needed before I leave.

Accomplishments despite great busyness:

1. A+ on my last 300 level World History course.
2. Had the money & great workers gotten from www.Craigslist.org to finish trim, paint, & floor a bedroom & bathroom, porch balcony railing, trim my new porch door & window, fill my drive pot-holes, & many cleaning, trimming details.
3. Those same people repaired & improved my 18 yr. old van until even the doors close right & it doesn’t leak fluids like it did before.
4. Have a supply of organic beef in my freezer & many organic dry staples.
5. Reached my goal of pressing my own body, standing on my hands, from the carpet up 20 times & strengthened most of the rest of me. I lift laughing Ashkey up & down for a warm-up & we do v-ups together. She watches from my bed when I stand on my hands & press myself, while I listen to good teaching from my computer.
6. Just counted & ordered my annual small parts warehouse to have what is needed to work. I had just enough of the important things until now.

Short comments on my single dad US experience:

1. I enjoy Ashkey so much & carry her on her little quilt to watch me everywhere I go in the house, except when she is sleeping or in her gift walker. I didn’t plan it, but she helps me in customer relations!
2. It’s hard to get much work done when I’m home, feeding, holding, & changing Ashkey (7 months old on the 13^th.
3. Being like a mother, I can understand the tremendous loss in losing a child & the joy of grandparents, as well as the weariness of single mothers.
4. God has made me a rich man, because he provides for all of my needs!

Hallelujah!  Thank you for listening to my news & joys!

Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…

                        or

He Who Weeps with Love & Joy, for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ

    (Known in the past as Greg Cunningham)

Mail & donations to:

New Wave Ministry

29731 C. Rd. 28

Elkhart, IN  46517,  USA

www.newwaveministry.com–with a Great slide show & credit card donation buttons

(+ )1-574-679-0011 or 295 9696 Cunningham Air & Heat (working in IN, MI, & even ALL USA)

(+) 1-877-679-0011 Free from US phones for African visitors or if your free long-distance won’t work

Three New Waves:

Ø  Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus

Ø  Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King

Ø  Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility

I wrote after Kenya Adventures on the way back May 31^st, but was too busy after arriving after midnight June 1^st to my home/heating/AC business (97 degrees & humid that day & week) to organize photos & finish the email. God blessed me  in the USA June-now with:

1. Immediate & much paying business.
2. Good business & early childcare help at just the right times
3. Great health & enough money for any pressing need
4. Such strength & endurance that I always enjoy taking care of Ashkey (she was 3.5 mos. Old & almost 7 mos old now & tired of trying to crawl right nowJ so I just picked her up & put her in the walker a customer gave me, when I took her to help J me install an Air-Conditioner. She smiles at me when talk to her, but she’s about ready for my amazing (put her to sleep in 20 seconds) routine. It took a little longer tonight, but she sleeps when I cover her head with a pillow slip or sheet & put her where she can’t roll over. She fussed, but didn’t really cry for a minute & is zonked out in her play-pen now after about a minute. Of course, I know how to make sure she’s full & really tiredJ.
5. Great workers from Craig’s List to continue finishing my house (finished bedroom, bath, 11’ high deck railing & other projects) who also helped me do jobs when I was too busy to do them alone or at all. The first guy, even picked up groceries, I needed etc. at 2-3 stores the first time he came, with his own money to be reimbursed by me.
6. A great relationship, by phone & text, & a little email (she printed my book on the Song of Solomon & really is amazed at the revelation) with my future wife (her parents & she accepted my request/proposal yesterday). Her English is very good, but she has learned my favorite phrases in Swahili, which her father speaks along with English & other languages, so I called him to ask for his agreement. His first action was to ask her if she wanted to marry meJ
7. I have so many good photos that I’ll send my US photos & short baby videos in another email.

Kenya Adventures: After a good night’s sleep, the night of 15 May, in our Nairobi host’s house, I spent the day traveling with a brother who seems like my twin! I just met him before my last departure, but we are two peas in a pod, except I get sleepy when I’m hungry and he gets sleepy when he eats.

We had a long first Kenya day for the purpose of setting up my internet and telephone service interrupted by the theft of another backpack with a computer and two batteries!  Thankfully, once again my external hard drive, passports, and phone chargers were, unusually, not in the pack, nor were my digital camera & 3 telephones & chargers! This time, I was so busy talking to Patrick that I left it on a restaurant chair and the staff probably lied, that they did not find it, when we returned. But, amazingly, I had one more identical computer & battery which I succeeded at connecting to the fastest wireless internet with most of my files restored from my external hard drive. That was a long day of walking all over down-town Nairobi, several times, but we got the important things & even bought a nicer back-pack, with strong straps, many pockets, and belt to carry heavy loads for $22.50, which for that quality was a bargain. I often used the belt to move the weight to my hips, instead of tiring my shoulders.

Patrick cancelled his plans to direct the school he led the founding of, to travel with me to teach in Kisii Land, & boy did we have fun!

The first part of our journey seemed like playing Russian roulette with someone else pulling the triggerJ. Since he was late due to pre-marriage counseling till 3 am, we took the fast motorcycle taxis to pass the Nairobi morning traffic jam. Oh my God (hope you’re not offended) it was hair-raising enough to make you pray loud in tongues & ask for a deliverance interpretation! We weaved in & out of traffic, passed on the right, the left, the median, the sidewalks, the mud paths, on both sides of the roads. Sometimes we were so close to big busses that I needed to pull my knees close to the motorcycle to keep from scraping other vehicles!

Patrick is a bit too optimistic, like I was in my younger years, and said it would take just 10 minutes. It was a ½ hr. of hair-raising dashing, but it was better than the African 30 minutes which would have been at least two hours, I’m sure, in that traffic jam. As a result we got on the bus that was leaving in an African 10 minutes, which turned to two hours of waiting to leave after the departure time! But the internet in Nairobi was very fast, so I finished my homework & emails on my only battery before the bus started bouncing down the road.

Kenya is a little more developed than the other African countries I’ve been in, so we had working electricity most places to keep my one computer battery charged after we arrived and began teaching & traveling in various Kisii Land places.  The capital’s police department even had an ordinary toilet, TP, running water, and a working soap dispenser!  I don’t think I hardly ever had all that in one place in Africa, before Kenya.

The more time Patrick & I spend together the more it seems we are nearly identical twins, both functioning in some measure of apostolic calling and neither of us caring two bits about what people call us.  Boy did we have fun in our Kisii host’s house. It was like a bunch of Christian bachelors, though he is married, all lying in bed telling funny stories and cracking jokes until the wee hours of the morning.  Once again, every teaching session was different & lead by the Holy Spirit through one or the other of us and the questions the people asked!  Of course it helps, because more people speak English in Kenya, and more have internet access and more affordable cell phone communication than other countries.

I was really happy that another American missionary I know, by phone & email, had paid to translate to Swahili, print, and give away three books in one, that are all foundational to simple church discipleship. He rightfully trusts Patrick, who built & lives in a 3 room metal hut with his wife and children, because he wants to use his small $250/mo salary for kingdom work. So Patrick planned & delivered books to my connections in Uganda & has been trusted with 100 each of “The Disciple-Making Minister” (bible school in-a-book) in English & Swahili to provide to leaders who will read them.  We left the 3-in-one books in Kisii. We picked up 300 of the “TDMM” books for him to distribute including his 40 young high school leaders in the high school that he founded for the purpose of inserting Christian truth in a government approved school in a country with compulsory school attendance starting at 3 yrs of age, I have been informed!

I just happened to call Heaven’s Family Ministry who provides the “The Disciple-Making Mimnister” books in multiple languages, because I can call the USA for 3.75 cents per minute from Kenya. The day we were traveling from Kisii to Kitale (Patrick’s home town) David of that ministry, told me that they have a distributor in Kitale whose associate met us at our arrival point to take us to Patrick’s home. I have seen, with my own eyes, the house that my other American missionary friend is building on donated property from Patrick’s father, so he and his family of 8 children, can live in Kenya and increase the work of disciple-making in Kenya.

Patrick just told me, in Kenya last May, that there is such a stir from our first session with 8 pastors, deacons, etc. that he couldn’t even get out of a shop with so many requests for us to teach Sunday. God is really directing him & I, with foundational teaching that even educated pastors say, “This is true. We need this.”

On our last Friday arrival night, he & I lay in bed & talked and laughed until 3 am.  Once again, I have come home to Africa. My African family has time for us & life in Africa!

Sunday was great!  After eating two omelets & several bananas with natural peanut-butter that I carried my luggage from Rwanda, for breakfast, we took a 3-man moto-taxi to 3 small church meetings for my teaching.  It was amazing how each meeting was very different, and we agreed that the Holy Spirit had really guided our teaching/discussion.  I find several things emphasized through me, one way or another.

1. Discipline to learn the word of God.
2. Explanation of what church really is & how to do it.
3. Grace vs. law teaching.
4. God’s passionate love for us.
5. How & why (word foundation) God has helped me overcome so many obstacles.

I don’t know how to express myself. Sometimes the things of God are hidden. I feel so rich to be a part of what He is doing, in so many ways. It is a joy to teach young people who are getting a Christian education for the poor, because I seem to have an identical twin (he’s the lead founder, school administrator, & teaching leader) who has sacrificed to give that to them. He really does live in a hot, crooked metal box, but it is paid for & Wed. he started solar charging a battery from a solar panel, with a controller and a 300 watt inverter for lights, cell phones, & his old laptop, in his hot metal hutJ. That sounds like something I would do.  By avoiding rent and electric bills, he is improving his ability to read at night without buying lantern fuel & also making his family see progress in their lives.  I encouraged him, because I know something about solar panels, volts, watts, amps, batteries, and inverters, not to mention most every practical matterJ, because I read so much). I’m leaving him a pile of great books, but he has given me an open door to make hundreds or thousands of eternal friends who will welcome me into heaven, for my teaching and connections with really good teaching material.

In the middle of all that, I’m enjoying my daughter (born Feb 13) with an abundance of people loving her and wanting to care for her like their own child! When I wrote this I was keeping her from crying with her on my shaking leg lap while she does what babies do in her 25 cent diaper & chews her fist, off & on. All told I have spent multiple times more money than any other travel, taught more people, made more friends, and come back from Africa a rich man, with all my pressing bills paid, 9-12 straight A hours of double-major university credit earned while there, and a healthy baby to love & raise for Jesus! Not to mention a good email trained partner living in my house to run my business when God leads me to Africa again. I got home just in time to train him on-site in Air-Conditioning working till 10-11 most nights for two weeks because of a 97 degree hot & humid spell in N Indiana.

In my last day, May 30, in Kenya, I got a wonderful email from the man I led to the lord on a Texas Greyhound bus on my way to the last labor day House2House national conference!

I had not heard from him since calling him from Michigan, returning from that conference, and when he told me he had attempted suicide and failed (he was a drug dealer, user, and was rejected by his wife, at that time).

This is his email to me with me bolding some important parts of his testimony!:

Hi
This is Jeremy I was the man who sat next to you on the bus from Sherman Texas to Dallas tx. I have thought about you alot and how much my short bus ride with you meant to me and still does. The last time I had spoken with you my mom had just died my wife was gone. I attempted suicide and lost my phone. I was on bottom I had nothing but a few pairs of clothes. If you remember that was in September. I had to make a choice! I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart on that bus with you and it broke my heart when I attempted suicide after that but I had decided just because I made a mistake and I might make more that I wasnt going to let anything stop me from having a relationship with the lord. That was what made him so great that he would forgive me as long as I asked him and honestly meant it and loved him like no other. I hope that didnt sound bad. I have hard time putting my thoughts into words sometimes. In a nut shell just because fell doesn’t mean I should just give up and walk away. OCTOBER 12 2010 I was baptized and later that month I carried a very large cross in a parade and I never let it touch the ground. It was heavy at first and then it was like someone wAs carrying it for me. Everyone has there own way of worship and are called to do different things for the lord. I had felt something tugging at my heart to do that so I did and since then I have gotton the cross and just started walking for miles. I’m very proud of being a Christian. By the end of October my wifes had come back and the church I was going to had helped us get an apt. In January I went back to work in the oilfield making good money. We have gotton a car and I have gotten a motorcycle I was able to pay cash for to go back in fourth to work on. My wifes family who did not speak to me has now accepted me into there family. All this is because of our relationship with Jesus Christ! There has been so many things that has happened to me in last 8 months that I know with out a doubt because of my relationship with him. Me and my wife both have centered our relationship around god and that has made our relationship with one another stronger. LOL I’m just rattling on I just wanted to say thank you so much for helping me find what has been missing from my life !!
I hope things are good for you and your beautiful bride! I know we will see one another again someday. I have this burning desire inside to do the lords work full time. I have been praying that the lord will lead me to what it is he wishes for me to do.
Thank you and your wife so much for the prayers and god bless you.
You will always be a friend and I will do anything in my control to help you spread the word!

Jeremy Collifower

I emphasized to him that God’s forgiveness is completely free, both before and after repentance and salvation. It looks like God gave me the right foundation for his new and sorely tested faith.  Hallelujah!

Also my last Sunday teaching, connected me with a prophetic, apostolic, evangelistic man, who during our time together was nearly overwhelmed with a message for me that he shared in nearly identical words to those of a MorningStar home group years ago. “All that Satan has taken from you, God is going to restore.” I believe, God is going to restore what should have been in my relationship with my four older living daughters.  Even though he is a traditional church leader, we felt connected in spirit & he fully supports our work of making disciples through simple church life.

The Lord really blessed my trip back to the USA!  I wore Ashkey in the airport in my baby pack for two hours and nearly 3 hours before the plane flew. She slept the whole long time in her baby pack! I got an upgrade which gave me a fold-down bed for her to sleep in the first flight & an extra seat (a helpful man moved voluntarily) where she is peacefully sleeping while I type on the trip across the Atlantic to Chicago. The stewardesses, help me with any request, and bring me hot water for her milk, etc.

In London, I shared the gospel with two Muslims, who were very receptive to my approach, because I learned much about the Koran from “A Deadly Misunderstaning” by Mark Siljander.  One of them gave me her email address, along with a Christian French couple, and others I met!  The people I met even watched my computer (charging) while I went to a nice baby-changing room in the London, LHR, airport. Not a minute of that 5 hour lay-over was wasted.  Even though I lost my spare battery in Nairobi, with a computer, the model that I brought 7 of, really has long battery life. It’s over 5 hrs, for word-processing work & still shows nearly 4 hours left, after typing this for some time.

I also chose a good “On demand” movie to watch that to my surprise showed true friendship, and real history of Britain that I knew about (World War II) but I didn’t know the history of royalty in modern history. You know I love history and find good messages in movies.   It was, “The King’s Speech”.

Short comments on my single dad US experience:

1. I enjoy Ashkey so much & carry her on her little quilt to watch me everywhere I go in the house, except when she is sleeping.
2. I am so blessed to have had two Christian women living in my house who are happy to watch her when I leave the house!
3. It’s hard to get much work done when I’m home, feeding, holding, & changing Ashkey (5 months old on the 13^th.
4. As usual, I arrived at the perfect time. Because of 97 degree humid weather, my partner, Chuck & I worked till 10-11 most nights for almost two weeks after I arrived June 1^st, but we earned some much needed money!
5. Despite almost no profit for me for 5 months and emptying most of my reserves, I’ve had enough to repair my van, & motor-assisted tricycle & even bought a set of expensive ceramic coated no-stick pans for healthy cooking instead of consuming Teflon coatings.

New Fruitfulness in Africa:

I’ve been too busy to even ask about the number of new house churches in Kenya, but I got a letter from our key contact in Uganda, who told me we already have 318 house churches newly sprung from his network of 58 traditional churches that he said jumped from 38, because of the many people who heard my teachings & wanted to make disciples with a traditional church network that have all agreed to plant at least 5 house churches for each traditional church.

Because not all homes have electricity & people like to watch any video that you show them, and I have already bought Jesus Videos, each in 8 East African languages, including all Uganda & Kenya national languages, I want to equip the leaders with portable rechargeable DVD players to show in the houses, leading people to Jesus & starting new disciple-making churches in homes.

We really need some donations!  $50 to $100 will pay for a set that will reach many people in Uganda & Kenya. See the italicized signature area at the end to donate.

Hallelujah!  Thank you for listening to my news & joys!

Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…

                        or

He Who Weeps with Love & Joy, for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ

    (Known in the past as Greg Cunningham)

Mail & donations to:

New Wave Ministry

29731 C. Rd. 28

Elkhart, IN  46517,  USA

Or Chase New Wave Ministry Account # 736 971 904—Locations at www.chase.com

www.newwaveministry.com–with a Great slide show & credit card donation buttons

(+ )1-574-679-0011 or 295 9696 (Greg’s Cell for texts or calls) for Cunningham Air & Heat (working in IN, MI, & even ALL USA)

(+) 1-877-679-0011 Free from US phones for African visitors or if your free long-distance won’t work

Three New Waves:

Ø  Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus

Ø  Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King

Ø  Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility

I am attaching some good baby photos & videos, this time. The file names describe the contents. The videos are short, funny & very cute, except for the mourning singing, which are still interesting. If your player won’t open them, I downloaded the free Gom Player, which also plays most of my down-loaded movies. Search for it or use www.download.com. Her bandaged hand was for intravenous anti-HIV transmission meds, but that part is finished.

I really feel happy:

1. Because I’ve had the joy of teaching many people in my own home, both as a stand-up teacher & by discussion with people who ask bible questions & I can see them really touched.
2. Because when my daughter cries & isn’t hungry, she falls asleep on my chest, and I fall asleep with my arm around her.
3. Happy because I can feel sorrow & experience joy at the same time!—I was surprised when the nice hotel restaurant that my young brother-in-law took me to, at his expense, panged my heart, because I wish I could’ve taken Provi there to be treated special. She told me a few days before her coma that she wanted to eat at a restaurant with me when she was feeling well. But we will eat at the heavenly café, at the Lord’s Table, because she is well now!  But I also enjoyed some non-African food, for a change with a delicious & healthy pizza, for a whole $10.20. & it was paid for by an African!
4. Happy because, God has provided everything I need despite my loss, & I am a free man! I am free to serve Jesus and confident that nothing I desire will be withheld by my loving Father & Bridegroom! I only suffer a momentary light affliction to be far outweighed by an eternal weight of glory.
5. Blessed because so many have shown their love & concern, & also when they hear the joy & peace in me they express respect for me. What man doesn’t like to be shown respect?
6. Happy because, I am healthy, strong & surrounded by resources with the wisdom to know where to look for every need I/we have. I even have a good Christian mother who lives in my USA house & has called me several times & laughed with pleasure when I said, I know you will enjoy helping me with Ashkey!
7. Blessed because, God has really healed me of loneliness & I am excited by the changes of traveling & living with my new daughter.
8. Because I’m making great progress in speaking Swahili and have a team who works with me in my African home and my American home. Experienced mothers, men with gifts I don’t have & all respecting me & committed to help me. One of my brother-in-laws said, I promised Provi at her grave, I will do whatever is needed to take care of Ashkey! He said “Which (what) can I do for you?”
9. Excited because I see my plans coming together, as I make another trip to talk with deans of a University while I apply for a US passport for Ashkey, so we can travel anywhere together.
10. Blessed because my online education is going well & my two professors that I have never met, are both praying with their families for me.
11. Really thankful, because I get along so well with our house servant, & brother-in-laws. We share sweet moments at strange times (all hours) just laughing when Ashkey puckers her lips or cries and forgets she is hungry & falls asleep.
12. God even sent an American who speaks Kinyarwanda very well to interpret for me at the closing condolence service at our house & she said she will buy our TV/DVD (which I don”t need) & called me today, as she is working on two buyers for my 8 unsold computers.
13. Provi is rejoicing in heaven & probably has rejoiced with my oldest daughter, & talked with her about how God showed Provi that Leah was in heaven, only wishing she could ask pardon of me face-to-face.

What else could a man ask for?  I feel like the richest man in the world!

The silver lining in Thursday’s cloud:

I had a wonderful day, because I went to town to get a Rwanda birth & death certificated for the US Embassy & because they closed for lunch when I finally got there! Since they were closed & I was hungry & the place I went to eat nearby was occupied by the president of Rwanda, I asked my friends at the wireless data/phone office (they know you by name if you are me) & went across the street to the Gorilla Hotel. There was a young (21 yrs.) Chinese lady there, because of a hard rain who was eating while it stopped. We began to talk & she was so interested in my wide areas of knowledge & amazing stories. She said she was agnostic, but she felt God had messed up her plans with the rain so we could meet & share about so many things. She gave me her Uganda phone number to SMS her so we could meet & I could take her home to see Ashkey. Shortly after I finished my government trip, she followed my bicycle home on a moto-taxi. I think we talked for 9 hrs that day! Now she is Ashkey’s Auntie Dan. Her last name is TanJ I have photos & videos of her holding and talking to Ashkey and telling her that she is so blessed with many things including her father! She even stayed all night & almost missed her 9:30 am bus because we talked so well! I think she will come to the Lord & be partly discipled by me. She prayed very sincerely from her heart in English and Chinese, so she could express herself.

There was a silver lining in that cloud of the trouble of getting a death certificate & the hard rain for Dan Tan!

I was also told last Tuesday by the Dean of Economics & something else, that they may hire me to teach a good paying 2 wk course in April! I love to teach & am eager to show my ability, to get more University teaching jobs. I hope to have short course teaching next September –October & more teaching jobs to live in Rwanda January until the Lord leads me elsewhere.

Ashkey is on the couch next to me (I fed while I proof-read my email. I think I won’t let her drink so much, because she really spit-up!  It’s been a while since I dealt with thatJ

Hallelujah!  Thank you for sharing my news & joys!

Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…

or

He Who Weeps with Love & Joy,  for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ

(Known in the past as) Greg Cunningham

Mail & donations to:

New Wave Ministry

29731 C. Rd. 28

Elkhart, IN  46517,  USA

www.newwaveministry.com

(+) 250-750-287-482 (My current Africa phone number)

(+) 1 574-307-3030—Goes to voicemail to emailto me when in Africa (through May)

(+) 1 574-679-0011 or 295 9696 Cunningham Air & Heat (working in IN, MI, & NC, USA)

(+) 1 877-679-0011 Free from US phones for African visitors or if your cell won’t work

Three New Waves:

Ø     Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus

Ø     Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King

Ø     Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility

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My wife, Provi, died this morning at 6 here, 11pm EST yesterday in E USA.  I am very peaceful and much more composed than our house servant, Mama Noella. She howled after I told her & embraced her. Then she struck the walls with her hand & sobbed. I am now in the house with about 30 relatives and a just planned service in which I will speak interpreted by the Nephew of my father-in-law who died before I met him. I’m glad for that connection, because I know he loved Provi & I so much & Provi loved him so much.

You may not agree, but I think the best thing is to tell the truth, about what has happened in our lives. If Provi were alive I would not share this, without her assent.

She had AIDS or HIV, & never told me, or her relatives, to my knowledge. I found out 8 days ago when she was unconscious. The doctors told me she was at the last stage with almost no immunity. For any of her US relatives on this email list, I am not sending this to Africans except my close friends. For all of you who read, I presume, it may have been caused by rape in D.R.Congo (common in war zones). I know the Interhomwe came close to killing her twice in the past before I met her. I was surprised but not angry that she did not tell me, because I know she was probably afraid, because she never met a man who always told the truth, like I said that I would always love her. & I tested HIV negative! One of my 9 lives (as a figure of speech). I prayed for her regularly in the hospital, but also invested time in my studies, and getting two passports for our daughter, so she can travel with no Visa in E Africa with me and on to the USA.

I think God delivered me from HIV, because of His plans for me and my unusually strong immunity, because of my health practices (like no sugar, a good supplement, and daily exercise).  All of this is a gift (even my good disciplines) from God. I don’t now have a wife who will support me as father in raising a family, but I don’t have one who opposes me like I did before. Sorry kids, but that’s the truth. But she had many good qualities & is a work in progress like all of us.

Being more mature, I really enjoy just watching Ashkey & thinking about how to train her up in the way she should go (literally in the way she is bent). She seems strong like me & good natured, as my mother told me I was.  Two relatives prayed that she would be like her father & not like her mother. The second time that happened Provi said, “Amen!” They all say she looks like me. She is not much darker than I, but a lot more pink! I am a Mzungu (white). She is Kzungu (a little white).

New life: I wrote yesterday, after my 4rth trip to get all the correct information for Ashkey’s Rwanda passport after I pedaled home (my new sewed-to-fit tire is doing pretty well) and had the joy of watching Mama Noella & her children smiling & laughing at Ashkey.  We had so much fun sitting on the love-seat watching Amistad (about a slaving ship captured by Americans) & holding Ashkey & taking pictures.  Near death & new life in one day yesterday (Provi’s heart stopped briefly last night, when I was there, after a full convulsion) not to mention yesterday’s amazing escape when I hit a motorcycle with my bike so hard that I knocked him and his rider flat, & my scratches didn’t even show blood. (I could have flown over & under a truck or damage my bike at least.

Since I don’t worry much about what I can’t control (Provi’s health) I’m really enjoyed the growing family atmosphere we have with Mama Noella’s family & my movie time.  We watched “One Night With the King” on my computer (about Esther) Monday & “Amistad” (about a slave ship) Tues & Wed.  Her English & my Swahili, almost work all the time, somehow, & how we share the enjoyment of Ashkey, but she also loves Provi, so much!  I am proud to say, that I fed Ashkey 3 times last night, so Mama No… could sleep & I even changed her diaper. It took a while to figure out all the dry formula & hot water etc, but it’s not like I’ve never done it before.  But I didn’t get so much time watching our other children, because their mother breast-fed them, so I didn’t have the job of feeding them much.  I do have some great Ashkey photos, but it doesn’t seem like the right time to send them.

Some of my friends say I have 9 lives. Am I on 5 or 6? Yesterday my old friend & manager of my business (going the best ever without me there) was awoken at 3 am to pray for Provi, Ashkey & I. At about that moment I was pedaling (10 am here) very fast down a long grade when a motorcycle turned left in front of me. I hit him so hard that his motorcycle & two riders hit the deck.  Miraculously, the friction connections of my steering & handlebars & my strong legs absorbed the impact & my small scratches didn’t even draw blood! The funny thing was when I saw my rear brakes were locked, I picked up my bicycle with my usual energy & quick movement & when the moto driver saw me moving he ran away!  With trepidation (of the quick acting Rwanda police) he left his helmet as collateral & went to get 5000 francs ($8.50) to pay me for needed repairs. I thought the front wheel was out of round (but only very slightly, I found) & a lot of things were twisted around, but I had the tools & after 25 minutes, it rode smoothly to town to pay for Ashkey’s Rwanda passport.  My two headlights demise was accelerated, so we can call the money good for extra wear & tear. My mechanic friend in town replaced two missing nuts & I paid him 85 cents.

Getting that passport was a lot of trouble, because the guy who approves it forgot the day he told me to come was election day & they don’t know that Americans don’t know that they don’t take cash, so you go to a bank, then go with a receipt to the Rwanda Revenue, then take the RR receipt back to the immigration office before they approve it.  All that after 5 of us came in Mama’s car, because he wanted to see the baby, despite the passport photos we made twice. But, after my fourth trip, he surprised me to tell me that they would send it all Tuesday to the capital & we would have the passport back on Wed!

After my fourth return to the local immigration office (nothing like an American office) with the last receipt for payment I rode my bike all the way to the door of the hospital building where Provi was.  When I said, “this is Greg” (her eyes were unfocused) she clamped down on her breather thing & had a full body convulsion. Then her pulse stopped for at least 15 seconds, so I went to get a nurse. When we got back her pulse was 164.  That’s the closest I’ve ever been to seeing death.  They are treating her for an infection they hope is the right one, because her spinal fluid is not clear, & they think she may have meningitis (though it didn’t show up).  She gets intravenous anti-convulsion medicine, but it apparently doesn’t always work.

She was in a coma most of the time for 11 days since just before the needed C-section on the 13^th. I’ve gotten over the shock of finding out the underlying cause of her illness (HIV) helped by my amazing 9 lives (figure of speech) & me negative for HIV.  Considering her very weak condition, I think the doctors did the right things, and I progressed to getting around in Rwanda with language limitations, to function without Provi’s help. Because of how God has blessed us with amazing favor with Mama and family, & a really honest, experienced, hard-working volunteer servant and two children. I do have a good very mature friend who called me several times & blessed me by his desire for Provi, his own confession of apparent brass heavens, as he prayed and his non-condemning attitude toward my perspective.

Thanks for all your prayers. I’m sure God will give more testimonies of life from death and strength from weakness. God is always good. May he give me His words in the funeral service in 2 hours.

Hallelujah!  Thank you for listening to my news & joys!

Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…

or

He Who Weeps with Love & Joy,  for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ

(Known in the past as) Greg Cunningham

Mail & donations to:

New Wave Ministry

29731 C. Rd. 28

Elkhart, IN  46517,  USA

www.newwaveministry.com

(+) 250-750-287-482 (My current Africa phone number)

(+) 1 574-307-3030—Goes to voicemail to emailto me when in Africa (through May)

(+) 1 574-679-0011 or 295 9696 Cunningham Air & Heat (working in IN, MI, & NC, USA)

(+) 1 877-679-0011 Free from US phones for African visitors or if your cell won’t work

Three New Waves:

Ø     Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus

Ø     Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King

Ø     Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility

Our daughter Ashkenoz or Ashkey was born by C-section Feb 13, 7 days before my 53^rd birthday. She weighed 6 lbs, 1 oz. Not bad for 2-3 weeks early. I’m guessing she’s about 17” long, but she’s wrapped up now, so I can’t measure her with my measuring tape that I carry in my back-pack.

She is doing well, but bottle-fed & changed by relatives while her mother, Provi, is unconscious, except for a few hours yesterday, after I prayed for her. Fortunately, I had finished early all my assignments for the last week & 3^rd of 5 weeks of my two online 400 level business classes that are due by midnight EST.

I guess it’s good that I’m getting younger & stronger in most respects. While they were in surgery, Sunday, I was home watching our very Christian house servant’s children & meeting my goal of doing 20 stand-on-your-hands body presses all the way down to the floor. Actually it was down to about a ½” book, but I did 3 sets of 20 reps.  I also progressed to my goal of 20 pull-ups by reaching 13 pulls & 13 chins. My 100 1 legged squats is enough to just maintain.

Provi & prayer:

The English speaking Drs. Are testing her for 3 non-bacterial or non-virus infections right now & I am praying for her about 15 minutes each hour.  My very prophetic friend said it is a spiritual warfare & he sees a demon sitting on top of her.

So pray with us to rebuke the enemy.

Hallelujah!  Thank you for listening to my news & joys!

Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…

or

He Who Weeps with Love & Joy,  for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ

(Known in the past as) Greg Cunningham

Mail & donations to:

New Wave Ministry

29731 C. Rd. 28

Elkhart, IN  46517,  USA

www.newwaveministry.com

(+) 250-750-287-482 (My current Africa phone number)

(+) 1 574-307-3030—Goes to voicemail to email to me when in Africa (through May)

(+) 1 574-679-0011 or 295 9696 Cunningham Air & Heat (working in IN, MI, & NC, USA)

(+) 1 877-679-0011 Free from US phones for African visitors or if your cell won’t work

Three New Waves:

Ø     Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus

Ø     Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King

Ø     Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility

This is a bonus of  (I’ve sent before) of Burundi news through my connection with Bienvenu and the author below. You can go to http://blog.heavensfamily.org to see other great blog posts.

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