Newlyweds’ New Project in Chad!
Shortly after getting marrie d, former MOVE staff Victor and
Tanzi moved to Chad, Africa where they are working in connection
with a small hospital and nutritional clinic under Adventist Mission
Aviation.
“The biggest need here is for workers” Tanzi reports. “There
are doctors in the hospital, but they are so overloaded with work that
they don’t even have time for their families. There is also a printing
press that one mission family is operating that prints literature and
the Sabbath school lessons and other materials for the whole country.
In all this we saw the need for people!”
And so in February Victor and Tanzai started a two-month
missionary training program called Savanto, to prepare workers with
on-the-job training in the nutrition center, and in evangelistic labor
such as the distribution of literature from the press, and house to
house visitation and Bible study. This month marked the end of the
first session, and was crowned by three baptisms. Four of the students
who finished the two-month course have committed to continue
working with the project as volunteers and will be sharing their faith
and their new skills with the nearby villages.
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ISLAND CHURCH PLANTING
Milton and Dalicia, session 12 alumni, have been working as Bible
workers and church planters in the island of Caye Caulker for over a year.
You might recall Milton’s fruit carvings that he used as a creative
outreach technique, and of the baptisms last summer. Recently he sent a
message overflowing with excitement. He and Dalicia have been praying
about the need for a meeting place for the growing group of believers,
but the price of island real estate is exorbitant. That’s when the idea of a
church-boat flashed across Milton’s mind. He needs a boat anyway to be
able to travel between the two halves of the island which are separated
by an ocean channel. He and his wife began to pray about it and share
their idea, and a visiting sister from the U.S. caught the vision and has
pledged help. As Milton and the brethren continue to pray and plan,
they are weighing the pros and cons of a second church on the other half
of the island instead of building the floating church. Please keep them in
prayer. You can also contact Milton on Whats App: +501-606-7407.
MISSION PLANE DECOMISSIONED
Hello, I am Luis Palomeque, a graduate of MOVE class session number nine. Right now I am starting my
mentorship project. God has helped me decide to create an audio production studio called “Mission
Sounds.” The objective is to make a recording studio that can produce audio materials such as audio books,
music, and mission stories. The target audience is primarily Adventist members in Latin American countries
where there is neither much emphasis in foreign missions nor many audio materials available. My objective
is to create and distribute material that will promote mission work and encourage church members to get
involved. My base of operations will be the MOVE missionary school in Belize. Although the times we live in
are difficult, we must continue to spread the message. We need your prayers that God will provide the
wisdom and the resources for this project. If you have any questions about this specific project, or wish to
contribute financially or otherwise, you can communicate with me through Whatsapp at +52 1 9613297747.
We solicit urgent prayer on behalf of the
mission plane which has been
confiscated by authorities in Colombia
over some legal technicalities. At first
officials were giving the option to
redeem the aircraft at nearly its original
value, but now even that possibility is in
doubt. Unless God does a miracle, the
plane will be lost.
ALUMNUS PROJECT “MISSION SOUNDS” STUDIO
Above: baptism. Below: Milton
leads a small group service
At the same time, we ask for stronger prayers of faith for each one of us, for without a miracle of God, we too
will be taken hostage by the enemy of souls and lost to the work. We need Christ’s redeeming miracle of
grace applied in our lives today, and every day. The good news is, we know redemption is God’s will for us!
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MOVE MOBILE: BATCH 15 TRAINS IN COLOMBIA
campus square footage to the class calendar: three
months’ worth of training crammed into two.
By the first week of April the students from the
basic program were leading their mission trip. The
mentorship students have their own final project,
to build a church in el barrio La Cruz in Medellin,
which they are working on. Please keep them in
prayer as the building site is in a rough
neighborhood.
The commission ceremony live-streamed on Zoom
Sunday afternoon, April 11. The fourteen students
from the basic program will be going to support
mission projects throughout Bolivia, Mexico,
Colombia, Honduras, Chad and Belize.
The current plan is to host session # 16 here in
Belize this August, pending travel and immigration
restrictions. Please keep MOVE in your prayers as
administration considers how best to continue in
our mission under the present circumstances.
MOVE has been back in business this year despite
the pandemic. When the international airport
opened last fall, we began to accept applications
for this year’s spring program and moved forward
in faith, but Belize immigration officials were
unwilling to issue student visas and it seemed the
program would be put on hold again. But then,
Genith Fuentes, director of the Silo (Shiloh) health
training institute in El Santuario, Colombia, called.
“Keila, why don’t you come do your program on
our campus? We are still waiting for our
operation license to come through before we can
begin our classes in May.”
And so began a flurry of intense logistical
maneuverings, and session #15 started in the
middle of February, 2021 with 14 students in the
basic program and 10 taking mentorship. This
time around, everything was even more
condensed than usual, from the housing and
Generation 15 staff and students Mission trip evangelism Health fair
Missions Festival Appreciation Ceremony Shiloh front office
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ON THE HOMEFRONT
Meanwhile we continue to plant the good seed
through outreach activities with the local
churches and villages. Shaw and his family have
started working in the Honeycamp and Petville
communities where they attend between 6 and 8
different Bible studies each week. They are also
studying with a family in Carmelita Village. The
Wlasenko family do weekly studies and visitation
in Santa Marta village, and the Kostenko family
has been helping a new church plant in Trinidad
village and doing Bible studies and visitation there
as well as in Tower Hill, Orange Walk and
occasionally in Chan Pine Ridge.
The first weekend of April we also enjoyed
helping with the Chan Pine Ridge youth camp
organized by MOVE alumnus Giselle Cal. The
camp theme was “Youths for the Truth” and
included three days full of mission outreach
activities to the community, games and
recreation, and Bible seminars on Christian music
and principles for dating and courtship.
Other activities included literature distribution to
the prison and to the village churches, and a
revival seminar and cooking school.
While half of the MOVE staff have been in
Colombia with session 15, the Belize campus has
been a quiet place indeed. The agriculture
program has been growing, however, in more
ways than one! We have planted and harvested
thousands of pounds of tomatoes, sweet
peppers, cabbage and sweet corn with a few
eggplant and other miscellaneous products on
the side. The lime orchard has been producing
quite constantly, and in a month or so we should
be harvesting pineapples and mangoes.
Dear MOVE alumni: If you have a story or a mission experience about your current work that you would like to share in a
future MOVE newsletter, please send me your submissions of 700 words or less to triple.ko@gmail.com or to my What’s
App account at +501-630-0540. If you have any relevant photos, please send them too! Blessings! — Kody Kostenko
Above: Youths for the Truth CPR campout. Below left: Josmar, Lolita and Kody on their way to outreach in
the village. Below center: Brother Daniel admonishes right before getting mudded! Below right: Giselle with
coconut carving