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HG Pemba Update: Week 7

30/November/2007 01:57 Filed in: HG Schools

Dear Holy Given Family,
Thank you again for your many prayers for us during this seventh Holy Given School here in Pemba, Mozambique. Please keep praying for us!

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HG Pemba Update: Week 6

27/November/2007 01:59 Filed in: HG Schools

Dear Holy Given Family,
Thank you again for your many prayers for us during this seventh Holy Given School here in Pemba, Mozambique. Please keep praying for us! Read More...

HG Pemba Update: Week 5

23/November/2007 02:00 Filed in: HG Schools

The Marriage of The Lamb...
Revelation clearly depicts the marriage of the Lamb and His Bride, 'Let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His Bride has made herself ready...

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HG Pemba Update: Week 4

20/November/2007 02:01 Filed in: HG Schools

Dear Holy Given Family,

Here you can see a picture of our tent, which serves as a classroom for us here at Holy Given Pemba. This has truly been a tent of meeting for those who have come face to face with love Himself through the many schools of the past, present, and future here in Mozambique.

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HG Pemba Update: Week 3

15/November/2007 02:02 Filed in: HG Schools

Dear Holy Given Family,
We have been on the altar here in Africa this week. Jesus has been moving throughout our community here in Pemba. The Holy Spirit has been releasing creativity among us as well.

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HG Pemba Update: Week 2

11/November/2007 02:04 Filed in: HG Schools

Dear Holy Given Family,
Week two continues for Holy Given Africa. I will attempt to update all of you on what the Holy Spirit has been doing underneath our large tent here in Pemba. Pictures and student accounts will tell the rest of this continued love story across the earth.
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HG Pemba Update: Week 1

05/November/2007 02:05 Filed in: HG Schools

Dear Holy Given Family,
Wow! We are now in Pemba, Mozambique, and find ourselves in the beginnings of the Seventh Holy Given School!

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From Simon, Joy & Family

04/November/2007 02:06 Filed in: Misc

Dear Lesley,

Hey Babes! I’m staggered that it’s a year since we were with you at HG3, how are you? We think about you often and miss your smiley face, encouragement and enthusiasm: your voice and stories are still there behind us urging us on. I know it’s long overdue, but thank you again. Read More...

Wrecked

03/November/2007 02:08 Filed in: Misc | Outreach/Conference

God really wrecked me with the Holy Spirit for the first time at your conference a few months back. God's totally still working; it's been incredible! Not only has God continued to keep me free from anxiety and revealed His Spirit in this whole entirely new way, but He's done some other incredible things. Only a month after that conference, God opened up all these crazy doors for me to go to Latvia and work with the poorest-of-the poor there. Read More...

Holy Given: Armavir

03/November/2007 02:00 Filed in: HG Schools

It was such a privilege to work alongside Lesley-Anne as we hosted the Holy Given International School in our Healing Centre this summer in Armavir, Southern Russia. It has been something I have been praying about for years. I was so privileged to see my dream, to raise up Russian-speaking missionaries to go into the dark unreached people groups around us, coming into reality. Read More...

Bolshoio Spasiba

18/October/2007 02:13 Filed in: Updates from Lesley-Anne

A BOLSHOIO SPASIBA from Lesley-Anne and her fab team for prayer while in Russia. The battle was intense but we won. Jesus is sending them into the world and He is with them all.
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Vicky Pemberton

09/October/2007 02:11 Filed in: Updates from Lesley-Anne

Dear Friends,

Vicky is with Jesus - she left this world behind at about 0850 this morning. Chris has gone to the Hospice and Cara and Stephen
will follow shortly. We praise God for her - we need to pray for the darling Pembertons now, and for each other, that His peace would be a reality as we grieve and that we would all discover a deeper and more powerful walk with God as a result of these last months.
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Prayer for Jeane Griggs

08/September/2007 02:15 Filed in: Prayer Requests

Dear Holy Given Family,

Jeanne Griggs, who was a student at HG3 recently had back surgery in the USA. Please pray for her in her recovery time.
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Paul Adams & Jason Holbeche

07/September/2007 02:17 Filed in: Misc | HG Schools

How unqualified I feel to even tell the stories of the people here. I have worked with Lesley with several other holy given schools before coming here to Armavir Russia. I have seen God transform many lives, including my own, during these schools. Yet I was completely unprepared for what we have found here in the lives of these amazing people here in southern Russia. Read More...

The Latest News From Armavir

07/September/2007 02:15 Filed in: HG Schools | Updates from Lesley-Anne

As you know I am in Armavir!
I am overwhelmed even as I write this as I look around the room at what God is doing in our hearts and lives. We broke off from the teaching today as we were distracted...two of our dogs were killed yesterday. Many of us are sick! We had just read Acts 2 so we had to do it! Before we knew it Jesus came in the room. All is well again. Read More...

HG School Armavir - Freedom Week!

01/September/2007 02:10 Filed in: HG Schools

The cry this week in Russia has been: FREEDOM!! Gods children are being set FREE to be the people he always intended them to be. Deep wounds that have not been healed were brought up and God touched them with his healing hand- Jesus has broken the chains that have held fathers and sons apart and we have seen mothers and daughters lying in each others arms as King Jesus ministers to them as a family. Read More...

The Bride

18/August/2007 02:28 Filed in: HG Schools | Updates from HG students

I was ministering in Pemba, Mozambique when the Holy Spirit came upon me in power. A painting came forth with prophetic significance for the people, for all of us. The painting was of the Bride. It was the reality of a vision and encounter that I had with Jesus during my time at Holy Given. Read More...

HG School in Armavir, Russia

14/August/2007 02:26 Filed in: HG Schools

The school in Russia has been amazing! Already, after one week there has been mass deliverances, healing, tears and wailing as a yearning for God increases in this place. There is hurt from the wounds left by communism, fighting and terrorism but this week satan has been rebuked and God has prevailed. Thank you Lord! Read More...

HG5 Pemba: Week 7

07/August/2007 02:31 Filed in: HG Schools

SENT ONES…

‘There was a man sent from God, and his name was John’ –John 1
We are contending for a sending. It might sound cliché but without His presence, we cannot go. Within Holy Given 5, I am seeing a true sending from Heaven. What happens when we come face to face with Jesus in the eyes of the broken, the lost, and the dying? Read More...

HG5 Pemba: Week 6

23/July/2007 02:39 Filed in: HG Schools

Dear Holy Given Family,

Thank you for all of your many prayers for us here at Holy Given 5 in Pemba, Mozambique. This week has truly been a time of breakthrough. Jesus has given us all a deeper gift of hunger, and we are more desperate for His presence than ever before. We know that when we call His name, He comes running. He has been bringing us all back to our first love. The Holy Spirit is falling on a group of laid down lovers in Mozambique!
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HG5 Pemba: Week 5

13/July/2007 02:51 Filed in: HG Schools

A PEOPLE BEING PREPARED…

John 17-
1“Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may also glorify You, 2as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him... Read More...

HG5 Pemba: Update

07/July/2007 03:01 Filed in: HG Schools

Holy Given Family,

Jesus has been doing so much in the fifth Holy Given School here in Pemba, Mozambique. 150 students from across the globe have come together as a community to live, love, and learn among the poor. Thank you all so much for your continued prayers for us as we are in Pemba! Holy Spirit has been showing us so much and doing a work much deeper than words can express. Read More...

Korean Forerunners

30/June/2007 03:06 Filed in: Outreach/Conference

I recently came back from South Korea ministering with Lesley Anne Leighton of Holy Given School and Shara Pradhan of IRIS. I was privileged to see what the Father was doing in South Korea and the hunger and thirst for the Kingdom reality amongst young-Koreans. It was totally a mind-blowing visit. Read More...

A Letter From Ryan

15/May/2007 03:10 Filed in: Updates from HG students

To get to Mozambique we flew to Australia and then Singapore and a big jump to Africa on the other side of the globe. We flew over India and over my friends in Tanzania, Pastor Lucas and Mama Hellena. She makes good chapattis (let me know if you do not know what chapattis are. It's like pancakes. You put jam on it.) So, back to the story. We are in Mozambique. Read More...

Call For Power In Prayer

01/May/2007 03:13 Filed in: Outreach/Conference | Prayer Requests

From Shara Pradhan,

May we all be that one to our Jesus... The past two weeks in Korea have been some of the most significant. I am dividing the update into two as God did so much. But I wanted to ask for **concentrated prayer** as Bob Jones gave a profound word about the next conference Lesley and I are preaching in in San Fran.
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Prayer Request: Jessica Orr

27/April/2007 03:18 Filed in: Prayer Requests

Jess, Randi and Nate are asking for some very focused prayer. Since they have been in Israel they have been hit with a lot of spiritual warfare. The next 4 weeks of their journey are especially vital. Thanks in advance for lifting these folks up to the Lord. - Bonnie
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Steve & Pam Jackson

01/April/2007 03:22 Filed in: Updates from HG students

What a privilege to attend Holy Given #1 and #2, in Pemba, Mozambique,Africa...where the miraculous abounded, but moreover,where students from around the world, along with African pastors, learned to become joyfully dependent upon Father's Flawless plans for their lives.
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From Heliopolis, Brazil

01/April/2007 03:15 Filed in: HG Schools | Updates from Lesley-Anne

We could not have made it without your prayerful and financial support. Thank you for Believing for His Utmost Highest for another Holy Given School; in Heliopolis, Brazil. Read More...

From Ana

01/April/2007 03:15 Filed in: Updates from HG students

First of all, I just want you to know that I miss you so much!!!! I want to share something with you. Last Saturday the youth group in my church went to one favela in my city. It was a wonderful time!!! We went to their houses and invited them to go to that place that my church has in that favela. Read More...

Latest News From Brazil

08/March/2007 03:28 Filed in: HG Schools | Updates from Lesley-Anne

About four years ago we were about to do an outreach in the favela. As we began to pray Holy Spirit said to me that God wanted an International Missions school in the favela! I saw that students would come from all over the world to learn from the Holy Spirit among the people here. Read More...

News From Brabara HG3

07/March/2007 03:30 Filed in: Updates from HG students

Dear family and friends,
This last month has been quite different from the past several months. I have experienced a new dimension of
suffering, namely the effects of war on the Acholi people of northern Uganda, which include, starvation, torture, and tremendous loss of life, both physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Read More...

The Unexected Faces of Revival

07/March/2007 03:20 Filed in: Misc

Beloved, In less than a month of opening our doors I have found myself to be mom to 44 kids and 7 staff. A family of over 50. It is either totally Jesus or complete insanity and possibly a bit of both. We also have had the privilege to welcome home our first missionary team member, Melissa McKinney. Read More...

From Jessica & Randi

31/January/2007 04:07 Filed in: Updates from HG students

Dear Lesley-Anne,
We hope that The Holy Given Brazil is going amazing and that the Holy Spirit is moving beyond belief! Randi and I are in Tanzania now. We arrived in Dar Es Salaam not knowing where we would stay and God worked two miracles at once: They would not give us a visa because we did not have a plane ticket back to America... Read More...

Thank You! Obrigada! (Portuguese) Kinaushukuru! (Makua) Asante Sana! (Swahili)

31/January/2007 03:50 Filed in: Updates from HG students

As we close yet another year out, and prepare for all that God has in store for us in 2007, I wanted to thank all of you for your many prayers. I am feeling so much better. After the email went out, and many of you prayed, my fever broke and God has healed me of Malaria. It was a long week and a time where Jesus definitely had me solely to Himself.
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Prayer For Tim Conn

31/January/2007 03:45 Filed in: Prayer Requests

I am REQUESTING PRAYER for Tim after car crash where he survived.

Tim Conn writes:
“hi lesley, its Tim Conn here from Mozambique Holy Given.... Just emailing you to give you an update on how things are. Things at the min is very hard.. Read More...

Iris Sierra Leone

31/January/2007 03:40 Filed in: Misc

I'm the Co Director of Iris in Sierra Leone, and also calling on Holy Given student that really want to lay there lives to work and severe in Freetown. The Lord is blessing his work here, as you always know the laborers a few so we are call for more laborers to help us in the field of the Lord. Here are some Pictures! Read More...

Habari From Arusha, Tanzania!

31/January/2007 03:30 Filed in: Updates from HG students

Habari From Arusha, Tanzania!
“And it shall be that every living thing that moves wherever the rivers go will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there. For they will be healed and everything will live wherever the river goes. Read More...

Michele & Melissa

30/January/2007 04:03 Filed in: Updates from HG students

Lesley-Anne--
Hugs from your girls in Yei (well in Kampala at the moment waiting for Melissa's bag AGAIN-- her record is 5 weeks in Moz w/ no luggage-- but we know Sudan is on an acceleration curve so we hope to have it by Friday)... Lissa and I have developed a new theory on nation reaching. Read More...

Hi From Julie!

29/January/2007 04:08 Filed in: Misc

Hello to all my precious friends and family!!! How are you all doing? One thing is for sure, I am very loved by all of you and that makes all the difference in the world when you are so far from your friends and family. I love you all sooo very much. I am also surrounded by my beautiful Mozambican family whom I feel right at home with. What a beautiful family we have all over the world.
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From Pamela Thomson

28/January/2007 04:10 Filed in: Misc

Dearest Lesley-Anne,
PRAISE YOU JESUS for hearing my cries and the prayers of the intercessors ---- your rescue is sweet, Jesus! Leslie-Anne…… God is sooooooooooooooooooooo GOOD, and THAT is even an understatement. WOW – Wonder of Wonders, that is who God is. Read More...

Michele Perry - Sudan

15/January/2007 04:12 Filed in: Updates from HG students

Salaam Taki en isim be tai Jesua: Peace in the name of Jesus from Sudan to my Holy-Given family… who could have fathomed the extravagant love of our Jesus poured out here to raise up a generation of His Presence out of the ashes of war. So much has happened in the last 2 weeks since Christmas. Read More...

HG3 Pemba

02/January/2007 04:15 Filed in: HG Schools

Ola my dear family and friends from Pemba Mozambique,
We have had an amazing first week of the Holy Given: Iris International School of Missions. We have all come with desperation, expectation, humility and faith to our beloved bridegroom King and we are not disappointed. God continues to surprise us daily with new things. We are all especially excited for the opportunity to participate in His Kingdom. Read More...