Happy Holidays

Starting with Giving Thanks and my birthday on November 28^th to kick off the season.

What an awesome time we had in Peru!! I want to first of all thank all of you who gave towards the trip to Estrecho.  Isa 66:19 "I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coast lands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.   20 "Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the LORD out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem," says the LORD, "as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD. 

The glory of the Lord was seen in Estrecho, Iquitos and Requena Peru.  Everywhere we went God healed the blind, lame and deaf.  One lady with cataracts regained her sight, another woman who had not walked in 5 years got out of her wheel chair and pushed it home. A man with a leg shorter than the other now has both legs equal length. God did many miracles, but the greatest miracles were the lives that were changed and reconciled to the Father. And, you were there through the donations that were sent.  THANK YOU!

In December and January, I will be in the process of receiving the second knee replacement.  Elenid my housemate will be accompanying to Bogota where they will do the surgery, Then, my niece who is a nurse will be coming to Leticia for about 2 weeks to help out with the recuperation process. Please keep all this in your prayers.  God is in control.

Now....back to this Holiday Season. AFAMMS would like to give you a special opportunity!

This Christmas we invite you to give a gift that reaches beyond. Simply choose the gift you would like to give then go to the yellow Donate button and donate through PayPal. Write the gift desired in the "message to seller field." Share this gift giving opportunity with a friend, your small group or your church.  The sight is http://afamms.blogspot.com

 

$50 - A gift that provides physical repair to mission's housing.

$50 - A gift that encourages the missionary's support.

$15 - A gift of music to a student learning to play an instrument.

$500.00 - A gift of electric violin to play with the Praise and Worship Team

$25 - A gift of language lessons to English students.

$50 - A gift of outreach to help a team go up the river to teach and train.

$50 - A gift of outreach to help a praise team share the Good news through music.

If you would like to give a donation to the overall services of AFAMMS, please feel free to put the amount that God places on you heart to give. Together we are making a difference in the Amazon.

I have given you an opportunity to pray and give yet some of you are saying to me that you would like to do more.  August 2019 is being organized for those of you who would like another option.  The Word of God gives us the command to GO! The first two (2) weeks in August AFAMMS would like to facilitate a “PRAISE AND WORSHIP OUTREACH IN THE AMAZON.”  It is for the worshipers who do interpretive dance, gospel choirs, and drama teams. Please contact me as soon as possible if you are interested.  We are in the process of preparing the housing and meal cost for the groups planning to come. You may contact me through messenger, email, or call me direct through What's App or your phone service.  Contact information is above in the letter head. I am looking forward to hearing from you and your group.

I am excited about 2019 and I am looking forward to participating with the Holy Spirit in what He has planned for the earth especially this region in the Amazon.  Let's  continue to pray, give and go so that we will be able to accomplish His work that was prepared before the foundations of the world was laid that we would walk in it.  Praise the Lord!

Adventuring with Christ,

Min. Orchidy T Boyd

Executive Dir. AFAMMS

African American Mobilization Services (AFAMMS)

Min. Orchidy T. Boyd— AFAMMS— PO Box 39803 – Redford, MI   48239-0803

What's App or Call Colombian Cell: +57 312.557.5379

PayPal address: safricanamericanmobilization@yahoo.com

E-mail: orchi41@gmail.com  Website: http://afamms.blogspot.com

September 2018 Newsletter

Hello! Hello! Hello!

It has been quite a while since I have written to you all. Some of you have been waiting on pins and needles for an update from the Amazon.  Well.... Here it is. Question: What kind of God do you serve?  Mine is big and does great wonders. October 2017 I had surgery on my right foot, which included a bone graph from my hip. Yes, my hip bone is connected to my foot bone (O' dem bones..).  The surgery was very successful and almost a year later I am in the process to complete the other knee replacement. For the first time in years, I am walking without pain! Alelujah!!! I am now working with the therapist to strengthen my muscles.  I am looking forward to being able to traipse in the jungle once again and enjoy going to hard to reach and unreached areas with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The 15^th through the 24^th of October I have the awesome opportunity to go to a place called Estrecho.  This is a town in the middle of the Amazon jungle on the Peruvian side.  The outreach to this community is by boat to Iquitos, Peru on the Amazon river, then by plane to the Puntomayo River and then by small boat for about 4 hours to Estrecho.  We will do a leadership conference, pastors conference and evangelism crusade during this trip. I will be the only non-Colombian or Peruvian on this trip.  I am excited because Pastor Julio Pachecho who is my covering here in Leticia desires that I participate on this trip.  It has been a while since I could physically participate on this type of outreach in the jungle.  How can you participate with me??

1.     Pray that the timing between the surgery on my knee and the trip allows me to be able to take that week and a half in October.

2.     Pray that God will raise up persons who will help finance this trip.  The cost is $650.00 dollars, which includes transportation, room and board, and ground transportation.  The deadline for the money is the 14^th of October.

3.     Pray for the souls that will be saved, hearts strengthened, liberation and healing for this region of the Amazon.

4.     Pray for safe travels and good health as we travel on the rivers, in the air and on foot.

This past summer I had the opportunity to visit with many of you at the NAAMC Mission Conference in Virginia and The Peoples Community Baptist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland. Even though I was asked to serve in both conferences, I was more blessed by those with whom I was serving.  Spending time with the participants and their families was a great joy for me.  I would encourage all of you who read my letters to take an opportunity this next year on your vacation to attend one of these conferences.  It is the best way to be informed as to what God is doing at this time in reaching the nations and to expand your vision on how you can be more effect in the areas in which God has placed you. Out of relationship flows ministry!

The time with family and friends was wonderful and FUN.  There were at least 200 persons who attended the family reunion during the entire weekend.  There were people that I knew and people who I got to know that I never knew.  What a blessing to have a legacy of the presence of God in the generations of a family. Pastor Julio says “an inheritance is what is given to you a legacy is what is put into you..”  A legacy last to the third and forth generation at least.  What are you putting into your family?  Thank you God for the opportunity to share Your gospel with my family.

These next few months I will be completing the last year of the RHEMA Bible Institute. Please keep me in your prayers as I complete the course.  I have learned much over these last few years. I am also still teaching English and music classes.  I am learning piano in order to keep up with a very gifted musician that is serving on the worship team.  Please pray for us as I am using all my training to advance him so that he will be able to study in the university.

This has been an extremely busy year with hosting missionary families, taking on two housemates (Aida and Elenid in the above photo), teaching Saturday Bible study, healing from surgery and preparing for the 2^nd knee replacement.  The presence of your prayers and encouragement has been and is a sustaining force for me in serving here in the Amazon.  Thank you!!

More about next year's Praise and Worship outreach opportunities in the next newsletter.  To make a donation for the Estrecho Peru trip, please send your donation before the 15^th of October to the below PayPal address or to the PO Box address.  Together we will make a difference in Estrecho Peru.

Adventuring with Christ,

Min. Orchidy T Boyd

Executive Dir. AFAMMS

 

African American Mobilization Services (AFAMMS)

Min. Orchidy T. Boyd— AFAMMS— PO Box 39803 – Redford, MI   48239-0803

What's App or Call Colombian Cell: +57 312.557.5379

PayPal address: safricanamericanmobilization@yahoo.com

E-mail: orchi41@gmail.com  Website: http://afamms.blogspot.com

Year in Review

Here we are once again in the Holiday season.  Many are busy cooking, shopping, visiting and partying.  While others are just wondering how to finish out the year struggling with the situations that life has brought to them here in this world.

As I take time to reflect on this past year, my heart rejoices.  Many of you know that this has been a year of challenge for me in many different areas.  I started out with the physical challenge of adjusting to an artificial knee replacement in my left leg.  I was excited about the family that would come to Leticia to develop a discipleship training school. It was good to receive them here in Leticia during the difficult time of recuperation, but it soon became evident that their motives and desires were contrary to that of AFAMMS. God used them to help me to literally get back on my feet and to reinforce the purpose of why I am here in the Amazon.  After 3 months they decided to leave because the things of this world were more important than the souls of lost people.  I don’t blame them. At a glance, the missionary life looks glamorous until one has to practice depending on God for the everyday living.

The last week as that family was leaving my “daughter” came to stay with me with her boyfriend and their baby.  They had lost their place to stay and were on the street.  They were the help to help me get the house back in order after the family left.  We began discipleship classes, preparation for their wedding, and I prepared to go to the states to share with the churches about the termination of the discipleship training school project.  All the time my heart felt heavy because I was questioning God as to what was my purpose. I wanted to know if what I was doing here in Colombia was really necessary.

The most encouraging thing for me in the States was hearing testimonies from the missionaries that attended the mission conference in Maryland where I went to minister at the Peoples Community Baptist Church.  Yes, I shared, but God used these men and women of His to encourage a tired missionary.  I was not the only one who had projects that did not materialize.  What do you do? You get up pray and keep going.  As long as there are people who have not heard the good news that they can be reconciled to the Almighty Creator God and have an intimate relationship with Him, there is still a place for me. The work that is done on the “mission field” is not based on projects completed, but lives changed to the Glory of God and the Godly influence on those who would never know of Him if I had never come and sown His Word in a place where it had not been before planted.  God causes the growth!

So, here I am in Leticia, Amazonas Colombia. In October, I had surgery on my right ankle to correct the position of my foot in order to prepare me for the replacement of my other knee in the fall of 2018. Some say I will be the “bionic woman.” I say, “hallelujah!” The next 60 years of my life will be without pain and strong for the work of the Kingdom.  God has provided people to help me through the difficult time of convalescence and my English and music students have been able to train in my home.  I have seven students and have been able to present the gospel with each of them.  I am using the CEF wordless book.  Please keep these students in your prayers as they are not only learning music or English but also, more about the love of God.

This month of December I am continuing with my English and music students and recuperating.  The pastor who is my covering here in Leticia has given me this time for healing, but has shared with me his desire for me to work more closely with the Ministerio de Misiones Church in the areas of leadership training and the praise and worship team. Pastors Julio and Jenny Pacheco have a vision to reach and encourage the brethren that are located in the jungle that have less opportunity to receive what we experience in the city.  Pray that God will raise up teams that will be willing to travel to these remote areas to be an encouragement to the body of Christ.

Well, I have shared with you my year in review and future vision.  Keep praying! Keep giving! And, come visit as God leads you.  Have a Wonderful Holiday Season!!

Adventuring with Christ,

Min. Orchidy T Boyd

Exec. Dir. AFAMMS

Taking the Gospel to all nations. What it looks like in real life.

Yes! This is a different type of newsletter.  Sometimes the missionary needs to be direct and let their readers know exactly what is happening so that their prayers can be more specific and effective. Permit me to lay it out in this manner.

THE VISION:  Every tribe, nation and tongue participating in the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

THE MISSION: 

Speed the return of Christ – Matthew 24:14 take the gospel to all the nations 

Make disciples that will speed the return of Christ – Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Timothy 2:2

So what does this look like in real life? One chooses a location that has less opportunity to hear the gospel message, a place that is full of people in need and a place that God put in your heart.  One may not know or understand the complete strategy for your life in this place, but that is not the responsibility of the person who chooses to go.  The responsibility of the one who chooses to “go” is found in Psalm 37.

Last year I was excited about being part of a project here in the Amazon. I shared with many of you the vision for the project.  The family that was to lead the project seemed to be full of expectations to realize the vision of a discipleship training school, indigenous led and self-sustaining.  God brought the children of Israel into the desert not to test them, but to show them what was really in their hearts.  Bottom line... The riches of this world and what they had to give up in Chia weighed more heavily than the souls of many people.  After 3 ½ months here in Leticia they decided to return to their home in Chia.

Where does that leave me in all this?  Psalm 37:3-9 gives direction. Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness...Trust in the Lord...Commit my way to Him...Rest... He will do it.  God is still in charge of the results or fruit in my life.  My responsibility is to dwell in the land, trust in Him and commit my way to Him.  So here I am!

I am living in the middle of the Amazon jungle.  My only desires at present are to explain the gospel message of Jesus Christ to as many who will listen, disciple those whom God places in my path (way) and cultivate faithfulness loving and serving in the local church under which is my covering here in Leticia Colombia.  Here are some of the great blessings that God has given to me these past four months.

1. While the Rodriguez family was with me, they helped with the household chores during the most difficult part of my recovery from knee replacement surgery.
2. My daughter and her fiancée Junior asked to be discipled and are going through the process to marry according to the Word of God and the government of Colombia. They will be married in June.
3. They have chosen to live with me and desire to learn and practice being a real family according to Biblical principles. As a result of their decisions, Junior has had the opportunity to share with his brother and his girlfriend.  Please pray for them.  We are now a family of 4 (Me, Neivy my God given daughter, Junior and baby Elias (6 months) my grand-baby).
4. I have started English classes in the Mission Ministries Church where I attend. I am teaching from a Biblical base... training and equipping so that my students can be more effective in reaching the nations for Christ.
5. The part that I like most about what God is doing in my life, besides the gift of family, is that I am part of the worship team in Mission Ministries Church here in Leticia. This gives me opportunity to do what I like most.  Worship!  I am teaching music and playing my clarinet and violin.  I am praying for a Yamaha electric Cello to add to the worship team.  Please pray with me for this instrument.

The conclusion is this.  People may come or leave. Projects may be started or ended. But, those who will serve the Lord dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

I will be in the States from July 11, 2017 through the end of August. I hope to see many of you or connect with you. Thank you so much to those of you who have been praying and giving! I could not have survived these past few months without your participation. May God bless you greatly!!

Psalm 27:13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.

 14 Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!

(NKJV)

Adventuring with Christ,

Min. Orchidy T Boyd 

African American Mobilization Services (AFAMMS)

Min. Orchidy T. Boyd— AFAMMS— PO Box 39803 – Redford, MI   48239-0803

What's App or Call Colombian Cell: +57 312.557.5379

PayPal address: safricanamericanmobilization@yahoo.com

E-mail: orchi41@gmail.com  Website: http://afamms.blogspot.com