Claremore, OK, 74018, USA
"Mama Roe": 918-342-1447
Rapha: 918-704-5098
No Greater Love International
Tel: 918 324 1447
Email: raphaYAH@yahoo.com
Thank you for making this our greatest year! Our family sends our love to you and yours this blessed time of year. You have prayed, given and supported the work of God and The Way of Peace and Vision so faithfully this year and the marvelous result is that thousands of precious souls in 14 countries have made decisions for THE WAY this year because of NGLI and you! May the Name of our precious God be praised! Please take time with your family to worship God for creating/redeeming us and giving us a safe and productive year for His work!
Never have we seen the evidence of your prayers more than the past two months! First of all, we could not stop the tears streaming down our face as hundreds of university students streamed down the aisle to the alter at the State University of Stellenbosch near Capetown, South Africa. This is the very place where Apartheid was founded 70 years ago! Pastor F...(for security), pastor of a large Church had organized with NGLI, a Feast of Tabernacles on the University campus. The President of the University had vehemently opposed it. He had been educated in
The evening of the Feast, the main campus auditorium was packed to overflowing. They had asked me to be the main speaker but thankfully, the Lord really spoke and the response was overwhelming! 437 students and graduates committed to giving a year of their life with us somewhere in
We have received wonderful South African government support for our “Afri-Kids Royal Ranches” which will house and educate thousands of the “AIDs orphans” now flooding
Our second Afri-Kids Royal Ranch will be in the Transvaal, two hours from Johannesburg. A Christian farmer has agreed to sell it to us at only 20% of it’s value (which is $600,000). We need $98,000.00 to finish purchasing it. Any gifts to help purchase this ranch for the South Africa AIDs orphans must be designated since 100% of NGLI’s un-designated gifts go to the orphans and school boys in the
Just arriving to their new Home, Rapha and two others (not shown for security) rescuing four YAHUWdai orphans from a Al Qaeda terrorist suicide camp. We hid from Al Qaeda search teams for 5 days in the mountains before they gave up and we could emerge from our "double dome God cave"! Al Qaeda came in to our cave but we were in the very rare "double dome" above them! They’re all safe with brand new lives and bright futures!
Iran
After such a blessed time in Africa, I went into the seat of Satan, Teheran, the capital of
Secondly, they made a big mistake putting the boys in a outside cell which had open bars overlooking a open field. Thankfully, the prison was not well built. I had always wanted to try a cool maneuver I saw 40 years ago in a John Wayne movie where he pulled the bars out of the cell wall. I asked the Lord for permission, rented a big truck and a long cable and joy upon joy, pulled those suckers right out of there late that night! In fact, we pulled a 12 by 12 ft entire section of the wall out which opened up the adjacent cell to our boys. Turns out, they were political prisoners (our type folk) who had all accepted The God of The Way from the witness of our boys a week earlier! So all six of the boys and eight of our new bold believer’s jumped on the truck and we scurried out of town laughing and praising God. Now I know this is not God’s best plan and many would have done better, but, God forgive me, I did enjoy it so much! Our Lord allows us a few indulgences and the boys thought it was real “Cowboy stuff”. I did so enjoy it myself! serving God does not have to be bland!
“For such is the
We dropped our new political dissident brothers off near their homes to rejoin their families and then, join us next week at a secret safe house. We then drove several hours to another one of our “safe houses” and had an ole fashion ‘praisin’. The boys and I got a little loud as happens when we really get happy in The Lord and suddenly, several Iranian police officers and a magistrate show up and arrest us all! Three of us were in
“Suffer the little Children to come unto me, for such is the kingdom of Heaven"- YAHshua. Only 2% of Afghan
girls can read and write. NGLI is opening Schools of Peace and Vision for these young future mothers so that they may teach their children! The average age bride in many areas is still under 18 years old.
This Magistrate Ramez (his code name of course) throws us all into his prison and next morning hauls us into court. It was strangely empty. Usually, when I had been arrested before, the magistrate makes a big deal of capturing “Dr Rapha”. I asked him to let the boys go as I had hired them to help me (our standard ploy and it was true, all $5 apiece!)
Magistrate Ramez asked the boys if this was true. They said it was. He started to dismiss them but they refused to go stating they would not leave me! Magistrate Ramez then accused them of actually being with me. I made a joke about “Would Rapha stoop so low as to use kids like these” trying to free them. Ramez ignored me and asked the boys again, “Are you with Rapha?” The boys are taught never to lie and so they said “That’s what we have been saying! Rapha is our Baba and Elder. He brought the salvation news of The Way to most of us. Of course we are with him!”
“And just what are you doing in
“We are taking over
“So you are here to destroy the Islamic Republic of Iran, heh?” Ramez challenged them.
“That is correct sir, but more accurately to convert it to God’s highest blessing! "The Way" is the only path to eternal life with God. He alone is the hope of
“turning the desert green for God”. Wherever we go, God sends water. We plant the seeds and dig the irrigation ditches. God grows the crop. 50% of all we produce goes to our needy neighbors! We all prosper!
Magistrate Ramez sent the boys back to their cell and had the bailiff haul me to his “personal interrogation room”. As soon as we were alone, he unlocked my handcuffs and began to weep! “For four years I have prayed to meet you Dr Rapha! I was a close friend of your old friend BasrAH who was killed by Saddam just before
He opened a side door and his beautiful Persian eyed wife Chariz came in. “Please, show us the conversion” they awkwardly but sincerely pleaded.
“Ramez and sweet Chariz, I cannot convert you but I can lead you to The Way of God, YAHshua, God’s anointed King who died for your sins so that you might live forever with Him. On earth, God’s Son became as us. He was called the MessiYAH. He died on a cross for your sins. He wants to spiritually enter your life as your Lord and Savior and give you eternal life through The Way of Peace today. He will convert you!” Ramez and Chariz were both weeping for joy as they joyfully repented and passed from death into life in YAHshua.
As we rejoiced, the Holy Spirit told me a strange thing. Ramez was to send us to a maximum security
I assured him God would protect us (even though I did gulp hard at his description). We forced Ramez to act out his part which really protected him later. The boys all agreed with the plan. The maximum security prison was definitely high security, surrounded by three electrified fences. patrol dogs and armed guard towers. The cell blocks were solid. Had we made a huge mistake? Had I missed God? I have already lived ten great lifetimes but the boys were just 20- 24 years old! Then I remembered all of you praying for us!
The prison cell was the filthiest, stinking cell I have ever seen. Several of the boys vomited. Small flashes of natural fear crossed a few of their eyes but they soon recovered their faith. I hope they had not seen the same in my own. I wondered why they had left us all together. I had expected solitary, at least for me. Then we found out why. They threw two old craggy stinking wild men into our cell. I had heard of this. Insane manics are used to destabilize political prisoners. These guys had long hair all bushed out with penetrating strange eyes, one with azure blue and the other had emerald green eyes. They tried intimidating us but the boys are used to demonic oppression and started to cast out the demons.
Some of the boys started praising the Lord in preparation when these two men fell on their knees lifting their hands to heaven and praising the Lord also! We were astonished! These were not insane maniacs nor demon possessed! They were Old Testament “Nabii” (Semitic for "prophets")! We all soon sensed it! These were spiritual prophets! They knew by heart, the Torah of MoshAH, the Quran and most of the OT prophets, like YeshaYAHUW (Isaiah), YermeYAHUW (Jeremiah), YAHel (Joel) and ZackerYAHUW (Zackeriah). They did not know of YAHUWshua the MessiYAH, so the boys took turns explaining the Gospel of Christ to them. They wept with great joy and received the Savior readily! We knew then why our precious God had sent us there. These Nabii were already famous across Teheran and some other regions of
“How can we even get out of our own cell” I asked?
. “God has wondrous ways” they grinned. The next three nights were some of the most marvelous hours of my entire life. The Nabii had dug tunnels all under that prison complex connecting most cell blocks. Most of the guards or their families had been healed by the Nabii’s prayers and they turned a blind eye if they saw us. We led 87 of the top political dissidents of present day
After four of our boys volunteered to stay behind and disciple the Nabii and new believer’s, we began to pray for a way to escape. We invited the Nabii to join us. They refused!
“Why? Have we offended you” I asked?
“We do not get offended!” they replied, “but we do not waste our God’s important time with such trivial matters! You should ask us first about small details” their eyes danced with their delight at rebuking us.
“Well just pardon us” I retorted. “I did not know escaping from
“It is if you have one of these” he grinned as he pulled out a key embedded in his bushy unkept hair. He unlocked our cell, walked down several corridors to a rough wall of stones which both Nabii scampered up like squirrels on a tree bole. Soon, they led us to an ingenious passage outside the prison. They hugged us, asked to come back when we “get some free time” and promised to take good care of our four boys excitedly staying behind to disciple the new believer’s. Never have I met a more amazing outpouring of Almighty God. If you are led to help support one of the 436 “underground” peace warriors serving God and all freedom loving peoples in the Islamic Maelstrom of Iran, it costs only $39 a month to cover their expenses. On average, each of these precious brothers leads one-two hundred Iranian students a day to a committment to global and personal non-violence! Thank you for your continued faithful support.
Love to you all,
Dr Rapha and Raine
