"you guys can't do church like that!".....JUST HIDE AND WATCH!

From: Bishop David Holdridge
Reply-To: Bishop@ccfinc.org

To: comments@whitehouse.gov , cfra@coralridge.org , eni@eni.ch , letters@coralridge.org , info@centerformoralclarity.net , kc@coralridge.org , editor@jamesrobison.net

Date: Oct 28, 2005 4:29 PM

Subject: Next Supreme Court nominee

I feel that the media aristocracy of the church has done a massive dis-service to the faith by failing to strongly and vocally support Harriet Miers, who was possibly our best chance at having a born-again Supreme Court Justice. Do not expect me to support a fiscal or political conservative so as to protect this new class of monied media clergy and the wealth they have extracted from common people in the name of preaching the gospel. These wolves have fleeced the sheep to pay for mansions, limousines, and executive jets, and now they have the unmitigated gall to ask those of us who unwittingly helped build these preachers' fortunes to help them now retain their ill-gotten gains by our supporting someone on the basis of politics not faith. Many Christians chose this President because of his faith not his politics and if we are to have a Christian republic indeed we need more Christians in visible postions of leadership.--

May God richly bless you and yours is our prayer,

Bishop David Holdridge
http://www.24-7JesusChurch.net
http://24-7jesuschurch.blogspot.com
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When we tap into the well of living water, a spring rises up in us and we have what is His. When we walk in faith and by faith we have a victory that is more then just words but it is results in what we pray for.

The Lord has me carrying a pray box from church to church and we have been seeing great results. Every night we pray over all the requests and the power of God just fills the room. Nancy saw Jesus one night just pick up the box in the spirit and bring it to the Father and He was reading each request to the Father and sa;ying that they are done,even greater then what we expect.

Susan who received major healing in her kidney and liver and came to one of the meetings and read the doctors report to everyone also came again with another one. She wrote a request and put it in the box and then the next day went to see her eye doctor. She came that night after seeing the doctor with her eye report from 2000, it showed that she had bleeding internally from diabetes. Well she read this out loud to everyone and the new report shows that there is nothing wrong with her eyes and no bleeding. Joe from Redding had surgery and his leg was numb. This was two weeks ago. He came from the Redding area with His wife and He was prayed for and He came back this week and told us that all the numbness has left his leg. We give all the Glory to the Father, because, He is the victory and the healer. Many people have been healed this week emotionally and physically

This is the middle of the 7th week that we have been in Woodland and Davis. I just feel so humbled by what has been happening and how the Lord is working in me and changing me, more and more each day. I just see myself just letting go of more of this world and finding more of Him with everyone else. My past is dead and I am alive in Christ.

God Bless
Joe Cicchino
vision of love

Joseph Cicchino
pastorjoevol@earthlink

This is written in her words and how she felt

My gift and my salvation from God and Him holding me and listening.When I first attended Joe Cicchino's meetings for the first time, this what I saw and what happened to me

Linda Alvarodo

I went to the meetings because a friend from my church informed me that he was going to be doing healing of the heart. I really didn't know anything about it. It was at night so I went. The first night he preached from the bible and I just sat in the back and listened. His words were so powerful and full of meaning. When he got done speaking, he asked if anyone wanted to be prayed for to come up. One by one they did.

I saw people dropping like flies. Then my pastor, asked me, If I wanted to go up and have Joe Cicchino lay hands on me. So I went up. But nothing seemed to happen. I was a little disappointed. So I went back and sat with some of my friends. They asked me what I felt, and I said nothing. Well I sat back in my chair and my thoughts where, why didn't I fall down? I noticed that this one lady, that went up three times and she fell each time. I noticed that she went out to where the kids were. So I followed her. So I asked her what did it feel like. I really wanted to know and I needed to know. She said it felt like a real warmth and very relaxing. She asked me what I felt and I said nothing, I felt nothing.

I went back into the sanctuary and asked Layne to go up with me. Well again I felt nothing, but this man who I have never met before started telling me about who I was. He told me that I was very angry and I had no friends. He said that I trusted no one. Fear ran through me. I said to my self, how did he know. I didn't fall down in a physical way but I fell in a emotional way.

I went back and sat down across from him and he was very very persistent any way. He wouldn't shut up and I was getting mad, but wasn't showing it. I was hiding inside of myself. I had nowhere to run or hide. I didn't; like it and I felt like everyone was listening. That didn't go well with me. The next day I asked Layne, where was Joe going to be? She said Davis. I went to the next meeting, not to be healed, but to let him know that he didn't scare me. So I made a point to sit up in the front where he could see me and I could see him. He started to preach and I sat their and listened. Then people went up to be touched and I sat their and my thoughts said should I try one more time or just give up and not come back. I wrestled with these thoughts for awhile.

I thought about what he had said the day before, that I had didn't have any friends and that I didn't trusted anyone. Also. that I had a wall, that no one could get through, because I had been rejected and hurt by so many. I wasn't going to let anyone hurt me again.

Well I wanted God so much in my life and wanted to feel His love, so I went up one more time. I told Joe that I couldn't remove the wall by myself and he prayed with me. Then God removed the wall, and for the first time I fell so fast on my knees. Then I went up again and asked God to come into my heart and I surrendered to Him. I fell again and my hurt, anger and all my pain was gone and I mean all my pain. The next night he prayed for me at a different church and when I went down, I felt such a warmth and peace that I had never before in my whole life. I just wanted more and more, I wanted to see His face. The next night I prayed to be able to see Jesus. Well when I went home and was laying in bed, I started to pray and speak in a language I never did before and felt like someone came into the room, but I didn't turn around. I felt such a peace and someone was touching the back of my head very gently, and I chose to close my eyes and saw Jesus's hand in front of me. I knew it was Him and He started to talk to me and I just listened.

I told Joe what happened and he said that the Lord told him, I have to go and make peace with my family and my daughter. I was caught off guard about this and didn't know what to say. How did he know that I haven't talked to them in 8 years or more. Well I went to my first sister and asked her to forgive me and she went to church and I hugged her for the first time ever. She had a bad back and shoulder and she was healed.

I have talked to my 4 sisters and I have asked them to forgive me, and I let go of the pride. I went to see my mother who I haven't talked to for 10 years or more and we talked and God just touched us. I had such a fear doing all of this and felt drained, but I fear God more than my past, so I let go and did what He wanted me to do. I felt a peace come over me. Some of my sisters have a hard time with the new me because they still want to be mad so that they don't have to face themselves. I forgive and I love them. I could never say I love someone, only that I respect them. I never hugged anyone until I hugged my sister. Well the other night Joe told me that I had to say to the church that I loved them and I felt something lift off of me and I felt totally free and had a special joy in my heart.

Each day something new is happening and I am growing more and more with the Lord. I am free!!!!!

Linda Alvarodo

When we let go of who we think we are and let the Lord change us to who He wants us to be, we walk in total victory. There is much more to this story but it would be many pages long. This woman has finally found peace in her life with Christ. She thought she knew who she was, but she didn't and now she is learning who she is.

God Bless
Joe Cicchino
vision of love
www.visionoflove.com

Joseph Cicchino
pastorjoevol@earthlink.net

Looming Catastrophe: "In the last few weeks, there have been a series of warning signs that the situation in Darfur, already horrific, is rapidly deteriorating.Two weeks ago, Juan Mendez, the UN's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, returned from Darfur and warned that the situation was worsening, stating frankly that 'the situation much more dangerous and worrisome than I expected it to be.' Shortly thereafter, the UN declared that, due to insecurity, large portions of the region were deemed 'no go' areas, which in turn cut off aid access to at least 650,000 people. The UN also evacuated all non-essential personel from West Darfur.All the while, attacks on the displaced continued and seven AU monitors were killed in an ambush. Not long after that, the New York Times reported that the Janjaweed militias, equipped and supported by the Sudanese government, were acting with complete impunity and were 'now emboldened enough to turn their guns on the government.'That was followed by a frantic statement from Antonio Guterres, the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, that 'everything is getting out of control' and that the international community had just weeks to attempt to restore order in Darfur or risk 'a very serious degeneration of the situation.'That, in turn, was followed by a report that 'more than 100,000 people are now believed to have"

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Prophecy - End of October, Something Unusual
Kim Clement

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September 2, 2005- Whittier, CA

"There are four regions in the United States of America where cleansing will take place, says the Lord.

There are four regions in this Nation, The Spirit of God said. One shall be a Twin Territory. And God said, 'I will cleanse this Nation, for an odor and a stench has come before Me.

And when it is all said and done, and the end of October comes, and they say, We will celebrate Halloween, God said, There will be remorse, and I will end that day with My voice through this Nation.

Four regions shall be cleansed. And I will cause this Nation to tremble.They will say, "Where Next! Is it a Hurricane? Is it a furnace? What is it?"

The Spirit of God said, But listen, the elements are crying out and reacting to a Heaven that is opened over this Nation.

Gatekeepers, gatekeepers, gatekeepers of America, listen to the voice of the Lord ? I will stop discord and division ? enough is enough!

And when the cleansing has taken place, there will be a mighty rushing wind that shall come in and restore this Nation back to order, says the Lord of Hosts.

I will bring them back to the place that their forefathers dreamed. I will shut the mouths that have brought division.

There is one gatekeeper that has prayed, your President. And God said, I will show him in these three months, how a nation can be shaken and restored at the same time, says the Spirit of God.

(Keep praying with me) Everyone is focused on this Nation. Everyone is focused. . . everyone is focused on California.

When will God come and judge? But the Spirit of God said, I've sent prophets together on the West Coast, to make declaration that God shall take the "fornia," the fornication, and the spirit that has brought so many untold millions of people to a place of degradation, and I will do something unusual.

I will build an altar in the midst of the perversion, and show them who is in charge of the media. WHO is in charge of the media?

I will take CNN, and I will take some of the most powerful voices, and I will change them. And I will say, "You will no longer speak as secular humanists, but you will speak as the voice of God."

I created the mouthpiece. I created the fog horn. I created the trumpet. I created it.

God said, I created the news media. Now I will infiltrate and take over and speak to this nation MYSELF, says the Lord."

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Subject: Amazing Testimony - come, taste and see, the Lord He is good!


Following is an amazing testimony of physical and spiritual healing. I tell you now, if we were in India or Africa, there would be thousands attending these meetings. Come now, while you still can.............


"How have I been touched by God since I began attending Joe Cicchino's services in September 2005?

The first night I attended, no one, no one, knew me there except for God. Yet Joe, whose ear I believe the Spirit had that evening, told me about my sexual abuse as a child at the hands of a family member and the rapes I survived as an adult and the distrust and anger they have caused for me towards the men in my life. I was able to forgive as I was never able to do in the past. As stated in Scripture (Colossians 3:13 NKJV) ".if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do." I even had gone to another Pastor 4 years earlier and the first words out of my mouth were that "I (was) broken (due to these events) and that I (didn't) believe that I could be healed). I still, to this day, remember that Pastor looking me in the eye and saying to me, "So, I guess there are just some things that God isn't powerful enough to do then?" I am 54 years old and have been burdened for 48 years of my life with this pain and this shame and now it is gone. This was an emotional healing that I never expected to experience. All I could think, over and over in my mind was, "How did you know? How did you know?" But, as Joe has said several times, we believe the miracles written of in the Bible. Why, then, is it so difficult when God performs them in front of our face?

This forgiveness has led to a lessening of physical stress which was contributing to chronic migraines and flare-ups of fibromyalgia. Both medical conditions have greatly improved.........

I had been experiencing a diagnosed liver condition (NASH or "fatty liver") and had asked Joe to pray for my liver. I was told that "by His stripes I am healed". On the 18th of October I went up for prayer and Joe said to me, "that kidney won't be bothering you any longer." When I was able to speak with Joe later I again said to him, "How did you know? How did you know?" Joe said, "Because you asked me to pray for your kidney just the other day." I said, "No, Joe. That was my liver. Just today I saw my doctor (no one there knew) for kidney pain and my urine sample was not only clean, but so clear that my doctor remarked on how unusually clean it was in that there are usually a few red blood cells or a few white blood cells in even a normal urine sample, yet in mine there were none. Unbeknownst to me, Joe had been praying all along for my kidney instead of my liver. Mistake? I think not!

My liver biopsy in 12/04 showed 40% damage, with my liver functioning at only 60% capacity. This was due to a condition known as NASH (Non-Alcoholic Steatomic (sp?)Hepatitis, an inflammatory, non-contagious condition also known as "Fatty Liver Disease". This was caused by years of fatty nutrition and lack of exercise. On the evening of 10-18-05 I prayed for normal blood test results. I received the results in the mail 3 days later indicating normal blood sugar (I have been cured of Type 2 diabetes (which had required the use of two types of insulin as well as two pills), my CBC blood count was normal, my thyroid panel was normal, my kidney panel was normal (Joe had specifically been praying for my kidney) and my urinalysis was normal. Also, my 10-18-05 blood tests of my liver function showed "very mild elevation of liver function consistent with NASH". The degree of elevation would be expected to be much higher given the degree of the damage. I can't say for sure how many of the tests were specific to liver function, but my doctor, Olivier Seban, M.D., at Woodland Healthcare told me that my liver was regenerating.......

I am eagerly looking forward to what the Lord has in store for us all. Most eagerly awaiting the day when I may see Him face to face.

Suzanne

War and Faith in Sudan: "An event at the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday, October 19th Gabriel Meyer, author of War and Faith in Sudan, discusses the affects of the Sudanese government's war on the people of the Nuba Mountains region. He traveled to Sudan multiple times between 1998 and 2004, and offers his insight into the cultural, religious, and racial faultlines of the conflict. Dr. Francis Deng will offer commentary on the how the issues of the book relate to the dynamic situation in Sudan today. Photographer James Nicholls, who accompanied Mr. Meyer on several of his travels to Sudan and whose work is featured in the book, will also present some of his images This event is free and open to the public. It is held at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl, SW, Washington, DC, 20024. Metro: Smithsonian. "

Spotlight On Darfur 2: "The 'Spotlight on Darfur' is now up on Live From The FDNF "

Chad: Food Running Out for "Forgotten Refugees": "From Reuters Thousands of 'forgotten refugees' who fled banditry in Central African Republic are running out of food in camps in neighbouring Chad, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. Some 11,000 refugees have poured into arid southern Chad since armed gangs began storming villages across the border in Central African Republic in June, shooting randomly, looting homes and terrorising their inhabitants. With United Nations' camps already overflowing with 32,000 refugees who fled a 2003 coup in Central African Republic, aid workers have been overwhelmed by the latest influx. 'Food supplies will run out at the end of the year unless we receive new contributions. These are among the forgotten refugees of Africa,' the WFP's Chad country director Stefano Porretti said in a statement. 'People have been arriving in extremely poor shape and in need of urgent assistance,' he added."

Sudan: Escaping Africa's Longest Civil War: "From the Mail & Guardian Despite the hardship, this is part of the “peace dividend” from Africa’s longest civil war. With a deal agreed between the largely Arab north and the southern rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), hundreds of thousands of the four-million who fled the fighting have started the dangerous journey back. Not all are going “home”. More than two decades of conflict have produced a generation who were not yet born when their parents fled or are too young to remember anything except life in overcrowded camps. United Nations officials expect 580 000 to move between now and March in the start of what could be the world’s biggest return of displaced people. They are going to one of Africa’s poorest regions, where war has destroyed much of what was only a flimsy peacetime infrastructure of schools and health clinics. Adding to the looming crisis is the so-called “Darfur distraction”, the fact that the main donor governments have switched attention to the victims of Sudan’s most recent war. Overseeing a mound of suitcases and sacks filled with clothes, John Gideon helped his wife and six children clamber out of a launch at Malakal this week after an overnight journey from Melut. It was the latest ordeal on a 1 400"

Darfur: US Now Sees Darfur Rebels as Part of the Problem: "From The East African The United States is growing increasingly critical of rebel forces in Sudan’s Darfur region – to the point where Washington is holding the rebels and government-allied militias equally responsible for the continued violence in Darfur. [edit] The conflict between the rebels and the pro-government Janjaweed militias 'has gone on for far too long,' Mr Ereli added, saying 'it is an incumbent on all sides to take actions' to promote peace in Darfur. Jendayi Frazer, the assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, is scheduled to travel to Darfur and to Khartoum on October 20 and 23 when she will presumably reiterate US demands on both the rebels and the Sudan government. US denunciation of rebel violence should be seen more as a shift in tone than a change of policy, the US had never expressed support for the rebellion in Darfur. 'We hold no brief with the rebels,' a senior State Department official told reporters more than a year ago. 'Their political positions are not particularly attractive to us.' American policy in regard to the Darfur conflict thus differs markedly from Washington’s position on the separate rebellion that raged for many years in southern Sudan. There, the US clearly sympathised with the rebel forces led by John Garang, although"

Uganda: Peace Talks May Yet be Possible with LRA: "From Reuters Peace talks with brutal Uganda guerrillas to end 19 years of civil war may yet be possible despite international arrest warrants against their leaders, the mediator between the government and the rebels said on Tuesday. Betty Bigombe, a former Ugandan minister who tried for years to persuade the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to end 19 years of abducting, raping and killing children, said she had thought recent arrest warrants by the new International Criminal Court would wreck any chances for negotiations. But now Bigombe said, 'I am in the process of analyzing and understanding what is doable and what is not doable, what factors can we use to bring out those that are not indicted.' 'I am looking at the possibility of restarting the peace process,' she told a news conference. Bigombe was appealing to key diplomats and U.N. officials for help in presenting a peace plan to LRA followers. Other speakers at the news conference hoped for U.N. pressure on Uganda's army to step up patrols and on Sudan, where the LRA is based. [edit] John Prendergast of the International Crisis Group think tank, who has been helping Bigombe, said the international community could assist in a peace plan and put pressure on Sudan, where the LRA has its base. 'Now is the time to press forward with a p"

Congo: Militia Takes 43 Disarmament Officers Hostage: "From Reuters Militiamen have taken 43 Congolese disarmament officers hostage and are threatening to burn them alive unless they are paid cash for handing in their weapons, officials said on Wednesday. More than 500 'Mai Mai' militia were holding the officers in Luvungi disarmament camp, near the eastern town of Bukavu, to protest against not receiving an initial payment of $110 each they say the national disarmament commission owes them. "

Congo: An Action Plan: "A new report from the International Crisis Group The Democratic Republic of the Congo will likely relapse into mass violence unless the Congolese parties and the international community take urgent measures. A Congo Action Plan, the latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group, lays out a comprehensive and urgent set of actions to save the peace process and produce a successful transition to elected government by June 2006. Reunification has been plagued by government corruption and mismanagement, failure to reform the security sector, the ongoing threat of the Rwandan Hutu insurgency FDLR based in the eastern Congo, and a weak UN peacekeeping mission (MONUC) that is not adequately protecting civilians. 'With elections already postponed for a year, security sector reform, good governance and justice cannot await a new government', says Suliman Baldo, Crisis Group's Africa Program Director. 'They must be prerequisites for elections or the transition process will continue to crumble, and the country will descend into renewed ethnic violence'. "

Darfur: Nomads Face Adversity in Isolation: "From IRIN Still energetic at the age of 65, Mahmud Mohamed Masar guides a small herd of camels across a windswept plain near Eid El Nabak. Although life had always been difficult for his clan, it has never been as hard as in the past two years, when he lost three sons and 10 relatives. Mohamed Masar is a clan leader of the 10,000-strong Riziegat-Jalul Arab nomadic community. They had temporarily set up camp approximately 40 km east of Kabkabiya town in North Darfur, where the scattered ruins of villages bear witness to the destruction that took place in this region. As large numbers of villages were levelled or abandoned in a government-led campaign that started in 2003, the region's economy was destroyed, markets were closed and nomads were cut off from their traditional sources of food and medical assistance. 'Since the war, we lost many of our people and a lot of animals. We also lost our clinics and markets,' explained Mohamed Masar. Agricultural communities of African descent, such as the Fur, also fled the countryside. While these groups found a certain measure of relief from humanitarian agencies in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) around the main towns, most nomadic communities stayed out in the field, fending for themselves in a highly volatile and insecure environment. Due to the increasin"

What is God doing with us and for us. He can only do what we allow Him to do for us. When we hold onto who we think we are then, we restrict what He wants us to do. Are we available to let Him use us, or do we let only part of ourselves to be used. Jesus is our Lord, do we allow Him to be so? When we let go, then He can go and do what we need to do for Him. It is a challenge everyday to see who do we follow. Jesus or our flesh. The victory is in Jesus not who we are in the flesh. The control of the flesh puts Jesus second in our lives.


Saturday I went downtown Sacramento, to help Tom and Connie Wilson with a street concert that they were doing. The music was great, but the healings and salvations was even greater. They set up a booth and also an area for healilng and spiritual readings that were free. The unsaved came for the readings, which were words of knowledge about their lives. When Jesus spoke to them with the past hurts in their lives, their life was changed instantly when they accepted the Lord. Also some of the Christians who came, lives were changed by what God showed them. One lady who had an injured leg and was using a cane, came for prayer and when the power of God touched her and she was on the grass, all she could say was. What a trip, what a trip. She got up and all the pain in her leg was gone. Others were healed when they were prayed for. One young person, who's brother is a pastor and who had walked away from the Lord, saw his friends accepting Jesus and crying with freedom from their past was mad. They called him over and said that he had a bad knee that it was hurt. I asked him if he wanted to be prayed for and he said I don't care. I said yes or no, he then said yes and I just held his hands. The power of God touched him and you could see the expression on his face as Jesus healed him. I felt so honored to be asked to go and help, It was a very exciting time and it was very powerful the way that they ran it. God really used Connie and Tom and the groups that played, plus all the other volunteers. Many street lives were saved by all of the work that they did.


That night we had a very powerful meeting at Lighthouse foursquare church in Woodland. The presence of the Lord has been getting heavier and heavier in each of the three churches that we are meeting at nightly. Friday the Lord said to tell those who have been coming for prayer for healing for awhile, to come up now. 12 came up and we have been receiving reports from about 8 that they have been healed. This was at New Testiment church in Woodland. Sunday we had three services, one at lighthouse, another at the spanish church that meets at lighthouse and word of life in Davis. Many people were touched and lives have been changed.


I just received an email from someone who's life was changed in Truckee and how different everything has been for her and her family.


God Bless
Joe Cicchino


Joseph Cicchino
pastorjoevol@earthlink.net

Africa: Critical window Closing for 12 Million: "From the WFP A top WFP official has warned that a critical window is closing fast for 12 million people across southern Africa to receive urgent help from the international community - including five million people in Malawi facing the toughest 'hunger season' in more than a decade. WFP Deputy Executive Director Sheila Sisulu, a prominent South African, said in the Malawian capital of Lilongwe that WFP was racing against time to ensure sufficient food aid is delivered to six worst-affected southern African countries, including Malawi, to prevent mass suffering before next April. 'It is deplorable that enough donations only come in when images of emaciated African children starving in large numbers start appearing on television screens around the world,” said Sisulu. 'Hunger doesn't have to be inevitable in Africa but once food needs start to peak, it will be too late for many of the weakest, especially children, and the cost of saving lives will escalate significantly.” "

International Justice: ICC Confirms LRA Arrest Warrants: "From Reuters The International Criminal Court in The Hague on Friday unsealed its first arrest warrants, targeting five leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army cult notorious for a 19-year campaign of brutality.The ICC said Joseph Kony, the LRA's leader, was one of five people wanted on war crimes charges and confirmed the list of suspects whose names had already been announced by the Ugandan government a week ago.The warrants are the first ever issued by the court, which is the first permanent global tribunal set up to try individuals for genocide, war crimes and systematic human rights abuses.'The Chamber concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Joseph Kony, Vincent Otti, Okot Odiambo, Dominic Ongwen and Raska Lukwiya ordered the commission of crimes within the jurisdiction of the court,' the ICC said in a statement. The ICC press release is here The warrant of arrest for Joseph Kony lists thirty-three counts on the basis of his individual criminal responsibility (Articles 25(3)(a) and 25(3)(b) of the Statute) including:· Twelve counts of crimes against humanity (murder - Article 7(1)(a); enslavement - Article 7(1)(c); sexual enslavement – Article 7(1)(g); rape - Article 7(1)(g); inhumane acts of inflicting serious bodily injury and suffering - Article 7(1)(k)), and;· Twent"

Chad: Desertions: "From IRIN At least 40 Chadian soldiers have deserted their posts in the capital, N’djamena, and fled to the volatile east of the country, the Chad government announced on Friday. “The government informs the national and international communities that about 40 members of the Chadian army have deserted the ranks aboard three vehicles,” a 14 October communique said. [edit] Eastern Chad – which abuts Sudan’s Darfur region – has been gripped with tension since the Darfur conflict broke more than two years ago. Hostilities have time and again spilled over into Chad, where nearly 200,000 Sudanese refugees are living in camps. Chadian President Idriss Deby last year accused the Sudanese government of backing a 3,000-strong rebel force operating at the border. Late last month Deby blamed the Sudanese militia known as the Janjawid for a cross-border attack in which at least 50 civilians were killed in the Ouaddai region. The Darfur conflict and its spreading hostilities have proved a knotty situation for Deby, a former warlord who took power in a coup in 1990 then was elected in 1996 and 2001. He seized power with the backing of Sudan, but is of the same ethnic group as rebels fighting the Sudanese army and allied militias. Deby has long faced tensions within the ranks of his armed forces. And diplomats say mutineers that stag"

This was sent to Pastor Art of the Word of Life church in Davis, by someone who came to the meetings last week
God Bless
Joe Cicchino
vision of love
www.visionoflove.net

Pastor Art
Thank you for the time with Joe at the Davis-Woodland Meetings. I was deeply touched. My name is Katie and I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico part time and Las Vegas, Nevada part time. Pastor Art Defenderfer updated me continually by email concerning the miracles and deep inner healings that were taking place in the area. I have to admit that his messages challenged my curiosity as I have been a Christian for my entire life and received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit at 22 years of age. I am now 57 years young and have seen and experienced many types of meetings throughout my life. I pondered on attending the meetings in the Davis-Woodland area. This went on for about 2 weeks and so I decided to drive to Davis from Las Vegas and evaluate these "happenings" in the Lord. I did not know what to expect. As a young girl I had the privilege to attend many Kathryn Kuhlman meetings where I witnessed first hand many miraculous and divine miracles from the Lord. Throughout my life, God allowed me to sit with many theologians, powerful evangelist, numerous pastors and validated prophets. I have seen and experienced many men and women of the Lord. My first night in Davis I was tired as I drove from Nevada but I knew I needed to be in that meeting at Word of Life Christian Center. Joe Cicchino. began the meeting by sharing on forgiveness and he stood directly in front of me as I was seated 3 rows back. He continued to look at me in the eyes and shared on forgiveness. I can honestly say I never consciously disliked or dishonored anyone that I knew of, family members, friends, etc. Finally Joe asked all to come for prayer. I went immediately and Joe held my hands tightly and said, "You have been deeply hurt over and over again since you were a little girl". Then I fell under the Spirit and began to weep. I wept in the Lord for about 30 minutes and returned to my chair. Joe then summoned me the second time and he held my hands and I fell under the Spirit once again and wept more. After a time, I seated myself again, Joe called me once more and I fell under the Spirit and wept some more. After the meeting was over, I felt lighter and happier but still did not know exactly what had transpired. The next night we went to The New Testament Church in Woodland and I went forward immediately not even contemplating the topic. I fell under the Spirit and wept some more. This time I was unable to get up as the Spirit was so strong. I laid before the Lord for over an hour and then the meeting ended. Again, I began to feel lighter in my Spirit. The third night we went to The Foursquare Church in Woodland. This was my most incredible experience in inner healing of all the nights. Joe was sharing on quarrels and dissensions among the church and life, etc. I was happy that night and our whole row decided to go forward in joy. There were four of us that were slain simultaneously in the Spirit. After returning to my seat two young girls that are intercessors began to pray and there was a joy in their praying. I began to laugh and laugh and laugh. I could not stop laughing. Joe looked at me and summoned me for prayer. I was slain so strongly on the church floor I could not move. I began to laugh harder and then a lifting up in the Spirit began to happen. I began to feel an extraordinary amount of joy and it created more laughter and more laughter until my ribs began to hurt. I could not stop. Then I began to cry and I wept more. Then I screamed in the Spirit as if in spiritual pain. This happened twice. Then I went into laughter again. This experience must have covered a span of about 3 hours which is humanly impossible to make oneself laugh that long and hard accompanied by periods of weeping and screaming. All of a sudden my hands went up as if I was climbing a ladder to heaven and with every movement of my hands I went up higher and higher and I began to say, "YES LORD, YES LORD, YES LORD, YES LORD, YES LORD, and it was if supernatural strength entered my body and my soul and spirit. I finally yelled in the Spirit, "I AM FREE, I AM FREE INDEED!!! It was so loud that the church attendees began to clap and I could hear them from afar in my spiritual ear. I want to say that this has been my deepest experience in emotional healing that has ever happened to me. I also had an impartation of fire that was given to me from the Lord. I went back to the hotel that night and read the Word with a friend for several hours. The Lord said, "Study the topic of FIRE from Genesis to Revelation"!! I said, YES LORD!!! My eyes opened 3 times to witness a thin veil of tears. I knew that the Lord was allowing me to experience the "tears of intercession"! It was awesome as a brokenness accompanied with a humbled heart created waves of intercession as I lay on the floor. I knew that the Lord was there, in the Foursquare Church in Woodland. I asked myself 'will a visitation and revival' break out soon in this entire region!!! Before I finish this testimony of inner healing I want to back up a moment. As I left the Four Square Church a man whom I do not know came to me and said I have a word for you from the Lord. He said, "YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A BABY, A SPIRITUAL BABY AND THE BIRTHING BEGAN TONIGHT". I was stunned as I knew the Power of the Holy Spirit was upon me doing an inner work that only the Hand of the Lord could do. I am now back in Las Vegas but I am continuing to weep under the Spirit of the Lord as the inner healing of hurt emotions, disappointments, possible mockeries from unknown sources continue on. There are times the Lord has brought to my memory where I was pierced in the heart by horrible words or individuals trying to hurt me. These words were like knives going through my heart. I must say I have been delivered from hurt, sorrow, inferiority, unknown dislikes toward family members. The inner healing of hurts continues on daily since I departed Davis and I would return NOW if I did not have an international flight to take in a couple of weeks. If Joe is ministering upon my return there is no doubt I will be back at the churches in the Davis-Woodland area for further healings. Lord, please allow Joe to continue on as there is more work to be done in me and in others. Amen!!!
Katie

October 6, 2005 Weekly Meeting Schedule
Davis
-- Thursday at 7PM and Sunday at 6PM – Word of Life Christian Center, 415 Second Street, Davis, CA 95616 – (Directions from Sacramento: I-80 west to Richards Blvd. North exit at Davis. Merge onto Richards Blvd. Turn left on 2nd Street. The meeting is in upstairs in the I.O.O.F. building). -- Contact Art Defenderfer (530) 758-7750
Woodland
– Monday and Tuesday at 7PM, Saturday 6PM – Lighthouse Foursquare Church -- 23 Grand Avenue, Woodland, CA 95695 -- (Directions from Sacramento: I-80 west to Hwy 113. Take the Main St. exit. Left on Main St. Left on Beamer. Right on Grand Ave.) -- Contact Pastor Mark Gallego (530) 662-5524 Woodland – Wednesday and Friday at 7 PM --New Testament Church --108 West Woodland Avenue,Woodland, CA 95695 -- (Directions from Sacramento: I-80 west to Hwy 113. Merge with I-5 north. Take West St. exit, go left over I-5 then right on West Woodland Avenue. The church is on the right) -- Contact Pastor Douglas Zeck (530) 662-3956
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God is beginning to move in our area. Three pastors are sponsoring Pastor Joe Cicchino to minister seven nights a week in their churches in Davis and Woodland. Here are some exciting testimonies from these meetings:
A deep sense of God's peace pervades the services and the anointing level is building. Every service is different, meeting the needs of those who attend. Joe simply gets out of the way and lets the Lord have His way. The pastors and congregations cooperating in the meetings are flowing in the unity of the Spirit. More and more hearts and relationships are being healed. People accept Jesus almost every night.
Members of the five-fold ministry, intercessors, believers and unbelievers from different parts of California are coming to the meetings. Two ladies drove from Las Vegas to be set free. One mother drove eight hours from Los Angeles to have Joe minister to her fourteen-year-old daughter who had seizures. Even the Mayo clinic could not find the cause of her infirmity. The mother, her daughter, and the maid they brought along -- all accepted Jesus that night.
One Sunday night in Davis the fire of God hit Rachael, a twenty-year-old student at Sacramento State University. For over twenty minutes she stood crying. Joe said that she was having a very personal encounter with Jesus. Joe said he experienced this himself, and it is not pleasant, because it hurts when the fire of God cleanses you. Rachael was unable to talk for about an hour after this experience. The power was flowing out of her so strongly that those Joe invited to be close to her, felt a peace and presence that one brother said it was, "indescribable". On another night, one pastor’s wife saw angels and Jesus in the Spirit sitting on the platform of the church.
Many are being set free from emotional hurt and low self-esteem through forgiveness. Joy, a recent U.C. Davis graduate, has been healed of a lifetime of her stored up emotional pain (In her Christian family, emotional expression was dismissed). One night a strong anointing was flowing in and out of her, as four young teenager sisters prayed for her. As others stood around this circle of prayer, they felt a profound and powerful peace. One college student said it felt like "electricity". God has transformed Joy – now her face reflects her name.
Believers are realizing that they feel other people's emotional pain and unhappiness only because of their own unresolved hurt, pain, anger and guilt. As they get their eyes off others and onto Jesus, they see their own pain, let it go and receive healing. They can then minister to others by the Holy Spirit.
One lady at a church in Woodland is glowing, whereas before she was tight with tension and fear. Because she was overflowing with the anointing of God, she was able to share the Lord with a relative no one had the nerve to witness to before. He received Jesus. Another young mother at this church was so filled with hurt and fear that she did not want Joe to get near her. Now she is laughing happily. Her young daughter has changed, because her Mom is set free.
One teenager from Winters came to Joe’s meeting in Davis. She was traumatized as a child at school and subsequently home schooled. She accepted Jesus and her hurt and fear are gone.
A friend she brought to the church in Davis accepted the Lord. Her mother accepted the Lord and experienced deliverance in the middle of the night.
One eighty-year old lady from Davis forgave someone who hurt her at least sixty years ago and felt "lighter" afterwards.
One evening, a lady from Sacramento sat down in the meeting looking dejected and repressed. After receiving progressive emotional healing over the course of the evening, the Lord told Joe that he wanted to touch her personally. Joe told her what the Lord said. Within a minute she walked across the room exclaiming, "I can hear. I can hear. I can hear out of my left ear!"
She then told us her story. Her abusive boyfriend had hit her in the ear the night before. She went to the emergency room and an ear specialist told her that her eardrum was ruptured and she would not be able to hear in the left ear. God, had a better plan. First he healed her emotionally then physically. Wow -- A creative miracle! What a wonderful Savior we serve!
Another evening a man and his girlfriend unexpectedly arrived at the house of one of the pastors just before he left for one of Joe’s meetings. Later that night the Lord ministered inner healing to both of them. They let go of hurt and were filled with the Spirit.
God also gave this man a miracle. About two months ago he severely injured one of his legs in a motorcycle accident. The surgeon told him that he would never walk normally unless he had reconstructive surgery, but he did not have the money to pay for it.
The following night he boldly testified that God miraculously healed his leg and demonstrated it by jumping up and down in the front of the church. The same evening the lady that received the new eardrum was jubilant, as she shared about her healing, her new boldness and her restored relationship with her mother. Many have never seen anyone change that dramatically.
The healing of hearts and relationships are as significant as physical miracles. A father from Woodland and his adult son from Grass Valley came to a meeting. Previously the son had walked away from his relationship with Jesus. He told Joe he never felt love from his father that there was a barrier between his heart and God. The Holy Spirit revealed to Joe that the father was unable to love his son or get close to him, because he never received love from his father. The Lord told Joe that the father and the son should hug one another. Healing flowed between them, as they hugged each other for a very long time. Can it get any better than this?
By praying and working together, the pastors are hoping to encourage others in this region. They believe great things are in store for this part of Northern California.
Joe will be ministering in Yolo County seven nights a week until the Lord tells him to move to another region. We invite you to come and receive what God has for you -- and in the process, help spread the revival in this area.
For more information contact
Art Defenderfer
Associate Pastor of the Word of Life Christian Center in Davis, at (530) 758-7750 or email him at gsif@dcn.davis.ca.us