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  June 30, 2010 - Journal

  Pray for Anita and Rick Gutierrez

  by Bob Santilli
  Drs. Anita and Rick Gutierrez serve Jesus in Durban, South Africa. They are developing church based holistic lay health ministries tailored to the ... more
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  June 02, 2010 - Journal

  uMama

  by Rick Gutierrez
  A dozen young chicks zig-zag and chirp behind their mother hen in the dust outside of the rondaval. Inside in the dim, smoky light a slim, ancient Zu... more
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  June 01, 2010 - News

  Footsteps in Africa

  by Karen Mason
  Today’s missionaries are following in the footsteps of hundreds of American Baptist missionaries with innovative ministries.  International Mini... more
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  March 31, 2010 - Journal

  Pray for Anita and Rick Gutierrez

  by Bob Santilli
  Anita and Rick serve in Durban South Africa together with IM partners, the Baptist Mission of South Africa and the Baptist Association of South Afri... more
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  March 22, 2010 - Journal

  Heart and Action

  by Rick Gutierrez
  “I will give them singleness of heart and action so that they will always fear me for their own good and the good of their children after them.” &n... more
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  January 21, 2010 - Journal

  Chaya Promotion

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Jesus often used agricultural metaphors in his parables. Jesus cares that we are well fed by his Word as well as nutrition. His miracles included feedi... more
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  November 30, 2009 - Journal

  Baptists Join Together in Tornado Relief Effort

  by Rick Gutierrez
  How often do tornadoes happen in South Africa?  There have only been eight previously reported deadly twisters here in the past sixty years. On Ja... more
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  October 27, 2009 - Journal

  Pray for Anita and Rick Gutierrez

  by Bob Santilli
  Drs. Rick & Anita Gutierrez serve Jesus in Durban, South Africa. They are developing church based holistic lay health ministries ta... more
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  October 05, 2009 - Journal

  Looking Out for the Interests of Others

  by Anita Gutierrez
  After Thandi’s husband died a few years ago, she was left with three children.  Like so many others, she left her rural home and moved to a squa... more
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  May 21, 2009 - News

  Swine Flu Just One of Many Communicable Diseases IM Missionaries Face Daily

  by Andrew Jayne
  The U.S. is a wealthy country, a land of abundance where common diseases like the flu are usually not life-threatening.  Yet we are in the midst ... more

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  May 20, 2009 - Journal

  Pray for Anita and Rick Gutierrez

  by Bob Santilli
  Anita and Rick serve in Durban South Africa together with IM partners, the Baptist Mission of South Africa and the Baptist Association of Sout... more
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  March 18, 2009 - Journal

  Truth and Mercy

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Where does one run for truth and mercy near Donnybrook, South Africa?  Today, as Pastor  Bongamusa and I are ready to visit homes a tall, sle... more
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  December 10, 2008 - Journal

  Anita and Rick Gutierrez

  by Bob Santilli
  Anita and Rick serve in Durban South Africa together with IM partners, the Baptist Mission of South Africa and the Baptist Association of South Africa.... more
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  December 05, 2008 - Journal

  Ungesabi -- do not be afraid

  by Anita Gutierrez
  For the past few months, we have been training health builders in a squatter shack settlement in Cato Manor.  I have yet to shake a mild s... more
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  October 14, 2008 - Journal

  When God opens doors

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Dear Friends,         Last week we spent a day at the rural Zulu village of Matendeni, South Africa in the Drak... more
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  September 03, 2008 - Journal

  Anita and Rick Gutierrez

  by Bob Santilli
  Anita and Rick serve in Durban South Africa together with IM partners, the Baptist Mission of South Africa and the Baptist Association of South Africa.... more
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  August 29, 2008 - Journal

  Outreach to rural Zulu community

  by Rick Gutierrez
  “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him, may have eternal life; and I Myself will raise him u... more

• June 09, 2008 - Journal

  Combating a silent killer in Africa

  by Rick Gutierrez
  We are all aware of images of death and destruction in Africa, from Ebola, HIV/AIDS, drought, famine, war or violence. At times these are too big for u... more

• April 04, 2008 - Journal

  Today I learned I was HIV positive

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Imagine you are a 20-year-old South African man, who has just flunked out of high-school. You live on the rural border of a large city, where you trav... more

• January 13, 2008 - Journal

  Pray for: Anita and Rick Gutierrez, South Africa

  by Bob Santilli
  Drs. Anita and Rick Gutierrez serve Jesus with churches of the Baptist Mission of South Africa in Durban. Rick and Anita use their expertise in famil... more
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  January 11, 2008 - Journal

  Cato Manor Outreach

  by Anita Gutierrez
  Dear Friends,Recently, we participated in a local government organized annual health screening day in Cato Manor. Cato Mano... more

• November 30, 2007 - Article

  Meeting medical facts with ministry faith

  Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?(Jeremiah 8:22) Those of us... more

• September 04, 2007 - Journal

  Surprised by the power of forgiveness

  by Rick Gutierrez
  And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. (Mark 11: 2... more
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  February 14, 2006 - Journal

  Helping Hearts in Africa

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.Matthew 5:8 In the African health context, the first thing that comes to many people's mi... more
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  September 07, 2005 - Journal

  Lay Health Builder Training at the William Carey S

  by Rick Gutierrez
  About fifteen years ago, the Lord moved Pastor Leslie James and his congregation to build a church among sugar cane fields in a rural area north of ... more
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  April 25, 2005 - Journal

  Screening in Amouti

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."Jesus said, "Take care of my sheep."John 21... more
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  March 29, 2005 - Journal

  Screening Outreach at a Textile Factory

  by Rick Gutierrez
  I went on a screening outreach to a small textile factory called "303 Designs" inDurban. Two of our trainee lay health builders Claudine and Lucy wer... more

• March 10, 2005 - Journal

  Rejoice Your Names Are Written In the Book of Life

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Yesterday afternoon I went out with two new health building trainees, Lully and Claudine from Eastbury Baptist Church, Phoenix. Lully is a 49 year ol... more

• June 01, 2004 - Journal

  The Tools of Discovery are Here

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Back in the late 1980s and early 90s I worked for Dr. Wei-Zen Wei at the Michigan Cancer Foundation in Detroit, Michigan.We were searching for ways of ... more

• April 05, 2004 - Journal

  Holy Week Meditation

  by Rick Gutierrez
  A few weeks ago, Rick and I were invited to speak at the combined men's and women's fellowship meeting at a Baptist church in Phoenix called the Christ... more
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  January 05, 2004 - Journal

  Speaking the Truth in Love

  by Rick Gutierrez
  A few months ago, Pastor Kris Govender described the situation in his church in Phoenix, South Africa when he said, "We shake each others hands each Su... more
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  November 06, 2003 - Journal

  Fireworks & Fellowship in Phoenix on Friday Night

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Dear Friends in Mission, Last Friday night I was invited to deliver the message at a men's fellowship meeting in Phoenix, South Africa.There is ... more

• October 16, 2003 - Journal

  Lay Health Ministry

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Greetings from South Africa! The children are in their fourth term of school and will finish their school year in early December.All boys are strong... more
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  August 26, 2003 - Journal

  Bethany School of Mission

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Pastor Jacob Moses of the Tongaat Baptist Church established the Bethany School of Mission this year.Week-long conferences are being offered every ... more
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  May 02, 2003 - Journal

  Jacob’s Stairway

  by Rick Gutierrez
  May 1, 2003 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascendin... more

• March 17, 2003 - Journal

  We Live By Faith, Not By Sight

  by Rick Gutierrez
  The Baptist Mission of South Africa is a convention of fifteen Indian Baptist churches located in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal. This group has invit... more
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  January 22, 2003 - Journal

  The Healing of a Hindu Youth

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Dear friends in Mission, I wanted to share this story of healing with you for your encouragement in Christ. It ties together a Hindu family, a Chris... more

• December 03, 2002 - Journal

  We Place Our Days In His Hands

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Psalm 100:4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his n... more

• November 14, 2002 - Journal

  Our New Location

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Hello to you from our new location in South Africa. We can hardly believe that we have really arrived.Although far apart in miles, we feel close to you... more

• September 18, 2002 - Journal

  Preparing For Our Coming Ministry

  by Rick Gutierrez
  Our family enjoyed the World Mission Conference and Orientation at Green Lake, Wisconsin this summer.We are back home in Kalamazoo until November 6th w... more