tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:33:25 +0000http://purefreedom.org/blog/blogger.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)Blogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-2583218301112147872Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:16:00 +00002008-06-03T14:30:19.022-05:00In 2006, Tesco released its Peek-A-Book Pole Dancing kit to the general market. The kit includes a three-pieced tension pole that fits ceilings up to 8'6" tall, a dance booklet, a garter belt and play dance money. Parents were a little upset to see this product in toy stores. Apparently, they thought their five year olds might be a little young for sex work. Tesco pulled the product from toy http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/06/peek-boo-pole-dancing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-4965032460437342675Thu, 08 May 2008 18:03:00 +00002008-05-08T13:11:13.762-05:00Today Newton reported great news to me. The hospital in Lusaka has accepted Clement as a candidate for surgery. The date for his surgery is not scheduled as the family did not have the $350 plus $30 travel to and from Lusaka. I told Newton today to take care of scheduling it and I'm planning to wire him money tomorrow. This is great news. Please, please, please continue to pray for this little http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/05/clement-accepted-as-surgery-candidate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-8723732140424384317Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:42:00 +00002008-04-28T08:55:50.295-05:00Clement, our "sweet little lamb" (as one friend called him) is pain free and eating today. If he continues to progress, he will go home tomorrow. Let me explain that medical care is limited where he lives. There are not enough doctors and very little equipment or medicine. Thus, the reasoning to remove the boy's eyes rather than use up precious pain killers. What resources exist  must be used forhttp://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/04/clement-is-going-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-7519325501311084029Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:28:00 +00002008-04-25T13:38:29.462-05:00It is 9:30pm in Ndola, Zambia. As soon as I sent the last blog out, my mom called and told me that the Lord had impressed Mark 8:22 upon her a few days ago. It is the passage where Jesus heals the blind man by spitting in the soil and  applying it to the  man's eyes. I asked her a very strange question before I even thought about how insane it sounded. "Do you want me to call and ask Newton to dohttp://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/04/good-turn-of-events-in-nkwazi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-8329253277830537414Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:35:00 +00002008-04-25T08:41:29.409-05:00Newton has just come from the hospital in Ndola, Zambia with a report on our precious boy, Clement. Your prayers are urgently needed in this hour. Clement's surgery to remove his eye tumors was yesterday. The surgery went fine. However, after removing them the doctor discovered that the boy's lenses were severely damaged. Upon questioning the mother, it was discovered that she'd been using "http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/04/urgent-prayers-needed-for-clement-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-215804028274140213Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:59:00 +00002008-04-25T08:34:56.874-05:00 For those of you with the front row seats to God's miraculous power, bend in. Listen closely. The world-wide web is rumbling with His power which is just about to burst forth.  This morning, I got an email from my friend Newton Zulu (who can be seen in the photos with Clement.) Our precious four-year-old friend is enjoying a sustained deliverance from a life of deafness. Newton wrote: Dear http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/04/photos-of-boy-god-is-healing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-8369554315601689402Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:43:00 +00002008-04-16T08:55:09.781-05:00April 4 & 5, the Mission Z team here in the US was fasting and praying for several people including Clement who is four years old and is blind and deaf. On that Saturday, April 5th, our friend Newton Zulu lead fourteen in laying hands on and praying in the Nkwazi compound. Here is what God is doing: SATURDAY: Newton reported that the fourteen praying could not go into the compound to pray for http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/04/gods-miracles-in-nkwazi-compound.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-1199369283600357472Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:37:00 +00002008-04-04T09:05:52.738-05:00 Miracles are supposed to happen fast, right? They're supposed to be grand and have great climaxes!Maybe not always. At least, it wasn't that way for the young prophet Elisha. In II Kings 4, the poor guy is new on the scene and one of his disciple's son dies. Elisha sends his servant to lay the prophets staff on the boy and pray.Nothing happens.So, Elisha goes himself and lays on the boy http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/04/how-to-pray-for-healing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-4027856080921714622Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:54:00 +00002008-03-14T17:02:44.949-05:00Dannah and the team boarded a plane out of Lusaka and are in Ndola resting! Thank you for your prayers. Please look over the rest of their itinerary and remember them in prayer as they spread the gospel in Zambia. http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/03/prayers-answered-team-in-ndola.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-90554231017124718Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:45:00 +00002008-03-14T10:48:32.929-05:00We just received word that Dannah and the team are stuck in Lusaka today because of flight delays. Please pray that the Lord will provide an airplane for them yet today so they can begin their work in Ndola on Saturday. Thank you, dear friends, for your faithfulness in prayer.http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/03/urgent-prayer-request-for-zambia-team.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-7467468220511674293Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:07:00 +00002008-03-14T08:22:47.082-05:00I want to share a few things that are on my heart for our Zambia trip. Thank you for your prayers and support for the team while we're doing the Lord's work. •The Lord keeps taking me to the loaves and fishes story. Pray that he can multiple whatever loaves and fishes he challenges us with. •It is the rainy season. Pray for sunny days. •I've been led to ask God for a hedge of http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/03/zambia-prayer-requests.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-2231507478239219263Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:46:00 +00002008-03-17T09:49:13.699-05:00 In 2004, I traveled to Zambia for the first time to initiate what would become Pure Freedom Zambia, a ministry that has reached 69,000 public high school and elementary school students with the gospel of Jesus and abstinence training. On that first trip, our family visited a Zambian compound where the poorest of the poor live. We met a grandmother of eleven who was badly injured and at the end http://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/03/grandma-miracle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-7763503757912724796Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:22:00 +00002008-01-10T11:29:48.201-05:00I had a birthday. I can't say I was looking forward to celebrating this one. I marvel at friends who embrace aging. I can't even get  myself to tell you how old I now am. Well, it rhymes with "shorty." (Just  look at the smoke that rose after I blew out the candles!) My husband—along with dear friends Eileen, Jen and Janet—compiled a book of letters from friends, readers and family members aroundhttp://purefreedom.org/blog/2008/01/i-had-birthday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-6981088330253722152Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:27:00 +00002007-12-10T13:49:00.602-05:00 The first decent snow fall of our Pennsylvania winter hit us a few weeks ago. With it, came a big down fall of blessing in Autumn's life. That very morning, she chose to follow the Lord Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour. I'll save the details of that decision for her to share in her time and way, but suffice it to say that I am once again amazed at how transforming the Truth is. Autumn is http://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/12/autumn-rolls-into-winter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-8398619321209033819Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:56:00 +00002007-11-16T12:19:44.703-05:00Some suitcases are just SO big, they need names. Here's  Mary Jayne, Tonya, Julie and Kim with theirs. I believe the big black one in the foreground is called "The Beast." (Ladies it was only four days!) If anything was big this past weekend, it was worship! Stephanie Peters led us so beautifully in times of refreshing, beginning on Thursday night with what I've come to call "Spontaneous Silencehttp://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/11/suitcases-with-names-at-five-little.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-9072349863669889414Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:04:00 +00002007-11-14T17:01:37.077-05:00 Don't ask! OK...ask! It's Chizzy, Sharon, Melissa and Tonya playing "Sticky Buns" at the first Five Little Questions Intensive. It was more wonderful than I could have prayed for it to be. Just look at these happy ladies who attended our sequestered weekend at St. Joseph Institute. I don't know about you (my friends from The Intensive), but for me the return to real life was jarring. We werehttp://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/11/soaking-after-five-little-questions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-8145146063700378071Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:08:00 +00002007-10-17T12:33:41.531-05:00I just wanted to send you all a quick note about the Secret Keeper Girl blogs. They will now be posted on our new SKG website: www.secretkeepergirl.com. Be sure to check them out and leave us your comments. We want to hear from YOU! :)http://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/10/hello-secret-keeper-girls-and-secret.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenn Wilton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-4194159536475814606Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:15:00 +00002007-09-25T10:41:47.969-05:00Hello Pantano Christian Church! We loved being with you this morning. We hope you had as much fun as we did! Hope to see you all again soon :) Here are a few highlights from the event: Four of our stunning Secret Keeper models A group of beautiful Secret Keeper Girls during our lunch after the event...all wearing one of our Zambian neckaces :) http://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/09/secret-keeper-girl-in-tucson-az.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenn Wilton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-8262509251589491514Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:53:00 +00002007-09-21T10:20:07.080-05:00Hello Secret Keeper Girls and Secret Keeper Moms! Jenn and Erin here :) We had so much fun with you all Wednesday night. Our beautiful flowers brightened our van on our trip down south today...we appreciate them so much. Cheri you are FABULOUS! Girls, never forget that you were created fearfully and wonderfully- Psalm 139:14 tells us so! Let your friendship bracelet remind you of your GREAT http://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/09/secret-keeper-girl-hits-west-coast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenn Wilton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-5045816259790573676Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:22:00 +00002007-09-17T11:31:08.908-05:00I just have to tell you about John Wesley's mother's apron! Apparently the mother of this great evangelist found herself sometimes overwhelmed by the chaos of everyday life. She couldn't find a place to pray with nine little ones running around under her feet. (Mine were known to follow me right into my bubble bath if they thought I was getting too much alone time!) Anyway, Suzanna Wesley's http://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/09/suzanna-wesleys-apron.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-8771362316466112108Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:15:00 +00002007-09-02T16:55:57.639-05:00I've been inundated with emails the past few days with people asking, "Why haven't you blogged!" Well, in Hong Kong our hotel wanted to charge me $20 to blog. Does than answer any questions? Well, for all the Autumn-fans out there, here is an update! We've actually been home for one full week and have been busy enrolling Autumn in school and introducing her to all the people we love. Here's a http://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/08/home-at-last-for-autumn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-7949709955636289770Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:17:00 +00002007-08-29T11:32:32.499-05:00These girls arrived in style- limo style! Our last stop on this tour was a definite success! The audience was wild! The daughters once again beat their momma’s during the helium flyer game AND it was another shut out! Ouch! Remember that God is working so diligently with you as the potter does with the clay- molding you and shaping you into a beautiful precious teacup who's of MUCH value http://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/08/our-last-skg-bod-sqaud-tour-stop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenn Wilton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-4286617471064456012Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:55:00 +00002007-08-25T23:39:50.615-05:00Talk about a full house! We had SO much fun with ya'll down here in the beautiful sunny South! Girls we're so proud that you finally beat your momma's in the helium flyer game. It was about time! Good job! (Sorry mom's but 14-0 is a pretty rough loss!) Don't forget to find those friends who can be a part of your Bod Squad- without a Bod Squad beauty can seem like mission impossible! But with http://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/08/secret-keeper-girl-bod-squad-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenn Wilton)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-8733011323819738402Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:08:00 +00002007-08-21T07:40:47.554-05:00Got off to a rough beginning today. First of all, I'd used white-out to correct an error on one of my notarized U.S. Consulate papers. That's apparently a "no-no" so Bob had to get up at 7:00 am to go fill it out again and swear in front of a U.S. Consulate notary that this was our paperwork. Next, Autumn woke up feeling very sick. The U.S. Immigration Department demands that she be caught up onhttp://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/08/day-13-we-ate-baby-pig-tonight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dannah)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5933449192754819191.post-3983577603568904033Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:51:00 +00002007-09-10T07:28:57.760-05:00How are you Clyde, NC??? What an awesome time we had with you last night! Didn’t you just love Stephanie’s song “Beauty”? Don’t you wish she could sing this song to you EVERY morning??? Secret Keeper Girl, remember your beauty comes from the inside- and how you dress your heart is FAR more important than the makeup you put on, or clothes you wear on the outside. Be sure to let God mold you and http://purefreedom.org/blog/2007/08/secret-keeper-girl-bod-squad-tour-has.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jenn Wilton)