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Praise Chapel Missions has been involved in Kurdistan since 2000.

 

Jack Harris went to Kurdistan as an international worker/missionary in 2002.  Over the past 10 years through the vision and labors of Jack Harris and the team that he build we have helped sponsore many projects from Church Planting, Food and helps distribution, building housing for widows and displaced people, fresh water projects and much more.

 

Today Praise Chapel and our Humaitarian work, "Hands of Hope Foundation" is reconized and appreciated by the Kurdish government. 

 

Over five years ago we were given land by the Kurdish governement on which to build a church, medical clenic, child care and distribution center. This is a MIRACLE the Kurdish Governemen does not give land for churchs. But, God gave us favor. 

 

Now with the critical situtation in Iraq, we are laboring to build this much needed facality.

You can reach Jack Harris at: gkell@aol.com

 

Pastor Layth Ibarhim of Kurdistan

 

Layth is the Praise Chapel senior pastor in Kudistan. He and Jack Harris have partnered together to plant chruches in Kurdistan. Today Pastor Layth lead the Praise Chapel Kurdistan and is in charge of church planting and overseeing the humanitarian work. 

 

 

LETTER FROM LAYTH JUNE 13, 2014 

 

Dear brother, 

 

We see thousands of people leaving their homes, jobs and whatever they have and flee to the

neighboring city (Mosul to Dohuk) for the fear that fills their hearts ... terrified of the devil working on the

ground ... but ... at the same time it is important that the Holy Spirit gives us joy and peace, which tells us "God is now dominating above everything"

 

Now Dohuk has many things which we must stand in a long line for, including gasoline and bread ... but we rejoice for those people that God has equipped to protect us here and that He has made Kurdistan to be a refuge in such living situations. Inspections are in every place we go for fear of any infiltration of terrorism. But the situation has begun to settle and the Peshmerga forces are deployed on the borders of the region.

 

Now the situation is calmer ... and those who have become displaced from Mosul who have taken refuge in Kurdistan (Dohuk) are not less than ten thousand people.

 

Pray for us and ask our Lord to use us with anyone needs to know about Jesus... Maybe he can not ask in Mosul about Jesus there.

 

Blessings in His name

 

Pastor Layth Ibrahim

 

Kurdistan of Iraq

 

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LaDawna McKinnis,Ministry Team Member

 

My name is LaDawna McKinnis, I am a single woman and 31 years of age. For the past two years I have been living in Northern Kurdistan of Iraq. 

 

It was four years ago that God answered the prayers of a young girl by putting a burning passion in my heart to reach out to the Kurdish nation.  In order to stay and live amongst the Kurdish people I acquired a job teaching the English language to Kurdish children.  This job enabled me to build various important relationships with students, parents, security and government officials. That open door, as a teacher, allowed me the opportunity to share the love of Jesus Christ and to speak into their very lives. However, I knew the fulfilling of this calling had not come to pass; my heart and mind were in a state of unrest.

  I began to pray for God to show me the direction in which he wanted me to go; and so I waited patiently for an answer.  God’s answer came in 2013 when once again, dark times fell upon the Kurds. Syrian Kurds began flooding into Kurdistan by the thousands because their enemy wanted to ethnically cleanse the land of Syria of all Kurds.  These Syrian Kurds were forced to leave their homes, their belongings, their money, everything they called their own.   A refugee camp in the city of Domeiz was set up by the Kurdish government to receive and house these displaced families.  There are now 80,000 people residing in this refugee camp alone, along with many other camps throughout the Kurdish nation.   These families are living in a time where there is no good and all they see is evil.  I knew I could not sit by and do nothing; it was time for me to do something.

 

I began a handicapped tutoring program within the Domeiz Refugee Camp. 

 

This program offers children social, daily activity, physical, and communicational skills.  These handicapped children and their families are in “great need.”  There are no other programs nor are there any facilities for these children to go to be educated.  Currently my team consists of myself and my interpreter Gulay, who is a Syrian Kurdish refugee herself.  The needs in Kurdistan are abundantly great and grow every day, but there are too little resources available.  Here in the States we have resources for the handicapped that these precious people can only dream about.  With your help we can make their dream a reality.  This is my mission, to show these beautiful people that through the love of Jesus Christ miracles can happen.  Our outstretched hands of hope are the miracle they are waiting for. Through this program lives are being touched and radically changed through the gospel of Jesus Christ.  They love us and cannot thank us enough for being there.  They say “it is the Christian believers who care for us and who are helping us.”  Those Christian believers they speak of consist of you and me.

      

I am truly grateful to all those who help this project with their prayers and their financial support. This work cannot continue without YOU!!!!!  I thank you for taking the time to read this.  It is because of you that a difference is being made in Kurdistan like never before.  I love you and may God’s blessings forever be upon you.  

 

To contact LaDawna Emial: ladawnamzori@yahoo.com

 

You can partner with LaDawna in Kurdistan through Praise Chapel Misisons, Middle East. Just state it is for Project Handicapped. 

Kurdistan/Iraq

Domiez Refugee Camp

Project: Handicapped Tutoring Program (“HTP”)