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HopeA YeAr In Photos from Joyce Meyer Ministries

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This past year was incredibly hopeful. What made it so special was seeing how seeds that were planted in 2009 blossomed in 2010, and how God continued to enable Joyce Meyer Ministries to go where the needs are. our missions arm—Hand of Hope—went to several different places that many would call “hopeless.” But each and every time, no matter where God took us, we saw hope. We saw it in the eyes of the Haitians, despite the earth-quake. We saw it in the smiles of those living in poverty throughout India, Papua New Guinea, and Zimbabwe. and we even saw hope in the faces of men and women living in prisons around the world.

along the way, our photographers captured these moments that could not have happened without the support of friends and partners like you. We hope this book will give you at least a portion of the same feeling of inspiration and hope that our ministry was privileged to experience this past year.

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Many countries in Africa—like Zimbabwe, Uganda and Malawi—desperately need our help. These are nations with economies in shambles, leaving a large portion of the popu-lation without jobs, food and medical care. But thanks to those who partner with us, God enabled Hand of Hope to bring nutritious meals and medical services to these wonderful people, as well as help provide care for orphans and introduce many to Christ. Here is just a glimpse of what God is doing there.

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david L. meyer, ceo of Hand of Hope, helps distribute food at one of the feeding centers in malawi.

the malawi feeding centers provide many children with life-sustaining nutrition they might not get otherwise. the boys and girls we encounter are always polite and let us know how thankful they are for the meal—typically it’s the only meal they get each day. shelly meyer, International relations officer with Hand of Hope, gives a plate of food to a precious little girl.

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Watoto Village is a wonderful ministry in Gulu, uganda, that provides homes to former child soldiers and orphans. Ivan lost his parents to disease and war. Here, he gets a hug from Ginger stache, chief media officer of Joyce meyer ministries.

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Ivan sits with his brothers, sisters and cousins in front of their new home in Watoto Village. the incredible smiles of these children inspired us long after this trip was over. thank you, friends and partners, for your help in this worthy cause.

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this baby boy is well fed and gets plenty of love and affection, thanks to the Baby Watoto Gulu Village. this wonderful place in uganda is where infants and toddlers who have been abandoned or orphaned can come and live. each child is assigned a caretaker who is called “mama.”

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In June of 2010, Joyce meyer ministries held a Festival of Life conference in africa where more than 530,000 people attended the three-day festival. during the festival, over 140,800 people gave their lives to christ. We could not share the Gospel with so many people around the globe without your support.

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sara, living at the Watoto Village, is a resilient little girl who has overcome rape at a young age. she now lives in peace and safety, and holds the teddy bear that is her constant companion. the Watoto Village provides sara with food, shelter, clothing and most importantly, love.

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What were once clean, decent apartment buildings are now decrepit and dangerous dwellings for far too many families in Zim-babwe. Within the walls of these buildings, live two or three families per small apartment—but that’s not the worst of it. there are no locks on the doors and only one latrine per floor for dozens of families. as you might imagine, the sanita-tion problem is immense. the families crammed together in these high-density housing units, along with the many orphans who live and survive outside the buildings, make this portion of the inner city crowded and dangerous.

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The poor are filled with hope, and injustice is silenced. —Job 5:16 ceV

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This past year, God continued to do great things in southeast Asia through your giving, which helps us fight the same battles of poverty, mal-nutrition and inadequate medical care common in this region. God has graciously opened doors in Cambodia to reach the hungry through the mobile feeding centers and enabled people liv-ing in the city trash dumps to change their lives.

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this little girl is named Gchi. Her parents sent her to the steung meanchey municipal dump in cambodia to live and work over six years ago. Now ten years old, she spends her days and nights looking for recyclable items to earn roughly fifty cents per day, just like hundreds of other cambodian children. Fortunately, we were able to offer these children a place to receive showers, food, clothes and a Bible-based education through our feeding centers.

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We fully fund over 40 children’s homes throughout asia, where the children receive meals, housing, education, and most importantly, an upbringing based on godly principles. We help them know how important they are in God’s eyes.

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a pharmacist in our Joyce meyer ministries health center distributes medicines to patients in cambodia. most, if not all, of those who are waiting in line for medication would not be able to get any medicine without this medical mission. thank you, friends and partners, for making this happen.

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many people in thailand are hungry for hope. that’s why thousands turned out for our Festival of Life conference in January 2009. during this confer-ence, many people gave their lives to christ for the first time.

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For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the expectation and hope of the meek and the poor shall not perish forever. —Psalm 9:18

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India has seen some economic development over the past several years—but hundreds of millions of people there still live in poverty. That’s why Joyce Meyer Ministries continues to feel a passionate burden for this nation. With over one billion people (25 percent of which live below the poverty line), and the majority believing in multiple Hindu gods, we continued to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this beautiful country. We also provided free medical and dental care. Here are some of our best photos from India.

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a woman walks down a street in the city of Jodhpur, India. Because many of the buildings are painted in shades of blue, Jodhpur is known as “the Blue city.”

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on october 21-24, God opened the door for our ministry to hold a four- day Festival of Life conference in Kolkata, India. In many places throughout this city, you could see multiple copies of the conference advertisement strewn together along walls, buildings and billboards.

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the marketplace is an important part of Indian society, where people not only buy food but also socialize.

Hyderabad is a city with many markets where foods and flowers are sold. Yellow flowers are popular during the various festivals in India. People make flower wreaths and drape them over cars or motorbikes.

and in the city of Jodhpur, Ginger visits with some women in a market.

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this young girl, while taking part in the annual mud gathering from the Hooghly river, finds a coin. tradi-tionally, the mud is extracted from this river, shaped into a god and then sold at the marketplace. Because the Hindu religion considers Hooghly holy, most Hindus consider the mud from it sacred.

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the practice of welcoming guests with leis of flowers is customary in India, and our team has been blessed by this on numerous occasions. a group of boys sang to welcome us when we arrived at the Joyce meyer ministries children’s home for HIV positive orphans.

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You can find many varied forms of transportation throughout India, such as this unique looking bus. daniel meyer, ceo of u.s. opera-tions, caught a ride on a rickshaw.

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May your unfailing love be with us, LORD, even as we put our hope in you. —Psalm 33:22 NIV

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At Joyce Meyer Ministries, we know that the Great Commission not only applies to other nations but also to our own. That is why we started the St. Louis Dream Center ten years ago. And that’s why our prison ministry con-tinues to be an important focus. This past year, your giving helped us bring smiles to many children living in the inner city of St. Louis, as well as hope to prisoners throughout north America. Your financial support also went to help victims of the recent flooding in Nashville, Tennessee. Here are a few of those moments…

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God provided the st. Louis dream center building back in 2000. since then, He has demonstrated His faithfulness with consistent support to the dream center that gets passed along to many families living in the surrounding community. above, local residents gather for the annual Back to school Blast. this provides the children of low-income families in North st. Louis with school supplies, like backpacks, notebooks and pencils.

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Inner-city teens learn lessons on teamwork, community spirit and cleanliness during a trash pickup event last fall. dave meyer, Vice President of Joyce meyer ministries, plays basketball with some teens at the dream center.

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God cares about those living behind bars. and He wants us to remember them as well. We were able to continue doing that in 2010. Phil [previous page] is a great example of how prison ministry changes lives. Phil was serving time in a prison in the midwest when he became a christian. Now he plays bass in a praise and worship band and lives each day for christ. Your generous financial support helps other prisoners like Phil by allowing our prison ministry team to share the Gospel with inmates around the world.

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In 2010, Nashville was the victim of a terrible flood that devastated many businesses in the downtown area. It also destroyed homes where many people lost everything. that’s why we partnered with service Interna-tional, oasis church and cross Point church to help rebuild homes and bring hope to the hurting.

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But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. —Isaiah 40:31 NIV

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Papua new Guinea is a colorful place. Throughout all of these photos, you see the bright colors adorned by the people here. And thanks to the support of friends and partners like you, we’ve been able to accomplish much in this beautiful country. What we’re most excited about are the 500,000 people who accepted Christ during the Festival of Life conference in port Moresby. That’s roughly half of the esti-mated 1 million people who attended. We even gave each person who attended one of Joyce’s resources as a free gift. plus, the wells that were dug continue to provide water and the medical wings we funded are still offering people medical care.

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the hospitality and warmth of the people of Papua New Guinea is obvious by the welcome they gave Joyce and the team when they arrived in Port moresby.

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In mount Hagen, we encountered a group of men known as “the drug Boys.” at first, they wanted us to leave the area, but eventually they ended up befriending us and helped clean up the area. they also created a rock display in the land-scaping to welcome Joyce.

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this is Luxy, who lives at the Bomana Prison in Papua New Guinea. He has spent seven years of a life sentence here, but has found freedom in christ. the Gospel has completely changed him, which he discovered through the enjoying everyday Life magazine.

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one of the most common medical needs we saw during our Papua New Guinea medical missions trip was treatment for wounds which became horrendously infected due to inadequate care and poor educa-tion. st. Louis dream center Pastor Jeff allensworth [right] was one of the volunteers on this day who did whatever needed to be done to help those in need.

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the Festival of Life in Port moresby was the largest event in the history of Papua New Guinea. over 1 million people attended the meetings.

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“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” —Jeremiah 29:11 NIV

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Just about everyone has heard of the devastating earthquake that took place in the country of haiti on January 12, 2010. Granted, the progress may seem slow, but people in Haiti are being reached—with the good news of Jesus Christ. But that’s not all. In conjunction with Love A Child, Inc., they’re also receiving new homes and free medical care. Your gift is helping us continue to bring relief to people who desperately need it.

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amidst the rubble in downtown Port-au-Prince, you can find people carrying on with their lives as best as they can. Businesses hang newly painted signs and taxis known as “tap taps” drive around looking for customers. although many of the streets are drivable, the city was completely devastated by the earthquake, killing 250,000 people and leaving another 1.5 million people homeless.

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this young woman is living in a recovery camp that’s located on the property of an organization called Love a child, which has been instrumental in helping to bring needed medical services and new homes to the earthquake survivors. Your giving provided free medical care and housing for these precious people.

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the recovery tent [previous page] on the property of Love a child in Fond Parisien, Haiti, was a busy place for several months after the earthquake. Helicopters constantly brought in new patients who needed a place to recover after surgery and transported those ready to find a more permanent place to stay. the recovery camps were filled with children, like the boy who found a way to play despite the wheelchair, and the young girl who found a reason to smile after receiv-ing lifesaving care.

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church services were a common occurrence within the recovery camps. the services included music and preaching. Your donations helped deliver the Good News to those who needed hope. In fact, some members of our team there were even told by non-christian volunteers that the services were beneficial for the people and helped keep their spirits up.

this young man, Francois, was working in a t-shirt factory when the earthquake hit. His leg was buried under a collapsed wall and had to be amputated.

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one of the most incredible things your giving is making possible in Haiti is a placed called miracle Vil-lage, where families who lost their homes in the earthquake are finding new places to live. miracle Village will eventually hold 380 homes—and 100 of these homes were fully funded by Joyce meyer ministries.

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Buses were sent into Port-au-Prince to pick up homeless people and bring them to the food distribution center. many had not eaten a square meal in six weeks. one thousand and seven hundred people were fed on this day. Your support has enabled us to get food to the feeding centers in Haiti for years and will continue to do so.

the donations from our friends and partners also helped provide food to those devastated by the earthquake. each box of food weighs thirty-three pounds and holds enough rations for six people to eat for a month. Your giving helped pay for the shipment of 270,000 meals. God even provided a way for us to bring many hungry people to the food.

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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. —romans 15:13 NIV

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It really is true…God brings hope to the hopeless. Whether in Haiti, uganda, st. Louis or any of the other places God took us this past year, hope showed up in a big way.

We are truly humbled by what God accomplishes through this ministry. None of it would have been possible without the support of our friends and partners. Nothing. the orphans in africa…the hungry children in asia…the lost souls of India…the needy here in america…the prison-ers…the spiritually hungry in Papua New Guinea…the devastated people of Haiti…those in need of medical care…all of those who were reached may not have been without your prayers and financial support.

together, we are better.

God bless you.

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