PERHAPS THIS IS THE REASON THE WORDS OF JESUS WERE SO STRONG WHEN HE ADDRESSED THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF HIS DAY WITH THESE WORDS;

MATT. 23:13-15

13″Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the Kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

Matt. 15:6
” Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.”

Matt. 5:20
“For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Matt. 21:31-32
“Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.”

IT WOULD SEEM FROM THESE WORDS THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST OBSTACLES TO THE KINGDOM IS RELIGION.

PARLEY:
Brew parley in warm water, to treat urinary tract and bladder infection. Parley can also be used as a natural weight loss remedy. Brew a quarter cup of leaves in half cup of water, and allow to stand for 5 minutes. Discontinue use after 5 days. A cup of parley tea a day, will relieve rheumatism, and is excellent for diabetes patients. After 5 days take a 3 day break and then start a new cycle. Parley leaves in a breastfeeding mother’s bra, will dry up her milk supply when she wants to wean her baby. For painful sore breast, bruise parley leaves and soak in vinegar. Parley is rich in iron and treats jaundice, anemia, arthritis and hip gout.

WATERCRESS: Strong natural antibiotic and is rich in vitamin C. Chew leaves for anemia, bad eyesight and rickets. Watercress also promotes blood circulation.
When mixed with honey, watercress makes an effective cough syrup.

ALOE: Aloe juice speeds up the metabolism and is a natural laxative.It de-worms humans, and animals (especially dogs).Aloe cleanses the veins and works against cholesterol, arthritis and varicose veins.

LAVENDER:
Drip lavender oil onto a little cushion, and put this in your bed. You’ll sleep like a baby.If coupled with vinegar, lavender leaves bring relieve to aching legs. Piles patients shouldn’t drink aloe, as it draws extra blood to the large intestine. ANISEED: Boil aniseed for an antiseptic tea, to clear up a sore throat, coughing, colds and lung problems, especially bronchitis.

Praise be to God who always gives us the victory through our Lord and Savoir Jesus Christ! I thank God for what He has done in and through our lives. It’s easy to get caught up in our own lives and forget that there are people all over the world who are hurting and need help. We thank God for giving us friends and family who believe in our missionary vision. Your support to this ministry has made it possible for us to touch nations. What is God asking you to do this year (2011)? Remember how Jesus fed 5,000 with just five loaves of bread and two fish. We need to keep in step with God, neither running ahead nor lagging behind. This is why we need people around us, who can pick us up when we feel defeated, and pull us back when we are over-confident. It is His work, not ours. We can change the world together, each doing his part in the Kingdom of God. On behalf of Missionary Pastors Christopher and Joanna Salina, thank you for your faithful support.

2 Corinthians 9: 10 “Now he that ministered seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your rightousness.”

In this New Year of 2011 let us press onward for His Kingdom sake. “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added on to you”. We are excited about what God is doing to hasten His return. The bride is making herself ready for the marriage supper of the Lamb. The Lord has given us a passion for missions and we have been able to support the ministry in South Africa, Pakistan and Israel. We give God thanks for the faithful few that have stood with us throughout this year. We pray that God will enable you to continue to support our vision to train missionaries here in the USA and equip them to serve overseas.

The mission work in Durban South Africa needs our help and support to continue to serve the orphans and widows among the Zulu people. Our workers there are doing a great job of teaching and feeding the families in need. Sinakekele the ministry to abandon babies has rescued many children and placed them in loving family homes. We can make a difference one child at a time. Many families have been blessed by the on going efforts of the staff and volunteers that have answered the call of God to serve in God’s vineyard. We have dedicated our lives to fulfilling the great commission.

Much thanks to our beloved friends and family that have made it possible for us to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to the nations.

Love Christopher, Joanna & Josiah Salina

In the Zulu culture HIV is still a stigma and many are shunned for having the disease.  When these people see a Westerner take time to visit their one room shack with dirt floors, it is like a King has left his castle to come and sit with them and listen to their concerns. At the end of the day, they really don’t care how much you know but they know how much you care.  To these people one simple act of kindness can make a big difference to a mother dying of Aids who feels forsaken by all.  Many of these mothers must face the unthinkable: that of dying first and leaving their child alone or living long enough to watch her Aids infected child die in her arms. As missionaries we have experienced the realization that the smallest effort to show God’s love in practical ways means so much to someone that lives each day in despair. 

As Christians we are the carriers of God’s love in action to the lost and dying world.  These people are willing to share what little they have from their gardens with us. What are we willing to share with them?  Missions is our way of giving back to those who have so much less than you may have.  Church, let us be grateful for what the LORD has given us and may we be willing to share our blessings with others. 

As Americans we always have the freedom of getting on a plane and going back to the comfort of our homes.  The people of the impoverished rural areas of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa have no choice but to face their desperate situation every day. The Gospel of Christ makes all the difference.  It brings hope to the hopeless, salvation to the lost and healing to the dying soul. The greatest work you are privileged to do for the Lord is to bring others to a knowledge of Christ as Savior.

Soul-winners will shine as the stars forever ( Daniel 12:3 ). Thank you for partnering with us.

Siya Thandaza
The Salina family

If you are a man or woman of God with the gift of interpretation of dreams and visions please feel free to write us on this website. Yours Building Christ’s Kingdom.

Dr. Christopher T. Salina
As regards to the dream you have receivd…the Scripture is clear that the Lord “does nothing unless He first reveal them to His servants the Prophets (Amos 3:7, Genesis 18:18-22, others) I think that the Lord allowed you to have some insight as to what will surely happen in America.  The stars and strips shown on the helicoptor going out of control and crashing, the man on the helicoptor crying out for the helicoptor to stop, etc all speak to me of an economic and power/influence robbing crash.  As a country, we are now out of control, both economically, politically and certainly spiritually.  China now has control of much of our debt, and the present president cares not how much they have or control us.  There may be something there with the man in your dream being of oriental origin.  Also how the coptor is shrinking before it crashes, with the man dressed like the statue of liberty…the country shrinking in influence, economically, politically, etc and going down and crashing.  
The folks of African origin may have to do with USA then being seen as less than a third world country in power, influence, etc…and other now will be looking at us like this after we have crashed economically as a powerful nation.  We may be reduced to ashes for a while, and hopefully will recover, as the Nation turns back to the Lord.  It may be that no other country can control our debt spirialing out of control.  I believe that America, her economy, etc will surely crash, and then be attacked by her enemies.  They have been waiting for some time now ( Russia, China, Cuba, others) for the best time to strike, and will do so while we are having domestic problems, and possibly and internal upheavel against our federal government.  Dave Wilkerson and Dmitri Dudeman both received insight from the Lord that America will burn, due to nuclear bombs being sent to our country.
I believe also, that since you, and your wife and son saw this and then began to minister to the man who was dying, may also indicate insight into how you, your family and others of God’s people will be able to share Life and Hope with those who are dying.  There will be many in this condition after the “crash” occurs. I cannot say I have the official interpretation for you, but I do think there are parallels to what others have dreamt, prophesied, etc and what you have seen in your dream.
Blessings!
Brother Joe Ferrara
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  Josiah Salina - December 26, 2010 I had a dream the day following Christmas. I was in a group of people and I knew most of them were Christians. In the dream I notice a Pastor trying to take care of precious baby that was not his. He took good care of the baby up to a certain point. After a while I saw the baby picking up a dirty cotton bud and was gently hitting the Pastor on his face with it. After this, the Pastor’s caring attitude was no more. The pastor began to torture the baby by beating it nearly to the point of death. After the pastor had abused the child he took the baby’s lifeless body and tried to bury it in the sand by the beach without any regards to the child’s cry for help. - END OF DREAM——————————————————————————————–_
I prayed to the LORD for the interpretation and this is what I believe He gave me. I saw the baby as the children of Israel and the church as one which Jesus redeemed and bought back with His precious blood.
Some modern day Pastors are attempting to take the responsibility of adopting the church out of God’s hand and into their own hands.
Could the gentle hit from the baby with the cotton bud be that when the young ones in the church try to bring correction to the Pastors about genuine concerns, they begin to despise and abuse the people in the church without mercy. They attempt to cover up their behavior by preaching a stretched out message of grace to the point of disgrace. Instead of using the Kingdom principles of adapting to influence but not adopting, these religious leaders try to adopt the church to this world’s system by covering up the fact about their sin.

Dear Friends & Partners,

We want to thank you for your prayers and support during the 2009 calendar year. With your help the Lord has made it possible for us to take the gospel to the nation of South Africa. Missions and evangelism has always been the heart of this ministry. Last year was a time of transition for the Salina tribe as we moved our family back to America. We believe the Lord has brought us back for such a time as this. Our family has never made a decision without seeking the Lord and waiting for His direction. The ministry in South Africa still continues to be a part of the work started by Jesus Restoration Ministries along with friends and partners who obeyed the Lord in supporting this ministry. Dr. Christopher Salina, Pastor Joanna and Josiah will be visiting the mission field on the third week of May 2010. The children’s ministry continues to grow along with the Church planting among the Zulu people. Our desire is to continue to support the workers who have taken our place in serving the poor who are faithfully attending the Worship Service and feeding program for the children.
With God’s help and your continued support we will be sending help and visiting the mission field at least two months a year. At this time we are helping Pastors Juan & Denise Balbuena at the One Accord Christian Ministries in Florida. Please pray for traveling mercies. We are believing the Lord to meet all of our financial needs. Do stand with us in prayer for our next mission trip. The Lord has been good to us and we are grateful to have friends and family who believe in what we do. “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” Matthew 24:14 Thank you so much!
Love Pastor Christopher, Joanna and Josiah Salina

The foundations of this world are trembling and almost in every nation on the earth, so many are living in panic.  Jesus has encouraged us over 2000 years ago that in the middle of a troubled world, “Let not your heart be troubled,” and He also said” see that ye be not troubled,” …(John14:1, Matthew 24:6)The people of the world are asking, “what are we going to do in these troubled times?” We are going to look to the Lord God to intervene in the midst of the famine like He did for Joseph (Genesis 41-47).  We are going to believe the Lord God to intervene for us like He did for Esther and the Jewish people who were facing annihilation and they fasted for three days and three nights for divine intervention (Esther 1-8).

Recently our son was sharing a message at his school during chapel service and he said something under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that caught our attention.  He said to the student body: think of anything you need right now.  It doesn’t matter what is going on in your world, the Word of God has an answer for everyone of our situations if anyone of us would truly look to the Word of God.  He was sharing from Psalms 119 that day. I’m reminded of Philippians 4:19, “My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  “What a comparison! all our needs compared to the Lord’s inexhaustible supply of riches in heaven.  Our heavenly Father has revealed to us in His Word that he controls all sources of supply, both the expected and the unexpected. 

There’s no need in anyone of us on this planet that can ever exceed God’s abundant supply.  God’s abundant supply is the same even when the world is being shaken up by earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, tornados, etc.  Jesus is still God in the bad times and the good times.  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. Father God is saying to Christians all over this troubled world, that though there be wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilence and earthquakes in various places, you can still look to the Lord and rejoice for your redemption is drawing near. If we are truly looking unto Jesus who is our strength and our source, we can go through all without fear of things to come, without losing our faith, and without being denied the presence of God, peace of God, the provision of God, the protection of God, and the promotion of God. 

Father God is going to take care of us far beyond whatever we can think or imagine according to His unlimited miracle working power expressed through the life, death, burial, ressurection, ascension, glorification, and return of the Lord Jesus Christ” …Behold, the Lord comes with thousands of His saints to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds….(Jude 1:14-15).

Thank you for partnering with us. Since our last update we have planted a new church amongst the Zulu people in our community. The opening day was on the 8th of March 2009.  Along with the help of Bishop Rufus Ellappa, the pastoral leadership and congregation of Firm Foundation Community Church we started Sunday Worship Service.  The new congregation that has been established needs your continuous prayers and support.  On March 14th we had the privilege of Baptizing 17 new converts. The women’s Bible study on tuesday mornings has grown from 20 to about 60 in attendance,  We have trained Zanele, a young widow to lead the Bible study and preach the Word of God to those who are gathering together for the services during the week.  The Saturday children’s feeding program is still growing strong.  We thank God for the volunteers from Firm Foundation C.C. who assist in meeting the needs of over 100 children from the surrounding community.  The name of the Church is Sinakekele which means “Taking good care of us”.As of the 8th of April my family and I have returned to America, Through much prayer we feel that the Lord has directed us back to this nation for a season.   We have partnered with Graeme Weber Ministries from Durban, South Africa to start a missionary training center in order to take teams overseas for short and long term missions.  The unfolding of this vision will take time and effort along with the support and prayers of those who believe in what we are doing to reach men and women who sense the call of God to be missionaries and who are  willing to depend upon the Holy Spirit for their support in reaching out to the lost and coming alongside us in bringing hope to a people who feel that no one cares about them.

At present we feel an urgent need to educate the Church in America about the dangers of the Jihadist movement and to intercede more than ever for the wisdom of God to sound the alarm and come out of our comfort zone.  This is the time for God’s people to unite with one voice against the religions of force and violence.  Be encouraged as we pray that light will overcome  darkness; love will overcome hatred; good will overcome evil and that truth and righteousness will prevail. Your prayers and assistance liberate us and makes it possible for us to fulfill the call of God in our generation.

Yours in Christ’s service,
Christopher, Joanna and Josiah

The Holy Sprit is weaving and we are learning to start cleaving–leaving the old order of things in order to start cleaving to the new order of things in the Holy Spirit. We are not breaking down! We are breaking through and through. Thanks for all your love and prayer support. The Holy Spirit will help each of us to be aggressive mentally, to think about and put into practice His will for our lives and in so doing we here on the mission field and you there on the home field claim in every way the victory of the precious blood of Jesus over all satanic forces in the mighty name of Jesus.