IRENE GLEESON

Oct 9

CKS & Exodus3v8 Australian Tour.

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{ EXODUS 3v8 ARTISTS will be here Nov 5 to Dec 6 2010 }

WHERE to MEET the TEAM: Irene Gleeson AO

EXODUS 3V8 crew: George Lubega , Motta Gilbert , Titus Winyi , Christopher Nyero ,

CKS Chief Admin John Paul Kiffasi

NSW

Fri 5 Nov 7pm - APPRECIATION DINNER Harbord Diggers 9451 3463

Sat 6 Nov 7pm - CONCERT DeeWhy Baptist 0423 724 856

Sun 7 Nov 10am,6.30pm - Pittwater Uniting Church, Warriewood 9997 2386

Tues 9 Nov 10am PROBUS CLUB Carlingford 9817 2009

Fri 26 Nov 10am AGLOW Turramurra 8004 0717

Fri 3 Dec 11am Belrose morning tea 9451 3463

Fri 3 Dec 7pm CONCERT St Stephen's Church Belrose 0423 724 856

Sat 4 Dec 12-4pm Water's Edge Formal lunch, Walsh Bay $100

Sun 5 Dec 9.30am Revival Life Centre, Penshurst 9546 6996

Mon 6 Dec EXODUS 3V8 crew leave for Africa.

Sun 9 Jan 10am C3 Balmain 9810 9176

Sun 9 Jan 5pm Northern Beaches Christian, Mona Vale 9940 0133

Sun 16 Jan 9.30am C3 South, Miranda 9522 4722

Tues 18 Jan 11am St Stephen's, Belrose 9452 2589

BALLINA

Fri 12 Nov 7.30pm Rivercity Church, Ballina 0405 192 744

QUEENSLAND

Sat midday Hazel Cox, Paradise Point 0433 427 147

Sat 13 Nov 7pm LIFE PLACE Church, West End 0412 423 474

Sun 14 Nov 9.30am Grace Fellowship, Nerang (07) 5593 2113

Sun 14 Nov 6.30pm CITIPOINTE Church, Mansfield (07) 3343 8888

SOUTH AUST. all enquiries (08)8278 8666

Fri 19 Nov, Village Well Church 8278 8666

Sat 20 Nov 8 am Breakfast Meeting

Sat 20 Nov CONCERT & BARBIE 6pm Blackwood Church of Christ,

Sun 21 Nov 10am Blackwood Church of Christ

Sun 21 Nov 6pm The Source Church 8339 2121

CANBERRA

Sun 28 Nov10am C3 Monash 6298 5900

WAGGA WAGGA

Mon 29 Nov 7pm CONCERT Wagga Plaza Theatre, Narrandera 0432 698 230

Tues 30 Nov 7pm CONCERT Commercial Club, Wagga "

COME & SAY 'HI'. IRENE & EXODUS 3V8 CREW WOULD LOVE TO SEE U.

Mon Dec 6 EXODUS 3v8 crew flew to Uganda. Irene is still in Oz with several meetings you can meet her.

Oct 9

Exodus3v8 sings another new song 'We are Rising.'

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Oct 9

EXODUS sings his new song: I AM BORN AGAIN, NEVER GONNA' HAVE TO MOURN AGAIN'

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Oct 9

Exodus 3v8 presents independence day concert at cks community church

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Sep 26

CKS U&me rescue Cinderella children from the ashes of war in Uganda, E.AFRICA..currently 8000 in CKS full daycare schools.

Recently interviewed on NTV.

Sep 26

COME & SEE GODLOVE IN ACTION.

God named KITGUM, through the British colonialists, in the 1800s, long before you or I were born.
'Kit' means 'rock' , referring to the red volcanic rock found on the numerous hills throughout the area which butts the mountains of Sudan.
'Gum' means 'blessing', alluding to the rich volcanic soil, and mineral deposits found there. Mica, quartz & gold, yet untapped, glitter across the landscape.

KITGUM = Rock of Blessing. And now we are seeing the name is apt.

But it took 20 years of my life, praying & fasting in spiritual warfare, as well as CKS U&me raising practical support, through providing food, medicine, building schools and waterbores , churches and housing for thousands of war affected children.

CHILDCARE - Kitgum Servants (CKS)..what we do, where we do it and who we are. Currently 3000 donors, 400 Ugandan staff and myself onsite. We rescue Cinderella children from the ashes of war.

The agrarian community of 3 million have just emerged from 30 years of war. I shared their pain, weeping with them each new dawn when they staggered from their mud huts, wailing for their stolen sons and daughters.
Families were brutally divided, their children abducted, marched into the bush, brutalised and forced to return as machete and gun wielding zombies.

100,000 innocent children were 'recruited' into the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army).
Noone knows the numbers of youth and children who died, their lifeblood soaking into the sand. But we watched Government helicopters fly overhead, pursuing the demonised army. Or shuddered at the sound of ground troops firing RPGs. Or listened, aghast, as escaped children told stories of wanton cruelty: cannibalism and executions of recaptured child escapees by child soldiers.

We wondered if there was an end to this hell on earth. Our trust in a loving, powerful God wavered.
We cried desperate prayers, hot with tears.

And God heard.
Local leaders like Bishop Ochola, and Father Carlos, and Brigadeer Brown heading Govt. troops, met and negotiated with the rebel leaders.
Also a powerful spiritual front raised its banner. Intercessors led by Pastor Laban of Kampala, supported Pastor Julius Peter Oyet in his courageous effort to confront the spiritual armies of wickedness on their own turf.
Pastor Oyet led his delegation through the bush to the sacrificial altar sites on high mountains, where the rebel leader, Joseph Kony, regularly prayed to receive his powers.The delegation and military escorts held their breath as Pastor Oyet prayed and drank from the 'sacred' spring. Until that moment, even animals who had touched the water died. But the delegation watched as the preacher drank and then invited astonished soldiers to descend into the water and be baptised.

God gave me His promise:

'Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord weep before the altars. Let them say 'Have pity and spare Your people. Do not give our lands to shame so that heathen tribes rule over us.
Why should they mock us and say, "Where is their God"...
God answered " I will remove far from you the northern army. I will drive them into the desert.....
Your granaries will overflow. And I will restore to you the years that the 'locust' has stolen...
And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied . And praise the name of the Lord Your God, as I deal wondrously with you. My people will never again be put to shame...
Afterward, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh...
All before the great and terrible Day of the Lord comes..."
Joel 2v17-32

CKS U&me, we are privileged to be chosen as participants in God's amazing plan for the population of Kitgum. THe Rock of Blessing is smiling and working through our hands, our hearts, our words.

Sep 11

CKS son George Lubega aka EXODUS 3V8

Spearheading CKS program for rehabilitating ex child soldiers, a program called GUNS4GUITARS, is E.Africa's TOP GOSPEL ARTIST, EXODUS 3V8.

George is on CKS staff as Creative Arts Officer. In 2008 he fasted for 40 days, then wrote his 1st song based on his experiences living as a streetchild and in Kampala ghettoes, after his mother died when he was aged 10 years.

His song 'Ganjaman" hit top of the charts in 1 week and stayed there for 6 months.

Youth in north Uganda are inspired by George's strong Christian values. They see personally that God has raised the streetkid from the pit, and set him high on the Rock (JESUS).

George does not limit his ministry to within church walls, but weekly sings gospel to disco patrons in city clubs. Many lives are changed as a result of his visits into their world.

As God opened more doors for EXODUS 3V8, he has performed with Kirk Franklin, Donnie McClurkin, Papa San and for UN functions.

He will tour 5 states in Australia Nov 5 to Dec 5, 2010, performing his latest tracks and promoting CKS.

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Sep 11

Prophetic dream given to my friend Tammy. Watch it happen!!

"About 8 years ago, God gave me a vision, of African men, standing infront of a boom-gate, at an airport. They were waving their passports above their heads, and praying feverishly, to be let through the boom gate, through the airport, and onto the plane to get to their God given destination.

The Holy Spirit said to pray for their release. I asked Him what for, and He said for them to be released into Australia. They were Pastors, Apostles, Evangelist, etc. Called of God for Australia. Then I asked Him why. He was explicitly clear. He said, because they will know how to deal with the physical persecution (Violence) and spiritual persecution, that is coming to Australia. He then whispered a Muslim image to my spirit, ie, that is where the persecution would be coming from.

A matter of months later, the topic of conversation came up with a friend who worked for Brother Andrew Ministries. I told her the vision, and she began weeping. She said that 10 years prior, the Lord had told Brother Andrew, to start training up Pastors from Africa, to hold up Australians, in a time of physical and spiritual persecutions, from Muslim influences that is coming! And they had just been discussing strategies on how to get these Pastors in to Australia. She was an administrator there, who was working on adminstrative tasks, which involved this program, to train pastors to send here to Australia, etc. Great confirmation.

I have been in the US for the past 5 years, and have just returned to Australia. I have been astounded at the monumental, and rapid growth of the Muslim community here. Just astonishing. I see Muslim men, walking the streets in Dee Why, praying over them!. But I am also seeing more and more African men and women here too.

Every time I have seen Exodus in pictures, I keep seeing this MIGHTY annointing on him, that is dynamic, powerful, and most importantly of all, slippery with Godly oil. It's like no matter how hard the enemy tries to squeeze on him, to get hold of him, he slips through his hands like a slippery grape! This may sound funny, but it's not about Exodus, it's about those who are coming behind him.

Exodus is like a spear head, a praiser on the front line, that is going to break through into other nations, where it is so needed (In wealthy countries). God will use him as a mouth piece, for many more to start listening. I sense God is using him, to be the spear head, that will release a mighty army behind him, into first world countries, like America, Australia, and even Europe. And this is just the start, only just the start of you seeing a harvest, and the enormity of what God has really called/used you to do.

I sense that what God has called you to in Africa, the purpose of everything God has called you to, is about to be revealed in it's fullness and divine purpose. 20 years of chipping at a mighty dam wall, with a little hammer. That tiny little hole has been made, and the mighty pressure, weight, and power of God is about to coming rushing through it, break down the wall, and flood through the continents.

It's like God sent you to the orphans to minister to the children, but the ultimate purpose, was for you to be a spear head for Africa, and for the globe, to sow spiritual and physical seed, to grow up men and women in His army in Uganda, that will raise up the church through out the world, and ultimately be a rescue to a sleeping church in first world countries. For strategic end time purposes, against the Anti-Christi Spirit.

You have carried the burden of millions. But the very ones who you have carried for so many years, are going to go out, and recruit the support of millions, and they will now carry you. I hear the Lord saying, the seed has died, and I have super naturally caused it to multiply thousands of times over. I saw a picture of you with a baton in your hand, on a front line. You put it down, and instead of one other person coming to pick it up, literally a whole army of countless thousands rushed forward to pick it up. WOW!

The Holy Spirit also just said that He has used you, to cripple principalities. I sense a deep, deep rest and refreshment is coming for your mind, body and spirit, like you have never experienced before.

I don't claim to have a full revelation of anything, I am human, and I only know in part. But I do hope it has been of some value to you.

You're all deeply embeded on my heart. Please let me know of specific needs you have. I will do what ever I can to meet them.
Lots of love,

Tammy

Jul 9

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Jul 9

CKS Artist paints murals on CKS community Church walls

20 years ago, small boy Everest Otto gathered with other war traumatised children for Grandmum Irene's school under the mango tree every day.

He watched intently as I turned the pagers of picture books.The children smiled and chattered as they viewed cartoon animals wearing clothes.

"Oh, yes,"I explained. "Australian animals wear clothes."

Their voices raised, the children sung in halting English and tried to mimic my actions.

Little by little they learned to sing "Jesus loves me.This I know, for the Bible tells me so." Another favourite was "I'm so glad Jesus set me free..Satan had me bound, but Jesus set me free."

As I looked over the children, I could see that miracles were needed to transform their diseased, malnourished bodies into healthy.

Their nights disturbed by marauding rebels kicking in the doors of their flimsy mudhuts, or even worse, setting fire to their grass roofs, the children gathered courage from these few hours of daylight, singing and seeing pictures of a world beyond their trauma.

Weakened by malaria, isolated and depressed, as I daily trudged the dirt roads to several 'schools under the trees', I never fully appreciated the impact I was making in young lives.

As I look at the result: healthy young people, equipped with unique skills, now in their twenties with families of beautiful children, I can say CHILDCARE - Kitgum Servants was God's idea which He enabled this humble servant to perform.

Among many outstanding graduates is our artist Everest Otto. CKS trained him in carpentry, training that developed his sense of scale, but almost cost him his life. Sponsored to study at a technical college 20 kms distant from town, their school was targeted by rebels several times.

One dark night, in the playground rebels were tying with rope the students under 14years of age. Everest and his peers at 16 years of age were considered past the age of brutal indoctrination. At gunpoint they were forced to lay face down on their dormitory floor while rebels prepared to throw hand grenades into their midst.

God intervened. A baby started crying outdoors which alerted the few slumbering army guards. Gunfire zapped across the night sky.Students and rebels fled in all directions. Everest's life was saved for a higher purpose.

His sketches caught my attention. So he attended Michelangelo's School of Art for several years where his natural talent was honed.

Many of the CKS community church congregation are illiterate villagers. As they have spent the past 20 years barely surviving during war, many times they miss the richness of bible stories.

Everest is bringing them alive on our church walls. His latest, the crucifixion scene, has caused many people to fall weeping on the ground. Some have risen to their feet, healed and delivered.

One of Everest's paintings now hangs on the wall of Hollywood singer Andrae' Crouch. It was delivered by producer of our DVD Cinderella Children, my 'mediterranean man' Grant Windle.

CKS pays Everest $50 Au per week. If you would like to supplement this, you can commission him through my email.