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History of Christ For All Nations
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Testimony of Lazelle Powell
Founder and Director

God has always dealt strongly in my life. Even at an early age I felt the need of repentance and to live a Godly life. I made my confession of faith receiving Jesus into my heart at eleven years old. I received Him but I did not know Him personally or what He expected of me, until I received the Baptism in The Holy Spirit in my early twenty's. That is when He became the Lord of my life. My desire from that day forward has been one of complete dedication and service to Him.
I am a mother of seven wonderful children. All have made professions of faith. They have not all made Jesus Lord but my prayers never cease to remind God of His promises for my children. and all of my seed. There are fourteen grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. I challenge you to get busy for the Lord and not make excuses, no matter what age you are or condition you find yourself in.
As my children came along I was their missionary and always had them in church and taught them about the Lord Jesus. I held positions as a Superintendent, Sunday School Teacher, Women's Missionary Union President. Along with the many positions in the church I always had prayer meetings in my home.
Joy filled my heart upon seeing my husband accept Jesus as his Lord and Saviour. In May of 1978 he went to be with the Lord. He always told me, "I know what you would do if anything ever happened to me. You would be a missionary". He knew my unfailing love for my Lord. One year after his death I enrolled in Bible College at Christ for The Nations in Dallas.
After graduation from Christ For The Nations in 1981 I stayed and worked for about three years. I did Christian counseling as an intern. Then my youngest daughter graduated from school. That was my main reason for staying after I graduated. During this time I would go out on different overseas mission trips, traveling into war torn Lebanon, Israel and Jamaica.
There was a small group of us ladies that wanted to be missionaries and to do something for the Lord. There was about eight of us and we formed a organization called His Kingdom Extended. So once in a while we would come out  to New Mexico as a group to minister to the Navajos.
Don Compton has the Shalom Ministry in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He owned the house I live in now. It was empty then but he would let groups like ours come out and stay for awhile. There was this one Navajo lady and her husband that would work with us. When we came we would just go visit them to let them know we had arrived. Then people would come and we stayed busy teaching and counseling.
One of our group knew a lady that owned over a thousand acres of land in this area. She asked this lady if she would give us five acres of land for our ministry and she did. On our trip back to Dallas we where praising the Lord. Coming back on our next trip we decided that we really needed a confirmation from God before we tried to establish a work here. So we put a "fleece" out. We decided we would go ask the lady for a total of ten acres of land in stead of five. If she gave us ten acres then we would know that God really wanted us to come here. That night we went to see her. She asked me to go ahead and type up the papers for her to sign. The ten acres where signed over to us. We all where praising the Lord that night! This is the property where the Dome is now at.
When we came out we didn't have supporters. We all came out as a group, each one would put two hundred dollars a month in for the expenses. That was how we made it. We got here and started working. We rented and lived in the Shalom House.
As the years went by one by one of our group left. One lady was killed in an auto accident. One went to the foreign mission field. One after another of the group left for this place or that until I was the only one left living here at Shalom House. Over this time period we got the shell of the Dome building up. Now I was a lady living alone on a widows check of four hundred dollars and some cents a month. I look back and I am just amazed at what God has done! I didn't even know where the next house payment was coming from besides utilities, food and other needs.
The Lord gave me such a deep burning burden for the Navajo I just could not leave. The Lord gave me the strength to be steadfast and unmovable even when there was no one left in Lybrook. So much has happened over the years that I have been here and many of those years living alone. Many, many wonderful things have happen through the years! Also many, many hardships and trials. So much to tell. I now am in the process of writing a book that I hope to share in the near future.
The faithfulness of my Lord Jesus Christ has always provided through His people. They have given of their time and means and now there stands a large 45'dome with a school room attached. This is where the Academy classes are held. We have fifteen students and three or four home students. There are classes from 1st grade to the 12th grade. Two buildings now house the summer groups that come in to minister. Staff live in the dome and in other buildings now on the property. We purchased Shalom House for the ministry in 1992. This was another miracle of the Lord to make this purchase. Many teachers and licensed ministers have gone out from CFAN and are taking the Gospel to other parts of the reservation and to other states.
All the glory goes to my Lord Jesus Christ who has done all these things and has made Christ For All Nations what it is today!
 
PREACHING THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND TEACHING THOSE THINGS WHICH CONCERN THE LORD JESUS CRIST WITH ALL CONFIDENCE, NO MAN FORBIDDING HIM. Acts 28:31

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