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Teaching

Salvation Column

Directive

Religion and Science

Experiences of Faith

Actuality

Angola: Pioneer inNatural Agriculture

in Africa

Pg. 3

Messianics tell storiesabout the practice ofthe Home Natural

Garden

Pgs. 4 & 5

Cases solvedwith Johrei

Pg. 7

Messianicpractices

Pg. 7

Solar dehydrationof fruits – A viable

alternative foragriculture in the

family

Pg. 8

Mission: purify Africa throughJohrei and Natural Agriculture

In order to rescue the wealth of the African continent, the

Worldwide Messianic Church in Africa – IMMA – is investing into

Natural Agriculture. In answer to important questions, the

president, Rev. Francisco Jesus Fernandes speaks about the

development of the three agricultural poles – Bom Jesus,

Cacuaco and Caxito -, the implementation of the Agricultural

School, the campaign for the Home Natural Garden and about

his dream of seeing the

continent inhabited by

healthy, prosperous and

happy men and women.

Pgs. 4 & 5

The MessianicChurch sows

life

WORLD MESSIANIC CHURCH – CENTRAL AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS YEAR 2 – AUGUST 2009 – #5

Johrei News

WORLD MESSIANICCHURCH IN AFRICA

Interviewwith Dr.

ErnestinaCoimbra

The MessianicChurch sows

lifePgs. 6 & 7

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Teaching

editorial

The Worldwide Messianic Church,founded in Japan in 1935 and havingthree million followers around the world,came to Africa in 1991. In eighteen yearsit has already gathered 150 thousandbelievers and thousands of miracles. Manyof them performed with theimplementation of Natural Agriculture inthe continent. At present, our Churchcounts on three Agricultural Poles, is aboutto implement an Agricultural School andhas already given orientation in thedevelopment of fifteen thousandhomegrown natural gardens. Because ofthat, our president, Rev. Francisco JesusFernandes, answers some questions aboutthe Natural Agriculture subject anddeclares his great dream of seeing Africainhabited by healthy, prosperous and happyindividuals, rescuing its original wealth.

Since Angola was the pioneering country inthe adoption of messianic agricultural method,there is an article with a retrospect of whathas already been done and with technicalexplanations from the minister responsiblefor this sector in the Worldwide MessianicChurch of Africa – IMMA, Min. MarquesZambo Bambi.

Besides Natural Agriculture, the messianicphilosophy is based in solid concepts.Answering about religion and science, Dr.Ernestina Coimbra, integral part of theSecretary of Scientific Research and of theIMMA Board of Directors, explains the profileof the persons who seek our Church, themessianic practices, the mission of Johrei, theimportance of the natural diet, the cure ofillnesses and the solution of problems that addquality and well being to the life of suchpersons. The ones to confirm this are exactlyseven individuals that lived suchtransformation and told what happened.

To finalize, an article about the SolarDehydration of fruits. Good reading anduntil the next issue.

Johrei News is produced by the Worldwide MessianicChurch – Central African Headquarters – Luanda, AngolaRegister: MCS - 390/B/2004

President: Rev. Francisco Jésus Fernandes

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Food and Nourishment

I would like to warn the specialists that there is nothing as wrong as today’s food

and nutrition.

They changed them into academic theories, too distant from reality. I’ve done, for

over ten years, deep researches about the subject and, surprisingly, the obtained

results were exactly the opposite of what Dietetic recommends. I will explain them

based in my own experience.

Till fifteen or sixteen years ago I was a great enthusiast of meat and my dinner,

almost always, consisted of western food based in this kind of food or, eventually,

Chinese food. According to nutritionists, this kind of food is the closest to the ideal,

but at that time I was skinny and would easily become ill. I constantly had the flu,

stomach problems and there wasn’t a single month when I didn’t have to go to a

doctor. In order to improve my health, I tried all the fashionable treatments at the

time and some other practices, such as deep breathing, cold water bathing,

meditation and so on. They had some effect, but not enough to improve my physical

condition.

When I learned that meat wasn’t good, I returned to eating Japanese food, which

consisted in vegetables and fish. My weight then increased from 125 to 134 pounds,

in two or three years; at the same time I became more resistant to the flu. I even

forgot that I had stomach and intestinal problems and, for the first time, I felt the

joy of having a good health. From then on, and this has been going for over ten

years, I have always been working with quite a disposition.

I then decided to try the method with more than ten people in my family, including

my six children, and had good results, being able to banish the ghost of illness from

my home. Most interesting was trying to feed them with a diet poor in protein

elements. Thus, I asked my wife and my maid to feed the children with poor meals.

We used 70% refined rice, a lot of vegetables and, eventually fish, but only salted

salmon, dried sardines and common fish. Besides those, “ochazuke” (tea soaked

rice) or “shiomussubi” (salted rice balls) accompanied by Japanese pickles or still,

home made “norimaki” (rice balls wrapped in algae) and so on. Meals that,

according to the Dietetic viewpoint, lack in protein content.

The result was surprising: During their elementary and high school years, my

children had one of the best physical bearings. Their nourishment was good

because, from the oldest, sixteen years old, to the youngest, four years old, none

had any serious illness. Every year they monopolized the frequency award at school

for not missing a single day.

Taking advantage of the valuable experience obtained through this practice, I tried

the same method in hundreds of people that sought me since I began to care for

the ill, for the last eight years. The results were, without exception, excellent. The

meals based in green vegetables have been very effective in the case of people with

pulmonary problems and pleurisies. Therefore, I would like doctors to research how

this diet is beneficial to such cases.

From the facts I exposed, you will be able to see that the Dietetic, with is vertiginous

progress these days, presents a fundamental error. I am not shy to point it out,

because it is a serious problem from health’s viewpoint. I firmly warn, not only those

who study the subject, but also everyone in general. If this new food I’ve been

defending becomes common practice, it will be great good news, even from a

national economy viewpoint. Our county’s farmers have physical resistance to work

because they have a poor diet; should they begin to eat meat, which has a high

protein value, I guarantee that they wouldn’t be able to endure farming work.

Meishu-Sama – June 1935

IMM

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Salvation Column

Angola:Pioneer in African Natural Agriculture

Part of the Western coast of

Africa, bordered by three

countries and by the Atlantic

Ocean, Angola was the

first nation of the African

continent to implement

the messianic method of

Natural Agriculture

The agronomistMarques ZamboBambi is theministerresponsable forthe developmentof the NaturalAgriculture inAfrica.

The majority of illnesses is an exclusiveconsequence of a wrong diet or of

anti-natural feeding habits.

The first signs of this challenge appeared in 1994, aresult of isolated initiatives made at the Kikolo district,close to Luanda, which had the purpose of trying theagricultural method proposed by the WorldwideMessianic Church.

In order to explain what is Natural Agriculture we haveto start with its basic principle, which is the soil. It isof general knowledge that soil is a product from theCreator of the Universe and, in planet Earth’s case; itis used to cultivate cereals and vegetables, importantfood for the maintenance of human life.

Its nature is, therefore, mysterious and impossible tobe unraveled by the science of matter. Today,unknowingly, agriculture ended up taking a wrongpath and, as result, it demeaned the power of the soil,concluding that to be able to get better results, it isnecessary to employ manure, chemical fertilizers andother products that weaken the soil.

It was this way that soil’s nature gradually degraded,undergoing changes already quite visible in many partsof earth’s globe, where farmers complain about it, dueto the inactivity of their fields. Logically, the immediateconsequence was the diminishing of the original soil’sstrength.

Today, this is still not perceived in its greater dimensionbecause many people still think that that the cause ofbad harvests is the absence of fertilizers. With this kindof creed, Man ends using them in progressively greaterquantities, which further reduce the soil’s strength,nature’s own strength of generating the essentialnutrients that feed the earth.

In Angola, the use of fertilizers still doesn’t affect agreat part of its tillable territory, but it is known thatthat the tendency of agricultural expansion is likely toprioritize the use of agro toxics in its respectivedevelopment programs. It is also known that researchesdone in the soil of coastal provinces and in some sitesof South Kwanza and Huambo, show that in those

regions, soils with an accentuated salinity and/or acidity,predominate.

In August 2000, the Worldwide Messianic Church ofAngola was given by the Government a piece of land ofabout 10.5 hectares at the region of Bom Jesus, provinceof Bengo, which in Colonial times had been used forthe cultivation of sugar cane. At the time, the soil wasseverely affected by chemical products such as urea,and ammonium sulfate and the land was refered ashaving a very saturated soil. To these days, there arestill certain places where it is visible how the soil wasquite acidic.

The Worldwide Messianic Church’s Minister,responsible for the Natural Agriculture in Africa,Marques Zambo Bambi, guarantees that, with the useof the Messianic method of Natural Agriculture, theparts of unproductive soils began to gain life and thatit has already been possible to recover eighty percent ofthe vitality of the soil at the Experimental AgriculturalPole of Bom Jesus.

In order to enable this work, he explained, the BomJesus land went through several recovery steps, basicallywith the cultivation of food that, at the same time,would feed the soil itself, He told that, initially, theytried to cultivate corn, because it was the food mostconsumed by the population, at a time quite known fora fierce war, that is, in 2000. The Minister said thatcorn was tried because it was a culture that could beharvested in 70 days. This basic work was repeated forthree consecutive years, keeping pace with the in-crease in cultivated area. Since corn quickly respondedin this soil recovery, later, tomato, yucca, yam, cabbageand eggplant were introduced. At present, we areexperimenting with the culture of ‘rena’ potatoes.

Another goal in experience in the Natural Agriculturepractice is the production of fruit. Papaya, mango,pineapple, passion fruit, banana and guava are the bigreferences in the experimental field of the Bom JesusNatural Agriculture.

In accordance with an ancient medical experiment andwith the actual scientific knowledge, the majority ofillnesses are an exclusive consequence of a wrong dietor of anti-natural eating habits, kept and encouragedfor such a long time that caused chronic illnesses and

pains of all kinds, reducing and even destroying ourvital power or our joy for life.

ACHIEVED RESULTS

Minister Bambi explains that, when you start doingNatural Agriculture on land where too much chemicalproducts were used, recovery is slow. “The seeds weresown and it was noticeable that the soil was too acidicand the growth was not normal. The final product wasof an inferior quality”.

As the work progressed, we began to notice somedifference in the plant’s vitality and in the soil’s change.“We also noticed changes in the quality of the product,the presence of worms in the soil, the change of thevegetation itself in the soil and that a plant can reachthe height of 4 to 6 inches by the 20th or 30th day, butthat after three years it already has a different stance”,tells Minister Bambi.

THE EXPANSION OF NATURAL AGRICULTURE

According to Minister Bambi, the best way to expandthe NA is to teach the method to the members andvisitors and even to the non-visitors of the messianicinstitution, mainly to the producers of the society. Itis also necessary to regularly orient and follow up onthem. He says that the Pole reveives visitors from alllayers and gives help to all producers, be they nationalor foreign. The important thing is for the person toproduce and obtain a product one hundred percentnatural, that doesn’t use any kind of chemical additive.

“Another way we saw to encourage the expansion ofthis method is the practice of the homegrown NaturalGarden. We orient the producers and faithful of ourinstitution to tell everybody (neighbors, friends,colleagues) to practice the homegrown Natural Garden”,states the Minister.

Natural Agriculture is visible incounties such as Angola, Mozam-bique, South Africa, DemocraticRepublic of Congo, and the Repu-blic of São Tomé and Principe.Presently it is starting in Nigeria,through the homegrown NaturalGarden and, in the Republic ofZambia, one member has alreadybeen formed in order to give theinitial kickoff of the homegrownNatural Garden practice and thussupport the local producers.

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Directive

Rev. Francisco Jésus Fernandes says that the time has come for theAfricans to change their guns for hoes in order to build a healthy,prosperous and happy life.

In the beginning the soil was fertile. With enough space to produce food for many people, we ask

why there is of so much hunger, poverty and illnesses. In order to rescue the wealth of the

continent, the Worldwide Messianic Church of Africa is investing in Natural Agriculture. Here, its

President, Reverend Francisco Jésus Fernandes, answers important questions about its development.

1 Conceição Ferraz DalaJohrei Nucleus at Samba – Luanda, Angola

My cousin had cough, asthma and sinus problems. For over 5 months Ihave been telling her to come with me to the Church to receive Johreiand practice Sonen, but she always ignored me. One day, I went to visither and found her anxious and in pain. I invited her to pray and to do ahomegrown natural garden but she refused, saying she was too busy. Ithen invited her niece. As we began to work the soil I kept visualizing mycousins and all their ancestors as if they were also dedicating. Whenfinished I returned home and, at my altar I thanked with a donation forthe dedication and, through the practice of Sonen, I led all ancestorsfrom that suffering family that were imprisoned to the negative feelingsof ignoring the Johrei. I asked the Messiah that they be forgiven, purified,saved and resurrected.That same night I dreamed of a man that told me:“I came from Brazil to thank you for your dedication efforts.” He alsotold me not to stop there and that he had asthma problems that werehealed with this dedication.

A week later I went back to my cousin’s house with flowers and, to mysurprise, when she saw me she asked me for the flowers and also forprayers and Johrei. Suddenly I heard a voice that said: “Don’t be afraid,keep on praying because we are all here.” I prayed and afterwards Ichanneled Johrei to the whole family. Presently she gratefully receivesJohrei and is willing to become a member. I learned that working withsoil we manage to rescue thousands of ancestors linked to it and thatMeishu-Sama is the Messiah awaited by humanity.

2 Daniel HuamboJohrei Center at Kikolo – Luanda, Angola

I am in charge of Natural Agriculture in this religious Unit. The mother of amember suffered with chronic cough for over four years. He came to see meworried, because he had already been to hospitals and quimbandas withoutsatisfactory results. After listening attentively to him, I gave him orientation tobegin getting natural foods produced at the Church’s homegrown natural garden.Two days later his mother stopped coughing and she is now completely cured. Atthe end of July, the responsible for the Johrei Nucleus at Paraíso requested somenatural products to be sold to his faithful. In response, I packed a box witheggplants. The adjunct responsible bought some and took home. As she prepareddinner in her backyard, she felt like going inside. When she went back outside,she didn’t find the eggplants and not even their shells. Instead of complaining,she thanked for the purification. The mother of the boy who had taken theeggplants prepared them for dinner, even though she didn’t know where theyhad come from and invited her neighbor to eat, the original “owner” of theeggplants. Although she had noticed that they were her eggplants, she ate themand said nothing. After eating, however, everybody in the house purified withdiarrhea. The boy who had taken the eggplants had a malignant tumor in hisbuttock for which, for over five years, he couldn’t find cure in hospitals. After thatdinner the tumor vanished. It was then that the boy confessed that he had takenthe eggplants from the neighbor’s house. His parents, moved by the miracle,sought her and, after listening to an explanation about the importance of naturalfood, the whole family awakened and was awarded. I learned that natural productscure any disease, even the chronic ones.

Messianic statements about the practice of the homegrown Natural Garden 3 Ilda CaialaJohrei Center

I already had a vegetamy house, saw it and aJesus, isn’t it?” When I Pole is already purifiedof the family lineage, w

He asked me to choosanother for my daughtThat night I had a dreasked: “Why did you omine?” I didn’t understwork the soil of his linefrom that dream very t

After the practice of happened: The frequeam responsible, increaup, knocking at the Unthe frequency was of 1know about the Churcwho was keeping my hthe next day; my car waamounted to twelve thosame day I got a call sadollars; the spiritual atmI showed my appreciatthe natural garden we dwho are in hell.

Mission: purify Africa with the JohMission: purify Africa with the Joh

JN: What do you mean by “purify Africa through Johrei and Natu-

ral Agriculture”?

Rev. Francisco: When I arrived in Angola, the countrywas at war. That was in November 11, 1991. Besidesthe soil being contaminated with agro toxics andchemical fertilizers it also contained, from impuritiesfrom spilled blood in the accumulated wars to thesweat from suffering slaves. The country was full ofdiseases, conflicts, poverty and hunger: sufferings thathave been accumulating for hundreds of years.

Kyoshu-Sama, the spiritual leader of our Church tells usthat among our ancestors, “there are many that must havebeen able to feel joy and gratitude for having had contactwith the Supreme God. Many, however, did not feelsuch joy and left this world without reaching the truespiritual peace.” We all know through history thatmillions of ancestors of the African people left thisworld under the agony of suffering.

We have a Human Nature that binds us to our ancestors.Their thoughts and emotions manifest within us at alltimes. We are important to them because we are thesum of them all. We are their representatives and, formany of them, a salvation cord, the only hope forsalvation.

Many of our ancestors who didn’t evolve, are still boundto earth. We found out through the Experiences of Faithof the persons who practice Johrei, Natural Agricultureand the homegrown Natural Garden, that many ancestorswho were suffering under the earth, are being able topurify and be saved.

We do the practice of Johrei! Johrei accelerates thepurification of the spirit. We do the march of theFlower-of-Light! The flower prepares the spiritualenvironment of the home. It has the power to thaw the

heart. We do the DeepReflection and the practiceof Sonen! The practice ofSonen is to clean all the ne-gative thoughts and feelingsof the ancestors, cultivatedwithin each individual. TheNatural Agriculture, howe-ver, is to clean the earth andthe body. The earth and thebody must be clean. If weaccelerate the NaturalAgriculture, we will be ableto purify the deepest roots ofour familial lineage. Theroots (ancestors) being saved,the descendants will also besaved.

JN: Besides the purification of the

familial roots, what are the other

benefits of the Natural Agriculture?

Rev. Francisco: The first one is the recovery of the soil.When the soil becomes alive and is loved and respected,it will respond positively. Natural Agriculture is a Divinerevelation to show Man how to treat the earth. The soilis alive. This is why the feeling of the producer isimportant. The soil is there to make people happy: thisis the mission of the farmer.

The second is the restoration of the true taste of thefood. That’s because that the farmer who loves the soil,respects it and doesn’t weaken it, produces foodsincreasingly tastier. One of the greatest pleasures of thehuman being is eating. These days, however, how manypeople can really feel the true taste of their food? Food

is there to make Man happy, for him to enjoy and tofeel the great love of God – the blessings from God.

The third is the respect for the environment. Presentlywe are afflicted wit the problem of desertification, thedepletion of forests, the erosion and the contaminatedwater. Natural Agriculture preserves the earth, respectsthe natural habitat of the living beings, preserves thewater, the forests, the species, creates purer seeds,anyway, it develops itself in harmony with the eco-system.

The fourth is the respect for the health of the farmerand the consumer. We have many people that went todedicate at the agricultural pole and recovered theirhealth. Many producers are seeking us. They feel that

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Material de Estudo

at Maculusso – Luanda, Angola

ble garden at home and when a missionary came toasked: “This soil is from the Agricultural Pole at Bomanswered yes, he said: “The soil from the Agricultural

d. Since the purpose is to deal with the deepest rootswe must use soil from our own home!”

se three vases, one for the Unit, one for myself andter. At the time I didn’t understand it but did as told.eam where my late husband showed up angry andnly do the natural garden for your lineage and not fortand his attitude. Then he ordered me to immediatelyeage. I then began to strongly stir the soil. I woke upired, sweating and crying.

the homegrown natural garden, many changesncy at the Nelito Soares Johrei Nucleus, for which I

ased from zero to five. Next day, five visitors showednit’s door to attend to the morning service. That day0 people, including a neighbor who never wanted to

ch and came to receive Johrei. Besides that, A manusband’s identity card and documents returned themas about to be auctioned at customs due to taxes thatousand dollars which I hadn’t been able to pay. Thatying that the dues had been reduced to three thousand

mosphere at my house and at the Nave also improved.tion with a donation. I learned that by the practice ofdeal with the deepest roots of our lineage of ancestors

5 Fernandes António FulaJohrei Center at Rocha Pinto – Luanda, Angola

I dedicate as an adjunct Head Minister of the Johrei Center atRocha Pinto. At the end of January, after receiving orientationfrom Rev. Francisco Jésus Fernandes about building the Paradiseon Earth through natural agriculture, I decided that same day tobe the first to materialize this orientation so that I could laterorient other people. I gathered my family and we grew a naturalgarden at home. At night I dreamed that my vegetable gardenwas so big that it extended from the crossing at Camama to theViana village.

Four days later I got news that my sister’s purification had intensified.It is important to emphasize here that my sister was already receivingJohrei, but in her haste to get better sooner, she instead went toquimbandas and later hospitals without, however, getting any better.On the contrary, her situation increasingly worsened until I got a callasking me to go to her house since she had no more hope to live.

Five minutes later they called me to tell me she had died. At thatmoment I practiced Sonen and prayed, materializing a gratitudedonation. Ten minutes later they called again to say that she hadjust resurrected. I thanked deeply and ran to her to channel Johrei.

After growing the natural garden at home my wife got from hernephew a refrigerator and a bookshelf; another nephew, who hadn’tcalled me in two years, called to tell me that he was getting betterfrom the illness he had had for decades and that now he was ableto work without difficulty. I learned that by following with convictionthe orientations from our superiors, we are casting the rope ofsalvation to our deepest roots, which are the cause for our suffering.

hrei and the Natural Agriculturehrei and the Natural Agriculturethey have gained a new life at a low cost. They come tous to learn about this system, without having to buyfertilizers and neither placing their lives at risk due tothe insecticides. Because of that, Natural Agriculture isconsidered by the Messianic Church one of the pillarsfor the salvation of humanity. We have many statementsfrom persons who, after changing their diet to organicfood, recovered their health, as we can verify furtheron.

JN: How does the Messianic Church intend to make society aware

and expand Natural Agriculture in Africa?

Rev. Francisco: We have three main goals: one is thedevelopment of Natural Agriculture Poles, another isthrough the campaign of the homegrown NaturalGarden and the third is the implementation of anAgricultural School.

At first, the members’ efforts and dedication in preparingthe soil in their own homes or other sites began togenerate a sincere and positive feeling towards theexpansion of Natural Agriculture. That went on tillthe Government graciously gave us plots to farm. TheBom Jesus Pole was the first and later came the Cacuacoand more recently the one at Caxito.

At Bom Jesus we are already getting close to be amodel. Many producers come to this pole to learn howto implement Natural Agriculture in their land. AtCacuaco, we will invest in reforesting and in producingwater, as for Caxito, since it is already a site with abetter preserved nature, we will invest into an agro-forest project, based in the reintegration of earth withforest, promoting the return to the natural habitat.Through these projects we have already started toachieve a great acceptance by society. They also serveas a reference for the expansion in other countries. Weare just beginning in Mozambique, in South Africa, inCongo and in São Tomé, but those countries aretaking advantage of the structural model of Angola inorder to be able to develop their projects faster.

Another project of wide social acceptance is theHomegrown Natural Garden Campaign. A work

integrated wit Johrei and the practice of Beauty. It isdone at the members’ homes and open to anyone whowishes to participate. The homegrown Natural Gardenis designed so that people can experience in their ownlives the benefits of a natural diet. When they acquirethis experience in their own homes, it becomes easierto expand natural agriculture. Today, in Angola, thereare practically fifteen thousand homegrown NaturalGardens and the results are spectacular: people beingable to experience the true flavor of food and becominghealthier.

The Homegrown Natural Garden supplies food topurify our body and to save the ancestor that is boundto earth and suffering within us. Because of that, we arecampaigning to create Paradise through NaturalAgriculture and the march of the Homegrown NaturalGarden. Now, united and helping one another, is thetime to replace guns for hoes! Now is the time to saveAfrica through Natural Agriculture!

When I say that it is the time to let go of guns to pickup hoes, I am referring to the people who will returnto the fields to work in the expansion of NaturalAgriculture. We have in Caxito, a project for theimplementation of an Agricultural School. As we formqualified people to develop Natural Agriculture, wewill be able to expand it into other countries and notonly in the African continent. This way, we will coverthe whole world.

At the Agricultural School we will form farmers thatrespect nature, the environment, human health and thatknow how to accomplish their projects in a sustainableway. Our purpose through this agricultural school isgive support to people so they can return to the fieldsand rescue this original vocation of the African people:work for the earth. Africa’s vocation is agriculture.

JN: What is your great dream with the development of NaturalAgriculture in Africa?

Rev. Francisco: We actually have one billion peoplestarving in the world. Therefore, in solving the issue offood, we will solve the problem of health. In Africa, thepath is not that of uncontrolled urbanization, but that

of the return of Man to earth, to work in NaturalAgriculture. As they produce foods that make peoplehappy, the feeling of gratitude for the African peoplewill grow. When this feeling spreads through the heartsof people, the salvation of the ancestors will also happen.This is the beginning of the end of the cycle of socialproblems that begin with hunger.

However, in order to solve this alimentary crisis, it isnot enough to increase farming, that is, to fill Africa upwith agro-toxics and fertilizers. The solution is toincrease the amount of healthy land. Many illnessesappear because of the lack of food, but they also appearbecause of the lack of healthy food. Because of that, it’snot enough to produce just more food; it is necessaryto produce more healthy food. We will, thus, becontributing for the salvation of Africa, be it in theagricultural aspect as well as in the socio-economic andhealth aspects.

I feel that through the Natural Agriculture, Africa willnot be seen anymore as the continent of hunger, but asthe continent of plenty. One day, Africa will feed theworld, not only for the quantity it produces, butmainly for its capacity of producing healthy food, withsuch quality that the whole world will want to buy.

Inside the word Africa, there is a sequence of fourletters that form another word: rica (rich). Therefore,Africa is rich in its essence, in its root. It becameimpoverished because its soil became poor.

“My great dream is to recover the

wealth of Africa through Natural

Agriculture and to see this

continent

inhabited by

healthy,

prosperous and

happy

individuals.”

4 Conceição JerónimoJ.N. at Chendovava Buraco – Luanda,Angola

As responsible for the Johrei Nucleus at ChendovavaBuraco and after seriously purifying last June, I hadspent too much energy recovering and no longer hadthe strength to dedicate. At the end of August I thoughta lot about the decline of the Johrei Nucleus and sawthat I was to blame and was taken by an urge to workthe soil. I called my children and began the dedicationof working the soil at my natural garden. After thankingbefore Meishu-Sama’s picture, I did a Deep Reflectiontogether with my children and I asked them why theydidn’t channel Johrei. They answered that they didn’tdo it because their mother (in that case, I) was bad.“The same hand that is used to channel Johrei is theone that hits us, the mouth that is used curse us is thesame mouth used to practice the Sonen”, theyexplained.

I decided to stop hitting them and, next day, ten friendsof my children plus forty-four visitors, totaling 54,showed up to receive Johrei, plus another sevenmembers who weren’t dedicating. I did a generalcleaning and gave away all the unneeded familyclothes. Then my husband got a salary raise and, athis workplace he was given two boxes of assorted newclothes. Besides that, the daily frequency of visitors isof 25 people. I learned that the natural garden, theDeep Reflection with my children and the cleaning werefundamental.

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Religion and Science

After seeking the cure of their illnesses in

traditional medicine, many individuals are

finding the solution for their problems

in the power of the Messiah

Meishu-Sama and in following

messianic practices.

TTTTThe Messianic Church sows lifeTTTTThe Messianic Church sows life

Due to the increasing interest of people and the

media about the progressive miracles promoted

by the Worldwide Messianic Church of Africa –

IMMA, Dr. Ernestina Olinda Prazeres Coimbra

answers the main questions presented about the

subject. Medical Doctor, with a degree by the

António Agostinho Neto University and a member

for seventeen years, presently part of the

Scientific Research Secretary and the Board of

Directors of IMMA, she explains the situation of

the per-sons who seek the Messianic Church

and the conveyed orientations. She gives a

retrospective of the worldwide health situation

and tells about the institution’s plans for the

African continent. The institution is present in

more than eighty countries and has over three

million followers. To prove her explanation,

she presents seven cases of persons who had

illnesses cured by following the messianic

practices.

JN: Is the Messianic Church against the use of prescription drugs?

Dr. Ernestina: It is not against it, but we all know thatmany voices are raised against products (drugs or food)that are harmful to human health. Included are thescientists and international institutions that controlthe quality of prescribed drugs. In Angola, we have therecent case of the syrups. The national health serviceswarned the public about the use of certain syrup ofCongolese origin. The side effects of the drugs must bedisclosed. They range from cardiovascular troublesand lethal liver cirrhosis to depression and suicide. Thefirst warning appeared in 2004 with the hasty releaseto the market of Vioxx, when it was proved that thedrug increased the risk of infarction and stroke. At thetime, over 85 million people in more than eightycountries were already taking this anti-inflammatory.Later, we followed up some cases published all over theworld of drugs that caused people to die. Last year, twomore anti-inflammatory were withdrawn from themarket, Prexige and Arcoxia (120mg), for beingassociated to liver troubles. The idolized anti-belly pill

Acomplia was also recently withdrawn from drugstores,just after two years of being released, for increasing therisk of depression among its users. In the last fortyyears, the FDA (Federal Drug Administration in theUSA) and the Emea (European agency for the controlof drugs) have already removed 130 drugs from themarket. A British study, done by the Birmingham andWarwick Universities, published by the PublicNewspaper in March 30, 2009, says that cleaning andhygiene products may be causing bacteria to becomeresistant to chemicals and antibiotics, at least inEngland. “According to the investigation, softeners,disinfectants, shampoos and other cleaning productsare promoting resistance in bacteria.” The study goesfurther and points out that “antibiotics, when used inan irresponsible way or with low hygiene standards indaily hospital chores, aren’t thus the only cause for thedevelopment of multi-resistant micro-organisms.”Compiling the information from the Guardiannewspaper and from the teacher Liz Wellington, thePublic cites: “Our investigation shows that the resistanceto antibiotics isn’t restricted to hospitals. It iswidespread and, at each instance, is eroding our capacityto control infections”. Analyzing it well, they are nottelling us not to use these products. It indicates thattheir intention is that people should be careful whenusing these goods, which can make each consumer’slife more complicated.

JN: Does the Messianic Church advise its followers not to take pre-scription drugs?

Dr. Ernestina: The Church doesn’t forbid the use ofdrugs, but it is important to explain that there aremany instances of people that come to the MessianicChurch because of illnesses. There are people that havebeen taking drugs for five, ten, twenty or more yearswithout finding a solution for their problems; peoplewho are suffering from the side effects caused by thedrugs; people who are used to self-medicate, that is,they take drugs without medical orientation and peoplethat don’t have the condition of having an adequatemedical care due to the financial situation in whichthey are. Our concern isn’t only with the drugs, but

also with the chemical additives and the agro- toxicscontained in the foodstuff. Anyway, we don’t have thehabit of orienting people forbidding or stopping themfrom doing whatsoever. To do so, is to ignore the basicprinciple established by God, which we all know:freedom of choice. What we do is to orient the peoplethat come to us about the practices of the MessianicChurch, such as Johrei, which enables them to increasetheir natural power of recovery. When they startreceiving Johrei, they begin to notice that they arenaturally recovering their health. Thus, they start, alsonaturally, abandoning the drugs. Even the doctorsthemselves, who know about Johrei, reduce orcompletely remove the patients’ drugs. The thousandsof experiences of faith around the whole world easilyprove this.

JN: Is it possible that if a person stops taking prescription drugs itcan lead to his/her death?

Dr. Ernestina: What can be said is that there arepeople that depend on drugs to keep on living. In thesecases we advise them to follow their doctor’sinstructions. Nowadays the Messianic Church isrespected all over the world by always seeking to fitalong the traditional medical principles and, mainly,within the laws of each country. We also know, however,that drugs cannot be seen as a guarantee of life. Afterall, presently, thousands of people around the worlddie every day in hospitals though medicated. This iswhy many individuals who have already undergoneseveral medical treatments, are disillusioned withmedicine and seek our Church. We see death as a naturalact, created by God. Nobody is exempt from this reality.Because of that, we must all be aware that one day wewill depart, according to God’s Will. Even so, in face ofcases where medicine itself can’t find or offer solutions,we turn to the Supreme God as a last resource. Theresult, instead of death, is the recovery of health and life.

JN: What does the Church do in order to heal people?

Dr. Ernestina: The Messianic Church doesn’t have asa direct goal the cure of illnesses. Those who only seeka cure may even obtain positive results momentarily.

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Experiências de Fé

From then on, my belly became smaller and the familial

conflicts decreased considerably. Today I feel very happy.

5. Engrácia Elisabeth Chissesso

I am 25 years old. I came to know the Messianic Church

in January 2007 because I suffered with strong

headaches, vomiting and vertigo. Besides that I’ve had,

for five years, a great difficulty in getting pregnant. I had

already gone to shamans and to hospitals where I spent

enormous amounts of money without satisfactory results.

In November 2006 my health got worse and I was

hospitalized for two weeks. My husband took me back

to my family to be taken care of. My sister, who had

heard tales about the miracles that happen in the

Messianic Church, carried me in her back (I was

unconscious) to the Church. I received intense Johrei

and that same day I woke up. The on-duty member

oriented us to do the basic practices, to do a pilgrimage

to the Central Headquarters of Africa, to dedicate at the

Agricultural Pole of Bom Jesus and at the Sacred

Grounds of Cacuaco.

On the second day I had the permission of doing the

Deep Reflection where I told about all the suffering I

went through, from my childhood to the present day.

Afterwards we did the practice of Sonen leading all

ancestors bound to those sufferings so that they could

be forgiven, purified, saved and resurrected by the

Messiah Meishu-Sama. I followed the orientations and

five days later my illness was completely gone. A month

later I had the permission of getting pregnant and gave

birth to a beautiful girl.

6. Fernando Abel

I am 58 years old. For a year I lived in utter poverty and

had a stroke when I came to know the Messianic

Church, in January 2009. Because of the stroke, all my

limbs and both my sides were paralyzed and also my

neck couldn’t move. I felt stinging all over my body and

couldn’t walk for a year. I needed help from relatives to

be able to move. I tried hospitals and quimbandas. I

also attended to several churches but all trials came to

nothing. I just spent a lot of money and assets.

It was in this setting of suffering that I came to a unit of

the Messianic Church. I was so weak that I was unable

to walk. My son and my sister took me in their arms. My

weakness was such that they both had to carry me on

their arms. My whole body was shaking with exhaustion.

I was received by the vice-responsible who, seeing my

state, began channeling Johrei with the practice of

Sonen with donation and led all the ancestors bound to

my suffering. With my sister’s help, we did a Deep

Reflection about my life from the day I became ill. The

responsible oriented me to do basic practices and told

some members to place me on a wheelchair to receive

more intensive Johrei. After one hour a miracle

happened: I got up by myself to go to the bathroom,

without anybody’s help. I came back and received

another two minutes of Johrei when suddenly I felt as if

somebody was telling me: “Get up!” I shook my arms

and legs with incredible speed, went outside and began

to run. The brothers cried out: “Miracle, miracle!”

Today I am a different person and can walk by myself

without any help.

Cases solved through Johrei and messianic practices

Messianic practices

. channel and receive Johrei . do the Deep Reflection

. practice Sonen . keep the Flower-of-Light at home

. grow a natural garden at home . read and practice Meishu-Sama’s Teachings

. offer the gratitude and the building funds donations

We notice, however, that as time goes by, the problemor the illness returns equally or worse than before. Forus, the cure is a consequence of the spiritual conditionof the person. Therefore, our goal is exactly to changethis spiritual condition, offering practices that enablethe individuals to elevate spiritually. To sum it up, themessianic practices such as Johrei, Natural Agriculture,the Flower-of-Light, the practice of Sonen, thehomegrown Natural Garden, the prayers and so on,seek first of all, the spiritual elevation of the humanbeing. That’s why so many miracles happen within ourChurch.

JN: How does the Church see the relationship between Religion

and Science?

Dr. Ernestina: We are coming out of an era where themain characteristic was the division of everything.Anatomy and Physiology are such an example. Thedominant thought was the belief that a living being canbe seen as a mere sum of its constituent parts. Thisthought caused religion and science to grow apart fromeach other. Many researches, however, presently showthat faith can promote cure. In1998, a research doneby the doctors Harold and David Larson, of theMedical Center at Duke University, showed that peoplethat attended church every week had a lesser probabilityof being hospitalized. However, were they hospitalized,they wouldn’t spend as much time in the hospital asthose who would go to church less frequently. Thepatients reassured by faith also presented a three timesgreater probability of survival after heart surgery,according to a study by the Medicine School atDartmouth. We have scientific researches about Johrei.Dr. Andrew Weil, for example, is a doctor and directorof the Integrated Medicine Program and of the SocialPerspectives of Medicine Division of the MedicineSchool at the Arizona University. Since he channelsJohrei, he documented a case of cancer cure achievedby just receiving Johrei. Another example is that of Dr.Larry Dossey, general clinician and an assistant to thePresidency of the Mind/Body Intervention Group atthe National Health Institute of California, whodiscovered through examinations that with Johrei,immunological and physiological changes happen. Asa function of the countless results, scientifically proventhrough Johrei and with the purpose of reducinggovernmental spending with drugs, England started adaring project. Dr. Michael Dixon, president ofNational System of Safety and Health of the country,started a project of cure within the family, using Johreiin the course if integrated medicine.

JN: Does the Church have a project of such magnitude for Africa?

Dr. Ernestina: We are have ongoing efforts in publichealth activities, with great emphasis in cleaningcampaigns, garbage collection and embellishment,homegrown natural gardens as well as the education ofpeople about the best diet. In a practical way, theChurch is making an effort to educate people about theimportance of preventing illnesses and promotinghealth.

JN: Could you tell some of the experiences of people who obtained

results through the Messianic Church?

Dr. Ernestina: We have thousands of experiences offaith, told by the members and visitors of the Church.You will find some of them below, in a condensed way,told by the very individuals who experienced them.

1. Angelino haukongo vikihi Kuvale

I am 46 years old. I came to know the IMMA in October

1999 with typhoid fever and malaria. For five years I

also suffered with insomnia. I had already spent great

sums of money with several treatments that had no effect

and to make it worse left my organism more intoxicated.

Because of that, the doctor told me to stop taking

medication for an undetermined time.

At the religious Unit I told all my suffering to the person

responsible who oriented me to do the basic practices.

After 3 weeks I got much better. My bad dreams and

bodily pains stopped and my health was restored.

2. Basílio Alexandre

I am 42 years old. I came to know the IMMA in 2002.

For two years I’ve had headache, (maculo???), urinary

infection, insomnia and conjugal conflicts. I went to

hospitals, traditional houses and spiritual churches.

That’s how my nephew led me to a Johrei house, where

the on-duty member received me and oriented me to do

the basic practices, to attend to the services for the Souls

of the Ancestors and to clean the Nave and the bathroom.

I followed all orientations, purified with a hemorrhage

and everything was gone, just by receiving Johrei.

3. Cipriano Francisco Adão

I am 62 years old and a member of this Church for six

years, dedicating as responsible for the Johrei Nucleus

at Coreia and for the Science Johrei department, at the

Central Headquarters of Africa. When I came to know

the Church on November 15, 2001, I had been suffering

for ten years with illnesses, conflicts and poverty. By

receiving Johrei, my health was recovered in thirty days.

4. Domingas Droia

I am 47 years old. I came to know the Messianic Church

on March 2005. For five years I’ve had typhoid, my belly

was inflamed and I had “hot spells”. Besides that, I had

family conflicts and business losses. When I got dressed

I couldn’t touch my belly without feeling great pain. I went

to many appointments in three hospitals and four medical

clinics. With no satisfactory results, I went to eight

quimbandas. At one of them the man in charge used to

give me nude baths (from the waist up) in the river and

afterwards would keep my clothing and shoes. I spent

enormous amounts of money and began to be accused

of witchcraft, causing conflicts in my family. Due to

those many treatments, my house smelled of traditional

medicine. I became disfigured and finally was struck by

a urinary infection. I was led to a Johrei Nucleus where

the on-duty member received me and oriented me to do

the basic practices. I had some difficulties because I

wasn’t able to sit on a stool or chair to receive Johrei.

I also couldn’t stand for too long to do the cleaning or

to distribute the flowers. After doing some dedication,

the pain intensified. One day, there was a cleaning

dedication at the biggest garbage pile in the city.

Despite my pain, I made the effort and participated.

After the dedication I felt relieved and my pain was

gone. In appreciation, the head minister oriented me to

distribute from100 to 150 Flowers-of-Light a day, for a

month. I was known around town as “the flower witch”.

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Actuality Actuality

It is a simple process and consists in eliminating thewater of a produce by evaporation, with transferenceof heat and mass. One of its greatest advantages is thatthey don’t need refrigeration during storage andtransportation, which, doubtlessly, adds a considerablevalue to the products thus obtained.

The dehydrated vegetables are used as condiments inthe formulation of other foods, in the making of soupsor consumed whole, as in the case of dehydrated fruits(banana, mango, pineapple, and so on).

The great challenge in the globalized world is toproduce food for an ever-growing population thatsurpasses six billion people. Since the farming areas areshrinking, the availability of irrigation water is scarceand the production technologies can’t have productivityleaps anymore, some specialists believe that the offer offood in the world will grow less than the population tillthe year 2020.

Despite the indisputable need to increase theproduction of fruits and other food stock, it becomesessential to reduce the losses that occur throughout thewhole productive chain. In emerging countries, as itseems to be the case in Angola, losses are estimated tobe about 50% for some products. From the producerto the consumer, the magnitude of the losses isconsiderable. This fact makes evident the urgent needfor simple and cheap processes that can offer ways topreserve such extremely perishable food stock. Theestablishment of agro-industries close to the producingareas may turn to be a good alternative to reduce thegreat losses that occur during the processes of sortingout, transportation and commercialization ofvegetables, especially bananas and tomatoes, in Angola’scase.

With the globalization of markets, the success of acompany, mainly in agro-business, depends ever moreon the interrelation among the suppliers, producers ofsource materials, processing sites and distributors. The

traditional separation between industry, services andagriculture is inadequate. The concept of agro-businessrepresents, therefore, the modern focus, which takesinto consideration all the companies that produce,process and distribute agricultural and animal-farmproducts.

Solar Dehydration pilot unit at theNatural Agriculture Pole of Bom Jesus

There are several techniques and equipments for thedehydration of food. Solar dehydration, however, ispresenting itself lately as a viable alternative, from aneconomic viewpoint, since the spending with energy isvirtually zero, as well as from the environmentalsustainability viewpoint. It is, furthermore, atransformation factor in what concerns habits andcostumes.

Solar dehydration of food stock is, therefore, simpleand has a very low operational and installation cost.Although noble materials such as steel or evenaluminum can be use to build equipments, wood oreven bamboo can be used, which make the costs evenlower. In social terms that means the possibility of areal economic and cultural change because low incomefamilies can, not only improve the question ofpreserving agricultural products, but also be insertedinto agro-businesses programs, mainly in a familialscale.

Angolan society, as a whole, fits perfectly in thisoutlook of needing to add value to its work, mainlythat originating from rural activities. Being so, we seevery enthusiastically the introduction of dehydrationtechniques using the sun as an abundant source ofenergy, healthy and with practically zero cost.

At the end of last March, a schematic for theconstruction of the solar dehydrating model called

CDS-02 was sent to the Africarte team in Angola, sincethe equipment has been developed at the SustainableDevelopment Center “Guaçu-Vira”, in partnershipwith the Natural Agriculture team of the state ofEspírito Santo, Brasil.

With this kind of equipment it will be possible todehydrate practically any type of vegetable, be theyeither fruits or legumes. Ina first working step, however,we opted for the dehydration of banana fruit to obtaindried-banana. Through this, not only the losses due toa quick ripening can be minimized, because dehydrationallows for a relatively long storage period (two to threemonths), if adequate conditions of hygiene and packingare observed, but we will also be adding value to thisprecious food stock. It is worthwhile to inform that thedehydration of fruits, if done at low temperatures(160ºF) as the ones obtained through solar dehydration,favors the concentration of nutrients and natural sugars,besides allowing for the preservation and increase inthe concentration of vitamins per total mass ofdehydrated product. That is, if we slowly remove thewater from the food stock to the adequate point,besides increasing its nutritional and vitamin content,we will also provide a natural concentration of itsflavor.

Another product that is being developed at the BomJesus’ Pole, is the oil preserve of dried tomatoes.Tomato, a widespread culture in Angolan territory anda ubiquitous product at practically every home, alsosuffers considerable losses at the agricultural fields,due to deficiencies in storage logistics, transportationand commercialization. The production of driedtomato preserves is an excellent way to preserve thefood stock, besides being an extremely valuable item inthe international market. As we previously saw in thedried banana example, its production is also verysimple and, if there is abundance of sunlight, extremelyquick and cheap.

The pictures below show the final assembly sequenceof the solar dehydrator at the Bom Jesus’ Pole and theproduction of the first batch of dried bananas.

Dehydration is one of theoldest techniques for

the preservationof Man’s food.

SOLAR DEHYDRATION OF FRUITS – A viable alternative for agriculture in the family

Step by step 2 days later...Assembly of the CDS-02 solar dehydrator

Alexandre Bertoldo da Silva