LOVE - It is a small four-letter word that will cost you everything: laying down your life; passion and compassion; giving without expecting; feeling His very heartbeat and surrendering to His rhythm; and following the Lamb wherever He goes, even to Mozambique.
*Non-refundable deposit required for Iris Harvest School: We regret that we must require a non-refundable deposit of $200 for each accepted applicant to the harvest school. Our experience necessitates the requirement as too many are applying and withdrawing late in the application process for various reasons. This has resulted in a loss of valuable volunteer time, expense and the exclusion of qualified applicants on hold who are unable to make proper preparation for their trip to Africa due to late withdrawals or transfers.
When you receive your acceptance letter, a check for $200 should be mailed to our US office with a memo indicating for Iris Harvest application deposit: Iris Ministries, Inc., PO Box 493995, Redding, CA 96049-3995.
When you have paid your deposit, be sure to send an email to school@irismin.org indicating that the deposit has been paid.
We can hold your place for the school only after we have received your deposit within 10 days of your acceptance letter.
Your deposit can be paid online at www.irismin.com by clicking on the "Make a Donation" icon. The amount for paying by PayPal is $204.77 which covers the PayPal fee for using a credit card or e-check. In the memo option of the PayPal program indicate that the amount is for your Iris Harvest School application deposit.
Please scroll down this page for detail information regarding the payment of tuition.
Please Note: We are inviting those who have a clear call to missions. All giftings are welcome including construction supervisors that can train others, maintenance, administrators, health care professionals, hospitality admin, Bible school teachers and oversight admin, elementary school supervision, financial bookkeeping and admin, mechanical including well drilling technology, vehicle oversight and repair, and micro-enterprise developers.
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Upcoming School Date(s)
School HS10AJun 1 - Aug 10, Tuition $2500, includes $200 non-refundable application processing fee
Outreach Extension Options:
HS10B 10 Day Mozambican Bush Outreach Aug 12 - Aug 21, Cost: $400
HS10C Additional Mozambican and International Outreaches will be scheduled as determined from 2-3 weeks beginning August 12, 2009. Cost will vary with each location. Aug 12 - Aug 26 (Cost will be listed when available)
$200 non-refundable deposit must be paid within 10 days after receiving your acceptance letter.
This school is not yet accepting applications.
School HS11AOct 12 - Dec 7, Tuition $2500, includes $200 non-refundable application processing fee
Outreach Extension Options:
HS11B 10 Day Mozambican Bush Outreach Dec 9 - Dec 18, Cost: $400
HS11BX This outreach is a unique opportunity for the HS11B outreach team to do an additional outreach to celebrate Christmas with the Pemba base that will extend through the Christmas season to the end of December. This extension is only for the HS11B outreach group who is participating in the 10 day Mozambican outreach. Dec 18 - Dec 30 (Cost will be listed when available)
HS11C Additional Mozambican and International Outreaches will be scheduled as determined from 2-3 weeks beginning December 9, 2009. Cost will vary with each location. Dec 9 - Dec 28 (Cost will be listed when available)
$200 non-refundable deposit must be paid within 10 days after receiving your acceptance letter.
This School is now accepting applications.
We cannot guarantee your stay for the outreach extension until final approval by our Iris Harvest School staff after a sufficient time of observation for recommendation.
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Harvest School Student Testimonies
Testimony from Beira Outreach by Jan Wigley, Australia
Praying for a blind woman at the Beira, Mozambique outreach
Our time at the Beira conference was like jumping into the colorful illustrations of the New Testament in a children's bible. Jesus touched the deaf, the blind, the lame and a sick woman.
One afternoon when I arrived at the conference, some Harvest School students came excitedly and said, "there are some deaf people here. We told them to wait until you came". I am a teacher of the deaf and can sign. I met with a group of young boys who were deaf and began to communicate using sign language, writing in the dirt, and with pen and paper. They used Mozambican sign and I used Australian.
After sharing about myself, I asked if I could pray for them. Our prayers were fervent, but there was no apparent change in their hearing. I invited them into the conference of the night meeting that had commenced. There was a row of empty seats in the second row, just perfect so they could lip read, see the screen, and for me to interpret the message. I explained the gospel in sign language with the help of the Holy Spirit to represent the key information spatially. Five boys and two girls accepted Jesus for the first time. Pastor Mario from the Peniel Church called them to come out front. Four more men who were deaf came also. I checked with each one to see if they believed. As they came out, the song "You Come" was being played - "chains be broken, lives be healed, eyes be opened, Christ is revealed".
I have always sung the words as "ears be opened" as I have passionately sought to see deaf ears be healed since I was a young girl. Tonight was the night! God blessed them. There was improvement in their hearing. The next day the blind came. I prayed for a man who was lame and a sick woman who miraculously recovered after 38 days on her bed.
A few days later, I met a boy with only one hearing aid and not two. I asked why. He replied, "Don't you remember? You prayed for me." Praise Jesus!
By Kevin Bubna
Let me tell the story of something that recently happened to me. I was lying on the floor during worship (a typical thing to do here) just enjoying the Lord's presence when I had what some might call a vision or prompting from the Lord. It so overwhelmed me I that I was weeping for quite a while. It was simple but profound and life changing. I saw myself exchanging my clothes for that of a poor Mozambican man. The clothes were tattered and smelly and I knew the Lord was asking me to do this. It was my team's turn to go on outreach to the bush the next weekend so I knew that was going to be my opportunity for the exchange. During my vision I also saw myself preaching to the villagers. That next Friday, 28 of us packed into the back of a flatbed truck they call camios here. It was very uncomfortable and I was quite agitated that they would take so many people at once, especially for a 7 hour drive, half of which was on dirt roads, even dirt trails not even 4 feet wide! Oh how the Lord Jesus continues to stretch me!
We arrived in the village at night and the next day split up into teams to go pray for the sick. I remember one old lady said she could barely see so we prayed like Jesus said to pray: "Your Kingdom come, your will be done!" Well, it worked! A little bit of heaven came down and the dear old saint was excited because she could see a key hanging from one of our team member's neck! It wasn't all the way done so we prayed some more. Then she started seeing things far away. We tested it to be sure with a bottle cap! Praise God ! Wow! Jesus still heals. The poor folk here have so much faith. They just believe Jesus and receive so readily. Many of them don't get very excited about it because they just know it will happen and it does. I have seen a man deaf from birth totally healed. The whole village knew him!
Oh, there is so much to praise Jesus about but let me get back to my "exchange" story. We arrived in the village. I looked for a man to exchange clothes with. There he was, a bit shorter than me, but the clothes he was wearing were too big for him, and I thought they would work well. I approached him and pointing at his clothes, tried to tell him what I wanted to do. He just looked at me funny. There were dozens of people around and they were probably all wondering what this crazy "acunia", i.e. white man, was trying to say. Just then I ran to the truck to get my best shirt and shorts to show the man I wanted to exchange them for his. He still looked at me funny, but a guy standing beside him figured it out and helped him understand. Then he looked at me with a big smile and ran to a clump of trees to change. He brought back his rags for me and I ran to the clump to change as well. When I came back the truck driver pointed out that I had the pants on backward (they were weird pants) and we started laughing and laughing. Everyone was laughing at me! By that point I had lost all dignity and just dropped my new trousers and turned them around (yes I had underwear on).
After all that ,one of our interpreters came over and I began to tell this dear old man and those all around why I had done this crazy thing. JESUS HAD LEFT THE SPLENDOR AND GLORY OF HEAVEN TO BECOME A MAN THAT WE MIGHT HAVE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. HE BECAME POOR THAT WE MAY BECOME RICH. My exchange was a simple prophetic act to show them what Jesus had done (I said something like that). As I shared I was overwhelmed and tried as best I could to hold it back. We hugged two or three times and I invited them all to come to the Jesus movie that night.
Just before the Jesus film I was asked to preach to the village that night. I wore my new clothes and related to them again what Jesus had done for us. Many gave their lives to Jesus and many were healed of various diseases. All glory to He who became poor that we might become rich (2 Cor 8:9)
Heidi teaching at the summer '08 mission schoo
An animated moment of teaching by Rolland
Heidi introducing the Johnsons at one of our '07 Pemba schools
PAYING YOUR SCHOOL/TUITION FEES: Please READ CAREFULLY!
IMPORTANT: Your deposit for Iris Harvest School (Pemba) must be paid within 10 days after acceptance. All tuition fees for HS10, including outreach fees, must be paid by May 10, 2009.
How To Pay Your Fees: Please state that these fees are for Iris Harvest School-PEMBA, MOZAMBIQUE
STEP ONE: Choose a method of payment (cheque/Pay Pal) and make your payment.
* Check (US funds)
* Payments by check should be made in US FUNDS if possible. Non-US currency checks are welcome, but they are subject to varying exchange rates and service charges, and therefore may incur extra charges to you.
* Mail your payment to:
* Iris Ministries, Inc.
* PO Box 493995
* Redding, CA 96049-3995
* USA
Pay by eCheck (direct debit) – available only to users with qualifying bank accounts. You must be a verified Pay Pal user with a checking or savings account that can be debited to utilize this method, and it can take up to a week to clear, but this method is cheaper, costing only $5.00 per
transaction, for any amount over $200.00.
Example 1: $2,500 (tuition) + $5.00 (Fee) = $2,505.00 (Total).
Example 2: $5,000 (tuition x2) + $5.00 (Fee) = $5,005.00 (Total).
See details below.
To make a Pay Pal Credit Card Payment (you do not need to be a registered Pay Pal user for this method):
1. Log into the Iris Minsitries web site: http://www.irismin.com/ <http://www.irismin.com/>
2. Click the “Contact & Support” button.
3. Click the “Make a Donation” button.
4. Enter the total payment amount, including fees.
5. Log in if you are a Pay Pal user, or “click here” next to “Don’t have a Pay Pal account?”.
6. Enter your credit card information and click the “Continue” button.
7. Confirm your information AND...
8. THIS IS IMPORTANT: In the “Message to Seller” box, type “Tuition Payment for Iris Harvest School (session number) – Pemba”..
9. Click the “Pay” button.
To make a Pay Pal eCheck Payment (you must be a registered and verified Pay Pal user AND have a qualified checking or savings account for debiting to use this method):
1. Log into the Iris Minsitries web site: http://www.irismin.com/ <http://www.irismin.com/>
2. Click the “Contact & Support” button.
3. Click the “Make a Donation” button.
4. Enter the total payment amount, including fees.
5. Log into your Pay Pal account.
6. Confirm your payment details in the “Review Your Payment” screen.
7. In the “Payment Method” section, if it does not say “eCheck”, click “more funding options”.
8. Select “eCheck” and click “Continue” to return to the “Review Your Payment” screen.
9. THIS IS IMPORTANT: In the “Message to Seller” box, type “Tuition Payment for Iris Harvest School (session number) – Pemba”..
10. Click the “Pay” button.
STEP TWO: Send an email to tuition@irismin.org with the following details:
* Fill in the subject line of your email as: “Iris Harvest School (session number) – Pemba Tuition Payment”.
* Give your full name, address, phone numbers and an email address – preferably one that you will be able to receive emails after you leave home, in case the receipt is delayed.
* Include all details of your payment.
* Payment method: (cheque/paypal credit card/paypal echeck).
* Transaction numbers and any special information
* Name of sending bank
This is VERY IMPORTANT for the booking of your tuition to your account
You will receive a receipt by email after the payment has cleared our bank. This normally takes about a week.
These steps will help us ensure that your funds arrive safely and are correctly matched up with you. We will also be able to acknowledge their receipt.
GOD BLESS YOU!
Rev. 20 January 2009
Past International Schools
HG1: Pemba, June-August, 2005
HG2: Pemba, June-August, 2006
HG3A: Pemba, October-December, 2006
HG3B: Pemba, Outreach Extension, December 2006-January 2007.
HG 4: Heliopolis, Brazil, January-February, 2007 (See video of Brazil School.)
HG5:Pemba, June 5-August 12, 2007
HG6: Armavir, Russia, August 13-28, 2007
HG7: Pemba, October 15-December 7, 2007
HS8: Pemba, June 2-August 4, 2008
HS9: Pemba, October 15-December 15, 2008
Some may want to know who has been working the many hours on the processing of the applications and references for the Iris Harvest School, Pemba, Mozambique. Following are two pictures that includes Tony and Pamela Maxwell of Pikeville, TN. Pamela heads us the admin team that includes her husband Tony and other international staff.
Tony and Pamela with Rolland and Heidi Baker
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