September 2007 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
We were in a heavy Muslim area. The beach was littered with broken glass, garbage and a dead rat. In fact, garbage was piled everywhere even on the main walking street. We felt a really dark heavy spirit as we made preparations to do our concert on the main road. After helping to unload the gear I went for a walk to invite people to the concert. Everyone I talked to was very open, polite and friendly. I had given out all the fliers and so I started to walk back to where the band was setting up and I saw a tough looking young guy somewhere in his twenties walking towards me. I said "hello" and pointed to where we were setting up and invited him to come to our concert. "You will really like it." I said.
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August 2007 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
It wasn't the first time during our two weeks at the * Spirit Festival * that someone was in our camp crying out for forgiveness. Earlier in the week a woman came weeping one morning and telling us how sorry she was. She had been screaming from the woods across the path from us for two days.
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July 2007 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
After the concert I said, "Don't listen to the lie that you can't change, and that you have to be weak. God is not calling us to be weak. He wants us to be strong! Doesn't Jesus heal the cripples and raise the dead?" I said, "If you need to be free, Jesus is here and He offers freedom tonight. All you have to do is kill your pride and humble yourself before Him."
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June 2007 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
The first time I was in Turkey our concert was canceled at the last minute; we needed different permits all of a sudden. Our promoter said that tension in Lebanon was a factor. So we went out onto the streets in front of a big mosque where we invited people to come and hear us play at an ancient church in Istanbul that Sunday.
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May 2007 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
THREE OF OUR BROTHERS IN THE EASTERN CITY OF MALATYA, TURKEY WERE MARTYRED FOR THEIR FAITH YESTERDAY. Terrorists broke into their Christian literature distribution office, tied them up and, after torturing them, slit their throats. Two were Turks and one was a German missionary.
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April 2007 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
God is angry that so many in the Muslim world never have an opportunity to hear that Jesus loves them. I have felt God's broken heart when I have traveled to these countries, and that’s why I have a strong conviction that God wants Steiger to expand its efforts into the Muslim world. I believe that's why God has led David Wilson and me together. I am humbled to work with this dedicated servant of God and I have a lot to learn from him on how to bring Jesus into this part of the world.
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March 2007 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
One of the first things I did was go to a Mosque located in the city center. Flies buzzed around stacks of meat by the entrance. I saw old, dark-skinned Imams standing outside having a discussion. As I approached them, they stopped talking, and they gave me a look that indicated they were wondering who this strange-looking foreigner was.
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February 2007 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
Working 18 hours a day, they are treated like animals, often contracting diseases because they breathe so much dust. They work, sleep and live in the sweatshops where they earn about 150 dollars a month. Hundreds of thousands are trapped in desperate poverty. They smuggle themselves into Sao Paulo illegally with hopes of a better life, only to be exploited by a mafia that trades them like a commodity. The majority are Bolivian, Peruvian and Paraguayan.
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January 2007 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
"Man who danced with Satanists" headlined the local newspaper. The newspaper advertised my visit to speak at the secular club, which was packed with about 500 German young people. In fact it was so full that Michael and I had difficulty finding a place to stand.
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December 2006 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
A pale, filthy little boy, who looked about 7 years old, sat on the street while a woman, who looked around 30, crouched in front of him, holding a pipe to his mouth. With her other hand she held a lighter and lit the rock of crack cocaine in the pipe. After the fragile, little boy inhaled the crack, he curled up into a ball on the street.
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November 2006 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
I am writing from Sao Paulo, Brazil the fourth largest city in the world—a dangerous city of 20 million people. Beth, one of the Brazilian girls who attended our school in New Zealand last year, was robbed just two days ago in broad daylight inside a bank!
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October 2006 Newsletter
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
I broke out into some kind of rash. It felt itchy, like burning needles all over my body. I went to the doctor twice to get it treated, but it still didn’t go away. The itching made our flight to Stuttgart difficult. That night, before our next flight to Warsaw, I lay on my hotel bed, shirtless, and turned the air conditioning up as cold as possible to try and freeze my skin.
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December 2005
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
The club was located in a red light area and was anything but a high class club like we were told. Upstairs there was a room for dancing and another room for sex. 16 year old kids (and younger) were passed out on couches from a mixture of drugs and alcohol.
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November 2005
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
I started to preach and the guitarist in a non-Christian metal band we were working with suddenly started to sweat and shake. He started to translate my preaching before my normal translator had a chance to start. He said that he felt like if he didn't translate my words he would vomit!
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October 2005
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
We drove all night with no sleep still dirty from the previous concert. After a quick shower we went to a maximum security prison to eat. We didn’t bring the girls with us to the prison because they can be too much of a distraction to the prisoners. (Something I have learned from previous prison concerts.)
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September 2005
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
"Tryptichon" is a club located in the middle of a large, abandoned industrial compound completely covered with graffiti. There was a heavy demonic atmosphere that mocked what Jesus did on the cross.
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August 2005
By David and Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
Before the concert in Sanok, Poland, Luke (our drummer) spotted a punk that he saw in another concert. He was sitting with a group of other punks so Luke started talking to all of them. He told them where he was from and said some of the Polish words that he had learned.
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July 2005
By Jodi Pierce of No Longer Music
All in all, I would say the Steiger School in New Zealand rocked! Awesome people, full-on teaching and lectures, a beautiful country, powerful ministry in Wellington and elsewhere and when you put all of that together, you have an experience of a lifetime.
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June 2005
By David Pierce of No Longer Music
Sanok is a small depressed city in the southeast of Poland. This region has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Many young people in Sanok have no hope for the future and attempt to escape reality through alcohol and drug use. Crazy mushrooms are one of the more popular drugs.
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May 2005
By David Pierce of No Longer Music
Cockroach (my Polish translator) was really excited. "There is a dark wave festival in Poland where four thousand crazy & drunk demon possessed people go." "They really need to hear about God." He continued. "You need to go there with your band."
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April 2005
By David Pierce of No Longer Music
I was living in a one-room apartment at the time with guys that were drug dealers. I was so hurt by my girlfriend leaving me that I started to get into drugs myself. It was very bad for my studies as I was high most of the time while I was in class.
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