Archive for January, 2009

Ministry Update

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

     Well, we’re moving fast again! We started the year, literally, in Finland at the New Years Eve celebration with 7,500 Lutherans, and then we jumped to Honduras for four very intensive days in two cities, Tegucigalpa, and San Pedro Sula.

 

     Honduras, like the rest of Latin America, is full of passionate and serious worshipers. In Tegucigalpa we hooked up with our friends from Ministerio Sabbaoth. This was a prophetic conference that featured this ministry as well as Kevin Leal, a prophetic voice from Pensacola, Florida. The meetings were long and intense with a strong sense of the presence of the Lord. My favorite interpreter in the world, Elmer, was with us from Guatemala. He always makes speaking a joy whenever Spanish is translated.

 

     After two days in Tegucigalpa we flew to San Pedro for a Saturday night concert and a Sunday morning service. These meetings were also strong, long and intense. My voice was threatening to find a new body to inhabit by the time the last service came on Sunday, but thank God, I had just enough gas left in the tank to finish! I squeaked for several days but got my voice back just in time for this past weekend in Daytona and Ft. Lauderdale.

 

     This week I am off to Charlotte to tape for TV with Sid Roth and his program “It’s Supernatural” on TBN and other networks. More TV in Israel in March, and so it goes. These are exciting times; we must be strong in the Lord and the power of HIS might!

01.15.08 | On The Road

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Well, we’re back from the frozen tundra of Finland. New Year’s Eve, 7,500 Finns and an event that went from 3:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. There were guest speakers from Bolivia and Israel, including an Arab believer from Bethlehem who ministered alongside us. It was a tremendous time of worship with a wonderful international team that joined Greg and me for several hours. One great challenge for me, besides the long hours of travel to arrive, was the very brief time of daylight. Yes, only five hours or so per day of sun as we were very close to the Arctic Sea and only a few miles from the far western boarder with Mother Russia. Several years ago I spent a couple days in the mountains of Siberia in November; very cold and very grey…lots of grey!

Tomorrow early we get ourselves over to the airport to spend four days in two cities in Honduras. I am taking a good sized team with me of Greg on keyboard, Don on the shofars, Andy is coming to run sound, and Steve will be the road manager, photo and general go-to-guy. Hispanic audiences are some of my favorites as they are passionate singers and worshipers. They are always eager to receive us and we love worshiping in Espanol!

Yesterday I spent the entire day with some of the champions of the faith today, including Jack Hayford, Dutch Sheets, John Dawson, Keith Butler, Larry Stockstill, and more. This round table was hosted in Orlando by Steven Strang of Charisma Magazine, and was a tremendous time of fellowship and discussion of some of the challenges we face this year in the Body of Messiah. More of this meeting later; I have to pack for Latin America!