Mexico Update

Some pictures and videos from the Mexico Trip

The team was out in the park and talked to some high school students about the Lord.  Trey did some stepping in order to get their attention and each one of us got a chance to share with the young people.

Ghana

From Spencer Shadrach who recently went to Ghana:

"God is alive and well in Ghana! The Ghanaian people are thirsty, hungry and desperate for the gospel, sound teaching, and how to make disciples of all nations. Several years ago, a man named Ben Oforinayme was taught the disciple-ship methods outlined in the Gospels. His ministry is flourishing by reproducing himself into faithful him who will do the same, teaching others to do the same also. When we arrived in the capital city of Accra, Ghana we were greeted warmly by the people and the climate. The first day we sowed the seed broadly to many pastors in the hopes that some hearts and eyes will be illuminated to the multiplicative discipleship strategy of Jesus Christ. Training nationals to train their own people is the strategy we are using for these short-term trips. Also, we look for a few men that look ripe for following Jesus’ strategy for the entire world coming to Christ.

On the second day, the teams split up with 2 men training pastors in North Niger, 2 men staying in Accra for a week and 3 men to Sunyani to teach and train local pastors, youth leaders and business people in Jesus’ discipleship strategy. These are the front lines. In North Africa, there are 200 million Muslims who have never heard the name of Jesus. These Muslims are only several hundred miles from Ghana. Reproducing intently in one man, the strategy of Jesus will have much greater impact in the long term and build quality disciples. These are the principles we taught. The 1^st century church used the same strategy culminating in a budding gospel witness to every major city in Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa. Faith comes by hearing the word. In order for the Muslims to hear the word of God they need to be sought out by world changers. This is who we were looking for in Ghana; WORLD CHANGERS.

I think we have found several men. One, named Michael Attufa, who is 30 years old, is catching the vision for Jesus’ strategy. In October 2012, 5 men robbed him at night and beat within inches of his life. The men claimed he was a thief and a mob began to drag him down the street. Michael thought he would be meeting his Lord and Savior very soon. They didn’t kill him but stripped him naked and put him in a gutter to die. Everyone passed him by without a care thinking he deserved being in the gutter; so no one helped. Finally a few friends got him to the hospital. Many prayers were lifted up at this time and Michael recovered quickly; within a weeks time. Nothing can stop Michael because the Lord has promised that he would be with us to the end to the end of the age. Satan tries his hardest to deter us from starting a pandemic with the gospel. I believe in the bottom of my heart that this is what was happening. Satan knows stopping Michael in the beginning could stop the flow but the Lord knows he will have such a great impact for the Kingdom." 

Some pictures from Pepper's trip to India

Another Update from Pepper in India

Dear faithful friends,


I'll be teaching 3 hours of Downline lessons beginning at 8:30 pm on Thursday (Memphis time).  We had approx. 700 Banjara in attendance tonight for the 10 year anniversary celebration of outreach through a local ministry. They say 50% of the people in attendance are lost and they've come with a Christian friend. I will be sharing the good news tomorrow afternoon with the group. More people are expected to arrive tomorrow.


Thanks for holding the ropes. Feel free to forward to a friend.


Many thanks!

Pepper Horn

India Update from Pepper

Here is an update from Pepper Horn how is currently in India:

Hello everyone,
We arrived in HYD. We've met our host Srinivas and his wife. We will be prepping today and getting our body clocks regulated. We're 11.5 hours ahead of you in Memphis. I'm told the .5 is because India has one time zone for the whole country and they split the difference. Tomorrow (Sun eve) we'll attend a local fellowship. Mon-Wed will be the celebration of 10 yrs working with the Banjara people group. Thursday we will travel to a village 3 hours away and have a conference for pastors and evangelists (approx 30 of them). I will be teaching disciple-making lessons on Thursday as well as Friday morning. Please pray for Holy Spirit empowered communication and illumination, (Eph 1:18a). We'll stay in the village Thursday night then Friday morning possibly more training. Friday afternoon I will begin the long journey west...half way around the world.

Here are a couple of videos Pepper sent.  One is of the busy traffic in Hyderabad and the other is a Hindu temple.  Pray for the people of India and God's glory to be known among the people there!

Holy Land Reflections: Gild & Glory

Hopefully, you've been able to keep up with what our team was doing over in the Holy Lands. It was a busy-yet-fruitful time for the four of us to tour and teach. 

The most indelible part of the trip for me personally came during our time in Jerusalem, but not for the reasons one might suspect. A subtle discomfort rose within me after a long day of walking around the Old City. I'm not even sure exactly how to characterize the feeling in my gut other than to say that I was struck by the heaviness of law and ritual.

Holy Lands Update

Hey, friends!

It's our last day in Bethlehem, and we just wanted to give you a little update. On Thursday we had the opportunity to see a few sights in Bethlehem. We went to the Church of the Nativity, which is shared by the Catholic and Orthodox churches, which makes for a hodgepodge-looking church. Each side had people lining up to go underground to view where that church claims Jesus was born. It was kind of crazy!

After visiting the church for a bit, we drove down to the Beit Sahour section of Bethlehem to visit the Shepherds' field where the shepherds may have seen the star that led them to the manger. It was much more peaceful here, and we almost had the place to ourselves. We were able to go into a structure where shepherds kept their flocks around the time of Jesus. The book of Ruth is also set in the fields at Bethlehem, and her grandson, a pretty important guy named David, was also a shepherd in Bethlehem. So although most of the city is developed, we were able to see a few fields where these stories either took place, or close to where they took place.

The last couple of days have been spent either at Melissa and Terri's home teaching, or spending time with the teachers and students at the school. We've really enjoyed getting to see the school and all they're doing. We even got to see the high school basketball teams play! So, I think we're all going to be sad to leave, but today we'll be heading up to see King Herod's summer palace and heading back to Terri and Melissa's for the last day of teaching before departing tonight.

We fly out of Tel Aviv at 12:40 am, so pray for safe travels home!

Anne