Valued Colaborers, thanks for your prayers. Joyce and I are still in Venezuela. We return home the seventeenth.
We travel tomorrow to Merida one of the major cities of Vz. We will meet Tuesday with Ladimiro Urindeta and Baptist pastors of his association concerning simple church multiplication strategies.
Wendesday we will join Omar Pina in Bilaores to meet with his state coordinators for church planting.
Thursday we will be in Vigia with Omar and his leaders there.
Friday we will be in Vargas with Carlos Fuentes who now is working with 13 HCs and is encouaging each of them to become two or more churches.
We have had tremendous meetings with leaders in Velencia. I will share more later. As we arrived at the Hoseah Church today a group was just arriving at the same time. The were a house church walking together. They started this February after we share in the Hoseah Church. Their faces were full of life and excitement.
We had a tremendous multiplication training time in Porte Ayacucho with a mission project of Carlos Fueintes. We were training missionary Paublo Ceinto and about thirty others from the Yekuana indigenous tribe of the Amazonas. They are the third largest tribe of the region. One family there receintly walked to Porte Ayacucho from their home. It took them 15 days.
More later. God is very much at work here. Thanks for your prayer. Your grateful brother, gail.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Prayer Request 4/25/08
Co-laborers in Christ: Greetings in Jesus’ name. Please join our Lord in what He is doing in Venezuela through concerted prayer.
Joyce and I will be joining Isrrael Rodriquez and Carlos Fuentes in church multiplication training in Porte Ayacucho on the edge of the Venezuelan rain forest May 1 – 4. One of our simple church advocates there has reached many of the tribesmen of the indigenous people of the Amazons. He is bringing them together for three days of training.
May 7-8 we will be meeting with leaders of a nation wide evangelical church-planting group. I spent some time with some of them earlier this year. They are excited to learn more of the simple ways of church multiplication. Omar Pina is the national coordinator.
May 13-15 we will be meeting with evangelical pastors and workers in and near Merida, which is one of the major cities of VZ. Ladimiro Urdaneta is our key servant leader. He is a national leader in Baptist circles and he is head of the language department of the University of the Andes at Merida.
There will be many other meetings between these. Our hope is to continue the encouragement of simple church multiplication through out the nation. Great strides have been made but the battle continues. Thanks for your support of prayer. Satan laughs at many of our attempts to minister but when we pray he trembles.
Your brother, gail.
Joyce and I will be joining Isrrael Rodriquez and Carlos Fuentes in church multiplication training in Porte Ayacucho on the edge of the Venezuelan rain forest May 1 – 4. One of our simple church advocates there has reached many of the tribesmen of the indigenous people of the Amazons. He is bringing them together for three days of training.
May 7-8 we will be meeting with leaders of a nation wide evangelical church-planting group. I spent some time with some of them earlier this year. They are excited to learn more of the simple ways of church multiplication. Omar Pina is the national coordinator.
May 13-15 we will be meeting with evangelical pastors and workers in and near Merida, which is one of the major cities of VZ. Ladimiro Urdaneta is our key servant leader. He is a national leader in Baptist circles and he is head of the language department of the University of the Andes at Merida.
There will be many other meetings between these. Our hope is to continue the encouragement of simple church multiplication through out the nation. Great strides have been made but the battle continues. Thanks for your support of prayer. Satan laughs at many of our attempts to minister but when we pray he trembles.
Your brother, gail.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Venezuela Update 2-19-08
2/19/08
I met with Omar Pina and three of his key leaders in Valencia Tuesday 2-12-08 for most of the day. He is the National Coordinator for E3 Ministries. It stands for Evangelize, Equip and Establish. He is a very influential international leader. They have 50 state and regional coordinators around Vz. I spent two plus hours listening to what they are doing to fulfill the great commission. Then he stated we need help to really see the church multiplication that we desire. I was asked what methods would I use to teach church multiplication. I asked, ‘What methods did Jesus use?’ This led to a three hour discussion and Heaven came down. These guys have a whole fresh vision for how our Lord will complete the great commission. They committed to schedule a three day retreat for the four of them with IRod and I in May to continue the journey.
IRod, Nellia and I traveled to Porte Ordaz one of the largest cities in Vz Friday 2-15-08. We scheduled the trip and purchase the airfare with out having a definite meeting set up. We came to unity in prayer that our Lord was sending us to Porte Ordaz so we acted on our decision. The day after we purchased airfare we received two definite invitations. One was for a Saturday meeting with evangelical leaders from the area arranged by a long time friend of IRod. The second came together as a presentation to the Sunday morning gathering of the second largest evangelical church in Vz. We were asked to take the full service with about 1000 in attendance. The church building is a beautiful roof structure with no walls on a hill over looking the city and region. Nellia sang with her Heavenly voice. IRod and I shared what the Spirit gave us in the moment. The leaders asked us to change our travel plans and stay for the evening service. Sunday evening we addressed about 2900 people who were lifting the Savior above the city. It was a powerful service. They asked us to come back and spend some time with leaders. This is a cell based church with a far reaching radio station and ministry. They had a receiver/transmitter for IRod to take home with him. The idea is to receive the Christian programming from the Porte Ordaz based station and broadcast it in the region of the 3.5 million city of Valencia. We will try to schedule time with them in May on a return trip.
I returned Tuesday 2/19/08 to Boise. One of the great things of this trip is to have been able to spend almost every day of the four weeks with IRod who is the most gifted and dedicated apostolic church multiplier that I know.
Thanks for your powerful contribution of prayer. Your brother, gail.
I met with Omar Pina and three of his key leaders in Valencia Tuesday 2-12-08 for most of the day. He is the National Coordinator for E3 Ministries. It stands for Evangelize, Equip and Establish. He is a very influential international leader. They have 50 state and regional coordinators around Vz. I spent two plus hours listening to what they are doing to fulfill the great commission. Then he stated we need help to really see the church multiplication that we desire. I was asked what methods would I use to teach church multiplication. I asked, ‘What methods did Jesus use?’ This led to a three hour discussion and Heaven came down. These guys have a whole fresh vision for how our Lord will complete the great commission. They committed to schedule a three day retreat for the four of them with IRod and I in May to continue the journey.
IRod, Nellia and I traveled to Porte Ordaz one of the largest cities in Vz Friday 2-15-08. We scheduled the trip and purchase the airfare with out having a definite meeting set up. We came to unity in prayer that our Lord was sending us to Porte Ordaz so we acted on our decision. The day after we purchased airfare we received two definite invitations. One was for a Saturday meeting with evangelical leaders from the area arranged by a long time friend of IRod. The second came together as a presentation to the Sunday morning gathering of the second largest evangelical church in Vz. We were asked to take the full service with about 1000 in attendance. The church building is a beautiful roof structure with no walls on a hill over looking the city and region. Nellia sang with her Heavenly voice. IRod and I shared what the Spirit gave us in the moment. The leaders asked us to change our travel plans and stay for the evening service. Sunday evening we addressed about 2900 people who were lifting the Savior above the city. It was a powerful service. They asked us to come back and spend some time with leaders. This is a cell based church with a far reaching radio station and ministry. They had a receiver/transmitter for IRod to take home with him. The idea is to receive the Christian programming from the Porte Ordaz based station and broadcast it in the region of the 3.5 million city of Valencia. We will try to schedule time with them in May on a return trip.
I returned Tuesday 2/19/08 to Boise. One of the great things of this trip is to have been able to spend almost every day of the four weeks with IRod who is the most gifted and dedicated apostolic church multiplier that I know.
Thanks for your powerful contribution of prayer. Your brother, gail.
Venezuela Update 2-13-08
2/13/08
We have had awesome meetings with Vz simple church advocates. Issrael Rodriquez has emerged as a powerful apostolically gifted simple church multiplier. He and I spent the day with Carlos Fuentes last Friday of the coastal area near CCS of Vargas. He is working with 12 new house churches. God is raising him up as an example for people to see in Vz.
We had a great lengthy meeting with Franklin Diaz of Valencia. He has come a long way to the good since September 2007. History was made at the annual convention of Vz Baptist last week. One of the house churches that Franklin works with was officially accepted into the convention. Never before have they accepted a church with no sponsoring church. The group has no building or designated pastor and is committed to multiplication. It was controversial but it passed. This is a huge indication of acceptance and validation of a new breed of churches. Vz Baptist also adopted a challenge statement for the year, “Back to Our Roots.” This indicates a strong desire to follow the pure patterns of the first century church. It reminds me of the great and popular statement of Robert Fitts, 'Return to Simplicity.' Friends, the walls are coming down in answer to your prayer.
IRod, Carlos Fuentes and I spent the day Monday with Edgar Pinto of the Guarenus area east of Caracas proper. He works with ten new house churches reaching to the coast east of the city of Caracas. Our Lord is raising him up as a Vz example as well. We went deeply into Kingdom vision together. Holy Spirit engulfed us. These guys are far more advanced in the Kingdom dynamics than I could have hoped for by this time. Their willingness to empower and release the little strongholds of Heaven is beyond belief.
Please pray for these key harvest workers…..Issrael Rodriquez of Valencia…….Carlos Fuentes of Vargas…….. Edgar Pinto of Guarenus……. Franklin Diaz of Valencia
You are a strategic part of God’s plan for the history of Venezuela. Your prayers carry the power of Heaven to earth. Thank you for giving to the Lord. Your brother, gail.
We have had awesome meetings with Vz simple church advocates. Issrael Rodriquez has emerged as a powerful apostolically gifted simple church multiplier. He and I spent the day with Carlos Fuentes last Friday of the coastal area near CCS of Vargas. He is working with 12 new house churches. God is raising him up as an example for people to see in Vz.
We had a great lengthy meeting with Franklin Diaz of Valencia. He has come a long way to the good since September 2007. History was made at the annual convention of Vz Baptist last week. One of the house churches that Franklin works with was officially accepted into the convention. Never before have they accepted a church with no sponsoring church. The group has no building or designated pastor and is committed to multiplication. It was controversial but it passed. This is a huge indication of acceptance and validation of a new breed of churches. Vz Baptist also adopted a challenge statement for the year, “Back to Our Roots.” This indicates a strong desire to follow the pure patterns of the first century church. It reminds me of the great and popular statement of Robert Fitts, 'Return to Simplicity.' Friends, the walls are coming down in answer to your prayer.
IRod, Carlos Fuentes and I spent the day Monday with Edgar Pinto of the Guarenus area east of Caracas proper. He works with ten new house churches reaching to the coast east of the city of Caracas. Our Lord is raising him up as a Vz example as well. We went deeply into Kingdom vision together. Holy Spirit engulfed us. These guys are far more advanced in the Kingdom dynamics than I could have hoped for by this time. Their willingness to empower and release the little strongholds of Heaven is beyond belief.
Please pray for these key harvest workers…..Issrael Rodriquez of Valencia…….Carlos Fuentes of Vargas…….. Edgar Pinto of Guarenus……. Franklin Diaz of Valencia
You are a strategic part of God’s plan for the history of Venezuela. Your prayers carry the power of Heaven to earth. Thank you for giving to the Lord. Your brother, gail.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Life Saving Prayer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.............Israel and Nelia Rodrequez.................
Please get on your knees for these two. Israel Rodrequez (IRod) has emerged as the number one most promising apostolicly gifted simple church multiplication advocate that I know in Venz. It is unbelievable what all he has going......BELIEVE ME!!!!!....... Pray for him and Nelia. A few weeks ago they attempted to take an elevator from the sixth floor at her office. IRod joins her for lunch almost every day. In two years they have never taken the stairs. The elevator was crowded so they took the stars. As they descended the stares the elevator fell and killed seven people........... SPIRITUAL WARFARE............ Today IRod ran back to Velencia from CCS to fulfill a commitment. He was delayed by 30 minuets by call to help a friend. He arrived at his primary destination late to find that the place had just been robed at gun point and shots were fired. The police were arriving just ahead of him. Were it not for the call for help he would have been a victim. satan recougnises the potential and is highly motivated to destroy him. Thanks for engaging in the battle thru prayer. You are a strategic part of Gods plan tor the history of Venezuela.
God is teaching us to complete the great commission. It is one thing to see a harvest. It is another to get every last one. To complete the great commission we must focus on the voice of God and respond to Him quickly and accurately. Any thing less is second best and will not do. The great commission will only be completed when we as His people learn to filter thru all the good suggestions an respond only to the voice of God. The Church must be agile and liquid to find the periolus pathway thru horrible pitfalls to reach every last one on earth. We are not willing that any should perish. May every one bow before Him. May His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven......... Dive in...the water is hot..............gg
Please get on your knees for these two. Israel Rodrequez (IRod) has emerged as the number one most promising apostolicly gifted simple church multiplication advocate that I know in Venz. It is unbelievable what all he has going......BELIEVE ME!!!!!....... Pray for him and Nelia. A few weeks ago they attempted to take an elevator from the sixth floor at her office. IRod joins her for lunch almost every day. In two years they have never taken the stairs. The elevator was crowded so they took the stars. As they descended the stares the elevator fell and killed seven people........... SPIRITUAL WARFARE............ Today IRod ran back to Velencia from CCS to fulfill a commitment. He was delayed by 30 minuets by call to help a friend. He arrived at his primary destination late to find that the place had just been robed at gun point and shots were fired. The police were arriving just ahead of him. Were it not for the call for help he would have been a victim. satan recougnises the potential and is highly motivated to destroy him. Thanks for engaging in the battle thru prayer. You are a strategic part of Gods plan tor the history of Venezuela.
God is teaching us to complete the great commission. It is one thing to see a harvest. It is another to get every last one. To complete the great commission we must focus on the voice of God and respond to Him quickly and accurately. Any thing less is second best and will not do. The great commission will only be completed when we as His people learn to filter thru all the good suggestions an respond only to the voice of God. The Church must be agile and liquid to find the periolus pathway thru horrible pitfalls to reach every last one on earth. We are not willing that any should perish. May every one bow before Him. May His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven......... Dive in...the water is hot..............gg
Monday, January 28, 2008
VZ Update 1-28-08
Report thru Sunday 1-27-07
Campaign leaders estimate 5800 Professions of faith in Christ so far.
The evangelism is being done in streets, parks, youth baseball camps, schools, homes, etc. God is blessing in extraordinary ways.
House church planting teams began work on the Central University of Venezuela campus Friday. This is the premere university in Venezuela. God guided us to a location on campus where there was much foot traffic. We set up under a tree and began singing praise to our Savior. Some began walking and praying other past out gospel tracts. The Spirit guided us to many Divine appointments. There was a refreshing openness by most. I am not sure how many came to Christ but many. The simple church planters with us are not focused on counting but walking with Christ as He builds His church. We met most of the campus evangelical leaders by his design thru the day. They were very excited with the vision of simple multiplying campus churches. We took an big group of them to diner in the evening and guided them further into the vision. We worshipped with a large established group on Sunday. We have many meetings set up to help evangelise friends of new believers on campus and form churches. We intend to leave many new churches on campus when we leave next week.
De McCleery led a hotel employee to Christ this morning while waiting for the group members. She asked to set up a meeting with him and some of his friends at the hotel. He committed to meet and asked if he could bring a bus load. We will meet today at 6:00 pm.
The opportunity to meet with Hugo Chavez went thru the highest level cabinet officials. There was no time on his schedule this week. Officials have committed to a meeting with the president in a few weeks. Those being invited will make a way to do the meeting when it comes together.
We met saturday with the most driven apostle I know, Carlos Fuentes. He serves on the coast of Vz near Caracas. He has committed to spend time with me to understand more fully the way of multiplication. God is establishing a beach head on the coast of Vz to claim the nation as a Christian nation. I meet with one of the emerging pastors moving into the simple church patterns Wednesday.
Israel Rodriquez of Velencia some two hours from Caracas is serving as my interpreter. He is becoming an extraordinary church planting movement facilitator. God is drawing people to him who are apostolicly gifted.
Thanks for praying. You are making a difference. gg
Campaign leaders estimate 5800 Professions of faith in Christ so far.
The evangelism is being done in streets, parks, youth baseball camps, schools, homes, etc. God is blessing in extraordinary ways.
House church planting teams began work on the Central University of Venezuela campus Friday. This is the premere university in Venezuela. God guided us to a location on campus where there was much foot traffic. We set up under a tree and began singing praise to our Savior. Some began walking and praying other past out gospel tracts. The Spirit guided us to many Divine appointments. There was a refreshing openness by most. I am not sure how many came to Christ but many. The simple church planters with us are not focused on counting but walking with Christ as He builds His church. We met most of the campus evangelical leaders by his design thru the day. They were very excited with the vision of simple multiplying campus churches. We took an big group of them to diner in the evening and guided them further into the vision. We worshipped with a large established group on Sunday. We have many meetings set up to help evangelise friends of new believers on campus and form churches. We intend to leave many new churches on campus when we leave next week.
De McCleery led a hotel employee to Christ this morning while waiting for the group members. She asked to set up a meeting with him and some of his friends at the hotel. He committed to meet and asked if he could bring a bus load. We will meet today at 6:00 pm.
The opportunity to meet with Hugo Chavez went thru the highest level cabinet officials. There was no time on his schedule this week. Officials have committed to a meeting with the president in a few weeks. Those being invited will make a way to do the meeting when it comes together.
We met saturday with the most driven apostle I know, Carlos Fuentes. He serves on the coast of Vz near Caracas. He has committed to spend time with me to understand more fully the way of multiplication. God is establishing a beach head on the coast of Vz to claim the nation as a Christian nation. I meet with one of the emerging pastors moving into the simple church patterns Wednesday.
Israel Rodriquez of Velencia some two hours from Caracas is serving as my interpreter. He is becoming an extraordinary church planting movement facilitator. God is drawing people to him who are apostolicly gifted.
Thanks for praying. You are making a difference. gg
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