Go! Celebration 2011 at First Baptist Church Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

What an awesome celebration!! Thank you so much for such a great experience. Keep loving, serving and obeying God. I have no doubt God will continue to use all of you greatly for His glory.  Thank you so much for taking such good care of me (It was hard to say good bye!). Please continue to keep me in your prayers, you will be in mine...

Perspectives Coordinator Workshop

I am so thankful for the time God allowed me to spend with great trainers and future coordinators for the Perspectives course in Irving, Texas.  Debbie Atteberry (on the front next to me) and Sundee Simmons (taking the picture) did an excellent job to train us and inspire us to share all these great missionary principles and key information with everyone who wants to be effective in God's kingdom. I encourage you to find a Perspectives class near you (http://www.perspectives.org/) and sign up! You will never see your world the same way again, and you will have a great foundation to become a very strategic servant of God to reach the nations of the world for His glory.  This course is what I will use to help the churches in Central America train their congregations and missionaries. There is an abbreviated version in Spanish and I have been invited to help translate the entire course.  Please help us pray to get this done by the Summer of 2012.

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WWLD ? (What Would Latinos Do?)

I recently heard Rev. Bob Blincoe, US Director of Frontiers (http://www.frontiers.org/) speak to a group of students of the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course.  He shared something that encouraged me as I prepare to mobilize Latinos (Hispanics) in Central America.  I wanted to share his words with you...

"By the grace of God there are now hundreds of believers among the Kurdish people in Northern Iraq.  There were none when we arrived... I kept the door open in Northern Iraq long enough until more capable people arrived to do the work.  Mainly, they are  latinos.  Thank God for Latino brothers and sisters who are bearing the witness around the world.  We are just watering and they are reaping... So, I want everybody to wear a wristband that says, WWLD?  What Would Latinos Do?..."

Of course, Rev. Blincoe was joking about the wristband, but the point is that Hispanic missionaries are being effectively used by God in many areas of the world, including those parts of the world that many Americans are not able to reach.  Please help me pray for the future missionaries that God will call from the countries where I will serve (Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua).

Apostolic Passion

I am taking an online course that will prepare me to serve in Central America as I train new missionaries.  The course is Perspectives on the World Christian Movement (notice the link on the right column).  I am enjoying it immensely! I would like to share a something I read last week that deeply impacted me.  Consider as you read if you would like to have apostolic passion...

Apostolic Passion
By Floyd McFlung

"If you have apostolic passion...

• you are one of the most dangerous people on the planet. 
• The world no longer rules your heart. 
• You are no longer seduced by getting and gaining but devoted to spreading and proclaiming the glory of God in the nations. 
• You live as a pilgrim, unattached to the cares of this world. 
• You are not afraid of loss.
• You even dare to believe you may be given the privilege of dying to spread His fame on the earth. 
• The Father's passions have become your passions. 
• You find your satisfaction and significance in Him. 
• You believe He is with you always, to the end of life itself. 
• You are sold out to God, and you live for the Lamb. 
• Satan fears you, and the angels applaud you. 
• Your greatest dream is that His Name will be praised in languages never before heard in heaven. 
• Your reward is the look of pure delight you anticipate seeing in His eyes when you lay at His feet the just reward of His suffering: The worship of the redeemed [from all the nations of the earth!]."