A PART OF OUR TESTIMONY:
In 1997, the Lord sent me out from my own country and kin to seek His face without interference or interruption. I went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, alone, and with only $100. I did not know a single person there, nor did I speak the Spanish language. I fasted almost completely for ten straight weeks, spending many hours in pray, while also saturating myself in God's Word - losing fifty pounds in the process. The Lord miraculously opened up a place for me to live temporarily while seeking His direction and where He would have us live as a family. It was nearly 2 months before He opened up a beautiful apartment for Debbie and or two daughters to join me. Our son had just started college in the USA and joined us later for his first, foreign, Great Commission opportunity.
From that faith-start beginning in 1996, God sent us (our foreign ministry teams and me) to serve across four continents - including time with the Church in the Muslim world. Within six months after our faith-journey began in Argentina, I was speaking every week to congregations throughout the neighboring country of Chile, later extending to several countries of South America over the subsequent eight years, where God opened doors for me to be the keynote speaker in many city-wide and even nationwide leadership seminars and conferences. From there, He sent us to Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, doing the same - multiple times. In fewer than a dozen years, I had spoken to literally tens of thousands of pastors and other church leaders and to hundreds of their congregations.
In some ways, it would not an exaggeration at all to say that our story has been much like Paul's missionary journeys we read about in the Book of Acts. We started with nothing, and we required nothing of those many local churches where He sent us; and we completed many years of foreign ministry with much fruit - completely outside the dictates of mainstream Christianity but working with, and speaking back into organized Christianity. We are not the only ones who have operated this way, not by any stretch of the imagination - but it is not the norm.
There were a few specific themes the Lord gave me to share through those many years, and even now, but the most urgent messages were given to awaken God's own people, the Church. What a wayward lot we are, and have been since the Early Church days. It was about twenty-five years ago that He began sharing with me about a total collapse of the United States as we know it, and the collapse of the organized Church along with it; and that the vast majority of "believers" are not spiritually prepared. They will not stand in the worst of times. The breakdown of America and the Church we are living in today is exactly as the Lord showed me and had me speak about beginning way back then. Sad to say, I was shut down from speaking His Word of warning in the churches of America, where it is so desperately needed. Even though there has been (and still is) great push-back from American churches, this truth usually rang true to countless other church congregations across the globe, and to many spiritual leaders too.
After returning from foreign missionary travel to minister His Word in the USA, I had to speak in a much lighter-message format, not able to share the deeper things He gave me except in small circles. The American Church, for the most part, did not, and does not want to hear anything that challenges normalcy. But challenging normalcy was, and it, the very heart of what God has given me to speak.
UPDATE:
Due to the lack of interest in the Body of Christ in America to hear challenging messages, I entered the secular work force again until I reached retirement age. The Lord certainly gave us His great favor through that season too. During that time, however, we were not dormant spiritually, but quite the opposite. We continued to seek Him as always, and either participated in, or started community Bible studies in our hometown; and various writing projects I'm finishing up are scheduled for publication in the coming weeks and months. Internationally, we still operate a mobile Bible school we founded in Andhra Pradesh, India in 2016 (ShilohBibleSchool.org); and we've been active in teaching through live Zoom classes to Spanish-speaking believers throughout Latin America, Spain, and beyond.
We believe it is time to reignite our webpage and ministry for a wider proclamation again. This will be a process, taking some time; but we have begun.
Much due COVID chaos and other new culture-shaking events, many "believers" are tuning their ears to something beyond their general religious activities - activities that in many cases only frustrate and even obstruct the possibility for maturity in Christ.
In 1997, the Lord sent me out from my own country and kin to seek His face without interference or interruption. I went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, alone, and with only $100. I did not know a single person there, nor did I speak the Spanish language. I fasted almost completely for ten straight weeks, spending many hours in pray, while also saturating myself in God's Word - losing fifty pounds in the process. The Lord miraculously opened up a place for me to live temporarily while seeking His direction and where He would have us live as a family. It was nearly 2 months before He opened up a beautiful apartment for Debbie and or two daughters to join me. Our son had just started college in the USA and joined us later for his first, foreign, Great Commission opportunity.
From that faith-start beginning in 1996, God sent us (our foreign ministry teams and me) to serve across four continents - including time with the Church in the Muslim world. Within six months after our faith-journey began in Argentina, I was speaking every week to congregations throughout the neighboring country of Chile, later extending to several countries of South America over the subsequent eight years, where God opened doors for me to be the keynote speaker in many city-wide and even nationwide leadership seminars and conferences. From there, He sent us to Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, doing the same - multiple times. In fewer than a dozen years, I had spoken to literally tens of thousands of pastors and other church leaders and to hundreds of their congregations.
In some ways, it would not an exaggeration at all to say that our story has been much like Paul's missionary journeys we read about in the Book of Acts. We started with nothing, and we required nothing of those many local churches where He sent us; and we completed many years of foreign ministry with much fruit - completely outside the dictates of mainstream Christianity but working with, and speaking back into organized Christianity. We are not the only ones who have operated this way, not by any stretch of the imagination - but it is not the norm.
There were a few specific themes the Lord gave me to share through those many years, and even now, but the most urgent messages were given to awaken God's own people, the Church. What a wayward lot we are, and have been since the Early Church days. It was about twenty-five years ago that He began sharing with me about a total collapse of the United States as we know it, and the collapse of the organized Church along with it; and that the vast majority of "believers" are not spiritually prepared. They will not stand in the worst of times. The breakdown of America and the Church we are living in today is exactly as the Lord showed me and had me speak about beginning way back then. Sad to say, I was shut down from speaking His Word of warning in the churches of America, where it is so desperately needed. Even though there has been (and still is) great push-back from American churches, this truth usually rang true to countless other church congregations across the globe, and to many spiritual leaders too.
After returning from foreign missionary travel to minister His Word in the USA, I had to speak in a much lighter-message format, not able to share the deeper things He gave me except in small circles. The American Church, for the most part, did not, and does not want to hear anything that challenges normalcy. But challenging normalcy was, and it, the very heart of what God has given me to speak.
UPDATE:
Due to the lack of interest in the Body of Christ in America to hear challenging messages, I entered the secular work force again until I reached retirement age. The Lord certainly gave us His great favor through that season too. During that time, however, we were not dormant spiritually, but quite the opposite. We continued to seek Him as always, and either participated in, or started community Bible studies in our hometown; and various writing projects I'm finishing up are scheduled for publication in the coming weeks and months. Internationally, we still operate a mobile Bible school we founded in Andhra Pradesh, India in 2016 (ShilohBibleSchool.org); and we've been active in teaching through live Zoom classes to Spanish-speaking believers throughout Latin America, Spain, and beyond.
We believe it is time to reignite our webpage and ministry for a wider proclamation again. This will be a process, taking some time; but we have begun.
Much due COVID chaos and other new culture-shaking events, many "believers" are tuning their ears to something beyond their general religious activities - activities that in many cases only frustrate and even obstruct the possibility for maturity in Christ.
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