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POWERFUL TIME OF MINISTRY IN BAYAMON PUERTO RICO |
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We thank God for a powerful time of Spiritual Impact, outreach, and ministry with Puerto Rico Teen Challenge. Led by Dr Rodney Hart and Miguel Conan, It was awesome! We trusted God to send awave of refreshing and to light a fresh fire. We were joined by Bayamon, graduate, Josue Lopez and his wife, Maria, as well as Frank and Myrna Delarosa Matos from Freedom Chapel. What a powerful time of ministry with the release of new combined Teen Challenge Puerto Rico choir.
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Despite traveling with two fractured vertebrae, God showed himself miraculous, energizing Cathy and I as we worked with these wonderful men and women! In Buena Vista, at combined meetings including BV, Bayamon, Caguas, and Arecibo centers, over 100 came to the altars, most of them former prisoners, to make a confession of faith in Jesus Christ, 65 were baptized in the Holy Spirit, and over 50 were baptized in water. It was an incredible week as we saw God light a fire. I was amazed by the talent in the students.The combined choir we released had tremendous services on Sunday where another hundred made confessions of faith in Jesus Christ. The choir will continue their rehearsals, work, and ministry. Cathy and I headed home and leave for Africa in 10 days |
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The ministry ranged from enthusiastic praise and tender worship in church and Teen Challenge, to outreach in a filthy " Shooting Gallery" of a drug house. We ministered and filmed the bondage and most grotesque wounds we've seen in 40 yrs of ministry to addicts. The heroin,cut with ketamine (horse tranquilizer) and was literally eating the flesh from their bodies. The images in the attached video are graphic, but hope is at the end. JOIN US as Rosa gives her life to Jesus Christ. It is a graphic reminder this Good Friday of the sicknesses, sin and, wounds that Jesus carried up Calvary to the cross and the promise of RESURRECTION. |
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MIRACLE IN THE HOUSE OF DEATH |
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When we saw Rosa shooting up in the bleeding, infected wound in her left arm, Cathy and I prayed that God would open her heart to the gospel. We met and ministered to many addicts, but God gave us favor with her heart. She made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ and Teen Challenge Puerto Rico is seeking a detox so she can come into the program
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| What a busy few weeks! From Haiti to Long Island, to Brooklyn Teen Challenge as well as ministry at Faith International Training School (FITS) in Sayreville, New Jersey. We capped it off with a Spiritual Impact at Puerto Rico Teen Challenge. Again, we saw God move powerfully at crowded altars. We also were blessed, along with staff, to share in the miracle as about 30 students followed the Lord in water baptism in Puerto Rico. What an exciting time of ministry. We are blessed to have two weeks at home to learn some Polish and prepare for ministry in joining Executive Director Zbignew Urbaniak as hundreds of Alumni and students come to the center in Brocnia for ministry. |
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| We were unable to track down Rosa, from the video above. in June-continue to pray for her! |
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For over a decade, as we served the Teen Challenge Training Center in Pennsylvania in the 80s, students of the Bayamon Center of Puerto Rico made incredible contributions to the ministry of God's Mountain in Rehrersburg, and certainly our choir. What a blessing that Dr. Rodney Hart and Rev. Miguel Canan have invited us to reconnect with Puerto Rico Teen Challenge.
It is exciting to see this ministry continuing to reach out and impact lives powerfully. From the street, to the prison,
to any person in need, they offer the power of Jesus Christ , hope, restoration, and a new life filled with promise. |
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| FAITH INTERNATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL students from 17 nations. |
| We had a tremendous time of ministry at the FAITH INTERNATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL of Faith Fellowship World Outreach in New Jersey. Lead pastor David Demola first worked with Teen Challenge and Mike Zello back in the early 60s. Pastor Ron Constable, former director of Brooklyn Teen Challenge, invited us to minister to international students from 17 nations, who are taking gospel to the world. We we were blessed to communicate the vision and strategy of Global Teen Challenge, as God is raising up workers for a global harvest in these last days. |
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God moved powerfully as we ministered with the combined Teen Challenge choirs of Buena Vista, Bayamon Uno, Caguas, and Aracibo for the Assemblia de Dios District Council in San Juan. They testified powerfully and God gave me a directed word as the Holy Spirit Moved mightily. |
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, CATHY. THANK YOU FOR 37 WONDERFUL YEARS!
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Over 40 years ago, I met the most wonderful woman in the world. By God's grace, she married me 37 years ago on June 7. What a blessing to walk in ministry with such an incredible woman ... of faith and beauty
We spent our anniversary 1500 miles from home, up at 7 AM leaving for 2 meetings, a rehearsal and a service in Buena Vista when she deserved to be sitting by a pool with her feet up, sipping lemonade, but joyfully she serves. I do love her so!
Thank You Jesus for such a wonderful gift.
Cathy, thank you for a wonderful life. |
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| TESTIMONY- Rudiger |
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Rudy was born in Germany and was always skilled with his hands. He joined the circus, excited to take to the open road and see the world. He traveled Germany, then crossed the ocean, where he lived in New Jersey, but traveled coast-to-coast in the United State. He came to Puerto Rico with the circus and built a life for himself, living the dream. He had a beautiful girlfriend, his own home and a bright future, but his dream came to an abrupt halt. The owner of the circus broke his contract with Rudy and he found himself jobless, feeling totally betrayed.
One day at a party, someone introduced him to cocaine. Had he known where that would lead, he would have never even tried the first hit of crack cocaine, because he lost everything! |
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His dream turned into an 8 year nightmare of addiction. He lost his home, his girlfriend, and virtually everything. Rudy was homeless on the street in Puerto Rico. The La Perla slums were taking their toll on him. Here he was, a German-speaking addict, strung out on drugs, in a Spanish speaking housing project. He was lost, and without hope.
He survived by building car "boom boxes" for drug dealers and people in the projects as he hustled to survive in the dangerous ghettos of Bayamon and San Juan. |
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He scavenged behind restaurants as they put out the chicken in a bag for food. He scoured the street for scrap metal. One day he was selling scrap to his metal connection. The recycler was a Christian, and told him about Teen Challenge. He shared that Jesus Christ could change his life and invited him to a TC street meeting. As he thought about it, he came to the conclusion that something had to change in his life and He had nothing to lose.
Rudy came to the street meeting, skeptical, but willing to listen. At 1 PM he heard the gospel for the first time. By 5 PM, he was a student in Bayamon Uno. He submitted to the program, cynical, but his doubts began to melt under the weight of God's love and power. He surrendered his life to Jesus Christ, God changed his life and he graduated. Rudy has been drug-free for 4 years and faithfully serves as staff at Teen Challenge Puerto Rico. |
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God transformed Rudy from an indigent, homeless hustler, to a leader! The students call him McGyver because of his uncanny ability to fix almost anything with nothing. |
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And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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I took this picture out my window on the plane flying to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Above the storms of life is the beauty of His presence and His promise. Traveling to Puerto Rico after fracturing two vertebrae in my back we chose to go on ministry rather than six weeks in bed. I was convinced that God would be so impressed with my obedience,that it it would be an easy, uneventful trip.
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First we were fogged in for the morning . The flight was redirected to Charlotte, North Carolina. Then after catching a flight to ATL with delays, we headed for Puerto Rico, I was ready to ask God if He was sure He knew what he was doing. At this point in time, we had already been forced to cancel the evening rehearsal with Teen Challenge Choir that we felt we really needed. After 18 hours in transit, I was quite frustrated as the plane shuddered through the wind and rain. Then we broke through the clouds and I looked at that setting sun and clear sky above the storm. God clearly reminded me ... broken backs, busted connections, bad rerouting ... even after a brutal day, He is in COMPLETE Control!
There is no gift that we can give that compares to the sacrifice Jesus gave. It serves us well to remember that the celebration, applause, and cheers of, "Hosanna," on Palm Sunday can evaporate quickly. Consider the servant's heart revealed by Jesus on Holy Thursday. As He prepares for death, on His the final night, His disciples foolishly argue over who was the greatest, and He serves them still. The Creator kneels to wash the feet of creation.
In the garden, even as he pleads, "Father, let this cup pass from me," He commits to pay the ultimate price because of His love for us.
Whatever problem you face today, remember that following Jesus is not about the ease of the journey but the promise of resurrection and the ultimate victory of Jesus Christ and HIS love. Remember, resurrection is not only a historical fact, it is a living promise for our lives. |
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