We had a wonderful time of ministry with the students of Teen Challenge in Nairobi. Bernard, the TC men's home director, acting in place of Executive Director John Martin was a wonderful host. We met with the executive presbytery of the Assembly of God, missionaries printers, media, sound companies and an assembly of over 100 bishops regarding the August crusade.

On the left, Crusade director Ramon Rosa addresses the assembly of Bishops as we shared our vision to challenge the young people of the city with the power of God through giant Crusade. We visited the sites in Uhuru and Haruma but at the urging of leadership the crusade is slated for the historic Kamukunji grounds of the Mathare slum.

Please continue to pray for Annie Martin. She and John were not with us in Kenya, as they are stateside right now. She is now scheduled for surgery.

The pro-democracy movement was spearheaded by mainstream churches and reform lawyers. Two former cabinet ministers, Kenneth Matiba and Charles Rubia, called for a repeal of section 2A of the 1982 Act that made Kenya a one-party state Their boldness and application for a permit to address a public rally on the Kamukunji Grounds on 7 July 1990, started a landslide in Kenya’s urban crowd and rural poor.

Through the sponsorship of ‘tribal militias’, naked and painted with red ochre or clad in traditional shukas (cotton sheets), that assaulted their victims with spears, arrows or swords, the Moi government succeeded in hiding behind images of the ‘communal’ and the ‘primordial’ attached to ‘tribal warriors’ to conceal its role in grossly violating the human rights of its citizens. Between 1991 and 1998, violence linked to ‘tribal militias’, such as the Maasai Morans, Kalenjin Warrits, Chinkororo (Kisii), Sungu Sungu (Kuria) and Kaya Mbombo (Digo of the Kenya coast), claimed an estimated 3,000 lives and displaced nearly half a million Kenyans.

The Kibaki dictatorship has been thrown down, but there is a new dictator on the scene. Addiction, changa, "bangi," weed, heroin are exacting a terrible toll on Kenya. That is why is it is so significant that this "Jimmy Jack" Hope and Destiny Kenya Crusade will take place on these historic grounds. This time people will come, not to battle for political freedom, but spiritual freedom and to break the tyranny of addiction. Despite the devastating poverty and pain in this slum, the children are hungry for hope. When I rapped and sang to them, the laughed and ran up to touch my "Mzungu hair" and plead for a blessing. The children did not ask for candy, they asked only for water. .

In addition to ministry in the city, we visited some of the outlying areas in the bush where changa, a deadly mixture of alcohol and formaldehyde is devastating families. Peter DiCrice, who is coordinating the lay Missionary teams serving the Crusades in Kenya and Tanzania August 11 to 24, 2009 scheduled us to meet with some of the Maasai in the outlying villages. You can go for miles without seeing a man there. Drought and poverty have driven the men away. we have the privilege to pray and minister to the women and children left behind that their Father in heaven will not abandon them or leave them alone

INTERNATIONAL SCHEDULE 2009

Rock the Block Advance Trip
with Ramon Rosa/Pete DiCroce
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania,
Jan 15-30

FEB 2009
Trinidad, Tobago

MAR 23-28 2009
Steve Hill Mission: Kenya/Liberia

April 19-23
Europe Teen Challenge
40th Anniversary
Prague

May 15-27
Mauritius "Life Experience"
2,000 miles off the shore of Madagascar
EVANGELISM CRUSADE

Cathy and I were honored to produce
the 50th ANNIVERSARY GLOBAL VIDEO
If you would like to view the
video stream, click here.
DVD's are available upon request. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
STATESIDE SCHEDULE
Current services. How about YOU?

Sunday, February 15, February
Lighthouse Worship Center
Gloucester, VA

As we prepare for an exciting year of ministry in 2009, we would love to come to minister to your church. Please give Cathy a call at
757 728-0347 to arrange an exciting time of worship ministry, music and the word. Be a part, hear the miracles and send us as your missionaries to the world

PARTNER

PRAYER

FOCUS

1) Pray for Steve Hill as we have learned that he has asked us to postpone the upcoming Steve Hill crusades in Nairobi , Kenya and Monrovia, Liberia for health reasons

2) Pray for preparations for the August Jimmy Jack Crusade and Rock the Block Evangelistic Service in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Pray that Dr Ron Kenoly will be able to clear his schedule to join us as we partner with Kenya Teen Challenge and the TAG to launch a new TC in Dar Es Salaam. We need to lock in dates for Kamukunji Grounds and Jangwani for the ministry times as well as locating a Sound system capable of covering 50 to 75,000 people.

3) Pray for Sunday Services, protection, safety, traveling mercies for the Jimmy Jack Hope and Destiny Crusade advance team as we travel on to Tanzania.

4) Pray for workers for the Harvest ... we currently have invitations to start Teen Challenge in 43 nations. They are crying out for help. They need the power of God to meet a pressing social need.
We offer SPIRITUAL RESOURCES to meet the need.
MATTHEW 37-3 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.  38 Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”