2008 -- What a Year!
Delron kicked off the year with a trip to Haiti and the Dominican Republic where he ministered in pastors’ conferences and also introduced a couple students from the Bible college here to what it is like to live on the mission field. He said that it probably was a bit “over the top” when he handed the girl a tarantula -- but it was a great lesson in missionary life! We almost feel as if we should be granted honorary citizenship in Nepal with three trips there this year: Delron in March and May and Peggy in September. Peggy was also in Mexico in May to lead women’s meetings while Delron was in Sri Lanka doing a pastors’ conference at the same time. While Peggy led a group of ladies to Nepal, Delron was off to Nigeria. We finally made it on the same mission trip when we took thirty-one students from the Bible college to Mexico in November for a week of door-to-door evangelism and tent ministry. We recorded a hundred and twenty-four salvations and about half that many baptisms in the Holy Spirit. We also saw a number of miraculous healings with blind eyes opening and people getting up out of wheel chairs or walking without their walkers. Our job was to coach the students as they ministered since many of them had never done anything like this before. It was so fulfilling to see these once-shy students as they matured from the first of the week with faltering attempts to lead someone to the Lord to confident ministry by the end of the week.
Back in the States, we were also active with a ministry trip to Indiana and one to New Mexico. There was also lots of activity here in Colorado Springs as Delron was teaching part-time at Charis Bible College and also assisting Every Home for Christ with a new project to help train and equip leaders around the world and Peggy was serving as a chaplain in the corrections system and leading a ladies’ group at the church. Delron has finished manuscripts of three new books and twelve volumes of his Daily Ditties. Peggy has also finalized the first draft of her book.
The new year will start out with a trip to Indiana to lead a marriage conference and a mission to Haiti and the Dominican Republic and then to Belize. We greatly appreciate your prayers and financial support as we attempt to go through each door the Lord opens for us.
MEXICO REPORT
Rather than writing our own testimony of what happened on our recent mission to Mexico, we’d like to share with you a report that the missionary we worked with published after our visit: “Well we just wrapped up a week of working with a missions group that came from Colo rado to help us do a couple of outreaches here in Victoria. We had such a great time working with this group. They came with a heart to really minister to the people -- and it showed. It was truly amazing what God did through their time here. On the last night of one of the crusades we had many notable miracles take place. One of the first was of an elderly lady who had not been able to walk in a year. The group prayed for her and she eventually starting walking on her own. Another testimony is of a boy who had an infection in his ear that affected his eye sight. We prayed for him and the pain in the ear left and his sight improved. Another who had nerve pain from his hip down to the back of his knee was completely healed. Still another miracle took place when a young man sitting out in the crowd was healed of pain and numbness that was in his foot after having been run over by a fire truck. Many of those healed had a look of astonishment on their faces. When the first person had testified of her healing to the crowd, people’s faith began to increase and then miracles started taking place left and right. A few days after the group left, I met a nurse at the hospital who asked me to pray for a young child in her family who had fractured its skull in a fall. I began to share with her some of the testimonies of healing from the crusade the group just had. The nurse said that she had heard about this crusade where all the miracles had taken place from some one who had been healed in one of the evening services. I was amazed at how quickly the news had spread, since the town has over a quarter million people.”
Delron