Dear Friends and Pray-ers,
Our hearts are full of praises to our good, good Father and to each of you that supported our trip to Africa with your prayers, finances, and love! With your prayers, we can truly say we flowed with the Spirit and He did what He wanted to do! It was an awesome trip and our best one yet! Below are some of the highlights to give Him praise for the many, many hearts and lives touched by Him and His extravagant love! It’s longer because we wanted to give a personal touch to what happened and not just share some facts!
Sending our love to each of you,
Rick & Sue
Answers to our Prayer Focuses
• We were healthy before we left for Africa and except for having a brief reaction to our malaria pills, we were healthy the entire trip and since our return!
• We had great weather and all our flights went smoothly without any issues or delays. Our luggage arrived with us on each flight too!
• With all the miles we traveled also by car, we were completely safe on the roads with wonderful people that personally drove us! (Very thankful for our roads here!)
• There was a new freedom to flow with the Spirit letting what was in our hearts pour out into the hearts and lives of many wherever we went. We believe our words were spirit and life as people shared how their hearts and lives had been forever changed!
• Father brought in more than enough finances for the trip! Our original budget looked to be around $16,000. But He brought in an additional $6,000 which allowed us to sponsor an additional 15 pastors for the Fatherheart A School in Nakuru, Kenya (a total of 50) and 10 more pastors in Ndola, Zambia (a total of 30).
Praise Reports from the various places we ministered
Kitale, Kenya
Time with Craig and Steph Miller allowed our bodies to adjust to the time change and recover from our reaction to the malaria pills.
We were able to encourage and pray with them after stepping down as leaders at Challenge Farm and before heading to the U.S. and their daughter’s graduation from college.
Bungoma. Kenya
• During this unplanned part of our trip, we truly relied and flowed with the Holy Spirit filling our mouths with what to share What a joy to let Him do it all!
• We ministered Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday to 50 children and over 50 youth and adults.
• Saturday we ministered to the children sharing on their “Identity and Destiny” using red sashes and crowns to help them see themselves as Father sees them! Even the youth wanted their pictures taken with the sashes and crowns! Sue spoke on each child being “His Masterpiece” uniquely different by giving them different colored feathers.
• Sunday was an especially long day with us sharing 4 sessions starting at 9:30 am and we finally left the church around 4:30-5 pm. – Rick shared on “Sonship” as well as “Community and Joy” with the adults and youth.
• Sue shared “In His Image, Masculine and Feminine” and they saw God in new ways.
• Rick knelt before the women and asked forgiveness for how the white men had treated them in the past. Then the Kenyan men also asked the women’s forgiveness. Very powerful!
• We asked the women to pray for the men to receive the nurturing, tender qualities of Father God. We found out later that it was the first time the women had ever prayed for their husbands or other men. New ground was ploughed and seed sown!
• Then we prayed for many women, widows and an older couple for physical healing. We saw 8 or more people instantly healed from pain in backs, legs, ankles, and one lady, Pilicilah, that had pain all over her body. The pain left that day and she recently let us know she is still praising the Lord that it has never come back! PTL!
• We also prayed for the healing of others – an 8 year old boy tormented by nightmares and later that day we prayed for a man who had had a stroke 7 months ago. Richard let us know within a week that he started walking like he did before the stroke! God is so good!
