January - March 2006 Newsletter

Prince & Gina’s Praise Report from Spain

Dear Prayer Partners,

May the Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you always!

Church Planting Progress

Gina and I have been kept busy the last few months working especially hard to develop our new church into a mature body of Believers. Slowly but surely they are learning how to develop into servants that are useful for every good work.

The first Sunday of May will mark the first year anniversary for this new congregation. We began to minister here in Cáceres around March of 2005, but actually opened our present location and began our meetings as the officially registered “Iglesia Evangelica Nuevo Amanecer” (New Morning Evangelical Church).

I have never been deeply impressed with large crowds in churches, for they can be very misleading as to the true measure of the level of commitment of the individual Believer. Nor am I deeply impressed with much of what people call “decisions” for Christ. Of course all of this is pending on the amount and quality of personal consolidation and discipleship given to every individual.

When we speak of an average of 80 people attending our Sunday morning services or having first time visitors almost every single Sunday, it might sound like no big deal in the States where you have the blessing of having such a rich Christian history and so much Gospel that it is common to have churches of 300 or 400 members. Whereas in other countries, like Spain for instance it’s a genuine miracle!

So, even though we in our new work fluctuate between 80 and 100 in attendance every Sunday and could say, “For Spain, this is incredible!” I’m not impressed until we can effectively consolidate every one of these that are coming and going and find out if they can be discipled to become useful servants of God in the advance of His kingdom here in Europe and throughout the world.

And so it is that at our one year anniversary we can say that we are beginning to take our very first baby steps. We praise God for what has been accomplished, but there is yet so much to do before we can begin to honestly confess some level of maturity and true spiritual growth in the work. To this end Gina and I and those in missionary discipleship have wholly given ourselves. We are patiently building, line upon line, precept upon precept; teaching, organizing and above all building strong relationships with these precious new souls. ç

The Ministry Center

I am absolutely terrible with photos and cameras, but I broke down and asked Varian, one of the young missionary trainees, to go with us and take photos of the present stage of development of the Ministry Center. (Please find these photos attached to this newsletter. In the photos the Ministry Center is the section of the construction that doesn’t yet have the exterior wall erected.)

We’ve put two townhouses together to for the Ministry Center. They are located in a really nice, totally new section of the city that is being developed. The entire area is being urbanized with parks and green areas. From the looks of the pace of construction of the building itself, the streets and everything else around we don’t this that we will actually be able to move in until at least January or February of 2007. At that time we will also have to come up with about $30,000 per townhouse for closing costs.

Once again, to answer the question of what exactly the Ministry Center is: It will be our much needed ministry headquarters supplying the housing needs of the missionary discipleship training team, office spaces, guest rooms (for the many visitors and ministry teams that come this way), personal living quarters for Gina and I as well as several other necessary details and needs.

Other News

Gina and I were privileged to be invited back to minister in Okinawa, Japan, and to accompany and support our dear friends and fellow missionary-pastors James and Gloria Whittaker. Brother and Sister Whittaker celebrated 25 years of ministry in Okinawa, Japan. Several other pastors and ministers came from all of Japan and other parts of the world as Bishop Frank L. Stewart, of “Zoe Christian Fellowship of Los Angeles”, ordained Pastor Whittaker as a bishop over works in Japan, the Philippines, India and other countries where our beloved brother labors for our Lord. We praise God for we were blest to be able to minister and our minister was also greatly enjoyed by the precious body of believer there. While in Japan, the worship leader of the event, Rev. Jeff Booth, blessed our church when bought and sent to us a fantastic electric keyboard (piano) for our worship team!

Family News

On our way back from Japan, we stopped in Washington to spend some quality time with our daughter Jasmine who had just given birth to her second child: an 8lb. 8oz. beautiful baby boy named Jeremiah. I told her and her husband that they could remain in the gene pool and have more kids because the make beautiful babies! The awesome thing is that little Jeremiah looks exactly like my son Jason when he was one or two months old. Placing the photos side by side you can’t tell them apart.

Once Again, You’ve Been A Big Blessing!

Finally, thank you so much for all of your prayers and loving support of our ministry and may God continue to bless you for your generosity! You are a BIG BLESSING to our lives and the lives of countless others that you help us to reach for Christ! We love and deeply appreciate you all!

H.M.S.,

Prince & Gina Parker

Personal Correspondence:

La Roche Sur Yon #1

Principal "F"

10002 Cáceres, España

Tel: (34) 927-242-959

Spype Phone: (301) 637-5906

Financial Support:
Ambassadors Fellowship
P.O. Box 62309
Colorado Springs, CO
80962 USA
Phone: 719-495-8180
Fax: 719-495-3313