WISE MEN STILL SEEK HIM

Prince and Gina’s Praise Report from Spain

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October - December 2009

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Dear Prayer Partners,

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We send our love and greetings from Cáceres, Spain, and we want to take this time to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! May Jesus be lifted up and worshipped as you celebrate Him this Christmas season.

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God is moving in the hearts and lives of people here, and every day we see the Holy Spirit at work! We wish you could be here to see how your prayers and support are having an impact on specific people’s lives!

Consolidation/Discipleship Cells

Gina has a consolidation cell that meets Saturday night that is growing and showing promise of multiplication. Her twelve new or fairly new Believers are eagerly receiving the foundational studies series I’ve written or put together in booklets.
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We have other cells during the week that focus on marriage, family and other areas of discipleship as well as the normal weekly Bible study that I hold on Wednesday evening.

Children and Youth Ministries

Our children and youth ministries have grown wonderfully in the last few months! It seems that children attract more children and youth attract more youth. We now have the largest elementary and Jr. high school ministry in the region of Extremadura.
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Several new families have come to the church and their children have absolutely loved the church and continue to bring their classmates and friends. There are even some adults that no longer come to our services, but their children arrive faithfully by themselves!

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Some of these children have been in the church for four or five years and are now 13 or 14 years old. They have begun to attract an exciting group of the school mates and are bringing them to the services. They are also forming their own worship group; several of these kids are students in the conservatory of music. In a couple of years we are going to have a rockin’ worship group in the church!

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To the left is a recent foto of Jonathan of on a student research project

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Above on the right is a recent foto of Jonathan and Ellen, another university student at the church
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Jesús Picón, also a Spaniard, has also recently come to Christ, but is another case all together. Delivered from a life of drug selling and abuse and pimping, Jesús has an insatiable hunger for Christ and his Word and is becoming an excellent disciple. Though he yet has many problems to resolve in his life, if I had a dozen like him and Jonathan I could invade Hell to populate heaven!

The Holy Spirit in Action

On one of my recent visits to the sick in the hospital, as I was praying for and ministering to a member of our congregations, I noticed that the other man in his room – in the bed next to his - had fixed his gaze on me. So I approached him and began to talk to him about the Saviour and the eternal state of his soul.
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We conversed briefly and I asked him a few pointed questions about his soul’s state and his life as lived before God. With tears in his eyes, he recognized his need for Christ and he asked for me to pray for him. I shared a bit more, we prayed and I left him with some Gospel literature.
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As I was leaving the hospital, I saw a family that had visited our church a few years before in the hospital. After greeting them I was informed that they were visiting a family member that was in the last hours of his life. It turned out that this relative was in the same room as the member of our congregation; the very same man I had just ministered to.
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Incredulously, they asked me just how I had had a conversation with him, for he had not been able to speak or communicate in any way for four days! I later learned that he died very shortly after my visit.

Theological Seminary

We just finished the semester finals at the theological seminary and the greatest challenge in giving the classes was trying to tighten the academic screws of the students. Some say that I can be a demanding teacher… and I think that’s a good thing. But at the seminary we’ve been trying to find the balance between requiring academic excellence and not discouraging those who might not be that fine tuned [academically] but have a heart to prepare themselves to serve God in a country the greatly needs laborers in her vineyard.
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There are some very good men and women that I have been blest to be able to invest in their lives with the gift of teaching that God has given me. Like I said in our last letter; the teaching is the “fun part”; the rest is normal teacher stuff: grading papers, reading reports, etc…

Please Keep Us in Your Prayers

Brothers and Sisters please know that without your earnest and constant prayer and support we would be severely crippled. For this reason we ask that, as enjoy God’s blessings during this special time with family, friends and church, that you please do not to forget your missionaries during the Christmas “Holy Days”.
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Please know that we do thank you so much for all of your prayers and your loving support of our ministry and may God continue to bless you for your much needed generosity! As always, you are a matchless BLESSING to our lives and the lives of countless others that you help us to reach for Christ! We love and deeply value you all!
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H.M.S.,
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Your Missionaries in Spain
Dr. & Mrs. Prince M. Parker

Prince and Gina’s Praise Report from Spain

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March - May 2009
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Dear Prayer Partners,

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Testimony of a New Believer

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One of the new, solid Believers in our congregation is Yesenia Weston (photo below). Her father is British and her mother is Spanish but she was born in Peru.

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Recently we proclaimed a day of fasting for healing and to combat the spirit of infirmity that had attacked members of our congregation and our loved ones. We set the fast for a day when one of our key sisters was to have a cancerous kidney removed. While there have been many marvellous testimonies about the work of the Holy Spirit in the congregation because of the fast, Yesenia’s testimony is of special interest.

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Before the day of the fast she discovered that an aunt, in Peru, was ill and had fallen into a coma. She had been trying to communicate her new found faith to her family, but to no avail. During the fast, she dedicated her time in prayer to the healing needs of the congregation and her family.
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In the middle of the night the overwhelming presence of God woke her up; a totally new experience for her. At first she was startled and didn’t know what it was, but she was at peace and wasn’t afraid. As The Presence increased, she understood that it was the Spirit of God, so she got up and continued to pray.
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Two days later she received a phone call from her family in Peru that her aunt had come out of her coma the day before and was totally alert and talking to everyone about God! She said that Yesenia had come to visit her, sat beside her and spoke to her about the love of God. She was told that God was going to heal her and that she should wake up. She woke up the next day as if from a normal night’s sleep; Healed!

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Our First Encounter (Retreat)

In April during the Easter Week vacation we were able to hold our first encounter… actually it was a combination regular encounter and marriage encounter. It was totally successful and has produced a lot of good fruit! To help us with this event I invited a couple of our disciples from San Diego, California; Pastors Hector and Ruth Esquer. Together with Gina and me, Hector and Ruth ministered marvellously and the new disciples of our congregation were moved to tears and repentance in areas that they hadn’t previously opened to Christ. Afterwards they stayed and ministered for two week in our regular church services.

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Ministry Travels

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In March Gina and I traveled to the USA to visit a couple of the churches that generously support our ministry. The highlight of the trip was the visit to our home church, Word of Faith Church, in Kennewick, Washington. We had the privilege to meet our new pastors, Ryan and Natalie Graves, and enjoy some of the richest and fruitful fellowship with them that we have had in a long time. It had been four long years since we had been there, so while there we shared in several services and special teaching sessions.
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Our brief stateside trip also took us to California where we spent a few days ministering in San Diego, in the Spanish speaking congregation of Pastor Hector Esquer as well as spent a bit of quality time with Pastor Ed Smith of Zoe Christian Fellowship of Whittier and Pastor Richard Stewart of New Creation Fellowship in Los Angeles.

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Cell Meetings

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We praise God for our cells are growing in number and size. Soon we will start our second School of Leaders and with far more experience and maturity it is clear that the congregation will produce far more fruit than the first school of leaders gave us.
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We praise God for another generation of new Believers that is being discipled in our cell groups is in preparation for baptism this summer.

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Musicians in the Church

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One of the things that tend to happen in a church planting situation is that the first generation of converts is not musicians. If they are, they are so new that they are not ready to be placed in a position of leadership such as a worship leader should be. So I usually end up being the preacher and worship leader for several years before a good team of competent psalmists can be raised up.

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There are some other very good musicians that come frequently to our services, but they're still heathens. They love our songs, like they way I play and enjoy our services, but I’ve made it clear that they have to get “good saved” in order to be a part of the worship group.

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In our congregation, we have raised up a worship group; but right now I am the only one that plays an instrument. Praise God that many of the families that have been saved now have their children in the conservatory of music and these kids are excited that one day they will be a part of the worship group to play for God’s glory!
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Having said this, I must mention a major need that I have. My guitars are over 25 years old and are in dire need of repairs and technical work. Quite frankly, even though I take excellent care of them, they’re falling apart! I’ve put a lot of miles on them. I desperately need some new guitars (I now have two – an Ovation acoustic and a Spanish classical). Please pray about helping me buy these much needed tools and help us continued our effective service on the mission field.

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Please Keep Us in Your Prayers

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We have many spiritual, situational and financial needs here on the mission field. We know that without your earnest and constant prayer support we would be severely crippled.
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Please know that we do thank you so much for all of your prayers and your loving support of our ministry and may God continue to bless you for your much needed generosity! As always, you are a matchless BLESSING to our lives and the lives of countless others that you help us to reach for Christ! We love and deeply value you all!

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H.M.S.,
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Dr. & Mrs. Prince M. Parker

Nov 08 - Feb 09 Praise Report

November 2008 - February 2009 Praise Report

Dear Prayer Partners,

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I’m so sorry that I am behind schedule in getting out my praise report. As normal, we are kept quite busy, but actually, for this, I just lost track of time.

Foundation of Sand

In our many years of the mission field, we have planted around twenty new churches. But this has been a different experience for us. First of all, normally, there are no other churches in the areas we select to plant a new work. Cáceres, though largely under evangelized, does have other churches near by. The second, and more directly influential distinctive factor, is the fact that this church is built on the ruins of a failed ministry prior to our coming.

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We took the church because pastors from all over the country requested for us to come and help repair the breach that had been made by a ghastly scandal (that cause bad waves almost nationwide in the media).
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Even though the church we have planted here is an entire new and unaffiliated work, seven or eight survivors from the old church are part of our church. They brought with them a great need for healing and almost thirty thousand dollars (ouch!) worth of debt incurred by the former pastor (who is now serving an eight year prison sentence – double ouch!). That ministry was built on a foundation of sand.
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We took responsibility of said debt in order to clear the testimony of the Gospel in this area. Because the debt wasn’t ours, we were able to negotiate it down to about twenty three thousand dollars (€17,000). Last August, we were able to completely liquidate that 17,000 euro debt and we were able to do it in just three years. This we did while keeping solvent on all of our own church’s financial obligations. This has really helped to restore the credibility of the testimony of the Gospel in our region of the country.

The Contrasting Maturity of the Congregation

I know of a surety that money is not the measure of all things, but just so that you can see what God has done, I share this: In January (2009), some friends of ours in Madrid, pastors of a church there, suffered a terrible tragedy. A fire in their flat took the life of their four year old daughter and destroyed every thing the owned.
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I gathered the elders, the secretary and treasurer of the church and asked them how we could help this family financially. I really had no idea of how we were doing financially (I figure that if we have problems, they’ll let me know). They told me that the very next day we could send them €1,000 and have absolutely no problems in fulfilling our monthly financial obligations (which total to about €2,500)! Praise God!
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Last November, I approached the elders of the church and requested that the congregation begin to take the first step in our financial support as their pastors. They gladly agreed and since then have begun to pay my Social Security taxes – a big help to us. Eventually, as the church grows and matures, they will begin to take a larger role in contribution to our financial support. This will be the first time ever that a church that we have planted on the mission field has taken aggressive steps to support us financially.
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With the church, we’ve come a long way and we’ve yet quite a way to go. But, none the less, this is the beginning of just one way that Christ is building His church on a foundation of rock.

Buying Church Property

I believe that even though the World’s in Crisis – We Are in Christ! So we have taken another step: In another recent reunion with my elders I talked to them about stewardship and the ultimate vanity of renting property for the church.

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As a result I talked to our landlord about selling the property we have been renting to us via a “rent with option to buy” contract. He has agreed to this and, after negotiation, offered to sale it to us for an excellent price.
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Our deal is that we will sign a contract to continue to pay an agreed amount of rent that will actually go towards a 30% down payment on the building. When we have the 30% paid (in about four years), then we go to the bank about a loan to buy the property. Today, the banks here won’t give you the time of day. But, by that time, whatever trauma the world banking systems are going through now should be resolved… if not; we’ve simply paid rent that we would be paying anyway. Not a bad deal.
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Our goal is to have the property bought 100% by money directly from the congregation with little or no foreign donations. Your support is to go completely just to keep us on the field.

Cell Meetings

The cell church format of our church continues to develop, howbeit slowly. But we are seeing growth in the people that we have been discipling. Some people that have been on the nebulous fringe are beginning to get more involved and serious with their faith. We are yet a long way off from being called a cell church, but we are growing.

Tent Making

The little business that we were miraculously able to start in December has slowly but surely making headway. Even though now it is only paying its own way and we’re not “making a living” off of it, it has been extremely profitable in giving us far greater exposure to and recognition by the general public.
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All of the Believers and the other pastors in the region are very happy that we have opened the business. With the exception of a few missionaries, every single one of them also has to hold a job to make ends meet. In all, it’s a blessing, and with all of the new people that are becoming our friends, it is proving to be well worth it. As of this date, we have close to 650 new card holding video club members. We now have the film “Bella” and will soon have “Fireproof”. It’s another way to get the Gospel out to the unreached!

Thank You

Please know that we do thank you so much for all of your prayers and your loving support of our ministry and may God continue to bless you for your much needed generosity! As always, you are a matchless BLESSING to our lives and the lives of countless others that you help us to reach for Christ! We love and deeply value you all!

H.M.S.,

Dr. & Mrs. Prince M. Parker

Prince & Gina's Praise Report From Spain

August - October 2008

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Greetings in Jesus' Name!

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Baptizing New Believers

In September we were able to celebrate another baptismal service. We have no baptismal facilities in our church building so these celebrations take place in nearby rivers. Normally we baptize in a river with a gentle but fairly swift current – a nice experience. This year the river was wide, somewhat muddy and very slow moving and full of leaches! It was still nice; it’s just that no one lingered in the water to praise God – we did that on the shore.

Since we arrived in Cáceres we have baptised and discipled many new Believers. We are blessed to know that our fruit in these precious souls remains according to the command of our Lord in John 15:16.

Recently I received this beautiful note on our blogsite from a young man that we won to Christ and baptised many years ago. I have not seen him for about 15 years. This is a translation of his note: “Hi, Prince. I am so glad to have been able to find you once again. I just want to express my appreciation to you because you were the first [person] to tell me about the Gospel. I want you to know that I am still following the Lord and am involved in His work, especially in sharing with my neighbors. I left Daimiel some time ago and now live in Azuqueca de Henares (near Madrid), in Guadalajara - Victor”.

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Change of Our Spanish Residency Status

Gina and I have been on the mission field for well over three decades and have served in a number of countries. Years ago, when we served in Mexico, it was illegal to be a missionary there. It was also illegal to be a missionary when we first moved to Spain in the late 1980’s and the Evangelical church wasn’t legally recognized by the Spanish government. That all changed in 1992 with the new Spanish constitution.

Even though we were legally recognized as “Protestant” missionaries here, we were extremely restricted in the activities in which we could engage. The restrictions were such that if we engaged in activities that were not directly church related, we could have lost our residence status.

One of the conditions of our residence is that we have to pay Social Security here (between Gina and me about 400 euros a month – we also have to pay Social Security in the USA). Well, our financial situation has been so precarious that we haven’t been able to make Gina’s Social Security payments. So recently when we went to renew our residency permits, they rejected Gina’s permit because of our inability to pay her monthly Social Security taxes. We have appealed and are waiting for their answer.

Fortunately they changed a clause in the status of our residence now giving us permission to work and hold a regular job here in Spain as well as serve as recognized ministers of the Gospel. The government has decided that if the Catholic priests and nuns can do this (and they do) then so could we!

Tent Making

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Even though the Apostle Paul had the financial support of the Philippians (Philippians 4:10-19), he had to make tents to supplement his income (Acts 18:3). The economic crisis that has shaken the USA has also terribly shaken Spain. This has affected us to the point that we have found it necessary for Gina to take up a night job in order to supplement our income. Gina works from 10:00 p.m. until 9:30 a.m. taking care of an elderly couple. She is free to minister to the needs of the congregation and to have her cell meetings during the day and early evening.

We have also decided to supplement our income by opening up a small business here. We are opening up a Disney store & video club called “Bluster Videos”. This store is part of a franchise. The store will give us tremendous exposure in a community in which we are already very well known and liked.

We have been praying for an inroad to the youth of this city and there is a high school right across the street from us and three vocational schools (high school & junior college levels) within 300 yards of the store. Hundreds of young people pass by the store every day!

We took out some bank loans to open the store, so please pray for our success and prosperity – not just for our financial prosperity, but also for the power and presence of our Christian witness. For as we prosper, so too does the forwarding of the work of the Gospel here in Spain. Our grand opening will be December 4th.

Pray For Our Granddaughter Kaila

A little over a month ago we received the distressing news that our granddaughter, Kaila, our daughter Lupe’s oldest daughter, was diagnosed with leukemia. So please pray with us for her complete healing and the complete cancellation of this sickness. She is now in chemotherapy and the doctors are very positive that they were able to catch it at a good time and that she will completely recover. (Psalms 124:8) “Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth”.

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Thank You

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Please know that we do thank you so much for all of your prayers and your loving support of our ministry and may God continue to bless you for your much needed generosity! As always, you are a matchless BLESSING to our lives and the lives of countless others that you help us to reach for Christ! We love and deeply value you all!


H.M.S.,


Dr. & Mrs. Prince M. Parker

Prince and Gina’s Praise Report from Spain

May - July 2008

Greetings in Jesus’ Name!

Apostolic Ministry in Mexico

In April I returned to Mexico to minister in a couple of the churches that we planted close to 25 years ago. At that time the region was virgin territory with no Evangelical witness for hundreds of kilometers in any direction. What an experience it was to return two decades later to see the entire region filled with the Gospel. I can now say, as did the Apostle Paul in Romans 15:19, “I have trailblazed a preaching of the Message of Jesus”, (The Message).

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I had the privilege to dedicate the brand new sanctuary of the mother church in Tecpan, and believers that we had led to Christ years ago traveled from every part of the region to be in the services – as a matter of fact, some came all the way from Mexico City.
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I not only ministered in the special services that week in Tecpan but taught in special leadership sessions both there and in Tetitlán at another one of the many churches that are fruit of our labor there. I can also say, like the Apostle John in 3 John 1:4, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth”.

Fruit in Cáceres

Even though one of our greatest challenges has been consistent and effective consolidation of the new Believers, we have had many new converts in Cáceres that are starting to bring forth good fruit. Here are a couple of examples of the testimonies:

Gabriel and Sabina Watcher (Pictured here on the left) are a beautiful young, very well educated couple originally from Argentina that has come to Christ in the last few months and are now in discipleship along with several other precious new Believers that are beginning to bring forth fruit (Sabina is a lawyer).

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Cáceres is a university city and we have also had fruit in our student ministry. These students are not only from all over Spain, but from all over the world! Now ministering to these university students is like ministering on a military base, they come and go, but some of these have powerful experiences with Christ and return to their countries with totally transformed lives.

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A marvelous example is that of Emily Hawkins, an exchange student from the USA (Pictured below on the left with Max). She had come to the church a few times but just to check things out. Another student, Max Lees, from Cardiff, England, had been sharing the Gospel with her at school and brought her to my house one night so that I might answer a few questions that she had and share the Word more deeply with her. I spoke to her for about an hour and the Spirit of God manifested itself by totally breaking through to her and saving her with an absolutely astonishing experience!

In the photo below is a group of international youth after a special meeting in the church. In this photo are young people from: (Left to right) USA (Emily), Peru, Belgum, Norway, Germany, Rumania, Norway, Spain.

Ministry of Literature Evangelism

Some time back God brought Roberto and Lu, a precious young couple, to the church. Roberto is a graphic artist and printer and a natural evangelist. On his own, he began to print Gospel tracts and distribute them house to house in his neighborhood.

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Seeing his ardent desire and natural burden, we laid

hands on him and commissioned him as director of evangelism for the church. He and I got together and wrote three very colorful evangelistic tracts with short, but clear and concise salvation messages and information about the church.
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At the left is a sample copy of one of our tracts. Roberto has made a data base of over six thousand email addresses in Cáceres and every week he is sending out Gospel literature and invitations to the church. We have some of what we send out translated in Porguese, Frence and English.
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He has formed evangelistic teams that go out every Saturday to distribute these excellent tracts. Roberto had a map of our city made and displayed in the sanctuary with pins indicating all of the streets that have been covered.

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We plan on SATURATING the city with literature proclaiming the Gospel’s salvation message of hope and the love of God. It is encouraging to see the teams of people that gather to spread the Good News of Christ taking this literature house to house until every home has been reached… and then we will start all over again! We will see this city and Spain won to Christ!

Praying For Spain

Every Thursday evening we have a prayer meeting in the church. The last two months have seen this meeting grow into an exciting celebration and about 25 or more people show up to intercede for the needs and the needy. (Our average Sunday attendance is about 100). We are extremely encouraged by this and have taken it to be a sure sign of spiritual growth in these new Believers.

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One thing I must constantly remind Believers in America is that fact that Europe is largely unevangelized. Spain is still at the top of the list of countries with a Christian population of less than 1%. Even the population of confessing Catholics is shockingly very small here – practicing Catholics even smaller still.

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There are yet 13 million people that have NEVER heard the Gospel here in Spain and thousands of towns and villages have absolutely NO Gospel witness. The average healthy Evangelical church here has about 50 Believers present on Sunday mornings. PLEASE PRAY FOR SPAIN!

Grandparents Again

On May 6, our daughter Lupe and her husband Joan had their second child; a girl they named Karen Joana de Jesús Parker. She was our sixth grandchild. Tuesday, July 15, our daughter Jasmine and her husband Jeramy celebrated the birth of their third child. A healthy boy named Jordan Elijah Hampton; and that makes seven!

Rapidly Changing Situations

Someone said that inflation is the ability to cut money in half without damaging the paper. Well, that's certainly been true for us. I know that the present recession has hit us all very hard. Here on the mission field, due to the severe devaluation of the US dollar and the alarming inflation rate (for example: gasoline is now $9.45 a gallon) as well as other factors, our income has drastically been reduced.

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You, our faithful supporters, are doing and excellent job of helping to keep us effectively on the field. Unless God tells you something different, we can hardly ask more of you other than that you please continue your faithful support.

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But what we direly need now are new supporters. We are praying for ten NEW churches to receive us as their supported missionaries for at least $200 a month. If you know of other churches that would be open to our ministry, could please you pass our names to them?

Thank You

Please know that we do 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! As always, you are a matchless BLESSING to our lives and the lives of countless others that you help us to reach for Christ! We love and deeply value you all!

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H.M.S.,

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Dr. & Mrs. Prince M. Parker

July – September 2007 Newsletter

Prince and Gina’s Praise Report from Spain

July – September 2007

Dear Prayer Partners,

May God’s peace and joy be with you all! It seems like I just unpacked from out last trip to the USA, but it’s actually been almost six months of Spirit filled activity since we were last Stateside. So as Gina and I pack our bags once again in preparation for a missions conference in Southern California we have a bit of time to reflect on all that God has been doing here in Cáceres.

Praying In The Street

The other day I was in my study preparing Bible studies and my Sunday sermon outlines when I heard the horrible screech of car tires and a crash followed by a woman’s loud cries…clearly not the signal of something good. I rushed outside and found a car in the middle of a crosswalk with a smashed windshield and damaged grill. I also saw a woman bloodied and prone in the street about fifteen yards away. I rushed to her side and, to my utter dismay, found that she was clearly in shock and at least six months pregnant. The screams were those of a witness.

Kneeling in the street as a crowd gathered, I began to pray while checking to stop any hemorrhaging I could. Men in the neighborhood kept a clear circle around me as I prayed for her and comforted her soul with God’s Word. What pleasantly surprised me was that the people of our neighborhood supported me in my efforts!

Later I found her in the hospital and discovered that she was a Rumanian immigrant named Felicia. The glorious miracle that even the hospital staff commented on was that they found NO BROKEN BONES AND HER BABY IS PERFECTLY FINE!!! Praise God!

Personal Invitation From The Catholic Bishop

I recently received a phone call from Miguel Angel, the Catholic priest who has befriended us. It was to inform me that the Dioceses of Cáceres-Coria was to ordain a new bishop and he wanted to personally invite and meet with us. I notified the other Evangelical pastors and missionaries in the area and took them with me to the event.

When we approached the 1000 year old cathedral, in the [more than] 2500 years old section of our beautiful city, one of the bishop’s entourage recognized me and hailed me by saying, “Sir, you’re the Protestant priest aren’t you?” Understanding what he meant to say I acknowledged in the affirmative. He separated me from the crowd and directed me to enter the path set apart for the bishop’s grand entrance. I had to explain that I was accompanied by my wife and other ministers that should also be allowed to enter with me.

We were seated in a special section along with the city dignitaries and in front of the TV cameras and the multitude of Catholic faithful. The Bishop publicly gave us a warm welcome and called us his friends.

Now I don’t need a Catholic bishop to feel my worth; that comes from my identification in Christ. But what it did no was to open the doors of the hearts of the people to whom we desire to reach for Christ in this city! Hundreds of people we see and greet everyday on the streets are beginning to cast aside their apprehensions and open their hearts to receive us – thus opening the door of their hearts to receive the life changing message of the Gospel (John 13:20).

Summer Crusade

In July, a short term missions group from Zoe Christian Fellowship of Whittier came for a week to do street evangelism. The team was a true blessing as more than a thousand people received Gospel literature and many more saw the street presentations of the Gospel!

As a result of the contacts made we have had several new families and individuals come to the church. Last week we baptized two new converts and there are others in preparation for baptism as they confirm their confessions of faith. Photos of the even are found on our blogsite.

These are photos of the Zoe - Antioch Missions short term team, lead by Minister Tony Dunn, sharing the Gospel on the streets of Cáceres while crowds of Spaniards listen and receive Gospel literature.


The crowd of Believers and non Believers that gathered to withness our baptismas service September 8th, 2007.

We praise God for the work that His Holy Spirit is doing in the hearts of the Spaniards. This is such a tremendous change from the spiritual condition of the country 20 years ago. We are not yet seeing revival or a massive spiritual awakening, but we believe with all of our hearts that it IS coming!

Cell (or Life) Groups

One of the greatest challenges for many churches is the consolidation of new Believers and first time visitors. We too have had to really tighten up our efforts to consolidate all of the new people that the Lord brings our way. The best way for us to do this is to train and commission cell group leaders and launch new life groups. In the last few months we have been able to launch our first such groups. We praise God for we are seeing fruit of these consolidation and discipleship tools. I also thank God for those who have taken our discipleship efforts to hearts and have accepted the call to commission to reach other souls for Christ and His Kingdom. At present we have five active and successful life groups.

Ministerial Center

We finally received the call from the bank to go and sign the final paperwork to receive the keys to the new Ministerial Centre! We would have signed the papers last week but we have made arrangements to do so upon our return from the United States.

Once we get the keys we still have numerous important details to fix and install before we can move in. Here they don’t give you your flats or houses with the kitchen, bathroom utilities or other details installed. Anything that people might change according to their own tastes they just let you do it from the beginning. This means that we are going to have to spend about 15,000 euros to condition the house and install at least the most basic elements before we can move in. Some of this we have been able to save up in anticipation and some we will just add to the mortgage loan.

So Praise God, after almost three years we will be able to move in by late early November!

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 matchless 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.,

Dr. & Mrs. Prince M. Parker