Baptisms 2010

Baptisms September 8, 2010

Praise God! We Wednesday, September 8, 2010, we celebrated our anual baptism service by baptising seven new Believersinto the Body of Christ!

We shall be adding more photos as they come in.

Above and below: Jonathan Lancho Villa
Below: Sonia Arteaga Peña

Summer Ministry Outreaches

Summer Ministry Outreaches

June - August 2010

This Summer we had several powerful ministry evangelistic concerts focused to reach the youth of our city. These concerts have brought in about 60 first first time visitors and ten new people that have begun to attend our regular church services. Below are some photos of the last concert entitled "Identifícate" (Identify Yourself).

(Above) Pastor Prince feeling privileged that the youth ministries wanted him to "rock" with them during their youth concerts on both the electric and acoustic electric guitars.

(Above) Ángel, the youngest member of the band on violin and piano.
(Above) Jonathán, Beto & Marcelino playing behind a wall of artifical smoke during the concert. (Above)
Sister Eva López sings praises during one of the concerts.
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Young people come forward to pray during one of the altar calls.
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Both young and "old" came to the concerts.
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Part of the group during a song of praise.

May - July 2010 Praise Report Photos

May - July Praise Report Photos

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For those of you that don't know, our church here in Spain is called

"Iglesia Evangélica Nuevo Amanecer"

(New Morning Evangelical Church)

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The May - July Praise Report Newsletter and testimonies are below the photos.

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Training children to be good soldiers of Jesus Christ!

"Nuevo Amanecer" Youth proclaiming the living Christ

Sister Melisa with kids from our Children's Ministry

Jonathán Franco & Eduard Dominguez from Nuevo Amanecer's youth ministry.
Eduard brought Jonathán to the church.

Jonathán has been learning to play the bass for the youth band.

Beto y Gaby with Gina at their wedding.

Beto and Gaby are now fully committed to the Lord, happily married and actively involved in all aspects of the church. They have two sons that were born during their years that they lived together before they surrendered to Christ.

Practice with the Nuevo Amanecer youth worship band: Left to right: José on keyboard, Luis Ángel on violin, me on electric acoustic guitar, Bernardo - lead vocals, Eva - back vocals, Beto, lead guitar, Jonathan, bass, (not in photo) Eduard - drums.

Practice makes perfect - Beto, Jonathán and Eduard.

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The main workers in the Nuevo Amanecer youth ministry - officially called "JUNAM":
Gabriel, our youth pastor is the big guy on the right. His wife, Sabina, is the second from the right (kneeling).

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"Despierta Cáceres" evangelistic outreach concert - June 17, 2010. This has been our most successful Miraculous Catch to date. Eight new people have started coming to our services as a result.

(Below) The poster and flyer that our youth pastor Gabriel Watcher made (He is Spanish/German & Argentine)

Ending the Concert with joyus praise songs and dance.




(Below) Bernardo leads in a worship song during the concert





Having fun while we praise HIM!!!







Please see the Praise Report / Newsletter below for some exciting testimonies.

May - July 2010 Praise Report

Prince and Gina's

Praise Report from Spain

May – July 2010

Dear Prayer Partners,

Historic Victory

At 8:30 p.m. it was 111.2º F in the streets of Cáceres! Now a little after midnight it seemed no cooler, yet it had little or no affect on the revelers. Spain had won its first World Cup victory! The entire country was celebrating; dancing in the streets, horns honking, hundreds of people jumping into the water of the artificial waterfall, river and pond in the center of our beautiful city in urbane, yet raucous festivity. It was clear that no one was going to bed early tonight.

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But something else big was happening, much bigger than this and every mature true Believer in the country recognized it. Something had broken in the spiritual atmosphere of the country signaling that a great spiritual victory was also taking place in the heavenly places! We are now beginning to see its fruit!

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Outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Recently, after a Men's Encounter, I took the men directly to the Sunday morning service. One of the brothers found his wife and began to pray for her to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit as he had in the Encounter – AND SHE DID! That helped to set loose an outpouring of God's power.

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Sister Gina had also preached on this very theme that morning and in that service alone five people received. After this we had a wonderful deluge of the Holy Spirit where for several weeks in just about every service people received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit – whether we prayed for them or not. In two weeks eleven more people were baptized in the Holy Spirit! We, personally, have never seen such a spontaneous outpouring here in Spain!

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Naturally, this has changed our church and God has also begun to purify and purge the Church of impure and rebellious elements and this has brought a tremendously liberating atmosphere over the congregation! Our worship services, prayer meetings, cell groups, youth ministry and Bible studies are flowing with a much greater power and freedom.

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New Converts

About three years ago I began to visit and minister to a young professional musician named Carlos Alberto (Beto) that had recently moved to Cáceres from Switzerland with his live-in girlfriend. I discovered that his parents were Christians but he was deeply enslaved to sin. He was however open to let me visit him to talk about the condition of his lost soul... when I could catch him. For often he would avoid me for months at a time.

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Other new Believers in the church that knew him also began to "hunt him down" and try to minister to him. Finally, about six months ago, he finally gave his life to Christ in complete and broken surrender. Both he and his wife Gabriela (Gaby) are in discipleship (under me) and are sincerely "on fire" for God desiring to serve God wholeheartedly! He and Gaby were married in March in a civil wedding officiated by her uncle – who is the consul to Spain of their native country.

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Beto has dedicated all of his time and talent to serve the Lord in the church. As I said, he is actively involved in a discipleship cell group and is collaborating heavily with our youth ministry leaders. Because of his fruit he has been allowed to join the worship team and has also formed a youth worship band teaching the young people how to play various musical instruments. The entire church praises God for His work in their lives.

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¡Despierta (Wake Up) Cáceres!

This month we had our most successful Miraculous Catch yet! It was an evangelistic outreach orchestrated by the youth ministry. They entitled it, "¡Despierta, Cáceres!" (Wake Up, Caceres – Ephesians 5:14). It involved a full on Rock concert with lights, smoke, guitars, rappers and choreography – and short evangelistic sermon.

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I just wanted to sit and enjoy seeing them minister, but the young people love how I rock on the guitar so our youth leaders "begged" for me to play in the concert with them. Over 100 were present with over 30 first time visitors! Eight of those new people – adults and young people – happily returned Sunday for our morning service!

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Thank You & Please Keep Us in Your Prayers

God is doing so much more here, but out time is out: But NONE of this would be possible without your support. But the burden to see fulfilled what God has called us to do here consumes us. Spain must be won for Christ and this church must be established and founded so that she might fulfil God's purpose for her in the Earth! Your part in helping us to reach this end is absolutely indispensable.

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We want to thank every one of you that so faithfully pray for us and support us financially every month. But what Gina and I are praying for is for ten new churches to pick us up and support us for $100 a month. We need at least this much increase in our support in order to consistently make ends meet every month and to reach our 2010 ministry goals. 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!

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H.M.S.,

Your Missionaries in Spain

Dr. & Mrs. Prince M. Parker

E-mail: prince_parker@hotmail.com

Blogsite: http://missionaries2spain.blogspot.com/

Personal Correspondence:

Calle Cueva de Lascaux #1 Ambassadors Fellowship

10004 Cáceres, España

Tel: 34 (927) 245-765

Skype phone: (301) 637-5907

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Financial Support:

P.O. Box 62309

Colorado Springs, CO

USA

Phone: 719-495-8180

Fax: 719-495-3313

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Photos of the January - April 2010

Praise Report

(Left) Dr. Parker ministering the Word at Zoe Christian Fellowship Whittier (California).

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(Below Left) Pastor Tony Dunn giving The Parkers a plaque of appreciation for their years of service in taking the Word of God to the nations March 14, 2010.

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(Below Right) Sister Gina ministering in prayer after the ministry of the Word at ZCF Whittier.

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(Below Left) Some of the participants of the University Student Cell. Left to Right: Jessica, Consuelo, Jonathán, Audrey, Madeline.

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(Below Right) Sutdents from the University Cell. Left To Right: Jonathán, Audrey, Alejandro, Jessica.

January – April 2010 Praise Report

Prince and Gina's

Praise Report from Spain

January – April 2010

Dear Prayer Partners,

Trip to the USA

In February and March Gina and I made our yearly trip to visit some of our supporting churches in the USA and right off the bat, we want to thank the pastors and churches that so graciously hosted us. We were blest to have ministered (and to have been ministered to) in Atlanta, GA, Chattanooga, TN, Irondale, AL, as well as Los Angeles, Corona, Rialto, Whittier and San Diego, California. We also had the rare privilege to have been able to be with all of our children and our nine grandchildren.

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Once again, Bishop Johnson, Pastor Ammons, Pastor McClure, Pastor Esquer, Pastor Ed, Pastor Tony, Pastor Hugo and Pastor Richard, thank you very much for hosting and supporting us during this trip.

Growth In Cells and Church

True discipleship can be a slow process, but it is never without fruit. Even though our progress and transition to become an effectively functioning cell church has been slow, and I have yet to see the desired quantity of faithful leaders raised up from the many new converts the Lord has given us. However, we are seeing ever increasing and encouraging signs of growth.

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Friday evenings I have begun a cell in which both the subject matter and the way we carry out the studies are specifically geared for university students. We have begun by covering the Genesis account of the creation to the flood. This is a combination small group and virtual study in which the participants must have their laptops. During the course of the study I email them documents, videos and photographs that illustrate and clarify the points I'm making.

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Many of the students are finishing their Masters Degrees, but two (Jonathan and Alejandro) are beginning their doctoral studies in economy. Alejandro, has been coming since the very first study – he had never been to a Bible study before and the Gospel is brand new to him. His heart is so tender to the Word of God and we believe that he will be born again very soon.

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Another interesting point is that Alejandro lives in Badajoz (about 45 minutes to an hour from here). Yet he is an active participant in every study, visually and audibly, live, via the Internet, reading Scriptures and portions of the outlines that I send to all when it's his turn to read, asking questions and praying with us. Using "Skype" on his laptop, he is just as involved as if he was physically present.

Theological Seminary in the Canary Islands

Did you know that the Canary Islands are NOT named after the birds? The name is likely derived from the Latin term Insula Canaria, meaning "Island of the Dogs", a name applied originally only to Gran Canaria. It is speculated that the so called dogs were actually a species of Monk Seals ("sea dog" in Latin), critically endangered and no longer present in the Canary Islands.

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About two weeks ago I received a call from the superintendent (president) of the Assemblies of God of the Canary Islands – an old friend of mine – inviting me to come and spend a week giving a special, intense course on a critical overview of both the Old and New Testaments in their theological seminary. The credits the students earn will go towards their Masters degree. After the course I will be sharing in some churches on the Island. So I leave Monday the third of May, for a week of teaching there.

Please Keep Us in Your Prayers

Gina and I get invitations to minister all the time from all over the world, and we absolutely love the fulfilment of this part of the Great Commission to, "... Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel to all people" (Mark 16:15 GNB). This would be impossible without your support. But the burden to see fulfilled what God has called us to do here consumes us. Spain must be won for Christ and this church must be established and founded so that she might fulfil God's purpose for her in the Earth! Your part in helping us to reach this end is absolutely indispensable.

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We want to thank every one of you that so faithfully pray for us and support us financially every month. But what Gina and I are praying for is for ten new churches to pick us up and support us for $100 a month. We need at least this much more in our support in order to consistently make ends meet every month and to reach our 2010 ministry goals. 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!

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H.M.S.,

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Your Missionaries in Spain

Dr. & Mrs. Prince M. Parker

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Prince and Gina’s Praise Report from Spain

December 2009 – January 2010.

Dear Prayer Partners,
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We just wanted to send a Praise Update to let you know of a few more (of the many) things that God is doing here and of some important upcoming events.

Miraculous Catch – An Evangelistic Event

Peter and the disciples had been fishing all night and caught nothing – that is until Jesus came on the scene and indicated where they should cast the net. We refer to the abundance of their catch as “The Miraculous Catch”. We here in Spain we really need a “Miraculous Catch” in a harvest of the souls of men.

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In an attempt to attain this end we celebrated an event in which we invited a Christian musician named Alan Villatoro and his band. Alan is a Latin Grammy nominee for the Christian music category. We had from 150 – 160 people in attendance in our sanctuary (which seats about 120). About 45 first time visitors came to the event and many new contacts were made. Along with the new contacts, our biggest visible fruit has been the deeper encouragement and totally new experience that has been an incredible blessing to the many new Believers in our congregation.
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It turns out that we should have called it a “The Miraculous Seed Sowing Session”. This is Spain and even though we have yet to see an abundance of the fruit of the harvest, we are seeing fruit and we are working very hard to make sure that our fruit remains (John 15:16). The day is coming when we WILL SEE a “Miraculous Catch”.

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On the right and above are photos of Alan Villatoro and his band.

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First Wedding of New Converts

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A little over three years ago Freddy and Dabeyba, a young [unmarried] couple came to Christ. Both are lawyers who came to Spain from their native Bolivia for financial reasons. We met them shortly after their arrival and invited them to the church. They came and stayed.
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Dabeyba was the first to respond to the call of the Holy Spirit and surrender to Christ. A year later I was able to lead Freddy to Christ. After hearing (and understanding) the demands of the Gospel and the call of Christ, they knew that their 12 year, live-in relationship had to be rectified. So I moved them from a consolidation cell to become faithful in one of the small marriage and family life cells that we have for correct orientation as to just what marriage, true love and family really are.
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Being foreigners there was a terrible amount of bureaucracy, paper work and waiting in order for them to be legally married here in Spain. But finally all was completed and on December 19, 2009, I was able to perform the first marriage ceremony of new converts in our new church.
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About 30 very well-to-do non Christian Spaniards, friends and business associates of the young couple, were present at the wedding and stayed for the reception that was also held in our church. For these beautiful Spaniards it was their very first time they had ever entered what they refer to as a “Protestant” church. They were all very happy and comfortable and were made to feel totally welcome and warmly expressed how impressed they were with the entire event.
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On the right is a photo of Gina and I with Jorge and Sonia. A lovely new couple that, about six months ago, along with their four daughters have become an integral part of our congregation and actively participate in our discipleship and family life cells. The Christian concert and wedding were extremely encourageing and faith building experiences for their whole family. They, and others like them, are learning that life in Christ is what life is really all about!

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Even for many of the faithful members of the congregation, it was the very first time they had ever been to an Evangelical Christian wedding. Remember, a majority of our congregation is made up of new Believers. This wedding has proven to be a tremendous witness to the community and our investment of discipleship in this lovely couple is proving to be an even greater testimony to the professional community here in our city as they shine the light of Christ in their family and daily lives.

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Trip To The USA

February 28 we will be ministering in Atlanta, Georgia, in the Atlanta Metropolitan Cathedral, where Bishop Flynn A. Johnson is the senior pastor.
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March 7 we will be ministering in the San Francisco Christian Center, where Bishop Donald E. Green is the senior pastor.
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March 14 we will be ministering at Zoe Christian Fellowship Whittier, Pastor Ed Smith, in Whittier, CA.
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March 21 we will be at the Comunidad Cristiana Zoe de Rialto Pastors Hugo & Yolanda Martinez in Rialto, CA.
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March 28 we will be at the New Creation Fellowship, Pastors Richard & Jacci Stewart in Los Angeles, CA.
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We have other events and places that we will be visiting and ministering but these are the dates of our main Sunday services during our visit to the States.
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March 30 we return home to Spain where immediately begin our pre-encounter for our Men’s Encounter that we will be having with two other cell based churches in this part of the country.

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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. God has been blessing us so much in our work out here, but these blessings have not come without corresponding challenges. Some of our needs have been so great that they threaten to become burdensome – and I am committed to cast all of my burdens upon the Lord. Two of my favorite Scriptures are, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” (1 Peter 5:7) and “Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” (Philippians 4:6).

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None the less, just like Moses needed Aaron and Hur to help him hold up his arms in Exodus 17:10-13, I really need your help to hold our arms up. But as the psalmist said, “I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.” (Psalm 71:14).
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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 financial suppor of our ministry! 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! THANK YOU!
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H.M.S.,
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Your Missionaries in Spain
Dr. & Mrs. Prince M. Parker