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

April - June 2007 Praise Report

Prince & Gina’s Praise Report from Spain

April – June 2007

Dear Prayer Partners,

Greetings in the lovely name of Jesus! The last three months have been filled with trans-Atlantic flights as we made three scheduled trips to minister in various parts of the USA.

The Benefits of Making Disciples

As you know, the church here is yet in the toddler stage of development. None the less, there are still times that Gina and I have to travel abroad. The only way that we can do this is by developing strong and faithful disciples that can carry the responsibilities of this work (at this stage, temporarily), until we return.

So when Gina and I had to return to the USA for a series of services in March and April we chose six of our twelve to be in charge of the Sunday services and midweek Bible studies. To help them out, I wrote up a series of sermons and Bible studies that they were to give in my absence. They were nervous but eager and ready to step up to the challenge. They actually did a great job!

Ministry in California

Several pastors that support our ministry were very gracious to open their doors for us to share the Word of God with their congregations. Bishop Frank Stewart of “Zoe Christian Fellowship of Los Angeles” invited us to share in all three Sunday services March 25th. April 1st, Pastor Richard Stewart of “New Creation Fellowship” (of Los Angeles) invited us to share in both Sunday morning services.

April 13th we had the marvellous opportunity to minister in a Spanish speaking church, “Zoe Christian Fellowship of Rialto”. The marvel is that this couple is fruit of our ministry from 10 years ago when we were on furlough and serving at “Zoe of Whittier”. April 8th Pastors Hector and Ruth Esquer, of “Iglesia Visión Cristiana” in San Diego hosted us when we shared the Word with that beautiful family of Believers. Hector and Ruth are also long-time disciples of ours. We ended our time in California April 15th in San Francisco at the San Francisco Christian Center pastored by Bishop Donald E. Green.

We want to thank all of these pastors as well as our friend and Pastor, Ed Smith of Zoe of Whittier, for their hospitality and loving support of our ministry and the time that we could spend with them.

Cell Church Conference in Atlanta

We were back home in Spain in our own pulpit for two weeks (not enough time for me to recover fully from my jet lag) when we had to return to the USA; this time to Atlanta, GA. In response to an invitation from Bishop Flynn Johnson, pastor of the Atlanta Metropolitan Cathedral, in Atlanta, GA, to share in a G12 cell church conference that he was holding for that region of the country. It was Gina’s first time sharing in English Internationally and she did a fantastic job sharing on consolidation.

The keynote speakers in the conference were Bishop Johnson, Pastor Bray Sibley of the Harvest World Outreach Ministries, in Hammond, LA, and yours truly. It was a great privilege to share the conference with these great ministers of the Word, but apart from that, the worship in Bishop Johnson’s church is absolutely, outrageously out of the world! I told them that one worship service like that in Europe would transform the continent forever!

The Pentagon and Grandkids

I had just returned from our trip to Atlanta when I received a letter from a general at the Pentagon notifying me that they wanted me to attend a special promotion and honors ceremony to be held for my daughter Jasmine. I wasn’t going to miss that for anything! So I was able to be home for two more weeks and then hop back on a plan to cross the Atlantic for the third time in two and a half months. You’ll just have to forgive me when I say I was puffed up and spread out like a peacock to se my daughter honored by so many high ranking officials as she received her (far-ahead-of-her-time) promotion.

For ministry purposes, Gina didn’t accompany me on this trip; she stayed to preach that Sunday. So I was able to spend about four days with Jasmine and her lovely family. That means that I got my grandkids ALL TO MYSELF!!! Gina usually sweeps them away and it’s all Grandma, Grandma! But this time it was all about, “Grandpa, Grandpa!!!” Ha, ha!

A True Sign of Growth

While at the Pentagon Jasmine shared with me about the four stages of forming a team: (1) Forming: the vision is born and shared. (2) Conforming: the team members struggle to try to assimilate the vision of the leader. (3) Storming: conflicts and difficulties evolve as the team members see challenges and have difficulties digesting the leader’s vision. (4) Norming: conflicts are resolved as the team members begin to sincerely understand and incorporate the vision of the leader and start getting on board with the vision seeing it as a normal way of doing things.

Now I felt really good when I heard that. For if the strategic and logistical heads of the most disciplined military in the world see this and a natural part of team formation, OUR PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES HAVE BEEN NORMAL! The good thing about it is that now, we are finally coming into the Norming part of our team development and are beginning to see fruit!

Some of the leaders that we have been training have finally begun to open up evangelistic and consolidation “cells” (Life Groups) and are excited about it. They have begun to embrace the same vision that I have been striving to inculcate in them. We are finally beginning to GROW as we should and the church is showing favourable signs of true progress!

Thank You and Please Keep Us In Your Prayers!

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.,

Prince & Gina Parker

Personal Correspondence:
Calle Cueva de Lascaux #1
10004 Cáceres, España
Tel: 34-(927) 24-57-65
Skype phone: (301) 637-5906

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

January - March 2007 Praise Support

Prince & Gina’s Praise Report from Spain

January - March 2007 Newsletter

Dear Prayer Partners,

Greetings in the lovely name of Jesus! God has been doing so much that I’m challenged to see if I can summarize His multiple marvels.

Just to start of, to the right is a recent photo of Gina and me with our son Jason and his lovely new wife Julia. They both love the Lord and are in leadership training in their church in preparation for full time ministry. They are in hopes to return to the serve with us on the mission field. Their long range ministry goals are to serve as missionaries in Australia.

Preaching to a Nation

In the last three months we have had several quite unintentional opportunities to minister the Gospel to countless thousands. In January I received a call from a popular radio station chain that I assumed was local. They asked if I would be willing to do a live telephone interview that afternoon. Now I trust the media about as much as I trust a junkie with my wallet. None the less, after I asked a few investigative questions, I consented to do the interview and, as a result, was given a wonderful opportunity to speak freely about our Lord Jesus Christ and the Word of God.

A few days later I received a call from a pastor in Madrid who told me that he had been getting excited phone calls from people all over telling him about a pastor from Cáceres named Prince that had testified openly about Christ, glorifying God and exalting the Bible as the Word of God on the radio! This never happens on a secular program here in Spain! It turns out, to my surprise, that the interview was a live NATIONAL broadcast!!! I continued to receive calls and comments about it for several weeks.

Preaching to a Province

Shortly afterwards, I was contacted by a couple of Catholic priests that wanted to interview me on the church’s provincial wide pre-recorded TV program. Once again, my experience tells me that this is usually a terrible idea, for absolutely horrible things have been done here to faithful pastors in these mass media editing rooms. To add to the risk they did not even offer a basic script of the questions that were to be asked. But after consulting with another priest who is a trusted friend, I consented. I requested to be accompanied by Brother Alfonso López, a Spaniard and one of the “12 elders” of my church.

I praise God for the wisdom, favor and grace that the Lord gave me during that interview, for the Priest interviewing us did try to throw some terribly polemical questions that could have mired the opportunity for effective Evangelical testimony. I don’t even remember the answers I gave at that time, but the testimonies are still coming in from Christians and non Christians alike of how God had brilliantly diffused a potentially negative situation (which is what the host wanted) and turned it into a beautiful opportunity to minister the love of Jesus. It turns out that the response to the interview was so positive that they have repeated the program several times in the last few months! It has proven to be a favourable boon for the public opinion and acceptance of our church and ministry here.

Progress of the Church

We have a very interesting church planting situation Western Europe today. The demographic makeup has changed drastically in the last ten years by immigrants coming in from all over the world (including Eastern European countries) looking to start a new life. Many of those that come are at least somewhat familiar with the Gospel and are not afraid to come to our services. This has helped church growth tremendously in Spain, Portugal, France and England and has given a stronger Christian presence and witness.

It has been a blessing in uncountable ways. But it also comes with it own unique set of challenges. (1) We often have to deal with a floating population almost like pastoring a church on a military base. We have a lot of people that come and go because they have come for the money and follow the money. (2) Many times you are dealing with the more financially indigent and unstable. Even for those that come with professional studies and careers; it still takes years for them to get grounded and able to work themselves up to the living standards that native Spaniards enjoy.

Not withstanding, God is working in such a way that He is slowly but surely adding to the church those that have been saved or deeply touched here and are now firmly and totally committed both to Christ and our church. They are also becoming Spanish citizens in order to cement their place in our church and this city.

One big advantage is that the immigrants have a lot more children than the average Spaniard. Many of these children are born and raised under the life changing influence of the Gospel in our church. In a few short years these children will be church leaders, university students and strong influences in our community and Spanish society at large. So in a way that we have never had before, we have the opportunity to truly change the course and future of this nation by our faithful investments in these precious lives today!

A Personal Goal Reached

I’ve had a personal goal to finish my formal education since… well, since forever. But with our busy ministry, travels, family, lack of finances and life in general, I’d not been able to complete this goal. I’ve been studying for years with an on-line course here and an extension classroom course there and still I was far short of my goal… I’m not getting any younger, mind you! Last year I was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Ministry – D.Min) for my endeavors during 30 plus years of service on the mission field and ministerial accomplishments for which I am very grateful. But even though I have worked very hard to be able to earn that title, I really wanted my earned academic doctorate.

This year, after years of work, I’ve finally been able to reach my long sought after goal. My doctoral thesis has been accepted and even though I graduate in October, in Madrid, and I have a few more sessions (almost mere formalities and details) I now officially have my title of Doctor of Divinity.

Finally - Thank You and Please Keep Us In Your Prayers!

Not too long ago I was contacted by a national periodical (‘El País’) for an interview. They sent a reporter all the way from Madrid to come to one of our services here in Cáceres and then to personally interview me for an important piece that they were doing on the Spanish government’s talk about terminating their 8 billion euro a year financial support of the Catholic Church. Being that Cáceres is the poorest province in the nation, they wanted to know why the Catholics need the government’s help if 97% of Spaniards are Catholic. How do Evangelicals support their pastors and churches here without government help? That was when I told them of just how indispensable YOUR financial support is to our ministry and the work of God. God was glorified and this reporter marveled at the unity and determination of true Christian Believers who financially support the vision to spread the Gospel to the entire world. YOU are a vital part of our labors for the expansion of the Kingdom of God here in Spain and WE THANK YOU!!!

H.M.S.,

Prince & Gina Parker

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

Fax: 719-495-3313

Ministerial Center Update!

Dear Prayer Partners,

As with just about any construction project, we began to encounter a number of expenses that were not in our original financial plans. Some of these extra expenses were totally unexpected, others were probable or fairly predictable logistical expenses that we had hoped to avoid. In all, these extra expenses summed up to a Saddam sized financial noose around our necks (I know, I know... I just couldn't resist).

Some of the extra expenses we are encountering are the need to furnish the new centre. Right now we are renting two flats: one is completely furnished and the other is semi-furnished. When we occupy the new centre we will need to buy: a refrigerator, a washing machine, and several beds and other furnishings as well as have the cabinets built for the kitchen. (The townhouses come without an integrated kitchen because most Spaniards just tear them out and build new ones anyway). Other expenses involve the logistics of just moving in and getting settled. Because of these things we could get nickeld and dimed to the tone of a several of thousand euros.

As the time approaches for the completion of the construction of the Ministerial Centre, we have had to make major (although hopefully temporary) changes in our plans. We have downsized the project from two townhouses to one. Even though our housing needs call for two townhouses, right now our finances will only permit one.

Our economic support fluctuated wildly during 2006 leaving us far short of our expected financial goals for the project. Along with that, the dollar has gotten beaten up more than Rocky Balboa and has weakened even more against the euro.

Because of the cut back, we will have to utilize the large basement in the townhouse to build two more bedrooms to meet our present housing needs. I was hoping to be a bit less crowded, but we praise God for everything that we do have. (I was going to use the basement as a multipurpose room for meetings and Bible studies but God will work it out with what we have). We also consider it good stewardship for the support that you are so faithfully giving. Considering that we have to live somewhere, it is far better for us to buy property that will be used for many years in the work of God than to throw God’s money away by simply renting.

We want to thank you all for the sacrificial financial support that we have faithfully received, but we must make it plain that we really need your continued support. The Ministerial Centre is not a luxury, but is actually supplying a vital housing need for our ministry here.

May God continue to bless you abundantly!

H.M.S.,

Prince & Gina Parker
Cáceres, Spain

October - December 2006 Five Minuet Praise Report

Dear Prayer Partners,

First Minuet - An Open Door

One of our great joys in sharing Christ on the mission field is to be able to share the Word of God in valuable situations and places that do not normally present themselves. Gina and I had been praying for God to open the doors for me to be able to get into the public schools and actually teach the Word of God. I’m not talking about “guerrilla” or “drive-by” evangelism, but actually getting into the classrooms to calmly and intentionally teach about Jesus Christ, the Son of God (as opposed to just slipping it in).

One such opportunity recently presented itself via a Catholic priest. A friend of mine named Miguel Angel Morán. Rev. Morán called me about six weeks ago and asked if I would be willing to go to a school and teach a course on the Bible. He gave me six different days to teach and I was allowed to clearly and openly teach four different grade levels about the deity of Jesus Christ and the Word of God! It was really beautiful to see the interest those kids, ages 12-16, had. They asked some very good questions and positively responded to the presentation of the gospel.

Second Minuet - Church-Planting Team

The church planting team here in Cáceres consists principally of young people from other countries in training for a life on the foreign mission field as well as dedicated locals. The young people in our “Missionary Discipleship Training School”, apart from being formed for a life of career foreign missions, actually have to develop and take charge of particular ministry obligations in the local congregation under our leadership.

For example: Stephanie (Stess) Cain came to us a little over a year ago with extensive children’s ministry experience and a great burden to win children for Christ. So Stess is using her experience and training to establish our children’s ministry. We praise God for her for she is doing an excellent job in developing a team of eight workers with a like burden for children and in forming our Children’s church. We now have more than 30 children coming to our services that are being ministered to under her able ministry and leadership in this department.

Stess is also an accomplished and experienced musician (violin) and vocalist has become a vital part our worship team.

Third Minuet - Teresa (Tere) Salomé

Teresa Salomé is one of our most faithful converts and disciples from our work in Mexico 21 years ago who now pastors a thriving church in Guerrero, Mexico.

Five months ago Tere contacted us stating that she needed to spend a few months with us for further discipleship and spiritual renewal. So three months ago she joined our church planting team as a temporary member and has proven to be such a tremendous blessing! She claims that she has really been blest by her stay here, but truly we have gained far more from her stay with us. She has been of incredible edification to those in discipleship training and to the church body as a whole.

Tere is actually just one of our many Mexican spiritual children that we are planning to bring to further their discipleship and to help with the work her-e by joining as short term members of our church planting team.

Together with a couple of other pastors in Mexico, with whom we have worked for about 30 years now, we plan to have from two to three workers-in-training a year come from Mexico and spend from three to six months with us for further discipleship and to help us as part of our church planting team.

Fourth Minuet - Progress of the New Congregation

We have really felt God’s grace and divine hand in helping us plant this church. We have found one of our biggest weaknesses to be in the area of consolidation. Miraculously we are growing despite our weakness and setbacks; but we know that we could do so much more if we could fortify our deficiencies. We have gone through periods of attendance fluctuations but for the last two months have been averaging about 110 people in our Sunday services.

For several months now a young man named Fredy, his wife Debyba and their daughter have been fairly regular in our services. After one such service Fredy and I had a long talk about his soul and He tearfully and joyfully gave his life to Christ as he began to understand the gospel. They are being faithfully consolidated and we will soon begin to disciple them. I recently discovered that both Fredy and Debyba are lawyers from Bolivia.

A couple of our most faithful disciples here, Alfonso and Angela López, are our first graduates from our school of leaders and will launch their first home cell group in January with Fredy and Debyba as members.

Fifth Minuet- Thank You!

Gina and I praise God for you and we thank you for your prayers and financial support of our ministry. Please keep us in your prayers for both our physical and spiritual wellbeing. Our present financial needs are especially strong now as we have much work to do in order to move into and set our new Ministry Centre in order. Many extra expenses (and a few unexpected ones) are involved. So please keep this in mind and believe God with us for an increase in our monthly offerings in order to effectively accomplish our entrusted labor.

We are, as always, most sincerely grateful for and mindful of the tremendous amount of confidence that you have placed in us as your missionaries. Your prayer support and financial backing makes you a vital part of the work of God through the world “For we are labourers together with God:” (I Corinthians 3:9).

H.M.S.,

Prince & Gina Parker

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

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Personal Correspondence:

La Roche Sur Yon #1

Principal “F”
10004 Cáceres, España

Skype phone: (301) 637-5906

July - September 2006 Praise Report

Dear Prayer Partners,

There is a Scripture that has been sounding an echo in my heart for the last couple of months and I have been sharing it with those whom I am discipleing; it says, “In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tendeth only to destitution.” (Proverbs 14:23).

To us this has been a proclamation of faith that stands together with Paul’s exhortation of encouragement in 1 Corinthians 15:58, where he says, “Wherefore, my beloved brothers, you be firm, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.” With such tremendous promises, of a surety we know that all of our labor will result in God’s perfect will being done here in Cáceres.

Trying to Learn Chinese – The Value of One

I’ve mentioned before that our congregation is quite international with people that have been saved not only from other parts of Europe, but different parts of Latin America, French and English speaking Africa and Asia. The challenge of winning these precious souls and consolidating them is to be able to reach each and every individual by relating effectively to their distinct cultural mindset. I truly believe in the value of “one” – that we must do all we can to reach that one single soul. Your esteem for the value of one is actually a reflection of your self esteem; for after all, even if you are a twin, there is just one of you; and you are valuable.

Lee, is a new Brother from Macau, China. He speaks very little English and even less Spanish but has shown a tremendous love for God and a desire to walk with God since he came to us. Late one night recently I was praying with him because of some burdens on his heart and he began to share his story with me. This humble and simple young man has a scary testimony deliverance from involvement in the dark underworld of vice and mob activity, but has now come to Christ in a very real way.

His hunger for God is so evident that I now do all of my congregational sermon outlines and devotional handouts Spanish and Chinese… actually just I do one in Chinese for Him. So, I’m really taking a crash course in Chinese. I don’t think that I’m going to get it to the point that I really know where I’m going with that tongue, but everybody else, including Lee, seems to be impressed with my ability to understand and forage my way through it (I’m actually faking my way through most of it, but he’s happy as a kid in a candy shop with it all and I am recognizing more and more written characters. It’s such a beautiful and illustrious language!).

I am spending quality time with this precious new Brother and he is responding and has begun to produce such precious fruit that he is a true joy to all who are getting to know him, he is also the first on to arrive at all of our services. The other day he found some Spaniards that spoke some Chinese and promptly preached the Gospel to them: it turns out that they were Jehovah’s Witnesses and he was disappointed that they did not believe his message. He is also shining his light in the very closed and separatist Chinese community here in Cáceres.

Our Presbytery of The 12

This new congregation is now just under one and a half years old and we praise God that we feel that we were able to successfully reach our goal to begin the establishment of the government of the 12 by the end of the Summer 2006. The selecting of our disciples is such a solemn process that requires much time, prayer and quality decisions to decide who will be the men and women that Gina and I will dedicate the majority of our quality time in discipleship and leadership development. But these disciples will be the foundational leadership keys to effectively bring to pass what we believe to be the four basic purposes of the Body of Christ: That is to win souls to Christ (Conversion), consolidate them firmly in the faith (Consolidation), to disciple them (Discipleship) and then to commission them (Commission). It’s what we call C.C.D.C..

Our next goal is to have our fundamental 12 discipled to the point to where they can be commissioned to begin to lead there own evangelistic cells within the next six months. Thus we will begin the process of efficiently multiplying our potential for reaching the lost for Christ here.

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

Cáceres, Spain

September 2006

April - June 2006 Praise Report

Dear Prayer Partners,

First of all, we want to thank all of you who keep us faithfully in your prayers. May God bless you exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us all.

Church Planting Progress

Years ago I learned that a true leader is not necessarily someone that can do the work of seven men (even though a leader must be a tireless worker), rather a leader is someone who can inspire seven men to do the work! Here in Cáceres, the Lord is blessing us tremendously and the church is growing and maturing slowly but surely. I would like to believe that I am wise enough to know that I can’t do it all by myself. So we are taking step by step progress in the transitioning our church body to a government of the 12, cell church model. We want neither to run ahead of our church’s ability to grow, adjust and mature nor lag behind what the Holy Spirit wants to do here.

Gina and I have our eyes on those men and women who we want to call into our inner circle of discipleship and within the next three months we should have our 12 chosen and called apart to spend quality time with us. Naturally, our goal is to sow our spiritual DNA in their lives so they might have the same passion, vision and burden for the vineyard of the Lord as we do thus multiplying our ability to minister effectively to all those Christ is bringing our way. Those who we have in our sight as our 12 already understand our great need to be able to consolidate all those that God is bringing our way.

Our congregation has people from at least a dozen different countries: Spaniards, Latin Americans, Africans and other Europeans. Please pray with us that God will give us wisdom as to how to walk through the unique socio-cultural challenges with which we are presented with in this city and the people with whom we work. The statistics show that 1 out of every 3 in our region is an immigrant. Some of these people are here just to follow the money and happen to get saved along the way, but it’s difficult to nail them down and disciple them. It’s like planting a church in an area heavily populated by military personnel. (Worse that a rabbit spotted by a hawk: you know; hare today - gone tomorrow… Sorry, I couldn’t resist :^)

Anyway... God is bringing so many new people our way that if we don’t keep right on the Holy Spirit’s heels in progressing the work we fear the horrible prospect of having many souls slip from our grasps. It is as when Jesus first called Peter and the others (Luke 5:4-7). Before they were discipled there was a miraculous catch, but many fish escaped, for the nets were not capable of holding them. Yet after three years of discipleship they had another miraculous catch and yet the nets did not break! (John 21:4-11) The process of the consolidation of all of these precious souls is absolutely indispensable, but we cannot effectively consolidate them if I do not, first establish my 12 principal disciples.

We are living days in Spain that we have never been seen before with God give great grace and favour to us in the eyes of the general population. The people are actually very glad to see us are now greeting us on the streets with warmth, love and respect. Gina and the young people in missionary training have so won the hearts of many in our community that many doors of ministry have been opened for us making it real easy to share the love of God with others.

Several of the other young Believers that are fast becoming totally one with us are also winning much favour, love and respect from many in the community and are making me proud to be their pastor for the people have nothing but the highest accolades for them because of their fine Christian testimony. You might say, “Well that’s normal.” Say, I’ve been on the field long enough to remember when a good Christian testimony would get you beat up… at best!

Other News

God has just opened up a tremendous opportunity to impact this community with the Gospel and a Christian witness! We’ve been praying, not only for our own financial situations, butt for God to generate worthy and stable employment for the members of our congregation. For we believe that God wants them to prosper as their soul prospers (I John 1:2). Well quite unexpectedly God has made Gina a franchise business associate in Mexican restaurant chain! The very successful franchise owners approached her about becoming a full business associate about 15 days ago. Mexican food is real exotic here in Europe and very expensive. These are the same people that started “El Pollo Loco” in Mexico many years ago. This news has been greeted with outrageous praise because Gina’s cooking is exotic even in Mexico. I always say that her cooking is so good that it can make unbelievers get saved, shout hallelujah and speak in tongues. You will be able to find out more about Gina’s new restaurant on our website.

Saturday, July 8th, we are joining forces with the other two Evangelical Christian congregations of Cáceres and Believers from the neighboring province of Badajoz (Pronounced Ba-da-hoth). The churches of Badajoz are sending an all children’s choir to sing in one of our main downtown plazas. City hall has permitted to set up tables-booths to minister to people publicly, pass out literature and minister to children and all who approach. So we will be joining with all of the Believers of our beautiful city to evangelize the lost. Please pray that this and all of our evangelistic efforts bring forth fruit for eternal life.

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"

10003 Cáceres, España

Skype Phone: (301) 637-5906

The hard way: 011-34-927-242-595

Note: Both phones ring in my office here in Spain, it's just that "the hard way" cost you more.

Financial Support:

Ambassadors Fellowship

P.O. Box 62309

Colorado Springs, CO

80962