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

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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June - September 2009

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Dear Prayer Partners,
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Greetings in Jesus’ Name! Sorry, but I am a bit behind in getting out this praise report. I simply lost track of the time.

Consolidation/Discipleship Cells

Since our last communication we have been given over wholly to the task of consolidating the new Believers that God has brought us. We are doing this by way of what we call, “Consolidation Cells”. This is how we perform our very first steps in discipleship. These are small groups (and as much as possible, one-on-one) teaching sessions on the rudiments of the Christian life.

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This is an important time where we invest quality time in the lives of these precious souls and these cells are bringing us the true fruit of the Lord’s harvest. These new Believers will be our leaders and key people in the not-too-distant future.

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To the right and below are photos of a fantastic new couple; Jorge & Sonia and their daughters. Jorge was saved in our Men's Encounter and has since brought his wife to Christ. They have four lovely daughters, the oldest of which is now an active part of our group of preadolescence. All are really excited about their new lives in Christ, the church services and cell meetings.

Below is a photo of Freddy and Dabeyba. They are both lawyers that have been saved under our ministry here. They are now activly involved in all aspects and are progressing tremendously in our discipleship cells. They have a five year old daughter named Camilla (that can almost be seen in the photo).

Children’s Ministries

This is another area where we need a lot of ministry growth, but where we are also progressing. Being that the Lord has brought us so many young families, we have close to 40 children in our children’s church!

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This might sound like good news (and it is) but just about all of the people in our church are new Christians – many have come within the last two years! This means we really don’t have many experienced workers for our Children’s ministries. Also, many of those children are now entering into preadolescence. It is vital that we effectively minister to them as they enter into the minefield of their teenage years. Thank God that one of the older Believers has stepped forward to take part in this all important ministry.

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Our First Men’s Encounter (Retreat)

In July we had our first men’s encounter. A total of twenty men were in attendance. I let two men who I’ve been discipleing organize the event and saw, once again, just how great God really is. The retreat was an organizational disaster, but yet the Spirit of God worked so impressively that the six non-Christian men that we invited to come all had a powerful encounter with Christ. If God doesn’t build the house ... (Psalm 127:1). As is proper, these men are being duly consolidated and a few are beginning to bring forth really good fruit!

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One fairly new young man named Elmer, who, along with his wife, gave their lives to Christ close to two years ago and has finally begun to bring forth good fruit via our consolidation/discipleship cells, was present. In the middle of the first night we received an emergency phone call notifying us that his father unexpectedly died and he had to leave early. None the less, Sunday morning he was present in the service and during praise and worship took his son to the front of the church and began to dance in praise before the Lord! The truest worship is often found in the midst of our deepest pain.

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Above and to the right are photos taken at our first Men's Encounter.
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Baptisms 2009

In early September we celebrated another baptismal service and two new Believers, Yesenia and Claudia, completed their first stage of discipleship and were baptised. The river was so shallow that we had to kneel in the water so that I could immerse them. It’s beautiful to see people silently weeping as they are being baptised!

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Theological Seminary Professorate

I absolutely love teaching in a Bible school or Seminary context; but the burden and passion of my heart is church planting, discipleship and pastoring. I have been offered many teaching positions, but none have been compatible with what I’m called to do here in Cáceres… that is until now.
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The Assemblies of God of Spain has asked me to become a part of their teaching staff for the Centro Superior de Teología de las Asamblea de Dios* (CESTAD), extension courses. I love it, I get the best of both worlds; the courses are intense and taught in modules. I get to stay in Cáceres and the students come in every two weeks from all over Extremadura, for four hours of concentrated teaching, exams and further assignments.

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The teaching is the “fun part”; the rest is normal teacher stuff: grading papers, reading reports, etc…
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Below are photos of our most recent baptismal service... no leeches in the water this time; it was just knee deep shallow.

Please Keep Us in Your Prayers

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Brothers and Sisters, the Gospel is FREE, but getting it to people is not. 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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August turned out, financially, to be the most difficult month we’ve seen in close to 20 years. In our 33 years on the field, we’ve had some months where our money has really been funny and our change extremely strange. So to say that August was a historically bad month financially is quite a statement. September wasn’t as notably horrific, but it was far from being recuperative. None-the-less, God is faithful and always has been! We simply mention our financial needs so that you might be kept aware of our needs and keep us in prayer.
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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

Your prayerful support is absolutely vital to the success and survival of our ministry. Thank you!

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