Thanks for praying - we got our passports back today after sending in the required documents just Tuesday. They gave us THREE YEARS!
Thank you Jesus,
Dick & Gladys
Dear
Friends & Prayers:
I was recently reminded of a story that you may have heard also. A little girl
was out flying a kite on a windy day, and some very low clouds came along and
hid the kite from view. "What are you doing?" asked a man that came
along. "I'm flying my kite," she replied. "Flying your kite?"
the man asked. "How can you be sure it's still there? You can't see it."
"No," said the little girl, "I can't see it, but every now and
then I feel it pulling on the string, so I know for sure it's there!"
As we press into our intercessory prayer here, the fruit of our work exists
in the invisible realm. And so when people ask us what we're doing here, many
respond in a similar fashion when we tell them we're praying for revival. Some
raise their eyebrows with skepticism. Some act like they didn't really hear
or understand us, and change the subject. And a few time people have laughed
in my face at such an absurd idea!
But just like this little girl (our daughter Grace twenty years ago!) we too
feel that "pulling on the string" and know for sure where our hope
is found. In Hebrews 6:19 it says, " This hope we have as an anchor of
the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the
veil."
So we cling with joy to the calling and favor the Lord has granted us in being
here in Wales, and continually look forward to the day-by-day unveiling of His
plans. There is much yet to be done, but we are very conscious of things happening
on many fronts in the spiritual realm and know we are not at all alone in our
endeavor.
Philippians
3:12 says "Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been
made perfect, but we press on to take hold of that for which Christ
Jesus took hold of us."
Please pray for our visa application that is in process. We are asking for
a three-year extension. Also, thank you for your prayers for the Revival Meetings
at the Medical College in Malawi 10 days ago.
The email I got from my friend there said, "Let me start by thanking God
for making the revival meeting successful and also I want to thank God for the
people who spared their time to intercede and I must really say God was at work.
Malawi College of Medicine will never be the same again, it will be training
Medical Professionals who will stand for the Lord, Doctors sown on the spirit,
who will help patients not from the medical point of view but mainly from the
spiritual point. May the Good Lord continue abundantly blessing you and all
the people who stood for the work of the Lord to be done."
May the Lord bless you abundantly,
Dick & Gladys
Dear
Friends & Prayers:
Two years ago today we landed at London's Heathrow Airport, having left New
Orleans' hot and humid weather for the chiily damp of the U.K. Here we picked
up a rented car and drove out to Wales. Since day one this has been such an
amazing and privileged adventure the Lord has launched us on. We know that it
is only by His grace that we are here, and that His purposes will be accomplished
in this land. We have seen His constant guidance and covering every step of
the way.
On that first day two years ago, we stopped in this village to take this snapshot
just because we have
always liked the name. Little did we know that it would come to have special
significance - after 5 months of searching, we found a house to rent here. The
entrance to the right just above the car's antenna has now been our home for
the last year and a half! And this was just the beginning of watching the Lord's
provision for us become manifested day by day. I sure you'll enjoy reading our
journal entry for May 13th describing the first few days which you can see in
the May
2005 archive on our updates page. God is so FAITHFUL!
We
continue praying daily in this beautiful old chapel, which was started over
300 years ago. Although we don't yet see any visible fruit of our intercession
in the chapel itself, we absolutely know that our labor is not in vain! And
meanwhile, around Wales we do indeed see growth and change in parts of the Christian
community. There is an excitement and expectancy that is almost palpable, and
is the subject of much conversation and prayer. The Lord is definitely on the
move, and recent words about a "shifting in the heavenly realm", among
others from Wales and elsewhere, is encouraging prayers and intercessors here to press in with greater
deternination and hope. We are so overjoyed to be part of God's impending move
here!
Thank you for standing with us in prayer.
In the Amazing Love of Christ,
Dick & Gladys
Dear Friends & Prayers:
Greetings
from sunny Wales! After an almost unbelievable month of sunny weather, we've
gotten a bit of much needed rain. The farmers have just started making hay and
we also are taking advantage of it to spend time outside. This field adjoining
the chapel cemetery is one of our favorites places to pray and worship together.
The spring has brought on a flourish of verdant growth .. there are multitudes
of flowers everywhere and most of the trees are now covered with new leaves.
And in like manner there is a stirring in the Body of Christ here in Wales.
We have been to some exceptional meetings lately with people that are seriously
seeking the Lord for revival. Several churches have had or are planning conferences
on revival, and there is some real movement afoot. Also in the last 10 days
we've received two very clear prophetic words and are greatly encouraged and
challenged to press deeper into His heart for direction and wisdom.
I've just received an email from a first year student at College of Medicine
in Malawi. "I got Born again last year but I began experiencing the Greatness
of God this year and I have promised my self to always Live for Jesus Christ
for the rest of my life no matter what. We at College of Medicine we have a
REVIVAL MEETING which is falling on 10th - 12th of this month of May, we want
that that the outpouring of Holy spirit on the campus for each and every soul.
I ask you to help me and the rest who are organizing this revival meeting in
praying for the outpouring of Holy spirit on campus and the areas around, because
I believe we are living in the Times of Revival from the Lord."
So we would like to encourage you to pray with us for these upcoming meetings
in Malawi, and also some dear old friends
living and ministering there. And also please remember the Celebration for the
Nations coming up in late July in South Wales. Some friends of ours from
the U.S. are coming over to be involved in this, and perhaps you may still consider
it! You can find more information at http://www.celebrationforthenations.org.
It is so exciting to be alive in these days as the Lord is moving among the
nations. And this is just a foretaste of what He has in store for those that
love Him, and the multitudes that will come to the Savior and follow Him no
matter what.
We are so thankful that "God so loved the world...."
Dick & Gladys