Personal praise from Sheilah

One year ago I was diagnosed with a serious illness. It has been a long year of treatment, but we are celebrating today! I had a checkup with bloodwork, xrays and examination and all came out totally normal. We are more than ready to get to Spain! Tickets are purchased for September 16!

Please pray for visas...

Again we ask you to pray for visas to be granted for Spikes, Pachalians, and Brook and Taryn to Spain. We can now add the Halls to our list for London. Of course, we need ALL the details of each move to be worked out in a timely manner, but more than that, please pray that in all the busy rush of getting ready to go we will all stay very close to God so that we will understand His will and orientation in all things. May we all truly be examples of compassion, patience, wisdom and joy every step of the way! Thanks! I'll bring you up to date tomorrow.

Praise: Halls to London!

I hope you will take a moment and thank God for His provision! We rejoice that Dan and Betty Jo Hall have received clearance to work with our team in London! They are excited about the challenge and we are thrilled to have them officially on board! We are now located in Madrid, Barcelona and London. Please keep praying for our Amsterdam couple to be appointed soon.

Praise: Another visa received!

We are excited about this praise! This morning Nolen and I received a call from a young man in the Spanish Consulate in Chicago who enthusiastically announced, "You can start packing! I have your visa in hand." So on August 20 I hop a plane to Chicago, pick up my visa, (this takes about 10 minutes), and fly back to Houston. I'm glad I like to fly. Thank you Lord!

Urgent need!

The individuals forming this new cluster ask you to pray for visas, packing and moving, language learning, planning and training - in short, all the details of relocating to Western Europe to begin this important task. Please pray for Nolen and Sheilah Pridemore, Jim and Lori Spikes, Gary and Julie Clifton and Pablo and Carmen Pachalian, career couples moving to Spain. Pray also for Taryn Blocker and Brook Johnson, "Journeymen" (I'll explain that later.) who will be working with the team. Pray for 2 more needed units to be able to be appointed to London and Amsterdam in the near future!

Okay, here we go! No. 1: Pray for the forming of a new "cluster" (cluster: a group of teams) which will target the Americas/Caribbean peoples dispersed throughout the world. This task is critical as we look at immigrant populations and see that people from the Americas form one of the largest "gospel-receptive" immigrant groups world wide. Their openness to the gospel makes them potentially unique agents of light to the world's nations! Pray as this team develops strategy, recruits personnel, locates them in Western Europe and follows God's lead. Look for monthly updates in this blog.