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Mission News - Spring 2008
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Dear friends,
It was a successful 3 week inaugural trip to Sydney, Australia where the Lord sent Robert and me in mid January. Our friends, Gavin and Josie, were wonderful hosts, even taking me to the 3 Sisters view in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney for a day after Robert returned to the US. The 2 of them had just arrived back from being called to southern Spain where we met them last Fall. They did a valiant job of helping us out while still working on getting themselves settled back in Australia. We suspected we would check out the Hillsong ministries, famous for their worship music, before we left the country. But it turned out that Hillsong would become our principal connection. A helpful woman of God, named Tiani, was instrumental in getting us connected into Hillsong. We spent much time with Nelson, one of the Hillsong pastors. He and his wife Laura were leading multiple English and Spanish speaking fellowships. They are both from Argentina, where I have spent the most time, so we had lots to talk about. Hillsong has several campuses and extension fellowships in Sydney and throughout Australia and other parts of the world. Nelson was very nice to show us what goes on behind the scenes at Hillsong, Australia’s most well-known mega church. I was privileged to be given a front row seat to the most energetic, high-tech worship service I have ever attended.
We visited the fast growing Sydney North Beach fellowship and taped some of those wonderful Aussie accented voices that you can check out in the video section of our web site. We also were connected and spent some time with a 4 Square fellowship pastor. Our chief mission this trip seemed to be establishing friendships and ministering to some key leaders. It appears that the Lord has future plans for our ministry in Australia.
Most of March was spent in Spain working with our apostolic-evangelist friend, Pedro, in several parts of the region known as Andalucia, which is along the western Mediterranean cost. This is the same region where we spent time ministering last September, although in some new cities. After ministering in Granada, our base, we traveled with clothes and food that we left at a Muslim outreach, which Pedro is overseeing in Almeria. Some wonderful fellow American Christians hosted us in their home near there for several days. We are withholding names due to their sensitive ministry to Muslims in the area. We ministered to a fellowship whose primary outreach is to street people and drug addicts and prayed for several HIV positive people. We also were grateful to witness the Lord touching people again at the 4 Square congregation in Roquetas de Mar and did a radio program after ministering in another Almeria fellowship.
Traveling to the west, we stayed in a complex near Malaga, which we also need to withhold details on because of their mission not only to Arabs in Spain but also into North Africa. It is humbling to see what some people are risking to get the good news of the Kingdom of God through Jesus Christ into Islamic strongholds. We took a day trip to the North African Spanish city of Ceuta on the south side of the strait of Gibraltar, a base for ministry into Morocco. They don’t even carry cell phones into these parts for fear of being tracked by Arab leaders. Returning to Malaga, we ministered in 2 different Nigerian immigrant lead congregations during Easter week. This seemed to be a fulfillment of some prophetic words that Robert and I had been given.
On the last leg of our journey, we traveled northwest to the city of Huelva near the Portugal border, specifically Palos de la Frontera, from where Columbus started his journey to America in 1492. There we worked with the Apostle/Prophet team of Ricardo and Suzy Senna, who the Lord sent from Brazil in 1990. They are committed to help the body of Christ work in harmony as one church with many tasks. The Lord gave visions to 2 of their grandchildren confirming that the Lord had sent us. They received us as messengers sent by God, presenting flowers of peace to us. We discussed strongholds that the Lord revealed to them that exist in Spain, and then traveled to several sites with them praying and taking authority over strongholds in that area. The young daughter of a local pastor had been found murdered there 2 months earlier following a rash of child killings near an island that was used as a place of child sacrifice by the Phoenicians hundreds of years before. We prayed to break that curse and to lift the darkness. The killer was found and arrested the next day 300 miles away in our base city of Granada. Although there were people along the way receiving Christ as Savior, Spain is hard ground. The area where we were may be the hardest. This was a difficult trip. To those of you who were fighting for us on the spiritual front while there and after we returned, thank you!
I am leaving immediately for Argentina where I will be until the end of this month. I will be primarily around the Buenos Aires area checking on our base and talking to contacts in Argentina. Please pray that the Lord will open doors and release blessings for Luis and Marta Guzman, who recently moved 800 miles south from their former home as my neighbors in Buenos Aires. They have been a great help to us in setting up our Argentina base. Also, pray for Ivan and Rosana who are our principal ministerial contacts in southern Argentina. Please pray for my productive time in Argentina and for clear understanding of where and what our Lord wants this ministry to move into next.
Thanks to all of you who are, in one way or another, working as part of this body to expand the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ on earth. Funds are always needed to help with transportation, lodging and aid to others as directed. All donations are tax deductible and will directly support the work the Lord leads me to do. If your company has a matching gift program, our Employer Identification Number is 04-3623802.
If you are sealed, you are blessed! Be exceedingly abundantly blessed, in Jesus the Messiah’s name,
Greig Detering
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