News Letter October 17th, 2005

Open Heart Ministries
http://www.ohmint.org/

Dear Friends,

First of all welcome to new subscribers.  I added those who attended our Missions Prep 101 class and gave us their email addresses, so we could keep in touch about our future Missions Prep schedule.  Anyone wanting to be removed from this mailing list can unsubscribe at the bottom of this letter.

NEWS ABOUT HEIDI BAKER
The news is mixed.  The good news is that Heidi left the hospital and went home to Pemba on Saturday.  She immediately said she wanted to preach on Sunday, even though she had a lot of weakness and pain on Saturday night.  On Sunday she preached in the tent church with more fire and passion than folk had ever seen on her.  She was challenging and commissioning everyone to fulfill their destiny in the harvest.

The sad news is that she is still not well and Rolland felt it necessary to take her back to Johannesburg right away to the hospital.  Today all the bases in Mozambique are fasting for her.  Please join us in doing some fasting again for Heidi this week.  Thank you!

MISSIONS PREP 101 WEEKEND
We consider our first Missions Prep weekend a great success.  Vineyard Christian Fellowship of DeKalb, IL, was an awesome host.  They were so gracious, it was amazing.  We had over 70 people sign the attendance sheets and there was a wonderful spirit of hunger and desire for Jesus and His heart for the nations.

Brenda shared (the way only she could share) a little about her experiences in Africa, by way of introducing Felito on Friday night.  Fileto shared at Friday night and Saturday afternoon about God's call and what God was already doing in Moslim villages in Mozambique.  His stories were truly amazing.  We had wonderful times of praying for the sick and impartion of a revival anointing.  Everyone was blessed.  We are looking forward to hearing some testimonies of what God did during these sessions.  We'd love to hear from everyone that God touched in these sessions.

Saturday morning I taught a few Portuguese words and phrases and preached on not sleeping through the harvest.  We also enjoyed watching a clip from Mozambique that was seen on the 700 Club in June.  We were very gratified by the response of all the people.

CDs of the School will be availabe this week.  Those who missed part of the weekend need to listen to the sessions they missed to get credit for the course.  They will be $5.00 per session or $15.00 for the whole set.  You can contact Bill Myers or Tracy Dorn to order them.  You can email Tracy at teej1265@yahoo.com.

SUNDAY SERVICES IN WISCONSIN
Sunday morning Felito spoke at Grace Church in New Glarus, WI.  I felt led to rename the town New GLORIOUS the last time we were there.  Felito is leaving for California this afternoon, but Brenda and I will be there tonight and tomorrow, believing for more revival fire.

Anyway, Felito shared about the revival in Mozambique and people were really amazed and hungry for revival here in America.  We ministered for well over an hour after the service and almost everyone came for prayer, either for health needs or because of spiritual hunger or both.

Sunday night we were in Madison at a beautiful motel conference room at a gathering of people from many churches.  Again Felito shared his testimony of revival in Mozambique and we had a wonderful response at the altar.  Many people were powerfully touched by God.  Again, we'd love to read your testimonies of what God did in your lives if you were there.

Please pray as we seek to discover God's perfect will in our scheduling for the weeks and months ahead.  We have calls that we would like to respond to, but need to hear from God.

We love you all and thank you for your support of all kinds.  We need your prayers and your love.  You are precious to Jesus and we want to love everyone like He does.

God bless you radically and remember to pray for Heidi!!

Ben and Brenda and family