Newsletter January 9th, 2006

OPEN HEART MINISTRIES
15648 BOMBAY BLVD.
SOUTH BELOIT, IL 61080
www.ohmint.org

Dear Saints everywhere,

We trust you are receiving the Newness of God in this New Year!  The year 2006 got off with a bang for us.  First we were blessed to be worshipping with 10,000 mostly young and passionate believers in Jesus when the New Year began.  This past weekend, we enjoyed one of the most intense times of ministry we have experienced in the USA.

Pastor Matt Lee, our translator at Pal Bok Presbyterian Church in Vernon Hills, IL, worked as hard as he has ever worked as he translated first five services with Che Ahn speaking, and then he translated four services with us speaking, followed by hours of personal ministry, much of it to Korean speaking folk.  It was a real endurance test for him as well as us, but we saw God touch person after person.  

The anointing was so strong in that place.  Our precious Korean friends have spent countless hours there in prayer.  It is holy ground to us and we counted it such an honor to minister to our Korean and American friends, as well as people from many other nationalities, such as Spanish, Indian, Japanese, etc.  

The response of the people was almost overwhelming as they showed their love to us in so many ways.  It's pretty hard to out-class them in hospitality.  It was also such a joy to have a strong contingent of young people totally passionate for Jesus participating in the awesome worship and responding to the teaching and preaching ministry.

Today we are exhausted but praising God for what He has done.  Talking with Che Ahn, he feels called to return to Chicago and will try to come back in late May to do a conference with us.  He may be able to bring one or two other strong apostolic leaders with him.   We had almost given up on doing another major conference until fall, but it looks like it may still happen.

Please pray as we minister on Tuesday night in Algonquin, IL, to many who have never received prophetic ministry before.  Then on Thursday we will head for Albany, NY, for another prophetic conference.  We will minister on Tuesday night in Oneonta, NY, and Wednesday night in Herkimer, NY.

The following Sunday, January 22, we will be at the Worship Center in Dixon, IL, and the next Thursday we will be at the Prayer Furnace in Chicago.  Friday, January 27 we will be at a home group in Woodstock.

We will follow that up with a trip to Kentucky and Arkansas, taking a few young worshippers from the Elgin House of Prayer, giving them a taste of ministry on the road.  Please pray for all of us as we put the motor home back to work again.

We will end the month of February in Florida at a conference near Tampa Bay and another conference on a cruise ship with Rolland and Heidi Baker, Bill Johnson, John and Carol Arnott and many other anointed leaders.  We will be doing ministry on land bringing the love of Jesus to many island natives in Montego Bay.  It's not too late to join us.  If you want details, please email us.  

We still have a few unscheduled possibilities for mid-February.  Thanks for praying for us on our journeys.

Two special events are happening in the Chicago area this weekend while we are in New York State.

One event I missed earlier is AN EVENING OF WORSHIP AND UNITY in McHenry at the McHenry Township Senior Center - 3519 N Richmond Rd in McHenry, IL.  Led by Jay Hanson (815) 289 2784, this will be a night of fulfilling the heart of Jesus to bring unity to His body.  Check out the website: www.eveningofworship@saintly.com.

The other is a reminder of the SEW Ministry special event in Chicago with Phil Livingston.  Check out his website at www.sewministries.com.  They will be uniting people from many different churches to pray for one particular church each month.  There will be prophetic prayer and ministry to speak life into New Life Community Church in Lakeview, IL.  

We also have forgotten to announce that our new book, WITH ME, is now available as an e-book on www.amazon.com.  The paper editions have been received with more enthusiasm and testimonies than any of our other books.  We are excited about the ministry potential of WITH ME and we want to thank each one who has given us feedback on it.

We love you and pray for your destiny to be fulfilled.  The strongest word I have for 2006 is that it is a year when God will shine a light on our pathway and reveal more of His destiny plans for our lives.

God bless you all!!!

Ben and Brenda and family