Wednesday, March 28, 2007

BRING IT ON, JESUS

benrpeters@juno.com
Mar 28, 2007

Greetings Friends,

We're getting ready for the EVER INCREASING GLORY CONFERENCE, and all we can say is, "Bring it on, Jesus." We are as excited as we've ever been for a conference. The good news is that this is the first of three major conferences that we will do this year. We may also have three or more international trips before the end of the year, after doing our three Missions Prep 101 weekends. I'm glad God is renewing our youth like the eagles, because we are certainly not slowing down any after passing the six decade mark.

The conference begins Tuesday evening, April 3, at 7 pm in Elgin, Illinois, at Church in the Word off Hwy 31 and I-90. Check our website for details. It's www.ohmint.org. Click on conferences and then click on conference brochure at the bottom. Here is the schedule of speakers and breakout sessions:

EVENINGS at 7 pm: Tuesday Ingela Larsson

Wednesday Georgian Banov

Thursday Ryan Wyatt

Friday Jeff Jansen

MORNINGS at 10 am Thursday Darin and Rada Adams

Friday Ben and Brenda Peters

AFTERNOONS at 2 pm

Thursday Breakout Sessions

A. Ryan Wyatt – Receiving Revelation

B. Ingela Larsson – Horse Theology

C. Georgian Banov – Living Supernaturally

Friday Breakout Sessions

A. Jeff Jansen – Moving in Miracles

B. Darin and Rada Adams – New Paradigms in Church Gatherings

C. JoAnn McFatter – Prophetic Worship

RECENT EVENTS

The last week or so has been packed with divine appointments. Brenda ministered with at least three team members at the Church of God Ladies Retreat in Chicago, last weekend, while I took part in the Blow The Trumpet in Zion conference in DeKalb. We also joined with The Well on Sunday and were blessed by the ministry of Lee and Betty LaCoss. Both of us were given encouraging words. One word was that we were called to connect the known with the unknown and that that impact would be from coast to coast.

UPCOMING EVENTS

After the conference we will begin our Missions Prep 101 course. The first weekend, April 13,14, will focus on Mozambique. This is open to anyone who wants to attend, not just those planning on going this summer in mid July. We will be teaching things that will apply to America as well as Africa. CrossWind Community Church of Genoa will host all three weekends.

The second Missions Prep 101 weekend will be April 27, 28. It will be for all those going to Africa and those going to Israel. We have a very special couple, Kevin and Cyntian Ford, coming to share and minister to all of us.

The third Missions Prep 101 weekend will be May 11, 12, and will focus on those going to Israel in late September/early October.

SID ROTH'S "IT'S SUPERNATURAL" TV SHOW

We finally have the dates for the airing of our first appearance on American TV. It will run from April 23 - 27. You can check www.sidroth.org for program schedule. We'll update when it gets closer next month. They will be selling our Prophetic Ministry book on the show.

PLEASE PRAY

Several friends are fighting cancer. Pray for Larry, Ben and Donna. Also pray for Haydee, who coordinates our intercessors website and newsletters. She is in Taiwan and has had some pretty hard hits from the enemy. We still need more intercessors and we need them to pray for each other continuously.

That's all for now!

God bless and keep you all in His perfect love,

Ben, Brenda, Tim, Nathan and wonderful team

P.S. You won't want to miss Tuesday, the first night of the conference, with Ingela Larsson. Trust me!!!

Wednesday, March 21, 2007


WE WIN!
Ben Peters
Mar 19, 2007

Greetings Saints,

We trust you are all being blessed by God and growing in grace and love and in the power and anointing of Jesus, the Anointed One. And remember, whatever comes against us, in the end, WE WIN!!!

VERY MUCH WORTH READING

For those who don't get the Elijah List, I encourage you to visit the website: www.elijahlist.com and read today's article by Lou Engle. Make sure you click on "more" at the end of the segment of the article to get the rest of the story.

WE MUST WAKE UP AND CRY OUT TO GOD FOR A MIRACLE IN OUR NATION!!! The stakes are so high and we believe we are on the threshold of a great revival. God is giving us the choice again to choose blessing or judgement. The people of God, called by His name must respond to His call and fulfill His purpose so He can respond with rivers of Living Water and Heavenly Fire falling on our sacrifice.

TheCall Nashville in 07/07/07 will be an extremely significant event. I encourage every Christian to make plans to come and add your voice to those crying out for God's help for America.

COMING EVENTS

BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION CONFERENCE IN DEKALB, ILLINOIS

This begins this Thursday on the campus of NIU. I will be doing a workshop on Saturday from 1 - 2 PM. I will also be ministering on a prophetic team and have a booktable as well. Leonard Jones of Morning Star Ministries will be doing worship for the conference.

NORTH SIDE CHURCH OF GOD LADIES RETREAT IN CHICAGO

Brenda will be ministering to the ladies at 5145 N Broadway on Friday evening and Saturday.

GENOA FOURSQUARE LADIES RETREAT NEXT WEEKEND, MARCH 30, 31

Brenda will do this retreat again. It's kind of been an annual event for several years now.

EVER INCREASING GLORY CONFERENCE IN ELGIN, ILLINOIS APRIL 3 - 6.

This will probably be our best conference ever. DON'T MISS THE FIRST NIGHT AT 7 PM. LOCATION IS: CHURCH IN THE WORD Just north of I-90 (Northwest tollway) and just east of Hwy 31.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Please keep praying for Pastor Larry in Moses Lake, Washington. He's still fighting cancer, but feeling tired of the fight and needing prayer.

Pray also for another young man named Ben who has been given another negative diagnosis related to brain cancer. He is a very special child of God and we'd like him to stay around awhile.

Haydee Chang, our Intercession Coordinator, just arrived in Taiwan, after much opposition. Her husband, Joshua, who had been there for several weeks had also been severely tested with the loss of wallet and passport, was waiting for her and they are enjoying each other and their son, Troy. Please pray for great fruit from this trip where the enemy has really harrassed them.

Pray for the quick development of our Sending Center and pray for the Missions Prep Course, which we will be starting the weekend after our big conference. We want God's choices for this assignment.

God bless you all richly,

Ben and Brenda, boys and teamGreetings Saints,

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

NEWS YOU CAN USE
Ben Peters
Mar 14, 2007

Greetings Saints,
I’m trying to make up for lost time on my only day without a meeting this week. Yesterday I sent a message called, "Buy Some New Shoes". I got some good feedback from a lot of people – mostly all women. I hope the men are not too mad at me.
After we share some of the major upcoming events, we want to pass on some political information which we consider very important. We may upset some of our readers, but I can’t over-emphasize how important this is. The media is only focusing on a few candidates, but we look for Heaven’s help to raise up the person who will cooperate with God who wants to bring revival to His church and this nation and the world. Those who read this from other nations can pray for us because whatever happens here affects the whole world and the expansion of the Kingdom of God on the earth.
UPCOMING EVENTS
MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT (MARCH 15) WITH LISA BOURLAND AND OTHERS IN WHEATON, ILLINOIS
We’re waiting for more details. Let us know if you want to come and need directions.
BRENDA MINISTERS AT LADIES RETREATS
MARCH 23, 24, at Church of God 5145 N. Broadway, Chicago
MARCH 30, 31 at Cross Winds Church in Genoa, IL.
BEN SHARES AT BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION CONFERENCE – DEKALB, IL – Hosted by Tom May.
March 22 -25 at NIU in DeKalb, IL Ministries include Leonard Jones of MorningStar Ministries of North Carolina and Suzy Wills Yaraei from Holy Spirit Adventures, also of North Carolina.
If you like to register and be a part please call, 815-519-5212, or contact: lashawnw@tbc.net .
EVER INCREASING GLORY CONFERENCE – APRIL 3 – 6 IN ELGIN
Hosted by Church in the Word off HWY 31 and I – 90. This will be another incredible time with speakers like Georgian Banov, Ryan Wyatt, Jeff Jansen and introducing Darin and Rada Adams from Australia and Ingela Larsson from the United Kingdom. Worship with JoAnn McFatter and the EHOP youth worship team. This will be another off the charts conference. Check our website: www.ohmint.org for details.
WARNING: DON’T MISS THE FIRST NIGHT!!!
MISSIONS PREP 101 For Mozambique and Israel. 2nd and 4th weekends in April and 2nd weekend in May. Check website itinerary for details.
POLITICS (I KNOW – I’M ON DANGEROUS GROUND, BUT THAT’S NOTHING NEW FOR ME.)
I WANTED TO COPY SOMETHING FROM SENATOR SAMUEL BROWNBACK’S WEBSITE, BUT IT IS NOT WORKING SO I WILL RECOMMEND THAT YOU CHECK IT OUT YOURSELF AT
YOU CAN LINK FROM THAT TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AND CLICK ON THE PICTURES AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO CHECK OUT.
BRENDA AND I AND MANY OTHERS, LIKE LOU ENGLE, DUTCH SHEETS, AND JOHN SANFORD, BELIEVE HE IS GOD’S CHOICE FOR OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. IF YOU DISAGREE, WE LOVE YOU ANYWAY AND PRAY THAT GOD’S WILL BE DONE.
I BELIEVE WE NEED TO START SEEKING GOD NOW SO WE HAVE TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE MEDIA WILL NOT PUT THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND A STRONG CHRISTIAN, SO IT’S UP TO GOD’S PEOPLE TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE, IN MY OPINION.
Thanks to all of you for your wonderful support of this ministry. We always appreciate your kindness and love, shown in so many different ways.
Be blessed in the arms of Jesus,
Ben, Brenda, boys and team
Get Some New Shoes
Ben Peters
Mar 13, 2007

Greetings in Jesus' Love,

It's been ten days since my last letter and they have been some of the busiest and best days of our lives. Some of the busyness has been extra company and private meetings and many trips to the airport to pick up people, but we have also had an intense weekend of ministry for the Chicago River Church and a large home group in Fox Lake.

Everywhere we go now we sense a new level of anointing and transition. We know we are entering into new territory and we've never been this way before. It's exhilerating, sometimes exhausting, but tremendously exciting.

For example, this Sunday morning at Chicago River Church, meeting at Trinity College, they took Brenda out to minister to the kids. She ended up staying there for over two hours, not only ministering herself, but getting many teenagers involved in prophesying as well. They prophesied to the young ones and then to each other and finally they and some of the children prophesied to Brenda. She was blown away by the prophetic flow of these kids who were prophesying their first time ever. One of the tall young men told her how her words had touched his heart and changed his life, which really blessed her. She left feeling very excited about what God is doing for today's youth.

NEW SHOES

Meanwhile, the Lord was giving me a message from the encounters that both Moses and Joshua had when they were told to take off their shoes because they were on holy ground. I believe that there was great symbolism in the taking off the shoes, along with the concept that the shoes are dirty from the journey.

The shoes they were wearing represented their journey of forty years in the wilderness. Moses had kept sheep for forty years and Joshua had wandered with Isreal for forty years. Their shoes represented the wilderness experience and they were now about to enter into their destiny. Moses' destiny was to bring Israel out of bondage, walking right into Pharaoh's court, and Joshua's destiny was to bring Israel into their promised land. I felt God was saying we need new shoes now for our new journey into destiny and the fulfillment of the vision that has been delayed in the past.

Prophets are telling us that this year is very significant. It is forty years this June since the Six Day War, when Israel possessed their possessions in Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights. There is coming a new release of spiritual possessions to the church as well as to the nation of Israel. This year 2007 will be a year of spiritual breakthrough for Israel and the church. It is a year of breakthrough in natural blessings as well.

ANOTHER BIG NUMBER FORTY

Brenda and I will have been married 40 years this summer. We know that our greatest ministry and our highest destiny is now upon us. Compared to the future, our past will seem like wilderness wanderings. Some amazing doors are opening to us and God is putting together an awesome team around us that will expand and multiply what we do. Finances, which have often eluded us, will flow through our hands to empower the younger generation and older saints as well to do the work they are called to do without being worried about provision.

Brenda has already got her new shoes, but I haven't had time to shop yet. I will be getting some new running shoes, because I intend to run the next forty years for Jesus and His Kingdom. That would make me 100. I might slow down a bit for the next twenty and let the young 80 year olds do the running.

Speaking of running, I better get on the road. We have three appointments today and I'm running late.

God bless you all with abundant grace, wisdom, anointing, intimacy and provision.

Your Servants and HIS!!!

Ben and Brenda, boys and team

Monday, March 05, 2007

Ministry Update 3-3-07
Ben Peters
Mar 3, 2007

Greetings everyone,

I want to start off by saying how much Brenda and I appreciate our amazing ministry team. They have worked tirelessly and donated hours of sacrificial service, personal finances and moral support to us month after month. They have accomplished major miracles, namely getting Brenda and me somewhat organized. They have also kept books, communicated with other leaders, prophesied for hours, designed and printed brochures, worked my book tables and shared their testimonies and much more. Thanks so much all of you! I won't mention any names lest I miss some of you. You will be rewarded in this life or the next. So far all your rewards have been "out of this world."

Thanks also to those who have supported us with your words of encouragement and kindness. We have also been blessed by some who have been able to help us with financial support. We are extremely grateful to you all. God has used you to save us from many a potential disaster. May God meet all your needs and encourage you as you have encouraged us.

BUSY LIFE CONTINUES

We had many wonderful divine appointments and ministry opportunities while in Florida for a week. We shared a couple of times at the IAM Convening in Dover and then we headed for Orlando to the House of Hope, led by our very special friend, Sara Trullinger. We ministered in a wonderful church on Sunday morning and then Sara treated us to an afternoon and evening at Disney World. Brenda had really wanted to go, but had given it up as it didn't seem like it was going to happen. Then Sara gave us free passes to any and all of the various parks. It was a fun afternoon and evening together.

Since getting back to Illinois we have been busy catching up on things at home. Brenda has been working with our team doing a ladies retreat at Freeport, Illinois, for the last two days. While she was doing that, I began to write another book that was prophesied in Florida by a new friend from Oregon. It's a book on how to write a book. Almost everywhere we go people have books waiting to be birthed by they don't ever get around to writing them. Writing books has become so much easier these days and God has a lot of information and creativity He wants to release to His church. I want to help people produce their dream.

OUR AUSTRALIAN FAMILY IS BACK WITH US

Many people earlier expressed interest in having the Adams family for meetings. They are more than ready to bless any group or church that has open dates that fit into their schedule. Brenda and I highly recommend them. God has already used them greatly and our team loves them. They are back from a trip to Abbotsford, B.C., and Kansas City, Missouri and ready to serve again in the Midwest. They minister with us this weekend on Friday and Saturday and then at Geneva, Illinois for two services on Sunday. Brenda and I will minister at the Chicago River Church on Sunday morning at Trinity University.

EVER INCREASING GLORY CONFERENCE - APRIL 3 - 6 at CHURCH IN THE WORD in Elgin, Illinois

This looks like the most amazing conference ever. Our speakers and worship leaders all carry an unusual anointing. You may not have heard of some of them, but I guarantee that they will bless your socks off. You can find the details and brochure on our website: www.ohmint.org on the conference link. You can load the brochure and print as many copies as you like.

MISSIONS PREP 101 IS SHAPING UP FOR APRIL AND MAY FOR AFRICA AND ISRAEL

These sessions are open to everyone, but we do require them for those wishing to go with us to Mozambique or Israel. The classes for Mozambique will be April 13 and 14 and April 27 and 28. The actual trip will begin about July 13 and last about 10 days. Those wanting to go to Israel at the end of September need to attend the April 27 and 28 session as well as May 11 and 12.

We would love to hear from you if you are interested in either of these trips. If you have written previously, please write again as we may have lost track of your previous letter.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

This week will find us doing a variety of private meetings. On Friday and Saturday we will be doing a private retreat for the Chicago River Church, but the Sunday morning service will be public. Saturday evening will be a home group in Fox Lake, Illinois. The following Monday, March 12, we will be doing a public meeting in Bloomingdale for the Bloomingdale Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship. It will be open to all.

That's all for now. Have a great Sunday with Jesus! We love you all!

Ben, Brenda, Tim, Nathan and our awesome team