ALMOST CHRISTMAS
Ben Peters
Dec 14, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Greetings and Merry Christmas to all!

PAST WEEKEND

Brenda, Jess and I just returned from a weekend in Henderson, Kentucky. Several of our team members were there as well and we all had a really good time. It was a reunion of those who had gone to Israel with Father's House Ministries. Brenda and I were privileged to minister to the Father's House on Sunday morning and the presence of God was very precious. Brenda, who has been quite exhausted and road weary was given strength to touch many lives and speak powerfully as usual. I had an unusual brokenness and could hardly speak the last part of the message God was giving me. God was doing a deep work in all of us and in the course of the weekend many lives were touched, set free and set on fire. We also had several divine networking connections.

THIS WEEK

After a couple of meetings tomorrow ( Tuesday), we fly to the west coast to be with family for the Christmas holidays. We return just before the New Year. Please pray for us. We need God's wisdom and grace and His miracle power to sustain, strengthen and empower us. We pray the same for all of you and that all your needs would be met during this season.

LAST OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE VEGGIE VILLAGE IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

We have received our first shipment of VEGGIE VILLAGE AND THE GREAT AND DANGEROUS JUNGLE. We have shipped out the orders we received. We took some to Henderson and distributed some there. I just received the following letter from a dear sister - Ruth Allison. She was given the first autographed copy.

"Ben, I could not wait to read the book you so graciously gave me, but read it all in one sitting. I don't know why, but it had me weeping, praying, weeping some more... What a powerful book you have written!"

We are not charging for this book, but are accepting donations from those who can to help cover the cost. If you write me back today or tomorrow, I believe I can still get the book to you before Christmas if you live in the USA. I pray that this book will touch many lives and will so much appreciate your help in getting it out.

PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS SO I CAN SEND YOUR BOOK WITHOUT DELAY.

This book is not really a little kids book, but they could enjoy it. It is especially for youth and adults. I am already writing a kid's version with a slightly different plot as God directs me.

Many blessings, and have an amazing Christmas with Christ at the center.

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

VEGGIE VILLAGE IS HERE!
Ben Peters
Dec 9, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Greetings Friends,

We trust you are being blessed with the presence and glory of God in these exciting days. God is pouring out His spirit in many places, including Kansas City and the International House of Prayer. The worship is amazing and miracles are happening. This is a revival with a pure and solid foundation that could keep on going for some time. Many people are watching it streaming live on www.ihop.org.

We just returned from a southern trip which included ministry in Atlanta, a vist with the Bourlands in Henderson, Kentucky, and a conference in Orlando, Florida. We had some wonderful fellowship and some special divine encounters. Only God knows what fruit will come from it, but we are very excited about what God is doing.

"VEGGIE VILLAGE AND THE GREAT AND DANGEROUS JUNGLE - AN ALLEGORY" WILL BE AVAILABLE IN A FEW DAYS IN PLENTY OF TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. IT IS NOT YET ON OUR WEBSITE, BUT YOU CAN STILL GET YOUR FREE COPY.

This book is different than any book I've ever written. It is a an adventure story featuring radical young people who receive encouragement from one village elder in their pursuit of all that God has for them. Working together they become extremely successful. This is a formula for revival - generations working together in unity for the same Kingdom purpose.

It you would like to get this book for yourself or someone else for Christmas, please respond to this letter and let me know. As many of you already know, we don't set a price on our books in our meetings anymore. They are available on a donation basis only. If we can pay our costs and replace the books we are happy, as long as people are reading and being changed by the message. If you can help us with a book donation, you can donate on our website: www.kingdomsendingcenter.org. The rest of our books are still for sale on our website, but this one will be on a donation basis until after Christmas.

DECEMBER PLANS

We had planned a gathering at our home for tomorrow (Wednesday) night, but because snow is forcast for all night and all day tomorrow, we have decided to let people stay safe at home.

On Friday, we are supposed to be going to Henderson, Kentucky for a reunion of the people who went on our first trip to Israel, which was a very memorable trip known to us as the 37 chairs.

Next week we will minister to some of the WYLL staff. After that we are scheduled to fly to the west coast and spend two weeks with family, including Brenda's mom who will spend her first Christmas as a widow.

Please remember to pray for us. We have been on the road so much, it is hard leave after just arriving home.

God bless you all!

Ben, Brenda, family and team

North Carolina Update
Ben Peters
Nov 22, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Dear Friends,

We had four wonderful services here in Garner, NC. What a precious group! And what sweet and precious youth and children. There were even some of the sweetest babies to hold and have fun with. Grandpa and Grandma are missing their newest grandchildren again.

Once again, God showed up to back up His word. Words of knowledge and revelation were flowing freely. God healed, set free and empowered and encouraged dozens of precious people. This young church wants to move with God and pay whatever price it costs. Much of our focus again was on preparing for the harvest, activating personal gifts, and sacrificing personal ministry reputation and achievements for building the Kingdom. That involves getting personal inner healing, getting equipped and getting on fire for God.

PLEASE PRAY FOR:

1. REVIVAL. Did you all know that another move of God has been launched in the United States - Kansas City, to be specific? Anyone can watch during evening sessions on the internet at www.ihop.org. I'm not sure of their Thanksgiving schedule, but you can find out on the website. They have been running the revival meetings from 6 pm to midnight. We believe this move has a much more stable foundation than the previous one in Lakeland and that it has great potential to spread throughout the world in a sustained move of God.

2. OUR AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. I trust everyone is aware of what's going on in American politics and you are praying and voicing your convictions to those who will be voting in congress and especially the senate at this time.

I encourage everyone to get a copy of Sarah Palin's new book and read it. if nothing else, it will open your eyes to the need for a cleansing in our government as well as corporate America. It's not just one side or the other. Both are corrupt.

As a result liberals can make a case against the other side, just like conservatives, but some proposed solutions to the problem are like medicines that are worse than the disease. I'm about half way through the book and have been moved to tears and well as disgust with some of the activities of corrupt and downright evil forces in our nation. We so need a cleansing and spiritual revival.

PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT!

We watched and listened to Chuck Colson on Huckabee tonight and were excited about the coming together of many Christian groups, including Evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox church leaders, to sign the Manhattan Declaration that they would take a stand for three basic foundational principles our country was founded on:

1.the sanctity of human life
2.the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife
3.the rights of conscience and religious liberty.
They pledged to stand up for these rights even if it meant prison or loss of non-profit status, etc. Brenda and I signed the pledge on line and you can too at: www.manhattandeclaration.org.

PLANS

We'll be home for Thanksgiving and then heading south to Orlando for the ICA conference headed up by Dr. C. Peter Wagner. We may do one meeting at Atlanta Revival Center with Vance Murphy on the way. After that we have a few days at home before we head west again to be with family for Christmas.

NEED YOUR INPUT

We wanted to touch base with our Chicago region friends before Christmas, as we've been gone for most of the past four months or more. If you would like a public meeting to hear from Brenda and me and share some fellowship together, possibly on December 9, please let us know. The schedule is tight for most people in December. We don't get a lot of meeting invitations, but still have lots of actiivities and family to see, and I know it's the same for most people.

So please let us know if you would really like to connect around then somewhere in the Chicago region. A good likelihood is somewhere in Elgin.

God bless you all!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

North Carolina
Ben Peters
Nov 18, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.com

Greetings Saints,

After a private ladies meeting tomorrow (Thursday), we head for Garner, North Carolina on Friday. We will do four meetings, at Garner Christian Fellowship, finishing up on Sunday morning. We would appreciate your earnest prayers for revival and breakthrough there.

Like other ministries are experiencing, we definitely have felt the anointing on our ministry getting stronger and stronger. We're seeing more healings and a greater flow of fresh revelation month after month and meeting after meeting. We know we are in a great time for the church. The harvesters and warriors are being woken up, raised up and mobilized. The joy of the harvest and dividing the spoils (Is. 9:3) has begun, but that joy will surely increase in the next months and years.

THE JONATHAN MODEL

God really spoke to me about Jonathan and his relatioship with David. Jonathan was raised in the palace while David was watching a few sheep, not considered worthy of consideration for the kingdom by his own father. But when Jonathan, who was the natural heir to the throne, saw the anointing on David, he said, "You will be king instead of me. and I will serve at your side. Then he gave David his royal robe, his belt, his sword and his bow. All these would be high quality and represented the authority of his royal position as well as his commitment to serve David.

I have already seen many applications of this concept, but I think God is raising up some of the least expected to serve Him in high places, while others, who seem to have all the credentials, are called to serve at their side and support them.

Jonathan had good intentions, but was not allowed to try to fulfill his commitment. Instead, he was killed in battle along with his father, King Saul. It would actually have been very difficult to watch David do things differently than his father had taught him. He would have been tempted to criticize and judge. Those who would be "Jonathans" must be willing to die to their better ideas and right to judge. They must recognize the special call and anointing from God. They must remember that God chooses the foolish things, the base things, the weak things, etc., to blow the minds of those who think they are wise, great, strong, etc.

I know that in our lives, we have been called more than once to be the Jonathans and die to our own ambitions and build another person's ministry. The great thing is that God won't allow us to humble ourselves without eventually exalting us. Then the trick is to stay humble while we are exalted, so we don't get humbled by God for our pride.

NEW BOOK IS ON THE WAY - WOULD YOU BELIEVE - A NOVEL?

My new book called, VEGGIE VILLAGE AND THE GREAT AND DANGEROUS JUNGLE, AN ALLEGORY, has been written and is being proof-read and should be ready well before Christmas if all goes well. I am very excited about this book and the possibility that it will inspire young and old to work together for the restoration of the fullness of the power of God in the church to bring in the harvest. This will be a great book for the younger generation, but needs to be read by older people as well.

Many blessings in the love of Jesus,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team


P.S.
Ben Peters
Nov 18, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Greetings again,

I forgot to mention that contrary to what we said in a previous letter, we will not be hosting a meeting somewhere on December 11. We actually need to be in Kentucky on that date, along with several of our team.

ANOTHER AWESOME FREEDOM EVENT

November 20-21, 2009 - Northwest Assembly of God, Mt. Prospect, IL

SOZO 101 - Accessing Your Freedom in Christ - Introduction to SOZO



Please go to our website to download the beautiful flyer. www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

From Farmington to El Paso
Ben Peters
Nov 3, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Greetings Friends,

FARMINGTON

We had a wonderful time in Farmington, New Mexico, this past week. We ministered to church leaders, a youth group, dozens of children and did two services on Sunday. With a name like World Harvest Center Church, you can imagine that I felt like I was at home in my own element. We spoke extensively about the harvest and the power of exports - a message I haven't yet shared with our mailing list.

Sunday evening, we had a fire tunnel especially for healing. By the time we were done we had four wonderful testimonies of healings, mostly pain disappearing, but also a diabetic free from normal symptoms. Please pray that their healings would be permanent.

EL PASO

Tonight we minister to a large prayer group from a church in El Paso, Texas. Later we will meet with youth staff and then about 45 young people. We ask for your prayers and intercession as we minister to some on-fire radical Christians, mostly Hispanic, in this border town. We are there until Friday. Also, pray for the folk across the border, who are under siege from Mafia drug cartels. Pastors are on their hit lists and have to live and minister in danger of losing their lives every day.

HOME TEAM

We are very excited to report that our home team, led by Ron and Val Coltman and Gene and Mary Ferguson, have experienced tremendous favor from God and many lives have been touched through the seminars and house network fellowships while we have been on the road. They also report that the times of worship have been incredible, led now by Jessie Seiler and Robbie Coltman.

FAMILY CONCERNS

As many of you know, our Tim and Nathan and Anthony Coltman are in Redding California, getting more ministry training under Bill Johnson. Because of our September Conference, where they led the worship, they arrived at the very last minute to attend the school in Redding. They are loving all that God is doing at Bethel Church, but they had hoped to get employment after they arrived. So far there has been nothing opening up for them. Please pray that God will provide jobs if he wants them working.

Our son-in-law, Caleb, Barbie's husband has also been laid off again. He is a welder and has had to move from job to job. Employment is getting harder to find with the down-turn in the economy. I know many are in the same boat, so let's not forget to pray for one another.

OTHER REQUESTS

We want to remind you again to pray for Lou and Celia Klaver. Lou is fighting for his life against cancer.

Another team member, Carol Danielson, asks for prayer for her daughter, who is going for more testing. The doctors fear she might have cancer.

AMERICA AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS

Please don't forget to pray for our nation. It's easy to fall into complacency and think there's nothing we can do about things going on in government, but the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God and capable of pulling down strongholds. Today, along with two gubanatorial elections and a house of representatives vote, two states are voting on marriage referendums. Please pray for Maine and Washington states that their voters would hold up the moral standards that have kept America strong. Also, please pray that righteousness and justice would rule and that corruption would be exposed and overthrown. So much depends on it for us and our children and the Kingdom harvest - even much more than you can imagine.

Thanks for all your love and support! Please keep it up! We can't do it without you and the anointing that comes through your prayers.

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

BUENOS DIAS FROM EL PASO, TEXAS
Ben Peters
Nov 6, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Greetings Amigos,

We are so enjoying the warm weather and warm hearts here in El Paso, Texas. We are ministering to the youth leaders and the youth of a large hispanic church of about 1500 people. A few, including our hosts, were friends of Andrea at CFNI in Dallas, and were on the drama team with her.

Last night our hosts took us to a high lookout post on the side of the mountain overlooking El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, across the border in Mexico. It was incredible! Juarez is a very dangerous place right now, where mafia drug gangs are killing a lot of people. Some of the pastor's lives are in great danger. Please pray for God to bring courage and revival to the people of Mexico. They are so close to us and I believe we could do a lot more to bless them with the good news of the Kingdom of God. They've had religion - now they need to see the face of God and the hand of God through on-fire and radical, miracle working lovers of Jesus.

Tonight is our final service here, which will be at the church facility. Many young people will be there. Please pray for a real visitation for these hungry youth.

Tomorrow we begin a two day drive to McComb, Mississippi, where Brenda's older sister lives. From there we head north, first to Arkansas to minister to a dear friend and her family, and then, finally, back home to Illinois for one week, before we fly to North Carolina.. It has been over six weeks since we left home and we are looking forward to seeing our home team again.

Speaking of our home team - we want to announce another Freedom - Training For Reigning Seminar. Here's the info:


SOZO 101 - An Introduction to SOZO on November 20-21, 2009 at the Northwest Assembly of God, Mt. Prospect, IL

Please join us Friday, 11/20 (7-10:00pm) for PROPHETIC 101 - Prophetic Teaching & Personal Prophetic Ministry; AND Saturday, 11/21 (9am - 5pm) SOZO 101 - Introduction to SOZO: Accessing Your Freedom in Christ (including a "live" model ministry session). This SOZO 101 training will walk you through an overview of the steps toward freedom in Christ Jesus from the discovery to deliverance process. You will receive the freedom tools you need to get free, stay free, and help others get and stay free!

Here's what folks are saying about the SOZO 101 - An Introduction to SOZO training...

"I appreciate the training & the heart you come with. I have lots to think and pray through and leave very encouraged. Blessings!" - KT from Crystal Lake, IL

"I was stretched and encouraged through this training." - DB from Buffalo Grove, IL

"Very practical & real. I liked that there was testimonies [personal stories] to go with the teaching." BB from Woodridge, IL

"You guys are awesome. Praise God for what He's doing through you." JR from Wauconda, IL

"Excellent sessions. Great atmosphere. Great people. Thanks." BF from Glenview, IL

No registration fee. Love offering will be taken. Registration requested due to limited seating of 75. Please RSVP by email to: info@kingdomsendingcenter.org. For more information on this training, go to: www.KingdomSendingCenter.org/events.htm Or call, Ron & Valerie Coltman at 847-428-0623.



Please don't forget to pray for America and get involved in taking a stand for righteousness and truth in these turbulent times. Pray that all corruption would be exposed and that America would turn back to God again. We are in a major time of shaking and America will either turn back to God or turn to other sources of security which will produce disastrous results.

That's all for now,

Blessings on you all,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

New Mexico - Here we come!
Ben Peters
Oct 30, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Dear Friends,

First, my apologies to HUB and all our mailing list for forgetting to announce the conference with Heidi Baker and others in Chicago. I didn't realize it was happening until it was over, but I had planned on letting everyone know. We, ourselves, have missed Heidi recently by always being in a different place when she is around.

We had a wonderful time in Lakeview, Oregon last week and again, the Lord showed up to touch, to heal and speak to hearts. The rest of the last week or so has been mostly activities with our boys in Redding (Tim, Nathan and Anthony Coltman) and our daughter Barbie) and her family in Sacramento. Brenda enjoyed buying some groceries for them all and a few small gifts for the grandkids. The boys in Redding had an empty fridge and were living on oatmeal, beans and cereal for the most part, but they have been having a great time just being on their own and a part of the Bethel ministry under Bill Johnson.

In Sacramento, Brenda had some wonderful unscheduled opportunites to minister to a home school/charter school combination, where our grandkids participate. The response was really amazing, especially from some parents who had never experienced prophetic ministry. After receiving ministry in the school, the parents wanted a ladies meeting in the evening. Again, there was a great response to her ministry.

Meanwhile, I have been helping watch the five grandsons and working on my new book - an allegory - called, Veggie Village and the Great and Dangerous Jungle. It's based on a vision I received in Hamilton, Ontario last Spring. Pray that I can get it finished in time for Christmas.

Today we finish our journey to Farmington, NM, and the beginning of three days of ministry. Please continue to pray for us as we travel and minister. We now have over 5000 miles on this journey with about 3000 more to go. After Farmington, we go to El Paso, TX, McComb, MS, and Paragould, AR., before getting home.

Thanks for all your prayers and support. We are so grateful for all of you!

In the wonderful love of Jesus,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

Back in the USA - Blessings Continue
Ben Peters
Oct 21, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org - www.ohmint.org

Greetings dear Friends,

We had a wonderful time in B.C., Canada, first ministering twice in Kamloops; and then visiting both our daughter, Andrea and her husband, Harvey, and then my brother, Fred, and his wife, Marty.

The meetings included some wonderful encounters people had with God through the moving of the Holy Spirit. There were a lot of tears of joy and release of pain, and at least two physical healings. Healing ministry has not been our primary focus, but is becoming more and more normal as we minister. We also were privileged to minister to several Kamloops pastors and spend a little time with them.

Today, we begin in Lakeview, Oregon. We have two services there before we head for Redding and Sacramento to visit our other three kids, five grandkids and one son-in-law. After that we will be in Farmington, New Mexico and then El Paso, Texas. That will take us into November. We will make a couple of other stops on the way home in Mississippi and Arkansas, to visit Brenda's oldest sister and a dear friend. In mid-November we will be in a church in North Carolina.

Our 2005 Honda turned over 201,000 miles and is still going strong, but we've had a couple of problems that required some repair. We know many of you have prayed and we trust you will continue to pray that we have no serious problems before we return home to Illinois.

We want to also let you know about another special seminar our team will be doing in Elgin, Illinois very soon. The details are below. The beautiful brochure should be on our website very soon.

INTRODUCTION TO SOZO (SOZO 101)


WHAT?

Accessing Your Freedom in Christ
This SOZO 101 training will walk you through an overview of the steps toward freedom in
Christ Jesus from the discovery to deliverance process. You will receive the freedom
tools you need to get free, stay free, and help others get & stay free!

WHEN?

October 30, 2009 (7pm to 9:30pm) -
Prophetic Teaching & Personal Prophetic Ministry

October 31, 2009 (9am to 5pm) -
SOZO 101 Training

WHERE?

New Covenant Fellowship
865 Parkway Avenue, Elgin, IL 60120
(Only minutes from I-90 at the Highway 25 - Elgin exit)

TRAINERS?

Ron & Valerie Coltman
Regional Apostolic & Prophetic Voice &
Ministry Leadership in Kingdom Sending Center

TOPICS?

SOZO Overview - Why SOZO? Why now?
• Cooperate with God’s Invitation - Get Free! Stay Free!
• Become His Pure & Spotless Bride
• Find Your Place as an End Time Harvester
• Prepare To Take Your Place on His Kingdom Mountain
Freedom: Training For Reigning!
Prepare To Take Your Kingdom Mountain

Bountiful Blessings to You All

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

OCTOBER 14 UPDATE
Ben Peters
Oct 14, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org, www.ohmint.org

Greetings Saints,

Just a quick update on our western journey.

We had a wonderful time in Kalispell, Montana, last week, teaching a hungry group enrolled in the River Church School of Ministry. We ministered in two long evening sessions and we both felt a very strong anointing as we spoke and prayed over all the students and staff - about 40 total.

From there we spent the weekend in Spokane with Ken and Valencia, Micah, Karis and Moriah. We watched two great soccer games and can easily tell that our grandkids are destined for World Cup competition some day. Moriah is only a few months old, but she will someday be a beauty queen, without a doubt. On Sunday we got to sit and enjoy Valencia do an amazing job leading an incredible worship team and then hear Ken preach an outstanding message that touched us all. Of course, like all news media, we are totally unbiased. Seriously though, it was an awesome service.

Since Sunday evening we have been with Brenda's mom, in Soap Lake, Washington. She is slowly but painfully adjusting to life without her husband. Even though he had been in a care center for almost three years, she always spent several hours a day with him. At 87 years old, she has a tough time making the adjustment. While in Soap Lake we have also had a good visit with Brenda's sister, Darlene.

Tomorrow, we return to Canada, this time Kamloops, B.C., for two meetings in two different locations. From there we go to Vancouver, where we will spend a few days with Andrea, our daughter, and her husband, Harvey. We will also visit Fred, my oldest brother, and his wife, Marty, along with my neice, Heather, and her husband, Simon.

From Vancouver we will head south for meetings in Lakeview, Oregon. After that we visit Redding, California, where Tim and Nathan are in school, and then Sacramento, where Barbie and Caleb live.

After that we will minister in Farmington, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. After a couple of more stops on the way, we hope to get back to Illinois by mid November. Please keep praying for strength and endurance.

Our team at home is doing a wonderful job keeping the ministry alive in Illinois and the midwest region. Check our websites for updates on seminars, etc.

Much love to you all,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

PROPHETIC INACCURACY AND CANADA REPORT
Ben Peters
Sep 30, 2009



www.kingdomsendingcenter.org and www.ohmint.org



Greetings Saints,

We had five wonderful meetings in Saskatchewan, ending on Sunday evening. The results were mostly out of this world and only eternity will reveal how important it was for us to be there. We believe there are some strong leaders of all ages who are willing to pay the price for revival in the region.

We are now in Calgary, Alberta and have many appointments with old friends as well as several meetings planned on the weekend. We are requesting much intercession on our behalf, especially for Brenda, as she has had such an intense schedule and emotional trauma in the past two months, including the death of her father and the empty nest with our boys gone to Redding.

Below, I am sharing another message on the prophetic which I believe may answer some questions. Many months ago I wrote an article called, Prophetic Confusion. In this article I'm pointing out some reasons for prophetic inaccuracy. I trust you will be blessed!

In God's great love,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team



PROPHETIC INACCURACY

What do we do when prophetic words from people with a reputation for accuracy don’t come to pass? How do we resist the temptation to treat the prophetic with contempt or to even despise prophecy?

The prophetic movement is still not very mature, and like a child learning to walk, there are many missteps and accidents. At the same time, we have seen the wonderful results of true prophetic words, including salvation, healing and deliverance. We know of whole groups of people who have been spared by prophetic warning. Thousands of individuals have come alive to their destiny through personal prophetic words. We are commanded by Paul to desire earnestly to prophesy. It’s not an option, but we need to become wiser and minimize the casualties of “friendly fire”.

We recently sent out a newsletter with links to some prophetic warnings and our take on what we had heard from prophets with a good reputation and a strong anointing. We stated that the word on the first link was not confirmed, but what we had been told was that the prophet had predicted both the Oklahoma City bombing and the World Trade Center Towers in NYC. In the current word, he predicted another attack on 9-11 this year on the Citicorp building.

Nothing happened on 9-11, except that various people were arrested who had plans to blow up things in NYC. So how do we deal with this?

REASONS FOR PROPHETIC INACCURACY

1. JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS – FALSE ASSUMPTIONS

Sometimes prophets will receive a small piece of information from God and then reason logically to some conclusion. A prophetic friend heard from God back in 1998 that something significant was going to happen on September 11. He told some close friends and they watched the news that day and nothing happened. He had assumed that God meant the current year. He thought he must have heard God wrong. In 2001, he learned a valuable lesson about jumping to conlusions.

I Corinthians 13:9 tells us we know in part and prophesy in part. Verse 11 tells us that as children we think and behave like children, clearly indicating that we are just like children in the prophetic. We get a little information and get all excited about it, even though we know very little on a mature level.

When Brenda, my wife, was pregnant with our youngest son, Nathan, she was teaching a kindergarten class. Little Nicolas asked her how her baby ate. She simply said that he got some of the food that she ate. After recess, he came in and declared that he had it all figured out. If she ate a banana and the baby wanted some, it would reach out and grab a piece for himself. Clearly, he understood only as a child, not an adult. Even the most advanced prophets should identify with Paul, who acknowledged being child-like in his prophetic knowledge.

2. PEOPLE’S RESPONSE CHANGES GOD’S PLANS

There is no better example than the story of Jonah. He clearly stated, “Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” He clearly could have been stoned according to one Scripture. However, he was not a false prophet, even though he was a reluctant one. God responded to repentance. We don’t know what happened in New York City on September 11. Possibly, the warnings stirred up enough prayer to expose the plans of the enemy.

The opposite situation can also be true. God may inform a prophet of His plans to bless and prosper a person or a nation. However, if they fail to pray or possess what God has promised, they may fail to receive the blessings He wants to bring. Such could have been the case in previous elections, etc.

3. PROPHETIC PRIDE LEADS TO ERROR AND HUMBLING

I have been observing that our natural tendency is to want to find one or two people who are always right and then put our confidence in their words. But God seems to think that we should always be seeking Him for His confirmation, no matter who said it. He likes to surprise us and use unknown people to do some of the greatest works. But if they or any prophet get lifted up and think they can do nothing wrong, they will fall. King Saul didn’t know that the Spirit of God had left him. Many Kingdom leaders fall into the same category at times.

ADDITIONAL CLARIFICATION ON PREVIOUS INFORMATION

We also informed people in our past newsletter that a number of prophets have predicted another economic crash soon. The stock market has been rising slightly since then. I heard another warning that it would hit a little over 10,000 before it crashed again.

These are not my personal predictions. I have received nothing myself. I am just reporting what I have heard, having been with some strong prophetic people recently.


SOLUTIONS TO PROPHETIC INACCURACY

1. Don’t focus on the prophet – focus on the information and ask God for confirmation. When we focus on the person, we will find flaws and possibly ignore a word from God, or we exalt the person and ignore a check from the Holy Spirit.

2. Pray that God would bring us into greater unity in all areas. When the body of Christ is so fragmented, it manifests in confusion and lack of power in all aspects of Kingdom ministry.

3. Obey Paul’s command to desire earnestly to prophesy. When we all do that with humble hearts, there will be plenty of confirmation when the word is true and the opposite when the word is not true.

We still have a lot to learn and we will still make mistakes, but God is doing a work in His body that will produce greater clarity and maturity if we don’t give up and throw out the baby with the proverbial bath water.

In His Service, for His Kingdom,

Ben R. Peters

QUICK EXCITING UPDATE
Ben Peters
Oct 1, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org, www.ohmint.org

Greetings again,

Thanks to everyone who responded to my newsletter yesterday entitled, "Prophetic Inaccuracy".

Last night I learned that there was a lot of truth to the recent prophetic word warning of a terrorist plot on 9/11, 2009. In fact, the FBI heard about the prophecy and checked it out, confirming that there was a plot for that day and they were able to arrest the suspects they had been following before the bombs could be set off.

The exciting thing to me is that a disaster was averted and God's prophets were involved, advising the government. This is one way to find a place of influence on the government mountain. When Kings and Presidents consult God's prophets, like they did in Bible times, there will be a lot more respect given to God and His people, and God can bless and protect the nation we love.

Keep praying for us and our governmental leaders. As Chuck Pierce says, pray that they would reach up and take God's hand. If they take God's hand, God can bless us again. If they reject His hand, their hand will wither and they will become powerless to fulfill their agenda.

Here's a reminder for a great event coming right up not far from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


Freedom: Training For Reigning Seminar - SOZO 101

Introduction to Sozo



When is it?

October 2, 2009:
Evening Session: 7pm to 9:30pm
October 3, 2009:
Morning Session: 9am to 12:30 pm
Lunch Break (On Your Own): 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 2 – 5pm


Where is it?

Wooded Hills Bible Church
777 Highway 164
Colgate, WI 53017

Cost?

There is no registration or fee. Love offering will be taken.


Who can I contact?

Gloria Gierach
Phone: 262.628.1514
Glorygierach@yahoo.com



Is there childcare?

There is no child care provided for these meetings.



Click here to download the conference flyer


That's all for now! Thanks again for all your support!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

Longest Road Trip in Five Years Begins Today
Ben Peters
Sep 23, 2009


www.kingdomsendingcenter.org and www.ohmint.org

Dear Saints,

PLEASE PRAY FOR US

In an hour or so, we will be on the road again, not in our motor home, which is now housing three young men on assignment from God in Redding, California, but in our Honda, Accord, which will hit 200,000 miles this trip. We will be gone until late November. Our itinerary should be on our websites shortly. Please pray.

We begin with four meetings in Saskatchewan - Moosomin, Yorkton and Sturgis. Then we go to Alberta - Calgary, Edmonton and Strathmore. After that we're in Kalispell, Montana, Washington State and Kamloops, British Colombia. After that we visit Lakeview, Oregon, Redding and Sacramento, California, Farmington, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. We'll be sending updates as we go.

You can keep in touch with us by email. Phones won't always work and our answering machines won't work in Canada.

Those who want to send support can do so on our website or mail to our office address, which is:

Kingdom Sending Center

P.O. Box 25

Genoa, IL 60135

We receive emails from our office, informing us of all donations. We are extremely grateful to all those who have kept us going in the past with their financial support. There is no way we can thank you enough. It has enabled us to minister to thousands of people around the world.

MINISTRY REPORT

We had wonderful responses for the Freedom - Training For Reigning Seminar last weekend in Joliet, Illinois. The attendance was great and the testimonies were very exciting. We had four prophetic teams on Friday night and for many of the folk from Joliet, it was their first time to receive prophetic words. Rod and Val Coltman did an awesome job teaching the course on Saturday.

This ministry is coming into great demand. If you are interested in getting Ron and Val for a seminar, please get in touch with them asap on our website.

Brenda and Krista Frauenholtz ministered on Sunday to a home group, again with many first timers. It was a breakthrough time for these ladies, according to the testimonies which came back to us.

God bless you all!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

FRESH FOUNDATIONS BEING LAID
Ben Peters
Sep 18, 2009


www.ohmint.org and www.kingdomsendingcenter.org

Greetings Saints,

FRESH FOUNDATIONS

We are again in an exciting season of busy Kingdom activities, and as I was trying to think of a title for this newsletter, which my newsletter program requires, the words "Fresh Foundations" came to my mind. I know it was the Holy Spirit revealing something to me. I believe that for all those who want more than the status quo and traditions of the past, God is doing a powerful work in their lives. There has been a shaking and an instability and it seems like nothing much has been accomplished for many saints in the last few months. Finances have been shaken and relationships have been changing.

I believe this is in part due to the fact that God has been taking out much of our old foundation so He can replace it with the foundation we will need for the coming exciting times on the earth. To put in new foundation stones, God has to remove the old and that has not been fun for most of us. The old foundation was built on the religious traditions of our spiritual fathers. We tend to put our trust in these traditions, even when they have no basis in Scripture. For example: our service structures, our ministry organizations, our church furniture, our religious titles, etc.

I believe that we are now coming to a time of accelerated building. Although there will continue to be shaking and rebuilding of the foundations, I believe that enough of the new foundation has been laid that we will see a lot of new growth in the Kingdom. Kingdom growth may parallel increased difficulties in society, including financial and political turmoil. Many prophetic voices are saying the same thing in these days.

The new foundation is shifting from religious traditions and a focus on intellectual theology to a living, experiential Christianity with a continuous flow of testimonies of the power of God, producing great love, joy and peace, much like the early church at its beginning. Those who have this foundation will have unprecidented levels of fellowship with others whose lives have been built on the same foundation of living, vibrant relationships with a supernatural God.

FREEDOM - TRAINING FOR REIGNING SEMINAR - TONIGHT AND SATURDAY IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS

First Assembly of God Joliet
1741 Essington Rd
Joliet, IL 60435
Website | 815-436-8200

No registration required. Brenda and I will share tonight. Ron and Val Coltman will present the training seminar tomorrow. We have had a tremendous response to this seminar in recent weeks. Come and get it. For more detailed information, go to www.kingdomsendingcenter.org or www.ohmint.org and click on conferences.

KINGS AND KINGDOMS CONFERENCE REPORT

Words fail to describe what God did in hundreds of lives last weekend. We had a dream team of speakers and the blessings flowed out in healing, prophecy and revelation. The biggest thing was the intangible shift that took place in the atmosphere over the region. We were challenged to believe that we are who God says we are and to live in a greater awareness of the plans God has for us to rule and reign with Him as Kings and Queens under the King of Kings.

Audio CD's are available of the entire conference.

A huge thank-you is owed to Mary Zell, our conference coordinator, and of course, to Ron and Val Coltman, who administrate the whole ministry for us.

TIMOTHY, NATHAN PETERS AND ANTHONY COLTMAN NOW IN REDDING, CALIFORNIA

Early Sunday morning we got in our motor home and car, headed west via I-80 and arrived 48 - 50 hours later in Redding. We got settled in a campground and registered the boys at Bethel School of Ministry around noon on Tuesday. I caught a flight home that afternoon and ministered the next afternoon and evening at the Wagner Leadership Institute - Korean American School in Prospect Heights, Illinois. God really touched many precious Korean folk in a powerful way. We had a small team that ministered prophetically in the afternoon with me. It was a whirlwind of activity. Fortunately, we had yesterday off to catch up on sleep and relationships.

We will miss our young men, but are excited about the training they will receive there under Bill Johnson and his team.

NEW WEBSITE

We now have a brand new, state-of-the-art website under our new name: KINGDOM SENDING CENTER. Credit goes mostly to Ron Coltman and Mark Oliver, who did a fantastic job for us. You can check it out at www.kingdomsendingcenter.org Our old site: www.ohmint.org will continue to function for now.

May God bless you richly and fulfill your heart's desires,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

A FEW MORE SPEAKER DETAILS, ETC.
Ben Peters
Sep 10, 2009

www.ohmint.org

Greetings again!

First, a new announcement on behalf of Pastor Matt Lee:

Luncheon with Dr. C. Peter Wagner and Che Ahn on Tuesday Sept 15 th 12:15 - 1:30 pm.

Dr. C Peter Wagner and Che Ahn are coming to Chicago Area to teach Wagner Leadership Institute Korean American. Matt Lee would like to provide a chance for area Christian leaders to fellowship with them over lunch and have some Q & A sessions. Though this may be a brief meeting, I believe it will be spiritually significant. It will be at a restaurant near Prospect Heights, IL, there will be a lunch fee of $10.

If you want to participate in the luncheon, you must email Matt Lee at pastormatt@chicagoriverchurch.org and register by September 13th and find out the exact restaurant location.

Please inform your fellow pastors and leaders of this opportunity. But they must make reservation, because we have limited seats

On Tuesday Sept 15th, Che Ahn will speak in the evening at WLI/Chicago River Church, and this is open to the public at Wingate Hotel 600 N Milwaukee Ave Prospect Heights, IL 60070.

For more info, call Matt Lee at 847-757-4685 or email pastormatt@ChicagoRiverChurch.org.

SPEAKER SCHEDULE FOR CONFERENCE

DAVID TOMBERLIN SPEAKS THURSDAY EVENING AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON

SHAWN BOLZ SPEAKS FRIDAY MORNING AND SATURDAY EVENING

BOBBY CONNER SPEAKS FRIDAY EVENING AND SATURDAY MORNING

BEN, BRENDA AND KINGDOM SENDING CENTER TEAM SPEAK SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

SERVICE TIMES ARE 10 AM, 2 PM AND 7 PM.

Many blessings to you all,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

VERY IMPORTANT UPCOMING EVENTS
Ben Peters
Sep 7, 2009


www.ohmint.org

Dear Saints,

God has truly blessed us with incredible team memebers and leaders in these strategic days. We have begun to function under the name, Kingdom Sending Center, which involves a shift in our primary focus, which, under the name, Open Heart Ministries, was to open hearts to the love coming from the open heart of God and give people an awareness of their destiny and divine potential. We are now shifting from simply awakening hearts to the gifts and callings on their lives to actually training and sending them into the harvest.

It truly is harvest time and things will get more intense as the months go by. Every event we sponsor will have a focus on the harvest and the following events are no exceptions.

1. KINGS AND KINGDOMS CONFERENCE - THIS THURSDAY - SATURDAY AT FOUNTAIN OF LIFE CHURCH IN LOMBARD, ILLINOIS. SPEAKERS ARE SHAWN BOLZ, DAVID TOMBERLIN, BOBBY CONNER.

Begins 7 pm Thursday. Continues Friday and Saturday at 10 am, 2 pm and 7 pm.

Please check the website: www.ohmint.org and click on conferences. Download the brochure.

This should be our most strategic conference ever. Come with high expectations.

2. FREEDOM SEMINARS: TRAINING FOR REIGNING! - Accessing Your Freedom in Christ - Introduction to SOZO

This SOZO training will walk you through the steps toward freedom in Christ Jesus
from the discovery to deliverance process. You will receive the freedom tools you
need to get free, stay free, and help others get & stay free!

Ben & Brenda Peters - Regional Apostolic &
Prophetic Voice; Co-Founder of Open Heart Ministries (OHM) &
Kingdom Sending Center NFP

Ron & Valerie Coltman - Apostolic & Prophetic;
Ministry Leadership in OHM & Kingdom Sending Center NFP

SOZO Overview - Why SOZO? Why now?
• Cooperate with God’s Invitation - Get Free! Stay Free!
• Become His Pure & Spotless Bride
• Find Your Place as an End Time Harvester
• Prepare To Take Your Place on His Kingdom Mountain

No registration fee. Love offering will be taken.
Registration requested (but not required) - RSVP by email to: Info@KingdomSendingCenter.org
For more information, call Ron & Valerie Coltman at 847-840-8687.
For upcoming events, go to: www.ohmint.org/conferences.html
are pleased to announce the series

A. JOLIET, ILLINOIS, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 - 7 pm to 9:30 pm; Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 - 9 am to 5 pm
(Personal prophetic ministry will be offered Friday night.)

First Assembly of God - Chapel
1741 Essington Road, Joliet, IL 60435

B. COLGATE, WISCONSIN, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009 - 7 pm to 9:30 pm; Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 - 9 am to 5 pm

Wooded Hills Bible Church, 777 Hwy 164, Colgate, WI, 53017

Please pre-register by email at glorygierach@yahoo.com. No registration fee.

We have had wonderful responses and packed out venues in previous seminars. If you want to schedule a seminar for your church or group, contact Ron and Val Coltman at rwcoltman@gmail.com.

THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE PRAYED FOR BRENDA AND HER FAMILY REGARDING THE LOSS OF HER FATHER

The response from our readers was amazing. God bless you all!

Hope to see many of you this weekend.

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

IMPORTANT CONFERENCE ADDRESS INFO
Ben Peters
Sep 8, 2009


www.ohmint.org
Greetings again,
There has been some confusion about the address for Fountain of Life Church, where we begin our conference this Thursday at 7 pm. Your Google and Yahoo searches may not find the address that we have on our brochure. Your GPS may also have a hard time with it. I believe the Post Office has changed the addresses in the area.

Here is an address that works for mapquest and I have also copied the directions from the church website.

20w600 Glen Park Rd
Lombard, IL
FROM THE WEST:
Take Butterfield Rd (east) to Lloyd Ave (turn left). Turn right on Glen Park Road. The church entrance is 500 feet on your right.
FROM THE NORTH:
Take I-355 (south) and exit at Butterfield Rd. Take a right (west) on Butterfield Rd. Turn right (north) at Lloyd Ave. Turn right on Glen Park Road. The church entrance is 500 feet on your right.

FROM THE EAST:
Take Butterfield Rd (west) to Lloyd Ave (turn right). Turn right on Glen Park Road. The church entrance is 500 feet on your right.

FROM THE SOUTH:
Take I-355 (north) and exit at Butterfield Rd. Take a left (west) on Butterfield Rd. Turn right (north) at Lloyd Ave. Turn right on Glen Park Road. The church entrance is 500 feet on your right.

I encourage everyone to verify on their computer or GPS that they can find the facility before they head out. It's very simple to get to. Coming from the north it's just three right turns off the I-355 freeway.

See you soon!

b n b, f n t

INCREDIBLE TIMES
Ben Peters
Aug 31, 2009


www.ohmint.org

Greetings Saints everywhere,

We are truly living in incredible times. Nothing is "normal" anymore. The only thing you can be sure of is that you can't be sure of anything except God's Word and His promises. And do we ever need to know and believe it and them today?

We are on our way back from an awesome conference in Orlando. There was a lot of information, much of it prophetic, confirming what we were already believing. Larry Randolph, especially, shared that we are coming to the end of a holding pattern, a time when we were not able to land and resume our journey. We've just been holding on, trying not to go under. He says that much will change in the next four months but many of us will have discovered God's guidance for the future by the new year.

Others are warning of extreme situations arising and some more major crises. At the same time, we know that God is preparing to use every crisis to prepare America and the world for the harvest. The church will be revived and united like never before since the early church. Together we will see God do miraculous things to build His Kingdom.

KINGS AND KINGDOMS CONFERENCE - COMING RIGHT UP - SEPT. 10-12 - LOMBARD, IL

Please keep this on your calendar and on your heart and mind as you pray. This conference with Bobby Conner, Shawn Bolz and David Tomberlin could light a fire under hundreds of kids and adults alike in the Chicago region. Larry Randolph just prophesied over us and mentioned breakthrough with our ministry in Illinois. Please pray for a powerful move of God.

Please go to our website: www.ohmint.org and click on conferences, scroll down to download brochure and print some copies to share with others. You might want to take advantage of our good hotel/motel rates.

NEW UPDATED VERSION OF KINGS AND KINGDOMS BOOK with PETER WAGNER'S ENDORSEMENT IS NOW AVAILABLE

ANOTHER NOTE:

Brenda left her phone in Washington State. Anyone who left her a message or wants to communicate with her needs to email us or call my number or connect on FaceBook.

God bless you all,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

p.s. HERE'S ANOTHER CONFERENCE COMING SOON LED BY DAMON STUART MINISTRIES

"Our God Reigns" - Worship Conference! (Sept. 17-19, 2009)



"Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude,like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns." (Revelations 19:6)

PURPOSE:
This conference is for all who love to worship God! Our desire is to serve and impart in you all that you need to be refreshed to continue your walk and calling in life. Our speakers will be teaching on the Levitical Priesthood of worship and ministering in the prophetic.

GUEST SPEAKERS:
Derek Kuhn
Garry Mulgrew
Damon Stuart

LOCATION:
Northwest Assembly of God
900 N. Wolf Road
Mount Prospect, IL 60056

SCHEDULE:
Thursday
7:00 pm
Friday
10:00 am, 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Saturday
10:00 am, 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm

*Childcare will not be available.
*No registration/fee required.
*Love offerings will be taken.

Down-loadable Brochure available on our Calendar Page at: http://www.damonstuart.com/calendar.asp

9-11 PROPHETIC INFO
Ben Peters
Sep 5, 2009


www.ohmint.org

Dear Saints,

SOME GREAT REASONS TO COME TO OUR KINGS AND KINGDOMS PROPHETIC CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK - SEP. 10-12 IN LOMBARD, IL.

God loves America and the whole world so much that he allowed His own precious, perfect and dearly beloved Son to die for us. The same God who loved us then enough to allow His Son to suffer, is allowing America and the world to suffer in order to wake us up and to save us from our own self-destruction.

What has happened in the last year has done far more damage to America and opened the door to far more suffering than what happened on 9/11/2001. The flood gates have been opened and the enemy is on the advance. But remember, when the enemy comes in like a flood (of filth), the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against it. God is raising up a God-fearing force which are coming into a new level of unity, filled with the Holy Spirit of God, waiving the Godly standard to stop the flood.

Our conference features three strong prophetic voices, Shawn Bolz, Bobby Conner and David Tomberlin. Our conference is centered on 9/11. I wouldn't miss it.

SPECIFIC WARNINGS

1. ANOTHER 9-11 ATTACK IN NEW YORK.

We don't have any other confirmation, but one previously on-target prophet is warning of another attack in NYC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HODzOn4fEBQ

2. MORE FINANCIAL DISASTER

I don't have a youtube message on this one, but we have been with several prophets who have talked with other prophets. Many are saying that the stock market will crash again very soon. Two have declared it will bottom out at 1/3 its present value. Larry Randolph has said that the next four months will be the worst of times/best of times. It will be a great time for those who walk close to God. He will release His power in spiritual gifts and miracles. Others will have their lives shaken to the very core.

I believe these next four months will see the shaking of many mountains of society and initiating a great transfer of wealth from the godless to the Godly. But we must be those who are walking and talking with God and listening to Him.

I don't want to give financial advice, since I've never had natural wealth, but if I had stocks today, I would sell them asap.

SHOCKING VIDEO

Here's a youtube video from someone I never expected to ever agree with. Check it out and be stunned!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_msTII61hWY



I copy below a report sent out by Rick Joyner. Check this one out if you have time.


Russia Rebukes America for Turning Marxist


By Rick Joyner


Could it possibly be true that one of the most insightful voices of clarity about current events in America could come from Pravda, the premier Russian Newspaper? An editorial published in Pravda is a sweeping summary of what is now happening in America that is, and should, cause every American to consider what is transpiring in our country now. The editorial begins with a stunning summary of America’s present plight, and then elaborates powerfully. It may come across as insulting, but if we are wise, it will not be insulting, but sobering. The following is an abbreviated excerpt of the editorial.


NOTE: I made some corrections that are in parenthesis. This editorial and others can be read in their entirety at:

Click Here: Stanislav Mishin -- American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper


"It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American dissent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people….


First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in D.C. that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonald’s burger or a Burger King burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy.” Pride blinds the foolish.


Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations,” which were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses, and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more than happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.


The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past months has been truly impressive. His spending and printing money has been record-setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic (Germany in the 1930s) and at worst Zimbabwe.


These past two weeks have been the most breathtaking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses, and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more than ordinary street thugs in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?


These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties, and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more than a whimper to their masters.


Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motors) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American President now has the power, the self-given power, to fire CEOs, and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.


So it should be no surprise that the American President has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies (guarantees). I am sure that if given the chance they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less than two months ago, warned Obama and U.K.’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.


Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper. . .but a “freeman” whimper.


So, should it be any surprise to discover that the democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury Department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance, and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator (actually “Congressman”) Barney Franks . . . and his Marxist enlightenment has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.


The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.


The proud American will go down into his slavery without a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker." - Stanislav Mishin


I personally applaud President Obama for trying to “reset” our relations with Russia, which had become strained under President Bush. Russia and America should now be allies and very good friends. However, President Obama has some basic misunderstandings about Russia, just as he obviously does about America.


Russia is in fact going in the opposite direction of the United States, gradually being liberated from the most terrible of all human yokes of bondage, Marxism, and they accurately now see America falling to this ultimate evil. Regardless of the distorted picture the American media has presented about Russia and Putin in particular, they are determined to forever be free of Marxism because they have experienced its evils firsthand. No one knows better that Marxism has never worked, and can never work, better than those who have been under its terrible yoke.


Prime Minister Putin did bring increasing control over Russia, but it was not for the reasons assumed by most in the West. When someone has been in prison for more than just a few months, with but rare exceptions, their “decision maker” gets broken, and they have a hard time making even the most basic personal decisions. For this reason, recently freed prisoners have a hard time coping with freedom that comes at them too fast. This is why many released prisoners have such a hard time being free that they will commit crimes and purposely get caught in order to go back to prison where they feel more secure. In this same way, Russia had been in prison for more than seventy years and few Russians were able to cope with their new freedoms. Some even started desiring communism again where their lives were controlled for them.


However, returning to communism economically was not possible because communism will bankrupt even the wealthiest nation fast, and Russia was bankrupt. With the vacuum being quickly filled by organized crime, Putin brought back a measure of control until the people could grow in the decisiveness needed for true freedom, and he has done this without resorting back to Marxism. Marxism does not work, and it is the ultimate form of human slavery, plundering mankind of not only its wealth, but of its most basic humanity.


China also learned that Marxism does not work and they gradually freed their people economically. As the people have learned to cope with this freedom and prosper, they are demanding freedom in other areas too and are gradually getting them. To the astonishment of the Chinese and the Russians, America is going in the opposite direction, fast! Even the President of France chided the Obama Administration that their economic policies were “paving a road to hell.”


Just as Russia had to reign in freedom because it was given too fast for the people to cope with it, the fast Marxist changes that the Obama Administration is trying to impose on America are starting to create a big kickback. The Town Hall Meetings that began with the outrage about the Health Care legislation proposed in HR3200 is quickly becoming much larger in scope, as well it should. The mentality behind HR3200 and other recent legislation is becoming clearer, and is shocking and waking up America to what is really being imposed on us.


Studies have shown that America is a center-right nation. If you had a scale of 1 to 10, with one being the extreme left, and 10 being the extreme right, America would be a 6.5. After the shocking economic earthquake in the last year of the Bush Administration, America was willing to move a little more to the left, which has proven it is always willing to do under economic shaking. However, most were expecting Obama to govern from the center, and maybe try to take America to a 4 on the scale, but almost no one foresaw the jerking of America to the extreme left that has come. Contrary to the editorial in Pravda, it is not likely that America will go this way as “sheeple,” but will resist with increasing resolve. If the Obama Administration is not pushed back to the center fast, we will see tensions rising with corresponding speed the way the nation has been jerked to the left.


It is already becoming widely discussed that we are now in the biggest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. If this tension is not removed by a turning back to the center by Obama quickly, the next few months may be some of the most intense America has experienced internally since the Civil War. How this will go will become clear soon after Congress comes back into session. It is obvious that there is now much more than our economy and our health care system that is at stake. We, therefore, must ask ourselves right now two most important questions:


What should we do as Christians?


What should we do as citizens?

Rick Joyner



I know this is a long newsletter/message. Congratulations if you read it all!

God bless you all!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

P. S. If you can help at the conference please write Mary Zell at maryzsblessed@gmail.com.

BRENDA'S DAD WITH JESUS
Ben Peters
Aug 18, 2009


www.ohmint.org

August 18, 2009

Greetings Saints,

BRENDA'S DAD

We arrived home late Saturday night from two extremely intensive weeks in Korea. While in the O'Hare airport Brenda found out her dad was dying. She did some laundry and repacked for Seattle. She was at the airport by noon on Sunday and has been in Washington State since Sunday evening. Her dad kept hanging on until early this evening. The last two nights Brenda stayed up with him all night. Then when other family members arrived, she took a few hours of sleep.

Today, she had waited until the afternoon, thinking he was going to breath his last any minute as the doctors predicted. Finally, she left to get a little sleep. After a couple of hours the Lord woke her up and told her to hurry back to the care center to be with her dad as he passed. She rushed back several miles and all lights were green. She arrived just in time for her dad's last few breaths.

We ask for your prayers for all the family, especially her 87 year-old mother, Joyce, who has been visiting her husband twice a day for the last few years. She will have to find other things to fill her day and she is also getting weaker and will need some care before too long herself.

PRAY FOR US AND OUR SCHEDULE

We had several events on our schedule starting this week. We cancelled the first already and have to also cancel Atlanta this coming weekend. We still expect to minister in Orlando the following week at a House of Hope Conference, August 26-29. Please pray especially for Brenda. Her mother really needs her now more than ever and she is torn between the many other demands as well as normal pressures of life in these days of transition. She could feel your prayers in Korea. Thank you so very much! She needs them now again.

KOREA REPORT

God did amazing things in Korea. We ended up serving a family which ran a number of Kindergartens in Kwangju. We had up to about 80 people in our last evening meeting, mostly Kindergarten teachers. They all wanted prophetic words and prayers of blessing, etc. It was wonderful and very tiring. We had to change our style of ministry considerably to minister to so many people.

The overall results of our meetings included many healings and hundreds of individual words of encouragement. But, I believe the Holy Spirit's greatest accomplishment was a significant shift in the focus and direction of each church and ministry and their leaders. There was a strong anointing on the message of The Kingdom and The Harvest and raising up the younger generation. We had children and youth pray for the adults with several being healed. We also asked all the ministries to pray for America and partner with us to bring in the harvest.

The pastor of the large church in Mokpo highly honored me and thanked me for also being an example of how I cared about my wife and honored her. He asked us for prophetic wisdom for major decisions he had to make about starting another couple of ministries at the age of 69. He already pastors two large church congregations. I asked him to focus on raising up successors and spend more time with his family, including grandchildren.

THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE

We are very grateful to all of you who have prayed and also supported us financially. These are tough times for almost all ministries and ministers. Fortunately, our team is all volunteer and we don't have to lay anyone off. We do expect to employ a number of them in the future as our Kingdom Sending Center comes to maturity. We want to train and send hundreds and even thousands of this generation into the harvest fields of the earth, including the Seven Kingdom Mountains of Society.

KINGS AND KINGDOMS CONFERENCE - SEPTEMBER 10-12 - SHAWN BOLZ, BOBBY CONNER, DAVID TOMBERLIN AT FOUNTAIN OF LIFE CHURCH IN LOMBARD, ILLINOIS. CHECK OUR FLYER ON www.ohmint.org.

God bless you all!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

FINAL STOP - KWANGJU
Ben Peters
Aug 12, 2009


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Greetings Saints,

HEADING FOR KWANGJU

We are excited to be heading for Korean destination #5 today. I think we have enough grace to keep up the pace and finish the race. We will have five more meetings and a trip to the airport in these next three days, counting today. It's now Thursday morning. We don't know what to expect in Kwangju, except that it's a closed meeting (not open to the public) and we will minister to Kindergarden teachers. We don't know if that means 30 or 300. It's hard to predict anything in Korea, but we know many of you will be praying for us and we are very grateful for that.

We have definitely felt your prayers. God has given grace to make it through each day. Brenda took one morning off and it was just what she needed. She got to go into some little shops nearby and find some souvenirs for the grandkids, etc. It was just what the doctor ordered.

MIRACLES IN MOKPO

God did more than any of us know here in Mokpo. The crowds of several hundred grew almost every meeting. The anointing on my preaching was at an all-time high. God put together every message and the altar calls as I stood before the crowd, calling on God to do what He desired to do. The messages God gave me had a strong impact on the youth and the leadership of this large church. The pastor actually pastors two large churches at the same time and is 69 years old. Koreans look much younger than they are and he still has tremendous energy. He keeps the service going for at least another 45 minutes with more prayer and worship, after I finish preaching and praying for people.

Both Brenda and I had powerful and impacting visions on the destiny of this church and the city. On the way to Mokpo I saw a vision of many ships coming into the Mokpo harbor. Mokpo is right on the southwest corner of South Korea. I felt the Lord say they were coming to pick up exports from Korea and the city would prosper from new industries, etc. When I shared the vision with our host and pastor, they said there were no real exports out of Mokpo. But I felt God was still saying there would be. Also, I believed they would be exporting the gospel and many of their people would be going to foreign countries as missionaries to bring in the harvest. Two days later, they discovered that China and South Korea had made a deal to build a large port in the harbor to bring exports from Korea to China. I was so blessed that God confirmed the vision so quickly and built their faith that God was going to bless them.

Brenda had a powerful vision during worship of the church full of fire and people were coming from all over the world to see what God was doing there. We feel like a tremendous shift has taken place and we will see many eternal results.

In addition, there were many people physically healed of many illnesses. Last night I spoke about having our spiritual eyes opened. I asked God to open natural eyes as a sign that He would show us many things in the spirit and give us eyes to see what the natural eyes could not see. We heard several testimonies from men and women who said their vision had been blurry and now it was clear. I believe that's what God wants to do with our spiritual vision in these days. We certainly see through a glass darkly, as the Bible says. But He wants to take our vision to a new level.

On Tuesday night we called up the youth who wanted to serve God in the harvest wherever he sent them. About 100 came up for prayer. Then we called for spiritual fathers and mothers to come and pray for them and commit to support them. About 200 adults came up and there was a lot of weeping and fire falling on them. Some went down under the power of God. One girl was powerfully impacted and lay on the floor shaking for an hour or so. Yesterday she gave her testimony and it was powerful what God had done in her spirit.

Please continue to pray for us as we finish the race. You are making a difference. Thank you all for your kindness and support. Don't forget our September 10-12 conference in Lombard. It will be a historic event.

AMERICA NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS - NOW AS NEVER BEFORE!

Also pray for America as never before. We have heard prophetic warnings of another terrorist attack in New York. This one is supposed to target Citicorp around the time of our conference. The man who got the word had also predicted the Oklahoma City bombing and the twin tower attach.

Please pray for the momentum of evil legislation and political changes to stop and be reversed. Many Americans are beginning to realize how bad our new administration really is. We are being taken on a fast train to a foreign station, where we've never been before in America. We are becoming a nation controlled by atheistic, European style politicians who have a humanistic philosoply of the comparitive value of human life. In other words, some people have more to contribute to the common good than others and deserve to receive medical treatment. Some would require more expense than they are worth to save them. Newborn babies have less value than young adults because society has not yet invested much into them. This philosopy was written out by the brother of Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff.

This just scratches the surface of what is going on and how quickly we are losing our rights and freedoms. No one would have dreamed that we could slide so far so fast. Whatever you can do to get informed and voice your opinion to your government officials, please do it.

We still hold on to the prophetic promises that this administration will be overturned before it's time is due to expire. God has good things in store for us when our national leadership honors God and His Word once again. Please don't stop praying. Thanks so much! Your future and your children's future depend on it.

That's all for now from Mokpo, South Korea. After a few days at home we head for Atlanta and Orlando for conferences. Keep these also in your prayers, please!

Much love from a very special place with very special and hungry people on God's planet!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

MOVING ON TO MOKPO
Ben Peters
Aug 8, 2009


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Greetings Saints,

God has touched hundreds of lives in a profound way in the last week. We finished our ministry time here in Chunan last night. There were about twenty or thirty pastors and associates in attendance and God gave me a special word for them. God has been putting my messages together in a truly prophetic manner. Every message brings me fresh revelation as I speak. I am truly amazed by the goodness of God. Brenda also has had a strong anointing and together we have prophesied over hundreds in a short time. Our poor interpreters get worn out like we do.

We have been sharing the vision of the coming global harvest and the Kingdom mandate to lift our eyes to see what God sees. The prophetic ministry must mature quickly so that all Christians desire to encourage and strengthen each potential harvester. We have focused much on empowering the younger generation. We've talked about a David generation replacing a Saul spirit in the church with worship and intimacy and power to wage a good warfare. The people's response has been very gratifying. We have heard of healings, deliverance and people coming back to God after receiving prophecy.

Thank you all so much for all your prayers. We have one week left of an intense schedule. Here in Chunan they wanted to add a third meeting on Saturday, but we declined, even though they had already advertised it without asking us. We actually got a couple of hours rest in the afternoon, which made a huge difference.

Tonight, (Sunday) and through Wednesday, we'll be in the largest church of our tour and we so appreciate your prayers for us. They also love the presence of the Lord and the prophetic and we want to pace ourselves so we don't wear out. Pray the anointing increases and our strength is sufficient for each opportunity. We have actually begun to fall asleep while our interpreters are speaking during the prophetic times after the message and altar ministry.

Now I want to change gears and share a report from our team in Mozambique. You will be thrilled with what they all got to experience. Some of you might want to sign up for next years trip. Here's their newsletter to their friends and family at home.

Hello everyone!

We wanted to give you an update on the adventures we had in the bush as well as what's happening with our flights.


Cleo and Mary went on a medical outreach seven hours into the bush. They treated over 300 children for worms, parasites, etc as well as many adults until it got dark outside and they had to stop for the evening. They saw blind eyes opened, deaf ears opened - and the Lord moved many times when they were praying for people. After showing the Jesus film in the evening, about 95% of the village children and also many adults accepted Jesus as their Savior. They both came back marveling at how God moved! They were both very stretched, but grew so much through the process.


The majority of the rest of us went on a bush outreach 4.5 hours out. It was a village of over 50,000 people - but it was still very very primitive as they live in mud huts with dirt floors. This particular village has been hard to reach in the past as it is dominated with witchcraft. The first night we went to a different village where we preached to about 2000 people. Many asked for prayer and our group got to pray over many - we too saw miracles of sight and hearing restored as well as many others - one woman's leg was totally healed from being crippled.

The second day started with kids ministry which was very fun! The kids crave attention and just loved having us all around to love on them. After that, some of the ladies prayed with some of the women of the village and prophesied over them and prayed for healing. We did outreach into the village as well and went around and prayed for different people at their homes. Our group saw a baby's very distended belly retract, a baby with a high fever broke, an alcoholic came for deliverance from that addiction, women with headaches went away, a man's back pain was healed, and a woman tormented with spirits was healed to name just a few.

When we went back to the camp, one of the leaders felt we needed to refresh before we ministered that evening - so we began to pray and holy fire fell on us! Lindsay, Rose and Luke were especially touched in a profound way and none of us will ever be the same! It was incredible - it was as if God reached down and touched each one of us in such a special way. Afterward we prepared to go out to the outreach. Megan mentioned to someone in the crowd that she had never spoken in tongues so she received prayer and immediately received the gift! She was standing by Luke who had just gotten an amazing touch from God and he went under the power of God again and had to be carried to the outreach!

We showed the Jesus film to this village and as soon as it was done, about half the crowd left but we still saw many healings of those who stayed. A man with a crippled wrist had much resoration, a man unable to move his arms and hip was relieved of his pain and ended the night dancing with Luke, and there were many other testimonies of miracles.

Upon returning, we were so blessed to stay at a hotel right on the beach of the Indian Ocean. It was absolutely stunning and we were so humbled by the extremes we had experienced all in one day - from roughing it in the bush with no running water to the most beautiful accomodations. We also enjoyed a meal together at a restaurant right on the beach that evening!

Sunday we went to church and prepared to go to the airport. It was very sad to leave and we all had a really hard time leaving Iris. We had met so many wonderful people!

The adventure then began!........

Our plane was almost 2 hours late arriving - oh and by the way, we watched Heidi Baker come off the airplane that we were about to board. That's how close we got to meeting her! It was quite something. We were sooo close to meeting her! She was a window pane away from us! Because the plane was so late leaving Pemba, once we finally got to Johannesburg they had closed boarding and we were unable to catch our original flight to Atlanta. We were able to book 4 people for today, and the other 8 are on standby as of right now. We found a hotel that had a shuttle and rested last night. This morning, Lyn and Luke went to the airport to speak with LAM about the issues they caused us and they retroactively paid for all of our meals and our room from last night and today. They are going to help us this afternoon when we talk to Delta about waiving the fees for changing our tickets. We had time to eat lunch just now and let me tell you about the amazing feast we just enjoyed! Every single one of us had different things that we had been talking about last night - things that we were craving or desiring. And EVERY single one of us's wish was granted at the buffet - from pretzels to flan to sushi to ice cream.
We are now leaving for the airport and will let you know what's going on as soon as we know more!

THANK YOU so much for your prayers. We are really all in peace and doing well - once we got over the shock of missing our flight home. God is really taking care of us and showing us how we can depend on Him when the going gets tough!!

Rose



Everyone is now safely home, as far as I know, but the adventure was truly amazing.

That's all for now. We love you all very much!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

FROM KOREA WITH LOVE
Ben Peters
Aug 1, 2009


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Dear and Precious Friends,

Here we are again, in this very special land called Korea. We were very exhausted on arriving here, but a few hours of sleep has done wonders. It's already Sunday morning here, thanks to the International Date Line, while it's late Saturday afternoon back in the USA and Canada.

In a few hours, we will be speaking at Seoul City Church. We are asking for as many of you as possible to pray for us. Brenda has requested special intercession for her. There is definitely some warfare going on the the spirit realm. I do feel she is here to bring more breakthrough, especially for Korean women, who are not always given the honor they should by the males in their Asian culture. God has always done great things in our meetings and we know this will be no exception. So this is a call for prayer. We appreciate your faithfulness.

As you know, our hearts are to empower and raise up all segments of the Kingdom, especially the youth and those who have been overlooked in the past. The world is going to be greatly surprised at the spiritual revolution which is brewing around the world, led by worshippers of Jesus, young and old, male and female. Most of these will be unknown saints, who like David, have learned to worship and draw near to God when rejected by others, including their own families. David was the least likely candidate for the throne, according to his father, his brothers and even Samuel, but God chose him. Today, Jesus is called, "The Son of David", as well as the Son of God.

Please keep in mind the September 10-12 Conference, called Kings and Kingdoms, which will be held at the Fountain of Life Church in Lombard, Illinois. Bobby Conner, Shawn Bolz and David Tomberlin will be speaking. Expect many miracles and great prophetic insight in these incredible times we live in.

Much love to you all,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

KEEP PRAYING - KOREA IS HUNGRY - WE ARE TIRED
Ben Peters
Aug 4, 2009


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Dear Friends everywhere,

What hunger for a touch from God and fresh revelation we find here in Korea. We finished in Seoul City Church Monday night and many were powerfully touched. One tall, handsome young man was delivered from demonic power as Brenda prophecied to him through Kyung, her interpreter. Many others were visibly and powerfully impacted by the touch from Heaven. Others testified to healings as the children and youth prayed for them. We first anointed the children and youth and then called up the sick for prayer from them. It was a beautiful time.

We are now in Kunsan, where there is a smaller but hungry group of believers - another Presbyterian Church. The place was packed last night and the crowd of well over 100 was very responsive. We ministered late into the night again after a long day with little sleep the night before.

We need wisdom and grace to handle the rest of the schedule with no time off in 15 days. From about noon until midnight we will be ministering one way or another and it's more than we can do without supernatural strength and grace. We will try to make some adjustments, but it's very difficult to disappoint hungry people.

We so appreciate your prayers and support. We can't do this without help from the body of Christ.

Much love,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

THANKS FOR THE MIRACLE
Ben Peters
Jul 28, 2009


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Greetings again,

Thanks to all who prayed for us while I was in Africa. We have been blessed with many answers to your prayers. One of them was for Brenda's dad. He was taken to the hospital and they discovered that his colon was plugged up. As a result he had lost his appetite and hadn't eaten much in weeks. They were able to fix his condition and treat some other situations and he has improved greatly. It looks at this point that Brenda and I will be free to go to Korea this Friday.

Most of our Africa team is still in Mozambique. We had a great last day or two there. We were able to touch many lives with speaking, prophesying and village outreach. The bigger outreach for the team will be this weekend - Thursday - Saturday. Heidi returns to Mozambique on Saturday, so most of them will get to see and hear her. The staff there just loved our team and they have been really awesome. We have many great leaders among them and they are very passionate lovers of Jesus.

We have a busy three days and then Korea and after that so many other things.

The Freedom Seminar held in Lombard last week was tremendously successful. We believe our team will be doing many more in the future. Keep in touch and we'll be sharing more details later.

God bless you all,

Ben, Brenda, Family and team

INFORMATION YOU SHOULD HAVE
Ben Peters
Jul 29, 2009


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Dear Friends,

There is some tremendous concern among Christian leaders as to the direction our USA administration is taking us. Some of our strongest leaders are speaking out more and more forcefully. Today, I received an article on the government health plan written by Rick Joyner, who declares himself to be an "alarmist", because he sees the need to sound an alarm. His artilce can be read at:

http://www.morningstarministries.org/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=1000054411.

Please if at all possible, take the time to read as much of this as you can. It has a lot of detailed facts and information and a heart to stop the kind of change that will destroy us. As I've said many times, a tornado brings change, but few of us would enjoy that change.

We have tried to keep our political input down to a minimum as I know many readers don't really want to get depressed with negative news. But I will continue to ask you all to pray for America like never before. You may see things differently, but our biggest problem is not the economy - it is the soul and character of our nation - our leaders and our people.

I always have good news about what I believe God is doing and will do. He is coordinating a lot of things, including serious crises to get us seeking Him again, and a transfer of wealth to facilitate the harvest. I believe we will see much more of these taking place in the next months and years. If you can't pray more specifically, at least pray passionately that God's will be done in America and the whole world, which is affected by what happens here.

Pray also for Israel to be protected from foolish or wicked political leaders in other nations, including America, who pressure them to weaken their own security. May Jesus call His people to Himself in these days, and may He protect them through this troubled time.

God bless you all,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

GREETINGS FROM AFRICA
Ben Peters
Jul 25, 2009


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Dear precious Friends,

I'm hoping to get this off while the internet is working as it has been off most of the week.

Our time in Africa has been extremely rewarding. Our team, led by Jonathan Seiver, is awesome and amazing. We are a team of 17, which reminds me of Jesus prayer in John 17 that they would all be one as He was one with His Father. We have truly had amazing unity.

Most of the team had three days in Johannesburg, South Africa. We had three wonderful meetings in a church pastored by Felito, who was our first director of outreach our first team trip to Pemba. His church has quickly grown to 250 members in a very humble shack-house neighborhood. It is winter in the Southern Hemisphere and these people survive without heat or electricity or running water with the temperatures getting below freezing at night. But, oh how they love Jesus! I got to preach twice there and it was so much fun feeding off their anointing and love for Jesus.

Here in Pemba, Mozambique, we have had a wonderful bonding time, ministering to each one prophetically as a team. Jonathan and I will head home tomorrow, but most of the team has one more week. Lyn Jackson will be the team leader after our departure. Heidi has been gone while we've been here, but she will return before the team leaves for home. Last night I spoke and our team ministered to the Missions School folk who were not on the outreach and some of the missionaries who live here. We had five prophetic teams and everyone was incredibly blessed, according to the reports coming back to us.

Earlier yesterday we went to another village where Iris is developing a model base that can be duplicated in every village where they have a church. They are raising chickens and goats, planting vegetable gardens, feeding orphans and widows and teaching the people to help themselves out of poverty. The gospel is always preached and people are coming to Jesus. Our team did a drama and a lot of children's ministry there. Scores of village kids showed up for the fun and excitement and special games.

Meanwhile, back at home, Brenda and Jess have been busy doing home groups, soaking sessions and a seminar with Ron and Val Coltman, last night. The turnout was great and we are so excited about the way God is leading our team. Just like Jonathan and the other leaders here, they are taking the initiative, not waiting for us to tell them what to do. We are beginning to offer many types of seminars to anyone who wants to host them. We are partnering with several churches and leaders to offer these seminars to train and send out Kingdom harvestors.

I have tried to keep up with the news from home while in Africa and I encourage everyone to pray for America. So many things are happening so fast, so as to overwhelm the Christian opposition. I do believe God is going to intervene before too long, but the church must respond with prayer and intercession during this troubling time.

Also pray for us as we prepare for a trip to Korea as soon as I get back from Africa. Brenda's dad is failing again, not eating for days at a time and she needs to know that God will keep him around while we are gone. We really appreciate your intercession for this.

Remember also to keep September 10-12 on your calendar for our Kings and Kingdoms Conference in Lombard, IL, with Shawn Bolz, Bobby Conner and David Tomberlin.

That's all for now, except that I have begun another book, based on a quick vision God gave me in Hamilton, Ontario, earlier this month. It's more of a story and allegory. The latest title I have for it is VEGGIE VILLAGE AND THE GREAT AND DANGEROUS JUNGLE. Hope that gets you curious.

Many blessings,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team