This and That
Ben Peters
Aug 29, 2008
www.ohmint.org
Greetings Friends,
It's been a long time since my last letter and we've been on the road for awhile. Brenda spent time with family in Washington State and I met her after driving to Orlando. We enjoyed the House of Hope conference and shared some time with special people like Bobby Conner, Chonda Pierce and Cory Russel. It was all very enjoyable. Brenda was amazing and awesome as a speaker - getting better every time.
REVIVAL MEETINGS IN ELGIN
We are excited about the Elgin Revival events coming up September 18-20 and 25-27. We are working on the brochure and will get our website updated soon. We have added many things to the itinerary that we have not yet posted, but we really want to focus on revival during this time.
SOME POLITICAL THOUGHTS
We are watching and praying as the political process unfolds. We are asking God for mercy and favor for America. Today we were encouraged by John McCain's choice for a running mate - a strong pro-life governor from Alaska. We believe God has answered the prayers of many Christians who have been disappointed somewhat by the first round of nominees. The Saddleback forum was quite encouraging and today was also a favorable sign for us.
I read a very insightful article a few moments ago and wanted to pass it on. It's about one of the nominees. I thought some of you might be interested. I copied the URL below. I trust you will be able to just click it and read.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/obama_the_mysterious_s.html
THANKS
I can't say thanks enough to those who have supported us, especially when we are not doing a full slate of meetings or we are doing missions trips, etc. Your prayers and gifts have protected us from the devourer.
Please keep praying as I complete the major book project I am working on in the next two weeks. We don't know yet when it will be published. Please pray that all hindrances will be removed and this book gets launched. Sorry, I can't give any details, but please pray anyway. This is not just another one of my teaching books. It is someone else's story and will impact the world.
God bless you all,
Ben, Brenda, family and team
Friday, August 29, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Revival and TheCall D.C.
Ben Peters
Aug 15, 2008
www.ohmint.org
Greetings Dear Friends,
Brenda is visiting a lot of family, including her mom and dad, in Washington State this weekend, and will join me in Orlando next weekend for the House of Hope Conference where she will be speaking.
THE CALL DC
Today, Friday, I will head with the kids to Washington D.C. for TheCall D.C. It's going to be a tremendous time in changing the moral and political direction of our country. Please pray for this event all day Saturday. If you have God TV, you can watch it live. If not, you can find it on the internet on the God TV website. There should be several hundred thousand on the mall for this event.
REVIVAL MEETINGS IN ELGIN
Pastors Robert Whitt and Mark Ahrens of Elgin have asked us to lead revival services in Elgin in September. Please, if you can, set aside the last two weekends for this special time. The meetings will run Thursday through Saturday for at least two weekends. There will be various worship leaders and perhaps another guest speaker, but the focus will be on the presence and glory of God and the healing power that comes when He comes.
Please pray for these meetings. And please keep praying for Donna's family. Also pray for a young man of 13 who is still fighting for his life.
Thanks,
Ben and Brenda
Ben Peters
Aug 15, 2008
www.ohmint.org
Greetings Dear Friends,
Brenda is visiting a lot of family, including her mom and dad, in Washington State this weekend, and will join me in Orlando next weekend for the House of Hope Conference where she will be speaking.
THE CALL DC
Today, Friday, I will head with the kids to Washington D.C. for TheCall D.C. It's going to be a tremendous time in changing the moral and political direction of our country. Please pray for this event all day Saturday. If you have God TV, you can watch it live. If not, you can find it on the internet on the God TV website. There should be several hundred thousand on the mall for this event.
REVIVAL MEETINGS IN ELGIN
Pastors Robert Whitt and Mark Ahrens of Elgin have asked us to lead revival services in Elgin in September. Please, if you can, set aside the last two weekends for this special time. The meetings will run Thursday through Saturday for at least two weekends. There will be various worship leaders and perhaps another guest speaker, but the focus will be on the presence and glory of God and the healing power that comes when He comes.
Please pray for these meetings. And please keep praying for Donna's family. Also pray for a young man of 13 who is still fighting for his life.
Thanks,
Ben and Brenda
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Important News and Invitation
Ben Peters
Aug 4, 2008
www.ohmint.org
Greetings Dear Friends,
I just got back from Mozambique, but before I share about that, I have a couple of other important items to share with you. It is wonderful to be home with family, but I'm so glad I got to go to Africa with our team.
Welcome to those who are getting this newsletter for the first time - mainly those who were with us in Africa.
DONNA WITH JESUS
Thanks to all who prayed with us to the end for a miracle. We lost Donna to Heaven this Sunday afternoon. Paul was with her as she slipped away. With his fifteen-year-old daughter they spent a little time asking God to bring her back, but finally let her go to enjoy her reward. Please pray for Paul and his daughters, her family and others who have to go on without her.
We can't answer every "why" question, but I do know that Jesus wants us to contend all the more for the healing anointing. We also need to continue to build and raise the level of faith in the body of Christ and especially focus on raising up the younger generation to do exploits for God. They will usher in the greatest healing and miracle revival. Our older generation needs to bless them with everything we have to give them, especially our love and prophetic encouragement. The days will come soon when cancer will not win the battle
INVITATION TO NATHAN'S GRAD PARTY AT OUR HOUSE THIS SUNDAY - AUG. 10
We don't have a lot of street addresses to send invitations to and the time is so short that we decided just to invite anyone on our e-mail mailing list that wants to come and help us celebrate Nathan's High School graduation. The party will run from 2 pm to 7 pm this Sunday afternoon. Our address is 15648 Bombay Blvd., South Beloit, IL 61080.
To save him answering the same question a hundred times, he has no immediate plans, except to keep serving in the Elgin House of Prayer and working at Starbucks. He'll take some time to seek God for wisdom as to what he should prepare for. For now, he is taking voice training and working on keyboard as well. He has a sensitive spirit and has done some prophetic team ministry. He is extremely gifted in computers and also interested in science. We know God will use him in a special way.
MOZAMBIQUE REPORT
ROLLAND AND HEIDI
First of all, my second and third contacts with Rolland were very encouraging. I believe God has been touching him. He was much more alert and alive when I saw him this past week. He even spoke to the Missions School for the first time this summer. He was almost totally his old self and shared a great message with the school. I had a lunch meeting scheduled with him but he had forgotten that they had scheduled him to speak to another group that lunch.
Heidi is also doing better after a very hard day last Thursday or so. I got to say a few encouraging words to her a couple of times and she was very kind to me in a number of ways. We, as a ministry, want to do so much more for Iris Ministries. They could use more financial support as well as more qualified workers in various places and bases.
OUR WONDERFUL TEAM
Our team was amazing and such a blessing to me. I loved being a papa to them. Most of them were between the ages of 17 and 27 or so. I miss them all already. We all got to prophesy together to the missions staff there. They prophesied every day to each other and had lots of practice by the time we ministered to the staff.
With some amazing leaders taking care of all the planning, etc., I had time to visit with other speakers and leaders. Most of my free time was spent working on my big book project. I might be about one half done at this point on the rough draft. There is still a lot to go and I would appreciate your prayers for the next few weeks.
THANKS
Many of you prayed for our family while I was gone. A few friends sent a much appreciated blessing as well. We appreciate you all so much. Whenever we do a missions trip, it requires a sacrifice and like everything else we do it by faith. God has been so faithful and we have always been taken care of by His loving hand.
I also had some powerful revelations while in Mozambique. I hope to share some of them later.
That's all for now. Thanks again for your love and support.
Be blessed in the SONSHINE of the FATHER'S LOVE!
Ben, Brenda family and team
Ben Peters
Aug 4, 2008
www.ohmint.org
Greetings Dear Friends,
I just got back from Mozambique, but before I share about that, I have a couple of other important items to share with you. It is wonderful to be home with family, but I'm so glad I got to go to Africa with our team.
Welcome to those who are getting this newsletter for the first time - mainly those who were with us in Africa.
DONNA WITH JESUS
Thanks to all who prayed with us to the end for a miracle. We lost Donna to Heaven this Sunday afternoon. Paul was with her as she slipped away. With his fifteen-year-old daughter they spent a little time asking God to bring her back, but finally let her go to enjoy her reward. Please pray for Paul and his daughters, her family and others who have to go on without her.
We can't answer every "why" question, but I do know that Jesus wants us to contend all the more for the healing anointing. We also need to continue to build and raise the level of faith in the body of Christ and especially focus on raising up the younger generation to do exploits for God. They will usher in the greatest healing and miracle revival. Our older generation needs to bless them with everything we have to give them, especially our love and prophetic encouragement. The days will come soon when cancer will not win the battle
INVITATION TO NATHAN'S GRAD PARTY AT OUR HOUSE THIS SUNDAY - AUG. 10
We don't have a lot of street addresses to send invitations to and the time is so short that we decided just to invite anyone on our e-mail mailing list that wants to come and help us celebrate Nathan's High School graduation. The party will run from 2 pm to 7 pm this Sunday afternoon. Our address is 15648 Bombay Blvd., South Beloit, IL 61080.
To save him answering the same question a hundred times, he has no immediate plans, except to keep serving in the Elgin House of Prayer and working at Starbucks. He'll take some time to seek God for wisdom as to what he should prepare for. For now, he is taking voice training and working on keyboard as well. He has a sensitive spirit and has done some prophetic team ministry. He is extremely gifted in computers and also interested in science. We know God will use him in a special way.
MOZAMBIQUE REPORT
ROLLAND AND HEIDI
First of all, my second and third contacts with Rolland were very encouraging. I believe God has been touching him. He was much more alert and alive when I saw him this past week. He even spoke to the Missions School for the first time this summer. He was almost totally his old self and shared a great message with the school. I had a lunch meeting scheduled with him but he had forgotten that they had scheduled him to speak to another group that lunch.
Heidi is also doing better after a very hard day last Thursday or so. I got to say a few encouraging words to her a couple of times and she was very kind to me in a number of ways. We, as a ministry, want to do so much more for Iris Ministries. They could use more financial support as well as more qualified workers in various places and bases.
OUR WONDERFUL TEAM
Our team was amazing and such a blessing to me. I loved being a papa to them. Most of them were between the ages of 17 and 27 or so. I miss them all already. We all got to prophesy together to the missions staff there. They prophesied every day to each other and had lots of practice by the time we ministered to the staff.
With some amazing leaders taking care of all the planning, etc., I had time to visit with other speakers and leaders. Most of my free time was spent working on my big book project. I might be about one half done at this point on the rough draft. There is still a lot to go and I would appreciate your prayers for the next few weeks.
THANKS
Many of you prayed for our family while I was gone. A few friends sent a much appreciated blessing as well. We appreciate you all so much. Whenever we do a missions trip, it requires a sacrifice and like everything else we do it by faith. God has been so faithful and we have always been taken care of by His loving hand.
I also had some powerful revelations while in Mozambique. I hope to share some of them later.
That's all for now. Thanks again for your love and support.
Be blessed in the SONSHINE of the FATHER'S LOVE!
Ben, Brenda family and team
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Mozambique Report
Ben Peters
Jul 31, 2008
www.ohmint.org
Greetings friends,
I just have a few minutes left in this internet office to give you a quick report.
First of all please pray for Heidi and Rolland. Another crisis today. This time with Pastors in training. Five of them were expelled from the Bible School because of bad attitudes. Heidi was really broken and could hardly speak. They also are being hit financially and she has so much pressure. Meanwhile, Rolland is trying to recover from a couple of mild strokes. He has slowed down greatly and is not himself. I believe I will have another chance to see him and to pray for him. Pray for a miracle.
Also keep praying for us and for Donna. Brenda has been under a lot of pressure without me home to carry the burdens. Part of the pressure is seeing Donna suffer so much. We are needing much prayer for Donna and Paul and for ourselves.
Meanwhile there are many wonderful things happening here in Africa. A great outreach last week in the bush. A precious young deaf and dumb teen-ager (I think) was healed and heard and spoke for the first time in his life. A church is being planted. This was their second trip in a row to this village.
There have been wonderful sessions with the team. All fifteen are developing their prophetic gifts and the unity and harmony is unprecedented. They are all willing to defer to others and have such hungry hearts for God.
On Sunday we visited a wonderful church not too far away. I got to preach to a very responsive crowd. The team did skits and sang, but the greatest singing was from the people. They were amazing. I'd love to bring them to the States to sing for us. I can't wait until our part of the transfer of wealth takes place. We will start our Chicago Sending Center and bless missions like never before.
Another need here is for Michelle Perry, our one-legged missionary in the Sudan. She is here for refreshing and has many needs for help and finances there. She has taken in over 80 orphans in just a few months. What an overwhelming thing, except for God. I wish we could do much more for these amazing missionaries.
Gotta go - times up,
We love you - please pray! Thanks!
Ben and team in Mozambique, Africa
Ben Peters
Jul 31, 2008
www.ohmint.org
Greetings friends,
I just have a few minutes left in this internet office to give you a quick report.
First of all please pray for Heidi and Rolland. Another crisis today. This time with Pastors in training. Five of them were expelled from the Bible School because of bad attitudes. Heidi was really broken and could hardly speak. They also are being hit financially and she has so much pressure. Meanwhile, Rolland is trying to recover from a couple of mild strokes. He has slowed down greatly and is not himself. I believe I will have another chance to see him and to pray for him. Pray for a miracle.
Also keep praying for us and for Donna. Brenda has been under a lot of pressure without me home to carry the burdens. Part of the pressure is seeing Donna suffer so much. We are needing much prayer for Donna and Paul and for ourselves.
Meanwhile there are many wonderful things happening here in Africa. A great outreach last week in the bush. A precious young deaf and dumb teen-ager (I think) was healed and heard and spoke for the first time in his life. A church is being planted. This was their second trip in a row to this village.
There have been wonderful sessions with the team. All fifteen are developing their prophetic gifts and the unity and harmony is unprecedented. They are all willing to defer to others and have such hungry hearts for God.
On Sunday we visited a wonderful church not too far away. I got to preach to a very responsive crowd. The team did skits and sang, but the greatest singing was from the people. They were amazing. I'd love to bring them to the States to sing for us. I can't wait until our part of the transfer of wealth takes place. We will start our Chicago Sending Center and bless missions like never before.
Another need here is for Michelle Perry, our one-legged missionary in the Sudan. She is here for refreshing and has many needs for help and finances there. She has taken in over 80 orphans in just a few months. What an overwhelming thing, except for God. I wish we could do much more for these amazing missionaries.
Gotta go - times up,
We love you - please pray! Thanks!
Ben and team in Mozambique, Africa
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