Praise Report from Siguatepeque, Honduras!
My wife Anne and I just returned from a short, but very encouraging and gratifying preaching and discipleship training conference. The meetings took place at Destino del Reino, a ministry started from the ground up by one of my former church members and spiritual daughters/disciples, Rhonda Jackson. From basically nothing but a vision, over the past nine years, she has overseen the building of a children’s home, where she is the house parent to 19 orphans, a K4 thru grade 7 school, with incredible building facilities; offices; a medical and dental clinic building almost finished (which will provide free health care for the poor), along with numerous other projects. They have over 240 students, from very poor families, attending the school without charge. In addition she and one of her directors have started a local church that meets in a gorgeous building there on the property, and it is doing well.
Instead of me giving the report, I will let Rhonda give it. The following is taken from a message Rhonda posted to all her partners and prayer warriors on her website at destinodelreino.org.
(The director, Rhonda Jackson, is writing):
“It has been a VERY encouraging week and I couldn’t wait another day to share with you about what God is doing here. Pastor Wade and Anne Trimmer came to Destino (Siguatepeque, Honduras) this week to minister to our people and to teach a seminar on disciple-making. I was so personally convicted that, although I have been doing a lot of “good things”, I have not been actively building disciples and that is the command that God has given to each of us as believers.
Everyone in the conference was so grateful for such clear and profound teaching and have asked when we can have Pastor Wade back for more teaching. They were all so hungry for real teaching and they are applying what they learned!!!
Pastor Wade only left yesterday (Wednesday) and this morning, one of the pastors who attended with 9 of his church members, called and told Carlos that all of those that attended with him have already found the people that God wants them to disciple and they are OBEYING the truth that was given to them. I have prayed about who I am to disciple and I will begin next week disciple Carlos’ wife, Wendy (our school director) on Thursday evenings for an hour, and on Monday evenings for one hour I will meet with Sammy and Emily’s mom, Kelin. Please be praying for me to be faithful and disciplined to not fail to meet with them. They, in turn, will meet with one of our teenage girls here in this area and teach them the things they learn from me.
Pastor Wade had a wonderful message for us on Friday night at the church at Destino. On Saturday night, he taught about 60 of our school fathers on temptation and there was much fruit. Carlos received a call from one of our fathers that very night who was under great conviction about his problems with sin in his life. I know we have not yet seen near the fruit that has come from these teachings.
On Sunday night, he was able to preach at a church in Siguatepeque and then on Monday night, another church sent about 40 of their men to Destino to be taught about spiritual warfare.
Thank you for all your prayers for this week and please continue to pray that we will all follow through and be obedient to the things that we have learned and there will be continuing fruit here at Destino.
Pastor Wade told me he is willing to come when we want him and I am so thankful for that because there is such a need for teaching here and the people are ready for MORE!!! “
Prayer Request for Honduras Mission Trip –January 20-26, 2012
We ask for your prayers as my wife, Anne and I (Wade) leave for Siguatepeque, Honduras on Friday, January 20. We will be with one of my spiritual daughters in the faith, Rhonda Jackson, at her mission station – Destino del Reino. Pray for traveling mercies, health, discernment as to preaching topics, fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit, good translators, and fruit for our labors. We will be preaching at various types of meetings, in some of the churches, as well as teaching a discipleship training conference. Thank you for your prayers and ongoing investments in this ministry that makes such an effort possible. We look forward to bringing back a good report.
Pastor Wade and Anne Trimmer
Praise Report from El Progresso, Honduras!
Your prayers were answered! I just returned late last night from four remarkable days at the Renuion El Senor church in El Progresso, Honduras. In this short conference, I spoke 9 times, basically on making disciples. The attendance was excellent with 300 plus adults in attendance each session. We had several people saved, healed, and filled with the Spirit, as well as many committing to be a DMD (a disciple who makes disciples).
I have never been so honored and well received, or had my teaching and preaching received with such appreciation and copious note-taking. This is due in large part to the leadership of Pastor Moises and Aida Marquez and Oscar Barriontos (my translator) and his wife. They are very godly, Spirit-anointed, gifted, and humble leaders with a teachable spirit. The music was stirring and the atmosphere saturated with the Spirit’s presence. I wept at the sense of God’s presence every time I entered the meeting house.
This is the first time in dozens of overseas trips that a church has paid for my accommodations and given me a generous love-offering.
A special thanks goes to my dear sister, and former church member, Onelia Lawrence, and my spiritual father, Herb Hodges, for their influencing the pastor to invite me. Pray that much fruit will come from the Word that went forth.
Thanks again for your prayers and support!
Praise Report from Nicaragua Conference!
Thank you for your continued prayers and investments that make it possible for me to go to these remote, impoverished, areas of the world and teach key leaders how to fulfill the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ by making disciples of Christ each one that will reproduce others of the same kind, and thus will multiply world-visionary, world impacting disciples to the ends of the earth until the end of time! Special thanks are in order to Dr. Ron Herrod for giving me another opportunity of training at his RHEMA Institute in Nandasmo, Nicaragua (approx. 70 miles south of the capital city of Managua). This was a very rewarding, refreshing, and encouraging, week for me and the majority of the students. Over and over again these pastors and key leaders asked me, “Why has no one ever taught us this truth in this manner before?”
After traveling forty-five minutes from my hotel in the city of Granada, the teaching sessions began at 9:00 am and continued until 4:00 pm Monday through Friday with around 55 men and two women in attendance. Many of the men traveled a long distance daily by public transportation, bicycles, or on foot, to get to the meeting house. The auditorium was very hot and humid, the chairs uncomfortable, and construction workers were beating and banging in the same room we were teaching in, yet all I saw for almost six and one half hours each day was the tops of the men’s heads as they took page after page of notes, and asked very intelligent, pertinent questions during Q&A times. This was one of the most attentive, spiritually hungry, extensive note-taking groups of men that I have ever taught.
When some of these men, who are so materially impoverished and have so little formal training, begin to catch the vision of Jesus’ Strategy for making disciples who can impact the world, without a lot of money, expensive buildings, formal training institutions, or denominational agencies, they are filled with hope and encouragement. They begin to realize that there are no little people in Jesus’ Big Plan and as they get aligned with Jesus’ method with men, they no longer despise the day of small things! They see the incredible power of multiplication that is latent in just one seed, and then realize that they are God’s seed and sowers of the seed of the Word as well!
Another vital factor in the success of the conference was the leadership and interpreting work done by the Nicaraguan, Brother Maynor Curtis. Although Bro. Maynor is not a pastor, he is a hot-hearted lover of the Lord, and has a gifted mind, a teachable spirit, and demonstrated great communication skills in his interrupting of my Southern accented English. Brother Maynor is becoming a disciple-maker and has great potential for extensive impact all over Central America.
Again thank all of you who prayed and gave to make this trip possible and productive. A special thanks goes to my wife for her continual prayers and encouragement for this phase of our ministry. Never once in over 32 years of ministry has she ever done anything but help, encourage and support me, whole heartedly!
Most of all, thanks be unto our merciful Lord and Savior who has counted me faithful, putting me into the gospel ministry! What a Savior! What a gospel! What an assignment! Praise the Lord!
Pray Request for Nicaragua Mission Trip
Please be praying for Pastor Wade as he leaves Sunday, Sept. 18th for Granada, Nicaragua for a week of teaching at the RHEMA Bible Institute, sponsored by Dr. Ron Herod.
Pray for traveling mercies and a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit for me, the translator, and for the students.
Pray for physical stamina for this chronologically challenged man, as I will be teaching 7 hours per day for five days in very hot climate in a building without any a/c.
Pray that out of this group of men and women, disciple-makers will emerge who will begin to reproduce disciples that will have world impact.
Thank you for your prayers and financial investments that make this ministry of training leaders for Great Commission completion a reality.
Praise Report from India and Africa – July 22-August 20, 2011!
Hallelujah! I am home after four weeks of travel in Asia and Africa.
Thank you for your faithful and fervent intercession for me and the success of the trip. The Lord granted constant favor, health, protection and Holy Spirit power.
The first week was spent teaching at Ron Herrod’s RHEMA Institute in Goa, India. There I taught for the third consecutive year for five days and 35 hours on fulfilling the Great Commission to 52 pastors and leaders. Jaison Job is the director of the Institute there and does a terrific job. It was a Holy Spirit anointed week and the potential for world impact through these poor, humble, yet teachable men of God is highly possible. Continue to pray for some of these men to run with the vision of making Jesus standard disciples.
From Goa, I flew to Mumbai and on Monday and started teaching at another RHEMA Institute in Badlapur, about 50 kilometers out of Mumbai. This Institute is directed by Pastor Chacko Thomas, a choice man of God with a servant’s heart. Although the students were less in number than at Goa, nevertheless after five days and 30 hours of teaching on disciple-making, several of the young men came to me and said they had learned more in five days of sitting under my teaching than they had in three years of Bible School! I doubt this, but it sure encouraged me!
From Mumbai, I flew to Nairobi, Kenya, where I meet up with my spiritual father and hero, Brother Herb Hodges ( going on 78 years of age and making his 189th trip overseas to train leaders!). The two of us flew to Kisumu, Kenya on Monday morning, August 8. Herb was taken to Kericho and I to a city called Ahero, Kenya. Brother Matthew Okeyo was the coordinator for the conference and did an excellent job. This men and women have so little of this world’s goods and are so limited in opportunities for any kind of biblical training, yet they were teachable and for four days, I was allowed to make a significant deposit of my life and learning into them. May the Lord grant that a least five of these men and women begin to make DMD’s with TWI (Disciples who make Disciples with potential Total World Impact).
On Thursday, August 11, I joined up with Brother Herb in Kericho and we taught around 200 hundred pastors there for 3 days under the very capable leadership of Pastor Peter Kurui. Then on Sunday I preached to 500 persons in an open air meeting with several persons responding to the gospel. Then after church, we were driven five hours to Busia, Uganda where we started another conference out in the bush with around pastors and another 50 church leaders. The conference, hosted by Pastor David and Sarah Chini, was held in an adobe wall, dirt floor, thatched roof building with no electricity and no running water. The children in the village had never seen a white skinned person before and were fascinated by two old men like Herb and me, and always wanted to try and touch our skin. These people had so little by way of this world’s goods, but were rich in faith and before the week ended, some of them began to see the mandate and method of Jesus for building disciples. They realized that it is not because they have no monies that people are perishing, but because they have no vision. Pray for them to be capture by Jesus’ vision and get on their heart what He has own his.
We left Friday, August 19 at lunch from Busia and drove five hours to Entebbe, Uganda for an 11:30pm departure to the USA. For me it was a bone weary, four week, 18,000 mile trip by air, several hundred miles in road travel, almost 100 hours of teaching, yet a most exhilarating encouraging opportunity to train men and women who otherwise would never have the opportunity. Pray for the Holy Spirit to preserve the word taught and make it fruitful by way of Jesus Standard Disciples.
Thanks again for your fervent prayers and generous giving that made such a mission effort possible. A special thanks is in order for Grace Fellowship and Pastor Brian Fields for their support. But an even greater thanks goes to my precious wife, Anne, for her loving, understanding faithfulness in staying by the “stuff” while I am away, as well as standing with me in this global ministry.
Prayer Request for India and East Africa Conferences — July 22-August 20
This is an urgent prayer request for Wade Trimmer and Herb Hodges’ upcoming Discipleship Training in India and East Africa –July 22-August 20, 2011.
Please be praying for me as I prepare to set out on a very demanding overseas trip. I will leave Atlanta on July 22 for Goa, India, via Dubai. After teaching 6 hours per day for a week in Goa at Dr. Ron Herrod’s RHEMA Bible Institute, I will fly to Mumbai, India, where I will repeat the same schedule at another RHEMA school for another week. Then I fly to Nairobi, Kenya, spend the night; then catch a regional flight to Kusumu, Kenya, where I will teach for three or four days, while Herb Hodges is teaching in Kericho, Kenya. He and I will join up in Kericho and drive to Busia, Uganda for a four day conference there. Then we will drive four hours to the airport in Entebbe, Uganda and fly back to Atlanta on August 20.
As you can see the trip is exhausting, but laden with great potential for the advancement of the kingdom of God. Pray for strength, successful teaching of the Word, safety for us and our families, and for the financial resources to meet all our obligations.
Pray for traveling mercies, health, safety, and divine appointments to be made. Pray for our wives in our absence to enjoy Father’s protective, providing presence. Pray for fruitful preaching services on Sunday morning in the local churches. Then pray for the five discipleship training conferences. Ask Father for special anointing for us to speak and even more important for the students to be given ears to hear. Ask Father to give us at least five men and women who will be totally captured by the Master’s Mandate to make disciples of all people groups and will begin to implement the process immediately.
Thanks for your faithful investments of prayer and finances that make these efforts possible.
PRAISE REPORT FROM EAST AFRICA!
Praise Report from East Africa – April 22-May 7, 2011
Thank you for praying earnestly and giving generously for our discipleship training efforts in East Africa. Without question the good hand of the Lord was upon us from beginning to end.
In order to get to my first training conference, I had to travel for 3 days from the USA to Kigali, Rwanda, where I spent Saturday night, and then traveled (accompanied by my host, Pastor Malanda Boniface) all day Sunday (7 hours) by public bus to Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
We began the conference on Monday and continued through Thursday, teaching 6 hours per day and to around 150 pastors and key leaders. I feel that the time and truth invested in these men and women will prove very fruitful in the days and months to come. These men and women are truly God’s hidden heroes, unknown by the world and by the Church at large, yet known by Heaven and persecuted by Hell. They have suffered so much from war and poverty, yet are rich in faith, hope and love. What an honor to get to make a life and learning deposit into their hearts and minds.
Pastor Malanda, who was in charge of all the planning for the conference, wrote me an encouraging note:
Dear Pastor Wade Trimmer
I cannot wait thanking you for your blessed ministry among us last week. Thank you again for every good gift we have received from you. The Conference was not just another conference but a very special one giving us a new orientation for our ministry – KEEPING the MAIN THING the MAIN THING, in other word Making Disciples by fulfilling the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ. You have heard of a few testimonies from the attendees. May the Lord bless you, Pastor Wade.
My particular appreciation is that I am connected with you for a divine purpose, spreading and unveiling the disciples making vision whenever and wherever I can. I have mostly appreciated your prayer over me that morning at the Guest House. I pray that, by the grace of God I will not disappoint you. Please count me among your disciples. I value your prayer and instruction. I also promise to stand with you in prayer, mentioning your name before the Throne of Grace on a regular basis.”
On Friday we took the same 7 hour bus ride back to Kigali, Rwanda and on Saturday, I flew to Mombasa, Kenya and then by car, at night (very dangerous) we made it safely to Kilifi, Kenya, arriving at 10 pm. On Sunday, I preached at the Jerusalem, Light of God church with great liberty and anointing.
We began the conference of Tuesday and continued through Friday until 1:00 pm. Pastor Peter Simwa did a superb job of organizing the meetings, as well as interpreting for all the teaching sessions (and doing an excellent job, I might add!).
Almost all of the attendees (around 200, with 50 or more pastors in attendance), testified that they and never heard any such teaching and wanted to know why no one had ever taught them about Jesus’ Strategy and Commission as I was doing. Over 75 percent of them said they had never been taught by a white man before. These choice men and women took copious notes of everything I taught. In spite of the oppressive heat and uncomfortable surroundings, they were like spiritual sponges, soaking up everything I was saying. May the Lord make them fruitful disciples who make disciples.
The Lord mercifully returned me safely home on May 7, exhausted, but greatly encouraged by the potential for world impact through nobodies from nowhere, who embrace and employ Jesus’ Strategy!
The following is a letter I received from the pastor in charge of all arrangements and interpretation of my teaching – Peter Simwa:
I first want to thank the Lord Jesus for connecting me to Pastor Wade Trimmer. I came to know him when he came to Eldoret, Kenya with Herb Hodges. They had been invited by Pastor Lucas Odero and I was their interpreter.
I have been going around teaching pastors and church leaders in Kenya about foundations and I realized that the church needs to be discipled so that in turn it can make disciples. I remembered about Pastor Wade and how they had taught us in Eldoret, I thought this is needed so much in Kenya. After writing to Pastor Wade he agreed to come over and do a DISCIPLE MAKING training seminar from May 1st-6th in MOMBASA, Kilfi, Kenya.
On Tuesday we started the training seminar using the theme “KEEPING THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING.” We had 162 the first day. Pastor Wade did the introduction and the Bishops, Pastors and other leaders who had come were very much touched by this method of Disciple-making. Hardly any of them had ever been taught by a white man, so this was new experience. The group was very much attentive and wrote the notes as Pastor Wade taught and I did the interpretation. To them this was almost new as many of them have been hearing the message preached in a lecture manner and not taught like Wade was teaching. We had a very great and exciting time as Wade spoke about the Main Thing which is to make disciples of all Nations. I can also testify and confess that I was touched so much by how he taught and how he made sure that all understood what he was saying and teaching.
On the second day we had 180 attending the training seminar, and again we had a very fruitful moment with Pastor Wade who went on to show the students why it is important for us to make Disciples who are of Jesus’ standard. Once again the students were very attentive and took many notes of what they were being taught. Wade did a very wonderful job taking the students through the stages of Savior’s strategy and Satan’s substitute, letting us realize that the church was operating on Satan’s Substitute. The students were so much touched that at the end of the day we had to repent on behalf of the church.
On the third day we had almost 200 attending the training as most of those who came did pass the word to others that this was the training they should not miss. Again Wade did a great job in teaching other new methods especially when he gave the illustrations as he taught and used words like FATSO and others. This was the climax of the training and the students were now beginning to see the importance of why making disciples is the greatest commission ever given by Christ Jesus.
On the 4th day we had to finish at 1pm as Wade was to fly back home that night. The students wanted us to finish as late as they were excited about this new way of making disciples, especially when Wade spoke about the power of multiplication and how simple it works.
After Wade finished the teaching we handed out over 170 Certificates to the students for completing the course. We handed out the certificates, prayed together and did not wish each other goodbye as Wade said there are no goodbyes in the Christian’s vocabulary, on until — until we will meet again here or in heaven.
We drove back to Mombasa and Wade took the flight back to Nairobi and to the USA.
I want to thank Pastor Wade and his Ministry for coming to Kenya. Pastor Wade is a humorous person, very loving and kind. He is the person you will like to hang around with. He has a FATHER’s heart and making Disciples of all Nations is what is heart yearns for. He brings some funny jokes every time and you cannot be bored to be with him.
I want to thank him for providing and sponsoring the training and those who supported the seminar, we had meals and accommodations for all who attended. Glory be God. I have received many phone calls from the students thanking Pastor Wade and his ministry for the training and they are expecting him to come back again.
Whether he comes back or not he has deposited some very important meaning in our lives. Please support him to do more and reach more as he makes Disciples of all Nations.
I am praying that God gives me the grace and the wisdom to continue as the Disciple and Discipler to many. Wade has touched my life and together we can build world visionary, world impacting Disciples.
Thanks for the book, KEEPING THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING.
Pastor Wade, thank you so much, miss you and see you soon. We will always pray for you, your family and your ministry as you travel around the world.
Your Disciple, Pastor Peter Simwa – Eldoret, Kenya.
Budget for Discipleship Training Conferences
Budget for Discipleship Training Conference in Bukavu City, Congo DR – April 25-29, 2011
Food 80 pers. x 4$ x 5 days 1,600.00
Drink 80 pers. X 1$ x 5 days 400.00
Accommodations ( visitors) 2 pers. x 30$ x 7 days 420.00
Food + Drink ( visitors ) 2 pers. x 10$ x 7 days 140.00
Transport:
Pastor Malanda: Bukavu – Kigali – Bukavu 20.00
Kigali – Bukavu – Kigali 20.00
Taxi Kigali – Airport – Kigali 20$ x 2 40.00
Vehicle: 60.00$ x 5 days 300.00
Petrol 5l x 1.5 $ x 2 75.00
Motor oil 4.00
Petrol for generator 5l x 1.5$ x 4 30.00
Stationary, invitations, note books + pens ) 150.00
Cookers 5$ x 5 days x 6 150.00
Unforseen 151.00$
Total $3,500.00
Budget for Discipleship Training Conference in Mombasa, Kenya – May2-6, 2011
The budget for this conference is almost identical to the one in Bukavu City, Congo
Total $3500 US dollars.
Pastor Wade’s airfare from Atlanta to Kigali, Rwanda, to Bukuvu City, Congo to Mombasa Kenya and back to Atlanta — $2626.25
In addition, my accommodations, transportation and lodging is another $1000.
The total cost of the two conferences = $ 10,625.
Praise Report from Burkina Faso Discipleship Training!
It is with joy that I am able to give an encouraging report from our recent training efforts in West Africa. On Friday, January 14, Brother Ed Parker and I traveled to Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, arriving late Saturday night on the 15th. On Sunday morning, I preached in a Baptist church with Holy Spirit anointing, great liberty, and a good public response to the invitation.
We began the discipleship training on Monday from 8:30am to 4:00pm, and continued this schedule daily through Friday at Noon. The teachings were translated into French and then into Moore, which is one of the tribal languages. My disciple, Ed Parker, did an excellent job in teaching four of the sessions. This gave me a much needed break and Ed great on the job training.
The total attendance was 125 from many different denominations, with a daily average of around 75 participants; all which were pastors or key leaders in the churches. The students were very attentive, took copious notes and were enlightened as to every Christian’s assignment. Pray that at least five of these believers run with the Jesus’ Strategy to make disciples of all people groups.
Brother Stephen Aganda and Pastor Emil did a superb job of organizing the conference and stewarding the limited funds for maximum investment in the lives of these dear brothers and sisters. Thank you, brothers, for allowing us to get to know you and serve with you during this special week of meetings.
It was most encouraging to see the light come on in many hearts and minds as they realized they are not second class citizens in the Family of God because of where they live and because of the color of their skin; that they are not just helpers of pastors and leaders in the ministry, but are all ministers with a global assignment. The typical African Christian feels limited, inadequate, inferior, and incapable of fulfilling the Great Commission because of where they live, how poor they are, and how little training they have access to. But once they begin to see how Jesus trained men with no monies, buildings, Bible colleges, mission organizations, or television programs, etc. to aid them, then hope begins to be stirred in their hearts. They see that there are no little people in the kingdom of God and people perish from lack of vision and not from lack of monies and formal training.
Ed and I returned home safely and healthy on Sunday night, January 23. Thank you for all your prayers and a special thanks to those of you who invested in Training for Reigning so we could translate monies into training messages and materials for such a needy part of the Body of Christ. May the Lord of the Harvest multiply your seed.
