Prayer Request for Honduras Mission — May 19-27th, 2012
Please be praying for Pastor Wade and the upcoming mission trip to Langue, Honduras with the Christian Medical and Dental Association organization, lead by Dr. Andy Sanders. The 25 member team, consisting of numerous doctors, dentist, nurses, and other personnel, and one pastor (guess who?) will leave May 19th and return on May 27th. Pray for the safety and health of the team; for divine appointments to be keep; for ministries of mercy to be offered in a Christ-honoring manner; for souls to be saved, bodies to be healed and local believers to be blessed and build up in the faith, and for team members to be radically impacted with the mission mandate for potential world impact! Pray for Pastor Wade as he teaches a small group of local leaders on how to fulfill the Master’s mandate as well as ministering to the team and serving in whatever capacity is most needed. A special thanks to Pastor Brian Fields and the saints at Grace Fellowship, as well as various individuals, for their prayers and financial assistance that makes such efforts possible.
Praise Report from Kenya/Malawi East Africa Trip
As I sit before my computer at 3:30 am (jet-lag), and reflect back over the past three weeks and four conferences on disciple making, my first response is gratitude, humility, and a sense of being highly honored of the Lord of the Harvest to have been given the privilege of fellowshipping and teaching some of the poorest materially, but richest in grace and faith men and women on the face of the earth.
My travels took me on a round trip of 20,000 miles by air, 26 hours of travel by extremely rough roads, and 74 hours of teaching in very primitive conditions, from extreme heat to quite chilly and wet weather conditions, and all of this with the blessings and favor of the Lord and very few problems (PTL).
One of the most moving and unforgettable scenes for me was from the desert. As we were traveling through it, the children from the villages were running out to the roadside as we approached with plastic bottles, begging, not for food or monies, but for WATER!
Thank you for praying and investing in my life and labors so that this trip was possible and successful. Please go to our website and read a more detailed account of the mission to Kenya and Malawi:
The first conference was in the far northwest corner of Kenya in the town of Kakuma. This city of 45,000 has no electricity or running water, In fact, apart from four brief days of floods last November, it hasn’t rained there in four years. The temperature was around 100 every day. The outskirts of the city are surrounded by one of the largest refugee camps in the world, with more than 85,000 refugees in it from all over East and South Africa. Pastor Julius Atsango of the Cornerstone Assemblies network of churches planted a church in Kakuma three years agar and the Lord has greatly blessed the work.
The following is a few excerpts from and email I received from the young pastor, John Eyanae:
“Glory be to the Almighty father in heaven for bringing his servants Bishop Julius from Eldoret and Rev.Wade from USA for a 3-days DISCIPLESHIP-MAKING Conference to this remotest and considerably primitive northern region of Kenya near the border of Kenya and Sudan on the North West and Ethiopia on the North East. Kakuma is a small town that plays host to many people from different nationalities among them people from Burundi,Rwanda, Somalia, Congo, Sudan and Uganda who live in the Refugee Camps. We have not had rains in about 4 to 5 years.
The Conference started on first day on Monday 23rd with 96 Pastors and key leaders in attendance and on the second day we had 146 people and on the last day we had 160 in number. Some of the attendees were from the Refugees from Congo, Burundi and Rwanda.
The teachings started in power and people were blessed. On the second day we received some drops of rain from heaven to me it was sign of showers of blessings and the confirmation for God was in that conference, spiritually God was talking to us. I have been receiving calls from different churches telling me on how God spoke to them on how to make disciples and not making converts. Many pastors have told me they have begun discipling in there various churches also bearing in mind the facts and Rules for disciplemaking(Start small). This Conference unlike other Conferences we had attended in the past and as far I can remember, IT WAS AN EYE OPENER NOT JUST TO ME BUT MANY OTHERS WHO ATTENDED! We are challenged beyond words that can be expressed. We surely have decided to adjust ourselves to the Saviors Strategy and quit aligning ourselves with the Satan’s Substitute. Every statement uttered and spoken in this Conference left a great impact on many hearts, it carried the truth and the mind of Holy Spirit on Multiplication of Disciples. Again, we must mention that the Illustrations and Greek translations used to push the truth home into our hearts were so simple and easy to remember.
Thank you so much man of God for the money you gave to us it really helped us to make the arrangements of the conference and buy enough food and water for all the delegates.
We are also very grateful to God that you made it by his grace though the sun was too hot , you really loved us for it is not easy for many people to come to such hot place during that time it was around 38 to 39 degrees celcius (100 degrees F) . It was very humbling to see you eat our food with us and endure all the challenges of weather and teach for long hours from morning to evening and at night. We thank God that in that conference we had refugees men and women from Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda ,Congolees and Kenyans from diferent ethnic backgrounds.
After Kakuma Conference on Wednesday 21st, we left for Lodwar on the way we were helping people with the little water we had in our vehicle as many people were really seriously asking for water as we drove on a 120km road towards Lodwar through the wilderness of Turkana.
Finally I want to thank my spiritual father, Bishop Julius Atsango for choosing Turkana to be the venue of that meeting and also thank Rev.Wade for accepting to come to such a place as difficult it may appear.We feel indebted to you and our Lord Jesus considering the sacrifice you made to come all the way please come and come again in Jesus Name. We do appreciate for all the financial gift you gave to All Cornerstone Ministry Pastors in Kakuma on the behalf of the Church that sent you. Thank you so much.
We are challenged by Rev. Wade to take advantage of these nations that are hosted in this area (in the refugee camps) and disciple them for Christ and thus do fulfill the main and only command of making Disciples of all ethnic groups.”
The second conference took place in a larger city called Lodwar, yet still very remote, hot and dry. The following is a letter from the Bishop that oversees the network of churches, Pastor Julius Atsango:
Dear Rev. Trimmer,
We pray you had a safe trip back home after being away for three good weeks in Kenya and Malawi.
I thank God for the grace He has given you not just to teach and preach the Gospel but the endurance and the love for His people.
When you gave consent to come back to Kenya, my wife Mebble and I prayerfully considered where to place the venues for these Conferences should and finally decided to take you to Turakana region, one of the poorest and marginalized regions of Kenya. The living conditions here are harsh and deplorable due to scarcity of rains and water for that matter, no roads and electricity.
The two Discipleship Conferences held in Kakuma and Lodwar were life changing. Going by the many telephone calls and comments I have been receiving from various pastors and key leaders who attended both Conferences, it’s clear that this mission will be very fruitful in terms of change of Ministry perception and the whole concept on discipleship as many are embarking on the Great Gospel Mandate of making Disciples as taught and explained by Rev. Wade.
Despite the harsh climatic condition, you taught enduringly, passionately and purposefully to the understanding of those leaders. You have helped the Church in Kenya a great deal and still do. It was very exciting to work with you as an interpreter. I will by the grace of God continue to encourage these disciples to uphold the things they learned from you and commit them to faithful men who will teach others!
It was and is still a great privilege to work alongside you, learn from you and the impact you are making into my life by the divine deposits shall not go waste. Thank you for the three Books you gave me among other gifts you gave me and the rest of pastors. We also thank you for sponsoring all the Conferences and for paying for all the expenses. My wife still has fresh memories of her first ever flight and she says thank you for paying for our domestic flights. I pray to do what I can by the grace of God and not disappoint the grace of God in your life as released into us. I pray that this investment will begin to manifest this soon.
Until ……… Your Disciples, Julius&Mebble.
The third conference was hosted by Peter Kirui in Kichawir, a village outside of Kericho, Kenya. For these five days, I almost froze. The temperture was around 60 degrees at night and 75 during the day. This was a small group of very poor church leaders, but with a very teachable spirit, led by Pastor Patrick Langat, who also served as an excellent translator. (He walked 5 miles each way from off the side of a mountain to the church building everyday.)
The following is an email from Pastor Peter Kirui:
Concerning the meeting it was really anointed that many who attended confess we had been a Dead Sea all for ourselves, but you open our minds and hearts that we change for others. (One pastor testified that he had learned more about what his assignment was in three days than he had in four years of Bible College! W.T.) One lady that I met with yesterday on my way to church confessed that your teaching on disciple making had caused her to make an about turn on the Great Commission and that she will be a living ready vessel to be used. She needs prayers that as she joins the University this year that she will use every time she gets to make disciples. I will not get time to see all the pastors, but the general report is the training had made a great impact in their lives and are ready to go and be lights to others since making disciple is not about program but people ready to obey and do it. God bless, Peter Kirui.
From Kenya, I traveled to Linglongwe, Malawi, got on a bus and rode 250 miles to Blantyre, Malawi. We started the conference on Monday and continued through Thursday until Noon. The host pastor is Bishop Eric Dauya and the churches represented were from the Apostolic Faith Mission network, which was started 100 years ago by the famous missionary, John G. Lake.
Pastor Gabriel Ngoma from Lusaka, Zambia, arranged and managed the conference for me – doing an excellent job. The following is an excerpt from his email commenting on the conference:
“I remember some of the pastors were touched as they confessed that the teachings were sounding new to them and they said that is was good that you came to Malawi and you gave them good lessons, so let pray for them to know and to catch the main purpose of the Ministry so that they do wisely accordingly the way they received the teachings so that they also give to the faithful who will teach others for multiplication and reproducing. I want to thank you for the confidence you had in Malawi and as you stood strongly the whole week standing and teaching as you had just come from Kenya for some weeks teaching. I tell you was a hard time but I thank God, that the power of God was with you and what ever happened it was God doing it. So let us pray for the people of Malawi to catch the vision and to follow the Strategy of Jesus Christ for disciple making.”
Pray with me that many will begin to get positionally aligned with the Master’s assignment and start to fulfill the practical assignment of making disciples of all people groups.
Thanks again for all your prayers and gifts!
Wade
Prayer Request for Pastor Wade’s Africa Trip – February 16 – March 10, 2012
Please be praying for me as I prepare to set out on a very demanding overseas trip. I will leave Atlanta, all alone, on February 16 for Nairobi, Kenya, spend the night and then fly to an out of the way place called Lodwar, Kenya. After teaching discipleship training for 6-7 hours per day for three days, I will travel to Mumius, Kenya where I will teach another conference like the previous for three more days. Then I will meet another pastor and go with him to Kericho, Kenya to repeat a similar conference. After which I will fly back to Nairobi, spend the night, and then fly out the next evening to Lilongwe, South Africa, spend the night, and drive 5 hours to the next day to the city in which the conference will be held, teach for a week, and then fly home on March 9 by way of Johannesburg, South Africa, Paris, and Atlanta. As you can see the trip is demanding, dangerous in some areas, and exhausting, but laden with great potential for the advancement of the kingdom of God. Pray for strength, successful teaching of the Word, for good translators, for at least one person in the four conferences to be captured by Jesus’ strategy, safety for me and for Anne in my absence, and for the continued financial resources to meet all our opportunities and obligations.
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.
