I thought I would post my schedule on the blog for people to be able to know where I am planning on going. My desire is that you may pray for me. If you are in India and want to join us contact one of the names below and see where we might be at if you can. I am privileged to go with Pastor Benjamin Johns of Columbia, South Carolina. We have been forging a new friendship and are looking forward to great things from God.
India Tentative Schedule 2009/201
Leave Atlanta December 17
Fly through Brussels or London
Arrive in New Dehli December 19
(Local travel arranged by Pastor Anyian Samuel)
Joint Meeting in New Dehli December 20
Pastors Conference in or near “Racie” December 21-22
Leave conference and travel to TajMahal in Agra and have a meeting near the Taj Mahal (We will rent a car) December 23
Travel on night train to Varanassi from Agra Late night 23 arrive on December 24
(Local travel arranged by Tell Asia)
Varanassi outreach December 25
Rest day or go to Lucknow December 26
Preach in Varanassi at Tribal Church December 27
Rest day or go to Himalayas December 28
Travel to Orissa on night train December 28 arrive December 29
Orissa (Will need local transportation) December 29-31
In Orrissa possible visit to Pastor Roy, Pastor Mogan, Pastor Prabeen, or other contacts arranged by Pastor David of Tell Asia or Pastor Benjamin Johns. Pastors Meetings or just visiting people. Holy Spirit arranged! Will probably have to take a train to Wysok to Fly out on the 1rst to go to New Dehli
Leave Orissa(or Wysok) and Fly to New Dehli January 1
Leave New Dehli Arrive in London January 1 or 2
Take tour of London, rest, meet Dave Marquee
Preach in London January 3
Leave London on late flight and come home Leave January 3 arrive January 4
Contacts List for Heart First Ministry Mission Trip 2009/2010
Pastor Aniyan Samuel Contact for New Dehli and primary translator
Website: www.goodtidingministry.org Email aniayan_samuel@rediffmail.com
Phone 91(0) 99682-44847 Address:730 Sunlight Colony Ashram New Dehli-110014, India
TellASIA Ministries, Inc.
12650 W. 64th Ave. #245Arvada, CO 80004, USA usoffice@tellasia.org 970-985-8744
Leanna Cinquanta Founder of Tell Asia and primary contact for Varanasi portion.Email lcontheroad@tellasia.org Other Indian Contacts for Tell Asia see below.
Varanasi Region
Lucknow Region
Himalaya Region
Rev. Shivpal Sharma, India Director
shivpal@tellasia.org
0091-983-825-2552
Rev. Alok Srivastava, 20/20 Project Director
alok@tellasia.org
0091-941-514-1469
Rev. David Moses
dmoses@tellasia.org
0091-596-223-4743
Pastor Benjamin Johns Pastor in Columbia South Carolina He is also a good contact for Orissa and Mission Trip Information. Email: bcjohns@gmail.com
Pastor Roy Rhoades Mission Trip Coordinator
Website www.heartfirstministries.org Email royrhoades@hotmail.com
Monday, September 21, 2009
Chinese Bible Study
We have been privileged to colabor with our good friend Paul Wu in teaching a Bible Study to Chinese college students at the Brookhaven Untied Methodist Church. Last Friday one of the young Chinese women gave her life to our Lord Jesus. We were very excited. We are praying that many more will come to know the love of our Savior Jesus Christ.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The Worship Studio Launch
Today is a time of great historical significance. As part of the leadership team of the Worship Studio I feel a profound sense of destiny being released tonight as we publicly launch The Worship Studio. I feel that fathers are being released, I feel that mentors are being raised up, I feel that those often neglected and forgotten are preparing to unleash their voice, I feel that the heart of God is being touched. The Lord himself is letting us be a part of HIStory. We are not just involved in a project. We are taking part in the revealing of the Heart of God. God inhabits the praises of His people. He gets excited when His children abandon their routines to stop and worship. I can't wait to see How He shows up. He is definitely invited to the party. Whether or not there are great crowds tonight. Whether the punch is spilled, or the parking is full doesn't matter as much as the fact that the king of the Universe is going to show up at His party. He is the invited guest. All of dignataries are pale in comparison to His presence. We long for His presence more than anything. It is humbling to be a small part. This is what we live for. This is what gives life meaning. God is in the house and all is well. August 22 will be a day to remember.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Summer Updates
This has been quite a summer. Elizabeth our daughter just got back from Youth Camp with Riverstone Church. It was great to see hundreds of healing revivalist being raised up. On Friday and Sunday nights the young people formed a fire tunnel and imparted the fire of God to us. There was a lot of power in their hands that was imparted to us. My daughter is becoming a fire carrier. It is awesome! We went to Ohio the next week to visit the family. My mother is doing great. Thanks for all who are praying for her. Keep up the prayers. I came back to Atlanta and am planning today with Pastor A Samuel from Dehli, India. We are planning for me to come in December. It is exciting to see someone from India with a church planting heart for a relatively unreached area of the world. God is reaching out all over the globe. We are believing God for many churches to be planted. We are partnering with a ministry called Faith Comes by Hearing and putting "proclaimers" into his hands. They are basically the Bible on casette in the Hindi language. We are believing that these tools along with the Jesus video will be used to plant many churches among the villages in India. Keep us in prayer as we strategize on how to use these effectively.
Tonight we are gathering artists for our first meeting of The Worship Studio. It is great to be involved with so much of what God is doing in raising up an army of artists and worshippers to be a prophetic voice in our generation. This Tuesday we are going to be meeting with some Georgia Tech students to start some "Treasure Hunts" on campus. We are believing God for a campus awakening here and on several campuses in Atlanta. God is on the move and we are believing God for revival every where we go. If you are reading this email me at royrhoades@hotmail.com. We would love to hear from you. Blessings.
Tonight we are gathering artists for our first meeting of The Worship Studio. It is great to be involved with so much of what God is doing in raising up an army of artists and worshippers to be a prophetic voice in our generation. This Tuesday we are going to be meeting with some Georgia Tech students to start some "Treasure Hunts" on campus. We are believing God for a campus awakening here and on several campuses in Atlanta. God is on the move and we are believing God for revival every where we go. If you are reading this email me at royrhoades@hotmail.com. We would love to hear from you. Blessings.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
I thought that I would post an excerpt (unfinished an unedited, but hopefully annointed) to give you a taste of the book coming forth. Many of you know that I was electrocuted in 1979, but here's the story. Enjoy, and buy the book when it comes out soon.
It was a hot July day and my job was to prune palm trees on Sea Island, Georgia. This was quite a change for me since I grew up in southern Ohio. In Ohio I was used to looking at maple trees, apple trees, and double wide trailers. I often would ask myself how I ended up in Georgia working at this beautiful resort. Strangely, this same northern boy, years later, would call Georgia his home. Sea Island was a long way away from home, but I decided to spend the summer in this beautiful resort island in southern Georgia on the Atlantic coast working and doing missions with a campus ministry called World Wide Discipleship. Our landscaping job was to prune the palm trees around the beautiful homes on the island. We had a ladder crew of two people. Usually, one person would hold the ladder while the other would climb up the tree and prune away. We were very safety cautious. One day we started to prune some smaller trees and decided to just do them by ourselves. I began to prune a tree that was about 7 feet high. I noticed that there were an unusual amount of dry branches on the tree. I never noticed any power lines running through the tree, but I came to find out later that the main power line for the island was running right through my tree. It had rained earlier that day, but by afternoon it was fairly dry. I was using a small wooden handled saw and was leaning on an aluminum ladder. Upon making a cut into a palm frond the electricity from the power line starting moving through my body. My body was acting as a human channel for the flow of approximately 7,000 volts of electricity, with two full amps. That’s about 2000 times the amperage that is in your house wall outlets. This was a strange experience for me. You don’t really get electrocuted every day. I started feeling a large amount of pain. My eyes were seeing purple, and green lights, flashing around me, and I couldn’t pull away from the electrical charge. I could feel the burning in my hand and it wasn’t a pretty sight. I knew it was fatal and I might die. I prayed a quick prayer, “Help Me Jesus!” and then I was out. It all happened so fast.
Fortunately, my partner Doug knew CPR. He gave me the pericardial thump but nothing was happening. I was laying there mostly dead and not breathing. How many know that someone laying there not breathing is not a good thing? I was so glad that Doug was also a man of God. God gave Doug insight as to what to do next. He thumped me again and then administered mouth to mouth breathing. Thankfully, after about 20 minutes I started to breathe again. I was not really aware of all that happened to me because all I remember was waking up in an ambulance, glad to be alive. I asked: ”Did I get electrocuted?” It was all very surreal. I didn’t see any lights or visions of Jesus or anything. I guess I wasn’t dead long enough. I was just glad that I was alive.
I was treated for burns and was kept in the hospital. It was determined that I was going to have to get skin grafts to treat my third degree burns. It was an unpleasant ordeal, but God would work in me to accomplish His will out of my adversity. Something very significant happened to me at the end of my hospital stay that would set me on a journey that has changed my life forever. I had been meditating on Romans 5: 1-6. Up to that point, I could tell you very plainly that God loved me. I was a Bible college student studying for ministry. I thought I knew about hope, but it was really only an intellectual concept. I had come to know Christ at an early age and recommitted my life during my teen years. I was serving God and had come to Georgia on a mission trip, but the Lord wanted to reveal more to me. This was a prime opportunity. I don’t believe that God causes sickness, but I believe that God used this incident to let me in on an encounter that would shape the course of my life. My journey to God’s heart did indeed start the day that I asked Christ to be the Lord and savior of my life, but on this day I moved much closer to the heart of God than ever before. After all God’s heart was working when mine wasn’t.
I was laying in my hospital room feeling very much in pain. I had already been in the hospital a total of 20 days. My nerves were exposed from skin grafts, my burns were still in the healing process, my hospital roommate had bowel problems, and the room didn’t smell very good. I think you are getting the picture without going into greater details. Many of my experiences with God up to this point were at retreats, church, or conferences. This is all well and good, but God wanted to show up in a different way to meet my need in this desperate situation. There is a passage in Romans 5 that talks about peace with God. I wanted that. It also talked about the love of God being shed abroad in your hearts through the Holy Spirit. It also says that, trials would produce perseverance, perseverance, proven character, and character would produce hope. I meditated on those truths and then like a refreshing wind the Holy Spirit began to minister to me His love. It is hard to describe, but I couldn’t help it and I started to sing. It didn’t matter to me that I wasn’t out witnessing, or going to a building, or teaching a Bible study, I was just loved. I was overwhelmed with the truth that God was loving me lots. I wept and smiled. I laughed and I just enjoyed the experience of being loved as I am and not as I should be.
God used this situation of being electrocuted in many ways, to humble me, to provide for me financially, but most importantly, He showed up in my time of distress to let me know that I am loved.
This experience more than any other up to this point, set me on a course to continue to seek the Fathers Love. I have come to realize very intensely that everything of eternal significance comes from the flow of the Fathers heart. Jesus only did what he saw the father doing. He only spoke what he saw the father speaking. He truly could say as you have seen me you have seen the father. And when he went away to the father he gave us access to speak directly to the father. “You can ask whatever you wish in my name and the father will hear you”, he said.
Two years later, I would hear the Lord ask me, “If you could have anything in this life what would you want?” I was deciding if I really wanted to lead God’s people. Reflecting on how God had saved my life and just searching my heart I said, “Lord I want to learn how to love.” I guess I have been on the journey ever since
What an exciting time to be alive. The Father is no longer calling us slaves but He is inviting us to be friends.
Let us go together on a journey to find the fullness of life and personal freedom. Let’s journey to the Father’s Heart!
It was a hot July day and my job was to prune palm trees on Sea Island, Georgia. This was quite a change for me since I grew up in southern Ohio. In Ohio I was used to looking at maple trees, apple trees, and double wide trailers. I often would ask myself how I ended up in Georgia working at this beautiful resort. Strangely, this same northern boy, years later, would call Georgia his home. Sea Island was a long way away from home, but I decided to spend the summer in this beautiful resort island in southern Georgia on the Atlantic coast working and doing missions with a campus ministry called World Wide Discipleship. Our landscaping job was to prune the palm trees around the beautiful homes on the island. We had a ladder crew of two people. Usually, one person would hold the ladder while the other would climb up the tree and prune away. We were very safety cautious. One day we started to prune some smaller trees and decided to just do them by ourselves. I began to prune a tree that was about 7 feet high. I noticed that there were an unusual amount of dry branches on the tree. I never noticed any power lines running through the tree, but I came to find out later that the main power line for the island was running right through my tree. It had rained earlier that day, but by afternoon it was fairly dry. I was using a small wooden handled saw and was leaning on an aluminum ladder. Upon making a cut into a palm frond the electricity from the power line starting moving through my body. My body was acting as a human channel for the flow of approximately 7,000 volts of electricity, with two full amps. That’s about 2000 times the amperage that is in your house wall outlets. This was a strange experience for me. You don’t really get electrocuted every day. I started feeling a large amount of pain. My eyes were seeing purple, and green lights, flashing around me, and I couldn’t pull away from the electrical charge. I could feel the burning in my hand and it wasn’t a pretty sight. I knew it was fatal and I might die. I prayed a quick prayer, “Help Me Jesus!” and then I was out. It all happened so fast.
Fortunately, my partner Doug knew CPR. He gave me the pericardial thump but nothing was happening. I was laying there mostly dead and not breathing. How many know that someone laying there not breathing is not a good thing? I was so glad that Doug was also a man of God. God gave Doug insight as to what to do next. He thumped me again and then administered mouth to mouth breathing. Thankfully, after about 20 minutes I started to breathe again. I was not really aware of all that happened to me because all I remember was waking up in an ambulance, glad to be alive. I asked: ”Did I get electrocuted?” It was all very surreal. I didn’t see any lights or visions of Jesus or anything. I guess I wasn’t dead long enough. I was just glad that I was alive.
I was treated for burns and was kept in the hospital. It was determined that I was going to have to get skin grafts to treat my third degree burns. It was an unpleasant ordeal, but God would work in me to accomplish His will out of my adversity. Something very significant happened to me at the end of my hospital stay that would set me on a journey that has changed my life forever. I had been meditating on Romans 5: 1-6. Up to that point, I could tell you very plainly that God loved me. I was a Bible college student studying for ministry. I thought I knew about hope, but it was really only an intellectual concept. I had come to know Christ at an early age and recommitted my life during my teen years. I was serving God and had come to Georgia on a mission trip, but the Lord wanted to reveal more to me. This was a prime opportunity. I don’t believe that God causes sickness, but I believe that God used this incident to let me in on an encounter that would shape the course of my life. My journey to God’s heart did indeed start the day that I asked Christ to be the Lord and savior of my life, but on this day I moved much closer to the heart of God than ever before. After all God’s heart was working when mine wasn’t.
I was laying in my hospital room feeling very much in pain. I had already been in the hospital a total of 20 days. My nerves were exposed from skin grafts, my burns were still in the healing process, my hospital roommate had bowel problems, and the room didn’t smell very good. I think you are getting the picture without going into greater details. Many of my experiences with God up to this point were at retreats, church, or conferences. This is all well and good, but God wanted to show up in a different way to meet my need in this desperate situation. There is a passage in Romans 5 that talks about peace with God. I wanted that. It also talked about the love of God being shed abroad in your hearts through the Holy Spirit. It also says that, trials would produce perseverance, perseverance, proven character, and character would produce hope. I meditated on those truths and then like a refreshing wind the Holy Spirit began to minister to me His love. It is hard to describe, but I couldn’t help it and I started to sing. It didn’t matter to me that I wasn’t out witnessing, or going to a building, or teaching a Bible study, I was just loved. I was overwhelmed with the truth that God was loving me lots. I wept and smiled. I laughed and I just enjoyed the experience of being loved as I am and not as I should be.
God used this situation of being electrocuted in many ways, to humble me, to provide for me financially, but most importantly, He showed up in my time of distress to let me know that I am loved.
This experience more than any other up to this point, set me on a course to continue to seek the Fathers Love. I have come to realize very intensely that everything of eternal significance comes from the flow of the Fathers heart. Jesus only did what he saw the father doing. He only spoke what he saw the father speaking. He truly could say as you have seen me you have seen the father. And when he went away to the father he gave us access to speak directly to the father. “You can ask whatever you wish in my name and the father will hear you”, he said.
Two years later, I would hear the Lord ask me, “If you could have anything in this life what would you want?” I was deciding if I really wanted to lead God’s people. Reflecting on how God had saved my life and just searching my heart I said, “Lord I want to learn how to love.” I guess I have been on the journey ever since
What an exciting time to be alive. The Father is no longer calling us slaves but He is inviting us to be friends.
Let us go together on a journey to find the fullness of life and personal freedom. Let’s journey to the Father’s Heart!
We have been busy this summer. God set up a divine appointment with Pastor A Samuel from Dehli India and I believe that it was the messenger that I needed to get me back to India. I am planning on taking a team in December. Anyone interested please email me. The cost will be about $2000. I have felt a burden to speak to the persecuted church in India, do a Pastors conference in Dehli, and visit some friends in the South and speak in their churches. Pray for God's leading.
Bess and I have been asked to be on the advisory board for a new ministry with Matt and Tanya Tommey called The Worship Studio. It is a ministry intended to meet artists and muscians and raise them up as warriors in the kingdom. God has blessed us with the use of a gallery in Canton, Georgia and we are just joining him in some exciting events. Keep posted for upcoming events. Our first monthly meeting will be on July 11.
I have also been burdened for the Georgia Tech campus and we are meeting with a few students to start a Campus Awakening group. If you know of anyone interested in raising up radical revivalists on campus let me know.
Oh, by the way on my vacation I have finished the rough draft of a book entitled: " A Journey to the Fathers Heart". It is a book about how to enter into intimacy with God and then unleash his supernatural power. I have felt a burden in the body of Christ to be released from shame. It is time to raise up an army and get going for the kingdom. It is my first attempt, but it just poured out of me. Pray for Bess as she edits it and makes it professional. It is nice to have a professional writer that is now writing with me. More to come later.
Bess and I have been asked to be on the advisory board for a new ministry with Matt and Tanya Tommey called The Worship Studio. It is a ministry intended to meet artists and muscians and raise them up as warriors in the kingdom. God has blessed us with the use of a gallery in Canton, Georgia and we are just joining him in some exciting events. Keep posted for upcoming events. Our first monthly meeting will be on July 11.
I have also been burdened for the Georgia Tech campus and we are meeting with a few students to start a Campus Awakening group. If you know of anyone interested in raising up radical revivalists on campus let me know.
Oh, by the way on my vacation I have finished the rough draft of a book entitled: " A Journey to the Fathers Heart". It is a book about how to enter into intimacy with God and then unleash his supernatural power. I have felt a burden in the body of Christ to be released from shame. It is time to raise up an army and get going for the kingdom. It is my first attempt, but it just poured out of me. Pray for Bess as she edits it and makes it professional. It is nice to have a professional writer that is now writing with me. More to come later.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
India 2008 Trip Report
Leg 1 – 2/29/08 through 2/7/08
Ricky and Roy – The R & R Express hit the planes on January 29th and head for Chennai.
It was amazing that Ricky just made the flight in
Landed in Chennai and were picked up by taxi and lead to hotel. The next morning we were greeted Pastor Cornelius wife and two sons and pastor Shekar. They took us to the snake park and we were refreshed. At the mall shopping I received my first prophetic word that God was healing Pastor Cornelius as we were going to the parking lot. Later that was confirmed to be true. What an amazing beginning to alter the effects of jetlag.
We were united and determined to cooperate with God and see what He was up to, and then join him.
Places we went:
- Flew into Chennai
- Took a train to
- Stayed in Kovaipadur and spoke at business meeting in morning, visited
- Drove to Udumalpet and spent two days in meetings with church.
- Back to Kovaipadur for two days of Pastors Conference
- Traveled to Hydrabad and spent the night there.
- Took the plane to
- Stayed there for four days - Pastors Conference, and Open Air Meetings, Preaching to churches on Sundays and visit to tribal village on Monday.
- Went back to Wysock for flight out.
Ricky leaves for
Some results:
4056 Approximately attended meetings which included – Pastors conferences, open air meetings, and church meetings. A lots of meetings were going on. Out of this number approximately 200 pastors were exhorted toward fulfilling their destiny and saw a model of supernatural ministry. About 60 business leaders received prophetic words in
80 people activated in the prophetic
26 people healed that we know of: Lame children walking, throat cancers healed, respiratory problems healed, pain in back healed, shoulders healed, blind eyes healed, deaf person healed, and heart problems healed. In the first open air meeting over 130 came for healing we only heard testimonies from about 20 so only God knows how many were actually healed.
25 professed salvation in public meetings
10 were baptized in water.
2 people were baptized in the Holy Spirit, refreshed and renewed, via a “marriage encounter” session. Another bapticostal has been birthed.
1 demon possessed woman who after 25 years of torment was set free, saved, baptized and filled with joy. She has a new identity and a new name.
1 girl received the exact prophetic word given by Serena two years earlier with the same act of bowing at her feet in Udmalpet. God wants her to know that she is a princess in
1 woman principal received a prophetic word that she would be promoted to a higher level that would transform a city.
1 Policeman received prophetic words to speak destiny and promotion in his life. That was a much better alternative than him taking us to jail.
1 older man received healing prayer which lead to 6 others seeing God’s power manifest and decided to attend the village church.
1 tired village pastor received seed money to raise the roof on his building and start saving for a motorbike.
1 man, TS Varghese was used of God to purchase a hotel for the night for the R and R express to rest and recover and he showed great hospitality. We were both so tired and it was an evidence again of God’s grace.
1 young man, Samson Kumar took a risk of faith and invited an unknown pastor to come to Andra Pradesh and received a fresh mantel of supernatural impartation. His life will never be the same.
There were many more stories of single individuals that received the touch of God. I am so impressed with the truth that as we reach out to the one, God will bring the many.
2 Pastors were very tired after all that preaching and praying, but were excited to be WONDERFULLY used of God.
Ricky flies to
Both were awakened to a fire that is arousing their passions and then
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