News and Updates
May 1, 2014
David Copeland · May 1, 2014
Newsletter · Volume: 14 Issue: 5
As I write this newsletter, I am completing the final leg of our April Outreach to Kenya. We are almost to land in Atlanta and my heart is so full, it feels like it might burst any moment!
The Maasai Vocational Training was another phenomenal week of ministry. Over 120 pastors & leaders sat together for over 10 hours each day of teaching, praying, equipping and impartation. I also want to thank Shane Smith for traveling with me this time and to all the staff on the ground in Kenya that enable us to do what we do there smoothly.
The Pastors Training has grown so, and now encompasses almost every tribe in Kenya that we are in the process of renaming the training the Revival Now School of Ministry. We even had a brother who traveled all the way from Central Uganda just to be with us in the school. I knew when we began in 2010 God was going to bless this work; but his blessing always exceeds our expectations!
The Sunday ministry in the various churches around Kilgoris was refreshingly different. The services are always great, but there was a distinct increase in the anointing present to minister. Along with that came some very unusual warfare. While it didn’t catch me off guard, it caused me to ask myself the question, what is satan so afraid of that he is putting this kind of pressure on us?
Someone reading this right now needs to ask your self the question: “what is satan so afraid of he wants me to leave the place of my assignment? What has God released from heaven that he is shaking in his shoes over?”
April 21st we visited the Naisero Orphanage in between Kisii & Kilgoris we are helping to support along with Tim Williams Healing Hands Ministries. During school times there are 49 children we help to feed and care for. The orphanage is overseen by the Kenya Assemblies of God, but they don’t have the means to purchase a piece of land and build an adequate facility to house the children.
We are believing God to help us purchase a piece of land (which we have already located) and build a facility that will house and train these young men and women and give them a chance for a better life. No child asks for their parents to abandon them; no child prays for their parents to die and leave them alone. Maybe a spoiled child would; but he or she would later regret ever allowing those thoughts to enter their minds!
We were touched to the core when many of the children simply asked for food and mosquito nets. Because of the generosity of our partners, we will be purchasing enough mosquito nets for every child in the orphanage this week.
We ministered for two days at the Pentecostal Assemblies of God Youth Camp where over 500 students from across Western Kenya came together for church! And we had church! The Holy Spirit continuously swept over the meetings touching each one of them. At the last count over 40 of them received Jesus as Savior and to many to number received the Holy Spirit Baptism.
We ended last weekend with our first outreach to the town of Isiolo in Central Kenya. We have been praying about the timing in which to go there for over two years. Earlier in early March the Holy Spirit spoke very distinctly to me that this was the time to go there. I’m glad I obeyed!
From the moment we walked in the door at the venue, the power of God was moving like a mighty river. People received breakthroughs and deliverances; many reported to us of healings taking place in their bodies. Others received the Holy Spirit Baptism and yes…many received Jesus in the nightly revival meetings.
Several times there were more people lying on the ground from the power of God than there were standing up! All I could think of was Acts 8:8 as Philip preached in Samaria and revival broke out: “And there was great joy in that city.”
None of this could take place without the help of friends, churches and partners who support us. I have recently realized I will never be able to preach hard enough or long enough to earn enough money to do what God has called us to do.
In six weeks we will lead a team to Myanmar in SE Asia for a Pastors & Leaders Conference & Revival Meetings. In August we will travel back to Kenya for outreaches in Lodwar, a Women’s Conference in Kilgoris, and our August School of Ministry.
There are many opportunities that have come to us for us to minister across Uganda, Tanzania, Indonesia and many other countries of the world. While it looks like we are headed rapidly for WW3, these are the greatest days for us to fulfill our part of the Great Commission.
I end every newsletter by saying that. But I know we are not the only international outreach ministry in the world that is working for God. Pride is thinking that the stream we move in and are fed by is the only true flow of the Holy Spirit moving on the earth today.
We are not the only stream; but we are a stream God seems to be using at this hour. Thank you for being sensitive and obedient to the part God wants you to play in helping us fulfill our part of the Great Commission.
David & Pam