Our Team

Vickery Meadow Ministry

2010

We are honored to have Kristen and Paola on staff.

They bring important gifts to the team...and did I mention, they both speak Spanish!?!

Woo Hoo!!!

A few weeks ago God led Kristen and her husband to move into my apartment complex to invest and live in community with the new Cuban refugee families. We have had so much fun getting to know the Cubans: laughing, dancing, eating, and lots of translation (they speak Spanish). Several of them have shown a lot of interest in learning more about Jesus already!

Me and others on their moving day...lots of stairs!

Kristen and our friend Brian jamming some worship music and a little Guns n' Roses too!

God called us to this apartment complex (right around the corner from where we live and work), where we have been investing for several months. We bring church to people who cannot or will not go to church on their own but are HUNGRY for the Word of God! We have been invited into many peoples homes, introduced to friends and family, and asked to come back and have Church with them!

Me and some of the kids in a community we are working in.

We met their parents one day just walking through the apartment complex meeting and praying for people...God had them prepared and it was clear they were in need of Him. Our friendship has been going strong since then and we have been studying the bible together, they have been reading on their own, and sharing what they have learned and inviting others.

Some have started singing and offering live gospel for us...it is truly beautiful!

As you know, a lot of the work we are doing we cannot take pictures of people and can't share a lot of specifics. But I wanted to tell you about the new strategy God has given our ministry to practice and be trained in Church Planting Movement (CPM). It has helped us tremendously with reaching and bringing church to places where the Church does not exsist...the unreached people of Dallas. Please pray with us for the Church Planting Movement God is preparing for us here in Dallas. Pray we will learn to be a Church that meets together daily, eats together in our homes, with glad and sincere hearts praising God and enjoying all the people...pray the Lord will add to our numbers daily who are being saved. (Acts 2:46-47)

We have had to step away from visiting brothels at this time. About a year ago the Lord gave me a high sense of urgency to be bold and urgent with His gospel in brothels, I had a picture of the door closing...so I knew there would be a time when we could not get into brothels. Right now brothel doors are shut to us but the Lord is opening many new doors and showing the fruit in His will and His ways.

We have 3 main focuses areas right now

1. A huge apartment complex around the corner from my apartment. There is one other ministry there who is working with kids and youth and they asked us to come in and "bring church." Kyle had a vision from God several years ago about doing this in this exact apartment complex. God has clearly prepared this community, almost everyone we meet is soft, open and hungry for God. Our friends there so far have mental and physical disabilities, are involved in prostitution, past gangs members, have drug and alcohol additions, the majority are single parents, etc...all know there is more to life than this and want to seek and know the Lord, their Savior.
2. Our apartment complex where many refugee family from around the world (numerous religions) are resettled. Their need for community and acceptance into this country is great. Their need to hear the gospel, some for the first time, is even greater.
3. Loving on the gay community and studying God Word together. Our friends in the gay community have been deeply wounded by the church. We are there to love on them, study God's word together, learn about God's mercy, grace and His truth. We pray for the power of the Holy Spirit to come into their lives so they can find their identity in Christ's love.

Thank you for all your support and prayers over the last 2 years!

You can also read more frequent testimonies and pictures on our Facebook page:

Vickery Meadow Ministry

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78956840366&ref=ts

Kyle just posted a Discussion called "Gangs to Jesus"