Donations:

We are believing and contending for

• a new Toyota pickup truck $35,000
• our debts to be erased $6,700
• plane tickets $4,000
• our third building to be finished $10,000
• new monthly donors to have 100% of our budget met

We declare the time of lack is OVER!

OPPOSITION

As a 20-year-old new believer I prayed for God to send me where they have never heard the good news and where nobody wants to go. After I went to Mali ten years later, I found it hard to find people willing to come to Mali to minister, and it took me getting married after nearly 12 years in Mali to have another white person/Westerner on the base there. Even when people have said they'd come, they'd cancel; only few have made it.

We were very blessed when Patricia King said she wanted to stop by on her way out of Africa, and knew it was God's perfect timing as we had entered this new season, with Randy having come to my side. Before her arrival, we could feel the anticipation in the air, our spirits full of excitement of what God was up to, even though we were tired and worn out and wondered how to have the energy for a week of events.

Our friends Bruce & Cheryl Lindley, HIM apostles from Australia, were coming with her and were going to stay a week, while Patricia had 48 hours. However, there was an issue with the plane ticket, and Patricia thought she was going straight home instead of going to Mali. Through God's miraculous intervention in the last second, she got to board the plane to Mali after all.

It was a small plane, and it was rattled severely by the storm raging outside. People all over the plane were shouting and praying and thinking they were about to die. The pilot later said he had never seen a storm like this in 20 years of flying. After the plane landed, some people fell to the ground thanking God they had made it.

Two days later, Patricia's flight out of Mali was first delayed then canceled and she had to wait an additional 24 hours before getting out.

All this extreme opposition made us all the more excited that God was up to something, as the enemy tried so hard to keep them out of Mali. Not this time.

CONFRONTED WITH TRUTH

The first thing our three visitors noticed driving in a taxi to our base was the extreme poverty and the sadness in adult and children's faces. And arriving on our base, they confronted us with the sad truth that our base had come under the influence of the spirit of poverty in the land. They pointed out our three broken down vehicles sitting around, constantly screaming poverty, and they were very aware of all that needed to be repaired or cleaned, even though we had done our best to make our base look spotless. But they were right. All those years I had been trying to teach them cleanliness and holiness - in a culture where there is no trash cans or trash removal or even sewage system, but everything is thrown on the ground. It's also a culture where children never learn to take care of things - when it's broken, it's broken, whether that's furniture, clothes, or eletronics.

As soon as our visitors had left, we took practical action. We started repairing mosquito screens, lamps, furniture, and decided to repaint the boys' dorm and then challenge them to keep the room beautiful and clean. It turned out to be major project, but the result was beautiful. When we return, we will tackle the other rooms that need painting big time, as well as repairing what still needs to be done.

Another spirit in the land is that of oppressing women and children who have no rights. Men live their own lives, and so do women. Most families never know where their children are as they are free to roam the streets all day long, whatever their age. Unless they work hard like slaves. One five-year-old son is given away to Muslim teachers - a sacrifice to Allah to increase your chances to make it to paradise - and girls have to go through genital mutilation to be marriable. With one word, marriages and families are under attack, and we have to keep ourselves protected from those spirits. Therefore we ask for your prayers for our marriage, as well as Paul & Rokia's. They have been married for 3.5 years now, and things are not going well.

Before we left Mali for the summer, I had a message burning on my heart, a challenge to give to our children, and I delivered it with authority. I challenged them to not go back to their old ways but to go higher and higher, forward and upward, even while we're gone. I had three points. 1. "Be holy, as I am holy", challenging them to keep our base clean and spotless and beautiful. 2. To work diligently, with a spirit of excellence, as unto the Lord, doing their best, and working hard. 3. To stop talking back, grumbling and complaining. And we've seen them act accordingly. They have been working hard picking up trash and making our base beautiful, not complaining about working more than 1 hour, and even finding joy and fulfilment in working. Praise God!

Look at our June pictures here.

MEETINGS

We had five evening meetings in a row with our visitors. Patricia did the first, and Bruce the other four. We had handed out hundreds of invitations and had put up many posters, as well as announcing the meetings on Christian radio. And while not as many as hoped showed up, we had great meetings where Holy Spirit came down to save, heal, and change, to reveal the Father's heart and call to serve Him wholeheartedly.

We had two smaller meetings for our children and workers, and all children were prophesied over, being greatly encouraged, and their lives greatly impacted and moved back on the right track.

Randy and I and Paul had behind the scenes meetings with Patricia, Bruce & Cheryl where we received invaluable input and advice, blessing us and helping us greatly. Their visit was just what we needed to go to the next level.

Please pray for us as we continue implementing changes and acting on what God has spoken and shown. Pray also for our summer away that God continues to speak to us, equip us, direct us, and prepare us for our return.

Look at the pictures from the week with Patricia, Bruce & Cheryl here.

OUR SUMMER ITINERARY

In the column on the left you can see when we are where. You can also check the CALENDAR page on our website that I'll be keeping updated. Here are some places we know so far where we'll be ministering. All the US dates are based on our faith alone that we will have the finances necessary to fly to the US. Please pray for favor, divine appointments, new open doors and new supporters.

EUROPE:

Sunday, June 28 ~ FCG, Großrust, Austria ~ Preaching a Healing Service

Tuesday, June 30 ~ FCG, Pucking, Austria ~ Sharing

Thursday, July 2 ~ Home Group, Engerwitzdorf, Austria ~ Sharing

Saturday, July 4 ~ VCC Jesuszentrum, Vienna, Austria ~ Preaching

Sunday, July 5 ~ Four Corners CF, Vienna, Austria ~ Sharing

Sunday, July 12 ~ FCG, Dornbirn, Austria ~ Sharing

Sunday, Sep 6 ~ FCG, Klagenfurt, Austria ~ Preaching

Sunday, Sep 13 ~ STILL OPEN

USA:

Sunday, July 19 ~ Miracleland, Eupora, MS ~ Ministering

Sunday, July 26 ~ Harvest Valley CC, Pleasanton, CA ~ Sharing

Sunday, Aug 2 ~ Vista, CA ~ Preaching

Sunday, Aug 16 or 23 ~ Christ Triumphant Church, Lee's Summit, MO ~ Sharing

Sunday, Aug 16 or 23 ~ STILL OPEN

Sunday, Aug 30 ~ Mississippi ~ STILL OPEN

QUICK NEWS

•        Revival Breakout - I have put a 7-minute video on YouTube of the meeting I told you about last week, when revival broke out among our kids. Watch it here.

•        Planting Millet - The same man who let us use his field last summer is letting us use it again to plant millet this rainy season, when our children are on school vacation for four months. We pray for a good rainy season so we can have an abundant harvest this year. And it's a great way to keep the children occupied.´

•        Signs & Wonders - Randy has been going out into our neighborhood daily to let Holy Spirit lead him to the sick and the lost, healing them and showing them the way to Jesus. A few of our children go with him, and there are already many testimonies of what God has done. Please befriend Randy or me on Facebook to get those reports. The children continue going out twice a week while we are gone.

•        YWAM Outreach - Four of our older children are going on a YWAM outreach just across the border in Burkina Faso for three weeks. Please pray for them, and give if you'd like to sow into their trip.

•        Home Visits - Several of our children will be going home to visit their families for a few weeks during the summer holiday. Please pray for protection for them, and that they'd be a light for their families.

•        New Truck - All our children have a picture of the Toyota pickup truck we need, praying with faith that we will have it in the natural by the time school starts in September. Please join us in that prayer!

•        New Video - Professional producers have made a new promotional video for us that you can watch on our YouTube channel here.

•       Volunteers - We always need volunteers in Mali who can stay a few months or more. If you'd like to come help us, please contact me.

“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. (Isa 60:1-2)

Loving HIM,

Claudia