“I delight to do your will, o my God...” Psalm 40:8 (ESV) Hello.  You see this newsletter is different than all newsletters before. That is because I want to talk with you as friend-to-friend. I hope you will enjoy this change and be blessed by what you read.  In last month’s newsletter we celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Leadership Training International. Those were wonderful years in every way a person could imagine. I wouldn’t take anything for them. Every person involved in the activities of those years has multitudes of glorious memories that will be cherished until the Lord calls each one home. Particularly, myself and my family. But those years are past. Now we look to the present and the future. For me…there is no stopping place. Retirement has no appeal to me. My breath, my life is to continue working for the Lord; doing any and everything He puts into my hand to do; for as long as I can or He calls me home. Through these past years of illness, when I ...

 “Faithful is the One who calls you – and He will make it happen.” I Thessalonians 5:24 TLV Greetings in the wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It’s a beautiful day in my neighborhood and I trust it is the same for you. A Thumbnail Review During the months of April, May and June of 1979, life for our family began to take a turn that would define us for the rest of our lives. In April, after 16 years of marriage, 3 children, and ministry as pastors and Bible college administrators and instructors, an invitation came to us from Ghana, W. Africa, to launch and establish a Bible training institute. We acknowledged the invitation and requested time to put it before the Lord as to what our answer should be. In May, we accepted the invitation, began the process of resigning our ministry positions and prepared to launch out into the depths of fulltime foreign missionary ministry. On June 20th, after selling all our belongings, we drove away from the pa...

“The tomb is empty! Christ lives again. He holds the keys of hell and death. Why seek the living among the dead? He is not here. He has risen as He said.” (a chorus written by R. B. “Bud” Cassidy) Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus, our risen Savior and Lord. In just a few days we will once again celebrate His resurrection. For the will of God to be accomplished in His life, three important events had to occur: His birth, His death and His resurrection. All over the world, Christians celebrate His birth. In some segments of Christianity His death is remembered on Good Friday. And, again, the whole Christian world celebrates His resurrection. Of the three, the most important one is His resurrection. You know as well as I, if He had not risen, the accusations of the unbelieving Jewish leaders would have been ratified. “See,” they would have been able to say. “Didn’t we tell you he was just another man like we are.” BUT!!! He DID rise from the dead! Proving the scoffers wrong. H...

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh…” Acts 2:18a  Greetings in Jesus’ wonderful name. This is another day that the Lord has made. I am rejoicing in it. I hope you are as well. A whole lifetime ago, when I was a preteen, a chorus was spontaneously birthed by the Holy Spirit (which was a frequent occurence during worship services in those days) that said: “God is moving; by His Spirit. Moving in all the earth. Signs and wonders; when God moveth. Move, oh Lord, in me.” He was moving all over the earth in that day. It was more than wonderful. It anchored me in my faith, and I fell in love with Jesus. All I wanted to do was totally surrender my life to Him and follow Him wherever He would lead me. Words cannot fully express how thankful I am to have been a partaker of that outpouring. The earth has needed a fresh outpouring of God’s Spirit like that one for quite some time. I, and many others, have longed for it and praye...

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:14 Greetings in Jesus’ wonderful name. This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Gladness for me, today, is to be sending you the latest news from LTI. If you think you did not get a newsletter from me last month, you are correct. Try as hard as I tried, I kept sensing the Lord calling me to a time of being alone with Him. A fast, if you will, from the busyness of life in order to clearly hear His voice for 2019 and beyond. I have been rewarded for my obedience. Still Casting the Net Since having been given the assignment to “cast the net” I have cast it in every way I could think of without much result. The next things I share with you reveal that God has better ways than mine.  A little over a year ago , the Lord brought a middle-aged woman into my life that soon became a new friend. It was for more than friendship, though, that He brou...

“Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah…” Col. 4:2 HCSB I’LL NEVER FORGET  I   will never forget the most surprising void I felt in my life after Bud passed from this earth and entered the presence of the Lord (This month is the 12th anniversary of his passing). You might be surprised as well.   While I most assuredly felt the tremendous emptiness created by his physical passing, this emptiness was something else altogether. I knew he prayed for me on a regular basis, as I did for him. But I did not know how M.U.C.H. he prayed for me. The Lord had given me a strong man as my husband, which I wanted, but all his strength was not physical. He was a man of much prayer.  I will also never forget one day when I went to be with him in the hospital. He was in ICU. As I approached his room, his nurse restrained me from...