HIGHER REALM NEWS
We give a special thanks to all who sent us to Argentina. We had a wonderful harvest of souls. Our count was conservative because we want to be truthful, but our count was 363 saved and 330 filled with the Holy Spirit. We had an abundance of people healed. There was one lady who told us that she had a black heart and we are not sure what she meant, but we think that part of her heart was dead. We called her out and told her that God was healing her heart. A few days later she got a fever so she went to her doctor who checked her heart first and he told her he could find nothing wrong with her heart and that she was healed plus her blood pressure was normal, Praise God!
We started our first leg of the mission in Cordoba Argentina where we ministered in several parts of the city. The ladies ministered to the youth and had a great response from the young people. The host church was basically made up of people who had been delivered from drugs and were now saved. The ladies had many of them filled with the Holy Spirit. Also, they had a special meeting for the ladies there in Buenos Aires and Paraguay as well. In Paraguay they ministered to the Rhema Bible School students and had answer full success.
We ministered in a place called Carlos Paz. It was a tourist city and a very nice city. Our crowd was over flowing there and many came to the Lord and were filled with the Spirit of God. While the ladies were ministering in the city I went to a city called Cruz del Este which was a 6 hour round trip plus 3 hours of ministry. It is a city filled with witchcraft, but the power of God broke through and we saw many set free and filled with the power of God.
The second part of our trip we went to Buenos Aires. The majority of the population of Argentina lives in this massive and beautiful city. These meetings were with my Argentina Son Edison Bernal and his wife
Pillar. We had several days of evening meetings and finished the last day with 4 hours teaching in the Bible Schools there. The ladies had the women and we had the men and Pastors for those meetings. These are the most powerful of all the meetings because your ministry is multiplied according to the number of ministers you minister to. This city has a rich heritage of revival in the early years but now a new generation is being saved and raised up and they need to "know" The Lord. Please pray to this end for them.
The last part of our ministry was in Paraguay. The Paraguay people are more reserved but very sweet people. We did not know until the last day that several years earlier three surrounding Nations invaded and basically killed the men of that small nation. They had been oppressed politically but they were open spiritually so we had good results. This nation needs much prayer. They are very centered on being a hospitable people so they treat you very good. We had several different churches we ministered at but the highlife was the last church where we saw over 50 young people come and receive The Lord and get filled with the Holy Spirit. I asked them if they were Christians and they said yes and then I asked them if they were to die today would they go to heaven. The interpreter said they could not answer that question except honestly so they came and made there calling and election sure. It was something to see because they were the biggest part of the church so almost the whole church came.
This was a good time of ministry but a lot of warfare was involved. We appreciate those who prayed for us. Please put Argentina on your prayer list and pray for God to give a break through. Especially pray for Pastor Edison our son. Blessings to you!
Yours for souls,
The Hughes
On the home front
We have been busy locally and have not traveled much here in the states but that is changing and we are scheduled in the East coast for several days of meetings as well as in other parts of Illinois. The meetings here have been rich with God’s presence.
My wife and I have spent much time in prayer for the USA and for the upcoming elections. We have asked God for forgiveness and mercy for our country and we believe He is going to spare us for a little season so we can bring the harvest in.
On a personal level the Lord gave us a preventive miracle. We had our yearly physical and they found a blocked carotid artery on the right side of my neck and it was 90% blocked. They performed surgery on me and I am good as new. Their words were “we do not know what kept you from dying or having a bad stroke” I told them who and what kept me and they agreed. I am realizing how much my Father loves me. I feel like His favorite.
We have had some family members come to Christ as a result of prayer and for that we are very grateful. God answers prayer. If you will send us your request we will agree with you in prayer. Use our contact page to send your prayer requests.
On the International Front
We are leaving for Argentina September the 28th and we will be doing meetings there from October 1-21st and return home on the 23rd. We are ministering in three places Buenos Aires, AND Cordoba Argentina and then we are going to Paraguay (I don’t have the name of the city) where we will have leadership meetings and three nations will be attending.
My wife and Jennifer my daughter will be doing ladies meetings and I will be doing meetings morning and evening for leaders. This is a first for us in this part of South America so we are excited about it. WE NEED YOUR HELP. We need you to commit to praying for us and please begin as soon as you read this newsletter. We have been praying about these meetings for two months. We have great expectancy that God will move.
Next, our expenses for flights are about $3500.00 round trip. To say the least, in our present economy this is a lot to ask and we know that. Yet the Bible said in Genesis 26 that Isaac sowed in the time of famine and actually it was a double famine but God caused him to reap 100 fold and I believe He will do the same for you. Your seed will touch three nations we know of and more I am sure because we are also ministering to a Bible School and those students will take what we minister to the places God sends them to. You will be a part of something major for the Lord.
Please make it a matter of prayer of what you will do. Also, we must purchase our tickets by the middle of August so as the Lord leads you just obey Him. We pray that when you release your gift large or small that God will give it back abundantly. You have always been a blessing to help us and we thank you for that. God abundantly bless you and please call on us to prayer.
Blessings,
Bro. & Sis. Hughes
May we have reverance towards the Lord God. The church has lost it's fear of God and to fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. We say He is Awesome and we are correct but we must honor and respect Him as Awesome. "For our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29)."
See Leviticus 10:1-3, & 6 New American Standard Bible
"1. Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. 2. And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. 3. Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the people I will be honored... 6. Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not become wrathful against all the congregation. But your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which the LORD has brought about."
Refer back to verse 3. If they had showed any signs of mourning then they would have put their relatives above honoring God and caused the congregation to do the same thing and the results would have been death to all that did such a thing.
This is an example of how love for God can not be placed below love for man. We must always love God first and foremost. We are not to love man more than God, yet many make allowances that violate the word of God because their concept of "love " is wrong.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER MISSION TRIP REPORT:
Where to begin is always a problem because I am flooded with things I want to say about the trip but I realize I cannot share everything. First, my wife and I want to say a BIG thank you for your support that helps us carry out the will of God for the ministry that God has given us. Truly without the financial and especially the prayer support of God’s trusted and “faithful” saints we would be limited in what we do. So THANK YOU and God bless you.
Our first meetings were in the North side of Bogota (Colombia). Keep in mind that this city is 8.5 million people and the capital of Colombia. Literally we could evangelize that city on all four sides and never touch it completely. Our first meeting was with a Pastor friend, John David, whom we have known for twenty years and he has a strong church that reaches out to the area God has placed him in. Theses meetings were powerful and many came to the Lord in this church. They are sweet people with a vision. There were a lot of healing miracles here ranging from back problems to more serious issues, Praise God.
From here we went to the South side of Bogota with our Colombian (spiritual) son Eduardo Maldonado and his wife Fy (Fay) and our grand daughter Natalie. This is one of our favorite churches to minister at. Pastor Eduardo has charge of a ministry group called Christo Reigna (Christ Reigns) that has churches through out all of Colombia. We are making preparation to work with this group in the future to help start churches (MAKE THIS A MATTER TO PRAY ABOUT PLEASE). This church also has a strong evangelistic ministry to the jungle so we minister to the jungle Pastors when we go here which in turn is multiplied again and again as they go back to the jungle. In the future we will possibly go and minister there. Pray about this also.
From here we went to a city north east of Bogota called Cota. It has a lot of witchcraft that operates there they told us. We know that God is greater so we never let that hinder us. God proved Himself to be the Greater One as always. We had services that were out of this world. This church has an area where children sit and worship it is sectioned off for them. In one of the services the presence of God was strong. I witnessed that Jesus was in the section where the children were so I had the children pray for the adults and it was so powerful. To our amazement the adults knelt down and the children laid hands on them. One little boy prayed for a lady who was delivered from demons and he said to his friend I hope my Daddy comes for he has many demons. It was a precious time in the presence of God and the gifts of the Spirit were in operation very accurately. The Pastor confirmed that to us.
Our next meeting was in Facatativa, which is about three hours driving time from Bogota. We had heard so much about this church all of which was good. We were not disappointed for we had the best services of all the places we went in this city. This church has a lot of young people and that impressed us for they were on fire with the Espiritu Santos. The worship was powerful and even the little children were in a section of the congregation and were worshipping God. It was powerful! As in all places there were people who were saved and filled with the Holy Spirit and healed. That is the norm there and it is effortless. We just preach and give them the call and they respond. Hallelujah!
We had several one-day meetings in smaller churches. Many of these Pastors said we didn’t think you would come and minister for us because we generally go to larger churches. It is in our hearts to help the churches and Pastors so we wanted to go for them. Although these were smaller crowds the power of God was present to save, heal, fill, and deliver. In one of these churches there where people who were being filled with the Spirit and before we could lay hands on them they were speaking in tongues. What a joy to watch this.
We then went to Cali, which is an hour flying time from Bogota. This is called the “drug capital of Colombia” and is a dangerous city. God is our protection so we never fear. We ministered to various Churches in a crusade style. We had powerful services here. Many were saved and filled with the Spirit of God. They were being saved and then we prayed for them to be filled with the Spirit and they were filled.
We preached at a Bible School graduation and helped hand out diploma’s and you see my wife giving one to the Pastor’s/administrator’s granddaughter.
All in all we had 135 saved and 175 filled with the Holy Spirit and this does not include all who were saved through the Internet streaming the meetings.
These are fruit that abounds to YOUR account. Once again THANK YOU for enabling us to go.
Many Blessings to you in 2012.
Prayer request:
The door is open for Argentina and Paraguay so we have committed to go in May 2012. We will also be returning to Colombia in the fall of 2012. We have so many doors opening to us in the foreign field and we need to walk through them. Pray that God keeps us strong and healthy and provide the necessary funds to walk through them. It takes a lot to do it all but with God’s help and your support we will be your hands and legs on the mission field. We will write you more later.
Much Love,
The Hughes Ministry Team - Kennith, Marlene & Jennifer
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BOGOTA MISSION REPORT
We want to say a great big thank you to all of you that helped us with our trip to Colombia. In our opinion it was a great success and
the Lord did miracles to get us there.
We flew out of Midway airport in Chicago on the day that the blizzard hit. We were the last plane to fly out of Chicago that day and it was beginning to snow right before we flew out. Thank You Jesus!
We arrived in Bogota around 9:40PM Feb. 1st. Our meetings began on the South side of Bogota with leadership training the first night on Feb. 2nd. From there we had 3 services per day Feb. 2-6. The girls, Jennifer our daughter and Gloria our adopted (spiritual) daughter), ministered in the morning and I did morning services and night time crusades. There were approximately 75 people saved in these meetings or maybe even more and many filled with the Holy Spirit . These services were streamed by internet to places all over Bogota and surrounding areas and many many more were saved, healed, delivered and filled with the Holy Spirit that we couldn't keep count of.
One word of knowledge we had about a family who had not heard from their daughter for over a year the Holy Spirit prompted us to say that she was
going to make contact and come home. She called that very night and the father was waiting to thank us the next morning. I said give all the thanks to Jesus. There were so many healing miracles on the South side that we don't have time or space to tell them all. Suffice us to say that literally the blind saw, the deaf heard, the dumb talked, and the lame walked. One lady who had been confined to a wheel chair was raised up and walked. Jesus is still the Healer. The south side is considered the poor side of Bogota BUT they are rich in Faith.
Then we traveled to Sincelejo on the coast and the temperature was in the 90's every day and once again we had 3 services per day. Thank God for His strength. The coastal people are different than those in the interior of Colombia. We fell in love with them and they with us. Our meetings started out slow but at the end they were explosive. Once again over 100 were saved and twice that amount filled with the Holy Spirit. Also, the meetings were sent by Internet all over Colombia. Only Jesus knows how many were truly saved and healed and filled with the Holy Spirit.
One outstanding miracle we saw was a "down syndrome" girl who was mute and was healed and her first words were baby and papa. It was wonderful and then 2 nights later she was filled with the Holy Spirit. No words can describe how grateful you feel and how humbled you are just seeing Jesus do such a miracle. There were many families restored in this meeting as well as the other meetings we held.
We had a day off so we went to the beach and that was nice.
I also know that if the Lord is not saying anything then I don't need to manufacture something but as Hosea 6:3 says "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."
We just need to follow on and we will know as we go.
We returned to Bogota and went to the North side of the City. I might add that Bogota is close to 9 million people plus the surrounding areas.
The North side has the more wealthy people and we had senators and people who work in the government in theses meetings as well as doctors,lawyers, and influential people. Some of our influential people in the states should have seen these people worship God. They give their heart and soul to loving God.
These were excellent meetings and these were streamed to over 14 nations such as all of Central America, Africa, Saudi Arabia, Europe, Germany,
and I can't recall them all.
Those looking by Internet said they felt the presence of God like we did in the meetings and we had the tremendous glory of God in every service.
Little children were worshipping God and it was a sight to behold. Once again we had so many saved and healed that we lost count and well over 100 filled with the Holy Spirit.
It was new chapters being added to the book of Acts. It was revival. It was God. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for helping us go!
We have more meetings than we can do there so we plan to go back in November so keep that in your prayers.
We spent your offerings on seeing many souls come to Christ and well over 200 were saved that we know about and more than that filled with the precious Holy Spirit.
Mucho Bendicionous (much blessings),
Kennith, Marlene, Jennifer & Gloria
The Hughes Team
A NEW YEARS ADMONITION - HAPPY NEW YEAR
Eccl.3:11 (NIV) "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end."
Eccl. 3:11 (New Century Translation) "God has given them a desire to know the future. He does everything just right and on time, but people can never completely understand what He is doing."
Duet.29:29 (KJV) "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Dear Friends of the Bridegroom,
Many people think that just because you are a Prophet you should know what is ahead for the future and sometimes God lets us know and it is great when He does. I have always tried to discern whether He was talking to me or to the whole body of Christ when He speaks to me especially if it is about the future and in one sense either way it is for us all.
I also know that if the Lord is not saying anything then I don't need to manufacture something but as Hosea 6:3 says "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."
We just need to follow on and we will know as we go.
Also, I remember an old saying and I have found it to be true: "Sometime we can know about as much from what God is not saying as to what He is saying."
God is not speaking to me about anything in a spectacular way but He is letting me know that those who stay in the Word will experience great blessing.
If He chooses not to reveal truth to us then it is okay. Generally speaking, when God speaks in what we call a spectacular way then we either are about to miss it or go through a hard time. However if he doesn't speak that way then everything is alright. He is a good Father and our well being is His #1 desire and concern.
We have eternity in our hearts. God is eternal and if we need to know "secret things" He will tell us and if not things are okay.
I haven't heard the Lord say anything concerning 2011 but to continue on in His Word. It was and is the Word that formed and holds the world together.
The dividing line is being drawn between the world, carnal Christians, and the true saints of God. It is our time to shine with true righteousness so "Arise and Shine" for the Lord is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
Proverbs 4:8 "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."
After having died in February 7th last year and restored back to life I have a new perspective about the brevity of life and the need to make every moment count.
Let us redeem the time and walk circumspectly in our lifestyle. KEEP ON KEEPING ON! Even so come quickly Lord Jesus.
Maranatha...Bro Hughes
Click on the picture of Kennith's wife Marlene below for photos of the 2009 Mideast Mission trip in Israel.
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