Our annual December trip to Cuba has been postponed until May 2011, because of a problem with the required religious visas from the Cuban government. The U. S. Treasury department had already given us the clearance for the conference. The problem came with the communist government and their delay in granting the religious visas. So we must trust the sovereignty of God in this delay for the annual ‘church planters’ conference. I had completed a new workbook for this conference which is entitled, “Walking In Victory In The Reign Of Grace”. But, I will have to wait a little longer to teach it to these precious church planters. However, we were able to get the entire gift of the ‘yearly support’ to the 18 church planters in Holguin, Cuba. Pastor Ernesto, (the senior pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church) was invited to the Bronx, New York for an opportunity to speak to Hispanic Baptist pastors. I was able to get the total support for the 18 church planters to him, during his ministry in the Bronx. One of those Cubanchurch planters, Pastor Manuel of the Upper Room Baptist Church, recently went home to glory. I know many of you had been praying for him and his family. He had battled cancer for about 4 years; but now He has graduated into glory! We have committed to continue to support his wife for the next year. I believe that our Lord will honor that commitment. AMEN? Please pray for Bro. Garry Morrison, my brother in Christ, who is my interpreter on every trip to Cuba. He is also the Pastor of Iglesia Bautista la Roca in Easley, SC. Garry will be having surgery on his shoulder in a few weeks. Please remember him, as he will have ongoing rehab, after this surgery.

In 2011, I am already scheduled to teach hundreds of pastors and church planters in 2 conferences in Nicaragua, 2 conferences in Cuba and one in Kenya. God has blessed this ministry with the tremendous opportunities to be a channel of support, not only for the 18 church planters in Cuba; but also to ministers in Russia, Kenya, Uganda and Nicaragua; as well as helping 2 Spanish Mission churches in the U.S. Precious friends, the Lord has used your love, prayers and financial support, to be greatly multiplied in the lives and ministries of so many pastors, church planters and churches in a number of different countries! Only the Bema seat of Jesus Christ will finally reveal all of the countless ways that the Lord has used you mightily, as a channel of blessing, in both the salvation of souls and the sanctification of leaders and other believers! Dianne and I lift up praise to the Lord our God for all that He is doing. But we also wish to thank you personally for ‘co-laboring’ with us in this great fishing expedition. Friends, it won’t be long; soon we’ll be leaving here. Our desire is to stand before Him, with gold, silver and precious stone, to lay at the feet of our Savior and King! We love you. We give glory to God, that He has brought us together to carry out His great mission!