2009 Overview

Posted: May 05, 2017

The board started this year with a meeting in Dallas, Texas where they inducted Jan Swope as a new board member. In March, Greig spent a week working in Dallas ministering to CEO’s and business owners with Joe Galindo, a consultant in the business arena. Joe is a prolific writer who has published literature on doing business by biblical principles. He is now the primary leader for the Dallas area C12 group. C12 is a ministry, now in 25 major cities throughout the US, which focuses on helping Christian leaders in the business community work together to expand the Kingdom of God. Greig has been asked by Joe to partner with him in presenting a workshop to Christian business leaders. Greig's focus would be showing how Christian businesses are to be structured, just as any church body should, in the order that God has specified. And specifically to help business leaders identify who they and others in their organizations have been anointed to be in the Lord’s army.

The church not only gathers in buildings set up specifically for mutual edification, but at any location in the community and market place where the body of Christ is working together on a kingdom project. God is planting Christian businesses not just to produce resources for other ministries, but to be ministries taking new territory for the Kingdom. Greig was meeting with other business leaders in and outside the US who have been given the vision to extend this apostolic network into Latin America and then into other parts of the world. This is not a new focus for us as a ministry; it is helping to put into practice what the Lord has had me speaking about for years. This is simply one new activity we will be involved with in addition to the things that this ministry has been doing.

For the past 3 months, Greig had a rare down time as he waited on the Lord for direction and provision. Some of that was done at our base in Argentina where Greig spent a couple weeks seeking clear direction, writing, and making arrangements for some future ministry there and in the surrounding countries. A pastor of pastors in Uruguay was jubilant, telling Greig that the things we told them would come to pass in their ministry last time we saw them, have occurred. They are very anxious to host us in a bigger forum whenever the Spirit of the Lord tells us to do so. The Lord gave Robert Johnson and Greig clear direction, on the first day of 2009, to plan on going to Finland on June 3. We were thinking that this could possibly be the trip for a conference where we were long ago invited to be the principal ministers. It appears now that the big conference is to happen at a future trip. However, due to high demand, the originally planned 2 week trip was booked up in 2 days and extended to 3 weeks. Our contacts, Hannu and Arja, said that the demand for this ministry in Finland is so great that they could easily keep us busy for another 3 weeks. It seems the doors are wider open than ever, but we are still waiting on the provision to walk through some of the bigger ones.

Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall. (2 Peter 1:10 NIV). Being sure of our call and election makes us bold!

Robert Johnson and Greig spent most of June on a fruitful trip covering a large section of Finland. Hannu Pesio (organizer, worship leader and driver) and Tuula Ruusunen (interpreter) were our Finish teammates that helped make this the most efficient foreign ministry trip that we have experienced yet. The Lord helped us to use the wisdom that He has placed in us over the last few years to pace ourselves properly, along with the supernatural sustaining that we know He provides. We ministered in 9 cities and several more fellowship groups.

As was stated previously, Robert and Greig thought that this was the trip when we were to do a conference and assumed it would be in Kouvola, where we have had a standing invitation to lead. That conference did not come together. However, in Kolari, a city north of the Arctic Circle, unknown to us, they had developed a conference around our visit. Robert and Greig ministered all day in that conference at the time of year when the sun never sets. I guess we heard correctly but our interpretation was off.

Here are some of the highlights. In Kouvola, a large metro area north of Helsinki, a sweet elderly woman named Aini (shown here) who hosted us at her house, had suffered from sinus problems so severe that even on medications she could not usually sleep for more than 2 or 3 hours a night. During prayer time where we ministered, she said that she felt hands going through her sinuses. That night she had the best sleep she has had in years and stopped her medication after that!

Outokumpu, a new city that we visited, turned out to be a wonderful surprise. Robert had heard a word from the Lord that these were a quiet but listening people and that a partnership would be established. They were so quiet that you could hear a pin drop and we were thinking, ‘What are we doing here?’ However, the Lord began giving us words that we delivered from the front for many people out in the audience. We had one of the most overwhelming testimonies of accurate words and an outpouring of appreciation that we have ever experienced. At the conference in Kolari, people showed up from many parts of northern Finland and also Sweden. By the end of the day, we gave personal words from the podium to almost everyone in attendance. We received many invitations to minister in the attendee’s home cities including an invitation to do a whole week of ministry at a bible school on the Finland/Norway border, whenever the Lord leads. We were blessed to be used to lift up many Kingdom leaders, literally. Robert and Greig are seen here with Jorma, the conference organizer.

The trip culminated in the city of Iisalmi, where Hannu is based, with a night of healing in a way that we have not previously experienced. The Lord simply began touching people, without even praying, as we called out their ailments. That was cool!

As we stated before this trip, even though we had received exact details about this trip, there looked to be no way economically that we could do it. However, 2 days before they had planned to leave, we received just enough funds that we decided we could go. Thank you to those who generously responded to the Lord’s prompting! The fruit was obvious.

Greig has made several trips to Dallas, Texas partnering with Joe Galindo who is the chief coordinator for the C12 business network in Dallas. This is a network of Kingdom business leaders who meet to encourage each other and to discuss how the Lord wants to use their businesses to advance His kingdom.

During Greig's trips to Dallas, they had the privilege to pray for leaders in businesses that are presently battling illnesses and, during prayer, experienced the tangible life changing touch of God. We have met with several other business leaders and entire executive teams to discuss Kingdom concepts for their businesses and who would like to move forward with training when materials are available. One of them is a lead legal council for one of the top five US technology companies. Also, an international ministry, which works in 20 countries right now doing Kingdom business training, has expressed interest in working with us and using and distributing our materials. One powerful woman that met with is the president of one of the top 20 rated financial management firms in America. The Lord led Greig to write a page of words for her 3 days before Greig met her or knew anything about her. After she read the page she commented, “that blew my mind.” It contained some nice confirmations for her. The Lord has given me specific words of direction several times for these kingdom business leaders. Thank you Supreme Counselor!

On the fellowship group side, we have become friends with a couple who are heading up a rapidly growing prayer center attracting a mix of people who are with many fellowships. We are also assisting a group concentrating on tying together all of the churches in Dallas. Joe and Greig met with the head pastor of one mega church privately for 2 hours who would not have been very interested in hearing what we had to say even 1 year ago. But he sought the Lord and had a divine encounter. The Lord gave Greig some specific words for him as he helps move their fellowship from one where the Holy Spirit is no longer the guest of honor, but the master of ceremonies; where Christ is fully head. This is happening with other large fellowships in the Dallas area with which Joe has connections.

The church in the US is rapidly changing in the way it thinks and is organized. What we are seeing in Dallas is just the tip of the iceberg. Kingdom people are taking their mantles in the market place, where Jesus spent most of His time. Kingdom businesses will be dynamic forces in unifying the body of Christ. We believe that the work we are now doing in Dallas is foundational for this ministry to help propagate this transformation into other parts of the US and the world. This truly is a time of incredible change that we live in.

Greig made a short trip to Argentina where I caught up on southern headquarters business, touched base with some people there and did some writing for our kingdom business ministry literature. It was also nice for Greig to spend a couple weeks up in Oregon catching up with prayer warriors and other colleagues based there.

Joe and Greig are spending much time doing the writing for a series of small books over various important topics relating to kingdom business transformation. We are putting all of the basics in the literature on how to restore and commission the church, especially in the marketplace. This is so that when consulting with groups or individuals we can spend most of our effort detailing specifics that we believe the Lord has for them. Shown in this letter are potential covers for a couple of the books.

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV)

Greig made several more trips to Dallas, Texas to partner with Joe Galindo, who is the chief coordinator for the C12 business network. C12 is a network of Kingdom business leaders who meet to encourage each other and to discuss how the Lord wants to use their businesses to advance His kingdom.

The Lord has had Greig in a time out period the last few months, as far as international ministry. Looking back on it now, it already makes sense because Joe and Greig were able to finish their first book, which is primarily directed at Kingdom business people. It is called Kingdom Business Transformation: Structuring Leadership to Transform the Marketplace. I doubt if we would have all the books penned by the Apostle Paul if the Lord hadn’t put him in a timeout period in prison. This book deals with the Lord’s structure for His church, which promotes unity in the body of Christ.

In other matters, Greig made another trip to Argentina where he spent time with partners and did extensive writing for our second book. Greig spent needed time in communion with our Father aligning myself with His plans for him and this ministry. Greig also experienced Christmas in Buenos Aires, which is at the beginning of their summer. He asked an apostolic friend, who is setting up a national telephone and internet provider company, if he and his family wanted to spend Christmas Eve at my apartment. He didn’t realize my invitation was for them to hang out until midnight when fireworks start exploding throughout the city then afterword stay up until early morning eating Argentine Christmas delicacies. It’s more like Independence Day in the US than Christmas. We included a picture of the Guzman family in the apartment and a view from the top of the apartment tower a little after midnight.

We want to extend my special thanks to all of you who have really stuck with us over the last year or two. We know that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord and are called to His purposes. We believe that we and many others have been at the bottom of the trampoline jump, but we’re just about to enjoy the upswing. We believe the Lord will be creating strong partnerships between us and other Kingdom teams this next year. Thank you intercessors for praying specifically for that. The Lord is putting together equally yoked partnerships for those trying to stay on His pioneering path. Please continue to pray that we have ourselves well positioned for partnerships that will aid in the Lord’s plans for everyone.

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. Proverbs 8:34 (NIV)