After an increasingly fast Spring, it just as rapidly turned into Summer. Mexico seems to be ongoing with most of my connections there still in close communications as we prepare for what's to come next.
Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico
This city is across the border from Del Rio, TX and was one of the most amazing tours because of the readiness of the Mexican people to listen, pray and accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. People on the street accepted Jesus, and in the restaurants the customers accepted Jesus, the workers and the owners. Workers in city hall of Acuna accepted Jesus and several police officers accepted Jesus. All of these don’t even count the shows and altar calls that the GX evangelist did and reports are still coming back concerning occurrences like these that never was mentioned before. HIS movement of the Holy Spirit is ongoing in this Mexican region.
I was able to help create a good relationship with the City of Acuna through the offices of the Presidente (the mayor). Because of this relationship I was able to explain the message of Jesus to the lady that runs the Juvenile Division for Acuna and we prayed together on the last day for her new born identity with HIM. Then GX was able to actually stand inside of city hall and perform and was able to preach a full gospel message of Jesus right there!
Back in the USA I was asked to work with Grace Point Baptist, a church in my area, to put together a 4th of July outreach for the community. Everyone was blessed and people received Jesus as Lord. It was hot outside and there was a lot of work to set up and tear down, but I was blessed to work with the church and the four different missions ministries I used during the month of June to help put this together and have performances on stage.
Now it’s on to Kansas City where YWAM KC is hosting YWAM Together. This will be a week long gathering of YWAMers. Youth With A Mission has been around for over 50 years and people are already flying in to help. They’re saying this will be YWAM’s biggest in house event ever! I will be helping to coordinate an Encounter event during this week which will be held downtown at Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium. The Encounter Together event will be free to all of YWAM and the Body of Christ at large. This means that you are invited and entry is free. It will be on Labor Day, Monday, September 5th so parking may be free too. If you wish to attend you will still need to register for this event. Use this link to register on Eventbrite. http://ywamkc2016.org/encounter-together
The Year Ahead - GX (Global Xpression) International is currently finishing up a tour in the Philippines. After that and after YWAM Together we will prepare the team for shows in the Kansas City area and another trip back to Mexico and hit the next border town of Piedras Negras just across from Eagle Pass, TX.
Genesis 1-1Art will be hosting Open Studios every month and the ministry is planning to partner with Home of Hope Zambia to create a fundraising event.. Genesis 1-1 Art will have a showing at an art walk in Holton, KS on their town's square August 13th. This will be another great opportunity to partner with other artists and use art to present God as our Creator, explaining salvation through HIS son Jesus. Please pray for the art community to receive HIS message as we present it live as it is on Genesis1-1Art.org Julia has also been working with some friend's in order to develop the Genesis 1-1 Art evangelistic cirriculum for kids, going through art projects for each day of creation and ultimately explaining the Gospel on the 7th day. She has also had the opportunity to spend time mentoring our friend's foster daughter through art projects and field trips. GX International will be planning more trips to Mexico in the fall and other places in the USA and Bill will be setting up and coordinating all Mexican and USA tours. GX has also begun planning 2017 GX Tours and Belize is top of the list. More to come on that but for now we all plan to buy airline tickets within the month as it is extremely affordable now verses later. Julia and I also want to start a GX dance team that can be available for doing outreach in the Kansas City area year round. This brings up plenty of much needed prayer for Bill & Julia.
prayer
-Genesis 1-1 Open Studios will continue through fellowship, discipleship and outreach -GX Mexico outreaches in the fall / spring and for God to continue preparing the Mexicans -Pray for all Mexican and Texas border towns -God will provide the right people for a smaller local GX team to run year round -Otterness Missions will have full monthly financial support -Genesis 1-1 Art will have greater opportunities for evangelistic outreaches -Genesis 1-1 Art to acquire a good digital camera -Airline tickets to Belize
There has just been so much going on this year we are not able to place everything in newsletters. What we would like to do is have opportunities to speak with you personally if you would like to know more about our work and where we are going as Otterness Missions. We have many more pictures, videos, and stories to share. So, please email or call / text /facebook message us. Even better we can come to you and maybe even speak at your church. Speaking engagements give us better opportunities to sit down with you and just chat . Plus we can partner with your church and/or community as we cast visions for how Global Xpression and our ministries can work together to create a missional movement.
The ministries we are a part of are YWAM (Youth With a Mission) Ministries. Every YWAM worker, including the founder, Loren Cunningham, raises their own support to meet their financial needs. No one receives a salary from the organization. For most people in YWAM, these funds come from friends, family and churches who contribute financially. If you would like partner with us financially you can do so online at L3International, Or you can mail checks to the address below written to GX International with a separate note saying for Bill & Julia.