Tag: newsletter 2015

Al has made an awesome come back. His speech has so improved that the American Pastor Aaron we were training from Lubbock, Texas complimented him to me because he was able to understand Al so clearly as he was working with him in the workshop and on the practicums. He didn’t even know that he had had a stroke! I was so proud of Al, he is such a strong man of God. We have decided to include him on our staff as of this coming week.

I know there are several of you that helped Al financially during his time in the hospital and I felt it would be a Christmas blessing to you to hear how well he is doing. God Bless all of you that sowed into Pastor Al, your seed is producing much fruit.

If the seminar is on Luzon Island (where we can reach it by land) it will cost between $400 and $700 to do the seminar. The cost depends on the number of pastors we are training. Mobiles can be up to 100 but generally are 30 to 50 so that’s what I quoted to you.

If the seminar is on another Island we will have to fly to it. It will usually be comprised of more pastors and the transportation is a little higher. We would estimate these seminars to be from $800 to as much as $1,500 if there are as many as 100 attendees.

The amazing thing about these seminars is that they are mostly made up of pastors from different churches so we impact a lot more churches with evangelism which generally causes a wave of evangelism wherever we go. If you want to see a lot of souls won to Jesus and the Kingdom of God to grow exponentially from your seed, try to sponsor some of these seminars.

Ya’ll, we love you so much and wish you from the bottom of our hearts to have one of the Merriest Christmas of your life this year. Remember this year those that have passed on in our lives and what they meant to you. And bless each of your friends and family with the blessings of the Lord. May this Christmas be special to us all,

All our love Tony, Calli, and all the Dunamis Team!

Happy Birthday to our Lord Jesus, and Merry Christmas to you all, Tony and Calli

Bishop Gigi was there and did really well in the class. It’s his desire to take it to the nations. He is organizing a ministry to several Asian Nations and wants to integrate the 357 Magnum tool as they establish the organization training their leaders with Stealth Evangelism.

We also had Pastor Rey Canama, there was a special story with him. Pastor Rey tried unsuccessfully to attend three other seminars we had this year and just couldn’t get here. The enemy didn’t want him here, so there was always a Lion in the street for him. This time he came and was so blessed including being our top soul winner and with a flawless presentation. He vows to go back to his church and train a group of reapers. He said, “My life will never be the same!”

There were only 11 pastors and leaders in this group, yet they won 929 souls to the Lord. Praise the Lord!

May you have a wonderful Merry Christmas this year. Calli

It’s time to launch more seminars all over Luzon Island and we must upgrade to a newer more dependable van. We sold both of our older vans and have found a van that is only 5 years old and in excellent condition. It’s been garaged and well maintained. This van will last us another ten years or more with proper service. But we need a little over $15,000 more to purchase it.

We got to go to our great nephew Colt’s football game in Sinton and they won in the last 15 seconds of the game! It had been decades since either of us had attended a football game, wow! I went fishing at a private bass lake outside Canton, Texas and caught a bunch of bass. Later had a fish fry with My son Cory and his family. My high school friend George Neill owns the lake. Also, got to go visit Larry and Carol Renetzky in Conroe, Texas and went fishing with him on some private ponds there owned by our friend Don Heathcott. Fishing was always my favorite sport before God called us into the ministry. We lived on Lake Tanglewood for years and I fished all the time. I was addicted! Yet when God called us to go to the Philippines the Lord had me lay that down to start our adventure with Him of fishing for men. Just like Peter and the boys did. The Lord said, “Come, I’ll make you fishers of men!” I cannot tell you how much more blessed we are fishing for men’s souls. Yet, it is really a blessing to get to fish for those bass too every once in awhile!

When we were in Lubbock visiting family we also got to spend the night one night with Steve and Pam Louder. They are friends and partners that we knew from Hereford that relocated to Lubbock. They introduced us to new friends, Dr. David and Cita Aguas, Filipino Americans that will be coming to the Philippines on a mission trip this coming April. Looking forward to seeing you two soon!

When we first arrived in Amarillo we went to dinner with Denis and Marsha Smith, then lunch another day with Larry Latham and Mike Isley. Both meetings were a treat with some special friends. One day we were blessed to spend some time with George and Teela Malkuch, they have always been special friends and partners like many of those we’ve mentioned. Of course we saw Ed Schroeter several times. Thanks Ed for doing such a wonderful job taking care of the home office their in Amarillo. God bless you brother!

We spent some time at Lake Tanglewood, our old stomping grounds to visit with Kathy Brittian and got to see her and Scott’s new home. Then went to see Leon and Sherry Miller that we’ve known since we attended San Jacinto Baptist way back there in the 70’s. Same with Paul and Rita Morrow just across the street from them. I tell you, we had a real special time with all of them and it warmed our hearts to see them all again. Seems like we’ve been on the run so much we haven’t got to see a lot of our friends.

In October we went again to Canton for a barbeque at that lake. Several of the Borger High School graduates from ’64 were there, one was Johnny Barrow from Houston. Johnny and I fished together several times when we were in high school. We had a lot of stories to tell that night. I can’t remember when I’ve had more fun than seeing all my old buddies and spending time talking about our years in high school. After spending the night at Danny and Candace Sessums, I went fishing with Mike Wiles and Melvin Bunn and we had a blast out on George’s lake. Caught a lot of fish too!

We spent about 3 weeks with our daughter and son in law, David and Kari Brown in Amarillo, also saw our granddaughter Karisa. (Just not enough, we sure miss you sweetie!) David and Kari had just built a new house and we had a lot of fun with them.

We had a special visit with a lot of my cousins and nieces in Lubbock and of course we went to Shreveport, LA to visit my son Cory and his his wife Jennifer and all the grandkids. They have 9 children, 8 girls and one boy! Had another blast… I took my granddaughter Kerrigan fishing at Canton! It rained all day on us, but we had fun and caught more fish.

Other highlights of the trip was visiting the pastor’s fellowship every Tuesday in Hereford at New Life Restoration Church with Pastor Dorman and Jani Duggan. You pastors in the area have got to make time for that fellowship. You don’t know what you are missing! They also have a early morning coffee shop fellowship and Bible study every day there, which I attended several times. Pastor Dorman and Jani are such very special friends.

We spent the night with Pastor Fred and Irene Hughes in Dumas, Texas and spoke at a life group that night. They have been friends of ours for many years. Both the Hughes and the Duggans have ministered in the Philippines with us in years past.

We had dinner and visited with Dave and Laina Barlow one night and stayed up real late watching football (don’t see much of that in the Philippines!) The next day we met with Summer Lea, their daughter. We’ve known her since she was born and she volunteered to help manage two properties we still own there in Amarillo. What a relief that was! God is so good to us! Amen? Thank you so much Summer!

We got to spend some time with Bob and Bee Dunstan, Bob is a ripe 94, I think! Man, he’s still feisty for his age. Bob and Bee had Teen Challenge and then Life Challenge for many years in Amarillo. What a pair of saints! Thank you Bob and Bee for all those years of labor for the Lord. I say Wow!

We got to play Farkle with Ruth and Joel Davis and spend the night with them. Visited with my special friend Art Hulsey and his wife Gerri, they go back with us to San Jacinto Baptist days. (And were Calli’s youth group leaders years before that!) Also Art came to High Plains Baptist and helped me get through open heart surgery about 20 years ago this last August.

Saw Raul Ramos a real old friend and pal. Went to Breakfast with Max Montano and we led Veronica our waitress to the Lord using the 357 Magnum technique. That was a blessing. She’s gone to Max’s church since then. Yep! Did some of that other kinda fishin while we were there in the states!

Visited with Pastor Tom Lane, and Pastor Larry Titus in Southlake, Texas. Was good to see Devi Titus on the way back through Dallas. Stayed with James and Trina Lozano twice while going through Dallas, (bless his heart, James even got up in the wee hours of the morning to get us on our plane home!) Thank you James! We stayed with Terresia Shaw in Fort Worth our first night in the US. Thank you for picking us up at DFW!

Another very special visit was with Andrew and Laura Stenhouse in Amarillo. We played some Chicken foot with Pastor Tom and Karen Malone. That ain’t all guys, but I’ve got to stop. If you didn’t get mentioned and there are a bunch that didn’t, please know we love you but this is going to turn into a book if I don’t stop. We really needed that time, it had been years since Calli and I just chilled and had our own form of vacation. Praise God for all of you that we got to see while we were there. It meant so much to us!

To illustrate, I want you to imagine standing in from of someone closely, then lift your hand up and point at someone’s chest about 6 inches away, then act like you’re pulling the trigger. Now, what if that was a 357 Magnum gun and you were pulling the trigger! What would happen to the person in front of you? Of course, they would die! When a person is born again, the old man dies, Amen? Could you miss from that distance? No! Thus, the spiritual weapon name, “The 357 Magnum” was adopted.

When someone uses this technique in witnessing they rarely miss! I know that is a stretch for you to believe but we have thousands of testimonies to the effect that it works every bit that good. It’s very simple and easily taught and learned. It’s very light and easy to use. The students are always shocked how effective it is. The numbers of souls won by our students just in their training is sometimes staggering. So when I share with people in the US they are sometimes thinking, “Oh, that’s because you’re in the mission field, it wouldn’t work like that here. I have news for you! It works the same in the states as it does in the Philippines. I’ve used it over and over here and there is very little difference. The main difference is that you have to develop your sensitivity to your environment around you and realize that most of the population is lost.

The forgotten people that you need to witness to are those that are right in front of your face. Only 1/10th of the world is saved friends. Drive to Wal-Mart and take a look at the parking lot on a busy day and realize that most of the people in there do not know Jesus! The Lord says in John 4 to lift up your eyes and see the fields are white and ready for harvest. When you eat out, your waiter or waitress may be lost. If you were trained with “The 357 Magnum”, they wouldn’t necessarily stay that way!!!!! Amen again and again? We are about to unleash the gates of heaven on earth to the lost, so pray wisdom and favor over us.

When the prototype for this technique was developed in 2003 it was really good and we trained literally 1,000’s of believers with it for about 4 years. It was effective also, yet I was still reluctant to release it worldwide and of course the Lord wouldn’t give me the go ahead to do it.

Then in 2008 God changed the program. We would no longer train the body of Christ direct, but train the leadership so they could train the body. Wow, this was a whole new directive from the Lord for our ministry. Then came the training curriculum for the pastors to develop programs in their churches for creating reaper clubs with pastoral oversight, developing cell groups or small groups for Bible study to help with follow up of all the new believers, and lots of strategies for the pastor build his church through the harvest.

There were two manuals developed to help the pastors. One was the new “357 Magnum Training Manual” and the other was the “What to do after you’ve trained a group of reapers.” This one dealt with strategies, utilization, and exercising the reapers that the pastors train, plus development of the follow up systems in the church to maximize the effectiveness of the evangelism towards church growth. We used these manuals for about 3 years until they were rewritten about 2 years ago. After the books were completed the Lord told me, “It’s time!” Wow, was I ready to hear that after 10 years of development! I know you’re saying to yourself right now, “Time for what?”

Anyway, stay tuned to our newsletters for further development and above all PRAY for the protection of us and the materials while they are being developed and beyond.

God is motivating former graduates of the Stealth Evangelism Program to volunteer as monitors and teachers in our seminars. We have men and women of God that are pastors, leaders, seminary professors, etc. that are excited to come and help train other pastors in the Stealth Program.

What we are seeing is the immense activation of the leadership of the Kingdom of God stepping forward to help train it’s members not expecting compensation where compensation is due, but sowing their lives to propagate the spreading of God’s gospel through multiplication.